Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-02-07

The United States Supreme Court has adj
journed until March 9Th.
Secretary Folger has gone to his home in
Geneva. N. Y, on private business.
Prince Serg;us Ourorssoff, Russian Privy
Councillor and Secretary of State, is dead.
At Newhamburg. N. Y, yesterday, E. Fl.
Sanford's Avalanche won tie 20-mile icehoat
racs in 81 minutes.
In the United States Surrsme Court, the
petition to assign the legal tender case for ar
gunen. was denied.
Prince Jerome's eldest son has arrived in
Paris on brief holiday. He remained an
hour with his father.
The collection st Hamburg for the relief of
the sufferers by the Cimbria disaster has
reached "a 600 marks.
The British mail for Australia arrived from
Europe Monday, and left New York feI San
Francisco Monday night.
Ex-senator Booth Ct California hiss been
in Washington for several days working up
some Pacific Coast matters.
The Spanish Government has ordered the
adoption throughout the country of the de-
cimal metrical system of weights and meas-
ures.
The approximate earnings of the Urion Pa
cigc Railroad for January were 81, 733, 900,
against 81. 94S. 900 during January of last
year.
General Fifzhugh Lee and staff, of Vir-
ginia, arrived in New York last evening. az
the guests Of the Thirteenth Regiment Of
Brooklyn.
Secretary Teller says that no action has
vat hoo, tat- hxyt he Trfa
in connection with the case of DIR. Cox, Pen
sion Agent at San Francisco.
Miss Aiics Blaine, daughter of exSeeresary
Blaine. was married in Washington at her
father residence yesterday to Brevet- Colonel
John G. CoppiDger, United States army.
The Grand Duke Nicholas has gone to ST.
Petersburg, and will return TO Berlin with
the Duke and Duchess OF Edinburgh during
the present festivities in honor Of the silver
wedding Of the Crown Prince.
The Russian Government has granted the
Finnish Senate power to establish literary,
scientific and economical societies, to grant
privileges for tramwsys, reduce the customs
tariff and sell land to foreigners.
Keene is said to have made million do,-
lars in New York the past month or the bear
side of the market. Keene is a large holder
Of Sonora Consolidated mining stock. The
mine is situated in Alter district.
The United States Supreme Court has de-
cided invalid the Act of the New York Leg
islature imposing upon steamship companies
tax Of 81 for every alien passenger brought
from a foreign port to New York.
Among the goods distributed as annuities to
the Cheyennes and Arapahoes by Littleton
were 200 pairs of shoes, made in the Indian
Institute at Hampton. Va, which were pro-
nounced equal to those bought from other
factories.
kilograms received as the Indian Bureau
indicate thst strenuous efforts are making On
the part of the military to eject all alien
helf-breeds, buffalo hunters aud Canadian
Indians from the Fort Peck (Montans) In
dian reservation.
The United States Marshal on Monday
sold the Cleveland ard Tuscarawas Valley
and Wheeling Railroad by order of Court.
The road was bid in for So, $50, 500 by Byer
Perkins the trustee, who paid the amount in
bonds Of the road.
AT meeting of the Board of Trustees of
Columbia College, Monday, petition, signed
by ], 352 persons, was received urging the
higher education CT women in New York.
The petition was presented by Ex-Governor
Hamilton Fish, President Of the Board.
The Legislature of New York proposing to
Withdraw the appropriations necessary to
carry on Castle Garden and its dependent IL
stitutions the Commissioners Of Emigration
have decided to memorializs the Governor,
and place the whole subject befors him.
The Kansas Senate yesterday adopted the
House joint resolution instructing the Attor-
ney. General to bring proceedings in the SUI
preme Court against the Union and Kansas
Pacific Railroads., with view to breaking up
the consolidation of those two companies.
Thirty-four of the thirty-seven cadets sus-
pended az the Pennsylvania Military Acade-
my, Chester, Pa, for attending theatrical
performance in violation of the rules, have
been reinstated under conditions. The other
TIRES were dismissed as leaders Of the revolt.
The Commissioners OF Emigration, in their
annual report to the N.w York Legislature,
show the total arrivals in New York last year
to have bean $40. 355. of whom all were aliens
but A. 269-an excess over the previous year
of 70, III, and is larger than any previous
year.
Private advices from Vienna announce the
death there of Samuel Harlan, Jr., Presi-
dent of the Harlan & Hollingsworth Com
pany, of Wilmington, Del. lie was one of
the most prominent shipbuilders in the
country, and leaves an estate worth several
millions.
Governor Pattison sent his inaugural mes
sage to the Pennsylvania Legislature yester-
day. He recommends the enactment of a
law annuliiog unused franchises, and calls at.
tention to the fact that q credit mobiier ex-
listed on one of these floating grants of Penn
sylvauia.
The Attorney. General holds that under his
contract with the Government Captain Eads
ia obliged to kesp the entire south pass TO the
Gulf of Mexico at the stipulated depth, not
merely at the jetties, and for failing to do so
the installment due him December TIN has
been withheld.
Secretary Chandler has informed the Com.
mittee on Naval Affairs that in his Judgment
nothing at the Annapolis Academy demands
the attention of Congress. He had had no
official information Of any trouble. The
resolution of inquiry was thereupon tabled
for the present.
A young lady we'll known in society at
Washington and in the West, has renounced
the frivclities of the world and taken the
black veil of the Order of Sisters of Vista
cion. The lady ia Miss Bouscarep, a daugh.
ter Of the Chief Engineer of the Cincinnati
Southern Railway.
The North German Gazette says that before
the Government recommends the revision Of
the May lave, it must be made certain that
the peace loving Pope can overcome the iDfu-
encss which have hitherto promoted strife.
This must be demonstrated by the Pope HIM
self making advances.
A small packet was sent to Keyesner, Su-
preme Councillor at Berlin, and upon opening
it slight explosion occurred. An examine
ton showed that it contained ga internal ms
chine. KeyesBer subsequently, received an
anony nous letter, threatening him for his
seysIity in examining law students.
Specials show extremely cold weather
throughout Texas. At Dallas, Sunday morn
ing, the mercury was 80 below zero, rose to z
and above at nooo, fell TO zero at midnight,
went up to 20' Monday. but fell again. The
country is covered with snow and ice. Ali
trains are out of time, and business nearly
suspended.
The Gar has issued manifesto, giving no.
tics Of his coronation at Moscow on the 18th
of May. the manifesto i, addressed to all
Russian subjects. A ukase orders the at
tendance of ths marshals of nobility and the
prefsc.s of provincial priucipaiities. except
those OF Siberia, whose absence Is excused on
account of distance.
The Illinois Central Railroad announces
the completion of arrangements for the sale
Of through tickess from Chicago to San Fran.
cisco. tae route 80 be over its line to New
Orleans, thence to San Francisco over the
Southern Pacific. The rates will be the same
IS bV other lines though the route is 500