Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-05-12
AMERICAN AFFAIRS.
CLEYELAND'S NEW RULE REGARD.
ING APPOINTMENTS,
A :. Lightning Train-Ggant and His
Family-The Denver and Rio
Grande Railway Strike.

Grande Hallway strike.
ESPECIAL DISPATCHES TO THE REcoID-uNIoN.l
Anomalous Weather.
NEw YORK, May 1sth.-Spring has only
three weeks to run, yet New York is still
ia winter wraps and flannels, with heater
fires in most of the houses. Vegetation is
only half as far advanced us usual. We
are hearing of snow-storm in Michigan
of hauling cordwood over twelve inches of
snow in Maine, OF, heavy fTosts i'll New
Jersey and Indiana, of Southern fields OF
tobacco sprinkled with snow, OF ice-bound
lakes and wide areas of snow in other parts
where summer should now be taking up
the scepter Florida is also experiencing
anomalous weather. The heated term has
come much earlier than usual and clouds
of mosquitoes and sandflies are said to
oyershadoW the peninsula. The San says
the coolest spot in the country at the pres
ent time is the District of Columbia.
The President Makes New Rule Re
garding Appointments.
WASHINGTON. May 11th.-It is now said
, that the Administration has determined
| that hereafter no information of appoint
ments shall be given 10 the public until the
appuintees shall have been notified of their
appointment and shall have accepted the
Office, fled their bonds and qualified What
the object of the Administration in adopt
| ing this policy is, can only be guessed at.
The excuse for the bad appointments here
tofOre urged was the lack OF knowledge OF
! the character and fitness OF the applicants,
and Congressman have been blamed for
recommending bad ard unfit men for
| tod
as being anxious in every case before max
ing appointments to learn something of the
| history of persons recommended for places,
| and bureaus of information and other
plans for obtaining information regarding
| applicants for office have been suggested
| by persons DESTROYS of seeing only good
men appointed. The plan of working in
secret has been in operation in some of the
departments to a certain extent for several
weeks. and has probably been found to
work so satisfactorily by the heads Of these
departments that they have recommended
its general adoption.
Coniederates Receiving all the Offices.
NEW YORK, May 11th-The Commercials
Washington special says that the Admins
tration, III seeking men on whom to confer
| office, should seem to shOwa preference TO
Southerners, particularly Coniederates, has
given rise to some comment i'll military
circles All over the North are many brave
men and good Democrats who fought i'll
the Union army. vet not one who was con-
spicuous in that army has received an
office
An Internal Machine i'll the Dead-Letter
Office.
WASHINGTON, May 18th. - Among the
| articles received at the Dead-Letter Office
Co fah
that had been forwarded from Springfield,
| III. a sudden explosion followed the re-
moval of the lid, and at the same minute
| bullet went whiMing across the room and
| buried itself in the wainscOting directly
opposite. Had the position of the box been
reversed, the person opening 1t would have
received the bullet in his body. An exam
inaton of the box showed wickcd-looking
revolver of the bulldog pattern, which was
so connected with the lid az to explode the
| instant the latter was touched. The box is
| believed to have been sent from Boston,
Mass. 1t was addressed to young lady of
! Springfield, to whom. in some way, it failed
to be delivered and after being held the
required number ofweeks, it was sent to the
Dead Letter Office here. The postal author
| tiles will endeavor to discover the identity
| of the sender.
| desperate itJeniiJ q. II condemned I.ur-
derer TO Escape.
WASHINGTON, May 11th-L9ngster, the
| murderer Of police officer Fowler, who is 10
| be hanged iii this city on Friday next, made
a desperate attempt to escape from Jail to-
| day. He was taking exercise in the in
| closure sent apart for that purpose which
| is separated from the central court of the
| jail by an iron lattice-work fence, and when
the officer in charge for the day opened the
gate in the fence to pass through to the
| court, he suddenly attacked and over
powered the guard on the inside, and then
| struck Woodward, the officer who was
passing through the gate, and forced his
way into the central court. He was quickly
secured, however before he could get any
| further, and was hustled back into his cell
| Several parties who have interested them
| selves to secure areprieye for Langster went
to the Acknowledgements office to urge the
attention of the matter upon that officer
| but learning that the President had looked
into the case and received the report of the
medical expert as to the sanity Of the
prisoner, and was satisfied that LANCASTER
knew right from wrong, they did not pro-
ceed any further.
Capital Notes.
WASHINGTON, May 11tb.-James Murray
was to-day appointed Postmaster at Warm
| Springs, Alameda county, Cal. The Office
was formerly known as Harrisburg.
The business of the Courts in the Dis
trict of Columbia has been brought TO Il
standstill. the appropriations for the pay
mcnt of jurors and witnesses being ex-
hausted.
Admiral Jouett has informed the Navy
Department that he has TO 30 to Cartagena,
which is still besieged.
| % =
breadstuf1s during the four months ending
April 30th were $45.07s go During the
ten months ended April 50th the exports
were $133, 093, 31S.
The National Republican will say to-mor-
row that il is reported that the President has
offered the office OF Register of the Treasury
| to General w. S. Rosecrans, of California
General Grants Throat stu Painful.
New YORK, May l1th.-Durine the early
part of last night General Grant expert
enced considerable pain in his throat. He
was restless soon after midnight, awakened
at intervals, and food was given him
through the night ii was 10 o'clock this
morning before he aroused for the day and
dressed. lie had slept about the usual
number of hours, though his sleep had
been interrupted as stated DR.. Douglas
remained all night, and left the General
| asleep. During the forenoon the General
turned his attention 10 his book, and did
some work upon it.
PLAN FOR THE RELIEF OF THE YOUNGER
| GRANTS.
WASHINGTON, May 11th.-A confidential
friend Of the Grant family tells something
of plan suggested by Senator Stanford, of
| California, through which the younger
| Grants are to resume the broker and bank
ing business in New York and San Fran
cisco this fail. The difficulty was to con-
triye some means to prevent their capital
from falling into the hands of Ward d
Grants creditors and thus being swallowed
up. After much consultation of lawyers Il
device has been framed that will prevent
this and allow these young men to
do business without any fear that
they may he compelled to pay
. swindicr's debts Their experience,
| says tits gentleman, has been OF so terrible
a character that all fooishness is knocked
completely out of them, and they Will be
more than pleased if they can earn $1,000