Daily Alta California, Volume 42, Number 13637, 1 January 1887 — TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS. [ARTICLE]

TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS.

- The New York weekly bank statement shows a reserve increase of 15,039,150. The banks now hold 12,271,300 in excess of the 25 per cent. rule. Governor Stoneman has appointed John W. Armstrong of Sacramento Saparior Judge, vice T. B. McFarland/reaigned, and F.T. Baldwin Saperior Judgo of Ban Joaquin, vice A. Van B. Patterson, reeigned. The Albany, N. V., Journal has obtained tha opinion of prominent political leaders' oa the Senatorial contest, in that State. It printa a letter from Eldridge G. Lapham. He pronounces Lavi P. Morton as his choice. T. C. Teale, who has been active in | behalf of Levi P. Morton, is in Albany ; and is confident of Morton's election. He says there fs no cmth in the rnmor that Morton's strength is to be concentrated on any candidate for Speaker, and it will not be so. The New York Sun says : A new Republican, candidate for tbe Presidential nomination in 1893 in said to have appeared in the person of James Donald Cameron. -Of great political strength, Cameron is also a man of great experience in public life,'" able,' warm in bis friendship and a' etraightout Republican. He was one of tha three pillars of the Stalwart movement to give Grant a third term, but his -failure did not weaken his allegiance to his party. " The North American Magazine commends Edf tor G randy of Atlanta. as a candidate forVlcoPresident in 1888. It says: Editor Grandy, of Atlanta, stepped into great prominence with his ' New York speech and has at once made himself available to the Democratic party for a place on tbe Presidential ticket in 1888. g It is clear that at present he is the only man from the South who could be put on the ticket without making eyery doubtful - Northern ; State certainly . Republican. It is truly said that he would ewaep the South like a whirlwind. . ; The' Bureau of .Vital Statistica of New York makes the - statement that ■ the total number of deaths in that city for the year is 87,859. . This shows an • increase of about - 2,090 over those ot 1885, attributed chiefly to diphtheria, pneumonia end consumption. Pneumonia is credited with 8,718, consumption' 5,585, diphtheria 1,752, bronchitis : 1,730, heart disease 1,913, Blight's disease 2,221, disease of the brain and nervous system 8,188, apoplexy 774, suicides 219. In Chicago, on Thursday, Col. W. H. Bolton, ex-Superintendent of Second-class Mail Matter in the Chicago Post Office, recently indicted for embezzlement in the United States District Court, pleaded guilty ; to withholding $12,000 from the Government. , His counsel cited Colonel Bolton's honorable war ? record and ' the fact that he had : turned over all his property to the Government, equal to about the amount of the embezzlement. The Court eaid he would defer sentence.