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

Beecher lost his gold watch on election
day.
The Pope is drafting his decision in the
Carolines dispute.
Austrian troops are pouring from Trieste
into the district of Bocche di Cattaro.
Great camps are being formed on the
Bulgarian, SeryIan and Greek frontiers.
The President has appointed E. L. Car
son, of Texas, Indian Agent at Ouray,
Utah.
Theodore Thomas has gotten into trouble
with the New York Musical Protective
Union.
Lord Salisbury, in his London speech
Wednesday evening, made bold bid for
the ProtecGonist vote.
The report that the Duke of Edinburgh
will be appointed commander of the Med
iterranean squadron is confirmed.
Representative business men at st. Louis
indOrse Eads' project tor ship railway
across the lsthmus of Tehuantepec.
J. d. Young and Major J. Wiley ex-
changed eight shots at each other, on ac-
count OF young woman, at GadSden, Ala.
\ Paris dispatch states that the Monetary
Conference has closed, all the Powers rep
resented, except Belgium, having arrived at
an arrangement.
The report that the Pennsylvania Rail-
road Company contemplates the with
drawal of the New York and Chicago lin
tied express is denied.
Nine. Adam, of the Paris NouUelle Rcccr,
has sent 4 cable dispatch 10 the Governor
General of Canada, appealing to him 10
grant a reprieve to Riel.
The English Government has decided to
send Matthew Arnold to France and Ger,
many, TO inquire into the system of free
schools in those countries.
DR.. Brockmann, delegate from the Trans
vaal, has arrived at Berne, to conclude a
commercial treaty between Switzerland and
the South African Republic.
Sir William Hart Dyke, Chief Secretary
for Ireland, speaking at Bexley, Wednes-
day, said the Conservatives were deter
mined to avoid coercing Ireland, if posi-
BILE.
In accordance with the request of the
English Government, Italy viii send two
officers to witness the maneuvers of the
Indian army in the Lahore district, British
India.
1t is stated in Madrid that marriage
has been arranged between Princess Elalie,
Prince Antonio, son of the Duke of Mont
pensier.
In St Petersburg war is looked upon as
a certainty, and Bulgaria is generally re-
garded as the probable battlefield. The
activity of war preparations III Russia is
undated.
No information of actual hostilities be-
tween Servian and Bulgarian troops ON the
or. hos haa cd hH-tl ,n
Minister at London. He is momentarily
expecting news of a collision.
The name of Prince Alexandria, of Bull
garia, has been stricken from the Russian
army list, and the Prince has been deprived
of his Colonelcy of the Russian Rifle Bat
talon, to which he was appointed by the
Gar.
Among the deaths in New York Wednes-
day was that of w. J. Mackey, we'll known
through his "ABC Guide He was aged
AZ years, and died of typhoid fever He
was formerly connected with the California
press.
Levi Knott, of Oregon, is trying to regain
possession of the racer jim Renwick, which
he says 6. Il. Buchanan, a trainer at
Jerome Park. n. Y, wrongfully holds The
horse is now in the custody of a Deputy
Sheriff.
The President yesterday re-appointed
Dorman B. Eaton member of the Civil
Service Commission, in place of Judge
Thoman, resigned. The appointment is a
temporary one, permanent successor to
Thoman not yet having been selected.
Commissioner Sparks, of the General
Land Office, believes from reports received
that large part of the homestead entries
in Dakota are fraudulent, and he will not
certify any entries until convinced they are
regular. He will ask Congress for force
enough to do the work speedily.
Professor J. W. Powell, Director of the
Geological Survey, says that during the
fiscal year fair progress was made in the
topographic survey of the United States
An area of 57,50S square miles was sur
veyed and maps thereof made ready for
the engraver. The average cost of the work
was about s. per square mile.
The Attorney-General yesterday finished
his address to the jury in the trial of the
defendants in the Armstrong abduction
case at London, and the Court adjourned
until Saturday. 1t Is generally believed
that the conviction Of Stead, editor of the
Pal BAL Gazette, Bramwell Booth, of the
Salvation Army, and Mrs. Jarrett is GER
tain.