Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-06-19
TELEGRAPHIC BREyITrEs.

The Crown Princess Victoria. of Sweden, is
the mother of son.
The Fitz-John Porter bill has finally passed
both Houses of Congress
AT Long Branch, Tuesday, the seventh annual
convention of the American Railway Master
Mechanics Association opened.
A detective has gone to Quebec with war
rant signed by President Arthur asking for the
extradition of Bank President Emo
Ex-President Fish pleaded not guilty in New
York yesterday to charge of Misrepresentation
of National Bank funds He was released on
the original bail.
The Court, at Dublin. fined William OfBrien.
editor of the United Ireland $500 for contempt in
connection with the action for libel against
O'Brien by Bolton.
Carhart, Whitford 4 Co., manufacturers OF
clothing at 40 Broadway, New York, suspended
payment Tuesday. The firm had a business OF
over 100000 year.
Secretary Teller has modified the Government
experts report on the Union Pacific Company,
and the officials of the road now declare them
selves better satisfied.
The public at Madrid Is alarmed by an explo-
sion in house in sevilla street. caused by a
bomb placed inside doorway. The door was
blown out and the windows shattered. Nobody
was injured
appropriation bill comes before the House, 10
attach proviso, which has been reported favor
ably by Randall in committee, transferring the
coast survey service TO the Navy Department
The brig G. p Sherwood from Philadelphia, for
Halifax, sunk in gale on the 18th. Ten men
and the Captain and his wife were drowned. The
mate, Stevens, clung to the boat, was rescued,
and brought to New York, as the only survivor.
A special from New Orleans says: John See
bert, aged % who was admitted TO the Charity
Hospital February 25d died last evening OF
what physicians diagnosed as leproSy. His
limbs were terribly distorted and his face swol-
len until his intimate friends could hardly re-
cognize him.
Adrian Hill. a pedestrian. started at 8 P. NJ.
Yesterday on a race against time from the New
York approach of the Brooklyn bridge to san
Francisco. He is 10 walk 30 miles day every
day except sunday, and complete his task
within three months. The Fourth of July is
also included among the resting days
Daniel Carrgan, Chief Clerk of the Bureau OF
Medicine and Surgery of the Navy Department,
and Edwin c. KirkwoOd, clerk of the same Blu
reau have been arrested in Washington,
charged with deirauding the Government by
means of forged vouchers for supplies which
had been negoti lted by outside parties
Secretary -Foger recommends favorable re-
ports on all the bills designed to return the
direct war tax of 1861 to those States and Terri
tories which had levied it. Comptroller Law
renee aflirms the legality of the proposed meas
ures to refund this money. There are due the
following amounts: California, s2l5, 81; Ne
vada, Sl,592; Oregon. 81, 40.
Dillon has resigned rs President OF the Union
Pacific Railroad Company. Charles Francis
Adams has accepted the position. II was voted
that in lien of the dividend payable on July lst,
the sum of S7lS.Sl4 be paid from moneys in the
United States Treasury To meet the demand OF
the Secretary the Treasury for payments under
the Thurman Act for the year ending December
ssst.
Patents have been issued to residents of Cali
fornia as follows: David Gleckman, san Fran
cisco, fastening for bows of watch-case; Ernest
Kock, San Francisco, concentration; Ralph V.
McGOvern, san Francisco, cable grip: George C..
Price San Francisco, pencil sharpener and
sponge holder; Alos Schneider, SAN Francisco,
rifiing guns: Clayton ;. Richardson, Vallejo,
K. kyler, San Francisco, clamp for wire ropes;
Arson C. Tichuer, Alameda, electric conductor.
EUROPEAN LoNGEvITY-Some interesting
researches have recently been made by the
Vienna, to determine the comparative
longevity of men and women, and to as
certain the causes for any difference that
might appear. He finds that out of 1O2, S31
individuals who have passed the age of 90
years, 90, SOB are women, while only II, 52S
are men. In Italy he finds 241 alleged
centenarian women, and but al men OF
that age The fact that of children who
reach the age of 10 Years there are more
females than males, seems to be well estab-
lished, and that the disproportion in num-
Der grows greater as the years of their life
advance is equally certain. The number
of male births exceeds the female by per
cent Philadelphia Ledger.