Sacramento daily record-union., 1881-06-18

and deathly sickness. Ihe experiment was
repeatedly tried until it became torment.
and was given up. Since October IL,
1880, she has lain in bed unable to take
on her stomach. The attending physicians
began giving her injections, thereby sustain.
ing life by process of absorption. They
have also sustained life by baths of beef tea,
milk and such highly nutritious liquids, with
an occasional bath of alcohol to keep the
pores open. She has lived for the past eight
months Oh this thin diet. Her weight has
been reduced from $50 to less than
so pounds, but her face still pre-.
serves quite a healthy appearance
Her nerves are at such high tension that
she is unable to sleep more than two hours in
twenty-four. A ftful dream is all that her
state will allow. She has substantially lost
her voice. and is unable to speak above low
whisper. A constant fever attends her, ac.
companied by an inordinate thirst, but she
cannot drink any more than eat.
A College President Under Fire.
HANOVER IN. H. J, June 17th.-The inves
tigation of the charges against President
Bartlett. of Dartmouth College, of discour.
teous, dictatorial and insulting conduct to.
ward the faculty and students, is progressing,
with view to his resignation.
Counterfeiter Captured.
New YORK, June 17th-William G. Shell
don, clerk in the postofice at Williamsville,
Mass, having learned that D. P. Moore fur.
nished counterfeit money, made an appoint
ment with him at the Grand Central Hotel
here and arrested him at the muzzle of a re-
volver
Strike Spreading.
New YORK, June 13th.-The strike of the
Hull dock laborers is embracing the sailors.
Cotton Mills Burned.
RALEIGH IN. C.), June 17th.-The Sweep
some Mills in Alamanc. the property of the
Neuse Manufacturing Company, were burned
to-day. The mills contained 600 spindIes
and 16S looms, and employed 207 operatives.
The fire was caused by the explosion of a
lamp. Loss, $780, 600; insured for $40, 600.
Bloody Work OF a Lunatic.
ELIZABETH IN. j., June 17th.-Fannie
Walker, dressmaker, was shot, but not
fatally, by Martin Magill, a lunatic, to-day.
Magill asked the woman to marry him. She
refused, and he Immediately fred twice, and
killed himself.
Rushing for Foreign Parts.
NEW YORK, June 17th.-Over 625 saloon
passengers go out to Europe tomorrow. The
rush is SO great that the officers have given
up their rooms, and some pay full fare for
special steerage accommodations.
He Accepts.
WASHINGTON, June 17th.-Judge McFar-
land accepts the Commissionership of the
General Land Office.
Deliberate Murder-Road Agents Cap.
tured-Respite Granted.
DENVER (Col) June 17th.-A Ne1cs spe-
cial says: John O'Hare deliberately shot o
Swede named Isaacson at Park City. His
victim will die. The murderer escaped.
A News Albuquerque special says: Chas.
Allison, Lewis Perkins and Henry Walls, the
road agents, were inveigled into q
mediately covered by twenty revolvers and
captured by men who were secreted in the
staSle for that purpose. There is reward of
81, 900 for Allison and 5000 each for the
others.
Gilbert and Rosecrauz, who are sentenced
to be hanged at Leadville tomorrow have
both been respited to July 29th.
Clerical Service In the Army.
WASHINGTON, June 17th.-The Secretary
of War has ordered that the whole number
of enlisted men of all grades and descriptions
allowed for clerical duty in the army shall be
l3 sergeants, 81 corporals, 107 privates and
16 typographical assistants. The General of
the Army will determine their distribution.
In addition, the commanding Generals of
Military Divisions and Departments, the com.
manding officer of the Department of New
Mexico and the Superintendents of the re-
cruiting service may, if necessary, detail en-
listed men from the troops under their COM
mand as messengers, not to exceed five for
each division of the department and district
and one to each Superintendent.
Execution In Colorado.
CoLoRADo SPRINGS, June 17th.-William
II. Salisbury, alias William II. Candy, was
to-day hanged for the murder of Constable
Perkins at Buena Vista. He declared his
innocence from the scaffold. When the trap
was sprung the rope broke, and, although his
neck was broken by the fall, he was again
pulled up.
The Choefaws Excited.
FORT SMITH (Ark.), June 18th. - The
Choctaws are excited because the whites liv.
ing in the Choctaw Nation refuse to pay the
tax levied by the permit law. Over 1000
whites who refuse to pay the tax, burn their
houses and make it generally unpleasant.
The President and Virginia Politics.
WASHINGTON, June 17th.-Wickham, del.
egate of the Republicans from Virginia, this
afternoon had satisfactory interview with
the President, who said the Virginia Repub-
leans must decide themselves whether the
were tainted with reputation.
Nobody was authorized to promise patronage
for him or threaten removals. He would not
be dictated to by any man, but appoint with
q view to the public good and the fitness Of
the appointee. He opposes the "boss sys-
tenn, and will not give State patronage to any
one man.
That Noble Game.
NEW HAVEN, June 17th.-In the base ball
match to-day Houtchins, Yale's pitcher.
.prained the tendons of his knee. Gould,
Amherst's pitcher, had his arm broken by a
ball.
The President and Auditor Prench-The
Latter's Astonishing Action.
CHICAGO, June 18th.-A. M.-The Times
special from Washington says President
Garfield has said that he only wanted good
oretext to remove Auditor French. French
1as kindly furnished the President not only
with pretext but positive reason for his
summary removal. Last winter Aud
tor French made furious attack
IN the Central Pacific, charging that
that company had WlilIully oiyerte1
moneys which should have been paid
into the Treasury on account of the sinking
fund that that company were leasing for
themselves auxiliary lines of road, on which
freights were carried to the detriment of the
main line. He had an injunction sworn
out against the Central Pacific to pre-
vent it from declaring dividend until the
alleged deficits were made up. A suit against
the company is now pending, and in charge
of the Attorney. General. Recently Auditor
French went west to gather testimony for the
of this suit. During his absence
he has written most remarkable letter to
the President of the Central Pacific Railroad.
In other words, he withdraws his entire case
The most astonishing thing about this is that
French made no official report to the Depart
ment, and has not given the Attorney
General the slightest information upon
the subject. Instead of that he
reports to the President of the
Central Pacific, as if he were its paid Great
nre, and eats his own words, uttered last win
ter, with satisfaction that calls seriously
into question his motives. The Attorney
General is reported as having been very
much incensed by Frenchs strange action.
II French had reported all those facts to bis