Sacramento daily record-union., 1882-12-18
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DOMESTIC.


In Baltimore, Saturday, John Schengler
shot his wife and killed himself.
An attempt was made at Washington Sat-
urday night to burn the house of Merrick,
one OF the counsel in the starroute cases.
Many protests have been received at WASH
ington against the abandonment of Fort Hal.
leck, in Nevada.
In the House, Saturday, Hiscock advocated
the blu for special facilities, but no action
was taken on it. La the Senate Pendleton
declaimed on civil service reform. Sherman
pointed out that discharges from minor offices
| were caused mainly By members Of Congress
who wanted the places for their friends.
A fire at Kansas City Saturday destroyed
$50. 900 worth of property.
Eight men were killed by boiler explo-
sion Saturday at Canton, III.
Beecher gave his ideas of speculation to the
Senate Committee on Grain Corners in New
York.
George J. Rice, railroad President, has
been arrested ct New York for forgery and
embs zzlement.
A manisc at Harrisburg, Pa, murdered
his father in-law and dangerously wounded
his wife.
Godlovs s. Orth died at Lafayette, Ind,
Saturday after q lingering illaess
The National Curling clubs have arranged
North and South match for Janusry 4th.
United States Timber Agent Burke, at
Yankton, d. T., telegraphs that he has ar
rested sixteen timber depredators.
The building recently occupied by the First
National Bank OF Chicago has been sold to
w. Z. Hale for $780,
| The steamer Carrie sank Friday afternoon
in JAMES river, Virginia. All on board es-
capped.
Dennis Donovan, the champion fifty-mile
pedestrian of America, is dying at Natick,
Mass.
In The Cane Growers Convention at st.
Louis it was agreed that sorghum syrups were
gaining popularity wherever used.
The New York merchants interested in the
Jamaica trade have formed relief committee
for the benefit of the sufferers by the Kings
ton fire.
Governor.elect Cleveland, of New York,
has appointed S. j. Tilden, Jr., a nephew of
Ex-Governor Tildep, aid-de-camp on his staff
The President has accepted two hundred
and fly miles of new road on the Atlantic
and Pacific Railway, and two hundred in Ar
izona.
| When the Democrats regained power in the
South Carolina Legislature they rer ealed the
divorce law passed in the reconstruction
days. c. G. Wall recently petitioned to be
released from wife who had become the mis-
tress of mulsttc. The Judiciary Commit
tee Of the Senate reported its opposition TO q
general divorce law and its ignorance of any
mode of relief for Wall.
! Joseph Crawford, one of tie actors at the
| Theater Comique in Minneapolis. Mimi,
was taken sick Monday. Saturday the City
! Physician examined the case and pronounced
| it varioloid. The place was at once closed,
and the actors and employees numbering
forty five, wers placed under quarantine re-
strictioDs. One death from smallpox at the
Pesthouse Saturday.
The gross receipts at the Globe Theater, in
| Boston, during Lsngtry' s two weeks' engage.
ment, which terminated Satur lay night,
were $26. 74S. The largest houses were those
st the matinees and at the presentation of
"The Honeymoon and "She Scoops to
Conquer"
-Four of the men indicted for the outrage
upon Emma Bond, at Tsyloryille, ILL.,. have
asked for change of venue to the Mont
gomery Circuit. This postpones the trial to
the q of April rext The opinion is ex-
pressed that the defendants are only trying to
defer the trial till their victim dies. She
certainly is not able to travel So far and is
| not likely to be.
Fourteen hundred iron AID steel workers
| are idle On account OF wheel breaking at
the Burden Iron Works, at Troy, N. Y, and
other accidents.
| The trial of Matt Simmerman, at Mindep,
Kearney county, Neb., for the murder Of
| Sherlf WOODS and two deputies about two
months ago, was concluded Saturday. Sim
merman was found guilty of murder in the
first degree and sentenced to be hanged April
21ss.
The convicted rlurderesr, Theres1 StuIls,
said to the County Commissioners, at Chi
caso, who csllsd during thsir visit to the
! jail Saturday morning: @ hardly know
what to think cut the trial and as for my
future action it ia in the hands Of my frisnds.
don't want to go the PenitentiaIy, but
have made up my mird 20 bs bravo and stand
it, and know can. stood the last few days
of the trial and | stood the verdict. because l
made ap my mind l must do il. When l ge.
out finally L sm Going to live with Mrs.
Black AID study all | am sble. Wnen / can
make an honest living with my music or any
other way. will Try and do j., but will
never go back to my old kiud of lifs again. .
TIE secretary of the Treasury decides that
q Chinaman residing in Pttsbufg could
not bring into this country under the Chinese
| Restriction Act his wife that he int, d. to
marry in China, though il he was already
married, aud his wife in Chipa, she could
come here.
! a bogus report is current in Washington
! that Friday night high Government ficsr
lost large sum st faro, and Was thrown
| from the card-room.
| About 240 matrimonial and natal associa-
! tions, all in the South but ose, have been
] placsd upon the black liss of the Postoffics
| Department., and Postmasters have beea in
| structed to return the senders' money orders
| addressed to tie association,