Sacramento daily record-union., 1883-10-27
TRLEGRAPHIC BREvITIEs.
Flashes Of News from all Parts Of tn
World,

IL Is feared that the Princess OF Wales is
incurably deaf.
The corporation of Ottawa welcomed Lans.
downe with an address.
Fence cutting has been suspended for 6f.
teen days on the Texas ranges.
The new editor of the Saturday Reyiec is
said to be the best fencer in England.
Cholera has reappeared in Fayroom. Egypt,
on the west side of the Nile, and at Ziftch.
Clifford Lloyd, Irish Magistrate, was
seized with cholera soon after his arrival in
Egypt.
| Frederick Cowen, the English composer,
will visit America to conduct his own sym.
phonies.
The Naval Advisory Board have recon-.
mended the construction of seven new naval
vessels.
The Episcopal Convention adjourned in
| Philadelphia yesterday, the next meeting to
be in Chicago.
| British vessels in the harbor at Halifax
have taken precautions against any possible
attack from Fenians.
| In Berlin it is reported that German ex-
ports TO the United States are rapidly decreas.
ing in number and value.
Ruskin will lecture in the London Insti-
tute 10 February on 1.-The Storm Clouds of
| the Nineteenth Century"
| Monsiguor Capel will be likely appointed
| Archbishop of Sydney and have his debts
paid By rich Catholic of Peru.
A London dispatch says: Copeman and
four others crossed the channel from Dover to
Calais in his seat raft in six hours.
Latest inquiries among the leading dry
goods people in New Y ork are favorable to
the future course Of their market.
Dun & Co. report the business failures for
the week throughout the United States and
Canada at 21S, against 24S last week.
The Princess Dolgorouki. widow of the late
Czsr, intending to live in Paris, has bought
house on the avenue Bois de Boulogne.
The Prince of Bulgaria's last illusions have
been shattered by the defslcstion of tue Cab
met Minister and the robbery of the royal
spoons.
Several fatal cases of yellow fever have
occurred in the interior of Nicaragua. Sem
ator Pho Borrantes was one of the first
victims.
has already been placed on pedestal at Bal
moral. The Queen is most anxious for the
completion Of the statue.
It is stated that the Pope will declare the
Pantheon Pagan temple, if the monument
to Victor Emmanuel is erected in the center,
as intended by King Humbert.
A special from Winnipeg says The Cana
dian Pacific is unable to get across the Sell
kirk range of Rocky Mountains, and work
has been suspended for two years.
Between sixty and seventy men lately en-.
gagged in the strike at the railroad yards of
East st. Louis have been indicted. The
strike has formally ended.
Fifty operators in the coal mines in st.
Clair county, Illinois, have been indicted for
violating the law requiring scales for weigh.
ing coal to be placed in each mine.
Germany and Russia are increasing their
forces on the frontiers. Russian villages are
crowded with Cossacks, while German garri.
sons and Notifications are being strengthened.
The Geographical Society of Lisbon ad-
dressed circular to similar societies abroad,
protesting that the tone of Stsnley's letters
relative to affairs on the Congo river is often
sive towards Portugal.
1t ia believed in the lobbies of the French
Chsmbers that Minister of Finance Terti6
will resign. 1t is reported that Prime Min
lister Ferry is pressing Leon Say for the place
but the latter declines.
The Government printing office has Just
completed beautifully illustrated qusrto
velume devoted to the scientific result of the
| Arctic cruise of the revenue cutter Corwin in
| the summer of 1881.
In Washington Thursday the funeral of ",
| P. Copeland, the well known newspaper cor
respondent, took place from his late res
| idence. There was large attendance of pub
| lie men aud journalists.
1t is reported that a press for printing
Nihilist publications has been discovered in
the Imperial Marie Institute, Moscow, and
| that two female teachers have been arrested
in xrytkh kha Ison kanv, 49, 10,
papers.
The closing session OF the Society of the
Army of the Cumberland, in Cincinnati, con-
sisted of banquet at which 600 sat down
Owing to the absence of General Sheridan,
who was called away, General Rosecrsns pre-
sided
Truth says that the Princess Louise has
been long accustomed to the slavish adula-
tion OF q shamefully servile society; that she
| was as much out of place in Canada as
reindeer in Central Africa, or csmels in St.
Petersburg.
A Fargo, Dakota, special says: A COM
psHy of leading citizens have fled mining
claims to two hundred acres on the town site
Of Lisbon, and subscribed $50, 900 to work it.
In all that region. nothing but the gold dis.
coveries are talked about.
Captain Rand and Mate Thomas Pender,
| vi VIC SbcdmcT 1EOplC, COnNlCleQ IL HIlAU6t-
| phia Of violating the neutrality laws by fur
nishing arms and ammunition to insurgents
OF Hsyti, have been sentenced to one years
| imprisonment and fine of $500.
| Commissioner of Pensions Dudley has pre-
pared for District Attorney Corkhill a large
amount of documentary evidence, collected
| by agents of the Pension Office, in relation
to the sWindling operations of pension claims
agents. and number of dishonest pension
agents have already been suspended from
practice before the Pension Bureau.
A cable special from Berlin says: In the
| Rsichstsg to-day Prince Bismarck introduced
bill prohibiting the emigration to foreign
countries OF persons whose obligation to
| country, families, creditors and employers
are unsettled The bill is especially directed
| against class of men who have hitherto
found in emigration easy and effsctual
methods Of severing onerous or disagreesble
family ties. breaking contracts with en-
ployers, and evsding the payment of debts,
| etc.
| A law has passed the Nicaragua Congress
| for the purpose of obtaining joint guarantee
| from other Central American States which
may assist in promoting the construction of
| the Nicsraguan canal. It provides in its first
article for guarantee that the net profits of
| the Nicaragusn canal shall never amount to
| less than three per cent. on the capital EN-.
Ployeu III ltb COneIIuCbiOn, WHICH SnAll NOT eAs
ceed S75,0O0,000. and that this guarantee
shall last twenty years from the date on
which the canal shall be completed and
| opened to traffic.
I Discovery OF FLoRIDA.-At Modena,
among the archives of the noble house of
Este, very curious and important plani-
sphere, dating from the year 1902, has Just
been discovered. 1t was, as appears from
manuscript accompanying it, given to
Herculeo dEste by Caatino, his political
agent at Lisbon, and on it are traced the
outlines of all the new world countries
which were discovered by Gaspard Corte-