Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-01-03
SATURDAYS NEWS.
Condensed from special ispatchss to tie
Record Union.

DOMESTIC.
Ada Cavendish, the actress, remains seIi-
ously Ill at Nashville, Tenn.
The total Custom house receipts at ST.
Louis the past year were 81, ,34S,796.
Democratic officers were elected at Cow
ington, Ky, at the municipal election.
The new Mayor OF New York. William L.
Grace, was bowed into office Saturday by
Mayor Cooper.
An accident occurred Saturday on the Old
Colony Railroad at Weymouth, MasS., but
no lives were lost.
Matte Cowans, dissipated negro woman,
was frozen to death in the West End, Cin-
cinnati, Saturday.
The weather continues extremely cold in
the East aud South, though moderating
somewhat in the West.
Charles Becker and George Engleston. tive
notorious forgers, have been locked up in
New York to await extradition to Italy
The Ennis walking match closed at Boston
Saturday night with Lscouse scoring 425 and
Wilmot 400 The time walked was l27 hours
Charles Hamilton has been appointed Gen
eral Superintendent of the Cairo aRd 81.
Louis Railroad, vice L. NJ johnson, who re-
signed.
Two large grading parties started from
Dallas, Tex, Saturday morning, to work on
the Missouri Pacific extension southwest from
Fort Worth.
AT Louisville, KY, boiler in the Dupont
paper mills exploded ca Saturday, iniuring
severely Mitchell and Henry Taylor, the
latter fatally.
day at Rock Island, H.; Chester Pa; st.
Charles, No.; Madison. Wis; East Saginaw,
Mich: New Orleans Manayupk, Pa
j. o. G. Mathews, an employe in the Gin
ciHnati Gas Works. in the coke house, iu-
hailed the fumes asd fell on pile OF hot
coke, Saturday afternoon, and pelished al
most instantly.
Louis B. Follet, recently arrested at Mall
den, Mass, on q charge Of causing the death
of Rebecca T. Long, by procuring an abor-
tion, was arraigued Friday afternoon and
held III $40, 600 bonds for the Grand Jury.
A broken rail on the Union Pacific. near
Alkali station, Nebraska, threw second
class coach and first-class coach and sleeper
off the track Saturday morning, at o'clock.
with but slight damage to the cars and no
! injury to the passengers.
a delegation of colored men, representing
the best classes Of New York's colored citi-
zens, waited on General Grant Saturday
night, and requested him to attend an enter
tainment at st. Philips Episcopal Church
on January 14.h, which he promised to do.
Henry Augustine, after vain attempt to
poison his uncle's family at Otis, Ind, rose
on Friday night and shot bis uncle through
the breast and his aunt through the lungs,
killed one cousin, perforated the shoulder OF
another, and fed. Thsre had been trouble
about the distribution of his fath=r's esta "a.
There was 81 600 in the house, which he
hoped to get, but failed.
Five steamers arrived at Castle Garden,
New York, Saturday, with 963 immigrant
passengers in the steerage. In 1879 the to-
| tai was 5000, which was 59,723 in excess
of tie previous year. The total inlmigra-
ton at that port for the year ending. Satur-
day was 800 sos. This aggregate is alto
gether unprecedented in the history OF the
Board of Immigrant Commissioner, whose
statistics so back as far as 1S47.
Rev John Westrup, Baptist missionary
TO Mexico, appointed by the Houston Con-
ference, and his guide were murdered and
horribly mutilated. on December 2lst. by
twenty Indians, near Monterey. The Mexi-
can authorities pursued and came upon three
of their own race, evidently participasors in
the tragedy. Thay viii be tortured until
they tell the names of all their Mexican &C.
completes. and an effort will be made TO de
stroy the band.
FOREIGN
The army and Mary Gqeette saws The
army estimate in the new EnElish Budget
will exceed go 000,0 coo
William Perry, alias 1.-THE Upton Slash
er, formerly well-known pugilist, died at
London on Christmas eve.
A Paris dispatch says The diplomatic re-
lations of France are, as the year goes out,
highly satisfactory.
Claude Joseph Cashmere Gaillardeni, q
French historian. and Signor Msuro Maechi,
an italian writer and rhatorician ara dead
All the prisoners for debs in Scotland were
released at midnight Friday in pursuance of
an Act passed at the last session OF Parlia-
ment.
The ironclad Richelieu is still smouldaliug
at Toulon, France, and the tirelen fad it
difficult to enter her without danger of suffo-
cation. Some of the smaller guns will be re-
covered.
Hanlan and Ross. the oarsmen, have issued
a challenge to any two men il the world for
a double.scull race for $500 or 81 600 a side,
the race to take place in the early part Of the
ensuing season.
The London Times, in its financial column,
says telegram has, we believe, been re-
celved from Peru stating that the Chileaus
had arrived within twenty miles Of Lima on
December 23d.
Boyd has informed Hanlan that he will
not go to Toronto to meet him. A match
between Ross and Boyd on the Thames next
August will probably Re arranged after the
Hanion-Laycock race.
The steamship HeIvetla, which arrived ct
London Saturday, had been in collision. Her
port quarter was considerably damaged and
the after hold was filed with water She viii
be docked at Birkenhead for repairs.
Alfred New has failed. lie was the pro-
prietor of extensive iron works at Trowell,
near Nottingham, Elg His liabilities are
heavy. James Briefly & Co. cotton-spin-
ners of Rochdale, have failed. Liabilities,
$4,000.
A band of forgers of bonds and receivers
of stolen boads have been arrested in Milan.
They belong to au organization comprising
Italians, Frenchmen, Englishmen, Poles and
Americans, having branches and agents in
the chief cities of Europe, and were selling
forged or stolen French bonds in Italy,
Italian bonds in France, and so on. An ex-
tensive robbery in Turin few weeks ago has
been traced to them and other famous rob-
berries between Paris and London are also
attributed to the same parties. The prison.
ers will be taken to Turin