Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-04-13
TELEGRAPHTC BREYTTIES,

The Fairfax stable is now quartered al
Sheepshead Bay.
! Ex-President Arthur is seriously ill., He
has not left his room for over month.
Lord Wolseley denounced Gladstone's
scheme in a speech on Saturday night
Judge Mckay. United States District
Judge for the District of Georgia, is al
legged to be insane.
The Dominion Government is consider
ing a plan to subsidize line of steamships
on the Pacific Ocean.
1t is thought that Senator Jackson of
Tennessee will be appointed Judge of the
Sixth Judicial Circuit.
Justin Mccarthy thinks that the Glad
stone home-rule bill will pass the Com
mons and be rejected by the Lords.
1t is again reported that Whitney will be
transferred to the Treasury Department in
the event of Manning's retirement
Startling disclosures by the committee
investigating the Broadway franchise mat
ter are still in promising" condition.
A rumor is current that the Gar and
the Sultan of Turkey will meet soma day
next week on board a vessel i'll the Black
Sea.
Negotia ions are pending for the transfer
of the monopoly clause of the charter of
the Canadian Pacific Railway to the Gov
ernment.
George Augustus Sala, the celebrated
writer, on his journey to England, has
been attacked by fever in India He is
said to be quite seriously broken in health
and spirits.
Perry Belmont says he is without any
reservation whatever in favor of the exclu-
sion of the Chinese laborers and artisans
who came in competition with American
workingmen.
Mrs. Mary C. Mills, of New York, is in
quiring for information of her brother,
Henry Dillon, who was in California in
1870, and has not been heard from since
He is wanted as missing heir
Sir George Errington, who was brought
into such prominence by his famous
Roman mission, is III New York, on
tour through the country, which will in
clude visit to the Pacific slope.
DIR. Reichfeld, the African explorer
claims to have acquired portion of terri
tory equal in size to half of Germany, sur
rounding Lake Tangarryika. II is doubt
ful if Bismarck will confirm the annexa-
ton.
A riot occurred yesterday in Winnipeg.
Manitoba, between strikers and body of
Italians who were on their way to work on
the Canadian Pacific. Several persons were
seriously injured before the police restored
quiet
The Department of Agriculture reports
that the official statistical investigation for
April makes a reduction of the winter
wheat area of 3,500,000 acres from the
breadth seeded two years ago, and five per
cent. reduction from lhe area seeded year
ago.
The Department of Agriculture returns
of the condition and diseases of farm ami
mails show an increase in the prevalence of
hog cholera and loss of 10000 000 of hogs
from all causes, or Ii per cent. The losses
Of sheep are reported at per cent, and of
cattle at per cent.
1t is reported that Messrs. White and
Barnsby have been given the option 10
withdraw from the British naval service,
the last-named to be entitled to a pension,
but if they choose to remain, they must
abandon their contracts with the naval
construction authorities of other nations,
including America.
The debate in the House of Commons on
Gladstone's home-rule bill will extend over
tomorrow, though the bill will pass the
first reading without division The
budget, which was to have been introduced
this evening, is not to be presented until
Thursday Gladstone's Irish land-purchase
bill will be introduced Friday.