Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-02-03
TELEGRAPHIC BREyITlEs.

The labor question is being discussed in
several prominent pulpits of the East.
General Sherman proposes to leave st.
Louis, and with his wife and family reside
in New York
The lands to be included in the proposed
National Park in Oregon have been with
held from settlement
The Ottawa Government is making pro-
vision for the relief of the distress among
the Bonaventura fishermen.
Congressman Morrow is preparing a bill
to prevent Chinese made cigars from being
sold as the work of white labor
Alexander Henderson, who died in
Cannes, in southern France Monday, was
the husband of the burlesque actress,
Lydia Thompson.
a cablegram to the New York Sun de-
clares that Bismarck has been driven to
the alternative of abandoning the alco-
holic tax or accepting bimetallism.
The President sent the following nomi-
nation TO the Senate yesterday: Samuel
Thompson Corn, of Illinois, TO be Asso-
clate Justice of the Supreme Court of the
Territory of Wyoming.
In collision between an express and
freight train yesterday morning at Staun-
ton, Va, fireman was killed and three
other persons badly hurt. Both trains
were completely wrecked
special from Halifax says The sus
pension of the Nova Scotia Sugar Refining
Company is announced, with liabilities at
100000, of which S250.000 is due to the
Merchants Bank of Halifax.
Owing to the success of the recent bal de
Fopera at Berlin, the Emperor will order
that another ball be given on March 4th
for the benefit of those persons who were
unable to gain admittance on Friday.
In giving his reasons for retiring from
the turf, Pierre Lorillard said 3" So long as
horse-racing was recreation for gentle
men, | was fond Of it, but | can find no
pleasure IN competing or associating with
business gamblers"
Under the present condition of the real
estate market at Indianapolis, Ind, the
probabilities are that depositors in Ritzin-
ger Bros. bank, which closed its doors
Monday, will not realize more than % cents
on the dollar.
Mrs. Smith, of Portland, Me-, daughter
of the late John Hall, of Quebec, founder
of the great lumber firm Of Hall & Co., is
suing the Union Bank of Lower Canada
for 81 800 900, claiming that her fathers
estate was sacrificed to meet payments due
the bank.
The presents received by Emperor VIII
lam on the twenty fifth anniversary of his
accession TO the Prussian throne are on
public exhibition at the castle. They form
dazzling display. surprising in number
and variety the gifts received by Prince
Bismarck on his last birthday
Miss May Gladstone. daughter of Mr.
Gladstone was married YESTERDAY morning
to Rev. Harry Drew, of Hawarden. The
ceremony was performed in st. Margarets
Church, Westminster. Gladstone gave the
bride away. Among the persons of note
present were the Prince and Princess of
Wales and their sons, and Lord Rosebery
Dement,, Surveyor General of Utah. de-
MES the statement attributed to him.
duplicating Senators, members of Congress
and high executive officials in Washington
and Utah in extensive conspiracies to
misappropriate public lands for their own
benefit, and in conspiracies to influence
by bribery legislation affecting the Nor
mons.
1t is announced in New York that the
United Lines Telegraph Company has made
a new rate TO Western States. Twenty
words will be sent to Chicago, st. Louis
and other points at the uniform rate of
thirty-iye cents. This is slight increase
over the old Chicago rate, which was fifteen
cents for ten words. The Western Union
rates are unchanged.
w. S. Gilbert has written to Harper's to
acknowledge the receipt of SO for printing
his original comic operas. He saws that
he has not been reduced to perjury, despite
the fact that he has been pillaged right
and left in America. He therefore does
not feel justified III accepting the charity.
and has sent their check to the Victoria
Hospital for Children.
The mercury dropped below zero in Chi
cago again Monday night. the Signal
Service reporting the minimum at 4o below.
though private observations made it from
10o to 100 below The weather is reported
very cold throughout Minnesota. Dakota
and Manitoba, the mercury dropping to 26o
below al St. Paul and to 4So below at Min
nedosa. on the Canadian Pacitic Railway.