Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-01-07
TELEGRAPHIc BREvITIES.
Gladstone's health continues to improy


The Right Reverend John jackson, d.
D., Bishop of London, is dead
The President has nominated John P.
Clum to be Postmaster at Tombstone 4. T.
1t is reported that slight shocks of earth
quake were recently felt in Southern Syria.
An investigation into the Indian land
cases was commenced III Washington yes
terday.
Prince Adolph Wilhelm Daniel Auers-
perg, the well-known Austrian statesman,
is dead.
Deputy Maltzaha committed suicide in
Berlin owing to losses arising from sugar
failures.
The United States Supreme Court de-
cares the San Francisco laundry ordinance
to be valid
Henry Crosby & Co., lumber merchants,
of Philadelphia, have failed. with liabilities
of $500
The President will leave Washington
about the 10Th instant for New Orleans, to
visit the Exposition.
Earthquake shocks were felt Monday
night at Yorktown, Sing Sing, Tarrytown
and Peekskill, \. Y.
In duel with reyolvers at Panama,
Oit VI tIlS lllllClDdiS Was hIlitti,
as was also a spectator.
1t is probable that the Court of Claims
will render decision in the Pacific Rail
road cases next Monday
A bare knuckle prize fight occurred Mon
day night at Bridgeport, Conn, and was
finished in one and half minutes.
The bodies of fourteen men have teen
found in northeastern Nebraska, having
persisted in the recent terrible blizzard.
The French continue to win victories in
Tonquin, the Chinese losing 5000 men in
one battle, while the French losses were
trifing.
The approximate earnings of the Mexi-
can Central Railroad for December were
sos, GOO The subsidies collected TO date
are 81, 0l5,914,
The Emperor Of Austria has nominated
the Emperor of Germany as honorary
Colonel of the Fifiy-seyenth Regiment
Galcian Infantry
4 woman at !yilliansport, Pa, aged %,
has brought suit for breach of promise
with damages of $4,000 claimed, against
man 50 years of age.
Two well-known sheep men, named
Henry Huffman and Joseph Stein, have
been found murdered at their ranch, near
the Kinney county line. Texas.
The President of the North Chicago Roll
ing Mill Company states that the mills will
resume operations in about three weeks
The mills employ about 1000 men.
United States troops have commenced to
move against the squatters i'll Indian Ter
ritory The latter, 500 in number, are well
armed, and propose to resist removal.
The Secretary of War has transmitted to
the Senate an engineers report advising
the purchase by the Government of the
Portage Lake and Lake Superior ship-canal
for $3.50 900.
1t is estimated that the cost OF collecting
revenue at all ports of the country for the
fiscal year is For salaries, $685., $780,
miscellaneous, $l,16o,625. The employees
number II Al.
Ex-Quecn Isabella, of Spain, offers the
u.s. Of her palace for any tete designed to OBJ
tain means for the relief of sufferers by
earthquake. All such events will be patron
lied by the royal family.
The Liberty Bell will be started from
Philadelphia for New Orleans on the 23d.
From Independence Hall to the depot it
will he escorted by 800 policemen and the
Councilmen's Committee.
A gang Of desperadoes murdered John VI.
Baker, recently married in the presence of
his wife, in Carroll county, Georgia. John
W. Smith commanded the gang, and If
caught will be hanged or shot without trial
The late lynching at Clayton, y. c., of
two negroes, who were shot and thrown
into a river has received sensational inter
est by the alleged appearance of one of the
negroes, Henry Davis, in neighboring
county.
The New York ComDlrcjd Bulletin esti-
mates the loss by fire III the United States
and Canada for December at $11 ,O00.O 600,
and for that year at S112,000,000. This is
S15,590,000 more than the average loss for
the nine years preceding.
General Hazcn, Chief Signal Officer has
reduced Sergeant Otto Holnorth, of the
Signal Service, to che ranks and formally
re eommendcd his dismissal from the ser
vice, for riding Lieutenant Grecly's private
papers. The recommendation will be APP
proved.
Judas d. Pctch. who died at Charleston,
5. c., on sunday, aged 81 years, was the
first railroad engineer in the United States.
and in 1880 drove the Best Friend" the
.irst locomotive built in this country. on
the South Carolina Railway, the then long
est railway in the world.
III tlit Observation-Disclosures bullalu lndlCn
at Chicago, the first of the series was won
by Schaefier The conditions are $500 a
side. 800 points, champions game, lines 20
b. 20 inches. At the close the score stood
Schacfier 500, Slosson $50. Schaeffer's aver
age was rs 32-4S. Slosson's was II l5-47
Numerous British officers in London,
thinking from The orders sent to Ports
mouth that the Government intended q
take serious steps, visited the Admiralty
Monday and rendered their services. They
were informed that the summoning of off
GERS and sailors on Through to their ships
was merely a routine step.
Citizens OF California, now in attendance
at the Worlds Exposition at New Orleans.
held u meeting in the Government building
yesterday, and adopted memorial to the
California Legislature, praying for an APP
preparation to aid the California display in
renewing fruit and charging other exhib-
its, for which there is yet an abundance of