Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-05-10
HOME AND ABROAD.
TILDEN WEAKENING ON HIS
"P0SETIyE DECLINATION."
The Death Penalty-Death of a "Liv-
ing Skeleton Guard MUIR
dered by ConvictS-Etc.
LsrEqAl DISPATCHES TO THE nEcOHD-uslos.l
Political Matters.

1Iltl6l NOuiu COllSSlll 10 run III CstSC VI lis
acclamatory nomination here in July, IL is
said, received that assurance. The Demo
Gratis are said to be rejoicing at the success
OF Mr. Cothrans visit, and the lroquois
and other factions are now laying the neceS-
sary wires TO keep the unterrified delegates
within the traces.
THE BLAINE MEN CONFIDENT But QUIET.
WASHINGTON, May 9th--The Blaine men
now are quiet. but declare that the noise
made against their man only proves his
strength, and is the last desperate game OF
bluff. A prominent Blaine man here says
that when the delegates get TO Chicago
nearly every State delegation Will either
have a majority Of enthusiastic Blaine men
or else a vigorous minority so that the
united efforts of those friends of Blaine
VIII give him power 10 sweep the field on
the first ballot.
THE sINEWs OF WAR.
New YORK, May 9th.-In conversation
with a well-pOsted Democratic politician
last night at the Tammany headquarters,
he made this significant statement Wen
keep up the Tilden show till we meet at
Chicago, then it Will collapse and K. =.
Flower, our live New Y orl millionaire eX-
Congressman, will be doomed right along
by the boys, and he'll be carried III with
something like a spontaneous impulse.
The Flower bari has been open for three
months, and is wide open now, and you II
see the result in Chicago ON July Sth. His
money has been scattered far and wide, bur
1t will tell when the time comes
United States Senate.
WASHINGTON, May. 9th.-Dolph intro
duced bill to provide for the construction
Of harbor at Port Oxford, on the Pacific
coast Referred.
The Chair laid before the Senate the reso-
luton Offered yesterday by Van Wyck di-
recting the Secretary of the Treasury 10
withhold patents on lands ON the Puyallup
branch OF the Northern Pacific Railway
until Congress decides the question Of the
forfeiture of such lands
The Senate then took up the Indian APP
preparation bill, and Dawes briefly recapi-
tulated its provisions. The estimates for
the year he said were s., 1866 500; the
amount Of the bill. as it came from the
House, s., 446, $50; the amendments pro-
posed amounted to S754, 413; the total re-
ported to the Senate for the Indian service
the coming year was Sc, 2l3,S02 This cX-
ceeds The Indian bill Of last year $40, l47.
The chief element of the increase, Dawes
SdlUs WIS lllC GIilOulil lO4 1iiNlitlll SA4IpOiN
The bill was considered by sections, and
progress made without debate,
except upon the appropriation for educa-
ton in Alaska. The Senate Committee had
reduced the amount from 1900, allowed
by the House, 10 $4,000.
Hawley moved 10 make the amount
$25. 600.
Plumb opposed the motion. He thought
the education of Indians was costing q
great deal too much. 1t was merely spend
ing money without any practical results.
COnger defended the Indian and the
work for their education. 1t was work,
he said, in which many noble philanthropic
men and women were engaged. and should
be encouraged He favored j generous
for it,
Pending the debate on the amendment
the Senate went into executive session, and
when the doors were reopened adjourned
TIL y o clock tomorrow.
House OF Representatives.
WASHINGTON, May 9th.-The bill grant
inc an additional pension TO the widow of
General Francis ?. Blair was passed Ut
grants her 5000 for her husband services
in organizing troops, and increases her pen
son 70 so per month";
L ilc 4lOA4>N Nt4ll lIlAb N.biA4ili4ttN' w ll4t
Whole, Cox in The Chair, on the private
.alendar
II was ordered that when the House ad-
ourns to-day it be 10 Monday, and the
speaker requested the members to assemble
in the House tomorrow, in order to attend
IN body the unwilling of the statue Of
chief Justice Marshall
The Speaker laid before the House a
from the Secretary of War
an additional appropriation
If 100000 for the relief of sufferers by
foods i'll the lower Mississippi valley Re
ierred.
a recess was taken. the evening session
10 be for the consideration Of the pension
bills.
WASHINGTON, May 9th-The House at
he evening session passed % pension bills,
and adjourned until Monday.
The Methodist Conference.
PHILADELPHIA, May 9th.-In the Meth
Ddist Conference Bishop Harris announced,
in response to the resolution adopted yes
terday, that the election of three additional
Bishops viii adequately provide for all re
1uirements. The standing Committee on
Missions reported, recommending the fix
ing of an Episcopal residence in Europe
and in India. DR. Wheeler of Erie read q
report to the effect that resident
Bishops in India and Europe are not de-
mandcd by the interest of the Church. He
moved its reference to the Committee ON
the Episcopal Church DR. Wheeler main
tanned that the resolution contemplates the
of an Episcopal residence in
Europe and India in the same way as in
Boston and San Francisco The report was
referred to the committee The Episcopacy
Committee on Judiciary reported that
under the third restrictive rule the General
Conference has the power to appoint
Bishop or superintendent for
any foreign missions, limiting his iurisdic-
ton to the same, and with the exception
that all our Bishops shall be equal in
and jurisdiction and subject to
the same assignments Of work. 1t is the
opinion Of the committee that the General
Conference has the power to fix the resi-
dence OF all Bishops in any part of the
country occupied by the Methodist Episco-
pal Church The report was adopted, with
the amendment that the words "other
than missionary Bishops be added so ii
would read all our Bishops, other than
Bishops
a Horse as a Detective.
PHILADELPHIA MAY 9th. - When the
headless body Of Frederick Stahl, pros
porous butcher, was found in Wissahickon
creek three weeks ago, there were wheel
tracks alongside the stream, which turned
away from the creek at the point where the
body was found, showing that the mutilated
corpse had undoubtedly been brought there
by the murderer in a wagon. Stahl's near
est friend and debtor, Robert DetteriC, was
committed to prison yesterday on purely
evidence to answer for the
crime To-day a novel experiment was
tried. at the suggestion of DR. Huide Ho-
per, Professor Of Veterinary Surgery at the
University Of Pennsylvania, who is firm
believer in animal instinct. Detteric's ia
Yorite horse, which has not been taken
from the stable since the owners arrest,
was harnessed 10 a light wagon and driven
to Germantown by the surgeon, Coroner
and detectives. At Germantown it was
given free rein and allowed free head
" If the horse has ever been in this crooked
road before, said DR.. Roper, " he will fol-
low the same path he has gone over before
unless directed to the contrary" There