Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-08-19
DOMESTIC NEWS.
The Tr.ennIaI CoacIare.

DOMESTIC NEWS.
The Tr;ennial 0lcIaye.
cALIFoRNIANs coMPLIMENTEp.
CHICAGO, August 1Sth.-The Times, ex.
pressing what was frequently remarked yes
terday, says of the rich and elegant uniforms
worn by the Sir Knights of the California
Communicates .sNo one was particularly
noticeable in the ranks. The hat or chapeau
is black, low crowned, and with broad rim
turned up in front. on which is the appropri.
ate cross set in q large silver rosette, from
which spring black and white plumes. The
scarf or baldric, bearing the regulation EN-
blem, is Of black velvet, very wide, and
trimmed with bullion fringe. The sword is
also regulation, and the belt black. The Pc
culiar and striking feature of the uniform is
a short cape of the finest black velvet, lined
and quilted with white silk. This is worn
over the left shoulder, like chasseur's mill.
tary jacket. On the cape at the point OF the
shoulder there is large Templar cross of
white silk relieved with silver, while the bor-
der Of the cape is trimmed with two rows OF
elaborate silver bullion lace"
CALIFORNIA WINE SAMPLED.
CHICAGO, August 1Sth-At the reception
at the California Commandery this morning,
fifty cases Of Arpad Harazthy x Co.'S choicest
California champagne were distributed among
the visiting Knights from every State in the
Union. All were as much delighted and sur.
prised with the life and flavor OF this sample
of the generous soil of California as they have
been by the profuse hospitality which has
reigned at the headquarters Of the Pacific
slope delegation ever since it went into camp.
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CHICAGO, August 18th.-The competitive
drill to-day of Knights Templar at the Jockey
Club grounds brought out %. 600 people. The
hoe of st. Louis, mounted Demolai of Grand
Rapids, Mich, mounted; Monroe of Roch-
ester, II. Y; Damascus of st. Paul; Roster
Of Indianapolis Oriental OF Cleveland /;
Demolai of Louisiana Reed of Dayton, o. /,
and Bayard of Saltwater, MINI.
The first military display was made by the
Monroe Commandery, of Rochester, and its
evolutions elected hearty appreciation from
the waiting thousands. The others followed,
and the Judges retired for mature considers
ton as to the award of prizes The Com.
manderies drilled thirty minutes each. The
prizes are swords and belts, drinking sets,
Commandery jewels, etc. Several of the
participants in the drill were much affected
Dy lDe neat, DuE NONE were
EFFECTS OF THE HEAT.
During the day there were rumors of The
death of Sir Knight from the heat, I'D
some 200 were under treatment in tier
tents. A number were temporarily de-
liriCus. The only case yet reported is that of
George Firth, of Coldwater, Mich, mem
Der Of Jacobs Commandery, No. 10. He vas
Frustrated by heat and dysentery when lie
first arrived, and died early this morning
His body was escorted to the depot by
Apollo Commandery. He was a prominent
man.
THEATERs, FIREWORKS, ETC.
Tonight ali the theaters gave free enter
tainments to the Knights and ladies. and
were filed to their utmost capacity. After
the theaters closed there was an open air
concert of ten pieces, and at the close of that
a grand display of fireworks was made
These pyrotechuics were given on larger
scale than ever before attempted in this city.
PRIZES AWARDED.
CHICAGO, August 1Sth-At late hour
this evening the judges made the following
awards First prize, to Roper Commandery,
of Indianapolis ; second prize, to Demolai, of
Louisville third prize, to Reed, of Dayton,
Ohio; fourth, to Damascus, of st. Paul's /;
the special prize for mounted men to the
Denolai of Grand Rapids, Michigan.
The south and the Census-J0urnalisfic
Views.
New York, August lSth.-The Herald
evidently takes no stock in the stories that
the census of the Southern States has been
earbled to affect Congressional representa-
ton. 1t says: Even if the prejudices of the
secession era were not destined to pass away
with the dotage and death of the old political
Al. h..
section whose relative weight in the Republic
is so rapidly declining. The Republican
party is laying the stress of its canvass ON o
futile issue. lis really strong point is the
management Of the national finances under
Hayes administration. It's vast and success
ful refunding operations, by which the inter
est on the public debt has been largely re-
duced, and the resumption OF specie payment
by the skillful administration of n defective
law, will always fill the brightest pages in the
financial history of tbs country. The Re-
publican party may plausihly claim that it is
so fully committed to the success Of the re-
sumption experiment that 1t may be more
safely trusted than the rival party for such
further measures as may be needed to insure
its stability. Its party pride is at stake to
render resumption permanent, and on this
issue it would have valid claim to a further
lease of power. But on the false and fictitious
sectional issue it deserves only reprobation
and Contempt.
The Times, however, has a long letter from
South Carolina, written by Southerner,
showing that whole districts and sections of
the State. with only small increase in
population, and even decided loss for thirty
or forty years past continuously, now show
an absurd increase, in some cases TO the ex-
tent of 50 per cent In ten years. The Times
,,,,- %, nd whereof tba fnl1nuyinr
is fair sample: Let us take ten counties
and see what has been their rate of increase.
Let these counties be Abbeville, Anderson.
Chester, Edgeville, Fairfield, Greenville,
KeIshaw, Lancaster, Laurens ard MARI
borough These counties had a population
of 2l2,3 in 1850; of 21S.445 in 1860; of
PIG 600 in 1870, and it is declared that their
population in 1880 is 351, 523. The Times
thus comments on the exhibit: Ii SuperiD-
tendent Walker does not fin ] in these COM
parsons sufficient grounds for thorough re-
view of the census Of South Carolina by
honest and competent persons, he must be
very hard to convince. If the Bourbon
leaders in that State have not been engaged
in disgraceful efforts to falsify the census of
the L nited States for the purpose of gaining
political power that does not belong to them
in the national councils, as they have already
usurped it by violence and fraud in the State
itself, they should welcome a vindication
through a rigid and faithful enumeration.
But in any case. the rest of the country has
the right to demand it.
Wade Mampton's siaanfoD, Va. speech.
New YoRK, August 1Sth.-The Tribune
prints side by side two reports of Wade
Hampton's speech at Staunton, July 26tn.
One was taken at the time and printed in the
Stanton Valley Ti,yiaian, and the other
was recently put forth as personally Endorsed
by Hampton, from which the offensive
passages in the former are carefully elimi-
mated. The Tribune shows that Hampton
does not deny the accuracy OF the first report.
and the passages which remain in his per
sonally Endorsed" version are precisely the
same in punctuation and phrase as those in
the Firginians report. Italso says: We do
not know what was in Hampton's mind when
he delivered bis speech in Staunton, hut We
do knew what his language meant. DE ie-
clared that the Democratic party under Han
cocks lead was fighting for the same princi-
pleg that Lee and johnson fought for, and
for which Southern soldiers died. There was
no qualification in the terms used.
ChiDa's New Commercial Departure.
NEW York, August 1Sth.--The Conmer-
ciaf bulletin says: There is need of further
light upon the object of the visit of the
Chinese Embassy to Washington. Both
Eyarts and Marsh have stated uneouivocally
that the Imperial Government has repealed
IN ancient decree nrohikitipg Chinese sub