Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-11-11
WIRED WORDS.
DOMESTIC NEWS.
California Fruits in the East

gle exception, that OF grapes. The freight
charges too, are little more reasonable.
California pears have established name
here which places them above their native
companions. Peaches too. are in demand,
but lose much of their delicious flavor by
the long journey. Grapes are so plentiful
in New York State that unless California
fruit is III tip-tOn condition the former will
have the call among the dealers here Our
customers comprise all classes. Within
the past wear or two Italian street vendors
are among the heaviest purchasers. OF
course wealthy New Workers are among
! the best consumers outside of the mer-
chants who make a speciality of California
fruit. Broadway fruit dealers sell our fruit
of fruit stored in refrigerators we have none
! from the Pacific coast in market now, ex-
/ cept few grapes, which sell from 81 to So
per case, according to condition. We ex-
| pect one lot more of a few cases. which Will
be the last of the season"
More Political Conundrums and Their
Answers.
LOUISVILLE (Ky.), November 1Oth.-The
| COJrjef-,jOiuUG5 will publish tomorrow let
| ters from 100 members of Congress-59
Democrats and 81 Republicans These
! letters are in response to four questions,
| sent out by o. O. Stealey. the Washington
! correspondent of the Co1U'ier-JoWHdl, as
| follows
! First-Would you favor an amendment to the
! rules of the House, providing that the general
/ appropriation bills, except the legislative sun
dry, civil and deficiency bills, shall be prepared
! and enrolled hereafter by the APPROPRIATE
/ standing committee, as on the other several
| branches of the public service.
! Second-Do you favor any change in the laws
! governing silver coinage and silver certificates.
and, II 50, what modification would you regard
/, as desirable?
! Third-What extent, i'll your opinion, would a
| revision of the tariff and internal revenue laws
! De desirable at the next session.
| Fourth-Who is your choice for the caucus
nomination for Speaker?
| In the Democratic responses, ~ unquali-
! tiedly favor an amendment of the rules
five give q qualified answer; four oppose a
change, and three are non-committal. To
| the second, or silver question. four favor
| legislation; 40 oppose it, and six are non
| committal. To the third, or tariff reform
! question, So favor tariff agitation, three OPP
pose and three are nOn-committal. For
| Speaker, 81 are for Carlisle, one
for Randall, and one non-commit-
tai. The whole number Of Republican
members who responded is 81. For
amending the rules of the House. 4S I'M
| quallfiedly approve, y qualify their an
sWers, 8 oppose and % are non-committal.
Sixty favor legislation on the silver ques-
| ton, Is oppose it and 10 are non committal.
| Seventy-tive oppose tariff legislation. 4
| favor 1t and II are non committal. For
Speaker, so are for Frank Hiscock. % for
Reed of Maine II for Governor Long of
| Massachusetts and 81 are non-committal.
Postofice Discontinued ''for Cause
! WASHINGTON, November 10th. - The
| Postottice at Plymouth, Box Elder county,
Utah, was to-day discontinued for the
reason that everyone had moved out of the
town, leaving only the Postmaster with his
| four wives and fifteen children as the only
occupants of the place.
Capital Notes.
| WASHINGTON, November 10th. - The
Postmaster General to-day appointed the
| following fourth-class Postmasters Wvo-
| ming, Becllton, George f. Beck; billiard,
| George w. Carleton. Montana. Big Tim
| Der, o. NJ. Hatch Pagan, Samuel NJ.
Martin. Nevada, Fort Hallecll, Charles Z.
Mayer.
The only general question discussed at
| the meeting of the Cabinet TO-DAY was in
| regard to the construction of the new naval
| cruisers authorized at the last session of
| Congress. All the members were present.
No action in the Sterling case was taken
| by the Civil Service Commission at its
meeting to-day.
The Dead Alive-A Singular Story.
PORTLAND (Maine), November 10TH
| About fourteen months ago Joseph Dyer,
aged 20 years, of Cape Elizabeth, was
thrown from a wagon, and was picked up
| dead, as supposed. The body was inferred
| in Evergreen Cemetery. A Short time ago
his parents were warned that he was alive
and well, and would soon be home. The
| coffin was exhumed, and when it was about
| being opened at the Dwyer residence
young Dyer walked into the house and
said, when he saw what was being done {:
Don't open it, for here | am His APP
pearance, rs may well be supposed caused
an exciting scene. 1t is supposed that medi-
cal students dug up the body for the pur-
pose of dissection, found DYER alive and
treated him until he thoroughly recovered
The young man remembers nothing of
what took place while in the doctors hands
Woman Murdered by Her Son.
FoRT WORTH TEX J, November 10TH
Advices from Tanning, in Clay county,
give the details Of the deliberate murder.
last Saturday, of Mrs. Sanford wife of L.
c. Sanford, a planter, by her son, Valentine
Sanford, IA years of age. The boy COM
mltted the deed during his fathers absence
from home, by firing five shots at his
mother, with Winchester rifle, while she
was working in the fields lie was after
wards assisted by his father in a search for
his wife. Some neighbors found the
woman's body on Sunday evening, and the
boy then confessed the crime, saying he
had also intended 10 kill his father, then
sell the plantation and become a brigand.
The youthful murderer exhibits no renlorse
for the deed. He is now in jail
Courthouse DESTROYED by Fire.
GALVESTON, November 1Oth.-A special
from Centerville, Texas, to the Ne1o8 says
At midnight, last night, flames were dis
covered in the County Trcasurer's Office in
the Courthouse of Leon county. The fire
spread rapidly, and consumed the entire
building. Many valuable records. dating
back thirty years, which cannot be dupli-
Gated, were burned. The County Clerks
safe contained large sums of money on de-
post which, it is believed will be found
intact. The fire was undoubtedly of incen-
diary origin, as traces of kerosene have
been found.
Another "Oid Man Bender"
LINCOLN III, November 0th.-A SEN
| sation was caused to-day by the discovery of
portions of TIE bones of at least three per
sons under the smoke-house of home
stead belonging to one John. Haines from
1872 to 1880. Haines was desperate char
acter and the terror of his aeighbors He
was participant in several bloody ARRAYS
here, and vas himself slain in Kansas a
| year ago. 1t is now generally believed that
| Haines yfas another " old man Bender .
| and that she bones found are the remains
of somc.ot his victims. An examination
of the PREMISES will be made tomorrow
Turning the Tables.
| CLEVELAND (O.), November 10th.-O. D..
| Crocker, President Of the Copper King
! Mining Company, of New Mexico, who
was arrested at the instance of D. A. Ben
nett of Tombstone, Arizona, for securing
| $1G0U0 worth of property under false pre-
| tezSes, brought suit against the company
to-day for 100000, advanced by him 10
improve and open the mine
| The Texas Strike.
! GALVESTON, November 10th.--The COM
mittee of arbitration for the settlement of
! the recent strike inaugurated in this city
| held q continuous session to-day The tes-
| timonv taken is being reduced to writing.
| The situation continues grave Colored
| laborers all over the city are awaiting the
! result of the arbitration committees labors
with undisguised interest. They feel that
their interests are being jeopardized by the
| Knights of Labor. This feeling has been
intensified by demand from the local AS
sembly of the Knights of Labor for the
| dismissal of three colored men.
Constitutionaiity OF the Election Registry
in Ohio.