Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-12-31

Eighteen villages in Holland Flooded by
Broken Dykes.
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DOMESTIC NEWS.
Pacific Coast Estimates.
WASHINGTON, December S0th-The official esti-
mates Of appropriations required for the next fiscal
year include the following details, not heretofore
published, for distinctive Pacific coast purposes :
For surveying public lands,1,caliiornia, $50 !;
Oregon, Washington, New Mexico and Colorado,
$50, 900 each; Nevada, Utah and Montana, s25, 00o
each Dakota, $4,000; Arizona, $4,000. For
surveying private land claims California $4,000 !;
Arizona and New Mexico, $1,000 each For the
United States Geological survey under Clarence
King. 100000. For clerks in the Office OF the
Surveyor. General of California, including those
gagged to bring up the arrears Of work and in copy
ing and preserving defaced orginalSpanish archives
$50, 900.
[NoTE-Increased appropriations OF 5000 to
IS 900 each are also recommended for similar pur-
poses Ia all other Pacific States and Territories
For survey OF the Pacific coast under the Super
intendent of the Geodetic survey, $3.50 000. For
river and harbor improvements-Oakland harbor
$3.50, 600; Wilmington harbor 1913 900; Coos Bay
harbor, 10000; Sacramento river, $4,000; San
joaquin river, $50, 600; Petaluma creek, $4,000 ;
Cascades of the Columbia RIVER $50 COO Willamette
and Columbia rivers from Portland to the sea-
including the bar at the mouth of the Columbia
$4,000; to protect the beach at Fort Adams
$4,000; upper Columbia and Snake rivers, O,o00;
upper Willamette and Yamhill rivers, $50, 600 /;
lower Clear Water, Idaho, $4,000.
[NoTR-Ali the foregoing river and harbor esti-
mates form part Of the grand total OF over
600 recommended by an officer of the Engineer
Corps which the Secretary of War, in transmitting
thop, 10 a
reduced to total of 81 900, without suggesting
what reductions should be made in any particular
case
For Mare Island Navy Yard continuation Of stone
dry dock, 5000 goo; repairing sectional dry-docks
$50 900; iron-plating shop, timber shed and roads,
$40 600 General expenses of the Indian service Of
California, $4,000; Oregon, $4,000; Washington
Territory $4,000; Utah and Dakota, 49, 900 each !;
Montana, $4,000; Idaho, $4,000; New Mexico
$50, 600; Arizona, $4,000. The estimates for the
support and subsistence of the various Indian tribes
not provided for by treaty stipulation are substan-
TALLY the same as the current years appropriations
The largest item is 1920 900 for the Apaches the
reservations in Arizona and New Mexico.
The detailed estimates for the Pacific coast
mints have been teegraphed. The aggregate
for the San Francisco Mint is $3.50 000 and for that
at Carson City, 1925 900. In addition to the above
estimates and to the usual estimates for the annual
salaries of all Federal officials employed on the Pa
cifc coast, the following miscellaneous items
For the collection of data by the Agricultural De-
S. 600 for boring experimental artesian wells in the
arid regions $50 600; for various improvements at
the Benicia Arsenal, s75,eOo; for rebuilding the
station and purchasing land Tor a site Q OF
fornia, $4,000; for the completion OF
the light house and steam fog signal at Tillamook
Head, Oregon, $4,000; for the purchase and cree
ton OF a marine hospital at Port Townsend, W. T.,
SIS 000 for the protection Of seal fisheries and sea
otter and hunting grounds, and the enforcement of
the revenue laws in Alaska by the use of revenue
steamers, $50, 600
The Weather Beyond the Rockies.
NEW YORK, December 30th.-A cold wave is re-
ported throughout the South, making the weather
the coolest for years At jacksonville Fla oranges
froze on the trees 1t is feared that the up river
fruit is badly damaged, although in localities
the oranges escaped.
BUFFALO, December 30th-The snow.storm con-
tinues. All the New York Central trains ca t have
been abandoned. The Chicago express, due from
the east last night, is off the track at Lancaster
CHICAGO December 30th.-The weather is much
milder. The thermometer, starting in the morning
at 6 below, is now at 6 above.
CLEVELAND, December 30th. The thermometer
was l. below last night.
PHILADELPHIA, December 30th. = The mercury
marked Sc below this morning, but is now rising.
GALVESTON, December 30th.-The Netcs' San An.
tonic special says: The night of the 2Sth was tho
coolest on record, 8 a. tire thermometer mark
ing TO- above zero. Ice formed two inches thick.
The water pipes frozen throughout the city, and
many have bursted. The water tanks are frozen,
delaying trains.
DALLAS Tex.) December 3Oth.-The mercury
yesterday fell to 4 above zero
RICHMOND (Va), December 30th.-The Their
mometer here marks s. below. 1t is the coolest day
since 1857.
here marks s. below, and along Blue Ridge and
Lehigh region IA to 22' below. Snow blockades
the country roads.
DANvIILE Va.) December 30th.-The weather here
is the coolest ever known. AT A. NJ. the ther-
mometer registered 2 below.
ST. LOUIS, December 30th.-The river was gorged
some miles below the city this morning. The ice
has stopped running here. but the water is much
wa mer and thaw is probable.
WASHINGTON, December 30th--11 A. Mt Is in
tensely cold here. The thermometer has been T.
below 1t is now 2 above. Advces from the lower
Potomac and Chesapeake Bay are that the severe
weather has almost entirely stopped the oyster
dredges, and oyster famine may be expected.
ERIE SUMMIT (Pa.) December 30th-The mercury
marks 90 below.
COLUMBUS (Ga). December 30th.-The coolest
weather on record prevails here. The thermometer
in this city stood to-day at a above, and on Ala
bama Hill at zero. The snowfall OF yesterday has
virtually suspended business.
FREDERICKSBURG (Va) December 3oth.-The daily
train on the r. f and P. Railroad which left this
place Wednesday morning at o'clock, to this time
has not been heard FROM
CuArrA oooA CTenn.), December 30th.-The ther.
mometer last night marked 8 below zero. All
Charleston s. c., the temperature this morning was
lower than since 1885.
BUFFALO December 30th.-The storm continued
with unusual severity during the night and up &c
about o'clock this afternoon. No passenger trains
were sent out on the New York Central Erie roads
until this evening The Canada roads are but little
affected by the storms Trains on the Lake Shore
are running behind time Snow plowS are at worn
on all roads running into this city.
NEW YORK. December 30th.-Owing to the IN
teusey cold weather which continues tonight grea
numbers of people were at the hospitals tbroughou
the city and the drug stores, have their frost
bites attended to. James Cunningham, ne-man fo
the telegraph company, was so benumbed that h'
fell from pole to the street, sustaining serious in
jures
Remarkably Lucky Railroad Accident
OMAHA December 3Oth-Tfis morning, as tn,
express train from st. Louis was approaching Coun
ell Bluffs over the Wabash road, an accident oc
Cured six miles east OF that place. AS the train
wound round a curve the rails spread, and one raj
broke Thetrucks Of the baggage and the forwart
trucks Of the reclining chair car and dining car left
the rails and the ties for some little distance
when the dining car went over an embankment twelve
feet high, landing on its side. In turning over il
sleeper in the and the rest Of the train forward
on the track The passengers had just had break
fast and had gone into the others cars bnt the EN-
ployes Of the dining car-two walters and two
cooks-and the conductor went down with it, anl
were more or less bruised, scratched and wounded
but none OF them were seriously hurt. They i'm
mediately crawled out of the door. The forward
part of the train stopped on the trestle work Of
bridge twenty feet high, the engine having got OF
the rails again and pulled the tram after il by
of frogs The whole train was got the TRACK
again except the dining car, and in half an hour
the train proceeded on its way to the Union Pacf,
transfer The dining car is considerably damaged
fortunate that the train running rather slowly
National Capital Items.
WASHINGTON, December 3eth.-The customary or
ders have been issued for officers of the army ant
navy at Washington to pay their respects to thu
President sew Years Day.
A. S. Logan, q lineal descendant Of the histori,
Indian chief has been appointed to position in TIT
Interior Department.
Judge Freeman, Assistant Attorney General fol
the Postoftice Department, has written letter t.
the ATTORNEY General taking the ground thai
legally subject to letter rates OF postage, and there
fore Section 232 OF the present postal regulations
allowing such papers rs bills Of lading, invoices
yayblls insurance documents, deeds, circulars aGt
handbills to pass through the mails as third-clas
matter should be annulled as contrary to law.
The Chinese Question in the East.
PHILADELPHIA, December 30th.-The TELEGRAPH
SAYS regarding the action of the Brooklyn Aldermen
toward the Chinese laundrymen: II there must bt
fight in these parts on the Chinese question, i
might Just rs well come of now as at some future
time whea it would seriously complicate praeti
caIly if not theoretically more important matters
1t is high time that SINE OF our politicians, ant
especially our Republican politicians, were being
put definitely on record with regard to this ques