Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-06-28

Marine Disaster.
| BARSEGATE, June 27th-The American
schooner 7. Babcock sank here Captain
Babcock, four seamen, aad the mate 5 vii,
were drowned
DETAILS OF THE AFFAIR.
BAgNEGAr CRY IN. Jl, June 27th.-One
OF the most thrilling shipwrecks seen OF
this coast for years occurred yesterday
| afternoon. The schooner Land \ Bah
cock, hailing from SomerS Point, and com
manded by Captain Henry Babcock, which
put out from Philadelphia day or two age
loaded with coal for Boston, sprung leak
when off Bay Head yesterday morning
about 4 O'Clock. The Captain was com
PEELED 70 run his vessel ahead of the wind
all day, while the crew worked the pumps
At o'clock a vessel was discovered max
ing for Station Is, just north of Barnega,
Inlet. The vessel was beached opposite the
station, in hopes of being relieved by the
litc-savinS crew. The Captain of Station
10, however, was not Ut his post, and
rs the vessel began TO so to pieces Captain
Joe Reed, of Station Is three miles dis
tant, rushed to the assistance of the wreck
and arrived there in time 70 shoot line
| over the vessel, but the members of the
crew were so weak from working the
pumps that they could not draw the rope
| through the surf, and the vessel broke Il
pieces while they were endeavoring 70 do
so. In one hour after the vessel struck
nothing could be discerned but Il lot Oi
broken pieces of timber The first to 90
from the vessel was Mrs. Scarborough
a falling spar while being held bv
her husband, and was knocked from
his arms into the sea. Her husband
Immediately sprang after her, and
was afterwards picked up OF the beach
unconscious. A Swedish seaman SWAN
ashore. The Captain, the mates wife and
| three seamcn were drowned The mates
wife had borne up bravely from the time
of the springing of the leak until the go
| ing to pieces of the vessel, when her shrieks
We're heartrending. 1t is feared other
wrecks have taken place, as the beach is
strewn with drift and Virginia pine wood.
| The storm was terrible The cars standing
on the narrOw-gauge road were blown
| Beach Haven 10 connect with the railroads
Many people watched the vessel go TO
pieces.
OF Interest TO Newspaper Publishers.
BosToN, June 27th.-The Supreme Court,
! in the case of Charles Cowlcy against r. n .
Pulcifier esal., proprietorS of the Boston
terest to publishers of newspapers A peti-
ton for the removal of COwley from the
bar was filed in the Clerks Office of the Su-
preme Court, and the same being published
in the Herald, Cowley began suit for libel
in the Superior Court. The presiding
| Judge, concurring in the views of counsel
| for defendant, that as the petition had been
| filed in the Court it was a privileged COM
munication, ruled that plaintiff could not
| maintain his action, and directed a verdict
| for defendant.
New York Stock Market.
NEW YoRK, June 27th-10:3O A. M
Stocks opened strong, except the Wander
biltS, Northwestern and St Paul NewYork
Central fell off Michigan Central, q !;
Lake Shore, ] Northwestern, 4. st. Paul,
t. An advance of J 10 u followed under
the leadership of Western Union, Rock
Island, Northern Pacific and Pacific Mail
Subsequently the improvement was par
TALLY lost.
ia. M.-After 1870 A. N. there was a
drop in Lake Shore to 69i Michigan Cen
tral to 52s and Canada Pacific to 80. The
| remainder were weak. Lackawanna was
strong at 1924 and Western Union firm at
515@52l.
New YORK, June 9th. Central Pacific.
,'-+ p'u ILiiSIoii tO4 NoIIHeIh dClicl II /,
Northern Pacific preferred, 312; New
York Central 94{; Northwestern, SO /;
Oregon Railway and Navigation Company,
81; Oregon Transcontinental, u Pacific
Mail, 3Si Panama, 9S; St Louis and San
Francisco, II ; Texas-Pacifc, 81 Union
Pacific, 31I Wells, Fargo & Co.'S Express,
100; Western Union, 523.
1P. M.-Stocks weak and depressed Van
derbiltS were the features Lake Shore
declined to G75, Michigan Central 70 514
and New York Central to Oft
Weeks Failures.
New YORK, June 27th.-The failures for
the last seven days were 1913, against 2O5
for the previous week.
Another Heavy Failure.
BosToN, June 27th-H H. Bangs. doing
business as the Bay State Casket Company,
has failed. Liabilities, 100000
Commodore Garrison Ill.
NEW YORK. June 2-th--Commodore
Garrison is reported seriously i'll at FL
beron. None but his immediate relatives
are allowed TO see him.
An Assignee's Report.
BISGHANToN. June 27th.-W II Iessup,
assignee of w. II. Cooper, banker of Mont
rose, Pa, reports the assets of the bank at
$235 900, and liabilities 100000
Rumored Railroad Changes.
ST. LOUIS. June 27th-The announce
ment Is made that on July 1st all the heads
Of departments OF the Missouri Pacific
Railroad. whose jurisdiction has been ex-
tended over the Wabash, will retire from
that road, and the lines comprised in the
Wabash system De operated Independently
of the Gould system proper, and under q
new set of officers. The road in future will
be operated by a much smaller force than
now The officers of the Wabash have
been recently separated from those of the
Missouri Pacific, both here and elsewhere.
Acquitted of a Grave Charge.
New ORLEANS. June 27th-T L Stark,
the advance agent, who killed manager
David Allen in the Opera-house last No
yernbcr, vas acquitted to-day.
The Death Penalty.
TExARxANA ARK. June 27th.-D Walker.
the murderer of LuCius Grant (both col
ored), was hanged to-day in the presence
of coo people. To the last he asserted his
innocence declaring that he acted in self
defense, and his life was sworn away.
Escaped Conyicts Wounded.
CEDAR RAPIps Ga.) June 27th.-The two
conyiCts-Freeman and Farmer who es-
capped from the Anamosa Penitentiary,
were surrounded in the woods near here,
and fight ensued, in which Freeman was
mortally and Farmerdangerously wounded.
Change of Management.
new YoRK. June 27th-The contract be-
tween the Directors of the Metropolitan
Opera House and Gye, the impressario and
manager of the Coyent Garden Theater,
London, was signed yesterday, and the
Metropolitan will therefore he managed by
Gye next season.
Personal.
New York, June 227th.-Among the pas
sengers who arrived yesterday from Cuba
was Baroness Won Ghimer, whose diamond
wedding in New York il 1859, when she
was married to De Oveido, created such
gossip She lives now in Mexico. Her
father Mr. Bartlett, was Alcalde of San
Francisco about 1S47.
An Aged Wife Murderer.
Dover On H. June 27th.-John G. Hill,
q retired clothing house proprietor at Great