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TIE LAND ACT,

The report of the Commissioners upon
the first years operation of the Irish Land
Act appears to indicate that the law has
not had anything like fair trial. The
Commissioners state that there has thus
far been marked indisposition to buy land
on the part of the tenants, though many of
the landlords have been anxious to sell. 1t
may be that not few of the tenants have
been encouraged to believe that if they
waited little they would get the land for
nothing. 1t is also probable that the
treatment experienced by landowners in
Ireland of late years has not tended to
make the ownership of land popular. The
statement that the Arrears Act has not
been taken advantage of to anything like
the extent anticipated, despite the fact
that many of the farmers are very heavily
in arrears with their rent, is more difficult
of explanation. Il may be construed as
meaning that the farmers expect to be able
to pay off their arrears, and prefer that
course to process of withdrawing. It
can hardly be supposed that they do not
intend to pay, yet do not care to be legally
released from their Indebtedness. The
condition of ireland during the past year,
however, has been so anarchic that 1t is
extremely difficult to ascertain the true
causes of these phenomena. Perhaps the
most hopeful indication lies in the state
meut of the Commissioners that "agree-
"ments for fair rents between landlord
land tenant without the Intervention of
" the Courts are increasing under the
g working of the Act" This seems to
show that both sides are approaching ten.
able ground, and that so at length an equi-
hbrium may be established.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-11-18
TzE ILLNESS OF PRESIDENT GaEvY

The illness of President Grevy ia now re-
presented as more serious than was at first
supposed, aud it is thought possible that
even if he lives he may be compelled to re-
sign. OF course the name of Gambetta is
brought forward under these circumstances,
and If the anarchist scare could be made to
assume really formidable aspect it is pos
sible that ne might have 4 chance of being
chosen. But apart from this there is moth
ing in the situation to show that the French
people are at sll anxious to have him
back again in power, while it is perfectly
certain that great many of them distrust
him profoundly, and fear that his methods
are incompatible with continued peace
either at home or abroad. Gambetta in
fact is discredited, and altogether by his
own follies. General Chanzy is also
spoken of as Grevy's successor, but it may
be doubted whether France wants another
military President at this time. Bresson,
the alleged choice of the Moderates, would
probably be the best yet suggested He is
man of ability, statesman OF some ex.
perience, of an old family, and not allied
with any of the elements which at present
create uneasiness and suspicion in France.
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latterly been disseminated very widely,
and it is possible for such explosives to be
prepared secretly for criminal purposes.
And when we consider how many evil.
disposed and revepgeful people there are
in the world it seems not unlikely that the
use of these deadly chemicals may become
more common than it has ever vet been.
during the next ten years. Dynamite and
its congeners are certainly very tempt
ing to criminals, though occasionally they
come across novel experience, as when
the safe-smashers put gunpowder into the
keyhole of safe full of dynamite caps, and
90 blew the safe to atoms, and frustrated
their own purpose. In France the use of
dynamite bombs has become alarminply
frequent of late, and it is evident that
what may be called the chemistry of muir
der has received an ominous impetus. So
ciety may at no distant date find itself
seriously menaced by these diabolical in.
ventions
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-11-18
THE CASE OF THE GARFIELD eLAzIBR

The Garfield Board of Audit has been
metaphorically aoored by the presentation of
an entirely novel claim. 1t will be remem-
bered that when the assassin fred at the
late President one OF his bullets missed
the mark, and was subsequently, found in
a glazier's frame which, filled with panes
of glass, had been standing against the
opposite wall of the depot. Nobody would
have supposed, without reflection, that the
action of Guiteau in firing that shot into
the GLACIERS frame, established a claim
upon the Government on behalf of the
glazier who owned the frame. But so it
appears. This modest and ingenious indi-
vidual, who appears to be Pole or Aus.
trian, while refraining from putting in
specific demand, expresses the hope that
the Board will "assist me in my endeav-
"ors to get an honest living by entrusting
"to me position as Waterman or
similar office in one OF the Government
departments" The man who sold the
pistol to Guiteau has not yet put in his
claim to recognition, but doubtless he will
do so when he hears what the enterprising
glszier has done.
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v George Heprv Lewes as common.

by George Henry Lewes as common
place book for his psychological memo.
randa. Now it may DE that the coming
man will be satisfied with nothing less
than this kind of elaborate mental diver.
sion, but we are disposed to think that if
he is really wiser than the present genera
ton he will prefer Nature to even the most
elaborate Art. We are afraid, in fact,
that the school Mr.. James represents is
dollhouse growth; that it combines the
latest French with the newest American
methods; and that it is so very much
advanced as to be extravagant. Ii
''The Portrait of Lady" had been en-.
titled "a Study in Morbid Psychology"
it would have been at least truly character.
lied, for it rs that; but it is not a novel,
and it does not stand for anything in real
life.
No doubt the tendency of modern cult
ure is towards dependency. Humor is
ceasing to be indigenous in highly cult
waited intellectual soils. Cheerfulness is
no longer natural. A cynical skepticism,
Joined with half-idle curiosity to know
the innermost motives of everyone, charac-
terize the typical educated man of the
latter end Of the nineteenth century. Ag-
Mysticism cannot be blithe and Joyous.
Pure happiness belongs only to unquestion.
ing faith and unreasoning trust But ag-
Mysticism has as yet made comparatively
little way. The masses of men and women
still hold to the old faith. It would seem,
therefore, that they would demand more
light and life in their fiction, and that they
would not long rest contented with cold
and passionless analysis, joined with a
marked prediction for demonstrating
the hollowpess and vanity of all SUD-
lunary things. In word, we be-
Eeve that the new school Of fic-
ton is not little morbid, and that
though 1t possesses great merits, and de-
serves high praise for its artistic achieve
ments, its most elaborate works will only
remain as specimens of diseased intel.
lectual condition, and it will have to give
place to a school more in harmony with
simple human nature, and less scornful of
its everyday sentiments and emotions, its
common passions and its common des-
TIMES.
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THE WEEKLY UNION

Is the best of pers for the student family busi.
ness man and citizen interested in the political
history OF the day. For the farmer, business man,
housewife sporting man, artisan, educator profess
siona man and general reader it is at once the best
and most reliable of weekes. Its departments are
many, and are all specially and ably edited with a
view to attain the highest excellence, contributing
to the most rapid development of the country and
the cultivation Of the highest intelligence among
the people. The WEEKLY UNION is having an uBprl-
cedented growth, both in rapidity and permanency.
1t reaches into every part OF the land and is found
IN street, market, business house, rural home,
miners cottage, on train and steamer, in mountain
and in valley viIlsges-ndeed, in all sections 1t is
mailed FOR one year for the sum of 50 So postpaid,
90 any address
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"oUIDA" AND CHARLES READE.

The novelist "Ouida" has been crit.
cising Charles Reade. of whom she saws
that though he can draw women of the
people. the gentlewoman he cannot OF
will Hot, or at all events does rot." This
Is in our opinion not just criticism, nor
are we prepared to admit that "Ouida u
is competent judge in the premises. As,
suredly she herself has never drawn either
gentlemen or gentlewomen, and therefore
upon her own theory we have right to
conclude that she cannot do it. Charles
Reade's women are among the most
natural and charming to be found in mod.
ern fiction. The women of "0uida," and
more particularly the fashionable women,
are odious and detestable, in bad taste,
utterly untrue to nature, and tainted with
Bohemian twang which pervades all her
writings. OF misunderstanding she knows
nothing, and If we were asked to point cut
the worst specimens of the modern novel
the most garish, tawdry, sensational, alto.
gether low. toned and evil favored-we
should be compelled TO assign to "Ouida .
bad eminence in the catalogue OF
authors whose works "every gentleman:
library" ought to be without.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-11-18

the Indians find themselves deprived of
food at the beginning of winter. Moreover,
it IS well understood that they cannot pro-
cure their winter supplies at all times. Ii
they miss the regular season, or if what
they have procured during the season is de-
stroyed, they cannot replace what is lost.
They must then depend upon precarious,
hand-to-mouth hunting. Now this is the
sole dependence of the Indians whose
winter stores and boats have
been burned by the Corwin. We believe
that if the Government does not at once
take measures to relieve these people it will
have to bear the full responsibility of their
death from starvation. OF course the Gov.
eminent is responsible for the action of it's
agents, and the course of the Captain Of
the Corwin is the course Of the Govern
ment. : vessel should be sent up to the
neighborhood at once. to ascertain the con-
dition and prospects of the burned.out In.
dams, and to relieve their necessities. If
Ehls Is not cone after the necessity Tor 1t
has been thus publicly presented to the
Government, the latter will have a very
heavy reckoning to meet next year, should
the worst happen that is liable to happen.
a gross wrong has been done to the Alaska
Indians already; but should things be left
as they are much worse sequel may fol.
low. The American people assuredly will
not condone neglect in such case, and
common humanity. to say nothing of any
other motive, ought to convince the Navy
Department of the necessity of seeing to it
that the Indians are not exposed to horri
BILE fate through the hasty and altogether
unjustifiable action of one of it's officers.
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IN THE NAME OF HUMANITY

According to the published accounts of
the last cruise of the Corwin, that vessel
when off the Alaskan coast DESTROYED the
boats and the winter supplies of several
villages of Indians. It is not necessary
perhaps to add anything to our recent com.
ments upon the nature of that action, but
it is necessary to call the attention of the
United States Government to the condition
in which the Indians have been left. They
have been left, at the beginning of the
Arctic winter, without supplies of food,
and without means of supporting them.
selves. The boats of these Indians are
their means of livelihood. They live by
hunting and fishing, and principally by
catching seals and whales. Now it is
perfectly natural presumption that If they
are not assisted they will die of starvation
before next spring. 1t has been shown
that the inhabitants of several villages
have actually persisted in this way through
neglect to store supplies for the winter.
We know, therefore, that such disasters
are not only possible, but probable, when
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-11-18
UYsAnIrE AS PERsUADER

The discovery of quantities of dynamite
il an Iowa distillery, through the medium
of warning letter somewhat similar to
that which led to the exposure of the Guy
Fawkes plot, seems to indicate that the
employment of that explosive as a per.
suader has at length extended to the
United States. What with Feniauism
and French Nihilism and Russian Nihilism
and the ferment of anarchists all over
Europe, the knowledge of explosives has
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-11-18
THOMAS HkbRY KAVAEgGH

The telegraph the other day stated,
briefly, that " Kavanagh, famous in con-
g nection with the relief of Lucknow, is
" dead" 1t is possible that there are not
many of our readers who can recall the
circumstances which gave Kavanagh his
fame, and as it is the story OF an heroic
action, it is worth repeating In Novem.
Der. 1857, Sir Colin Campbell, after the
capture of Delhi, marched to the relief of
Lucknow, where Sir James 0utram, with
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-11-18
GRANT AVID PORTER.

General Grant has done graceful and
honorable thing IN writing a magazine arti.
Gle in vindication of General Porter. and in
appealing to the country for justice for
that unfortunate officer. And Grant is
one of the few men now living whose adj
vocacy of Porter's cause is certain not to
be misconstrued. When ne took up Por.
ter's case at first it was maliciously sup.
gested that he wanted Democratic support
in Congress for measure on his own be-
hall. But he has at present nothing to
ask of Congress or the country, and though
in political matters the American people
have shown that they are not prepared to
trust him further, his military authority is
the highest in the Union, and when he
speaks on this subject it Will be necessary
to accord his arguments respectful atten.
ton. The refusal OF justice to General
Porter has been deeply discreditable to
those who have so bitterly and disingenu.
ously pursued him. His freedom from
otfense has been so clearly and conclusvely
demonstrated by the second investigating
committee which went through the evi.
dence, that none but those who are re.
solved rot to yield to the truth can con-
tinue to regard bin as traitor. The evi.
dence shows that General Pope was really
responsible in the premises, and Pope dis.
graced himself by his conduct in regard to
Porter's Court-martial. Now that the
Democrats are about to control Congress-
however, it is probable THAI another effort
will be made to secure justice for this
much.wronged officer, and that he may yet
live to enjoy his vindication from the
cruelty unjust charges so long standing
apainst him
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-11-18
The SHAM FALSE PROPHET.

1t is in order to inquire what has become
of the alleged False Prophet who short
time ago was reported as carrying fire and
sword throughout the Soudan, as on the
point of capturing khartoum, and as being
followed by cannibal horde who ate all
the prisoners who refused to embrace L.
lam. Since that information was conveyed
so profound silence has settled down
over the alleged False Prophet as to make
US suspect that there must have been an
election in the Soudan on the TIN instant,
and that Ell Mehdi must have been the can
dldate for Governor on the Republican
ticket No disaster less sweeping would
seem capable of obliterating the holy man in
the way he seems to have been obliterated.
1t is true there is one possible ray of
light. It is said that Abd-el- X adler,
the present Commander-in Chief for
Egypt in the Soudan, and formerly
the Captain of Sir Samuel Bakers
Forty Thieves" has telegraphed to say
that he has three times defeated the False
Prophet, that Khartoum is safe for the
present, and that Ell Mehdi was a good
deal alarmed at the rumor that the Eng.
lish were coming into the Soudan to attack
him. The alarmist report preceding this
intelligence was originated by the traveller
Schweinforth, whose information was sup.
posed to be particularly good, but who
nevertheless may have been deceived. The
absence of further news certainly does not
seem to argue the successful advance of
the False Prophet. who is in danger of
being repudiated after all as a sham False
Prnnhet
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is al Oregon city retail liquor licenses have been
increased from 500 TO 81 900 per year The move.
ment Is not strictly temperance one, but is in.
tended 70 work the suppression of a low class Of
saloons where the yilest liquors are sold. Leading
saloon-nen in Sacramento some time ago advocated
large increase in license rates here for similar
purpose. In one block in the business part of this
city there are fourteen saloons but three of which
would be able to pay a heavy license, and the pro.
pretors declare that the three are ample to
the demands Of drinkers. The question of heavy
license is receiving much attention in many quar-.
tiers, and many liquor men join with the temperance
people in favor of increase of the rate.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-11-18

A GERMAN arIthmetician has been calculating the
aggregate number of combinations in the game Of
domnoes, and has shown them to be 24s, 52s, 5Il,.
$40. Two players, playing four games a minute,
would only exhaust these combinations in lis 0OO-
900 years. We shall never attempt another game
with the little blocks of bone. This announcement
has destroyed all the confidence heretofore reposed
in these modest bi.s OF inert matter
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-11-18

II IS all very well to have general elections in
nearly all the States occur the same day. but it
is very rough on the repeaters and colonzers who
were wont to cross the lines and give neighbory aid
to other States.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-11-18

a Polish woman, who recently arrived
In PIttsburg from London, hiss had her
husband arrested there for desertiou. She
had tracked him to St. Petersburg. London,
Paris, back to London, TO New York, and
then to Plttsbnrg, where she discovered
him at work. Il Chicago Times.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-11-18

Now that Thanksgiving is approaching the usual
turkey shooting" is announced. Is not this a
barbar5us sport Would it not be better for the
Inconsistencies?
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-07-23

Chicago, 22.-Tri6une'S Washington:
The letter from Mr.. j. j. Newhsll to the
judiciary committee, in which he pro-
poses to make startling disclosures relA-
tive to Texas Pacific land grants, and to
prove that some thirty memb ers Of Con-
gress were bribed years ago in connee-
ton with the matter, ID q thrice told tale.
Newhall has offered to appear q coed
many times before, and has never made
out his case. He had had Q great many
startling things to propose, but has full
flled nothing. Several Congresses $50
he succeeded in inducing a committee to
investigate the story, which he sends
here now as an entirely new revelation.
The committee did investigate so FAR as
Newhall supplied the facts. but nothing
ever came of it, and it is not altogether
clear whether it il NewhAll's purpose 10
expose r1rne alleged robbery or influence
the stock market. II is said the publ
cation Of his letter has slseady had the
latter effect. The judiciary committee
has not Is jet, however, received any of
those famous books. documents and pa
pers which for so many years, at inter-
walls, be has threatened to make public.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-07-23
FELEGRAPHIC NEWS
The Assessment Robbery.

New York, 2.-ReraLd's Washington:
General Rosecrans, chairman Of the de-
mocrRtic congressional committee, being
agked what be thought Of Wallsce's opin-
ion in the Curtis case, said: In my Juog-
ment it is q vindication of Law and JUS
tee. I am o. much grati6ed ut it as q
good citizen could be at the establish
ment Of any principle to raise the stand
ard Of morality. There is no doubt In
my mind but what it Is hypocrltlcal
fraud to pretend that the employees OF
the government have any real freedom to
refuse to pay their contributions That
fear of dismissal is a sufficient cause to
extort from any these contributions, so
called, except from those who are brave
to impTudence, cannot be doubted. Every
well-informed person here or IN those
places where government offices are 10
Gated has instances OF his wn observation
and employees ftlll nearer, cases before
their eyes, where refusals 10 comply with
the demands OF these assessment circulars
have lost .hem their positions. The as
surances of good or prominent republI-
cADs that they would sustain those en-
ployees who chose to exercise their will
are known in most cases to have proven
utterly unsvailinR. have known several
Instances myself, and in talking to me
about 1t employees of the government
have said, Yes, General, that Is SO, but
while the chief may assure you protec-
ton. ways will be easily found and ex-
cuses readily made for dismissing every
man who has courage to refuse" In
ban Francisco the persons who make
those assessments had, in one instance
that remember. 9 collector of funds
seated in the front OF the hall where en-
plyees had to pass when they went to get
their pay, who handed each one check
for the amount be was to have deducted
from hia salary"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-07-23
Hrlshiam~.

London. 22.-In the Commons, the
arrears bill passed the third reading.
In the Lords the arrears bill was read
fer the frst TINA.
Alta meeting of conservative peers at
Lord Salisbu:y's residence yesterday, to
consider the course to be adopted in the
arrears bill, Lord Salisbury stated that
in consequence Of the gravity of foreigo
affairs, be could not recommend the
peers to bring about q crisis on dom este
question by rejecting the bill.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-07-23

Chicago, 22.-The Chicago Railroad
Association, composed of the various
roads centerirg in this city, held its reg
ulsr monthly meeting. The question Of
making reduced rates for the triennial
conceive Of The Knights TemplsrE, to be
held in San Francisco 10 1883, Was COD
tidered. It was resolved to recommend
the lines east Of the Missouri river make
the same proportionste reduction, as the
lines west of the Missouri river. namely:
Single fares going and returning UiG the
same route; one Snd one fourth fare TO
ing by one route and returning by an
other.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-07-23

Austin, Texas, 22.-News from all
over the state indicates that Judge Ire
lands nomination for governor By the
democrats ia not meeting with much en-
thusiasm. His opposition to frontier
protection by the state, bis antAgonism
to railways and free schools, and his
political prsjudices are strong points
against him, snd are efectually used. II
harmony prevails in the republican and
Rreenback ranks. there is chance Of
his being defeated.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-07-23

Saratoga, 22.-First race, FIVE furlongs,
Blue Grass Belle" frat, "Barbarian''
second, carlisle" third. Time, IO4.
Second race. rs miles. BOOT ack"
first, "Bostman" second. Time, l.54X.
Third race, mile and FIVE furlonQp.
"Thors" first. FRANKIE B"eecond, "Sul-
liYan" third. Time, 2.I5.
Fourth race, three-Quartsr mile,
"IOis" first, Autumn" second. Time,
l.l6.
Monmouth Park, %. First race Par
ole" won, Clara u" second. Time,
l.43A