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MEER THE 30 SMIN Gleaned by Telegraph and Mail. 'SHION NOTONIHSVM COMMISSIONER ATKINS, of the Indian Bureau, will leave Washington about July 1 -uI A eqs JO understand JO 41814 . uo dian agencies. THE Secretary of the Navy has been informed that Auf de Morte, the defaulting officer at the sub-treasury at New Orleans, 1 si eq Mexico 04 peg seq milles, eutos up IT was reported at Washington recently that Commissioner Sparks was formulating an order cancelling all withdrawals of land by the United States for the protection of the indemnifying limits of railroad grants. The effect of such an order would Issat to proble the 04 restore 04 eq 50,000,000 acres and would undoubtedly lead to litigation. COMMISSIONER SPARKS recently addressed a letter to Secretary Lamar, requesting him to call upon the Attorney General to institute legal proceedings to set aside the Maxwell grantin New Mexico, upon allegations of fraud. The grant comprises two million acres and originally belonged to ex-Senator Chaffee. THE President on the 10th appointed the following Collectors of Internal Revenue: John T. McCarrigle, Ninth District of Pennsylvania; Attilla Cox, Fifth District of Kentucky; George M. Davis, Fourth District of Michigan. THE Comptroller of the Currency has declared a dividend of two per cent. in favor of the creditors of the New Orleans Banking Association, making a total of sixtytwo per cent. so far paid to the depositors. THE Commissioner of Indian Affairs on the 10th opened bids for the supplying of 15,000,000 pounds of beef to the Rosebud, Yankton, Crow Creek and Pine Ridge Indian agencies. There were ten bidders, 99'8$ 04 CF'8$ шолу rended prices the puw per hundred pounds on the beef. COLONEL BATCHELDOR, Deputy Quartermaster General, left Washington recently for New York to receive the testimonials and presents received by General Grant at home and abroad, which were presented to the Government by Mrs. Grant. It was not decided where the presents would be placed. IT was understood at Vashington on the 11th that the Secretary of the Navy had decided to order a courtmartial for the trial of Paymaster General Smith, United States Avey AT Washington, on the 12th, Daniel Carrigan, ex-Chief Clerk of the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery of the Navy Department, who had pleaded guilty of fraud, Albany the u! years XIS of SUM penitentiary. SECRETARY WHITNEY has ordered another trial of the dispatch boat Dolphin, considering that the previous trial was valueless as to the vessel's ability to stand 'BOS heary is 18 one sheem emos очм 'VNHV aq O 'H Washington caused the arrest of the Commissioner of the Land Office for assault, was recently dismissed from his position as Timber Agent of the Land Office. THE EAST. THE New York Daily Commercial Bulletin places the aggregate loss by fires in May, in the United States and Canada, at $8,776,000, or ten per cent. increase in the fire waste during the same month for ten years. ALL the Pittsburgh, Pa., gambling houses have been closed. JOSEPH RENSON, while suffering from delirium tremens recently, blew up his terribly SUM eH 'I R New 18 saloon burned. Three other persons were injured. THE entire family of William King were poisoned the other morning at Stapleton, R. I., by eating canned corn. One child died; the remainder of the family is in a precarious condition. IN the Pennsylvania Senate the Congressional Apportionment bill was passed over the Governor's veto-yeas, 34; nays, 'QT GENERAL GRANT passed an almost sleepless night on the 10th. Dr. Douglass said that it was not because of pain, but the result of steady thought and application to literary work the previous day. The local conditions were unchanged. THE New Hampshire Senate and House met in convention on the 11th and proceeded to an election of State officers, with the following result: Secretary of State, A. B. Thompson; State Printer, John B. Clark; State Treasurer, S. A. Carter and Commissary General, Frank P. Brown. THE epidemic at Plymouth, Pa., was reported decreasing. The plague, however, had broken out at Sugar Notch and Warren Run, near Nanticoke. A NORTH bound fast freight on the Pennsylvania & Schuylkill Valley Railroad recently crashed into the rear end of a local freight which had stopped at Spring Mill Station, near Norristown, Pa. The conductor and fireman were fatally injured. JOHN L. SULLIVAN, the pugilist, became drunk at Philadelphia the other day and put the inmates of several saloons to flight. A dozen of his friends overpowered him and by main force put him to bed. COLONEL EDWARD E. WHITE, United States Consul at Puerto Cabelia, Venezuela, died at his residence in Philadelphia 1244. em uo SERIOUS anti-prohibition riots recently broke out at Spring Vale, Me. The windows of five or six dwellings were smashed, the 07 europ SUM eSsurep principal the mg office of the Advocate. THE WEST. AT the examination of the charges against Assayer Harrison at Helena, Mont., a number of witnesses testified that Government money was used for speculation in private enterprises. A TERRIFIC windstorm passed over Marshall County, III., the other night. Houses were unroofed and trees
