Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-05-23
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decided to adjourn over to-day-DerDy DAY.
The President has issued an order closing
all the executive departments on Decoration
Day.
Thefeeular meeting of the Southern His
torical Society has been postponed at Nash
vile till October.
A public dinner is proposed at Montreal on
Dominion Day, as a demonstration in favor
OF Canadian independence.
4 barge was driven ashore two miles above
Sarnia, Ont, Monday. on the Canadian side,
and all hands are believed to be lost.
Senator Miller leaves Washington uext
week for New York, and expects to reach
San Francisco about the middle Of June.
The Japanese Government has purchased
the man-of-war lying at London. which was
originally intended for the Chilean navy.
A hew volume by Count de Parig, a con-
tinuation of his history of the American war.
is announced to appear in eight or ten days.
In Williamsburg, an eastern district Of
Brooklyn, n. Y, Sunday school children to
the number Of about 90 090. paraded yester-
day.
Dean Bradley has made arrangements to
place the bust Of Longfellow in Westminster
Abbey, between the tombs Of Chaucer and
Dryden.
Skin.the-Goat sends from priaon in
Dublin one shilling to the Parnell fund. He
has been detected in a conspiracy to murder
convict.
A dispatch from Augusta, Ga, yesterday,
says: Overcoats and fire are comfortable.
Thermometer 56o It's feared the cotton will
be injured.
Some ATTEMPTS are in progress at New
York to make political capital out of the
80 70 tha Dft ha a
of the Potomac.
The Secretary of the Treasury has pre-
pared q series of regulations to govern the i'm
portation of sugar. and they will be promu,-
gated in day CT two.
The President and party left Washington
Yesterday afternoon for New York. 1t il not
definitely known how loug the President will
remain in New York. but it is probable that
he will be there until after Decoration Day.
The bill passed by the Provincial Legisla-
ture CT British Columbia, amending the laws
relating to gold and other minerals, except
coal, has been diBallowed by the Dominion
Government.
The President has appointed Henry W.
Lord, of Michigan, to be Register CT the
Land Office, and Abraham G. Whipple, of
Minnesota, to be Receiver of Public Moneys,
st Creeksburg, Dakota.
The statements that Archbishop Croke has
been received with distrust at the Propa.
ganda, and that possibly he might be denied
sn audience with the Pope, are stated to be
wholly at variance with truth
The Papal Propaganda has issued sup
Elemental circular to the Irish Bishops, en-
forcing the previous injunctions and contain
ing answers TO many priests who asked for
advice on matters of conscience.
I 4. Al
cotton crop is suffering greatly from tho effect
touched 3S'-the lowest ever known at this
time of year. Some localities report slight
white frost.
The New York World says: Duncan Har-
rison, brother of Maude Harrison, the
actress, pummeled George Alfred Townsend,
the well-known correspondent, Monday
night up town, for writing an insulting letter
about Maude.
Mrs. r. J. McMiilrie, of Lindenyilie.
Ashtabula county, Ohio while in a fit of
temporary insanity drowned her two children
in well and then took poison herself. There
is no hope OF her recovery. The children
were aged 2 and years.
David Todd, son of Justice Todd of the
Louisiana Supreme Court, and Joseph
Levesy, of the Mascot, fought {. duel yester-
exchange of harmless shots at fifteen PAGES,
both parties declared themselves satisfied.
On Monday the Chippewa railroad war
was settled by compromise, at Eau Claire,
Wis. The Omaha company is TO bring its
grade up to that Of tbs Central, and both Of
the companies are to build and meintsin the
crossing each paying half of the expenses.
The large hall of the Cooper Institute, New
York, was filed Monday night, on the occa-
sion of the meeting to ratify the action of the
Convention of the Irish societies in Philadel-
phia, and Of the formal organization of the
Irish National League of America in New
York.
Nashville, Tenn, is full of visitors to the
competitive drill, and the hotels are crowded.
Among the distinguished visitors are Prince
Augustin Iturbide, Of Mexico Luxe Black
burn, Governor the Governor Of Kentucky
and staff, aud Senator Butler, of South Car
DINA.
A report, which is not yet confirmed, comes
from st. Petersburg that, previous to the de-
parture of the Emperor for Moscow, an ex-
plosion occurred under a washstand and in
the fireplace in his dressing-room, bus nobody
was injured, the Emperor and Empress being
in the dining-room at the time.
Thomas Sexton, NJ. P. for Sligo, in a
speech at Dublin Monday, referring to the
.Pope's circular to the Irish clergy, urged his
hearers to avoid using words that would
postpone the reconciliation which he was
sure would soon be established on an honor
| able basis between the Vatican and the Irish
people.
The Grand Lodge of the World of the H.
dependent Order of Good Templars began it's
twenty-niDth annual session in Chicago yes.
terday morning, but engaged only in prelim-
mary work, all the delegates not having
| arrived. It is estimated that 40 delegates
will be present TO represent various Grand
Lodges.
| The two men imprisoned since Sunday
night on crib at the end OF Fulton avenue,
| Chicago, only few hundred feet from shore,
| having sought shelter there during the great
storm on the lake, were released yesterday
morning by the Gfe-ssvipg crew, after con-
| siderable exertion. Great crowds lined the
shore to witness the rescue.
An Indisn Territory special says: Bloody
| trays continue between individual members of
| the Cherokee and Creek nations, and both
are willing to engage in them on all occasions.
| The two nations, as such, try to entertain
| good feelings toward each other, but not so
with individuals. They are mercilessly hes.
| tile, from no other cause than being Creek
and Cherokee.
| A Washington special says: There is great
disaffection-it might almost be called de-
lnoralizstion-in the Internal Revenue
Bureau over the appointment of Evans. l.
seems that he represents but one faction of
the Kentucky Republicans. The members of
the other factions are led by Ely Murray,
formerly United States Marshal, and later
Governor of Utah.
The reunion of the Fifth Virginia Infantry
and Twenty-eiehih New York Volunteers
took place in New York yesterday. The
visiting regiments were escorted to Prospect
| Park by number of the G. A. r., where
| the Virginia regiment was welcomed. Captain
| Bungarden. of Virginia, presented TO the
Twenty eighth flag the Virgiuiaus captured
| from them during the Rebellion.
| The U. s. Attorney General has given his
| opinion to the Secretary of the Treasury that
under the provisions of the Act approved
March 8, 1882, no tax can be collected on the
capital and deposits of national banks since
the first day of last January, and no tax on
| the capital and deposits of State banks and
private banks since the first day of last
December.
The Governor of Soudan telegrsphs to the
| Khedive of Egypt, reporting that after the
battle Of April och the rebel forces were
pursued. Two vessels, commanded by Hicks
| Pasha and Yehick Bey, cut off their retreat
at the passage of the Nile. A majority of
| tha rafiua ahiafa ef,brnitia1 to ECvnt and