Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-05-18

lcosDKSsATIoN PROM LAST NIGHTS DIsPArcHEs.l
Count Won Moltke left Rome yesterday for
France.
Stockbridge & Elwell, brewers at Colorado
City, COL, were closed on q mortgage yester.
day.
Governor Butler, of Massachusetts, advises
negro voters to ignore party lines and support
just and tried men.
A Paris dispatch announces that Prince
Jerome Napoleon has started for England to
visit ex-Empress Eugene.
The town of Samara, Russis, has been wis.,
| tied by disastrous fire, which destroyed q
large portion of the town.
The private bank of Eugene Angel. at
Lansing, Mich, closed its doors yesterday,
there being run upon it.
! Owing to the illness Of juror George 3.
| Sheriff, no progress was made in the star
route trial at Washington yesterday.
The weekly statement Of the Bank of
| France shows an increase OF 9. 100 600 francs
in gold and Is, 600 francs in silver.
The meeting of the General Synod of TIE
Reformed Presbyterian Church Of North
America began in Philadelphia yesterday
morning.
The Paris Figaro publishes letter from
! De Lesseps stating that the Suez Canal Com
| pany propose to build the second canal across
| the Isthmus.
The Chicsgo and Rock Island Railroad
| Company has given notice OF its withdrawal
| from the Iowa pool so far as the passenger
business is concerned.
During popular fete and fireworks in a
| village near Lisbon, Portugal, Wednesday,
dynamite bomb exploded, killing four persons
and wounding twenty.
/ The United States steamship Lancaster
| has arrived at Cronstadt with the Envoys Of
the United States of America to witness the
coronation of the Gar.
The London Times says: The emigration
scheme proposed by Canadian capitalists
hangs fire because of the objections Of Glad
stone to the system of State aid.
At Jersey City the bodies of John Hurbert
and Michael Currie, two of the men killed of
the recent oil fire, have been found in the
bay, blown into the water by the explosion.
The Detroit Commandery, Knights Tenn
plar, have decided to abandon their proposed
| trip to the San Francisco Conclave, on &C.
count of being unable to muster sixty swords.
Lord Duffsrin will visit Vienna and Paris
on the way to England from Constantinople
] to exchange views with the Austrian and
French Governments on the Egyptian ques-
| ton.
It is reported from Monterey that Pans
land and Nudge, two Americans, in Jail for
| the murder of a wealthy contractor few
| days ago, were taken out and hanged by
| mob.
| Five thousand barrels Of whisky are now
at Bermuda awaiting shipment, and New
| York firms expect to ship whisky to Bermuda
at the nate of from !. 600 to 10000 barrels per
month.
| The Sultan has agreed to convoke the
Turkish Parliament, which will resemble the
Assembly of 1876, and be composed of repre-
sentstives of all religions. Il will meet in
October.
The Harrison Reduction Works at Lead
vile, Col, branch of the st. Louis Smelt-
ing and Refining Company's business, was
burned yesterday morning. LOSE, 100000
to SO. 900.
Emperor William gives consent to the re-
tirsment of many high officers Of the army.
| This, it is thought in Berlin, shows that the
| Government despairs Of passing the bill to
increase pensions.
Henry f. Watson, % years OLD, reporter
on the Boston Herald, shot and seriously
| wounded young woman named May Apple.
tor, at the boarding house, IA Ashland place,
Boston, Wednesday evening.
| Mrs. A. j. Bailey, who for two years has
| been teacher in Utah Territory, gave an ad.
| dress Wednesday evening at the First Pres
! byterian Church in New York on the progress
of Christian work among the Mormons.
The Union Pacific Railroad Company has
| applied for an injunction restraining the
Denver and Rio Grande from entering Ogden
on third rail upon tho Central Pacific
track, claiming damage to their property.
Judge Barrett, in the New York Supreme
| Court, yesterday denied the motion to dis.
miss the complaint in the anit of David Stu
art against g. 2. Huntington, to recover
| SIC, 600, alleged TO be due on certain stock.
All the reports from Beauvoir, La, report
Jefferson Davis much better and out Of i'm
mediate danger. DIR. Austin, called in con-
sultstion with the regular physician, Dr.
| Harvey, returned to New Orleans Wednes-
day.
The United States steamers Talapoosa and
| Ewing and the steamboat George Levy yes
| terday conveyed the members of the Society
of the Army of the Potomac and a number
! OF invited guests from Washington to Mt.
! Vernon.
| TIE tugboat Wilson, from Baltimore for
| the Rapahannock river, sunk yesterday. The
crew were rescued from the rigging, except
| engineer Walker, who endeavored to reach
the shore in q leaky boat, and has not since
| been seen.
Postmaster. General Gresham has issued a
general order directing Postmasters to CO.
operate with the custodisns of public build
| ings in aiding the Civil Service Commission
in ali reasonable ways in the discharge of its
| public duties.
The Denver and Rio Grande Railway, the
new trans-continental line to San Francisco
via Ogden and the Central Pacific Railway,
was completed yesterday, the last spike being
driven st Ogden, and connection made with
the Central Pacific road at that point.
News have been received at Durham that
Cetewayo, having advanced to attack Cham
and Usipepu, the latter Chiefs Joined their
forces and utterly routed Cesewsyo The
first accounts of the engagement put the loss
at 6.G00 men, but this is probably exagger-
ated.
Reyche & Bro, of New York, importers of
wild animals, expect to receive five sea ele-
chants from the California coast Saturday
They are said to be the first specimens Of this
branch of the seal family ever kept in a state
of captivity. The largest weighs over 5000
pounds.
At Canton, Tex, Tuesday, a verdict of
murder in the first degree and life sentence
in prison was rendered against Rev. Henry
Smith. Baptist minister, for killing Deputy
Sheriff Day. of Henderson county, three
years ago. in difficulty over the arrest of
Smiths brother for cattle-stealing.
Among the freight brought by the National
Line steamship Canada, which arrived at
New York from London Wednesday, were
the two original locomotives built by George
Stephenson and James Watt. The one built
by the former in 1915 is the Rocket, and is
the first locomotive that ever ran on rail
road.
Levi D. Jarrard, Postmaster at New Bruins
wick, N. Y, and ex-County Collector is
missing. Hs is short over $4,000 in his
county accounts. His bondsmen are troubled.
A Government special has been sent for to
take charge of the Postoffice, which is now in
the hands of the bondsmen. Jarrard is sup
posed to be in Canada.
At the National Deaf Mute College in
Washington yesterday memorial bust of the
late President Garfield wss unveiled with
appropriate ceremonies. The bust, which
arrived from Italy only six hours before the
unwilling, was erected by subscriptions re-
ceived from deaf mutes throughout the
United States, and cost 81. 800.
The thirteenth annual session of the Evan
pelicaI Lutheran Ministerial Association OF
Pennsylvania and adjacent States opened az
Morristowp, Pa, yesterday. with large