Sacramento daily record-union., 1883-09-20
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World

The Secretary of the Treasury hss issued call for
fifteen millions in three per cents.
| The Board Of Presbyterian General Assembly for
aiding education is in annual convention at Chicago.
The Philadelphia Mint has been authorized to pur.
chase 1000 ounces of silver for coming dimes.
Extensive preparations are being made at Rome
for the reception Of the American Bishops at the
Vatican.
| The reunion Of the Society of the United States
Military Telegraph Corps began in Chicago yester-
| day morning.
Supervising Architect Hill has rendered his resg-
nation to Secretary Folger, 10 take effect on the ap
pointment of his successor.
| The tenth annual Convention OF the Brotherhood
of Locomotive Firemen of the United States and
| Canada is in session at Denver, Col.
William NJ Taxton, Assistant Secretary Of the
Navy under Gideon welles, died suddenly at Hart
! ford, Conn, yesterday morning Of heart disease,
| aged 81.
A battle in Ashantee resulted in the defeat. with
great slaughter of the forces OF King koffee Kali
CALI. The King fed to Coomsssie, his capital after
the engagement.
The National Association of ex.Prisoners Of the
Rebellion began its tenth IS on in Cleveland, o.,
yesterday. Deegates representing half dozen
States were present.
The Union Pacific Directors met in Chicago yes
| terday. President Dillon says the earnings from
January lst to August 3lst show little over II per
cent on the stock.
A dinner was given in London Tuesday by Henry
F. Gillig, the well known American banker, in
honor Of eX-Postmaster. General James and ex-
Mayor Grace Of New York.
At Providence, R. /, Tuesday, parade was given
complimentary to the Sovereign Grand Lodge Of
Odd Fellows. Five thousand men were in the line
and forty bands furnished the music.
At st.'Joseph, Mo-, Sexton defeated Wallace in
a cushion, carnm game Tuesday night seore, $50
to S5. Schaeffer yEnquished Sexton in balk line
game. Score Schaeffer 500, Sexton 429.
Painters employed Oh the City Hall at Mendoza,
ILL.,. found themselves stepped at the caves 10y n
swarm Of bees, who have accumulated fine stock
OF honey and won't stand any nonsense.
special from Concord n r., ssys; The Gov
ernor has decided not to sign the Southern Pacific
Railroad Company and Steamboat Ccmpany's bill,
which passed both branches OF the Legislature.
Christopher Mann, a Independence, Mo-, had the
aid of eightyfve descendants in celebrating his
hundred and ninth birthday. OF seventeen living
children one was seventy-t~o and another seven
teen.
o'Donnell, Carey's slayer. gave his name at the
Bow-street station as Patrick oDonnell (though he
is described in the charge sheet Michael 0'Don-
nell) puddler, OF Gadoure, County Donegal, Ire
land.
The English Treasury Department, in accordance
with recent acts Of Parliament, has cancelled e75,
10000 of various stock, representing portion OF
the national debt, and has issued terminabo an
nuities therefor.
The striking weavers at Ashton under Tyne, Eng,
held mass meeting yesterday at which resolution
was adopted rejecting the masters proposals, and
deciding that they will remain out another month
per ding preparations for new terms.
The p rade Of wheelmen at Springfield. Mass,
yesterday morning, was successful and brilliant
affair. 1t is estimated that the procession was
viewed by 50, 600 people. The procession was about
a mile long. almost 600 men being in line.
The International League of National Peace and
Liberty, a. Geneva, demand the naturalization of
the explore and uneXpored territories OF the Congo
river md the creation Of a permanent tribunal OF
arbitration for the settlement Of all difficulties.
The Diamond Match Company, OF Milwaukee, one
of the largest concerns of the kind in the country,
owning factories in Oshkosh and elsewhere, have
issued price list making sweeping reductions in
The wholesale price OF matches. = This reduction ia
over so per cent,
The London Times in an editorial article says it
expects great struggle between capital and labor
in the Lancashire cotton trade, as the operatives
will resist the proposed reduction Of wages which
the cotton masters consider the present condition OF
the trade makes necessary.
Specials from Montreal say: As a railway mag
nate and mining speculator of Canade, now pushing
large schemes in Paris, had notes for $4,000
maturing In Montreal yesterday, it caused great
uneasiness until the bank manager announced that
ell claims had been satlsfa ,tofily met
Survivors Of the First Army Corps of the Po-
tomac which almost decimated at the battle of
Gettysburg. will shortly pay visit to the of
Bull Run, in Virginia. for the purpose Of pointing
out to Major Stone the historian OF the corps, some
Of the places of interest at which they fought
heroically.
1t ia reported from Huancayo, Peru, that 5000
Monteneros, who had collected Izghaca for the
purpose Of sacking that city, were attacked by
small body Of men belonging to the Peruvian forces
After quarter Of an hours fighting the Monteneros
were defeated, with loss of 200 men. TIE Depart
ment Of lea is in an entirely tranquil state.
The French shipping schooner Mercury, which
rived at St. Pierre, n. F., Tuesday night, from
Grand Banks, picked up the 18th inst. two New
fouudland fishermen, Walsh and Matthews, in
dory, they having been six DAYS adrift without food
or water. They became delirious, and Walsh opened
hs veins and sucked his blood to quench his terrible
thirst. They were so helpless that they had TO be
hoisted aboard the vessel with q rope.
The assessed valuation Of Albert Bierstadt's es-
tate at Iryington, New York. in 1882 before the fire
that d strOyed the house, was $4 500. Tax bills
were not made. out until after the fire, hut were
made out on the basis of 524 800. The property
without the house il valued at 5 0.000. BierEtadt
thinks it unfair to him for the value of the
house that has been destroyed, and refuses 30 pay
the tax. The Supervisors have advertised the prep
eTty for sale.