Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-12-22
TELEGRAPHIC BREyITIES.
Senator Miller's health is improving.

Senator Miller's health is improving.
The New York booksellers lost heavily
on the result of the New Orleans races on
Saturday.
The New York Times says the Republican
ticket was sold out by the district bosses at
the November election.
Primaries for the election of the new
General Committee and the Committee on
Organization of TammaEy viii be held on
Thea Both.
Congressman Mckenna will introduce a
bill providing for the manufacture of steel
and heavy ordnance on the Pacific and At
| lantic coasts.
The Peruvian Minister of War has or
dered the formation of National Guard,
| TO be composed of four corps in Lima and
| two at Callao.
In pugilistic contest at New York. Sat
urday, between two colored sloggers, one
threw the other through a window, losing
the fight by foul.
General C. ]. Paine, of Boston. is to build
a yacht the same length as the Galatea,
| 50 feet on the water line, and expects she
will beat the Puritan.
Huntington is said to be increasing his in
| terest in the Chesapeake and Ohio road, and
intends TO make Newport News an OBJ
| jective point for ocean vessels.
| The anthracite coal companies are to ad-
vance their prices on the LIST, and manu-
| facturerS of pig iron in Pennsylvania say
the advance will materially check the iron
| interests.
Opium joints have become so numerous
in Bath, n. Y, of late that a number OF
| prominent physicians have inaugurated q
movement to secure proper legislation fol-
their suppression.
Charles Mollesey, who pleaded guilty in
| London Saturday to a charge of sending a
threatening letter to Lord Clifton, with a
view TO eXtort money, was yesterday SEN
fenced to live years imprisonment.
The four children recently bitten by mad
| dogs in Newark, n. j., reached Paris yes,
terday, and proceeded to Pasteur's house
! where special arrangements have been
made for the treatment of the little ones.
The Standard Oil Company has com.
! pleted arrangements for the consolidation
and control of the natural gas fields OF
western Pennsylvania and to pipe the new
fuel to Buffalo, Cleveland and New York
The American Cup committee of the New
| York Yacht Club expects 10 receive to-day
an official challenge for an internationa'
! yacht race next spring, from John jameson
of Dublin. owner OF the English cutter
Trek.
1t is now asserted that the recent insur-
| recton in Nuevo Leon, Mexico, was pro-
NOTED by the ambitious Secretary of State
| Romero Rubio, who hopes to succeed his
son-in-law, Porfirio Diaz, as President OF
the Republic.
The leading Clearing houses of the United
States report that the total gross bank ex-
changes for the week ending December 10Th
were 81 ,096, 914659, an increase of 361 per
cent. compared with the corresponding
week year ago
Rev DR.. G. Ford Sutton has been in
stalled in Murray Hill Presbyterian Church,
New York city. He succeeds Rev. DR..
Burchard, of alliterative fame, whose ad-
vancing years unfit him for the position,
and who has been made pastor emeritus.
Saturday morning the jail at Rocking
ham, n. c., was forcibly entered by fifty
masked men, who secured man named
John Lee, took him out of town, and
| hanged him to limb Of tree. Lee muir
| dered Solomon Welsh three years ago for
| his money.
| In the last cane rush at Columbia Col
| lege on Saturday, the casualties consisted
| of twenty-five black eyes, six sprained
nlIol9' tuiee I'idilSicu CoiHS' tNo HldSleu
| fingers, one torn under lip, seventy-tive
parked Sims and one dislocated nose. The
| freshmen won.
DIR. 7. J. Maddox, who was killed in q
| fight with Indians, near White House, New
Mexico, on Saturday, is a son OF DR.. Thos.
Maddox, of Washington county. Nd. He
was commissioned as Assistant Surgeon in
the army, in October, 1881, and his first
| assignment to duty was to the Department
of Texas. DR.. Maddox was 50 years of age.
"A man. believed from papers found on
his person TO be L. 5. KempbeIl, was ar
rested Saturday night on the outskirts of
Council Bluffs. just across the Missouri
river from Omaha. He says he is on the
way to Washington TO kill Cleveland, in
| order rid the country of the Democrats.
He was heavily armed and bad consider
al la r,,prax-