Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-12-04
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DOMESTIC NEWS.
Postal Changes for the Pacific Coast.

master. Postmasters appointed Gaspoint,
Shasta county, California, VIM T. Roberts
Lewiston, Trinity county, California. Thos
Baker /; Live Oak, Suffer county, California,
L. Ell. Shutel; Nicolags, Suffer county, Cali.
fornis, Chas. E. Bevan; Oak Grove, San
Diego county, California, Joseph Mark. !;
San Mateo, San Mateo county. California,
Isaac K. Goodspeed; Diamond, Juab county,
Utah, r. a. Hills; Isaacson, Pima county,
Arizona, jane Breeder; San Carlos, Pima
county, Arizona, G. P. Sykes. Discontinued
Point of Timber, Contra Costa county,
California; Columbia. Elko county, Nevada.
The work Before Congress.
WASHINGTON, December 81. - Congress
viii meet Tomorrow and begin the work of
disposing of o greater amount of unfinished
business than ever before confronted the ma
tiensl legislature of this country. At the
first session of the Forty. Congress
there were introduced in the House Of Repre-
sentstives z, 49, bills and Joint resolutions. In
the Senate, at the same time, 2, 2S3 bills and
joint resolutions were presented, mskiog to-
tai of 9, 465 measures. 1t is probable that st
the approaching session at least 5000 bills
and resolutions will be presented, of which
hardly score will receive the approval of
both houses. Six weeks ct least of the pend
ing session will be occupied in the passage of
appropriation bills, and as an earnest attempt
to reduce taxation will be made, very little
outside legislation need be expected. The
lobby will undoubtedly rally here in full
force, and fill in every moment of time, that
should be devoted to public business, with
schemes CT private and personal character.
Poor Dorsey.
WASHINGTON, December 81. - Dorsey's
alleged princelY domain in New Mexico, with
its millions of acres Of land and hundreds of
. i e
no such domain. The ranch he actually did
have he had to sell to Boster, the great Penn.
sylvania cattle king. Unlucky speculaiiors,
extravagant habits and an army of greedy
lawyers have made him poor already. He il
broken down, mentally and physically. He
has serious affection Cf his eye sight. Thoge
who know all about him say he lives in Wash.
ineton, engaged in no business, try ing to savs
his health and liberty, and prevent the worst
that may yet be in store for him.
The Steam Barge Disaster.
CHICAGO, December 3j.-The statement Of
the mate of the barge Lucky, which was in
tow of the steam barge Peters, whose burning
and sinking was reported last night, and in
which thirteen persons lost their lives, gives
the following new points of the horrible acci-
dent: Nobody knows the cause of the fire,
but the boat burned like finder. 1t was our
last trip, and everybody was in good spirits.
The storm increased as we got out from Mil
waukee. The wind was terrific. the snow
binding and the sea heavy. The fiimeJ were
frat seen about 2 o'clock st night. Our line
was cut or burned off, and we were adrift,
with our center board lost, cur main sail
split, and we were unable TO render any as
sistance, other than to lie around in the
neigborhood, which we did until about day
light; but without being able to pick up any
frIx tCtrf nod.
was pretty tough, but it had TO be. We saw
the barge burn right before our eyes, and
could not life hand to cave the poor fellows
aboard. The Captain of the Peters was
Charles Smith, aged 40, and unmarried. TIE
mate was John Lawson. aged 4S, married and
much liked on the lakes.
Rapid Transit Across the Atlantic.
NEW York, December S1.-Tae American
Quick Time Transit Steamship Company, OF
Boston, designs to build steamers and run
across the Atlantic in FIVE Gays, ct less ex.
pense than the present slow boats require
A. Perry Blivin is building them here
They sre long, narrow, buoysnt in the water,
;noastless and shapely. The screw is ten feet
vessel the Mstsofn srfg under s wat s5, oae
it is expected, pillow the crests of the waves
| Ventilating shafts are prepared, which will
| be very effective in the worst weather. The
| Meteor viii have engines of 2. 500 horse
| power, and they will be placed inside of ten
| days.
Murder and Suicide in Colorado.
DURANGO, December 3i-Last night about
IL O'Clock, while DR.. H. a. Clsy, pioneer
physician and one of the most eminent citi.
zsns, was sitting IN his office, his partner, DR..
Evetzky, entered, and without warning fred
several shots at Clay, then blew his own
brains out with the same revolver, dying in
stantly. MIR. Clay died this morning. They
had been partners for several months in a
thriving business. No difficulty was known
to have existed between them until yester.
day, wien DR.. Evetzky received severe
cowhidiug from Mrs. Moore and Miss
Hawkins. who accused him Of talking about
them. Evetzby was under the impression
thst his partner, DR.. Clay, had something to
do with his being coHhided, which is thought
to have led to the fatal shooting.
Philadelphia takes the Cake
PHILADELPHIA, December 3d.-A reap.
tured deserter from the my, handcuffed and
pinned to an iron bedstead with thick.
heavy chain, escaped from the third story Of
building a. Twentieth and Market streets
Friday evening. The fugitive carried the
large bedstead with him, and reached the
ground in two leaps Of fourteen and twenty
feet. No trace of him has been found. The
bedstead and letters also escaped. His name
his Candy Royle. residence Allenstown. He
showed great skill and daring in planning bis
escape. He had difficult wooden wall
eleven feet high to scale after his jumps
something few men would have been able to
do unincumbered.
A Dissatisfied Doctor.
WASHINGTON, December 3l.-The award
of the Board of Audit in the matter of Gar.
fields funeral expenses will not be satisfactory
to some of the doctors. DIR. Bliss, who was
allotted Sc, 500, says he will not accept it. It
does not represent the money actually spent
by him On account of Garteld's illness. 1t
cost him, frat and last, SIS, 900. He would
have what his services are worth or nothing
This deprivation of pay was fraud. He
earned 81, 500 to SO, 600 per month, and dur.
ing the Presidents illness he neglected his
own practice entirely. and for months after-
wards on account of blood poisoning and
mental fatigue. Besides, DIR. Boynton and
Mrs. Edison were awarded almost as much az
the physicians in care of the case.
The Morgan Mystery Again.
ROCHESTER IN. Y.) December 3d.-The
Union and AdrertiSer publishes seven
column report, made by the late Frederick
Whittlesey. the anti. Masonic leader, giving
circumstantial account of the abduction of
William Morgan. Il is q most interesting
story, and is, in brief, that when Morgan had
been arrested for trivial debt and abducte d
from the Csnandaigua Jail through Rochester
to Fort Bargara, he was confined there in q
magazine in charge of Edward Giddeps. Ga
the 14th of September, 1896, Royal Arch
Chapter was installed in Lewiston, and
many prominent Masons were present,
most of whom knew Of Morgan's
place of confinement. Morgan refused
to take food from his capsors, saw.
ing he would starve rather than put him.
self in their power, made great cutlery, and
was with the greatest difficulty Quoted.
Several conferences of Masons were held for
a decision of the question of how to dispose
of Morgan, all agreeing that he had forfeited
his life, and all the evidence gathered by
Whittlesey tends to show that he was nut to
death on the night of the 10Th of September
by being cast into the Niagara river. viii.
lam P. Daniels, in the late trials in Lock.
port, refused to answer question on the
ground that he might criminate himself as
accessory to the murder. The Judge said
that to do so he must have better evidence Of
the murder than the public had. The Ma.
sons in the vicinity fearlessly asserted that
nobody would ever be punished, even if
trisd for the murder, because the Mssons
were in the high places, and would shield
them. Whittlesey, who wrote this docu.
a