Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-04-17

CONDENSED FROM LAST NIGHTS DIspA1cHEsl
Siemens, the well-known English tele-
graphic engineer, hiss been knighted.
Gladstone is showing greater vigor than
ever. and is taking most active interest in
public affairs.
Judgment for 100000 has been given
against ex-Mayor De Beverse, of Long Island
City, for wrongful conversion of bonds.
Two gunboats ara cruising eff Cork, Ire
land, waiting to intercept vessel from
America having consignment of Internal
machines.
The death of Francis g. Street, one of the
proprietors of the Neg York Weckly, is an
nounoed. His estate is valued st q million
and half.
Fifteen French vessels are at Toulon ready
to load stores for the Anam expedition, in
the event of an unfavorable answer to the
ultimatum of Captain Kergarder.
Italy has informed Germany that hence.
forth no substance capable of being exploded
will bs conveyed over any italian railway in
quantities weighing over 100 pounds.
The Boston AdgeTiser thinks the time Is
near at hand when the Pacific coast will be
able to compete successfully with the South
or the entire country in the CANNED fruit
trade.
Work in the Minnesota pineries has been
practically suspended. 1t Is estimated that
the total cut Of logs on streams is above 1876.
100000 feet, or 50,000000 in excess Of any
former year.
A Meadville, Miss, special says Tom
Bailey (colored) outraged youpg negro girl.
and sitter numbering her threw her body in a
I1OpH U'ba ynoh toolr hin
hanged him.
Parnell announces that il the projectors Of
the Irish Convention, to be held in Phils-
delphia, would postpone it until autumn he
might be able to attend, and advises that the
Convention be deferred until fall.
The officers of the company which built the
dome.deck steamer Meteor say engines will
be replaced in the vessel which will guarantee
speed OF twenty-five miles an hour, and
that the vessel will be ready for sea in sixty
days.
Memorial services on the eighteenth anni-
verssry Of the death of Abraham Lincoln
were held In the catacombs of the National
Lincoln Monument at Springfield, ILL.,, SUM-
day, under the auspices Of the Lincoln Guard
of Honor.
The President of the North Chicago Rolling
Mills states that the mills will be again in
operation ia three or six months, or not st all.
They would not be started while present
prices continued -Four thousand men have
been thrown out by the stoppage of these
mills.
The American Consul at Lettanna has gone
up the Congo river to ascertain in what re-
spect the action of the Portuguese authorities
affects American interests. His destination
is Stanley Pool. The natives seem resolved
to resist the aggressions of both the French
and Portuguese.
The President of the Austrian Reichrath
has received a letter warning him that an
attempt would be made soon to destroy the
Parliament building in Vienno. The struet.
ure, IN consequence, ia now entirely sur
rounded By mounted police.
A contract has besn closed st Fort Wcrtb.
Texas, for the shipment Of Is. eco hesd Of cat
tie from tie grazing region soush cf that city
on the Gulf of Colorado and Santa Fs T. il
road &c Wichita FsllP, ia niles north. This
will require 5000 cars, or 2l5 trains of forr-
teen cars each, az total expense Of S105, 600.
Officials of the Northern Pacific are re-
sponsible for the statement that large rlaagh-
ter houses will be established at various
points in the Yellowstone country alopg the
line OF the road, with view TO the shipmsnt
OF dressed bsef to the East, and that Ey this
@AS7h1 - VIA ~ 4uHt-C Con-
tract shipment of live stock.
Professor Mezzrobt, enc OF the Leaders Of
the Irish dynamite party, has reached New
York. He detailed to reporter the man.
Fer in which the party intended TO wage
their war, and il closing be eaid they mad
England completely at their mercy, and had
given her notice that if she did not take
warning her dooia would be On her own
head.
The Chicago T,i5uae's New York special
says: jay Gould has declared to his near
friends his intention to retire from active
business life on the completion of his steam
yacht Atlanta, built for his projected tour
around the world His son, George G.,
Gould, young man of % years. is TO take
his place as speculator, and Gould himself
will lead private life.
The Treasury Department has been in
formed that quantity Of vine cuttings have
been imported into the port of New York
from China, which Custom-house officers
think are infested with phylloxara. There is
no law authorizing destruction of such i'm
portations. The Treasury Department recog.
nizes the fact that this is matter of great
importance to the vine interests of the coun-
try, and will confer with the Agricultural
Department on the subject.