Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-12-24
TELEGRAPH1o BREVITIEs.

The Pacific Mail steamship Colon, adver-
tised to sail from New York on Wednesday,
is delayed by repairs being made to her en-
gines. She may be detained another day or
two.
The Pacific Mutual Marine and Inland In
suranee Company, on account OF heavy
losses, will go into liquidation. The assets
are stated at $3.50, 000-labilities the same,
including 800, 900 in outstanding scrip.
Five men, for sending lottery circulars
through the mail, pleaded guilty In New ork
yesterday, and were fined $500 each.
a project is on foot to illuminate Fourth
and Fifth streets, st. Louis, with the electric
Hon. Thomas Allen telegraphs to st. Louis
from New York that he has leased his new
hotel-the reconstructed Southern-to Bres-
lin & Co., of the Gilsey House, New York.
The funeral of Rev. Theodore Irving, u. D.,
nephew of Washington Irving, took place at
New York yesterday.
The United States Sub Treasurer at New
York begins on the 18th the payment of the
January interest, amounting to nearly Sl6,-
600 600. This will all be new money.
The profits of all kinds of corporations at
New York have been very large the last six
months, and the dividends will probably
exceed anything ever known.
At Providence, K. l., yesterday, Dyer,
Land Co.'s block was burned. Loss, $780,
co., Waite, Smith Il Co., jewellers, lose
SIS, 900.
The President yesterday signed the com-
mission OF Judge Woods for the Supreme
Bench.
Michaeloff, the Nihilist nobleman arrested
at st. Petersburg, was an active participant
in the attempt against the life of the En-
peror of Russia at the Winter Palace on the
18th of February last, when 10 soldiers were
killed and A wounded, some fatally, by the
explosion of the dynamite mine under the
imperial dining hall.
The London Times hints that the Marquis
of RipOn will resign the Viceroyalty of India
owing to his inability to stand the climate,
and recommends the immediate appointment
of his successor. The Times suggests Lord
Dufferin, at present ambassador at ST. Pc
tersburg.
The steamships Bothnia and Frisia brought
to New York yesterday $3.50, 900 in French
coin.
The Bolton and Oldham (Eng.) operative
cotton spinners have applied for an advance
of wages. Forty thousand colliers in Ashton
under-Tyne district struck yesterday for an
advance of wages.
Sheik Abdullah, the Kurdish leader, is now
in Turkey, and Persia demands his surren-
der.
The Government Printers statement shows
the actual expenditures on account of print
ing, binding, engraving, hthographing, etc.,
for the Government of the United States for
the fiscal year ending June 80, 1880, as exc
cuted at the Government Printing Office,
amounted to S2,034, $50.
At st. Louis last night Kohler Bros Pa
cifc Touring mill was burned, with consider
able stock. Loss, 100000; insurance,
S46 900. Henry Carroll, the foreman, was
killed by falling through the floor, and an
employe was badly burned.
Eugene Fairfax Williamson, the prosecutor
of DR.. Dix, in New York, died at Sing Sing
yesterday.
The store of Davis & Breedlive, at Inde.
pendence, Tex, was destroyed by fire yester-
day morning. Insured for $4,000.