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Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-02-13
AN IMPRUpENP ECcLEsIAsTIc.

A dispatch states that Archbishop
"Croke, of Cashel, acknowledging the re-
"ceipt of l 200 francs from the Paris Uni
GO GERS, for relief of distress in his diocese,
writes to the editor, Louis Veuillot, as
"foilows: Il am more proud to receive
&c this sum from France, through Mon
''' sieur Veuillot and the UaicerS than to
+" receive twenty times that amount from
any other country or through any
''other medium" If Archbishop Croke
really experienced this peculiar gratifca-
ton IN receiving contribution from Louis
Veuillot, it would have been more pru-
dent in him to conceal his satisfaction,
for the only effect of the publication
of what he has said is to make it
appear, in an Extensively significant way,
that he is an Ultramontane of the most
thorough-going stripe. Louis Veuillot and
the Paris UniUers represent Ultramontan-
ism of the most pronounced character, and
stand for the most determined resistance
to the spirit of liberty, to be found in Eu-
rope At such a time as this, when it is
desired to enlist whatever of charity and
philanthropy the world possesses, in the
cause of the suffering Irish, it is certainly
extremely injudicious for an Archbishop to
flaunt the red flag of Ultramontanism in
this defiant way. The thousand francs OF
Mr.. Veuillot will doubtless go as far as
any other thousand francs, but they will
not 90 any further.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-02-13

Wednesday evening, while the family were
at dinner, and robbed of bonds, checks, money
and diamonds, aggregating in value about
$1,000
The total number of vessels in the port of
New York Wednesday was S99, of which 81
were steamers, 80 ships, 434 banks, 1O1 brigs.
and 220 schooners.
The total subscriptions to the Dublin Man
sion House fund is e55,500. Grants of e24,-
600 have been allowed.
A block on Blackstone street, Boston, No.
100 to 156, was burned to-day. Loss, S40,-
000 insurance, $50, 600.
The bullion in the Bank of England in
creased e101, coo last week. Proportion of
reserve to liability, 40. ID 10 per cent.
An official announcement has been re-
ceived at Cincinnati from Cardinal Simeoni
of the appointment of Bishop Alder as Coad-
tutor of Archbishop Purcell
A letter from an officer in the German
army to an officer in the Austrian army
states that notwithstanding the denial by the
Commander of the Fifth Prussian Corps, the
| affair between Russian and Prussian officers
at kalische, Poland, about month ago,
really occurred very much in the way re-
ported by the newspapers at the time.
The total expenses and loss of resources
to France from the Franco German war was
13, 939 600, 600 francs.
Major Hobbs commanding the United
States Marines at Mare Island, has been
ordered to grant the men of the marine guard
of the United States steamship Ranger, who
may desire it, furlough to go East, with
permission to report for duty at any station
they may select before leaving.
\ London dispatch SAYS: The steamer
Anatolain, from Liverpool bound to Mediter-
ranean ports has been wrecked. The crew
were saved The loss is estimated at $50 600.
The Treasury Department yesterday pur-
chased 330, GOO ounces of silver for the MINIS
at New Orleans and Philadelphia
Two thousand dollars were forwarded to
Ireland yesterday by the Parnell Irish Relief
Society of Omaha and they will send $1,000
more in few days.
President Hayes has issued another procla-
nation, similar to that OF last year, warning
interlopers not to trespass on the Indian Ter
ritory under pain of removal by the military
if necessary.
1t is generally believed that Rev. Arthur
Wagner, Ritualist. of Brighton, Eng, has
gone over to the Church of Rome. MIR. Wag
ner's conversion marks the beginning of a
long impending and carefully move
ment, which may ere long bring more of the
ritualistic Anglican clergy over to Roman
Catholicism.
The Republican State Convention of Wis
consin will meet May 9TH at Milwaukee.
NJ. c. Barrow, postal clerk, on trial at
Laramie. w. T., for robbing the United
States mails last September, was acquitted
yesterday.
The Dominion Parliament opened at
Ottawa yesterday, with the usual ceremonies.
Specie in the Bank of France increased
100000 francs the past week.
The Governor of New York has signed
the bill permitting women to vote for school
officers.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-02-13
FACTS AND FANOIES.

g You are my precious pearl" he said,
as he drew her to his manly breast. "Oh.
John, she sighed, land you are my oys-
ter"
People love business. So, when you see
man meddling with other peoples affairs,
you may be sure he has no business of his
own Danielsonvilfe Sentinel.
care the girls of to-day fitted for wives, -
asks an exchange. They may be up your
way, sir; but down here they are generally
fitted for husbands. [Kennard
A woman with a red petticoat, walking
on the Boston and Maine Railroad track,
was so much like danger signal that a
distant engineer stopped his train.
If the Herald fails to bring home the
north pole the Worlds monolith will be
the Oldest monument to newspaper enter
prise in the world. -[Detroit Free Press
II he is a great big brawny, muscular
chap and your enemy, and you're little
fellow, forgive him. 1t is about the best
thing you can Hartford Sunday
journal.
Stonewall" Jackson's daughter, Miss
Julia, still pupil in Baltimore school,
mas received a present OF silver Ice
pitcher from ex-Confederate soldiers of
Maryland.
a sentimental young man thus feelingly
expresses himself I" Even as nature
benevolently guards the rose with thorns,
so does she endow women with pins.
ALBANY Express.
A man may be brave enough to walk
right up to the lannon's mouth, and yet
not have the courage to hand his wife a
letter he has carried in his jacket for a
week. Waterloo Observer.
a st. Adams wife, in reply to her hus-
bands advertisement that he would pay
no debts of her contracting, published a
card expressing surprise that he had raised
money enough to pay the advertising bill
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-02-13
A VERY PROPER COURSE.

The Senate ON Wednesday rejected Mr.
Chase's joint resolution asking Congress tc
provide for the free coinage of silver, to
retire national bank notes, and so forth
OF course the resolution was of no great
consequence, but it is just as well that the
traditions of Californian sagacity and clear.
sightedness in finance should be kept up,
and it would have discredited those ira.
ditions had the Senate adopted so wild and
foolish proposition. There is no room
for Greenbacker heresies in this State, and
those who have tried to import them hith-
erto have had their labor for their pains.
California wants no coin that is not full
weight, no paper that is not exchangeable
for gold at par, no Congressional tinkering
OF the currency, no "dollar of the faith.
g ers," no financial nonsense of any kind.
And before long we hope the whole coun-
try will have been educated up to the same
degree of enlightenment on these matters.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-02-13

To pass such bill would be to destroy all
hope OF Improvement, since nothing can be
done with the schools unless it is possible
to reform them from the bottom upward.
So long as the most unfit teachers are de-
tailed to do the most important and diff
cult work, it must be expected that the
children will leave the lower grades with
half-formed ideas, and that knowing moth
ing thoroughly they will struggle and
middle confusedly through the upper
grades, to leave school at last very little
better than they entered it. The new
Constitution has struck terrible blow at
the State educational system. The Legis-
lature ought to seek to modify the evil
tendencies of that vicious instrument, ill.,
stead OF aggravating its mischievous pro-
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-02-13
LOCAL INSURANCE COMPANIES.

One of the results OF the discussion of
insurance matters forced upon the public
by the efforts to obtain proscriptlve legis-
lation against the Eastern and foreign cor
porations, has been to bring into promi-
nence the excess Of risks over assets which
characterizes the business of the local com
panies. Seven local companies, with a
total capital of S2,2O0,0 600, carry $50, 0OO,-
Geo of risks in this State. As the most of
these companies do business in San Fran
cisco, in which city they last year collected
S34l, SIS in premiums, and as the greater
part OF their assets are presumably situated
in San Francisco also, it is obvious that in
the event of a great fire they would be
in considerable danger of insolvency.
This kind of thing has in fact occurred re-
peatedly. In Chicago, Boston, and else
where, local companies have been literally
wiped out by great fires, and at such times
it is always found that the only recourse
for the insurers lies with the foreign CON-
panies, whose assets are out of danger.
The California local companies are very
greedy, and not at all careful of the risks
they carry, for they are even now seeking
to procure the passage of law which they
think would force the community to de-
pend wholly upon them. This, however.
is clearly against public policy, and it is
as clearly wrong that they should be per-
United to carry an amount Of risks SO out
of all proportion to their assets
as they do at present. A parallel for the
recklessness of their course in this respect
will be sought in vain among the Eastern
and foreign companies, whose available
capital is, in the aggregate, equal to one
third of all their risks, while that of the
local companies is only one thirty eighth
of their risks. 1t is evident that a by no
means considerable loss might at any time
cripple them, and that they do not in fact
afford insurers anything like adequate Sc
curity. As their present efforts in the
lobby show them to be singularly indiffer-
ent to the interests of the public, we would
suggest to the Legislature the eminent
propriety of taking their case in hand, and
legislating for the protection of the people
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-02-13
ASCENT OF THE SIERRA MADRE.

Professor Frambes and a companion
named James, from Illinois, on Saturday
last started out to reach the summit of the
Sierra Madre range, back of Pasadena.
They left the old Collier place at o'clock
After journeying up the mountain for some
time, encountering by the way chaparral
SO dense that they were obliged to climb
over the top, and snow in places about a
foot deep, the travellers at length reached a
deep gorge. Thoroughly worn out, wet and
cold, and their neither garments torn to
shreds, the voyagers concluded that they
had gone far enough and that the canyon
would afford them less weary means
of reaching the lower country than
the route by which they had come. In
this hope they descended the almost pre-
cipitous sides OF the gorge, clinging as they
went to roots and other friendly protuber-
ances But when they reached the bot
tom their troubles had only commenced.
The canyon, or rather cajon, had no appar-
emit outlet Here was dilemma. Dark
ness was falling fast, and to climb up by
the way they had come seemed to them, in
their WORKOUT condition, an impossible
task. The outlook was a gloomy one.
They had had no food since starting, and
there was none where they were. Fortu-
nately Mr.. James had three matches
in his pocket. With these fire was
lighted, and the unfortunate travellers
sat down to pass the night as best
they could. At daylight the next morn
ing they commenced their weary climb
up the side of the gorge, and after
several hours hard work, during which
Professor Frambes was only saved from
falling to the bottom by clinging to Mr..
James cane, the hook OF which had been
fastened into a projecting root, they reached
the top. They then continued their jour
ney down the mountain, and at o'clock
reached house. Here Mr. James asked
for food, which he carried to the Professor,
who had concealed himself in the brush to
hide the nakedness of his lower limbs, the
clothing from which had been entirely torn
off by the brush and rock. over which he
had been compelled to Chamber. Both gen.
tlemen returned to the city on Sunday
evening, and they are now willing to take
anybody's word for what may be seen at
or from the summit of the Sierra Madre.-
[Los Angeles Express, February 10th.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-02-13

1t is about time that the stale clap trap
heretofore used in this connection should
be abandoned, for the facts are too much
one way to afford the least foundation for
it. The pretended friends of the people
have been always in favor of such drastic
and arbitrary measures as the Reagan bill,
but they cannot point to single instance
in which such laws have produced any but
evil results for the public They have been
tried, and every objection made to them
on the ground Of their lack Of intelligence
andappositeness has been more than justified
by the outcome. The Commission system,
however, has worked we'll and smoothly.
1t has given Massachusetts, the best rail
road system in the Union. 1t has put an
END to popular complaints. 1t has re-
moved abuses 1t has secured the most ef-
fcient service. 1t has done all that any
governmental scheme has ever accom-
J plished in this connection. OF course it is
more in the interest of the railroads than
law which reverses all the principles of
transportation, which destroys competi.
ton, and which cuts off great areas of
country from market. But it is equally
in the interest of the people, for that the
Massachusetts, system has proved. The
people of Massachusetts, could not be in
duced to give up their Commission now,
| for tb l-pnur hot, SC honoEE 10
them. If, therefore, experience is worth
anything, if reason is worth anything, the
proposal for National Commission must
be regarded as statesmanlike one, and it
ought to be approved by the country. No
doubt there are still rabid anti-railroad peo-
pie, but if they have any sense they must
see by this time that hostile legislation
always Injuries those who use as well as
those who own railroads. and that there is
no escape from this. The condition of sue
cessful railroad regulation is justice to all
interests. That has been the principle
adopted in Massachusetts,, and if that prin-
ciple is adopted by Congress the result will
be as satisfactory. 1t may be that the
Government will find the general supervi-
sion proposed the best system to maintain
in perpetuity; but in any case it is obvi-
Gus that the chances for discovering sue
cessful system of railroad management
must be largely increased by the expert
ence and knowledge sure to be acquired
by National Board of Railroad Commits
sioners. 1t is therefore to be hoped that
this bill will be substituted for the Reagan
bill. and that the latter will be rejected.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-02-13

A LONG DREAM OF LovE.-The town of
Randolph has been the scene of a romance
which, in point OF faithfulness on the part
of the woman, is equal to that of Long
fellows Evangeline" Mics Betsey
Knight, who passed from this life few
days ago at the advanced age of s. years,
was in her girlhood betrothed to a young
man living in Ohio, and shortly before the
day set for the nuptials he was taken sud
denly ill and died. Miss Knight, on hear
ing the news, refused to believe it, and has
remained faithful to him all these years in
the vain hope that he would return and
claim her as his own. -[Cattaraugus Union.
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SAN FRANCISCO ITEMS.

From our San Francisco exchanges of February 18th
Duties paid at the Custom house yester-
day were ll,027 l6, making a total of
Sl22, 493 % for the month.
The merchandise exports of the past
week were valued at $500, 425, decrease
OF 5,2S2 on those OF the previous week.
The invitation of Major General Barnes
to Governor Perkins and staff to be present
at the review and parade of the Second
Brigade, to be held on the 22d instant, has
been accepted.
The three valuable horses, heretofore
referred to as being sent by General Grant
to the Emperor of Japan, arrived last Fri.
day and will be sent in the care of W. B.
Griffith by the next steamer.
Sub-Treasurer Sherman redeemed SIS
600 in subsidiary silver yesterday and paid
out $4,000. To-day he took in ST. ,00O.
He has now about So, GOO, coo on hand, or
nearly one-third of the total in the hands
OF the Government.
The schooner Bella, reported lost on
Unimack Island, was vessel of thirty-five
tons and was owned by the Alaska Com
mercial Company. She was built at this
port last year by Matthew Turner, was
valued at about &c. 900 and insured.
The champion medal of the Turner
Schuetzen, which has been in competition
for the last four years, has been definitely
carried off by Philo Jacoby, who won the
same three times in succession by the scores
of 4l6, $50 and $50 rings in 20 shots at
36-inch target, divided into % rings dis
lance, 200 yards.
The Occidental and Oriental Companys
steamship Oceanic, which sailed hence
some months ago for Liverpool, via China
and Japan, for repairs, is to resume her
place in the China line again. She will
leave Liverpool for Hongkong, via the Suez
Canal, on March 18th, and after taking in
cargo will proceed to this port.
The date of the bogus S. coins, reported
last week as being in circulation, is that of
1850. The specific gravity of the false
pieces is 10, and its value but So so. The
bogus Mexican doubloons offered for sale
similar in composition and execution :;
but analysis shows that they are only
worth 50, or So less than the genuine doub-
loon,
Upon the arrival of the Gaelic, yester-
day, Quarantine Officer McAllister person.
ally inspected everybody ON board. As
there were l6S Chinese passengers in the
steerage, II cabin passengers, in the sec.
ond cabin, l stowaway, aud 95 in the crew,
the inspection occupied several hours The
vessel was found to have clean bill of
health, and was permitted to dock at once.
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REFLECTIONS.
From the Mirror of the Press.

Assemblyman Cook is reported as saying
that the county seat of Modoc county Is an
unhealthy place, and therefore the law
ought not to compel the Superior Judge to
hive there. The Modoc Independent, pub
lished at Alturas, overhauls Mr.. Cook for
the alleged statement, and says it is the
longest speech of Mr.. Cooks on record,
| except one made in prayer cnce, and
adds: ''Several years ago Rev. j. R.
Cook, OF Surprise valley, Joe Mark and
tour or live others of the early settlers were
oiockaded IN the eastern part of the county
by heavy fall of snow. Their provisions
gave out and various expedients were sug-
gested by which they might replenish their
larder. Nothing, however, seemed FEAST
bic until Brother Cook suggested that they
make their wants known at the throne of
heavenly grace. This was aconiesced in
by the party, and his reverence dropped on
his prayer handles and sent off his suppli-
cation in the following unique style: 30
Lord, we are out of grub. Send us fifty
pounds of bacon, ten pounds of coffee, a
couple of hundred of -four sack of salt
and BARREL OF PEPPER At this point
he turned to Mark and said, He'll that's
too much pepper, amt it. Joe?' But quail
ification for praying has nothing whatever
to do with the assertion publicly made in
the Legislature of California that Alturas
is very unhealthy, etc, etc.
An up country paper tells of an aged
colored citizen who was taken into wine
cellar by patronizing friend, who poured
out for him a few drops of fine brandy, and
handing him 1.-THE glass, said: "There, uncle /;
~, Il
Did We say twenty five years old, sab p
Yes; twenty-five years in the cask ~
Eyeing the half-fngerdept in the tumbler:
''Well, sab may be so, but pears like its
mighty small for its age, sah.
The glass was filled up at once.
A poet in Reno
Is not very keeSl-o
And to save his life can't rhyme with Elko;
He ought to be made
10 suck eggs for trade
And be hung if he swallowed the yelll.o
-[Plumas National.
Pome ON Yolo girl
Mable's sitting in the frelight,
Waiting for her lover true
All the room is filled with darkness
lis the shadow of her shoe.
The Port Townsend Argus speaks of the
Skaglt mines as follows: Washington
Territory will soon become great mining
country. The Skagit mines are assuredly
rich diggings, and in the Similkameen coun-
try many valuable quartz leads have been
found: Intending emigrants are not re-
CURED to pronounce the name of the s.
country gasp and sign is deemed suf-
fcient.
Plumas National: February has five
Sundays this year, and this little joke
is said to be repeated every forty years.
1t don't make much difference to ordinary
humanity, except in the extra cost of
changing shirts so often, but the wear and
tear on preachers is awful.
Whitehead is writing poem on the
State University. He says he will pay
forty dollars for something to rhyme with
Elko.-[ Reno Gazette.
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WoMANLY PHILosoPHY.-Very often the
most exquisite touches of human nature are
found in out-of- the-way corners of exist
ence. A journal was produced the other
evening that had been kept by the owner
when lS-now charming lady, the very
soul OF hospitality and kindness. At the
time she wrote it, being beautiful girl,
she naturally had an idea that her beauty
was attractive and attracting. So one day
the journal began this way " Mr.. Watson
called to-day to see me, but he talked to
Mary" What a world of womanly philoso-
phv and experience lies in that plaintive
remark. They all come to see US, but they
all talk to Mary. Philadelphia Press.