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THE PoNcA CASE.

The mysteries of the Ponca case are not
yet cleared up. It is now said that ma
jority of the special Commission recently
appointed by President Hayes to visit the
tribe and ascertain the actual facts of the
situation, are prepared to report in accord
ance with the previous representations of
Tibbles and Bright Eyes; that is to say.
the majority are convinced that the original
story of the wrong done to the Poncas is
true, and that the Indians are not content.
ed with their present location, as their
chiefs told Mr. Schurz the other day. It
would seem from this that the suspicion
excited by the strange statements of these
chiefs, that they had been bribed to give
away the rights of their people, may prove
to have been well founded after all, and
that there may appear to be very ugly
and disgraceful job at the bottom of this
business. As two members of the special
Commission are army officers Of experience
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THE COERCION BILL.

Mr.. Gladstone has at last introduced
his coercion bill for Ireland. So far as can
be gathered from the Geographic accounts
it appears to be very stringent and very
elastic, and in effect to involve the put.
ting of all Ireland under martial law. The
introduction of this legislation has Of
course exasperated the Parnellites, and
has apparently not satisfied that wing of
the Liberal party which believe that land
reform should at least have been proposed
at the same time with coercion. The
Tories, however, have signifed their in
tention to support the Government in
-enacting the new laws, and the strength
they bring will farmore than counterbalance
any detection on the part of the Birming-
ham school, The Parnellites have declared
their purpose to filibuster with all their
might against the new bill, and it is re-
ported that measures are being devised
for eheckmating this design by Parlia-
mentary methods. The temper of Parlia-
ment is in fact evidently such that in the
last resort it will not hesitate to suppress
the Irish members forcibly. and it is
already plain that the coercion bill will be
Dassed no matter what resistance is made
to It. The reason for introducing it prior
TO the land reform bill appears to be an
annrebension that the Parnellites would
have undertaken, in any other event, to
maintain that the Land League had intim-
dated the Government. The latter conse-
quently proposes TO clear the League out
of the way before it brings forward its
land bill.
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COMMISSIONERS SALE.

NDER AND BY VIRTUE OF A DECREE OF
{ foreclosure and order of sale issued out of the
Superior Court of the county of Sacramento, State
of California upsn decree made and entered in the
District Court of the Sixth Judicial District tho
25th day OF JULY, 1879, in favor Of ALONZO
w. Bryan and against II. c. SWAIN and S. B.
SEGUR, l was commanded to sell at public auction
the following described real estate to wit, situate
in Sacramento county, State of California, to wit:
The northwest quarter of the northwest quarter Of
Section Invent -nine cor the south half of the
northwest quarter and Lot Three (3) and west half
of Lot Two 10y Of the southwest quarter, and the
southwest quarter OF the southwest quarter OF Section
Twenty (20) Also, al that portion Of Section Nine
teen 90, which lies north Of the farm of / H. Van
Trees all of said land beins in Township Eight (Sl
North, Range Eight 81 East Mount Diablo base and
meridian containing S24 acres more or less. Notice
is hereby given that on MONDAY, the 10th day of
FEBRUARY, A. b. 1881, at the hour Of IL o'clock
A. NJ. OF said day, at tine Courthouse door, in the
city of Sacramento, OF Seventh and streets,
will sell all the right title and interest OF the said
defendants, Ii. @. SWAIN and 5 b. SEGUR, in and
to said real estate at public auction for gold coin to
the highest bidder, TO satisfy said judgment and
decree in said action, amounting to S, SO and costs
and costs and counsel fees and expenses Of sale and
interest. Deed at the expense OF purchaser.
Dated January 25 1881.
ELWOOD BRUNER, Commissioner
L. S TAYLOR, Plaintiffs Attorney. ja26 3wW
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PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.

Arizona people insist upon an absolute
repeal of the law creating tax ON bullion.
It is .rumored that colored man near
Shutdown, Amador county, has the leprosy.
Washington Territory has now about
three times the population it had in 1870.
Several San Joaquin farmers now have
carp ponds, and are making money out of
them.
At GeYserville subscription paper is
being circulated having in view church
edifice.
Utah is to have a fine university build
ing erected in park near the center of Salt
Lake City.
The Santa Barbara Press and the Ven.
tura Free Press are quarreling over their
respective harbors.
There were only two persons sent to San
Quentin from Suffer county in 1880. Both
went for horse-stealing.
The money in the Monterey county
treasury on the 18th instant, by official
count, footed up S7l,7S2 81.
The Seattle CIV. T.) public schools are
overcrowded with pupils. There are 1o4
students attending the University.
In 1880 it cost 500, 900 to run the Ari.
IONA Territorial Prison. The number OF
convicts confined there is thirty-six.
1t is reported that the Klamath river
raised eighty-two feet during the recent
storm. All the bridges are gone from
Witchepec to Orleans.
In the census statistics the number OF
sheep in Douglas county, Oregon, is placed
at l59, l24, and the annual wool produc.
ton at $40, 6l3 pounds.
f. H. Steele OF Los Angeles has had his
wife put in jail on a charge of bigamy, in
marrying him while she had husband,
James Higgins, still living.
On the Sweetwater, in Wyoming, a
record which is kept at one OF the herder's
stations shows that during last year 10, DOC
head of cattle passed over the route.
Says the Santa Rosa Republican, There
will be planted this spring in Sonoms
county as many vines as all the vineyards
great and small together at present con.
| tam.
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THREE BAD BOYS.

The story of the three bad boys who
have Just been arrested at Grass Valley is
one which may be reflected upon with
profit. These lads, all of them about Is
years of age, formed themselves into a
gang of lawbreakers, from no other appar-
ent motive than sheer inclination to mis-
chief and evil. They went about COM
hitting arson, trying to burn Chinatown,
arranging plots for highway robberies, de.
stroying valuable property wantonly and
repeatedly. Yet it is said that they
have not been thrust into bad asso.
Citations. Their parents are all we'll dc
people, and they wanted for nothing at
their homes This last assertion, however,
must be challenged. The presumption is
that they lacked guidance, intelligent edu-
cation, home training, and. above all, home
discipline. They were probably allowed,
as almost all California boys are. to live or
the street. They were accustomed to look
on their parents home as a place to eat and
sleep in. Perhaps their fathers spent theil
evenings habituallv " down town )" at the
saloon, the lodge, or some other place o.
common resort. There was no family cir
Gle. There was no home in any real sense,
They followed the bent of their own incli
nations. 1t would be interesting to know
what kind of reading they had preferred.
Quite probably their youthful imaginations
had been fred by the perusal of that dime
novel rubbish which has already sent
hundreds and thousands OF boys to the
bad They had thought it must be a fine
thing to be a daring criminal. Lawless
ness had exercised its fascination over
them. And so they banded together and
played at arson in realistic way, and en-
deavored as well as they knew how tc
graduate themselves for the Penitentiary
What will be done with them nowf Il
they are sent to the Penitentiary THEN
fate will be sealed. The probability is
that they are not yet irreclaimable, despite
the apparent malice of their mischief, but
II they go to San Quentin even for one
year they will leave it hardened and
hopeless criminals. 1t is very necessary
to consider seriously how to deal with
such cases cases which are on the divid.
ing line between good and evil which may
be saved by iudieious treatment. but are
sure to be driven to perdition By any other
kind. These boys are largely what theiI
fathers and mothers have made them.
Parental responsibility cannot be shirked
with such evidence of parental neglect be-
lore us. And there are thousands of other
boys quite as near ruin as these, and owing
their danger to the same cause. No doubt
prison reform IS greatly needed here but
reform in the home is far more potent
means of solving the problems involved.
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TIE SENATE AND Err. CURTIS

Senator Cheney, speaking for the Re-
publican caucus, has stated, on a question
of privilege, that the rejection of the Gov
ernor's nomination of Mr.. n. Greene Curti
for member of the Board of Regents wa
not inspired by political considerations, but
that the objections to Mr.. Curtis are per.
sonal. OF course we are bound to accept
this explanation as relieving the Republi-
can Senators who have voted against Mr..
Curtis from the imputation of partisan
bigotry and disregard of the law. We are
however somewhat surprised that this ex.
PLANTATION should have been withheld so
long, seeing that in its absence the almost
unavoidable presumption, from the sur
rounding circumstances of the case, was
that which this journal. in common with
the general public. was justified in adopt
ing Undoubtedly the Senate is entirely
within its privileges in declining to indorse
the nomination OF anyone, SO long as the
grounds of objection are not political.
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NEWS OF THE MORNING.

In New York yesterday Government bonds were
quoted at 1lS for As of 1907 1913 for IS of 1881
Il24 for AS sterling, 81 81G4 SAL; silver bars,
III.
silver in London, 81 7.l6d; consols, os 9l6; per
cent United States bonds, 1o34; Is, ll7; As,
115l
In San Francisco half dollars are quoted at ] dis
count to par; Mexican dollars, s3g@89c.
At Liverpool yesterday wheat was quoted at 9s I'd
@9s lid for good to choice California.
There was a show Of more business in the mining
share market at San Francisco yesterday, but the
squirt did not amount TO a boom.
Al attempt was made at Lompoc, Santa Barbara
county, Monday night to destroy hotel with
boInbshells
man arrested at Napa as a hishwaynan has
been sent to the insane asylum.
W H. Abbott fell fifty feet in a mining shaft at
Virginia, New, yesterday, and fatally injured
The Jury in the State TRIALS at Dublin were dis
charged Yesterday being unable to agree.
the funeral Of E. A sothern, the actor, took place
yesterday at Southampton, Eng. and strictly
private.
One cloth manufacturer in st. Petersburg has dis
charged 800 weavers at one stroke because of the
slack trade, and other mills are on short time or
closing
A mining expedition, composed mostly of young
men, left Newport r. l., yesterday, for Atrato
river, Panama.
Vanderbilt owns $50, OoO, 600 in Government bonds
The British Columbia Legislative Assembly opened
at Victoria Monday.
The boiler OF a steamer exploded near Pensacola
fla, yesterday, killing the Captain, engineer and
fireman.
Fire at Oregon City. Or; also at Alamosa, Col.
benjamin Wilson was found dead at his room at
Portland, Or, yesterday.
Maxey was elected United States Senator BY the
Texas Legislature yesterday on the first ballot
Justice swayne resigned from the United States
Supreme Court yesterday.
During the past six months l31, 900 more immi-
grants arrived in the United States than for the
same period in 1879
One man was killed and many others severely
injured in riot Bolton, Eng, yesterday.
The physicians of Chicago are puzzled over the
unusual amount OF sickness in that city.
n full report of the debris investigation last even
ing is given in another column OF to days RECORD
TNIoN.
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ANOTHER CALIFORNIA RAILRoAD.-We
find the following in the San Francisco

ANOTHER CALIFORNIA RAILRoAD.-We
find the following in the San Francisco
Bulletin of January 18th:
The Sierra Iron Company to-day fled
with the County Clerk declaration of it's
intention to proceed Immediately TO survey
a railroad route, and to build and equip a
two-foot gauge railroad from Oroville along
the Feather river, through American val
ley, Mohawk valley, Sierra valley and
Beckwith Pass to the State line, there to
connect with railroad now being con-
structed from Reno, and following a route
in the direction of Beckwith Pass, Long
valley, Honey lake valley, to the State of
Oregon. This declaration includes the
privilege of constructing branch line of
railroad from the Middle Fork of Feather
river, near Eagle creek, by Jamison creek
to the Sierra iron mines, and thence to
Downieville, Sierra county, distance %
miles; also. privilege of constructing a
branch railroad from Oroville to the Sacra-
mento river, via Chico, distance IS miles.
The capital stock amounts to 81, 200, 000
There has been subscribed $3.50, 600, and
the amount of assessments paid in exceeds
$50, 900.
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The Railroad War.

New YORK, January 25th.-The railroad
war still continues. A few days ago the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company reduced its
emigrant rate 40 per cent. and to-day the
Erie and New York Central did the same.
Following are specimen rates at which tick
ets are sold at Castle Garden to all corners,
whether they be emigrants or not Cleve.
land, IS 81; Chicago, 81 80; st. Louis,
| 50 80; Cincinnati, Sc go; louisville, So 80.
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House..

WASHINGTON, January 25th.-The Senate amend
ments to the Military Academy bill were con-
CURED in.
King said he would call up the Interoceanic Canal
resolutions Wednesday.
The House went into Committee of the Whole on
the Postof.ce appropriation bill.
After Intellectual attempt by Dwight to get
through an amendment TO pay two years salary to
postal employees killed railroad cars while serving
(his being relieve the families Of the postal clerks
burned in the Tioga accident), Upson's amendment
increasing the appropriation for inland transporta-
ton by steamboats, from $500 900 to 81 100000 was
rejected
Haskell's amendment increasing the star route
appropriation from 81 SIS 900 to S. $1,000 OPP
posed by Cannon, because the committee had appro-
prated half million more than the present appro-
priaton.
The amendment was rejected.
The committee rose, and the bill passed.
The minority and the majority reports on the
Yeates Martin election case were ordered printed.
The House adjourned, by combination of Re.
publicans and few Democrats to prevent consider.
alton of the electoral count resolutions.
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ms. DOYLE WEAKEEs

The Marysville appeal has the follow
ing : After walking back the Appeal rep
resentative met and became acquainted
with j. NJ. Doyle, who wrote the letters.
He was standing on the river bank and had
not been out on the dam at all, and left
without going out to see for himself. He
stated that he had not been on it except
two or three weeks ago, and was then only
on the south side and went out over the
short distance to the first sink. There
was then much more water than at pres
emit. When asked in regard to the letter
to Senator Glascock he admitted that it
was rash, that he never thought of its be-
ing published, that he was sorry for the
reference to the local press being throttled
and controlled, for he did not believe it
was in any way, and had not intended to
state or insinuate any such thing in re-
gard to Marysville papers. He expressed
his willingness and desire to publish a
card of apology or correction, stating that
he had no reference to the Appeal.
for he held no such opinion of the pa
per, and on the contrary, liked it and
thought it free and fair. He only meant
Sacramento papers. and was resentful be-
cause the RECORD UNION had failed to pub
lish his letter. That journal explains that
it received the letter, but it was from a
person not known to them as responsible,
and itdid not care to print charges from such
source which might injure and do injus-
tice to responsible men. He said that
he was rather angry when he wrote the
letter, because he had been so treated
When asked if he would swear to the truth.
fitness of the details of the letters, he
intimated that he would not attempt it,
but would say that the dam practically did
no good this year. He said, if examined, he
should not say anything about Mr.. Parks
and his being dishonest. He evidently is a
peculiar, eccentric individual, and very sorry
that he wrote such rash letters, foresees
that he cannot substantiate or insist on
the truth of what he wrote, and therefore
is not much pleased that he is to be ex
amined before the committee. 1t will ap-
pear on his examination that the main or
only importance that they were entitled to,
was because of their publication.
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CARLIN, January 25th.-The following pas
Sacramento tomorrow George A. Baldwin,
Miss r. Boyle. G. A. L. Merritt, New
York; George P. Locke, Ohio; H. Platt
Miss Mary L. Platt, Boston; w. Z. Rehren
and wife, Logan, o.; A. Ritcher. ST. Louis !;
George Harris, Chicago P. Kennedy, San
Francisco; j. B. Barrett, Pennsylvania !;
Henry Robine, j. Kane, Camp Halleck /;
K. X. Brown, Los Angeles; Miss Nellie
Price, Georgia; George A. Deitz, Sacra-
mento; IS emigrant passengers, including 40
males, to arrive in Sacramento January 9th.
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OREGON.


PORTLAND, January 25th. The residence
OF Abel Endy. of Oregon City, was totally
destroyed by FIRE last night. Loss, 81, 900 /;
insurance, 500.
The loss of stock in various sections of east
ern Oregon and Washington Territory is re-
ported very heavy from the severe and pro-
tracted storms.
Benjamin Wilson, aged IS years, resident
of Corvallis Or, was found dead in his room
at the st. Charles Hotel at o'clock this aft
ernoon. He retired the night before in good
health. 1t is supposed that heart disease
caused his death.
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A Pastor Made Happy.

I have been greatly troubled with my
kidneys and liver over twenty years, and
during that entire time / was never free frem
pain. My medical bills were enormous, and
I visited both the Hot and White Springs,
for the curative qualities of the water. am
happy to say / am now well man, and
entirely as the result Of Warmers Safe Kidney
and Liver Cure. With such glorious results
am only too glad to testify regarding the
remedy which has made me 80 happy.
REV. p. +. HARKLEE, Coal Run Crossing,
Arkansas. H. G. Kirk L Co., agents, Sacra.
mento
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DIED..

Sacramento, January 25-John Martin Baser g
native OF Switzerland, 81 years, months and Il
days.
Funeral notice hereafter.I
Grass Valley January Eliza Allen, year and
month.
Fort Jones, January 2o-Masy E. A. conely, 27
years and 10 months
Fort Jones, January 21-Nancg Ellen Wheatly, As
years, months and 10 days.
Stockton, January 23-Mary e. Partridge, Sc ye rs.
Near Pennington, San Joaquin county, January %
VIM. ST. John Rogers, Ga years, months and %
DAYS.
Near Lower Lake, December 27-Adtlie Ashley, q
Grass Valley, January 21-Mrs. Mary Williams, %
years. months and 20 days.
Marysvie, January 2I-Mrs Minnie Anderson, Il
years and months.
Ukiah, January 14-Louis LAGRANGE seftony years
and Il days.
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Senate.
WASHINGTON, January 25th.-The bill for q Blu
reau OF Animal Industry was ordered printed, and
committed to 3 special committee.
Logan renewed his motion to take up the Grant
retirement bill.
Lamar favored it, saying he supposed no one would
have objected to Grants retirement with proper
rank at any time when he was in the service. He
ought rot to be deprived of retir ment because
he had lett his place General to become Presi-
cent. The principal ought even to be extended.
Logaus motion was defeated-25 to Is. Lamar,
and Davis OF Illinois, voted with the Republicans.
Mcpherson was absent.
Edmunds from the Judiciary Committee, reported
back the resolution Of January 81 1850, instructng
the committee to inquire whether any discrimina.
ton or differences in treatment had been made in
the settlement with certain railway companies under
the Act Of February 81 1875, providing for the
Element OF matters in dispute He said the commit
tee had heard executive officers of the Government
ana counsel for particular railway company inter
ested in the question, and of the opinion that
no discrimination difference in treatment under
the law Il been made with reference to contracts
by the eXecutiyeOfficers. The committee were dis
charged from further consideration.
The bill to pay additional expenses of the census
passed.
Pendleton spoke on the Indian severalty land bill.
Several amendments were offered To the bill, but
without action the Senate went into executive ses
sion and soon adjourned.
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among the Indians, whatever they believe
to be the truth will be received by the
country as such, and it is possible that
through the means of this eleventh. hour
inquiry fresh wrong may be averted from
the already too-much injured Poncas.
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CALIFORNIA.
That settles II.

SAN Francisco, January 25th.-At Irish
American Hall tonight discussion on the
Chinese treaty took place. Kearney led for
the adoption of the treaty, and Stephen May
bell led the opposition. After debate of
two and half hours, on vote being taken,
the majority of the audience which filed the
treaty
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Weather Renorts.

SHASTA, January 25th-It commenced
raining again to-day, and is now raining quite
lively. Il is very cold, with chance for q
snow-storm.
DowElEv1LLE. January 25th.-Snow has
been falling all day over the mountains.
The mercury at 6 P. NJ. stands at $50. APP
pearances indicate lengthy and severe
storm. There is FIVE feet of hard, frozen
snow on the topmost ridges