Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-06-27
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

| he htlSSlan press continue 10 pfOu
| Salisbury and Churchill.
Lord Salisbury was received with
! enthusiasm at the Carlton Club Thursday
Hanlan says he intends to visit Australia
| again and try conclusions with Beach once
more.
The British Admiralty has ordered &
quantity Of torpedoes known as the
Ericsson Destroyers."
A syndicate is being formed to operate q
| line of fast steamers between Fort Pond
| Bay, L. l., and Europe.
! The Delaware, LacEaWanna & Western
! Railway declared a dividend of two per
cent. for the current quarter.
James D. Fish, late of the Marine Bank,
was yesterday refused a new trial in the
United States Circuit Court at New York
Frank Pastor, brother Of Tony and Will
| lam, all well-known circus men, clowns
and Ministries, 11ied Thursday, aged 4G, in
Texas.
The excursion party of the Mexican
| Associated Press arrived in ST. Louis yes
terday, and were formally received on
| Change.
Business failures occurring throughout
the country during the last seven days
number: For the United States, 1856; and
| for Canada, 10.
Baron Henry De Worms viii be appoint
ed Secretary Of the Board of Trade, and not
William L. Jackson, as was stated in Lon
don dispatch Thursday evening.
1t is reported that Russia will not ask
Salisbury to explain his recent utterauces
in the House of Lords concerning Russia
She prefers to pass the incident in silence
a committee Of importers Of New York
and Philadelphia waited on Secretary Man
ming Thursday and presented a memorial
in regard TO AUTHORIZATIONS and reap
praisement.
Senator Ingalls, who is in Washington,
yesterday received q telegram from the
Governor OF Kansas, saying that an incur
sion by Cheyenres similar to that of 1870
was apprehended, and that great uneasiness
prevails.
The revelations brought about by The ex-
animation being made Of theShackamaxon
Bank in Philadelphia are astonishing. 1t
Is said that there viii scarcely be $50, 900 of
the wreck found with which TO meet obi
cations.
David Quinn, who recently shot and
killed a Chinaman in New York city, with
drew his plea of not guilty and entered a
plea Of guilty of murder in the second de-
gree He was then sentenced to life i'm
prisonment at Sing Sing.
General Grant had a very good night
Thursday, and awoke yesterday morning
much refreshed. The thermometer at the
cottage marked 10 at 10 o'clock yesterday
morning, but visitors from Saratoga report
ed hot day in the valley
It is stated that the Egyptian obelisk in
Central Park, New York, is undergoing
rapid decomposition, due to the moist eli
mate. Professor EngleStOn saws, after g
heavy frost, he has frequently picked up
from the ground around the obeisk several
pieces.
Salisbury has telegraphed Wolseley in
Egypt that he is in full sympathy with his
interests regarding the withdrawal of the
British tro' . from the Soudan. The Mar
quis add Heyer, that the Government is
unable, arious reasons, 10 continue the
expedition.
Captain +. T. Johnson killed Major
Edwin Henry in Green county, Tennessee
September %, 1884 for seducng his John
son'sl wife, who afterwards committed s,li-
eide. The jury at Nashville yesterday
rendered verdict Of not guilty, amid ire
mendous applause.
Luther K Bruce, a leading druggist, shot
and killed J. C. Leutz, prominent mer-
chant and Justice of the Peace, at Douglas
H., Thursday The affair grew out of an
attempt to suppress the liquor traffic, Leutz
being strong temperance man and Bruce
supporter Of the whisky cause.
The Mexican Government has sold the
100000 worth OF nickel coin, stored at
the palace in the City of Mexico since what
what known as the nickel riot" at a
nominal value to London bank, acting as
agent The amount paid was $500, 600
The nickel is already on its way to Eng
land.
Admiral Porter has submitted plans to
Secretary Whitney of steel cruiser, which
he believes viii prove a model in her class.
She is to be $50 feet long, and at the same
time ram, a torpedo boat and a gunboat
She will go forward or backward with equal
facility and carry very heavy armament.
1t is expected that she will attain great
speed
Captain Ward, q Southerner, has been
arrested in New York, accused of swindling
all over the country. Ward was arrested
in that city in 1864, on suspicion of having
been concerned in q plot to destroy it by
firing hotels on the night of the 18th OF No
vember, 1884. Lovejoy's French Hotel,
the st. Nicholas, Metropolitan, Fifth
avenue, Lafrage and several others were
| fired simultaneously, but the fires we're
quickly discovered and extinguished.
After many years of toll the Waterford
ferry has at last become water logged and
now lies in the bottom of the Tuolumne