Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-06-29
MISCELLANEOUS.

The French Budget Committee voted 75o,-
600 francs for surveys of q railway from
Senegal to the Niger, Western Africa, and
cable from lille de Saint to Cape Verde.
Six thousand Communists, transported in
1871, have returned to France. Those free
from criminal antecedents have resumed full
political rights. Scarcely 500 remain in New
Caledonia. Such of them as had seriously
incurred the forfeiture of their political rights
will still be under disabilities. Scarcely 200
will be able to aspire to seats in the Chambers
or local bodies, and only twenty of these are
actually notorious, including Rochefort, Felix
Piatt, Jules Vallen, Blan9ui and Triniquett.
Swindlers attached to circus now in Iowa
defrauded q granger of 81, 200. The propri-
etor and all of his aids were promptly ar
rested, and rather than submit to the delays
of trial the former refunded the money lost
by the greeny.
The perils of Atlantic navigation have an
other illustration. A Norwegian bark has
arrived in Queenstown from Richmond in a
sinking condition, having been in collision
with an iceberg.
The Greenland seal fishery is reported ex-
ceptionally good.
By the explosion of can of varnish at No.
80 Gold street, New York, Joseph Yerks was
fatally burned and Nose Ackerman probably
fatally injured. The premises were damaged
$40, 600.
A letter from Corfu states that ten English
officers engaged an interpreter and proceeded
to the main land, ostensibly to inquire into
the feelings of the inhabitants of Janera and
that district relative to annexation to Greece,
but it is thought really TO make strategical
surveys.
The master cotton-spinners of Mossley,
Eng, have refused the advance of five per
cent in wages, and the spinners and winders
have struck, Eight thousand persons are out
of employment.
Much notice bas been taken at Berlin of
an article in the Paris Temps, affecting to
discard all responsibility the part of
France in the event of Turkey refusing to
obey the voice of Europe. 1t points to Eng
gland as the ultimate executor of the will of
the Powers, as having excited them to ex-
press it in the Conference.
At Constantinople the gravest apprehen-
sions are said to be entertained at the British
Embassy relative to the turn of affairs in Al
bania. The Albanian Commissioner has dis
patched ], 800 men to Daligirio.
Warlike preparations are proceeding at
Vienna. There is much activity at the ar
sapal.
The Porte telegraphed the authorities on
the Creek frontier provinces for an exact re-
port of the number of Albanians under arms,
the condition of the country andits resources
The Powers have consented to the estab
lishment of religious freedom in Morocco.
Telegraphic communication with Buenos
Ayres is entirely cut off.
A Sydney. n. S. W., dispatch says the
Kelly gang of bushrangers has been captured.
Four persons were shot in the encounter with
the officers. The garg is notorious for bank
robseries.
The Congressional Democratic Committee
will meet in New York on the 12sh OF July.
The St. Petersburg Gazette announces that
the visit of the Chinese Embsssador to France
is again postponed by China, to gain time for
war preparations.
The wrecked steamer Nauagansett, OF the
Stonington line, was raised yesterday, but
sunk again while being towel towards Cows
Bay No more bodies havn heen recovered.
DIR. Ely. Tanner, Of Milwaukee, has begun
his feat Of fasting forty consecutive Gays,
under the supervision of q committee Of six
physicians.