Jeff Davis is seriously ill at his residence, Beauvoir, Miss.

Dr. W. C. Fox of Hoosac, Mass., has been arrested on the charge of bodystealing.

It is stated that Commissioner Raum's successor will not be appointed for several days yet.

The programme of the opening exercises of the Brooklyn bridge is complete and made public.

Daly won the second game in the New York billiard tournament last night, defeating Wallace by a score of 500 to 364. Sexton beat Carter 500 to 455.

Funeral services over the remains of ex-Governor Washburn were held at Portland, Maine, yesterday afternoon. He will be buried in Mount Hope cemetery, Bangor, today.

The second auditor of the Treasury department has decided that General Adam Badeau is not an officer in the United States army, and that he is improperly borne upon its rolls.

Base-ball games yesterday - At Cleveland, Clevelands, 2; Bostons, 1. At Buffalo, Buffalos, 5; Providence, 4. At Detroit, Philadelphias, 4; Detroits, 3. At Chicago, Chicagos, 8; New Yorks, 7. At Philadelphia, Athletics, 8; Baltimores, 7. At New York, Metropolitans, 6; Alleghanys, 2.

THE WEATHER.WASHINGTON, D. C., May 16, 1883, 1 A. M. For New England, fair weather, winds mostly westerly, stationary or lower temperature, higher pressure.