Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-09-30
TELEGRAPHTC BREyITEEs.

, PRESIDENT Harris Of the Northern Pacific
Railway, who has been SERIOUSLY i'll in New
York for several DAYS past of pneumonia.
is reported a little better.
The weilknown banking firm of Soutter
~ 20, New ork, has made an ASSIGNMENT,
preference Of $4,000 Probably the sus-
pension viii be only temporary
The Chicago, Burlington and Quincy
ltallroad publicly repudiates any intention
OF extending their road from Denver to San
francisco, as reported in the San Francisco
papers.
Ferdinand Ward threatens to make dam
ii5lhS exposures Of prominent persons
concerned with him in his rascality. He
Of the firm.
Carr has formally accepted the Repubi-
can candidacy for the Lieutenant-G G6yern
orship Of New York, declaring that he is
too good soldier to refuse the unanimous
compliment of 700 delegates.
The President has appointed Edwart, A.
Stevenson. Of Boise City, Idaho, to be COW
ernor Of the Territory Of idaho, and Wul.
b, Webb, Of Billings, Montana. to be Sec
retary Of the Territory of Montana
a statement was made in New Yorl, vas-
terday morning thar no more OREGON sal
mon would be shipped there owing 20 The
fact that the United States EXPRESS 6 M
pany had raised the rates from Portland to
New York.
At Austin, Texas, Monday night four
4 negroes were brutally murdered by having
| their skulls crushed i'm with an ak. in the
hands OF persons unknown. They were
servants IN the family OF W. y Bunham,
editor Of the Texas Court Reporter.
-Four negroes-Jerry Finch, MS vie Lee
= II. II
about one mile from the town of Pittsboro.
Chatham county. N. c., on Monday pight',
They were believed to have murdered The
French and Gunter families some months
ago.
Eighty-two yachts are entered for the
annual fall regatta of the Knickerbocler
Club, to be sailed to-day, and one catarla-
ran. The list includes one catamaran, sew
enty-seven cabin sloops, open sloops cat
boats and canoes, divided into eight
classes.
Professor Doremus, who had been re-
quested to make an examination Of the
condition of Cleopatra's Needle in Central
Park, New York, made report to Presi-
dent Crimmlns, in which he urges that the
surface of the obelisk be treated with melted
paratfine, in order to protect it from the
dlsintegration which is rapidly taking
place.
AT a meeting of the Park Commissioners
Monday, letter from General Hancock
was read, which said the military guard at
Riverside Park would be continued until
January 10Th. The Park Commissioners
Will cause the erection of suitable guard
house at the tomb of Grant and the War
Department will erect winter quarters on
the bluff for company assigned to that
duty.
In connection with the expenditures on
account of the recent rebellion in the
Northwest, some ugly Stories have got
afloot in CaIaada- Sir A1olph Csroa. Min
lister OF Militia, has found it advisable to
put off his visit TO British Columbia. and
clear up certain reflections which ha,
been cast upon him in associating his mar
with those who have reaped fortunes
manipulating their accounts with
Government.
The formal answer of the knights Of
Dor TO the recent manifesto Of Manaa
Galloway of the Union Pacific has been r.
ceived at headquarters in Omaha from
Denver. The Knights emphaticaily state
that they abhor the action taken BY the
outraged miners as much as anyone They
inform the Union Pacific Company that it
can get all the white labor it requires from
the citizens Of this country, and that there
Is no excuse for retaining the Chinese.
" We are law-abiding citizens" say they,
and mean TO remain so until our rights
and liberties are jeopardized Then the
first law Of nature will guide US.