Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-12-07
Fun at Brussels,

BRUSSELS, December 6th-The excite
ment which prevailed in the Chamber of
Deputies for the past few days was added
to to-day by Deputy Jansen, who accused
the Minister of the Interior of acting like
fool. The after gentleman called Mr..
Jansen liar, and stormy scene followed.
All efforts to restore order were fruitless,
and the session abruptly terminated.
All Quiet in Hayti.
NEW YORK, December 6th-Hannibal
Price, the new Haytian Minister to the
United States, who arrived on the steamer
Clyde to day, emphatically denied the re-
port that a rebellion against Hippolytes
Government was imminent. He said the
people are now contented.
Will Be Met by Royalty.
LISBON, December 9Th The steamer
Alagoas, having on board Dom Pedro and
wife, and the Princes Pierre, Louis and
Antoine, will arrive tomorrow. The RoyaI
party will be met by the King and Queen
of Portugal, and will take up residence at
Belem.
Skull Not Fractured.
LONDON, December 6th.-Stanley cables
| that the condition of Emin Pasha is in the
greatest degree critical, but that Surgeon
| Parke still has some hope. The Foreign
Office has another dispatch that Emin's
skull is not fractured.
Striking CoaI- Porters.
LONDON, December 6th.-All the coal
porters of London will strike Wednesday
IN conjunction with the gas company EN-
ployes. Three days ago they agreed that
they would strike in one week if the COM
pany did not dismiss the black k-legs."
The Rumor Denied.
New YORK, December 6th.-C r. Flint
& Co. and other firms have received ad.
vices from their correspondents in Buenos
| Ayres denying to-day's rumor of a COM
mercial panic in that city.
French Author Dead.
PARIS, December 6th.-Jules Fleury
Husson, better known by his nom dc
plume of Champheury, is dead He was
Journalist and one of the most voluminou;
of French authors.
The Ex-Enperor.
LONDON, December 9th. = Dom Pedro
will pass the winter at Cannes, occupying
the villa of the Duchess Latour Manburg
the friend of the ex-Empress of Brazil.
General Boulanger.
! PARIS. December 6th-The Chamber o.
Deputies has invalidated the election o.
General Boulanger and M. Revest, the
Conservative, in Montauban.
Heavy Snow in Austria.
VIENNA, December 6tb.-Heavy snow
falls are reported throughout Austria anc
Hungary. 1t is stated that a score of per
sons have perisbed in the snow.
Historian Dead.
CANNES fFranee), December 6th.-Gen
eral G. ". Pslfry, the war veteran anC
historian, of Boston, is dead.
Among the curiosities TO be found in tn,
Minnesota State Law Library are two
volumes of the colonial laws of BIassa
chusetts, 1760 to 1872. They are, o
course, reprints, but "ye olden style" ha.
been faithfully reproduced. The code O.
laws in vogue in those provincial days wa!
truly very crude. 1t was then that the
whipping post was resorted to as mode o
punishment, but it is stipulated that 'nC
man shall beaten with above for
ty stripes, nor any true gentle
; man, nor any man equal to /:
! gentleman, be punished by whipping, un
/ less his crime be very shameful and hi
course Of life vicious and profigate'
Again the code says: 'f any man shall
Blaspheme the name of god, the father
Soane or Holy ghost, with direct, expresse
presumptuous or high handed blasphemie
or shall curse God in the like manner, h,
shall be put to DEATH"