Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-04-12
MISCELLANEOUS.
DOMESTIC.


The Louisiana Legislature has adjourned
sine die.
General Grant witnessed the races in New
Orleans Saturday.
There are considerable number of small
pox cases in Chicago, and active steps are
being taken to suppress its further spread.
William Hood and engineers have arrived
at San Antonio, Tex, from San Francisco to
survey the Southern Pacific Railroad to Ell
Paso.
In New Orleans, John Sullivan, keeper of
the Barrett House, was shot dead by John
RaymondIt tcoloredl, the difficulty being about
10 cents.
VIM. H. Escott, defaulting Secretary of
the Montreal Agency, was arrested at Chi
cago as q fraudulent debtor. He has EN-
bezzled $4,000.
The Harrisburg (Pa Car Manufacturing
Company's planning mill and ten dwellings
were burned Saturday. Loss, $4,000; in
surance, $4,000
William Steadman, law student of Mar
shall, Tex, killed himself, assigning as cause
rejection of application for admission to
West Point two years ago.
An explosion of dynamite at Downington,
Pa, killed John Powell and Robert Taylor,
and severely injured about twelve others.
The killed and wounded were quarrymen.
In Louisville, Saturday, Mrs. Wilhelmina
Friske, a German lady, 6S years of age, liv
ing on Eleventh street, near Jefferson, was
murdered by her insane son with a butcher
knife.
In Norwalk, Conn, the Committee of In
quirv report that the charges of immoral con-
duct preferred against Rev. A. w. Paige are
true, and they recommend his expulsion from
the Conference.
Near Woodstock Station, on the New
Brunswick Railway. baggage-car and one
passenger car were overturned. The latter
was nearly destroyed, yet of fifteen persons
in it, only one was seriously hurt.
A special from Washington declares that
Acklin and King have gone to Louisiana for
a duel but a New Orleans special says the
story is undoubtedly false, Acklin only being
there to conduct his Congressional CAM
paign.
Two checks, purporting to be drawn by
Gillian Schenck, County Treasurer of Kings
county, New York, for st, 500 and S4, 500 on
the National City Bank of Brooklyn, and
certified Saturday, are forgeries and will not
be paid.
The body of man, nearly nude, was
found, Friday, in the woods at Durham,
New Hampshire. The head and one arm
were missing, and the clothing was scattered
about with every indication of sharp strug-
gle for life.
Inc new OrK ITtUuJt has ILLS
saws Grant is the only candidate, and is sure
to be nominated. This is hard. If predic-
tion of success from Gorham won't kill the
third-term movement nothing will. He has
never failed yet.
DR.. Ferdinand Meyer, having inoculated
large number of people at Matteson, Ill,
with virus from a smallpox patient, and
thereby created himself large practice, has
deemed it expedient to fly from the place.
People are much aroused.
The steamship Scandinavian, freight
transportation vessel of the Anchor Line,
bound to Bristol with grain, collided with an
unknown vessel in the Lower Bay of New
York, Saturday, and was severely injured
and brought back to port.
Dr. Gorsen has been committed to prison
at Philadelphia on a charge OF poisoning his
wife, lately deceased. About q week before
his wife died her mother died very suddenly,
and prior to that her father died. The wife
left an estate Of considerable value.
The New York Tribune says: The Senate
having confirmed the Chinese Commissioners,
all the Chinese questions, of which there is
an uncomfortable number, can be taken
promptly into consideration by the Commits
sioners, who are of exceptional ability and
undoubted fairness. .cssra g..
Enoch Mosslander, bachelor, n years of
age, and reputed wealthy, was discovered
burned to death, in his farmhouse near Bell
aire, Ohio. The theory is that robbers burned
him, trying to extort from him the secret
where lie kept his money, that having been
once before attempted.
FOREIGN.
Two hundred convicts have arrived at
Odessa, Russia, for transportation to the
Island of Saghallan. ecHseo sS.ss
In Vienna, Jules Strasser, cashier OF the
Rothschilds, has been arrested for embezzle-
ment He lost 100000 forms in specula-
tions on the Bourse. His brothers have been
arrested.
A telegram from Singapore confirms the
report of the murder of WALTON by the ma
tives of Sumatra, while on a scientific mission
for the French Government. The Governor
of Acheen has gone with troops to recover
the body and effects, and to punish the muir
derers.
kilograms from the Russian Consul at Van,
Armenia, appeal for aid to the inhabitants of
that district from annihilation. The famine
is increasing. One hundred and fifty persons
died of starvation at Agbak. The Russian
authorities at Roetoff have forwarded SO, 600
pound of flour to Van.
A Constantinople dispatch says: The,elec-
tions in England has produced a profound
impression here, and at the Palace almost q
panic. Greeks, Armenians, Bulgarians and
Christians rejoice at Beaconsfield's fall. The
more sanguine assume that Gladstone will
turn Turkey out of Europe, bag and baggage.
A telegram from st. Petersburg says: It
is thought that a naval demonstration may
have salutary effect on the Chinese, and
that this step is partly due to the news that
the reactionary party in China is gaining the
ascendancy, to the danger of all Europeans,
whose respective Ministers have consequently
asked for naval reinforcements in Chinese