Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-02-19
TELEGRAPHEC BREVITIES.


serious.
The Bank of England has reduced its
rate OF discount from 8 to per cent.
The call for bids for Federal drayage in
San francisco will be made at once.
The Marquis Tseng has been offered the
post OF Chinese Envoy to the Vatican.
John Rickaby, manager of the Lyceum
Theater, died in New York yesterday morn
ing.
The Prussian Bundsrath yesterday voted
unanimously in favor OF Bismarck's spirit
monopoly.
The bill fr the creation of a national
park in Oregon is likely to receive favor
able action.
committee o. the French Deputies has
approved the ratification of the treaty with
Madagascar.
Secretary Lamar has rendered a decision
adverse to the Muscupiabe settlers in San
Bernardino county.
Colonel Beecher, of Port Townsend, is in
Washington for the purpose of answering
the charges against him.
The English Government has offered the
Pope its influence in arranging for the APP
pointment of O Papal Nuncio at Pekin.
A Sheriff7s officer vainly tried to secure
possession of = purse and some presents pre-
sented to Colonel Burleigh at Glasgow.
Russia has Increased the number of Off
GERS in her battalions ON the Austrian from
tier, in anticipation of serious complica-
| tons.
| The water received in Lake Sudbury re-
servoir. Boston. during the four-day rain,
would furnish supply for the city for
| eight months.
The Socialists prosecuted IN London
| Wednesday are very respondent about the
result of their trial, and expect a year
| Imprisonment.
| Another anti-Polish bill has been intro
duced in the German Reichstag, which pro-
vides for the appointment of Government
vaccination doctors.
The impression is gaining ground in
| London that the present Cabinet will prove
unavoidable. and that it will be impossible
for it to hold together.
| The London Pal Nall Gazette states that
the resignation of Chamberlain, President
| of the Local Government Board, from
| Gladstone's Cabinet, is a question of but a
few hours.
The Polish residents of New York are
| endeavoring to assist their countrymen who
| have been ordered out of Prussian Poland.
[ 1t is said 10000 have been driven from
| their homes.
The real estate of the late Y. X. Steven
son, located on Fifth avenue and Twenty
third street, new York, was sold on Tues
day for S1,672, 800. Its estimated value
was 81, $4,000.
The employees of the Eighth and Ninth
| Avenue Railroad Companies. in New York
| went on a strike yesterday, but the compa-
MES conceded the demands of the EN-
ployes, and the trouble ended.
In the Senate yesterday bill was passed
to grant the right of way for railroad and
telegraph lines through the lands of the
Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations to the St
| Louis and San Francisco Railroad Com.
pany.
Leading members of the Conservative
| party met at the Carlton Club, i'll London
yesterday, and the meeting was very en-.
thusiastic. The Conservatives will offer
the most strenuous opposition to any meas
ure presented by the Liberals concedins
home rule in Ireland.
The movement for the John Mccullough
monument is progressing favorably over
S11 900 having been subscribed; $4,000
more is wanted, and it is expected that the
amount will be raised among the friends OF
Mccullough in the various cities without
| having recourse to benefits.
The English Foreign Office has fully de-
termined to prevent Greece from under
taking naval action. The highest officials
in it believe they have at least succeeded
in convincing the Greek Cabinet that this
is their unalterable intention. The ques-
ton has now almost reached climax.
Attorney General Garland held a long
| private interview with the President yes.
terday afternoon. 1t is understood in Wash
| ington, although it cannot be positively
| affirmed. that the President is of the opin-
ion that Garland should give up his stock
in advance of the House investigation.
Senator Hale SAYS that there is no truth
in the report that he is cultivating friendly
relations with the Administration in order
to retain his friends in Office He also
denies that he is in any way responsible
for the delay in bringing the controversy
between the Senate and the President to an
issue.
K7nan's Nelos Agency has the following
We are semi officially advised that at the
meeting last night of interested parties,
the sale of ,, 400 900 acres of Northern Pacific
land was practically consummated at prices
ranging from 81 to 81 80 per acre. These
lands are all farming and grazing lands in
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