Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-11-20
CO. LICENSED D1spArcHBs.
FLEET 50 Of News from all Parts OF the
World


The reported illness of General Courbet at Ton
quiz is denied.
All the prominent candidates for the Speakership
in Washington.
De Lesseps says the Panama canal will be COM
pleted in ave years.
An effort will be made by Congress to take the
trade dollar from circulation.
Issue of silver dollars last week, $685. 600, against
S940, 900 at the same time last year.
Healey is reported to be advocating in the south
of Ireland the complete pillage Of landlords.
The remains OF Mrs John Russell Young, who
died in Paris last August, are expected at New
York.
DIR. Schiiemsnn has returned to Athens in broken
health. He is unable to proceed with his excava-
tions.
An abide camp OF Peng Yulin has arrived at
Hankow TO raise 900 volunteers for service in the
| event Of war with France.
1t is reported that the forces of the False Prophet
| has surrounded the Egyptian troops under Hicks
Pasha, who is short of provisions.
The iron companies in Johnstown and Pottstown,
Pa, have announced reduction of ten per cent. in
| wages, beginning on the LIST OF December.
The German Minister of War is making tour OF
inspection of the deienses in Alsaee-Lorraine, and
has ordered an increase in the number OF guns at
| Metz.
Saint Pierre, N. F., announces furious snow
storm Friday and Saturday last, attended with
| 'No "a nv Jumps "SiS NAA'N.A ~S.-S@S
| and crews persisted.
| General Count Bumentha understood 10 be des-
/ tined for the chief command OF the German army
| in the event Of war with France, accompanies the
| Crown Prince on his visit to Spain.
The opinion prevails IN Buffalo that the schooner
| James Wade, from Detroit, on October 18th, with
the schooner e. F. Murray, went ashore near Silver
Creek and foundered with all on board.
Charles N Dewey, who absconded after many
| forgeries ana defrauding firms at Boston and in
Montreal, and was arrested at San Francisco when
about to sail for China has pleaded guilty to nine
counts for forgery
| A cable special from London says Lord Spencers
prohibition of last MONDAYS Orange and Parnellite
meeting in Dublin is bitterly denounced by the
| national press in Dublin and London as a surrender
TO the Orange faction.
By Monday or Tuesday next one of the greatest
engineering feats OF modern tImes-the first canti
lever bridge ever built in America will have
spanned the great chasm, 500 feet wide of the Nj
| agara river, above the suspension bridge.
| George G. Muuroe prominent citizen died sud
| denly in Newport, R. l., yesterday morning joy
| on receiving a verdict against the Aqueduct Bank
about ten days ago is thought to have had much to
do with his DEATH The case had been in the Courts
| since 1865.
Government officials, according to a dispatch from
Washington, think Sergeant Mason should be re-
leased because superior officers in the army whose
| offenses equally as great, though of another
nature, escaped imerited punishment Two wrongs
| make right.
| The National Cable Railway Company whose sys-
tenn Of cable transportation has been in successful
use in San Francisco and Chicago, has made prop
ostion to the Trustees of the East River Bridge to
place their cables in operation the bridge at their
| own expense.
Counsel for Martin, Brockway and Foster, in New
| York, feel confident that the accused will not be
convicted The charge is forgery in the first degree
They say that none of the bonds had been signed or
issued, hence, it is claimed the charge of forgery
cannot be sustained
| The Illinois Secretary of State has licensed the
| Chain of Rocks Bridge Company, which proposes to
| bridge the Mississippi ten miles above the big ST.
| Louis bridge. Capital stock, 100000. The pro
ject is believed to be ia the interest Of the Gould
| line and Chicago and Alton Railway.
| News from France and China is beginning to alarm
Englishmen. Heretofore it has been supposed that
the Tonquin dispute really game of bluff on
both sides. Few entertained any fear that general
war between France and China would ever occur
| 1t is now believed that war is certain.
Later accounts from Jeddah state that the Egyp.
tian soldiers fed before the enemy, despite the ef
forts forts oil othcers 70 rally them. The soldiers saw
| Commander Moncrief surrounded by insurgents and
defending himself without revolver. The Egyp-
tians lost eghtY-six men and two officers.
The Northern Pacific Railroad Company will hold
| its annual meeting In New York to-day, to take
action upon the issue of $50 600 900 in mortgage
| bonds. leading lawyer of New York has offered
to bet 81 900 that Henry Willard does not at pres
ent own share Of Oregon Transcontinental stock.
The Bsssemer Steel Works at Homestead Pa,
| closed down their rail department Saturday night
for an indefinite period. The remainder of the es-
| Enlistment will continue operations until present
orders worked off, when there will be a general
suspension, unless there is an improvement in trade.
Advices from the British fleet on the coast of
Africa state that recently $50 sailors we're sent IN
the Niger TO punish the natives at different points
that river for outrages upon explorers and trad.
ers After Smelling the town of Abaha at the head
| of the delta they assembled to Egga, large town
300 miles from the mouth of the Niger. Here they
| landed, and were at once attacked by natives A
| fierce fight ensued in which three seamen were
| killed and numb ar wounded. The attacking party
of natives driven to the bush and the sailors
| returned to the feet.