Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-11-11
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.
Stud-Horse Poker.

Stud-Horse Poker.
The item on stud-horse poker that ap-
a considerable commotion in the gaming
circles last evening, and the games were not
so well patronized as usual. Several gentle
men who employ u great many clerks met
yesterday accidentally of course, and they
agreed to employ the service of detective,
whose business it will be to visit the games,
locate them, get the names of the proprie-
tors, and so far as possible those who fire.
quent or play at them. The result will be
this Many young men who now move in
social circles. have good clerical positions.
handle the cash of their employers daily,
will be called to the Captains office and
paid off, with no other explanation except,
your services are no longer required
This they deem necessary, not only for
their own protection, but the salvation of
the young men ofthis city, who are nightly
inveigled into those places of iniquity, where
the first step places them squarely on the
road to sin and degradation. A gentle
man who SAYS he has looked in upon
several of those games, played, not in
saloons, but rooms in the rear of cigar
stands, has seen what are considered the
best and most promising young men of the
city lose all their money, then pledge their
watch and chain, their sleeve-buttons, and
even their shirt-studs, in vain endcavors to
try to retrieve their losses. They turn up
at their work the next day unfit for duty,
and perhaps before noon the individual
who has their pledges, always a sharper,
calls where they are employed, says he is
ont of ia lnIr
not redeemed Immediately he will inform
their employer. This means ruin TO the
clerk, and he makes any kind of a Sacri-
flee, submits himself to a second robbery
in order to save, not alone his reputation
but that of his family, for a discharge I'M
der those circumstances means degradation
and ruin. i young man called at the
police station yesterday and stated that he
had lost $40 at stud-hOrse game, told
where it was located, named the propne-
tors, and asked their arrest. The police in
formed him they could not assist him in
the least. How different in San Francisco.
On the same information Chief Crowley,
of the metropolis, would have arrested the
guilty parties Immediately, the boys hard
earned coin would have been returned to
him and the culprits placed behind the
bars In a city that licenses gambling, like
Sacramento disgrace which no other
municipality ever allowed to be published
10 the word-it is the duty OF the press
and all right-minded citizens to take the
matter in hand, point out and hold up TO
eXecration every house wherein a game so
detrimental to the youth IS permitted to
run, and publish to the world the names OF
those who live Off the sweat of others
hrows.
Mo- iDI,
We do not have i'll this city such literary
and scholarly advantages as the lecture
field of the populous East affords that peo-
pie. We have but occasional opportunities
of the character afforded to night, and it is
notcreditabe TO us that this is so, since We
can command, if we will, the best talent
for our lecture-room rostrums. Happily
the presence of Rev. J. =. Newman, ID. D.,
Ii. D., in this city, where he has made a
voluntary pause in a Western tour for rest,
has been seized upon to secure the delivery
by this distinguished gentleman of a lect-
ure. He has consented to entertain the
public this evening by an account of his
observations in n thousand-mile ride
through the valley Of the EuphrateS and It's
buried cities. The doctor is one of the
most prominent cicrgymen of New York
City. He IS broad and liberal thinker a
man of practical and comprehensive
views, scholar of high accomplish
ment and traveller Of most extended
and varied experience. His naturally broad
powers of observation have been keenly
cultivated, and his clearness of judgment,
insight into character, philosophical cast OF
mind, his love for the beautiful, his brill
lance of imagery, and his store of classical
lnl,r l-a
his narratives Of foreign lands not only ear
nestly eloquent, but profoundly instructive
and thoroughly entertaining. \ thought
full contemporary in another State speak
ing of the lecture he is TO deliver Tonight
at the Congregational Church, thus ex-
presses Itself
The Rev, Or. Newman, General Grants pastor,
delivered magnificent lecture last night in the
Methodist Church. Ii was rich intellectual
feast for those who made up the audience. For
two hours DR.. Newman held their closest atten-
ton while he related instructive and amusing
incidents OF his travels in Asatic Turkey. His
style OF Ora,Dry Is quiet and conversational, yet
highly polished and classical He reminded Us
of the late Wendell Phillips in this regard His
descriptions were exquisite gems of word paint
ing. He carried his hearers through that region
OF marvellous antiquities, IN which the spades OF
the archTolOgiStS have wrought 50 successfully
OF late years. He eNhumed the architectural
wonders OF buried cities their remains OF art,
their engineering trumphs, and the tomhS of
bronze and marble His lecture throughout
abouuded in classical beauties The Bible
Aenopnon, HcTOduttls and other authorities
We're drawn upon freely for illustrations. II was
a lecture that carried captive the imagination
and the senses of those who listened to the most
scholarly discourse ever delivered in this city.
It's expected that appreciation of scholar
ship and ability will be manifest tonight
by q crowded auditorium The lecture will
Of l.
and it IS desirable that there should be no
late coming. The price of admission has
been fixed by the express stipulation OF
DIR. Newman At figure within the reach of
all, % cents.
AUcrIoN.-Bell & Co, auetioneers, will
offer at public sale at 10 4. II. on Friday
next, at 1904 \ street, the entire contents of
that residence, as follows: Parlor sets.
plate-glaSS mirrors, secretary, oil paintings,
panel pictures, lace curtains, cornices. mar
ble-top center tables, Brussel carpets, wal
nut bedroom sets, spring and hair mat
resses, pillows blankets, hat-racks, extern
sion tables, dining-room and kitchen fur
niture, etc All is said to be in firSt-class
condition, and will be sold without reserve.
for cash. a horse and phaeton viii also be
sold at the same time and place.
BENEFIT BALL.-The Blaine and Logan
Fire Brigade will give ball at Armory
Hall on Friday evening, November 14th,
for the benefit of the widow of the
late Charles A. Gillespie, the fireman who
was killed a few weeks since while running
TO fire. Every arrangement has been
made to make it fine evenings enter
tainment. A score of young men have
taken the laudable matter in hand. and 1t
is hoped that their efforts will meet with
the success it so justly deserves. Tickets
are only 81 Music will be furnished by
Church and Jones
VIsIT the Red House to-day for bargains
in boots and shoes. See new advertisements