Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-04-30
CONDENSED KILOGRAMS.

London advices announce that Rev. Charles
Girdlestone, author Of many religious works,
is dead.
Royal S. Carr, for the murder of W. W.
Murcommick, was hanged yesterday ct WiG-
sor, VT.
At Prescott, Ont, yesterday, Buckley's
block was burned. Loss, $4,000; insured
for S27, 900.
At Charlotte, N c., yesterday, Marshall
Baxter was hanged for the murder of Bob
Hennigen last January.
A Paris dispatch says the French garrison
at Kief received the submission Of the ada
cent tribes and dismissed them to their homes
John Golhard, alias Andy Smith (colored),
convicted of the murder of Joe Woods on
the ID of December last. was hanged at
Towsontown, Md, yesterday morning.
Andrew Porteck, Adam Uricho and John
Markin were killed by fall of rocks yester-
day afternoon in the tunnel of the Susque
hanna Coal Company at Manticoke, Pa.
A prominent diplomatist at st. Petersburg
reports that the Car and his couuselors are
disposed to adopt rigorous repressive meas
ures having no example in Russian history.
The movement among the Radicals at Lon
don in opposition to monument to Beacons-
field is assuming form. An amendment is
likely to be submitted in the House of Com
mons.
The house of James Parsons, near Char
lotte Mich. was burned Thursday night
The family slept till the roof fell in. Mrs
Parsons and a child were probably fatally
burned.
The efforts to adjust the difference between
the pro and anti amendment wings of the
Arl,o br,
mise failed utterly, and both conferences ad-
journed sine die.
A Madrid dispatch says: 1t is said the
treaty of commerce with the United States,
in order to receive special concessions for ex-
ports from Cuba.
The. United States Attorney General con-
firms previous opinions as to the legality of
withholding letters addressed to managers of
fraudulent lottery schemes. He holds that
they should not be delivered by United States
carriers.
George H. Shook, DIR. w. Decker, Morris
Axtell and Charles Wood Of Mount Glenn
ems, Mich, went fishing on Lake St. Clair
and are missing since Wednesday. 1t is be-
lieved that all are lost. They were all prom
inent citizens.
General Longstreet, the American Minis
ter, has left Constantinople on leave of abb
sence for Vienna and Western Europe. He
has obtained firman in favor of the Ameri-
can Archaeological Society for excavations at
Asses Island, Cephalonia.
The failures reported to Bradstreets the
past week throughout the United States and
Canada number 10S-an increase of IL over
the record of the preceding week; but the
number is below the average, which for the
past ten weeks has been III.
Ten iron giants for the Pennsylvania Rail
road Company will be built this summer at
Altoona, Pa They will be much larger and
more powerful than the ordinary passenger
engines, and are to be built for the particular
purpose of making up time in portions of the
road where there are long stops. The mon
ster locomotive known IS No. 10 was built as
an experiment, and the result has been salts
factory. The driving wheels are six feet six
inches high.
The total number of nominations sent to
the United States Senate to date, and await
ing action in executive session, is 2l7. These
names include William w. Phelps, as Minis
ter to Austria; William H. Robertson, as
Collector of Customs at New York; Mr..
Eemer, as Second Assistant Postmaster Cen
eral; w. A NJ. Grier. as Third Assistant
Postmaster General; Mr.. Hill, Assistant
Secretary of State Mr.. Price, as Commits
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