Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-08-13
TELEGRAPH BREyITIES.

Letters from Suakim say that the troops
are dying like flies.
A dispatch from Cairo says A fearful
state of anarchy prevails in kordofan. A
famine is also raging at that place.
Four thousand five hundred and sixty
seven new cases of cholera and $50 deaths
were reported Tuesday throughout Spain.
A Chinaman, who is supposed TO be
afflicted with leprosy, arrived at Chicago a
week ago, coming directly from San Fran
cisco.
The cholera panic in Marseilles is III
creasing. The daily average of departures
from that city by railway alone have already
increased 1000 per day.
Thirty-five new cases of cholera and
nineteen deaths from that disease were
reported in Madrid Tuesday. Fifteen of
the new cases exist in one street.
All the Russian Ministers in the Balkan
States have been summoned to St Peters
burg 10 confer with the Government preyi-
Gus to the coming meeting of the Car and
the Emperor of Austria.
Dispatches from Odessa, Russia, state
that several cases Of sickness resembling
cholera have occurred in the Odessa sub
urbs, and that, in consequence, all arrivals
The villages and gardens in the enyirons
Of Herat are being demolished, so as TO
prevent their use for covering the move
ments Of Russian troops in case of hostil-
tiles. England will pay for the property
destroyed.
\ Calcutta dispatch says: Lord Dufferin
is actively engaged in Strengthening the
friendship of the Indian chiefs He will
give a grand durJqr in November, which
all the dignitaries of Central Asia are ex-
pected TO attend.
Mrs. Mark Patterson, the fiancee of Sir
Charles Dixie, is in India on a pleasure
tour. On learning of the scandal with
which her intended husband is connected,
she Immediately telegraphed Sir Charles 10
announce their engagement publicly.
The RepuJtiqtc FrdRcaise, of Paris, main.
tains that an Anglo-Chinese alliance, often
sive and defensive, against Russia, has been
perfected. The journal contends that. il
England concludes similar alliance with
Turkey, war with Russia will be imlni-
nent.
1t has been learned beyond doubt that
the Pacific Mail Steamship Company has
not only refused to carry the mails upon
the terms proposed by the Postal Depart
ment, but that it has attempted TO embar-
rass the Government by preventing the
carrying of mails on other lines.
General De Courcy telegraphs from Anam
as follows: We have fixed our head
quarters at Haiphong during the preya-
lcnce of cholera. There were IFS deaths
from cholera Tuesday in Haiphong, and sc
persons were down with the disease yester-
day. We have a largenumber of volunteer
nurses to care for the sick
French revenue returns for the past
seven months, which have Just been made
public, show that recent prospective legis-
lation has failed to exclude foreign sugars.
The returns say that the home product
contributed in duties 100000 below the
budget estimate, while foreign sugars
yielded $4,000 over the estimate.
The minutes of the orders issued to the
officials of the Northern Railway, concern
ing their conduct during the Journey of the
Emperor of Austria to Kremsier to meet
the Car Of Russia, have been issued
Among other precautions ordered for the
Emperor's safety is one commanding line
of guards to be posted along the entire
route at a distance of fifty PAGES from one
another.
Secretary Lamar has sent communica-
ton to Attorney-G General Garland, DENYING
the application of Stetson & HouEhton
Miller u Lux and others to institute suit in
the name of the Government against set
tiers on swamp and overfiowed lands in
Kern county, covered by the waters of Kern
Lake, Lake Buena Vista, and the sloughs
connecting them, which are alleged to bC
nayigable. y similar petition from A. 4
Cohen, Of San Francisco, was denied by the
Department in 1879.