Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-07-26

18th, when the guide left, the mercury
stood At $50 below zero and bad been
| lower. The ice for several hundred miles
was solid for a depth of from 1916 to 200
feet, and the snow was piled mountains
high. At least eighty persons have per-
ished since March between Cape Chid-
ley and Cape Mugford, and only four
survivors were found in the rude shan
/ ties along the coast. These accompanied the
guide TO Cape Mugfogd. The bodies of
eighteen victims were found frozen Stits.
The clothes had been taken from them,
evidently TO help keep life in the bodies of
the miserable Survivors, who in turn had
died while out fishing or after seal. Seven
teen bodies were found here. twenty-five
persons are known to- have perished at
Cape Mugford, where on .SGne 29th there
were only twenty barrels of meat and
forty barrels of corn. -four. Potatoes had
been gone since early in MAY. There were
less than 100 quintals of fish, and 10 cloth
ing in store at all. The residents, number
ing about 800 persons, were worn and
pinehed from famine and cold. In the out
lying districts at least oGe half OF the pop
ulation had died. There were no signs of
the lee breaking up, and; the natives had
| nothing to exchange for food or clothing.
Seventy-fiye Esquimaux from Astoria, six
the stores at Mugford. The men were rem
dered desperate by their sutferings.
British Politics.
LoNDoS, July 25th.-Latest Information
points to new departure on the part of
the Tories in fling ND the Government
offices in Ireland. EDglishmen and Scotch
men, if not absolutely excluded, will be
put aside as much as possible, and all posts
in the Government will be offered to Irish
men.
Reports have been heard that Parnell
was inclined again TO enter into cOHnunica-
ton with the Tories, IN the hope OF obtain
ing concessions or of ascertaining whether
they might not grant some form of home
rule If Parnell had any such intention
he has probably abandoned it. Any CO.
quoting with the Tories in the present cir
| cumstances would cost him Radical sup
port The alliance between the Liberals
and Parneilites seems, on the whole, to
grow closer. Defeat has not destroyed the
confidence of either, or the conviction that
the objects of both can most surely be OBJ
tained by continued cooperation.
1t is a sign OF the times that the so-called
Gladstone Candidate Election Fund Com
mittee" has been enlarged and reconsti-
tuted as the . United Kingdom Home Rule
League This decision was taken at q
| meeting OF the National Liberal Club yes
| terday, the only Liberal Club in London
which has, since Gladstone's conversion,
| followed decided home-rule line.
Royal Robes Bedraggled in tlte Filthy
Pool.
LONDON, July 25th.-Lord Salisbury was
! cordially received BY the Queen at Osborne
House. 1t is reported that her Majesty has
| made 4 direct personal appeal 10 Lord
Harrington and other Wings to join the
new Ministry. Lord Harrington attended
a conference held yesterday evening at the
office OF the Liberal Unionist Association,
at which he announced his rejection of
Lord Salisbury's overtures. The announce
ment was applauded by the meeting. To-
day the Queen messenger arrived at Dew
onshire House, bringing special dispatches
from the Queen to Lord Harrington, who
afterward held q consultation with the Earl
of Derby Lord Salisbury will return
from Osborne tomorrow. He has asked
Lord Harrington and the Earl of Derby to
meet him. There is intense excitement in
the clubs over the prospect of royal inter-
ference in the cause of a coalition Ministry.
After Fenian Scalps.
LONDON. July 25th-Howard Vincent has
written a letter to the newspapers, in which
rector of Criminal Investigations to prove
the urgent necessity for extradition with
the United States directed against Fenians
and dynamiters. Vincent concludes his
letter by saying that the whole civilized
world is watching the United States
| Senate.
The Cholera Disappearing.
ROME, July 25th.-The cholera returns
| for to-day are Brindisi, 4 new cases and
deaths; Fontana, new cases and
| deaths Sauvito, . new cases and > deaths
Bologna, 3 new cases and deaths.
Decline in Art Values.
LONDON, July 25th-The final dispersion
of the treasures of Blenheim palace began
this afternoon at Christie & Manson's auc-
ton rooms. The list of seventeen pictures
| by Rubens, also the last sale for the day,
was magnificent Venus and Cupid En-
| deavoring to Restrain Adonis from the
Chase" 1t was applauded, started at
$4,000, and quickly sold to Angnew fol-
t3G, GOO after rapid and high bidding. All
| the experts and dealers at the sale agreed
| the prices were much lower than was eX-
pected, fully 80 per cent. below in many
cas- s.
Great Cricketer.
Loxpoy, July 25th.-E2gland has new
hero. His name is Briggs, and the service
he has done his country is to take eleven
| wickets Tor seventy-four runs in the great
match between England and Australia
England has now won two matches, and
cricketers consider the inferiority cf the
Australians decisively proven.
Alliance Against Russia.
BERLIN, July 25th.-Political interest
centers in the conference at kissengen be-
tween Prince Bismarck and Count kal-
nokv. the Austrian Prime Minister. The
conference, it is thought, will cement the
alliance between Germany and Austria,
while it will tend toward breach with
Russia.
Russia's Preparations.
LoxDoN, July Sebastopol and other
Black Sea ports are now protected by cleo
tric apparatus placed in the sea to destroy
hostile torpedo boats. The construction OF
the apparatus, which is the work of Ameri-
can engineers, has been kept secret.
Their Ponies Come Also.
NEW YORK, July 25th.-The HerGlds
London correspondent says that polo
Lawley, Captains 7. Hone and Little, will
sail on August 7th for America and remain
two months. Their ponies, about twenty
in number, left in the Erin on Wednesday.
Beach and Gaudaur.
LONDON, July 25th.HJacob Gaudaur will
row Beach, the Australian oarsman. on
the Thames on September 18th for So 600 a
side and the championship of the world.
The Chess Tournament.
LONDON, July 25th.-In the chess tourna-
ment on Saturday, Mason beat Mackenzie
and Blackburn and Mason played a drawn
game.
a Possible Duel.
LONDON. July 25'h.-After Captain Fos-
ter had testified in the Crawford divorce
case, Sir Charles Dixie said to him. We
will meet next week in Paris When
ever you please, Foster replied.
Nor CoMPLIMENTARY.-Th is nothing
yet apparent to indicate that Senator Fair
will not be a candidate for reelection. We
LONG AGO nointed ont the course which he