Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-03-28
TILEGRApHIc BREvITIEs.

The death is announced of Blower Brown,
the English pedestrian.
Mrs. Sherwood E. Stratton, mother of
the late Tom Thumb, died in New Haven
Wednesday.
During the week ending March Sth, S5l
tons of merchandise was shipped by rail
from New York to California.
In the Reichstag at Berlin yesterday the
bill appropriating 1000, 900 marks for the
construction of torpedoes was passed to a
second reading.
Augustus Schell died in New York at 3
o'clock yesterday morning. He was con.
scious till 2 A. NJ. His family was about
the bedside when he expired.
The water in the st. Lawrence river at
Montreal is rising. Cellars in the low
lying streets are partially filed. A flood
is thought to be now impending.
Francis Marco Cummins died in Goshen,
n. Y, Wednesday, aged 81. He was a
Captain in the Mexican war and raised the
first company west of the Alleghenies.
At the consistory in Rome yesterday the
Pope appointed Right Rev. F. y. Leroy
Archbishop OF New Orleans, and Right
Rev. d. Money, now at Corpus Christi,
Texas, Bishop of Mobile.
The Deutsche TageblaH of Berlin, says /:
At Bismarck's dinner in honor of the En-
peror's birthday, Bismarck greeted Sargent
with courteous bow, but shook hands
with the other diplomats.
The traction street railway bill was
killed in the New York Assembly yester-
day. 1t permitted the construction of a
large number of cable railways like those
in Chicago and San Francisco.
Henry S. Church, the defaulting Cham.
berlain of Troy, n. Y, who left Troy Feb
ruary 4th with deficiency in his account
of S75, 900, was arrested in New York city
Wednesday night, and was taken to Troy
yesterday morning.
1t is officially stated that last year at
Ermsleben, small town of Prussian- Sax
ony, 403 persons became seriously i'll and
sc died from trichina. The disease was
caused by eating raw pork, which all came
from one and the same hog.
Budd has presented a number of peti.
tons in the House from the Board of Trade
and Citizens Association of Sacramento
and the Supervisors of Yclo county, urging
an appropriation of $780, 600 for the i'm
provement OF the Sacramento and San
joaquin rivers.
There was row in the Union Club in
New York Wednesday, in which James
Livingston called Freddy Gebhardt cow
ard and liar. The latter turned away
without saying word. Livingston will
probably be suspended. There is much
talk Of Freddy's lack of "sand.
The first through train from the City of
Mexico arrived at Kansas City, Mo-, yes
terday morning over the Santa Fe The
party drove about the city, and at l o'clock
the train left for Chicago over the Chicago
and Hannibal and Chicago, Burlington and
Quincy, to arrive at Chicago at 7 o'clock
this morning.
At the Convention of the National Guard
Association in Cincinnati yesterday morn
ing the time was occupied in discussing the
militia bills now before Congress. The
| preference seemed to be for the one known
as the Slocum bill, but an amendment WAS
| suggested to make 80 instead of $50 men
the basis for appropriation.
Every member of the California delega-
ton at the Democratic caucus Tuesday in
Washington voted with the Randall men
against considering the Morrison bill.
1hey had conferred previously and reached
the conclusion that the interest of their
State demanded the defeat of the measure.
| They do not consider themselves bound by
the caucus resolution.
Wednesday afternoon five men started
from Boyd's Eddy, Pa, in small row.
boat with large circular saw to take it to
Parker for shipment. When passing over
Big Falls, near the mouth of the Clarion
river, the boat cspsized and Hamilton
| Walker, William Watson and David Fair
were drowned. The others escaped by
clinging to the boat. Walker leaves wife
and several children. Watson and Fair
were single men.
The committee of Union and Confederate
soldiers in New York has decided to hold
a mass meeting at the Cooper Union on
April Sth, in aid of Soldiers Home at the
South for soldiers Of both armies. General
Grant will preside. Among the speakers
will be Generals J. B. Gordon, J. F. Dan
iels, NJ. C. Butler, w. c. ?. Breckenridge,
from the South, and Generals Sherman,
Logan, Hancock and McMahon from the
North also Henry Ward Beecher.