Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-04-20
SATURDAYS NEWS.
lcoSpESsEp FROM SPECIAL DISPATCHES
DonesNC.

! Domestic.
The improvement in General Grants
| condition continues.
The President Saturday made several
diplomatic appointments.
Mrs. Steinreide. of Memphis, Tenn, has
eloped with mulatto eoachman.
Secretary Manning has announced that
he will not consider any California matters
for three weeks.
On leaving Chicago Saturday Patti was
presented with a complimentary letter by
| the Opera Festival Association.
Charles Mitchell, the puglist, left New
| York Saturday night for San Francisco,
where he is matched to spar Cleary.
Arthur Heagny, better known as Bobby
Williams popular song dance man,
! died last Wednesday OF pneumonia.
Thomas Murphy, who eloped with a
| preachers daughter from Carroll county,
| MARYLAND, twenty years ago, has just been
| discovered in the mountains III the western
| part of that State.
The Coroner of st. Louis began an in
| quest on the body of C. Arthur Preller, the
| victim of the southern Hotel tragedy,
Saturday morning. There are no addi-
tional developments, beyond those already
| published, disclosed.
| DR.. Newman is strongly impressed with
! the belief that General Grant will recover,
! that the PRAYERS and sympathy of the ma
ton have worked the change, and under
divine hands the means now employed viii
effect his restoration.
A decision has been rendered AT Youngs-
| town, Ohio IN the case of Kembcrly against
Arma, which has attracted much interest,
| as it involved 5000, 000and a large proper
! ton of the stock in the Grand Central
mines at Tombstone, \. 7.
| In Westchester county, New York has
| been found q tunnel which contains the
remains of several rusty picks and shovcls.
| II is coniectured that this was the Benson
silver mine, which, with Captain Kidd's
buried treasure, has long been searched for.
Wheeling, West Virginia, has received a
| shaking up by the report of the Grand
| Jury. One hundred and twenty-five in
dictments were returned sixty of them
being for gambling. Among the names is
that of an Ex-Governor and a candidate for
United States Senator. The newspaper
| offices are thronged with people begging
that the list of names be not published.
Postmaster-General Villas has issued
list Of rules governing the appointment of
Postoifice Inspectors. These rules, after
SelullS lOTtl lle IOulllle ipE dpputdlol,
declare that the candidate must pass an ex-
animation before the Board before appoint
ment b the Postmaster General; that ap-
pointments will be made in the order of
merit and for six months only; reappOint
ment to depend on efficiency.
Senator Stanford stated Friday that Cen
| eral Grant was now taking, by permission
| of his physicians, a certain specific for can
! cerorls growth, in which he and his family
| had great faith While the Senator could
not confirm, of his own knowledge, the
statement that the doctors had blundered
or disagreed, he represented the feeling of
many intimate friends of the family as
! hopeful of the Generals final recovery.
| The Washington Critic has the following
editorial The Democracy of California
! did little or nothing for Cleveland last fall
and appear TO be bent on doing just as little
as possible for the good of the party now.
Rent into unreconcilable factions, each de-
sirous for recognition by the Administra-
| ton when neither deserves 1t, they have
none but themselves to blame if they go
home empty handed. a new deal is needed
| in that State
Mrs Mary Ireland, whose husband was,
as alleged, inveiSled into Canada by Eng
Iish officials and thence transported to Eng
land for trial on a charge of desertion from
| the British army, has received word from
| her husband from Sterling Castle Scotland,
dated the 9Th inst, stating that he has been
| released, as no evidence could be found
against him, and he would not surren-
| der" He said he was left without money
and he had to walk 10 Edinburgh.