Sacramento daily record-union., 1883-09-15
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIEs.


a number of important witnesses in the
case of O'Donnell. who killed Carey, are al
ready in London.
The Treasury Department has purchased
296. 900 ounces of fine silver for the Mints of
cisco.
Brooklyn Bridge Trustees, says that the
bridge railway will be opened to the public
on Monday morning.
General Fl. J. Hunt. commanding the De-
partment of the South, was placed upon the
retired list of the army yesterday, having
reached the Gath year of his age.
General Gresham, Leggett, Macarthur,
Belknap. Hedrick, Tuttle and Saunders are
to attend a reunion of Crocker's Iowa Bri-
gade at Cedar Rapids, on the 26th and 9th.
According to official advices from Hayti,
the towns of Bainet and Msrigot, which fell
with Jacmel into the hands of the insurgents,
have been retaken by the Government forces.
The quarter centenary of the discovery of
gold in Colorado was celebrated by the Pio-
nears at Denver Thursday. A grand banquet
was held in Jewell Park, and speeches were
made by Pioneers.
The Emperor Of Austria and King Alfonso
laid the last stone of the new Town Hall at
Vienna Thursday. The Emperor and King
Alfonso have gone to Moravia to witness the
annual military maneuvers.
General Catargi, aide-de-camp of the King
of Servia. in presenting Bismarck the Order
of the White Eagle at Gastein. expressed his
readiness to discuss the adhesion of Servia to
| the Austro- German alliance.
| At Harrisburg, Pa, yesterday, as soon az
| the journal was read in the Senate, the Re.
publicsrs, in order to carry out the action Of
the caucus to meet only on Thursday and
Friday, moved to adjourn. Carried.
A statement prepared at the Money Or.
| der Office at Washington, based upon the re-
turns for the past week from one hundred
smaller offices, shows that forty-two per
cent. of the Money Order Service was in PISS.
tai notes.
1t was stated Thursday that the Rock
| Island and Northwestern roads would make
| q cut of 81 on passenger rates between Chi
cago and Cedar Rspsds. This is under
stood to be in response to the Wabash cut to
Conncil Bluffs.
A dispatch from Paris says the general
public is regarded as more than ever bent on
peace. Should the negotiations with China
collapse, it is thought the Government will
not survive the meeting of the Chambers
twenty.four hrurs.
The prize won by the St Bernard Com
mandery at the late Conclave at San Fran.
cisco has been placed on exhibition in q
prominent Stste-street jewelers. window in
Chicago, and is attracting considerable atter-
tion and admiration.
Stockholders representing about fve-sixths
of the capital stock of the American Rapid
Telegraph Company, Thursdsy, at Hartford,
Conn.,, practically voted unanimously to
ratify the contract with the Merchants and
Bankers Telegraph Company.
The steamship New York was towed
into the cutter roads of Savannah by the
steamer Western Texas with her rud-
der disabled, with coal and part of
her cargo shifted. The deckhouse was
carried away and the cabins were badly dam
aged and the steward and water-tender washed
overheard in the gale on Sunday night.
Representatives Of sixteen of the mutual
fire insurance companies of the United States
were in session at Chicago Thursday. They
decided to decline any risks on impertectly
protected mills and factories, and to allow
those furnished with automatic sprinklers and
o reliable water supply reduction Of twenty
five per cent. from premium rates.
At the Trades. Union Congress at Birming.
ham, England, Thursday, Joseph Arch Of
fered resolution that considering the large
amount of waste land in the Kingdom which
is capable of cultivation, radical changes in
the land system of the country are required
in order that the land may be pat under pro-
ductive cultivation for the benefit of the COM
munity.
The resignation of Postmaster Rue, of
Norfolk, Va. has been received at the Post
office Department. He says he finds nothing
in the Constitution of the United States or
in the laws of Virginia preventing his hold
ing the position of Postmaster and State
Senator at one and the same time, but his
resignation was advisable in the interest of
the party whose trust he had accepted.