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Daily globe., 1882-09-19
West st. Paul Proper.
Bells Addition to West st. Paul.

Bells Addition to West st. Paul.
Supposed owner and Amt of
description. Lot. Block Assm't
Chas Harder. ............. 16 Bal $50 90
Prospect Plateau Addition to West ST. Paul.
Supposed owner and Amt of
description. Lot Block. Assn't.
Mary Kenaly, w 80 ft Of. 8 S46 80
W Somers E T Somers,
H II Fuller and J p
Gribben, ft of 49,. z 3 / 90
Daily globe., 1882-09-19

UHklOWn. That mlSceIIa-
neous piece of land lying
between Bells addition
and Brown and Jackson's
addition tc West st. Paul
Daily globe., 1882-09-19
WILL TAKE NOTICE,

that Oh the 9th of September, 1882, 1 did re-
ceive warrant from the City Comptroller Of
the City of st. Paul, for the collection of the
above named assessments.
The nature of this warrant is, that if you fail
pay the assessment within
Daily globe., 1882-09-19

Supposed Owner and Amt of
description. Lot. Block. Ass'mt
Louise St Clair, g 100 ft,
being 100 ft on Concord
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West st. Paul Proper.
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WEST ST. PAUL PROPER
Sacramento daily record-union., 1882-12-23
SERVED THEM RIGHT.

The Ford brothers undertook to lecture
in Hartford, Connecticut, and advertised,
as an additional inducement, that they
would illustrate practically the death of
jesse James. When the time came for the
lecture just two dollars had been received
at the door, and the performance was
necessarily postponed. We congratulate
the people of Hartford upon this manifes.
tation of coed sense and genuine civiliza.
ton. The lecturing tour of the Ford as
sassins is one of the most brazen pieces of
impudence ever heard of, and their effront-
cry is not less disgusting than it is wonder
full. But there is only one way by which
self-respecting people can testify TO their
feeling in regard to such an affair, and that
is the way taken at Hartford. Let every.
one reiigiously abstain from going to hear
these ruffians, and they will presently have
1t borne In upon them that they have miscal-
culated the bent of public opinion. 1t may
be that at the South it is possible to get
paying audiences to hear how two profess
sional thieves and assassins took advantage
of and murdered comrade; but we trust
that the Fords will find no Northern au.
diences, and that they will 60 back to
their Missouri barbarian as poor as when
they set out on this shameless expedition.
Sacramento daily record-union., 1882-12-23
LITTLE BY LITTLE,

The signs of approaching trouble be.
tween Germany and Russia are increasing,
little by little. Now it is intimated that
the German Government. may find it neces.
sary to dispatch larger garrisons to the
fortified places on the Russian frontier. Of
course care is taken to state in the plainest
manner that this is not a measure of mis-.
trust or aggression, but that i. is simply
precaution. But the taking of precau-
tion at such time shows that apprehen.
sion is felt, snd there is nothing concerning
which it can be felt but Russian inten.
tions. The Russians en- their part are busy
constructing new railways, all of which
converge upon the frontier, and as there
has been no recent rapid growth of Rus.
sian commerce, and as all the Russian rail.
ways have notoriously been built with
main view to strategic considerations, the
Berlin Government may besexcused if it
declines to accept the s.. Petersburg ex.
PLANTATION OF this new movement. In fact
1t is evident that very little more of these
mutual precautions will cause the rela.
tions between the two countries to become
strained, and when that happens every
body knows that war may be declared at
auy moment,
Sacramento daily record-union., 1882-12-23
A VERY NECESSARY AMENDMENT

The trainers OF the new Constitution un.
dertook, among other things, to put stop
to the abuses which had grown up in con-
nection with street improvements in San
Francisco. In their zsal TO protecs the
public, however, they adopted SO iron.
bound and impractical q scheme that its
only effect has been to render street in.
provement impossible. The Convention
provided that no public work or improve.
ment, OF any description, should be done
or made in any city, the cost of which is
chargeable upon private property. unless
an estimate of the cost has been made, and
the whole of the necessary money assessed,
collected and paid into the city treasury
before the work is commenced. This brill.
liant piece of legislation has certainly put
an end to the disease but by the simple
method Of killing the patient. There are
no more abuses connected with street i'm
provements but it is because there
is no more street Improvement.
The San Francisco Supervisors have
consequently passed resolution request.
ing the incoming Legislature "to pass, and
submit to vote of the people of the
" State as soon as may be, a bill providing
" for the amendment of the Constitution
of the State by striking out from Sec.
tion 10 of Article XI. all of the first sen.
tence which relates to street work. It
will evidently be necessary to do this, for
there appears to be no way Of getting
round the constitutional provision as it
stands, and until that provision can be
overcome in some way it will be impossible
to make any street improvements. The
hlundering way in which the constitution.
makers managed this business is a fair illus.
tration of the degree of craftsmanship and
intelligence they brought to ell the work
before them,
Sacramento daily record-union., 1882-12-23
assassin had been in prison for less
than three years, he is pardonsd out by

assassin had been in prison for less
than three years. he is pardonsd GU. by
Governor Stephens; and 30 entirely con.
sonant is this defeat Of justice with
the popular sentiment, that the news of
his pardon was the signal for demon.
stration and serenade to his wife. 1t
is perfectly evident that Captain Cox has
not lost caste by committing a brutal
murder, and cases of this kind occur 30
frequently that the Southern people have
no right to complain because of the criti-
cism they receive. The plain truth is that
they do not entertain due respect for the
sacredness Of human life there, and what
is even worse. they continue TO rear their
children in the pernicious and barbarous
belief that it is manly and spirited to cut
and shoot at the smallest provocstion.
Moreover there is distinct process of de.
terioration visible in Southern homicides,
Formerly they were usually the result of
duels, in which both parties risked their
lives. Bat latterly they have nearly al
ways taken the form of street encounters,
in which one of the parties commonly tries
to shoot down his adversary without dan
ger to himself. There is OF course no
"chivalry" in this. It is simply savage
and cowsrdly. But SO long as the custom
prevails, and SO long as Southern society
sanctions the pardoning of murderers like
Cox. it cannot be expected that the South
will be regarded by really civilized people
as either safe or q pleasant region to re.
side or do business in.
Sacramento daily record-union., 1882-12-23
TIE CONGRESSIONAL LIBRARY


After all the discussion of the question,
Congress has refused to psss the bill to
provide suitable building for the Con.
gressional Library. For several years the
disposition OF that library has been becom.
ing more pressing II ia very valuable
and large collection OF books. 1t is con.
stantly growing. 1t is at present housed
in quarters which only admit of the piling
up OF the books in useless heaps. Aud
thus it is made practically inaccessible.
There is no other nation calling itself civil.
lied which at this stage Of the worlds his
tory would exhibit the barbarism implied
in the defeat of the Library Building bill.
The fact shows tina. Congress does not
possess the capacity to deal properly with
questions of this kind, and that cnnse-
quently the national library should not
have been intrusted to its care. The need
of suitable building wherein to place the
books ia, it is true, universally acknowl.
edged but when it comes to supplying
this need Congress cannot be brought to
do what it admits to be necessary. Yet
it would seem that body which thought
it no extravagance to appropriate SIS, ,O00,.
600 for River and Harbo: bill, and which
has spent over SlOO. 600, 600 upon Arrears
of Pensions, might be brought to reaIiza the
propriety of small appropriation for the
Congressional Library. Aud if Repuh-
lican Congress cannot bring itself to attend
to these matters, how can it be hoped that
Democratic Congress will show itself
more careful of the claims of Literature
Sacramento daily record-union., 1882-12-23
TIE ARREST OF PRIscE KRAporKlsE

The arrest of Prince Krapo.kine is cal
culated to surprise no one who has followed
the career of that eccentric Russian noble.
man with any care. For years he has been
engaged in what might be called playing at
revolution, but that at intervals the fanat.
i,ism Of the men with whom he has had
dealings has produced some startling crime
or attempted crime. Krapotkine is that
anomalous being, an aristocrat who wishes
to destroy aristocracy. In William Blacks
novel " Sanrise," an English nohleman
is represented who has in somewhat the
same way been induced to Join a secret
revolutionary society, but Lord Evelyn is
aweak creature compared to the real prince.
Prince Krapotkine doubtless had the con.
spirator's itch born in him, for histor, fur.
nishes many examples of men similarly
placed who have been unable to resist the
attractions of conspiracy and intrigue. In.
deed it may be said that in Russia the
tendency that way is always greater than
in any other country, because Of the inev.
liable reaction from the despotism Of the
Government. But when noblernen engage
In this business they cannot hope to main-
tain anonymity. Even the most embit.
tered Reds feel a certain pride in aris-
tocratic associations, and the name of the
noble patron of dynamite is sure to be-
come pretty generally known before long.
Nor can it be said that Krapotkine has
taken much pains to conceal bis connection
with the French Socialists and Communists.
No doubt he has relied upon the indiffer.
ence Of the Government to matters of this
kind, and of late especially he has even
come forward quite conspicuously as the
champion of turbulence. The recent az.
tempt of the Communists TO secure the
cooperation of the French miners was
openly assisted by him, and he even al.
lowed his name to be used in connection
with tie movements of the Anarchists. As
these latter have no programme which any
civilized community can understand or
tolerate, it bscame impossible to counte.
nance or ignore their audacity longer, aid
Sacramento daily record-union., 1882-12-23
HERR MOST.

This individual, whose advent at New
York has been duly telegraphed all over
the country, is type Of the very worst
and most imbecile revolutionary element in
Europe. He is the writer who rejoiced
over the horrible assassination of the Czsr
of Russia, and who showed disposition to
congratulate Guiteau upon his murderous
work. He belongs to the ferocious class
of Anarchists who hold the simple and
sufficing creed that society needs to be de-
stroyed altogether. These persons do not
trouble themselves about reconstruction. In
fact any stable system is of necessity for.
eign to their aims. They only wish to
break down and ruin institutions of all
kinds; to solve the problem of progress
and poverty by reducing everybody to an
equal destitution to bring Chaos and Old
Night back, and to keep them there. For
it is the popularity of the modern Anarch.
Sacramento daily record-union., 1882-12-23
HOMICIDE kr rHs SOUTH.

Southerners ere apt to charge Northern
critics with prejudice because they censure
the abnormal frequency of homicide in
the Southern States. Bu. every day events
are occurring which go to demonstrate that
the Southern IDEAS upon this question are
peculiar. Take for example the very recent
pardon. by Governor Stephens of Georgia,
of Captain e. Cox, who was sentenced in
1879 to life imprisonment for the murder of
Colonel Robert A. Alstop, a. atlanta.
Now here is peculiarly atrocious murder.
Cox and Aston had dispute about Ger.
tain contract for convict labor. Cox there
upon began threatening to kill Aston, who
had been his partner. Aston was q peace
able man lfor that regiop), and did not
want to have any trouble. Cox, however,
was determined to kill him, and SO finally
forced upon him fight, in which he was
shot through the head. Cox of course
ought to have been hanged, though per-
haps the wonder is that he was not ac-
quilted. It happened, however, that
Aston was very prominent man, and had
many friends, and 20 the jury for oEce
brought in a verdict which, had it been
carried out, would have produced coed re-
suits. But after this ferocious bully and
Sacramento daily record-union., 1882-12-23
DORSEY AND GARFIELD.

Stephen Dorsey is publishing letters
which Garfield wrote to him during the
last Presidential campaign, with the pur.
pose of demonstrating that the late Presi.
dent was really his friend. 1t is also an
nounced, as on his part, that ne possesses
thousands of other letters from prominent
men all over the country, and that he may
find it necessary to put these also in print
We are quite unable to perceive the logical
conclusion at which MIR. Dorsey must be
supposed TO be aiming. He is at present
accused of obtaining funds under false pre-
lenses, or in other words, of robbing the
national treasury by fraud. How it can
help him to meet this charge to show that
President Garfield was his friend, and that
many other prominent persons thought
well of him, before anyone knew that he
was what he is accused of being, is entirely
beyond our comprehension. Bat even
could Mr.. Dorsey prove that President
Garfield and the other prominent persons
Lot SSAsiaeSA W Ptb
after the development of the star route
frauds, the irrelevance of this correspond
ence to his case would be quite as great.
In such case it would be perhaps neces-
sary to conclude that President Garfield
and the other prominent persons were very
much less upright and fastidious than the
world had thought them but that could
not help Mr.. Dorsey in any way. There is
only one way by which he can rehabilitate
himself, and that is by proving to the salts.
faction of jury of his countrymen that he
is not guilty of the crimes imputed to
him. And that would seem to be his pres.
ent business. That, and not the inconse.
quent, irrelevant and preposserous task of
trying to show from the letters of Garfield
and other prominent persons that they were
not aware of his Idches.
Sacramento daily record-union., 1882-12-23

| daughters of the late Commodore Wise
and granddaughters of Edward Everett,
for the erection of an apartment house, or
French fiat, on the site of the residenc
OF their late father, on II street. A grand.
son OF Nine. Patterson Bonaparte, Colonel
Jerome Bonaparte, whose wife is a grand
daughter of Daniel Webster, has built a
handsome winter residence here, and their
red-liveried carriage may be seen almost
any tlne day on the avenue, since Mrs.
Bonaparte has convalesced from her attack
OF pneumonia last month. a nephew of
WASHINGTON IRVING,
MIR. Sanders Irving, has house on H
street, with his wife, lady who Inherited
fortune from an aunt. This lady was
Mr.. lrving's betrothed when she was
beautiful girl, but by . fall from horse
she became hopelessiy deformed before her
marriage. he was faithful to his love for
her, and they are seen out in choice soci.
ETY. very often together pathetic. look
ing pair. He in delicate health. she
curved and shortened out of all pretense to
normal feminine shape, and both growing
elderly, but with bright, cultured faces.
and apparently enjoying their Washington
life.
1t is decreed by the kindly legislative
fates that we are to have two-cent postage,
and that right speedily. This will still
more closely connect the far.removed Sec
tions of our great nation. 1t is one of the
few commendable things accomplished by
the outgoing Congress. EMMA JAMES.
Sacramento daily record-union., 1882-12-23
EPIDEMlcs AID ccsMIc pHEsoxENA

All the contemporary evidence iustifies
the conclusion that there has been of late
marked tendency towards epidemic form
in certain diseases, and notably typhoid
fever. Naturally when sudden access of
disease appears in any city or region, the
first impulse is to ascribe it to local causes.
Without doubt local causes are to be
counted among the explanatory circum-
stances, for whatever tends to facilitate
the spread of disease is disposing infu.
encs. But when, as at present, we find
the same form OF disease appearing at
widely separated points, and almost over
whole continent, we are justified in con-
cluding that this simultaneity indicates
common origin, and that we must look be-
yond local causes for the final solution of
the problem. During the past three months
it is certain that typhoid fever has been
abnormaily prevalent in many parts of the
United States. In Sacramento It has been
literally epidemic, and also in San Fran.
cisco and many other parts of California
1t has confined itself to no particular geo.
logical formation. 1t has appeared SIS we'll
in mountainous districts as in low-lying re-
gions. And beyond the Sierras it has been
equslly prevalent. La many OF the East.
ern States it has been even more mischiev-
GUS than on the Pacific coast. In Nav
Jersey, in Rhode Island, in Connecticut.
in Iowa and Wisconsin, the same general
phenomena have been observed. Thus the
Connecticut State Board of Health In its
recent report observed that there seems to
be pandemic course of fever passing over
that State, nor does it appear to be at all
confined to the regions affected by malaria
In fact there is abundant evidence to
show that typhoid fever is epidemic in the
United States at the present time, and it
therefore becomes important to ascertain
If possible the cause or causes of this
phenomenon. The origin Of epidemics has
not been at all satisfactorily explained
hitherto. Of old it was customary to refer
W anu SO LnG matter
was easily explained. In these days, how.
ever, the efforts of science are devoted TO
the discovery of purely physical causes,
and, yet it must be confessed that the
quest has not been successful. Hecker,
in his remarkable treatise on the epidemics
of the Middle Ages, has indicated belief
that these disease.wayes are at least partly
caused by atmospheric and telluric phe.
nomena. For this he has been accused of
superstition, and modern investigators have
secuted his declarations as unscientifc
But what are the grounds of Hecker's
theory? Simply this that in investigat-
ing the history of great epidemics he has
invariably found great commissions of ia.
ture, or peculiar conditions of the celestial
bodies, coinciding with and accompanying
these destructive outbreaks. Now of
course there is always danger of falling
into the Post hoe ergo propter hoe fallacy :
OF supposing that because two things occur
IN sequence, that therefore one must
have caused the other. This is an error to
Sacramento daily record-union., 1882-12-23
SHORT TERMS MO usH

Several members of Congress have ex.
pressed approval of Kassons proposition
to fix the tenure of Office in all grades of
the Civil Service at four years. 1t should
be evident that this scheme would simply
make bad worse. Its only effect would be
to create great rush every four years. and
thus to intensity enormously all the
worst evils of partisan rule. The result of
throwing open 100000 offices for general
scramble every four years may be imag.
lned. This would be the reduction of the
spoils system to its ultimate elements. In
fact it would destroy all possibility of re.
form, and create SO much corruption that
{ IN the Government would be in danger.
Ii we are to have reform we must have
fixity of tenure. There must be no term
OF service fixed by law. Those who have
won their places by merit must hold them
during good behavior that is to say, per.
manently, conditional only upon conduct.
Any other principle than this is entirely
insdmissible, aud if the present Congress
intends to establish Civil Service reform il
must realizs this truth.
Sacramento daily record-union., 1882-12-23
PASSENGER LISTS.

CARLIN, December 22i.-Passed here TO-
day, to arrive in Sacramento tomorrow :
z. L. Studeb sker and wife, South Bend, Ind
Herman Heinmsn, Mrs. Frank D. Hetrick.
Master Fred. Hetrick, Mrs. Peter Decker,
Z. +. Sullivan, T. Locklas, wife and child,
drs. r. n. Van Brunt, Miss Van Brunt, f.
Morris, Bernhard Haas, San Francisco; Will.
ian Trickatt, England; Miss r. A. Graham,
Csicago; (. Lacoste and wife, Juan Barrett,
San Jose, Cal; NJ. Trowell, Paris, France;
Mrs. Z. B. Coe, New York; Mrs. M. B.
Whitlock, Portland, o.; Mrs. K. Piper,
Sacra'nsnso; Mrs. l.. A. Starr, Vallejo, Cal. ;
A. +. Snyder and family and nurse, Salt
Lake; A. Goldstene, Canada; Mr.. Hood.
Minneapolis, Minn.; George Able, j. B.
kirkaldie and wife. Illinois; d. G. Blashfeld,
Wrigats, CAL; L. +. Hsriesty, Elk; James
McWilliams. West Vireinis; Mrs. +. b.
Hill, Troy, n. Y; Miss s. a. Wright, Kate
E: Lloyd, Newbnrg, N: Y; A; G. Michum,
wife and child, White Rock, New; Mrs. j.
A. Root, Boston, Mav.; Al emigrant passen.
gers, including 3S males, to arrive in Sacra-
mento December oath.
NEwHALL, December 22l.-Passed here
today, to arrive IN San Francisco to morrow
Lloyd Lewis, NJ. Haggin, Miss Hsggir, San
francisco; n. j. Davidson. Ell Paso; E.
kuhne, Germany Ben. Sullivan, Portland,
Or: John K. Stevens, G. H. Arey, S. Arey,
.. 5: Bathmau and wife, Oakland Mrs. a.
VI. Ladd. San Francisco; G. K. Altahan,
Chelsea, Mass; Louis Frarconi, San Fran.
cisco; Colonel A. w. Preston, U. s. A;
Colonel Smith, U. S. a.; Thomas Bennett.
Oakland; 4. E. Haskell, Msu. Haskell,
shanghai; j. :. Coggin, George E. Whitney,
Oakland l. G. Meade and wife, San Fran.
cisco; G. S. Wilcox and wife, Connecticut ;
Mrs. Captain Brown, Miss Ida Brown, Ala.
media; Miss Putnam, San Francisco: j. 81.
Nash and lady, Arizona H. J. McKusick,
Oakland; Jay Gould, j. 3. VsEburt, New
York Jarvis. Arizona; w. Jackson, Tue.
son; Il. B. Hunt, st. Louis o. f. Swain,
John Mcdonald, Wa'. Sheau, G T. Morris.
A. L. Leper, II. c. Kiilett, T. B. Hessel.
san Francisco L. E. Shirley, c. P. r. Il. ;
Miss Crown, Los Angeles; Mrs. Longstreet,
Tucson; Mrs. l.. q. Davi., Tombstone.
OMAHA, December 22I.-Left here to.day.
to arrive IL Sacramento December 26tl Ms.
=. L. Rogers, Washington Territory; L..
Hess, W. Il. Sabin. New York: John II.
Morris, Baltimore; Mrs. H. T. E!more, St.
Louis; james ". Vincent, Milwaukee; Jesse
NJ. Samuels, Philadelphia; E. Andrews, Yer.
mont.
KANSAS CRY (Mo.) December 22l.-
Passed Topeka to-day, to arrive in San
Francisco December 2S:h: NJ. J. Clark and
wife. Grand Rapids, Mich; Mr. Herman.
Belfast, Me-; NJ. Weinberg, L. II. o. Connor,
New York