Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-01-17

The President yesterday signed the civil
service reform bill.
There are nineteen Chinese schools il New
York and Brooklyn.
Salmi Morse goes steadily on at New Yorl;
with his preparations for the Passion Play. y
The French revenue returns fer 1882 show
jittis more than g nominal increase.
The Germsns of London have collected
"a, COO or the relief cf the distress resulting
from the f)ads.
The strike on the Caled1nian R ,ilwsy in
Scotland is extending, and traffic in West
Scotland is almost stopped.
Armistead's lax warehouses in Dundee,
Scotland, have been burned Loss, f50. 600.
Teisssrence de Bort (Rspublican) has been
elected fourth Vice. President OF the French
Senate.
A shock OF earthquake has been felt at
Carlsbad, causing two houses to fall.
At Fremont, O., yesterday, one workman
from platform seventy feet high.
The President has nominated Edward Som
mervills to be Agent of the Umatilla Indian
Agency, Oregon.
The stolen $50, 900 lest at Panama was IL
sured by Wells, Fargo x Co., and will not be
lost by the Government.
Ex-senator Dorsey has written letter re.
signing the office Of Secretary of the Repub.
liean National Committee.
Five hundred dollars has been deposited at
Chicago to back James Elliott for prizs
fight with Slade, Jem Mace's Australian.
The Chicago elevators have $40, 600 bush
els of wheat, 2.S2S,000 corn, L. 4S,O GOO oats,
$4,000 rye, 100000 barley. Grand total,
10. 46S. 900 bushels-about the same as week
ago and year ago. The grain in sight
amounts to $4,000, 900 bushels.
Ex.Empress Eugene has again written to
Rouber in regard to her gift of the Castle,
irregular. Shs wishes to know whether the
off4r will be accep.sd. If SC, deed of gift
will be drawn up.
The ica palace for the winter carnival at
Montreal is finished. The city by special
week, for the purpose of toboganiug. This
will make coasting surface down the eide OF
the me untsin over a mile long.
The star route trial is row in its sixth
week, and much more progress has been
made than in any corresponding period CT
the former trial. The Government counsel
say they feel encouraged.
The Senate yesterday confirmed John w.
Clark, Of Michigan, as Agent for the Indians
of Colorado River Agency, Arizona, and
Joshua f. Parsons, as Postmaster at Tusca-
rora, Nevada.
The City Of Para, which arrived at New
York from Aspinwall Monday, brought the
bodies of Captain Charles Curtis and wife
from San Francisco.
Mayer Frederick Roth, of the Swiss Con-
federation, who was arrested on board the
steamer Rhineland at New York, sor alleged
appropriation of the Government funds to
his own use, has been held for trial.
G. Conrad & Co., manufacturers of Bud.
weiser beer. at st. Louis, have failed, with LA
bilities slightly ever half million. The
principal creditor is the Anheussr Busch
Brewing Com any. S94 600. It is believed
the assets will be nearly half million.
Five persons vera burned to death in a
tenement house in Widgate street, London,
Monday night, and four others were injured.
At Cappagwhile, County Tipperary, Ire.
land, in an affrsy growing out of resistance
TO an eviction, the bailiffs were attacked with
pitcbforks, and many people were wounded
A number were arrested.
At the trial of the anarchists ia Lyons,
France, yesterday, most of the &C cused de.
clared themselves ready to recommends OF.
erations if free.
There are two distinct secret societies in
England. One belongs to the old Head
Center" Stephens Feniau party, which adj.
v5cates open warfare, aud the other is known
as the "Ssnate or Council Body" which ad.
vocates murder.
The Crown Prince and Crown Princess de-
clined to receive any presents on the occasion
Of their silver we i6iog at Berlin, and re-
qlested the donors to expend the money they
proposed thus using in alternating the distress
caused by the foundations.
Ling All Dive and Ting All You, China.
men, are on trial in the Criminal Court at
Chicago for the murder of fellow Oriental
named Ling Quong. It is said the murder
grew out of jealousy over mulatto girl.
The testimony is chiefly in the Chinese.
The beach from Harwich to Alderberg,
England, is sfrswr with vrecksge from the
British ship Prids Of the Ocsan, from Ham
burg for New York. A case containing
dynsmi was found by the coast guard, and
the fact that the wreckage is in exceedingly
small pieces bss led to the conf lecture that the
loss of the vessel was caused by the explosion
of dynamite.
A spring trotting circuit was formed at
Cincinnati yesterday, including Cincinnati,
Dayton. Columbus and Springfield, Ohio, and
MaYsvile, Kentucky, running from May 22i
to June 22d. It is probable that Toledo, De.
troit, jackson and East Saginaw will follow,
and possibly Louisville and Cleveland come
in. The five first named will give between
$50, 900 and $50 100 in purses.