Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-09-04
TELEGRAPHIC BREYITIES.


Count Limburg Stirium, the Dutch Min
lister of State, is dead
Vessels from the Mediterranean are sub
iected to quarantine at Portuguese ports.
The German squadron at HongkOng has
been reinforced by the corvette Elizabeth
As the Wolseley expedition advances up
the Nile the hostile tribes disperse and flee
the country.
Bishop Pierce, senior Bishop of the NJ,
E. Church South, died at Augusta, Ga,
yesterday morning.
| The survivors Of the Greedy relief cxpe-
| dition seriously disagree in regard to the
| incidents of the trip.
The members of the committee to notify
Tilden of the Chicago resolutions performed
their duty yesterday.
The Transcontinental Association adj
iourned at Saratoga yesterday, to meet at
| Chicago on September 10Th
| The Wisconsin Republicans, i'll State
| Convention assembled, renominated the
| presentState officers by reclamation.
The French ironclad La Galissonaire ar
rived at Hongkong Wednesday night to
protect the French merchant vessels.
| In the Belgium Chamber of Deputies yes
| ;erClay. a bill imposing surtax on foreign
sugar until January, 1885, was adopted-53
to 10.
The exhumation of the body of private
| Henry. OF the Greedy expedition, will not
| take place unless ordered by the War De
partment.
A Russian corvette seized the American
| schooner Sophia Johnson at Behring's
Island, Behring's Sea, for illicitly selling
rum to natives.
The Knit Goods Manufacturers Associa-
| ton at Saratoga Tuesday discussed matters
relative to the Association. y. s BOngee
was chosen President.
! 1t is reported that General Wolseley has
offered Henry NJ. Stanley 4 position on his
staff Stanley has asked permission Of the
| King of Belgium 10 accept
General NIillOt, who has had command
of the French troops in Tonquin, will en-
bark for France on the Did inst. His sue
cessor is yet to be appointed
Andrew jackson was thrown under a
train near MechaniCsville, y. y. by enc
mics, and had both legs cut off. He lived
one hour after being discovered.
\ detective who went to Lewis county,
| Tennessee, to investigate the recent Nor
mon massacre, was given the alternative OF
" skipping OF be hanged. He skipped,
Nine. Patti writes that her appearance in
| Paris in opera October 25th is contingent
upon the favorable settlement Of her dl-
vorce proceedings against the Marquis de
CauX.
The arrival of the Car at Warsaw has
been postponed TO September 5th Five
hundred more policemen have arrived.
Official circles positively assert that the
three Emperors will meet at Skinniyic.
Attachments amounting to $4,000 have
been taken out against the Bankers and
Merchants Telegraph Company in the va
rious Courts at Chicago by contractors to
whom the company is indebted for worl,
done.
The New York Posts financial article
says The prospects for larger corn crop
than the average is daily increasing. 1t is
also believed that the Transcontinental
Association will Yet agree ON some kind OF
amicable arrangements.
\ paper was read before the Geographic
cal Section Of the British Association for
the Advancement of Science at Montreal,
Tuesday, written by Lieutenant Greedy, be
ing u review Of the work OF the Lady
Franklin Bay Expedition.
The New York Sun declares that Con-
necticut, by the nomination of Waller, is
hopelessly lost TO the Democrats, and the
same is true Of New Jersey, as the belief is
that Cleveland is in sympathy with Carlisle
and Morrison on the tariff question.
Within few days Conkling is reported
to have substantially said to 4 personal
friend; " If Cleveland was 4 good enough
man for BlaincS friends to make Governor
of. New York, perhaps some Republicans
may think he is a good man Tor Presi-
dent"
At Sharon, Pa. Wednesday evening,
while six men were blasting huge piece
of iron in the bottom of a furnace, the
blast of giant powder was prematurely ex
ploded by spark of fire from the ham
mer. One man was injured fatally and
four more seriously burnt.
On the arrival Of the Pacific Mail steam
ship Colon at quarantine, New York, Frank
Frinscea, exchange clerk in the First Ma
tional Bank of Portland, who was a pas
senger, was arrested. He Is charged with
stealing from the bank 81 900 deposited by
the Northern Pacific Railroad.
\ Washington special speaks hopefully
of the prospects Of d syndicate which pro
poses buying cable between California
and Queensland, communicating between
and through Hawaii, Maui, Malokoi and
kunai. The Hawaiian Legislature has
probably granted $4,000 annual subsidy.
The paper manufacturers and importers
, of Boston and New England are indignant
at the action Of the United States Govern
ment in prohibiting for three months the
unloading of imported rags. Representa-
, tives have been appointed to 90 to Wash
iugton 10 obtain a modification of the
order
Two hundred men and boys surrounded
the Salvation Army Barracks at Paris
Ont, Monday night. for the purpose OF
rotten-cgging General Anterior. Some
members of the Army who yentured ont
were greeted with a shower Of these mis-
,ilcs and beat 4 hasty retreat. The Army
was kept imprisoned until 2A.N. Ather-
tons reported relations with the female
members of the Army caused the trouble
MERCHANDISE REPORT.