Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-04-29

o the new Board of Trade buil1ing, when
hey were met by several squads of police.
who induced them to disperse. Some one
n the crowd threw a stone through car
Rage window, slightly injuring Mrs. L. P.
kadish, which was the only attempt at
violence.
General Grants Condition.
New YORK, April 2Sth.-Dr. Douglas
Yesterday felt some anxiety lest General
Grant should become excessively weary
with the undue excitement attending his
But, when the physician left
this morning, he said the General was as
well as yesterday, and that he is daily
growing stronger.
VIEWS OF SENATOR STANFORD.
OMAHA, April 2Sth.-United States Sena-
tor Stanford, of California, accompanied by
his wife and niece, spent yesterday in
Omaha, and left for San Francisco last
evening. In regard to General Grant,
whom he says he has been endeayoring to
induce to accept an invitation to go to Cal
ifornia, he said that he left the General last
Thursday night and that his condition was
more hopeful than at any time during his
illness. lie was more vigorous in body
and mind, and seemed in a fair way to get
well with proper treatment. Senator Stan
ford was unable to say whether General
Grant would come to California, rs there
was great deal of opposition to his taking
such long trip, as it was thought he
could not stand it, but if he could possibly
make the journey everything would be
done to induce him to come.
The cure of General Grant is attributed
by Senator Stanford to the use of clover tea
for the past three or four weeks. Among
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Grant, suggesting various remedies, clover
tea was urged by the majority of writers,
and this so influenced her that she finally
insisted on giving it Il trial at once The
doctors said they had no objections, al
though they had no faith in it whatever.
However they gave it a trial of one week
or ten days, and then dropped it. Mrs.
Grant and the family, however, continued
to give it to the General without the
knowledge of the doctors, and have kept it
up ever since. The improvement was no.
ticeable from the day he began taking it.
Senator Stanford had friend named
Bishop, who some years ago had a cancer
break out in three different places on his
face and neck. The best physicians in the
country treated him, but failed to do him
any good. Finally an old doctor of Jersey
City recommended clover tea as purifier
of the blood and possible remedy for can
cerous diseases. Bishop tried it and be-
came cured man. Senator Stanford says
that General Grant told him that at three
different times he would have died had the
doctors not been present to revive him with
stimulants. Stanford himself was present
one time when Grant was unconscious for
five minutes, and at another time when he
nearly strangled to death. " He certainly
has had some very close calls" said the
Senator.
" Mugwump" Dinner to Minister Pendie-
ton.
New YORK, April 2Sth. Despite the in
clemency of the weather tonight the COM
plimentary dinner given at Delmonico's to
Minister George H. Pendleton by the Civil
Service Reformers was largely attended.
The main dining-room was deliberately
festooned and draped, American flags and
huge baskets OF flowers were scattered at
intervals along the raised table at which
the President, George William Curtis, and
other distinguished people were seated.
Mr.. Pendleton sat at Mr. Curtis right, as
the guest of the evening. Beyond him, on
the same side, were Mr. Evarts Hon. Wayne
MacVeagh and others. Shortly after 9
o'clock Mr.. Curtis raped for order and
loosely opened his address by saying that
" this assemblage is pleasant congregation
of improbable Missionaries, amiahle
sentimcntalists, harmless theorists and po-
litical lunatics, who have come to make
public atonement for their supposed follies
and mistakes by offering sincere tribute
of respect to that American statesman who
has identified his name with the least ro-
mantle of all things commanding public
attention. the reform of the civil service.
NJ % 10 IF. t,,
Of the highest Government officials our
honor and regard, because thai gentleman,
as a Senator OF the United States, and rs a
distinguished leader of a political party.
has declared in the Senate that he be-
lieved the spoils system was great crime"
Letters Of regret were received from Post
master-G General w. f. Villas. Hon. Horatio
Seymour. Right Rev. II. G. Potter, Minister
L. J. Phelps, Hon. S. s. Cox. Attorney
General Denis O'Brien, Charles J. Bona
parte, Governor Thompson of South Caro-
lima, President White of Cornell Univers-
ity, Samuel J. Tilden, Governor Hill,
Governor Abbott, Generals Mcclellan and
Hancock. Judge Blatchford and others.
Hon. William NJ. Evarts responded to the
toast of The Senate of the United States, =
wherein he held that It's dignities and
duties were superior to the distribution OF
answered by Hon. Wayne MacVcagh, Presi-
dent of the Philadelphia Reform Associa-
ton. Other toasts were responded TO BY
Carl Schurz, Hon. William Dorsheimer.
Sherman Rogers and George VIM. Curtis.
Mr.. Pendlcton will sail Saturday for Bre-
men.
Locomotive Engineers Directing to the
Color Blindness Test.
Arp,~v Anil oS,b -TLo Ioao,,,. -.
engineers on several divisions of the Della
ware and Hudson Canal Company's road
are determined to resist the enforcement
of the rule providing for a general exam-
nation for defective vision, color blindness
and imperfect hearing, and a strike seems
to be determined upon. The men object
that the tests applied are too strict. and
that only an expert i'll color could dis
tinguish the shades submitted to them.
Seven of the oldest engineers in the service
were dismissed this evening for refusing to
submit to the tests. There is great excite
ment, and also threats of a strike among
the remainder The officials claim that
their tests are approved and not oppressive,
and that their action is for the safety of the
public.
New York Stock Market.
New YORK. April 2Sth-11 \. M.-Stocks
rule quiet with prices generally a shade
higher
New YORK, April -Noon-Stocks
duller. Prices show only slight changes,
New YORK, April 2Sth.-Central Pa
cific, 81; Burlington, l21 Northern Pa
ciiic, III; Northern Pacific preferred, 40;
Northwestern, 95s; New York Central, 500;
Oregon Navigation, 10; Transcontinental.
III; Pacific Mail, 54l; Panama, 9S; St Louis
and San Francisco, III; Texas Pacific, 10s
Union Pacific, 1913; Wells-Fargo Express,
100; Western Union, 5S3.
New YORK, April 2Sth.-Stocks are ex-
tremely dull, and the range of fluctuations
is very narrow. At 3 o'clock prices show
only Slight changes from the closing quota
tions OF yesterday.
The MaIarial Epidemic in Pennsylvania
WILKEsBARRE, April 2Sth.-The pesti-
lence at Plymouth appears to be raging
more extensively i'll the lower part of town,
where mostly all the houses are occupied
by Huugarians and Poles. In many in
stances from Is to % of these dwell under
one roof, 1t is here that the malarial dis
ease is expected TO be most fatal In the
better portion of the borough, the disease
is thought to be abating somewhat.
Tho New York Billiard Tournament.
NEW YORK, April 2Sth.-In the billiard
tournament tonight, SlOssen beat Dion by
a score of 500 10 1874.
Fire in a st. Louis Hotel.
ST. LOUIS, April 2Sth.-A fire in the Lin