Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-02-19
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

Bradlaughs election contest at North
ampton is to be decided to-day.
Mrs. John L. Virgins, of Rome, n. y,
committed suicide Sunday at Rochester
1t is now stated that there are little or
no chances of the Mexican treaty being
ratified.
General Booth, of the Salvation Army,
has been held guilty at London of decep.
tion and untruthfulness.
The latest advices report the rebellion
against the Turks in Yemen, the south.
western division of Arabia, as spreading.
The railroad coal miners at Scott Ha.
ven, Pa, struck against a reduction on
Saturday night, and the mines were shut
down.
Fifty young and good-looking women
have sailed from France for New Gale
donia to be married to ell.conducted con.
victs.
The State Commission estimate that :, 500
people and 626 entire families are destitute
in twelve up.river towns in Ohio and West
Virginia.
The Duke of Marlborough has added to
his unpopularity by announcing the sale of
his pictures, which have been for two cen.
turies in the family.
S. j. Cohn, jeweler at Winnipeg, has
been arrested for smuggling dutiable goods
to the amount of $4,000. They were
found in his possession.
The coffin containing the body of Mrs.
Emma Uhler was on Sunday taken to the
Lutheran Cemetery, Long Island, where
it was placed in vault
Walter Wilson, the runaway Montreal
bridegroom, claims thaG everything has
been satisfactorily arranged between him
self and Miss McDougald's friends.
The French Government has called
the attention of the English Cabinet to
the danger of an uprising and massacre
at Cairo if the English garrison is weak.
ened.
The new proposal of the French Govern
ment in regard to American bacon pro-
viGes for It's inspection at ports of entry, at
the expense of the Government. The ex.
pense will be covered by charge OF p
confines per box.
The Stanislaus River Mining and Tunnel
Company was incorporated under the laws
of Illinois at Chicago yesterday, to mine
the gravel bed of the Stanislaus river in
California, and to change the rivers course.
Capital, $1,000, 900.
Grant will leave New y ork for Norfolk,
Va, toward the end OF the week if the
weather does not become more CHEEKY. He
has been suffering with rheumatism, which
has been aggravated by the general damp
ness. He is much depressed in spirits.
The latest news about Tennyson is that
he cannot take his place in the House of
Lords, his peers robes having gone astray,
and it has been suggested that he should
appear in the wide. awake hat and antique
cloak, which he has worn with so much
effect.
A sudden increase of activity is mani
tested by the French Ministry of Marine.
Vice-Admiral Jaueres, commander of the
French fleet in the Mediterranean, has been
summoned to Paris for consultation. Two
more iron-clads have been sent to the rein.
forcement of his fleet.
Judge Payson, of the House Public Lands
Committee, says the committee is agreed
upon the legal ground that Congress has
the right to forfeit the entire Northern Pa
citic grant, with the exception of that por-
ton which has been earned and patented
less than million acres in all.
A quantity OF gunpowder in the top of
Hobbs, Osborn & Hobbs wholesale hard
ware store, at London, Ontario, exploded,
blowing off the upper portion of the build
ing and killing Donald Smith and mortally
injuring Frank Shaw and Percy Ince. The
adjoining buildings were badly shattered.
The House committee Saturday took i'm
portant action on the Reagan bill. 1t
voted to strike out the provision relative
to the long and short haul, so called also
the section which requires that fixed rates
shall be posted in public places, and not
changed without five days notice. These
are vital parts.
There will be almost general resump.
ton Of work this week in the iron mines,
glass factories and river coal mines in the
vicinity of Pittsburg. Many of the mills
flooded out started up last week, and the
balance will be running IN q few Gays. All
the glass factories will be in operation to-
day, after q seven months suspension on
! account of the strike.
A cable special from London says: The
Queens book is received with thlnly dis
guised contempt. The details of her lie
by washer woman or a soft headed maid
servant, could not he more trivial or more
commonplace, and it is doubtful if the IL
braries will succeed in selling their large
supplies of book so universally voted dull.
| The impression is confirmed that the Queen
has always had her will and mind under
the control of some man, and the illusions
to John Brown increase the idea of the
sway he exerted over England's ruler.
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