Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-02-18
TELEGRAPHIC BREyITIES.

The wife of United States Minister Lowell
is dangerously i'll in London.
1t is rumored that France is preparing to
send an expedition TO 1ripoli to torestall
Italy.
Friends Of John Russell Young, Minister
to China, expect his return to this country
in March, whether removed or not.
Queen Victoria will shortly have another
great Grandchild by the ACCOMPLISHMENT at
Windsor Castle ofthe daughter of Princess
! Alice
Dispatches from Korti state that Arabs
are deserving from Metemneh in large NUM-
| bers and entering the British camp at
Gubat
Albert Scott, who represented himself as
a San Francisco merchant and swindled
| Chicago merchants, IS under arrest at
| Chicago.
a dispatch from General De Lisle states
| that the French loss at the taking of Lang
son was thirty killed and two hundred and
twenty-five wounded.
The Illinois Legislature met in joint ses-
sion yesterday to vote eor United States
Senator The Speaker voted for Morrison
No other vote was cast.
The Pope has refused 10 see Michael Da-
witt. 1t is stated that he .cars that England
may deem an audience with Davitt under
present circumstances an dniriendly act
The New York Mla aad Express thinks
that California III her irrigation laws or
provisions should furnish model to other
States regarding the distribution of water.
Near Conemaugh, Pa, on the Pennsyl-
vania road, Sunday two stock trains col
lidcd. Two Chicago drovers were killed,
and Il tramp stealing Il ride was seriously
hurt.
New warrants have been issued for the
arrest OF Conch Stafford and other Okla
homa invaders, returnabc on March 9th,
the day the boomers have set for another
raid on the Territory.
Phelan is expected back in New York
soon. He passed througn Buffalo Monday
and said to reporter: " l did not care to
pauperize myself, while Short was walking
the streets under bail
In the New York Assembly Yesterday
Il resolution calling ON Congress to pass the
EdmundS bill To place Grant on the retired
list was announced The resolution was
adopted-ayes Il, noes /.
The following are the New York Ti1bu,,e's
headlines on the failure of the Grant re-
tirement bill Defeating an Old
Enemy Grant Retirement Bill Re
iected, Ex-Otficers of the Rebel Army
in the House Get Their Revenge"
General Durbin Ward saws Of the battle
of Shiloh = ! assure you that if our Union
Generals say they were not surprised az the
battle of Shiloh ii is great surprise to me-
Had not the death of the Confederate Gen
eral, Joe Johnston, happened Just when it
did, our fate would have been far differ
ent.
The British Government deems it unwise
To make further drafts on home troops
Victoria, y. s W, will send contingent,
composed of sever hundred men, for SER
vice in Egypt Combined action on the
part of the colonies for furnishing a large
force of volunteers for Egyptian service is
suggested.
4 prize fight with bare knuclzles took
place yesterday morningon barge in New
York harbor. The principals were Billy
McCarty, a bricklayer. and Tom Breezy,
driver of an ice wagon. Both were ter
ribly punished and could hardly be recog-
nized by friends, and were carried from the
barge TO their homes.
A Pittsburgh dispatch saws: The Inter
national Window Glass Workers Associa-
ton have received intelligence of an ex-
tensiyc strike inaugurated by the Belgian
glass workers against n reduction of fifteen
per cent in wages. The strike, it is
thought, viii have the effect of booming
the trade in this country.
Swiss officials have been warned of
plot to blow up the Federal palace with
dynamite in retaliation for repressiye
measures recently adopted by the Federal
Council. Ii is stated that the police of Ge-
neya have discovered a secret dynamite
factory i'll that city, ana that all the work
men employed in the factory were Swiss.