Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-06-05
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES,

The Canadian Pacific is trying to force
traffic over its own line north of Lake Su-
perior.
John l. Davenport the New York Super
visor of Elections, is reported to have
skipped.
a cyclone disastrous in its consequences,
struck Alden, Arabia, Wednesday night.
The damage done is estimated nj $4,000.
The Guards who arrived at Alexandria
some time ago from Suakim have received
orders from England to remain at that
place for the present.
The President Yesterday afternoon APP
pointed General w. s Rosecrans of Cali
tornia, to be Register of the Treasury, vice
B. X. Bruce, resigned.
1t has finally been determined that the
New Orleans Worlds Industrial and Cot
ton Exposition shall be continued another
year, opening in November.
The Circuit Court at Chicago Wednesday
gave A. NJ. Billings judgment against
William Whalen for $4,000, money adj
yanced Whalen upon wildcat Nevada
mines.
General RosecranS Tuesday presented the
Right Reverend Archbishop Alemanv to
the President and the State Department,
and that eminent prelate was received with
marked distinction.
While running 10 fire in New York
Wednesday night fire company dashed
into a hole i'll the street left by contractors.
Eight men tumbled in, and one was fatally
and others badly hurt.
The naval officers who were on the re-
cent Panama expedition say that the peo-
Pile of Panama are anxious that the United
States should make its temporary possess
sion of Panama permanent.
Herbert Becchcr, who was appointed
Collector of Customs at Port Townsend is
son of Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, and
resident of Port Townsend, where he is en-
gagged i'll the steamboat business.
The press of Paris make violent attack
upon the Aldermen of London for refusing
a vote of coincidence upon the death of
Victor Hugo NJ. Rochefort calls the AL
dermen "A band of ignorant, jealous, tur-
tle-soup eaters
A Chicago special says: Taking the po-
sition of a reduction in acreage of ten per
| cent, the present outlook points to Il crop
of about 130,000,000 bushels of spring
wheat, but even this full crop will not
make up the shortage in the winter wheat
belt.
The EPSON Grand Prize, for three-year-
olds. was run at EPSON, England, yester-
day. b. Wright's bay colt Bird of Freedom
won, with the Duke of Beaufort's gray colt
Pepper and Salt second, and Il. Howell's
bay colt Barnacle third. There were six
starters.
1t is reported that the overtures of the
Porte for an alliance with Russia have met
with a rebuff. Russia, it is claimed. ex-
presses herself content with the present
status of the Afghan question, and holds
that an alliance with Turkey is not now
necessary.
The New York TiiJiinc says Ifreports
from the peninsula are not exaggerated.
the peach crop this year will be the largest
in ten years, if not the greatest in the his
tory of peach growing. The trees in the
orchards in Delaware and Maryland are in
danger of breaking down with their loads
The announcement is made to the Di-
rectors of the Cincinnati New Orleans and
Texas Pacific Railroad that John G. Gauit
would assume the duties of General Man
ager on July 1st, in place of John Scott,
resigned Gault is at present arbitrator of
the Western trunk lines, with headquarters
at Chicago.
Senator Voorhees,, of Indiana, says that
Colonel DENLY, who is a resident of Voor-
hees' State, the newly-appointed Minister
to China, is in full sympathy with the
California people on the question of Chi
nese restriction, and will be in full accord
with the people of the Pacific coast on
Chinese affairs.
Abe Buzzard, noted outlaw, walked in
to the Lancaster (Pa.) county prison We'd
nesday night, and surrendered himself to
the authorities. He was accompanied by
his brothers Mart and John Before giving
himself up he eXacted promise from his
brothers and the prison keeper Burkholder,
that they would not claim the reward of
81 600 offered for his capture.
Bermelia Hopkins has been granted an
absolute divorce at Detroit from Mark
Hopkins, a nephew of Mark Hopkins, de
ceased. Before the latter's death young
Mark was a pattern-maker in reduced cir
cumstances, and lived happily with his
wife; but upon receiving the legacy left
him by the California millionaire, trouble
commenced, resulting as above
Fire Commissioners Purroy and Crocker,
of New York, are charged with having or
ganized a scheme by which Purroy is to be
made a Sachem of Tammany, when he
will make a movement to depose John
Kelly. Five years ago he was outlawed
from Tammany, and has ever since fought
that organization as one of the leaders of
the County Democracy. Mr. Crocker is a
member Of Tammany in fair standing, but
his loyalty to Kelly is questioned.