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The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-01-24
WIDOWS HOME FESTIVAL.

A preliminary meeting to consider preparation
for festival In aid Of a fund for the Widows
Home was held at the Y. NJ. C. A. Rooms, corne
of Sixth and Elm streets. yesterday evening. Tn
following committees were appointed:
COMMITTEE ON ARRANGEMENTs.
MI. Joseph Andrews. Mr.. W. W. Taylor,
Miss E K Appleton, Mr.. A. T. GOshorn.
Mrs R. NJ W. Taylor, Mr.. H. Cooper,
Mrs. A. 8. Winslow, Mr.. Frank Huntington.
Mrs M. +. Force, Mr.. John Foster.
Mra DR.. John Davis
COMMITTEE ON DECORATION.
Nina c. Hartshoyns, Chm. Mr.. H. +. Farny.
Mrs. +. G. Huntington. Mr. Twachtmann,
Mrs. Geo. w. Nichols, MI. Messmann,
Mrs. +. q Lawson, Mr. w. W. Taylor.
Mls N. B. Ewing. Miss c. (. Nourse,
Miss Nettinius, Mrs Jacob Graf,
Miss GibbOna
COMMITTEE on REFRESHMENTS.
Mrs AlphOnsn Taft Chm, Mrs Geo. s. Gray. -
Mrs, VIM. Howard Neff Mrs. Chas. H. LawA
Ms. J. II. Swift Mrs. N. Il. Crane,
Mrs H R Smith, Mrs Stanley Matthews,
Mrs John Kilgour, Mrs. A. H. Hinkle,
Mra W. H. Dominick. Mrs M. +. Thompson,
Mira Jas. Mckeehan, MrA I. NJ. Snowden.
Mrs. J. F. Whiteman, Mn A. G. Core,
Mrs. John Whiteman, Mm H. C. Whiteman.
Mrs s. G. Tstem, Mrs. John Warren.
Mrs. Adolph Wood. Mrs Austin Goodman.
Mrs. Ben. Bruce, Mrs Short
Mrs, G. ii. Could. Mrs. Mary Rawson.
Mrs. James H. Laws Miss Harbeson,
Mrs. David Gibson, Mrs w. G. Coffin,
Mrs. James Dale, Mrs. l. A. Pittman,
Mrs. 7. l. Gaussen, Mrs. VIM. Proctor,
Mrs Abram Brewer Mrs s. W. Walker,
Mrs. II. c. Schcll. Mrs. Lodwick,
Mrs. Daniel Stone, Mrs Alfred Buchanan,
Mrs. John A. Shank, Mrs. AlbrO,
Mrs. A. W. Whelpley, Mrs John Lyford,
Mrs. John Morrison, Mrs 8. s. FOsdick,
Mrs. J. H. Barbour, Mrs A. Vessel
Mrs. Seth Evans, Mrs VIM Harvey,
Mrs. Robert Hosea, Mrs. Hugh Kemper,
Mrs Walter Smith, Mrs. Henry Kemper,
Mrs M Rochpstar Mrs r. Fckatein
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-03-31
TIE cAmPAIoN IN GREAT BRITAIN.

The tiercest political campaign of the
present century is being fought in Great
Britain and Ireland at present. and as yet
it is impossible to gather any trustworthy
indications concerning the outcome. The
Liberals are making a most energetic can
vass, hut the Conservatives display a fully
equal determination, and though Mr.. Glad
stone is very sanguine, it does not appear to
a dispassionate observer that the Liberal
programme has much advantage over that
of the Conservatives. The Liberals are
indeed being seriously damaged by the
course of Parnell and other Home Rulers,
who insist on opposing Liberal candidates
in several instances, because they have not
consented to pledge themselves on Irish
issues. The Conservatives derive from the
evident Liberal tendency to truekle to the
Home Rule party, a formidable ad-
vantage, for the obstructive tactics
of the Home Rulers in the House
of Commons have embittered public
sentiment in England against them,
and it is a good Conservative charge just
now to accuse their opponents of having
sold out to the Irish agitators Mr.. Glad
stone, it is true, has been meeting with his
usual success at his numerous meetings in
Midlothian, but the enthusiasm his elo-
quence arouses is not a safe criterion of the
popularity either of his party or his policy,
and there are some very serious objections
to the latter which viii certainly influence
votes powerfully The idea that what
has been called "Jingoism has no deep
roots in the English mind of the period,
does not appear well founded, to begin
with. The truth would rather seem to be
that the Imperialist policy of which Lord
Beaconsfeld is the chief representative, is
really dear to the hearts of the British
masses, and that they are strongly
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-03-31
MR.. EDISON AGAIN.


Mr.. Edison is to the front again, but not
in connection with the electric light. That,
with all its magnificent possibilities, he
would seem to have abandoned, at least for
the time. and it is said that he has now
discovered a mode OF separating gold from
tailings by electricity. We are sorry to
have to say that Mr.. Edison's inventions
are no longer good currency. After the
public experience of the electric light bust
ness no new discovery will be accepted
without very much better credentials than
are here offered In the matter of the cleo
trio light it has been shown that Mr.. Edi-
son proceeded so unscientifically as to re-
main in ignorance of what previous expert
mentors had done, until the very end of his
researches, and his best-advertised ideas
turn out to have been after all no more
than rediscovered failures After this it
would be absurd to take for granted any
thing that is reported about his investiga-
tions. If he has really discovered anything
important it will speak for itself, but until
it speaks for itself we must decline to put
the least faith in what is said by his jour
nalistic trumpeters.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-03-31

impressed with the desirability of
what is called a strong foreign policy.
How real this feeling is may be gathered
from the very recent refusal of the Bar
oness Burdett-Coutts to contribute to a
Liberal campaign fund, on the ground that
she believed the country stood in need Of
such policy, and did not believe the Lib
eral party was prepared to supply it.
There can be no question that great
many Englishmen are afraid of Mr.. Glad
stone in this connection, or that they have
reason for their apprehension. 1t is in
contesta5le that be has on several occa-
sions advocated line of policy abroad
which would have seriously damaged the
standing and influence of the country, and
which in the present condition of CONT
mental politics might easily have had still
more disastrous consequences. At time
when Might makes Right all over the
Continent of Europe more emphatically
than ever before; when all the great
powers confront one another in arms, and
a collision may be precipitated at any mo-
ment; when wisdom and justice count for
nothing unless they are backed by the
purse and the sword it may easily be I'M
derstood that thoughtful Britons doubt
the expediency of intrusting the helm of
State to hands which seem so iniirm of
purpose where foreign relations are in ques-
ton. This constitutes Gladstone's weak
ness, and the weakness of his party this,
and the belief that he meditates more radi-
cal legislation in regard to ireland, and
perhaps more in regard to England, than
he has yet proposed. The Conservative
tendency, in fact, is very strong yet, and
while the Liberals viii undoubtedly make
some gains at the coming elections, it is by
no means clear that they have before them
any pronounced or sweeping victory.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-03-31
SHERlFF'S SALE.


ET NDER AND BY VIRTUE or AN ORDER
Of sale issued out the superior Court Of the
STATE Of California, held in and for the city and
county Of san Francisco Department no %, on the
18th day Of Marca, 1850, upon judgment and de-
therein entered the 18th DAY OF March, 1880
in favor Of u. ". G. Gaskell and against James Il.
Cummings, VIM. Mann, K. Thompson, f. F. Taylor
Patrick Conlan, Vim. Grantees, ct al for the sum Of
$40 $50 AZ, gold coin, together with S9G7 o. attOr
neys fees and SlSS 90 costs taxed, with interest on
said sums from the 18TH day Of March, 1880 at the
rate OF percent per annum besides costs to accrue
and by me received ON the 3Oth day Cf March, 1880
by which was comma ded to sell Tor cash, in gold
COIN in the manner prescribed by law, the following
described real estate situate living and being in the
county OF Sacramento, State Of California, % wit
The east half of the northwest quarter, southwest
quarter of northeast quarter southeast quarter Of
southwest quarter, and northeast quarter f south
west quarter # section &c. toVnsl north, range
east, Mt Diablo Base and Meridian also west
half Of section a. and north half Of southeast quarter
of said section j. in township north, range east,
Mt. Diablo Base and Meridian, together with the
appurtenances thereto belonging IN any wise APP
pertaining Notice Is hereby given that in obedi-
cnce to such command viii on Saturday the 24th
day Of April 1880, in front Of the Courthouse door
in the city Of Sacramento at the hour Of IL O'Clock
A. NJ, sell ct public auction t. the highest bidder
for cash in gold coin, the foregoing described real
estate TO satisfy said debt and costs.
March 81. $50.
mr31-1aw4tw A. HEILBRON, Sheriff.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-03-31
THE JEsUITs III FRANCE.

The Jesuits appear to be very near the
end of their tether in France, and though
some Ultramontane journals have init
mated that they cannot be expelled with
out producing commissions, we apprehend
no difficulty of the kind. The Jesuits
have nothing to learn regarding expert
ences OF this kind, for they have been at
various times expelled from almost every
country in Europe, and from France sew
eral times. Should they find it no longer
possible TO stay there they will go quietly,
and they will as quietly await their oppor
tunity to return. They have been grad.
ually acquiring an educational influence
which they know to be the most useful for
their purposes, and no DOUBT they will
resign their vantage ground with extreme
reluctance, but still without fruitlessly
prolonging their resistance. They will
then go to Spain and italy and Belgium
and the United States very probably to
the latter by preference, as to country
where the fancied security of the people
causes them to despise precautions, and
thus afford the amplest opportunities for
the preparation of the educational cam.
paign. France has decided that Jesuit
teaching shall cease, and the de-
bates which resulted in this conclusion
certainly embodied sufficient arguments for
the justification of that policy. The
affair, however, is merely an episode, and
not an epochal event, for France has not
yet reached stable condition in any de-
partment Of Government, or any branch of
State policy, and it would be rash to pre-
dict continuance Of the new state of
things even for twelvemonth.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-03-31
A new VIEW.


Decidedly the most novel and original
view of the inte.oceanic canal scheme in
its relation to the Monroe doctrine is en-
bodied in the resolution introduced by
Congressman Robertson the other day,
and the text OF which we yesterday printed
The argument Of the resolution is that the
cutting Of tide-wa5er canal across the
Isthmus of Panama would change the
course OF the Gulf Stream, and by de-
fiecting it from England so alter the eli
mate Of that country as to destroy it's
habitability and commerce, and thus
freeze out the English speaking nation. ="
The interest Of the United States in pre-
venting such an event is not based upon
any sentimental considerations by Mr.. Rob
eltson, but upon the sordid circumstance
that ''the United States would thereby
close its chief fereign market,
(which could not be counterbalanced
"by the new markets opened by
% the interoceanic capal." And the animus
of the French in urging the construction of
the canal is lucidly indicated in the declar-
alton that we emphatically reafirm the
% Monroe doctrine, and that we will bring
g it to bear against the inhuman designs of
g France in thus attempting to destroy her
g chief European rival and iniure the CON-
Is merce of the United States" After this
it would be almost superluous to seek any
other explanation of the affair. But upon
what slender thread does the prosperity
OF England hang. as viewed by the hight Of
Mr.. Robertsons brilliant genius Should
the United States ever quarrel with
her, and war be threatened, the pride
and glory of the historic isle may be
brought low at any time by cutting that
terrible canal across the Isthmus. II
is to be feared that the Irish viii
seek to make this political issue, in fact,
and that nobody viii be deemed eligible tc
go to Congress hereafter who is not pledged
to vote for the construction of the canal,
the Monroe doctrine to the contrary not
withstanding. And who vca9 Lave
thought that N. de Lesseps was % wicked
and inhuman a man as to seek the perdition
of Albion under the plausible guise of a
general beneiaetion. Surely it is an evil
generation in which we live, and were ii
not for the keen and farseeing intelligence
which such splendid minds as Mr.. Robert
sons bring to bear upon the crafty and
sinister projects of abandoned engineers
and people, it is impossible to say where
all this would end.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-03-31
FOREIGN XEMs.
Racing in Engiand-5aEnes Gordon Ben-
nctt's Huscadin Wins.

Racing in Engiand-5aEnes Gordon sen-
acts Huscadin Wins.
LONDON, March 30th.-James Gordon
Benefits Muscadin won to-day the Park
Hurdle Handicap Plate; Red Hazard second
and Peroration third. There were five start
ers. Betting just before the race was ten to
six against Red Hazard, three to one against
Muscadin, and five to one against Peroration.
Muscadin led throughout and won in a can
ter, twenty lengths ahead Of Red Hazard,
who was forty lengths in front of Peroration.
English Grain Trade.
LONDON, March 30th.-The Marx Lane
Express, in its review for the past week. says {:
The weather has been favorable, and crop
prospects are better than for years past.
Only few weeks more of such weather will
secure rich development of all agricultural
produce. Favorable weather has also pro-
duced marked improvement in the
condition of English wheat brought to
market, but nothing could improve the
quality, which in most cases is
wretched The deliveries have beer
meager, and the total seasons crop offered to
date is 8, 100000 quarters less than during the
corresponding period of last year. Holders
are very firm, and an advance Of shilling is
recorded at several important country mar
kets. The Improvement, however, has not
of sound native wheat offered is so small
that the attention of mil!ers is d.
rected almost exclusively to foreign. In
the face OF rapidly diminishing stocks and
unusually light arrivals, q decidedly i'm
proved consumptive demand has been expe-
rienced for al! varieties of foreign wheat, but
only at former prices, any inclination on the
part Of the holders to raise their pretensions
having been strenuously resisted by buyers.
The operations Of millers at the beginning of
the week were on q somewhat extended
scale, probably due to the fact that with the
arrival OF the Easter holidays two market
days would be lost, and so, whilsearrying out
their policy OF hand-to-mouth purchases,
freer buying for the time became necessary.
With regard to the future the position re-
mains unchanged. America clings to her re-
serves in spite of the lower tendency Of
prices in New York aud little encouragement
from this side; but ii must be admitted that
she has hitherto played the waiting game,
and it is not improbable that she may be re-
warded ere long with some measure Of sue
cess A noteworthy feature of last weeks
imports was the large proportion in
which arrivals from Germany figured. Out
of total supply of 1858 quarters, 21, 100
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-03-31
suH SPOTS AND EpEnEM1cs.

Mr. Ernest Cushing has recently been
doing his best to destroy the peace of mind
Of the community, by an elaborate paper
demonstrating the intimacy of the connec-
ton between sun spot cycles and epidemics.
He has traced back all the sun-spot cycles
which are recorded with any authenticity,
and has convinced himself that they recur
at intervals of about eleven and half years,
and that the occurrence OF their maxima is
always correspondent to the appearance of
serious epidemics or telluric commissions.
AS Mr.. Gushing makes it out that 1881 will
be the next sun-spot maximum period,
it viii be perceived that he holds out
a very unsatisfactory prospect to the
public, and it is the mere unpleasant
because his conclusions appear to be well
founded. The connection between the
sun-spots and disturbances of various
kinds on this earth is not indeed new
conception, having been entertained more
or less fully by many scientific observers
for considerable period. The fact that
the sun-spots occur in cycles has of course
long been familiar to astronomers, but Mr..
Cushing has been the first TO attempt the
establishment of close connection be-
tween epidemics and sun-spots. Hecker,
indeed, in his history of epidemics in the
middle ages, propounds rather vague
theory about the coincidence of telluric
disturbances with the outbreaks of such
diseases, but it seems most probable
that he regarded them as due to some
change in the magnetism of the earth
Nothing is more plausible than the theory
that radical and extensive changes in the
condition Of the planet from whose emana-
tions all life on this earth springs, may
affect the status of mundane existences,
either benefcially or harmfuliy. the
coincidence Of sweeping epidemics with
the maximum manifestation of the
phenomena we call sun-spots, may there
fore be justly regarded as indicating a
probable, if not a positive, connection be-
tween the two. 1t is true that even if the
certainty of the coincidence could be estab-
lished we should not have gained much,
since the means of averting or stopping
epidemics would be as far off as ever. 1t
is always, however, better to be on right
track than on wrong one, and it must be
remembered that some of the most service
able discoveries of science have been made
while in pursuit of investigations which ap-
peared to the world to have no practical
bearing. Meantime it is proper to point
out that 1851 threatens to be, according to
Mr.. Gushing, particularly bad year, be-
ing not only on the regular cyclical pro-
gramme, but deriving special malignity
from centennial recurrence of disastrous
tendencies which has been observed during
several hundred years, and of which the
| last manifestation occurred in ISL On
the whole, therefore, it will be the part oil
wisdom to make the best possible use OF
the present year, and to prepare for that
"rainy day ." which the proverb has i'm
| n,ortaIized
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-03-31
MISCELLANEOUS.

The health of Paris continues below the
average. There were 200 deaths last week.
Typhoid fever and smallpox are prevalent.
The health of the Empress of Russia is
sensibly declining.
Reports of the early departure of the Rus
sian Court to Lividia are unfounded.
Colonel John r. j. Emery died at Poplar
Grove, Queen Annes county, Md, yester-
day. He was a brother of Major. General
Emery, and entered the regular army as
Second Lieutenant. He served in the Florida
and other Indian wars.
The suit between the Homestake and
Father DeSmet Companies, at Desdwood,
D. T., involving valuable water rights, val
ued at S3,o00,00 begins to-day. The best
legal ability of the Pacific coast is imported
for the occasion.
The Home Rule League of Dublin has
passed resolution declaring that the treat
ment of Parneil at Enniscorthy by hired
mob of rioters was deep disgrace on O'Clercy
and all concerned in the outrage.
A Teheran dispatch says: At Tchekislar
and Chatte the preparations Of the Russians
for campaign are singularly backward.
Their entire force is only 1900.
The Democratic Executive Committee of
Georgia have resolved to call Convention
at Atlanta on June 9th.
The new Brazilian Ministry has been con-
stituted with Saravia as President of the
Council and Minister of Finance.
The Senate confirmed Bret Harte as Con-
sul to Glasgow; Henry c. Marston, of ILL
nois, at Malaga; w. 2. Mangum, of North
Carolina, at Tientsin; Paul LANCE of Iowa,
at La Rochelle H. A. Conant, of Michigan,
at Naples Supervisor of Census, A. L..
Thomas, of Utah Territory. The Census
Supervisors in the Eighth Illinois and the
Third Iowa Districts were rejected.
Samuel Price and Edward Rainier, aged IA
and 10, while playing in boat Sunday
evening, at Toronto, Ont, drifted out into
the lake. The boat containing their dead
bodies was found near Niagara yesterday
morning.
A fire in the police boat Seneca, at New
York, yesterday morning, burned the stew
ard Charles II. Berry to-death, and officers
Kelly and Robert j. Vail probably fatally.
The Board OF Directors OF the Pennsylva-
mia Railroad have directed the restoration of
the pay of all persons in the service of the
company to the compensation in force at the
time of the reduction in June, 1877, to take
effect from and after April LIST next.
Three negroes are to be hanged at Macon,
Miss, Friday next.
At Washington, D. c., Monday evening,
james Edward johnson, colored, was shot
dead by Joseph, alias " Big Foot +" johnson,
white
A Paris dispatch says that Nordenskjold
will receive the order of the Legion of Honor.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-03-31
TELEGRAPHIC.

LAST NIGHTS DISPATCHES To THE RECORD
UNION.
THE PRESIDENTIAL QUESTION.
Views of Grants Friends Concerning lis
Withdrawal.
PASSENGERS coaixG WEST BY RAIL.
The Chinese Mission and the Treaty Com
nissioners.
A DISASTROUS CYCLONE IN VIRGINIA.
Pacific Mail Steamship Company AMI The
Railroads.
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS Of FOREIGN NEWS.
Prince orloff, Russian ambassador, Inter
viewed On the Hartmann Affair.
Eie.........-.. Etc. Ear.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-03-31

SAN Francisco MONEY MARKET.-The
demand for money continues very light. The
banks of the city are all closed to-day, on ac-
count of the election. The rates continue
unchanged, namely: per cent. for call loans
against United States bonds, sag per cent.
for regular commercial paper, and SG10 per
cent on inside city property, the lenders
guaranteeing to pay the mortgage tax. Drafts
on New York are drawn at 25c for mail and
SOC premium per 500 for Geographic. Bank
ers are selling exchange on London at 49ld,
and buying grain bills at 49a. Mexican dol
lars are nominal at 81 llc apiece. Fine silver
is nominal at 11@113 per cent. DISCOUNTS.
T. Bulletin, March 30sh
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-03-31

NERvE.-It is great thing to have what is
called nesre, and nothing contributes more to
the power of physical control thus named
than Warmers Safe Neryine. 1t also relieves
all kinds Of pain, and cures headache and
euralgia.