Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-03-22

Dempsey says he does not believe Mitch
ell will fight him.
A debate on the silver question occupied
the time of the House Saturday.
Twenty Methodist missionaries sailed
from Jersey City Saturday for Africa.
The exhibition of southern California
products opens in Chicago tomorrow.
A heavy snow-storm prevailed Saturday
throughout Minnesota, Dakota and Mani
toba
John W Lauer, who killed his young
wife at Omaha, has been convicted of man
slaughter.
The amount of gold in the United States
Treasury has increased $l20, 900 600 since
February 1st.
The House Committee on Public Lands
has decided in favor of the repeal of the
pre-emption law.
The contract between the Pacific Mail
Steamship Company and the Pacific rail-
roads has expired.
W. ID. Brereton. a rich young man of
Yonkers. n. Y, has eloped with his
mothers seamstress.
The Governor of Florida is being urged
to appoint successor to Senator Jones.
who is lovesick in Detroit
Senator Doph has takep the seat in the
Senate formerly occupied by Miller, of Cal
ifornia, and Teller has chosen the seat va
Gated by Dolph.
l. NJ Manning asked his wife to die with
him near Ardoch, ID. T.. and upon her re-
fusal fatally shot himself They had only
been married eighteen months.
Saturday the desk used by the late SEN
atOr Miller was transferred TO the Demo
cratic side of the chamber and made ready
for his successor, whenever he shall be APP
pointed
II is expected in Washington that the
River and HaTbor Committee will reach a
conclusion as TO the improvement Of the
Sacramento and Feather rivers at its meet
ing to-day.
The gas well at Murrayville, Pa, which
caught fire Friday, is still burning fiercely.
The main being burnt off at the ground,
the company has not yet found means to
quench the flames. Other pipes having
burst, the atmosphere in the vicinity is
sitting.
II is officially announced that the Pacific
Mail Steamship Company will to-day make
public its special rates between New York
and San Francisco. The company claims
that its rates will be as low as any of the
rail or clipper lines. The transcontinental
roads are all guaranteeing cut rates until
the 9th inst. inclusive.
The Missouri Pacific Railroad has OBJ
tanned an injunction from the United
States Court restraining the strikers from
Obstructlng traffic, and to day papers will
be served OF WvandOtte, Atchison and
Hiawatha. United States Marshal Jones
will arrive at Atchison this evening and
organize force Of deputies.
Elder Decker. of the Mormon Church at
Salt Lake City, has returned to his old
home III Sussex county, New Jersey, TO
live in seclusion among the scenes of his
youth, and to escape the process of law 10
which the faithful in Utah are now COM
PEELED to submit when they are charged
with unlawful cohabitation. Elder Decker
left four wives in Utah
A New Orleans dispatch says the will of
Thomas s. Serrill was probated Saturday
He left $4,000 900 between his two daugh-
tiers. Serrill lived a very quiet and mex
pensve life here, but when in Europe he
lived in princey style, having a magnti-
cent palace in Milan. He was one of the
largest owners of Louisiana Lottery stock,
having $500, 900 worth, which Welded $50
600 in dividends annually
Senator Chaffee's will has been found in
his trunk at the Grant farm, in Putnam
county, n. Y. 1t leaves. first, $780, 900 to
his two daughters, and there are legacies of
about $4,000 10 relatives. The principal
1egatees under this portion of the will are
his two sisters and his brother, Frank
Chaffee. of Carthage, Mo. The sums range
from $4,000 down to 800, and a large
number of persons are named in the be-
quests. The will provides that the residue
shall go TO his daughter. The will must be
probated in Denver