Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-12-27
FOREIGN.
Shocks of Earthauaie.

Shocks of Earthquake.
MADRID, December 26th--Several shocks
of earthquake were felt to-day. The shocks
were felt at Gibraltar and severely in the
southern provinces They caused great
alarm among the people of Granada. At
Malaga TWO persons were killed by the fall
ing walls.
SECOND DISPATCH.l
MADRID, December 26lh.-Manv towns
are reported suffering from the recent earth
quake. Several houses, including the tele-
graph station at Nelez province OF Malaga.
were badly injured. The terrified inhabi-
tants encamped on the outskirts of town
during the night. Many persons were in
jured at LOLA, Matrie and Albania. The
convent al Seville WAS partly destroyed.
THIRD DISPATCH.I
MADRID, December 26th. - An official
was killed at Neiez, and several persons
were killed elsewhere. AT Matrie one per
son was Aillcd and several injured The
village OF Aibanusles was nearly dei.xsxed.
The cities of Sayilie and Grenada x&A ct
much damaged.
England's Egyptian Proposals.
LONDON, December 26th.-The Neus. in
an article on the decision of the Powers to
ignore the English Egyptian proposals,
says The action was prompted by Bis
marck, who, irritated by the policy of
Gladstone, desires to overthrow the British
Cabinet. Bismarck, il is said wanted Eng
land to annex Egypt, and so enable Ger
many to pursue unhampered her present
policy OF colonization. France and Aus
tria" continues the article, would will
ingly support Bismarck, as they consider
that the attention of England in Egypt viii
put check to her schemes of annexation
elsewhere"
A Meeting of Old Inhabitants.
LoNDoN, December 26th-rhere was a
Christmas festival meeting of 1000 septua-
genarians at Leicester yesterday. Each
one received a newly y-minted half-crown.
Two hundred are over So one man is a
centenarian, and one woman is within two
months OF that time. She called herself a
game old gal" The Duchess of Mont
rose, who is almost 20, announces that she
will hereafter manage her own stud.
The Spanish Treaty.
MADRID, December 26th-The Govern
ment, it is said, will authorize Minister
Valria at Washington to give his assent to
| modification of the Spanish-American
treaty, if such action will insure the adop-
| ton of the treaty by the American Senate.
| class thirteen are admitted free to the
! United States.
Criticism from France.
PARIS, December 26th.-The Journal deS
| DebatS takes the American delegates to the
| conference at Berlin to task for proposing
| to neutralize the Congo river. 1t reioices
| that the French representatives prevented
headOption ofthe measure, and pronounces
| the oueStiOn dead and hurled
| The Powers and the Egyptian Debt.
| LoNDeS, December 26th-The French
| ambassador has returned to London from
France. He is instructed to advise Earl
| Granville TO accede to the demand of Ger
many and Russia for membership III the
Egyptian Debt Commission, and also to
| withdraw the proposal to reduce the inter
| est on the debt. Failing an agreement
| between France and England, all the
| powers except Italy viii reject the English
proposals
another Austrian Banker Kills Himself
vienna, December 26th.-Josef Zinari
| manager of the Discount Bank of Carni-
ada at Laybach a defaulter in the sum Of
10000 tlorins, killed himself in the bank
| to-day when about to be arrested
| Priest Burned to Death by Bandits.
! MADRID, December 26th.-Bandits en-.
tered a Catholic church and the house Of
the priest at Cortelos, Galicia, for the pur-
pose of pillage. Failing to get money they
| tied the priest to a bed of straw and burned
| him to death.
| 4 French Princess Dead.
| PARIS, December 2Gth.-Princess Chimay
| is dead.
Fears for Crew.
) LONDON, December 26th.-The crew OF
| the bark Holmsuand, sunk by the steamer
| Chilydra oil Eddyst0ne, it is feared are
| lost
! The Trouble at Harbor Grace.
| st. JOINS n. F., December 26th-A dis
patch from Harbor Grace states that The
| Orange demonstration passed off quietly
! The procession, composed of a thousand
| persons, passed through the principal street;
of the city unmolested
| waiting for Money.
MoETEEAL, December 26th - Genera
| Manager Van Horne, OF the Canada Pacific
! Railroad, says that arrangements for thu
| Lachine bridge are not far enough advanced
| 10 talk OF contract. Funds are wanting
! Tor this and other parts of the Canada Pa
citic, and until the bonds of the Ontario
and Quebec Railway are tioated there is NJ
| hope for the Lachine bridge or the Lool
line from Smiths Falls to Montreal
The Port of Buenos Ayres.
BUFNos AYREs, December 18th via Gal
veston(. to the terms of tht
contract for the reconstruction of the por
here at cost Of $50 .0000 600, second cana
| Will be made in the roadstead.