Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-11-24

mander-in-Ch Chief, will also be in attendance.
Arrangements have been completed to give
him and the Board fine reception.
A Contented Bride.
New YORK, November 24th-A. NJ
There was brilliant wedding last evening
at the Hotel Brunswick, the contracting
parties being Miss Ada 0berndorfer and
Harry Content, young man well known
about town. The ceremony took place in
the large ballroom upstairs, under bell
Of pink and white roses. About 200 guests
sat down to the wedding supper, which was
served after the ceremony, in the lower
restaurant. Then followed a reception
with music and dancing. The bride and
groom have gone on tour. Among the
guests were Mr.. and Mrs. James Seligman,
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry 0ttesheimer, Mr.. and
Mrs. Washington Content and Mr.. and
Mrs. Dewitt.
Express War Ended.
New YORK, November 24th-A. MA
complete settlement of the express war
has been made. Yesterday the companies
restored the rates to the tariff in force May
l, 1SS6-to Chicago 50 80, Cincinnati 81,
and Cleveland 81 70 per 100 pounds. The
agreement was reached on Monday after
noon, and yesterday the General Agents
met to carry the resolution into practical
form. The agreement was signed by all
the companies. The settlement of the war
has caused a feeling of relief in railroad
circles, because the cutting of rates had
caused at times some uneasiness among
the trunk-line railroads.
Accident to Senator Wade Hampton.
New YORK, November 24th-A. MA
telegram from Columbia, S. c., says SEN
ator Wade Hampton, while deer hunting
on his Mississippi plantation on Monday,
became separated from the rest of the party,
who, toward evening the Sen
ator had left the field-returned home. At
o'clock that night, General Hampton
being still absent, a searching party
started out and found the General a short
distance from the house much exhausted
and painfully hurt, but making his way
home. At about O'Clock in the after
noon, as he was riding through thick
woods, where vines were numerous,
supple jack vine caught his gun and
discharged it, the load of buckshot enter
ing the head of his horse and killing the
beast instantly. The animal fell on Sena-
tor Hampton, and in his manned condi-
ton it took him some time to extricate
himself. He had been walking through
the woods for nearly five hours with only
one good leg.
The Steel Rail Demand.
New YORK, November 24th-A. M"
would not say there is boom in steel
rails said leading Pittsburg iron dealer
yesterday, as indicated by the kilograms,
but trade IN steel rails is very good. 1t is
somewhat in advance of the iron trade.
In general, prices are very firm at $35, and
orders have been taken for delivery in
1887 There are some new railroads build
ing in the West and others contemplated,
but the main cause Of the present activity
is due to the fact that steel rails have al
most forced iron rails out of the market.
When steel rails sold from $50 to SO per
ton there was big trade in iron rails"
The Signal Service to Forecast Ocean
Storms.
New YORK, November 24th-A. M.-The
Signal Service Office in this city is about to
assume an Importance which it has not
heretofore had. Lieutenant John p Fin
ley has been ordered here in charge, and
he will undertake to do for the ocean what
has heretofore been done for the land.
For the last ten years simultaneous
observations have been taken in this
oeuntry- ana Epeland, and a large
amount of valuable data has been COL
lected. All storms travel from west
to east, and thus it is impossible for Europe
to forecast its own weather, except upon
information received from here. A Captain
sailing from port of the United States has
some idea of the weather he will be likely
to encounter for the first part of his voyage;
but coming back from Europe he has no
warning. If storm is encountered into
it he will have to plunge. The PROPOSE
ton is to take a section of the north
Atlantic between the doth and 10th
degrees of west longitude, and 35th
and 5Oth degrees of north latitude,
and prognosticate the weather in that sec
ton. II is the section through which every
vessel must pass in going to and from ports
of France and England to the United States.
The character, direction and velocity of the
storms which leave this country on trans
Atlantic trips and the reports of incoming
vessels will be digested at the office here,
and from deductions made the probabili-
ties of the storm section will be immedi-
ately cabled to British and French seaports
All merchant ships are to be provided with
logs by the Signal Service here. in which
the Captains will enter certain observations
for the use of the New York office. The
belt between the seventieth meridian and
the American coast will be covered by the
shore signal stations here.