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Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-04-26
THIS MORNINGS NEWS.

In New York yesterday Government bonds
were quoted at 1253s for Is of 1897 1881 for 41as
sterling, 81 SsCa4 80; 100 for IS, 100 for IS
silver bars, l1124.
Silver in London, so 19-l6d; eonsols, 102 Sled
5 per cent. United States bonds, extended, 1O5
As, 12524; 414s, l15]4.
In San Francisco Mexican dollars are quoted
at Ss1l9S9 cents.
In the San Francisco mining share market
yesterday the Comstocks still had a dropping
tendency. The Bodie stocks were the only
securities that had any vim about them.
Congressman Reagan, of Texas, is seriously i'll
in Washington.
A prize fight of 121 rounds took place at Pitts
burg, Pa, Thursday night.
A taller and his two sons stood off" a mob OF
fifty men at Mount Sterling KY, yesterday, who
were after prisoner.
Frank James has been again arrested, this
time for participation in the Ottoryille (MO.)
train robbery.
The first vessel of the Greedy relief expedition
the steamer Bear-left New York yesterday for
the Arctic.
woman in Philadelphia has been discovered
to be an heress to an estate valued at $50 900 600
The new El Dorado" in Colorado turns out
to be a fraud.
The New York Telegram floats the names of
Arthur and Lincoln at the head Of its columns
for President and Vice-President.
John McVey was killed by a train at Caliente,
Kern county, yesterday.
The Sunday law has been rejected by the Vic
toria (B. c. Council.
During the past week los business failures oc-
CURED in the United States.
The United States Senate adjourned yesterday
until Monday.
The Massachusetts Greenback State COnven-
ton met in Lynn yesterday.
Charles W. Rugg was convicted at Hunters
Point L. L, yesterday, of the murder of Mrs.
Maybee and daughter at Oyster Bay.
The Henry College lottery, of Louisville, Ky,
has suspended operations.
Postmaster-General Gresham has gone to
Florida
Colonel NJ. Richard Muckle, of the Philadel-
phia Ledgcr, IS mentioned as the successor of
Minister Sargent at Berlin.
A disease resembling pleuro-pneumonia has
broken out among the cattle in Washington
county Pennsylvania.
The striking stoye-makers at Buffalo have re-
sumed work at fifteen per cent reduction in
their wages.
A steamer and schooner collided in the san
joaquin river Thursday night, the latter being
sunk and a deekhand drowned.
The trial of seven men for murder, in connec-
ton with the street fight at Hot Springs, Ark,
last February ended yesterday in a verdict of
not guilty.
A Berlin dispatch announces the illness of
General Won Moltke with catarrh of the lungs.
NJ. A. Mcdonald, prominent Denver lawyer,
was crushed to death by cars at Coal Creek, Col,
yesterday.
The blame Of the loss of the steamer Daniel
Steinmann, with l24 lives, near Halifax. has been
laid al the door Of the Captain.
1t is rumored in Alexandria that Kharoum
has fallen and General Gordon prisoner.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-04-26
JUDICIAL DELAYS.

1t has remained for one of the most emf
nent members of the bar to rise in con
demnation of judicial delays David
Dudley Field declared in his recent add
dress to the law students of New York
City that the delays OF litigation are
simply inexcusable. 1t takes in New
York from five to ten years to bring case
to final judgment in the Court of Appeals
respecting disputed title to stock in a cor
poration. In one case out of three the
Court of Appeals reverses the determine
ton of the lower Court, and the case is
begun over again. Says Mr. Field
There is a Judicial administration, dis
creditable and demoralizing, which you and
|, and all who practice or expect TO prac-
tice in the Courts, should study to find
remedy for"
1t is a very encouraging sign that the
bar manifests a disposition to rise to the
task of correcting Judicial decentralization.
1t is not only the delay that is reducing
the Courts in the estimation of the people
to a sentiment that is beginning to find ex-
preston in contempt, but the exceeding
cost of litigation, also. Even Mr.. Field
confesses to this Bad as this is for civil
litigation, it is much worse in criminal
matters, and it is not surprising that the
uncertainty of the Courts in this respect
has led to popular outbreaks such as re-
Gently disgraced Cincinnati.
Delay is the great cause of the evil, and
delay is the result, not 50 much Of the
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-04-26
HOPE FOR THE RIVER.

There is some hope for the salvation OF
the Sacramento river. On Wednesday the
Pacific coast delegation appeared before the
House Committee on Rivers and Harbors,
and presented the case of the Sacramento
river very strongly, urging upon the atten-
ton of the committee the immediate neces-
sity for the Federal Government taking
steps to preserve the navigability of the
stream. The outlook is for liberal APP
preparation, to be used solely in improving
the river and increasing its carrying and
securing capacity, and thus lessening the
dangers of overflow and unnatural emission
of the waters through the banks.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-04-26
A NEW TUNE.

The Peoples Cause says: We do not
believe that the people desired any injury
done to the railroad company, but they
believed that that corporation should be
compelled to submit to the same laws and
pay taxes in the same ratio as others, with
the same penalties for non-payment that
Others are subjected to-" And who objects
to such an adjustment? Certainly not the
railroad companies. 1t cannot be said that
they have ever raised the slightest obiec-
ton to being bound by the same laws as
Others On the contrary, it has been their
open and persistent complaint that they
have not been subjected to the same laws.
The very class of people who are now so
strong-lunged in demanding that the rail
roads be assessed and taxed as are others
preach the doctrine with an effrontery that
is amazing and ludicrous, seeing that but a
short time ago they were singing totally
different tune, and it was the railroad COM
panies that clamored for treatment on a
level with other taxpayers. Is not this
bare history, and undeniable?
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WILL BE DAMNED IN EITHER CASE

1t is the favorite method of weak and
disappointed minds to assail the motives of
those who have independence of character
sufficient to do their own thinking. In the
last few days the radical and destructive
elements in the Legislature have not
prospered according to their own estimate.
1t will not be strange therefore if they
shall resort to the old time tactics of charg-
ing corruption upon their opponents. In
deed, the air is already pregnant with
the rumors they have originated for
masking their own discontinue, that
the failure to command to their bidding
sufficient force to do cruel and unjust
things is due to corruption. That, in
short, their colleagues who have differed
with them have been spoiled with bribery
That has been the fayorite resort Of the
disappointed always, and it should not
surprise the public to find it ayailed of
ton proposed in this State for years that
its promoters have not assailed the in
tegrity Of their opponents. 1t would be
more than phenomenal if like methods
should not be resorted to in this
instance. Unfortunately the public
are too ready to receive such
intimations as verify. There is
relish among men for the scandalous,
readiness to believe the worst of their fell
lows, and it is not complimentary to the
moral tone of our civilization that this is
true. The maxim that those things alone
are to be taken as true which are proven
true, has been practically ignored in these
days, and allegation persistently made has
come to be accepted as conviction. When
the opponents of vicious Legislation, be-
lieving in eternal justice and its ultimate
triumph, saw fit to refrain from wrestling
with the anti-railroad phobists, trust
ing rather to the truth vindi-
eating itself, their silence was
construed to be the result of deep-laid and
evil plotting. But when, finally, self-re-
speeding journals and men felt that
manliness and regard for the inter
ests of the whole people demanded
that they should enter their pro-
tests, they have been met with precisely
the same charge that was laid to their
patient silence. When, for instance, cor
porate interests, though assailabe in their
vitals, trusted to the justice of their cause
and the righteousness of indestructible
principles, they were published abroad as
plotting some deep-laid, damnable scheme,
and no more bitter assaults could have
been made upon them had they crowded
legislative Iobbies with advocates and
agents, or openly sought to buy legislators
out of hand. The whole truth of it is,
in the present craze railroads are to be
damned if they do, and damned if they
don't.
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by virtue of special power or phenomenal
skill, or superior organizing powers. We
aver that the boss element and following
is in the minority in nine communities out
of ten. The "boss" operates upon myth
cal capital; he has power because he has
the reputation of having it, and this Is
based on his bold assumption that he pos
sesses it. The "boss element" the ward
rings, the boys" are the natural and I'M
ayoidable result and outcome of the neglect
of the voters to do political duty. The
common expressions of these are, " do
not take much interest in politics; l do
not attend caucuses l do not vote at pri-
maries it is no use for me to take part, for
l cannot accomplish anything; the boys
run these things and | don't care to be
mixed up with them" Precisely, and
." the boys" will continue to do so just as
long as the apathetic voter boasts it as a
virtue that he "takes no interest in poll
tics" Instead of being praiseworthy, his
confession is shameful. The boys" are
not to blame We have no word of cen
sure for them; they would be asses indeed
if they did not do as they do. If the too
good citizen prefers to toast his toes at
home, to taking an interest in the politics
of his country, he should not complain that
those who do interest themselves secure
the loaves and fishes. Politics viii be
vicious just so long as the people who wish
it otherwise do nothing but entertain the
wish and curse the bosses"
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-04-26
THE HOLLOWNEss OF THE ANTI-RAIL
ROAD AGITATION.

All over this State it has been indus
triously preached by word of mouth, and
through the agency of a satanic press, that
railroad promoters in California operate
the railroad system against the interests of
persons and communities The persistence
with which this dogma has been adhered
to by demagogues and cranks has led some
good people to really believe that the citi-
zens of California are really enslaved by
the railway corporations and that their
sole aim is to levy extortionate tolls, and
to mjustly discriminate, irrespective of the
rights, prosperity and friendship of their
patrons.
But the thoughtful men of the country,
who have seen a useless session of the Leg
isIature held to keep alive this fallacious
doctrine, are beginning to see how illogical
it is. Either one of two things is true
the railroad managers are consummate and
shOrtsighted asses, or else the whole fat
tened cry is false. Who believes that men
naving the minimum of sense would pur-
sue a policy 50 suicidal as that charged
against the railway operators? Is it not
clear to even the narrowest intelligence
that the success of every railway enter
prise is dependent upon the settlement
and development OF the country traversed
and the highest degree of prosperity of the
people thereof? 1t certainly is becoming
clear to thinking people that the tendency
Of transportation rates Is steadily down
ward that low rates increase traffic and
augment net gains, as against high rates
and limited traffic 1t is dawning upon
the public comprehension that it has to a
great degree been blinded by the dema-
gogues and political hypocrites of the day
that self-interest, the most powerful of mo-
tors in business, dictates to railroad COM
panies the pursuit Of policy that will bid
for the largest possible volume Of traffic,
over the whole line and every part of it, at
the lowest possible charge for the service,
consistent with the capacity of the country
TO furnish business to be done, and that the
supremest effort of railroad managers
must be, and is, always made to foster,
stimulate, enlarge and bring to its full fru-
ition this capacity.
The decrease Of rates with a correspond
ing increase of traffic, results in a reduc-
ton of the ratio of cost to the amount of
traffic, and consequent benefit alike to the
shipper and carrier. The earning power
of railroad corporation, in short, is to be
accurately measured by the development
and traffic contributing power Of the country
trayersed All legislative attempts to fix
rates, to bind by cast iron rules, and to
arbitrarily adjust commercial relations,
have a tendency to retard the downward
tendency of the charge for carriage, and
consequently to check the development of
Che country and limit its traffic capacity.
For this reason the arbitrary exercise Of the
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-04-26

SAYS the san Francisco Examiner: " If the
country believes in Democratic principles, it
should put the party in power to enforce them,
in order to carry out its policies and thoroughly
systematic honesty and economy, stop the rapid
cancellation of bonds, check Capitalization, and
so reform the revenue system as to prevent the
levy and collection of unnecessary taxes"
What the Examiner means by stopping the
rapid cancellation of bonds and the collection of
unnecessary taxes" viii puzzle most students of
political economy. Probably our contemporary
does not know what it means itself However,
it may be a protest against taxing Democratic
enthusiasm-whisky.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-04-26

THE San Francisco Report which has con
stantly urged an official inquiry into the sub
structure of the extra session business. says
Z" The Report is Of the opinion that the Governor
had no good cause for calling the extra session;
that he allowed himself to be used by people
having private interests to subserve; that he and
they knew there was no necessity for the extra
session, and that the final results VIII give to
the extra session the appropriate name of Stone
MINIS Folly -
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-04-26

A CORRESPONDENT of the San Francisco Alta in
teryiewed at Los Angeles fifty men as they came
as TO their ideas about the extra session. Twen
ty-nine thought the Governor justified in calling
it, and twenty-onc were unqualifiedly opposed
to it. An examination of the records disclosed
the fact that the entire twenty-nine paid 81 A
in taxes annually, and four of them paid the
whole of that
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-04-26

THE Red Bluff Sentinel puts it in this wise
"The Legislature ought to adjourn, and that
speedily, too. Nearly five weeks have been
fretted away in making buncombe speeches and
passing senseless and meaningless preambles
and resolutions, all for the one object in view
the vain attempt to bolster up lettering politi-
cal dynasty and prevent, if possible, the down
fall of the Democratic party on the 9TH of No
yemDer next"
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-04-26

THE Vallejo Chronicle says: 1t was nonsense
to expect anything from the Legislature at this
time, on the eve of the Presidential election. but
political clap-trapan buncombe, and the sooner
the curtain is rung down on the farce the better
for the people. The buriesque that is being
made of the .anti-monopoly' question is disgust
ing thinking and honorable-minded people"
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SAN FRANCISCO AGENCY.

The Office of the REcoRD-UNIoN in San Fran
cisco is at No. New Montgomery street-Palace
Hotel, opposite the Grand. The paper can be
obtained at all the principal news-stands.
WILLIAM CAMERON,
Special Advertising and Subscription Agent
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-04-26

THE Marysville appeal asks: =" Is it not true
that the more the railroads are crippled by I'M
friendly legislation the less able their managers
will be to lend aid to private and public enter
prises? The more their managers are 'cinched'
the greater viii be their efforts to gain and hold
some advantage they otherwise would not I'M
dertake"
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A. LEONARD & SON.
REAL ESTATE AND INSURANCE AGENTS
1O12 Fourth street, Sacramento.
mI--3n1m
ICE CREAM
MRS. E. M. WIEDMANN,

No. AS J St, bet. Fourth and Fith'
rs PREPARED TO FILL ALL ORDERS, BOTH
gatherings. with the very best of ICE CREAM,
at wholesale prices. Sole proprietor and man
ufacturer of the Celebrated California Sugar OF
Lemon Also Wholesale Manufacturer and I'm
porter of Candies, and Dealer in all kinds of
nuts Branch House No. 4l9 K street Metro
politan Theater Building aploSplm
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FOR SALE.

beautiful home in the country, in the
foothills of Amador county The place known
as FINN'S RANCH, situate on the road lead
ing from Sacramento to Plymouth, 81 miles
from the former and miles from the latter
place Stage from Sacramento passes daily
fare, 80 cents. The place contains $50 acres
choice land, well irrigated 20 acres in alfalfa
yielding four crops per season two good Or
chards good garden spot of berries, etc.: 10
acres in vineyard, producing IS tons yearly:
a good two-story Dwelling, completely fur
nished; large Barn, 40x60, and u large Wine
Cellar, about 45X75, having a capacity of 5000
gallons, and complete outfit for making wine,
including eight l,OO0-gallon Oak Casks, and
number of smaller ones, all good as new;
Spring furnishes water at Wine Cellar all
summer four good work Horses one three
old Colt and two yearlings; about sew
enty-five Hogs; one Two-horse Wagon
one Hay Wagon and one Spring Wa
gon; one Hay Press; one new Champion
Mower; one new Tiger Rake; three good
Plows; one new Seed Sewer; two sets Har-
ness, etc, etc. Everything necessary for car,
rying on Il farm will be found here and is all
included in the price, $4,000
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UNION BREWERY.

TWENTIETH 4 STS., SACRAMENTO.
DEER DELIVERED TO ANY PART OF THE
attended to. Try the UNION BREWERY BEER /;
it has no superior.
ap2-3p3m JACOB GEBERT, Proprietor.
, 1884-08-01
Another Railroad Finally Com
pleted to the Coast.
The Democratic Nominees Have
Their First Meeting.
Odds and Ends of News from
Everywhere.


Boston, July 3l.-The details of an
important railway consolidation on the
Pacific coast have leaked out, and parties
interested admit that the combination is
effected. The result will be the compile.
ton of a rival through line to San Fran
cisco and Sandiego. Negotiations were
carried on in this city a few weeks ago by
c. p. Huntington and Ex-Governor Le-
land Sanford for the Southern Pacific,
General Manager c. w. Rogers for the
Atlantic & Pacific and President W. B.
Strong for the Santa Fe. By the terms
eff the new arrangements the Southern Pa
cific sold to the Atlantic & Pacific the
Santa Fe and the San Francisco lines be.
ing really the purchasers, its Moiave di-
vision, 240 miles in length, extending from
Mojaye TO the Needles and conceded to
the Atlantic Il Pacific the right to run its
trains from Mojaye to Oakland Pier, u
distance of 3s2 miles. BY this contract
the Atlantic & Pacific, which is owned
Jointly by the Santa Fe 4 St Louis and
San Francisco lines, extends its road to
Mojaye and secures the right to run its
trains virtually into San Francisco. The
California Southern, now reaching from
Sandiego to San Bernardo, 100 miles, is
to be extended to the junction with the
purchased Moiave division. 1t will then
be formally transferred to the Atlantic q
Pacific, which will thus be extended to the
Bay of Sandiego. This is the first advent
in California of a foreign railway company.
Heretofore the Central Pacific and South
ern Pacific companies have controlled
every mile of track that led out of or into
the State. The Atlantic Il Pacific will
now enter both San Francisco and San
diego, and to the latter point will own its
track. Traffic arrangements will at once
be made with the Pacific Coast Steamship
company by which freight can be delivered
al San Francisco on the Atlantic 4 Pacific
company own terms. The line will not
just now enter the field as a rival of the
old companies, but just as soon as the
transcontinental pool is broken, which will
be in less than six months, it is expected
there will be trouble.
, 1884-08-01

CHICAGO, July 3l.--First race: Ono
mile, for all ages: Nippon won, Centre.
vile second, Ascolt third; time, I.594.
Second race: One M lie and an eighth,
for maiden 3 year olds: Abad won.
Nodaway second, Scout third; time. 2.l5.
Third race: Three quarters of a mile,
juvenile stakes, . year olds: Calsus won,
Courtban second, Lady of the Lake third,
time, 1924.
Fourth race: One mile, for all beaten
horses: Australian won, Tix second,
Easter third; time, I.533,
Fifth race: Half mile heats. Transi-
ton won, Wellington second, =. d. Q
third; best time, 52f secs.
New YORK, July 3l.-Monmouth
Park races: First race; three-fourths of a
mile for all ages; Glideway won, Caramel
second, Pinafore third time l:le.
Second race: Red banks stakes for =
year olds; three-fourths Of a mile; Chi
mera won, Guano second, Cholula third:
time l:l7!.
Third race: Newark stakes; one mile;
St, Savair won, Burton second, Endy,
moin third; time l:4s.
Fourth race: All ages; mile and a quar-,
ter; Aaranza won, B%ondholder second
Trafalgar third; time 2:2Oi.
Fifth race: Selling allowances; one
mile; Itazka drew away in the stretch and
won by a half length.
Sixth race: Steeple chase; Charley Epps
won, Trombe second, Aurelian third.
time 1856.
, 1884-08-01

Some special bargains in collars, halters
and harness of all kinds at James Kerr
CANS. Eddy street.
, 1884-08-01

LITTLE Rock, Ark, July 3l.-The
Gazette's Hot SpGngs special says: Fire
broke out early this morning in the kitchen
of Bruch's restaurant on Central avenue
and spread to the surrounding buildings,
destroying nearly a whole block. The
guests at the Commercial hotel were
forced to fly in their night clothing, losing
most of their effects. The fire soon got
beyond control of the frcmen and des-
troyed nearly the whole business part ofthe
town. 1t originated in the explosion of a
coal oil lamp. The total loss is 500, 900,
insured about one fifth.
, 1884-08-01

WAsHINdToN, July 3l.-The report on
foreign commerce Of the United States
shows a balance in favor of this govern
ment during the last fiscal year of ST.
79s, 997, against the balance in our favor
800, Cos ASS, the proceeding year Tho
total value of exports merchandise during
the fiscal year just closedyas $40 l3, 56o
against 1929, S39, 402 the preeeeding fiscal
year, a falling off of $50, $40, S42. ln
ports merchandise amounredto $667. ia
500, against 1928, $50, 9l4 the preceding
fiscal year, a falling off Of $50. 466. a5l.
, 1884-08-01

P%ITTsBURG, July 3l.-A gang of burg
lars, who have for the past three months
been operating extensively among the
wealthy residences of the East end, were
run down to-day by the police, and Ale
Hogan, Sonny Hogan, Charles Hicks
and John Scholes, all colored, captured,
together with six large trunks filed with
gold watches, diamonds, s~ilverware, seal
skin goods, silks, etc, valued at over ten
thousand dollars. Detectives are still at
work and it is expected that large addi-
tons to the stock of goods now received
will be made in the next twenty-four
hours, Sonny Hogan, one ofthe robbersI
is believed by the police to be wanted in
Washington City for murder.