Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-02-21
SATURDAYS NEWS.
Special Dispatches to the Record
Union" Condensed.
DOMESTIC.

Senator Farley on Saturday offered the
following amendments to the river and har-
Dor bill, to be printed and reported to the
Committee on Commerce, which is now con-
sldering that measure TO increase the
House appropriation for the Sacramento river
from $50, 900 to $50 900; for the San joaquin
river from $50, 600 to $40 600; for Petaluma
creek. from IS, coo TO $50 900, and for VIII
mington harbor, from Sl2 600 to SS3, 600.
There is no further apprehension at Wash
lngton of an extra session. The only appro-
prlation item that will cause delay in the con-
terence Is the amendment by the Senate to
the legislative bill authorizing additional peu-
sion clerks.
The funeral of Fernando Wood took place
at Washington Saturday afternoon from his
late residence. Nearly one hundred men,
bers OF Congress and many prominent of
hcials of the Government were present. The
services Were conducted by DIR. Paret, and
were according TO the forms of the Protestant
Episcopal Church.
There were put into circulation during the
past week SO, 995 standard silver dollars, and
for the CORES ponding week in 1880, l27, 800
In q letter to the Collector of Customs OF
Boston, on the subject of the rate of duty on
imported wool, the Assistant Secretary of
the Treasury classihes wool tops as secured
wool, and decides the rates of duty should be
double that on imported secured woods, which
would be thirty six cents per pound.
There is no change as yet in the Pennsyl-
wanna Senatorial situation.
Senator Blaine is still confined to his bed
in Washington with rheumatism, although
his condition is somewhat improved to-day.
His physicians think he will how speedily
recover.
A leading politician at Washington says
that he was told by Hayes that the selection
Of Golf for the Secretary of the Navy was
surely made after q ful understanding with
Garfield and Blaine that he should be re-
tanned In the Cabinet.
Baptsta Costa, an insane Italian coal
miner, murdered hi brother, Baltner Costa,
Friday night, near Collinsville, Ill.
In the County Clerks Office at New York,
Saturday, certificate increasing the stock OF
the Western Union Telegraph Company to
$50, 600, Geo was fled A messenger was sent
by special train to Albany in the afternoon
to file copy of the certificate in the Office Of
the Secretary of State.
1t has been discovered that Matthew Kolb
OF Philadelphia, recently deceased. forged
bills of lading to the amount of S125, 600
and negotiated them. He had good credit.
and for twenty years was member of the
Philadelphia Commercial Exchange.
The steamer Fair Play, with 500 bales of
cotton, and the wharf boat Katie, with SEQ
bales of cotton and large lot Of merchan-
disc, were destroyed by fire at Monroe, La,
Saturday morning The FIRE is supposed to
be incendiary. Loss, $4,000; insurance,
$4,000. The officers of the Fair Play barely
escaped with their lives in their night clothes.
Captain Rabull and Thomas Aber, clerk, had
their faces and hands badly burned. Eddy
Hancock a printer, persisted in the flames.
Mrs. Irene Cran1all and her child were
found dead Saturday in the road in Grant
county, MINI, near her home. II is thought
that her husband, who habitually abused her,
drove her from the house, and followed and
killed both his wife and child. Crandall is
still at large.
The State Senate of Tennessee Saturday
adopted unanimously resolution condemn
ing the mob which lYnched the prisoners at
Springfield, and declaring that mobs must be
suppressed, if it takes the whole power of the
State.
Colonel w. 3 Nliddlemess, q well known
wealthy stock man, was found twelve miles
north OF River Bend, Col, Friday. frozen to
death; also two of Z four-horse team which
he was driving were frozen, and the others
were in bad condition, having been there
since Monday.
The people of Detroit had a rousing mass
meeting Saturday night for the purpose of
other dIsreputable places. The result will
probably be sanitary
Joseph II. Wade, on trial at Indianapolis
for the murder Of Brown, pleaded guilty Sat
urday afternoon, and was sentenced to the
Pepitentiary for life This was his second
trial. On the first the sentence was death.
A Richmond IVA } dispatch says that the
negro laborers il the tobacco belt are forming
= league, which prom oics chs rnanhers from
hiring to white planters, the object being TO
force the landowners to work the tracts on
shares.
Edward Cheever shot and instantly killed
Thomas Garland at Farmers ranch, Col,
Saturday, the result of a long-standiDg quar-
rel. Both drew pistols, but Cheever fred
first.
The jury which was inquiring into the cause
of the falling of the New York Central depot
in Buffalo, have reported that they could not
state any cause, except that the iron cords
had parted and let the roof descend.
A collision, without loss of life or great
damage to property occurred Saturday MORN
ing on Long Island Sound, between the City
of Boston and Elm City steamers. A mis-
understanding OF the signals was the cause.
Competition on the psrt Of some of the
steamship lines to secure the Immigrant traffic
to New York has begun. Recently disa
greement has occurred, and the Hamburg
line began competition with the North Ger
man Lloyd line. The rates have been re-
duced TO $50.
l. is reported that Duffy and Murphy, the
La Prade murdereTs who turned States evil
>dence, were found hanging to ~ tree near
Guthrie Tenn, Saturday moruing.
The bill to make the keeping Of gambling
houses q felony, punishable by two to tive
years in the penitentiary, has passed the
AI;ss,,,~i eueY,b lv br vote nj ~ tn 3
The wife of Wilson Fowlkes has been
found guilty Of the murder Of her husband
at Petersburg, Va, and is sentenced to Re
hanged.
The Maine Assembly has refused to con-
eur with the Senate, and indefinitely post
poned the resolution expressing sympathy
with the people of ireland.
1t is positively denied that Gould has
bought into the Reading Railroad.
The horse distemper has broken out in the
city railroad stables in New York.
FOREIGN.
Germany has given in its adhesion to the
plan for an International Exhibition OF Elec-
tricity.
The importations into France of sailed
pork, Of bacon, and of hams from the United
States has been prohibited.
The French Gable Company have filed a
Dill against some pIOVlsions Vi JIG w eSSern
Union consolidation.
The village of Breyieres, Department of
Savoy, has been completely destroyed by two
avalarches There were fifteen killed, and
the damage is $50 600 francs.
The Republicans in the Danish Diet have
defeated the Governments income tax bill,
which was intended TO cover the serious de-
felt in the budget, and are obstructing legis'
lation.
The Pope has expressed indignation at Par
nell and the principal members of the Land
League, whom the Roman Catholic Bishop Of
Ireland represented as only sincere patriots.
for having formed an alliance with Rochefort
and other anti-clericals.
1t is reported that the Beers have retreated
in two columns, one of 1000 and the other of
1000 men. The latter goes into Orange Free
State.
Body.snatching from village church-Yards
in the neighborhood OF Montreal is extern
sively carried on. Saturday the police re-
covered the remains of woman in the dis,
of 4ha Pishop,s ColIeQe