Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-05-21

Express reports an interview with Odlum
yesterday before going to his fatal leap off
the Brooklyn bridge. He said: 1T is i'm
possible that l shall fail. l jumped ITO
feet under great disadvantage. shall be
about two and one half seconds descend
ing, and shall be perfectly composed My
feet will be drawn close together. One
hand will be held straight in the air the
other close to the side. With the upper
hand | shall guide myself, SO as to descend
straight and upright On striking the
water my feet will cleave it, and | shall 90
directly downward
But suppose you lose your equilibrium?'
81 would double myself into the shape
of ball and strike the water without in
jury to myself ] can easily do this while
passing through the air.
Ex-Secretary Frelinghuysen Dead.
NEWARK On. j., May 20th.-Mr. Freling-
huysen died at $50 o'clock this afternoon.
SYMPATHY OF THE PRESIDENT AND CABINET.
WASHINGTON, May 2Oth,-Upon receipt
of intelligence of the death of ex-Secretary
Frelinghuysen, Secretary Bayard tele-
graphed Mrs. Frelinghuysen as follows ::
1.-The President and his Cabinet have Just
heard with deep sensibility of the death of
your honored husband. Accept from each
and all of Us expressions Of sincere SYM
pathy and coincidence"
THE EX-sECRETARY's LAST HOURS.
NEWARK May 2Oth.-The funeral of ex-
Secretary Frelinghuysen, who died this even
ing,will takeplace on Saturday. Frelinghuy
sen was unconscious all day, and passed
away quietly, dying without a struggle.
His bedside was surrounded by his entire
family. He died in the stupor throughout
which he has lain during most of his i'll
ness.
A Good Nights Rest.
New YORK, May 20th.-General Grant
had good night. He slept eight hours
General Grant said this morning that it
was the best nights rest he had had in
quite a long time He speaks and acts
bright this morning
USUAL sEMI-WEEKLY CONFERENCE OF poe
TORS.
New YORK, May 2Oth-The usual semi
weekly conference of doctors took place
this afternoon at General Grants house.
The General was examined, and the doc
tors found no marked change. Some part
of the swelling below and behind the ear
has subsidized, and less pain is the result.
Since Sunday the General has experienced
none of the pains that last week centered
at the ear Both physicians referred to his
excellent rest of last night
The Mail Service Between San Francisco
and Portland.
WASHINGTON, May 20th-Second Assist
ant Postmaster General Knott has ordered
discontinuance of the steamship mail
service between San Francisco and Port
| land, Oregon. After the 10Th proximo the
| mails between these points. with the ex-
! ception of registered matter, will be sent
| over the Oregon and California Railroad
and California and Oregon Railroad, which
will be connected by stage line of about
twenty-three miles in length. The present
| schedule between San Francisco and Port
land allows ninety-three hours for the trip,
while the new service is expected to put
| the San Francisco mails into Portland in
| fiftv-siX hours, and also reduce the eX-
penses for this service by So, cooper annum
The Chiricahua Affair Reported to the
| Indian Bureau.
| WASHINGTON, May 20th.-Acting Com
missioner Stevens, of the Indian Bureau
to-day received the following dispatch from
Indian Agent Ford at the San Carlos
Agency, Arizona: -Four Chiricahua chiefs
with about fifty of their bucks, all under
military control, left the reservation from
near Fort Apache, on Sunday night, going
south, presumably for Old Mexico. Troops
and Indian scouts are in pursuit. 1t has
no effect upon my Indians here. They are
about their homes and farms as usual. and
are thoroughly loyal
The Revised Old Testament.
New YORK, May 20th-Our bookstores
are preparing for a great demand for the
revised Old Testament tomorrow The
| al edition mi fn,,,,, obi
ton of the New Testament distributed foul
years ago. So far the issue has been well
| guarded, no copies being obtainable. En-
terDrising journalists have exhausted theiI
| efforts to get a copy. 1t is stated the rcyi-
sion will put into the hands OF ordinary
readers certain qualifications of the author
lied text which heretofore furnished
preachers with abundant sermon material
but that it will replace the old version, al
| least in our generation, is not anywhere
| believed. The je'Cish Adrocate says it is
strange, if accuracy was the object chiefly
desired, that no representative Of tho
Roman Catholic Church was invited to as.
sist, and still more remarkable that no in
yitation was extended to Jewish scholar
New York Stock Market.
New YORK, May 20th.-Stocks irregular
and dull. but generally firm throughout
the first hour. The first prices were
! lower for Changers, Lake Shore and Union
| Pacific. higher for Western Union. and I
higher for New York Central, while Lacka.
wanna and Pacific Mail were unchanged
| The result Of the hours business is a slight
weakness in Vanderbilt's. At II O'Clock
the market is quiet and heavy.
New YORK, May 20th.-Cenral Pacific
| d.. I.1D II. t.Y
Northern Pacific preferred, 80; North
| Oregon Railway and Navigation. 49,
Transcontinental. 135; Pacific Mail, 54l
Panama, 98; St. Louis and San Francisco
| 49,! Texas-P Pacific, 16i Union Pacific, 50!
| Wells, Fargo e Co.'S Express, 10; Western
| Union, 595.
| New YORK, May 20th.-Noon-After II
o'clock stocks were active and weak for a
time, especially for Vanderbilt and Grang-
ers. The latter became more quiet and
continued steady at a fractional decline
| Pacific Mail is the exception by being
higher than at the opening. At noon the
market was dali and unchanged,
NEW YORK, May 20th.-3 P. M.-Stocks
very dull throughout the afternoon, and
prices about steady until o'clock, when
| they yielded slightly and again became
steady at a decline Pacific Mail has been
the exception by advancing The market
closed steady after another slight decline.
| Confederate Soldiers Home.
RICHMOND (Va.l, May 20th.-The formal
opening of the Confederate Soldiers Home
near this city, took place to-day. From
| this Home the veterans aud military pro-
ceeded to Hollywood Cemetery, and par
ticipated in the annual decoration of the
graves of Confederates. to-day being Deco
ration Day. Thousands of persons visited
the cemetery.
| THE APPEAL's REPLY.-Why are not the
bribery charges against the Executive Com
mittee of the Anti-Dcbris Association, At
| torney Cadwaader and the newspapers
made specific? Why don't the lying SCOUT
drels publish who paid over the money