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Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1880-02-13

SnARos's SoLILooUY.-The Chronicle tn as
describes Bill Sharon laying his plans for the
Fall campaign, as already outlined by the
APPEAL:
We can almost fancy We hear William solil-
oauizing thus: "Ah, have it now. The
Chinese racket is just the thing. Yerington
is already as unpopular as he can well be.
Mills has no political aspirations, and therefore
cares nothing for what the people of Nevada
may think of him. So we'll have ferlngton
announce that Cinnamon are to be employed,
get up regular fe ver-h heat excitement all over
the State, ahd just when the iron is good and
hot I'll step in az the champion of white labor,
and swear that while | own a dollar s worth of
interest in the " & T. Cinnamon shall not be
employed to the exclusion Of white labor.
This will of course give me a big send off in
the Fall elections. Mills and Yerington will
come in for all the curses and I'll get all the
credit"
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1880-02-13

Ir BOB INaERsoLL should ever find ont
that he was the text for two pulpit orations
in one evening in California, he would be
apt to pack up his gripsa and start for
1.-The Slope''to have tilt with the divines.
Bob is an exceedingly fertile text. and he
has no objection to being advertised from
the pulpit He breaches . very attractive
sort of religion, the religion of humanity.
and he inspires more people to noble effort
and fills more minds with noble thoughts
during one lecture than dozen orthodox
ministers do in the same space of time.
speaking to dozen different audiences from
as many pulpits. This facts may be demon
strated easily for oneof Ingersoll' ssudience
is as large as twelve average Sunday congre
cations and he has much larger percentage
of listners and smaller percentage of mill
inerY experts.-Stoekto's Herald.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1880-02-13
BLACKMAILING NEWSPAPERS.

R. F. Fitzgerald, a we'll known newspaper
man of California, is now on trial in the Sac
ramsnto Police Court ON the charge of at
tempted extortion. The testimony shows that
he asked 500 of the Pacific Mutual Life In
surance Company and in return for the money
he agreed not to abuse the company Flizger-
aid belongs to a class of newspaper men, quite
numerous on this coast, who make themselves
sewers of coarse defamation, and agree. for
certain amount of money from 81 up~ard) to
keep their refuse at home. Fitzgerald was as
ISOLATED some years ago with cur named
Napthali in the publication of the San and if
the man can be legally brought to time and
sent to Jail for his Matchmaking operations 1t
will be a source Of profound satisfaction to
everybody. Blacknailers can ply thriving
trade on this coast from the fact that there are
so many people here who move in high society
but have musty back records which they de-
sire to conceal. A knave who happens to run
newspaper can reap a rich harvest of this class
they dare not refuse him patronage There
is but one thing that will protect man against
this peculiar method of JOURNALISTIC piracy:
clean life and conscience and the bold un-
daunted front of honesty. Fitzgerald is but
type of a class who should be weeded out
of journalism and given no professional recog-
nition by their contemporaries A man who
blackguards business msn until they are Com
PEELED to advertise is as culp abe as Fitzgerald;
and the man who gets trusted for groceries and
seeks to compel the grocer to take it out In
advertising, or 60 without his pay, should be
kicked out OF the store by any tradesman who
has a particle of respect for himself or business
No paper can exist for any considerable length
Of time that relies upon terrorizing a commu-
nifty. 1t is simply An ass mantled with
lions hide and as SOON as the skin of the su
perior beast begins to slip the whole disguise
falls off, and the animal so long suspected by
its bray, stands in the sight of everybody
jackass plain and simple. Where one paper
succeeds in paying its way by blackmail q
dozen sink to the gutter and pass away SO
gradually that few people know anything
about their change of base as they move from
a struggling existence of unsuccessful endeav-
OF, to the graveyard of eternal oblivion.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1880-02-13

ACTORS who talk too mnch are getting to
he common, There was time when they
modestly kept their mouths shut when not
playing. 1t was long ago. Now when the
brains are out the man will not die. He
must discuss art, the decline of the drama,
the relation of the stage to the church and
kindred subjects with volubls and emphatic
tiresomeness 1t is fast becoming noticeable
that those play ers who say the most have the
least to communicate. The interviewer who
is sent after every fresh professional maid
en-, is sent because it is assumed that she
has something TO tell the world. But If all
that they had told US were summed up 1t
would be very little more than can be read
in one of their advertisements.-lN New YORK
Dramatic Times.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1880-02-13

An association has been found in West
phalia for the extinction ofpoverty throueh
out the world. The theory of its promoters,
who are not Socialists, is that the wants of
mankind have SO increased of late years that
Injuries are now looked upon even by the
poorest classes as necessaries. Life, it is
urged, may be sustained and comfort in
sured at trifing cost by simply putin 6
aside the superfuities of modern existence.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1880-02-13

PANr's LHrrsRs-Ths letters written to
tn. APPEAL by John T. Pantlind have given
rise to considerable discussion in Carson.
People seem to judge them from different
standpsints, and express themselves very
freely on the subject. The following is q fair
sample of what all sorts Of people think
Do let up on those tart letters of Pants.
They get sicker every time"
That last one of Pants was rib ticker
never laughed much in my life. His letters
are the best thing in the paper"
The letters have been quite extensively
copied in the Nevada and California papers,
and his description of Bodis was copied into
the New York Ss.n The Chronicle Of last
evening says
John T. Pantlind, ex hest of the Ormsby
House, in Carson, proved himself the best
hotel keeper that We ever had in Nevada.
Now he is developing into first class rows
paper correspondent He has been writing a
series of Letters to the Carson APPEAL, and in
point of sprightliness, racy humor, and ad-
heison to fact, they discount the best efforts
of Eli Perkins.
For the benefit Of the public it is here an.
nounced that Pants last letter will appear on
Sunday next. After this he will leave for
Arizona, to write few descriptions of the
country, which will please his friends. and
probably get scalped by the Apachss, which
will delight his enemies.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1880-02-13

FATAL SHOOTING OF AN EDIrOR.-A Hollis
ter, Californi-, dispatch OF the 18th gives the
following account of the termination Of a
Newspaper controversy: A local newspaper
war illuminated this morning by the fatal
shooting of &. H. Brummett, editor of the
Enterprise, by G. w. Carlton, editor of the
Telegraph. This mornings Issue Of the Tets-
graph calls Brummett horse thief. At 10
o'clock Brumnett met Carlton on the Court
House steps and asked him why he published
those lies about him. Without speaking Carl
ton drew a pistol and shot Brummett, the ball
penetrating the head between the eyes. He
fell in his tracts, and died soon after Carl
ton il in Jail. a...... ~.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1880-02-13

A French statistician has come TO the con-
clusion aftera very lsborious examination OF
the number of deaths from railway accidents
in all parts Of the world, that if a person
were to live continually in railway carriage
and spend all his time in travelling, the chan
ces in favor of his dying from railway acct
dent would not occur until he was $50 years
old
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1880-02-13

Newspaper enterprise with a vengeance ::
"All is quiet at, to which spot we have,
at great expense and with our usual enter
prise. dispatched a special commissioner.
Should nothing happen our readers Will be
the first to be aware Of the fact"
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1880-02-13

A Deadwood dispatch states that while a
concert and ball were in progress at the OPP
era House in Central City, Wednesday eve
ming. a heavy wind carried the entire front Of
the building away. No lives lost.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1880-02-13

The Senate has confirmed as Census Super
visors: For New Mexico, Abraham s. Hoyt;
Washington Territory, Frederick W. Spar
ling; Wyoming, Homer Merrill.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1880-02-13

A bank at Westport, Conn, was recently
entered by burglars, and 1885,, 600 secured, be-
fore the explosion aroused the villagers.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1880-02-13

The President has nominated Chas. G
Belnap as Indian agent at Tale river, Cal
fernia. ...-
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1880-02-13

The Trinity Episcopal Church, New York,
was burned Wednesday
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1880-02-13
REWARD.

WHEREAS THE SUBSTITUTION or IN
FER.oR, CHEAP LEAD, WHERE ATTAIN
TIC HAS BEEN SPECIFIED, IS NOT ONLY
A FRAUD UPON THE PROPERTY OWNER,
BUT A DAMAGE TO THE REPUTATION OF
THE ATLANTIC BRAND, WE HEREBY
OFFER A REWARD CT $50 FOR sUFFI-
GENT EVIDENCE OF SUCH sUBsTITU-
TON BEING MADE.
CT. RAVNOLDS & o.,
.>.. Sole Agents,
9Front Street, San Francisco.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1880-02-13

prepared to furnish Grave ssnes Monuments,
AaAtes Marble The etc, short netoc, cheaper THAN
en- he fnrrisAed By any other PARTIES Desns 1t
ny rssdsuoe south ds 81 King street two blocks
east Of the Capitol, INWARD HARPER
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-03-29
THE BRANCH PRISON.

Senator Grove L. johnson has succeeded
in getting the Branch Prison bill favorably
reported from the committee, and we hope
that it will be adopted without opposition.
1t appropriates $40, 600 for the completion
of the Branch Prison Whether that in
stitution is destined to be successful or not,
the State is 80 far committed to the ex-
pertinent that it would be productive of
more loss to abandon it now than to finish
it. Upwards of $500, 900 have been ex.
pended upon the building, and the sum now
required to put it in working order is CON-
paratively a small one. 1t is necessary
to expend this sum in order to test fairly
the plan of employing the convicts in
cutting stone. This is the proximate end
of the Branch Prison project, and
it is evident that until it has been
tried no one can say whether it will
prove practicable or not. 1t must be re-
lnembered also that the need of a Branch
Prison is real and urgent one. 1t may
be that the Folsom site is not the best for
such an Institution, but the Branch Prison
is there, and there is no Branch Prison
anywhere else, and to build a Branch
Prison anywhere else would require the
expenditure of as much money as has al.
ready been put upon the Folsom building.
The State cannot do without more ac-
commodation Cor eonvicts. and it must
therefore choose between utilizing this al
most completed prison, or building another
elsewhere. Between these courses a choice
must be made, because it is not practicable
to refrain from action altogether, seeing
that San Quentin is and has long been
overcrowded, and that this evil must be-
come worse continually. The reasons for
completing the Folsom Branch Prison are
consequently so strong that we do not see
how they can be overcome, and they are
moreover quite independent of any con-
illusions regarding the wisdom of placing
the Branch Prison where it is. The Legis-
lature finds it there, and cannot alter that
fact. 1t finds also that small sum will
make it habitable, and that if this small
sum is withheld it will involve the waste
and loss of $1,000 and the continued
overcrowding of San Quentin. Under the
circumstances we do not see that there can
be any hesitation as to the course to be
,nrreuad
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-03-29
THE PROTEST. on coLoMBIA.

The United States of Colombia appear
to be much exercised concerning the Amer
lean attitude on the interoceanic canal
business. The people of Colombia are not
unnaturally jealous of foreign interference,
aud though, like the scriptural comics, a
feeble folk, they are not deficient in ma
tional pride, and resent the negligent way
in which they have been treated. 1t
must be confessed that the American Gov
eminent and press have proceeded in this
matter very much as though NJ. de Lesseps
had proposed to dig his canal across
United States territory, and that the
jurisdiction of Colombia has been scarcely
accorded sufficient Difference. Conse-
quently the Colombians are beginning to
breathe threatenings and slaughters, and
menacingly express their determination
to do something desperate if they are
not acknowledged in the business more
respectfully. We ought not to find
fault with little Colombia for tax
ing this tone, for it unfortunately
much too closely the tone which
our own Government recently took on the
Monroe doctrine. When Mr.. Hayes yirtu-
ally flung down the gauntlet to all the
Powers of Europe, and declared that the
United States could not allow any other
power to control the proposed interoceanic
canal, the means of supporting this vaunt
were as VIGOROUSLY wanting to the Admin
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-03-29
LOCAL INSURANCE COMPANIES.

There are eight local insurance companies
In San Francisco. OF these one has paid
up capital of $50, 200, three have paid up
capitals of $500, 900, and four have paid up
capitals of 5000, 900 EACH There are con-
sequentlY four local companies which
would meet the requirements of Senate
Bill No. ISIS, and no more 1t is for the
special and particular benefit of these four
companies, then, that this measure has
been introduced. 1t is not certainly de-
manded in the interest of the other local
companies. 1t is not certainly demanded
in the interest of the public 1t does not
render insurance one whit safer for the in
surer. On the contrary, by driving some
fifty companies out of business, it increases
the danger of loss to insurers by diminish
ing the aggregate of capital available
to cover risks. Supposing that tie
fifty companies it is proposed to
drive out of business represented alto
gether not more than $4,000, 600. In
fact they represent much more, but we
take this figure merely for illustration. 1t
is proposed to redistribute all the risks
they carried among four local companies
whose united capital aggregates 81, $50, 000,
and who are already carrying far more
risks than their capital justifies. What
such an arrangement involves must be OBJ
vious to the meanest comprehension. It
involves an enormous dilution of the ca
pacity of those four local companies to meet
their engagements, and correspondingly
enormous increase of the hazards which
their policy holders are subjected to. 1t is
as II man doing business of fifty millions
on capital of million and a half,
We're to propose, for the benefit of his
creditors, to increase his business ten
fold, and at the same time reduce
his assets in the same proportion. That is
the modest proposition the local companies
have made to the Legislature of Gallo, mia,
That is the kind of "reform thew have
devised for the alleged benefit of the pub.
lie. The more we examine this scheme the
more we are compelled to marvel at the
magnitude of the audacity which inspired
it, and the profoundness of the trust in
public and legislative gullibility which
caused it to be regarded as hopeful and
practicable transaction. For its own repu-
tation's sake, however, we trust that the
Assembly will not accept this greedy draft
on its credulity, but will allow it to be dis
honored by consigning the bill to the limbo
of futile iniquitous legislation.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-03-29
BY ALL MEANS PASS THE BILL.

The Young substitute debris bill will
come up for passage in the Assembly to-
day, and we hope will be adopted by a
larger majority than its third reading OBJ
tanned. Many members have now had an
opportunity of viewing the ravages of the
debris personally, and since "things seen
are mightier than things heard, +" we have
no doubt that their impressions Of the need
of remedial action have been greatly
strengthened and deepened by the results
of their recent excursion. We have
throughout treated this questio as among
the gravest with which the Legislature had
to deal, and We are satisfied that this
view will not be questioned by
those who have been on the ground
themselves. The Young bill offers
solution Of the problem ON the best terms
that can be had. One important piece of
evidence in support of it consists in the
| fact that since its introduction the agita-
ton to which preceding measures gave
rise, has ceased, and the clamor of opposi-
ton is ne longer heard. In fact it appears
to approach an equitable adjustment Of the
various interests and responsibilities and
benefits involved, as closely as can be rea-
sonably expected, and it has the distinguish.
ing merit of being in harmony with the best
fortified conclusions of engineering science.
The Legislature can pass this bill and thu:
relieve itself of heavy responsibility, and
the people of the Sacramento valley of 8
still heavier burden of fear and anxiety
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-03-29
NEWS on zee moRNINe.

In New York Saturd ~ Government bonds were
quoted at loel for Is Of 1907 1es Tor IS of 1881;
lo7s for AIS; ST 4sling, "a s6a4 SO; silver bars,
1l4s silver cf;ra, discount buying, par selling.
SILVER IA London Saturday, sgd; consols.
es IS; per cent. United States bonds, 1o5.; As,
los !; <ls, ITO.
IN San Francisco half dollars are quoted at par
Mexican dollars, FL buying, eiS selling.
Ar Liverpool Saturday wheat was quoted at lis
1da1ls 81 for fair to choice California and las I'D
TO lis Sd for fair to choiceshpping California.
AFTER Friday'srecess the broke IS assembled1t San
Francisco Saturday in pretty much the sans ihdf-
ferent manner as on otter days during the week.
The long list was called, with an average-dsclne of
from Soto SOC in neatly all washoe descriptions.
The best price for Eureka Consolidated So and
q email lot was let goat concession of &c.
Two rnen were drcSned at Cairo, ILL.,, Saturday.
The hospital at Kansas City, No., WIS destroyed
by fire Friday nigas..
kDAMAaISG wis.d-s.orm prevailed in Nebraska
Saturday.
HOMER WEEtrSdros is charged at Cambridge
Mass, with thes:nurder Of his infant son.
THE population of St. Louis rs nov stated to be
$4,000.
SUIT for divorce has been brought against Dior
Bouccault by bis wife (Agnes Reaertson.)
JoHS B. ossELoYP has been arrested OF Boston
Mass, charged with numbering his wife.
GEORGE JACKSON (colored) vSs hanged at Dallas
Ca, FridsE.
JACOB Frey, the old man rho cut his wife's tlroa
at St. Locis, is dead, but the woman will reaover
decreased severity is shcwn toward the Jews il
Russia
FOURTEEN persons were injured Friday at Cadiz
Spain, by the fall Of balcony.
vIeoRoUs efforts psaking in Kharkof, Russia
tocombat the rAvages OF diphtheria.
NEAR San AndFess. Saturday, two Mexicans wer
found shot to death.
R. B. ScoTr attempted to commit suicide Frida
might in the Jail at Red Bluff
FIRE at Portland, Oregon.
THE track of the Southern Pacific Railroad is nov
laid nine miles east ef Tucson, A T.
C. DE- AvILA was found dead in his bed ct Watson
willie yesterday
Az oil well has Ssen opened at Birmingham, Ala
which flows at the rate of ninety barrels per day
MoQUEoUA, Peru. has been occupied by 400
Chians without resistance.
A. r CoRBN, brother-inaw OF General Grant
died at Jersey City yesterday
TIE State Senate did heavy days work OIL
Saturday, and disposed Of great many bills.
Tue Assembly Saturday completed the secon,
reading of the educational BILL and adjourned unit
this morning.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-03-29
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
PROPOSALS FOR WOOD AND COAL.

HEADQUARTERS MILITARY DIVISION OF
II IL tne Pacific and Department of California.
once Chief Quartermsster, Preside of San Fran
CISCO March %, 1880 Sealed proposals in tripc to-
subject to the usual conditions will be received at
tho onces OF the Quartermasters of the following
named posts, until IL o'clock A. NJ San Francisco
time, on WEDNESDAY, the 2sth tay of APRIL
1850, at which time and places they will be opened
in the presence OF bidders, for furnishing and de-
ivering military Supplies during the fiscal year COM
mencing JULY l, 1880, and ending JUNE 30, 1881.
as follows:
Wood at Fort Bidxel, Fort CASTOR, and San Diego
Barracks Cal. and Wood Coal at Forts Halleck
and McDermit, New.
Military Supplies at the folowDg.nained posts and
places, for the same period, viz Wood and Coal AZ
Beniea Arsenal and Bencia Barracks and Coal
at Alcatraz Island, Angel Island, Fort Point San
Jose; Fort Point, Preside OF San Francisco, San
Francisco Cal, and Winnomucca, Nevada.
Proposals for either class OF the supplies mentioned
orfor quantities less than the whole required will
be received. The Government reserves the right to
reject any or all proposals A preference will be
given to articles of domestic production. Blank
proposals, and printed circulars stating the kind
and estimated quantities required ut each post, and
giving full Instructions to the manner OF bidding,
conditions to be observed by bidders, snd terms OF
contract and payment, will be furnished on appica
ton to this office, to the Quartermasers at the
various posts naued.
Envelopes containing proposals should be mai ked:
dressed to the undersigned or the Quarermasters
OF such of the posts abos enamel as are to open
bids r. SAXTON
mr29-2pgt DEPUTY Ouartermaster General.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-03-29
Weather-Lecfure- Fellows Ami
versary-Charged with Arson--Held 10
Answer Death Shocking Accident
CarcOes for Europe.

Weather-Lecfure- Fellows Ami
versary-Charged with Arson--Held 10
Answer Death Shocking Accident
CarsOes for Europe.
PORTLAND, March 2S.h.-The weather is
cool and cloudy.
J. J. Owens, of San Jose, Cal, delivered q
lecture this evening at Turn Halle on the
subject, Evils of an Overcrowded POpula-
tion." The lecture was well attended.
The Grand Patriarch of the Grand En-
campment, I. o. o. F., of this State, and
the Grand Master of the r. w. Grand Lodge
of Oregon, have both issued proclamations
enjoining all subordinate encampments and
lodges to observe in becoming manner the
Goth of April, the sixty-irst anniversary of
the introduction of the Order into the United
States.
The preliminary examination of Henry
jacob who is under arrest, charged with
the crime of arson, will come off tomorrow
afternoon. The detectives who worked up
the case and caused the arrest of Jacobs
claim that they have developed some very
damaging testimony against the defendant.
A. NJ. Terrier, who shot and killed U. +.
Powell at Lebanon, Linn county, last week,
has been held to await the action of the Grand
Jury on charge of murder.
Mrs. DIR. b. A. Ford died lat her home in
this city last night, after long and painful
illness, aged Sc years. Deceased came to the
State in 1S47. She leaves large family, all
of whom have attained to manhood and
womanhood. She was esteemed as an est.
mable Christian lady.
A lad named Lowell Langhead, while play
ing around the Agricultural Works at Salem,
became entangled in the belt last evening
while the machinery was in motion, and had
his right arm literally torn from its socket.
The chances of his recovery are extremely
doubtful.
Since last September 70 vessels have cleared
from this port for Europe. The aggregate
value of their cargoes was S4,770, 100.