Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-07-02
MISCELLANEOUS,

| A Montreal dispatch says: The direct
damage caused by the Laehine Canal accident
| is about $500, 900. Indirect damage will likely
exceed 81, 600 600.
The New York Cotton Exchange will be
closed on Saturday, Monday and Tuesday;
the Produce Exchange on Saturday and Mon
day. and the Stock Exchange on Monday.
The weather at New York continues hot
and dry, with no apparent sign of abatement.
The mortality continues frightfully large,
with an unusual percentage of sunstrokes. A
water famine also impends.
The Chicago Times Washington special
says: Secretary Sherman has again shown
his teeth TO Commissioner Raum by revokinp
the appointment of fifty clerks in the Revenue
Bureau, and giving the head of that concern
to understand that hereafter he himself will
make the appointments.
At kennebunk, Maine, yesterday 7 Irs.
Sylvester Chick took her only son, s wears
old, to the river, undressed him and held him
under the water until he drowned, and then
attempted to drown herself.
The Third Vermont District Republican
Convention nominated w. w. Grant for
Congress.
Five steamships landed /, ,sOG immigrants at
New York yesterday. For June A., 026 ar
rived, against 15, $50 in June, 1879, and s, 057
less than during last month. Nearly one
quarter Of the immigrants have come from
Germany. As a class they are superior to
those who have ever arrived before, and with
the exception Of the Russians, who are en-
tirely destitute, have been provided with
more or less money to start new homes in
America.
General and Mrs. Grant left Galena, H.,
yesterday for Kansas and Colorado, going
via the Illinois Central to Bloomington,
thence by the Chicago and Alton and st.
Louis to Kansas City.
Companies p, ID, II and G, Thirteenth
United States Infantry. with band, arrived
at st. Louis yesterday from New Orleans, en-
route to Fort Leavenworth, whence they will
be sent to different points in Colorado and
New Mexico.
Monday will be generally celebrated at
Chicago as independence Day, thou The
Exchanges will generally adjourn ovei sat
urday also.
The Sultan, in consequence of his fears REL
ative to the secret designs of the Powers, has
an idea of rendering the Dardanelles impreg-
nable by torpedoes and FORTS and has ordered
the preparation of plans and estimates.
At st. Petersburg the reports of the defeat
of the Russians by the Chinese are regarded
as unfounded.
The weavers in Mossley district, England,
have joined the strike.
At the Yale College commencement yes
terday the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws
vas conferred upon President Hayes.
The general term of the New York Su-
preme Court has ordered the reinstatement
of General Badly Smith, removed from the
Office of Police Commissioner by Mayor
Cooper.
Secretary Thompson left Washington yes.
terday for the West.
A Providence (R. ~ dispatch says: The
Wilkesbarre coal pier, East Providence,
owned by the Wilkesbarre Coal and Iron
Company, partially caved in this morning,
carrying down portion of the railroad track
and several coal cars. Loss, $50, 600 to S70,-
600.
A bill of foreclosure against the Reading
Railroad Company was fled at Philadelphia
yesterday On behalf of the holders of the
general mortgage loan of 1874, in the Circuit
Court of the United States for the Eastern
District of Pennsylvania. The bill was fled
by John G. Ballitt, solicitor for the English
and other bondholders.
In the English House of Commons yester-
day Sir Charles Dixie confirmed the state
ment that the Plenipotentiaries at Berlin had
arrived at unanimous agreement in regard
to the Greek frontier. He said it had not
yet been decided how to communicate their
decision to the Porte and Greece.
The coinage executed at the United States
Mints for the fiscal year ending June 30th
was SS4, $40 IA, of which S27, ,974, 750 was
standard silver dollars. This exceeds the
coinage of any previous year.
The volunteer cruiser Russia, which sailed
from Cronstadt for Vladivostock, took four
Generals, seventy-one officers and number
of engineers and artillrerymen.