Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-02-03
MISCELLANEOUS.

A Berlin dispatch says that Count de st.
Baliier started for Paris Sunday.
Pierre Ernest Bersot, the French scientist
and author, is dead.
Sir Dominic John Corregan, the eminent
physician of Dublin, member of Parliament
from 1870 to 1874, and Vice Chancellor OF the
Queens University. is dead.
At Easton, Mass, early Sunday, John d.
Gardiner and wife were burned to death, and
their house destroyed.
The Russian police having proved so very
inefficient in their prolonged struggle with
the Nihilists, large number of German po-
lice have been summoned from the Baltic
provinces of the Empire.
The Senate has confirmed the nomination
of Jackson Ferguson, to be Superintendent
of the Census District of Nevada Defofest
Porter. to be Associate Justice of the Su-
preme Court of Arizona; John Cook, to be
Indian Agent at the Rosebud Agency; Milo
Boyntou, to be Agent at the Moquis Pueblo
Agency, Arizona.
The Indianapolis, Cincinnati and Lafay-
cite Railroad was sold yesterday at Cincin-
natl, under an order OF the United States
Circuit Court. George Hoadley, of Cincin-
natl; Henry Bates, OF Indianapolis, and
George Il. Bliss, of New York, the Purchas-
ing Committee for the bendholders, bid it in
for 81, 500, 900.
In the case of &djulant Baronoff, SEN
fenced by Court-martial to be dismissed the
Russian laval service for insulting language
in reference to the Minister Of Marine, the
Gar has ordered that he be placed on half
pay instead of being dismissed 1t is probable
that he will receive the command of one of
the Russian cruisers in the Pacific coast.
The Secretary of the Treasury has in
cd ha hpi FINN Of +ha MT
100000, and authorized the purchase of sill
yer by the Assayer in charge in lots Of less than
10000 ounces.
A Long Branch, n. J., dispatch says that
the trottng mare Midnight, owned by John
and Charles Wheeler, died yesterday from
blood poisoning.
At Middletown, n. Y, yesterday, Linda
Young was burned to death while lighting a
fire in the high school. Her mother, in en-
deavoring to extinguish the flames, was prob
ably fatally burned.
The debt statement issued at Washington
yesterday shows the decrease. of the debt for
January to be 11,014, 26S.
Sam Il. Clare of St. Louis bought the race
track in that city at auction yesterday !;
price, Sl7, GOO.
The next New York Republican State Con-
vention will be the smallest in many years,
the representation being based on the vote
for Cornell. New York county alone loses
seven delegates. Erie is the only county
which gains, and it only gains one. The Con-
vention will consist of 40 members, against
$50 usually.
A dispatch from Richmond, Va, says: 1t
has showed here since ) p. NJ, and IS now sew
eral inches deep.
Montenegro has ordered 4,0Ga000 cart
ridges from an Austrian manufacturer, a
portion of which have been already delivered.
The total coinage of the Minis during Jam
uary were SO, SIC, 500. of which So, 40, 600
was in silver dollars.
The Lord Mayor of Dublin publishes a
letter saying that the Duke of Marlborough
Lord Lieutenant Of Ireland, in refusing to
attend the Mansion House dinner, descended
from the position of representative of the
Queen to that of a representative of party
While proceeding to a fire in New York
Yesterday truck No. . capsized and several
tiremen were injured
About twenty colored persons, including
four women and three infants, arrived at
New York yesterday, the first arrival in that
section of a colored party leaving the South.
Rev. Edward Cowley yesterday entered
a plea OF not guilty to twenty five indict-
nents charging Inn with starving and i'll
treating children in the New York Shepherds
Fold The trial il set for Monday next.
Cowley was sent back TO prison.
The warehouses of the British and foreign
steam wharf at Mapping. Eng, were burned
yesterday. The damage is stated at $50, 600.
The war in freight rates between the Pa
cifc Mail Company aud the consolidated
is attributed to Jim keene, who was
left out OF the railroad directory. Keene
holds largely of Pacific Mali stock.