Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-02-04
MISCELLANEOUS.

The recent large fire in Albany street, Bos-
ton, was incendiary Evidences have been
discovered of plans to fire other lumber yards.
Viscount Sandon, President of the Board
of Trade, speaking at Liverpool in favor of
Whitley, Conservative candidate stated he
did not believe the electors of Liverpool would
support a candidate whose promise to the
Home Rulers would tend to unsettle Ireland
for the period of fresh generation.
General John Brisbin, formerly member
of Congress from Pennsylvania, died yester-
day at Newark, N. J.
An Allentown, Pa, dispatch says: The
men in the Right ore mines are on a strike for
an advance from 80 cents to 81 20 day.
de Lesseps, and Madame Cremieux, wife of
Isaac Adolphe Cremieux, a Republican Life
Senator of France, are dead.
The molders in the extensive stove works
of Orr, Painter & Co., at Reading, Pa,
struck for fifteen per cent. advance. Under
orders from Philadelp hia the firm offered FIVE
per cent. advance and another five per cent
in July, if the state of trade warranted.
The stove molders at Rogersford have
struck in the same way.
The London Times semi officially asserts
that there is no truth whatever in the reports
that Lord Lytton is DESTROYS of leaving India /;
hence there is no ques ton of choosing his sue
cessor.
At Newton, n. J., Frederick Grille, con-
vic5ed of the murder of his daughter, has
been sentenced to be hanged April Sd.
A young man stole from the office of the
Philadelphia, Monday, fourteen 81, 900 bonds
of the Crane Iron Company, and escaped
with his booty.
The elections for the Bulgarian Assembly
terminated in the reelection of most of the
Liberal members. 1t is thought Prince Alex
ander will again dissolve the Assembly.
Count de St. Waller had an interview with
Bismarck before leaving Berlin for Paris, but
nothing was settled
Israel Boothley, Cashier of the First Ma
tional Bank at Augusta, Me-, shot himself
fatally yesterday, afterwards jumping into a
cistern on the bank premises, with weight
attached to his feet.
The privileges of the floor of the House of
Representatives were granted to Parnell and
Dillon yesterday.
The Senate Finance Committee have de-
cided to report adversely on the Warner
silver bill.
C. C. Waite, proprietor of the Brevoort
House in New York, and one of the proprie-
tors of the Windsor Hotel, died yesterday,
aged 40 years.
Specie at the Imperial Bank of Germany
increased to l, 400, 600 marks the past week.
The recent sale of the Atlantic and Great
Western Railroad was confirmed yesterday
morning at Akron. o.
The Secretary of the Treasury has decided
to purchase Sl1 900, 600 in bonds for the sink
ing fund in the usual manner. The bids are
to be opened on the 18th inst. No limit is
fixed as to price.
The billiard tournament between Sexton,
Schaefer. DAILY and Gallagher begins at St
Louis February 2lst.
A. De Capel Grove, British Consul for
Denmark, has been gazetted for Cuba.
The steamer Strahleven, with a cargo Of
fresh meat in cases and live stock, from Aus
traiia for London, has arrived at that city.
The meat in cases was perfectly fresh.
The Connecticut Republican State Con-
vention, for electing delegates to the National