Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-07-16
TELEGRAPHIC BREvITIES.

f! The Directors of the Pacific Mail have
declared dividend of II per cent
! Earthquake shocks of great force oc-
| Cured Tuesday at Smyrna and Chesme. in
Asia Minor
There were /, $50 new cases of cholera re-
ported in Spain Thursday, and 653 deaths
i from the disease.
The steamship Caledonia. from Boston
for London, with her machinery disabled
was spoken on Sunday $50 miles off Bishop
lighthouse.
Judge Hager, of San Francisco. is still
prosecuting his search in the East for a
President of the California University. so
far without success.
Brick Pomeroy is said to be working a
boom to erect a monument to the
memory of Mrs Surratt, who was executed
as conspirator in the assassination of Lin
coin.
The physicians of Bloomingdale Asylum
say II is only question of time when John
McCulloughs mind will be entirely gone a1l
from paralysis of the brain, and that he
will probably die in a short time
United States District Attorney DORIS
heiiner has bought the New York Star on
behalf of an incorporated company. II
strongly support the Administration.
The President yesterday appointed the
following Presidential PostmasterS w.
Thomson, at Gilroy, Cal, vice H. w.
Briggs, commission expired; Jacob Vande-
grift, at Riverside, Cal, vice C. W. Filkins,
resigned.
\ number OF ladies of New York have
decided to give Il testimonial to Mrs Della
S. PANEL, in recognition of her services in
behalf of the Irish cause, and because of
her financial embarrassments. An appeal
will forthwith be made Tor money.
The death of Colonel James Winter
smith, doorkeeper of the House of Repre-
sentatives, announced Tuesday night,
makes it almost certain that General Henry
G.. Field will be the doorkeeper of the
House of Representatives in the next Con-
gress.
4 second dredger, somewhat larger than
the one which left New York SUNDAY in
tow of the Portia for Colon, was launched
Tuesday. 4 third dredger is to follow
about August 18th. They are the largest
ever built, and will cost nearly 500, 600.
These dredgers excavate thirtv-two feet be-
low the surface of the water.
David Gamble, a farmer of Frederick
county, Maryland, was found dead in
coffin in the dining hall OF his residence
Thursday. For at least thirty-five years
Gamble had been in an unsettled frame of
mind, and had slept in a coffin as a con
slant reminder that death was inevitable.
and that it might come at any moment.
Lord Randolph Churchill, Secretary for
India, stated in the House of Commons
Tuesday that the Government had no in
tention Of negotiating with Abdurrahman
Khan, Amer of Afghanistan, for the de-
tense Of Candahar England had given
certain pledges to the Ameer, and if the
emergency requiring it arises and the
Amer asks for assistance, the course of
England will be clear
Josiah Palmer (colored) was hanged in
Cincinnati yesterday for the murder of
VIM. H. Kirk December q. 1888. On the
scaffold Palmer said nothing The Deputy
Sheriffs were so excited that they could
| scarcely adjust the rope. At two minutes
| after 10 the drop fell but Palmer was such
a powerful young fellow that his neck was
not broken, and he writhed fearfully. AT
the end of % minutes the Sheriff an
nounced that the execution was over but
the body was not cut down until some time
later. The execution was private.