Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-02-15


The ship canal bill has passed the Florida
Senate.
Meyer Magnus, the German philanthro-
pist, Is dead.
The House Tuesday agreed TO recommends a
duty OF 20 per cent on quicksilver.
The London Times publishes On unconfrm-
ed report Of Archbishop MeCabe's death.
John CIyault, Vice President of the Wa
bash road, has been stricken with apoplexy.
The Foreign Affairs Committee will prob
ably recommend the ratification of the Mexi-
can treaty.
A Bombay dispatch announces that the
Bheel insurrection is ended. Three of the
Chiefs have fed.
Mrs. Rosecrans has considerably improved.
She has recovered consciousness and Is able
to move her arms.
Baron MordeDi isnski has arranged for an
Arctic expedition this year. He will explore
the coast Of Greenland.
Twelve thousand laborers petition the Wis
consin Legislature to require distinctive
marks on State Prison goods.
The British bark Glauamera, from San
Francisco for Queenstown, foundered off
.Kinsale. The crew ware saved.
It is stated that Parnell, Sexton, and prob
ably Egan. of the Irish Land Lssgue, will
visit the United States in March.
The Dakota fraudulent land-scrip case was
postponed in the United States Court at st.
Louis yesterday, on application of counsel.
The ballot fer United States Senator in the
Michigan Legislature yesterday stood Ferry
45, Stout 10, Newton II, MinsEon u, the rest
scattering.
Frank james has teen identified as one Of
the four men who stopped ct a certain house
the night before the Winston train robbery
and murder.
| Theodore Thomas commences tour with
his orchestra April 26:h. He will visit San
| Francisco. Belle Cole and Frederick Harvey
will be solo artists.
Major A. j. Hit, formerly one of the
largest cotton buyers, died st the Aims House
in Columbia, S. c., yesterday, and was
buried in the Potter's Field.
From various parts of the country come
reports of smallpox. The last place of the
outbreak is at Frankfort, Ia. It is far less
frequent all over the West than last winter.
The House Naval Affairs Committee have
agreed to report favorable the bill to rei1n-
burse the crew of the Rodgers for property,
clothing and valusbles lost by the burning of
that steamer.
1t is stated that one firm in st. Louis has
paid the Government $40, GOO duties on goods
brought from Paris on which the customs bad
been evaded; also that other St. Louis firms
will refund heavily.
Floods have cut off sll communication
with GraysoD, KY, since Saturday. After
neys are away, and the trial of Neal and Crofts
is not progressing. The soldiers are still in
camp. Everything is quiet.
A dispatch from Cairo ssys: The report
that the Csron garrison had surrendered TO
the False Prophet is confirmed. Good Judges
consider that Obeid and other places in Sou.
dan will follow. TIE situation Is very serious.
The Secretary of the Interior has decided
that the right of the party who secures the
cancellation Of q homestead entry is purely a
personal one, belonging to the contestant
only, and does not descend to another upon
his death, but dies with him.
The President gave the fnal reception for
the season Tuesday night to the Senators and
Representatives. BE was assisted by Mrs.
McElroy and her daughter and the ladies of
the Cabinet, with the exception of Mrs. Lin
colp. The attendance was not as large as on
former occasions.
Chicago detectives have evidence which
they believe will convict Fred Langendorf a
tramp barber, OF the murder of Miss Nc
Gregor, in Ogle couaty, Saturday last, and
will show SwsrIzen, arrested 10 st. Louis, to
bs innocent. L2ngendorf is under arrest and
the evidence is very strong.
a telegraph company announces the open
ing Of wires for business from New York to
Chicago about the middle Of March. It now
reaches to Cincinnati. The rate in prices
will be below those OF any present telegraphic
service, and the company proposed to do
more work with their wires than with sixty
ordinary wires equipped with the Morse in
strument.
The following are some of the appropria-
tions in the river and haTbor bill Oakland,
| Cal, $50 600; Wilmington, Cal, $50, 600;
Yellowstone river, $40 GOO; Red river of the
| North, $4,000; entrance to Coos Bay and
harbor, Or, $40 COO; entrance to Yaquina
Bay, Or, $50, 600; mouth Of Columbia river,
Or, $780, 600. Tue last is the only appro-
priation for new work in the bill.
Republican Senators are discussing the pos
sibility Of avoiding an extra session Of the
Ssnats ct the expiration Of the present Con-
gress III MIR. Davis remains in the chair
until the 4th Of March an extra session il in.
evitsble, as the President pro tenn. must be
elected TO provide a successor to the Presi-
dent In the event of the latter's death. resig-
nation or inability. It is believed. however,
by many Senator's that Judge Davis viii re-
sign the chair few days oefore the expira-
ton OF the session il he is assured that his
successor con be elected without difficulty,
and an extra session will be averted.