Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-11-04
TELEGRAPHIC BREyITIES.

The South American Commission will leave
New York for Mexico on the 10th.
1t is announced in London that Lieutenant
Greedy is going % England to publish his book.
The report of the fall OF Khartoum and the
capture of General Gordon is regarded in Lon
don as extremely doubtful.
The receipts of wheat at Liverpool the past
week from Atlantic ports were 81 200 quarters;
from Pacific ports, none; other sources, $500
quarters.
Rev. Parker, of London a minister of the Tai
mage type, announces that he is beginning an
exposition of the whole Bible in twenty-five
volumes.
A prominent Republican from Connecticut
said to your correspondent yesterday that as the
! canvass stood Saturday night that State was for
Blaine beyond danger.
Fearing trouble the Government at Winnipeg
has directed the militia to guard the city. At
tcrney-General Miller has taken refuge i'll the
mounted police barracks.
| ALE Greenfield, English heavy weight pugilist'
who expected to meet Sullivan, issues card in
which he says he will meet Sullivan for pri-
| vate wager of 81 600 for Il four-rourd bout.
| A recent spiritualistic seance, at which Glad
stone and four ladies of the nobility were the
only spectators, has been the cause of much
chaffin London at the Premiers expense.
The Buzzard gang of outlaws raided the town
of LitiZ, in Pennsylvania, Saturday, stealing
everything they could find of value. The peo-
| pie have expressed determination to destroy
/ the gang at all hazard.
Another sensational divorce case is about to
| come before the British Courts. The petitioner
is a Lord, and one Of the correspondents is a
| Duke and the other distinguished army officer,
who is of noble lineage.
| The President LETT Washington yesterday after
noon at O'Clock for New, York, where he will
to-day cast his vote for the Republican Pres
| idential Electors. He will return to Washing
| ton Thursday or Friday.
| A Milwaukee Wis., dispatch says: AS election
day approaches both parties claim the state.
The Republicans maintain that Blaine will carry
| it by 1900, while the Democrats think it is
| theirs by from 5000 to 10000
| Bartholomew Binns, the British executioner,
| has brought his motherin-law into Court for
| stealing his watch, while his own daughter has
ments in hanging cats and dogs.
| New York dispatch gives the following
piece of important information: The pomlnick
Mccartney Combination give their first exhibit
ton at Pittsburg, then speed to the Pacific slope,
| stopping at the large western cities.
The last issue of the Troy Saturday Rerielo con-
tains an unusually savage attack on the Irish.
1t concludes with the words: ireland will
not be at peace till it has been kept in disciple
nary quiet by the Crimes Act for good fifty
years"
Delegates from Central Texas met at Waco
Saturday and projected permanent organiza-
ton of the Central Texas Stock ASSOCIATION c.
| w. White was elected President. Delegates TO
the st. Louis Stock Convention were appointed.
The association represents large and important
cattle interests.
Twenty-Five men, charged with being repeat
ers were arrested in Trenton, \. j., and sent To
the County Jail for five days. The country fol
miles around is flooded with tramps, and each
party bitterly charges the other with efforts to
colombo number of false registrations have
been discovered.
| The Republican State Central Committee has
completed poll OF Illinois. They claim, out
side of Cook county, that Blaine will have q
plurality OF from 10000 to 10000. No estimates
have been made on the vote of that county In
1880 Gartield's plurality in Illinois was &C, ZIG
| The returns of the poll by precincts show dc
cided Republican gains.
John c. New of Indiana, said Sunday night
''The State is full of Democratic reporters, but
think there is no danger in that direction, as we
are well protected You can say that we will
beat them. Notwithstanding their wholesale at
tempts at fraud. Indiana will go Republican by
10000. We are thoroughly organized and know
what we are talking about"
The funeral of Virginia Loyal Farragut
widow of Admiral Farragut, took place in New
York Yesterday from the Church of the Incarna.
ton. Among the pail bearers were d. o. Mills
Chief Justice Daily, Commodore You'd and Ad
mirals Rhind. Smith and Nicholson. Among
those present in the church were General L. <
Grant and wife, William NJ. Evarts and wife
ter.
The most certain thing about the impending
election in Massachusetts, aside from the facts
that Blaine and Logan viii sweep the State by Il
| plurality of - 600 to 5000 and that eleven oil
| the twelve Congressional districts will elect Re
publican candidates. is that the counting of tho
| woes cast will be embarrassed by about the most
| extensive and ingenious variety Of split,
scratched and pasted tickets ever thrown into a
| Massachusetts election.