Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-12-20
General. NEWS.
Saturdays Dispatches in a Con.
densed Form.

0O4COu i UIlus
Scarlet fever and diphtheria are raging il
New Y ork.
Some of the stockholders want James r
Keene in the Central Arizona Directorate.
1t is rumored that Senator Sargent has beer
offered the vacant portfolio of the Navy De
parment.
Between 800 and 400 students had serious
row with a posse of gendarmes in Moscow
last Thursday.
The Second Chamber of Holland has votec
grant of 1000 guilders for an Arctic expe
dition next year.
The clerks and employees of the Navy De
partment took formal leave of Secretary
Thompson Saturday.
were hurt by the ditching of a train between
Worcester and Nashau, in Massachusetts.
Revs. Dale and Enright, Ritualists, have
been ordered released, on the understanding
that they will not do anything contrary to
Lord Penzance's monition
The Directors of the Anglo-American
Gable Company have decided to postpone re.
pairing the Brest cable of 1869 until spring,
owing to boisterous weather
It is reported that the ex-Empress Eugene
has gone to Paris, to secure the release of her
god daughter, the Baroness de Friedland, who
is charged with forgery.
The latest gossip concerning the Morey
letter is that it was gotten up by prominent
Democratic editor in Washington, with the
knowledge of leading Democratic managers.
The friends of General Grant in Congress
criticise with some severity Sherman's letter
opposing the formers restoration to the army,
and intimating that he will, at the proper
time, give his reasons for doing so.
A boiler in New York exploded Saturday
morning, and alighted on stone drug store,
and pieces of the pipe went through the sky.
lights, and descending into bed where the
tenants were sleeping, threw them into parox.
ysms of terror.
The bark Nile, Captain Dixon, from Que
bee, November 18th, for Cardiff, became
waterlogged and capsized on the 22i Of No.
vember. Part of the crew landed at Flush.
ing. The master and remainder of the crew
were drowned.
The latest reports in regard to the Buffalo
fire are as follows: All the employees of Birge
are accounted for except eight previously re.
ported missing and seven since reported killed
by the fire. SO far fifteen lives are known to
be lost. Two bodies were recovered Saturday
morning.
The divorce case of Christiancy, Minister
to Peru, against his wife, Lille NJ. Chris.
tiancy, was taken up in the Equity Court at
Washington Saturday. The defendent filed
motion in opposition to the appointment Of
a commissioner to take the testimony of Edel
Giro, who, it is alleged, occupied room with
Mrs. Christiancy at the st. james Hotel in
this city in December last.
A petition has been filed in Washington
county, r. l., by Katherine Chase Sprague,
praying for a divorce from William Sprague,
on grounds of adultery and other misbeha.
vior and neglect to provide.
ored MINISTRIES. died Saturday in Bellevue
Hospital, N. Y. of pneumonia. He was
aged q years, and native of st. Louis.
The village of Mush, in Armenia, has been
sacked by Turkish troops.
The death of the Duchess of Westminste,
is announced in a London dispatch. She
died at her residence Friday evening.
The steamship Servia, which arrived al
New York Saturday, brought among heI
passengers four German mechanics, exiled
on account of their Socialistic tendencies.
The plates surrendered by Lrockway, the
forger of Government bonds, have arrived al
Washington.
Count Won Thun Hohenstein, an Austrian
noble, left Omaha Saturday for California.
Work on the Central City, Deadwood anc
EASTERN haIiroao uegins Io-uay, WIN Ai GU
bald Macarthur, of Chicago, contractor. The
road Is under contract to be completed August
l, 1881.
The Louisville C0u1fe7-JouTndl says the
official vote OF the country foots up: Han
cock, 4,453, 49S; Garfield, 4, AGO, 249; Weaver,
3O7, 99S; Dow, 1854; scattering, 9,759
Total vote, 9,241, 1888; Garfield over Ian
| cock, 6,75l; combined opposition over Gar
| field, $40, S35.
Saturday morning John Manley, a con
ductor on the B: and M. Railroad, fell from
the bridge at Plattsmouth, Neb., distancf
OF fifty feet, and broke his back, from whlct
ne died shortly afterward. =
Thomas and Frank Iwlggs tcoloredl
brothers, convicted In the Burke county Ia
Superior Court or the murder OF William
Drlscou twhitel IN November last. have beer
sentenced to be hanged January 18th. ;,