Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-02-13
Pacific Railroad Commissionership.

DOMESTIC NEWS.
Pacific Railroad Commissionership.
WASHINGTON, February 12th-Repre-
sentative Cassidy, of Nevada, whose term
will expire on the 18th of March, is candi-
date for appointment as Pacific Railroad
Commissioner, in place of Mr.. Armstrong,
and General Joseph Il. Johnson, of Vir-
ginia, is also candidate fer the same posi-
ton.
Cleveland and His Cabinet.
WASHINGTON. February 12th.-President-
elect Cleveland will be installed in the
White House three weeks from to-day, and
his Cabinet will undoubtedly be agreed
upon before that time As yet the promi-
nent leaders of the party in Washington
are ignorant of Clevelands intentions.
The situation is somewhat simplified, and
the general impression here now is that
the Cabinet appointments will be made
from the group of Democratic statesmen,
of whom Bayard of Delaware Mclean of
Maryland, Mcdonald of Indiana. Garland
of Arkansas, Whitney and Manning of
New York, Pendleton Of Ohio, Villas of
Wisconsin, Lawton of Georgia, Jonas of
Louisiana, Lamar of Mississippi, Eaton of
Connecticut, Judge Abbott of Massachu-
sets, and Stockton OF New jersey are the
most prominent.
:. Selected by Divine Power to Remove
President Cleveland"
ST. LOUIS, February 12th.-An escaped
lunatic from Sel.eca Falls, n y, was ar
rested here to-day for threatening 10 assas-
sinate President Cleveland. He entered
the office of the Health Commissioner and
himself as Dr. William Ray,
from New York. He said he was inspect
ing insane asylums. He entered into a
learned argument with DR.. Dorsett regard
ing the treatment of the insane In the
midst of his talk he suddenly whispered
that he had been selected by Divine Power
and by the oppressed to remove President
Cleveland. The announcement paralvzed
the physician, but, asserting to the propO-
siti0n. he humored the crank, who went
on = y es, / am going to do it, and | have
devised & number of plans and eot the
thing down fine. | know every inch of
ground in Washington, and | was thinking
that a good way TO do it would be To lay
for him on the White House steps and
shoot him, or to get behind his fayorite seat
in the White House and stab him. | don't
like the Depot plan, because escape is not
so easy The mans frame quivered, and
Were summoned and he was arrested \
dagger was found in his coat pocket. Iii
vestigation showed that he had recently
escaped from the asylum at Seneca Falls
The Exposition Financial Muddle.
WAsHINGToN, February 12th.-The Presi-
dent transmitted 10 Congress the report of
the Board of Management of the Worlds
Industrial and Cotton Centennial EXposi-
ton at New Orleans, and also memorial
of the United States Commissioners to the
Exposition, requesting al additional ap-
preparation to eXtinguish the deficit in its
accounts. and asking authority to reopen
the exhibition during the winter of 1856
The President, in his message of transmit
tai, says: A failure on the part of the
management to carry out the original in
tent in regard to the Exposition, might re-
fleet upon the honor of the United States
Government, since twenty-one foreign ma
tons and forty-siX States and Territories
have joined in the enterprise through faith
in the sanction of the Government. In
view of this fact, and il. consideration Of
the value of the Exposition TO the cause of
material progress and general education, |
submit the report mentioned
for the favorable consideration of Con-
gress."
u tTaSeleF.
New York. February 12th-The Times
says: When a bright-looking neatly
dressed lad about eleven years old alighted
from train from the West at the Grand
Central station one evening in October last,
a policeman whom he accosted found a
package tag attached to button hole in
his Jacket marked, Care of Captain Will
iams." The policeman took the lad to the
police station, and he there handed to the
Captain letter written by Mrs. Mary
Blakeiey, his mother, in which she said
that she was q widow with five children TO
care for, living in Carson City, New She
begged the Captain, whom she did not
know, and had never seen, to hunt up an
uncle of her son George, the bearer of the
letter, who would care for him. Captain
Williams accepted the commission and
hunted up the uncle, and placed the lad in
charge of his relative. Yesterday the Cap
tain received another letter from Mrs.
Blakeley inclosing S35 80, the price of
third class ticket to Carson City, and begged
that her boy be sent back to her, as his
uncle could no longer care for him. Mrs.
Blakeley wrote that she was earning sew
enty-five cents day in q dressmaker's
in Carson City, and that she
had had a hard struggle, under the circum-
to sCrapc up enough money to pay
the lads fare. Captain Williams last even
ing started subscription among his men
to pay the boys fare heading the list with
a generous contribution from his own
purse, so that George will be able to take
he money back to his widowed mother
intact. A basket of provisions was also
made up to last the lad during his long
Journey, and he will make the trip com
5ortably.
Give Honor to Whom Honor is Due.
NEW YORK, February 12th-A Califor-
nian Of 1916 days, residing here, said this
on reading of the proposed monu-
nent to the discoverer OF gold, for which
he California Legislature is about to appro-
pirate Sl5,G00: accompanied Captain
5utter to Coloma few weeks after
discovery. | can testify Of my
own knowledge that Marshall is entitled 10
l0ne OF the credit due not making that dis