Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-04-03
WHAT TaE PRESS has TO SAY.

Virginia Enterprise We are authorized
to announce that, beginning with the pres
ent week, the Central Pacific Railroad
Company will issue round trip tickets at
all points between Ogden and Truckee at a
greatly reduced rate. The reduction
amounts to fraction more than II cents
mile. These round trip tickets will be
limited in time to thirty days, and though
not transferable, will possess in all other
| respects the advantages of frst.class
ticket. The real explanation of the de.
preston in Nevada depression unparal-
| leled in its history-is not that we are be-
ing comminuted by the railroad corpora
tions, but that the mines are not yielding as
abundantly as of old. Show up bonanza
anywhere in the State, and then see how
quickly will cease the ridiculous anti.rail.
road clamor.
Anaheim Gazette. There is no fact more
thoroughly recognized among lawyers when
called upon to defend criminal than the
| Importance of postponing the trial or ex-
animation to as remote date as possible.
| No matter what the crime may be, it is soon
made misty or is totally effacsd from the
public mind by the quick succession of
events which daily transpire, and are col
| lated in all parts of the globe and the loud
cry for vengeance which follows the com.
mission of a crime SINNERS away, and
when the period of comparative public in.
difference is reached the willy lawyer brings
| forth his client, and either secures'for him
light punishment or outright scquittal.
F., Placer Herald What does the Consti.
tuition say? Section 4, Article XI.: "The
| Legislature shall establish system of
county governments which shall be uniform
throughout the State" Section 5, same
article: cit ahall provide for the election
or appointment of certain officers manning
them), regulate the compensation of all
such officers in proportion to duties, and
for this purpose may classify the counties
by population. Now, wherein does the
county government bill violate these pro.
| visions?
San Francisco Call. Some of the English
| journals see further into the commercial
situation in Mexico than portion of the
American press. While some people in the
United States are frightened lest reel.
procity treaty with Mexico shall open the
United States to ruinous competition, the
English regard the enterprises which are
recreating Mexico as promising the grand.
est results to this country.
San Francisco Examiner: 1t is mistake
to suppose that party pledges are of slight
Importance to the people. 1t is upon the
correctness or improperly of political as
sum otions that public opinion DIVORCES into
party lines. The intelligence and fidelity
Of opinion as illustrated in the attitude of
parties is the measure of popular accept
ance or rejection of Republican and Demo.
cratic principles.
Stockton Herald. The San Jose Times ac-
cuses Justices Field of being in favor of
Chinese immigration This is scarcely fair.
Justice Field in 1880, in letter to Senator
Miller, which was published, took the
strongest kind of ground 10 opposition TO
Chinese immigration, and advocated a pol
l lev with reference to it which has since
been substantially carried into effect.
Colusa Sun. In England they stack
straw and green grass, just cut, in layers
say six inches of green grass to three feet
of straw. This grass cures in the straw SO
az to give it all the flavor of hay and it
also adds greatly to the strength of the
straw. Stacked in this way with fresh-cut
alfalfa. straw stack would be almost as
valuable as hay.
San Francisco Aka It is fact that in
docking the salaries of policemen the city
Of San Francisco is now engaged in fnan.
cial operation that is to the full as disgrace
| full as any of the acts of the repudiating
States of the South.
San Jose Mecury., San Jose is on the
| eve of growth and prosperity unparalleled
in the history of the city.