Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-11-27
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
Flashes Of Views from all Parts Of the
World


World
John W. Mackay, of Comstock fame, is " doing "
Texas.
1t is thought the pork decree in France will soon
be withdrawn.
Tilden, it is said, contemplates yachting cruise
IN the Gull OF Mexico.
Rouher, Louis Napoleons Minister OF State, lie
reported dying in Paris.
The reported $500, 900 failure ofZambrino Bros, of
Monterey, Mexico, is denied.
A constitutional charter ia being elaborated in
Russia, concession of the Gar.
James & Co., merchants at Manchester, Eng,
have failed liabilities, sl1O,00O
Joseph H, Blackfan, Superintendent of Foreign
Mails, died at Washington Saturday.
The Egyptian Council of Ministers decided to send
1900 gendarmes and. 900 Bedouins to Suakim.
Secretary Teller says he will decide the Texas Pa
cifc land grant in the regular course of business.
The departure of Marquis Tseng, the Chinese
Embassador, from Paris is beLevedto be imminent
A Battle Creek (Mich.) special says: "Sojourner
TRUTH the coored lecturer, died here this morning,
aged los years."
Knox der Fraussanet, a prominent banker OF
Paris, has failed liabilities, Is, 900 900 francs as
sets, 5000, GOD francs.
The friends Of Arthur andBlaine claim that either
gentleman will accept the Republican Presidential
nomination if terdered.
At the close of the opera in Madrid Saturday
evening the German national anthem was performed
amid tremendous cheering.
1t is feared at Odessa, Russia, that thirty-fve
wheat-laden steamers, ice-bound at the mouth OF
the river Don, will be held until spring.
A gentleman Of New South Wales has written to
the Shakespeare Society that for IS coo lie will re-
veal the real author Of Shakespeare's plays and
sonnets.
The postal letter carriers of Chicago decided Sat-
urday to memorabilia Congress to pass bill grant
ing the men in the carrier service vacation OF
thirty days each year
The Spanish papers assert that the visit OF the
Crown Prince of Germany is associated with pro-
ject for the annexation OF Portugal to Spain as the
price Of German Spanish alliance.
The Spanish Government has decided to disband
ten regiments of infant and substitute therefor
one regiment of artillery. 1t has also ordered an
increase of pay all ranks below captain
The New York Sun ndorses the report that Carl
Schurz has left the Erenin5 Post, and thinks " the
adventurer would have saved his credit if he had
retired early from the Secretaryship Of the In
terror"
The New York Sun says Mr.. Huntington, Sydney
Dillon and others have formed a Railway Share
holders Association, for the purpose of collecting
and selling to newspapers and disseminating in
various manners news about railways.
The funeral Of Dr. Charles William Siemens took
place yesterday at Westminster Abbey with great
ceremony. The remains were inferred in Kensal
Green. The funeral was attended by large assem-
blage, including many prominent persons
A cold wave struck st. Paul, Mimi, late Tuesday
night the thermometer dropping to TO- above zero.
The Northern Pacific Railroad reports from four to
SIX inches of snow at Gendive, Miles City, FORSYTH
and Billings At each Of these places the therI1om
eter is registered at 12' below zero.
William ]. Ramsay, proprietor of the Free
Thinker, convicted in March last in London OF pub
fishing basphemous libels, and sentenced to nine
months Imprisonment was released Sunday. Geo.
". Foote editor of the Free Thinker, convicted
for the ofense, has yet to three months.
Beecher told his congregation Sunday that he
should preach to them Thanksgiving day sermon
descriptive of the country through which he passed
on his recent Western trip and OF Its people, Up
to this time Becher has piqued the curiosity OF his
congregation by maintaining rigid silence upon his
summer tour.
The latest reports from the Soudan confirm the
news of the defeat of Hicks Pasha. The panic at
Khartoum is Increasing, owiHg to rumors that FL
Madhi with a large force is advancing upon that
city and has cut off all supplies of grain Official
advices, while not confirming these rumors admit
that Europeans are leaving Khartoum in boats.
Yesterday was the ffteth anniversary of the first
issue of Chicago's first newspaper On November
&C. 1888, John Calhoun, having established himself,
set up the first number of the Chicago Democrat.
The papers name was in plain, shaded, black type,
beneath which appeared the motto Of Franklin,
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country" Mrs.
Calhoun widow of the editor, is still living, and has
carefully preserved files of the early numbers of the
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