Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-03-17
TElEGRApHIC BREYITiES.

TE;.EGRAPHIC BREYTTIES.
\ thief has been captured in New York
who gave the name of Carl Schurz.
The Senate yesterday confirmed General
Black as Commissioner of Pensions.
Mr.. Fairchild yesterday assumed the
duties of Assistant Secretary of the Treas
ury.
1t is not probable that any radical change
! in the navy-yardS will be made for several
weeks to come.
The President nominated John 5. Miller,
of West Virginia, as Commissioner of In
ternal Revenue
La France announces that Crown Prince
Frederick William Of Germany will visit
Paris next Monday,
A Hongkong dispatch says that a French
| man-of-war stopped and searched the Brit
ish steamship Surat.
Suakim adyices do not confirm the ru-
NOR of the fall of kassala and the mas
sacre of the garrison.
Advices from Calcutta report that the tea
and indigo districts in India are suffering
| severely from drought.
The squadron of the British navy sta
toned i'll Chinese waters has been ordered
to rendezvous at Hongkong.
-Four more persons have been arrested at
! Alexandria as acconplices OF Iebehr Pasha
in his treason against the khediye.
The failure of William Voss & co. was
| yesterday announced i'll New York. Al
the Sock Exchange it was believed the
liabilities were small
The statement that Ferry would ask the
Chambers for 4 war credit OF $1,000 600
! francs and $4,000 men, for IN advance on
| Picking, is believed to be feeler.
| \ dispatch from Shanghai says that Ad-
miraI COurisel intends abandoning his po-
| siticn at the Island Of Formosa, and ope-
rate on the coast Of northern China.
| The CORPORATION of Dublin Yesterday by
| 4 vote of IL to II. rejected the motion 70
present an address 10 the Prince of Wales
on the occasion OF his visit here April 8th.
| Peports from the priucinal whcat-orov,-
! mo counties in Yirrinia sboy tbof rho
| acreage * small as rho seed has heen m q
| laree extent frozen ont of fine oround and
| damaged
# * au,boritiveIv learned that tbero is
| no trutb in the re1inrt c,hled from y Paris
na,vsDaner that the Chinese Govarp,uert
! has asked for the mediation of fbe I-rircd
| States with France
Tbern x tall, at Waehington of osl,ir,.
| ,,opgras. tn ,,locc rho Pension, puresr i1
| Tho b9nds nt' In Va Danortr,nnt Tho
present Tuties Of tbe interior Denar,n1r,,t
arc roo haav,- far nra,,er e,Inarvisidn h,. ono
man y
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ne ieuuc'lol u ' ne, loIcg III llie feas-
t+Ii f tnrrnr ~ ,,d tiI
| of C;orernmcn+ cinrks Tho re,Ii1n tbat
tbo,, arc nor nrotectnJ bv tbe ci,.;i Scr,-ino
r1I9s in this form
-
| Inc IIi9 bakers nave already taheli aet,
vantage Oh iie recent passage oi inG Dill
increasing the uliileS on Gereals. ana nave
increases tIle Price OF DIei.d. ne PeoPie are
com pI"l'I.'s aGNase'S as"'lSV ''ic li'c'eaSe
''eiieiai 7iieIilah fi'ls Ttcei'Gu telegram
| l'oIi pene!"i iiatcli' StauIlS thdt upon tle
! receipt OF the PRESIDENT proclamation con
ccfHiil? 'he ohiahoilla iaiidS' most Oh th0se
| preparing 10 invade H1oiah territory &c
/ clded |" return nome.
1t is understood III Washington that
| General Foster will be retained as Minister
| to Spain for the present, with Il view to
! conducting negotiations Tor a more iavor-
aole treaty ana tha' ne VIII! pfonapiY re-
TURN 10 Madfld III Tie course "i fortnight
An enormous transport feet is collecting
| in the Thames, at Portsmouth and Ply
mouth. The size of the fleet far exceeds
any possible needs of the Soudan campaign
The Woolwich arsenal workshops have
! been hurriedly enlarged by the erection OF
temporary structures The worllmen al
| the arsenal are on double time.
Two swift British cruisers have been or
dered TO proceed to the Pacific Ocean to
watch Russian vessels a report is current
that the British Admiralty has offered a
| tempting sum to DomiPelro for the Brazil
| ian ironclad Esmeralla Ever since the
( fall of Khartoum the Admiralty office has
! been quietly hiring all the available steam
ers that could be spared for the transporta-
| ton of troops TO Egypt or India.
The realization IF tbe fact tbo+.o man
seeking n nost-tradcrsLin would have ' t.
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