Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-01-10
SATURDAYS NEWS.
Condensed from Special Dispatches to the
Record-Union.


with trimmings to designate the different
branches Of the service. Infantry color VIII
be white, cavalry yellow, artillery red, and
signal service orange. =.
General L0ngstreet writes from CONSTANT
NOBLE regarding the building up OF the Re
publican party in the South, that the only
wsv is through the influence and efforts OF
the Southern Republicans. Their influence
is measured by the influence they have with
the administration.
In the House Of Representatives Saturday
the funding bill was discussed without any
thing decisive resulting. The Senate was not
in session.
Tn New York Saturday the Executive Com
,nittee Of the Worlds Fair raised 500, GOO to-
ward the "a 000,0 600 needed.
General and Mrs Grant will be the guests
of Governor Cornell at Albany from January
18th 70 the DIST. They will then go t. Troy
as the guests Of Post-Commander Willard, OF
the Grand Army Of the Republic.
Saturday night the fast mail train going
sonth on the Richmond and Danville Rail-
way, while running very rapidly ran into
rock slide one and a half miles east of Lex
inpton. North Carolina. The engine and
United States postal car were completely
wrecked. The baggage car and all the pas
senger cars, including the sleeper, were more
or less damaged. The postal clerk, baggage
master and several faseclgcIS 1cic SAi7itAJ
injured. The engineer, Mike OD1nnel, and
his fireman were instantly killed.
The collision near Mauch Chunk, Pa, Sat
urday, on the Lehigh Railroad, killed two
The arrivals Of gold from Europe at the
New York assay Office for the week ended
Saturday amounted to 81, oil, 900 Of foreign
coined bars The total arrivals since August
ID were S65, IT'S, 600, of which 500, $50, 600 was
foreign coin and bars, and So, 1856, 900 Amerl-
can coin.
Vice-P resident-elect Arthur is to be married
to Mrs Marshall o. Roberts, whose husband
died less than a year ago. General Arthur's
wife has been dead about a year. Gossip
saws the marriage will not take place till next
fail. Mrs. Roberts is handsome woman,
and has been twice widow. Rumor says
that she has inherited $1,000, 600.
A Chicago Times Philadelphia dispatch
saws Sara Bernhard yesterday afternoon at
tended the minstrel performance OF Thatcher
4 Ryman, playing the burlesque Sarah
Hsrtburn." She enjoyed it heartily.
William Rynan, an old resident of jersey
City. was refused admittance TO the hospital,
and after wandering about the city entered a
liouor store, complaining that he was sick,
and then dropped to the floor dead.
Fifty coal barges were broken up and a
steamboat was badly damaged by the ice at
Cincinnati, Saturday.
A man named Balmer, aged sixty, killed a
Young man named Henderson in Louisville
Saturday morning, owing to an old grudge.
For the week ending Saturday there were
2,3.975 standard silver dollars distributed,
against 122, 495 for the corresponding week in
1880.
The Government has a sked for new trial in
the case of Pingot the New York kid-glove
manufacturer, to recover 5000, 900 on alleged
fraudulent invoices.
Ben, Butler has declined to act as counsel
for ex Governor Sprague in the divorce case
brought against him by his wife, but will
represent him in the civil case with his Gre
ditors.
Abraham and Joseph Buzzard, Dillar Clark
and Henry Hewes were arrested atEphratah,
Pa, Saturday, after desperate resistance.
They are leaders of band of robbers in that
and adjoining townships.
The engineers of the Galveston Northern
Railroad start from Palestine, Tex, to-day,
to make a preliminary survey of the road
from Laredo to the City of Mexico. The
road is to be rapidly constructed from San
Antonio to the Rio Grande.
G. W Browse, Democrat, is elected Secre
tary of the Indiana Senate by vote of the
Nationals Robert Sears, Republican, and
sstant Secretary and Doorkeeper.
The Baptists in Brooklyn, n. Y, intend
building a church to rival Surgeons famous
tabernacle in London.
Saturday was a legal holiday in Louisiana.
being the anniversary OF the battle of New
Orleans.
There was very heavy snow-storm along
the Petersburg and Weldon Railroad in Vir-
ginia, and the weather was very cold.
10 rf 20 in tha Nauu Norlr Stool
Exchange has advanced to $4,000.
Philip McCafferty, Michael Boyle, Peter
Gallagher and James Harkius, victims from
the boiler explosion at Allentown, Pa, died
Friday night, making thirteen deaths up to
the present time.
The Irish societies of Boston and vicinity
voted to celebrate st. Patrick's Day by at
tending lecture, the proceeds of which will
be sent to the Land League, ireland.
The members of the Common Council OF
Chicago, while engaged in Committee of the
Whole, revising municipal ordinances, re-
solved to hereafter pay themselves 50 for each
day of actual service.
The Executive Committee of the National
Association of Amateur Oarsmen has de-
barred large number of members for vari-
Gus delinquenci5s.
It is now known that about S100, 900 to
$3.50 600 worth of barges have been destroyed
for forty miles above and below Cincinnati by
ice gorees. The loss is divided among about
twenty firms. The steamer Lyttle is in a
bad shape and may be ruined.
The New York Herald says: The prayer
meeting in Plymouth Church last evening
was signalized by an outbreak Of free speech
that has not been equaled since the day of
the scandal. For long time it has been
known to the initiated that among the lead.
ing members there has been smoldering a
feeling of dissatisfaction with the spiritual
condition of the church. 1t found vent last
evening. Beecher complained of spiritual
dryness. In the discussion which followed
Dr. White thought there was too much of
Mr. Beecher in their meetings. He suggested
that the pastor let Ghe brethren do all the
preliminary talking aRd that Beecher should
come in and round it off with his rich expe-
rience. Mr.. Richardson said that the evil
was in too much admiration of Mr.. Beecher.
He believed that when Beecherdied Plymouth
Church would scatter to the winds.
FOREIGN.
The revenue from indirect taxation in
France during 1880 exceeds the budget esti-
mate by 169, 900 600 francs.
The steamer Scotia, from Boston to Glas-
gov, was ashore at Sandy Island, but hcated
and proceeded on her voyage.
The Ottawa (Ont.) Times says There is
q rumor current among the Opposition party
that new syndicate is being formed to offer
to undertake the construction of the Pacific
railway, on much more favorable terms than
the present bargaia calls for. It is not cred
tied in Government circles, and it is probably
without foundation.
The steamship Gellert for New York from
Havre takes out 800 600 francs in specie
The headquarters of the militia in Phil
ippopols burned Saturday and FIVE sentinels
perishe1.
Private advices from Crete report a rising
and ferment of revolution there, and de.
termination on the part of the Greeks to
seize the opportunity of the rising in Greece
to throw off the Ottoman rule.
In diplomatic circles in Paris it is believed
the mobilization of the Greek reserves will
absolve France from further action in behalf
of Greece.
The missing passengers and crew of the
steamer Harleda, sunk off Cape Roca in a
collision with the steamer Leon, also sunk.
have been picked up.
The Greek Premier declares that Greece
must prepare for hostilities; she cannot re-
cede.
There were reports on the London Stock
Exchange Saturday afternoon that the
Chileans had captured Lima.
Robert Smith Nuremberg, murderer SEN
fenced to be executed on the Goth instant, es-
capedi from jail at Halifax, n. s., Friday
night
Seven amnestied Communists, including
Trinquet, arrived ut Paris Saturday. They
were received by Clemenceau and Rochefort