Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-06-11
TELEGRAPHIC BREyITIES.

James Russell Lowell sailed from Eng
land yesterday for the United States aboard
the steamer Scythia.
The Queen has created Lord Wolseley
Knight of the Order of st. Patrick, in sue
cession to Lord Ohagun.
The Government of Portugal has ordered
quarantine to be enforced against all arri
walls by way of Gibraltar.
General Logan spent three hours in
chat with General Grant yesterday and
lunched with the family.
A banquet was given to S. S. Cox, the
new Minister to Turkey, by 200 citizens OF
New York Tuesday night.
Roberd Ireland the deserter, who was
decOyed into Canada by British detectives,
has returned to this country.
Emma Nevada denies that she accused
Schwab, the musical critic of the New York
Times, of attempting to blackmail her.
A saloon-keeper in New York yesterday
sat upon keg of powder, and touched a
match to it, blowing his saloon to pieces
and fatally burning and mangling him.
Owing to the appearance of cholera in
Spain, the authorities of Gibraltar have
ordered that all vessels arriving from Span
ish ports shall be subject to quarantine of
five days
The statement of the Treasurer of the
Brooklyn bridge shows that the bridge has
been crossed by y 900, 900 persons since it
opened OF funerals there were ,S22, av-
eraging twelve coaches each.
General Grant passed almost a sleepless
night Tuesday. DR.. douglas said that this
was not because of pain, but that it was
the result of steady thought and applica-
ton to literary work The local conditions
were unchanged yesterday.
The Amalgamated Association at Pitts
burg reports another signature to the scale,
the Akron Iron Company, Of Akron, Ohio.
The firm employs about 5000 men. The
plate mill of the Sligo iron works was run
ming yesterday with non. union men.
George n. Davis, yesterday appointed
Collector of Internal Revenue for the
Fourth District of Michigan, is an ex-
soldier of good record. He is q citizen of
Grand Rapids, and has been prominent in
the business interests of that city for years.
The supporters of Victor Napoleons son,
Prince Napoleon, have issued an election
| manifesto. 1t proclaims no community
with revolutions, and appeals for the sup
port Of all who are opposed to the republic,
promising them fair representation on the
elector list
Governor Hill, of New York, has finally
signed the bill providing hereafter that no
building be put up in New York city to
exceed seventy feet in hight,while in streets
of sixty feet or less IN width the house
must not exceed sixty feet i'll hight 1t will
limit such buildings hereafter to four and
five stories.
General Simon Bolivar Bucllner, the
Confederate General who surrendered Fort
DOnelson to General Grant passed through
Washington Tuesday on his way to Rich
mond, where he will be married to Miss
Claiborne one of the most noted of Virginia
beauties, and who is related TO nearly all of
the leading families of the South.
The deputation of Florida merchants
which recently visited New York city to
inspect the facilities for handling fruit have
completed arrangements which will enable
them to send to that market next season
100000 boxes of Florida oranges, which will
be disposed of by auctioneers, the same as
fruit imported from the Mediterranean Sea.
The RepuJijq1le Franchise. of Paris, speak
ing of the resignation of the Gladstone
Cabinet, says: Europe mast distrust a Min
istry where the wisdom of Sir Stafford
NorthcOte can be annulled by the passion
ate impudence of Earl Salisbury and the
petulance of Lord Randolph Churchill,
when foreign questions demand so much
GOODNESS and tact
Colonel L. n. Batchelder, Deputy Quar-
termaster- General, left Washington Tues
day night for New York to receive and
convey to Washington the testimonials
and presents received by General Grant at
home and abroad, which were presented to
this Government by Mrs. Grant. 1t has
not yet been decided where the presents
will be permanently located.
At a recent conference Of railroad passen-
ger agents it was decided to increase steer
age rates between New ! ork and Liverpool,
but from Liverpool to New York no change
will be made. The White Star, Cunard,
InInan and Anchor lines will charge $50,
an advance of s., while the Guion, State
and American lines will charge SO. The
new rates will go into effect on the 18th
inst.
Exports of breadstul1s from Atlantic
ports to Great Britain for the week ending
the 9th were as follows: Barrels flour
New York, 1927; Philadelphia, II, 400 ;
Baltimore, 2S.6+5; Boston, IS, S65 Mont
real, 5,729. Bushels wheat-New York,
147.77O Baltimore, 8S,037; Boston, 1885,
800 Montreal 165, 404 Bushels corn-
New York, 116. $50; Philadelphia, 4313 ;
Baltimore, 81, 427; Boston, 549, 707 Mont
real, lG5, iO4.
A committee of the British House of
Lords yesterday began the consideration Of
the claim Of Major Maitland Landerdae
to enter tic peeragc. Major Maitland, in
his petition 10 tie Lords, says he is peer
the fourth son Of the sixth Earl of Lander
dale, who, it is alleged, married Mary Mac
Adams in New York in 1872. James Matt
land, a descendant OF the sixth son of the
sixth Earl Of Landerdale. contests the claim
of Major Maitland TO the peerage.
Yesterday morning the special train
bearing the remains of Alexander H
Stephens. accompanied by an escort and
many citizens. left Atlanta, Ga, for Craw-
louisville, where the body, which had been
removed from the vault in Atlanta, viii be
laid in It's permanent resting place at
Liberty Hill. Funeral services took place
Al Charlottesville IN the afternoon, when
General Robert T0ombs, a lifelong friend
of Mr. Stephens, delivered an address.