Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-02-16
NOT A TEST VOTE.
CONDENSED DISPATCHES

Nine dynamiters were arrested at Madrid
Sunday.
There are renewed rumors of impending
changes in the Cabinet
Last week the Senate passed twenty-nine
bills appropriating $4,415 900 for public
buildings.
Judge Murphy, of Del Norte is an appli-
cant for the position of United States Dis
trict Attorney for California
Rev. John Tullock, Principal of ST.
Mary's College, st. Andrews University, is
dead. He was born in 1923.
The British steamer Douglass. trading
locally IN the China seas, has been wrecked
at Swallow. One European and seventeen
Chinese were drowned.
The Pope's advisers consider the conces
sions to the Vatican contained in the
scheme submitted on behalf of Germany nv
Prince Bismarck insufficient.
The Russian Government has renewed
its negotiations with England, with the OBJ
Ject OF inducing that country to Join an in
ternaGonal league for the extradition of no.
litical criminals.
Bismarck, believing that the Reichstag
would reject the spirit monopoly bill. re-
Gently said he intended to introduce an
alternate measure imposing large duty on
the sale of spirits.
Fresh war anxiety is affecting the mind
| OF the Porte on account of the almost GER
tain renewal of the attack by Servia on
Bulgaria, in which case Greece is sure to
commence hostilities.
Henry Watterson was resting easy YES
terday morning. The physicians are more
| hopeful. at the consultation at IL O'Clock,
| 1t was decided that his symptoms were
more favorable. The present treatment is
! for acute meningitis.
The statements of the leading clearing
| houses of the United States show the gross
bank exchanges for the week ending Feb
ruary, 18th, as compared with the CORE
| spending week in 1855, TO be $685., go. 7S4.
an increase of 35.6 per cent.
| A meeting of Conservative leaders has
| been called in London for Thursday. The
| Marquis of Salisbury will preside The
meeting will be in the nature of caucus
to determine what policy the Conservatives
| shall pursue in Parliament.
| Colombian silver money of the value of
| fifty cents, which was coined in 1885. was
recently introduced into the markets of
Curacao, but the merchants of the houses
of that place refused to receive it, and are
doing all they can to prevent its circula-
| ton.
A London special says that since Glad
stones decision has been generally known
to give the land laws reform measures pre-
| cedence over home rule all parties are
prepared TO give their support to a pro-
longed continuance of the present Govern
ment.
| Many Liberal papers in london, which
were silent on Saturday, spoke yesterday
on the Dixie case, mostly expressing great
| sorrow and equal Indignation both towards
Dixie and the law The general opinion
againss Dixie is even stronger that on Sat
| urday.
Lord Dufferin has decidd to garrison
Burmah with 10000 troops under COM
mand of General Pendergast. Military
occupation and martial law will be con-
tinued until November, as Dufferin does
not think the country is ripe yet for the
establishment of civil law.
Miles of lands in Orange county. New
| York, and extending into SIssex county.
are inundated by the overflow of the Wal
| kill. Roads are impossible Thousands
oil South Mountain road have been
washed away. Several min dams have
been destroyed by floods.
| The third and fourth-class Postmasters
of the United States met in Chicago yester-
| day morning TO consider various matters to
be brought to the attention of Congress for
betterment of their condition. About
400 responded. Thirty-three States and
! three Territories were represented Among
the delegates were twenty-five Postmis-
/ tresses.
| In addition to the damages sustained at
st. Louis Sunday evening by shipping
interests from the breakup of the ice
gorge, it is learned that the Government
| fleet anchored behind Cairo Islands. con-
sisting of three steamers, forty barges and
! about twenty pile-drivers, valued at about
! 100000, broke from their moorings and
fioated down the river
There is great excitement in Berlin over
the apparently authentic report that Bis
marck is preparing to yield entirely to the
Vatican in the religious dispute which has
been waged by Prussia against the Papacy
for the past fifteen years. A bill has been
deposited by the Government in the Upper
! House of the Landtag revoking, with
few trivial exceptions, all features of the
May laws which had been so.odious to the
Catholics of Germany