Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-11-17

The cholera shows signs of abatement III
Paris.
The Congo conference was opened Satur-
day at Berlin.
Matthew Arnold is about to make an ex-
tended tour in America.
1t is rumored in Shanghai that the
French have captured Tamsui.
The report that cholera has appeared in
London is emphatically denied.
Bismarck is taking steps to countcract
the Socialists in the new Reichstag.
1t is reported that Petolfy, Il Hungarian
patriot, reported dead thirty-tive years ago,
is still working in the Siberian mines.
The British steamer Tyrian, from Boston
October Goth, for Glasgow, was run aground
in the Clyde. She had been i'll collision.
Since the Reichstag elections in Germany,
it has been ascertained that not less than
$4,000 ballots were cast for socialist candl-
dates
The King Of the Belgians has been so
prostrated by political excitement in his
kingdom that his doctors fear he has be-
come insane.
Miss Key. an aristocratic resident Of Bah
| bicombe, near Torquay, Eng, vas recently
murdered by her valet, who had fallen in
love with her.
Gladstone and hissupporters still express
hopes of a compromise with the Tories on
the subject Of the franchise bill and of It's
eyentful passage by the Lords.
Ia a rowing match Saturday on the
Thames, from Puney to Northlake, be-
tween Bubear and Perkins, for 900, Per
| kins had five seconds start and won the
race.
The six-day pedestrian match, which be
gins in London on the 9th, eXcites much
interest Among the entries are Rowell,
| Littlcwood, Simpson, Samuel Day and q
| lot Of novices. Littcwood is the iavorite.
\ London dispatch says that inquiry
into the case OF Mr.. Buell., the American
who escaped from an insane asylum in
| London and paid visit to Lowell. the
| American Minister, shows Buell. is harm
less lunatic.
| Tie Department of State at Washington
| has directed the United States ConsuIs Gen
erll at London and Paris to appoint medi-
cal examiners to inspect all vessels leaving
| English and French ports for this country
with view to preventing the introduction
| OF cholera.
4 London dispatch says: 1t is believed
| that the vessel which coliided with the shil
| Henry Willard, Captain Perkins, from Port
| land Oregon, was the British steamer
| Madgelburg She sank in the channel witt
seven of her crew. All the others on boarc
were landed at Salcombe.
In spite OF the spread of education.
| drunkenness is greatly on the increase il
England, especially among women. Out d
eighteen drunken PERSONS brought before
| London magistrate few days ago, thirteen
were women, and OF 1900 persons appre
hended during the twelve months in Liver
| pool 1900 were women.
General Wolseley has received a Letter
from General Gordon, dated Khartuum, No
vember 4th. in which the latter says: Ny
position is very secure. The troops are il
| excellent spirits" The General adds
The Mahii regularly receives copies @
| European newspapers by which he learn,
of the movements OF the British troops.
The misrule of the Khan of Khiva ha:
driven $50 kibitikas into Russian terri
tory Russian troops have occupied Kun
gral, 30 miles north Of khiva, on the Amo.
river, because the Khan constantly violate:
the treaty OF 1873 The khanS incupacitl
to carry on an orderly government, 1t IS de
ciarel, viii! make it necessary to pension
him and establish a Russian administra
ton at khiva.