Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-06-04
GENERAL NEWS.
ESPECIAL DISPATCHES TO THE REooRDus1os.l
General Babcock Drowned.

WASHINGTON, June 3d.-Private kilograms re-
ceived in this city and Baltimore this morning
from Benjamin, an employe of the lighthouse
service, dated Dayton, Fla, June I'd, via Astoria,
Fla, announces that General E. o. BabcoeS,
engineer of the Fifth Lighthouse District; Levi
?. Luckey, his chief clerk, formerly Assistant
Private Secretary of President Grant, and Ben
jamin F. Suffer- of Washington were drowned
Saturday in the Mosquito Inlet off the coast of
Florida while experimenting work on the
light being erected at that point
SECOND DISPATCH.l
JACKSONVILLE (Fla), June 3d-Babcock and
party left Baltimore May 18th on the lighthouse
tender Pharaoh, a two-masted schooner, bound
for Mosquito Inlet. ninety miles below the
mouth of the ST. Johns river, on the Florida
coast where the Government is building
lighthouse. The Pharaoh put into Charleston
and left there on the 2Sth, having en-
countered adverse winds all the way. A
heavy northeast gale began on the 2gth IN the
midst of which the PharOh made st. john
cables out. a pilot was signaled, and although
the sea was running half-mast high, one
reached the Pharoh, and General Babcock sent
the following dispatch 10 DIR. j. G. Lengle, OF
this city, proprietor of the steam towing tugs in
the river:
ST. JOINS BAR via Pilot Town, May so, 1884.
J. C. LellGlc JactS0nrilc Fla: The Pharoh
sails from here this morning. Please send the
Seth Low or Maybe TO tow her over the Mosquito
Inlet bar. Let her take the Pharoh i'll tow II
OYertaken. q L. BABCoCK,
Lighthouse Manager
The sea ran so high that they could not get
out, and the sea had not gone down this morn
ing. The next news received was a dispatch
fsOm Dayton, to the Times LRtoR announcing
the sad catastrophe When the tug comes
back from Mosquito Inlet, full particulars
viii be known. The probability is that Pharoh
anchored off the inlet, and the General aud his
party undertook to go ashore in small boat,
which was swamped amid the breakers.
United States Senate.
WASHINGTON, June 3d.-On motion of ingalls,,
the Senate resolved that when it adjourn to-day
it be till Friday next.
In accordance with unanimous understanding
of yesterday, the Senate proceeded to the con
sideration of the calendar of cases unObected to.
Among the bills read the third time and
passed were the following: Bill TO reduce by
Congress the annual leave of absence with pay
TO letter-carrerS. The bill provided for thirty
days leave, but the Senate Committee on Post
offices and Post Roads recommended that the
vacation without reduction of pay be made for
fifteen DAYS instead of thirty. The bill was
amended to correspond with the recommends
ton of the committee, and then passed. 1t au-
thOriZed the POStmasterGeneralt TO employ
number of substitute letter-carrierS when neceS-
Sary, by the provisions of the bill, the compen-
sation of such substitutes to be at the rate OF
5000 year.
4 bin was introduced by Pendleton TO regu-
late the payment of bills of exchange drawn in
foreign countries on persons, firms or corpora
tons in the United States.
After passing siXty-two bills, the Senate adj
jOurned.
House of Representatives.
WAsHINGToN, June 3d.-Payson of Illinois as
a question of privilege, called up for consider
alton the bill reported from the Committee on
Public Lands, to prevent unlawful occupancy
of Jublc lands.
Henley of California made point of order
that the bill was not of that character which
was privileged under the Holman resolution,
but the point was ouerruled by the Speaker.
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