Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-01-14
TELEGRAPHIC BRETITIES.

France has chartered two more steamers
for use in transporting reinforcements to
Tonquin.
The Chinese Legation in Berlin denies
| that German officers are being enrolled for
the Chinese army.
1t is generally believed in Catholic circles
that Archbishop Gibbons will be created a
Cardinal in May next.
The Baltimore Corn and Flour Exchange
has adopted long resolution, opposing the
proposed reciprocity treaty with Spain.
The impression is gaining ground that
the appointment of a Commissioner OF
Labor Statistics will be left to the next Ad-
ministration.
1t is rumored in London that q Vienna
banker has been defrauded of 100000 by
his confidential clerk and that several
firms have failed.
The Augusta, schooner-rigged steamer,
has Just been completed at Dialogue
shipyard, in Philadelphia, for the Govern
ment of Venezuela.
a sect has been formed in Paris for the
purpose of suppressing the name of the
Deity in all languages. They call them
selves Anti-Deists."
A meeting of Spanish-Americans was
held in Tammany Hall, New York, Mon
day, to discuss the question of how to aid
the sufferers by the earthquakes i'll Spain.
Chicago merchants are complaining that
goods are underestimate al the New York
Custom house, giving Eastern merchants
an unfair advantage over those OF the " est.
The London World announces the APP
preaching marriage ofViscount Sherbrooke
(Robert Love-, aged 10 years, and wild
over without an heir, to Miss Sneyot, his
amanuensis.
The examination at Wilmington o., of
the accounts of ex-Treasurer l.. d. Reed
show him TO be out about $4,000. Reeds
tendsmen are good and the county will
lose nothing.
Biggar, member of Parliament, met with
an enthusiastic reception at Londonderry,
Monday. The horses of his carriage were
unyoked and the vehicle drawn through
the streets by crowd.
The London World congratulates Mr..
Inderweck, the great Queens counsel, re
Gently in America, on acquiring 100000
acres of land in the North Fork ranch,
not far from Manitoba.
The Nicaragua Canal engineering party
arrived at Managria, Nicaragua, on Satur-
day and made an official visit to the Presi-
dent, who received them cordially. They
left Monday for Grenada.
A memorial of the Chamber of Com
merce of Eureka, Cal, was presented in the
United States Senate yesterday, asking for
an appropriation of 100000 for continuing
the improvements of Humboldt Bay.
Redmond, NJ. P, addressed a large
gathering in Edinburgh, Scotland, last even
ing. He declared the Parnellites had no
sympathy with the perpetrators of out
RACES, and had no influence over them.
The sudden death of f. F. Payne, an
active partner of the firm of Payne u Co.,
bankers, in Warrenton, W. Va, made nee
essary an assignment of their assets and
the announcement to this effect, yesterday
No preferences.
In his effort at New Haven, Conn, to
break &C, 600 pieces of coal in six days, the
score of DR.. Carver at las P. N, yesterday,
was Shots, 10000; hits, 1866; misses,
2,135. The impression is growing that he
will not succeed.
The Customs authorities of Montreal
have unearthed a series of gigantic frauds
which have been perpetrated upon them
bv Brosseau & Tisabelle, an old and prom
inent firm of customs brokers' in collision
with several merchants of that city.
The Secretary of the Interior has re-
versed the decision of the Land Office in
favor of Dodson, in the case of the State of
California VS.. Nelson S. Dodson, and holds
that the States indemnity school section of
lands in Los Angeles District is valid.
General Hatch left Wichita, Kan, on
Sunday morning with troop of the Ninth
Cavalry for Saltwater, l. T., to remove
COUGHS colony of boomers, and he will be
Joined at that point by four troops from
Reno and Fort Sill, and one from Camp
Russell