Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-03-06
gELEeRApHIc BREvIrIEs.

President Grevy received the Queen of
Tahiti on Tuesday.
The Connecticut Prohibitionists have
nominated State ticket.
Hon. Kenneth Raynor, Solicitor for the
Treasury, died in Washington yesterday
afternoon.
The House of Commons has rejected
Parnell's bill amending the Irish Land Act
by vote of 325 to 70.
There was an important meeting of Brit.
ish ship owners at London Tuesday to con-
slider the proposed legislation affecting their
| interests. =
The ambassadors of all the European
powers have been instructed to compliment
the English Government upon General Ora.
hams victory.
Paul de Cassagnac urges the Bonspartists
and Royalists to unite, with view to
effecting the downfall of the Republic, the
Napoleonists and the Orleanists.
Nellis, the Irish informer who surren-
dered to the GreeLock police and professed
to give the names of the murderers of the
Earl of Leitrim, is believed to be a lunatic.
Spectators have subscribed fl20, 900 to
raise a revolutionary movement in Spain
similar to that of August, 1883. The Gov
eminent is fully informed in regard to the
plot.
Prussia's proposal to the Bundesrath, re.
garding the anti-socialist law, is to prolong
the law until 1856, on the ground that
many attacks upon life and property are
| traceable to socialists.
Princess Marie Anna has returned to
Berlin and rejoined her husband. The
Later in the day she was received by the
Emperor and Empress,
Cumberland, the English mind.reader,
entertained select party on Tuesday in
the apartments of the Crown Prince
Adolph, at Vienna, showing most of the
tricks of the Spiritualists.
The Boston Produce Exchange yesterday
afternoon adopted resolution, urging the
Congressional delegation to endeavor TO
procure the repeal of the silver coinage
law, or for its amendment so as to provide
for the coinage of silver dollars of full
value.
The annual report of the Union Pacific
Railroad Company shows the gross earn
decrease of 81, $50, 900 as compared with
sources was s., $50, 600; operating expenses,
Sl0,64S, 900.
At an indignation mass meeting of
Princeton College students on Tuesday
resolutions that the Trustees investigate
the charges against the Faculty were
unanimously adopted. The Faculty are
accused of keeping spies, peeping into
rooms and desks, etc.
The British ambassador has asked the
Porte for satisfaction for the manner in
which the officials of Smyrna have been
treating foreign coasting vessels. They
have prevented steamers from embarking
passengers, and have removed the Union
Jack from English vessels.
Thomas r. Reeve, proprietor of the Nov
city Iron Works, Cleveland, O., which
have been idle most of the time lately, has
assigned, with liabilities at $50, 600 and
assets twice that amount. The assignment
was precipitsted by the lack of ready
money to meet obligations.
The stockholders of the Union Pacific
Railway held their annual meeting in Bos-
ton yesterday. The old Board of Directors
was reelected. except August Schell and
Scion Humphreys Hugh Riddle. of Chi
cage, and James A. Rumrill, of Spring.
field, were elected to fill their places.
VIM. Mcmillan, farmer living near
Huron, o., went home drunk Tuesday
evening and began to abuse his wife, who
called for help. Mcmillan seeing George
Thompson, a neighbor, approaching seized
shotgun and killed him instantly The
murderer afterward committed suicide by
taking poison.
The evidence given before the New York
Senate Committee the past week concern
ing the imitation OF butter, shows that the
annual shipments Of the spurious article
( from the West to New Y ork are about
100000 pounds. OF thirty samples OF
alleged butter collected at random from
the city grocers twenty were limitations.
Seventeen members Of the crew Of the
Spanish bark Trinidad, Captain Marrero,
we heen landed at Liverpool. They re-
p It that the Trinidad sailed from Pensa.
CA on December 9th for Gloucester, aud
WIS abandoned by them, water-logged, On
February oath. The Captain and remain.
der of the crew refused to quit the vessel.
\ number of workmen employed in the
freigh tear construction shops of the Pail.
man Car Company at Pullman, Illinois,
have quit work. The workmen declare
t at their wsges have been reduced from
81 30 to 81 80 per day. The strikers place
their number az 200, while the officials Ct
the company say not 60 exceed fifty have
stopped work,
Suits for criminal libel have been en-
tered at Uniontown, Pa, against the ed
itors of the Republican and Standard by
r H. Aclllin and Lawrence Knots, me n.
bers of the jury which acquitted Dukes.
The alleged libel appeared in issues of
March last, and consists in part OF head
lines TO articles written on the subject OF
Dukes acquittal. Damage suits will be
brought by the same parties.
It is reported that Major Lopez Variable
was killed Tuesday near Edinburg forty
miles above Brownsville, Texas, in duel
with the editor of the Croaista, published
at Matamoras. Variable was the editor
and proprietor of tri.weekly Spanish
paper issued in Laredo, and got into a
newspaper war with the Cronista man con.
corning Mexican politics. He was a cult
waited gentleman and successful jour
nalist
The question whether Mrs. Jane A.
Brooks, the wealthy widow from New
York, against whom verdict for sos, 900
was given few days ago by a Chicago
jury, as being the responsible surety for the
defaultisg guardian OF Stanley B. Sexton,
son of once well-knowr contractor in
Chicago. shall be allowed to depart for
Europe without settling the alleged liabili
ties, waa argued yesterday before Judge
Shepard, of Chicago.
san Francisco Stock Sales.