Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-04-15
TELEGRAPHIc EREvIrIEs.

A dispatch from Petersburg, Va, says
Heavy frosts for several nights past have
killed the fruit crop in this section, and gen.
orally severely injured vegetation.
The main building of Proctor's tannery, at
Peabody, Mass, was burned yesterday. Loss,
1000
The New York Eren,ag Post says: Rev.
DIR. Osgood died this morning, after brief
illness, of congestion of the lungs.
By fire yesterday in a building on the
northeast corner of Main and Olive streets,
st. Louis. the shoe factory of H. H. Felli-
man was damaged to the extent of $50, 900.
Robert Fortune, the English author and
botanist, employed in 1857 by the United
States to collect in China seeds of tea and
other plants, died in London yesterday, aged
81 years.
John S. Berry, formerly of Oroville, CAL,
died in New York and was buried yesterday.
A dispatch from Thayetmyo, British India,
says: The Burmese ambassador declares in
a statement published here, that there is not
particle of truth in the reported massacre
in Mandelay. Leave of absence to British
officers has been stopped, and it is generally
thought that an important step is impending.
The bill prohibiting foreign vessels from
engaging in the coasting trade of Germany,
except where the privilege is accorded by a
treaty or Imperial ordinance, was read the
first time in the Reichstag at Berlin yester-
day.
Egypt has decided to occupy the Red Sea
coast to Cape Guard.
Some two thousand Swedes have left
Christiana this spring for the United States
1t is reported at London that barony will
be conferred on Beaconsheld, with reversion
to his brother.
The Minister of Colonies at Madrid, by the
Ii sc L
poned.the municipal election in Cuba until
May Sth.
Two men were killed yesterday by falling
beam, while raising bridge in the New Mill
Steel and Iron Works at Trenton, n. j.
A schooner with all hands went down in o
gale on Long Island Sound on Tuesday.
Charles L. Warthen of Boston, who sued
the Grand Trunk Railway Company for in
juries received by collision, owing to the
carelessness of the company servants IN 1876,
has recovered a verdict for $4,000. On the
first trial he was awarded SIS, 600, and on the
second 200. This is the heaviest verdict
ever rendered.
Rev. VIM. B. Orvis has been expelled from
the Philadelphia Association of Congrega-
tional Ministers because of his connection
with the Philadelphia University of Medi-
cine and Surgery College, where reporter
recently purchased certificate to practice
medicine. The Dean, President and Secre-
tary of the concern were ministers of the
Methodist Episcopal Church.
The Mansion House Relief Committee
fund at Dublin reaches el43,0OO. Expendi-
lures to date, e140, 900.
The extensive tannery of Kestler Bros. at
Lock Haven, Pa, was burned yesterday.
Loss, 500, 600; insurance, $4,000.
Daniel Miller and Chas. Fraser were
smothered by gas yesterday, while digging a
well near Gordonsville, Pa.
France, Russia and Italy have signed the
admission to the territorial arrangement made
between the Porte and Montenegro.
The supplementary election for member of
the German Reichstag yesterday, for the
second electoral district of Berlin, resulted in
the return of Professor Virchow, Pro-
gressist
At Hollidaysburg, Pa, yesterday, fire
destroyed eight dwellings. Loss, S25, 900.
A Berlin dispatch says that Professor Vir-
chow defeated Herr Koerner, Social Demo-
crat. in the election for member of the
Reichstag.
By an explosion of gas at the works of the
New York Gaslight Company yesterday at.
ternoon, one workman was fatally and two
others seriously burned.
PARIS, April 14th.-General Etienne Mar.
eel, who fought as Captain in the Waterloo
campaign, died to-day, aged So.