Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-06-18

! encouraging to the enemies and depressing
/ to the friends of the Union. Hence, my
long forbearance. Though but nominally
| on duty, shall try to hold ont until the
arrival of Maj ajorGeneral Halleck, when, as
his presence will give ME increased conf
dence in the safety Of the Union, l shall
definitely retire from the army" Scott re-
! tired on October 81, 1861
| The American Turf.
New YoRz, June 17th.-There was a
heavy down-pour of rain at sheepshead
Bay before the races to-day, making the
| track very heavy The event of the day
was the Coney Island Cup, and nauch re-
gret was expressed that Troubadoar, win
ner of the Suburban, did not start. How
ever, the resuls was an excellent race, re-
sulting in rare event at that diStaHee-a
dead heat. The race was not run Oft and
| the stakes were divided, though the cup
| itself was awarded to Barnum. For all
ages, seven furlongs: Dry Monopole won.
Rock and Rye second, Brambeton third
| Time, 1901. PaddoSiS stakes, for two-year-
olds, three-fourths OF mile: Tremont
won, La Juive second, no third Time,
1174. Handicap, for all ages, one and
| three-sixteenths miles Tenbooker won.
Are Aretino second Powhattan third.
Time, 2:Il4. Coney Island Cup, for three
year-old and upwards, ene and three-quar-
| ters miles: Starters-Eole, Miss Woodford
and Barnum. Barnum and Miss Woodford
ran side by side until they turned into the
straight, where Miss Woedford led The
! pace was rapid, and the mare felt it Sc
| verely in the last twenty yards. Barnum
got alongside of Miss Woodford, and the
| contest was nose-and-nose struggle to the
wire, resulting in dead heat, Eole third.
1t was not run off. Time, 3:074. Mermaid
! stakes, for threeyear- -old fillies, one and
one-eighth miles Letreta had the lead
all the way until the open of the stretch
was neared, when Bandalia. apparently
without an effort, went to the front and
| won by three-fourths of length, Strategy
second, Letretia third. Time, 2:02. Selling
race, one mile; Bessie B. won, Valet sec
ond, Tattler third. Time l'47.
ST. LOUIS RACES.
! ST. LOUIS, June l7th.-The weather to-
| day was good, but the track was heavy.
/ One and one eighth miles Freeman won.
! Warsign second, Revoke third. Time,
| 2:o3t One mile: Macela won, Handy
andy second, Clonee third. Time. 1:49t.
! Cotton Exchange stakes, three-quarters of
| a mile: Laredo made the running. at
tended by Terra Gotta, Councillor and Rose.
! There was no change for half mile, when
| Montrose moved up, took the lead in the
stretch, and won handily by two lengths,
! Terra Gotta second, Laredo third. Time,
| 1:19. Three-quarters of mile: Clarion
won, Jaubert second, Virginia third. Time,
] 1:20. One mile: Bootblack won, Boaz sec
ond, Gold Flea third. Time, 1:474.
Terrible Railroad Accident.
PGTTsBURG, June 17th.-A special from
Foxburgh, Pa. says: Point creek trestle,
on the Pittsburg and Western Railroad,
near here, was the scene of terrible rail-
road accident last night, by which three
persons lost their lives, and another was so
badly injured that recovery is doubtful.
An axle on the middle car of. long freight
| train broke Just as the train was on the
center of the trestle and then the train of
twenty cars was thrown into the creek
| forty feet below A large portion of the
trestle- work was carried with the falling
train. Four of the crew were buried in
the debris, the fifth, conductor Kirre, es-
Gaping serious injury by jumping. When
| the wreck was cleared it was found that
engineer George Settings and brakemen
Steffey and Kase had been killed. Fire
man Goughlin was still living, but his in
juries are believed to be fatal.
Herr Most's Newspaper.
New York. June 17th-The twenty fifth
number of the eighth year of Herr Most S
newspaper, the Freiheit, which is said on
| the title page to be issued in London and
New York, was printed yesterday in Jersey
| City. while Editor John Muller requested
| in print all communications to be directed
to his postoffice box in Hoboken. The
leading article was the defense of the at
tack by the Chicago Socialist newspaper
against Most for spelling the eight-houl
movement. Whenever the Anarchist;
/. - l. I
movement, as in Chicago recently" the
editor writes. there was measure o.
| success, but in other places where labor
demonstrations took place, as in New York
city, the movement was failure"
New York Stock Market.
New YORK, June l7th.-Northern Pacific
skies, 116l @1l6i Southern Pacific skies
10S}@109l; Arizona skies, 105 New
Mexico skies, 1033 bid.
New YORK, June 17th-Noon.-Central
| Pacific, 41s; Burlington, 1856: Rio Grande
| 153 Northern Pacific 37s; Northwestern
100; New York Central, 1851 Ore.
J gon Navigation, 10Ss; Transcontinental.
F., $50; Pacific Mail, 54s; Panama, 9S; Rock
| Island, Il; st. Louis and San Francisco, 235
st. Paul and Omaha, 49@ Texas-Pacific
! III; Union Pacific, 55s Wells-Fargo Ex-
press, 125; Western Union, 62.
| A Twenty. one Round Prize-fight.
PHILADELPHIA, June 17th-A special to
the Telegraph says: At an early hour this
morning prize fight took place on the
banks of the Delaware river. near the
mouth of the Rancocas creek. The princi-
! pals were Tom Mccain, of Providence, Il
l., and Billy Martin, of Newark, y. j., and
the stakes were $500 Twenty-one rounds
were fought. McCann was three inches
taller and four pounds heavier than his
antagonist, who stood 5 feet inches and
weighed 13S pounds. Martin had the best
of the fight TO the finish, but McCann stood
up pluckily. In the last round Martin
first planted his left on McCann's head
badly damaging his left ear, following il up
with his right repeated the blows a few
| times, and then, with McCann's hands
| hanging by his side and his face leaning
! forward. Martin shot hot one against hi;
neck and stretched him out limp. McCann
was unable to respond, and the battle was
! given TO Martin.
The MuidooA Cannon Wrestling Match,
CINCINNATI, June 18th. = Twenty-Five
hundred people assembled at the Grand
/ Opera House tonight to witness the Greco
Roman wrestling contest between William
] Muldoon and Thomas Cannon. Muldoon
won the DrSt bout IN tnlftN-HNe minutes,
and Cannon the second in eight minutes.
After wrestling fifty-six minutes for the
third and final fall the referee declared the
| bout and match a draw. Muldoon became
very sick after the first fifteen minutes
wrestlinga and Cannon was not in tirst-class
form.
Charleston's Admiration of Cleveland.
CHARLESTON Is. C.), June 17th.-Presi-
| dent Cleveland, in letter which is to be
published here tomorrow morning, ex-
presses sincere thanks of himself and Mrs.
| Cleveland for the magnificent wedding gift
| received from the citizens of Charleston
| The present consisted of massive silver
vase, accompanied by letter to Mrs Cleve-
land, saying that it was intended as token
of the high esteem in which President
| Cleveland was held in Charleston, "b by rea-
son of his ability, his true manliness and
his constant fidelity to his obligations un-
der the Constitution and laws of these re-
united States"
Warned Against Politicians.
PHILADELPHIA, June 18th. = Secretary
Turner. of the Knights of Labor on being
shown a secret circular of Powderly. pub
| lished to-day, acknowledged that copies OF
/ the same had been sent to the General As