Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-12-29
TELEGRApHIC BREyITIEs.

New York society people will try to make
New Years calling questionable.
Senator Mitchell has taken Riddleberg-
er's place on the Committee on Railroads.
Stanley is elated at his success in secur-
ing capital for the railroad in the Congo
country.
Amelia Sheehan has been driven insane
in New York through bleaching her hair to
a golden shade.
The enthusiasm in regard to the pro-
posed Grant monument seems TO be dying
out in New York.
English journals say the Irish agitation
would collapse at once were it not for
American money.
At no time since April, 1878, have the
payments of duties on imports in silver
coin been equal TO one-half of per cent
An unknown woman jumped from a
third-story window in Cleveland, O., yes
terday, and received probably fatal injuries.
The railroad people are working hard to
prevent the forfeiture OF the grants to the
California and Oregon aud Oregon and Cal
ifornia roads.
Hereafter Cleveland proposes to hold
Senators and Representatives responsible
for the men they recommend for appoint
ment to Office.
The Gladstonian Liberals are endeavor.
ing TO save the situation by proclaiming
that all accounts published last week were
unauthorized.
Conkling writes to 4 Grand Army Post
in Hartford, Conn, that he is too busy tc
deliver the address on Grant, though he
would ike to.
1t is reported that strong opposition viii
be made to the confirmation of the ap-
pointment OF John Hse, appointed to be
Surveyor General of Arizona.
1t is stated in London that Russia and
Austria are secretly arming, and that both
of those countries have sent orders to Eng
land for large quantities of stores for theil
respective armies.
In response to- urgent kilograms from
Senator Fair the Secretary of the Treasury
has decided to send a search party after til,
missing whaler Amethyst, supposed to b,
cast away in Behring's Sea.
The breach between the Parnelltes anC
Tories in England widens daily. The pro
tests of the Tory press against home rult
are daily more emphatic. The silence o
the Tory leaders is unbroken.
The Montreal Herald, the recognized or
= gan OF the Canadian lic Company, says
working or pooling arrangement-has
been entered into between the Grand Trunk
and the Canadian Pacific Railroads.
Mrs. Elicit f. Shepard daughter of the
late William II. Vanderbilt, arrived at
New York yesterday morning on the
steamship Seryia, her presence being neces-
sary to probate her fathers will. The neces-
sary legal steps can now be taken without
further delay.
Grevy was reelected President of the
French Republic yesterday on a joint vote
of the Senate and Chamber of Deputies
acting as the National Assembly. The
balloIing was carried on amid great excite
ment. Only five members OF the Righ
= cast haiiots. Crews total n ajority va:
125.
On the 1st OF July the Postmaster Gen.
eral made twenty-five appointments O
Postofiice Inspectors TO serve through the
remaining six months of this fiscal year
with the understanding that if theil
services were satisfactory they were to re
ceive permanent appointments at 81 SOC pes
annum.
The German papers express a hope tina
the Government Will protect Germany!
commercial interests in Madagascar. whicl
they say will be compromised if the pro
visions of the Franco Madagascar treaty
should prove to be the same as announced
in the. French Chamber OF Deputies by d.
Freycinet.
The news that the Queen Regent o
Spain had granted amnesty to all politica
and press offenders in Cuba was known t.
every Cuban in New York Sunday Tht
Cubans say that it is a great triumph fo
their cause, as it goes to show that Chris
tina is anxious to gain their affection anC
confidence