Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-11-17
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

The Bank OF England has raised its rate
of discount.
Ferdinand Ward is growing fat on prison
| fare and hard work.
A ship canal is proposed to connect the
! Baltic with the German sea.
Lieutenant Greedy, the arctic explorer, is
| Lord Rosebery's guest at Edinburgh.
1t is stated that the leading jobbers of
| Omaha intend boycotting the railroads.
The Journal des Debats urges the citizens
of the French Republic to refuse to accept
Belgian silver coin.
The secret police force founded in London
early i'll the dynamite scare, a few years
ago, is to be disbanded.
The gossip among New York newspaper
men for the past day or two is that the Sm.
will soon appear as an eight-page paper,
William Waldorf Astor, the millionaire
and former Minister to Italy, has written
historical romance, entitled Valentine"
Michael Davitt has promised to person.
ally assist Miss Helen Taylor in her contest
for member of Parliament for Camberwell.
A panic prevailed on the Copenhagen
bourse Saturday. Mohr & Kjoer, one of the
largest firms in the corn trade there, has
failed.
NJ. de Brazza declares that he never fred
shot in anger on the Congo, save once,
when he had to kill dog for biting some
natives.
Turkey has ordered 100000 tons of coal
at Newcastle, Eng, 10 be delivered in six
weeks, and has sent Sl50,000 to Hungary
for the purchase Of additional artillery.
Professor Bouley, of Paris, who has done
so much TO poDularize the scientific teach
nf NJ BaS4arr,- 81.
from an affection of the heart. Charles
Lecocq is also dangerously i'll.
Reports from Silesia, Rhineland, West
phalia and other mining centres confirm
the reports of depression in the coal and
iron industries, which depression it is ex-
pected will become more acute
The Bank of Englands recent attempt to
reduce the outside money supply by Dor
rowing on or selling securities having
proved abOrtive, the bank was compelled
on Thursday last to raise its rate of dis
count.
The motion approving the settlement be-
tween Adams and Lord Chief Justice Cole
ridge was heard in London Yesterday.
Coleridge conceded the demands of Adams
and the agreement was signed on the de-
sired terms
Ernest Schilling Hullscamp, ex-coach-
man of Giovanni Morosini, who made
himself famous year or so ago by clipping
with his employers daughter, Victoria, ap-
peared in New York Sunday as a conductor
on Sixth-ayenue car.
The leading clearinghouse of the United
States report that the total gross bank ex-
changes for the week ending November
18th were 81 0G,76I, 557, an increase of
S9.I per cent. as compared with the cor
responding week of last year.
Alice Oates, who a few years ago was the
reigning farorite in opera bouffe, and who
played to crowded houses i'll the best tho
aters all over the country, is playing in a
| low variety theater in Baltimore, where
! beer is sold, and where the demi-monde
resort.
The issue of standard silver dollars from
| the MINIS during the week ending Novem-
| Der 18th was $62S, LII. During the CORE
! spending period of last year, $44S, 99l. The
! shipment of fractional silver coin from
November I'd TO November 18th amounted
| to $317 .446.
The long overdue steamer Sidonian. of
the Anchor line, has been lowed into ST.
Michaels by the Italian steamer Indendete.
The Sidonian left New York September
10Th for Genoa and Leghorn. She was re-
ported with a shaft broken, and was last
seen on October 22d.
An explosion of nitro-glycerine in the
house of farmer Albert Jones. at Auburn.
H. Sunday, entirely destroyed the build
ing. The family was absent, and it is sup
posed domestic cats, left in the house,
while playing upset a can of deadly COM
pound, which had been obtained for stump
, destroying purposes, and had been left in
an unprotected position.
In the fightwith war vessel belonging
TO King Theebaw, reported from Rangoon
Sunday, the fire from the British caused
200 of the crew of the Burmese vessel to
jump overheard. The British then boarded
The vessel and proceeded up the river with
! her. 1t is reported that 5000 troops are
stockaded at Fort Religion. which occupies
high, dominating position over the river
at Alinhala.