Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-10-22

it is wondered that no more were killed, as
fragments of the shell flew in every direc-
ton. 1t is surmised that some grains OF
| powder lodged in the thread of the hole in
the shell, and the plug being screwed in,
brought about the explosion. This is the
first fatal accident which has happened
during the last 12l years, the length of
| time that the Ordinance Board has been
testing guns here. Many guns have barst,
but 10 one was ever injured by such an ex-
plosion before.
| The Eastern Turf.
| LEXINGTON, October 21st-The races to-
| day were largely attended, and the track in
| fine condition. The favorites were defeated
in three out of four races. The first race,
one mile, Finality won, Skobelof' second.
! Climax third. Time, 1:452.
| The second race, one mile and seventy
yards Longalight won, Wahoo second,
Fronie Louise third. Time, 1:4Sl.
The third race, Kentucky Stallion stakes.
! one mile and three-quarters, Bob Fisher
won, Woodcraft second, Cheatfellow third
| Time, Sill.
The fourth race, six furlongs, Lady Max
won, Ovid second, Jacobin third Time,
ZIG.
BALTIMORE, October 21st.-The first race
to-day five furlongs Falsestep won, Err
mine second, Van third. Time. 1:041.
The second race, one mile Baldwin's Es-
trella won, Bess second, Belladonna third
Time, 1:45.
The third race, Vestal stakes, for three
year-old fillies, resulted in walk over for
Dwyer's Millie.
The fourth race, nine furlongs, Pegasus
won, Boaz second, Banner Bearer third
Time, 1;57.
The fifth race, handicap steeplechase
two miles and a half, Tennessee won
Buckra second, Killarney third. Time,
514.
They Were TOO Fresh"
NEW YORK, October 21st.-The New
York Tibune's Washington special SAYS
There is trouble in the Treasury Depart
ment Acting Secretary Fairchild is angry
| and disgusted, and Register Rosecrans is
disguised and worried. 1t is all on ac-
count of a list of g defalcations" of public
officers, issued by the Register for the bene-
eft of the Democratic Congressional Com
mittee and which have been found to be
unjustifed. The compilation was the re-
suit of stupid and objectionable blunder-
ing by the Treasury officials, wEo were too
eager to find mares nests. They have had
to admit the facts.
The Loyal Legion.
PHILADELPHIA, October 2ist.-The an
nual session of the Military Order of the
Loyal Legion was concluded to-day with
the ceremony of installing Lieutenant
General Philip II. Sheridan in the Office of
Commander-in- Chief
After adjournment General Sheridan and
ex-President Hayes were rendered ban
quet at the headquarters of Meade Post,
G.. A. r., after which Sheridan left for
Washington. In the evening ex-President
Hayes was given a reception.
The President Returns.
WASHINGTON, October 2lst.-A special
train from Richmond bearing the Presi-
dental party reached Washington without
accident or noteworthy incident at 9:55
this evening. The President expressed
himself as having enjoyed his visit and
was pleased with the hearty welcome ac-
| corded him by the Virginians.
Indignant Souiherners.
New YORK, October 22d-A. M.-The
Tribnes Washington special says: South
ern people in Washington are sore of mind
because Mrs. Cleveland did not accompany
the President to Richmond and attend the
| reception at Governor Lees house, for
which extensive preparations were made,
after the Governor had been advised that
the President and Mrs. Cleveland
would be present. The sudden
change of programme is attributed by
the Southern people to the disinclination
of President and Mrs Cleveland to meet
socially, and on public occasion, the
daughter of Jefferson Davis, who is guest
of Governor Lee and his wife, and they
declare this act is one of rudeness, which
the people of the South will neither forget
nor forgive. 1t is thought the President
and Mrs. Cleveland deemed it inexpedient
to be present at public reception where
they might be compelled TO divide the
honors with the daughter of the President
of the late Southern Confederacy.
Betting on the New York Election-Roose-
welt the Favorite.
New YORK, October 22d-A. M.-Betting
on the election is actively going on. All
kinds of bets are made, mostly on Georges
vote. At the start it was even at 1000,
then at 10000. 1t has slowly crept up from
even money on $4,000, until yesterday bets
were made that George would get over
10000, and at slight odds he would
ct over 50,000 Ex-Sherif James
O'Brien bet 5000 to $4,000 FIVE
times that Hewitt would be third in the
the race. Even money was bet on Roose-
velt's vote at G5,0O0, and the betting on
Hewitt's plurality, that started at $1,000, is
down to 5000 and 10000. The pool
rooms are at sea, but the official odds will
be announced as soon as the betting be-
comes a trihe steadier. The number of
voters on Georges written pledges is over
10, 600
Barking Up the Wrong Tree.
NEW York, October 22d-A. a.-Rev r.
r. Kane, a Protestant clergyman from Bel
fast, Ireland, and George Hill Smith, a
lawyer from Armagh, spoke in Cooper
Institute last night to big audience of
English, Irish American and Orangemen,
against the right of the Irish people to
govern themselves.
y Genuine " Skinner."
New YORK, October 22d-A. M.-District
Attorney MARITIME yesterday telegraphed to
the officials of the Clerkenwell Jail, Lon
don, instructions to hold Orrin NJ. Skin
ner, under arrest there for passing forged
Bank of England note. If he cannot be
convicted there he will be extradited 10
this county. where is wanted for forreries
and other criminal transactions, which in
the aggregate reach nearly 100000. There
is rot large city from Maine to California,
from British Columbia to the Gulf of Mex
leo, in which Skinner has not conducted
his operations, and every capital of Europe
at one time or another has suffered from
his oily tongue, fine address and wonderful
self-assurance.