Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-01-29
TRLHGRApaIo BREv7rIEs.

The Philadelphia Citizens Irish Relief
Committee have selected Rev. Joseph J. Gal
braith, Of Trinity College, Dublin Rev. Eu-
gene Shelby, of Kilmallock, Rev. W. Fiem-
ing Stevenson, of Dublin, W. Ii. O'Sulliyan,
of kiimallock, and William Thomson as q
committee to distribute supplies. One thou
sand dollars has been sent to Kenmara.
The bill for the purchase of the Roumania
railways by the State has been adopted in
th3 Chamber Of Deputies.
The administrative palace at Jassy, the an
Gent capital of Moldavia, has been entirely
destroyed BY fire, whichsis believed to have
been iucendiary
William H. Brewster, one of the propri-
etors of the Boston I'ratter died at New
buryport Tuesday. He had been in i'll
health for some time
A Halifax dispatch says There is great
distress among the poorer fishermen. Should
| severe weather set in there will be much suf-
fering
The Duchess of Marlborough's fund for
the relief of Irish distress now amounts to
e29, 300.
The Western Union Telegraph Company
recently introduced, at New York, the
method of applying mechanical force for the
generation or electricity, discovered by Ste
phen D. Field, of San Francisco. 1t is
claimed that there will be saving Of so per
cent. in expenses.
I A Northampton Qa.l, dispatch says; The
boy who was believed to have been muir
dered by his father, Elder Buck, the Advent
ist, is alive in an adjoining county, whittier
he fled after the beating his father gave him.
Chief of Police Benson killed himself in
his private room at Norfolk, Va, yesterday
morning. Domestic trouble was the cause.
New Orleans advices state that dispatch
from Captain eager, of the stranded steam
ship Louisiana, says that he has thrown over
board $50 tons of cargo. The propeller OF
the steamer is broken. The passengers have
been sent to Port Eads. The Captain will
save the ship.
Antonio Giovanni Aucarolo, the padrone
convicted of inveigling seven boys from
Italy, has been sentenced at New York to
i've years imprisonment. This is the first
conviction under the New York Padrone Act.
The Nationalists of County Mayo, ireland,
have decided to start Michael Davitt and
Thos. Brennan, under indictment for sedi-
ton, as candidates for the county for Parlia
ment, on the understanding that if elected
they shall not take their seats. The pros
poets of their election are considered good.
The New York Assembly took short re-
cess at Albany yesterday, and the members
were presented to Parnell.
The Kosmos Steamship Company of Ber-
lin intend to claim heavy indemnity from
Peru for the detention of the German steamer
Europa.
A number of revolutionary papers have
been seized at Barcelona, Spain, aud six
Internationalists arrested.
The Berlin National Zeitun1, discussing
the proposed increase of the army, says the
German nation is almost unanimous in its
approval of Bismarcll's resolution.
The physicians appointed at Madrid to ex-
anime into the mental condition of Francisco
Obero Gonzales, the would-be assassin of King
Alfonso, have submitted report, stating that
he is insane.
The contract for the sale by c. p Hunting
ton to the New York Stock Exchange and
Banking Syndicate of 80, 900 shares of Central
Pacific Railroad stock, with the privilege of
as much more, was signed yesterday, and the
stock will be delivered to-day.
The Republican Convention of New Jersey
is called for May 9th to elect delegates to
the Chicago Convention.
The saw and grist mill at Second Falls, n.
B., owned by Gilmour Bros, was burned
yesterday. Loss heavy.
During the absence of the keeper from the
Innate asylum at Blackwell Island, n. Y,
one of the inmates killed another.
Elias Gebhart, aged sixteen years, clerk in
hardware store at Syracuse, n. Y, was in
stantiy killed by customer who was buying
pistol The revolver contained three balls,
and was not known TO be loaded.
The steamer Holland, from London JAN
uary DIST for New York, has returned to
Queenstown with her main shaft broken.
The French steamer Paraguay has arrived
at Havre from South America, with 10000
carcasses Of mutton, preserved by refrige--
ators.
On the 10Th instant FIVE persons, convicted
by Court martial of incendiarism and rob-
berry, were shot at Santiago de Cuba.
A bout % 900 shares of mining stock were