Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-01-06
morning. He was firm to the last, but made
10 statement on the scaffold.
MISCELLANEOUS.

Addie Ayres has been acquitted in Kansas
City OF the murder of Jacob Bli,z. an orches.
ira leader.
Salmi Morse was yesterday asain refused
license by the Mayor of New York for bis
Passion Play.
The President has nominated Gustayus
Coward. of Illinois, to be Secretary of Iega.
tion to Japan.
Charles A. Jackson, route agent between
Peoria and Evansville, has baen arrested for
stealing registered letter.
A Port Huron Mich special SAYS that a
good vein of oil has been struck in SarDia
township at depth of 565 feet.
The Municipal Bank of Sapojok. Ru ,sia.
has failed. The liabilities are soma millions
OF roublss. Tne assets, exclusive of fueni-
ture. are 1,029. 900 roubef.
The Treasurer of the Cattle Commission
estimates that S2000,000 is necessary to
stamp ont the lung plague among cattle, and
rec ,mmends sn appropriation.
In Milwaukee, as elsewhere, pugilistic en-
counters are to be met with opposition from
the city authorities, one exhibition having
already been prohibited there.
The wife and two children of Thomas
johnson, living in Westmoreland county.
| Pennsylvania, at the foot Of the mountain.
| CAAASO oAd UuGCdtco ny a laEQ Ellu6
| Wednesday.
| Jay Gould has been elected Director of
the Des Moines and Northwestern Railroad
Company. and the road is to be pushed TO
connection with thu Northern Pacific, and
made brosdgauge.
The Director of the Mint reports gains in
metallic circulation by coinage and imports
duling the past six months of about S24 GOO.
| 0OO In United States gold coin and about
S14 500. 900 in silver coin.
The North German Gazette repro6uces. with
! approving comments, the remarks of the
Moscow Gazette, that neither on tie German
nor Russian side is there reason for COZ
fict. even in the distant future.
The Chief Engineer informs the House
that about $4,000 900 of the appropriation
will be ava liable for the improvement of
harbors, that amount being on hand at the
close OF the current fiscal year.
New Postoffces have been established as
follows Indian Cret k, Trinity county, Cal,
Daniel Smith Lake Bay, Pierce county.
W.. T., Henry friedman; and Rankin, Lewis
county, w. T., Joseph Rankin.
Peoris, H., is alarmed at the prospect of a
cable railway. Its introduction would be re.
garded as calamity, in view Of the destruc-
tion OF life which occurs in Chicago along its
lines. The ordinance is pending in the Coun-
ell
Failures for the past seven days, reported
to q. Dun & Co., number 224. In the
Eastern State, "a; Western, 72; Middle, 3S ;
Southern, AZ; Pacific, Is New York City.
! II; Csnads, l6. Compared with last week.
TINS shows an increase Of 81.
Archbishop Purcell, on Christmas day.
sent to the Catholic Telegraph in Cincinnati,
paper which is raising fund for the relief
of the Archbishop's creditors, $50 with the
remark that it was literally all he had, and
even this had been given to him as Christ.
mas gift.
A New Orleans special says: Rev. J. K.
Guthrn', rabbi of the chief synagogue here,
recently in his own psrlors united in marriage
his lovely niecs, Miss Cehen, bright Jewess
belle, to DIR. Armstrong, Protestant Chris.
tlan aud assistant surgeon of the marine
hospital tesyics of this port.
Rev. Robert McMurty. prominent Ma
son OF Dayton, o., in an interview, denies
that the reason JEFF. Davis was not pun
ished was because he was Mason. This
charge has been made by religious paper.
McMurty has letter from Davis himself re-
grettiDg that he was never initiated.
Four masked men captured, bound and
gagged four inmates of J. E. Arnold's farm
house, twenty miles from Chicago, nesr
Downer's Grove. Wednesday evening, and
securing 81 200 in cash. rode away on four
of Arnolo's horses. None were captured
An old farmland is suspected as one of the
men.