Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-03-23


The Russian military organ advises the
occupation of Herat.
General Graham will make another adj
vance from SauSim tomorrow.
Great distress prevails on the Arrar
Islands, of the coast Of Ireland.
1t is reported that De Giers, Foreigr
Minister of Russia, has resigned.
The report that China has made over
lures for peace is discredited in Paris.
Bismarck has advised King Leopold o.
Belgium against assuming the sovereignty
of the Congo State.
The Russian Minister at Constantinople
is working to secure secret treaty between
Russia and Turkey.
1t is reported in Berlin that Bismarck
will remove Cholz and take the Prussian
financial portfolio himself.
1t is generally believed that Gladstone
viii withdraw from office at the close of the
present session of Parliament.
In Port Elgin, Ontario, Saturday, the
Port Elgin Brush Factory was burned.
Loss, $4,000; insurance, $4,000.
The British steamer Rhonddah has been
sunk in the British Channel by the British
steamer Brooklyn City from New York
The Emitted Serice Gazette states that the
British Admiralty has completed every
preparation to send, if necessary. power
full fleet to the Baltic within few days.
In Ottawa, Ontario, Friday night, at the
Comedy Theater, there was no performance,
because the actors were unpaid. The
audience were turbulent, but were promised
their money back the next day.
General Sir Peter Lumsden informs the
British Government that the Russian COM
manders on the Afghan frontier are foment-
ing rising in Penideh with views of max
ing that pretext for annexation.
A WeHingten,- New Zealand, dispatch
states that the authorities have received an
official COPY of an Act passed by the Sa-
moan Parliament for the annexation of the
Samoan Glands to New Zealand.
The SUDAN of Turkey will send,a special
commission to Berlin to confer the grand
Gordon df the order of Nichani-Imtiaz
upon the Crown Prince and Bismarck.
Hitherto his honor has been reserved for
sovereigrsi.
A smap sack, labeled "Seed,n exploded
in the P1stoffice at Tamsevar, Hungary
The sack, it is supposed, contained dyna-
mite sent by the Anarchists of Germany.
Two Postoflice clerks were wounded by the
explosion.
The authorities in Vienna continue their
warfare against usurers. A number of
money-lenders were sentenced during the
past wes1 to four months imprisonment
and 1,0@) horins fine each for exacting
undue Interest.
Timothy Harrington, Secretary of the
Irish National League, has received $10,0
from 0 BELLY, the Treasurer of the branch
league at Detroit, subject to the condition
that the money shall be used solely for
parliamentary purposes.
Several of the minor papers in Paris
continue to abuse Miss Van Zandt, the
American prima donna, and it is believed
these repeated attacks will compel the di-
rector of the opera comique'.to temporarily
withdraw Miss Van Zandt from the stage.
Both the Liberal and Conservative politi-
cal agents in England are manifestly pre-
pairing for a general election in November
next. They almost unanimously concur
in reporting that, of the present members
of the House of Commons, almost half will
decline to stand for reelection.
The Anglo Russian Company has started
TO compete with Americans and Aus
tralians in furnishing England with meat
The abattoirs of this new concern are To-
cdteu III tne center oi Ilodu, anu lne coIn-
pany calculate selling England alone
$4,000 worth of meat every year.
De Lesseps denies the report from New
York, to the effect that work along the
Panama Canal has resulted in failure De
Lesseps says his son, Victor, after having
visited Panama, and made thorough in
vestigation of operations along the line Of
the canal, writes: Pour moi le canal es
faH."
The Governor Of Panama is reorganizing
and strengthening the police force, the ex-
citement has ealmed down, and business
has resumed its usual aspect. 1t is under
stood thatsome arrangement will be reached
whereby further fighting will be prevented
General Aizpura is still encamped outside
the city. Colon remains in the hands Of
| the rebels.