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THE DAILY RECORD-UNION.
TIESHAT EBffiBWBKI 10. I SO.
NEWS OF THE MORNING.
Is *>."•*'.* York yesterday Government beads were
.-,.,. at 105 for 43 of I'-T' US' tor Si cf lis';
106g for 41s; sterling, SI >::'*tt tG; silver bars,
113 j ; silver coil*, i discount baying, par selling*; •
Silver in London yesterday, 5*2 6-16; consols,
• 87 1-16; 5 per cent. United States bonds, 10."" ; 4s,
. Itte}", -J-.,' 111 *- V . *: ,V -
IH San Francisco half dollars are quoted at par ;
trade dollars, X buying, SC} selling ; Mexican dol
lars, M baying, >C 1 selling.
AT Liverpool yesterday wheat was quoted at 105
(8103 W for average California white, .eiil 10) Bd*
to 118 Id for dub. • ■
Ax assessment of 50 cents lias been levied by the
Justice Milling oka**.
Tiizre was a moderate business at San Francisco
in mining stocks yesterday. Prices were soft, with a
1 decline SI in Sierra Nevada, and from 10c to 76c
in other descriptions. On the - .- hand, * .'hollar
ruse •51, and bali-a- dozen other sort-! were from 10c
to 50c better than on Saturday.
Aasasi continue as ..ran, Ont., i.i connection
with tho recent Donnelly tragedy.
Sixty houses were banted yesterday at .'.yu.
France.
Is the rowing matcb on the Tync between Doyd
and Elliott, the former won.
Fire at V.'bitt'iali, K. V.
Tubke prisoners were* taken from the jail at Las
Vegas, **». *!., Saturday uiglit, by au armed mob,
' and killed.
Tamil Secretary of the Navy, is now Presi
dent of the American Congressional Temperance
Society.
A I. ..i:in Dublin yesterday completely destroyed
the Theater Royal.
The death of ;*'i..-* Assistant Engineer Collins, of
the steam**] City of Peking, occurred at the Saiv
, Francisco small hospital yesterday.
tM.i--.- the weather soon moderate -, great loss - f
stock is feared in British Columbia.
A soma explosion at Detroit yesterday damaged
a malt-house to the extent of 1,000.
A on eat comet is passing the sun in a northerly
direction. ■ . .
Tub Board of Health of Sun Francisco have re
solved to prosecute the office**-* of the steamship
City of Peking in connection with tho recent im
- portati of ;.:■.,*..
Near Bradford, Pa., yesterday, two men and two
horses were killed, and two houses and a barn
wrecked, by an explosion of nitro-glycerine.
Sraia and China have signed a treaty by which
Chinamen can be contracted for labor jn Cuba the
same as heretofore.
Tint Colored Exodus Committee have examined
tii witnesses. . : v . '.
A shock rf earthquake occurred at Ottawa, Out.,
-Sunday night.
Hams >;*■>•> has telegraphed the President for
permission to resign from the army.
Tin*. Mennonites are no longer exempt from mili
tary service in Russia on account of their religion.
Mayor Kailocii yesterday assured the San Fran
cisco Workingmen that Chinatown would in a few
-days be legally declared a nuisance.
tea gross earnings of thirty-five Western railroads
for January aggregate 'y,Ws,.'l:H— a gain of $1,819,.
' 314 over the same month last year.
Is the State Senate yesterday the regular order of
business was gone through, and that body adjourned
at 1:50 for lack of work on the file.
The Assembly Chamber yesterday morning was
tbe scene of considerable excitement, growing out
•of language said Jo have been used in the Ropubli
r can caucus. A full report will be found on the first
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BIPARIAN RIGHTS.
Section 11422 of the Civil Code (Section
1422, Title VIII. on Water Eights) provides
that " the lights of riparian proprietors are
*" not affected by the provisions of this ti
"tie," the object of the chapter being to
prescribe the methods by which water may
be appropriated for various purposes. Sen
ate Bill Xo. 211, introduced by Mr. Satter
-white, undertakes to amend this section,
and makes it read as follows : "Section
*' 1422. The rights of riparian proprietors
" are not affected by the provisions of this
' '* title. A riparian proprietor is one through
" whose land a natural stream flows, or
" whose land borders on a natural stream,
*" rind "he has only the right to
"the flow V sufficient" water in such
"stream for culinary and/ household pur
" poses, and t.i water the live stock which
"be owns and keeps on bis premises.
" Such rights are subject to condemnation
"for irrigating purposes in the manner
"provided by Title VII., Tart 111. of the
"Code of Civil I'roceduro." And now
will some one tell ua what rights arc left to
-tt*e riparian proprietor after Mr. S.itier
white has defined his position for him ? In
the first place he is to have only the right
to water for household purposes and the
use of live stock ; but even these slender
rights are "subject to condemnation for
"irrigating purposes." In fact, un
der this bill the riparian proprietor
might be deprived of every drop of water
that ran past his dour, and be practically
starved cut. Whit is the meaning of this
atrange amendment of the Code The
latter appears to have left the definition of
the rights of riparian proprietors to the
common law. For what purpose has Mr.
Satterwhite undertaken to change this ar
rangement, with tho result of stripping
the riparian proprietor of all rights what
ever? We are of opinion- that the bill
ought not to be passed until a satisfactory
explanation of these points has been made.
THE ANTI-CHINESE BILLS.
There has been a difference of opinion in
the Senate Judiciary Committee on the
•anti-Chinese bills. Tlie majority have re
ported them back favorably, on the ground
that they arc in accordance with the State
Constitution. Senator Hittell, of • the
committee, bus mads a minority report,
holding that the bills arc in conflict with
the Buriingame treaty and the Constitu
tion of the United States, and that they
should therefore be finitely postponed.
Of courss the majority of tic committee
know as well as Mr. Hittell that the bills
are in inflict with the tii] rcme law of the
land, but they have a theory that they are
not bound to inquire further than tbe State
Constitution, and that any laws consistent
-with that are legitimate. Now, either
these : members do or they do not rec
ognize the Constitution of the United States
and the treaties made under it as the
supreme law of the land. If they do so
recognize it, it is difficult to perceive how
they can consistently bold that it ia com
petent to them to ignore it on the present
-occasion. . If they do not recognize its su
premacy they will find the justification of
their position still more difficult. In any
case they are aware that neither of the
•bills they have reported back is valid, and
that the only result of passing them would
be to waste the public funds in procuring a
formal declaration of their unconstitution
ality. It appears t» us' therefore that a
sense of public duty tho'uld have prevented
th - committee from appealing to approve
of legislation whioh is notoriously futile,
and the enactment of which can only brine
the Legislature and the State into con
tempt and discredit. .■■', •■; ■'■
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THE OLD FARCE.
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Kearney has returned to ; the Sand Lots, '
and resumed his old opera boufl'e habits. ,
He talks about cutting throats and hang- ■
ing, as usual, and lie has apparently made '
no advance toward common ■ sense or de
cency. His return lias been also celebrated j
by the posting ia San Francisco of a placard '
calling upon whom it may concern to rise
and slay the Chinese, it being asserted that '.
all other * methods - have failed. - This is '
very dreary fun, if it is ' intended for fun. ]
In fast ■ Kearney and \ Kearney iam have
long since * become , first-class . nuisances,
which demand abatement as nuisances, and
in no other or more important aspect V
HON. JAMES WILSON ON THE REAGAN
BILL.
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In our supplement yesterday- we printed ;
a portion; of the very able argument of i
Hon. James Wilson on the Reagan bill,
before the House Committee on Commerce.
The main point of this argument is the
clear showing made of the fundamental
principle that the rate of transportation
should be lower, the longer the haul. The
Reagan bill proposes to abolish this princi
ple, and to compel railroads to charge the
same proportional rates for all distance!,
thus destroying competition, and narrow
ing the limits within which produce can be
profitably sent to market. Under the sys
tem of transportation which has grown out
of experience and business exigency, i*. ha?
been found possible to extend these limits
enormously, and one result of this exten
sion has been to enlarge the cultivable area
of the country beyond what would have
been possible in a hundred years by the
old methods of transportation. The prin
ciple of the low rate for the long haul
is in fact the principle which
has built up the great West. It has ena
bled lands to be settled and tilled which
nothing else could have redeemed from the
wilderness. It has stimulated the growth
of towns and hamlets which but for it
could not have existed. It has added
millions to the population of the country,
ami has been the means of creating wide
spread prosperity. And now comes Mr.
Reagan and proposes that this great prin
ciple shall lie abolished, and that hence
forth the railroads shall be prohibited
from charging less for the long haul
than for else short one. As Mr. Wilson
showed before the committee, this ex
periment has already been tried in lowa,
and it was so disastrous a failure
that the people hastened to return
to the old method, and have
no desire for any further inr.ova
ations of that kind. The framer of
the bill pretends that the measure will not
interfere with the low rate for the long
haul, but Mr. Wilson here impales him on
the horns of a fatal dilemma, for he points
out that if this construction of the bill is
tho right one, it can only result in legaliz
ing the imposition of the same rate for
short distances as for long ones. If, there
fore, the bill is what its opponents claim,
it must shut out ' distant communities
from the markets altogether. If it is what
its author claims, it will empower the rail
roads to charge through rates for
way business. Mr. Wilson illustrates
the case thus: " Suppose the greater
"distance over which a car load of freight
"is to be carried is 1,000 miles, and the
" rate $100. Another car load of the same
"kind of freight is to be moved over the
" line a shorter distance of 50 miles. Can
"8100 be charged for that also? Un
doubtedly this can bo done under the
" construction of the section given by its
"author. Whatever is charged for the
"greater distance may likewise be . put
"upon the shorter haul. If $150 be
"charged for I, COO miles, the same amount
" may be charged for 25 miles. And this
"is to have the sanction of law. One or I
"the other of these constructions must be ]
"given to the section : Either it prohibits
"a low rate for a long haul, or it author
"izes an exorbitant rate for a short haul."
There is no escape from this dilemma.
Whichever interpretation is proposed by
the advocates of this bill, they are .loomed
to demand the perpetration of a wrong.
The enactment of such a law, indeed'
would not do the barm of which it 13 sus
ceptible, simply because the country would
refuse to tolerate it. A trial of less than
six months would prove that its mainten
ance must result in the depopulation of the
remoter parts of the West, in the ruin of
now flourishing cities, in the abandonment
of fertile soil, in the paralysis of the
growth of the Union. It is a blind and
foolish attempt to fetter transportation by
applying to it arbritary rules wholly
incompatible with progress. The ob
ject seems to have been to remove all
inequalities, and to the extent that this
is attempted it is evidence of astonishing
ignorance on the part of the author. For
in this world, as all experience shows, the
■very best that can ever be obtained is
merely a relative perfection. The formula
of the greatest happiness to the greatest
number describes all that science anil leg
islation and philosophy can rationally aim
at ; anil this goal implies limitations of
the most pronounced character. There
will always be inequalities in any sys
tem. There will always be those
who are at a disadvantage. But
the test of a system is not the question
whether it fails to meet every conceivable
requirement, but whether it meets a
majority of the requirements. Whoever
undertakes to legislate for the special
benefit of the minority who are unavoid
ably injured, must legislate against the
majority who are admittedly benefited,
and this is what Mr. Reagan has done.
In trying to make transportation equally
beneficial to all be has destroyed its use
fulness for the majority, and this is to in
jure all ultimately, since there can be no
such working principle as that of the
greatest happiness to the smallest num
ber. He has in fact taken up the problem
at the wrong end, and all bis reasoning is
backward instead of forward.
A resolution has been introduced into
the State Legislature asking Congress to
pass the Reagan bill. The State Legisla
ture has, we trust, a better apprehension
of its duty to the people of California than ;
to adopt any such resolution. The Reagan
bill is a menace to the Pacific States quite
as much as to the Great West, and nothing
but evil could come of it for this section.
We need all the impulse that can be given
to settlement and cultivation of the soil.
Wo shal' require, from year to year, new
railroads indefinitely. The commerce of
the State is and must ever be largely de
pendent upon its capacity to act as an em
porium for the whole coast, and for this
side of the continent. The complete inde
pendence of interstate commerce is there
fore an imperative necessity for us,
and . whatever legislation aims *at
destroying that independence is hos
tile to the interests of California.
The effect of the Reagan bill would be
to circumscribe the commercial facilities
of San Francisco and Sacramento," by cut
ting off all distant communities from these
markets. The abolition of competition
and scientific rates would destroy the use- j
fulness of the Southern Pacific, so far as j
its power to build up California was con
cerned. It would also paralyze all , the i
more distant trade which the Central Pa
cific now gives to our merchants, and it I
would retard the growth of those parts cf j
the State furthest removed from a market, j
If the Legislature wishes to take any ;
action in regard to this matter, and if it i
desires to further the public interests, it 1
should adopt concurrent resolutions asking
Congress not to pass the Reagan bill, and
setting forth plainly the manifold injuries
certain to result from such a law.
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BUSINESS IN THE ASSEMBLY.
~ The action of th» Republican caucus on
l- - -
I Friday night, ; in determining to put a.stop
'. to the flagrant waste of time which has
: impeded business in the Assembly hitherto,
was wise and necessary. Without some
such organized action it has been demon
strated that the work of the session could
not be accomplished within one hundred
days, and it is very doubtful whether any
proceeding short of the adoption of the
live-minute rale would have answered the
purpose. The Democratic* members have
done well in expressing their determination
to co-operate with the Republicans in se
curing the prompt transaction of vital
business. The Workingmen and New
Constitution members held a meeting on
Saturday, at which they * expressed indig
nation at the imputation of obstructionist
purpose to them by some members of the
Republican caucus; but notwithstanding
this indignation they appear to have re
solved on the continuance of a course
which is certainly calculated to obstruct
business, and to effect nothing else. It is
possible that these members have been
"Jrongly accused in this connection, and
that in fact they have not been acting
upon a settled policy of any kind. 'But it
is none the less obvious that they have
contributed largely to the delay and loss of
time which have occurred in the Assem
bly, and that nearly all the unconstitu
tional and impracticable bills have pro
ceeded from them, while they have been
the most addicted to frivolous interrup
tions and unparliamentary behavior. In
regard to the violation of parliamentary
decorum, however, it is necessary to say a
word specially. I N't/legislative body that
has ever sat in California has been so
marked by contempt for and defiance of
parliamentary usages as the present As
sembly. -. There have beetr times when
the language and behavior of many mem
bers has been far more consonant with the
habits and surroundings of a pothouse
than with those which should govern the
proceedings of a deliberative body. Lan
guage has been used which can only be
characterized as blackguardly. Parlia
mentary rules have been ignored with as
tounding effrontery. The Speaker has
appeared to lose control over the chamber
entirely, and the debates have degenerated
into indecent and most discreditable alter
cations. Now, whoever is guilty of these
flagrant breaches of decorum, it is clear
that the majority are responsible for the
abuse. They possess the power to enforce
order, and to employ the most severe
measures to that end. They must here
after protect the dignity of the Assembly,
and if they are unable by ordinary
methods to secure the necessary order and
good behavior, they ought not to hesitate
at using extraordinary methods. This is a
question of public concernment. It i 3 not
one of personal jealousies or of rivalries
between members or factions, but it is one
of the general welfare. Members of the
Legislature are not their own masters ;
they are the servants of the people ; and
they must be made to understand that
they cannot be allowed to squander the
people's money, and waste time, instead of
attending to the business they were sent
here to transact. The people, moreover,
will not make any mistakes as to account
ability. The Workingriien will be held
responsible for what they do, and they will
not be able to shoulder their acts on to
their colleagues. Obstruction under what
ever thin disguise must cease, and the work
of the session must be done henceforward
with singleness of purpose.
THE USURY LAW.
A bill fixing the legal rate of interest has
pissed to a third reading in the Assembly ;
a fact which shows that sufficient vigilance
is not exercised in the examination of new
laws. The enactment of this bill can have
but one effect — namely, to make the bor
rowing of money more difficult. As usury
laws are commonly sought by the poor
I instead of the rich, it might at the first
glance be conjectured that this was a mis
taken apprehension. It has indeed been
asserted, as a reason for passing such a law,
that nearly all the other States have it.
But this is ' not true, in the first
place, and iv the second place it
would - not ;be relevant even if it
were true. For a good many year 3
California clung to her specific contract
law, notwithstanding the fact that all the
rest of the country had given itself up to
depreciated paper money. That was one
of the wisest things the people of this State
ever did, but the argument used for the
usury law would have condemned it. We
have now a Constitution which seeks to
make the lender on mortgages* pay the
tax. If to this provision we add another
fixing the rate of interest at six cent.,
We shall at one blow destroy the value of
real estate as security, and put an end to
loans upon mortgages altogether. We
shall be doing this simply because under
such an arrangement no man in his
senses -.-.ill prefer the risk of a mortgage
which would then return him no more
than four per cent, interest, to the abso
lute security of Government four per cent,
bonds. The necessities of our farmers
would, however, remain the same. They
would tic exposed to the same vicissitudes.
They would need money as much as ever,
but they could no longer obtain it ; or if
they discovered some way of obtaining it
they would have to deal with some greedy
sharper who was willing to take the risk
of violating the law, for the sake ot in
creased profit. It is true that several
States have usury laws, but it i-S not true
j that any State has ever been benefited by
such a law, and it is the fact that in
| California the demand for freedom
from such vexations restrictions is
more urgent than elsewhere, because
of the precarious nature of our leading
industries. When the conditions are such
that mortgages are more than commonly
doubtful security, it is obvious that the
rate of interest must be fixed by busi
ness considerations, or capital will be with
drawn altogether from that form of invest
ment. A usury law is here more injurious
to the borrower than almost anywhere in
the world, and that class ought to oppose
such a law with all its energies. It is to
be hoped that this bill will not be passed
in the Assembly without a full discussion,
but that in any event it will be rejected by
the Senate. ' "'
Tire Medicine of Stmsannc. —The world
■ ants more sunshine ia its disposition, in
it*, business, in its charities, in its theology.
For ten thousand of the ache 3 aud pains,
I and irritations of men and women, •we
i recommend sunshine. It soothes better
I than morphine. It stimulates better than
champagne. It is the best plaster for a
wound. I The good Samaritan poured out
into the fallen traveler's gash more of this
than of oil. Florence Nightingale used it
on the Crimean battlefields. Take it into
all th.- alleys, on board all the ships, by -all
j the sick beds. Not a vial full, not a cup
! fall, but a soul fall. It is good for spleen,
j for : liver complaint,', for neuralgia, | for
I rheumatism, for failing fortunes, for met
! ancholy. Y ' -Y --. - ■'■'■:'■'-■"."'■ '■"-;-. --'■
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'' The most incessant fail opening is that
lof oyster. ' r }iß*^ajWHj*feY -. 77 *, :
TELEGRAPHIC.
LAST NIGHTS DISPATCHES TO THS RECORD-
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; NATIONAL CAPITAL - AFx AIEB. i
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A Visionary Sciente to Invade Mexico ami
Central America.
PASSESSEBS CH*.!:.**-; WEST BY IM!L.
Three Sough Characters Killed by a Mob '
la Viw Mexico.
TEEF.inC NIT2O-GLYCERIKE EXPLOSION. '
Alleged Correct Statement in Regard to
General Grant's Position.
WSGEU-MEBVS ITEMS OF FCuEICN NEWS.
Ths Theater Royal at Dublin Completely
Destroyed by Fire.
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J DOMESTIC HEWS. 1
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Affairs nt the N'itlounl Capita!.
[Special to the Uecoro-Usiom.] - , '
Washington, February 9th.— The bill in- I
troduced by Repress ii tat Page to-day, an- |
thorizing the State of California to select
school lands in place of tha 10th and 36th
sections returned as mineral lands, is a some
what voluminous measure that has been sent
to him, and which be introduced by request,
without being committed to its provisions in
advance of an opportunity to examine them
in print.
The bill for the relief of settlers on public
lands, introduced by Page to-day, is a dupli
cate of Senator Booth's bill relative to laud
upon which the Government allowed pre
emption or homestead settlements to be made,
bit which were subsequtntly found to be
covered by Mexican titles or railroad grants,
etc.
Representative Davis to-day presented pe
titions signed by Flint, Peabody _ Co., Main
& Winchester, Murphy, Grant & Co., Demp
ster & Co., and many other prominent San
Francisco firms, praying legislation to give
.ill rightful claimants upon the Geneva award
an immediate and convenient opportunity to
present their claims to some properly consti
tuted tribunal. The petitions were referred
to the Judiciary Committee, which has the
subject in charge, and is expected to report
upon it shortly. The contest between the in
surance companies and the war premium
claimants over the unexpended balance of this
fund is .now progressing with great earnest
ness in Washington. The corporations have
gained a victory in the Senate Judiciary
Committee, but a powerful minority of the
committee will oppose its report in the Sen
ate, and the result is still considered very
uncertain.
Ex- Congressman Luttrell made an argu
ment before the House Private Land Claims
Committee to-day in advocacy of the bill to
readjudicate the boundaries of the Pulgas
Rancho in San Mateo county. Mr. Janin,
representing the present owners of the prop
arty, britfly replied, and demonstrated to the
committee, by a reference to the official
printed records, that a large portion of Lut
trell's argument was based upon a misquota
tion of the Court decree. This incident cre
ated considerable sensation and astonishment.
Horace Davis, who intends to oppose the bill
in the House, was also present to, hear the
discussion. i e> «
Congressman Daggett to-day introduced a
bill providing for an appropriation of §700,
--000 to erect a new Government building at !
Carson City for the accommodation of. Che
Federal Courts, Postoffice and Laud Offices.
- A high-sounding proclamation was issued
hereto-day, signed by Ernest Dairymple as
General, and Alfred Van ltiswick as acting
Adjutant-General, inviting the immediate en
listment of ' 50,000 veteran soldiers from all
parts of the United States to invade Mexico,
occupy not only that country but Cen
tral America and the Panama Isthmus, with
a view to giving the benefit.-, of tree govern
ment to their citizens and all sorts of uichey
making advantages to iiiembei"- of the pro
posed "Aiuud_ army of occupation." The
promoters of this scheme publish assertions
that it is backed by a syndicate of wealthy
capitalists of San Francisco and New York",
who are ready to furnish millions of dollars to
sustain it, with the expectation of making
hundreds of mil lions the promised monopoly
of the silver aud gold mines, etc. | The proc
lamation is accompanied with two sets of
general . onlers, prescribing in great
detail and excellent military style the regula
tions under which the work of organization
and other preparations are to be made, pre
paratory to commencing the army's move
ment next autumn. Of course there does not
seem to be any probability that anything
practical will develop from this scheme, but
it is projected seriously, and will be pushed
earnestly by men who are not Crazy, although
they must be considered visionary.
Keller .Measure— Adverse Keport— Colored
i:\ikliis Committee.
Washington, February Oth. — Representa
tive Hammond introduced a bill to-day for
the relief of the State of Georgia. It directs
the Secretary of the Treasury to pay the
State of Georgia the proceeds of the cotton
taken from her possession by agents of the
United States, which may be ascertained to
be in the Treasury of the United States.
The House Committee on War Claims de
cided to-day to report adversely on the claim
of BurbiiJge & Co., amounting to §10,000,
for sugar, molasses and rum sequestrated by
(leneial B. F. Butler at New Orleans.
The Senate Exodus Committee examined
two colored witnesses to-day, their testimony
being mainly corroborative of that previously
given by other colored witnesses concerning
the condition of their people in North Caro
lina. The committee have called to Wash
ington sixty-eight witnesses, thirty of
whom have been Republicans, two Nationals
and thirty Democrats. Twenty-five of the
witnesses are colored men. The total number
of witnesses brought hero from Indiana is
twenty-five, of whom five are Republicans.
Views of a Sun Franciscan.
New Yohk, February 9th.— Tribune
prints a lcttf-r from an occasional correspond
ent in San Francisco, .sharply reviewing the
course of the bonanza managers, stock specu
lators and spurious Workingmen reformers,
which he allege*; -have brought about the se
rious evils in society, business and politics
here. Chinese immigration has contributed
immensely to these evils. He presents a
lively picture of city officers, and says :
"The diamond " now blazes upon the ample
front of the representatives of law asd re
form. The City Supervisors make* up a sin
gular collection of curiosities. The majority
seem to possess the mental stature and moral
leanness of the New York Alderman, He
concludes : " Whatever may be the results of
the interpretation of the new Constitution
upon the politics uf the Slate, the days of
the Workicgmen's rule are numbered. The
strong element of small householders and real
workingmen, which gave them the victory in
the late struggle, will never join hands with
them again. . The new party has exhibited all
the vices of the older organizations, and to
hope for any practical reform from it is vain."
. Politics In Ihe South.
New York, February 9th. --■The Times'
Washington correspondent states that Judge
Lochrane, who is general counsel for the
Southern States or the Pullman Palace Car
Company, now in Washington, says the sup
porters of Grant throughout the South, among !
business men.are far more numerous than is
supposed. "There is a solid Conviction among
this class," he says, " that Grant will beat
any candidate the Democrats may nominate. I
The next census will increase the Western i
representation largely, and the South will fall
back into a hopeless minority, and sectional
ism will ' then virtually destroy the South.
The prejudice against the South is not only I
political, it is general. • Immigrants travel j
through Missouri to go to Kansas. We
must by statesmanship change these results, j
or we must recede. " ■■■££ . "
Chinese Emigration to the .«ui:il» Is.
land*— lterlvins Trade.
New York, February 9th.— Captain Bock
man, of the steamer Electro, just arrived
here from Anioy, thinks the present Chinese
emigration to the Sandwich Islands will in
crease, and eventually supersede the Ameri
cans, Germans and English there in the con
trol of trade, as they belong to the respecta
ble middle class of the realm, and are intelli
gent and well off. The China Merchants' j
Steamship Company .will continue to run its !
vessels there, and appear to be entering upon
a new leasa of life, having recently purchased
three or four new steamers. The company is
holding its own increasing-trade, receiving a
subsidy of $.500,000 yearly. :. Captain Beck
man says freights were very high all along the
coast when he left, and were likely to con- '
tinue so for some time. He was offered £3 :
10s to England. As evidence of the reviving i
trade all through the East, the Captain says j
he I passed t*enty nine , leaded steamers i in ;
the Suez Canal, all in one day — something |
wholly unprecedented in his experience.
5 • , Wrilward-Bnund Passengers. .7- .:.
.. Omaha, • February ~ 9th. — The following ;
through passengers, were on day's train,
leaving at 12:15 P. x., ;to ; arrive in Sacra
: -"• . • " - ■.' * - ■...*.' '
mento February 15th : Daniel Speyer and
wife, San '- Francis.:..; Brooks Baker, wife
and child, Mrs. Clinch, England ; W. John
ston, Montreal ; B. F. Hart, W. J. Cheney,
Philadelphia ; George S. Corbin, New York ;
Professor Kelum and wife, Omaha.
Twenty-one through emigrants left or. Sun
day night's emigrant train, to arrive in Sac
ramento February 15th, and 'JO last night, to
arrive February 16th. ,:..
i The Vauilerliilis tain in Court— Appli
cation Denied..'
New Yoke, February 0Y. — Cornelius J.
Vanderbilt has applied to Judge Donahue to
'• have his brother, William 11., removed a-i
- trustee from the trust imposed on him aud
Edwin D. Worcester by the execution of the
deed made by William H. Vanderbilt, in a
j settlement pt the million-dollar suit and all
I other litigation between him and Cornelius.
The hitter's petition sets out that he an.l
I William are the sole surviving sons of the
j late Cornelius Vanderbilt; that the activities
! of business are essential to his health aud
I comfort, and having paid out the greater por
i tion of what he i..is received in .he settlement
I of old debts, he has not enough to properly
! carry on a business ; that by the
trust deed he is only allowed the
interest- on the money invested, and
that the securities which represent it having
j now reached their highest value, and being
i overrated on account of the connection of
"Wm. li. with them, be maintains that they
should be sold, and be asks that one-half of
the $400,000 invested be paid to tail i. He
states that his brother is worth over 6100,.
000,000, and that his receiving the money
asked for would work no injury to any one.
The petition further states, and set.* forth
fully a letter written by petitioner toWui.H.,
which states the above tacts, and also a reply
of the letter denying the application, and on
that ground he appeals to the Court. In the
trust deed, of which Edwin I). Worcester is
trustee, it gives to Cornelius during his life
i the income of the following pro;. erty: 1,500
shares, at 5100 each, of New York Central
stock ; 1,000 shares, at $500 each, of the capital
stock of the New York and Harlem Railroad :
SIOO.COO in 3 and 5 per cent, bonds of the
Canada Southern Railway Company, due in
1908, and 958,000 of the second mortgage 7
per cent, bonds ofjthe Lake Shore and Michi
gan Southern Railway Company, duo in 1903.
There is also a clause stating that, on the con
sent of William H. and Cornelius Vanderbilt
and the trustee, the trust may terminate and
the principal he paid to Cornelius. Judge
Donnhue denies the application, and gives a
lengthy opinion, iv which he fully reviews
the faces as stated.
Conkling nml the JVevt Presidency—Sher
man's Candldaey.
Chicago, February 9th. — A Washington
special says : The publication of what pur
ported to be a private letter from < '. W.
Moulton to Secretary Sherman regarding
Senator Conkling's position towards Sherman
in the event of Grant's withdrawal, has been
the subject of no little comment among the
Grant and Blame supporters in Congress.
Secretary Sherman's statement that he has
no doubt this letter correctly represents the
true condition of the .relations of Conkling
toward his candidacy has only intensified the
feeling in political circles. Your correspond
ent was assured to-day by a United States
Senator, a personal friend of Senator Conk
ling', and who is fully informed as to the hit
ter's views, that the Moulton letter grossly
misrepresents the New York Senator, and is
utterly devoid of truth. Conkling ex
pects General Grant to be the nom
inee of the Chicago Convention, but in tne
event of that not being the case he will
not transfer his strength to Sherman, as
alleged. As between Sherman and Blame, he
decidedly prefers the latter, and his friends
will be advised to throw their strength for
Plaint;. This Senator says further, that
Governor Cornell and General Arthur of New
York are warmly for Blame, after Grant,
and that Blame will undoubtedly carry the
New York delegation if Grant is withdrawn.
Representative Belford, of Colorado, has
drawn up a resolution, which he will otter if a
chance is offered, directing an investigation
into the alleged use of the patronage of the
Treasury Department by Secretary Sherman
for political purposes.
Lynch law In »« Mexico- Prls*
oners Taken from .lull l».v a .tiob mill
Killed.
CHICAGO, February 9th. — The Tillies' Las
Vegas, New Mexico, special of the Sth says :
The cow boys— West, John Horsey and
Tom Henry — implicated in the shooting of
Carson two weeks since, were dragged from
their veils this morning by a mob of seventy
five armed men, who broke into the jailei's
room and forced him to give up the keys.
They were dragged to the central plaza, and
lopes thrown over the beams of the. wind
mill pump. West was hauled up and stran
gled. The impatient mob soon began firing,
and in a short time Horsey and Henry were
riddled with bails. There was no resistance
to the mob. The bodies were removed dur
ing the forenoon.
correct Statement ««r General "'rant's
i'osilioll.
Mew York, February 9th.— The Timet of
to-morrow will print the following editorial
paragraph : "A mar personal and political !
friend of ex-President Grant, who doubtless i
knows whereof he speaks, authorizes the fol
lowing as a correct statement of the Gen
eral's position with reference to the l'j-esi
deucy. He says that General Grant is not
now, nor has he ever been, a candidate for
the Presidential nomination ; but should the
Republican National Convention nominate
him in the same manner as ether candidates
would be nominated, he would deem it his
duty to the country and the party to accept.
Traveling abroad, he was a stranger to the
contest now going on for the Presidential
nomination, and has written no letters on the
subject to any persons, and all assertions to
the contrary are without foundation in fact."
- Biillroiiil Earning*!.
New Yobk, February Oth.— Reports from
thirty-five Western roads show gross earnings
of $8,065,393 for .January, against 86,346,081
for the same month of last year — a gain of
$1,819,314, or nearly 30 per cent. Every
road, with the exception of three, shows a
gain in traffic. The lines showing the greatest
improvement were Atchison, Topeka and
Santa Fe, $158,768; Chicago and Alton,
$158,548; St. Paul, 117L825; Northwestern,
$126,679; St. Louis and San Francisco, $116,
--297; Union Pacific, $169,276 ; Wabash and
Pacific, $209,250.
Sew York Stork Market.
New Your, February oth.— The New York
Stock Clearing-house opened to-day, and the
experiment of clearing stocks was tried.
About one hundred brokers consented to clear
through it for a week, and much interest was
manifested where the brokers made out their
statements correctly. It is expected that mat
ters will work smoothly in a few days.
QUOTATIONS.
Silver bars, 113| ; money, 5@6 ; Govern
ments strong; stocks closed firmer;
Western Union, 10-1.1 ; Quicksilver, 21 ; Pacific
Mail, 401; Mariposa, 3s ; Wells, Fargo "c
Co., 102 ; New York Central, 1814; Erie, -17J-
Panama, 180; Union Pacific, 92.1: bonds,
110; Central Pacific, 1101 ; Sutra, 3gj Lead
viile, 35; Caribou, U.
Mtro-Cljrerlne I'vploslni*.
Brad i'OIU) (Pa.), February oth. — Howard
ilackett and James Feeney were driving to
Colviile with 100 pounds of nitro-giycerine,
when the sleigh was. upset. An explosion
followed and the two men and horses were
killed, the sleigh demolished, and two houses
and a barn — one house being five rods away—
were wrecked.
Tin- Rev* Hampshire Horror.
Manchester (X. H.), February — Mrs.
Dillingham, the victim of her nephew's fiend
ish assault at Londonderry, was alive this
afternoon, but sinking rapidly, and will prob- j
ably die before morning. Young Dillingham
is a victim of yellow-covered literature of the
basest sort, and read with eagerness detailed
accounts of the cruel murders. He will be
detained for trial. ~ '•
Dillingham confesses that he first shot,
I then outraged his aunt. The officials have
taken him to the Portsmouth jail.
Chinese Celebration in Chlrnso— I nmu-lil
by Soldiers.
Chicago, February Oth. — The Chinamen
to-day— whom there are 150 in the city
! celebrated their New Year and squared tbeir
! debts in their peculiar way. The celebration
| was sui generis.
The Union Veteran Club adopted a reso
j lution that the " Weaver" bill, introduced in
Congress, is unsought by soldiers.
Snlclele upon a Wire's Crave.
New York, February Oth. — Last month
George Beck buried- his wife in the Lutheran
. Cemetery, (Queen's county, Long Island, and
to-day went and laid down on her grave and
committed suicide by shooting; ' - ■ t
■$ A WMM Fire.
- Philadelphia, February 9th.— Chatham
Mills, an extensive brick structure on How
ard and Berk streets, were burned this even
ing. | Los, §175,000 ; mostly insured. The
! principal losers are Harps', Montague & Co.,
585,000; Isaac Sted. $50,000 ; Dolan' Bros.,
i §25,000 ; .William Topham, $16,000.
The last Spite.
Denver (CoL), February 9th.— 11:30
to-day the last spike necessary to complete
the branch of the Atchison, Topeka • and
; Santa Fe Railroad to Santa Fe was driven
: by Governor Wallace. ' General Hatch and
staff, the Legislature and other notables at
[ tending. . There is much rejoicing at Santi
!Fe. -.--...
•71 The Shermiin-Bojrlon Controversy .'YY
1 Washington, ' February ,': Oth. — General
I Sherman sends a card to the Associated Press
: to correct the impression that General Boyn
ton has begun | a suit against him for libel,
and says Boy c ton has taken no steps except
for publication in the newspapers. viY - j
ks^jfjs^i^iwstmss^mmimsiafAiamm-i^^^mf-.
FOI'. It I.N ItEIT", -Y %
Hoi.'M' of Common-.
London, February 9th.— ln the H-mse of
Commons to-day the Chancellor of the Ex
chequer stated that \he intends ' proposing a
renewal of the Ballot Act for one year, so as
to give the new Parliament an opportunity
to consider the question. He also said that
he intends shortly to introduce bills on cor
rupt practices at elections, and for distribut
ing the six seats now vacant in the House of
Commons by the disfranchisement of certain
towns as a punishment for bribery.
The Duke of Argyll admitted that in his
dispatch to Share Ali in 1809 he styled Queen
Victoria the Empress of India, having used
those words because they could be more easily
translated in the Persian language.
Michael Davitt, the Irish agitator, was in
the gallery of the House of Commons to-day,
listening to the debate on the* Home Rue
amendment to the address in reply to the
speech from the throne;
EVENING SESSION. .
London, February iith.— ln the House of
Commons to-night -Mitchell Henry, Home
Rule member for Galway, resumed the de
bate on the amendment to the aldress. He
condemned the Government for their inac
tion, in Ireland, and suggested a vote of
£10,000.000 or £10,000,000 to be Used in build
ing a railway' different parts of Ireland,
and the commencement of a systematic re
clamation of waste lands. W. E. Forster,
Liberal member for Bradford, declared that
if the Government had not done their best to
ward off the horrors of famine, no censure
would be too great for them. As the Gov
ernment were taking steps to avert the fam
ine, and as he could not but believe they
would be able In succeed, he should vote
against the amendment. He could not agree
that land tenure was the sole cause of the
distress. He hoped the session would not
close without an attempt being made to deal
with the land tenure.
William Henry Smith, First Lord of the
Admiralty, argued that to have entered upon
the ambitious schemes of reproductive works
in Ireland would have interfered with the
natural course of food supply and employ
ment.
Thomas A. Dickson, Liberal member for
Dnngarvan, supported the amendment.
. Edward Hermon, Conservative member for
Preston, expressed a fear that some of the
speeches made during this debate would have
the effect of curtailing private benevolence.
Sir Patrick O'Brien, Liberal member for
Kings county, accused the Government of
encouraging relief from America and France,
instead of performing their duty themselves.
lllennerliassett, Home Rule member for
Kerry, condemned the Governments plaus as
inadequate. •
Sir John : Sinclair, Liberal for Carthnes
shire, urged the necessity of nipping Parlia
mentary obstruction in the bud. He declared
that the distress in Ireland was over-exag
gerated. .
McCarthy, Home Rule member for Mal
low, and Shaw Levefre, Liberal member for
Reading, opposed the amendment.
John Edmund Synan, of Limerick county,
and Keyes O'Clery, of Wexford, Home
Rulers, supported the amendment. Edward
Dwyer Gray, Home Rule member for Tip
perary, and present Lord Mayor of Dublin
took occasion to express his gratitude to the
Duchess of Marlborough for her exertions in
behalf of the distressed Irish.
The Marquiz of Harrington thought the
question in . its present position had been
raised too soon. He was not in a position to
give an opinion yet whether the Government
measures were adequate.
Sir George Bowyer, liberal and Home
Rule member from Wexford, opposed the
amendment.
Right Hon. Edward Gibson. Attorney-
General for Ireland, defended the Govern
ment. ..
David F. Gabbett, Home Rule member for
Limerick city, then moved an adjournment
of the debate until to-morrow. Agreed to.
Tlie Distress in Ireland.
DUBLIN, February 9th.— Though there are
still deplorable accounts from some districts,
there is generally a more hopeful spirit among
the people. New application-; for loans by
landowners in the past week reached COO.
The amount applied for is £111,000 ; since
the 22dof November, £3.700,000.
The Board of Public Works takes care that
laborers are paid in cash, and that the amount
of the first issue has been expended in sub
stantial work . before they have a second in
stallment.
■ ParnelTs attacks on the relief committees
are condemned even by sum... of his most ar
dent admirers.' The Irishiiian, a newspaper,
strongly, deprecate* his language about the
Mansion House fund. •
_ London, February Oth.— Members of the
Government and heads of the Irish depart
ments met to-day at the official residence of
the Chancellor of the Exchequer to devise
means tor meeting the distress in Ireland.
Fire iv Dublin- The Theater Bay*] Com
pletely Destroyed.
Dtnt.i", February Oth— 3:4o p. >:.—
Theater Royal is completely destroyed by
fire. The fire is still raging, and adjoining
I houses are endangered. A Police Inspector
! and one wort-man were injured. The* mili
tary keep order and assist the Fire Depart
ment There was to have been a day per
formance of a pantomime this afternoon, at
which the Duke and Duchess of Marlborough
were to be present. The fire v.-.-.-* occasioned
by the ignition of the curtains of their state
box.
[SECOND DISPATCH.I
I Dublin, February iith.— fire at the
Theater Royal is still burning. The manager
of the theater, the property-man and four as
sistants perished in the flames. The Lord
Lieutenant was present during the burning.
The loss is estimated at £200,000.
The Afghanistan Slltinllon.
Cabul, February !)th.— There is no present
indication of any chief possessing ability or
influence to take real command of the coun
try. In fact, it daily becomes more apparent
that Afghanistan is tot a nation which can
be held together by any but very extraordi
nary means. We probably have heard the
last of united Afghanistan, and that for some
years the only power whicli could again build
Afghanistan into a solid and united kingdom
is England.
Gen-May .-mil the Vattcaa*.
London, February '.Ith. —A Berlin dispatch
says : The conditions of peace between
Church and State will probably be the con
sent of the Vatican to recognize the State's
right to control education and the nomination
of Catholic priests, and in return for this
there v. id be a repeal of all other clauses of
the Falk laws which have been passed for
the purpose of coercing tbe clergy. The
Center party will probably object to a recog
nition of this fundamental clause of tiie
May laws, but as the same prescriptions are
enforced in other countries the Vatican can
not oppose them here.
Russia anil Astatic Affairs.
Vienna, February oth. — Lobanoff, Russian
Embassador at London, has received fresh
orders from Ms Government to hint, in his
discussion with the English Cabinet on Asi
atic affairs, that Russia considers Herat as
lying bey.. i.d England's sphere, and she could
not therefore suffer Herat to be exclusively
subordinated to British influence.
iiu- liiipriiilii'i. Attach upon the British.
Calcutta, February Oth. — L.oshki Alum
and Mahomed Jan call upon their tribes to
renew the attack upon the British. The Ko
lri.-tanis and Ghil/.ais are ready.
Itnsslii :i.i*l China.
London, February Oth. — A Vienna dis
patch pays : China's hesitation to ratify the
Kuldja treaty on the plea that its representa
tive overstepped his powers has caused some
uneasiness iv St. Petersburg, as trouble with
China might interfere with the Turcoman ex
pedition. Eveu if China nominally preserved
the peace, her Viceroy on the frontier. Too
Tsung Kang, conqueror of Kashgar, who has
regarded very impatiently the negotiations
about Kuldja, seems a likely man to make an
expedition on his own account without trou! -
ling his Government for formal permission.
Terrible Catastrophe— Two Honilred Per
ilous kllli-il .'Hid Three Hundred In
f jun it
Constantinople,' February 9th.— During
a fete, a barrack three stories high near here
collapsed. Two hundred soldiers were killed
and 300 injured thereby.
Itiill-'tnii It *.: —ill Belarus from Znlnlund'
. — Hi: -.sin Duplicity.
London, February ' Oth. — Ur. William
Howard Russell, the celebrated war corres- i
pondent, whose pictures of the Zulu cam
paigns and of the Transvaal boers have trans
ferred to the Ttteijraph much of the fame
that he originally won for the Times, arrived
here yesterday. |He is preparing to defend
himself against the attacks of Sir Garnet
Wolseiev, who charges him • with col
oring his letters, to the prejudice of
the British army ia South. Africa. Dr.
Russell Is a man of energy. He no sooner
landed than be made .Lis way te the Horse
Guards and asked for an interview with the
Duke of Cambridge .lie had long been inti
mate with the Commander-in-Chief and has
long been favored by the royal family. He
has ridden beside tie Prince of Wales in a
howdah in the jungles of Nepaul, and stood
among the elect . at the Agra Durbar. It is
needless, therefore, to say that he returned
triumphant from the interview. The Duke
expressed the utmost confidence in bis verac
ity, and the matter will now resolve itself
into a literary duel between Sir Garnet and
the valiant co.'or.
.This is not the only military sensa'ion. It
has come ito the l knowledge of the War
| Office that the blue books published concern
! ing Russia in * Afghanistan and Russia at
! Merv do not ;by any means contain the last
I word •< the transaction. It is understood
1 that Russia is implicated up to the period of
Major Cava--nari's assassination, and that if
the suppressed cnrresponiJence were published
it might necessitate a | declaration of . war
against that Power. 7- !Y"7
. The ICoyil-Elllolt Koal Hare.
Ivewcastle, Felituary 9th.— withstand
ing the unfavorable weather, : an enormous
crowd gathered to witness the Boyd-Elliott
buat race, Kain and sleet fell throughout the
contest. Boyd was the favorite in the bet
ting— to 4. A fair start having been made,
Boyd immediately drove his boat to the front
and led by about one length in the first forty
yards. Elliott, who started badly, then set
tled down to his work, and when a, quarter of
a mile.had been traversed Boyd only led by
a quarter of a length. Boyd then again
spurted, and, showing a decidedly superior
pace, led by two lengths at the Bed Heugh
bridge, half a mile from the start. The race
from this point was practically over. Boyd
had matters all his own way, and when a lit
tle over two miles had been traversed in
creased his lead to eight lengths. Afterwards
he settled down to an easy swing of thirty
two strokes to the minute, and contented
•himself with keeping three lengths ahead for
the remainder of tbe distance, until Hearing
the Suspension Bridge, when he spurted,
passing under it four lengths ahead, Boyd's
time. '-- minutes and -17 seconds ; Elliott's, 23
minutes.
V Further Bowing Hatches Proposed.
London, February Uth.— The Sportsman
announces th.'it Christopher Barra.-s baa Au
thorized the editor of that journal to retain
i'oO of the stakes in the Boyd-Elliott match,
and issue a challenge to Haitian in behalf of
Boyd to row a race within a stimulated time
for £200 a t-ide, the championship of Eng
land and the Sportsman challenge trophy.
Barrass is willing to add £300 more to the
stakes if Hanlan would like to row for £500
a side. Boyd will row a race with Hawdon
on the Tyne, Saturday, for £200.
The Heuaoattea ami Military i>niy Ter
rible Condition.
St. Pxnßßßiias, Fetrnary 'Jth. — The Men
nonites, hitherto exempt from military service
mi account of their religion, will this year
furnish a contingent of 130 men..
The Golom has intelligence from trans-Cau
casus that the condition of the inhabitants of
the Shatnr Dalogez district. is terrible. A
quantity of breadstuff*, has been seized by the
huDger-stricken people. .
Sentenced to Death. ft
Madrid, February Oth. — Gonzales, the
would-be regicide, has been sentenced to
death.
I'UjCluml an.l Persia.
London, February 9th.— Times his
reason to believe that directions have been
sent the British Minister at Teheran to in
form the Persian Government that her Maj
esty's Government releases Persia fro«v the
treaty engagement of 1857, by which Persia
bound herself not to take possession of Herat.
This is tantamount to an invitation to Persia
to do the thing she is thus expressly pro
hibited from doing. The Timet adds : "We
seem, in effect, to have handed Herat over to
Persia, with a view of uniting the interests of
Persia and India in opposition to Kussia."
Eartbqnake
Ottawa, February 9th.— A shock of earth
quake occurred in this vicinity last night.
'*
j MIsCELLANI-OrS.
The Debuts, of Pari-*, denounces as scan
dalous the Liberal intrigues with the Home
Rulers at Sheffield and Liverpool.
At St. Petersburg the editors of the Will
of the People, the Nihilist organ, have pub
lished a notice that iv consequence of the
seizure of -their printing press, the issue of
the third number of their paper has been in
terrupted, but will be resumed shortly.
A Lucan, Ontario, dispatch says : Two
more Bin-ale have been made in the Donnelly
-Thomas Ryder, aged 'M, and Win.
Carroll, aged li*.
Sixty houses were burned yesterday at
Ayet, near Foix, France. The people are in
great distress.
At Whitehall, N. V., yesterday, Bradley
_ Underwood's saw mill was burned. Loss,
$30,000 ; insurance, $18,000.
The American Congressional Tempeiance
Society have elected Secretary of the Navy
Thompson as l'resident.
The boiler in the malt-house of the Hawley
Malt Company, at Detroit, exploded about 9
o'clock yesterday morning, demolishing the
engine-house and damaging the malt-house t.i
the extent of -520,000. Two men were in the
engine-room at the time of the accident, but
escaped with slight injury.
Director Gould, of the National Observa
tory at Cordova, Argentine Republic, tele
graphs that a groat comet is passing the sun
in i. northward direction. *
The Thirteenth Presbyterian Church lat
Washington was crowded at the evening
service Sunday with a congregation anxious
to hear Rev. Dis. Jackson and Kendall re
garding missionary work among the Alaska
tribes, whose condition was portrayed in a
series if vivid pictures.
A treaty has been signed between China
and Spam, by which Chinamen can be con
tracted for labor in Cuba as heretofore.
The Senate has confirmed George D. Bow
man as Register of the Lan I Office at Da
Meesila, K. M., and Samuel W. Sherfrey as
Receiver of Public Moneys at the same
place.
The Deadwood Mining Company has de
clared its second dividend of 23 cents per
share for the month of January, payable on
the 'JOth instant.
Mr. Hunt, manager of the Central Arizona
mine, lias left New fork for that Territory
#ith .".letter of credit for $150,000, to be used
for the purpose of bringing water to the mine
! and increasing the number of stamps to 100.
Major Reno has telegraphed the President
for permission to resign, and the President is
considering the request. Meanwhile the
War Department delays its approval of the
sentence of the Court-martial dismissing him.
A Vienna dispatch says : The Austrian
delegation voted credits for the expenses of
the Bosnian occupation and for the relief of
Bosnian refugees.
Incendiary Document. — lii San Fran
cisco an incendiary document has been
liberally posted about the city for some
days. It is written in purple ink, upon
brown paper, and in a very plain hand. It
is of the kind which has not infrequently
put in an appearance in all thickly-settled
communities. The following is a copy o
one of the originals, which has been tor
warded to this office by an occasional cor
respondent, who took it from a blank wall
in San Francisco for the purpose t
To the initiated and uninitiated workers. cl the
Pacific Slope
'* Hungry and idle what ah .11 we do"
Are the Chinese forever to remain with us a curse
an.l a blot upon our manhood
Shall we continue the dupes of designing Ruffians
and political mountebank'
The voice of the People is tbe supreme law of the
Land That voi*:e has declared the Chinese shall
leave this State
Our ex and present governors have declared them
selves incompetent to carry out the will of the Peo
ple It thus becomes tlic tluty of the people to carry
out their own will
Legislation baa been practical)** cxhaustco let the
people now do their duty and act fur th. « .selves
Corporations still employ Chinamen Ibe New Con
stitution to the contra*)- notwithstanding Wo now
Hive first notice to ail employing Chinese t .. cease
doing 80
We order these living in the vicinity where Chi
nese are employed to 1. .0k to their own safety We
threaten nol idly take notice and be warned
By order of the
COUNCIL OF THIRTEEN*.
A Simple Chest Fr-oTErrror.. — A folded
newspaper placed over the chest inside the
vest, on going out during cold weather,
! constitutes an excellent protector for the
lungs. _j -l
- Customer — " I — aw — want my aw — mus
taches dyed." Artist — "Yes, sir certain
ly, sir— brought 'em with you, sir?"
MARRIED.
Ukiah. January -James G. I'lullips Pi Delia
Haekett.
Kuthcrford, February s— Fred. W. Loeber to Alice
M. Griffith. , ' •' --
Nearßlpon, San Joaquin county, February 3- James
Clendenon to Kitie Leary.
Gwin'Mine, Calaveras county, February I— William
Se!i*voercr to Katie Haupt.
BORN.
ChnwchiiH, Mariposa county, February I— Wife of
John G. Palmer, a daughter.
Menial. February 5— Wife if .A. D. Turner, a
daughter. . .
Near Baetaaao, Fresno county, January 25— Wife
of G. W. Wood, a daughter.
C'-Iton. February 1 — Wire of »V. R. Wiggina, a son.
Antloch, February I— Wife ol H. W. Crewer, a
daughter. , :
I Byron station, Febnia-y 3— Wile of Henry Widen-
ing, a son.
Las GaUinu**, January '.9— Wife of James Eean, a
son.
DIED.
j Sacramento, February B— Celle Johrs, 17 yean, 3
months and 28 days. '-':.'
[Friends and acquaintances are respectfully invited
to attend the funeral service at the residence of
her parents, Twenty-first and V streets, this
afternoon at 2:30 o'clock. J - 7 ■;;
Sacramento, February 8 —Antoine Aguilar, a native
of California, 52 years.
[Friends a:, 'acquaintances arc respectfully invited to
attend the funeral, which will take place from
his late residence, on the alley, between Front
and Second, Nand O streets, this afternoon at i
o'clock. I
Sacramento, February -John Jones, a native of
Wales, 46 veara.
[Funeral not'ee hereafter ]
Sheep Ranch, January 31— G. K. Johnson, ,V 5 Tears.
I Mariposa. February 3— John Albert Clifft, 11 years,
9 months and 18 days. -.'..:' •
Santa ll.joj, Felraary s— Mary E. Duncan, 21 years'
HEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
».- A < -?* -,. W -"** nrran *-*-'*l-- loose. ,9
No. 80, will meet In Uie .mall ball, 'h *&&3\
the main Lodge-room, at 7 b'c.'oi t si. in. ■eT'^V-'iV. '
.THIS (Tuesday) BVBNw" 'toflZLWl
transaction of business. "'Jt^Bf
HO It ci:u. it. l-ATZENSTEIN', Recorder.
„ Sl.t.-rl "'•'■'•■■--- afCOBMM r.„-j w . «
No. 117, V. anu a. It, THIS fTue"dart $Si
EVENING, February loth, at I o'X'k _?V
Visiting brethren are cordially invited' /▼X
l: \v r w r 'f . *• ;i - •"J'l'-s.V. ir.
• -W. If. Hkv::>*ki:. Secretary. ' fll>lt
■emben i>t Uie Hr Uah Mniaal Beaeflt
and social bociety .ire hereby notifled to meet TBI'S
(Tuesday) EVENi.NO, at Pioneer Ball, at Y-',', C
shar|i, lor the transaction of regular business pre*
vious to the entertainment. ' '
_ 11E.\T.V LONGTON. President.
1.. F. AsmrottTH, Secretary. 110- 1 1
Pi" THOS. CAMERON, ENGINEER'
Bend your address to 11. H. THOMAS.
"•'■'*•■ fal. flO-lm '
17HJB SALE-HOUSE AND LOT. -o EY/*ii
L] 180. live Booms, with Hath. Hard ["*■'"[
hinshcd tliriui»hout. Desirable location.MUL
Terms easy. For full particulars, inquire SPIN hs .v
ACOCK, No. 40 " J street. aO-2*
"Ejx 23 G? ! __ XT 23
BT
I. S. KALLOCH
(MATOa OPSIN I'IIASCISCO),
AT THE FIKST BAPTIST CHURCH, NINTH
,„ g*Kti WEDNESDAY EVENING, February
...m; Subject: -t.Ai.ti'ult.MA." Admission, 25
—'-.:. : ; H__t*_
CECILIA CLUB.
A PERMANENT OBSANIZATIOS FOR
I ZthZouS^ ln9tri ; c *'" 1 ' and drill in pood music
wd^S . "'T- y, iil .metl'i.rur.roiieatter.
admitt«i LT e \ 23* tUo1 ° who ' i » | - b y note
orTithbii- „, n ' be^ lu| '' LadiM de " ri '-» K> J-*"
"rwioimif; information, apply to
fio t » "■• v SSINNEB, Director, ,
"»"'- * ortheast corner Sinli and J streets.
T II E- —
British Mataal Benefit; and Social
Wll.l. (HVi: THEm TIIII.I, ANNIVEItSARY
r.ntertainmeut at
I'lONtillt UU, to-.m«;ut.
te S-Ject l':-o-..rainnic baa been arran- -,! »nsist-
nShis X^au"^ son '- c «' l1 '" »"*".t talent
I iioi'iei 'I he -j.l, I . ' SfflSSft Iy,1 y , SW "
Lobdon. The vh^e ZZZIZ ffiM^
account of the smallness of th- l . \ \ . ,- * .
number , tickets will bt* *Ilu " a buta "'<-'* l
*»" Tickets (...luiiiti,.-,- tadyand gentleman),
GRAND LODGETK. CF P.
THE GRAND LODGE, K. OF P., "^^
will be convened in ' X= tSS^7
EED ME \'S II AI. L. J^A/
Corner Sixth and X streets, at S o'ehek,
THIS (TUESDAY) EVFM.VK, FEB. Hull
' ID- C.) 110-lt
THE AUCTION SALE
HOUSEHOLD ."i'KNin-RK ADVEBTTSED TO-
take place IUD.IV is heieby
Postponed until tiirlh.-r ni.tlrr.
FlO-It CROWELL .--CAVERLV, Auctioneers.
TF-rFiTiir-i <&s -OO^
A I' «' T 3 O .\ X ESS.
WILL skli, o*l
TUESDAY - - FEBRUARY 10,
In front of salesroom,
Ho. 1010 Fourth street, at 10:30 o'clock sharp.
Two tlov-i s. SJ.irucs.
t'..<- I'iirm iii*on.
ALSO
Open am! Tup Itugsles.
Iteilsteiiils, anttrraes,
TaUli-s, Clialr>', «*i<*.
flolt . BELL & CO., Auctioneers.
l 2?X0 2fl'
_' • • . . »
CKOWEI.L .5 CAVEHI.Y.... ..Auctioneers.
WILL SELL OX
WEDNESDAY, Fi.B. llth, AT 10:30 O'CLOCK
"7
ALL OF THE
FIXTURES AXD, STOCK
— or THS
GRAND HOTEL SALOON,
Cont-istin-r of Counter and Shelving, Beer, Vino and
Whisky Glaeae , Pictures, Stoves, Keguiator, Chairs,
ami all other articles contained in said saloon.
Sf ; ale positive and without reserve. "S_
CROWELL & CAVERLY, Auctioneers,
••°-- t No. 3.1 J reel .
NOTICE TO CREDITORS.
ESTATE OF JOHN li. HANSEN, DECEASED.
j Notic-i is hereby given lv the undersigned,
bxecatora of the estate of JOHN 11. NANNEN,
deceased, the creditors of, an.l all persons having
•claims against said deceased, to exhibit tbem, with
the nccessiry affidavits or vouchers, within ten
months after the first publication of this notice, to
-.ii.; Executors at the office ot L. S. Tavlor, Mo. GM
J street.
Dated February 10. l - ...
lIENRV HINELERS, >
- DKUKE, ',- Executors.
L. S. Tavlob, Attorney for Petitioner.
______ FlO lawlwTu
CAPITA t VLK VAI'LTS. ~~
T^TO. 302 J, AND 1005 THIRD STHEETS.
±yi Hot Lunch daily from li i. m. to 1 o'clock
r. h. The Best of Wince, Liquors and Cigars.
diS-tplm BOWEBS & LONOABAUua.
QE-NZBAL ffOTICLS.
There -niti lim n Kntertalamenl la
the Parlors of the Coii-.'rcgation_ thumb, next
WEDNESDAY EVENING, r'ebruarj llth, for a
charitable object. *j i«-
-•'»■)•'"> Birds Clycn Away. I hnv-"-;.-r *-
l.-.*> good singers for sale at .**< = each ; also, -""ijfc',
pain mated, lhe female birds will be given *»?£"*'
free to whoever buys the entire lot, as tin v must be
disposed of immediately. SIRS. ANDREWS,
f'-lw* >. 216 I. street.
m
tapilal rnlonnmlr. No. 1011 Truth street.
Private rooms for families. The best of wines,
liquors, cigars, etc. JOHN HECTOR, l'i..pr
- I- till
m
" Conanmuie. ut tlie Forrest!" every
evening from -* to It! ii 17-1 iii
In less liir breath !s like ii apley sale.
Unlet the teeth gleam like the driven euow
There is no deeding smile or tender tab .
Grateful to woman's eye or car, we .-.»-.
The tale would lose its charms — the smile begaant,
Till brought within tho aoell ol SOZODONT.
li at I hSTu
AMUSEMENTS^
KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS!
.r-tOMI-LniEXTIKI KNTI-KTAOnnDra
'■•-■■"'-.
__ A. X, __ > *$& J '
TENDEBED TO TUE
VRAM! LODI'E OF CALIFORNIA,
By the Local Lodges Knights of Pythias,
AT *BOU__ HALL.
WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 11, ISBO,
On which occasion D* McCLURE, Paat Grand
Chancellor, will deliver an Address.
ALBERT HART, ESQ., In- kindly consented to
favor the Order by giving a Recitation. Other
local talent h..s kindly volunteered.
df Chnrch, Jon. M .v 11. . i.'-'-i Foil Band. "t-*i
Tickets (admitting gentleman and ladies), \i\.
fJlUfo-tii
G. L. SIMMONS, M. D. IHARV.i,
ctimeaoir, i STREET, BETWEEN SECOND
k_J and Third, Sacramento.
tr Offlrr Hours- 9 to 10 a. m., 2to 4 and 7
to A r. ■* __ jag)--2ptf
jVEINWAY & SCNS' PIANOS
A HEYMAN, SOLE EST, I mgtm,. ■
•L.A.* atreet, bet. .Sitn in.i Seventh, JSlS_sSs-
-opposite (Vrurt-houue. PL.NO:-. tOfl HYK.II
LET. PtanoaeoMc i •., ' » _ * I:"
d .-grim -' '.'""
STAR MILLS AND MALT HOUSE.
VCIBOIK"' & LIUE*, '
*VTO3. 80, -'■-! AND M FIFTH ST., SACRAMENTO.
A."! dcalcra in Produce and Brewers' Suppliea.
Mai, uf.iet. ners of Malt and all kinds of ileal*., etc..
Oatmeal, Comment, Cracked Wheat, Graham Fleur,
Buckwheat Flour, etc. '117 lptf
ii ROME O. DAVIS ~ -
IS A CANDIDATF, FOR SECOND ' TRUSTEE,
aub;ec» to Nomination of the Republican .
'''r'y* ■■.--■■-■. fBt{
P. A. MILLER
IS A CANDIDATE FOR SECOND TKUSTEF.
and Street c mmiis loner, subject to the N"nu*
,*-.;*. '.v of the •** ' -üblicau i artj*. 17 td
