Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-12-15
TELEGRAPHIC BREYITIEs.

Bar silver has touched the lowest point
of the year.
A strong protection sentiment is being
manifested in England.
An effort is being made to break up the
American Baseball Association.
Public sentiment in Spain at present is
strongly opposed 10 the reyoluIionists.
Two large whales were captured by cod
fishers at Amagansett, l.. l., Saturday.
The net earnings of the Union Pacific for
the first ten months of the present year
amounted to $7,S1S,625.
Representative Seney, of Ohio, will in
troduce in the House this week Il bill TO
repeal the Civil Service Act.
Injudicious giving of charity in New
York is said to be rapidly increasing the
number OF professional mendicants.
Mrs. Jennie Watson, a plucky young
widow shot and dangerously wounded
John Blanchard, in defense of her honor.
The French Parliamentary Committee is
equally divided for and against the raising
of the duty on American cereals and cat
tie.
The Orrville co. Farmers Bank, pri-
vate institution run by prominent citizens
of Orrville and vicinity, suspended Satur-
day.
Senator Dolph and Representative Voor-
hees have each introduced a bill for the adj
mission of Washington Territory into the
Union.
Ostrich eggs from California will be
Matched in an incubator at the poultry
show which opens in New York on Febru-
airy Sd.
An explosion of gas in Goa, mine near
WilkesbaTTe, Pa, yesterday, severely in
jured many miners, one of whom died after
being rescued.
The New York Times suggests that the
California Fruit Growers Association es-
tablish an agency for the distribution of its
fruit at the East.
The Washington National Republican
compares the life and works of Vanderbilt
and Leland Stanford in manner very ia
vorable to the latter.
Prince Alexander announces his readi-
ness to receive Madjid Pasha as Envoy of
Turkey, and the latter has left Constant
nople for Philippopolis.
Hon. Dorman B. Eaton, ex-United States
Civil Service Commissioner, was rendered a
banquet in Boston Saturday night by the
Massachusetts, Reform Club
The Queen of England and members of
the royal family attended memorial serv-
ices at the royal residence at FEogmore YES
terday for the late Prince Consort, who died
December II, 1861.
There have been extra precautions taken
to prevent the possible dissertation of Van
derbilts tomb, story that plan has been
concocted to secure the body and hold it
for ransom having got abroad.
The leading clearing houses ofthe United
States report that the total gross bank ex-
changes for the week ending December
18th were S1,031 ,649,746, an increase of
30.O5 per cent. compared with the CORE
spending week of last year.
Revelations of a startling character are
being placed before the French people con-
corning the conduct of affairs in Tonquin
The honor of men holding high political
power is compromised, and the prestige of
the French army damaged by each reYela-
ton.
Thomas Power O'Connor, chief of the
Parnellites, assured. an interviewer yester-
day that he had not been approached by
any friend of Gladstone, or by any Liberal
emissary, and that he had every reason to
believe that Parnell had received no over
lures.
The New York Times says that Joe JET
ferson and family propose to leave their
old home in Hoboken, n. j., and to settle
permanently on Orange Island, La. Mr..
Jefferson will retire permanently from the
stage at the end of the season, He is 80
years old.
Advices from Mandalay state that the
sacred white elephant is dead The GUS
tomary ceremony of keeping the body
lying in state for three days was prevented
by British officials, owing to sanitary rea-
sons. The funeral was attended by
enormous crowds.
DR.. Mclean, late pastor of the Ninth
Presbyterian Church of st. Paul, Mimi,
and implicated in scandal with Miss Lii
lie Mitchell, of Monomenee, Wis, and who
was deposed from his position, was dis
charged from dime museum Sunday for
swearing at and insulting visitor
The New York Post says regarding the
supply of capital: The situation is unpre-
cedented. There never has been so large
an amount OF money-seeking investment
at such low rates and for so long a time as
has been experienced in this country for
the past year up to the present time.
The November review of railroad earn
ings shows a total increase in the earnings
of last month over the same month of 1884
of 81 ,451 ,450. Out of 65 roads reporting
earnings Tor November. As show gains over
the previous year, and only II exhibit a
loss. In 1884, out of 81 roads only IS had
gains and Al had losses.
The report in dispatch from Belgrade
that bloody engagement had occurred at
Veliki lsovor, between two battalions of
Bulgarians and a body of Servians, in
which the former were scattered, leaving
many dead and wounded, and the town it
self captured, lacks confirmation, and is
generally discredited in London.
Senator ColquiIt, of Georgia, saws that he
shall Introduce a bill in the Senate. and
press 1t to vote, to give the people of the
District of Columbia chance to vote upon
the prohibition issue. He thought the
prohibition question was to be one of the
great issues of the future, and should be
decided at the seat of Government.
Professor S. H Withers, the colored Prin-
cipal of the Dallas, Tex, colored school.
has undertaken project looking to the
colonization of about 1000 colored families
in Brazoria county, Texas His plan is to
purchase 100000 acres and divide the same
into 50-acre farms. He has already received
many applications for land from Southern