Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-04-07
MISCELLANEOUS.

The steamer Belize, arrived at New York,
reports having attempted but failed to take
in tow the steamer Samaritan, which was
disabled.
Mrs. Deutch, sister of T. B. Van Buren,,
formerly Of California and now Consul
General to Japan, died yesterday at New
York from opium eating, fastened by an
overdose of laudnum.
General Grant has accepted an invitation
of the colored citizens of Mobile to visit that
city.
At Santa Fe, N. NJ, on Monday night,
VIM. Robinson, without provocation, shot
policeman Sunday, knocking off two fingers.
Sunday returned the fire, killing Robinson
instantly. Robinson was intoxicated.
The night express that left Boston at 10
o'clock Monday night for New York, via
Springfield, was partially wrecked by the
caving of an embankment about three miles
north of Meriden, Conn. Nobody was in
jured seriously.
In the rowing match at New Orleans Mon
day, Plaisted won easily i'll ~ minutes and
90 seconds, defeating Sullivan, the course be-
ing two and a half miles and return. General
Grant and party were present as guests of
the Southern Yacht Club.
Leon Say succeeds Admiral Pothuan as
French Embassanor at London.
Three hundred amnestied Communists have
arrived at Brest, France, from New Gale
donia.
A Queenstown dispatch says: The crew
of the abandoned and water-logged British
bark Queen of Hearts has arrived by the ship
Shannon. Five of the crew persisted.
At Minneapolis, Mimi, Monday, Brack-
ett's block was burned. Loss, Sl66, 600 In
suranoe, $4,000 Nothing was saved. Spon-
taueous combustion is the supposed cause.
90 "a; 40 NNa1as
has two holes in her bow made by drift ice.
Her fore compartment is full of water.
In q political quarrel yesterday Joseph NJ.
Harote shot and killed James Fitzsimmons at
Austin, Ind
More than a, 900 emigrants arrived at New
York Monday-the largest number for long
time These late arrivals present much
better class of emigrants than usual, and en-
brace many well-to-do farmers and their
families.
The machine shop of the Bridgewater On.
" Iron Company, with all its contents, con-
sisting of valuable patterns and costly ma
fire originated in an attic where the patterns
were stored, and the origin is a mystery.
Loss, 1900; insurance, $50, co.,
At the annual election of the Panama
Railroad Company two changes in the Board
of Directors We're made-D. o. Mills and
William b. Dinsmore being chosen to fill the
la ces of J. w. Burke and H. II. Barto.
The British Commissioner has brought to
Candahar letter from the V1ceroy of India
| to Sirdar Shere Ali, informing him that the
Queen confers the sovereignty of the Province
of Candahar upon him, with the title of Wall
Shere Ali is also informed of the proposed
construction of a railway to Candahar, where
the British forces and political agent will be
permanently stationed
In the Spanish Congress yesterday, during
the discussion an the Cuban budget and loan,
Laiglesia. speaking in the name of the
Budget Committee, said it was imperatively
necessary to borrow enough money to pay off
the $4,000, coo piastres due the army and the
81, 000, 600 due military contractors.
The murder in New York of Thomas Bar
ker, retired upholsterer, has been fixed
upon Richard O'Donnell, by the confession of
his own mother.
General James L. Reynolds, the we'll
known soldier, lawyer and politician, died at
Lancaster, Pa, Monday, in his ffty-eighth
wear,