Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-07-09
TELEGRAPHIC BREyITIES.

Sir Edwin Thornton, British EmbaSsador
70 Russia will shortly leave ST. Petersburg
for England
Advices from Texas indicate that the
cotton and grain crops of that State this
year Will be the largest ever known.
Peaches are becoming more abundant in
the New York market. though the condi-
tion and quality have not much improved.
Cases of sporadic cholera have appeared
among the prisoners in the city prison at
Toledo, O., caused by the filthy and crowd
ed condition of the building.
YoungS glue factory and PomelPs tam
merry, together covering six acres of ground
in BurmondSeye, Il London (Eng.) suburb,
Were burned yesterday. Loss, $4,000.
The Paris Natin is authority for the state
ment that the Marquis of Salisbury has
issued circular 10 the powers interested,
urging hem to ratify the Egyptian financial
convention.
John Dillon arrived in Dublin Tuesday
night, and met with an enthusiastic recep-
ton from large cOnCourSe of people.
Dillon was passenger on the delayed
steamer Galha.
Fire destroyed the Globe Hotel. in Lou
iSiana, Mo, Tuesday causing a loss of
$1,000. Several guests were severely in
iured by jumping from windows. and one
| DR.. Lonergan, was instantly killed.
The PostmaSter-Gen has ordered the
| star service from Shasta to CarVille TO be
| discontinued after August 1st and the
star service from Weaverville to Trinity
Center extended to Carvillc on the same
date.
The number of cases reported in Spain,
| Tuesday, exclusive of those in Murcia and
| Castellon de IN Plana, was 1919; numberof
! deaths. 62S. In the town of Aranjuez the
number OF cases reported during the same
! period was 60; deaths. 30.
\ convention of representatives of agri-
| cultural colleges and experiment stations
| began in Washington yesterday. There
were present between fifty and sixty dele
gates, representing all the agricultural coll
! leges and experiment stations of the United
| States.
\ riot occurred in Troy, n. Y, yesterday,
! between Italian and other laborers on city
work, the former being objected to by the
latter The police saved the Italians from
| being roughly handled, if not killed. 1t is
said that the ringleaders are lrishmen who
have not been in the country six months.
DR. Gibier has returned to Paris from
| Spain. He reports that DR.. Feiran keeps
! the nature of his cholera vaccine a secret,
tlttiNtNs nun NN'AhlCl Npii NNbNlslN,
and allowed him to witness the operation.
The Spanish hospitals are III a filthy con-
dition. DIR. Gibier is skeptical of the cffi-
cacy of DR.. Ferran's operations.
General Hazen, Chief Signal Officer, has
recommended to the President that Ser
geant Brainard, who was with Lieutenant
Greely in the Arctic regions, be appointed
to Lieutenancy in the line, and that Ser
geants Mitchell and Ellis, who recently
passed examination for promotion, be ap-
pointed Second Lieutenants in the Signal
Service.
There is great Indignation in South Cn:-
olina over the inhuman treatment of con-
victs by their guards. The convicts are
farmed out to railroad companies and
miners, and are required to march nearly
three miles with shacIles on their legs.
On account of the bad quality of food
scuryy has made its appearance, and there
has been excessive cruelty in Furnishing the
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