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

The Massachusetts, State Democratic
Convention will De held at Worcester on
April 30.h.
The Lasker incident is still discussed,
with the probabilities of Minister SARGENT
Withdrawal.
The House was in Committee of the
Whole Saturday on the POsfoffice appro'
priation bill,
Senator DoIph, of Oregon, argued in sup
port of the Columbia river Improvement
bill on Friday.
The oattlemen of Kansas are taking
active measures to prevent the spread OF
the cattle plague.
Delegate Game, of Utah, made an argu.
ment before the House committee Satur-
day on polygamy.
The crew of the italian bark Tonic, lying
at Baltimore, refused to go to sea Saturday,
and assaulted the Captain.
The name of Reservoir Square, New
York, mas been changed to Bryant Park
a statue OF the poet will soon be erected.
The steamer City of Frankfort arrived at
Greensboro, KY, Saturday, having made
fifty landings aud delivered 1870 900 ra-
tions.
c. D Sharp ia sentenced to be hanged AZ
Gainesville. Texas, April 25sh, for assault
ing two girls, sged respectively Is and u
years.
The steamships Servia 2nd Baltic, which
left New York fer Europe Saturday, took
out 81. 800. coo in gold coin and bars, and
5000, 900 in silver.
Representative Sumner made one Of the
most forclble speeches OF the session in
favor of Government postal telegraph, in
The House Saturday.
The premature explosion Of blast at
Cornwall furnace, Reading, Pa, Saturday.
killed John Eek and mortally wounded
Milton Eek . brother.
The sale Of the library of the late Henry
@. Murphy, OF Brooklyn, took place Satur-
day night. Tne collection embraced g. l42
lots, and realized $50, 000
Mrs. Elizabeth Lewis and her daughter,
aged IS, were found dead in bed at New
Haven, Conn, Saturday night, from suffo-
cation by gas. Suicide is suspected.
General 0. D. Greene, Assistant Adju.
tant General CT the Department of the Co.
Iumbia, has been ordered to Washington
for duty in the Office of the Adjutant- G en-
eral. lie viii be succeeded by Colonel II.
Clay Wood.
labor officials in Pittsburg are ciroulat.
ing a petition there to be presented to Con.
grees asking an appropriation of so 000,-
600 of the surplus revenue for ooloniz alton
purposea. This sum would supply 20. 900
families with $500 each
A Charleston, S c., special says The
Csshes, father and son, still defy arrest
Old Clsh iHtimsted su intention to deliver
his son az 4 time and place TO be selected
by himself, provided the trial take place in
the United States Court
Rev. Young J Allen, missionary to China
from tae Methodist Episcopal Church
South, has completed arrangements for the
establishment Of an American college in
Shanghai. He has engaged corps of nine
female and five male teachers.
The excitement at Princeton College is
still high. The principal grievance of the
students has been destroyed by the public
apology of the student who asserted an OF.
fort had been made by professor to en-
ploy him as a spy upon his fellow Students.
At East Hampton, L. l., Friday even.
ing, Frederick Davis, of GreeHport, went
TO the residence of Mr.. and Mrs. Terry,
and was refused admittance. He forced
an entrance and beat the husband and wife
iusensible, in which condition they were
found.
Rufus F. Andrews, a lawyer, who was
Surveyor Of the Port of New York under
lincoln, was arraigned in Brooklyn Thurs
day on two indictments. The first charges
him with forgery, and the second with con-
epiraCy with Monroe Adams aud others in
divorce suit matters.
Friends Of the Mexican reciprocity
treaty IL Washington say there Is no doubt
Shat 1t will be ratified this week. They
have won over one vote, which gives them
the necessary two.thirls, but they wish 20
have \ second vote which can be depended
upon IN case Of al emergency.
The House Saturday morning, By a vote
OF Us ID l27, refused to consider the bill
- extend the bonded period on distilled
spirits. AIr. Randall engineered the oppo-
sition TO the whisky bill, and Mr.. Morri-
con, Mr.. Blackburn and Speaker Carlisle
were the principal champions OF the
measure.
The T genty- Street Thester, in New
York, was sold by auction on Friday.
Two hundred persons were present, in
Guiding D. o. Mills. Alfred B. Darling
bought it for SI44. coo. Il will probably
become paIt CT she Fifth Avenue Hotel,
which it sdjoins, and whereof Darling is
proprietor,
The eins House sud Senate conference
on the resolution sppropriating SO, 900 for
tie Daavile and Copiah county investiga.
lions held the frat meeting in Washington
Saturday, aad after long discussion dis
agreed. The Senate conference refuse to
agrees to the clause restricting the character
and scope Of the investigation.
There are no new developments in refer.
enc, 70 the Burlington and @ aiacy robbery
IN Chicago The detectives have advanced
a new theory, to the effect that toe rob.
berry did not actually occur, as stated by
certain employees, but some trusted en-
ploye is a dsfaulteT, and selected the roo
berry method 80 cover his shortage,
FOREIGN.
The Irish are organizing political club
IN London.
Tne Paris police have a number of Irish
st1qrects under surveillance