davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
, 1880-09-08

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stande som Vile beh6ves Diet Kongelige mill
taire Depot paa St.Croix til Brug for H@rstyr-
ken i Aaret 1881 nemlig:
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40 Dvalg
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1000 Stout Ill Skiorter
4O Bomuldstoi
200 Gulvkludei6i
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81. CrOix 1882
indssndes til Dspotet paa St. Croix irdtil One.
dagen den l5de September d. A. Kl. 2 p. N.
indeholdende Angivelse af den Priis hvortil
Vedkommende vii paatage sig at lsyere snkslss
eller nogle, eller allie af de O%yenn@vnts Gjen-
stande.
Tilbudene Vile derefter blive aabneds |
Overvarelse af de Kono urrenter som matte
iudfnds sig, UNDERMINING ON det af Convene
mentet antagne Bud, vii blive VsdkommendS
meddeelt fra Depotet.
Proven af de- ovenmeldte Gjenstande og
Conditioner for Laverancen ere til Efiefsyn
det Kongelige militaire Depot paa st. CrOix,
og Cbristiansfort paa st. Thomas.
Bet Kougelige militaire Depot, St Croix,
den SIDE September 1880.
ROSENKRANTZ.
, 1880-09-08

Written Tenders marked
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-12-11
THE QUESTION OF JuR1Es

Our article on juries in murder cases has
elicited valuable suggestion from we'll
known criminal lawyer OF this city.
He expresses the opinion that one OF the
most prolific causes of failure OF justice IN
murder cases is the common practice OF al
lowing juries to mix with the public while
the trial is proceeding. He states that
where the Sheriff has been instructed by
the Court to take charge of the jury
from the beginning of the trial, and
to guard them from all approaches,
their verdicts have been almost always
intelligent and satisfactory. His theory is
not that jurors are corrupted, but that in
mixing with the crowd, in taking their
meals at hotel, in passing to and fro along
the streets, they necessarily come in con.
tact with great deal of irresponsible opin-
ion, and are more or less influenced by it.
1t is at the option of the Court to order the
jury to be locked up throughout the trial,
and if this practice was made obligatory
upon Judges there is strong ground for be-
lieving that the interests Of justice would
be furthered. Where jurors are care
fully isolated and kept to themselves
they feel the responsibilities of their posi-
ton more keenly, and they bestow more
attention and reflection upon the evidence.
In such cases they are free from all ex-
traneous influences, and therefore the more
likely to come to dispassionate and in
telligent decision. Certainly any change
in the practice of the Courts that would
bring about so desirable a reform in the
quality of criminal verdicts is worth at
tempting, and therefore we hope that some
member of the Sacramento delegation will
note this point for an amendment to the
Codes or the Constitution, whichever may
be necessary.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-12-11
eLADsToNE's HEALTH.

It has been stated that Mr.. Gladstones
health is so impaired that his physician
has prescribed absolute cessation OF public
business. If this is the case the situation
will be doubly serious, for 1T is extremely
doubtful whether his government can carry
on the business of the country at this
juncture without his invaluable aid. The
session of Parliament about to open will
be one of the most important for many
years. The Irish question has to be met,
and it is evident that it is no longer pos
sible to temporize with it. The land bill
which the Government will introduce, and
which it will urge with all its influence
unless the Land League should precipitate
rebellion, will certainly be opposed des-
perately by the Conservatives, and, in fact,
by the whole English landed interest,
which will see in the proposed change the
doom of the English as well as of the Irish
land system. Should it be found necessary
to adopt strong coercive measures in Ire
land the presence of the Premier on the floor
of the House will be quite as indispensable,
and it may be doubted whether in his
absence his colleagues could be prevented
from falling into fatal differences upon
leading measures. In short, worse time
could not have been taken for Mr.. Glad
stones collapse. and yet when We remem-
Der his age and the amount Of work he
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-12-11
does not and never did belong to them by
any color or pretense.


In fact Judge Blacks argument is So
phistical and weak, and it contains propo-
sitions which if accepted would be fatal to
the rights of all property whatsoever. He
endeavors to make much of the assertion
that railroads are laid out and built by
the authority of the state. The state
gives its consent to the trayersing of its
territory, and this is all in the majority of
cases. What special rights can the giving
of such consent confer upon the state
He says that railroad companies "have no
proprietary right, but mere franchise. "
What is a franchise, but the authorization
of the state to conduct certain business
in certain way. and for certain time
Such an authorization is in effect a
property of the most valuable kind.
Judge Black admits indeed that there are
"vested rights in a railroad, but at the
same time he takes positions which would
deprive these vested rights of all conse-
QueuCe. Il VI ue uoltS tHa1 bio osato muse
determine what compensation the railroads
are to have, and this of course is equivalent
to saying that the tolls leviable under the
franchise may be cut down to nothing. The
tendency to cut them down to nothing is
not an imaginary one, as has been shown
in the Granger agitation. and in our own
Railroad Commission scheme. Wherever
in fact the right of the actual owner OF
property to control it is denied, it follows
necessarily that these owners will be
wronged, since it cannot be the earnest
interest of anyone but themselves to do
them justice, and since if the public
are allowed to dictate the terms on
which goods shall be sold to them, or SER
vice of any kind, they will be certain to
make the arrangement from their own
standpoint, which of course is the most
opposite of that of the seller. In fine,
what Judge Black advocates is confsca-
ton, which is polite name for robbery.
Here are five thousand millions of dollars
invested in American railways. It would
perhaps be good thing to get possession
of this enormous capital by exerting the
prerogative of the state. That is the idea
which seems to underiie all such sophis-
tries, and it is necessary that the people
as well as the men who have invested their
capital in railroads, should reflect upon
the questions thus brought into promi-
nence.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-12-11
NEWS oe rHK moRk1se.

Ia New York yesterday Government bonds were
quoted at llS for 4s Of 1867; 1oll for 6s OF ISL
lll5 ior 4ls; sterling, 81 70s@s s2l; silver bars,
liz.
silver III London yesterday, SID; consols ss 1850
a99 l1-16; per cent United states bonds. lO4a Al
lI7l; Us, ll5i-
In San Francisco half dollare are quoted st dis
count to par; Mexican dollars Gle.
Al Liverpool yesterday wheat was quoted at 9s Cd
CLOS Id for good to choice California.
The london Netos settles the question as to the
meeting OF Parliament before Christmas.
The pension bill has been acted upon in the lower
House OF Congress
The House of Representatives has adjourned till
Monday.
The mail steamer matter between the United
States and South and Central America and Mexico
was considered in Congress yesterday.
More earthquakes in Europe are reported
French expelled Jesuits are announced as arriving
at certain OF the American continental ports.
Senator Coke of Texas expresses himself as to the
desires of his people in a division of that State.
A circular regarding admission to the grade OF
cadets in the revenue marine service, has been
issued by the Secretary of the Treasury.
The Ritualistic cases come up in the Court OF
Queens Bench on habeas corpus next week.
The Irish agitation continues to increase.
The London Times is out with expressions on the
Gladstone circular and that by the Chief Secretary
for Ireland.
Further legislation on Indian affairs is proposed
Congress.
The Quarantine Convention has taken important
action, and has named California physician as
committeeman.
The New York papers comment on the act of the
California secretayof State in permitting electoral
returns to be amended.
Lord Granvilie's letter to the United States Min
lister on the subject OF the Newfoundland fisheries
is given publicity this morning
Dr. Chas. Earl, the Chicago abortionist, has been
disposed of.
Judge Silent has decided the Pinal county rail
road tax cases.
McFatrdge, the alleged letter riaer, is on exam
ination at Los Angeles
The great Idaho suit at Nevada City has come to
an abrupt but temporary close.
Stormy weather on the Oregon coast is reported
Moonshiners have killed United States Marshal
in Alabama. They are to be followed up at once
terrible colliery explosion is reported in Eng
land with great loss of life.
The Sublime Porte wants definite answer from
the Powers on the Greek question.
An ironclad of new pattern is talked of.
The Washington news indicates fiIibusterng and
perhaps deadlock in the House soon.
Spain wants an amicable agreement with the
United States about duties on certain goods
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and has made the latter what it is. 1t is

and has made the latter what it is. 1t is
irrational, vexatious, mischievous and ex-
travagant. 1t does not give vigor to our
politics, but it saturates them with corrup
ton. 1t excludes the natural selec-
ton which is Natures wise rule,
and substitutes for it selection by
caprice and self-interest. When Civil
Service reform is introduced the people,
for the first time in two generations, will
once more be enabled to govern the coun-
try. They do not do that now, whatever
they may think. We have not now a
really popular government, but govern
ment by chooses" and machine managers.
Abolish patronage the very name of which
ought to be offensive to an Americana,
and the Civil Service will cease to be an
instrument whereby party may be in
trenched in power. 1t will then become
what it ought always to have been, namely,
the sober business department of the Gov
eminent; the means whereby the public
affairs are transacted, and nothing more
Every man in it depending upon his own
exertions, every man in it responsible for
his actions, no "chiefs to exercise petty
tyrannies, no politicians to intrigue this
one out and the other one in-the country
would then have permanent official class
of which it could feel proud, and at the
same tine it would know that nothing
was to be feared from this class. That is
what is needed, and what Civil Service
reform alone can give us.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-12-11
THE REASONS

For declaring the WEEKLY UNION the best family
paper are obvious. 1t is the only weekly paper
which is issued in two parts, and.carres to its read
ers the news of the day twice each week. By this
means the news is to the great mass OF readers in
the country nearly as fresh as if CLEANED from a
daily paper. 1t is the only sixteen-page weekly
journal in the State; it is conplete news, COM
mercial literary and critical paper; its columns
have special departments carefully edited for the
farmer, mechanic merchant, the housewife, the
young people, the lovers OF curious puzzles, educa
tors, artisans, bankers, brokers' readers of fiction
and poetry and the general reader OF the political
scientific and business news of the day. In
December there began in the WEEKLY UNION
the first chapters of the new serial, :" The
Ventures and Adventures Of Charlie Gould" 1t is
deeply interesting story Of the stock market and
stock gambling era of California. 1t is written by
Edward F. Cahill of Los Angeles and is the first of
the RECORD USIoS's 1900 prize stories, for which
there was such active competition. The WEEKLY
UNION is mailed for one year, prepaid to any ad-
dress in the United States for 81 so.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-12-11
THE PACIFIC COAST AND TaB oAa-
MET.

There are intimations, whether well or
ill.founded we do not know, to the effect
that the Pacific coast may be thought en-
titled to representation in the Cabinet of
General Garfield. Hitherto California has
been restrained by discouraging remem-
brance of her distance and relative in
significance from bestowing much attention
upon rumors of this nature, but if indeed
there be possibility of her recognition,
and that of her neighbors, she will
not hesitate to express her sense of
the contemplated honor, and her belief as
to the man upon whom it should be con-
ferred. At such juncture the thoughts
of all careful observers must inevitably be
directed to the Hon. Aaron A. Sargent,
than whom the President.elect could GER
tainly select no ADLER or more trust.
worthy assistant, and whose choice
for Cabinet position would be ac-
cepted as eminently satisfactory by
the people of this State and coast. 1t
would be work of supererogation to re-
hearse the praises of Mr. Sargent. We
cannot forget that his admirable qualities
and qualifications are of necessity under
stood as well in Washington as here. He
has served California for some ten years in
both houses of Congress with an industry,
fidelity and capacity leaving nothing to be
desired. He has shown compre-
hension of the needs of his constituency,
speaking volumes for his vigilant thought
fulness The splendid business qualities
which have enabled him to be SO useful
to his smaller constituency will unquestion-
ably fit him for equal services in the
broader field of the Cabinet. A thoroughly
representative Californian, Mr.. Sargent is
an equally representative American
Cultivated, full of statesmanlike
experience, familiar with governmental
problems from the lowest to the
highest, a nobly consistent and undaunt-
edly courageous chief in the Republican
party-we know of no man on the coast
who is so eminently marked out by
fitness and natural selection for such po-
sition as has been suggested. If General
Garfield invites Mr.. Sargent to take port
folio in his Cabinet, he will at once give
the country assurance of his inten-
ton to choose well, and he will
secure the services of gentleman whowill
do much to make his administration sue
cess. We heartily trust, for both General
Garfeld's and Mr.. Sargent's sake, first,
that the intention of taking Cabinet
officer from California may have been truly
reported, and, second, that our late United
States Senator may be the man.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-12-11
JUDGE BLACK ONCE MoRE.

Judge Blacks letter to the New York
Chamber of Commerce on the relation of
railroads to the state is SO full of mon
strous theories that it seems necessary to
day not less than five thousand millions of
dollars invested in railroads in the United
States, and therefore when prominent
lawyer publicly states that the notion
that railways are the property of the
companies authorized to run them is a
" cardinal error" and that these companies
have no proprietary right, title or claim +"
in them, it is time to inquire where the
country stands on these propositions
Judge Black sets out with the utterly false
and misleading analogy of a highway. A
railroad is not highway, and does not re-
semble highway in anything but the one
circumstance that it is a kind of road.
Judge Black asserts that railroads are
the property of the state because ga
"public highway cannot be private
property" This is a mere bubble
about words. A railroad has nothing in
common with a public highway, which is
means of communication constructed by
the state, expressly for the use of the peo-
pie. Railroads are not SO constructed.
They are built with private capital, and
this whether they are subsidized or not,
since if they are subsidized the Govern
ment only lends them certain sums, which
are to be presently repaid out of their
earnings. The truth is, however, that
Judge Black seems to have been standing
on his head when he constructed the sim
gular views which he has here presented
He has certainly reversed the real relations
between the state and the railroads. He
asserts that the corporations are only trus.
tees for the state, and that they are con-
trolling public property, whatever they
may think to the contrary. In fact how.
ever, it is the state that is the trustee, and
not the corporations. They are owners. It
is mere abstraction, representing the peo-
pie, and acting for them. Whatever rights
of sovereignty over the railroads it exer-
cises and possesses, it owes solely to its
character of agent. Private capital has
been employed in building the railroads,
and the employment of this private capital
has been based upon the distinct engage
| ment OF the state that the property so
created should, with certain conditions
and restrictions, inure to the benefit of the
projectors. In these arrangements the
state has bargained on behalf of the peo-
pie, with the clear understanding that the
latter would derive from the building of
the railroads such benefits as made it well
worth their while to offer the assistance
agreed upon. To assert that the railroads
have therefore been built for the state, or
that they belong to it, is to assert that the
people can turn thieves and steal what
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-12-11
HOLIDAY ISSUE.

Following the custom first established by this pa
per the REcoRDUNIoS will on the LIST day OF Janu-
airy, 1851, issue mammoth edition containing valu-
able statistics business review OF Sacramento and
interesting special articles.
The superior value Of the New Years issues of
this paper is already well known to require no
detail OF the prospectus. The editions of this spe-
cial issue have often reached $4,000 of the daily
alone. All matter presented in the daily reappears
in the WEEKLY UNION, thus receiving the widest ard
most general circulation.
The REooRD.UkIoN and WEEKLY UNION are the
only papers published outside OF the metropolis
having general circulation.
The WEEKLY UNION has TEN TINES the circu-
latiou of its local cotemporaries and the largest and
most general circulation OF any weekly published on
shis coast
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-12-11

At present the Federal office-holders are
a permanent class, and permanent class
of the most dangerous kind. 1t is in fact
almost in their power to carry Presi-
Dental election to-day. They are able to
raise funds for campaign purposes against
which mere private subscription counts for
very little. They constitute powerful
machinery completely controlling State
politics in the great centers Of population
and activity. They can be handled like an
army, and they are so handled for partisan
purposes. Whoever has any sane objec-
tions to permanent class of Office holders
must have derived them from experience
under the spoils system, but such objec-
lions have no force when applied to Civil
Service reform. If we wish the public
business to be well transacted we must ad-
minister it upon rational principles, and
this is the kind of change now demanded.
Rotation in office has been the curse of
American politics for years. It has been
the chief argument for the spoils system,
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-12-11

has done we cannot be surprised that he
should fail at last. It is to be hoped for
the sake of his party and for the sake of
the reforms his government contemplates,
that his health may be better than report
states, and that at least he may be enabled
to sit out the coming session, and show the
world how he proposes to solve the Irish
nrohlem
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-12-11
THE QUESTION OF A PERMANENT
OFFICIAL CLASS.

The objection that the American people
do not want a permanent official class is
one of the oldest as well as one of the
feeblest which the opponents OF Civil Ser
vice reform have advanced. As, however,
it seems to have made some impression
upon the unthinking, it is perhaps worth
while to examine it and see what it really
amounts to. Those who use it are accus-
toned to talk about the danger of estab-
fishing "an aristocracy" by abolishing the
spoils system, and some people do not re-
fleet enough to perceive the absurdity of
all such apprehensions. The truth is that
the "Boss" system in our politics has gone
nearer to creating dangerous permanent
class of office. holders than anything else
that has ever influenced the country, and
that Civil Service reform aims at abolish
ing the evils which belong to that system.
Under the Boss" system the Federal Of
fees have become in several notorious in
stances the perquisites of handful OF
men vino have used them to put and keep
in office class of politicians who never
would have been eligible on the score of fit.
ness. The "Bosses" are precisely the
people who believe in per-
manent official class, and who are
doing their best to establish it,
and the kind of permanent official class
they believe in is certainly not what the
country needs. But why should the idea
of permanent official class, abstractly
considered, be regarded as dangerous to
the republic? Is not permanence in office
the very first condition of good service in
any business whatever? Does any man
imagine that the banks and mercantile
houses and manufacturers could prosper if
they did not guarantee permanence in Of
fee to all their employees who serve them
well and faithfully? And is permanent
class of Federal oficeholders any more to
be dreaded than the permanent class of
bank clerks and mercantile clerks which
has always existed? 1t is in the present
state of the public service alone that Office
holders can be source of danger. 1t is
when they are forced into politics
by the Bosses and are compelled
to contribute to campaign funds, and
are made to exert themselves for
the furtherance of partisan ends, that
they become mischievous. But civil
service reform proposes to do away
with all these sources of danger. 1t pro-
poses to sever the connection between the
Federal office. holders and partisan politics ;
to treat them from business basis alone
to select them for fitness, and to make
competence and fidelity the conditions of
their retention to compel them to give
their time to the work for which they are
paid, and to prevent them from running
the machine at any Congressman's
bidding. A class of office holders thus
separated from politics and placed upon a
business standing will be incapable of
mischief Organization among such class
for political purposes would be quite use
less. They could not fortify themselves
in their positions, simply because every
man would hold his Office on the strength
of his individual fitness, and could not rely
upon any other man to bolster him up if
he ceased to be fit.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-12-11

Your little birdie has been very, very
SICK" she wrote the young man. 1t was
some sort of nervous trouble, and the doc
tors said / should have perfect rest and
quiet, and that l must think of nothing
absolutely nothing. And all the time, dear
George, thought constantly of you"
The young man read it over, and then read
it through again very slowly, and put it in
his pocket, and went out under the silent
stars and kept thinking, and thinking,
sand thinking But he didn't cay any
thing. He only kept thinking. Rock
land Courier.