Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-06-08
LAST NIGHTS NEWS.
SECRETARY WHITNEY AND GOV.
EMINENT MUSICIANS.
a Texas Meteor-Emperor William
General Grant-The Man
itoba War.
ESPECIAL DISPATCHES TO THE REcoRD-UEIoN. !


ESPECIAL DISPATCHES TO THE REcoRD-UNIoN.l
DOMESTIC.
Californians Anxious to Serve Their
Country.
WASHINGTON, June 7th-Samuel Brooks
and ex-senator Hager, of California, ar
rived here Yesterday Brooks is q candi-
date for Assistant Treasurer at San Fran
cisco. He has strong Endorsement from
| business men, and it is said that jeff. Davis
| has written Attorney General Garland q
| letter in his behalf Mr.. Yost of San
Francisco, who wants the Assistant APP
praisership, is also in the city. 1t is be-
iieved that Judge Lawson, of Oakland, has
the best chance OF receiving the appoint.
ment of Assistant Treasurer. Friends OF
| C. Refs, who is also an applicant for the
place, do not seem very active. Tomorrow
| it is expected that John Z. Budd, OF Stock
ton, will be appointed Receiver OF the
Land Office in that city. Budd had the
! highest Endorsements for that position, and
his abilities and fitness for the place were
more than requisite to insure him the ap-
pointment. He is a brother of ex-COn-
gresham Budd, of Stockton.
Civil Service Rules.
WASHINGTON, June 7th.-Stuart NJ. Tay-
| lor, Surveyor of the Port, has written Con-
gresham Henley, saying that under the
civil service law he finds that he cannot
make any removals in his Office. Civil
Service Commissioner Thurman's attention
was called to the matter to-day by your
correspondent Thurman said: There is
nothing in the civil service law to prevent
Taylor dismisSing every emplOye in his
Office He cannot, however, appoint whom
he pleaseS as their successors. He must
| fill the vacancies from a list of persons
who have passed civil service examinations.
| of course he can select his own chief clerk
cashier, etc, outside of civil service rules
If he wants to get rid of his present force
he can do SO without trouble
Employment of Government Bands by
Civilians.
WASHINGTON, June 7th.-Secretary Whit
ney, in his official order relative to the en-
pl0yment of the Naval Band of the United
States steamer New Hampshire, at the
Newport Theater and practically annulling
their engagements, finds no special law on
the subject of musicians taking employ
ment outside that covered by their enlist
ment The custom permitting it, he finds
vided by the Government is based some
what upon the suppOstiOn that enlisted
musicians will supplement their Govern
ment pay from private employment. But in
| these cases there is a universal rule that the
| GOvernmentsha not entcrinto competition
with private individuals unfairly. This has
| become the subject OF general army order,
| to the effect that the Secretary of War has
| discouraged the employment of regimental
| bands for purposes not connected with
their duties in the military service, and
| holds that they should not be brought into
| competition with local bands. In the naval
service the same rule should apply, at least
to the extent OF preventing unfair COMPETE
ton between the bands supported by the
| Government and private individuals en-
gagged in the same business.
The Theving Lewiston Postmaster.
WASHINGTON, June 7th-The Sunday
| Capitdi says: The losses of the Govern
ment FROM the dishonest operations of the
| Postmaster at Lewiston, Idaho, will not be
very large. The Postotlice Department
has got track of and intercepted fourteen of
thirty letters, each of which contain 5000
worth Of money orders, which were sent
! by IIibbs, the defaulter, to banks in the
! West for collection, and the Canadian
! Postal Department has stopped all mail
| intended for Hibbs at Victoria, L. c.
Movements CT the President.
WASHINGTON, June 1th.-President Cleve-
| land attended 4 meeting OF the delegates to
| the Convention of Charities and Correc-
| tons at DR.. Sunderlands church this even
| ing, and was al attentive listener TO
| speeches on prison reform management,
| delivered by Secretary Rounds, of the
| Prison Association Of New \ Ork; Captain
| &. Il. BrockWay superintendent of the
| Elmira N. y Reformatory; ex-governor
| Anderson, OF Kentucky, and DIR. Byers of
Ohio. The President did not drive out
| to-day, but III the afternoon took a walk
down the avenue as far as Ninth street,
where he got on one of the open street cars
and returned 10 the White House.
Receivers of Land Offices.
WASHINGTON, June 7th.-The Post SAYS
| the following appointments will be made
tomorrow: J. L. Budd Stockton, Cal, Re
Ceiver of the Land Office; II. c. Wallace,
/ Receiver at Salt Lake.
Logan at His Post Again.
WASHINGTON, June 7th.-Senator Logan
arrived from Chicago this evening.
Condition OF General Grant.
NEW YORK. June 7th.-After the doctors
had visited General Grant this afternoon
| they said that rs compared with the week
| before, there was no appreciable increase
| Of swelling on the throat, and no apparent
| increase OF the generous trouble in the
! throat. Because of his having contracted
| Il cold. or from other causes the General
| on Saturday experienced greater pain than
| usual. This was directly the result of in
| creased sccretiOns, and the efforts to throw
| off these secretions from the throat. The
patient IS now relieved, the trouble having
been temporary.
a Meteor of Remarkable Size in Texas.
GALVESTON (TexJ June 7th-A special
to the AGrs from Sherman says: y meteor
OF remarkable size was seen near midnight
| last night, going in a southwesterly dircc-
| Jion. The sky was brilliantly illuminated
by it for several seconds. a moment after
the meteor had disappeared, loud eXplo-
sion, similar to the discharge Of heavy
artillery was heard, accompanied by a
perceptible shock. This phenomenon was
followed by Il rumbling like distant
thunder. The meteor appeared to be al
most the size of n -four barrel. 1t was also
observed at Mckinney. thirty-tive miles
distant, where a kissing sound was heard,
greatly alarming some colOred people who
were returning from praycr-meeting, and
causing them to take flight, shouting that
the day of judgment had come.
Movements of United states War Vessels.
KEY WEST fla, June 7th.-The United
States frigate Alliance arrived here to-day
from Aspnwall. The United States frigatc
Powhattan sailed from this port to-day for
New York.
clearinghouse Transactions.
BoSToN, June 7th.-Thc leading clearing
houses in the United States report that the
total clcarances for the week ending June
9th were $74S 637 ,626-a decrease of $50 as
compared with the corresponding week of
last year.
One Chinaman Killed and Another Fa-
tally Wounded.
New YORK, June 7th.-Four sailors
from the United States ship Omaha came
ashore this afternoon. and before returning
aboard their ship went into Mott street,
when David Gwinn. who was with them,
fancied that party of Cinnamon was
laughing at him and his friends, and draw
ing q revolver fired into the crowd of Mon
g0lians. All Now received bullet in the
left eye, and was almost instantly killed.
Another bullet entered the breast of Young
Hook, and he will probably die.
SECOND DISPATCH.l
New YORK, June Sth-A. M.-Speaking of
the murder of the Chinaman Yesterday, the
suns account opens as follows: Seventeen
hundred Cinnamon of this city and Brook
lyn expect to 90 on a Sunday school picnic
10 ROTOR Point by steamer Sirius. to-day,
and IN have fDD or SUo of rbair v-I,;to S,r