Sacramento daily record-union., 1882-12-25

DOMESTIC.
John Thompson Robertson. the oldest edi-
tor 10 Virginia, is dead.
The Western Union has made a contract
with the Associated Press for ten yea.s.
Mira. I. J. Brandon, of Topeka, X ~, has
an infant son whose weight is but eighteen
ounces.
Advices from the Gloucester herring feet
show very di.ccuraging prospects st Grand
Msran.
SAiini Mcrre has fsked until Thursday TO
show why theater licsnte should be granted
to him.
The bark Gcodeil, from Liverpool to New
York, lost the second officer and two sailors
in gale.
Marshal Heuryis letter to President Ar
thur, asking that his case be investigated, is
published.
The Pittsburg bucket shops will all be no.i-
fed that they will receive no quotations
after January 1st.
Senator Edmunds. ef the judiciary Com
mittee, reported bill Saturday to prohibit
political assessments.
A warrant has been issued for the arrest Of
9. Z. Upton, the defaulting President of the
Rochester City Bank.
Professor Muybridge of San Francisco lee.
tured 10 New York On Romance and Re-
ality of Animal Motion"
In the matter Of Sunday trading in New
York by Hebrews, judge Arneux holds that
Jews and Gentiles are alike under the Consti-
tuition.
Postmaster Pearsou, of New York, has
received information that there were saved
from the la.ely burned mail 243 letters from
England to San Francisco.
Alexander Jefferson. the negro murderer,
was captured in New York Saturday after q
fierce resistance; and in shooting at the off,
GERS he shot himself, but not fatally.
Il. B. Oakley. of Oswego, N. Y, paid Andy
Wilson $50, 000 for his farm of 8. 652 acres in
Kipgsville, Kan. Wilson reserved stock
worth Sl00, 0G0, and he will remove it to New
Mexico.
The Citizsns' Committee has asked the Pc
Ice Commissioners at Washington TO stop
espionage upon their qusr.ers by detectives
suspected of collusion with criminals, pend
ing the present investigation.
Indian Commissioner Price has sent c;r-
calar letter to sll Indisn agents, promulgat
ing the rules suggested in the recent letter of
Secretary Teller, abolishing evil practices
existing among the various tribes.
The Jspanese Prince, Arisugucos, uncle OF
the Mikado arrived in Washington Saturday
afternoon, accom- a1ied by bis suit Of five
persons. He will remain until thu 29th inst ;,
when he will leave for San Francisco.
William Fl. Crew, an attorney, has been
senteI csd at Greencsstle, Ind, to nine
months hard labor in Jail for execting $500
from a pensioner. He fed TO Montana last
September, and was captured at Billings.
In Coyington, Ga, Saturday, Will Smith,
aooH 1S chnh and k1iiaH Il 10 Alax
ander Hendricks and a negro who was at.
tempting to arrest him. Hs is in jail. The
excitement is intense. Whisky was the cause
of the trouble.
William e. Russell was brought into Court
in Brooklyn. n. Y, Saturday, to face three
wives and three other women to whom he
was engaged. As the second witness walk ed
toward tie stand the sccused s5rang to his
feet and pleaded guilty.
The Missouri Pacific express train, bound
from Omaha to st. Lpuis, and having thirty.
five passengers, was ditched and completely
wrecked while running twenty-five miles on
hour, BY the spreading OF the rails near Howe
Nebraska, Saturday. One passenger had q
fractured rib snd internal injuries, and two
others were slightly injured.
In the Senate Saturday, there was long
debate on the civil servics reform. Pugh'f
amendment to Pendlston's bill providing fol-
the immediate application of the system o.
competitive examination was rejected. FINAL,
the bill went over until Wednesday, when i
is to be taken up and finished. Both Houses
adjourned over until Wednesday.
A number of distinguished cergynen aac
laymen of New York met in the Mayor
office Saturday afternoon to protest sgains
the production of the Passion Play in tha
city. They were present by invitation Of tn,
Mayor, who was desirous of hearing wha
they had to say in opposition to the proposet
exhibition. After free interchange Of view
further hearing was adjourned until Tuesday
An Ohio man, supposed by letters from
prominent business men found on his body t.
be Colonel ID. G. Cox. of Washington, d. q.
and formerly q well-known Ohio politician
and man who has held some prominen
otfciai positions, walked into the river at tn
foot of Monroe street, Chicago, Ssturda,
morning, and was drowned. He was intoxi
ca5ed at the time, and, though pulled ou
soon after sinking, efforts to resuscitats hin
were unavailing.
So general is the complaint of sandbsgg;ne
and robbery in the streets of Chicago al
night, and SO fast is the crime growing, tina;
the Lumbertnen's Exchange is aroused by the
fact that one of their members has been at
tackled, robbed and lefs senseless on the
street, and offer a rsward of $500 for the per
petrator of the crime, in document which
sharply crisicises the city government for Its
laxness. Since the 1st of December seven.
teen cases OF this sort are on record, and prob.
ably many of them have been missed.
The motion for new trial in the murder
OF Teresa Sturla was not pressed in Chicago
Saturday morning and the fair, frail pris.
oner received her sentence of year in the
Penisentiary with jsuuty, self.possessed
air. She made a little speech explaining why
q hn nreac tEaA Alna
character of the jurors who stood out for her
conviction. She comphmented her counsel,
and showed no evidence of insanity. She
talked gayly after the sentence was pro.
nounced, ard threatens to 60 on the stage
when it expires.