Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-03-08

the punishment for murder death.
The steamer Horton, from Galveston for
Sebastopol, is aground near Gallipoi.
TIE Prince of Wales has been created
Field Marshal of the German Empire.
The Union Pacific Directors have declared
o dividend of l. per cent, payable April I'd.
Bullion was Withdrawn from the Bank Of
| England yesterday amounting to e100. 600,
for shipment.
A bill preventing the shooting of trapped
pigeons has passed to e second reading in the
| English House Of Commons by 1876 to 40.
At Cleveland, Ohio, yesterday, Wm. Lyon
shot and probably fatally wounded woman
divorcsd from him, and then killed himself.
Nathaniel -Thsyer, well-known member
of the banking. firm of John 4. ThaJer q
Bro, Boston, died in that city yesterday,
aged IS.
The premature explosion Of blast in the
Evandale (O.) coal mine last evening fatally
injured Justin Terrell and Louis Langley
miners.
Two mail bags, destined for New York an6
| Philadelphia, were stolen yesterday at the
depot in Towards, Pa. There is no clue tc
the thieves.
The $50, 600 robbery at Panama is still un.
explained. The seven Americans are yet IL.
carcerated, with apparently no evidence
against them.
All the furnaces and rolling mills, and
other works. of the Bethlehem Iron Com.
pany, at Allentown, Pa, employing 5000
men, are in full blast.
The trade between Germany and Italy is
growing SO fast that the St. GothaEd ksil'
way is running extra trains. The increase is
mostly in coal and iron.
Il is rumored in Berlin that Admiral Won.
stosch, Chief of the Ministry Of Marine, and
General Won verdi LuvsTn0is, Director and
Minister of War, are about to resign.
The valuable collection Of paintings and
plate and furniture in Wrothsm Park. En-.
| gland, the country seat of the Earl of Straf.
ford, which burned Tuesday, was saved.
a Vigilance COMMITTEES has been formed in
Montreal to prevent Illegal elections, illegal
public contracts, illegal taxation, and to &C.
lect competent men for the City Council.
The Chinese Governor, whose intrigues
| hindered the delipitatioL of the Kuloja q from.
tier, has been dismissed, and his successor has
been instructed TO expedite the delimitation.
The Malagasy ambassadors, after beipg
formally presented to President Arthur yes
terdsy, called at the State Department ane
had an informal interview with the Secretary
of State.
The will of Henry Seybert, of Philadslphis
leaves almost the entire estate to educationa
and charitable institutions. The total mum
ber of bequests is nine, and the aggregate
amount $40, 600.
The Statistical Agent of Agriculture IL
London reports that continued rains snt
foods have caused great injury to the whea
crop, and gloomy apprehensions prevail O.
the worst failure for years.
It has been ascertained that there is nj
foundation whatever for the statement ths
| Parnell intends to resign his Feat IN Psrlia
ment and proceed to America in the event o
his land reform bill being rejected.
The Directors Of the Manhattan Ches
Club have decided to send Captain George
FL. Mckenzie. a member Of the club and th,
chess champion OF America, to contest in tht
tournament in London next MONTH
Ex-senator David Davis, late presiding
officer of the Senate. was yesterday presented
in Washington with solid silver water
pitcher and goblets, as token of esteem, by
the clerks in the Office Of the Secretary of the
Senate.
j. Fl. Lund, wealthy stock man from
| Wisconsin, was shot and killed in Hubbard
City, Tex, By one Varnell who had made
improper advances to Lund's daughter at q
party. Lund had ordered VarnelI to leave
| the premises.
Statistics show that the great -four mills Of
Minneapolis and the State of Minnesota are
not producing one.third of their capacity.
| The number now running will shut down this
week, because of the scarcity of wheat and
its high price.
| It is reported in Washington that Lee, the
| colored contestant whose case was pending
when Congress adjourned, was offered Sic, 600
by the whisky lobby to permit his case to be
Withdrawn, SO that the bonded spirits bill
| might come up.
G. Z. Bevan, of the London Times staff,
and an English gentleman who is agent for
some British capitalists, have arrived at New
! York, en- route TO New Mexico, Arizona and
| California, seeking mining land and stock.
raising investments.
General Negley, of Pittsburg, President Of
| the National Union League, has called a
meeting of the Executive Committee of that
body at the Continental Hotel, Philadelphia,
on the Oath of March, for the transaction Of
important political business.
News has just been received in London
that the British steamer Gloucester City,
which left Bristol February Ssh for New
York, foundered February 23l. in latitude Al
north, longitude 81 west The crew we're
EesCueO tUu ihIuSu ab 1afESs
The funeral of Colonel Harry Gilmore took
place in Baltimore yesterday. The remsins
were inferred in London Park Cemetery. An
imposing procession of State militia and ex-
Union and Confederate soldiers accompanied
the body to the railroad depot.
The Coney Island Jockey Club, to counter
| balance the loss of the champion stallion
stakes, which was captured by Louisville,
have decided to add $40, 600 to the great East
ern handicap races, to be equally divided into
| two pnrses, for two-year and thrae-year olds.
A Washing ton special says; Senator Don
Cameron has gone to Charleston, S. c., &C.
compsnied by Surgeon-General Wales and
Senator Butler. Cameron has been in Door
health several months. He is suffering from
6stula, and Wales states that there is very
little hope for his recovery.
It is estimated by the Sixth Auditor of the
Treasury Department that the increased
work imposed upon his officials by the recent
postal legislation is sufficient TO give employ.
ment to about forty more clerks. twenty-five
clerks will be needed to do the work arising
from the new money order system alone.
A syndicate of Peoria Gill; capitalists have
purchased tract of thirteen hundred acres
Of land in Tazewell county, opposite that
city, for the purpose of establishing stock
yards, manufactures and railroad terminal
facilities. It win be known as East Peoria
A heavy vein Of coal underlies the whole
tract.
It is curious fact, that Notwithstanding
Virgins utter collapse last mouth as q
weather prophet, there is widespread in.
terest and uneasiness evidenced in the tele-
graph dispatches, especially those reaching
Washington from Canada and parts of New
England, respecting his predicted hurricane
Of the 9th.
At the Assembly inquiry into the manage.
ment of charitable institutions of the State
of New York, Miss Clarissa @. Lathrop Of
Rochester testified regarding the abuses ir
the Utica insane asylum. The asylum doc
tors vera guilty of grossly immoral conduci
toward the female patients, and cited seyera
cases told her by victims.
Walter Jones, colored man emploved ir
fashionable restaurant at Troy, N. Y. /,
backed FOR $500 TO kill $50 rats with a einT
in thirty minutes. The performance will n
attempted Saturday night ia the basement q
one Of the principal buildings in that civ
The vermin are to bs New York wharf rats
Jones will wear nothing bat shoes and tights
| The New York Sun says Paddy RYAN. i,
q letter to Jack Stiles, of this city, saws b,
would like anotheri chaDces to'facs Sullivan
in the ring. He says he was nsver better il