Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-01-06
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.


The total exports of produce from New
York during the past week were valued at
SC, 306, 721.
C. P. Huntington will consolidate all his
property east OF the Mississippi river at an
early date.
Elijah Upton, senior editor of the Daily
Times and american Sentinel, died in Bath,
Me-, yesterday morning, aged 20.
Rev. DIR. J. w. Hall, formerly President
of the Miami University of Oxford. Ohio,
died Monday in Covington, KY, aged So.
Wagner's " Meister Singer was pre-
scented at the Metropolitan Opera House,
New York, Monday night, the first time in
America.
The President yesterday nominated the
following Postmasters: William c. Browe,
at Salt Lake City; Susan Mitchell, at
Visalia, Cal.
George Ellis, publisher of the Boston
Daily Advertiser and the Ercning Record, has
resigned. 1t is stated that Henry Cabot
Lodge will take his place.
| The Dwyer brothers are trying to arrange
with Ed Corrigan for another race between
Miss Woodford and Freeland, TO be run at
one of the early meetings this year.
The visible supply of wheat as reported
| by the New York Produce Exchange is
| 5S,645, 325 bushels, an increase of 2l3, 512
bushels, and of corn 10, 255, 1857 bushels.
| The Supreme Court of the United States
has decided the case of the Mississippi
Railroad Commission against the Mobile
and Ohio Railroad in favor of the Commits
sion.
George Lawley g. Son, of Boston, have
signed contract to build a sloop for Gen.
J. c. Paine, intended for speed Edward
Burgess, the designer of the Puritan, is
busily at work on the plans.
The committee having charge of the es-
| tate of the late John Mccullough decided,
Monday, to sell the manuscript of the play
The Gladiator" 1t is understood that
John w. Collier will pay $1,000 for it.
Emperor William has issued rescript
respecting the twenty-fifth anniversary OF
his accession to the Prussian throne. In it
he says: What touches me most is the
mistaken confidence of my people in me
and their faithful and unaltered affection.
PensioniAgent Everett, at Pittsbnrg, Mon
| day, issued to Alex. Gilchrist of Indiana
Pa, the largest pension ever paid a private
soldier. The back pay aggregated $12,151.
and the money came to a blind, crippled
old man who had been an inmate OF the
| poor-house for Il years.
In the case of the city of East st. Louis
against the Western Union Telegraph Com
pany, in the charge that the company
| poles and wires were nuisance, in viola
ton of city ordinance, Justice Shea gave
a judgment for the city of $50 and costs
An appeal was at once taken.
John Ruskin, writing on the Irish ques-
ton, suggests that the Government con-
! slider the virtues and peculiariiies of the
Irish people before arranging for managing
them. He says that the Irish people are
witty and affectionate, and the witless and
heartless cannot govern them.
The Rev. Arthur O. Bryzman died in
| Baltimore, Monday, in his S1st year. OF
| hemorhage and jaundice. He was born
in Koenigsberg, Prussia, and was a son OF
| the most prominent German physician OF
his time. 1t is said that he was closely re-
lated to the royal family of Prussia.
John L. Sullivan, who, it was recently
announced, had quit drinking whisky,
must have continued to imbibe some other
intoxicant, for it is telegraphed that on
Sunday he knocked out" puny thirteen
year-old newsboy in New York, who dared
| to offer him paper. The boy was severely
| hurt.
| The President has decided TO relieve
General Crook from his command in Ari-
IONA, and he will probably be relieved by
General Miles within the next week or ten
days. General Sheridan has been irving to
prevent this, and may yet be able to do so,
as he believes General Crook has done
everything human power could do to cap
| ture the renegade Apaches. He thinks nc
one could have done any better than Crook