Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-12-30
TELEGRAPIIIC BREVTTIES.

DR.. Bryan, of San Francisco, wants to be
given Chinese Consulate.
J. NJ Davis has appeared as candidate
for Postmaster at San francisco.
1t is thought in Chicago that the schooner
Orphan Boy has been lost on the lake with
all on board-eight men.
The interior of the ST. Elizabeth Catholic
Church in Chicago was wrecked By IN
known persons few nights ago.
The New York Herald declares De Les
seps' Panama project failure. and strong
ly supports the Nicaragua scheme.
Many schooners and small craft were
wrecked on the New England coast in last
Saturdays storm. No lives have been lost
The President of the Birmingham eng. }
Liberal Association denies the truth of the
rumor that Bright intends to resign his
seat in Parliament.
Miss Minnie Palmer opened an engage
ment at the Strand Theatre in London
Monday evening appearing in Ny. Sweet
heart" The verdict of the critics is that
her acting is improved. The novelties in
troduced were successful.
An FL Paso Tex dispatch SAYS that an
attempt was made last week to blow up the
Southern Pacific Railroad bridge across the
of wrecking a train and plunderfng the
passengers. The report is unconfirmed.
Sundays mishap on the New York, New
Haven and Hartford Railroad at Pelham
vile, caused the death of Eugene Blake,
the fireman. The engineer tremendously
escaped with but slight injury. Six mail
clerks were severely tossed about and the
passengers were more or less bruised.
Dublin is all abaze with preparations
for the Inauguration of T. D. Sullivan, NJ.
P, the author of the Irish national anthem,
=" God Save Ireland" as the Nationalist
Lord Mayor. No military or police will be
allowed IN the procession, body of Young
Irishmen, with imitation pixies acting as
escort.
A London cable says: There are tidinGs
of sore distress throughout the populous
sections Of Ireland. Last month the Dub
lin Freeman published dispatches from a
special correspondent ON the west coast,
which declared that the supply of food on
Eagle Island and Innish BOtiin was barely
sufficient to keep the people alive until
Christmas.
The Urited Labor League of America
has started movement in favor of Lieu
nant-General Sheridan, by advancing
him TO the full grade Of General of the
Army. Monday night a meeting of the
members of the League resident in Wash
ington. was held, at which a resolution was
adopted requesting Congress to pass a
special Act comforting upon Sheridan the
title Of General of the Army.
The suffering among the poor in London
is always great. and now is said TO be m
preccdented. Comparatively little organ
lied charity has been reported. any day
during the past fortnight one could see
thousands Of faint, ragged wrctches prowl-
ing outside the whaTyes, each ready to
fight the other in order to be one Of the
score who were admitted to days work
for forty cents if ship happened to come
in. Everywhere business is reported to be
worse than it was one year ago.
The London Daily NcUs publishes let
ter from Antananarivo, the capital of
Madagascar, giving an account of the
French attack upon the Hovas on Septem-
Der 10th, outside Of Tamatave. II saws that
after seven hours of desperate fighting, the
French We're compelled to retire with the
loss Of sixty men. Not a single Frenchman
succeeded i'll mounting the earthworks of
the HoYas, The letter further says that
the Horas gained another victory over the
French AT Sakalaya, in the north