Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-10-03
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

The Belgian Government has fixed the surta1
on foreign sugar at 10 per cent.
The disabled German steamer Martha was
towed into Halifax Wednesday night.
The famous John McCooi, the real organizer
OF the Mozart Hall Democracy, died in New
York Wednesday.
General Campencn. French Minister of War
has submitted a scheme to the Ministry for
organizing colonial army.
Adviccs from India state that q collision oc-
CURED on the Eastern Bengal Railway, in which
sixty persons were killed and injured.
Through the mediation of Queen Victoria and
the Prince of Wales compromise upon the
franchise and redistribution bills is being ar
ranged by Gladstone and Salisbury.
The employees of Oliver Brothers & Phillips
iron manufacturers, of Pittsburg, Penn, were
notified Wednesday evening that q general re-
uuction OF wages of l2a per cent. will take place
on the 9th inst.
Il is reported in Paris that China is awaiting
the next hostile operation of Admiral Couberi
with the intention of then issuing manifesto
stating that she is forced by the illegal actions
OF France to declare war.
Jensen, Bliss g. Co., hardware dealers of Den
yer. Col, assigned yesterday morning 1t is
estimated that their liabilities are 100000 !;
named assets, $4,000. The firm is one of the
best known in the State.
1t is officially reported at Louisville that an
examination of the affairs of the Newcomb-
Buchanan Company show that duplicate re-
ceiptS for 900 barrels OF whisky, amounting to
$4,000 have been found thus far.
The Military Order of the Loyal Legion Of the
United States Wednesday night installed the
officers for the ensuing year, among them being
the commander Gen. Grant, Col Lyman
Bridges was transferred to the California COM
mard.
The Union Veteran Army organization. in
tended to secure pensions and lands to veterans
of the war, and see justice done them. held its
third annual convention at Hartford, Conn,
Wednesday. A resolution urging Congress to
act in favor of the veterans was passed.
The writing-pa makers branch OF the Ma
tional Paper-makers Association has resolved
to advance the price of paper from one to two
cents per pound. and, if necessary, to lessen the
production until the price of paper advances
sufficient to cover the extra cost OF rags and
other material.
A dispatch from Reading. Penn, says that
seventeen cars of Lancaster tobacco arrived
"Wednesday for San Francisco. 1t is the largest
single shipment OF tobacco ever made in the
history of that section. 1t is estimated that each
car contains over twelve tons. The value of the
tobacco is placed at $4,000.
Governor Click of Kansas has issued procla-
nation prohibiting the introduction of cattle
into Kansas from the States of Kentucky Iowa,
Nebraska and Missouri, until after they undergo
a quarantine of sixty days at the point of intro
duction, and are released under clear bill of
health from veterinary. He also prohibits
the Introduction of Jersey cattle from any State
in the Union.
Twenty odd Cinnamon arrived n. New York
wednesday from Havana, on their way to the
FIowery Kingdom. One of them. when asked
if he had any kind of trouble with the Custom
housc authorities on account of the law pro-
hibjtiug the entrance OF Chinese in hi country
replied: 1--WE get naturalized by the Spanish
Government and then come to New York MS
Spanish subjects, not as Cinnamon. We pay SIS
in Havana for naturalization papers and pass
ports and that makes us Spaniards." The new
arrivals are domicied in Mott street.