Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-07-17
DOMESTIC NEWS.
Political Affairs.
THE CAMPAIGN IN VIRGINIA.

WASHINGTON, July 16th.-A prominent
Republican from Virginia yesterday said that
in the Congressional Districts in that State
the State of feeling between the sections Of
Democrats is such that members of either
declare that should any attempts be made by
their leaders looking towards compromise
they will support the Republican ticket. The
Republican campaign will be formally opened
N South Carolina on the 9th instant. The
first mass meeting is to be held at Blackville,
Bartwell county. Other meetings are an
nounced at Columbia, July 31st, and Flor
ence, August Sd.
HANCOCK TAKING HIS TIME.
New YoRK, July 16oh-General Hancock
says his letter of acceptance will not be ready
for fortnight. He has not begun writing il
yet, visitors and business taking up his time
IOWA DEMOCRATIC STATE CONVENTION.
CHICAGO, July 16th.-The Iowa Demo
cratic State Central Committee have decided
TO hold their Convention September ID.
CONGRESSIONAL NOMINATIONS.
CHICAGO, July 16th.-The Democrats OF
the Fourteenth District have renominated A.
J. Sparks for Congress.
CINCINNATI, July 16th-The Republican
Congressional Convention of the Twelfth
Indiana District nominated Robert S. lay
Tor for Congress.
DEMOCRATIC FUSS AND FEATHERS.
New York, July 10th The Herald thinks
the behavior of the multitude of Democratic
statesmen who are visiting this city dur
ing the present week evinces deplorable
Ignorance of the method in which the cam
paign should be conducted. They are mana
gers of the Democratic canvass. They have
been meeting daily in conference at the Fifth
Avenue Hotel and elsewhere, have been max
ing excursion trips down the harbor on visits
of congratulation to Governors Island, and
have been lunching and Winning in Gramarcy
Park, with a profusion of spread-eagle speeches
on these occasions; but not word has been
said by any of them TO the public, which
shows a sound appreciation of the real nature
of this Presidential canvass-not a word de-
signed to argue that the people viii be any
better off in their home comforts by electing
She Democratic candidates. On the con-
trary they have been dealing in nothing but
sI1ss and feathers.
CONNECTICUT POLITICAL AFFAIRS.
CHICAGO, July 165h.-The Inter Oeeans
Washington special says: General Hazen,
Third Assistant Postmaster-Generalh has just
returned from Connecticut. He says a lively
interest is beginning to be felt in that State
in political matters. A vigorous campaign
will be inaugurated, and the State is sure to
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easily have a clear Republican majority to
elect successor to Eaton, at present United
States Senator-a State Rights Democrat.
The Wallace Fraudulent Rat
uraIiz lion.
NEW York, July 16th.-Refore the Wal
lace Senatorial Committee to-day John J.
Davenport, Supervisor of Elections, contin-
,led his testimony in regard to the manner in
xtrl.fab I,,1foo anpIrafod tha or
Szation business. The proceedings were con-
Quoted in an irregular manner and kind of
mock Court held. Witness gave the names
II men who had been naturalized before being
IN the country six weeks. Witness said the
number of persons who registered on fraudu-
lent certificates in 1876 was 10,050, and in
1873 it was reduced to 5000 OF these about
LOO voted, and he would have prevented
them if he could. He denied conducting the
affairs of his Office in any partisan manner,
and in fact had been accused by Re
publicans of favoritism. Davenport mem
toned the name of Patrick Golf,
who he said appeared as a witness
for persons desiring to be naturalized in l, 096
cases. Certificates were sold in blank to APP
plcants for naturalization, and they were
charged from 90 cents to 50. -Four hundred
of these papers were taken in one day by
Golf to Kings county. Many Of the blanks
and in Saratoga county 400 were offered for
sale. Davenport then continued and read
from number of records of the Superior
Court, to show that the certificates issued ex-
ceeded the number OF persons who actually
applied for naturalization papers, and also to
show that a large number of names from the
books OF the Court were fictitious, and that
the addresses given had no existence, and fire.
quently represented vacant lots and stone
yards.
Further Crop Reports.
WASHINGTON, July 16th.-Oats-The con-
dition of the cat crop shows some improvement
since the June report, and is now go, against
90 in June. New England and the Middle
States report high condition, but from Del
aware to the Gulf the condition is very low,
except in portions of Texas, where the aver
age is high. Tennessee reports only
percentage of Ga, owing TO the drought.
Kansas and Nebraska. from some causes, re-
port only 81 in the former and 63 In the
latter. In all sections of the country the
prospect is good for full crop.
Potatoes-There has been no change in the
area planted in potatoes in the whole coun-
try, the deficits of one State being counter
balanced by the increase in another. The
condition of the crop is very favorable, fully
as good as in 1879. In all the South Atlantic
States the condition of the crop is rather be-
low Lnat Oh laSt willie III Lie w
and Southwestern States it is reported above.
Rye and Barley-A full average condition
is found in all States where sown, except in
the State of Nebraska, where the condition
is very low.
Wool-All the States show a wool clip
equal to or greater than last year, except New
Hampshire and California. Kansas reports
an increase of ~ per cent, and Nebraska 10.
A vast increase in the Territories is indicated
4 a. L. -a,.afua1 10 D0 no
cent. In Texas alone 10 per cent. increase is
reported.
Fruit-In apples, full average condition
ia reported everywhere, excepting in the
Southern Atlantic and Gulf States, where
there is falling off. In peaches, reports
show the condition of the crop about the same
as apples-a full average, excepting on the
Pacific coast, where the prospect is not very
good. In grapes, the crop is reported favor
ably in all localities, as having enjoyed better
conditions of growth so far than either.
The sugar Question-Gross Frauds Ex'
posed.
WASHINGTON, July 16th.-The committee
appointed by the Secretary of the Treasury
80 visit the sugar plantations OF the Yves,
Indies and investigate the process in use
,-nong the planters, with view of determine
aug the truth OF falsity of the prevailing re
aorts that artificial means were being used Il
Tor the sugars intended for export to the
nited States, has made its report. 1t show
that the frauds which have been attempted
a the introduction Of sugars into this coun
.trF are even greater than have generally beer
supposed that in Demarara, among tn,
sugar planters, no secret whatever was mad
of the practice of artifcially coloring sugar
Intended for the United States market; tina
sugars testing Is to l6, Dutch standard