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THE GUILTY pLuMBER-

They do not like plumbers in New
York, and now they have got enc in a
very unpleasant position. He sent a green
hand with pot of gasoline to thaw out
the water pipes In the basement of a
tenement house. The green hand man.
aged to upset the gasoline an explosion TO-.
lowed the house was instantly in blaze ;
and nine persons were burned to death.
Whereupon the responsible boss plumber
has been arrested and clapped in the
Tombs, and there is a general determine
ton to prosecute him to the utmost ex-
tent of the law. The people in New York
appear to believe that all plumbers are
totally depraved. and therefore when
they do get chance to punish one of
that nefarious guild they are prone to ex-
cess. No doubt from strictly moral point
of view this plumber is guilty of construct.
i've homicide, but Courts do not proceed
upon abstract ethical principles, and
therefore it may be doubted whether it
will be found possible to hold this guilty
plumber
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EADs' SHIP RAILWAY.

Captain Eads has obtained very important
concessions from Mexico for his proposed
shiprailway across the Isthmus of Tehuante-
pee, and nowif he can convince capitalists of
the feasibility of his plan he ought to ex-
perience no difficulty in forming a COM
pany for its prosecution. The principle of
the ship railway has been so fully tested
already that there does not seem much
ground for doubt as to its soundness. All
that can be said is that such weights as he
proposes to carry have never yet been
transported in that way. This, however,
is merely question of mathematics, and
in no sense an objection. The ship rail.
way is we believe far more practi.
cal and promising device than the canal
of Lesseps, and as it can be built for less
than half the money it ought not to go
begging in these days of bold, nay reckless,
speculation.
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CARDS the nature of the system to be
adopted, the reports of the State Engineer
furnish the only trustworthy information.
He and his assistants have examined the
situation, and have ascertained what can
be done, and how best to do it. It
is not with this part of the problem
that the difficulties lie, however. The diff
fieulties here are only q1estions of finance,
and can be adjusted by business men
on business principles. The perplexities
of the subject grow olt of the liens on
water which have been acquired in the
past, and which interfere with and com.
piicate every scheme that is proposed. To
suppose that this Legislature can solve a
problem so complicated in so short pc.
Rod would be unreasonable. If an attempt
is made to legislate upon it in hurry, the
work will almost certainly be i'll done, and
will not endure. A state system of irriga-
ton is necessarily very great question, and
il will demand clear and sustained delibera
ton. We doubt very much whether the
Judiciary Committees Of the Legislature
will be able to deal with all the legal
questions involved, and yet they will have
to be dealt with. There is in fact need OF
engineering SC ence, financial skill, and
legal sagacity, in order to unravel this
tangled situation, and the expectation that
all these requirements can be supplied to
the necessary extent in less than sixty
days, and amid thousand other urgent
matters, ought not to range very high.
Probably we ought to be satisfied if be.
ginning is made this winter,
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PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.

Trout are being killed with giant powder
in Kelsey creek, Lake county.
The gold shipments of British Columbia
for 1880 amounted to sos, 900.
The office of the Visalia Delta was par
TALLY burned last Friday morning.
The Monterey cemeteryis soon to be i'm
proved. About $3.50 will be expended in
the work.
a meteor d" as large as a haystack' re-
Gently fell on Slaughter Island, near New
Westminster, B. G.
The Wood river, Idaho, miners were re-
Gently fifteen days without communication
with the rest of the world.
Fraser river is frozen over at Farr's land
ing, and below that to New Westminster,
B. c., the river is full of ice.
The Modoc Independent says that there
have been fifteen deaths recently from
scarlet fever between Cedarville and Eagle
vile.
The customs duties collected at Victoria,
B. G., in December amounted to $50, 1873,
an excess of $40, 900 over the corresponding
month of 1879.
AT NOItu AJGLd, Ou SOUo DAY, oregon,
they have built a shed over the vessel in
the course of construction, and the work
goes on in spite of the weather.
E. NJ. Mcdonald, United States Com
missioner to investigate the unlawful de-
struction OF timber on Government land. is
visiting San Bernardino county.
The storms have uuearthed an Indian
graveyard at the mouth of the Couuille
river, Oregon, where shells and beads rep
resenting Indian money are found among
the skeletons.
At Clinton, B. c., on the 18th of No
vember, the Thermometer was said to be
so below zero. The cold snap of Novem-
Der 18th and 9th was the coolest ever ex-
perienced in that section of the country.
Agricultural lands in Dakota on the line
Of the Northern Pacific have sold as high
rs $40 per acre, and the crops generally
have beea above the average. Districts
surveyed last season are now covered with
settlers, and thriving towns are also spring.
ing up.
Ten years ago the white population Of
Arizona did not exceed 10000 souls, set
tied about military posts or living in the
few towns scattered in the Territory.
More than half of Arizona was then an un.
known country, only penetrated occasion
ally by the venturous prospector.
Says the State Line (Ol) Herald There
are now about l2,0 900 sheep on the desert,
where they will be kept until spring opens
the range in the valleys. There are also
many cattle being wintered there, and the
range is said to be in excellent condition.
Snow falls ON the desert sufficiently to sup
ply the water necessary for the stock.
a Winnipeg paper says A man named
Guillaume came over the Rocky Mountains
from British Columbia last fall with a
small herd of cattle, which he wintered on
the grassy slopes of the Bow river country,
under the shelter of the east side of the
Rockies. These he sold in the spring,
realizing IS, 600, with which he returned to
the Pacific slope.
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AN AGUE KMLER.-V Lennep, the
Swedish Consul, writes from Mahazik,
near Smyrna" to the London Times, as
follows: Before the eucalyptus was ever
heard of in Asia Minor, l had seen the
Bark OF the willow used as febrifuge. l
had remarked the easy and inexpensive
reproduction of this tree. its quick growth
in damp places, its excellent qualities for
fuel and for agricultural implements, and
its great advantages for strengthening the
banks of capricious streams, and had
thence taken every opportunity after the
winter floods to stick willow cuttings
along the banks of streams and in other
damp places In my property also to scat
ter plane-tree seeds in marshy spots. The
result has been that, whereas twenty years
ago the full grown trees in this neighbor-
hood might have been counted, a luxurious
growth of willows and plane-trees marks
my place, fuel is abundant, fever is stead
lily decreasing, the meanderipg propensi-
ties of the streams are checked, my neigh
bors have to come to me for agricultural
implements, and l have not had to go for
timber for rough purposes" 1t may be
interesting to observe in this connection
that the comparatively new but we'll
known antiseptic preparation known as
solicene is derived from the bark of GER
tain species of the willow. 1t is of pure,
bitter taste and highly febrifuge in quality.
1t is largely used In various solutions, in
surgical operations, and is the most eff.
fectual preventive of putrefaction III the
system known.
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GENERAL MILLER FOR UNITED STATES
SENATOR.

The Republican legislative caucus has
made a choice for United States Senator
which is not only a remarkably good one,
but which appears to be approved more
unanimously than is often the case. Cen
eral Miller is man of much more than
ordinary capacity and fitness. He is in
fact one of those men who cannot be kept
down by circumstances, because their ma.
tive energies lift them above circumstances.
He has achieved distinction in all the oc-
equations he has been engaged il, and has
everywhere exhibited that combination Of
talents which is necessary to conspicuous
success in any field OF human activity.
He was good lawyer, good commander,
a good Federal officer, a good business
man, and therefore we have every reason
to believe that he viii be good United
states Senator. Ii must be said for Gen
eral Miller also, as it cannot be said of all
the men who have had political distin Otior,
thrust upon them, that he has earned every
step in his upward career by genuine in
dustry and sound Judgment He has not
been lifted on the wave of an ephemeral
excitement He has not had an ideal rep
utahon fabricated for him by journalistic
supporters. What he is he owes to his own
ability and persistence and to no outside
or Fictitious influence. a man who has
shown such capacity for hard work,
and SO laudable perseverance in accom-.
plishing all his aims, is the kind of ma
terial for the United States Senate. We
may be reasonably confident that he will
enter upon the duties of his office fully ap-
preciating its possibilities, and that he
will give to the State he represents the
best fruits of the business training and ed
ucated judgment which have already done
so much for his personal interests. Cen
eral Miller thoroughly understands the
wants of California, and will be able to
foster and protect all her interests at
Washington. We shall expect much from
him, because we believe that he possesses
beth the capacity and the inclination to do
much. a man whose private fortune is
secure. who has an honorable career be-
hind him, who is ambitious. and who pos
sesses brilliant abilities, viii naturally
seek to crown his public life by winning a
reputation for statesmanship, and by COM
mending himself, through wise aud bene-
ficent legislation, to the State of his adon-
ton. Such an ambition we believe Gen.
eral Miller to be inspired by, and we shall
therefore watch his career in the Senate
with equal expectation and confidence.
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rAg QUESTION OF 1RR1eATroN.


The question of irrigation will come be.
fore the Legislature, and it certainly will
not BE- able to handle it unless it is pre-
pared to be guided by the advice and ex-
perience of others. The people vino live
in the arid regions will no doubt be pre-
pared with many recommendations looking
to the clearing up of the confusion caused
by the bungling laws on riparian rights
which have heretofore been enacted. As
usual in such cases we have blindly adopted
laws and principles which were utterly
inapplicable to California conditions, and
now we are perplexed to find remedies for
the wrongs which have been established.
Nevertheless it is certain that this State
must have system of irrigation, and that
this system must be wholly free from the
control of corporations. These two essen
tials must be held to under all circum-
stances, and it ia necessary to shape exist
ing conditions so as to fit them. As re-
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NEWS OF TIE MORNING.

In New York yesterday Government bonds we're
quoted at ll2 for IS of 1907; l0lI for IS OF 1851
I115 for AZ; sterling, 81 sOl@4 IS F; silver bars
H.
silver in London yesterday, 514; consols,
es ll-l6 per cent United States bonds, 1919 As,
1l5s 4Es, 1l5l
In san Francisco half dallars are quoted at dis
count to par Mexican d-llars 9o@9lc.
At Liverpool yesterday wheat was quoted st9s Sd
61i0s for good 70 choice California
Mining stocks were again weak IN San Francisco
Yesterday morning. In most instances, values were
lower than Tuesday Alta, which a month ago, was
wanted at $50, was offered yesterday morning at a
slight fraction over 81. Benton and Justice have
gone to very low figures, selling at 5O@6oc. The
north end stocks are equally dull and low.
A dwelling WAS burned al Cottonwood San Diego
county, Monday, and two children persisted in the
flames.
Accidents without serious results occurred yester-
day on the Wilmington and Weldon Railroad in
North Carolina, and on the Atchson Topeka and
Santa Fe Railroad in Kansas.
Fires occurred yesterday at Chicago, Lockport,
n Y, and on Long Island.
The Governor of Ohio yesterday notified the Sen
att t4AAN bHlbSu StatSo DShAto4t iGCt btIliSu hdl
resigned.
4 party OF hoodIums fatally stabbed two men in
Philadelphia yesterday morning.
Adelna Patti is coming to America next summer.
The Illinois General Assembly met yesterday at
Springfield
Broadway, Wall and Broad streets in New YorE
to be illuminated by the electric light.
A disturbance is expected at Banqui's funeral Ii
Paris.
otto Dressed, prominent Ohio lawyer killed
himself yesterday at Columbus.
The Missouri State Legislature met at Jefferson
City yesterday
William B. Wood Yesterday took his place in tn,
United States Supreme Court.
Governor-elect Porter, Of Indiana, was married
in New York to a sister of General Roy Stone.
Additional particulars OF the railroad accident ii
Nebraska Tuesday are given this morning.
Seven buildings were destroyed by fire yesterda,
at U1iah, Mendocno county.
Maggie Eagol committed suicide with stTychnint
Yesterday at san Jose.
Chief Justice Moss, OF Ontario, is dead.
Mrs. ChrIstiancy denies that she wrote the letter.
4 Giro which have been published, and pronounce
them malicious forgeres
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reeted with laughter on the Republican side. Laid

greeted with laughter on the Republican side. Laid
aside
FRYE Inquired how the interstate commerce Sill
would gain any advantage by being taken up to-day.
The Speaker-lt will be unfinished business to-
morrow.
frye-wll it take precedence OF the funding
bill?
The Speaker replied that the funding bill was in
Committee of the Whole, and thai the motion to 90
into such committee would have preference any
time to a motion to go to the House calendar
The interstate commerce bill was finally reached
and taken up for consideration.
Reagan stated that he had reported the pending
bill from the Committee Commerce, though he
did not himself approve its provisions. he had
offered a substitute, known as " the Reagan substl-
tute," and McLane OF Maryland had also offered a
substitute, which he understood would be with
drawn For the purpose of getting the matter in
shape for debate, he proposed to explain the pro-
visions OF his substitute and he would then call the
previous question on the adoption OF that substi-
tute.
Henderson called attention to the anomalous stu
alton of the pending bill, which was in charge OF
gentleman (Reagan) who was avowedy hostile to
1t. He desired that some determination should be
arrived at as TO division Of the discussion
Reagan then continued in support OF his subst
tute. 1t provided that one man should not be
charged more than another for the same service ];
that no drawbacks or rebates should be allowed ;
that the people should not be deprived of the bene
fit OF competition by pooling freights between com
petng railroads; that the people should be pro-
tected by partial restrictions on the power of cor
porations and that more shall not be charged for
shorter distance than for 10 ger distance over the
same line
Rice inquired whether the gentleman (Reagan)
believed that Congress had the power to obige the
New ork Central Railroad Company, in any way,
to modify its charges for freight received by it at
Buffalo, either by railroad steamboat, TO be car
red within the State of New York.
Reagan replied that it was the origin and destina-
ton OF freight that fixed the nature of commerce
If freight was shipped from State to another it
was interstate commerce. whether it went over one
or many railroads
Reagan then proceeded to state his objections to
the committees bill, but was cut short by the expi
ration of his hour
The matter then went over, the understanding
being that when it next comes up one or twy days
be allowed for debate.
Epson produced bill authorizing the President
to place Brigader- General and Brevet Major Gen
era E. o. C. Ord on the retired list according to
his brevet rank Referred
The Speaker read several executive commun ca.
tions before him, among them a letter from the
PostnasterGeneral relative to bags of mail matter
re aimed in the Washington postOffce, which were
attempted to be sent through the mails under
franks.
Brown called for its reading, pending which the
House adjourned.
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DIED.


Davisyille, January flames luncheon, native of
Canada, 81 years. Canada and Detroit, Mich gan
papers please copy)
FRIENDS and acquaintance are respectfully invited
10 attend the funeral, which will take place from
Masonic Hall, Davisville, this morning ct 10
a'aIoet,.1
Sacramento, January 2-Mame Alice, daughter OF
Frank W. and Clara E. Dunno (San Francisco
and Sandwich Islands papers please copy)
Buckeye Valley, December l7-William p Sherfey,
Is years
Rio Vista, December 31-Mrs. L. C. Rrble, 80 years
and months. tNew Brunswick papers please
Oakland, December 2s-Dayid Halliday, 81 years, )
months and days.
flaeeryiile, December 81 Jane NJ. Van yliet, &c
years.
Near jackson, December 27-Andrew Farrerie q
years
stockton, December 2O-John Pattison, 80 years and
10 Gays.
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1t is an ugly fact that there are many
comparatively trivial breaches of law which
in this community are much more certain
to be punished than murder. Indeed if a
murder is committed BY man or woman
possessing friends, influence or money,
the chances are hundred to one against
their conviction. This Is very serious thing
to say, butitis the simple truth. We cannot
recall single case of the kind cited in
which the murderer has been adequately
punished. At the utmost short term of i'm
prisonment Is inflicted in these cases, and
as soon as attention has been withdrawn
from the matter efforts are begun to pro-
cure the pardon OF the prisoner. It is,
therefore, really more dangerous to COM
NIT a burglary or a forgery than to kill a
man in this State, and it is necessary that
the public should have this disgrace.
full condition of things forced upon
their attention. Senator Johnson S
bill is calculated to promote the
discussion of the situation, and when the
facts are compared with what he proposes,
it will be seen that no great relapse into
barbarism is required to bring US to the
methods he suggests. In fact, if we con.
tinue to acquit murderers as we have
hitherto done, this is plainly what will
happen. When men see that their rela-
tives and friends are slaughtered with i'm
punity, they viii presently take into their
own hands that work of punishment which
the Courts have abandoned. They will
avenge their family wrongs just as similar
wrongs have been redressed on the from
tiers for generations. Blood feuds will
become recognized institutions, and the
crack Of the pistol and CLEAN of the knife
viii be everyday incidents on our principal
thoroughfares and places of social and
business resort. For it is absurd to sup
pose that the murderers will always be
permitted to have their own way,
and if blood feuds do not arise,
Vigilance Committees will. No COM
munity can allow murder to go unpunished
without ultimately reverting to barharism
When the punishment for murder is viz
tually abolished, as with us at present,
the fact negatives all boast of advancement
in civilization, and threatens further de.
cline. We must punish murder by law,
or it viii be punished without law That
fact must be realized by our legislators,
and therefore instead of taking Senator
Johnson's bill as joke, they will do well
to cast about for some serious practical
method of restoring to the criminal law
the energy and usefulness of which it has
been deprived by the cowardice and i'm
becility of juries, and the barbarous
apathy or maudlin sentimentality of go.
ciety.
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A PERFECT CYcLoPEDIA OF VALUABLE
REFORMATION"
Nevada Transcript. january 5.h.l

The New Years edition Of the SACRAMENTO
RECORD UsioS contains a stupendous and lasting
monument to the enterprise and Iiberality OF its
management It embraced twenty pages, carefully
prepared, of closelyset matter on important local
and general topics, being in fine perfect cyclopedia
Of valuable information. Whatever may be said to
the contrary by less far seeing publishers, the pub
lie invari bly, display fitting appreciation of such
efforts. Here in Nevada City, Mr.. WEIGH, the az mt
of the, RECORD UNION. found the first large extra
ord exhausted before half the people who wanted
copies were supplied. aud Immediately sent by tee-
qrap for second lot for which he found an equally
,oracious market
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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
NOTICE,

an THE 10TH INST. 1 SHALL OPEN A
" PRIVATE BANK, at the southwest corner of
and Fourth streets, in this city It will be
primarily Commercial Bank, and conducted on the
principles OF the Commercial Banks of Europe and
the Atlantic States. 1t will oe bsnk of discount
and deposit, will buy and sell exchange, effect loans,
make collections and investments, and transact all
kinds OF financial business for its patrons De-
partment will also be opened to be conducted on
The principle of SAVINGS BANKS, in which interest
will be paid on deposits.
ja6-2p4t JAS. LAWRENCE ENGLISH.
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NOTICE TO CREDITORS.

EsrATE OF WILLIAM CHTtMAN BROWN,
ID deceased. Notice is hereby given by the
undersigned, administrator Of The estate Of
WILLIAM CHAPMAN BROWN, deceased, to the
creditors OF, and all persons having claims against
said deceased to exhibit them with the necessary
afidavts vouchers, within four months after the
first publication of this notice, to the undersigned
at the Office Of L. s. Taylor, no. $50 street, sacra-
mento city California.
Dated January 8, 1880
RUSHING BILLANY, Administrator.
L, 8, TAYLOR, Attorney for Administrator.
iae- lawtwTh
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CONGRESSIONAL.


WASHINGTON, January 5th.-The Vice President
submitteda communication from James A. Garfield
dated December 22d recitiDg that the Ohio sem
bly, had chosen him United States Senator, and no.
tifying the Senate that he had declined to accept
the appointment Placed on file.
Burnside asked Eaton, Chairman of the Committee
Foreign Affairs, if any action bad been taken on
his joint resolution deprecating the construction of
the interoceanic canal by European powers. Burn
side hoped the Government might now take still
stronger grounds OF opposition and declare against
the construction of such canal by any company in
corporated by any foreign Government.
Eaton said the committee had not acted but
doubtless should.
Voorhees, and Garland moved that the bill for the
relief Of Ben Holiday be taken up in the morning
hour.
discussion on point of order ended in the bill
being ordered up-ayes 80, noes 20.
Adjourned