Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-07-12
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Flashes of News from all Parts OF the
World

Flashes Of News frOm all Parts OF the
World.
Egypt has refused Great Britaos offer Of medical
Adyiees from Persia state that serious fears are
fet in regard to the health OF the Shah.
The President has recognized Lamar ouinters as
Vice Consul Of Costa lhca al New Orleans
At Batavia, Java. powder magazine exploded,
and quantity Of war material was destroyed
At Tripoli, yesterday twelve soldiers were killed
by the explosion Of bomb while Il was being re-
moved.
The obsequies of the lste Archbishop Purcell
took place in Cincinnati yesterday, and were very
imposing.
Oil drillers and their fauilies numbering forty
persons, have left Bradford, Mexican county, Pa,
to bore near Newhall, Caliioraia.
At Syracuse, N Y, on Monday evening shortly
after o'clock, Lily Peabody was abdntted by her
mother, who lives in Minneapolis.
A dispatch from Beckenierd, Switzerland, SAYS
that nearly all the cultivated land in that district
las been r1i1ed by storms and landshdes
Governor Grant, of Colorado, has offered 500 re-
ward for the arrest Of each persOn cTiminaHy con-
cerned in the recent Grand county murders.
The first class fare from Portland, Or, to St Paul,
Mimi, orsr the Northern Pacific Railroad, has been
placed at 800. or more than 81 cents per mile.
dispatch from DURHAM dated the 9th inst. saysa
great battle was fought between the forces OF Cete
wayo and ohan, and that the latter chisf was cap
tured.
Between fifty and sixty messengers OF the Mutual
District Messenger Company are a st. Ike at Bos-
ton, cauaing some delay in the delivery Of their
business.
According to q London dispatch, a dunbar of uu-
successful attempts have been made 50 raile the
steamer Daphne EigbtY bodies have been thus fa-
recovered.
News has been received in Paris thas Csipa has
appointed MaikeD. kuTopeaIized diplomat, to ne
II. H. IT, .
TO Tonqun afflirs.
Francis b. Webster, Of Boston, charged with ob-
tainug 100000 from the Alta Mining Company,
pleaded not guilty and was held in 5000 bail,
which be furnished.
Captain John P. Walker, Of the Third Cavalry,
recently adjudged insane ct the Jefferson Barracks,
Mo, has beeu committed to the Government Insane
Asylum for treatment.
The funeral Of W Parker, Superintendent of
the Iewa division Of the Il mos Central Railroad
who died W. ek ago at San Jese Cal, occurred at
Dubuque, Iowa, Tuesday.
The Treasury Department the past t.o days is
sued warrants for the payment OF si4 500 coo, on
account OF the army aud navy pensions fe1 the fiscal
year ending June 30 1884.
The Commissioner of the General Land 0aice is
vigorously investigating the fTauduleuy eutries Of
Government lands, and has already returned $1,000
acres to tine public domain.
Paris dispatch says Inat Count de Chambord
passed good day yesterday but the sman amount
OF susteDanee he has been able TO take docs not
compensate for the waste Of strength
At Bridgeport, Conn., the Captain and Lieutenant
OF the Salvation army have been arrested for dis.
turbing the peace, fined and bonded not 70 parade
or hold meetings in the streets in future
Four men we're robbed by party OF tramps on =
train in Illinois, and were then compelled to jump
from the moving cars, one, Patrick Knight being
killed. The robbers were subsequently arrested.
The New York Board of Aldermen passed, over
the Mayors veto, their resolution giving skilled and
unskilled laborer5 in the employ OF the city half
holiday from the hour of noon every Saturday until
the 10Th Of September next
dispatch from quebec Gays: II J. Beenler has
signed q contract with the Lake ST. John Rsilrcad
Company TO construct the whole lire of railroad to
Lake st. John. The price 10 De paid Is between
three and four million dollars
a special from Fort Wayne, led, ssys fashionable
Summers, 8 beautiful, accomplished aad very 6ne
organist, with Tom Butte, foreman u tbe round
house OF the Fort Wayne Railroad.
Ex-Governor Edward McCook, Of Colorado, has
addressed letter TO the Secretary o. the Interior
warmly approving the stand taken by him in re.a-
ton tn the final disposition OF the Apsches, and
hops he viii be sustained By the President
4 conference, called together through the Efforts
Of the Merchants Exchange of st Louis, 10 con-
sder the practicable course 70 pursue In advo-
eating Improvements Of The Aissssippi river met
yesterday at the Southern Hotel in that city.
au agreement has been arrived at between NJ de
Lessep= and the Government Of Great Britain which
provides for new Susz canal parallel to the one
now in existence, for reduction OF canal dues and
for tue appointment Of an English Surveyor Of
Traffic.
The Treasury Depar ment at Wasbirston has
been informed Of The arrest at Port Townsend, "
T.. OF uine ch;n-nan fmnegled into cosllty,,
through British Columbia The fact has been re-
ported to the President, who Will orje- their de-
poItaton.
The Rational Convention of Commercial Travellers
began its annual session yesterday in Cleveland o.
Forty delegates were present, representing New
York, New England, Indiana, the Western and
Cleveland Associations, besides large number of
new delegates.
The sentence upon Edward Harrington, brother of
Member OF Parliament Timothy Harrington and
publisher of the Kerry Sentinel, for printing IA no.
ice inviting the people to join the Invucibles was
confirmed Tuesday, E. Harrington having appea ed
against the sentence.
A clerk in the Examiners Division OF the Pension
Bureau named j. J. Alley and Pension Agent
named j. Callmett have been arrested charged with
having violated the revised statutes in iurtherance
Of a scheme to defraud pensioners OF the United
States. Further arrests arc expected.
The Supreme Temple of Patriarchs' Circle an ad-
iunot Of the Order OF Odd Fellows uniformed
emmilitary organization, met in annual session
and eoncave in Chicago yesterday. IL is estimated
that one thousand uniformed Knights have already
arrived, and will take part in the parade this 9ftr
noon.
y r hunting OIL IL ls Salu, Will ~ ClCe order the
construction OF line from Lexington 70 Elizabeth.
town, and engineers will Immediately commence to
locate the route. The construction Of the line has
been seriously delayed by functions from property
owners, and be proposes on this account TO take
short cut.
About 200 assisted emigrants arrived in Boston
yesterday morning on the Austrian. They consist
mainly Of families, and better clad aud more
healthy than their predecessors. Most OF them have
money, and are bound for the West INQUIRIES
among them developed that none Of them were Of
the pauper class
There was an exciting scene in the French Cham
Der OF Deputies Tuesdiy evening" owing to Paul de
Cassagnae declaring, in the course o! his remarks
that the Tonquin expedition vas due 10 stock Job
bing motives. Quiet was finally restored BY the
passage of resolution excluding De Cassagnac from
the Chamber for fortnight.
The Atlantic and Gulf Coast Canal and Okeesho-
bee Land and Drainage Campeny, composed mainly
CT Philadelphia capitalists, has received from the
State Of Florida award Of 535 1856 acres Of land
located in the southern portion Of the peninsula for
reclamation. The operation 8 IN that State OF this
company has reclaimed nearly 100000 acres OF
land in Florida, and the work is still being vigor-
Ously pushed forward.
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