Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-02-01

At Roeisavsy Beach, L. L, the big hotel
sold for SO 0o0.
The estimated Reduction Of the public debt
for January is S13, 100000.
The report that the French ambassador at
Visnna has resigned is denied.
The carnival at Montreal closed with a
torchlight procession by snowshoe clubs.
Secretary Folger viii probably issue call
for SIS 0o0 0JO in extended flyers to-day.
State Treasurer Vincent, of Alabama, is
defaulter in the Gum of about $500, 600, and
has fed.
Toe Assembly at Albany have passed bill
reducing the fare to five cents on the New
York elevated railroads.
The House Coinage Committee yesterday
voted down the Fisher bill to suspend silver
coinage, by seven to three.
The right to give spsrrirg exhibitions will
be tested in the case Of Mace and Slsde at
New York by writ of certiorari.
Secretary Teller has decided that Porter.
field scrip can only be located upon unappro.
priated public land in state of nature.
Notwithstanding the Government prohibit
ton, 40. 600 copies of the Tags5latt sold in
Vienna Tuesday-more than the average.
The vessel sunk off Mumbleshead on the
Goth was not the Black Watch, but steamer
OF similsr tonnage, carrying crew of twenty
six.
The employees of the Pittshurg chain workr,
New Brighton, Pc, have struck against a
ten per cent reduction, and the works are
idle.
The Ausouis, large Italian steamer. has
been wrecked on the coast Of Tripoli. TWEEN.
ty Of tie crew persisted. The passengers were
saved.
The managers of the Industrial exhibition
in Ireland ask American exhibitors to con-
slider the advisabiiity of arranging special
building for their goods.
In the German Reichstag Windlhorst an
neulced, in consideration OF the Emperors
letter to the Pope, the Clerical party would
attend pending the motion against the May
laws.
At the naval school in Annapolis, Md, the
cadet officers and midshipmen have resigned
and the first and second class decline the DO.
sition. Most of the first class are under
arrest.
The Testnik newspaper of Oiesss, Russia,
says famine prevails in the Government Of
Kherzop. Several peasants have committed
suicide, to escape witnessing the misery Of
tnelr Starving IamlNeS.
Cetewayo has been reinststed King of Zulu
land. About five thousand Zulus were pres
emit at the ceremony. Many chiefs expressed
great dissatisfaction at the conditions on
which he was restored.
At Montreal, few days ago. several bodies
were stolen from st. Marie de Manor. An
attempt was made to brighten the students
into giving up the bodies, without success.
Than fria opA ~
handed over for $50 ransom.
In answer to the application of several
prominent citizens of the Pacific slope. the
Secretary of the Interior has directed that
the rule Of the Department relative to
placer locations, recently promulgated, shall
not apply to land valuable for borax or soda
deposits.
Before the Bailey Investigating Commit
tee in Washington, Douglas, ticket seller Of
the National Tbeater. testified that he had
received orders from Bailey for tickets, which
exceeded sometimes $50 Fer day, and that the
orders were turned into the Gas Company as
part payment of theater bills.
Friends Of Fitz John Porter in Washing
ton seem to have abandoned all hopes Of pass.
ing his bill 10 this Congress. Il is learned
that the opposition IL quite "a pronounced in
the House rs It was IN the Senate, and their
rules permit msny parliamentary ohssruc-
tions that there is probably no chance for II.
A crank on an engine in G. H. Ward &
Co. 8 shoe factory in Boston broke yesterday
morning, blowing out the cylinder head. The
engine supplied steam to the adjoining fac
tory Of Q. f. Porter & Co. Il will take t1o
weeks to repair the damage. Five hundred
hands in both factories sra thrown cut Of en-
ployment.
Ra,raua1tasfv, Dalrar,,E e "
informed the Secretary of the Treasury that
his report respecting frauds in the importa-
ton of Hawaiian sugar WAC based on state
ments before the House Committee on For
eign All airs, aud that unless the statements
were absolutely false they ere quite sufficient
to warrant investigation Of the sutjsc
The Michigan Grape Sugar Company, of
Dstr0it, yesterday made conditional trans.
fer of lis business aud assets to B. 1T. Howell.
Sons & Co., of New York, only creditors. TO
secure them against loss. The plant Of the
entire concern cost when started $500, 600.
aud the New York firm, which were large
stockholders, have advanced $40 900 more.
TIE accsptances for the next race for the
Llnoolnsbire handicap number 46 including
Lord Ellesmere's Wattenstein. L9rillards
Sachem and Aranza. The acceptance for the
city ard suburban stakes number 80. includ.
Sachem, Aranza and Passaic. TIE accept
ances for the great Metropolitan stakes num-
Der 10, including Iroquois.
at Worcester, Mass, franklin Pierce,
claiming to be q physician, has been held in
S.. 600 bail for granddaughter, in causing the
death of Mrs. Barna Bemis, of Oakdale He
treated hsr for internal erysipelas by bathing
her in kerosene and rolling her up in band
ages saturated with that oil. The woman was
terribly blistered and skinned alive, and died
after week OF horrible suffering.
An Ottawa Dispatch says: The Dominion
Ministry intimated that although the Soures
and Rocky Mountain Railroad charter NAV
be revised, no further land subsidies would be
granted to railroads in the Northwest. 1t is
rumored that the Depa, tmsnts of Railways
and Gables and Public Works will be united,
and new Department of Indian Affairs
created. at the coming session Of the Domin-
ion Parliament