Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-08-27
TELEGRAPHIC BREyITIES.

Secretary Folger's health is really such as
! to cause alarm.
| Illinois has quarantined all places in
fected with cattle diseases.
An earthquake lasting thirty seconds,
occurred yesterday on the Island OF Jersey.
The body of private Henry, of the Greedy
party, will be exhumed and examined to-
| day.
J. l. Case the owner of Jay-Eye-See, was
| thrown from a cart and injured at Racine,
| Wis, on Saturday.
Lieutenant Greedy has received from
| Commander Cheyne, of the Royal Navy, a
congratulatory dispatch.
In Minnesota the frost that struck that
vicinity Sunday night is generally conceded
to be the earliest on record.
kilograms report, with details, no fewer
| than three cases of leproSy within hun
drcd miles of New York city.
Three young English students at Moody
School at Greenfield, Mass were drowned
while bathing Monday evening.
The Bankers and Merchants Telegraph
| Company of New York denies that it is I'M
able to pay the wages of its employees.
Divers will probably examine the Tala-
!
damage and ascertain if any bodies are on
| board.
The United States steamer Kearsarge has
arrived at Gibraltar with direct orders from
| Washington to make a cruise along the
| north and west coasts of Africa.
| Negotiations between Switzerland and
the Vatican are making favorable progress.
J Papal delegates at Bernc have been in
/ u, oil oh
Professor Brugsch, the German Egyptol-
ogist, has been appointed to diplomatic ser
vice and proceeds to Africa in September
on some political mission, the nature OF
which is unknown.
| Compromising documents have been dis
| covered at Odessa, Russia, in the house OF
the merchant Katinsnaia, whose daughter
fired at Colonel katanski, of General Oar
medio's staff, ON Thursday.
According to New York sugar traders the
great failure of Weinrch at Vienna will
have no effect there, as he had no houses in
New York. Over-production of beet sugar
is given as the cause of failure.
Blaine's illness will render his departure
| from Bar Harbor, Me. for several days very
| doubtful. He is suffering from bilious
attack and very severe cold, and is at
|
The steamship Faraday has laid the first
deep-sea portion of the Bennett-Mackay
| cable, and is now returning to Woolwich
to receive the remainder of the deep-sea
portion and the American shore end
De Lesseps has sent Il letter from the
| French Geographical Society congratulate
ing Greedy upon the results Of his expedi-
ton, expressing sympathy at the loss OF
| lat
| his rescue.
! 1t will cost $50, 600 to repair the damage
done by the storm to the New London and
several thousand to repair the highways.
Acres Of crops are destroyed, and mountain
| roads are impossible.
An eccentric saloon-kceper in New York
| has glasses with the portraits of Blaine,
Cleveland and Butler engraved thereon.
| He reports the Butler men Outnumber the
other drinkers. There are no st. John
glasses on the premises.
Ex-Governor Gibbs of Oregon, at tent
peranCe meeting of women and girls in
Attorney Church, New York, Sunday
evening. said that to vote for st. John
| would be to throw away the vote. Other
| speakers took different view.
Senior Romero, Mexican Minister at
Washington, has received a communica-
| ton announcing the failure of the corn
crop in Chihuahua, and asking him to no
tify exporters Of corn in this country, who
may wish to export it for seed to Chihua-
hua, to address the Government of that
State, giving price, quality and quantity.
The Treasurer of the United States has
forwarded to the Governor of Louisiana
p 900 free school books of the State, cap
tured at Baton Rouge in 1865 by Lieuten-
ant-Gcneral Sheridan. They formed part
of a Lot with city, State and Southern
Railroad bonds, valued at 100000, cap
tured at the same time, and a majority of
which were subsequently restored to the
State