davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1880-11-23

The Equitable Life Assurance Society the first to in
trOduce the
TONTINE SAVINGS FUND POLICY,
And thereby to popularze life insuace to degree before
unknown.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-11-20
THE CHINESE TREATY.

News comes from China, unoficially, to
the effect that the Commission sent to
China for that purpose has succeeded in
making treaty with the Chinese Govern
ment which satisfactorily determines the
whole question of Chinese immigration,
and in a manner which will be approved
by the people of the Pacific Coast.
This is good news if true, but before en-
larging upon it we must await official con-
firmation of the report. Certainly if the
Commission has achieved SO much it
has found secret for hurrying the Chinese
diplomatists which no previous embassy
has been able to discover. When the
Commissioners left this country it was ex-
pected that they would be absent at least a
year, and experienced residents in China
predicted that they would be very lucky if
they secured a treaty in less than five
years. In the absence of information as
to the details Of the alleged treaty we can.
not discussit but the presence OF Hon. John
F. Swift on the Commission may be ac-
cepted as guarantee that the interests of
the Pacific Coast will not be neglected in it,
and that no arrangement viii be ratified
which does not really go to the root of the
suhiack
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-11-20
oLEoMARGARINE.

The manufacture of this greasy make
believe for butter has lately developed into
almost colossal proportions. For several
years it languished, popular taste and
prejudice being proof against all the in
genious arguments which were directed
to demonstrate the purity, cleanness and
general great qualities of the compound.
Why or how the present revival has &C.
Cured, we do not know, but it ID evident
that a good oleomargarine interest has
established itself at Chicago, and that in
some way popular favor has been secured
for it. Whether this indicates real
change in the public mind, or whether it
only means that the manufacturers have
attained so much skill as to be able to
deceive the very elect, is not clear. It ia
open to our readers to suspect that the
latter explanation is the true one, and in
fact Chicago reporters have repeatedly as
serted that it was scarcely possible to dis
tinguish between the real and the sham
butter. Oleomargarine is said to be made
of the best suet and the choicest and purest
fat when it is described by those who
are interested in its manufacture. When
prejudiced people undertake to describe it,
they allege that it is made from
dead dogs and cats and rats, and
every imaginable oleaginous nastiness
and refuse. The circumstance that
the processes employed are such as to
conceal the original character of the fatty
matters used, no doubt encourages the
enemies OF the manufacture to imagine
all kinds of impurity in it. AT the same
time it is impossible for the friends of
oleomargarine to adduce satisfactory proof
that the materials used are not objection
able. Oh course oleomargarine is not but
ter, and it is very doubtful whether it is
equally wholesome, even supposing the
ugly stories about it to be hbels. Whether
it is less of an injury than a benefit that
such a substitute for butter should be in
Hicted upon the average boarding house
martyr. is a question demanding much
study. Certainly it appears to be putting
a tremendous weapon in the hands of the
cheap restaurants and boarding house keep
ers to invent such an article of food. In
justice to the public it should not be
allowed to be offered for sale unless its
actual character is plainly advertised. To
sell it as butter is to commit fraud, and
at this point the law ought to protect the
public stomach.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-11-20
SECRETARY THompsoN's MISTAKE.

Secretary Thompson appears to have got
himself into scrape of very singular ma
ture. It is said that he neglected to invite
the principal officers of the navy to the re-
cent naval review at Fortress Monroe, and
that they are alike amazed and indignant
at this omission. 1t is indeed 30 peculiar
blunder for the Secretary of the Navy to
have committed that we are tempted to at
tribute it to that phenomenal ignorance of
naval affairs which was ascribed to Mr..
Thompson when he first took Office. 1t is
stated that at that time he went on board
man-of-war, and that being moved by
curiosity to approach an open hatchway he
was seen to start backward with every ap-
pearance of horror and alarm, and was
heard to exclaim Good heavens the
things hollow p Now it is evident
that a Secretary of the Navy who
had such remarkable theories about
naval construction might have equally
curious notions about naval ETH
quette, and that therefore ms om,ssion
to invite the Admiral and his staff to the
naval review may have been caused by
genuine ignorance of what was appropriate
under the circumstances. If this is not
the explanation it will be necessary to con-
clude that the relations between the Secre-
tary and the officers of the navy was any
thing but friendly, but even this SUPPOSE
ton could not justify Secretary Thompson
in ignoring the professional claims OF the
officers whom he thus Inundated and in
suited. There is in fact reason to appre-
bend that neither the Secretary of the
Navy nor the Secretary of War are on the
best terms with the services they control,
and therefore it ia satisfactory to know
that in few weeks both these departments
will have new heads.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-11-20
RIPlEs vERsus REFORM.

If it is true, as reported, that consider
able quantities of rifles and other arms are
being smuggled into Ireland, and that the
peasantry are rapidly arming themselves,
the Irish people will have cause to curse
the oficious friends who have thus sup
Piled so powerful an incentive to insur-
rection. ANY attempt to use force in the
present crisis must prove ruinous to the
cause of land reform, for it would neces-
sarilY thrust all questions of remedial
legislation into the background, and render
it imperatively necessary to put down the
rebellion. 1t is not worth while to talk
of the issue of such an experiment. As a
matter of course the insurgents would be
routed with the usual destruction of life,
and it would then for long time be i'm
possible to bring the really important
questions of the hour forward. If the
Land League leaders can control their
followers, and if they possess any sense,
they Will sternly discountenance any at
tempt at an uprising, as the very worst
and most fatal blunder that can be CON-
mitted on their side.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-11-20
WHITAKER.

The petition which has been sent to the
President by Hon. j. Hyatt Smith and
others regarding the reinstatement of
Cadet Whitaker at West Point, appears
to us to be an exceedingly ill-iudged docu-
ment. Il bases this request on the allega-
ton that T" the case was not proved against
"the boy" That statement is only tech
nically admissible. The evidence adduced
at the trial in support of the theory that
Whitaker invented the whole alleged ont
rage was SO overwhelming that no UMPIRE
JUDGED mind could fail to be convinced by
it. The testimony of the experts clearly
fastened upon him the authorship of the
pretended note of warning which he said
he had received some days previous to the
commission of the assault. The condition
in which he was found was altogether In
consistent with the statement he made In
explanation OF it. It was shown that the
semblance of Inconsistencies which be
bore when discovered was deliberately as
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-11-20
THE TREATmEsr OF THE SOUTH.

The New York Times, discussing the
solid South problem, says Sc The task of
''the Republican Administration reduces
itself to a judicious organization of the
.'civil service in the South on the one
"hand, and to an impartial enforcement
sol the laws necessary to the protection
.sof equal suffrage on the other. It is the
"duty of the House, from every point of
sview, and affords the only hope of sue
"cess. The requirement that appoint
sments in the South shall be of the high
"est character, that they should be made
with only go much reference to political
views as would secure fidelity to the
principle of equal suffrage, and that they
'should be made, as far as possible, among
"Southern men, is not only reasonable but
imperative" This is very fair pre-
sentation of very moderate policy. The
solid South cannot be made less soild by
any recurrence to the methods which were
in use before the present Administration.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-11-20
SOUTHERN VIEWS.

Senator Ben Hill and Governor Colquitt
of Georgia have recently had something to
say about the South and the election of
Garfield. The former has in manly way
condemned the attempt of Barnum and
his gang to tamper with New York, and
has expressed his opinion that the South
would =" once more save the country from
revolution, by refusing to have anything
to do with such devices. Nevertheless he
bewails Northern sectionalism, and fears
that the South will never have Justice done
to it. Governor Colquitt has spoken, in
his inaugural address, much in the same
strain. He looks upon Hancock's defeat
as evidence of the decline of the republic.
He thinks the main reason for Garfield's
election was Northern hatred of the
South" and he fears that sectionalism
will be perpetuated, because of Northern
I" interference" Let us hope that both
these gentlemen are mistaken, and permit
US to point out that there is to-day no
other reason for the survival of sectional
ism than Southern obstinacy and blind
ness. 1t is not the North that is sectional !;
it is the South. There never would have
been solid North had there not
first been a solid South. II the
South will abandon that policy, and man
ifest an intention to respect the laws of
the United States, all trouble and all sec
tionalism will disappear at once. The
Northern people know nothing about Sec
tions. They are American citizens, not
Westerners, or Northerners, or Fasteners.
Let the South pull down the barriers
which divide it from the rest of the coun-
try let it abandon the old, stupid, mis-
chief breeding spirit of local pride; let it
content itself as all the rest of the country
does. with being an integral part of this
great nation let it drill some moderation
and common. sense into the heads Of it's
journalists let it refrain from attempts
to count out the colored voters let it pay
attention to it's commerce and agriculture,
and leave politics alone and it will very
soon find that sectionalism is a mere Chi
mera. The North is always ready for
good feeling and harmony, but the absn-
donment of sectionalism must come from
the South, simply because it exists in no
other part of the country.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-11-20
rEE BEST pApER

Published in California to-day, for the family, the
business Office, the shop, the market and the field
is The SACRAMENTO WEEKLY UNION, issued in semi
weekly pats i. e., every Wednesday morning and
every Saturday morning, an eight page part of the
paper appears the two making up paper of i6
large close pages the whole furnished by mail, pre-
paid, one year, for 81 80. The advantage OF the
UNION in being sent out twice each week must be
obvious to all. 1t brings the news oftener and
fresher TO every reader and thus orestas the news
III the old style of weekles But the UNION is also
the best paper in matter of all kinds. Its editorials
are bold, clear, positive and logical its miscellany
choice, ehaste and varied; its news departments
full fresh and from the most approved sources its
market quotations reliable, its correspondence from
the best of WRITER'S and in all its departments it is
by all odds, the leading paper of the coast.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-11-20
SENATOR GROWERS HEALTH.

We consider the news concerning Senator
Growers health to be bad. It is stated
that he is suffering from a complaint which
is vaguely and obscurely spoken OF as
spinal irritation, and that he is being
treated for this complaint in come sort of
medical house, which we take to be new
name for an asylum. Spinal irritation
of any kind is exceedingly dangerous, and
in nine cases out of ten leads to insanity,
or death. It may end in softening of the
brain or in violent dementia, but it is very
unlikely to be overcome by remedies. If.
therefore, the Senator from Oregon suffers
from such disease it is not probable that
he viii be able to occupy his seat at Wash
ington this winter, if he ever does again.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-11-20
SAN FRANCISCO IIEas.

From San Francisco exchanges OF November lothl
The only disengaged iron ship in port
was chartered yesterday at RS.
The steamer Oceanic carried SI83,I7I in
treasure and $l42, 558 in merchandise to
HOngkoug.
Five coast steamers arrived at this port
yesterday. These vessels all come heavily
loaded with produce.
Duties paid at the Custom house yester.
day were S52,655 %, making a total of
1921, 81 81 for the month.
There were four cases of smallpox re-
ported at the Health Office up to o'clock
to-day, and one veriication.
One Denis Kearney, who cut GONE figure
several years ago III the low-down politics
of this city, has returned to his former oc-
cupation of drayman.
The Polish residents in San Francisco
propose to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary
of their country's gallant struggle for indie
pendence on the goth inst, being the day.
Of the year on which the revolution against
the despotic power of the Gar commenced
at Warsaw, half century ago.
Claus Spreckles is about to build large
sugar refinery on the Potrero. Six and q
quarter blocks of land have been purchased
just beyond the new gas works there, and
fronting on the bay shore. Bids for grad
ing the land are now being received, and 1t
is expected that the entire work will be
completed in eight or nine months, certainly
in less than year. A round million OF
dollars will be required to complete the
work. most of which will be distributed IN
this vicinity for labor, materials and other
pecessaries
A very commendable case Of honorable
business dealing is that just now occurring
between tie Pacific Coast Steamship Com
pany and the farmers of the lower country.
The steamship company is Transporting
grain from Point Sal to this port on It's
steamers at 81 80 per ton, and as the sea-
son has been an exceedingly late one, and
the crops are very large, the farmers are
DESTROYS Of moving the grain as speedily as
possible, and for that purpose the steam
ship company is now chartering sailing yes
sells. giving them So per ton. This Is not
compulsory on the companys part 1t is
simply done to accommodate and protect
the grain producers from loss by bad
weather, which is now impending.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-11-20
sumed by him. 1t was proved that though

sumed by him. 1t was proved that though
within easy reach of help he must, accord
ing to his own account, have submitted in
perfect silence to the ill.treatment of the
hypothetical prosecutors. The injuries
which had been inflicted upon him were
extremely slight, and such as be could easily
have caused himself He was fastened
in such way that he could have
released himself without difficulty. In short
every circumstance of the affair, when
rigidly analysed, told against him, and
against nobody else, and we think it may
be taken for granted that the Court which
investigated the case has no doubt as to
his guilt. In Difference to very unreasona-
BILE public sentiment, however, opportunity
has been afforded him to withdraw from
West Point undisgraced, under cover of
leave of absence which doubtless would have
been made perpetual If now it is in
sisted upon that he be reinstated, no course
will remain open to the West Point au-
thorities but to appeal to the results of the
inquiry, and to pass sentence rpon him in
accordance with those results. Perhaps
after all this may be the best way to end
the matter, but it certainly is due to the
other cadets, who were all discred1ted by
Whittaker's accusation that a young man
who has practically been convicted of SO
fragrant and injurious fraud should not
be sent back to insult and degrade them
by his companionship. If in short Whit
takeI has any iudicious friends, the best
thing that they can do for him is to keep
him out of the way, and accept quietly
the means of safe retirement the clemency
of the West Point authorities has left at
his disposal.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-11-20
THREE ORIGINAL STORIES.

During The coming year, and commencing De
cem5er 1st the WE Iy UNION tgiU publish three
Prize Stories Of California. The first, the pub
1icdtio Of ,clicA HiH commence IN the FIRST tDeef
Of December, t0ilt be entitled 1.-The Ventures and
Adventures OF Charlie Gould" This is an in
fenseiy Interesting story IF the Stoct-Gan'biing
period of California. and toritten By Edteard
f. CaItsI, of Lo' angeles. The price Of the WEEKLY
UNION toH be So 80 per aanEm
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-11-20

MIR. Gladsone's health still causes his
friends some anxiety, Notwithstanding
that he promises to renew his duties with
his usual vigor.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-11-20

Southern Dakota is grazing over l35. COO.
head OF cattle this season.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-11-20
reached.


San Francisco: A. L. Bancroft Il Co.
1t is somewhat singular that work which
was published in England nearly thirty years
ago, and which has passed through four or
five editions there, should only now have
been reprinted in the United States. 1t is
the more remarkable thatit should have been
SO long overlooked, seeing that it belongs to
class of literature for which there has been
a constantly increasing demand in this eoun-
try of late years. The author, however, ia
tolerably well known on this side of the At
lantic by bis books, Enigmas of Life"
"Social and Literary Judgment" and
"Rocks Ahead" all of which have found
favor with this public. Mr.. Greg lie en-
phatically man of his age, insistent upon
the discovery of the Truth, intolersnt of
shams, impatient of obsolete ceremonialism
an intrepid critic and merciless reasoner.
In the work before US he examines the whole
fabric of Christianity with a view to ascer-
tain what grounds of belief in it are justified
and what are not. To those who have fol-
lowed English and German criticism in this
direction our author has nothing new to say,
but TO the average reader many of his expo
sitions viii come with all the forcs of
revelations. The spirit in which he has
done his work is sober and even reverent,
but he never stops short of the legitimate
inference which his facts justify, no matter
where it may carry him. The whole struct
urs of Christianity is passed in review. The
inspiration of the Scriptures, the authorship
and authority OF the Pentateuch and the Old
Testament canon generally, the Prophecies,
the Gospels, the Miracles, the Resurrection of
Jesus, are subjects discussed in turn, and
which inevitably lead to the question, "Is
Christianity revealed religion?" This
crucial question Mr.. Greg is compelled by
the results of his previous inquiries TO an
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-10-13

For as [ spoke I felt the little hand [
held grow cold and heavy in mine. I
say her sink backward The big china
bowl of peaches and cream slipped with
a crash to the ground and shattered to
pieces.
caught the poor child in my arms.
In a moment she came to herself and
said that she had overtired herself, she
thought They had been baking all day
and it was warm And now she babe me
good night But I did not see her next
day, nor the next. She kept her room,
and was not well enough to bid me good
bye.
Poor little lilly! 1 left very misera-
BILE. However, Margaret met me in New
York. She was more beautiful than
ever-more excellent in contrast to my
simple country friends-and very soon |
| laughed at myself for the thought that
had been In my heart. Of course,
said it was the baking that overcome
Tilly-it was not my news. / had only
| been to her as friend-as brother
/ had not made love to her; above all,
had not hirted with her. But thought
of lilly a good deal, and L missed her
every hour exactly-oh, yes, exactly-as
/ might sister.
wrote to Mrs. Glover, and her answer
was very brief.
81 haven't much time to write" she
said in her postscrip. "Tilly is sick,
and besides being driven, I'm anxious. .
This letter was in my pocket on that
day when Margaret and went together
to the great fair for the benefit of the
church of ST. Surplice. One of the
! features of that entertainment, if you re-
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-10-13

invented of sufficient range. From the
Battery to the sea beach of Long island
seven miles from the Sandy Hook fort.
ana i've miles east of Fort Hamilton. the
distance is exactly ten miles, and one
mile further brings one. to the twenty
five feet line of soundings. In other
words, an ironclad drawing twenty-four
feet of water can approach within II
miles of the Battery without exposing
herself to the slightest danger of even
being fired at. Consequently it needs
only gun to carry twelve miles to place
the whole of Brooklyn and the wealthiest
part OF New York at the mercy of an enc
my. Such a gun is not on1y possible
but extremely probable: and in view of
the helpless position in which we should
then be placed, in the absence of any
navy to take the offensive, it might be
well for our business men to take thought
for the future by asking congress to give
them some form of protection in the
event OF war. 1t opens the widest field
for the inventive genius of this country
to exert itself to devise such protection
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-10-13
A Cruel Robbery.

A crowd of Tyrolean emigrants attract
ed great attention at the Eastern rail
road of Paris three weeks ago, and two
youth of about fifteen seemed especially
interested in the handsome appearance
of the picturesque mountaineers In
their national costume. One of the
number, extremely well dressed had
a wife and five young children around
him, and was going placidly about,
when putting his hand to his pocket,
he discovered that his great leathern
purse was gone. The scene which fol-
lowed was most distressing. Tears ran
down the poor fellows cheek as he told
how he was penniless, having sold
everything to reach the United States,
and realized the $500 in gold which was
in his purse. The two young men.
who, it is believed, stole the money, had
got well away before the theft was dis
covered,