Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-04-23
TELEGRAPHIc BREyITIEs.

The British Parliament reassembled yesterday
after the extra recess.
The sale of seats for the May Music Festival
began in Cincinnati yesterday morning.
There is still an impression at Washington
that Arthur will veto the Fitz John Porter bill
The Steamship Alert, of the Greedy Relief Elk
petition arrived at New York yesterday morn
ing.
Hugo Schenek and Karl Schlossfek the noto
rious murderers of Servian girls were hanged il
| Vienna yesterday.
Belmont Castle, near Dundee Scotland, was
burned Monday night. Many valuable paint
! ings were destroyed.
The Postoffice Department has issued orders
establishing new offices in Arizona at Amer,
| Crittenden, Payson and Quijotoa.
Only four men were saved of the crew of The
! bark Copenhagen, from Philadelphia, which
was wrecked ON the Shetland Islands
/ Twenty-sx men, four birds and the parapher-
| MALTA of cooking main were captured by the
| Philadelphia police Monday evening.
| The body of an American lady was; cremated
at Gotha, Germany, Sunday. This makes l6'
| cremated since the crematorium was established.
By party vote the New York Legislature adj
/ journed over the Republican State Convention
/ ut Utica. Twenty-eight members of the Assem-
| bly, are delegates.
Parnell is Just now the subject of much sarcas-
tie criticism in the English papers, because of
his alleged egotistical and selfish attitude to-
wards the Irish agitation.
Ex-Delegate TO Congress Luna, of New Mexico,
has returned to Washington from Il visit to New
Mexico. and expresses the conviction that Diaz
will be MeXico's next President.
The strike of coal miners in the north of
France threatens TO reopen. Three thousand
miners have decided to resume the struggle and
appeal 10 the Government for aid.
Lord Colin Campbell youngest son of the
Duke of Argyle from whom his wife recently
obtained Il decree of divorce after II private
hearing, is personally moving for a new trial.
The furniture of the well-known Irving
House, in New York, where Washington Irving
himself used to stop was sold by auction Mon
day, and the hotel will soon pass out of exist
ence
President Jewett denies the report that the
Erie Railroad is not earning its fixed charges
and cannot possibly pay the June interest. The
railroad is doing IL large business, and Is in no
way embarrassed.
The destitution and suffering of unemployed
men in the English merchant marine is ON the
increase, and public subscriptions are being or
ganiZed ut Newcastle-on-Tyne, Liverpool, Shields
and Sunderland for the men.
Near Irving, KY, last Saturday Joe Flynn and
Bill Hale two desperadoeS engaged i'll shoot
ing atfray. Flynn shot Hale through the heart,
but before Hale fell he shot Flynn twice, from
the effects of which he died in few hours.
The King of Abyssinia asks for direct diplo-
matte relations with England. He wishes 10
send mission to London to conclude treaty
defining the boundaries of AbySsinia and OBJ
tain English aid TO organize the Abyssinian
army.
News is received that a band of men in re-
bellion against the Governor of the State of Cue
nero was defeated at Tapiche, on the Pacific
coast, with the loss of fiftytwo killed. Colonies
Merols and Neri are moving against the rem
nantS.
The Italian Consul at Malta proposed TO land
200 cases of dynamite from an Italian vessel i'll
the harbOr, and deposit il in the Government
stores. The Governor has refused To allow this,
and ordered the vessel to leave within forty
eight hours.
At Newberg, n Y. Monday. Rev j. v Given
was expelled from the New York Conference of
the African Methodist Episcopal Church on
charge of immortality. This is the second ex-
pulsOn from the present Conference for the
same cause.
j. W. johnson has been ordered, as signal OBJ
server to go to Naushagat at the head of Bris-
tol bay, in Alaska, to take the place of another
observer (McKay), who was drowned This sta
ton is said be the best place in the world to OBJ
serve the phenomena of tidal waves.
The House Committee on Pacific Railroads
Yesterday concluded consideration of the pro
posed amendment to the Thurman Sinking Fund
Act They extend the provisions of the Act to
the Kansas Pacific, Sioux City and Pacific and
Central branch of the Union Pacific Railroad.
Frank Ewens Cashier of the Effingham Qll.l
Bank which closed Monday in consequence of
the absconding of its President. +. \. Van easy,
says there were over $4,000 i'll the bank when
he closed it Saturday night, and when he opened
it Monday morning every dollar was gone, as
well as all the books, papers. etc.
The steamship Manitoba, of the Albany line
landed mt Boston recently a number of shetland
ponies, under the law which permits the land
ing, duty free, of live stock intended for breed
ing purposes, The ponies were sold to persons
who keep them for pleasure, and now the Gov
eminent is endeavoring to collect from the
steamship company the 20 per cent. duty.