Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-10-14
GENERAL NEWS.
LAST NIGHTS DISPATCHES TO TIE RECORD.
UNION.
DOMESTIC.
Fast HAIL Carrying.

Fast HAIL Carrying.
NEW YORK, October 13th.-The steamship
Arizona at noon yesterday, taking the Aus
tralian mails of the 9th ultimc, received at
San Francisco by the steamship City of Sgd
ney, and which were dispatched by special
train l, 200 miles, at cost of 81, 900. to over
take the regular train which left San Fran
cisco October 9th. The train with the mails
arrived at Jersey City Tuesday evening at 10
o'clock. 1t is expected that the Arizona will
| reach Queenstown In days, making the
| time from Sydney to London Al days. Ac-
cording to the last report of the Postmaster
General of New Zealand, the average time
consumed in the voyage from Sydney, via San
| Francisco, has been As days and about s
hours. and by way of Suez canal 40 days and
4 hours It will therefore be seen that the
City of Sydney has reduced the time of the
voyage nearly Al days.
The Democratic split In New York.
New York, October 13th.-Ths Herald
| says At o meeting of the Tammany Hall
Committee on Organization. the district
leaders were calledupon to express their views
regarding a coalit on with Irving Hall On the
! county ticket. 1t was the unanimous opinion
that no union should be completed unless Tam
ruany conceded the right to nominate the
candidate for Mayor. A Herald reporter in
| terviewed group of prominent Irving Hall
Democrats, nearly all of whom considered
that the prospects for uniting the party on
the county ticket had become terribly OBJ
scure. One was asked, I'm case three
tickets are in the field-Tammany, Irving
Hall and Republican-who will your party
nominate for Mayor" Probably, Franklin
Edson," was the reply.
Even the Sun now admits that Tuesday
nights parade was. in numbers, discipline and
Ill Is i Ill IL
planned.
Congressional Nominations.
CHICAGO, October 13th.-Hiram Fl. Cady
of Du Page county has been nominated by
the Democrats of the First Illinois District
for Congress.
New York, October 13th.-The Demo.
| Gratis Of tie Sixth District have renominated
S. s. Cox for Congress; Ninth District, Fer
nando Wood; Tenth District, Abram S.
Hewitt; Fifth District, Benjamin Wood and
Nicholas Muller. Irving Hall, which has the
naming of the Democratic candidates for
Congress in the Fifth District, is divided.
PROVIDENCE Or. u October 13th.-The
Democratic Congressional Convention of the
| First District has nominated Isaac Laurence.
Imprisonment for Life ut Hard Labor.
| OMAHA, October I2th-Ahout the 18th of
last August an old German farmer named
| William Roster, living in Furnace county,
was missed, and search being made his BODY
was found in manure pile. An analysis of
his stomach showed that he had been poison
ed by strychnine. Frank d. White, who
had been living with him, had appropriated
his personal property and told contradictory
stories. He was arrested, and on his trial
last week at Beaver City it was shown that
ne had purchased strychnine. The jury,
after being out twenty-four hours, returned q
verdict of guilty of murder in the second
| degree, and on Monday Judge Gaslin sem
! fenced the prisoner to the Penitentiary for
| life at hard labor. The general opinion is
that he should have been convicted in the first
degree. People talked strongly of lynchiaS
| MIN Sunday night, but wiser counsels pre-
vailed
Northumberland Passengers.
| OMAHA, October 18th. = The folio wing
| through passengers were on to-day's train,
leaving at 1915 p. NJ, TO arrive in Sacra-
mento October 18th: Mrs. George Levy,
Chicago; S. C. Chummard, Muskegon, Wis
consin Miss Fannie Mcdonald, Iarkville,
| Pa. Helen s. Norton, Lowell, Michigan !;
| Mrs. hale Odan, Chicago Jennie Mclean,
Romo, Michigan; Rev. II. L. Mckenzie
and wife, Swallow, China; Horace Tate,
wife and nurse, Duncans Creek, Missouri !;
G. Hook and wife, s. w. Point; Mrs Stur.
tevant and daughter, Lagrange, Illinois J;
| Mrs. Thos. Miner, two children and nurse,
| Port Townsend. w. T.; $. p Warren, Chi,
osgo; Mrs. X. Davis, San jose, Cali
fornia; G. L. Mccoy, Oskland G.
V. Walker, A. Moreansteen, A. p.
Moore, San Francisco; r. H. Watson,
| w. Weber. New York: Mrs. Nevins, Los
Angeles Rev T. S. Wynkoop, Alexandria,
mia /; Mrs II. j. Glenn, Miss Ella Glenn,
Jacinto, CAL; Annie Longtime, Willis, Cal;
| s. Z. Wilson, Miss Mamie Wilson, Marys-
! vile A. E. Haskell, l.. V. Moore, Santa
| Barbara; Mrs r. w. Wilson, Fort Dodge,
Ia; Mr.. and Mrs. Dillman, Boston; Caleb
Dorsey, Oakland, Cal; G. G. Batterman and
wife, Carson Mrs Parker, Atchison w. S.
Gage and wife, San Francisco.
General Grant ut Boston.
Boston, October 13th-General Grant and
party have arrived. Thousands OF people
were at the depot to welcome the General,
| who was driven at once to his hotel.
California salmon Eggs for Europe.
| New YORK, October 13th.-Seven hundred
| thousand eggs Of California salmon arrived at
New York yesterday from the McCloud river
Those intended for France and Holland were
forwarded yesterday, and those for Germany
will go next Sunday.
The Episcopal Convention.
| NEW York. Octocer 13sh-In the Episco-
pal Convention this afternoon Rev. f. G.
Cowan, of California, and Rev. DIR. Beers,
| of California, spoke in favor of Bishop
| Whipple's resolution in relation to the endow-
| rnent of episcopates of that missionary jurs.
diction with $4,000, and it was adopted.
Presidential Electors.
PROVIDENCE (R. ~ October 13th.-The
Democratic State Convention to-day nomi
mated the following Presidential Electors
J. B. Barnaby, Steven P. Slocumb, A. B.
Lewis and Charles E. Gooman.
silver and stocks.
New YORK, October 13th.-Silver bars,
1125 money easy at 2@3; Governments
strong; stocks closed strong; Western
Union, 1ol2; Quicksilver, Il; Pacific Mail,
York Central. 1917; Erie, 42a; Panama,
100; Union Pacific, 9ls bonds, 112h Cen
| trail Pacific, III ); bonds, 1115; Sutro Tun-
mel, Il.
Old Board REFLECTED.
New York, October 13sh.-At the annual
meeting of the Western Union Company to-
day, the old Board of Directors were re-
elected without opposition, receiving over
200, 900 votes.
Boston. October 13th.-Ex.U United States
Senator Peleg Sprague died this morning.
FOREIGN NEWS.
Another Mining Catastrophe.
ST. ELLARoN IN. ST., October 13th.-The
water burst into the Ford pit of the Albion
mines from the old working Of the Bye mine,
killing ten men, among whom are James
Fraser, underground manager, and = Con-
way, boss. The names of the others are
not yet ascertained.
LATER.-The bodies of Fraser and miner
have been brought to the surface terribly
mangled At the first rush of the water
nearly all the men in the pit rushed to the