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Show i - '- NEWS OF THE DAT. . Boston . has begun to hake war on roller skating rinks. . ' ' The St. Louis street car strike is ending with the employers on top. The'New Orleans Picayune says that the sugar crop this year will be short and sweet.. -' Telephone communication is now made between Chicago and Springfield, a distance of 225 miles. ,' The friends of the Grant family in Galena says it has been' known there for some time that Nellie Grant and Sar-toris Sar-toris Jiave been living apart for four years. . ' Mary Anne Booth, widow tf the late J unius Brutus Booth, and mother of Edwin and J. Wilkes and Junius A; Bootfrdied of.-pneuaonia at the residence resi-dence of the last named yesterday, aged 83.. She will be buried in Baltimore:' Deceased was widely known among theatrical the-atrical people and much loved. The English Farmers' Alliance has adopted a resolution stating that to avert the ruin of the present race of farmers, land owners must forthwith reduce the rent of farms and the government must formulate a measure which will prevent the raising of rents on ' the strength of improvements made by the tenants. . In the estate of the late Emery A. Storrs an inventory has been filed showing show-ing that the assets of the estate consisted only of law books and household goods valued at $1,555. The appraisers appointed ap-pointed placed the widow's award at $3,110. The Court declared the estate insolvent, approved the inventory, and allowed the widow's award as fixed by the jury. A resolution of the Montreal local board of health, calling upon the central board to close the churches, is meeting great opposition. Monsignor Fabre, the Catholic Bishop, at mass" denounced the jdea in unmeasured terms, saying the authorities need not think they can bring about snch an unprecedented revolution as the suppression of public religion at the time of a calamity like the present. "Do you ever get; tired V tasked a visitor the other day of Assistant Postmaster Post-master General Stevenson, whom he found in his shirt sleeves, wiping out his 200th offensive partisan for the day. "The same question," replied Mr. Stevenson, Steven-son, "was asked of a Scotch clergyman who used to preach three , hours at a time- With the clergyman, I may say that 'I do find it a wee bit wearisome, but eh ! mon, you sh'd see how tired the other folks be!'" . . The bi-centennaryof the revocation of the Edict of Nantes was held in New York yesterday, many descendents of the Huguenots being present. Resolutions declared de-clared that after a separation of 200 years they reaffirmed their solidarity and brotherhood with all of French origin, both in France and other countries where decendants of the exiles of 1685 now dwell, and that the history of the Hugue-nots-tliome-and abroad has shown the ' world that the freedom of creeds from the State's control is the only true policy of Christendom. , : Secretary Whitney has sent the foremen fore-men of the Brooklyn Navy. Yard a circular circu-lar in regard to recommending subordinates, subordi-nates, in which he says skill and efficiency alone must be considered. He assures them that he knows the pressure which is likely to be brought to bear on them during the heated political campaign, and assures them that he stands ready to protect them from all harm aimed at them because of refusal to bow to political politi-cal behest, and warns them if they make inferior appointments for political ends they will be summarily dismissed. " At a meeting of the trustees of the Grant $250,000 Fund held yesterday, Mr. George Jones said that at no time since the fund was invested bad General Grant's family failed to receive the inter-1 est promptly on the day it was due. It mattered not whether the interest was or was not paid to the trustees every time it became due, the trustees saw that General Gen-eral Grant's family got their money without with-out delay ; that Mrs. Grant - had already made a will, in which she gave this fund to her daughter and the wives of her sons. Such a disposition of the fund would keep ,it out of the hands of the creditors of General Gen-eral Grant's sons, and the latter were perfectly satisfied with the provisions of Mrs. Grant's will. . ., The Mexican government having been informed that the Governor of Texas had issued a proclamation establishing quarantine on the Eio Grande against passengers coming overland from Vera Cruz; or from places inflicted with the yellow fever, ordered a commission of medical experts to investigate and report on the subject. The opinion of these gentlemen, expressed in their report, is that such precautions are considered unnecessary, un-necessary, because persons arriving at the City of Mexico or at any other of the States in the interior of the country, suffering suf-fering from that disease have never had it developed there, nor communicated it to anybody else. It is scarcely less possible pos-sible that travelers from Vera Cruz, arriving ar-riving after five or six days at El Paso, Texas, could carry the germs of the fever to the United States,without first spreading spread-ing it in some of the Mexican cities through which they have passed, which has never been known to take place. That is the reason why no precautions at all have ever been taken at the City of Mexico against the yellow fever, the gov- j eminent considering them wholly unnecessary unne-cessary and vexatious." In view of the publication of Mr. De-pew's De-pew's letter in relation to General Grant's conversation about ex-President Johnson, the Louisville Courier-Journal will publish pub-lish to-morrow three columns of General Grant's testimony before the House Judiciary Ju-diciary Committee, on July 16th, 1867, just prior to the impeachment of . President Presi-dent Johnson. The Courier-Journal will editoriallv say:. It is astonishing that among all the wi6e men of the East, among all those so busy writing history not one should remember that - General Grant did appear before the Judiciary Committee and gave his testimony. General Grant does not sustain Mr. De-pew. De-pew. He says distinctly that President Johnson did not propose to recognize a Congress composed of Southern members and the Democrats of the North. He asserts that in his public speech, when swinging around the circle, Johnson did "suppose a case" and then asked which would be the legal Congress, but he denies de-nies that he said even this much to General Gen-eral Grant in private. This and jio more is the - substance of Johnson's treason, and it is plain that what is new in Mr. Depew's letter is not true, and what is true is not new. |