Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-04-28
cate, were not the considerations which con-
tiolled the selection of Chief Examiners.

sioicu Ido seiecti0u OF OnlcI IXanluers.
Railroad Cases in the Interior Depart
ment.
| WASHINGTON, April 27th.-The Secretary
OF the Interior will tomorrow hear evidence
in the case of the Choctaw and Chickassw
Indians vs.. the Missouri, Kansas and Texas
Railway Company. The Indisn', through
| their attorneys, maintain that in the con.
struction of this road timber was taken from
their reservation, for which t. ley received no
compensation.
Counsel for the Central Pacific Railroad
| Company to-day filed with the Secretary of
the Interior brief, in which he appeals from
the refusal of the Commissioner Of the General
Land Office to proceed with the patenting of
lands to the Central Pacific Railroad Com
| pany. as successor of the California and Ore
gon Railroad Company of California The
question involved in this appeal relates to the
construction to be given to the Act Of July
70, 1866. Counsel for the railroad comp my
maintain that the forfeiture section of this
Acs does not differ in its legal effect from the
flrtelture clauses of other land grant Acts,
which have already been adjudicRted by the
department and the United States Supreme
Court.
Death OF a Well-Kn0wn Clergyman.
CINCINNATI, April 27th.-Rev. DR.. G. B.
Boynton, aged ", died this morning at the
residence of his daughter, Mrs H. II. Lock-
wood, In this city. His sons. General II. V.
BoyntoD, of Washington, newspaper CORE
sDondens and G. A. Boynton, Washington
correspondent of the Associated Press, were
at his bedside. The deceased served as pastor
of Vine Street Congregational Church, in this
city, for twenty-five years. He also preached
in Eastern churches. and served two terms as
Chaplain of the House of Representatives in
Washington, beginning in 1865. The funeral
will take place on Sunday.
The Proposed Peace Congress.
WASHINGTON, April 27th.-The forthcom-
ing volume of diplomatic correspondence,
nov nearly ready for public distribution,
shows that the Invitation of the United
States for Peace Congress of all nations in
North and South America, was accepted
very promptly by nearly every Government
to which il was sent. There was none of the
diplomatic delay usually attending important
propositions.
The Mississippi Cyclone.
New ORLEANS, April 27tb.-A Wesson
special says: The total deaths to date in
Bsauregard and Wesson number 4o The
Red Cross Society is doing good service. II
has received so far about 81, 600, and con-
tiibutions are being received from other
showing the force of the storm, the solid iron
screw of cotton-press, weighing 675 pounds,
was carried BY cyclone 800 yards, and a
piece Of scantling three by four inches and
ten feet long, was driven through red oak
sapling. Much distress is reported in the
country not yet reached by the relief COM
mittees.
Hanged for Murder.
ELIzaBETHTowN IN. W, April 27sh.-
Henry Desbasny was hanged to-day for the
murder of his wife, near Essex, August 1,
1882 While standing upon the scsffold he
was in view Of 1000 people gathered outside
the Jail yard. He protested his innocence.
Dssbasny yesterday sold his body to ply
sicians for 800. and it was duly delivered to-
day. This morning be inspected the scaffold
and examined the rop',, suggesting that the
latter be soaped.
More High License.
| DEs MONIES Ia.), April 27th.-The City
Council to-day fixed saloon licenses at 81, 600
year. -Four members OF the Council sb-
sented themselves, but the ordinance was le-
gally passed.
Stolen Money Returning to Its Owner.
New YORK, April 27th.-Bourgeous, an
officer of the judiciary police of Brussels,
will sail for Belgium on the Belgeland to-
| IuOffOW. ne Will Jake Will 0lu upward OF
| 81, 600, 900, being part of the funds of the
diocese of Tournay, with which Canon B ar
nard ran away about three years ago.
Minister sargenfs Course Indorsed.
iTEw York, April 27sh.-So far as heard
from, Eastern journals generally indorse Sar-
gents criticism of the German policy regard.
ing American pork.
Food for Indians.
WASHINGTON, April 27th.-Indlan Agent
| Cramsit, at Fort Totten, Montana, telegraphs
| the Commissioner of Indian Affairs that he
has notified the Turtle Mountain Indians to
come there and receive supplies. These are
the Indians recently reported as being In a
| among them 5000 pounds Of four and 2, 400
pounds of pork.
The Star Route Trial..
WASHINGTON, April 27th.-In the star
roate case to-day, Kerr finished his review Of
the evidence in the Bismarck. Tongue river
route, and after thanking the jury for their
patient attention, began general summing
up of points which 10 his opinion had been
established by the evidence submitted in the
case, taken as a whole. Adjourned until
Monday.
| Advance Granted.
New York, April 27th.-The principal
cigar manufactures have conceded the 50 ad-
vance per thousand asked by the werkmen.
The manufacturers assert that within short
time the men, finding the Havana competi-
tion ruinous to the business, will voluntarily
relinquish the Increase.