Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-07-21
SATURDAYS NEWS.
IcosDEssED FROM SPECIAL DISPATCHES.
Domestic.

DOmeStfcs
Jim Renwick won the fiye-furlongs race
at Saratoga Saturday.
The town of Cedar Springs, Mich, was
nearly destroyed by fire Saturday.
The Postmaster-G General is having a gen.
eral overhauling of his department.
Three men were burned to death in an
ice-house near Toledo, o., Saturday.
DR.. Mcdonald, of California, is being
pushed as a Prohibition candidate for Pres
ident.
A well caved in at Durham, n c., Fri
day, burying seven men. Three were taken
out alive.
A movement in favor of Butler is on
foot, headed by leaders of the Greenback
and Autobiography parties.
General Grant is still lame and will be
unable to attend the Grand Army Encamp-
ment at Minneapolis next week.
The United States Treasury Department
has issued warrants for the payment OF
50 OOO, 600 on account of pensions.
A Democratic ratification meeting was
held at Columbus, o., Saturday, Judge
Thurman being the principal speaker.
The Republican press is generally pleased
with Blaine's letter, while the opposition
papers profess to be surprised at its weak
ness.
Barnum desires to import some Chinese
human monstrosities, and Secretary Folger
says he can do so, as they belong TO the
excepted class.
William H Rhinelander, of New York
family of wealth and antiquity, has been
indicted for shooting and wonding Drake,
the family lawyer.
The private banking house of A. d J. G.
S. Harrison, at indianapolis, notwithstand-
ing the assurances given by the latter gen
tlcman on Thursday, has not opened Its
doors.
Surrogate Rollins, Of New York, has
decided the will of the late James Tilby
giving his second wife $500, 900, void, owing
TO deception and undue influence. She had
another husband.
A special from Houma, La, states that
Cummings Nelson was hanged Friday III
the Courtyard, i'll the presence of 1000
spectators, for the murder OF John Martin,
of Terrebonne parish.
Governor Cleveland and staff visited the
State camp at Poughkeepsie, N. Y, Fri
day, and were received with salute OF
twenty-one guns. The Governor gave a
A special dispatch from Cheraw, South
Carolina, states that J. ?. Hawley Douglass,
generally thought to be the party who led
the posse who shot Began Cash, was shot
down Friday while at work in field.
At Iron Gate, Va, Friday. Thomas John
ston stripped his stepson and tied his hands
to whip him. The boy escaped, ran to the
river and jumped i'll. Johnston followed ;
the current was swift, and both were
drowned.
Paddy Ryan has instructed Patterson of
New York to match him to box four
rounds, Marquis of Queensberry rules, for
81 900 side, with Sullivan; or he will
make it the winner to get all the receipts
and bet 81, 900 on the result.
Sam Gibson (colored) grossly assaulted
his own daughter and was put in jail, at
West Point, Ca Thursday night a party
of colored men broke into the Jail to lynch
the prisoner. He resisted, cutting six of
them severely. The lynchers then shot him
dead.
The President has appointed r. A. Fisk
of California, John Trowbridge of Massa-
chusetts, Henry A. Rowland of Maryland,
and George f. Baker of Pennsylvania, Com
missioners to the National Conference of
the autumn of this year.
The President has not vet issued com
mission to John Jarrett of Pittsburg to be
Chief of the Labor Statistics Bureau. Jar
rett made some very disparaging remarks
in regard to the Presidentin publicspeech
at Pittsburg, and is in danger of losing
position which was within his grasp.
A special dispatch from Tuscaloosa, Ala,
says: Henry Burke (colored), who at
tempted to criminally assault little white
girl, was captured last night in the garnet
of an old house. A mob at midnight took
him from the jail, hanged him to tree in
the street and put five bullets in his body.
The survivors of the Greedy Arctic ex-
petition, now at st. Johns, \. f., are rapid
fy regaining their strength. After the
bodies of the dead are placed in caskets,
the relief vessels will proceed to Ports
mouth, n H., where the members of the
Arctic party will remain until acclimated.