Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-03-17
I PACIFIC COAST.
LAST NIGHTS DISPATCHES TO THE RECORD
UNION.
MORALITY ON TOP At MERGED.
All Worthless Characters to be Vigorously
Prosecuted.
PASSENGERS VIA cARLIN AND MoJAvE.
Heavy Fall of Snow at Nevada City
and Bodie.
OREGON AND WASHINGTON TERRITORY
A Murder Trial in Progress at Los An
geles.
CALIFORNIA.

The Greenbackers and the Cars Mur-
der-Geaeral Upton's suicide-The Kali
lOeh Case.
SAN Francisco, March 16th.-The Green
back Central Club, comprising the Green
back Ward Presidents and leading Green
hackers of the city, met this evening, and
olutions indorsing the assassination of the
Gar of Russia as an act of self-defense
against monarchial injustice, and extending
the heart and hand Of sympathy to their fell
low-republicans Of Russia, and especially to
those sublime patriots who, in consummation
of the holy act, have sacrificed themselves
upon the altar of their country's liberty. A
resolution censuring President Garfield and
Secretary Blaine for having forwarded con-
diments" to the family of the Gar, and
eulogizing the man who threw the glass ball
of science as more worthy of being classed as
patriot than Marcus Brutus, the assassina-
tor of Cesar, was laid over one week. The
presumption is that the objection to the
condiments arose from a disinclination of
the drawer of the resolution to sauce the
Cars family.
The Coroner's jury, in the case of General
Upton. returned a verdict of suicide due to
an overtaxed brain, the result of the expected
failure of the work in which he was engaged.
In the Kalloch case this afternoon testi-
mony was taken to impeach the character of
Horan, one of the witnesses for the defense.
B. f. Wardel, bookkeeper of the Chronicle,
testified to finding, after careful examina-
ton on the morning after the shooting, five
bullet marks in the Chronicle Office. i III.
Linforth, a carpenter, on the evening of the
shooting, found only four bullet marks Wm
Patten, an architect, testified to similar
number of bullet marks. The testimony of
these witnesses was to show that there was
no bullet mark in the wall of the office where
De Young's shot, as described by Clemet.
shaw, would have struck. After some iru-
parchment of witness Barry, the Court ad-
journed.
Cleansing the Augean Stables at Mer-
ced = Crusade Against the Worthless
Class.
MERGED, March 16th.-A great haul of the
worthless characters was made here last
night by local officers, on warrants issued
by Justice Blackburn, and placed in the
hands of Constable Lees, the entire Sheriff s
force and the town watchman aiding in the
arrests. Five houses of prostitution were
visited by the officers simultaneously, and
between thirty and forty women, men and
boys captured and taken into custody.
ing, and q large number of them gave bonds
for their appearance, this afternoon and to-
morrow being set as the time for most of them
to plead to the complaints. The town has been
overrun with these classes for months and even
years past, and the District Attorney de-
clares his intention to prosecute all violators
of the law vigorously, in which he has the
support and encouragement Of all good citi-
Zens.