Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-05-26
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
Gustavus Kent, notorious burglar, W
nrrnsted in New York Saturday NIGHT

The issue of standard silver dollars from !
the MINIS during the week ending May I'D |
was 262 497.
Sergeant Bates has written a long letter
to the Postmaster-G General soliciting an APP
pointment in the postal service. ,
Yesterday, Whit-Monday was a holiday
in London, and the Bank of England and
the Stock Exchange were closed.
The object of Earl Roseberry S visit to
Berlin is to cultivate more cordial relations
between England and Germany.
Zachariah Montgomery, of California,
Attorney-G eneral for the Int rior Depart
ment.
The weekly New York bank statement
shows reserve increase of s., $4,000. The
banks now hold $50, $4,000 in excess of the
legal requirements.
Secretary Lamar has declined to review
the decision of his predecessor in refusing
to issue an order for the survey of Arsenal
Island, opposite st. Louis.
Six cars containing 30, 600 brook and Cal
ifornia mountain trout have arrived at Port
Jervis, \. y. The trout will be placed in
the streams of that region.
New York farmers find it difficult to get
average price in New y ork Cityis not much
more than fifteen cents dozen.
Secretary Manning and Smith NJ. Weed
spent Sunday at Greystone as guests of
Tilden. 1t is reported that Manning seeks
Tilden'S aid IN his difficulty with Bayard.
It's stated that Cunningham, the dynam-
tier who was sentenced to imprisonment
| for life has shown symptoms of insanity
since his confinement in the Chatham
prison.
Ex-President Arthur, Senator Edmunds,
and several members of Arthur's Cabinet,
and many State officers attended the flu
neral, Saturday, of cx-Secretary FreiinS-
/ huysen.
The so-called cholera cases, in the Hos
pital de la Conception, at Marseilles, were
! not cases of real cholera. The sanitary
condition of the sltms has not been much
improved.
John L. Sullivan, the pugilist, has en-
tered counter-suit to his wife's suit for
divorce. He charges her with cruel and
abusive treatment and gross habits OF in
| tOXication.
Whitelaw Reid, editor of the New York
| Tribune. arrived in Chicago yesterday
morning, en- route for California. Mr..
Reid and family left for California in Il
special car.
The French steamship Bordeaux, Cap
tain Philpot, from San Francisco, which
has been ashore in the roads, at Havre
has been foated off She will repair her
machinery and proceed to Antwerp.
The annual announcement that there
have been fifty suicides during the past
season at Monte Carlo is going the rounds
of the French press. The authorities how
ever, assert that this story is ridiculous.
Windthorst. the Clerical leader has gone
to confer with the Duke of Cumberland III
relation to the course to be pursued in view
of the Prussian Governments proposal to
exclude the latter from the Brunswick sue
cession.
Eugene Z. Dewey, who has Just retired
from the well-known New Gork firm of L.
| l.. Oppcnheim Il Co, stockholders, was
given farewell dinner at DelmOnico's
Saturday night, prior to his departure for
| Europe.
Colonel Fred Grant said yesterday morn
| ing that Sunday night was the most com
Portable night his father had passed in two
weeks. He had eight hours of good and
restful sleep, and in the morning was free
from pain.
An inspection of the boiler and engines
|
sailed up and generally in Il rusty condi-
ton. Her return by the United States Gov
| crmment under such circumstances is Sc
verely commented upon.
\ band of Perfectionists in New York
| have undertaken to cure General Grant by
prayer. and are continuing their task with
much sincerity and fevor. They think
| the Generals recent improvement was an
indirect answer to their petitions.
J. L. Meade, one of the most ardent of
the shotgun ''reformers' in Copiah county,
! Miss, Chairman of the Democratic County
| Committee, and a most devoted adherent
| of Congressman Barksdale, has been APP
pointed Postmaster at Hazehurst, Miss.
Vice-Presidcnt Hendricks has gone to
! indianapolis. He will be absent until
ABOUT the middle Of June to 90 to Yale and
deliver an address to the literary society.
| Then he, with Mrs. Hendricks, will return
| to Washington and address himself to the
task of selecting a house for next winter.
Victor Hugo's funeral will take place in
! Paris next Sunday The poets body will
| lie in state under the Arc de Tri0mphe
until Saturday The Communists of Paris
! have resolved to attend the funeral, and to
march with red flags in the procession.
| If they do it is believed there will be a
riot.
ThePresident has designated either Frank
ONeil or James Tracy, or both of St.
| Louis to take charge OF Maxwell, the sus-
| pected murderer of Preller. upon their ar
rival in New Zealand. In the extradition
papers, which arrived in Washington to-
| day. these gentlemen were named by the
| Governor for this purpose.
4 strongly organized movement, started
! by Western Democrats, will soon be made
| TO induce the President to appoint a new
| Civil Service Commission. nder the law
| the Commissioners have no fixed term and
| the President is expressly authorized to re
move any of them. their Successors, of
course to be confirmed by the Senate.
The position of affairs on the Nile is less
| favorable to the Mahdi. The report is CON
| tirmed that he has again been defeated by
| the rival false prophet, and has fled up the
| White Nile The result Will probably be
anarchy throughout i large portion Of The
Soudan. but ii is thought that the Egyptian
| garrisonS at kassala and elsewhere will
now have a chance to escape.
! Acknowledgement Garland told the Wash
| ington correspondent of the Boston HcrGid
| Sunday light that Montgomery was backed
| by strong California delegation, and said
| " Ny Investigations warranted me in rec
! ommending him to the President. As As
| sistant Attorneys General for the Interior
| Department he will have nothing to do
with the Bureau of Education. He will
be called on 10 consider land cases only"
\ cable special from London says: The
scuttling Of the British troops out of the
Soudan has had It's expected effect of re-
viving and immensely strengthening the
power of Osman Digna in the Red Sea lit
toral The tribes which have been waver-
ing in their choice between allegiance to
| III Mahdi and to Great Britain have now
declared for the former, and with them
have gone thousands OF Arabs, who had
declared friendship for England.
The news has just been made public in
! London that the Cabinet has decided that
overtime night work in the Royal Arsenal,
which had been relinquiShed pending di-
! plomatc negotiations. shall be resumed,