Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-12-15
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

Henri Martin, the wellknown French his.
torisn, is dead. He was born in 1910.
Colonel Harrington counted 1000 rebel
corpses at the scene of the late battle at
Suakim.
An Antwerp dispatch says that the food
in the Scheldt has subsidized. Considerable
damage was done.
The House Committee on Rules is an
uouuced ss follows The Speaker, Blackburn,
Randall, Keifer and Reed.
A. d. Howard, member of the leading law
firm at Brandon. Manitoba. has absconded
with $4,000 belonging to clients.
Two steamers were wrecked on the coast
of Holland in the recent gales. A lifebost
found three bodies aboard one of the steam
ers.
The German Crown Prince has arrived at
Barcelona, and was received at the depot with
military honors. The streets are gaily deco
rated.
Rumors are current at Cairo that Niebar
Pasha will become Premier. The Ministers
admit their inability to cope with the present
crisis.
Eli B. Clark, cashier of the cotton com.
mission house of Bebee 4 Goodwin, New
York, is defaulter to the amount of
5000.
Taylor & Frost, shoe manufacturers of
Lynn, Mass, and Joseph Mullett, wool man
facturer of East Brookfeld, have failed. Lii
abilities not stated.
General Butler, being interviewed, said
THE old ticket would be wisest for the Dem
ocrats, and Arthur is the strongest man the
Republicans could nominate"
Ex-Governor Fenton of New York was
sued Thursday by relative named T. J..
s.. Ill, II ~ H.,
paid by him on lumber contracts.
What is known as the Kankakea route is
about to be consolidated with the Louisville,
New Albany and Chicago Railroad, placing
500 miles of track under one management.
The Lord-Lieuteuant of Ireland has pro-
hibited the procession of apprentice boys
and the Nationalist demonstration, an
bounced to be held in Dublin on December
! Is h.
Ell Madhi is reported now almost without
! followers. Several tribes have returned home.
and Ell Madhi found great difficulty in organ
izino forces for DsrfOur and operating against
the Ksbalish tribes
At Dallas, Tex, the preliminary examina-
tion of Lohenstein, charged by the Texas
Pacific Railroad with huge swindle in cot
ton has been postponed for day or two.
| The reason therefor is not stated.
| Ex-Postmaster. General Thomas L. James
has been appointed by New York Court
assignee of the firm of F. Meyer & Co.,
clothiers of that city. James was required to
| furnish bonds in the sum of $50, GOO.
Distillers in Kentucky to the number Of
seventy.hve have formed an association to re-
| duce the production of whisky. The agree
ment has been signed by men representing
half the registered capacity of the State.
( NH :
connection with the murder of Fora Burns,
proves to be Thomas s. Russell, the son of
| respectable farmer in Macon county, Illinois
| He was yesterday set at liberty, and given 8
small sum of money with which to leave
town.
! The Executive Committee of the Oregon
Trsnscontinentsl Company has appointed
| Eudicott Of Boston and Fabian of New York
to examine the accounts and securities of the
company, so a statement of the condition of
the company may be made to the stock
| holders.
| The members of the Salvation Army have
! been discharged from arrest st New Haven,
! Conn. The Judge said to the army that he
did not believe they would be interfered with
in singing, parading and exhorting from the
/ steps of the old State-house, but they must
not parade the streets beating drums, etc.
! The steamer Duke, from Liverpool for
Rotterdam, was wrecked in the gale of Tues
day, and the crew of twenty-one sailors was
! drowned. The ship Albertine, from Quebec,
while being towed into the Green Rock har-
Dor, was caught in the gale, and her tow-line
parted, and the ship was driven cut of sight.
| No trace of her has been found since.
A HANOI dispatch of the 9Th instant con-
firms the report of the breaking out of rev.
olution OF Hue and the poisoning of King
Hiephema. The new King of Ansm is
named Tiephos. The Influence of anti
French mAndsrins is paramount at Hue, and
war against France has been proclaimed.
The French force in charge of Hue is not
sufficient to cope with the new danger, and
reinforcements are necessary,