Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-04-18
SATURDAYS NEWS.
Special Dispatches to the Record
Union" Condensed.

The King of Italy has summoned Signor
Seiia to form new Cabinet.
The Basutos have been defeated at Scribe
with heavy loss. The Colonial loss was light
Beaconstield is much improved. The doc.
tors are now confident of his ultimate re-
covery.
Vigorous efforts are making at Chicago to
relieve the sufferers by the floods on the Mis-
souri, river.
The Greek frontier question is settled
peacefully at last, but the war party at
Athens evince much dissatisfaction.
The steamer Gallo will take out to this
country the Duke of Sutherland, MARQUIS of
STANFORD, and their party, for a tour through
Canada
The talk of the town at Philadelphia Sat-
urday night was the departure from the hotel
of Jeanne Bernhardt, sister of Sara, with
Count De Beauheries.
The anti Kelly wing of Tammany Saturday
night nominated q ticket for the annual cleo
ton Monday night, with Isaac Bell and sew
eral other sachems at the head
Colonel Fred. Grant has resigned from the
army, for the purpose of entering the employ
OF the Chicago, Texas and Mexican Central
Railroad as civil engineer of the road.
The emancipation celebration at Washing
ton Saturday consisted of about one hundred
persons, which broke up before reaching the
| place where the celebration was to take place.
The French revenue returns for the first
quarter OF the present year show under their
direct taxes an increase upon the correspond
ing months of last year of 45, 200, 600 francs.
The proposal to hold an International
Socialist Congress at Zurich is strongly dis
approved, and memorial is preparing at
Zurich requesting the Federal Council to pre-
hibitit.
The International Sanitary Conferences, in
session at Washington since January, have
adjourned sine die, without accomplishing
anything definite in the line of the purpose
| for which it met.
There is much dissatisfaction at Chicago
| among Democrats at what they allege to be
| unfair treatment of the municipal election
returns by the returning officers of the west
and south towns.
Bismarck has submitted a motion TO the
Federal Council that, Whereas, the popu-
lation has increased nearly two and a half
| millions, coinage of silver be increased fifteen
million marks 339, 900, 600 pounds of silver
bars in treasury to be devoted to that pur-
| pose."
A full-grown panther was shot at daylight
| Saturday morning, by a negro, three miles
| north of Memphis, in the Arkansas cane
brake. The negro was cut hunting wild
turkeys when he discovered panther, which
| prepared to attack him, when he shot before
it could make spring.
A Mount Washington dispatch dated Sat
| urday says: 1t has been showing here since
the afternoon of the 14th. More snow is on
the summit, and drifts are greater than at
| any time before this winter Low barometer ::
temperature, IA; velocity of wind, 100
miles, and from northwest.
| Secretary Window is in receipt of INQUIRIES
| from Europe as to whether the bonds actu-
ally en- route to the Treasury before the date
of the limitation for accepting the 81 per
cent. interest bonds falling due this year, will
be considered within the time of the Treas
ury notice. An affirmative answer will be
| given.
A fire in the iron building on White street,
New York, Saturday night, damaged goods
| of Niclins, Phire & CO., dress shirt manu-
| facturers, to the extent of $40, Rufus
Frost & Co., wooden goods, So, 600: Alex.
Rhind, linen goods, 1000. Several firms
in the adjoining building were badly dam
aged by water.
The ravages OF the plague in Bagdad are
terrible, though not extending beyond the
sanitary Gordon. Four thousand inhabitants
have quilted Nedjed and camped in salubri-
Gus localities. Nedjed and Djuhara were
burnt the Sth instant. The disease has be-
come virulent, the afflicted dying in ten hours
after being attacked.
! The Chicago Times, Saturday morning.
consisted of twenty-four pages of eight col
umns each, aggregating 1872 columns. The
edition is 225, ,000 and is TO be circulated
throughout America and Europe Three
columns are devoted to description of the
Golden State and the advantages which Cali
fornia offers to the farmer miner and tourist.
Two Turkish battalions at Prizrend have
| withdrawn into the citadel, where they are
surrounded by the Albanians, who have seven
guns. Nineteen Turkish battalons are
camped at Verus Sovica, and 5000 Albanians
are at Liparia. Dervisch Pasha, the Turkish
commander, is displaying great energy He
intends to arrest all the chiefs of the Albanian
League.
! In the test case at Milwaukee to decide
the legality of the celebrated anti-treatinl-
law of Wisconsin, it was found that the law
| was imperative, because of an error in tine
| text of its supposed enactment. The bill as
| drawn specified the repeal of an old law
which was dropped when the State statutes
underwent their recent revision. Judge MAJ
lory held the law to be imperative and void,
| A private land claim, known as three parts
of the Rancho Entire Napa in Napa county,
] California confirmed to Joseph Green, CON
tanning about two thousand and sixty acres,
and patent for the remaining part of the
same rancho, confirmed to Edward Wilson,
containing three hundred and thirtv-five
| acres, were on Saturday transmitted from
| Washington to the Surveyor General at San
| Francisco.
| The New York Worids Mexico City spe-
cisl says: The riots which have imperilled
| the lives of protestants in Michoaean apd at