Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-07-31

1t is not believed that Arab Pasha l. max
ing ready to surrender. His delegates met
AZ English lag Of truce Friday and said they
would resist to the bitter end.
Dsvitt has arrived in London He will 10
nothing TO create dissension in the Land
League. He goes to Ireland to put a spoke
in KsyAnaugh's land-corporation scheme
The Canada Pacific Railroad has adopted
Perry Crossing of the South Saskatchewan at
Medicine Coulee, and work is to begin east
aud west from there, II is thought that
point will be the future Capital of the British
Northwest.
The French Government. through De Frey
cinet, has appealed to the Chamber of Depu-
ties for vote of credit, saying that without
the mandate of Europe intervention would
be neither wise nor prudent. The Chamber
refused the appeal by $50 to 70, and the Min
listers rendered their designations to the Presi-
dent
DOMESTIC.
Anna Parnell is better.
It is thought Congress will adjourn next
Saturday.
Senator Hill is worse. His mind was wan
dering Saturday.
Sullivan, the puGilist, was fined $40 for
drunkenness and obscenity.
Glowing accounts are sent Of the excellence
OF the wheat harvest in Michigan.
At LOOMS, ILL.,, Geo. Miller and F. A.
Hartley were killed by lightning Friday
Heavy rains in Kansas Illinois and Mis-
souri, have done much good since Friday.
The Stacy & Knight smelter on Grape
creek, near Silver Cliff, Col. was burned
Friday.
The Duke Of Westminster was married to
Lady Catherine Csvendish in London on
Saturday.
Geo. Miller and F. A. Hartley were in
stantly killed by lightning, near Loomis, H.,
on Friday.
The Louisville Board Of Trade has re-
quested the President to sign the river and
harbor bill.
A bridge at Philadelphis fell Saturday
with 100 persons. Ten were injured and one
young lady will die.
There was almost panic on Change st
Chicago, as up to noon Saturday heavy de.
cline in prices took place.
The Government has expressed willing.
ness to arbitrate upon the Mexican and Qua
temalan boundary question.
Ex-Representative Rice of Massachusetts
is spoken OF as the probable successor of the
late Minister Marsh at Rome.
At st. John IN. b. Saturday, Maggie
Chestnut and Mrs. John B. Abbott, while
bathing in the river, were drowned.
The Telegrapbers of the United States snd
Canada and the United Teiegraphers ofNorth
America effected consolidation Saturday.
The liberal feeling in England now is,
/" Since we are in Egypt let US not have to go
again, but do the work properly once for all"
New discoveries of silver ore in Lake val
ley, near Mutt n. NJ, create local excite
ment, and start boom of emigration to that
point.
The sundry civil appropriation bill has
been reported to the Seuats. 1t aggregates
S25, 764. 000-au Increase OF 81, 7SS, 900 over
the House bill
Gladstone's Government is showing much
more frmness than was anticipated, and
seems resolved to prevent Turkey from OBJ
tanning the mastery in Egypt.
Assistant Attorney. General of the Interior
Department, Joseph K. McCallum, is COM
ing to California on an official trip. He is
not to be removed, as was rumered.
J. G.. Croft, Cashier of the Exchange Bank
of Franklin, Pa, is a defaulter to large
amount-between $50, 600 and 500 600. He
is q church deacon, and had the confidence of
the public.
The bill to regulate the carriage of passen.
gers by sea has passed the House; also the
bill to regulate immigration, and the bill to
pay the salary of the late Minister Garnett
of Liberia to his widow for year.
The King of the Belgians has suit in the
Supreme Court of Massachusetts, to recover
S240,00 of Don Barnard ard others, who are
bankers. It il alleged that Barnard fled from
Belgium with S17O. 900 of the Kings money.
Yellow fever has appeared at Matamoras.
Mexico, of virulent type. 1t ia feared it
g. L. L
citeHent throughout the latter State. Quar-
antine will be established against the coast
cities.
q. M. Boyee, Jr., and w. 81. Arnaut
dealers in foreign newspapers and magazines
ETC., have had hearing before the Tariff
Commission. They want newspapers and
unbound magazines and periodicals to be put
on the free list.
Governor Sherman, of Iowa. has issued
proclamation declaring the result of the cleo
ton on the adoption of the prohibition
amendment to be 155 1876 votes for and
1851 against adoption, baiDg g majority
for adoption of 29,759.
1t is proposed to amend the postal law to
admit OF third grade letter carriers-auxilia-
I:ss e senaz tvhara thare ave-
two grades. or more, new appointments are to !
be made to the lowest and promotions to the
highest, from the lower grades.
The Wenona Lake Assembly. composed Of |
several thousand people from the Northwest |
ern States, representing all denominations, |
passed resolutions at Madison, Wis, to the |
effect that it was the duty of religious people |
to advocate prohibitory legislation.
The Senate reduces the 81, 900, 000 for COM
pleting the monitor Miantonomah to $780, |
000 including the launching Of four other |
monitors, and directing that the four vessels |
be not completed without further order Of /
Congress-. The bill is TO come to vote Mon
day.
The mortality in New York last week,
1,217. was the largest ia ten years. Satur- I
days deaths were 2lS; one.third the victims
were infants dying of cholera infantum. /
There were eight sunstrokes and eleven [
deaths from heat and five sunstrokes in
Brooklyn.
1t is cause for wonder that the Chine Sc in Il
Cuba should desire TO return to their country Il
through the United States, in view of the Il
passenger fare through the United States
being exactly double what it is by ship direct
to China, and the Cinnamon all want to go I
by ship direct.
Washburn thinks the Jeanette inquiry
viii be ordered, aud that it will be chiefly
directed to the sui isct Of the character of the
provisions furnished the vessel He saws he Il
was moved to put in his resolution for the in
quiry by DIR. Collins, brother to Collins, the
Herald correspondent on the Inflated ship
William Smith. of Kirkwood, st Louis
&C ~ q ,eas-ais snr ~, j
the 7th inst. The boy went off and got
gun and shot his father while he was sitting
il the kitchen, killing him. The boy (Guyj /
was tried, and Saturday was found guilty. I
and will probably be hat ged From birth |
the head of the child has been abnormally |
large and runs mp to a point, and the child
has slways been strange being
The Secretary of the Interior has finally
decided a motion for reconsideration in the
matter OF the Rancho Corta MADEIRA Gel Pre-
sidiO, of California, Juan Reads heirs con-
hrmees. After thorough and exhaustive
review of all the previous proceedings and
decisions in the case. Secretary Teller has
recalled the decision of Secretary Schurz in
1879. and has awarded to claimants the land
embraced in the Ransom llsrdt survey, ex.
Guiding. however, Peninsula Island and az.
other small leland occupied by the Military
Reservation.
New York dispatches say that the ex.
treme hot weather has had depressing eff.
feet on freighting business, and the move. {
ment at the waarves of California vessels has |
been rather slow during the past day or two. |
The Oracle is the most advanced ship on ! |
berth, and will fill during the coming week.
the Dakota following soon thereafter. Rates !
remain steady at last quotations. Tonnage !
is waited by the grain and petroleum trade. !
and beir scarce il held at full rates. The I