Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-02-27
DOMESTIC NEWS.
The Great Flood.

LITTLE RoeK lark February 25th.-The
river continues to rise half an inch per hour.
Pine Bluff reports the bank overhowing forty
miles below Adamsburg. Fourteen miles
above Pine Bluff is inundated, and the whole
of Parlonia county is under water. Mosley's
Lake and the river fifty miles below here have
| Joined forces, and present the appearance of
an inland sea. Much des.itution exists, and
unless provisions are furnished great suffer-
| ing must follow.
MOrmens kn South Carolina.
COLUMBIA February 25th.-For seme time
past it has been reported that Mormon mis-
! sionaries were dispensing their evil teachings
| in this State, and were actually making pros
elytes. The Times correspondent has posi-
| lively learned that two Mormon missionaries
named Barton and Esston, have been preach
| ing in two villages in York county, and have
made nearly 80 converts in several instances
scooping in whole families. The meetings are
conducted publicly, and are said to be well
| attended.
The Andre Monument.
| New YORK, February 25th.-The reported
mutilation of the Andre monument at Tap
pan proved on examination to be slight.
None of the lines of the inscriptions were de-
faced, and the greatest injury was done to
| the side of the monument on which there is
no inscription. Ten dollars will make the
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Railroad Arrangement.
BosToN, February 25th.--A traffic arrange
ment was made to-day between the Southern
Pacific and Santa Fe, securing the compile
ton of the Atlantic and Pacific, snd making
the Southern Pacific route the main line.
Remarkable Editorial.
NEw YORK. February 25.h.-Ths Tribune
has the following remarkable editorial:
Guiteau has made Supreme Judge az well
as President, and he is nothing yet. There
is not human being in the country so ignor-
ant as to believe that Roscoe Conkling would
have been awarded the highest Judicial Office
in the gift of the President if cold blooded
| assassin had not first murdered the President
whom the people elected. For that horrible
murder no man living is thought by the peo-
pie of the United States more responsible
than Conkling himself. The President
gave him fve-sixths of the important
patronage of this State. but he de-
manded il all Ga the nomination
of single man whom he disliked. he declared
war upon the Administration, fought it in
the Senate till he found the struggle hope
less, then betrayed his party and threw the
Senate into the hands of the opposition by
resigning, and then besought the State of
New York to return him with letters of
marque as a licensed privateer to wage war
upon bis own people Conkling was beaten
in his own State in the contest be invited
overwhelmingly, hopelessly, disgracefully
ures dared not re.eleot him. The peo-
pie Of the State were as a hundred to
one against him. When he returned defeated
from Albany be could not have been elected
Road Supervisor or Justice OF the Peace in
the strongest Republican county of the State.
Then Guiteau stole up behind Garfield and
fired his shot, and now the man whom Gui-
| teau made President makes Roscoe Conklipg
Judge of the Supreme Court of the United
States. These are simple historic facts, known
to everybody, undisputed by nobody. We
recall them now merely to set this appoint
ment in the light of attendant facts. If the
nomination were otherwise fit one, some
thing would be pardoned to the per-
sonal friendship ard personal gratitude Of the
late Vice President but the nomination is,
on other grounds, notoriously unfit. Conk-
| ling has no standing at the Bar to entitle him
to be wen thought of in coLnec ction with the
Supreme Bench. He has had 10 considerable
prsc ice since his youth he has beeL retained
J 10 no cases save those Shich come in the way
of pay for political influence the appearances
he has made in Court have been tuch as to
provoke contempt and ridiculs OF real law
lyers. On this point, in spite of the high po-
| sitiop and great influence he had, there has
scarcely been divided opinion.
The PaImer-Tilden Correspondence.
SPRINGFIELD (Ill.), February 25sh.-Ex-
| Governor John M. Palmer was interviewed
to-day in reference to the repnrt that he had
received proposition from Tildeu to become
a candidate on the ticket with him for nomin-
alton in 1884 and said there was nothing of
it-that the report was purely sensational.
The reporter said, Il suppose, Governor,