Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-02-27
TELEGRAPHIC BREyITIES.


George w. West 4 Co, bankers and bro
kers of Boston, have failed and gone into
insolvency.
Advices from Durham, South Africa, state
that martial law has been proclaimed il
Bechuanlaud.
The Chinese Government has contracted
loan of 100000 with the Hongkong
and China Bank.
Admiral Courbet Will take a position near
Shanghai, for the purpose of interccpting
vessels with rice cargoes.
The annual meeting of the stockholders
of the Union Pacific Railroad Company
will be held at Boston March 18th.
England has refused to recognize the
French declaration making rice contrabSnd
of war if found on vessels bound To or from
Chinese ports.
\ body of troops has been sent to Castua,
Austria, 10 quell Il riot created by the action
of the Podesta in naming the streets in
Slay, instead of Italian.
\ monster meeting is 10 be held in Pho-
nix Park, Dublin, Sunday next, to protest
against the action of the House OF Com
mons i'll eXpelhng 0Brien.
The proposed visit of the Prince of Wales
to Ireland is said 10 have originated with
the Queen. She also desires that Prince
Albert should reside in Ireland.
The English army estimates for 1856 are
announced. They amount to eli, $50, 700.
This sum includes the expenditures which
the Soudan expedition nccessitateS.
The Senate yesterday made the following
contributions Register of Land Office
Patrick II. Winston, Jr.. at Lewiston, |. T.;
and Mark d. Blunt ut Pueblo, Col.
The British War Office has approved of
the plan to lay section of pipes to convey
condensed water to Suakim 10 supply Gen
eral Graham's expedition TO Berber.
The Indians of the Crow agency charge
the agent, Larry ]. Armstrong, with reduc
ing their rations and an attempt to fraudu-
lently lease part of their reservation.
The commander of the German corvette
Stosch, at Hongkong, has received by tele-
graph orders of considerable length, and it
is believed the vessel will proceed to the
Pacific.
1t has been decided that the marriage of
the Princess Beatrice to Prince Henry of
Battenburg shall take place in Whipping
ham Church. Isle of Wright, in July, while
the Queen is at Osborne.
i nc iSAl Vi INC lltW CblliltIClul treaty
between France and Burmah is published.
The contracting powers accord each other
- favored nation treatment i'll all matters
of commercial intercourse.
The French Chamber of Deputies reject
ed the counter proposals of NJ. Gemain to
abolish the tax on unoccupicd lands and
raise the necessary revenue by increase OF
duty upon alcoholic liquors.
-. II.
wednesday celebrated the SD birthday of
Victor Hugo. \ procession of students
will offer their congratulations to-day.
Victor Hugo is hale and vigorous.
Under the decision of the Court martial,
Swain will draw $3.50 per annum, with
an allowance for fuel, forage, etc, for the
next twelve years, when he will be retired
with the rank of Brigadier General.
The Associated Chamber of Commerce, OF
London, discussed Wednesday the present
depression of trade, without reaching a
suggestion rs to the means necessary to in
fuse new life into commercial interests.
The Presidents nomination of i. Z.
Warren as Governor of Wyoming Terri
tory is received with much satisfaction III
Cheyenne. The appointment is considered
an excellent one, and gives satisfaction to
the entire Territory.
The Transcontinental Railway Associa-
ton began a session in Chicago yesterday
morning for the purpose of appointing q
Commissioner to succeed Ristine, and to
consider the refusal of the Texas and Pa
cific to sign the agreement.
From reports received the entire peach
crop of Kansas will be failure, with proba-
bility OF the death of young orchards APP
but blackberries and small berries generally
are badly damaged by severe cold.
In accordance with the request of Prince
Hohenlohe, German ambassador to France,
the French Government has ordered the
expulsion of the German Socialists con-
cerned in the riot which occurred on the
well-known Socialist journalist.
On the 10th of February Cyrus w Field
sued for libel Henry Labouchere, editor OF
the London Truth and publisher of that
journal. Yesterday writ for libel ON Field
agent of the New York Herald, and another
writ was issued against James Gordon Ben
nett, proprietor of the same journal.
The London Tines Haiphong CORE
spondent telegraphs that large numbers OF
wounded are returning from the front on
the Langson road The correspondent
adds: Heavy fighting has occurred, but
all news is suppressed and the wires are
appropriated by the French naval author
tiles. The Germans are busy drilling the
Chinese and sending them to the front"
The District of Columbia Commissioners
have ordered that no freight trains shall be
allowed to enter Washington between Fri
day of this week and March 9th. As the
city is dependent on the markets of New
York and Philadelphia for household sup
plies by daily freight trains, to cut them off
when the population is to be more than
doubled means famine and an immediate
advance in price-sof all food supplies.
Naturally the hotel men are very indignant
of tho order