Sacramento daily record-union., 1882-01-20

an every DAY occurrence, DuE ulote especisby
SO on Friday.
Disastrous Bank Failure.
DETROIT, January 19sh-The failure of
the Peoples Bank at Tecumseh promises to
bs bad affair. The liabilities are now esti-
mated at $3.50, eco; assets, $4,000 The list
of depositors is very large, obtained by its
payment Of interest on deposits. AID consists
of clerks, women, farmers and merchants
who had small sums, and who are least able
to bear the less. It is believed that the
money has been lost in speculations. and
there is great indignation over the affair.
No tidings have been received OF the missing
man Higgins. The impression is rather
growing that the case is not one Of suicide.
Raging Waters.
NEw ORLEANS, January I9th.-The flood
waters from Big Black river are spreading IN
every direction. About thirty miles OF the
Chicago, st. Louis and New Orleens Rail
road is under water, and much damage has
been done. Travel will be suspended for
some weeks. The lower part OF Goodman IS
inundated. and the turnpike road destroyed.
MOBILE, January 19sh.-All the lower
| landings along the Tombigbee are Inundated.
Fifty-six feet of water is reported at Tusca.
looss, and is still rising.
NASHVILLE fTenn.l January 19sh.-The
river is rising slowly. The trains are all run
/ ming, however.
| Beeeher and the Brooklyn Board Of Edu.
cation.
NEw York, January 19th.-At meeting
of the Board Of Education of Brooklyn this
afternoon, the committee appointed to de-
1nand from Henry Ward Beecher proofs of
the statement which he made in his New
Year sermon in regard to the public schools
Of Brooklyn made their report, which con-
gratulated the Board on the happy termina-
fion of the quarrel by Baecher's retraction
One of the members declared that the report
was adding insult to injury. Beecher's state
ment had been spread broadcast and no de-
NAL of the statements had been made. There
was no word OF regret, and there was no
knowing but that Bescher still believed in
Che truth of his statement. The report was
not accepted. nor was the committee dis
charged, and the whole subject was laid on
the table for further consideration.
Emigration TO Texas.
DALLAS (Tex.l, January 19th.-Since the
opening of the through line to California the
railroad officials report wonderfully heavy
Immigration from the Pacific slope to Texas
most of it stopping in the western counties,
great many California capitalists being among
the number, some to prospect and invest in
The Staked Plains, in Ell Paso, Presidio, Pc
COS and adjoining counties. The bulk Of the
purchases will be used for wheat-raising. but
q great deal is for grape culture. The immi-
grants are said to be first class, and the rail-
road officials advise the counties further east
b send agents to Ell Paso to receive some Of
Them. -
CHICAGO, January 195h.-Ths health Off
GERS of the city are fast becoming alarmed at
the prevalence of the growth of smallpox in
the city limits. The deaths to-day were five
and the new cases seven. The officers state
that although both pest-houses are full to
oYeIhowipg, not one-twentieth of the cases
are known to the authorities. Storekeepers
carefully hide in their houses and stores the
cases which break out there, lest the knowl-
edge drive away trade and in this way the
disease is spread by wholesale, despite the al
most unlimited use of vaccine points, which
now amount to 1000 per day. The country
towns continue to send their victims hither,
and incoming patients, III searching for the
Health Office, mingle with the citizens on the
streets and frequently get iato the wrong
place. The State Board of Health reports
eighteen new cases in the State to-day.
OMAHA, January 19sh.-Two cases of
smallpox are reported at Exeter, on the B.
and M. r. r. There is only one case in
Omaha as yet.
RICHMOND (Va.), January 19th.-Tl ere
are eighty-six cases of smallpox in this city.
Remarkable letter from Murderer.
NEW York. January 20th-A M.-The
Sun publishes the following remarkable letter
from murderer:
ToMBs, MuRDERER's Row, January 10, 1882.
To the Editor of the SUn-Sir: The 10sh OF
February is drawing near, and if / do not get
spite or stay of proceedings, will certainly be
hanged that day. The Sun ought not to tell its
readers that had abandoned all hope OF new trial
or Communication of sentence for l never desired,
and therefore never hoped for, either one or the
other Ny cell is TO the door leading to the
Jail yard where the gallows viii be erected, than
any other cell in the T0mbs. The San is also wrong
| in stating that "the prospective length OF my
! march TO death" gave ME some uneasiness.
| What gives some uneasiness is that owing
to a stay of proceedings l will, like so many con-
demned murderers, not be strangled until year or
two hence, tus suffs fsring the double punishmen Of
| q long imprisonment and hanging II seems that q
| great many persons would be much pleased to see
| me weaken and break down so completely that |
would have to be carried out to the gallows; but |
will try to bear myself well under the ordeal, and
die like nineteenth century infdel. At any rate,
| viii die quicker and easier than she whom shot
| feel very, very sorry that killed her-just as
sorry in fact, the San feels that will be hanged.
WILLIAM SINDRAM.
At the end of his letter was pen sketch
OF man hanging from o gallows, and con-
nected with it the inscription, " Nearer. my
God, to Thee. Yours, truly, William
Sindram"
Fire as a sEeaEs7 of Escaping from Jail
| OMAHA, January 195h.-George Hart, in
dicted for the murder of Michael Cress at
| Grand Island. broke jail this forenoon, to-
gether with g prisoner named Darcy, indicted
for grand larceny, by burning through the
ceiling iuto the County Treasurer's ofice, and
then putting the fire out with pail of water.
Governor Nance offers reward for Hart.
Arrested on Serious Charge.
WASHINGTON, January 19sh.-John H.
Hickox, an assistant in the Library of Con-
gress, has been arrested on charge of pur-
loinIng money from letters addressed to par
| ties in the Capitol.
Consigned 20 Ills East Resting Place.
WASHINGTON, January 19.h.-Adam Nc.
Call, the leader of the Livingstone pioneer
| mission on the Congo river. was buried at
Leicester yesterday. The body was brought
| from Africa.
The whiPping.POst In Virginia.
PETERSBURG, January 10Th. - Gregory
Stsrnoni, an italian merchant of this city,
convicted Of receiving aud selling stolen man.
ufactured tobacco has been sentenced to re-
cSlFe twenty SStioSo ~ VAC PuO1iS whipping
post.
Anti.Me mGnisn in Chicago.
CHICAGO, January 19sh.-Some 200 citi-
zens have signed q call for an anti-Mormon
meeting Monday night. It is intended to
make a strong protest to Congress against
allowing polygamy longer to disgrace Ameri-
can civilization.
International Rife Match.
NEW YORK, January 19th.-The Secretary
| Of he y iionsl Rife Association has received
from Sir Ii. st. John Halford, Chairman of
the subcommittee of the National Rifle As
sociation of Great Britain, proposal for o
military match between the national guards
of the United States and the volunteers of
Great Britain, the match to take place at
Wimbledon in July. 1882.
Arrivals from Abroad.
WASHINGTON, January 19th.-During the
year 1881, ZIG, SOS immigrants arrived in the
United States.
Perpetual Motion.
CHICAGO, January 19th.-The Tribune an
nounces that perpetual motion has been dis
covered By Professor Joshua Carrot, who has
been mechanic for many years, and is in no
respect cranky" His system consists of
two cylinders working transversely in q
vacuum upon a third. The model works
until the bearings are worn out, thus creating
.-aetscallv q Y1arrsetf1ql motion