Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-12-16
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

Patti proposes to visit America again
next fall, under Mapleson's management.
jeremiah P. Thomas, California '49er,
died suddenly at his home in New York
Monday.
The fugitive Judge Dawne passed through
Montreal on Saturday. closely followed by
a detective.
= The Vatican has ordered that the seat of
the Bishop OF the Diocese of Grass Valley,
Cal, be transferred to Sacramento.
Adolph Deucher, at present Vice-P resi-
dent OF Switzerland. has been elected Pres
ident for the year 1856. He is q Radical.
Silvani de Lanet, French crank. threat
ems to kill Frank Witherbee, of New York,
for marrying girl of whom he was enam-
ored
The English Liberals who were defeated
by irish votes have begun a movement to
discharge all the Irish workmen III their
employ.
Professions of tenants in Ireland are
demanding general reduction of rents
refusing to pay unless their demands are
acceded to-
1t is said there is a factory in New York
making artificial eggs, which are equal in
every respect to the genuine article, and
much cheaper.
The Irish Parliamentary fund now
amounts to $4,000. Among the contrib
utors are Archbishop Corrigan, $50, and
Joseph Pulitzer, editor of the World, 500.
By some of the Wall-street brokers it is
claimed that the backbone of the bull party
was broken by the death of Vanderbilt
and that lower prices must necessarily fol-
low.
Colonel Ira Aver, chief Of the Special
Treasury Agents and Inspectors at the Gus
tom-house i'll New York, has been ordered
to report tor duty at the port of San Fran
cisco.
The New York HraldS Rome CORE
spondent states that the Pope took part
Monday in a mass for the repose of the
soul OF Alfonso. While looking anxious
and emaciated, his voice was full-toned.
The United States Supreme Court has
affirmed with costs the decree of the Su-
preme Court OF the Territory of Idaho in
the case of the Utah and Northern Rail
way, appellants, VS.. William S. Fisher, As
SCISSOR, etc.
The New York Herald has dug six col
umns out of the Grant d Ward books
which it prints, showing that Ward had a
most unique system of bookkeeping, and
that probably the true history of the firm
Will never be Known.
The report is current in Ottawa that the
Canadian Pacific Railway Company is urg-
ing the British Government to buy large
quantities Of the Canadian Pacific Railway
stock, in order to secure the control of the
transatlantic route to the seashore.
The fourth annual Convention of the
National Guard Association of the United
States met in Washington yesterday after
noon. The Association consists of five
delegates from the militia of each State
Eighteen States were represented at the
meeting.
The Ohio Supreme Court, on the appli-
cation of the Attorney General, has granted
a peremptory writ of mandamus to COM
pei Clerk Dalton, of Hamilton county, to
make a return of the election abstract A
special messenger was appointed by the
Court to serve the writ.
Wall-street railroad people say that al
though there probably is no truth in the
report that the Texas-Pacific is about to be
placed in the hands of receiver, the re-
cent decline in its securities is an intima-
ton that there are too many spectators
engaged in its financial affairs.
In the United States Senate, yesterday,
Edmunds introduced a bill granting a pen
sion to Mrs. Julia Grant, and another bill
granting her the ranking privilege. Ed
munds said the bills were precisely in the
form adopted in similar cases heretofore.
The bill was then read three times and
passed.
The Bureau of Statsucs reports that the
total value of exports of breadstuffs from
the United States during the month of No.
vember was $7,14S, SS8, and in November,
1884, SI1 ,050, 402; total for the five months
ended November 80 1855, So, $50, 593 !;
same time in 1884, $50, 33S, 965; total for
eleven months ended November 80, 1885,
S119,639, 121; same time in 1854, $133, 451, :
SCI.
General DeCourcey, commander of the
French forces in Tonquin, has telegraphed
the War Office that General de'Negrier has
cleared the Marble mountains, north of
Maidoung, of Black Flags and pirates, and
captured number of fortified caverns and
large quantity of arms and ammunition.
One cavern was desperately defended, and
| fully 100 pirates were killed before it could
be taken. Numerous war iunks were sunk
between the Rapids and Bamboo canals.
The country has been pacified