Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-01-21
Congressman Budd and the sIIckens
Question.

| luc SIlCkens
Question.
| WASHINGTON, January 20th.-Consress.
man Budd, now that Judge Sawyer hss en-
joined the hydraulic miners. says he hopes
newspapers of his district will not abuse him
| for introducing bill for the improvement of
| the Sacramento river. His bill to appropri-
ate $500, 900 for that purpose is the same in.
troduced by Page in the Forty.seventh Con-
gress. Bu6d says some Of his constituents
are under the impression that the bill is de.
signed to help the miners, and have criticised
| him for Introducing it, when the truth is that
| the money asked for is necessary to improve
the river He says thst unless the Govern
ment does something, there is slickens enough
! lodged in the canyons at the headwaters of
the Sacramento, which will be washed down
by freshets, to cover the Sacramento valley.
Dedication of the Garfield Memorial
Church.
| WASHINGTON, January 20sh.-The new
| Christian church in this city, known as the
Garfield Memorial Church, was dedicated to-
day. In November. 1880, the work Of rails
ing funds began, ard subscriptions were re-
ceived from various parts of the United
States, Canada and England In May,
1882, ground for the new building was broken,
and the cornerstone was laid on the first
anniversary of the assassination of President
Garfield. The services will be continued to
and concluded on Tuesday evening. The at
tendance to-day was large.
| Miscellaneous Washington Items
WASHINGTON. January 20th.-Senstor Fair
| gave a dinner at Wormley's Hotel to his Con-
! gressional friends Tuesday evening. Thirty
| four persons sat down, half being ladies. The
table was decorated with three center pieces
| of flowers, lower baskets of orchids surround
ing them. After dinner these were dis
1 It,rE@ Il,,L-
| smaller baskets, forming border a foot deep,
ran a bank of the choicest flowers. Tbs
menu was the most elaborate ever served in
| Washington.
Miss Tully, daughter of Congressman
| Tully, will spend the remainder of the ses-
sion with Mrs. Barclay Henley. Mrs. and
| Miss Tully will STRIVE here in few days.
| Surveyor Wiley and wife, ard As.
sstant Attorney General Marshall will re-
turn to California February 1ss. Miss Nc
Mullen, OF San Francisco, who accompanied
them to this city, will remain here this win
| ter.
Warren Chase, ex.member of the Califor-
MIA Senate, and J. B. Metcalf, of San Fran
cisco, are here, looking after bills before Con-
grecs. Metcalf now resides at Seattle, w
Il. He was q delegate to the last Nstioral
Democratic Convention from San Francisco.
Attempted Grave-RobbIng.
| WHEELING wv. Va, January 20sh.-A
sensation was caused here to-day by the pub
lication of an attempt to steal the'Iemains of
the late Right Rev. Il. V. Whelsn, the late
| Bishop of this diocese, from the church vault
in which they res. beneath the Whelan me-
mortal chapel in Mount Calvary Cemetery.
The object was to secure reward for the re.
| turn Of the remains, and the attempt was
oaly prevented from succeeding by the scci-
dental discovery of the operations. The at
tempt was made Thursday night, but owing
to the security of the vault, the work was
interrupted by daylight and the ghouIs re-
placed everything neatly, intending to return
the succeeding night al complete the job.
Tbteying by Wholesale.
ST. LOUIS, January 20th.-Edward D.
EastOn, who was arrested yesterday at Ocean
SPRING., Miss. il said to have stolen IS QUO
from the Texas Pacific Railroad when he left
Sherman, Texas, for New Orleans, and that
he and his confederates must have realized
SO, ,000 to 800, 900 from bankers and cotton
dealers in New York On forged bills of lad
ing. Morton Cammacb who was arrested
with Easton, was also employe of the rail
road company, is well known in New Orleans.
He is supposed to be the man known as An
derson, in the fraudulent transactions Of the
gang.
The Bricklayers International Union.
CINCINNATI, January 2Oth.-The Brick
layers international Uoi1n has just clo-ed
session of several days. IL will ms ct nsxt in
Jersey City, January u. 1885 They voted
to urge the passage of bill by Congress to
prevent the importation of alien labor. The
matter of eight hours for days work was
| referred to local L MONS, their vote to be sent
in by August 1ss.
An Official Train RObber.
LAREDO, January 2Oth.-The cafe of Pablo
Quintans, Mayor of New Laredo, Mexico,
irnprisoD ed in Monterey on charge of com
plicity in the recent train robbery on the
Mexican National Railway, has been secretly
investigated before Judge, and sufficient
! evidence was developed to hold the culprit for
final trial in the public Courts.
supplementary Confession.
JAMAICA IL. l }, January 20th.-Edmund
Tsppen, charged with the murder of the
Maybee woman, hiss made supplementary
confession, in which il il said he acknowl-
edged that he. and not his brother ohm, COM
mitted the crime, and indicated where the
property stolen from the Maybees is hidden.
Panic IA thprch.
PHILADELPHIA, January 20th.-Duriug
| thu . o'clock mass az St. Charles CathetrAl
to-day, woman tainted and several persons
rushed to her assistance. cry Of FIRE fol-
| lowed, snd large number of persons IL the
rear of the church and in the galleries / lshed
for the doors, causing panic which was IL
creased by the arrival of the FIRE apparatus.
Several women tainted, and valuable
stained glass was demolished by a man jump.
ing through it to the street.
Steamer on Fire.
SAVANNAH (Ga.), January 20th.-A fire
broke out in the forward compartment OF the
steamer Strathleven, loading at Ti6eo with
cotton. Two thousand bales were in the
compartment, and were damaged By FIRE and
| water.
| ThcrmOmetrical.
New YoRK, January 2Osh.-Highest tou-
perature to-day, 2O'; lowest, 10'.
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