Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-02-28
TELEaRAPHIc BREvIrIEs.

wages from S to l21 per cent.
The British House of Lords has passed
the bill for the better prevention of the in.
PRODUCTION Of foot and mouth disease by
foreign cattle.
The Chief Inspector of Explosives as
serts that no doubt the explosion at Vic
toria Station, in London, was caused by
nitro.glycerine.
The German Socialists of Pittsburg, Pa,
have called meeting for next Sunday, to
discuss Bismarck's actions in rejecting the
Lssker resolution.
The widow of A. I. Stewart has sold
the Stewart building on Broadway and
Chambers street, New York, to Judge Hill
ton for 81, 100000
A Cabinet crisis is regarded as imminent
in France, the subject of contention being
the question of raising the salaries of pri.
mary schoolmasters.
A st. Petersburg dispatch says that a
student at the University of Kazan shot
an official of the Ekaterinburg Tribunal
Revenge was the cause.
The Magistracy of East Galicia has
unanimously petitioned the Governor of the
province to prohibit the sale of passenger
tickets for American ports.
The banks of New York have since last
Wednesday drawn So, 100, 900 in gold coin
from the Sub-Treasury, in the belief that
it is soon to leap to premium.
William 81. Haigh, of Port Hope, Ont,
passenger on the Circassian from Eng
land, was robbed on the passage of
S., 800 worth Of jewelry and other valua-
bles.
Joseph Delettolme, of the Ottawa De-
partment of the Interior, desires to join
the Greedy relief expedition. He has in.
vented gigantic aerial navigation ma
chine.
The Deutsche TagsJla6 of Berlin says
Minister Sargent has SO compromised his
Government that if the latter does not
wish further embarrassment it must dis
pense with his services.
lie Paris says that Bismarck has not
only outraged the American republic but
has defed the world. But democracy has
more serious things to think about than to
mind this insolent challenge.
Notices are posted in nine hat factories
at Reading, Pa, employing 500 hands, an
nouncing a reduction in wages OF II per
cent. The reasons given are competition
and the exorbitant duty on wool.
An effort is being made to revive the
Nicaragua canal scheme in opposition to
De Lesseps' proposed canal, and General
Rosser, of Minneapolis, Mimi, has been
offered the position of Chief Engineer.
A cablegram has been received by the
Secretary of State at Washington an
nourcing the death of Minister Hunt. The
message says he died from dropsy, super
induced by chronic Inflammation of the
liver.
President Arthur has reappointed Ho.
ratio G. Burchard Director of the Mint,
and Tuesday he was confirmed by the Sen
ate. This appointment signalizes an end
of the dispute as to affairs In the Mint at
San Francisco.
A bridge on the Grand Trunk Railway
gave way near Montreal, Tuesday, while
freight train was passing over it, precip.
itating eleven cars, loaded with general
merchandise, into the river. Several of
them were smashed into splinters.
An Ottawa, Ont, dispatch says that Sir
john Mcdonald will introduce bill to
amend the independence of Parliament
Act intended to relieve Sir Charles Tup-
per of his disability to vote, owing to
his connection with the High Commission
ership.
The new steamer San Pablo sails from
New York about the 9Th Of March. She
carries no passengers, but will be loaded
with about S, 900 bales of cotton goods for
Corea, and the remainder of her cargo is
petroleum. She takes exhibition goods to
Shanghai.
Among deaths chronicled in New York
Tuesday was that of Andrew r. Leckler,
aged &C, who was formerly actively engaged
in the fur trade, and spent many years in
the far West identified in commercial op-
erations with Kit Carson, who was a par
ticular personal friend.
The steamship Cephalonia carried
5000, 600 from New York in double eagles
yesterday, and over 100000 more was
withdrawn from the Sub. Treasury Tues
day. bringing the full amount since Febru.
airy Dist up to 50, 200, 600 in double eagles
withdrawn from circulation.
A conference of the officials of prisons
throughout the country began in New
York yesterday. The conference was got
ten up by the National Prison Association
aud several State Associations, for the pur-
pose of learning the views of officials in
regard to reforms needed in prisons and
jails.
The steamboat Glen Island, OF the Steam
Transportation Company, was run into and
sunk early yesterday morning off Robbins
Reef by the Cunard steamer Cephalonia.
Engineer Charles Feltz and Henry Green,
deck hand, were drowned. The rest OF
the crew were picked up by tug. The
body of Feltz was recovered. The Cepha-
lonia was not damaged.
The bill repeating the test oath, which
recently passed the House, has passed tha
Senate, after being modified by an amend
ment proposed by the Senate Judiciary
Committee providing that no person who
held a commission in the United States
army or navy before the war, and was
afterward engaged in military, naval or
civil service in the so-called Confederate
States, shsll be appointed to any position
in the army or navy of the United States.
The House Committee on Railways and
Canals has offered favorable reports on
Hablitzell's bill appropriating 81, 000, DOC
for the construction Of the Maryland and
Delaware ship canal; Wemple's bill, pro.
viding for an appropriation of 81, 900. DOC
annually for ten years for the permanent
improvement of the Erie canal, and to aid
in maintaining the same for the commerce
of the United States and Brentz's bill,
providing for appropriations to aid the
construction of ship canal from Union
Lake, Washington Territory, to Puget
Sound.
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