Daily Los Angeles herald., 1879-12-11
Condensed TeIegrams.

| Fleischman, Sichel & Co., San
Francisco, have made an assign
ment.
A great snow storm has prevailed
at Yreka and in that region for the
past two days.
Encouraging developments are
reported in the 2400-level Of the
Union Consolidated.
The women of Boston very large
ly availed themselves of the right
to vote at the city election yester-
day.
Secretary McCrary's pomina-
tion as Judge of the Eighth u. s.
Circuit, was confirmed by the Sem
ate yesterday afternoon.
The steamer Roscommon, Capt.
Steel, from Liverpool, November
18th, for Havana, capsized and sunk
at sea. Six of the crew were
drowned.
Miss Julia Hinds died suddenly
at Virginia City yesterday morn
ing. Evidences were found in her
room showing abortion, and the af-
fair will be Investigated.
The stage which left Mojave
Monday morning was stopped by
robbers ten miles from Indian
Wells, and the treasure box broken
open and relieved of $4,000. A few
years ago d similar occurance took
place at the same point.
Miss Hattie Lucas committed
suicide at Oakland Monday after
noon by shooting herself. She left
a letter which showed she was
laboring under the constant appre-
hension of becoming crazy.
The trial at Yreka of DIR. George
Silyerthorn, accused of the murder
of the infant of his squaw wife's
| daughter, resulted in a disagree
ment of the jury. The jury stood
IL for conviction to for acquittal.
A bill has been introduced in the
House to provide for the sinking of
five artesian wells in the deserts
and plains west of the Rocky
Mountains. Two are to be sunk in
the Colorado desert. The bill car
ries with it an appropriation of
$50, 900 to pay for the work.
The severe weather continues in
| Great Britain and on the Conti-
nent. Heavy snow falls are reported
throughout Germany, Austria and
Switzerland, and from Paris, Mad
rid, Florence, Bologne, Milan,
Genoa, Venice, Verona and Rome.
At Nantes the river Loire is frozen
over. The municipality of Paris
has voted 100000 francs for the
poor.
The New York Times says of the
reported union of the two south
western railroads: The accomp-
lishment of the scheme will give
the people of this country rival to
the Union and Central Pacific, and
will, therefore, to great extent,
undo the results of the combina-
tion of the Vanderbilt and Gould
clique in establishing through
railway monopoly across the conti-
nent.
The Boston advertiser says of the
new combination: The st. Louis
and San Francisco road, which now
has terminus at Vinlta, Indian
| leIIlloTJt Is DuliuluS W lofCe
City, whence it will be rapidly
pushed forward to Wichita, where
connection is made with the
Wichita branch of the Atchison.
Work on the main line of the lat
ter is going forward at the rate OF
two miles daily, and will reach the
Rio Grande in forty-five days.
| Negotiations are on foot for the
purchase of all the Texas Pacific
Railroad Company's lands in Tex.
as by the Anglo-A Land
Association, financially power.
ful organization controlled princI-
pally in Edinburgh. The PROPOSE
tion Is to contract to pay for the
whole body of lands at a minimum
price of fifty cents per acre within
fifteen years, or as fast as this AS
ISOLATION colonizes them, and to
make an mediate cash payment
of say one million dollars in adj
vance of colonization.