Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-10-29
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

New York clipper freights are not as
brisk as last week.
The New York apple crop is reported to
be unusually heavy.
Stupart, the missing Hudson Bay OBJ
server, has arrived at St Johns, n. f.
Emma Nevada began her American con-
cert tour in Boston Tuesday night in Music
Hall.
New York, on his way to Australia, by way
of San Francisco.
The Great Eastern, the largest steamship
of the world, was sold in London by auc-
ton yesterday for f26, 200.
A London dispatch announces that Lord
Salisbury continues TO improve and is now
able to attend to official duties.
The testimony for the defense in the
Ward case was virtually closed in New
York yesterday, and motion for acquittal
was denied.
A horrible state of affairs is said to exist
in the Civic Hospital at Montreal, where
there are $50 smallpox patients, owing to
lack of nurses.
Assistant Secretary Coon has returned to
Washington and resumed his duties at the
Treasury Department. His successor Will
soon be appointed
Robert J. Cook was murderously as
saulted in Philadelphia yesterday morning
by burly negro named Stephen McPher-
son, who fractured his skull with Ratchet.
Over 100 men were dis barged from the
engineering department of the Brooklyn
Navy Yard Tuesday, and all the men in
the docks and on the docks placed on halt
pay.
The British Government discredits the
rumor telegraphed Tuesday from Rangoon
that revolution had broken out in Man
dalay, and that King Theebaw, of Burmah,
had been murdered.
Owen Denny, formerly American Consul
General at Shanghai, has been appointed
Foreign Adviser to the King of Corea, to
replace Herr Molanderotf, formerly Ger
man Consul at Tientsin.
The shipyard of John Roach, containing
twenty-four full city lots, the buildings
and four houses on upper Fifth avenue,
New York, were sold Tuesday for $4,000.
The prices realized We're fully up to the
market standard.
William J. Best, receiver of the Pacific
Bank, of Boston, was arrested in New York
Tuesday night on a requisition from the
Governor of the State of Massachusetts,
charged with embezzling $50, 900 of funds
in charge of the bank.
1t is said that syndicate is engaged
booming Canadian Pacific stock. and that
when it has reached respectable figures it
will sell out and allow the reins of govern
ment to pass into the hands of some other
Englishmen of means.
A dispatch from Madrid confirms the
recent statement that the American Gov
eminent has intimated to Spain that, if the
latter's sovereignty of the Caroline Islands
is recognized, the American Protestant
Mission must be respected and the freedom
of religion permitted.
Virginia Republican leaders assert that
Wise will have from 1000 to 1900 ma
iority. The Legislature will be probably
four to eight Republican majority on Joint
ballot. The Democrats are making a strong
struggle to cut down the Republican ma
jorities in the close counties.
The Genesta, defeated in the recent In
ternational yacht race for the American Cup
by the American yacht Puritan, arrived at
Portsmouth, Eng, at 9 o'clock yesterday
morning, after a voyage across the Allan
tic. She entered the port flying the three
first prize flags won in her contest with
American yachts.
The British Government finds that the
task of fighting the boycotters is a great
strain upon the police resources of Ireland.
The Irish police force at present is in a
state of efficiency never before equaled.
Its relations with the people are more
friendly than for many years past, and the
result is that unusual numbers of Outrages
have been averted.
Private Washington advices represent
the effort to consolidate the Central Amer
lean republics into one strong federation
has not been abandoned. Secretary Bay
ard has been approached to tender the
good offices of the United States to the
Spanish American Republic to be formed.
The dominion of Spain over Cuba is an
obstacle TO the plan.
Nine. Jarocka, grand-niece of Pulaski,
the Polish hero, was for three wears en-
ployed in the War Department, being ap-
pointed by Arthur at the instigation of
Governor Curtin. She is an ardent Demo-
Graf, and says last year she contributed S25
to the campaign fund for the election of
President Cleveland. Several weeks ago
she was dropped from the rolls, and says
she is the only Democratic clerk who has
been dismissed.
A Constantinople dispatch says: The
War Office presents a scene of unusual
activity, clearing indicating that the Porte
is determined in adopting effective meas
ures in the event of the Powers failing to
agree on plan of settlement of the Rou-
melian question. The official report shows
that 10000 Turkish troops are now mus
tered at available points on the frontier for
active service in the Balkan Peninsula,
and reintorcements are continually arriy-
ing.