Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-12-26
THURSDAYS WIS.
CONDENSED FROM SPECIAL DIsPArcHEs.i

The Grant fund amounts to SHIPS OF.
Order has been completely restored in
| Peru.
! Evarts is being doomed for the Presi-
dency.
Schaefer defeated vignaux at Chicago
Thursday.
Oyster pirates are again causing trouble
in Chesapeake Bay.
Senator Payne was hanged il cffigy at
Canton, o., on Monday night.
1t is expected that Germany will demand
the recall OF Consul-General Mueller.
1t is reported that cholera is raging in
Cayenne, the capital of French Guiana.
The Pope Thursday ordered the distri-
button OF $4,000 among the poor at Rome.
Richard Hotchkiss, school teacher.
fatally logged Albert Chandler at Prospect
Conn.
At Cranes Nest. n. Y. Aaron Shaw
fatally wounded his wife, and then shot
himself.
Rhodes and Delmas will appear for the
State when the railroad tax cases come up
i'll January.
The French Chamber of Deputies Tburs-
day adopted the Tonquin credit by vote
of pa to 270.
Seventy-five dead bodies have been re-
covered from the Ferndale pit, at Pont-v
Pridd, Wales.
A matcn is being arranged between Sulh-
van and Ryan for $1,000 q side. half the
stakes being already up.
Commissioner Sparks has decided the
case of w. j. Hamilton VS.. the Northern
Pacific against the railroad.
saulted with knife by life convict, at
Sing Sing, named De Bal, on Saturday.
At Springer. n. NJ, Theodore Baker was
hanged by mob but cut down by citizens
before he was dead, on Wednesday night
AT 10 o'clock Thursday evening the Jury
in New York returned verdict in the
Plume Potter libel case, awarding the plain
tiff $500 damages
The City of Para, just arrived at New
York, brings home the crews of five vessels
wrecked In the harbor of Aspinwall during
the storm of December 3D.
Zanzibar and Germany have signed a
treaty of commerce, the provisions of which
favor the Hamburg Mercantile Community
and the East African Society.
Captain Nordefeldt and the crew of the
barkentine karman, wrecked at Aspinwall
Oh DSCcllDeI II, arrived at New Ork
Thursday on the City of Para.
The Austro-Hungarian Customs Confer
| ence has proved failure. The delegates
could not reach an agreement, and have
| therefore departed for their homes.
The Treasury Department has purchased
l,5oo,Oo0 ounces OF silver this month, for
coinage into standard dollars. The silver
dollar is now quoted at 70 Is cents.
placed upon the following committees:
Railroads, Transportation, Routes TO the
Sea-board, Mines and Mining, and Claims.
General Manager Oakes of the Northern
Pacific denies that his road has secured
! control of the Oregon and California line
and also pronounces absurd the rumor that
the Northern Pacific and the American Pa
cIhc Express Companies are about to be
consolidated.
1t is officially announced in New York
that the Anchor line steamer CITY of Rome
and the steamer American of the National
line, two of the fastest and best appointed
ocean greyhounds, will form an express
service between New York and Liverpool
commencing in April.
The Pope gave a Christmas reception
Thursday to the Cardinals in Rome. He
! complains of the present trying position of
the Pope in Rome. and said it would ever
| be SO until Rome was given back to the
Vatican. His Holiness, in an encyclical
letter, proclaims 1856 a year of jubilee.
| Charley Mitchell says to a New York re-
| porter 1" should advise Dempsey and
his loailng comrades not to try to run me
out of town. | am not looking for trouble
but shall be at all times ready to defend
myself. | am making money now, and if
left alone, will not trouble the boxing fra
ternity for the next four months"
Clara Morris, who was to appear at the
! Star Theater in New York on January 4th.
has been compelled, through severe illness,
to abandon the idea. Modjeska is also i'll
and has given up next weeks engagements
and all Southern engagements. Her
physicians say that an attempt to act in
her present condition would probably re-
suit seriously.
N. w. Bingham, special agent of the
Treasury, at Boston, has written a letter to
| Supervising Agent Martin, declining to re-
sign as requested by the latter. His
| grounds for declining are that his office is
in no sense political or partisan, and that
his long term of faithful service and free
dom from active political partisanship en-
titles him to still continue to fill his present
position.
Dispatches confirm the reported discov-
cry of republican plot in Tarragona.
Spain. The troops are said to be thoroughly
imbued with revolutionary principles, and
several officers have been arrested and their
places filled with known loyalists The
plan of the conspirators included six simCl-
taneous risingS,i in which the troops were TO
declare for Gorilla and republic, and to
invite the populace to flock to the repub-
Hcan standard