Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-04-18
TELEGRAPHIC BREvITIES.

The strike of factory operatives at Titschen,
Bohemia, has ended.
An English lady has offered 100000 for the res
cue of General Gordon.
sebhcr Pasha refuses to accept the post of As
sistant Governor of the Soudan.
The water in the river at Montreal has fallen
eight inches since Wednesday night.
The authorities in Cuba are aming the labor
ers and employees on the public roads.
General Badeau says he was not recalled from
Havana, but had been asked to remain.
1t is asserted the dynamite used in the London
Outrages was procured from an unauthorized
factory in France and 200 paid for it.
The funeral of Henry J. Byron, the dramatist.
occurred in London yesterday, and was attend
ed by numerous concourse OfmOurners.
Harrington and Peacock, trial at Jersey
City for conspiracy to Getraud the American
Legion of Honor, were convicted yesterday.
The Huguenot Society of America held its an
nua meeting in New York yesterday. and elect
ed John jay President for the ensuing year.
! In a regatta at Nice Wednesday the American
yacht Gitana won the race for SchOOners over
thirty tons, beating the English yacht Gladys.
Stanley proposes to reach, from the Congo
country, one of the Egyptian stations in the
Mornbutly country, on the Willemekina river
The fourteenth annual meeting of the Wo-
mems Board of Foreign Missions of the Presby
terian Church began in New York Wednesday.
The Spanish Minister Mt Washington has been
organizing of hlibuster expeditions in this coun-
try.
The British Government has decided to post
pone the contemplated reduction in telegraph
rates from one shilling to six pence per twenty
words.
It is stated in New York that Blake Brothers,
Il leading Wall street house, have taken the en-
tire Union Pacific collateral loan, amounting To
Sj,000,000
Queen Pomarc arrived in New York wednes-
Il. AttrtlT IL
to san francisco, whence she viii sail for Ia
hiti May lst.
Prime Minister Ferry, in a speech at Peri
geux, Wednesday, said the republic must have
regard for foreign opinion, especially the opin-
ion OF England anu Italy.
Parnell said Wednesday at Dublin that the
success of the League was evidenced by the
large flow of funds into the treasury, and the
number of branches reported.
During the practice of the cruise steamer
Standish of the naval academy, Wednesday, at
Annapolis, Six-pounder exploded. Neither
cadets nor vessel were injured.
The annual election Of Directors ofthe New
York Central Railroad was held Wednesday.
sherman :. Jewett of Buffalo and William Bliss
OF Boston werc the only new additions
The appointment of Prince Chun. the Chinese
EmperOrs father, to the control of the Grand
Cedncil OF the Empire, has met with great OPP
position but the Empress has oVerruled it.
Crown Prince Rudolph of Austria and his
wife, Princess Stephanie. arrived in Constanti-
nople yesterday The sultan received them at
the palace with great pomp and cordially.
\ special from Macon Ga, says that W. Land
burg, Jr. prominent merchant, was shot five
times and killed by clerk in his employ named
Danforh They quarreled over financial
transaction.
Advices from the far East state that great fire
is raging at Rangoon, the capital of British Bur
nah, and that Mandaay, the capital of Burmah
proper recently half destroyed by cOnfagra-
ton, has been afflicted with another extensive
fire.
The activity of Irish anarchists in France con-
tinued unabated. Fenian agents in Paris dur
ing the past week have received $1,000 from
America Small packages of dynamite have
been recently forwarded from France to Eng
land.
Not only has Mile. Colombier been committed
for trial in Paris ON charge of Outraging public
morals, in giving " sarah BaTnum to the press;
but so has the publisher of the book entitled
Mary Rigonnier," which was written as Il reply
to Sarah Barnum.
The police of birmingham, Eng, have made
additional discoveries in regard to the suspected
dynamite plot in which DAILY and Egan were i'm
piicated They are Withholding the details for
the present, but highly sensational disclosures
are anticipated at the examination of Egan.
Much excitement exists in New York fashion,
able circles over the rumor that the wealthy
widow of the late millionaire Louis Hammers
ley whose will is now contested has been re-
ceived recently into the Roman Catholic Church.
Her conversion is said Ia have been effected
through the eyangelizing influence of Mons.
Capel
Queen Victoria and Princess Beatrice arrived
at Darmstadt yesterday morning They were
met at the station by the Grand Duke Louis his
brother Prince Henry, and PrncesSes Victoria
and Elizabeth There were two official recep-
tions The public was excluded from the plat
form Mt the station A great throng of people
were outside. The Queen appeared to be in good
health.