Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-02-18
TELEGRAPHiC BREyITIES.

The wife of United States Minister Lowell
is dangerously i'll in London.
1t is rumored that France is preparing to
send an expedition TO Tripoli to forestall
Italy.
Friends Of John Russell Young, Minister
to China, expect his return to this country
in March, whether removed or not.
Queen Victoria will shortly have another
great grandchid by the accouchement at
Windsor Castle ofthe daughter of Princess
Alice.
Dispatches from korti state that Arabs
are deserting from Metemneh in larye num-
bers and entering the British camp at
Gubat
Albert Scott, who represented himself as
San Francisco merchant and swindled
Chicago merchants, is under arrest at
Chicago.
a dispatch from General De Lisle states
that the French loss at the taking of Lang
son was thirty killed and two hundred and
twenty-five wounded.
The Illinois Legislature met in Joint ses-
sion yesterday to vote for United States
Senator. The Speaker voted for Morrison
No other vote was cast.
The Pope has refused to see Michael Da-
witt. 1t is stated that he Gears that England
may deem an audience with Davitt under
present circumstances an hnfi'iendly act.
The New York lN,d and Erpress thinks
that California III her irrigation laws or
provisions should furnish model to other
States regarding the distribution of water
Near Conemaugh, Pa, on the Pennsyl-
vania road, Sunday two stock trains col
lidcd. Two Chicago drovers were killed,
and Il tramp stealing Il ride was seriously
hurt.
New warrants have been issued for the
arrest OF Conch Stafford and other Okla
homa invaders, returnable on March 5th
the day the boomers have set for another
raid ON the Territory.
Phelan is expected back in New York
soon. He passed through Buffalo Monday
and SAID to Il reporter; =" | did not care to
pauperiZc myself, while Short was walkine
the streets under bail.
In the New York Assembly Yesterday
q resolution calling ON Congress to pass the
EdmundS bill 10 place Grant on the retired
list was announced. The resolution was
adopted-ayes II, noes /.
The following are the New York Tiibunc's
headlines on the fdilure Of the Grant re-
tirement bill Defeating an Old
Enemy" Grant Retirement Bill Re
iected," Ex-Ofiicers Of the Rebel Army
in the House Get Their Revenge"
General Durhin Ward SAYS of the battle
of Shiloh . ! assure you that if our Union
Generals say they We're not surprised at the
battle of Shiloh ii is great surprise to me.
Had not the death of the Confederate Gen
eral, Joe Johnston, happened Just when it
did our fate would have been far differ
ent"
The British Government deems it unwise
to make further drafts on home troops
Victoria, y. s. W. Will send a contingent,
composed of seven hundred men, for ser
vice in Egypt. Combined action on the
part of the colonies for furnishing large
force of volunteers for Egyptian service is
suggested.
A prize fight with bare knuckles took
place yesterday morning on a barge in New
York harbor The principals were Billy
McCarty, a hricklayer and Tom Breezev,
driver of an ice wagon. Both were ter
ribIy punished and could hardly be recog-
nized by friends. and were carried from the
barge to their homes.
A Pittsburgh dispatch says: The Inter
national Window Glass Workers Associa-
ton have received intelligence of an ex-
tensivc strike inauguratcd by the Belgian
glass workers against a reduction of fifteen
per cent. in wages The strike, it is
thought. Will have the effect of booming
the trade in this country.
Swiss officials have been warned of a
plot to blow up the Federal palace with
dynamite, in retaliation for repressiye
measures recently adopted by the Federal
\ ouncil. Ii is stated that the police of Ge-
n1va have discovered Il secret dynamite
factory in that city, ana that all the work
men employed in the factory were Swiss.