Sacramento daily record-union., 1883-10-19
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Daniel B,isboise, Cashier of the Missouri
Pacific Railroad at Sc. Joseph, committed
suicide Wednesday by taking opium or NOR
phine.
For the second time William H. Wander
bils nearly lost his life Wednesday at Fleet
wood Park through his ignorance of race
track rules.
The Exchange Bank at Montreal stopped
payment of bills Wednesday, having run out
Of gold. The Manager says the bank will
rtsIme next week.
Rough characters assemble nightly outside
the hall in Cork where Moody's meetings are
held. All attempts to interfere with the serv-
ices are prevented by the police.
OF the signatures appended to the mani
festo purporting to be Issued by the Radicals
in answer to Premier Ferry's recent speech,
seventeen have been proved to be fo-geries.
The French Minister of Finance hss ob-
tanned in the budget of the Minister of Pub
lie Works reduction Of 10 000,0 900 francs,
needed for the deficit in the budget for 1884.
A vast concourse of people assisted at the
laying of the corner stone by the Gar and
Czarina Of the new church to be erected in
st. Petersburg over the spot where Alexan-
Ger II. was killed,
Sugar re6ners in Canada ask the Govern-
ment to give them q drawback on refined
sugar exporeed equal to the amount OF duty
paid on raw sugar imported. The Govern
ment is ccnsideriug the matter.
Tne trial at ST. Petersburg of sixty-tbree
members Of the Nihilist Redress Socisty has
been concluded. AL were sentenced to be
sent to Siberia. The testimony Of informers
and others proved the Society had ramifca-
finUa in avar1y MARI Of tha aTuDre
Among the villages destroyed by the earth.
quake in the Grecian Archipelago and 0rO-
tolia we:e K2topanoys. Refs, Dere and Lidja.
The last-named is celebrated for its baths.
Slight shocks are still felt on the Island of
Scio. The British Admiral sent assistance 20
| Chesme snd Scio.
TIE Army of Tennessee reasssmbled in
Cleveland at half-past 10 yesterday morning.
General Sherman was reelected President,
The reunion next year will be held st Min
neapolis, MINI. General Grant was elected
orator for next year, amid long and fervens
applause.
Chihuahua alone tor the calendar year will
yield nearly $50. 900, 600 in bullion, more by
nearly S., ,000, 900 than the whole Republic
has averaged during The last sixty years.
The yield of Mexico for the year approxi-
mates $50, 600, 900. So much for American
enterprise.
A Washington special of the 18th says :
Secretary Teller said to-day that any reports
that the President had indicated desire TO
have the application Of the Southern Pacific
Railway Company for tie Texas Pacific land
grant referred to the Attorney General were
without foundation.
Controller Knox finds that the cau for
81, 800 600 three-psr-csng. bonds would take
at least 81, GOO 900 deposits for circulation by
ninety.six banks, and perhaps $4,000 900,
which would compel the retirement OF 50, 900, :
0G0 of National Bank currency, unless other
securities could be obtained.
The bark ST. James, launched ct Bsth, Me-,
for the Pacific trade, now loading fox San
Francisco, Is 237 feet long, Al feet beam, and
her timbers are strong enough fer ship of
2,0C0 tons. OalY two tsrks af)at are as
large as The s.. James. Her Captain is NJ.
3. Cook, of Friendship, Maine.
During the performance Wednesday night
at Mckee Rankin's theater in Third avenue.
New York, the electric Lights went out, and
some person in the audience called fire. A
rush was Immediately made for the exits, but
before there was any crowdipg the light was
turned on. Nobody was hurt.
One hundred and fifty Anamese convicts,
who we're erecting lighthouse on the Island
of Poalo Condor, murinied and murdered a
Frenchman. the native warden and seriously
wounded another Frerchman. Sixty convicts
seizsd arms and stores and escaped in boats.
Others fed to the woods and hills.
1t has been decided by the members of the
Milwaukee Musical Society that the lack of
hotel facilities will necessitste tho postpone
meut of the National SaDgerfest. to have
been held in Milwaukee in 1885. The prob
ability is that the meeting will take place in
1886. Chicago has promised a chorus Of
1000 voices, and San Francisco, which never
has been represented, promises large dele
cation.
N. W. Fitzgerald, Washington Pension
Claim Agent lately arraigned and fined in
the Police Court for sn assault, has brought
libel suit against the Cincinnati CONNER.
ciaI Gazette Company and its Washington
correspondent, II. V. Boynton, for S100,00
and another against the St. Louis Glo5e-
Democrat and its Washington correspondent,
c. f. Murray, for $50. coo, for publications
which he claims to have damaged his charac-
ter and business.
George B. Alley died IN New York on
Wednesday, aged 81 Three years ago be
picked out from Charley Bleekman's stock
farm as Stanford, Conn, S42, 900 worth of
yearlings for Ex-Governor Stanford, Of Cal.
ifornia. The sale was the largest of the
kind that ever took place in this country.
Alley discovered the famous Dexter when he
was yearling colt, and paid $3.50 for him.
He oHne] him eight years, during which
time he trotted fifty matches, losing only
two of them. He sold Dsxter at auction on
the Union course on Long Island.