Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-09-06
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Forest fires are raging throughout eastern
and northern Maine.
Clifford Lloyd has been appointed Munster
Of Returns for India.
Pere Hyscinthe goes to America shortly
on lecturing tour, says London dispatch.
Prince George Of Wales is the guest of the
Governor-General and Princess Louise ct
Quebec.
Mrs. General Robert Toombs died Tuesday
at Clarkesville, Ga, her summer residence,
Of paralysis.
Considerable anxiety is felt in Boston and
Cambridge concerning the water supply,
owing to the drought
The steamer Mont Seaton. from Shields for
New Orleans, has been lowed into Plymouth.
She lost her propeller.
The President was at McVicker's Theater,
Chicago, Tuesday night, and was the recip-
lent of costly floral tribute.
Minister Lowell, at Taunton, England,
Tuesday, unveiled the bust of Henry Field
Jag, the drsmatist and novelist.
There was heavy frost in Hudson river
valley Tuesday morning. The harvest ID
ended and the damage amounts to little.
The Democrats of the Pennsylvania Legis.
lsture have decided to remain in session until
the mandates Of the Constitution are carried
out.
Prof. Marley. electrician to the Electric
International Telegraph Company, which
laid the first cable across the Atlantic ocean,
is dead.
Prince Alexander has issued a manifesto,
announcing that he has decided to appoint a
Commission to draft q new constitution for
Bulgaria.
Three bakers who were arrested at Cork,
charged with having arms and explosives con.
cealed on their premises, were discharged for
want of evidence.
Edgar Talbott, prominently mentioned as
Republican candidate for Governor of
Massachusetts, declines positively to allow
the use Of his name.
Fitzgerald, the well known long-distance
pedestrian, was Tuesday night appointed a
member of the Board of Aldermen of Long
Island City, to fill a vacancy.
John Sheridan Murphy, Of Pittsburg, has
been sentenced to ten years. imprisonment for
breaking a window in a jewelry store in
Paris and stealing valuable necklace.
Professor Austin Phelps is reported dan.
gerously ill at Bar Hsrbor, the result of the
L
yer, who accidentally killed himself in the
woods.
The Moscow Gazette deprecates an alliance
between Russia and France. 1t asks why
Russia should seek an alliance with Gov
eminent the existence of which is not certain
for single day.
Orders have been issued from the office of
the Surgeon. General of the Marine Hospital
TO the Board of Health of Pensacola, Fla,
directing the discontinuance Of house inspec.
ton at that place.
Advices from the Pratt mines, Alabama,
where convicts work, say that two white con-
victs were killed and two negro convicts
badly injured by the explosion on Saturday
of several cans Of powder.
The London police are in possession of
facts which point to the renewal of Fenian
activity. In that city ell noted rendezvous
of prominent Irish agitstors have again been
placed under strict police surveillance.
The French Cabinet have decided that
| upon his arrival at Paris the Marquis Using,
Chinese ambassador, shall be arrested, and
asked to explain the reason for the movement
of Chinese troops to the Tonquin frontier.
The Philadelphia Ledgsr''s estimates as to
the wheat crop are now gravitating toward
400, COO 600 bushels. Conservative parties
figure thus, who have been gradually drop.
ping their estimates from 450, 900, 000 bushels.
The Paris Figaro'S correspondent at Cor.
litz says that after the funeral of the Comte
de Chambord, the Project of Gorlifz informed
Lucien Brun that the Austrian Government
had ordered the dispersal of political meet.
ings.
Secretary Chandler has notified the Secre
tary of the Foreign Expedition at Boston
that the Government steamer Tallapoosa il
at the service of the Association, for the use
of foreign visitors and representatives to the
Worlds Fair.
At banquet given to United States Min
isters Morton and Sargent, Wednesday, al
Lyons, France. several present expressed the
wish that the United States would adopt the
principles of free trade, and conclude q
treaty of commerce with France on thai
basis.
a Hongkong special states that the report
ed crossing of the Tonquin frontier by Chi
nese troops is as yet premature. Hostilitiei
were. however, considered at Hongkong al
certain TO ensue, unless the French Govern
ment fully recognizes the supremacy Of
China
It has developed that the railroad survey
being made across Wyoming to Yellowstone
Park, beginning at Fort Washable, is con
tracted for by John r. Boutwell,, of New
York. 1t is not known who his hackers
are, but it is reported that London syn.
dictate is behind him. II is also said he i:
interested with the Union or Central Pacific
A Washington correspondent telegraphs
as follows "The index to the Interior De
partment files showed that in 1873 G. P
Huntington, of the Central Pacific, fled g
letter sharply attacking the Texas Pacific
grant, but the letter could not be found in the
files. It has been found. 1t had been mis-
laid and could not be found until the return
of a file clerk"
De Molsy Commandery was given genu
inc ovation by the people of Louisville Tues
day evening. ALI the Masonic societies were
at the depot to meet them, and the process
sion marched to the Exposition grounds
where an elaborate programme, including q
banquet and grand display of fireworks,
was carried out. Over 5000 people were al
the Exposition during the night
In the Massachusetts Supreme Court yes
terdsv decision was rendered in the suit Of
the Union Pacific Railroad Company vs. The
Credit Mobilier of America--arisine out Of
the building CT the road by the Credit Mobi
lier, the former prosecuting the suit at law fol
81, 500. 600 due, claiming fraud in the fulfill
ment Of the contract. A full bench decides
that there was no constructive fraud, and en-
ters judgment against the road.