Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-07-20
GENERAA NEsYs.
Condensation from Special dispatches
the Reconciliation.

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the Reconciliation.
The Fifty eighth Regiment has bean or
dersd to Durham to protses British interests
in that locality.
Morgan Mcleod (colorad) was killed at
| Bstesville, Miss, for an attempted rsps or q
child years old.
The gunboat Stanley, says 4 London diz-
patch, has been ordered Into commission.
It is believed she viii be sent TO Mauri.ius.
3 naval Court OF Inquiry, TO examine iato
the difficulty between Commodore Mayo,
Commsndent Of the navy yard, and Com
mander McGlensy, assembled at Norfolk
Wednesday.
Tbs Philadelphia Produce Exchange has
| agreed to Cooperate with the Commercial
Exchange in urging upon Congress the re-
demptinu. retirement OK legaizstion OF the
trade dollar.
The cotton worm has appssred near Cal.
vert and Hesrue. and wasV Of Austin on the
railroad to San Antonio, Tex. and Is doing
much harm. It's eariy appearance causes
fear Of great damage.
8 Swain, the man arrested at Nashville,
| Tenn, fog stealing tie Ledger which was so
| important in the Polk trial, has confessed
that as took it at the ihstigation OF ex- Treas
ursr Polk; also, that he received $175 for
the deed.
Yellow fever Is unusually severe at Vera
| Cruz. There were ninety deaths in May, 26I
in June and la to dato in July. Seven peE
cant os American sesman have died. Tbs
steamship Buteshire is at Ship Island quar-
antine with elk cases Of f1ver on board. As
yet no case has appeared on shore in the
| United States.
General Charles F. Stone, Chief Engineer
Of the Florida Ship Canal, has arrived at
Jacksonville. Fla, from New York. BE
viii personally examine three routes on hich
his surveyors have pronounced the construc-
tion Of the ship canal feasible, and will re-
port TO tee Board of Directors at the meet
| Ing in August.
Attic laes meeting Of the Upper House OF
the Municipal Assembly Of So. Louis, a Teso-
luton as adopted, declaring that the Mayor
Of the city, William Ewing, las neglected
ME duty ana violated his oatG Of oftics in rot
| making lis appointments as the commancc-
msnt OF the third year of his tenn. This is
regarded % q prsliuinsry step toward i'm
peaching the Mayor.
The Egyptian Government has accepted
the offer CT England to send twelve doctors
TO tGe infected district. The wooden huts
where the cholera originated were burned
| Fifty deaths are reported in Cairo in the last
twelve hours. The cholera is raging 10 many
| villages rot mentioned in the returns. -Four
! hundred carcssses OF cattle were removed
! from the Nile and burned.
| The very few mslarisl diseases reported by
! physicians in Nsw Orleans do nos cause any
alarm. There is 10 case Of yellow fever, nor
| any case OF q suspicious nature IL the CITY
nor has there been during tae eatire warm
season this year. The death rase is small,
and ths city il 10 goud health. The Swsdi. h
bark Bertha has been detained at quaratine
station. Sac had four cases Of yellow feve.
Vast preparations ara making at Denver,
! Col, for the National Grand Army En-.
campment next week. The rich men
have been slow in contributing, and the
committee 10 few thousand dollars
short Of the original estimate, IS. 900.
Individual citizens are spending money lib
ereliy for the construction Of arches and the
decoration of buildings. Eyergreens in great
quantities will BIO used, IS they are brought
from the mountains by the railroad com.
panies without expense TO the committee or
citizeos.
Tbs correspondence between Lieutenant
General p. II. Sheridan and tie citizens of
Chicago who presented him with a residence
in Washington city, in anticipation of his
| assuming commsnd of the armies of the
United tates next fall, when General Sher-
man viii retire, was made public yesterday.
! rhs letter of presentation is signed By
| thirty one prominent citizens, including An.
son Staeer, Marshal Field, G. B. Farwell,
Joseph Medill j. d. Armour, Potter Palm
err, L. Y. Letter and T. B. Blackstone.
The letter is tribute 60 General Sheridan as
| solaier snd citizen, and expresses the very
warm personal friendship OF the donors.
General Sheridsn's letter Of acknowledgements
expresses high appreciation Of this neig hborly
evidence of regard to his choices of a home ns
Commsnder of The Department Of the Mis-
souri, and says when he assumes bis new 6u-
ties. the fact that his new home was pre-.
sented to him by his Chicago friends will be
| matter of special pleasure 10 him.