Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-12-25
Effect on Business of the Present situa-
ton in Europe.


New YORK, December c4th.-There is
much talk in financial and commercial
circles about the squally aspect of things in
Europe in connection with the unlocked
for resignation OF Lord Randolph Churchill
The drift of the talk is that there must be
something more serious back of the pro-
ceeding than has yet been made public.
There is a disposition to believe that the
British Government is beginning to be
really alarmed at the general arming of
continental nations, and il has determined
upon such an increase of the navy and
army as will place the country in a better
position for what may happen. This is
mere conjecture, but the effect of it is to
inspire caution on the part of houses hav-
ing large mercantile or European business
connections.
GRAIN CHARTERS.
At the Produce Exchange, yesterday, the
grain spectators market closed excited,
with the improvement maintained under a
brisk demand for export as well as to cover
speculative short contracts. During the
day printed list of the names of sixty
three ocean steamers bound for Baltimore
was circulated on Change, and of this i'm
posing fleet it is said that only eight are IN
chartered. Fifteen of those under charter
| carry full cargoes of grain, and the re-
mainder are general cargo-boats. 1t is
| thought these also will have more or less
wheat, and all these vessels will be loaded
between now and the last of January. ex-
cept two or three, which will run into Feb
ruary.
They Strike "In the Very Wantonness OF
Lust for' Striking.
PHILADELPHIA, December 24th.-The en-
| gineerS, firemen, train hands and coal
beavers employed by the Reading Railroad
Company at the coal wharves at Port Rich
rnond, who had been dissatisfied with the
recent rules of the company and who re-
turned to work yesterday, again struck this
morning, and trains were reported as badly
| blocked between the Falls of the Schuylkill
and Port Richmond. Nine schooners are
lying in the docks waiting to receive their
cargoes of coal, and from present indica.
| tiOns they will not be loaded for some time
A Stand-off Between the Pastor and His
| Flock.
CHICAGO. December 24th.-The Tribune.
Rockford, ILL.,, special says: Rev. 2. Keifer
pastor of the German Lutheran Church
has resigned. He has done this to forestall
| the request for his resignation, which has
I! been signed by nearly every member of his
congregation. Several prominent mem
bers of the church are saloon keepers, and
they charge the pastor with drunkenness
They say he spends most of his time from
Monday morning to Saturday night il
| their saloons drinking beer, and, 10 make
matters worse, never pays for his drinks
Keifer denies that he was ever drunk. H,
says: II only drink from four to five
| glasses of beer at time, and could drink
twenty with no appreciable effect. coulC
stay up all night with these people and
drink them all under the table, H,
charges that the members of the churct
have no religion, but play cards and drinl
beer all day Sunday, to the neglect of thei
religious duties.
A Fearful Sight.
NEW YORK, December 24th.-The Tri
buneS Farmingdale, n. j., special of the 23t
i says Fillmore Jamison, prominent busi
ness man of Ridgeway, and well-knowr
politician of Ocean county, was killed a
Ridgeway yesterday. = He started on
drivesto Lakewood, his spirited team trot
ting up to the tracks of the New Jerse,
Southern Railroad, which runs past hi
house. As be turned to wave his hand t
his wife one of the horses baked Befor
he could induce the animal to move an ex
press train dashed down upon him Tn
locomotive knocked the wagon to piece
and threw Jamison out. The next instan
the wheels severed his head from his bod,
and sent it bounding down the embank
ment to the foot of the stoop on which hi
wife was standing. The horrible spectaci
drove the woman insane.
Patent Suit Decided.
| WAsaINeTos, December 24th.-The Com