Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-03-30

authorities paid her passage She has fifteen
francs left She asked the authorities to
send her here. She was a servant at Arne, !
and has lived at service since she was 10 years |
old. She was arrested once by the police for
being out late at night at Baden. Her |
mother has remarked. The girl closed her
statement by saying IS II the authorities
want to get rid Of persons, they send them to
America" Both viii be cared for at Castle
Garden until they find employment.
A dispatch from Bottstein, Canton Ar
govie, Switzerland, SAYS the Town Council
deny sending an insane girl to America, as
mentioned by the JugSblaH and BUnd. OF
Berne. The members of the Council con-
template suing the editor of the latter paper
for libel in publishing the alleged SANDER.
| The dispatch reasserts the previous charges,
and says the contract for passage was made
by j. Fret, of King, acting as the agent of
Wirthberzog, at Aaran, with Rudolph Wer-
denbey at Basle, who,furnished the tickets to
New York from Basic, in consideration CT
the sum Of $50 francs, which was paid in the
shape of guarantee bonds, signed by the
Commune Council, and payable upon evil
dence that the girls were at sea and bound to
transatlantic ports.
Railroad Activity in Colorado.
DENVER, March 29sh.-The Denver and
New Orleans Railroad Company have or
dered fifty miles of steel rails to be manufact-
ured and shipped from Liverpool as soon
as possible. They also closed contract
with the Construction Company for building
I 70 tba
Texas railroads in Northwestern Texas.
Surveying parties have been out for two
weeks. At the last meeting the Board Of
Directors ordered advertisements for bids for
grading, tieing and bridging the section from
Denver to the Arkansas river. President
Rains goes East in few days to place the
| remaining half million Of stock of the Con-
Denver having all been subscribed and the
first installment of oneper cent. paid in The
President is also authorized to purchase the
| necessary rolling stock.
Railroad Affairs in Kentucky.
LOUISVILLE, March 29th.-Last week Mr..
Huntington came west and gave special at
tention to his connections to and from Louis
vile. Some one had offered him the Short
Line at price he considered high, and he
came to look over the ground. For some
time, too, he has been negotiating for the
control of the Eiizabethtown and Paducah
and Memphis roads, in order to reach Mem
phis. Yesterday he spent in Memphis,
and on Sunday he was in consulta-
ton in. Louisville. The results of his
| visits are most important, and the Chesa-
| peake and Ohio will build q line to Louis
vile from Lexington, coming through Yer
sailles. The work will begin at once, and it
will finish ia two years, possibly in eighteen
months Huntington states that he can build
| the road for $3.50, 600 a mile, while the Short
| Line would have cost 81, coo more than this.
Huntington has secured control of the Eliza
| BEETHOVEN and Psducah road, and will at
once go to work to build the gap which exists
| between Paducah and Memphis 1t is said on
excellent authority that Huntington has
! perfect understanding with the Louisville
and Nashville Company. The managers of
that corporation perceive that another line
to Memphis is inevitable. and prefer to have
it under the control of men friendly to it,
and will give Huntington all the facilities
possible.
Celebration of the Birthday OF Maud $.
CHICAGO, March 29th.-A Cincinnati spe.
cial says Maud S. was years old yester.
day. and the event was celebrated at Chester
Park by number of horsemen. She is in
splendid condition, barring small splint on
the outside of the right leg which is growing
| less, and will not be serious. She has grown
considerably in the past year, and her trainer,
Bain predicts for her much greater success
| than last year. He yesterday asked Colonel
Bullock a wealthy citizen, who visited her.
to mark on her stall his guess as to the record
she would make this year. Colonel Bullock
marked 2095, and BAN wrote below 2:07.
81 am confident oil making that with her be-
fore thu season is over" he said. 'She is
one year older than when she made her best
record, is more experienced and better edu-
Gated besides at Chicago, when she made
/ her best record, she had a disadvantage, for
the wind which was against her on the first
quarter. suddenly changed, and she had to
face it in the third quarter, instead of having
it with her, as she should have had" It is
stated that she will not be matched against
any other horse, but that all her efforts will
| be against time. She will trot at Chicago,
and probably at Minneapolis, where there is
an effort being made to get her and st. Julien
| together.
Exhibition OF Trout.
! NEW YORK, March 29th.-Eugene G..
Blackford, one of the State Fish Commissions
ers, on Friday and Saturday will give an
| exhibition of the species of American trout
| that are found in the streams and lakes be.
| tween Maine aud California. Besides all the
| varieties of Western trout, there will be
! Tahc trout and Dolly Vardens. Dr. T. H.
Bean will send from Washington the spotted
trout that are found in the waters of Alaska.
| NJ. Z. Brewer, of Sacramento, will send
| Truckee river trout. From Reno three fine
/ Truckee river trout have arrived, known as
"Isilver" Two of them weigh q pounds
each, and third is a giant of 10 pounds
weight.
UnfOunded RumOrs.
! New YORK, March ooh. = President
Greene, of the Western Union Telegraph
Company, told reporter regarding the pro-
posed new company: " | can say with the
greatest confidence that there is not a shadow
of foundation for such reports. Stager re-
signed while ago as Vice-Presidant of this
company, but he then expressed wish to re.
tain his seat in the Board until it was wanted,
because he did not wish entirely to sever his
connection with the company, in the service
of which he had been for nearly thirty years.
Death of Brave Wan.
Fort ScoTT KANSAS March 29th.-A
private dispatch received here to-day an
nounces the death of Harry A. Brown, son Of
ex Governor Neal S. Brown, of Nashville. at
Albuquerque, New Mexico Yesterday. The
particulars are not given. He had been in
the employ of Adams Express Company
about five years, and was the man who drove
the mail robbers out of his car at Kinney
Kansas, in January, 1878. Other daring ex-
ploits have attested his courage, on account
of which the company has highly valued his
services.
Notable Death.
LOUISVILLE Ky, March 29th. = Aunt
Betsey Givens, probably the Oldest woman
in Louisville, and certainly the first girl child
born in the city, died last night. She was
born in 177S.
shot Through the Heart-snow and Wind.
CINCINNATI, March 29th = The Times
Star special from Muncie, Ind, says: During
quarrel Ira Miller shot Seth Mckinney
through the heart last night, and escaped
A heavy snow and wind storm prevails
here, two inches of snow having fallen at
noon.
The Missouri River In Dakota.
Fort PIERRE, March 29th.-The ice broke
in the Missouri at midnight on Sunday, the
water OVERLOOKING this post to depth of FIVE
feet and driving the inhabitants tc the bluffs
II has since receded greatly. The steamer
Weston was sunk at Leuse. At Yankten
the steamer Meade foated down the stream
with the ice
silver and Stocks.
NEW York, March 29th-Silver bars,
1123; money easy at 4@6: Governments
steady stocks closed firm Western Union.