Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-06-10
TELEGRAPHIC BREyIIIES.

| There is great alarm in Spain and Italy over
new encroachments of France in the Mediter-
| ranean.
Gladstone spent a week at Hawarden, and
| during the day chopped wood and took horse
back rides.
In Tyler county, ". Va. Jacob Myers was shot
and fatally wounded by John Sommers, in the
| presence of the formers wife and child.
I Five hundred thousand marks was the sum
| paid to Nine. Kolomine for releasing the Grand
| Duke of Hesse from his morganatic marriage.
Tawhiam, the Maori King who has been in
| England week. is said TO have developed an
admiration for the ballet which is almost be
| yond restraint.
The Chinese Enthusiastically TO France has
| been cancelled. The conclusion of treaty with
France has been condemned. Preparation for
defense continues
General James Watson Webb, the famous
! journalist, is dead He was son of Samuel b.
Webb. soldier of the Revolution, and was born
at Claverack. \. Y, on February s. 1902
Under the heading A Beaconsfield Beyond
| the Seas the London Pal Nal Gazette says
| Blaine's nomination is the most notable event
| for England since Lincoln was assassnated.
AT a Republican ratification meeting in Har-
| riSburg, Pa, Saturday night, General simon
| Cameron, who presided, stated that the Blaine
| Logan ticket was strong one and could not be
| beaten.
| The excess of English women is still so great
| that Lord Shaftesbury has just declared that the
greatest benefit that could be conferred on Eng
| land would be the emigration of from 1000 TO
| 5000 women
| The rouud-honse and repair shops of the Wa
BASH St Louis and Pacific, and the St Louis,
| Des Moines and Northwestern Railroads, ut Des
| Moines, burned Sunday night including nine
engines. Loss, $4,000 uninsured.
| The Boston wool market is dull, The demand
| for California has been light. Sales, SDo0J
pounds of which 800 good new Northern
| spring sold at 2la25c $1,000 spring at 19@25c,
II 900 spring at 2Oa 25c and $1,000 pounds spring
| at l5@l7c.
! Henry G. Work, the noted song writer and
| composer, died in Hartford, Conn, Sunday even
| ing of heart disease. He was the author OF
| Marching Through Georgia. " Grandfather
| Clock and Father, Dear Father, Come Home
| With Me Now
| The telegram notifying Blaine of his nomina-
| ton was filed in the Western Union telegraph
| Office in the Convention hall, Chicago at 3:31
| P. NJ. and was delivered to Mr.. Blaine at ms
| home in Augusta, Me, and posted in the London
| clubs at 3:5l, Chicago time.
| The Atlantic and Pacific Railroad announces
the opening of through California line for
| freight and passenger traffic. They have put on
| a line of steamers at the Colorado river. Sleep
| ers will commence running to the river from
| Albuquerque, n NJ, and from the west SIDE 10
all points in California.
The widow of the murdered Garfield sent the
| following dispatch to Blaine: Our household
| joins in one great thanksgiving. FROM the
quiet OF our nome we SeflQ a most earliest WISH
| that through the turbulent months TO follow,
and in the days of victory, you may be guarded
| and kept Lucretia r. Garfield
| Mr.. Dana repeats that Tilden will not accept
| the Democratic nomination. Flower and Cleve-
| land of New York are mentioned in their order
| as second choice of their State. Bayard friends
| think he stands good chance. Morrison and
| Mcdonald are spoken of as candidates for the
| second place II is also said that the Hancock
| boom is being worked.
The Chicago Tribune says: The nomination
| of Blaine is Il triumph of popular sentiment.
| This nomination will be received with acclaim
| as II long-deferred tribute to his great abilities
and eminent craftsmanship, but it has signiti-
| gance far beyond any personal consideration.
| 1t is an evidence that under the rules and prac-
| tees which govern the Republican party the
popular will ofthe party cannot be defeated.
An extraordinary sentence has been passed
| upon the semi-lunatic Weissanaeur, in Vienna.
| While patient recently in one Of the Vienna
| hospitals. he became unmanageable broke away
from his attendants, smashed Il crucltiX and
trampled upon the fragments and bitterly
| cursed the hospital officials. He was tried and
convicted on charge of blasphemy, and sen
fenced TO nine years penal servitude.
| Oscar Wilde. who was married recently, has
| written Il silly and thoroughly characteristic
letter to IL friend, in which he says he has not
been disappointed in married life. He feels
confident of his ability to sustain its labors and
anxieties and sees an opportunity in his new
relations of realizing poetical conception
which he had long entertained. He says that
| Lord BeacOnSfeld taught the Peers of England
Il new style of Oratory, and similarly he intends
to set example of the prevailing influence OF
| art in matrimOny.