Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-10-27

this wsre an ordinary case Of voluntary engage
nent of counsel to enter the case, should say
the case should not be suboriinated to other
engagements; but it was confederation not
to te disregsrded that the order OF Court had
taken counsel from the performances OF other
engagements
Gaiteaa's witnesses.
WASHINGTON, October 26sh.-Juige Law
renee. Assistant Comptroller of the Treasury,
has decided that Guitean's witnesses living
over ITO miles outside ths jurisdiction OF this
District Court can be paid By the Govern
ment.
GorahiiIs Assistan; Counsel.
WASHINGTON, October 26th District At
torney CorkhiA has received 9 telegram from
Judge Parker, Of New York, stating that he
will assist the Government counsel Ia the
prosecution of GIuteau.
archibald Forbes opinion OF Conuecsi.
cut Troops and Republican Soldiers.
NV York, October 26sh.-The Rerald's
Charleston, S. c., special Gays one of the
most delighted spectators of the superb
marching and dress parade Of the First Con-
nectieut Regiment yesterday was Archibald
Forbes, the famous war Correspondent of the
London Nelss. He said to q reporter of tie
Nears and Courier g | am free to say that
it seems to me that if there are great many
regiments ike that Connecticut regiment,
which saw here or parade, in a nation, it
does not want any standing army at all as
they would constitute cheaper and more
effective force than any army could be.
have seen all the armies in the world, be-
lieye, from Afghanistan scsilawsgs 70 the
Russian Imperial Guards, and I have never
seen greater precision and solidity than these
men manifested"
The Wheat Crop of 1851.
New YORK, October 26sb.-The CONNER
ciaf Bulletin mskes careful estimate on the
basis of the figures furnished yesterday by the
Department Of Agriculture at Washington
in regard to the acreage and yield OF wheat
per acre in each of the States this year, and
concludes that the total harvest of the coun-
try will be 3S1, AGO. COO bushels of wheat, as
against 45S. 100, 900 Blu in 1879, and BY a
revised estimate it is shown that the wheat
crop of 1881 falls III, 100, 900 bushels below
that of LAST year. From these figures must
be dedut tad the Increase Of old wheat carried
into the new crop this year over the same
item for last year. On the other hand, an
allowance must be made in estimating the
exportable surplus for the increased home re-
quirements arising from the natural growth
of population and the unprecedented immi-
grafton, much of which has settled IN the
wheatgroWing regions.
Row at Circus,
ATLANTA (Gal October 26sh.-After the
performance of Coup's circus at Gainesville a
difficulty occurred between the circus men,
Deputy Marshals and others A negro was
shot dead, and others on both sides were
badly beaten and bruised. Two circus men
were shot. Whisky was at the bottom Of the
affair. A lion and bear escaped from their
cages during the fight. The bear was killed,
but the lion Is still at large. Tiers is consid-
cradle excitement.
Closing of the Yorktown Celebration.
RICHMOND (Va,), October 26th. -Twenty
thousand strangers united with the native
population in closing the Richmond York
town centennial celebration. The procession
OF military and civic organizations and the
industries Of the CITY occupied two hours in
passing given point. At the close of the
parade the British fias was run up over the
State Capitol and saluted. A pyroteehnic
display finished the festivities.
Woman Suffrage association.
LOUISVILLE (Ky.) October 26sh.-At the
Woman Suffrage Association to-day the
woman suffrage constitutional amendments
now in Indiana, Nebraska and Oregon, and
the school suffrage already established in
twelve States, were welcomed as an encourage
ing indication OF progress. Hon. Erasmus
McCorrell, of Nebraska. was elected Presi-
dent fer the ensuing year. A meeting of
citizens of Louisville is announced TO form
city Woman Suffrage Society tomorrow.
The Convention adjourned this evening"
Illness Of Minister Fitzpatrick.
WASHINGTON, October 25th.-The Chilean
Minister has information from Santiago,
dated the 9th, via Paris, Of the serious i'll
ness of General Fitzpatrick, United States
Minister, and that his physicians feared the
case was hopeless. Later news does not men
ton General Fitzpatrick, and it is thought,
therefore, that he is no worse.
Death ON Train.
ST. LOUIS October, 26th.--The Post Dis
patch's Kansas City special says: Major
John Mix, Of the Ninth Cavalry. q. S. A.,
died on the Santa Fe train this morning,
while en- route for Fort Cummings, N. M.
He leaves family at Westminster, Conn.
The Lynehburg Postmaster.
WASHINGTON, October 26th-The Demo-
Gratis are opposing the confirmation of Ma
homes friend, Strathan, as Postmaster at
Bynehburg, and trying to hold the case in
committee.
The humiliation In the Northwest.
KEoKUK Qowa), October 26sh.-The river
rose an inch last night. Several inches more
are expected before the water begins to re-
cede. The humiliation is the worst ever ex-
perienced, and is twelve inches above that of
last spring.
Mississippi Valley River Improvement
Convention.
ST. LOUIS, October 26th.-The Mississippi
Valley River improvement Convention is in
session here, 800 delegates being present. Il
is IA powerful and representative body.
Wonan's Christian Temperance Assecia.
tiSn.
WASHINGTON, October 26ih.-The eighth
snnual Convention of the Woman's Christian
Association opened this morning.
Cutting and Shooting.
MONTGOMERY (Ala.), October 25tb.-Thos.
J. Cox was seriously cut and J. W. Craw.
ford dangerously shot to-day. each by the
other. Both have been heretofore highly re.
spectacle. A bystander named Hogan was
shot in the leg.
Mount Washington Weather.
MOUNT WASHINGTON, October 26sh.-Lieht
snow wind 80 miles an hour; thermometer
degrees below zero, fall OF 40 degrees since
Monday.
The weather in Chicago.
CHICAGO, October 26,h.-Lowest ther-
in0meser tO-uay, ~ nlSHesS, %
New York Weather.
New York, October 265h-Lowest Their.
mometer to-day, 42'; highest, So average,
4Saa'.
Tho Oregon Poet" Provided For.
WASHINGTON, October Goth. = Stephen
Maybell was to-day appointed Storekeeper
for the First District of California.
Factory Destroyed by Fire.
OMAHA, October 26th.-The Omaha barb
wire fence factory was destroyed by fire to-
night. Loss, $15, coo; insured fer 81 500.
FOREIGN.
The Panama Canal Question.
LONDON, October 26sh.-Ths Times, reply
ing to Secretary Blaine's Panama letter,
while conceding the right of the United
States TO take precautions that the canal
shall not be used in any way hostile to them,
and while admitting that as arguments FOX
its neutrality Biaine's note is unanswerabla
nevertheless it fails to see why there should
ba any rapugpauce to allow ENGLAND or