Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-12-22

Government is working to place the arma-
ment of France in the completest condition
possible. The State manufactures of arms
and ammunition are all being worked to
their utmost capacity. 1t is reported from
Rome thatItaly is arming. Advices from
Berlin state that Germany is increasing her
troops in Alsace- Lorraine.
Matters in Germany.
BERLIN, December 21st.-It is reported
that on the reassembling of the Reichstag
letter from Emperor William will be read
declaring it the duty of members to support
the military bill
The feeling of alarm on the Bourse is
abatiDg, and the tendency to-day is de-
cidedly hopeful. Buyers took courage, and
all pressure to sell disappeared.
Heavy SHOWS storms prevail in central
Germany and have blocked the railways
between Berlin, Dresden, Hall and Lepzlc
Trains to Silesia and the west are also
partly blocked. Tonight the snow con-
tinues throughout Saxony. In Thuriugia
several passenger trains are showed up.
French Topics.
PARIS, December 21st,-De Brazzo's de-
parture for the French Congo country is
delayed, pending action by the Chamber
of Deputies on the proposed modification
of the budget estimate for the Congo ac-
count. De Brazzo saws he viii resign if
the estimate is reduced.
The Hoyas have paid 100000 francs war
indemnity due France under the terms of
the treaty ofpeace and the evacuation of
Tamatave Madagascar, by the French IS
imminent.
a Teapot Tempest.
BERLIN, December 21st.-The French Of
ticer, LetellieT, who was arrested at Carls-
ruhe ON suspicion claims that be should
hsaI tod ba
stopped at Carlsruhe while making a tour
in Germany openly in his own name, and
that the edict of the German Government,
obliging French officers travelling in Ger
many to make a formal declaration applies
only to Alsace- Lorraine The authorities
attach small importance to the arrest.
The Fall of Khar;oum.
New YORK, December 2lst-The Herald
says That the hIst offic al news of the fall
Of Khartoum should b. received in Eng
land from the Mahdi himself, is one of
those grim strokes of realism in which his
torical novelists are apt to indulge, yet the
fact itself seems beyond question. The
communication first re ched Emin Pasha,
the Turkish VicerOy Of Equatorial Africa,
who forwarded a copy of 1t TO the British
Consul-General at Zanzibar, this official
transmitting the news to England. The
Mahdis letter has a melancholy aud ter
rible interest. II describes in true Oriental
phraseology the massacre at Khartoum.
We read how the troops of God -" hewed
with swords and statbed with spears"
How the " enemies of God were taken out
and killed properly" and how none were
left but little children and slaves" The
document ought TO settle forever the fact of
Gordon's death, for it refers to that eventin
the most explicit manner.
Admitted to be Obscene.
LONDON. December Dist Application
was made Saturday for an order TO prevent
the EreRing Nclgs from reporting verbatim
counsel's speeches in the Colin Campbell
case, on the ground that they were not priv
ileged and constituted obscene libels. The
application failed, although the Judge init
mated that had il been made at the begin
ming of the trial he would have been in
clined to grant it.
Supposed Loss of Schooner.
ST. JOHN, December 2lst-The schooner
Seabird sailed for Dipper Harbor. Me- last
Thursday, and has not since been heard
from. A heavy snow-storm set in soon af-
ter she left port, and il is believed that she
fouudered, or was dashed ashore, and that
all on board perished.
Proposed Tax ON American Imports.
NEw YORK, December 22d-A. MA
special from London says: 1t is semi
officially stated tonight that the French
Government is being subjected to con-
siderable pressure by Deputies from the
agricultural districts on the cereals
surtax question. A prominent official
stated that the agitation among
the French farmers for suriax on
cereals imported into France from abroad
is assuming important dimensions. The
movement is directed chiefly ssainst Amer
lean products