Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-08-14

this morning, the weako r st,,cls be;ng 81
Paul, New York Cent al and TTnion Pacific
Later the whole i It became weak during
WI whlch the early gains were generally lost.
n ne strength in Missouri, Kansas and
Il ieNas Is F..cributed to the announcement
'liat me pool of the Texas lines had been
CG.np .etcd, to extend five years, subject to
WI -ndrawal on sixty days notice. The
.haEset was active at the opening, but
later became dull, and at II o'clock is dull
and heavy.
New YORK August 13th.-Central Pa
citic, 345; Burlington, 1870; Northern Pa
cific, %; preferred 4S5; Northwestern,
1929 New York Central, 97l Oregon Nav
igation, 79l Transcontinentai, l95; Pacific
Mail, 4S5; Panama, 9S; st. Louis and
San Francisco, 49,; Texas Pacific, log; I'm
ion Pacific, 4S4 Wells Fargo's Express,
IA Western Union, cog
Changed ChiJdren-Large Estate in Dis
Pute.
MONTREAL August 13th-Mr. Frank. a
leading lawyer of Nebraska, is expected
here in a few days. to examine witnesses
in case involving the right to an estate in
Iowa and Nebraska of the value of half a
million dollars. Stephen Desnoyes, of this
city, emigrated 20 the Western States some
years ago, with his wife and boy. aged D.
LILO SDAI' NOW a. NONIIlS llldi, pCCdlllt us
satisfied with a farmers life and went to
New Mexico. Desnoyes died, leaving no
will, and his next of kin applied
for and received letters of admins
tration. Another relative, however, who
in the event Of young Desnoyes' death, or
illegally of his heirship, would be entitled
TO all his property, commenced u suit set
ting forth that the young man known as
Desnoyes was not son of deceased; that
while baby in the cradle here another
child was substituted for Desnoyes by Il
woman who was near neighbor, and who
had adopted the rightful son: and that,
after some years, the boy who was stolen
died, and was buried in the East while the
| child who was pnt in place of the true son
grew up, without the Desnoyes family ever
noticing the difference, as the children's
age and complexion were the same. 1t is
said that witnesses here have come forward
| and confessed the crime
Quarantine on the Rio Grande.
AUSTIN jTexas), August 13th.-Governor
Ireland to-day issued a proclamation, re-
| citing that persons from Vera Cruz. and
possibly from other places in Mexico, in
tected with yellow fever are entering this
State via FL Paso, Laredo and other points
by railroad and private conveyance, in yio-
olation of his quarantine proclamation.
enforced on the Rio GIande against the in
| fected places in Mexico Quarantine sta
lions will be at once established at Laredo
| and El Paso, and inspection made of all in
coming trains.
Well-known Californian in Washington.
WASHINGTON, August 13th.-Clay W.
Taylor, Past Grand Master of the Masonic
Fraternity, and Past Grand Master of the
United Workmen of California, and MEM
Der of the State Senate is i'll the city. He
| represented California, by appointment of
| Governor Stoneman, and occupied a car
Tlage with Indlana's Governor in the pro-
| cessiOn at Grants funeral. Taylor had the
pleasure OF an interview with the President
at Albany, and will probably see him after
his return to Washington
AUTHORIZATION in Texas.
WACO (Tex.) August 13th-United
| States Senator Coke inaugurated the anti
prohibition campaign IN McLennon county
| tonight. He announced himself opposed
to prohibition, because it was an attack
upon personal liberty. He declared that it
could only be enforced by inquisitorial
measures, incompatible with personal lib
erty; that the move was a political one
aimed at and intended to overthrow the
Democratic party, and as an enemy must
be met and vanquished by the adherents
of the party that has stood in defense of
the personal liberty Of the people.
a Young RascaPs Waywardness.
New York, August notwithstanding
the waywardness of young Armstrong, the
brutal Brooklyn murderer, his mother said
yesterday that recently, after the quarrel
with his step-father, he went TO San Fran
cisco. Shortly afterwards he wrote her a
letter, saying that he was without money,
and that he wanted to return home. She