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HOW TIE PUBLIC ARE swINDLED

The telegraph few days ago stated that
an institution in Boston called 1.-The La
q dies Deposit" which had been Offering
eight per cent. per month on deposits of
money, had collapsed. The Boston papers
afford an explanation of this dispatch.
1t appears that ''The Ladies' Deposit"
was established by two women. 1t offered
the enormous interest above named to
single ladies old and young" and made
special appeals to the class OF working
women who, while possessing large aggre-
gate savings, have very little knowledge of
business. Nothing was known and moth
ing was vouchsafed respecting the means
or methods of the new bank. Nobody
knew anything of the two women whose
names were published as its managers.
1t offered no guarantees OF any kind, and
the interest it announced its intention to
pay was itself standing proof of dishon-
esty, since 10 honest and safe investment
could possibly pay such rates. Notwith-
standing all this, however, the institution
flourished for a time. People who had put
their money in and had drawn their eight
per cent for two or three months
became in their turn solicitors for it, and
bruited abroad its advantages. At last
the notoriety OF the concern drew the
attention of the press TO it. 1t was
examined, discussed, and the public were
warned against it. Then it collapsed, and
of course the depositors lost everything.
Now the most remarkable fact in this
story is the fact that it should have been
possible to organize and carry on so
obvious a swindle for several months, in a
city like Boston. 1t is another Illustration
of the truth OF the saying that 6 What is
50 everybody's business is nobody's busi-
g ness" But it should be clear that mat
tiers of this kind ought to be the special
business of somebody. 1t is not enough to
pass laws against Legitimate banking
schemes. Their execution must be made
the duty of some functionary. 1t ought
to be possible, not merely to arrest the
perpetrators of such swindles after they
have ruined hundreds of victims, but to
prevent them from carrying their iniqui-
tous projects into effect. And these peo-
pie advertised their rascality every time
they offered to pay eight per cent. month
on deposits. They could only do this by
paying the interest out of the principal,
and that is no doubt the course they
adopted There should be more attention
paid to the prevention than to the punish.
ment of fraud, for experience proves that
there is always large percentage of the
community which absolutely needs to be
protected against its own ignorance and
| credulity.
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COMMERCE AND POLITICS.

1t is significant that all the uneasiness
which affects commercial and financial cir
Giles is caused by the possibility of Dem
ocrstie success. There is no thought of
postpOning investments or large transac-
tons, or reducing operations, because OF a
possibility OF the election of Garfield. If
that was guaranteed tomorrow the trade
and business OF the country would be re-
lieved from all apprehensions. It is only
the shadow of Democratic success that
hangs over the future which renders clear.
sighted men restless and timid. That this
should always be the case in Presidential
year is pregnant commentary on the re-
la.ions of the Democratic party to the
material interests of the country. That
party's possible advent to power is feared
as if it were an impending financial ca
tastrophe, and so in truth it is.
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occur in which it would be incumbent upon
him to decide whether be would obey the
civil authority. General Sherman mildly
represented in reply that to hold thus was
to assume power which the Constitution
had never conferred upon the military.
That in fact his sole recourse was obedience,
and that if military officer undertook to
go behind his orders he was practically
arrogating the right of the initiative, and
so overturning the Constitution. In his
recent statements about the tariff General
Hancock has revealed some new ideas on
that head. 1t appears that he imagines
the tariff to be purely local question,
and one with which the general Govern
ment seldom or never interferes. 1t is
of course difficult to get at his real theory,
because no one who had ever studied
the Constitution could talk such amazing
nonsense. The fact, however, that the
Constitution expressly confines all tariff
legislation to Congress, and inhibits the
States from meddling in the matter at all,
brings the absurdity of his statements into
high relief, and makes it apparent that
here again he has been making out a
special governmental theory of his own,
free from dependence upon the organic
law. 1t is possible that with mis- peculiar
views on the tariff he would invite the
State Governments to legislate on the
question, and he might go SO tar as to pro-
hibit Congress from dealing with it. So
phenomenal an ignorance of the funda-
mental principles of the Government as he
has exhibited has certainly never before
been found in Presidential candidate.
General Hancock may be a good soldier.
He ought to be, for certainly he is nothing
else; and it requires no special direction
to see how so muddle-headed man viii
of necessity be controlled by his advisers
should he for the sins of the nation be per-
mitted to fill the executive Office.
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PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.

There is talk of artesian wells in Reno,
New.
The Vallejo Ecening Ne,es has ceased
publication.
The Calistogian is still championing the
Tichenor process.
Work has been commenced on the new
theater at Eureka, New.
There are US pupils in attendance at the
Roseburg or Academy.
Most of the springs above Barcelona
City, New, are drying up.
None of the Nevada Piutes care to go to
Australia with Coles Circus.
Flour retails in the Jacksonville Or
market at 81 80 per hundred.
Frosts have severely injured the crops
in Gallatin county, Montana.
The Schroeder murder trial at Oakland
has been set for October 10th.
The assessed valuation of Humboldt
county, Nevada, is 81, 334, 500.
NJ De LANCE, of Santa Rosa, has col.
lection of 1000 species of shells.
The late rains have interfered with hop
picking in Lane county, Oregon.
The ranchers on the Colusa plains have
been seeding their summer fallow.
There is talk of narrow-gauge railroad
from Eiko, New, north into Idaho.
The Central Pacific Railroad Company
are building new depot at Colfax.
Large sales of California and Oregon
eheep continue to be reported from Men
tana.
Over 100 tons of tanbark was shipped to
Napa from the Russian river country last
week.
There are 25-foot banks of snow on the
north side of the Sierra peaks, near Lake
Tahoe.
The fall fires have begun in Eastern San
Diego, and are burning over considerable
territory.
Fires are raging in the hills adjacent to
Ukiah valley, and it is very hot there in
consequence.
ALI the members OF the Nevada Light
Guard. with only two or three exceptions,
are Republicans.
The horse disease still prevails in the
sters are prevented from work thereby.
over nifty people are camping among the
wild plum orchards near Sierra City. They
gather the fruit to sell for canning and pre-
serving
The gas pipe is laid to the receiver at
San Quentin. The prison authorities will
now lay it inside the walls and put in the
fixtures.
The cannery at Seattle, W. T., uses
$500 fish day, and pays three cents a
piece for them. They are caught by Greek
fishermen.
Over l00,0 600 sheep are owned within
the limits of Yolo. On this account the
Democrat urges the establishment of a
wooden mill
Some seventeen Indians, preachers or
members of the Presbyterian Church, from
Lapwai, attended the Presbytery in Wes-
ton, Or, last week.
The ranchers in the southern portion of
Mason valley, Nevada, are agitating the
question of having part of Their territory
transferred to Lyon county.
Mormon slough at Stockton, off Lanes
| Wharf, has been excavated SO that vessels
can get in to the wharf to load and unload
for the Stockton paper mills.
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GOVERNOR MURRAY ON PolyaAMy.

GOVERNOR MURRAY ON PoLfGAmx.
Governor Murray, of Utah, represents to
the General Government the uselessness of
enacting laws against polygamy unless they
are enforced. Governor Murray has lived
in Utah, and yet he does not appear to
have perceived the real nature OF the diff
culties with which Congress has to do. Be-
tween the conditions which obtain at the
South, and those of Utah, there is no diff
ference in essentials. In both cases it has
been found impossible to enforce laws
which are opposed by the public sentiment
Of the dominant elements of society. All
history teaches that where this condition
exists the imposition of obnoxious laws upon
the community is inlpractieable without
the employment OF degree of force which
very few powers have ever been able
to command, and the use of which in
this country would be incompatible
with republican principles. This is the
truth, and this it is which has baffied Con-
gress so long, and has blunted all the wea-
pons it has tried against the Mormon insti-
tuition. General Grant gave Reconstruction
full trial at the South, and when he went
out OF Office he had to acknowledge that 1t
was a complete failure. 1t was SO because
the Southern people were out of sympathy
with the principles it was sought to en-
force, and because they were out of SYM
pathy with these principles the South is
solid to-day. There is nothing to be done
in such cases but to deprive the recalcitrant
community OF the powers OF evil. and trust
to example and education for change of
sentiment. This applies both to the South
and to Utah, and We are satisfied that I'll
timately the country will reach the con-
clusion here outlined.
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nENs 81 e MoRNINa.


In New York yesterday Government bonds were
io.ed at io7 for As Of 1867; 1923 for S. of 1881;
1851 for 4ls; sterling, 81 s1l@4 81: silver bars,
lI25.
silver In London yesterday, 52l; consols,
po4; per cent. United States bonds, I05s; Is,
IllS rs, 1l2s.
In San Francisco hall dollars are quoted at dis
count to par; Mexican dollars, 929 buying sS sell
ing.
At Liverpool yesterday wheat was quoted at 9s
edg10s Id for average California.
The stool. market in San Francisco frightened up
little yesterday but not enough ocause any great
excitement
Thomas f. Britton was fatally shot at Harshaw,
A. T., Thursday by named MeShane.
A man named Merrill was shot and killed near
Charleston, T., Monday night.
In a quarrel at Elk Creek, Or, man named Nc
Neil was dangerously wounded by James Poole
The political pot is boiling more iercely in Oregon
than for many years.
The Sunday school Convention for Oregon and
Washington Territory conYenes to day at Portland.
The Presidential party will embark at Astoria, Or,
Friday, for San Francisco
A great Instruction of Mohamedans against the
Chinese prevails in 4shgar.
Affairs in Burrnah again present serious outlook.
jules, brother oi the late Jacques ofenbach, is
dead.
The parade of Boys il Blue at New York Monday
nightwas an immense Demonstration about $4,000
men being in the procession, which was reviewed by
General Grant
The Prohibitionists Of kentucky have nominated
Neal Dow for FIector
Pie Grand Lodge, z aud A. NJ. for the State of
California began its thIrty.first Annual Communi-
cation at san Francisco, yesterday.
The fair of the Monterey District Agricultural
Association began Yesterday at Salinas.
The October term OF the Supreme Court opened
Al Los Angeles yesterday
Eugene Meyer has been appointed Consular Agent
for France at Los Angeles.
There is no immediate intention Of England send
ing more troops to Ireland.
Catholic parents in Ottawa, Ont, are forbidden to
send their children to the Model sehool-a Govern
ment institution.
The Academy OF Music a West Side theater at
Chicago, was Quilted by fire yesterday.
Chile and Peru have accepted the offer of media
ton made by the United States.
The Sultan of Turkey has signed an trade ordering
the surrender OF y llcigno.
Fine weather prevailed in Indiana and Ohio yes
terday, and the election in those States passed off
quietly, with no disturbances worthy of note.
heavy vote was poled III both States.
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mR. PAGES SPEECH.

Mr.. Page made n very forcible and tell
ing speech in this city on Monday night,
and while he reviewed the political situa-
lion clearly and keenly, he gave no aid
and comfort to the advocates Of fat
money and general financial anarchy. We
could have wished that all other Repub-
lean candidates had been as bold and out
spoken as Mr.. Page upon this topic. No
doubt there is q natural tendency at such
times to avoid opposition as much as posi-
bic, but the propositions and doctrines OF the
Grecnbackers are 90 absurd and so opposed
to public policy that they ought to be
repudiated by every man who seeks the
votes of sensible and honest citizens. Their
present programme is as fantastic and pre-
posterous as could well be. They pretend
that it would be good thing, and would
save interest, to rob the Treasury OF the
coin with which the V hole paper circulation
is maintained at par, in order to pay off a
portion Of the bonds which mature
next year To use the coin in
the Treasury for that purpose would
be to suspend specie payments. The re-
moval of this coin would destroy the re-
deemabihty Of the greenbacks, and cause
them to depreciate instantly. Their de-
probation would involve an immediate loss
to the nation OF scores of millions Of dol
lars. But that is not all, or even Che
worst. The Greenbackers say they
want all the FIVE and six per cent. bonds
which mature next year to be discharged at
maturity. Now, the coin in the Treasury
would only discharge $50, 600, 600 CT these
bonds, and there are s7S2, 900. 600 of them
altogether. How would the Greenbackers
pay off the 5000, COO, coo remaining after
all the coin in the Treasury had been dis
bursei? They propose to make new is
sue OF greenbacks for that purpose. The
present limit of the greenbaok issue is
500, coo, 900. The new issue proposed
would increase the greenback volume to
81, 090, 900. O00 But this is not all. The
Greenbackers propose to abolish the Ma
tional Banks, and substitute greenbaoks
for their notes. The National Bank issues
amount to $3.50. 00O, coo. so that $780,
100000 more greenbacks would have
to be issued This would bring the
Government paper in circulation to ST.
80, 600, 600, and there would not be
single dollar in gold behind this enormous
volume. Does any sane man doubt what
the outcome OF such a policy would be?
1t could be nothing but national bank
ruptcy. When, therefore, so insane and
mischievous financial programme is an
nounced, and when Republican candidates
are gravely asked whether they are pre-
pared to indorse it, they ought to have no
hesitation in replying that they are utterly
opposed to any such scheme, and that
they have an insuparable objection to en-
barking the country upon the stormy sea
of fiat money. Mr. Page has taken the
proper stand on this question. He is in
favor OF honest money and faithful dis.
charge of the public obligations. lie can
be trusted never to vote for any such in.
sane resolutions as Weaver and his school
introduced into Congress, and that is the
kind of representative intelligent men
need
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THE ELECTIONS.

The telegraph wires broke down under
heavy storm of sIeet yesterday, between
Laramie and Cheyenne, and it was conse-
quently impossible TO obtain any news from
the elections in Ohio and Indiana. The
RECORD Z MON and its partners of the AS
ISOLATED Press OF California thereupon char
tered a special engine to run at high
speed between the points named, and bring
the latest returns. 1t has become neces-
sary, however, to send the first edition of
the paper to press in advance of the receipt
OF news. The returns, as late as can be re-
ceived, will, it is hoped. be printed in our
subsequent editions of this morning.
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OHIO.

COLUMBUS October 12th.-- Election day opened
cloudy and chilly, but cleared off into beautiful
day. The circuit of polling places shows that vot
ing has been active since already over half, and in
sone precincts three fourths of the ballots al
ready in the boxes. The Republicans clam that
the fine weather works to their advantage, but the
Democrats do not concede this. Both parties are
doing their utmost, and the vote is likely to be
larger than ever before There has been no trouble,
and the best Of feeling seems to prevail The Dem
oerats clam to have evidence that two Illegal votes
have been cast by the Republicans in one precinct.
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'THEB BOSS.
a g "A IL ID

The People OF the Pacific Slope are, and
ALWAYS should be, interested in all good and merl-
torious inventions The BOSS COFFEE AND TEA
POTS AND URNS, at present exhibited at 4i4
duction in California by MR.. FRANK Kicker
are without doubt the best and most simple for
making superior coffee presented TO our citl-
zens. After a careful examination Of their merits
and testing the same in my family, indorse them
as saving at least fifty per cent. over any other
method known to me OF making coffee. Hence
have secured the right to make and self the Boss
Coffee and Ten Pots and Urns in Sacramento IN.
wife my friends and the public generally to call and
examine their merits. Mr.. Kicker will remain one
or two weeks longer, for the purpose OF making
agents in territory not disposed Of He shows
abundant proof that he has already disposed of
nearly all Of the Eastern States, and over 100000
Coffee Pots and Urns. Mr.. Kicker comes to our
coast with the best personal Endorsements and the
highess possible recommendations from bankers,
hotel men, and citizens generally for the Boss.
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"ir (thc Republican partly has raised the value
OF our paper currency from SO per cent to the par
of gold; it has restored, upon solid basis, pay
ment in coin Of all national obligations, and has
given us currency absolutely good and equal in
every part of our extended country mas lifted the
credit OF the nation from the point Of where per
cent. bonds sold nj Sc. to that where per cent.
bonds are eagerly sought at premium II Republic
can Platform, 1850.
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HANCOCK AS cossrrrurIoaAlIsr.

Judging of his public utteranees General
Hancock's acquaintance with the organic
law of the Republic appears to be about
on par with that of the Kearneyite legis-
lator who declared that he had read some
thing in "a the second volume of the Con-
stitution." When he unfolded his mind
to General Sherman in the letter which has
since been given to the public, he devel-
oped a theory of the relations between the
military and civil arms of the Government
which was entirely original. He told Gen.
eral Sherman that contingencies might
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For the week ending October 9, 1880, made by
W. c. FARNswoRTH, Superintendent OF the City
Cemetery. Office No SOL street.
October 1-Alice S. Lawson, SO years, months and
lSdays; New Jersey. George Hamilton IS years !;
Pennsylvania
October 3-Anna L. Wallace, 80 years, 4 months and
10 days; New York. Ly Yong, % years; China
October 4-Ben Lung, 80 years; China.
October 5--ChaTles f. Camp, IS years Ohio Elias
Bohei, 2 months and days; California ong
Tn Young, SO years; China. Johanna Sophia
Schmidt, y years; Germany
October 7Ah Lun, years; California
Besides the above there were brought here for in
terment the following:
May 20, 1S7S-Ramonsita Esquivel. months and A
days California.
February l, iSSO-Horace Bliss, 65 years. month
and "A days; Massachusetts,.
October 7-Cyetana Esquiyal, year, months and
days; California.
October S-Marla Jacnto Sozer, 3s years Azores
Alfred Kennedy. Y years North Carolina.
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The ELECTIONS.
A Quiet Day in Indiana---No In
dieations of Disturbances.
EVERYBODY FRIENDLY IN OHIO.
The Vote in the Buckeye State Larger
than Ever Before.
EVERYBODY FRIENDLY IN OHIO.
ESPECIAL BY TELEGRAPH TO TIE REoORp-usIos.
EEnl INA

INDIANAPOLIS, October 18th. The election is pass
ing off very quietly. There were no indications of
disturbances from any quarter Business was gen.
orally suspended and very full vote will be polled
Only two or three arrests have been made by the
r,olice
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"Oar hearts, our thoughts, our very
beings grow tender with age" said the
pastor, thoughtfully. YES" said the
new boarder, with Q passionate CLEAN of
intelligence in his mild, blue eyes, :. but
then we are not hens" Nobody laughed
very much except the landlady. She
seemed to enjoy it immensely, but when
the pudding was brought in, it was
noticed that the new boarder got all the
crust and none of the "dope, so it was
generally thought that Mrs. McKerrel had
dissembled.
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THE SACRAMENTO BANK

xyILI PAY THE HIGHEST MARKET PRICE
w for State Controllers Warrants on the State
Drainage Construction Fund and on the Genera
Fund. ED. R. HAMILTON, Cashier.
slS-2p4m
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GENERAL NOTICES.

DIR. La Mars Seminal Pills care all
cases OF Seminal Weakness, Loss Of Vigor, Noe
.urnal Emissions, Impotency, Nervous and Phys
cal Debility and all that class Of complaints arising
from Excess, Indscretion Abuse. The old find in
this remedy A FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH, and the
young safeguard and protection. Dr. LA MARS
SEMINAL PILLS restore the Sexual Organs, debiltated
from whatever cause, to their pristine vgor. Price,
50 SO per bottle. Sent C. o. D. by express to any
address, secure from observation. Address al orders
to A. MoBoYLE & CO.. Druggists, P. 0. Box 1852,
San Francisco. au6d
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e~uI s BECAUSE ALL THESE COUNTS
pr rpYr THAT IT'S INCREASE OF CIR
c,T ATOM rs UNPRECEDENTED. AND ITS
STANDING AT THE HEAD OF JOURNALISM
MAINTAINED.
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PROBATE NOTICE.

STATE OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SACRA-
= mento. In the Superior Court. In the
matter of the estate Of II. B. COTTING, de-
ceased In the Superior Court of the county of Sac
ramento. The People of the State of California,
send greeting In pursuance of an order OF the Hon.
Robt. C. Clark Judge of the Superior Court of the
county afort said duly made and entered the 18th
day OF OCTOBER, 1880, notice is hereby given that
MONDAY, the 25th day of OCTOBER, 1850,
at 10 o'clock A N. of said day, ct the Courtroom,
at Court. house, in the county of Sacramento, has
been appointed the time and place for hearing
the application of G. H. J0ST, praying that a
document now on file in this Court purporting
to be the last will and testament of II. 3. COT
TING, deceased, be admitted to probate, and that
letters testamentary be issued thereon to him with
will annexed, at which time and place all persons
interested may appear and contest the same
1t is further ordered by the Court that notice
hereof be made by publication for ten successive
days in the RECORD UNION, newspaper printed and
published in said Sacramento county.
Witness my hand and the seal of said Court
hereto affixed, this 18th day OF OCTOBER, a. d.
1880.
lsEAL.l THOS. Il. BERKEY. Clerk.
By W. B. HAMILTON, Deputy Clerk
L. s. TAYLOR, Attorney for Petitioner.
Ol3-l0t