Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-07-01

TELEGRAPHlC BREyITIES.
A foundry has been started at Herat for
casting heavy guns.

A foundry has been started at Herat for
casting heavy guns.
The Russians are bridging the river Muir
ghab, on the confines of Afghanistan.
A st. Petersburg dispatch states that
telegraph office has been opened at Merry.
The British naval maneuvers have be-
gun i'll Bantry Bay, Ireland, sham fight
taking place yesterday.
The third National Convention of the
chiefs of the Bureau of Statistics of Labor
began at Boston Monday.
The 81. James Gazette, OF London, be-
lieves it to be untrue that the Government
proposes to retake and reoccupy Dongola
Egypt.
Rumors are in circulation in the bazars
of Teheran that war will probably occur
after the transCaspian railway is completed
to Merv.
1t has just been announced that the New
York Central Directors have declared div
idend of one-half per cent, payable after
July 18th
Dispatches from Teheran state that l 900
Persians are at work constructing a trans
Caspian railway. Warlike preparations are
still being continued by Russia.
Minister DENLY has been the recipient
of a banquet from the members of the
Chinese Legation at Washington. In re-
turn he will give them banquet.
Detectives have been gathering evidence
against members of the Produce Exchange
of New York who threw dough. balls at the
SiXty-ninth Regiment during the Bartholdi
parade.
Signor Depretis, the Italian Prime Minis
ter, has formed new Ministry by taking
the foreign portfolio himself, vice Signor
Manceni. Signor Tajani is Minister of Jus
tice. Otherwise the Cabinet is unchanged.
The President has recognized C. Cesar as
Consul Of the German Empire for the State
of Oregon at Portland; Jose Aiijare, Consul
of Mexico at Boston, Mass, and Jose de
Pares, Nice-Consal Of Portugal, at Sayan
nah, Ga.
The overdue steamship Gallo, having on
board Roscoe Conkling, ex-AttOrney-G Gen
eral Brewster and wife and s. S. Cox and
wife, has been reported at sea with her
shaft broken, and will probably not reach
Queenstown for week.
The police census of Buffalo was finished
at noon yesterday, and shows q population
of 202,9o9 The heaviest increase was in
the Fifth, German ward, which shows a
gain of 10000. Many people thought the
enumeration would show 100000.
The War Department in Washington has
received a telegram from Captain CraW-
ford, through General Crook, dated Camp
on Bochitas river, six miles above Oput0,
Mexico, the 25th instant" and confirms the
recent press dispatches regarding the pur-
suit of the Indians into Mexico.
Emma Strassberger, recently San Fran
cisco actress, who was supposed to be in
poor financial circumstances, died in Cuba
last July, since which it has turned out
that she left property valued at $25, 900 in
the hands Of a friend in New York, which
William w. Richards, who claims to have
been her husband, is endeavoring to secure.
The friends of John Mccullough, the
tragedian, fear that he will never leave
Bloomingdale asylum alive \ reporter
aScertained from an excellent source that
the asylum physician had pronounced
McCulloughs atfliction to be general pare
SIS disease resulting fatally in not many
mouths after its progress has become OBJ
viOus.
Secretary Whitney has revoked the fol-
lowing naval order, issued July 5, 1888 ,
Naval officers attached to cruising war
vessels are expected to leave their families
at their usual or fixed place of abode and
not to attempt to transfer them to more
convenient visiting points. Officers disre
gaFullS tnlS lnJuAcuOa VIII be nable 10
be relieved from duty"
Commander Terry, commanding the
squadron training ships Portsmouth,
jamestown and Saratoga. writes to the
Navy Department from Lisbon, the 10Th
instant, that in consequence of the increase
of cholera III Spanish ports, he has changed
his programme. His vessels will go direct
from Lisbon to Madeira, and will sail from
the latter port about July 18th for the
United States.
Mrs. Lucille Yseulte Dudley, who shot
O'Donovan Rosa in New York, was yes
terday acquitted by the jury on the ground
of insanity, after being out about five min
utes. A motion was made to send Mrs.
Dudley to the State Lunatic Asylum, which
her counsel opposed. The latter asked that
their client be permitted to be returned to
her native country, and be placed in an in
stitution there. The Court will listen to
argument on this motion Thursday