Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-12-29

20, 1886.
| the new system all the territory west of
| Colorado will be included in the territory
of California, the idea being to expedite
| the payment of claims by mail that are
now badly delayed, owing to their isolation
from the Chicago and St. Louis agencies.
| Washington Notes.
| WASHINGTON, December 28th-The cele-
brations by the Central and East Washing
! ton Christmas Clubs were held to-day, and
the philanthropic efforts of the committees
were rewarded with perfect success. Hap
piness was bestowed upon nearly fifteen
] hundred children, and the festivities were
most heartily entered into by the bene-
factors and bene6ciaries. The celebrations
compared in all respects fayorably with
| those of preceding years.
| A Board of army officers has been ap-
pointed to meet at the War Department
| January Sd for the purpose of reviewing
and condensing the regulations of the
army and preparing new edition of the
| same.
The commissions of sixty Presidential
| Postmasters will expire in January, 1887.
| Among the more prominent offices are
Monterey, CAL; Eureka, New: East Port
| land, Or; Ogden, U. T.
! G. J. Lund, Assistant Superintendent of
the Railway Mail Service, has resigned
Colonel Lamont this morning sent the
| following message to members of the Cab
| met: 1.-THE President is feeling better this
morning. but there being no business call
| ing for immediate attention, directs me to
say there will be no Cabinet meeting to-
day.
Naturaiists in Session.
| PHILADELPHIA, December 2Sth. = The
American Society of Naturalists began its
fourth annual meeting here this morning.
A paper was read by President G. K. Gill
bert, of the Coast Survey. 1t was devoted
to the consideration of graphic methods for
finding equations for determining rain and
thunder storms. etc. Prof. E. B. Wilson,
Professor of Biology at Brynmawr, ad
dressed the Society upon the subject of
molds and their relations to bacteria. AT
the afternoon session DIR. G. A. Oliver read
paper on Color Blindness" and Prof.
| Hyatt, of Boston, read another on Meth
DDS of Instructing Large Glasses with Spec
| imens."
A Robbers Helpmeet.
NASHVILLE, December 2Sth. = Mrs.
Haight, wife of the express robber ar
reated here on Christmas, left for st. Louis
tonight in charge of detective. She is
thought to have aided in planning the
robbery, and to have $4,000 in her pos
session.
Lynching a Murderer.
| ARCADIA (La), December 2Sth.-John
| Eloa, Jr in jail here charged with the
murder of John Lavelle on December 24th,
was taken out of jail last night and
hanged to tree.
Tammany Making Itself Solid.
New YORK, December 29Lh-A. Mann
many Hall elected members of the General
Committee for 1887 last evening. The new
committee Will organize in Tammany Hall
January 14th. 1t will consist Of fully 10000
members. There was only a small per-
centage of members dropped for sym
pathizing with the Henry George cam
paign. All the old leaders have come
to the front. Steve Brodie, the bridge
jumper, is among the additions to the
committee from the Second District. The
Italian vote in the Third District has been
captured by placing Eugene Delgenevese
and Joseph Mezzacappo on the committee.
Disgrunt1ed knights.
New YORK, December 29th-A. M.-The
World says there is now no doubt that a
demand will soon be made on General
Master Workman Powderly, of the Knights
OF Labor, to call a special meeting of the
General Assembly, and it will be signed
by District Assemblies in Indiana, Hi
nois, Missouri, Texas, Colorado, Michi-
gan, New York, New Jersey, Connec-
ticut and Pennsylvania. The cause of
the call is based on a charge of the
illegality of the extension of the terms of
the office of General Master Workman
and other members of the Executive
Board, the division of the Office of Sec
retary and Treasurer, the increase of
salaries of officers, the increase in the
number of the Board, and several other
matters connected with the recent Conven-
ton at Richmond, and which large num-
ber of members of the order consider
illegal.
She was Boss of the Ship.
New YORK, December 29th-A. MFRS.
Edmons, the presumed lunatic who has
given the American Legation in London
SO much trouble recently, arrived by the
steamer yesterday. MRS. Edmons was
really the boss of the ship" said Ross, of
London. "She ordered the Captain and
officers, passengers and crew around as if
they were all employed by her She would
not stand any contradiction in her
whims. One day, when l was playing
chess with the ships surgeon, she came in
and ordered him to quit playing, and
go and write letter for her. He refused,
and she brushed all the chessmen off the
board with one sweep OF her hand. She
quarreled with nearly every passenger on
board"
/ A Journalists Sudden Death.
New YORK, December 29th-A. M.-Will-
lam Vellies Stuart, of Laharty, better
known to his friends and the world as
William Stuart, journalist and critic, died
suddenly yesterday of heart disease, while
writing reply to an invitation to dinner
from Judge Shea. He was So years old.
Apathy of Irish NationaIists.
New YORK, December 29th-A. NAT
last nights meeting of the Municipal
Council of the Irish National League,
James a. O'Gorman, Chairman Of the
committee appointed to consider the letter
of John Fitzgerald, National President of
the organization, suggesting that public
meeting be called to raise money to aid
the evicted tenants in Ireland, reported
that the committee was not in favor of
adopting the suggestion. President De-
laney threatened to resign because eff gen.
eral apathy among the delegates.
This Might be News in the East.
NEW YORK, December 29th-A. MA
Chinese doctor who lately arrived from San
Francisco, went with the Coroner to the
Morgue yesterday afternoon to take les
son in post-mortem examination. He was
richly dressed in a quilted silk Chinese
costume. He had never seen post-mortem
examination before, as reverence for the
dead forbids such things in China. All
Yung is the doctors name and he prac-