Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-04-22
TELEGRAPHIC BREyIIIES.

The Well nd canal will be opened on the 18th
instant.
Heavy rains and northers are reported from
all parts of Texas
The New York Republican State Convention
meets Wednesday.
1t is denied that Amens, France has
dynamite factory in full blast.
Rumors are again aloat to the effect that the
Pope will presently seek an asylum i'll France.
An Orange orator announces that Gladstones
highest ambition is to be first President of the
British republic.
The Grand Trunk Railway employees at Mont
real and Strattord have accepted per cent.
reduction for six months.
The issue of standard silver dollars for the
week ending April 18th was S25i 9SS for the cor
responding period last year, slQ9. 4ee.
The American National Agricultural Assoeia-
ton proposes to hold a great cattle show Time
and place have not been determined
Mrs Margaret A. Belfeld, highly respected
woman, was arrested at Syracuse, \. y, by an
Iowa Sheriff on charge of lnhdeIty.
The trouble in Mexico about nickels still con-
tinues, the Government having made no ar
engagements to replace them with silver coin.
General Brady, of star-route fame, knocked
down Judge Hyatt, of the Marine Court, at New
York Saturday, during heated political discus
sion.
DR.. Harrington convicted of conspiracy to
sentenced ut Jersey City yesterday TO two years
in the State Prison.
Chicago and Peoria distillers have agreed to
maintain the price of high wines, notwithstand-
ing the cut, which they say has grown out of
local differences in the trade at Cincinnati.
The high water in Lake Champlain has caused
the biggest washout ever known on the Della
ware and Hudson Railway. The tracks are
washed out for miles between Whitehall and
Ticonderoga, n. Y
The New York committee having in charge
the entertainment fund for the Home for eX-
Confederate Soldiers, report $500 worth of
boxes and tickets sold. The sale OF boxes will
shortly take place at the Exchange.
4 special from bingham. Ill, says: The
bingham Bank was closed all day. President
Won Classy left town on Saturday and his where
ah0utS are unknown. 1t Is estimated his ac-
counts are short from S25 900 to $4,000.
General Badeau arrived in New York yester-
day morning. When asked as to the cause of his
resignation of the Consul-Generalship at Ha-
vana. Badeau said that he was not nj liberty to
say anything on the subject at present.
The police authorities of Paris have decided
10 eIp,l from France the two Austrian Social
lists recently arrested. The police believe that
they will presently have secured sufficient evil
dence to justify the expulsion OF several prom
inent Irish-Americans.
1t is reported that Prince Victor of Wales, on
attaining his majority which occurs ut the be-
ginning of next year. viii be raised TO a peerage,
with the title of Duke of Dublin. and Will
thenceforth reside in Ireland. 1t is also stated
that he viii enter the regiment of Irish Fusi-
leers.
Panell, in answer to a question as to his re-
ported resignation of the leadership of the Irish
Nationalist party, said: mo; | have so little
intention of leaving the post to which my friends
have called me that have within the last week
made engagements which will occupy the next
five years Of my life
N. reBra2za, the French cXploreriin the Congo
country, has signed treaty with the most pow
erful sovereign in Western Africa which has
placed all his States in the Congo under the pro-
lection OF France. BY this treaty all the right
bank of the Congo, from Brazzaville to the
Equator has passed under the protection of
France.
Intense excitement prevails throughout Col
orado over the recent rich discoveries of gold on
West Oil and Cottonwood creeks, near Canyon
City, IN that State. Mining men are working
themselves into fever heat. and although the
rich quartz was found only few days ago.
already there are hundreds of fortune-hunters
on the way to the new dggings.