At Detroit yesterday the New Yorks defeated the Detroits, 11 to 6.

A commissioner of internal revenue was determined on by the cabinet yesterday, and the selection will be made public today.

Schaefer defeated Wallace in the New York billiard tournament yesterday 175 points, and Dion secured a victory over Sexton by 74 points.

In the chess contest at London, last evening, Steinitz, Noa and Mackenzie played drawn games with Rosenthal, Winawer and Mortimer, respectively.

A Western man widely known as a protectionist has challenged Prof. Sumner to discuss the tariff question in New Haven before an audience of Yale students and the public.

Mrs. Lydia Pinkham, whose name and features are familiar to many newspaper readers as the originator of Lydia Pinkham's compound, died at Lynn on Thursday evening from paralysis.

The steamer Granite State, running between Hartford, Conn., and New York, was totally destroyed by fire at Goodspeed's Landing yesterday morning. Three lives were known to have been lost.

At Beacon Park, yesterday afternoon, there was a two-mile bicycle race between C. H. Chenery of the Harvard Law School and Manton Mavrick of the college, to determine which should represent the college in the collegiate contest at the polo grounds in New York, May 26. Chenery took the lead and held it until the last quarter of the second mile, when Mavrick shot by in fine shape and won the race.

THE WEATHER.WASHINGTON, D. C., May 19, 1883, 1 A. M. For New England, fair weather, warmer, followed by local rains, winds mostly southerly, lower pressure.