Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-08-11
TELEGRAPH BREyITIEs.


Persia is engaging German officers to
organize uel "-my.
Russia is building hurriedly a strategical
/ railway TO the Austrian frontier
Major .Nm. p. could, of the Army De-
list. '' ''-' '''''eO
Jay Gould denies that he is interested in
the proposed reorganization ofthe Northern
Pacific.
The Marquis of Hamilton has inaueu-
rated an organization known as the LOYAL
! Irish Legion.
announcement of the policy of the Liberals
in the coming elections.
Extensive preparations are being made
| IN Vienna for the meeting of the Gar and
the Emperor OF Austria.
A force of Abyssinian troops sent by
King John has relieved the garrison of 100
at Jarri, south Of kassala.
Mr.. HorkOmar has been elected Profess
sor of Fine Arts at Oxford University He
succeeds Kuskin, who is ILL., "
Reports from Toulon, France state that
two deaths from cholera occurred there,
and several new cases are reported.
Four thousaRd one hundred and seventy
one new cases of cholera and ,5l1 deaths
were reported Sunday throughout Spain
At Murfreesboro. Ark, mob entered
the Jail and fatally wounded Henry and
Sylvester Polk confined there on a charge
of murder
Philip Callan has created a sensation in
the British House of Commons by threat
ening to expose scandals in the lives Of
other members.
The New York San says: California race
horses are not doing well in Saratoga.
Unless they work into form again they will
lose their prestige.
The issue of standard dollars for the
week ending August Sth was $2S5, ,99S. The
issue during the corresponding period last
year was 1921 ,40S.
y reward Of $500 has been offered for the
capture of Robert FarquharsOn, the alb
sconding manager of the Dublin branch of
the suspended Munster Bank
On the day of Grants funeral 100000
people passed over the Brooklyn bridge,
and up to 7:50 P N. the New York elevated
roads carried 900 passengers.
Reports from Marseilles. received vester-
day, state that the weather is again very
warm, and that the dead bodies of cholera
victims lie unburicd in the streets.
The American ship Phiueas Pendleton,
for New York, which took tire at Manila
on August 7th, has been scuttled, as the
only means of eXtinguishing the flames.
The general army order sending officers
back to their regiments after a period of
four years on detached duty is provoking
much discussion among officers in Wash
ington.
Efforts to hoist the price of wheat in New
York have resulted in loss to the specu-
lators. Farmers sell freely. Reported
damages to winter wheat were much exag-
gerated
The leading Clearing houses of the
United States report that the total clear
ance for five business days, ending August
7th, were S597, ,757 ,34S, a decrease of 16.9
per cent.
City of Mexico specials say: The Mexi-
cans who participated in the notorious train
robbery on the Mexican National Railroad
in February, 1888, have been tried and con-
demned 10 death.
At Liverpool Sunday evening the British
bark Cambria, from Portland, Or. came in
collision with the British ship Elizabeth
Nicholson, from Manila. Both vessels
were badly damaged.
The firm of Emmons & Roach, dealers in
iron, at 1870 and l34 Cedar street. New York.
made an assignment yesterday for the
l..
bin, without preferences.
Returns from the Department of Agri
culture make a slight Improvement of the
condition Of cotton on the LIST of August,
the general average being 96l-a point only
once exceeded in the August returns of ten
years-in 1880.
The unfortunate town Of Plymouth, Pa,
is again stricken with another plague-tbis
time a severe form of dysentery, which IS
even more deadly than the recent fever
visitation There are over $50 cases now
under treatment.
Henry w Bartol, wealthy and prom
inent citizen of Philadelphia, has instituted
proceedings for divorce against his wife. A
son OF Congressman Kelley is mixed up in
the affair, together with John Draper, a
New York society man.
Granada, Spain. is in a most deplorable
condition from the result of the ravages of
cholera. The slate of affairs there is really
worse than it was in Naples last year dur
ing the cholera epidemic in that citv.
There are no doctors now in Granada.
The police of Chicago raided a Chinese
gambling den Sunday night and captured
fifty Cinnamon. No gambling implements
were found, and the Ceestials claimed that
they We're simply mourning the death of
General Grant after the custom of their
country.
The French Minister of Marine has re-
ceiyed an official dispatch from Tonuuin.
stating that the Black Flags have raided
i've missionary stations and completely de-
strOyed them, killing many Christians.
Eight thousand of the followers Of the mis-
sionarieS have taken refuge with the French
troops.
The London Times yesterday had spe-
pi1l fiisr,a+gh
scenes and incidents of the Grant funeral,
and also prints leading editorial, praising
and recalling many personal traits of the
dead General. All other morning papers
in London gave copious accounts of the
obsequies.
1t is said that persons entering the service
of the Congo State are obliged to sign an
agreement to maintain strict silence re-
garding state affairs in that country. The
hostilities of the natives prevent stores from
reaching their destination. The climate is
deadly and there is only one doctor in the
territory, 800 by 600 miles in extent.
1t IS reported that Commissioner Black,
who received some weeks agoa letter from
' a little girl II years old, in which she
pleaded for the retention oC her father. who
Is Republican, in Office, AID which REQUEST
was noticed publicly as hasing been granted,
has been overwhelmed with letters from
= little girls Il years old, asking the same
favor. The letters are now consigned to
the waste-basket.
Peter Robinson. the proprietor of several
Oh Ine most lam' Jus draper establishments
of London, his given notice that on the
final passage OF the Criminal Law Amend
ment bili e viii discharge every one of the
hundreds of girls under 1G years Of age
now IN niS employ. Bogs dnder the same
limu of age viii also be discharged. 1t is
bel eyed thar many employers OF large
n.dmbers of young girls will initiate his ex>
ample.