Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-07-14
TELEGRAPHIC BREVi1TES.

A riot occurred at Waterford, Ireland,
Sunday, between soldiers and citizens, in
which one of the latter was killed and sew
eral on both sides injured.
/ Charles Dean. aged 81, shot and killed
himself at Oxford, Ky, Sunday, because
| he was prevented from marrying a young
| lady by his uncle, who had discovered that
Dean was already married man.
The story that the British Government
| deliberately allowed Gen Gordon to be
| slaughtered by refusing to pay I'll Mahdi
e5 eco for his release, is secuted in London,
even among the bitterest enemies of the
| Government.
The War Department at Washington is
in receipt of dispatches from Indian Terri
| tory, which says that the disaffected In
dians are becoming quiet, and that there is
favorable outlook for the settlement of
the Indian difficulties.
Grasshoppers have invaded several local
tiles in Mexico, and the people are terror
stricken at the prospects of famine. Super
stitious religious zealOts and fortune-tellers
are everywhere predicting the most direful
and bloody calamities imaginable.
Charles Dyer, one Of the best known citi-
zens of Shenandoah, Pa, Shot himself
through the heart Sunday, in the presence
of his bride of three weeks. 1t has trans
PRED that Dyer was bigamist, having a
wife and four children at Pottsville, Pa.
The Congregationalists Episcopalians and
Baptists of New Hampshire have united in
a petition to the Legislature for q reform of
the divorce laws. They declare that the
proportion of divorces in that State to be
one TO every seven and three-quarter mar
riages.
I Hon, tNtr,r
reports having passed the English cutter
Yacht Genesta on the morning of the 18th
inst, in latitude 400 45', longitude 490 l0
under full sail All were well. 1t is
thought that the Genesta will arrive in
New York about Thursday.
The New York Journal Of Commerce
prints the following statement of the COM
merce of the United States for the first
eleven months OF the fiscal year: Imports,
500, $4,000; exports, 1871 ,5S1 900; excess of
exports, $16l .2S5,0O0. June returns viii
probably show a further moderate excess of
exports.
DR. R. H Gilbert. the father Of the ele-
waited railroad system in New York, died
on the morning of the l1ih from stomach
troubles and neglect. Although be was
wealthy, he had been deserted by his
family and servants. During the war. Dr..
TIlDtIt Mtll al Civ ldD1t ItCOIb as an
surgeon.
Inspector Armstrong has succeeded in
carrying out his instructions to open up the
cattle trails through Indian Territory He
has telegraphed Secretary Lamar that all
differences between the droyeTs and ranch
men have been settled, and that the cattle
from Texas are now moving northward
without obstruction.
A band of outlaws in Watauga county,
North Carolina, disguise themselves, travel
through the country, break open stores and
business houses and carry Off money, and
stop men on the public highway and COM
pei them to stand and deliver up their
goods. This has been going on for months.
The gang numbers ten men, several of
whom have been captured and will proba-
bly, be hanged.
4 crank, calling himself Rev. Cyrus
Jones Spaulding, publicly asserts that he
mas visited Mt. McGregor, and has dis
covered evidence that Gen Grant is in re-
ally excellent health, and that the object of
pretending to be seriously i'll is to escape
trial and punishment as an accessory of
Ferdinand Ward. The lunatic says the
Grants received a large share of the ST. 900
900 which Ward got from his dupes.