Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-09-23
FOREIGN NEWS.

New YORK, September 22d.-The T,;b-
,n,e's London special, commenting on the
defeat of Parnell's bill, says: | suspect that
Lord Churchill, who touches public opin-
ion closer than most of his colleagues
would have preferred to cut the ground
from under ParnellPs feet by such a COM
promise as would have met the most urgent
and immediate grievances, and deprived
| the league of basis for agitation.
Such compromise would, | believe,
have been acceptable to the majority
of the English people, who would have re
garded it as promise of peace for the
coming winter. The majority OF % who
threw out Parnell's bill have given him
every practical inducement to prove his
iorebodings of disaster true. A leading
member of the Irish party is reported as
saying: "The Irish now have free hand
| tenants who will decide for themselves
what rent they can pay. The League will
| forbid the payment of anything beyond
| this. Then the Government will proclaim
the League, and social war will once more
begin"
Pierce Mahonev, member for North
Meath, says " You know there is only
one course open now. The Parnellile
members must advise the Irish people to
meet and consider well what would be
:
League should advise farmers to this end,
and counsel them to hold firmly to their
proposals aud not bulge an inch. The
League will exert itself 10 the utmost 10
prevent outrages, but evictions must iney
itably result III crime, and it will be diff
cult matter to preserve absolute order.
A Disguised Irish Representative.
LONDON, September 22d.-In The House
of Commons to-day, O'Dillon (Parnellite)
urged the release of Father Fahy, the i'm
prisoned Woodford priest, who he said had
refused to give bail because he thought that
would amount to an admission of miscon-
duct on his part Holmes, Attorney Gen.
eral for Ireland, justified the action taken.
He said he himself had no power to inter
fere after the magistrate has given his de-
cision. Sexton said it was his opinion that
Father Fahy would prove the most iucon-
venient prisoner the Government ever had.
Tanner (Parnellite) followed. After being
twice called to order, because OF his irrele-
want remarks, he was ordered to cease
speaking whereupon he left the chamber,
shouting: This House is no place for
Irishmen. | am disgusted with it,
The Fishery Question.
LONDON, September 22d.-Measures are
in progress to reduce the friction between
Great Britain and America in regard to the
fishery question.
Russia Accepts.
SOFIA, September 22d.-The Russian
Agent has accepted the Bulgarian reply to
the Cars telegram, unmodified, with the
exception of the withdrawal of the state
ment that notes such as those the Russian
Agent presented might jeopardize the
quietness of the country.
Big Railway Scheme.
PARIS, September 22d.-A syndicate of
Paris and Berlin bankers has subscribed
COO, ,0G0 francs to carry out the scheme
sanctioned By the Sultan for network of
railways TO connect the Black Sea with the
Persian Gulf, under the direction of the
Austrian engineer. Pressel.
Did Bismarck Foresee 1t?
BERLIN, September 22d.-RatiGca;ions of
the commercial treaty between Germany
and Spain will be exchanged at Madrid on
the 25th instant. The Conservatives are
jubilant. They claim that Bismarck fore
saw the revolution in Spain in fastening
the meeting of the Reichstag in order to
insure prolongation of the treaty before
change should be made in the Spanish
Government.
United States Minister Pendleton and
daughter sail on Saturday.
No French in Theirs.
BERLIN, September 22d.-The German
Iron Founders Association has declared
against any participation by Germany in
the Exhibition at Paris in 1880.
An Earthquake Sbarp's Prediction.
OTTAWA, September 22d.-Professor Wig
gins, who claims to have foretold the
Charleston earthquake, is daily growing
more positive in his prediction that much
greater disturbance, also of subterraneous
origin, will visit the southern section OF the
country on the afternoon of September