Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-02-15
sATURDAY'S NEWS.
lcosDs,-~o FROM SPECIAL pIsrArcHHs.I
Domestic.


Charles Croker has purchased a house
and lot in New York city.
The ice gorge opposite st. Louis broke
Saturday, but no great damage was done.
Mrs josephine Fisher of Chicago will
bring suit to recover an estate in the
Hawaiian islands.
Two men were killed and three others
wounded in railway accident near Lib
erty, n. Y, Saturday.
The friends OF Fitz John Porter are
confident of the passage of the bill for his
restoration to the army.
Suit has been begun against the Sierra
Lumber Company for deSpoiing public
lands in California of timber
Mrs. General Sheridan, who has been
quite i'll for several days, is rapidly regain
ing her usual health and strength.
The postal revenue on first-ciass matter
at San Francisco for January was s., 33334
less than for the same month last year.
The funeral OF Horatio Seymour will take
place al Utica, n. Y, tomorrow. President
Cleveland has sent message of coincidence.
Congressman Morrow will try to secure
a revocation of the order permitting the
Chinese in transit TO land in this country.
j. b. Mannix, assignee of the estate of
Archbishop Purcell, is under arrest at Gin
cinnati, charged with embezzling $3.50, 900.
Commissioner Sparks has ruled that
railroaG lands were not reserved by law
until after the definite location of the
roads
The representatives of lines in the Trans
continental Association at New York have
so far failed 10 agree upon any plan of set
Element.
The weekly New York bank statement
shows a reserve decrease of half million.
The banks now hold $50, 264 900 in excess
Of the legal requirements.
Mrs. Eusebia Fitzgerald yesterday began
to serve her sentence of two Years i'm
prisoninent in the Monroe county IN. "
penitentiary for the Irvine grave robbery.
Winchester Britton, one of the most
prominent members of the bar of Kings
county, y y. died suddenly while AT the
breakfast table, on Carroll street, Brooklyn,
Saturday.
Miss Catherine Wolf, of New York, has
Just given $4,000 for the erection of u
clergy house, 10 be used as the working
headquarters OF the Episcopal diocese of
New York
Philadelphia manufacturers are taking
active and organized interest in the inquiry
subcommittee into the alleged undervalua-
ton frauds
The New York Herald says editorially:
There is reason to believe that large guam
titles of foreign wool have been allowed to
pass the Custom houses, generally at Phil
adelphia, 81 very considerable underyalua-
ton
To-day or tomorrow a deputation of
New York merchants will again proceed to
Washington to argue before the Shipping
Committees OF both houses of Congress in
favor Of the 60 cents a mile subsidy
scheme
The New York Star states that Mrs. G.. L.
Loriiard intends, for the present at least,
to keep up the breeding and racing interests
of her late husband, much as the Duchess
of Montrose does with the stable of her
late husband.
Michael Harrington, the eldest of the six
Fenian prisoners who were rescued in 1876
from New South Wales, by the American
whaler Catalpa, Which sailed from San
Francisco, died in New York on Friday
night, OF pneumonia, at the age OF 81 years
The New York World quotes DR.. G. C. s.
Choate, an authority on nervous diseases,
as saying that John Kelly is suffering from
profound melancholia the result of nerv-
Jus RANSNidt4Vh consequent upon
work II IS likely that keIly-wilI be taken
South or to Europe.
The warm rain Friday night and Satur-
day morning caused a break in the ice
gorge in the Susquehanna river. opposite
Port Deposit, Md. The water backed up
into town with such rapidity that the lower
portion was flooded almost instantly. Sew
eral small dwellings were washed away.
number of wards and wharves inundated,
and the Pennsylvania Railroad depot was
filled with water to the depth of four feet
The fund for Mrs. Hancock now amounts
10 S16,960. The following contributed 81 600
each: George w Childs and A. j. Drexel,
Philadelphia; ]. Pierrepont Morgan, J. W.
Drexel, Morton, Bliss & Co, J. j.. Astor,
August Belmont, Winslow, Lanier & Co.,
Brown Brothers 81 Co., Andrew Carnegie,
Cyrus w Field, D. o. Mills, ]. and W.
Seligman & Co., and Joseph Pulitzer, of
New York; W. w. Corcoran, Of Washing