Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-10-16
A Black Eye Given the Civil Rights Act.

Black Eye Given the Civil Rights Act.
WASHINGTON, October l5th.-A decision was rem
dered to-day by the Supreme Court of the United
States in five civil rights cases, based on the first
aud second sections of the Civil Rights Acts OF
March LIST. They respectively prosecutiops un.
der the Act for not admitting certain coiored per
sons 10 equal accommodations and privileges in inns
hotels, on railroad cars and at theaters The
Court held that Congress had no constitutional
authority to pass the sections In question either un
der the thirteenth or fourteenth amendment to the
Constitution. The decision however, is held to an.
ply only TO the validity in States, and not in Terri.
tories or the District of Col lmbia where the egis
latiye power of Congress unlimited so far as the
statutes are concerned. The two sections of the
law above referred to were declared unconstitu-
tional and void Justice Bradley rendered the
opinion, Justice Harlan dissenting.
PanIcSfricken School Children.
WATERBURY, Conn }, October 15th.-There WIS an
alarm of fire at the Elm-street school during the
session to-day, and 800 children rushed headlone
down stairs in panic. Many ere knocked down
and trampled upon. One girls collar bone was
broken, anothers eye badly cut. third was insen-
sible, and several suffered internal injuries Many
others were bruised. The fire caught from waste
paper in a room the furnace, and was easily
subdued.
Strike of SwIfchmen.
ST LOUIS, October l5th.-Switchmen ON all roads
centering in St. Louis entered on general strike at
noon to-day. They demand ten hours as day 8
work, extra pay for Sunday, and thirty cents an
hour for all time over ten hours, besides S65 per
month or twenty.six working days The strikers
number about 600 in IT. Louis and East st. Louis.
The strike will likely cause blockade Of freight in
East st. Louis.
Political Gossip.
WASHINGTON, October I5th-On good auth 1rity.
General Hancock favors the nomination Of the old
Democratic Presidential ticket but does not want
the ticket TO be too old. In fact he would really
be glad to have Hancock and English renominated
This may account for the recent ANXIOUS and reter
ated denials Of his reported serious Illness which
have come from Governors Island.
The Notorious Major NickersOn.
NEW YORK, October 15th.-The Herald prints
card from the notorious Major Nickerson, dated
Thorold, Canada, in which he Gays: "The War De.
partment has known my whereabouts since last
june and has had an agent with me since the 1st Of
July, whose orders and instructions have long since
been well known TO me. | have not refused to obey
the Secretary's order. As soon az my health will
permit, and the Adjutant-General has called in the
men whom he has instructed to arrest me as soon
as | cross the line, thus emitting me to come to
Washington without being ignominiousy treated,
shall have pleasure In reporting as directed" Re
ferring to AdjUtant- General Drum, for long time
stationed at the Preside barracks, and to Colonel
Barr, whom he accused OF issuing an illegal order
to detan him in Washington, he says: /" 1t will he
difficult to make the army public believe thas
have deserted the coors under which fol- more than
twenty years | have rendered loyal service espe-
cally at the instance Of two officers who during the
entire war, remained as far away from our cOlors
that required defending it was possible for them
to get and who wear about the same number Of
discernibe breYet commissions as | wear honorable
scars"
Those Confederate Bonds.
NEW YORK, October 15th.-The Herald prints
communications from J. b. Gelder, London Secre-
tlry of the Confederate States Bondholders' Com
mittee replying TO press structures the claims
Following is the basis OF their demand "Under
the United States Constitution the right of each
State to contract loans cannot be controverted and
consequently those authorized by Congress con-
sisting of delegates with power to act behalf of
certain number of States, constitute debt as legal
as the loans incurred by any individual State"
The Railroad Indebtedness.
WASHINGTON, October 15th.--It is expected by the
Interior Department officials that the annual report
of the Commissioner Of Railroads, which was to-day
submitted to Secretary Teller, will attract the atten-
tion Of Congress this winter. The Indebtedness Of
the Union Pacific and the Central Pacific and their
branches to the United States is now about SJ0S,-
100000, and the prospect is that by the time the
bonds and accumulating interest become pay ayable-
between the years 1895 and ls98-the Indebtedness
will have become over Sl30,0O0,000. The sinking
fund established by the Thurman Act is doing very
little towards liquidating the indebtedness.
The AlabaIua Epidemic.
NOZZLE, October 15th-Since Saturday night
there have been five deaths and FIVE new cases at
Brewton. The fever experts have arrived but no
disease.
Convention OF Methodist Preachers.
PHILADELPHIA, October 15th-The twenty-sixth
annual session of the National Association Of Local
Preachers of the Methodist Episcopal Church was
resumed this morning. Rev. N. D. Walker, of
Ohio, presided, with Rev. Vim. II. Kincad, of Pitts
burg, as Secretary. Rev. J. P Neuman, of the
Congregational NJ. Z. Church of New York, made
an address. The members of the Methodist Preach
ers Association Of Philadelphia entered the church
in a body, and were received formally.
One Hundred Thousand or Nothing.
CHICAGO, october 15th.-J. l Case has received a
standing offer Of S60 900 for his great trotter Jay
EYe-See (record 2:1OD, but declined, saying his
price is 500 900, and would take nothing less The
offer made by Minneapolis man, and is under
stood TO be on behalf Of Commodore Kittson.
Convention OF COl0red Men.
SPRINGFIELD, October 15tb.-A State Convention
of colored men is in session here take action to
secure recognition from political parties. The
whole day was consumed in periecting an organiza-
tion.
Exciting Scene on Ferry Boat
AUSTIN (TeXas), October l5th.-The Colorado river