Sacramento daily record-union., 1882-01-21

| the County Court has no Jurisdiction il
chancery cases. This, too, overturns all thu
| chancery business which has been done dur
ing the past FIVE years in the County Court
The Lost Jeannette-WOrd from Engineer
Melville.
WASHINGTON, January 20sh.-The Secre
tary of the Navy has just received the follow.
ing telegram from Engineer Melville of the
lost Arctic exploring steamer Jeannette
IRKuTsK, January IS, 1882.
Secretary OF the Navy, Washington, D. c., S.
A.-Sir: Melville DaHenhower and eleven men all
well. Melville returned TO the Arctic Ocean, and
found the log book, instruments and four records
left by DeLong. No tidings of the second cutter
com manded by Lieutenant Chipp The search will
be continued during the winter by the Cossack COM
nandant at Balun and Irkutsk, under the direction
Of General Tsckernieff Word is received from the
Kolyma river that boat had arrived there to date
(Sovember 19th) am acquainted with the country
where DeLong and Iarty are, aud request orders to
remain with two men to renew the search in March.
panaDhower and nine men to return to the
United States Danenhowers sight is partially re-
covered. MELVILLE.
Boy Tncendiaries.
COLUMBUS (0). January 2Jsh.-Some ex-
citement is occasioned by the discovery that
the incendiaries who fred the feeble minded
asylum last November, causing a loss to the
State of 100000, are Elmer Ellsworth
Gwynn and David Goodrich both inmates,
aged respectively IL and Is. They wanted to
get away from the building, and the scheme
was shrewdly planned and executed.
Conkling and the Cabinet.
New YoRK, January 20th.-The Times
Washington special says of the Cabinet
rumor There are some who declare that the
President would not entertain o proposition
to make Conkling Secretary of the Treasury,
because of public policy. Others, aud some
who are acquainted with the ex-Senator's
present views. say he wonld not take the
Office if it should be offered him !; that he has
retired from public life. and is engaged in
building up his fortune by practicing his pro-
fession. Others would not be surprised if
the Office of Secretary of the Treasury should
be offered to ex-senator Platt.
Quartz MiII Destroyed by Fire.
MARYsvILLE tCol), January 2Oth.--The
Columbus stamp mill. eight miles west of
here, with all its contents, was totally de-
stroyed by fire this morning. The loss is esti-
mated at SIS, 600; partially covered by insur-
ance. The mill was the property of the New
York and Colorado Mining Syndicate Com
pauy.
Supposed Assassin Arrested.
LANCASTER (Ky.), January ooh William
Austin has been arrested on suspicion of hav
ing assassinated his great aunt.
Another Plea of Irresistible Impulse"
NEWARK IN. j. January Goth james B.
Graves, who shot E. P. Soden, pleaded ire.
sistible impulse. DIR. W. Ogerman testified
that he did not believe Graves was insane.
He did not believe in the insanity that comes
when you put your finger on the trigger and
goes when you have killed your victim.
Boiler Explosion.
EAST LIBERTY TO- }, January 20sh.-A saw.
mill boiler exploded to-day, killing one man,
woundiDg two dangerously, one seriously and
several others slightly.
Brother OF IrGquOls.
BALTIMORE, January 20th.-The stallion
Harold, brother of the famous Ircqlois, is
dead. The owner refused SIS, 600 for him
last summer
Railroad Accidenf-one Man Killed and
Two Fatally Hurt.
DENVER (Col) January 20th-Yesterdsy
o freight train on the Denver and Rio Grande
Railroad ran into the caboose of another
freight, smashing three cars and killing Al.
bert Phillips, fireman, and fatally wound.
ing conductor Fred Easterly and brakeman
Timothy Farley. The accident is said to be
the result of the criminal carelessness of the
rear train.
The Death Penalty.
AUGUSTA (Ga.), January 20th.-Anderson
johns tcolored) was hapged privately to-day
in the jail-yard for the murder of John S.
Haroldson December 9Gb. He made no con-
fession.
AUGUSTA, January 20sh.-Jones, who was
hanged to-day, made confession that he
killed Harratson in his store with an ak, and
stole S42 from him. Joaes dropped iuto
poetry while in jail.
SmaIi-Pox Among the Negroes.
NORFOLK (Va), January goth. = Thirty
cases of smallpox exist among the negroes at
Portsmouth and suburbs, caused by attend
ing the funeral of a smallpox victim.
House OF Representatives,.
WASHINGTON, January 20th-A short ses-
sion of the House was held to-day, and an ad-
journment was had until Monday.
Thermometrtral.
New York, January 20th-Midnight.- =
Thermometer-Righest 80, lowest 2O0.
CHICAGO, January 2Oth-Midnight-Ther-
mometer-highest AS, lowest 2S'.
The spuyien Duyyii Inquiry.
New YORK: January 2Oth.-There were no
startling developments to-day in the Spuyten
Duyvil inquiry.
EioOd Feared.
CHICAGO, January 20Sh-The month of
the river is blocked with ice, and the stream
is raising steadily, causing fears of food.
Waters subsiding.
NASHVILLE (Tenn.) January 2Oth-The