Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-07-02
WHOLE NO 1882.
TELEGRAPHIC BREYITIEs.

The President has signed the Fitz John
Porter bill.
Strong law and order leagues have been
formed al st. Louis and Sedalia, Mo.
Peter HingerIe has been arrested in
| Washington for threatening to kill the
French Minister.
The bill abrogasing the Hawaiian reci-
! procity treaty will not be considered at this
session of Congress.
AdYices from Persian and British India
points indicate suspicious resumption of
Russian activity in central Asia.
The hop wires in Ossego county, New
| ork. are covered with lice and honey
\ dew which leavesno hope for the crop in
|. that re. ion.
The cases of the sixteen boycotters,
charged with dam5ging the BUSINESS of the
widow Landgraf, the Bohemian, are on
! trial in New York.
John Bright has been selected as a mem
berot the House for the central division of
Birmingham, and Joseph Chamberlain for
the vest division. Neither was opposed.
Representative Henley has received an
invitation to deliver the annual Fourth of
July Grafton before tie braves of Tam
many Hall and has accepted. His address
will bson political topics.
T. Sullivan, Parnellite, has been re-
elected to represent the College Green livis-
ion of Dublin in the next Parliament, and
w. Murphy, Parnellite has been returned
Tor st. Patricks division There was no
opposition.
Colonel Lamont, in answerto an inquiry
| as to when the President would be likely
TO appoint q Register OF the Land Office for
San Francisco, said: The matter has not
honr0 cil laara1 OF fal1 T
say when it will be reached"
The heavy defalcation of the Treasurer
of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal
Company, discovered Wednesday, con-
tinues to be the main topic of discussion in
Philadelphia financial circles. Several ex-
perts have been SCI TO work on the books
of the corporation.
The race between the freshmen crews of
Harvard, Columbia and Yale, at New Lon
don, Conn. Thursday morning, was won
by Harvard, who finished in 10 minutes %
seconds, Columbia making the two miles
in II minutes II seconds. Tho Yales upset,
leaving her out of the contest.
A. p. Thornton. once a weIl-to-do law
yer, who figured prominently in the Roose-
welt Senate Investigating Committee. was
arraigned in Court at New York Thursday,
charged with swindling various business
~
sums ranging from $50 10 S100.
Russia is urging the Sultan to insist upon
bis rights on the frontier revenue question.
| Turkey is alarmed by Russian Intervention
in the difficulty with Prince Alexander on
this subject, and is disposed to coma to
friendly understanding with Alexander
| This Russia seems resolved to prevent
1t is said at the White House that there
is no truth in the report that the President
has arranged to make tour of the lakes
this summer. He has as yet made noplans
for the summer, but it is more than likely
that he and Mrs. Cleveland will pass the va
cation in the North Mountains of New York.
President Adams, of the Union Pacific,
has sent circular letter to every member
of Congress and Senator in answer to the
resolution of Henley CD, of California.
The latter considers the reply weak, and is
preparing to show it up. Adams pleads
ignorance of the law on several points. and
claims that he acted according to the ad-
vice of counsel.
A Boston dispatch says Ten days ago
some ugly rumors gained circulation on
State street regarding the business methods
of Richard J. Lane. President of the
Abingdon National Bank and of the Rock
land Savings Bank and who was the
holder of large trusts. AS the result of an
investigation, Mr.. Lane was last night ar
rested in Portland on his way to Canada
The Imperial revenue of Germany for the
year 1856 will, it is calculated, fall H.
100000 marks below the estimate. The
deficiency is attributed to a decrease
amounting to 20,000,000 marks in the reye-
nue. derived from sugar tax. The taxes on
salt, beer and spirits show an increase in
! their yield to the treasury. The new sugar
| tax law will, it is thought, produce an ad-
dition of 10000, 900 marks to the revenue.