Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-07-20
TELEGRAPH BREYITIEs.

The British have fully fortified Port
Hamilton.
Coney Island was visited by 100000 per-
sons Friday.
All danger of an outbreak of Cheyennes
is practically settled.
British Ministerial circles have no fear OF
an Immediate quarrel with Russia.
S. H. Henry has been appointed National
Bank Examiner for Texas, New Mexico
and Arizona.
! The Collector at Gloucester, Mass has
imposed tax of 80 cents hundred pounds
on a cargo of halibut brought to that port
| by British vessel.
The weekly bank statement at New York
! shows the reserve increase to be 1878, 900
Banks now hold S64 $4,000 in excess OF
! legal requirements.
William Brennan, resident of New
Haven, Conn, who for five years has been
totally blind, has suddenly had his vision
unaccountably restored.
The depression in the Eastern cotton
markets still continues Many Gotten mills
are closing down, because goods will not
| bring the cost of production.
A st. Paul special says the grasshopperS
have appeared in the wheat-tields of the
great Northwest both in Canada and the
United States, doing great damage.
The operating-room of the Western I'm.
ion Telegraph Company at Philadelphia
was burned Saturday morning. Connec-
tions in all directions were destroyed.
The Convention OF green-slass bottle
blowers, which had been III session in Pitts
burg all the week, adjourned Saturday. at-
ter deciding to demand the present wages
for the next session.
The Secretary of the Interior has ap-
pointed Samuel n. Holiday. Jr., of St.
Louis, and William Il. Henderson of Mar
tinSville assistant Superintendent Of Vel
lowStone National Park.
The Health Officer of New York reports
last week l ,619 deaths in that city, against
SO in the corresponding week last year.
OF this number $50 were from diarrhUa,
and 6l3 were children under ) years of age.
Negotiations are pending with two great
German banking houses for u loan of
$1000Q0 600 to China, for the construction
of railways, telegraphs, wharves and other
trade Improvements throughout the Celes
tal Empire.
The Marquis Of Salisbury, for England,
and the Marquis Tseng, for China, have
signed the new opium treaty between
China and Great Britain, by the terms OF
which the interior of the empire IS opened
up freely to the opium trade
Allen NJ. Eastcrly, of Montana; John A.
| Gum Of Indiana; Hugh G. Quigly. OF
| Ohio; Nathan b. hartun, Of Ohio; james
NJ. Smithie OF Arkansas, and John Jones,
| OF New FORK, have been appointed special
| agents of the General Land Office
Dispatches received from Paris report
that the French Foreign Office has received
information which shows conclusiyelv that
] the Russians are determined on Selling
| Herat, and that the maSsing of Russian
troops now going on at Zultikar Pass is tor
that purpose.
A dispatch from Paris TO the Exchange
| Telegraph Company says the French En-
bassador at St. Petersburg, who was about
to leave the Capital ON Through to enjoy
a vacation, has been ordered to remain al
his post, because of the gravity of the AT
CHAN difficulty.
Miss Emma Nevada has gone for &
months holiday to Ems. Before her de,
parture from London she received from tho
Prince and Princess of Wales present Of Z
brooch Of attractive design, being composed
of three pansies, with pearl centers and 9
| background Of diamond leaves.
Daniel J. Welch was appointed Internal
Revenue Collector for the District of Mon
| lana by the President Saturday afternoon
| Welch is County Treasurer of Silver Bow
county, Montana. A majority of the inter
nal revenue offices of the country hav,
been filed. There are but nine remaining
vacant.
Secretary Lamar has sent the following
dispatch 10 Inspector Armstrong, at th'
Cheyenne and Arapahoe Agency, in Indian
Territory 90 The trail leading from For
Supply in a northerly direction to and int
the neutral strip, known as the Camp Sup
ply trail, must be opened tor the passage o
cattle, now forcibly stopped, and for othel
purposes of interstate commerce You viii
confer with General Sheridan, who has in,
structions from this department as to the
adoption of measures best calculated Il
! nrNYe effectual