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Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-02-19
NEWS OF THE MORNING.

In New York yesterday Government bonds wert
quoted at llSs for Is of 1907 1909 for IS OF 1881
1l25 for 4ls; sterling, a s44@4 81 silver bars
I11s.
Silver in London, 81 316d consols, 80 &c., pei
cent. United States bonds, 1853 As, ll6i; AIS
II4s.
In San Francisco half dollars are quoted at dis
count to par; Mexican dollars, S9@S94c.
At Liverpool yesterday wheat was quoted at 0s Sd
as I'd for good to choice California
Mining stocks were not so firm in San Francisco
yesterday, though the changes were very lnsignif
cant. Several kinds stood exactly at the same fig
ures as Thursday noon Others showed decline Of
&c to SOC, and still others advance of SC to soc
Charles Blood and Charles Witham were drowned
at La Grange Stanisaus county, Thursday.
Thomas Doughan run and killed at Sum.
NIT yesterday by a freight train.
Francisco Cuneo 70 years old, was fatally shot at
Bakersfield yesterday by Cruise Dominic
The remains of Hon. Fernando Wood arrived at
Washington yesterday.
1t is now learned that the Peruvian Capital was
captured by the Chileans through the treachery OF
Peruvian officers, who encouraged the soldiers to
pillage and murder.
The session OF the Pruss.an Diet will close on the
Esd instant
George 5. Mcmillan was burned to death at Lead
vilIe Col. Thursday night.
An Indian revolt is threatened in Sonora, Mexico,
Chief Jim Seattle, the last survivor but one OF the
old Washington Territory War Chief Seattle is dead
Fires at Hamilton, o.; East Boston, Mass; North
Benning ton, Vt; seottsboro, Ala.
French subjects are being murdered in Algeria by
marau ing tribes
The woman suffragists OF st. Louis have resolved
to put political ticket in the field for the spring
elections.
Four persons were drowned Thursday near With
erford, Tex, by the fall OF bridge while they were
crossing.
The Postmaster a, Fairview, Neb.; has been ar.
rested for robbing registered letters and confessed
the crime.
4 heavy snow-storm prevailed in Illinois and Iowa
all Thursday night, causing great delay on rail.
roads
Joseph S Dryer OF san Francisco died suddenly
1t Boise City, Idaho Thursday
In an accident on the Chesapeake and Ohio Rail.
road yesterday an engineer was killed and fireman
severely injured.
John Heeln was found dead in his room at San
.ancsc0 yesterday.
Frrrk Twiggs was hanged at waynesboro, Ga,
yesterday for murder
At Lawton, Ga, yesterday David Jones shot and
killed Samuel Roberts.
Readers of the RECORD UNION will find the inside
cages OF to-day's paper unusually interesting.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-02-19

munity. We have never. entertained or
expressed doubt as to the wrong done by
the washing of debris from the mines into
the rivers, but we have endeavored to view
the whole situation broadly, and to OBJ
tain, if possible, full protection for the
valley without destroying any other in.
terest. In that position the people of
Sacramento undoubtedly concurred, and
it was the consideration of their own in
terests which led them to approve the
compromise proposed.
The anti-hydraulic meeting has thrown
no new light on the situation. 1t has failed
to make good the position with which it
started, and it has not demonstrated that
its proposition would secure us the pro-
lection we need. The citizens who con-
sented to act on the committee no doubt
believed that the public welfare was sought
by the originators of the movement, but to
the cool observer it has been apparent
from the outset that the real inspiration of
the affair was desire to launch this city
upon the boundless ocean of litigation
with the hydraulic miners, for purely sci.
fish ends. Not very long ago Sacramento
had a small experience of that kind. A
person holding about 81, 900 worth of city
securities sued the corporation, and the
upshot was that the city paid out $l3, 600,
not to settle the case, but merely to secure
the postponement of it for one year. That
is the way the litigation of cities is con-
Quoted, and taxpayers can Judge from this
instance whether it would pay to plunge
into lawsuit against the hydraulic miners,
where powerful and wealthy interests are
at stake, and where every means and in
ducement to postpone final action would
assuredly be in operation against US. 1t is
easy enough to understand that attorneys
may be very DESTROYS of leading the city
into such an ENHANCEMENT, especially if
they expect to be employed themselves,
but taxpayers will do well to distrust all
suggestions looking, however indirectly,
towards such contamination.
Finally, we desire to warn this commu-
nifty against any movement which aims at
sacrificing the Debris bill under the pre-
text of stopping hydraulic mining We
tell them plainly that it is impossible to
obtain ten votes in either branch of the
Legislature in favor of the latter PROPOSE
ton, and that the sole result of urging it
at this time can be to strengthen the
hands of those who only seek to repeal the
Debris bill, and thus to leave the Sacra.
mento valley without relief of any kind.
We think the public can trust the RECORD
UNION not to neglect or run counter to
its best interests, but this journal will not
surrender positions the correctness of
which it has carefully and laboriously
verified, in order to help any selfish
schemers whatever who may have covert
designs upon the treasury.
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horses might go unshod so long as they
had only dirt roads to deal with, they
could not stand the wear and tear of city
streets without having their feet artificially
protected. But this is an entire mistake.
The truth is that the natural hoof is bet
ter adapted to any kind of road than the
whose hoofs have had time to grow back
into what Nature meant them to be is
surer-footed, has a lighter tread, is more
elastic and free in his movements, is less liza
BILE to lameness, than the victim of civilized
stupidity. At certain times it has been
found necessary to discard horseshoes, as
during military campaigns Napoleon's
cavalry lost all their shoes during the re-
treat from Moscow, but the general testi-
mony of the men was to the effect that
they went better without them. The an
clients knew nothing of shooting horses, yet
they did things with cavalry which would
almost certainly break down any mounted
expedition shod after the modern fashion.
In short the more the question is looked
into the palmer does it become that the
horseshoe is as unscientifc and truly bar
barous and mischievous an invention as
the bandages and narrow shoes by which
the feet of Chinese women are squeezed
out of shape. And we cannot call our
selves really enlightened until we have
abandoned a practice which has nothing
to recommend and very much to con-
damn II
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-02-19
THE WHEAT QUESTION.

The San Francisco Commercial Herald
has undertaken to bolster up the extrava-
CANT figures of the Produce Exchange in
regard to the amount of wheat now in
the State That is its own affair but we
cannot permit it to say that the RECORD
- UNION is endeavOring to crawl out of :"
It's former statement on this head. The
REcoRD-U UNION expressed the opinion that
the Produce Exchange had hagrantly
overstated the amount of wheat on hand,
and it has never retracted or altered that
opinion We still believe that the figures
of the Produce Exchange are preposterous,
and when San Francisco commercial jour
nails defend them, but without advancing
one title of evidence in their support, we
are justified in suspecting that these jour
mails are not animated solely and entirely
by zeal for the truth. The people who are
so fussily anxious that the farmers should
sell their wheat are in fact not exactly the
most disinterested witnesses as to the
prospects of the grain market, and what is
more the farmers realize this fact without
any difficulty
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-02-19
THE REFUNDING BILL.

The Senate has passed the refunding bill
very nearly as it came from the House.
Three per cent. has been fixed as the rate
of interest for the bonds, but the time they
are to run has been heightened. We have
elsewhere discussed the agencies which
may render it possible to float three per
cent. bond, but it must be remembered
that all such measures are in the nature
of experiments, and that there can be no
certainty about them until they are tried.
As yet it is not clear that the President
will sign the bill, though perhaps he may
be reluctant to antagonize Congress on the
very eve of his retirement. Should he sign
it however it will remain to be seen wheth-
er it will prove successful. The provision
compelling the National Banks to buy
three per cent. bonds as security for their
circulation can only prove operative pro-
vided that belief in the permanence of
the present decline of interest prevails
Otherwise the banks will simply abandon
their circulation, and the effect of this
would of course be to cause a formidable
contraction of the currency.
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not been much railroad building going on
lately, and therefore no adequate opening
for capital has been found. The fact that
there is a plethora of this kind was indi-
Gated year ago, when a very moderate
business Improvement was urged in
stantly into boom,' and pushed for.
ward with recklessness which under
other circumstances might have resulted in
panic. At present the supply of money
is so much greater than the demand that
interest is very low. 1t has in fact been
for two or three months practically below
3. in nearly all the great money centers !;
and therefore it is beginning to be thought
possible, even by experienced fnanciers,
that per cent. bond, provided it is
for a sufficiently long term, might be
foated. There can be no doubt as to the
expediency of choosing 8 per cent. in
preference to 81 per cent. bond, provided
that the question of its negotiability can
be satisfactorily answered and the present
conditions are such as almost to warrant
the experiment.
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THE TENURE OF TEACHERS IN PUBLIC
SCHOOLS.

A bill is before the Legislature to pro-
hibit the removal of public school teachers
save for cause, expressly defined, and in
Guiding serious offenses. 1t has been OBJ
ected to this bill that it takes authority
out of the hands of the Boards of Educa-
ton. If it were possible to secure such
School Directors as Quincy, Mass, has
been fortunate enough to obtain, it would
undoubtedly be wise to give the Board
plenary powers over the teachers, and to
leave everything to it and the Superin-
tendent. But the average School Board is
made of very different stuff. As rule
it IS composed of men who soon learn to
use their authority in the qualification
of their friendships, to say nothing of their
enmities. Teachers are installed or re-
moved without rational explanation !;
competence is scarcely ever considered
The Board exercises an arbitrary jurisdic-
ton. And one of the results is that every
candidate for teachers position is COM
PEELED to become a lobbyist and politician,
while another consequence is that no
teacher feels himself or herself any the
more secure because of competence, but
learns to trust more and more to arts and
influences which have no connection
with educational capacity. In large
cities it is notorious that there are
always many unfit teachers. They are
retained in their positions because they
have friends on the Board OF Education.
The latter rarely have either the ability or
the inclination to inquire seriously into the
manner in which the schools are con-
Quoted. Outward compliance with cut
and. dried rules is usually sufficient to sat
isfy them, and naturally there is little or
no energy or ambition in teachers so gov
erned. 1t would be hardly possible to
have a more inefficient system than the
present one in Short and proposition to
make the terms of teachers depend upon
conduct does not menace an authority
which possesses any valid apology for
further existence. So long as men are
elected to the Board of Education without
thought for their fitness solong as ignorant
ward politicians are considered capable of
directing theeducational system of the CON-
munity in large cities; so long will it be
desirable that the authority of Boards of
Education should be as brief as possible,
and that the teachers should be as little
as possible within the Jurisdiction of such
bodies, 1t is eminently proper that
teachers who devote their lives to the
business, and who have educated them
selves for it, should be put beyond the
reach of caprice and favoritism. Posi-
lions in the school ought not to be the
perquisites of School Directors, and we
are emphatically in favor of any law that
will put an end to this demoralizing use
of authority, and that will give good
teachers encouragement to put their best
energies into their work
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Marysville. February 16, 1881.

TRAVELLING DRAMATIC COMBINATIONS
The death record of travelling combinations
this season embraces, according to the
belief of writer in the Republic, fully 50
per cent. of those started out. When it is
remembered that large proportion of
these were ' snap" shows, with little char
acter and talent and less capital, there is
no particular call for tears. There have
been some good companies wrecked by bad
plays and good plays have gone to the bot
tom with bad companies. Then there have
been some instances where both plays and
companies were good wherein disaster is
fairly attributable to bad management.
Theseason has been good for good entertain
ments, as rule. But the reason of all
these failures is plain, and no manager or
theatrical speculator need go amiss for want
of it and its lesson. The country towns
upon which the cheap combination was
once won't to retrieve its city losses are get
ting intelligent. They will no longer be
captured by swell posters. They actually
know good play and can measure the
merits of actors and actresses. They I'M
derstand the " Union Square" trick and
the Wallack" trick as well as they do
the Barnum trick, and the reputation of
these companies always travels little
ahead. Having seen the best they are for
ever ruined as means Of support for
broken-down variety people and amateur
theatricals
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-02-19
THE DECLINE OF INTEREST

1t is beginning to be suggested that per-
haps three per cent bond can be fioated.
OF course the discussion which has been
had on this subject has been of necessity
eonjectural. There appeared six months
ago good reason to believe that bond at
less than 81 per cent. could not be nego-
tiated. Since then. however, it has been
made more apparent that there is very
large amount of idle capital in the country
seeking investment, and that thus far it
has not found employment in productive
industries. We believe this latter fact to
be largely attributable to the paralyzing in
fuence of our tariff and navigation laws,
which practically forbid American capital
lists to invest in either manufacturing or
maritime transportation. 1t is curious
that tariff which was devised expressly
to build up American manufactures should
operate to restrict and confne them, but it
does this by circumscribing the area of
American trade, and thus limiting the mum.
Der of manufacturers who can find market
abroad. Thus American capital has been
excluded from production, and has found
investment only in railroads. But there has
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-02-19
CENERAL AMERICA.

The following items of interest are from
exchanges received by the steamer era
NADIA, which arrived at San Francisco
Thursday:
The river steamer Pitpan, running be-
tween Greytown and Lake Nicaragua,
burst her boiler on the I'd inst Several
persons were killed and number wounded.
Among the former are DIR. ArguellO, Mr..
Mougalo, a Greytown merchant, and two
natives General Urtecho, Governor of
Greytown, was severely scalded and other.
wise injured.
For some time a scheme has been talked
of of running a railroad right along the
foothills from Escuintla, Guatemala, to the
Mexican border, thus tapping all the coffee
country on the slope
So as not to drain the resources of the
Government, it has been determined to
carry out the plan of the Guatemala Exhi
bition of 1882 by means of joint stock
company
Some days ago attention was called by a
letter in the Diario to the easy access
from the Gulf of Mexico, by means of the
river Usurnacinta, to the Department of
Peten, a portion of Central America known
TO De very IlcH III Natural RESOURCES, DuI as
yet almost unexplored. An expedition has
already started to that region.
By official census the population of
Guatemala City and its suburbs is 60, 735.
The foreign population figures in the list
at 1856 and 81, l02 persons can neither
read nor write. Of foreigners properly So
called there are 95 Americans, 100 French,
Hollanders, 2OS italians, a. English, I04
Germans, 81 Swiss and Is Austrians. In
the city the number of houses of two
stories is 60 of one story, 4,39S, and of
matched houses and others of an inferior
character, SCI.
The boundary question between Costa
Rica and Colombia is to be settled by ar
bitration. A convention to that effect,
signed on the 25th of December, in San
Jose, Costa RIGA, ratified by the Council
of State of that Republic, and sanctioned
by his Excellency, President Thomas
Guardia, now awaits but the sanction of
the Colombian Congress and Executive.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-02-19

CARLIN, February 1Sth.-The following pas
sengers passed Carlin to-day, to arrive In
Sacramento tomorrow Mrs. D. II. Haw-
ley and daughter, Sturgis, Mich. Richard
C. Hanson, j. Meyer, Mrs. Henry Meyer,
San Francisco Charles A. Dante, Prescott,
Arizona E. A. Davidson and wife, Gilroy !;
G. Cowans and wife. Tuscarora, New; A.
Kelly, }. NJ. Gleason, Minnesota VIM. NJ.
Purda, John S. Purda, San Francisco j,
Benjamin, Michigan; II. Heynaman, San
Francisco a. l.. Mills, wife and child
Massachusetts NJ. Gensberg, August Kneid,
San Francisco; Charles II. Belts and wife,
California S. B. Morris, San Francisco; c.
J. Wimple and wife, Mexico; H. F. Parsons
and wife, San Francisco Mrs. Frank Bige-
low, New York; DIR. b. B. Brewer, Sacra-
mento; e. NJ. Hidden, Philadelphia; G.. c..
Hail. San Francisco u. Crocker. Salt Lake
City William Bell, London, Ont; Pedro
+ Dalcour, Mexico; Mike johnson, Sacra-
mento Miss Lille Madden, Terrace, Utah !;
Mrs Annie Webb and family, Ogden E.
Teutsch, New Orleans Albert Williamson,
San Francisco 20 emigrant passengers, in
Guiding 40 males, to arrive in Sacramento
February 10th.
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THE REASONS

For declaring the WEEKLY USIoS the best family
paper are Obvious. 1t is the only weekly paper
which is issued in two parts and carries to its read
ers the news OF the day twice week. BY this
means the news is to the great mass of readers in
the country nearly as fresh as if CLEANED from a
daily paper. It is the only sixteen-page weekly
journal in the state it is a complete news, com
mercial, literary and critical paper; its columns
have special departments carefully edited for the
farmer, mechanic, merchant, the housewife, the
young people the lovers OF curious puzzles, educa-
tors artisans, bankers brokers, readers of fiction
and poetry, and the general reader OF the political
scientific and business news Of the day. The
WEEKLY UNION is mailed for one year. prepaid, to
any address in the United States for 81 so.
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laborers on the o. and G. and Western Ore
gon Railroads, and owes every one OF them.
Most of the men deposited their wages with
him, he acting as their banker. He owes one
gang of men $1,000. AS far as known at
present, his liabilities are 100000. of which
$50, 900 is due to Americans and $40 600 to
Chinese. The whereabouts of Lee Sam, the
resident agent, is still unknown.
Reports from the grazing localities of the
State are distressing The weather continues
very severe, especially throughout eastern
and southern Oregon, and horses, cattle and
sheep are dying by thousands. 1t is estima-
ted that not more than 60 per cent. of the
stock of the State will survive the winter.
A late report from Wasco county says that
the snow is three feet deep, AMI all the stock
of that section was in danger of starvation.
Horses and cattle are in deplorable condi-
ton, and there is nothing left in the country
to feed them with but wheat. The loss Is
already very great.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-02-19
CANNON AND CAMPBELL.

A story has been telegraphed to theeffeot
that Campbell, who received Governor
Murray's certificate for an election in
which he was defeated, has been playing a
very ignoble and pettifogging game with
his opponent, Cannon, in trying to evade
the service of notice of contest If the
story be true it is highly discreditable to
Campbell, and would go to show that
3srrray had been still more unfortunate
N ms action than was previously supposed.
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OREGON.
Funeral Weather state Temperance
AIIiance-Faial Accident-The Chinese


PORTLAND. February 1Sth.-The funeral
of the late Dr. J. c. Hawthorne took place
this afternoon from st. David's tEPiscopal)
Church, East Portland. The obsequies were
very largely attended. The services were
conducted by Bishop Morris and Rev. j. w.
The weather is cold and cloudy. Snow
still remains on the ground. Reports from
up the Columbia indicate that the tempera-
ture is moderatiDg.
The State Temperance Alliance adjourned
to-day after very interesting and har-
monious session.
Henry Eads, an old citizen of Yamhill
county. was so badly crushed few days ago
by falling tree that he died to-day from his
injuries.
The failure Of the Coung lie Young Com
pany is more ramifying than at first reported,
and increases in magnitude as new develop
ments come to light Tom Duck Chung,
Chung Yam and Hop Chung, three rich firms
here Endorsed for him to the extent of $1,000
at Ladd & Tilton's and the First National
Bank, and will of course have that amount
to pay. Sam furnished all the Chinese
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ARIZONA.
Indian Revolt Imminent Serious Out
look.

Tucson, February 1Sth.-Information this
morning from He mosillo, Sonora, is to the
effect that the Ysquin Indians are preparing
for general revolt. They have driven all
the ranchers outside of the region they claim
as their land, which covers an area OF about
$50 square miles, and is the MOST fertile and
richest mineral land in the State. They rob
all travellers who pass through their country,
irrespective of nationality. The Mexican
Government propose to send in 1900 troops,
to build posts and protect the settlers who
may return. Two thousand five hundred of
these troops are men en- route from Guadala-
jsra, and l, 800 are to be recruited at Quay
mas and Hermosillo. The Yaquius are about
l, 800 strong, and can muster between 3 600
and 1900 warriors. They are partially
civilized. Stock-raising farming AMI mining
are their chief industries. They declare that
they will never give up their territory, CT
allow any other people but their own to settle
on these lands.