davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-04-10

Board of Directors in the exercise thew made
OF their Judgment regarding the work AT the
prison, the economy practiced, and the desira-
bilty OF Fastening the prison building to COM
pieton. The report concludes with these
words
CONCLUSIONS.
Alter consideration of the whole spbiect
the committee deem it necessary only Ia stste
the following general conclusions and recon-.
mendations:
Flrst-Ihe prison at San Quentin is INSULT
Gent Tor the proper accommodation. govern
ment ana dlsclpine OF the number Of pris-
oners now confined therein.
Second-That with an approximation os
about $40 600, the Folsom Branch Prison
can at an early day be put in proper eond;.
ton Tor the reception, government and dis
clpllne OF about 800 prisoners, after which
the San Quentin Prison, with its present ac-
commentators, and its number of prisoners
reduced to about GOO, will be in favorable
condition for good management, and perhaps
for making available the labor of the pris-
oners.
Third-That it appears reasonably prob
able that the prisoners at the Branch Prison
can be employed with advantage in the pro-
duction from the quarries belonging TO the
State at that place (which are inexhaustible
IN quantity and superior in quality of granite
blocks of all kinds for building and paving
purposes.
Fourth-That the State has already in
vested in the construction of said Branch
Prison S295, COO, in addition to which the
State owes as a consideration for the purchase
OF the quarries and land (4S3 acresl the sum
of $4,000 in prison labor, at fifty cents
per day. And in addition to this, In pur.
suance of the Act OF 1878, providing for the
completion of the Branch Prison, the State
IN June, 1878, entered into a contract with
responsible party, secured on his part by
bonds, according to law, for the employment
at the Branch Prison of $50 conyicts, at fifty
cents per day for each convict for the term
OF five years, which contract is preserved by
the Constitution.
That these alone are strong considerations
against further delay in carrying out the
work. We therefore recommend the APP
preparation of the sum of $40, 600 for the pur
pose Of completing said Branch Prison.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-04-10
Mr.. eoRBAM AS A PROPHET.

George C. Gorham has been "giving
down very freely to reporter on the
Presidential election. We should be more
disposed to attach Importance to his pre-
dictions regarding that matter had we not
had very satisfying experience of the
value of Mr.. Gorham's political judg-
ment. The people of California are indeed
tolerably familiar with the kind of figuring
he is so addicted to, and they may be par
doned for declining to consider it seriously
when it is remembered that no prediction
made by Mr.. Gorham concerning his own
political prospects, or the prospects of
those who have been so unfortu-
Fate as to attract his support, has
ever been borne out by the event.
If, in the present case, therefore,
the actual outcome should discredit his
ready arithmetic, nc one on this side of the
mountains would be greatly surprised !;
while the circumstance that he has already
settled the nomination of Grant to his own
entire satisfaction is apt to strike Cali
fornians as the most unpropitious and ON
nous indication which has thus far APP
peared in connection with the Generals
campaign. Mr.. Gorham is not precisely
modern Cassandra, for that unhappy
prophecies was doomed to foretell the truth,
and to be persistently disbelieved. He, on
the contrary, has never been so lucky as to
make an accurate forecast, and those who
have pinned their faith on him have in
variably been disappointed.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-04-10
TIE DEBRIS BILL IN CONGRESS

Congressman Berry's bill to appropriate
$3.50. 600 for the improvement of the Cali
fornia rivers injured by mining debris is
tolersbly certain to pass If Congress sees
that the State Legislature has taken action
in the matter without waiting for national
aid but should the debris bill now before
the Legislature fail to become law, we
think it may be predicted with perfect
safety that Mr.. Berry's bill will go the
same way. Congress would naturally con-
clude that if the question was OF so little
Importance as to call for no remedial meas
ures on the part of tie State, no necessity
could exist for national appropriation.
The easiest way to secure that appropria-
ton is to pass the pending State bill.
The old adage that Heaven helps those
who help themselves is applicable to this
case, and no other logic is.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-04-10

gland will be called upon to choose sides.
The sympathies of the people are naturally
with Germany, but it is certainly doubtful
if the Liberal party is not bent upon
foreign policy which is calculated
to ALLEVIATE that power, and to force Eng
land into an unnatural and pernicious
alliance with Russia. As between Ger
many and France, all her traditions and
interests and ties of kinship, move her to
prefer the former but the Liberal leaders
are in greater sympathy with the latter.
1t would not be the first time in English
history that the statesmen of that country
have been so blind to the tendencies of the
age as to seek impossible alliances. Queen
Elizabeth yearned most perversely after
such an alliance with Philip the Second of
Spain, though it would have involved the
marrying of light with darkness, of pro-
gress with despotism, of free thought with
the most brutal intolerance England has
no more in common with Russia than
Protestant Elizabeth had with Papist
Philip, but Mr. Gladstones transcendental
ritualistic craftsmanship, exposes him at
times to marvellous mistakes, and I'M
fortunately he is far too earnest ever
to perceive them. And since Germany
is very certainly stronger than Russia, and
since Germany and Austria can well en-
counter Russia and France together, it is
by no means clear that the Russian alliance
would be safe one. Should the former
neutral policy be maintained the outlook
will not be much better, for power which
is too selfish to have friends, and which
retires within itself at the first alarm
of danger, is apt to become the target of
all its neighbors when they have settled
their other difficulties, and in such case
is very certain to be overwhelmed. The
Liberals may think it advisable to main
tain the positions abroad taken by their
predecessors, and if they do this the result
may be harmless. But it is evident that
the tendencies of the new Government are
likely to be dangerous, and that if it does not
bring the country into bad relations with
the continental powers it will only be be-
cause it refrains from pursuing the line it
has heretofore been identified with.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-04-10
STATE CoNsTABULARY,

We publish letter elsewhere in regard
to the bill creating State Constabulary
force which deserves to be read by men,
bers of the Legislature. We may say that
the writer is veteran police officer, thor
oughly acquainted with the needs of the
State in this connection, and whose opin-
ion, therefore, ought to carry some weight.
He is convinced of the urgent necessity
for such a law as is now pending, and he is
satisfied that it would produce the most
beneficial effects. The facility with which
criminals can now effect their escape after
thecommission OF the most serious outrages,
in many parts of this State, should alone
suffice to demonstrate the need of better
police system. The county authorities
are seldom able to devote the necessary
time and money to the pursuit of rob-
bers and murderers. In fact, a special
class of determined and well trained men,
fit for any deeds of daring and difficulty,
is required for the coast, and such class
can only be got together through the
operation Of a measure similar to that now
before the Legislature. 1t is certainly dis
creditable to the State that so many muir
ders and other crimes should have been
committed with IMMUNITY. The list of I'M
punishedand still mysterious murders alone
is long enough now to startle the most
confirmed optimist, and not week passes
without adding some new crime to it. The
Legislature ought to make sure of the
passage of the Constabulary bill therefore,
and we are satisfied that if it does SO the
enactment of this law will not be one of
the least beneficial acts of the present
session.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-04-10
THE WEEKLY UNION.

The rapid extension of the circulation OF the
WEEKLY UNION is unprecedented. Its subscription
list is constantly being added to by clubs and single
subscribers from all over the country. With the
close of the legislative session more room will be
available for choice reading matter for the home,
for business reports for agricultural intelligence,
for the departments of art, fashion, house decora
ton, anecdote, mechanics, correspondence religious
news, book reviews, editorials, Congressional pro
ceedings, market reports, and all the multudnouE
departments of the paper. The WEEKLY UNION is
issued on Wednesdays and Saturdays eight pages
each, making total OF sixteen pages each week, all
for g per year, making it the cheapest and best
paper o; the day.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-04-10
NEED OF STATE CoGsTABULARY
FORCE.

EDS. RECORD UNION +: Your efforts in sup
port of a measure for the creation of State
Constabulary force meets my hearty APP
prevail. l think have been close observer
in criminal matters in this and adjoining
counties, besides having some personal ex-
perience in that line. It is sheer folly for a
township officer whose remuneration is small
land nothing unless he captures the otfenderl.
to follow criminals for any length of time,
especially when conviction is apt to follow
arrest and the facilities for escape 50 good as
in this State. The Sheriffs OF the various
counties of the State are allowed greater sal
aries than any other county officer, and why
is this if not for the prosecution of crime and
the apprehension of criminals. Their salaries
and ices are commensurate with the expense
necessary to the protection from outlawry
which the people expect from them. But
in a majority of cases they are callous and
Indifferent to a sense OF duty, and are more
interested in their chances of reelection than
to the enforcement OF law and the detection
Of crime. Among the last 100 persons who
have pretended to ill the Sberiff's office in the
State OF California, there cannot be found
another Morse or Adams The unwayering
pursuit, the midnight hour, the lonely trail,
rife in hand, with momentary expectation OF
combat with outlaws has no fascination for
the modern Sheriff. For those and other
adequate reasons we must look for protection
to force created By the State expressly for
that and no other purpose, and men Of known
ability and courage alone should be chosen.
| would also suggest that the present over
grown salary allowed to Sheritfs for the col
lection or receiving of taxes be cut down by
the Legislature to about one half what it now
is, which amount would about pay the salary
and expenses OF member Of the State force.
Besides such measure would have the ef-
feet OF curtailing the influence of unserupu-
lous political leeches, and admit a deserving
class Of poor but competent men, who would
be wiling to work and do their whole duty
for much less money than is at present paid.
j. +. W.
Fresno county, April 6. 1850.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-04-10
COMMERCIAL.
San Francisco Produce Market.

SAN Francisco. April OH IN.
FLouR-Prces are easier We quote the various
brands follows Best City Extras, s. So Bakers
Extra, 50 G23 q 81; SupeTtne, u %
interior ESua, 50 25a5 625; Interior super
ine 50 75S9; Oregon Extra, s. 7575 p );
choice do s. S73 q Is; Oregon suIer5ne,
- 1903 62i Naia Walin Extra. 8 81 s Is q
bhl. Purchasers Of round lots can Obtain couoes-
sioHs on the above rates.
WHARF.-The aggregate receipts for two days have
been less than 200 centals. business drags badly
and the market shows no vitality Buyers are en-
tirely out OF the Market and holders have no alter
native but to await the course Of events. The
Liverpool quotation shows a decline Of Id from the
top price Of yesterday. IN the absence OF sales We
continue old rates. We quote No. L at 81 $50
l s71e No. , 81 S0@1 S2l q etl.
BABLEY-Beyond o sale Of 200 SKIS good bay
feed at S23c o ctl, there is nothing to record.
We quote brewing at s7@e7lc; iced, SG9S5c ;
Chevalier, 81 50dl 20 for choice bay, and Sl@1 %
for coast.
HAy-Choice wheat is scarce and wanted at full
figures. Yesterday cargo brought 81. To-day
Que OF good wheat sold for SIS 5OS ton Cargo lots
on the wharf range from IS 10 Sl4 e ton.
BrTIER-There is no particular change from yes
rday. Price range from 70 TO . h., Tor good
10 choice, with the bulk Of business zoe; inferior
to ordinary ITdISc inside rate for mixed lots from
2 ID.
CnErsE-we quote: California, Ia2a1slc No
Eastern on h nd
and consignments from that direction are again
coming forward, quotable at 17caIse tdozen. Fresh
laid California sell at ls9l9e - dozen
WooL-There seems TO be more excitement about
Wool in the interior OF the State than the condition
OF affairs here will justify, AS yet, the East Is
hardly represented here, while at the time
country buyers throughout the san joaquin seem to
be anxious to make purchases OF desirable clips at
prices much in advance Of what local buyers are
wiling TO offer. The reports from the last are to
the effect that large stocks Of MonteyiGe0 aud other
South American and Australian Woods are now ar
~lNs . .aN NO. II a. f.Ml
down at much more favorable ates than our quota
tons for the California clip Meswhlls the market
is quiet here and will be until the weather clears
and stock comes forward freely which has not been
the case 50 far. Nominal Quotations. .1aaae & D.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-04-10
THE LEvEEs OF SACRAMENTO.

1t is always an unthankful duty to call
imposition of fresh taxation, but it is
often an imperative duty Notwithstanding.
The preservation and maintenance of the
levees of Sacramento must be provided for
under all circumstances, but if the public
would consent to the adoption of plan
involving steady work upon these levees,
we should in few years be able to put
them in an absolutely impregnable condi-
ton, and this without requiring heavy
expenditure at any one time. As it is we
are too apt to neglect the levees during
fine weather, and then when high water
comes, and danger is apprehended, a
great deal of spasmodic and hasty work
has to be done. Probably the wisest and
most business-like course would be to ascer-
tain in the first instance, through an en-
gineering survey, how best the levees can
be made invulnerable, and at what ex-
pense. The plans once drawn for
thorough and complete system, it would
only be necessary to appropriate certain
moderate amount to the work every year,
and at the end of ten or twelve years the
system would be completed, and the city
would be protected for all time, without
having really felt the burden of taxation.
An annual appropriation of ten or fifteen
thousand dollars devoted to the prosecution
of this purpose would produce great and
permanent results in a few years, and the
very knowledge that such system had
been adopted and was being steadily car
RED out would cause property to appre-
ciate, and would encourage permanent i'm
provements throughout the city. The tax
alton required to produce such yearly
sum as we have suggested would be so
light that it would not be felt as fresh
burden, and the public would have the
reassuring conviction that scientific and
complete system of protection was being
worked out by degrees.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-04-10
WHAT IT MEANS.

The Republican County Convention of
Santa Barbara county passed resolution
instructing its delegates to the State Con-
vention to vote against all instruction to
the delegation from this State in the Ma
tional Republican Convention as to the
choice of California between aspirants for
Presidential nomination. 1t is obvious to
any one that the instruction Of the State
Convention ON the subject would favor the
nomination of Blaine, and it is therefore
apparent that this action of the Santa Bar
bara Convention is in the interest of send
ing an unpledged delegation to Chicago,
thereby affording an opportunity for the
Grant manipulators to capture or divide
the delegation. 1t is conceded by all can
did observers that very large majority of
the Republicans of this State favor the
nomination of Blaine, and the attempt to
prevent instruction in his favor is an at
tempt to steal the votes of the State in
the interest of the messy backed effete ele-
ments which dominated the administration
of Grant. Further than this, the absence
of instruction leaves the delegation to the
Chicago Convention free to convert the
choice of this State into personal politi-
cal perquisite. The action of the Santa
Barbara Convention does not profess to be
based upon the absence of any decided
preference on the part of the Republicans
of this State. The manipulators of that
Convention knew that the action it pro-
poses for the State Convention would be in
the interest of candidate, and were not
the least in shadow as to the personality of
that candidate. This dark-lantern per-
Torrance is the beginning of the moling
and undermining of the machine
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-04-10
Eastern and Foreign Markets.

NEW YoBE, April gth.
BGEADsTUFFs-Flour is quiet and Wheat is IN
settled, latter at 81 30@l 81.
WooL-steadY.
PHHADELrnia, april 9th
Wool Steady and firm. hates ara temporarily
light but the consumption is enormous and ths
supply small.
LIVERPOOL, April 9Th
In breadstu7s, small business at low prices.
Wheat, los sdal0s 81 4 GENITAL for average Caifor-
MIA white los 9d@lls 30 Tor California club los e
los 81 for red Western spring, and los 6dmlIs Sd
for red winter. Receipts Of Whest the past three
days, los coo centals, including 81, 900 American
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-04-10
THIS CRITICISM.

cit does not appear that Mr.. Corlett THE
expert, though an architect by profession,
has any special qualifications for enhghtening
the committee upon the Questions submitted
to him. His opinions, as we have before in
timated. upon the character of the testimony.
especially with his limited acquaintance with
that testimony, are entitled TO no considera-
ton whatever 1t may also be observed that
his report bears internal evidence of desire
to depreciate the services Of William Johns.
ton in branch Of work in which the latter
i clearly better qualified than its detractor.
He INDUCES this disposition in such remarks
as these: In this work the artificer seems
to have been gradually losing all interest in
the work. And again: As general rule,
mechanics improve by practice; but in this
case the rule proves the exception, for the
last work done in masonry is decidedly tie
most inferior In regard to these fiippart
aud ill-natured criticisms, we have to say
They are not entitled to place many proper
report. and, so far as the committee are able
to judge from the testimony in the case, they
a altogether without foundation"
In fact, the review of the experts report
by the committee, and the successful manner
Ia which IS shown up it unreliable theories
and giaring inconsistencies. is one Of the best
examples of critical analysis extant, and
while it shows that the expert did not prop
erly deal with the subject. it yindicates the
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-04-10
s60.44C

Thus the State was saved nearly SOC by
the changes made by the Board. The test.
mony and report deliberately and in detail
points out why the new cells are IS good as
the original ones, situated as they are within
the massive walls Of prison Of unusual
strength and well nigh impossible of breach
The report shows, too, that while the work
was prosecuted by the Board the men were
worked to as good advantage and were as
diligent as if under a contractor
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-04-10
AN EXPERT,

During the session of the present Legislature
was sent to inspect the work at the prison.
He made report, which the committee re
jects as wholly worthless. improperly based,
and which draws conclusions unsupported by
the facts. The committee dissect the experts
report, and point out its inconsistencies and
the experts incompetence to judge of the
matter ia hand in an impartial manner, and
cites as against IL the sworn statements Of
the workmen engaged in the Folsom and
Rocliin quarries as to the cost Of quarrying
stone, as an offset to the experts citation OF
French, English and American engineering
authorities, whose statements, after being
invoked by the expert, say the committee,
were by the expert coollg rejected, proceed
ing which the COMMITTEES confesses itself at
loss to comprehend, and adds
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1880-07-07

and death
DE-. MINTIE will agree to forfeit Five Hundred
Dollars a case of this kind the VITAL RESTOH-
A1IVF nder his special advice and treatment will not
cure, thir impure injurious found in it. DIX
MiNIIE treats Private Diseases successfully without
mercury. Consuita ton f-@e- Thorough examina
ton and advice including analysis of urine, s. co. Price
of Vital restorative. So 90 bottle or four times
the quantity $780, any address upon receipt of
price, c. O. D. from observation, and in private
name If desired bv A. f.. MINTIE, M. ID.
III .4earney Street. San Francisco. Cal.
DIR. MINUTES E3nNEY REMEDY. NEPH-
RE slEUM, cures all Kinds of Kidney and Bladder COM
plants GOnorrhea eject LeucorrhGa. For sale by b. F.
Foster and Geo c. IhaAer Druggists Carson City, SloO
a bottle six bottles for $500
DIR. MIN fIE'S ANDELIoN PILLS are the
best and cheapest DYSPEPSIA and BILIOUS cure
in the market For sale by B. F. Foster and George
ThaXter, druggists, Carson City. mhl1-ly
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1880-07-07
EDINBURGH MAGAZINE.

These Reprints not selections they give the org
nails and at about third the price Of the En-,
lish Editions.
No publications compare with the leading British
Periodicals above named reprinted by the LEONARD Sco
Publishing COMPANY In respect to fidelity of research,
accuracy Of statement, and purity of STYLE they with
equal 1hev keep pace with modern thought dis
covery, experiment, and achievement whether in religion.
science, literature The abest winters fiji their
pages with most interesting reviews of history and with
intelligent narration of the great OF the day:
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1880-07-07

POSTAGE

This item of expense borne by the publishers is
equivalent to reduction of 26 per the cost to
subscribers in years.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1880-07-07
CLUB.

discount Of 20 will be allowed to clubs of four
persons. Thus four copies of Blackwood Of
Revi.s will be sent, to address, Sl2 So four
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1880-07-07
THE GREAT [NGLI5H REMEDY

Is a never.failins cure for ner-
voIs debility, exhausted vital
ity, seminal weakness, sper-
matorrhGa, Los q MAN
HtfoD, ,impotency, paralysis,
and all the terrible effects of
self-abuse, youthful follies and
ana eXcesses in maturer years
such as loss of memory, las
situde, nocturnal emission, a.
version to society, dimness of
vision, noises in the head, the
vital fluid passing unobserved