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DOMESTIC TELEGRAPHIC NEWS
The Chinese bill will be considered b Congress in the course of seven or eigh days. City Treasurer Francis Smith of B yonne, N. J., is short in the sum of $41,00 in his accounts. The treasury of the United States ha purchased 324,000 ounces of silver for th different mints. It is now thought that John A. Walsh testimony in the star-route cases wi create quite a stir. The cotton mills owned by a Providen company at Conn., were burne Loss, over $100,000. John H. Deane of New York filed a assignment recently, giving preference amounting to about $500,000. Among the novelties in the Philadelph silk exhibition is a North Carolina inc bator for forcing the eggs of silk worm A leper named Charles Wilson ha escaped from the Tewksbury almshou and the state is being overhauled by tl authorities. Senator Miller of California recently I ported to the senate a bill to punish 1 tine or imprisonment the illegal issuan of passports. Senator Pendleton, says the New Yo Times, made a very earnest speech at tl Iroquois club banquet in support of civ service reform. J. C. Burrows of Michigan, recent nominated and confirmed solicitor of tl treasury, has written the president, for ally declining the office. The total receipts of Irving's six month American tour are about $500,000. H impression of America will be publish simultaneously here and in London abo June. H. M. True, a witness in the Share trial, died at Santa Cruz, of pneumoni produced by a cold. True exposed Wel conspiracy and was quite an importa witness in the case. A fair was held in the guild room of tl St. Ignatius church, New York city, f reducing the debt of the church and ultimately make the edifice a memorial the late rector, Dr. Ewer. Ocean freights are in a most unsati factory condition so far as stockholders the great steamship companies are co cerned. The dividends are microscop and rivalry is at a white heat. Philadelphia has 562 establishments d voted to the making of men's and boy clothing, in which are employed 9192 me 10,209 women and 934 children, turni out goods valued at $31,220,968. Frank Dewalt, defaulting president the Leadville bank, was arraigned befo the United States commissioners al waived examination. In default of $20,0 bail he was placed in jail at Denver. The widow of William Morton. t Aretic explorer, who died in Alaska la year and was buried in San Francisco, making strenuous efforts to remove t body to the family tomb in Greenwood. Heavy winds unroofed and damag buildings at Vicksburg recently. Shreveport a terrific rainfall was follow by brilliant sunshine, succeeded in t evening by an unprecedented downpou The New York board of health's analys of thirteen samples of yellow musta showed that each was adulterated, thr examples containing napthal yellow, dangerous explosive and violent irrita poison. Residents of Quebec province contin to flock to the United States, but prin pally to the New England mining center A number of French Canadians are al emigrating to theTurtleMountain distric in Dakota. Recent forest fires did $20,000 damage Dooley, Taylor, Webster. Sumter, Jeff son and Glasscock counties, Georgia. T winds have drifted huge sand piles ov the tilled lands, making new preparatio for planting necessary. Five thousand laborers have died three months on the Panama canal. Th is the report of Captain Wilbank, who turned recently to Philadelphia from t canal where he had been supervising t work of a dredge for a year past. Col. J. H. Haverly will sail for Engla May 18. The Mastodon Minstrels, sixt five in number, will sail on the same ve sel. The company will open at the Dru Lane theater May 31, and travel through England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales a France. At the regular meeting of the executi committee of the board of trade held Philadelphia. John Welsh in the cha Senor Raffel Varces, Mexican consul, re a brief and forcible address, urging encouragement of a direct trade betwe that city and his own country. Captain Eads, who has just return from England, says his visit was to int rest English capitalists in the Tehuanten railway and was entirely successful. T enterprise is in the hands of a wealt syndicate, which is furnishing funds f the preliminary work in Mexico. Among the things to be exhibited at t meeting of the inventors in Cincinnati the first patent ever issued in the Unit States. It is dated New York, July 1790, and is signed by George Washingto president; Edmund Randolph, attorn general, and Thomas Jefferson, secretar Fortress Monroe, Virginia, is the large fort in the world, covering an area twenty acres. It was built in 1817 and the uninitiated looks almost impregnab In shape the fort is an irregular hexago two sides fronting the water, while other four command the land approache The stockholders of the First Nation bank at Monmouth, Ill.. voted to pay t assessment to meet Cashier Hubbard's ficiency and resume at once, but t comptroller at Washington telegraph that the appointment of a receiver will necessary. This last move the bank w try to avoid. A number of persons just returned fro Panama describe the condition of affai on the isthmus quite serious as relates o public health. As the result of their servations they have addressed letters the order of the Red Cross, calling atte tion particularly to Colon as a field f special work. Bills have been introduced in bo houses of congress authorizing the go ernment to loan the managers of the Ne t Orleans exhibition $1,000,000 upon same terms as were made when it w given to the centennial exposition, t money to be paid before any other clair before the managers.
