Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-01-17
The English Market,

CHICAGO, January 16th.-The London
Mark Lane Express in its review of the Brit
ish grain trade during the past week says
The English wheat trade is slow. The
bulk of samples is in bad condition. Prices
have favored buyers, even for soundest par
GELS. The sales of English wheat during
the week were 5S,074 quarters, at 31s. A,
against A, $50 quarters, at 36s. Sd, during
the corresponding period last year. Flour
IS neglected, owing to large foreign sup
plies. Foreign wheat is dull at Liverpool
there has been decline of Id. per GENITAL
Foreign trade is stiff. and the imports into
Great Britain now weekly exceed those of
wheat The result is that the English mill
ing industry is doomed to early destruction.
Thirteen wheat cargoes arrived; four car
goes sold; six withdrawn, and five re-
mained. At to-days market the tendency
of both English and foreign wheat was
hrmer, without any notable increase in
values. Flour, depressed; corn, firm; oats.
beans and peas, unchanged. Corn is q
fraction dearer Linseed is cheaper.
Dixey Seeking Revenge.
KANSAS CITY, January I5th.-On Friday
night the Evangelist Sam Small preached
a sermon in which he referred to Henry
E. Dixey, the actor, as I" a blackleg gam
bier who had lost 81, 800 at dice in San
Francisco and then squealed" Dixey
upon seeing the above expression in the
Times yesterday morning, at once made en-
deavors to have Small called to account,
legally, for what Dixey terms lie gotten
up by San Francisco reporter Finding
that Small could not be well reached un-
der the laws of Missouri, Dixey filed affi-
davits charging the Kansas City Times with
criminal libel. The papers were served on
DR.. Mumford, the editor, last evening, and
he was released on his own recognizance
to appear Monday morning. Small has
been subpenaed.to appear as witness.
DeLesseps' Projects.
New YORK, January 16th.-In talk
with Paris correspondent of the World.
DeLesseps says: II shall run over to
Panama toward the beginning of March.
and may tell you, rs a bit of news, that
will take Engineer Eiffel with me. We
have just drawn up contract with Eiffel e.
Son to construct q huge lock with iron
gates at the foot of the Culebra, to be fed
with the water Of the Chagres river there,
and it is by the construction of this basin
or lock that the canal will be open for
traffic. Eiffel, You know, is the man who
is constructing that huge iron tower on
the exhibition grounds. They have been
making lots of fun of Eiffels Tower OF
Babel, as they call it, but all the same it
viii have excellent practical use for atmes-
pheric and astronomical observations
They Are Not Suffering.
TOPEKA tKas.), January 16.h.-AbiIene,
kas., specials TO the Daiiy Gazette from
Brookyille, Wallace, Scott City, Salina,
solomon, Enterprise, Concortiia, Man
haitian, Detroit, Chapman, Junction City,
I Clay Center, Hope, Harrington and other
towns report little or 10 suffering from
lack of food and fuel. The cattle are re-
ported in good coaaiiion. But few cases
OF suffering were reported among tft
poor people, and they have been attentieG
to and relieved by neighbors or the nltlni-
cipality in which they live. Cos.t is re.
ported scarce ct SA!ina, but in no othel