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Prof Common aud Statute Law,
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Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-05-19
THE TEXTBOOK QUESTION.

So far as can be ascertained the choice of
textbooks for the public schools does not
appear to have been governed by any care
full comparison of the relative merits of the
books. The fact that the McGuffey Read
ers have been quite generally selected
proves this, for the McGuffey Readers are
certainly not the best, in literary stand
point, thai were available. Had the Boards
of Education been DESTROYS of furnishing
the schools with the most useful and ap-
propriate Readers they would have been
compelled to take the Pacific Coast series
in preference to McGuffey's. No person
whose judgment is of any value, OF who is
intellectually competent to form a judy
ment on such a question, can doubt that
Bancroft's Readers are very much better
adapted to California schools than those
which have generally been chosen. In the
case Of San Francisco the choice appears to
have been controlled by corrupt agencies.
At least this is the openly-expressed
opinion of many sober-minded residents
of that city The new Constitution, in
giving to the local Boards of Education
the duty of choosing textbooks, unques-
tionably diminished the probability that
intelligent selections would bemade For of
course there IS no guarantee whatever for
the competence of such boards in such mat
tiers, and the chances are that they will
be far more accessible to venal influences
than State Board of Education ever was.
This change was enc of the imbecilities
with which the trainers of the new Consti-
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-05-19
THE ILLINOIS CONVENTION.

The eyes of the country are turned upon
Illinois to-day, and upon the Republican
State Convention about to meet at Spring
field. 1t is at present quite impossible to
tell how the fight will terminate, for the
reports are so contradictory that no de-
pendence can be placed upon them. 1t
is asserted with absolute confidence that
Blaine has the Convention, and that Grant
has it. Nobody can make any really trust
worthy estimate, for the reason that no.
body knows how the uninstructed dele
gates will go. They are the unknown
quantity in the problem, and it is because
they are incapable of being placed that
both sides undertake to place them. But
though Illinois may be the pivotal State, it
is not as inevitable as it appeared months
ago. If Grant cannot carry the State
Convention, indeed, his chances of a
nomination at Chicago will be worth very
little. But Blaine can afford to lose Hi
nois and yet not be beaten. No doubt the
friends of both candidates will exert them
selves to the utmost to-day, and as both
have plenty of veteran managers to aid
them the contest will be skillful and
determined one. 1t is probable that the
organization, Of the Convention will give
the key to the final outcome, but with such
willy and experienced contestants this is
not certain
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-05-19

tuition so injured the educational system of
the State, and there is scarcely anything
in all their miserable botchwork which is
less deserving of pardon. The first prac-
teal result, as now shown by actual ex-
pertinent, is that the schools are more at
the mercy of the textbook agents than
ever before, and that the tendency to
adopt inferior textbooks is not only more
prevalent, but less amenable to wholesome
protests and remonstrances. As if to CON-
plete their mischievous work the Con-
stitution thinkers provided that when once
a set of textbooks had been chosen they
must be retained for four years thus
rendering it impossible to get rid of bad
books, and at the same time giving the
publishers agents an assurance Of perma-
nent arrangements calculated to stimulate
their proselytizing zeal. A worse mess
throughout could not have been devised,
and we have only begun to experience the
evils it is so prolific of.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-05-19
AN EXCELLENT RECOMMENDATION.

At large and influential meeting of the
citizens of Suffer and Yuba counties. on
Monday, it was resolved to recommend the
appointment of Mr.. w. II. Parks as d.
rector of that drainage district under the
Debris law. It would have been impos-
sible to make better nomination than
this, and we trust that Governor Perkins
will make the appointment so earnestly
solicited by those who are most concerned.
MIR. Parks is man of remarkable energy,
activity, and sagacity. He has studied the
debris question as carefully and closely as
any non- professional man in the State. He
is fully identified with the interests of the
section whose residents recommend him,
and he can be relied upon to urge the re-
medal measures provided for in the new
law, with determination and good judg-
ment. His appointment in fact will be a
guarantee for the faithful testing of the
law, and if the rest of the Board be COM
posed of as good material we shall expect
great things from it, and we shall enter
tain no fear of being disappointed.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-05-19
THE COLOMBIAN DIFFICULTY.

1t is alleged by the New York Times
that the Colombian Government has no
justification for its protest against the
establishment of a coaling station at or near
Chiriqui, for that the land proposed to be
used for this purpose is held by an Amer
lean citizen under sixty years lease. We
can hardly believe that the Times supposes
this to be serious argument against the
attitude of the Colombian Government.
Suppose that an American citizen should
lease piece of ground on the coast of
England, and should then propose to allow
the United States to establish a coaling
station there, does our contemporary think
the British Government would have no
right to say anything about the project !?
The fact is, or ought to be, quite apparent,
that the United States Government is not
justified in doing anything of this kind
without first seeking and obtaining the
consent of the Government whose ter
ritory it is desired to make use
of; and if an attempt has been
made to establish coaling station at
Chiriqui without first obtaining the sane
ton of the Colombian Government, the
latter is perfectly justified in protesting
against the act as fragrant breach of in
ternational comfy, and as an act the like
of which would assuredly never be ven-
tured upon with strong power The
very weakness of the Colombian Govern
ment ought to guarantee it even an exagger-
ated punctiliousness in questions of this
kind. The United States are far too great
and powerful to be able to afford to bully
or put upon inferior Governments. No
doubt proper representation of the case
would have obtained us all we wanted in
this case, but there does not seem any
evidence that such representation has been
made. The Colombian difficulty is not
solved by the statement of the Times, and
thus far it has the appearance of discred-
liable piece of business on the part of our
Government.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-05-19
NEWS OF TIE MORNING.

In New York yesterday Government bonds were
quoted at 1O7s for As of 1907; 1881 for SIS of 1881
1904 for As; sterling, s. e6i@4 s9l silver bars,
u44 silver COIN discount buying, Iar selling.
SILVER in London yesterday, Sgd; consols
80 SIG; per cent. United States bonds, 1861 As,
1893; As, III.
IN San Francisco half dollars are quoted at par ;
Mexican dollars, 90 buying, 81 selling.
AT Liverpool yesterday wheat was quoted at los
clos Cd for good to choice California.
TIERS WAS a regular old-fAshioned scnd-off in the
San Francisco stock market yesterday morning. The
whole Comstock list raised from five cents to SO
per share, SIS compared with the best rates Monday
morning. This advance raises the nominal market
OF the price at which the same shares we're rated
Monday noon.
IT is proposed at Stockton to build narrow. gauge
railroad from that city to Bcde.
THE much :sked-oi boat race between Hanan
and Courtney takes place to-day on the Potomac
river at Washington.
THE President will appoint Horace Maynard, o. s.
Minister at Constantinople, to be Postmaster Gene
raj Keys successor.
The upper house of the Austrian Reicasrath will
adjourn this week.
The famine in North Persia still RACES.
A COLLISION occurred yesterday at Montreal, Cana
da, between mob and the police
TIE reported massacre OF prospectors by Ute In
dams is disbeIieved at the Les Pinos Agency.
1T is rumored in New York that the steamship
Canada has been lost with all on board
The Goss and Ryan prize fight, according to an
Erie Pa, dispatch, has fizzled.
FIRE at Pittsburg, Pa; also at Kingston, N. Y
THs labor strikes in the north of France are
about ended
SMITH, the defaulting Treasurer of North Andover,
Mass has been sentenced to SIX years at hard labor
in the State Prison.
FREDERICK REIcHARD committed suicide at St.
Louis last evening.
THIRTEEN train wreckers in Spain have been SEN
fenced to death and thirteen to twenty years I'M
prisonment.
ONE THOUSAND wagon loads of emigrants wait
ing on the borders of the Ute Reservation in Colo
RADIO for permission to enter.
FORTY buildings were destroyed by fire yesterday
at Coudenport, Pa
THE Minnesota Republican State Convention
meets at St. Paul to-day.
ANOTHER grand musical festival commenced at
Cincinnati last night.
A WOMAN and man were drowned Sunday evening
near Machias, N. Y.
MANY Jesuits will leave Italy for America as soon
as the DEGREES against them are enforced
THB Republican State Convention of Illinois will
meet to-day at Springfield
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-05-19
SECOND DISPATCH.l
NEVADA.
Passengers Passing CarIin.

CARLIN, May lSth.-The following passen-
gers passed Carlin to-day, to arrive in Sacra-
mento tomorrow: Mrs. J. M. Gregory and
two children, Suisun l.. G. Sweet and wife,
Boston DIR. Austin, U. S. Navy; Mrs. H.
Stewart, New Orleans; Charles Drake, Miss
Mary M. Drake, New York City; T. Lins-
field, San Francisco; I. W. Birdseye and
wife, Bridgeport, Conn; Alfred Harold Shell
don, England A. Schaffer, Yokohama; G.
A. Sanford and wife, Rockford, ILL.,; Mrs.
Hughs, Mrs Rich, Salt Lake; w. n. Lit
tie, .. S: Navy; R. G. Ross. Washington,
d. c.; Mr.. and Mrs. John Walter, nurse and
two children, England H. S. Baggally, Lon
don, Eng: IL. Herrings, San Francisco Mrs.
Charles d. Warner, New York; Mrs r. r.
Jones, Boston, Mass; Mrs. Scootfy, Miss
Scooffy, San Francisco; Mrs Irwin, Miss
Emory, Philadelphia j. J. Felt, San Fran
cisco; John Smith, Salt Lake: w. H, Wise,
Denver, Col; +. M. Hamilton and wife,
Rush county, Ind; Mrs. james S. Brown,
Eureka. Cal; Mrs. S. Gishwiller, Kansas |;
L. B. Wifks, Columbia, Mo-; C. r. Vande-
carr, San Jose d. T. Strickland, Blooming
ton, Del; ITO emigrants, including 60 males,
to arrive in Sacramento May Goth.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-05-19
SAN FRANCISCO ITEMS.

[Culled from San Francisco exchanges.l
Silver coin is at small premium with
brokers.
The steamer City of Toxic will be due
here about May Both.
There is great scarcity of seamen for
outward bound ships.
Ernest A. Girvin, a journalist of this
city, has received the appointment of
stenographer to the Railroad Commission.
Several practical journalists ana printers
are discussing the advisability of combin-
ing forces and establishing new evening
paper.
There were IS deaths last week-54
males and "a females. Lung disease caused
2 deaths, consumption H., and pneu-
monia 2.
The amount collected at the Custom
House for duties the past week was S74,-
3l6, making a total since January LIST of
81, O29, sol.
The Southern Pacific Railroad Company
will issue special single-trip and excursion
tickets to Monterey, Aptos, Sequel and
Santa Cruz, at greatly reduced rates, az
follows Special single-trip tickets, s. so !;
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-05-19
BRITISH COLUMBIA.
Items from victoria-AGairs in AIask,

Items from NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. in Alaska.
VICTORIA, May 1Sth.-The Kamloops out
laws, condemned to die on the 10Th instant,
have been reprieved till June ID. Counsel
have raised question as to the legality of the
trial.
Serious damage from foods is reported
from the interior.
The steamers California and Princess
Louise arrived from Sitka and way ports yes
terday. Twenty-Five miners would leave
Sitka about the Goth to prospect in the Chilli
cout country. They will take supplies for
about six months, and expect to strike placer
diggings on the same belt as the Cassiar
mines.
w. Drew Reynolds, a miner well-known
in Cassiar, died about the 10th of April.
The trading steamer Favorite left Wran-
gel on the 18th for Chilean and Klavock, and
expected to reach Sitka about the 14th of
June. visiting the various Indian villages en-
route.
The steamer Cassiar, at last accounts, was
aground on the fats at the mouth of Stickeen
river.
All the rivers on the northern coast are
open.
Collector Ball has returned to his post at
Sitka
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-05-19
SENATOR BOOTH ON THE CANAL.

Senator Booth made bright and elo-
quent speech in presenting the report of
the San Francisco Board of Trade on the
question of the interoceanic canal, but it is
very doubtful whether his suggestions re-
garding the methods of constructing the
canal are not too far in advance of the age
TO be accepted as practical He thinks
that the matter is too important to be left
to private enterprise, and that it ought
either to be taken in hand by syndicate
of Governments, constructed at interna-
tional expense. and then presented to the
world as free canal; or that the United
States ought to build it alone, and allow
the world to use it freely during time of
peace, reserving the right to close it in the
event of war. We are afraid that it
would not be possible to get foreign powers
to recognize the craftsmanship of the first
of these propositions. We fear that they
would be too sordid to appreciate the SUBJ
Unity of the conception, and that they
would demur to the idea of taxing
their subjects for the benefit of the
human race. Nor does it seem to us that
the second proposition is much more
feasible, for if the United States were to
60 into the business of canal building, it
would require more responsibility than at
present resides in our Government to pre-
vent the undertaking from being converted
into the most colossal job of this or any
other age. When Lesseps built the Suez
Canal, though private capital largely fur
nished the MEANS and though the facilities
for supervision were much greater than
could possibly be availed of with us, the
actual cost exceeded the estimates by one
hundred per cent. What then should we
have to expect when Congress controlled a
similar work, and when political exigencies
had infinitely more to do with it than
engineering science? MIR. Booths sugges-
tons are doubtless magnificent, but they
are not practical. Nor is it by any means
SO clear as he and the San Francisco
Board of Trade would make it appear,
that the Nicaragua route is the best. If
the question were only one between the
Panama and Nicaragua canal projects,
we are inclined to think that the latter
should take precedence. But there
is also the ship-railway project of Captain
Eads, and we venture to say that no one
who has carefully examined this PROPOSE
ton will give his adhesion unhesitatingly
to either of the other schemes. The ship
railway has several very great advantages
over canal. 1t is fifty per cent cheaper,
to begin with. 1t is almost independent of
drainage. 1t is capable of being developed
to far greater carrying capacity than any
canal could attain. 1t is liable to no such
unforeseen casualties as Panama canal at
least must be subject to. Before any deci-
sion is come to on this subject we are salts
fed that the ship-railway ought to be given
a candid and patient examination, for we
are strongly inclined to think that it is SUI
perior in all essentials to every project yet
brought forward in this connection.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-05-19
xcursion tickets, good from Saturday until

excursion tickets, good from Saturday unt til
Monday inclusive, So for the round trip.
The California Theater Company has
levied an assessment of 81 per share, de.
linquent June 18th. This organization.
years ago, paid several dividends. The
present is the first assessment.
A case of leprosy was discovered by DIR.
Stivers on Clay street, just above Stock
ton, on Sunday. The subject was woman
named You All Ho, about 80 years old
She presented the most marked case of
leprosy that Dr. Stivers has yet seen. Her
body was covered with small shining scales
and discolored blotches. All of the China
men who formerly lived in the house have
deserted it, and they had put placard on
the window warning Cinnamon against WIS.,
ting the place, as there was case of
leprosy within. The woman was sent to
the Pest-house by Corporal Hotaling She
makes the third leper sent there within a
month.
Articles of Incorporation of the Central
and Southern Pacific Railroad Employees
Mutual Benefit Association were filed yes
terday. The purpose of the Association is
the payment to the nominee of any men,
ber upon his death, sum not exceeding
So for each member of the Association.
The membership is limited to employees of
the Central Pacific and Southern Pacific
Railroads and companies controlled by
them, not connected with the running de-
partment, who shall have been so en-
ployed for three consecutive months i'm.
mediately prior to their application, who
are not over so years of age, and not
afflicted with any incurable disease or adj
dicted to habitual drunkenness. Appli-
cants must prove these facts, and file their
written assent to the Constitution and By
laws of the Association. The principal
place of business of the corporation is San
Francisco, and tine term of existence fifty
years. There are nineteen e'charter :"
members. The Board of Directors con-
sists of E. B. Ryan, J. o. B. Gum, c. Fl.
Remington, G. L. Lansing, P. A. Grow,
Richard Gray, Fl. R. Jonah, E. F. Gerald
and F. S. Dority.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-05-19
TRANSFERS OF REAL ESTATE.

The following deeds of transfer have been filed
since last report
United States to VIM. S. Manlove patent April
L, 1S74-Northwest quarter of section Is, township
north, range 6-l60.4 As acres.
A. h. Grim to L. C. Chandler, May Is, 1865
Block 81, Folsom; 81.
B. r. Croker to F. S. circuit, April 10, 1850
South so feet of east 60 feet OF lot s. and l. Front
and Second streets grant
James Harper to John Mckinney, May II, 1850
Northwest quarter of section "a, township north,
range !; S, $500.
Henry Longton to VIM. S Manlove April %, 1880
Half Of lot 7, II and |, Twenty third and Twenty
fourth streets; $3.50
Samuel Cross to Michael Kyne and wife-Undi-
vided one-eighth of lot 4, and U, Sixteenth and
Seventeenth streets grant
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-05-19
THE TEXAS PACIFIC BRIBERY CHARGES

Vague charges of bribery have it seems
been preferred against certain Congress-
men, at present not named, In connection
with the Texas Pacific subsidy bill of 1870.
The nature of the charges, and the charac-
ter and standing of the accusers, are as yet
enveloped in a good deal Of obscurity The
bringing of such accusations at such time
inevitably raises a suspicion that political
animosity may be at the bottom of the
whole affair 1t is curious commentary
upon our politics that whenever man is
accused of anything serious during cam
paign in which he is candidate, or under
circumstances which suggest that he or his
party may be injured, the instructive ten
dency Of the public mind is to refuse to put
faith ia the allegations. Certainly it is a
peculiar time at which to bring forward
a story of this kind, and if, as is stated,
the alleged bribery bears heavily
upon a Republican candidate for
the Presidency, the suspicion that
the whole thing IS piece OF campaign
calumny will no doubt be greatly strength
ened. At the same time it will be felt
that there would not be anything surpris-
ing in the development of bribery in con-
nection with the Texas and Pacific sub
sidy, for it is notorious that the whole pre-
iect has been saturated with fraud from the
beginning, and that every concession the
company gained from Congress has been
acquired in the teeth of the most con-
vincing proof of the invalidity of its claims
upon the Government. Whether there is
any truth in the charges or not remains to
be seen, but even if there is they are pre-
ferred at a very unfortunate conjuncture,
since the public viii be sure to suspect that
this revelation is due solely to partisan en-
nifty.