Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-01-12
MISCELLANEOUS.

The London Economist says gas properties
after numerous variations, have recovered
some of the ground recently lost.
Lieutenant General Skobeloff, Russian In
spector General of cavalry, father of General
Skobeloff, who distinguished himself in the
Turkish war, is dead.
A newspaper called The World has been
suppressed at st. Petersburg for publishing
objectional political articles.
The United States Consul General at
Mexico writes that the superiority of Ameri-
can manufactures is beginning to be gener
ally recognized, and that they are gradually,
but decidedly, superseding European articles
of similar character.
A number of unemployed laborers at Cork,
Ireland, Saturday, plundered meat and bread
shops.
Process serving was violently resisted in
Killahars, county Galway, Ireland, the par
ish priest leading in the resistance and caus-
ing the chapel-bell to be rung to give warning
of the approach of the servers.
Three American citizens, arriving in Eng
land, have been suspected of being Fenians
in disguise, and have been subjected to many
police indignities and absurd press criticisms
The buildings used as the wood department,
of Mitchell. Lewis & Co., extensive wagon
manufactory, at Racine, Wis, were totally de-
stroyed by fire at an early hour Saturday
morning. L ne loss Is eSJtInateu aI from 800,
600 to S75, 600 insured for $50, 1000. The
fire was caused by the explosion of dust
fan.
In the Mississippi Democratic Senatorial
caucus Saturday, the first ballot resulted !:
Barksdale, 57a; Singleton, A; Waltham,
341 Third ballot, Barksdale, SO Singleton,
39i Waltham, 33l.
The crew of the British ship Cape Verde,
Captain Haswell, from San Francisco for
New York, have mutinied. Warrants have
been issued at the latter city for the arrest of
the ringleaders.
DIR. William Budd, the eminent physician,
of London, and author of many medical
treatises, is dead.
The wife and mother of Yakoob Khan, ex-
Ameer, are on their way from Afghanistan
to India as prisoners.
News comes from Teheran that Russia is
putting severe pressure on Persia in an effort
to recover her lost influence.
The waters of the river Vistuls, in Aus
tria, have risen SO that twenty villages in Cra-
cow District have been inundated.
A Rome dispatch says that the Italian
Court of Appeals has annulled the marriage
of General Garibaldi with the Countess Raj
mondi.
The Western Union Telegraph Company
is about to have introduced in the Senate an
Act in relation to teleeraphic communica-
tions, for the purpose of protecting their pri-
vacy.
Major VIM. Sweet, Chief of the Internal
Revenue Division in the Office of the First
Controller of the, Treasury Department at
Washington. has been dismissed for extrava-
CANT expenditure while travelling on Govern
ment account.
Phillip Ford & Co., auctioneers, Read
street, n. Y, have become financially em.
barr1ssed, and Ford has been lodged in Jail
on suit brought by Ii. B. Clahin & Co. to
| recover s., 496, on the ground of alleged false
representations make by Ford as to the fnan-
cial,condition of his firm in procuring goods
Old credit.
George w. Williams (coloredb Represent.
alive to the General Assembly from Hamil
ton county, Ohio, was refused his dinner al
L. Breck & Co.'S restaurant in Columbus
Saturday, on account of his color. Mr.
Williams has stated he'will bring suit un
der the Civil Rights bill
The Kanawha Valley, W. Va, miners az
in state bordering upon insurrection, an,
the military have been called out to preserv
order.