Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-07-05
SATURDAYS NEWS.
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The knights of Labor are sending many
petitions to Congress.
! The New York banks now hold ST., OIL
goo in excess of the legal rule.
The President has vetoed the Senate bill
for the relief of Martin L. Bundy.
X L. Camp has been confirmed as Regis
ter of the Land Office at Prescott, A. T.
The New York State Capitol is adver-
tised to be sold for delinquent 81 water
tax.
Representative Curtin of Pennsylvania
has decided not to be candidate for renom-
ination.
BY direction of the President all the Ex-
eeutive Departments in Washington will
be closed to-day.
The Senate Committee on Pensions Sc
verely criticizes the Presidents action in
vetoing pension bills.
Mrs. Cleveland paid her first visit in the
House gallery Saturday morning. She
also visited the Senate.
Congressman Hewitt says he will not be
a candidate for reelection, as he proposes
to end his political career.
A bill providing for paving certain ex-
penseS of the Territory of Utah has been
favorably reported TO the Senate.
General Sherman and his daughter passed
| through Omaha Saturday, en- route to the
Pacific coast to spend the summer.
In letter to the New York Tribune, DR..
J. Harris Rogers reviews the Pan Electric
reports, and defends the invention of his
son.
John W. Maekay has started for Califor-
MIA from New York, intending 10 spend the
greater part of the summer on the Pacific
coast.
Ten companies of the Fourth United
States Infantry lefs Fort Omaha Friday by
special train for the Department of the
Pacific.
The Senate has added an amendment to
the river and harhor bill, appropriating ST.
100000 for the improvement of New York
harbor.
Bowdoin College defeated the University
of Pennsylvania in a one mile and half
rowing match >on Lake George, n. Y, Sat
urday, by about three lengths.
Secretary Whitney has invited all the
officers and employees of the Navy Depart
ment to spend their Fourth of July holiday
at MS farm just beyond Georgetown.
The Senate has confirmed the nomina-
tion of X. J.. Camp to be Register of the
Land Office at Prescott, A. t., and J. ].
Toplit to be Postmaster at Longmont, Col.
Saturday morning the five boycotters
sentenced yesterday for Matchmaking Thesis
of Concert Hall fame, were removed to the
New York State Prisok to serve out their
respective terms.
The following promotions were made in
the Office of the United States Treasury
Saturday: Z. r. True, to be Cashier; James
f. Meline, to be Assistant Cashier, and
David A. Ritter, to be Chief Clerk.
Sullivan has quit regular training, there
being no chance of fight with Mitchell
without police interference He viii live
hereafter in New York, having purchased
a half interest in Benefits Central Park
Hotel.
Senator Stanford said Saturday that the
railroad company would pursue the same
policy of paying its taxes as it adopted i'll
regard to the taxes of 1880, 1881 and 1882,
whether the State Board of Equaliza-
ton assessed the property according to law
or not.
The New York Tfibur,e's Abilene TEX
special says: Gloomy reports are received
daily of the condition of the Texas wool
clip. The average clip is 100000 pounds.
The crop this year is 100000 pounds
short. Thousands of sheep have died from
the drought. There will be no mutton to
ship this year.
Ballard county KY, is III wild state of
excitement over a singular and fatal NAL
ady which has taken possession of the cows.
They first go wild and frantic, fighting and
making war upon everything in sight,with
tongues lolling out and eyes bullying and
bloodshot, finally dying in twenty to thirty
hours in great agony.
A special from Coffeyville, Miss. to the
New Orleans Picdyaae says: Dock Bishop,
white, was hanged at Peterborough in the
presence of 1000 people. He maintained
his innocence to the last. The crime for
which Bishop was executed was the MUIR
der of Wise, Texas detective in Calhoun
county about two years ago.
In 1866 there were 302 serviceable vessels
in the navy, and to-day there are but 81,
and of these the Secretary of the Navy has
certified that only 81 are serviceable. Dur
ing these twenty years $419,000,000 have
been expended for the naval establish
ment, of which S90,000,0 900 were expended
for the construction and repair of vessels.