Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-11-18
rELEGRApHIC BREyrTIEs.

Chinese commune 10 enter the united
States over the Mexican border.
Commodore Harmony will ask for Sl91.-
595 to complete the new dry-dock at Mare
Island
Hugh Mccain, 63 years old, blind man,
charged with numbering his wife, has been
acquitted at Newburg, n. Y.
An effort of the Protestant Churches in
New York city to awaken religious thought
is to begin two weeks hence.
Secretary Manning is trying hard to keep
his forthcoming report from the public
until II IS presented to Congress.
n. Webster, young man, is under arrest
at Chicago. charged with the eHbezzlement
of $1,000 by the Pullman Palace Car Com
pany.
Counsel in the telephone cases on trial
before the Secretary of the Interior have
been gwen ten days in which to file briefs,
and the hearing adjourned.
Herman Boyer, of California has sued
the SchnitZe Betting Company, Of st. Louis,
for 81, 100000 for Infringement of patent
process OF treating raw hides
The Chinese Minister in New York
knows nothing whatever of Baron de
LorIn, who is in that city negotiating for
the construction of railroads in China.
oSiitiss4 dSScibDlN OF l!ic dtoplSu Nd
tionalist candidates for Parliament has
been summoned to meet Parnell at Dublin
next Saturday TO consider the political
situation.
Articles in SCI aral New York newspapers
indicated that q combined attempt is to be
made To coerce the Postmaster-G General
from his present position on the foreign
mail business.
General John p Hatch, Colonel of the
Second Cavalry. has been relieved from the
command at Fort Walla Walla, ". T. He
will be finally retired from the army on
January 9 1886.
BY Instructions, Collector Magoflin, of
the Jl Paso customs district, now only
issues Chinese certificates at two points in
the district - Ell Paso and Nogalcs, a. T
Certificates were heretofore issued at seven
points.
The President has selected Colonel H. NJ
Lazelle, Inspector General of the Depart
ment OF the Columbia, to be one Of the two
officers to represent the United States at
the military maneuvers in India in Janu-
airy next.
The Thalia Theater Of New Yorkis being
boycotted because its director Amberg,
keeps III his orchestra, against the order OF
the Central Labor Union, imported musi-
clans who are not members OF the Musi-
clans Union.
The New York Times thinks that Con-
gress should procure, by means Of com
petent commission, all the facts relating 10
the work done on the Isthmus of Darien, aud
the condition and projects Of the Panama
Canal Company.
Alice Powell, aged II FEARS, has been
found in Princess Anne county, Virginia,
with her throat cut from ear TO ear. Noah
Cherry, negro, was suspected of the crime,
and when arrested confessed the deed. lie
was hanged By the neighbors.
\ Naples special says Yesuvius is again
in state Of eruption. Lava is streaming
down on the west side of the mountain,
and some alarm is expressed as the observ-
atory authorities believe that the erup-
ton Will become more serious than it is at
present.
\ dispatch from Belgrade says: General
TopaloVitch, with the Moravia Division,
had desperate battle with Bulgarians at
Tan, and the latter were totally defeated.
The SeryiaHs fought with great gallantry,
and captured two guns and many prison
ers. Three battalions of the Bulgarians
surrendered.
Andrew 3. McCreery, a California mill
ionaire, has purchased of Colonel Robert
q. lngersoll the elegant residence at No.
1915 n street, Washington, together with
the household furniture. The price paid
for the house was S38 900, and the furniture
brought $1,000.
The General Society of Mechanics and
Tradesmen celebrated its centennial by a
banquet at Delmonico's, New York, Mon
day night. Among the speakers were Sen
ator Hawley. ex-Gov Hoffman, Chauncey
NJ. Depew, Robert Collier, Horace Porter
and Whitelaw Reid.
Benjamin A. Franklin, of Missouri, has
been appointed to succeed Sheppard, the
Consul at Hankow, China, who was criti-
cised for having hired NJ. g. Hillman as
Acting Marshal of the Hankow Consular
Court. under circumstances of q peculiar
and not altogether creditable character