Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-01-08
ELECTRIC FLASHES.
Condensed Telegraphic Dispatches From
All Parts of the World.

All Parts of the World.
Almond trees are in full blossom in Capay
valley, Yolo county.
The great Boulangist banquet occurs at 81.
Heller on January 18th.
First Assistant Postmaster-General Clarkson
contemplates resigniug.
Topeka, Kan. is being sued for SlSS ,627 for
work in the sewer districts.
Annexation to the United States is the leading
topic discussed now in Cuba.
Organized horse thieves are making life mis-
cradle for East Tennessee farmers.
An effort is being made to secure the Cherokee
strip for the sole use of negroes.
The Filertown Furniture Factory at Manistee,
Mich, was destroyed by fire Monday.
A Texas steer put to rout the troops stationed
on Bedloe's Island, New York harbor
The English yacht Inva has been wrecked on
the Spanish coast and most of the crew were
drowned
The statement comes from the South that the
Grady Monument fund is far ahead Of the JEFF
Davis fund.
Queen Victoria has forgiven Prince Henry OF
BattenbeTg and invited him to return and avoid
further scandal.
The Indian Agents report shows the Passa-
maquoddy tribe in Eastern Maine TO be in a
fiourishing condition.
The formal betrothal of Prince Albert Victor
to Princess Mary of Teck has been arranged, TO
take place after Easter.
The boys of the Michigan Reform School had
$50 worth of Christmas fare and fun. General
Alger wrote the check for it.
The seven men indicted for attempted jury
bribing in the Cronin case will be called TO
trial in Chicago on January Doth.
Prince Albert, Prince of Thurn and Taxis, is
dead. He was born on May s. 1857, and was the
son of Prince Macmillan of Prussia.
The Boulangist are concentrating their politi-
cal efforts in Paris Boulanger, it is said, will
contest the eighteenth reimbursement.
Snow has fallen throughout the foothills on
saint and sinner alike. Angels Camp has ten
inches, while HelPs Delight has six feet.
Carson L. Powers, a Baptist missionary at Al
giers North Africa, in fit of temporary insan-
ity murdered his three-year-old daughter.
Adjutant II. c. Bartlette of the Grand Army,
Department at New Orleans, has resigned on &C
count of the admission of negro Posts to the
order.
In New York the Supreme Court has declared
that piekpocket cannot be tried for attempted
larceny unless there was something in the
pocket
Charles Lever, son of the celebrated Irish
novelist, and himself a scientific electrician,
has been found dead in his bed, at Dublin, from
heart disease.
The news comes from Northern Maine that
the spruce gum supply is giving out, and that
in regions usually prolific it cannot now be
bought at any price.
The latest phase of the Boulargists conspiracy
is the proposition that the municipal Govern
ment of Paris shall control the police and Bou.
LANCER shall control the municipal Government.
The engagement is reported of Miss Ellen
Bayard, youngest daughter of the ex-Secretary
of State, to Count Lewenhaupt, formerly con-
neeted with the Swedish Legation in Washing
ton.
Workmen employed in st. Peters Cathedral,
Rome, have discovered an extremely ancient
and perfect mosaic pavement many feet below
the present floor. Arch9ologists and literary
the finding OF this remnant of the ancient tenn
pie of Jupiter on the ruins of which the modern
basilica of the Church of Rome was built.