Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-01-21

Philsdelphia Saturday at the Commonwealth
Club.
Two furnaces of the Allentown pa Iron
Company being blown out, 70 men were ren.
dered idle.
General W. c. Plunkett, prominent man
ufacturer and politician of Adams, Mass,
died Saturday, aged 81.
A. NJ. Palmer and Mrs. Sheridan Shook
were married recently at Stamford, Conn. !;
their courtship was peculiar one.
w. H Guion, of the firm of Williams &
Guiou, steamship agents in New York, has
made an assignment; liabilities, 81, 000,0 900.
The President has approved the Act max
ing an appropriation of s., 100000 for con-
tinuing improvements in the Mississippi river,
Congressman Glascock, in an interview,
states that he is sangdine of the passage Of
the amendments to the Chinese Restriction
Act.
The Redmond brothers expect to sail from
New York February 25th. They will speak
in Chicago and other cities before leaving the
country.
A New Orleans paper announces the death
of Rev. Edward Fontaine. He first sug-
gested the jetties for the mouth of the Mis-
sissippi river.
Mike Cardigan and wife, who cruelty MUIR
dered their adopted daughter at Oursy, Col,
few days age, were lYnched by Vigilantes
Saturday morning.
A bill to release the securities of the late
Collector Rollins, of San Francisco, from the
payment of S22, 900 defalcation, will be re-
ported on favorably.
An amicable adjustment is announced in
the breach of promise suit brought by Cap
tain Hildreth against Mrs. Sophia Cshill, the
widow millionaire of Philadelphia.
Seven members of Henry Kendall's family.
living near Louisville, were poisoned Saturday
by rat poison, which by mistake was put In
biscuits. Kendall and one son will die.
Through the efforts of Congressman Kel.
logg before the Solicitor of the Treasury, a
license as master of steamboat is to be is
sued to Mrs. Mary Miller, of Louisiana.
Two men, one white and one colored, start.
ed from Cairo, ILL.,, for the Kentucky shore
Saturday afternoon at 3 o'clock. the skitf
was upset and the colored man was drowned.
The House Committee on Pacific Rail
roads will soon report a bill compelling all
Immigrant roads to pay the cost OF surveying
and selecting lands given in aid of construc-
ton.
There was long debate in the House,
| Saturday, on the Fitz John Porter bill Slo-
cum defending the bill, and Cutcheon, of
Michigan, attacking it. No action was
taken.
The prosecution in the Mutt case at Pitts.
| burg concluded the rebuttal testimony Sat.
urday morning, and the defense, not caring
to offer any sur-rebuttal evidence, the case
| was closed.
The case of the st. Louis, Iron Mountain
and Southern Railway against the Southern
| Express Company for $1,000 for an alleged
| lzE. = a. -;ol -,
| phis, Saturday. in the Federal Court, and de-
cided against the Iron Mountain.
! Rev. Arthur Crosby, who has been one of
the two pastors of the Second Presbyterian
Church. in Brooklyn, n. Y, since his church
ard that of DR.. Nandyke were united, about
Que year age, has resigned to take the pulpit
OF the Second Presbyterian Church of San
Rafael, Cal.
! Matthew Arnold arrived at Chicago Satur-
day evening" and is the guest of General Nc
! Clurg. In an interview with reporter of
the Times, Arnold expressed his surprise at
the tendency Of Americans to flock to the
cities and seek an education fitting them eniy
for clerical labor.
| The father of Bertha Z. Clear, secretly
married few days since in Philadelphia to
| John B. Garrison, the Living Skeleton"
has filed bill Of equity praying that the
daughter is lunatic, incompetent OF enter
ing into contract.
In Pittsburg Saturday Minnie Hauk, the
prima donna, and her husband, Walter Wort
ley, were arrested on a charge of assault and
battery on Madame Auburtin, Minnie's wait.
Jag maid, who alleges that WOrtley had for
chilly elected her from the room. Wortley
said Auburtins conduct was 80 violent that
it was necessary to remove her. The case
was dismissed.
An explosion, probably caused by gas, &C.
Cured Friday night, at 157 and 159 Hanover
street. Boston, demolishing the building,
blowing out the front and sending the roof
across the street. William Comfy, Of East
Boston, and A. H. Blake, of Chelsea, pass
ing at the time, were hurt. The windows of
almost every building on both sides of Han
over street for distance of two squares were
broken. Nobody was killed. Loss, probably
$4,000.
FOREIGN.
There is much misery in Paris over a lack
OF work, and grant of 5000 600 francs is
proposed.
The Russian Nihilists havs adopted the
photograph in order to issue their papers and
procamations.
The London jury in the case of Wolf,
charged with having explosives in his posses.
sion, failed to agree.
The Lower House OF the Prussian Diet has
rejected the motion to restore the three abro-
gated articles Of the constitution relative to
the Catholic Church.
Mail advices from China state that several
Chinese bankers have committed suicide
owing to the unsettled political situation snd
the deplorAble state of the money market.
The Europeans and the Egyptian troops in
Khartoum are hemmed in by Arahs; "Chi-
nese Gordon has been sent to Khartoum as
the representative of the British Government.
The Pope has received assurances that the
projected visit of the Emperor Of Austria to
the King of Italy will be conducted so So not
to wound the susceptbilities of his Holiness.
The new Spanish Prime Minister announces
that the programme of the Government will
be based on liberal lines He will constantly
endeavor to keep free from international pol
itics.
4 Dublin dispatch says Colonel Stuart
. Kuox, Grand Master Of Orsngemen, has
issued sn appeal to the Orangemen of Tyrone
to march on Thursday, and demand justice
for the murder OF young Griffin of Dromore.
Negotiations are progressing for the consol-
idation of the National and Mercantile banks
il the City Of Mexico. Changes in the Gov
ernment conc scion to the National Bank will
be necessary. The combined capital Of the
two banks will BE- 1900, OOO-4O per cent.
paid up.
Henry George has heen lecturing in the
English provinces during the week in half
filed halls. He has no important supporters.
The Liberals, who are interested in rs-
tionsl land reform, agree in saying that
Georges advocacy of the plumber of land
lords discredits and is likely to postpone the
reasonable measures for which public opinion
is ripening. Georges only political friends
are the Tories, who are maiciously attempt
ing to identify him with the Radicals, who
repudiate him.
PACIFIC SLOPE.
NJ. Herbert committed suicide Saturday at
Portland, Or
Albert Stultz was probably fatally injured
by fall at San Jose Saturday.
The eallows is in readiness at Nevada City
for the execution of John G. p. Collins, Feb
ruary l-t.
Ferris B. Bennett, crazed in Santa Cruz
county by religious excitement, has been
taken to the NAps asylum.
/ The Keystone mine, near Virginia, New,
is to be drained. preparatory to resuming