Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-02-25

which sailed from New I Ork last month,
will never relate their experiences in the
terrific hurricanes of January 9th and
10Th. These three steamers belong TO the
class termed ocean tramps." The Clan
don sailed for Leith and Bristol January
22d. The Preston and Fernwood sailed
for Avenmouth two days prior to the
Clandon. One of these vessels carried pas
sengers and each carried large and mis-
cellaneous cargo. The Fernwood was an
iron, water-ballast vessel, divided into five
water-tight compartments, with iron bulk
heads, commanded by Captain Roberts,
and had a crew of thirty-one. The cargo
consisted of wheat flour, pork, bacon,
beef and petroleum. The Clandon, COM
manded by Captain Pettick had a crew of
about thirty. The vessel was of the water
ballast type, built of iron with five trans
verse bulkheads. The total valuation of
the three vessels and cargoes is $3.50, 600.
New York Gossip.
New YORK, February 25th-A M.-Gen-
eral Carr, a prominent citizen and candi-
date for Governor of New York on the Re-
publican ticket, will preside at the meeting
of the Clan-na-Gael on Robert Emmett s
birthday, March 4th.
Rufus +. Andrews, the well-known pol
itician, has pneumonia.
Frederick Archer, the English organist,
has been engaged to succeed Shelly. who
goes to Beecher's church TO succeed Walter
Damrosch
Ex-Congressman Crittenden, of Brook
Ign. is dangerously i'll with pneumonia.
VIM. c. Kingsley, of Brooklyn, we'll
known as Democratic organizer and pro,
prietor of the Brooklyn Eagle, never voted
The Sun says his name is Kinsile, and he
was born in Canada.
The newest political gossip gives Judge
Endicott, of Massachusetts,, the Navy De
partment, and W. S. Bissell, Of Buffalo, the
Postmaster Generalship.
Kitty Gunther. daughter of ex-MayOl
Gunther, eloped and married Henry ID
Windnt yesterday.
4 Demand from the United States.
New YORK, February 2fth.-Dates from
Panama to the 10th have been received
Among the items of interest is the follow
ing: The Wachusetts is in the Guayaquil
river. She has been ordered there by cable
to inquire into The outrages experienced by
a citizen Of the United States named Santos
The Consul of the United States at first
asked that he be at once placed on trial
but the Bahia military authorities paid no
attention to this action, declaring they con-
then received orders from Washington to
demand the immediate release of the pris-
oner, and this has been officially done,
without an answer being received up to the
latest date from Bahia
Dynamite in Ohio.
CLEVELAND, February 24th-In the alb
sence of the family last evening the house
of Neal Shenks, at Nashville, Holmes
a rartio1ly- AaStr,,Val b,- 81
dynamite explosion. The person who
placed the dynamite in the house is I'M
known, and the people are greatly excited.
This seems to be the outcome of local
dissension, which originated some time ago
i'll the burning of house occupied Icy wo-
men OF unSavory reputation. 1t has been
charged in anonymous letters sent To the
women that the house was fired by incen-
diaries. Tie people took sides on the ques-
ton, and the feeling has become very bit
ter. More trouble is anticipated
California Inventors.
WASHINGTON February 24th-Patents
were issued to-day to California inventors
as follows Thomas +. Atkinson, San
Francisco, apparatus for rectifying spirits
and Spirituous liquors by electricity VIM
II. DevaIin, San Rafael, variable crank or
eccentric; Francis Terrier, Vallejo roller
mill; Iacharias Ludwig, Oakland, fire es-
cape; Christian Myers, San Francisco re-
versible plows; VIM. H. Tonblin, San
Francisco, churn Robert Walker, Oak
land, spring seat.
\ Syndicate to Work Mines in Peru.
New York, February 24th.-AGyices from
Panama dated the 10Th of February, have
been received, which contain the following
from Lima: y powerful syndicate is to be
formed abroad, in which leading capitalists
are interested, to carry forward a scheme
for connecting the Cerro de Pasco silver
mining district with the outside world by
means of the construction of the Oroya
Railroad. and the vigorous prosecution of
the mining works at Cerro de Pasco Some
of the richest of these famous mines have
been flooded since 1884. The prolongation
of the railway would bring the mining dis
trict within easy reach, ana lie erection Of
an eightv-stamp mill, brought here from
California before the war, would enable pro-
ducers to reduce their ores TO bar silver
without expanding half their value in the
system now followed,
James II. Keene.
NEW YORK, February 24th.-The Com
mcrciGl says: The belief that James f.
Keene has once more got on his feet seems
growing in Wall street. His friends de-
clare that he has always been right i'll his
general theories and was always in advance
of the market. One OF them said this
morning Jim keene has succeeded in
paying his debts almost to the last dollar,
and to-day he is, | think an independent
man. keene has gone back 10 his old tao
tics. He is pronounced bull, endeavor-
ing 10 toss the market in company with a
few other crafty operators. He has got his
eye on Lake Shore and New York Central
l know from what have seen Of his deal
ings in these bonds, and he is deeply inter
ested in any advance i'll value they may
make
ture.
RALEIGH On. c., February 24th -Yester-
Gay the Senate passed the bill prohibiting,
under penalty of fine and Imprisonment, the
and sale in this State of obscene
pictures or literature of any kind. The
bill, having previously passed the House,
is now law. Under its operations sew
eral illustrated papers will be dobarred
from circulation, and the authorities in sew
eral cities have already taken a step in ad
vance by forbidding the exposure and sale
of such papers This is the first law of the
kind ever passed i'll this State, and much
to it was developed i'll the course
Of a long and heated debate.
Street-car Drivers Talk of Striking.
New YORK, February 24th.-It was re-
ported last night that a secret meeting of
the street-car drivers would be held after
aid probably between l and
o'clock this morning, and at which time
they would determine the question of a
strike. it was the intention to
have delegates present from every line in
the city. The intending strikers have set
April LIST as the day on which they are to
go out if they finally determine to quit
work. Among the officers of the various
street railroad companies there does not APP
pear to be any very great anxiety on the
subject. They say they can get thousands
of men t. take the places of the drivers if
they resolve to go out.
Escape of the Ice-Locked Steamer.
GRAND HAVEN (Mich.), February 24th.-
The propeller Michigan, which has been
ice-locked in the lake for some weeks, ana
from which a portion of the crew came
ashore across tweity miles of ice few ciayi
ago, because there was danger of the provi-
sions running short, escaped from her
bonds and came within half mile Of this
harbor Tonight All on board are we'll
She will attempt to make this port to-mor-
row.
Bancrofts Liberality.
WORCESTER tMass.), February 24th-
George Bancroft, the historian, native of
this city has signiiied his desire to present
the CITY with fund of $4,000 to form an