Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-12-22
rELEGRAPHIc BREvITIEs.

The village of Venice, Switzerland, has
been burned.
The Pope has sent an autograph letter to
the Emperor of Germany.
A Hongkoug dispatch reports that the
French have captured Sontsy.
A miner named John Dolan was killed by
= snowslide near Silyerton, Col, Thursday.
The short.time system in the cotton manu-
factories Of northeast Lancashire has oegun'
Admiral Courbet has been gszetted
Grand ffioer of the French Legion OF Honor.
Ex-Secretsry Blaine attended the funeral
of James w. Bosler at Carlisle, Pa, Ihurs-
day.
Business failures for the last seven days for
the United States, 2Sl; Canada and the
provinces, AZ.
The steamship lines have reduced third
class fares from Europe to $50. There 10
war of rates.
The West Shore r ,ilroad has discharged
!. 500 lsb5rere, the severe frosts and heavy
SHOWS preventing the men from working.
The lady to whom Oscar Wilde is engaged
TO be married is Miss Constance Lloyd,
daughter of the late Horace Lloyd, z Z.
At the auction sale of the offices in the
new Produce Exchange in New York Thurs-
dav, the first choice brought a premium OF
$3.50.
Fourteen thousand cotton operatives at
Lancashire, Eng, are idle in consequence of
q strike. Half the looms at Blackburn are
stopped.
Admiral Courbet, in his official report,
states that three officers and sixty-seyen men
were killed and ten officers and seventy men
wounded before Sontay on the 18th.
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money from the Hawaiian Minister ID Wash
ington by forgery, was delivered to Wash
ington detective in Boston Thursday.
Formal notice of contest for the seat in the
House of Representative of the First North
Carolina District has been served by Poole
against Skinner, the sitting member.
The negro big Ike, who murdered young
Bruce Hunt son of Ex-Governor Hunt, at
Durango, Col, last week. was captured
Wednesday at the Southern Ute Reservation.
The British war office officially contradi cts
the report that additional regiments will be
sent to Egypt. The usual drafts are being
sent to maintain the normal strength of the
reg iments already there.
The Governor of Taxa has telegrsphed the
Khedive that there are discussions among the
rebel Egyptian tribes along the Sonakin and
Derber routes. The Hadendua tribe are
fighting among themselves.
Five of the Glasgow dynsmiters on trial in
Edinburgh were found guilty on all the
charges and sentenced to life imprisonment.
The other five were found guilty on the first
charge only, and were sentenced to seven
years penal servltude.
The Colored National Committee met in
Washington Yesterday morning and appointed
delegates to the convention to be held a.
Richmond, Va, July next. Each Congress.
sional District is allowed two delegates, and
each Territory one representative.
The Bark Bsroma, from Savannah, rescued
the chief officer from the wrecked ship Re
gens, from Philadelphia, which went to
pieces in the gale on the 4th instant. Two
of the crew died from exposure. The rest
took a boat and raft and are still missing.
Secretary Frelinghuysen. in letter to
Minister Lowell, made public yesterday,
formally concludes the long-pending discus
sion On the Clayton Bulwer treaty. He con-
tends the treaty is voidable for the reaions
already published, but expresses the opinion
that the two nations will in due time reach
satisfactory solution of the question.
The survivors from the steamship Saint
Augustine, which was burned Sunday in the
Bay of Biscsy, state that So men were on
board when the four boats pulled away. II
is feared that all were lost, as when the
steamship was last seen heavy sea was
running and the vessel was all on FIRE, and
there were no other boats.
Last year DIR. Mclean was charged with
adulterous relations with a lady patient
from Canada who sought his advice. The
publication being made in the Erening NcUs
of Detroit, DR.. McLesn sued the paper for
libel. The jury rendered verdict for $780,
600 damages. The case was appealed to the
Supreme Court, which affirmed the judgment.