Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-01-13

A Mysterious Californian.
New YORK, January 12th.-The Tribune's
Ga, special says: Some time
ago there arrived here +. A. Wilson, who
himself as wealthy and Com
missioner from California to the New Or
leans Exposition. He claimed to be the
Wilson who left New Orleans thirty-five
years ago leaving his young wife and babe,
through jealousy OF his wife's popularity
He found his wife dead, after having mar
ried second time, but his son had grown
up, married, and was still living The
father gave the young man money to fix
up his mothers grave, ordered him to sell
out his possessions and go TO his fathers
home in California. These stories have
filled the measure of public excitement
here, but the mysterious failure of Wilson
To return at the appointed time for his son
has not been explained. When these facts
were first published they gave rise to curl
Gus developments. Not less than thirty
different Wilson's, living in widely separate
parts of the country, have written to vari-
Gus business men and officials here making
inquiries about the mysterious Wilson,
that their fathers had disappeared
in the same way, and seeking u clue to
them. The latest letter is addressed by
Rooney, making explicit inquiries.
Sullivan's Drunken Freaks.
New YORK, January 12th.-A HeraiFs
Boston special gives the following as an
other of sullivan drunken freaks: Early
this morning Sullivan grew very hilarious,
and started out TO conquer something. He
had not journeyed far before he espied Il
Tremont-sreet car laden with young
WI, thor tp work Sullivan .lf
once boarded the car knocked out and put
OFT the driver and conductor and began at
once to assume the duties OF both. His
fair passengers, frightened QUO of their wits,
rushed out of the car pell-mell. Sullivan
urged the horses on, and he was not at all
particular about keeping his car on the
track. lie drove through several streets.
in fact, in which tracks have not yet been
laid. After his fun had become mOnOtO-
nous, he left the Car and horses III very
precariOuS condition. This, it is said, Will
De one OF the charges of cruelty that Will be
brought against him when he appears in
Court Sullivan, it is supposed, settled for
the damaged car and horses with the Ne
tropolitan Railroad Company.
\ Modest Petition.
WASHINGTON, January 12th.-Mrs. Belva
Ann Lockwood, the candidate of the Equal
Rights party tor President in the late cam
paign, III petition to the Senate, through
Senator Hoar, asks that the votes for her
i'll New York, New Hampshire, Indiana,
Iowa. Michigan, Illinois, Maryland and
California be counted and that the electoral
vote CT Indiana be given to her. She
charges that the votes cast for her Were
" traudulenuy and Illegally counted for the
alleged majority candidates, the same being
antagOnistic 10 the letter and spirit Of the
law and subservient to every principle OF
equity and justice" She also asks that the
Senate refuse to receive the electoral re-
turns of New York, or count them for the
= alleged majority candidate, for, had the
l, 1876 votes polled in said State for your pc
titioner been counted for her and not for
one Grover Cleveland, he would not have
been awarded the majority of all the votes
cast in said election in said States" As a
reason for asking that the electoral vote OF
Indiana be cast for her, she says that after
the Electoral College of that State had cast
its vote for the aforesaid Grover Cleveland
it changed its mind, Us ii had a legal right
to do, and did cast Us united ballot FOR
your petitioner.
West Point Students PlUcked.
New YORK, January 18th. "A Times
West Point special says: The result of the
semi-annual examination at the Military
Academy, which has been in progress since
January %, creates much excitement in
the corps, as the number who have termi-
mated their military career abruptly is very
large The fourth class alone loses twenty
five per cent. of its membership, and five
from the third class were returned to the
fourth class. Cadets Alexander of the
lola Il e !, Il
both c0lorcd, and mailing from Ohio, are
doing fairly well, the former ranking about
10 in class of 20, and the latter in the
neighborhood Of 30 in a class Of 76 mem
bers. The list of slain shows that high of,
fetal stations do not protect incompetent
students. Butler in the third, and Williams
in the fourth class, the former son OF
Senator Butler, and the latter a son of Gen.
cral Williams, of the Adjutant- General'S
Department, Washington. both failed
Order Of the Holy Cross.
New YORK, January t2th.-The progress:
of the Order of the Holy Cross, one of whose
numbers recently took upon himself at the
hands of Assistant Bishop Potter, VOW Of
celibacy and poverty, is watched with much
interest by the church people. The ground
has been broken for place of worship, tC
cost $4,000. 1t is in the center of Il densely
populated tenemcnt-house district. On be
half of the Order, it is claimed that the adj
ditional VOWS taken do not in the least con-
tlict with those they took when admitted tc
holy orders. Even these have been taken
only that they may be better qualified and
more free to carry on their work If not
wanted in New York, they desire to lave il
understood that they will at once go else
where where an opening may be provided
Boss helIy's Affairs.
New York, January 12th.-Justicc Cor
man told a SIN reporter yesterday " Kelly
is now so much better that he will soon
leave for the South, but only two-day 5
journey from New York. Twelve or fifteen
years ago he was similarly troubled, and
was then compelled to take three years
vacation in Europe He has not been be-
low Fourteenth street since his illness be-
gan, and has not visited Tammany, either
In the matter of the STIR, he thought it best
to give up now, when the paper was in a
good financial condition, than to wait with
the possibility of its losing money. The
negotiations with Mclean were satisfactory,
but the latter concluded that journalism in
Cincinnati was paying better at present
than III New York. Kelly used to receive,
every morning. a report of the financial
condition of the Star
II. y. Gumbleton said: Kelly has no in
tention of going ont Of politics. When he
returns from his Southern trip he will pitch
in heavily
Mrs. Myra Clark Gaines Two Wills.
New ORLEANS, January 12th.-Attorneys
representing Mrs. Maria Perkins, wife of
w. K. Evans. opened the succession of
Myra Clark Gaines, and offered for probate
Il will dated january s, 1885, naming Mrs.
Gaines leaves property in this State and
Washington city. This will, the Clerk
stated, was in Mrs. Gaines handwriting
Soon after the above proceedings, an at
torney appeared in Court with another
Will, naming William H. Wilder and
James y. Christmas executors. These par
ties were astonished to hear that the sue
cession bad already been opened, and as
serted that Mrs. Gaines could not write
January Sth, being too i'll. The will they
offered. dated January ), 1885, is under her
private signature ther mark, made in the
presence OF five well-know citizens, who
signed rs witnesses. After making a few
requests to Others Mrs Gaines wills her
estate 10 be divided equally between her
six grandchildren.
FOREIGN NEWS.
4 French Duel.
PARIS, January 12th-A duel with swords,
arising ont of the acquittal of Madam
Hughes, has taken place on the Belgian
frontier The Madam's champion severely
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