Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-04-14
CONDENSED TgLEGRAMs.
Flashes Of News from all Parts of the
World,

World.
Senator Edmunds is on his way to New
Mexico.
| Negotiations looking to treaty of COM
merce between Germany and Italy 10 in pro-
gress.
| Some of Mr.. Gresham's friends have been
mentioning his nsnl1 in connection with the
Presidency.
The British Government has proposed that
system of espionage be established with the
Government of the United States.
Stillwell FL. Russell, for defrauding the
| Government while Marshal of the Western
District of Texas, has been sent to the Peni-
tentisry.
The Governor of Arkansas has signed the
bill permitting no one but resident to be-
come the State Printer, or perform the duties
outside of the State.
| Admiral Won Batsch retires from the Ger
man navy, because his endesvor to bring the
navy into the hands of experienced seamen
| has proved unsuccessful.
Paul Matthews, son of Justice Matthews,
of the United States Supreme Court, is lying
dangerously Ill at his parents residence, in
Washington, with tube~colis.
The Grand Jury of Little Rock have in
dicted the United States Marshal and J, B.
Downs for forgery and perjury, and the pre-
sentation of false accounts.
A sale of Polled Angus and Galloway cat
tie was made at Ksrsas City Thursday, at an
average price OF S532 The total amount of
the sale is s62, 745. The highest price paid
was 81, 160 for Mari'.
The steamship City of Richmond has not
arrived at New York. She has not been
heard from since she was reported as having
been disabled by the France. Then she was
not in need Of assistance.
Not much interest was taken in the bene-
fits for the actcrs' fund, East, Thursday.
The receipts at most places were merely
nominal and in some cases the audience was
80 small it was dismissed without perform
ance.
The Alabama Supreme Court holds the
revenue law of the late Legislature void be.
cause of the omission from the bill, as en-
rolled and signed, of certain words in the bill
as passed. The new law reduced the tax 81
mills.
Walsh, the Irish " suspect" who has ar
rived at New York from France, states that
he left England to put himself out of the
power of that lying wretch Carey" He
regards Carey as "the most unhlusbing per-
jurer on the Eoelish list of hired SPIES"
About 2;30 Thursday morning Cairo, ILL.,,
was visited with another earthquake of much
more violence than that experienced several
months ago. The shock continued nearly a
minute and ratified windows, shutters and
light articles in an alarming manner.
The banquet of the physicians of New York
to DR.. Oliver Wendell Holmes Thursday
night was notable affair. Whitelaw Reid,
George William Curtis and William M.
Evarts were amorg the guests and responded
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in poem.
The Cincinnati cigar manufacturers have
made proposition to the strikers for ninety
cents per thousand in advance. and to give
the, remainder of the dollar to packers and
others. The strikers enphaticslly refused.
One establishment, employing seventy hands,
has acceded to the demand of the strikers.
The ice-gorgs broke below Stevenson, d.
t., Thursday evening. This rise of thirty
feet will soon reach Bismarck, and the ex-
! citement there is great, as such a field of ice
can hardly pass through the bridge without
gorRing, in which case the water will over
flow the low lands on both sides of the river
The Mexican Agricultural Society has
passed resolution asking the Mexican Rail
way Company to reduce the freight rate on
the Jalspa and Vera Cruz line, to promote
the expectation of field products; also re-
| questlng the Governors OF dlfferent Mexican
States to cause the abolition of taxes on
coffee and other farm products, in the interest
of the export trade.
In the case of Loo Chang & Co., of Gaines-
boro, GA, asking payment for Losses sustained
by being driven out of the town, the Depart
ment can do no more than has already been
done; that il, to request the Governor of
/ Georgia to instruct the local authorities to in
vestigate the alleged outrage upon the China,
men, with view of securing for them the
same rights and protection to persons and
property which would be accorded American
citizens.
In reply te letter asking that distinction
be made between polygamous and monsga-
nous Mormons, as Secretary Evsrts' circular
warned Mormon enAgrants coming here that
they would expose themselves to the penal
laws Of the country, Secretary Frelinghuysen
has written to the Mormon Conference in
Ohio as follows: "It is contrary to the
practice of this Government to give by circu'
lar, IS is proposed, any sanction or indorse-
meat of specific form of belief 1t is for
the agents Of any religion to make its char.
acter known. Law.abiding immigrants are
secure against interference"