Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-03-27
are refused meals at the company's boarding

are refused meals at the company's boarding
houses.
Pacific Mall and the Railroads.
CHICAGO, March 26th.-The Inter Oceans
Washington special says: The House Com
mittee on Railroads will probably report
| favorably the resolution offered by Man
ming, of Mississippi. directing an investiga-
| ton into the contract recently made between
| the Pacific Mail Steamship Company and
| Pacific railroads, under which competition in
| TRANSPORTATION between Asia and America
| is practically destroyed The Judiciary
| Committee of the Senate are already charged
with the duty of determining whether such
| contract is legal, and will probably report an
| opinion next week, but the House Railroad
Committee proposes to go into the facts and
! have up before it the men who made the con-
| tract.
Supplies for Ireland.
WASHINGTON. March 26th. = Secretary
Thompson to-day directed Commander Pat
ter. of the Constellation, to deliver her cargo
to the Herald Relief Committee in Dublin,
and explain that it was donated by few
generous-hearted Americans out of sympathy
| for the suffering Irish. He expressed salts
| faction at the peaceful character of the
mission.
The Grant Party.
GALVESTON, March 26th.-The Grant party
| left for San Antonio this morning. They
will remain there till Monday, arriving at
Houston Monday afternoon. They will leave
Houston Tuesday for New Orleans, via Gal
weston. General Sheridan and party have
left for Chicago.
Passed without Amendment.
RALEIGH IN. C.l, March 26th.-The bill
| for the sale of the Western Railroad, which
| the present extra session of the Legislature
was called by the Governor to consider,
passed to final reading in both houses to-
| day without amendment.
Attempted Wife Murder and suicide.
ST. LOUIS, March 26th.-Jacob Frey, an
old man 60 years old, cut his wife's throat
about noon to-day at their home on Lami
street, in the southern part of the city. He
then severed his own wind-pipe. Probably
both will die. The affair grew out of quar-
rel about money.
| The Coi0red Exodus.
| WASHINGTON, March 26th.-The Exodus
| Committee heard J. M. Brown (colored) to-
day, who gave testimony regarding the causes
of the exodus very similar to most of the
other witnesses, namely, the insecurity of life
and property, disfranchisement, threats etc.
| They were intimidated against leaving, but
| he thought the exodus was increased by that
| fact
Two Buildings Missing.
| WINFIELD ks J, March 26th.-A barn and
a smaller building were carried away this
morning by the cyclone and neither has been
| found-not even fragment-after ten hours
search.
Rhode Island Rejects Woman Suffrage.
PROVIDENCE (R. L., March 26th-The
Senate rejected the proposed amendment to
the Constitution, giving school suffrage to
women-13 to 20.
Tanmany Democrats.
| New YORK, March 26th.-The Tam
| many State Committee met in secret session
this afternoon. 1t was stated that the COM
mittee were awaiting the action of the
| Democratic Convention, which was in ses-
| sion.
| Mrs. Christiancy.
| CHICAGO, March 26th.-The Inter Oceans
Washington special says: Reports from res
idents of Peru give accounts of Mrs. Chris
tiancy's scandalous conduct, and say her hus-
band was Obliged to send her away.
Wife Murderer Hanged.
FAIRFIELD, March 26th.-Allen fowler
was hanged here to-day for the murder of his
wife last December.
DE Lesseps at Chicago.
| CHICAGO, March 26th-De Lesseps arrived
this afternoon from San Francisco, and was
received by delegation of French residents
and committee of the Civil Engineers Club
of the Northwest The latter rendered him
banquet tonight at the Grand Pacific
Hotel, at which about 100 persons were pres
ent. He said, in answer to a question, that
if any Chinese applied for work on the canal
they would certainly get it.
Kentucky MOrmons.
CATLETTsBURG (Ky), March 26th-Within
| the past ten days fully twenty converts to
| Mormonism have passed here on their way to
| Utah. They come from Lawrence county,
KY, where for year past Mormon mission
aries have been laboring. Among the con-
verts was young and handsome married
woman, who left her husband behind.
Farm Hands on a Strike.
| New ORLEANS, March 26th.-The farm
hands in st. Johns parish have struck for 81
day. They had been receiving 70 cents per
| day. T. is stated that the negroes threatened
to cut levees, burn houses, etc., but no vio-
lence has yet been reported.
ColOred Jurors in Virginia.
| RICHMOND, March 26th.-Judge G. L.
Christian, of Hastings Courthouse, has or
dered the summoning of two -colored men on
a venire for the next term of his Court. This
will be the first time the colored people ever
had representation on juries in any Court
here outside of the Federal Courts.
Strike Ended.
New York, March Goth. : The piano
makers strike is virtually ended.