Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-02-16
SATURDAYS NEWS.
TcoNpENsED FROM sfEsIAL DISPATCHES
Domestic.

The Senatorial deadlock in Illinois is I'M
broken.
The examination of Short, Capt. Phelan
assassin, has begun in New York.
Count Rosebud will be married to Mrs.
Tom Thumb at New York on April 9th.
Twenty-Five Democratic Senators have
Endorsed Mcdonald for Secretary of the
Treasury.
The meeting of the Transcontinental
Pool at New York has been postponed un-
I'll the middle of the week.
The centennial of the expectation of the
first bale of cotton from New Orleans was
celebrated in that city Friday.
Grave fears are entertained that the pro
peller Michigan went down with all on
board in the fearful gale last Monday, i'll
Lake Michigan.
Butler Malone, son of the Senator from
Virginia, shot at three persons in Welcker' S
Hotel at Washington on Friday night while
on drunken spree.
A mortgage was filed in Washington Sat
urday on General Grants property at 1850
O street and 1909 Vermont avenue, for
$4,000, to secure Vanderbilt.
The President-elect, having had his at
tention called to some Washington dis
patches. said All, | see, they are making
my Cabinet for me down in Washington"
George CAESAR, religious maniac at
tempted to kill his 14-year-old son in
Girard. o., claiming that Christ had COM
manded him to offer his boy as sacrifice.
In New England, among the mills which
have recently resumed, are the Douglass
Wooden Company, Winstead Hosiery Com
pany, Wardleigh Plow Company and Viii
limantc Linen Company.
A special from Brownsville, Tex, says :;
The bodies of three dead men, lying face
downward were found near Zacatecas
Wednesday, They had been shot from
ambush by unknown murderers.
There is good sleighing in New York.
The Hudson river was crossed on ice 1T
Yonkers Friday, the first time in years.
Hell Gate entrance to the harbor is still
blocked, and delays are numerous in navi-
cation.
In New York Saturday the United States
Grand Jury brought in another Indictment
against Ferdinand Ward, former partner of
Grant & Ward. Tor crookedness in cOnnec-
ton with the Marine Bank. Ward is still
in Ludlow-street jail.
The Union League Club rendered a re-
ception to United States Senator Evarts in
New York Friday night The Senator-elect
spoke briefly in acknowledgment Of the re-
ception and the appreciation of his friends,
after which collation. was served.
The bark Cassandra Adams. from san
Francisco went ashore Friday, on Racla-
way Shoals, in thick snow storm. She
attracted the attention OF two tugbOatS by
means of flash lights, and was hauled oil
early Saturday morning, apparently with
out damage.
Davis Roper & Co., the oldest and largest
wholesale grocery firm i'll Petersburg, Va,
made a deed of trust Saturday for the
benefit of their creditors. Their assets and
liabilities are not known. The failure is
due to depression in the cotton trade and
advances to others.
The National Farmers Congress has
adopted q resolution urging upon Senators
the importance of immediate action during
the present session upon the bill now be-
fore them providing for Department of
Agriculture and making the head OF that
Department Cabinet officer.
In Richmond (Va.), Judges Baird and
Hughes of the Federal Court recently or
dered that the coupons of State bonds be re-
ceived by the State i'll payment OF taxes and
other dues. The Governor Saturday issued
an order to the State Auditor and Treas
urer not 10 receive the coupons in payment
of taxes.
At meeting of the County Democracy
in New York, Friday night, Commissioner
of Public Works, Rollin NJ. Squire formal
ly joined that organization, and announced
he did so because neither the Independents,
Irving Hall or Tammany had been so in
strumental i'll restoring the country to
Democratic rule as the County Democracy.
1t is denied at the Supreme Court that
Bradley conteinplates retiring. He is in
good health and will probably remain upon
the bench some time longer. He is greatly
valued in the conspltation-rOon on account
of his wide knowledge of past decisions
He can give from memory the point of any
decision rendered by the Court for the past
fifteen or twenty wears