Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-11-28
WEALTHS vAGARIES.
UPS AND DOWNS OF NEvADA'S
MINE MIiLIONARES.
A GoOd-Natured. Stage Robbery
Anti-Chinese Agitation-Dress
of San Francisco Ladies.
Sac FRANc1sco, Noyember 25. 18s5.

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| SAN FRANIsCo November %, 1885.
The fact cannot well be disguised that the
antagonism to the Chinese population of
this city is constantly growing more bitter
and bitter Even the working classes
with whom the Monaghan element does
| not enter into competitive conflict, are
metaphorically speaking, up and in arms
against the semi-barbaric horde who can
not possibly assimilate with US socially, re-
| ligiously or morally The various labor
| Unions here are in nightly session with the
view to devise means to relieve their I'M
employed members, and the aggressive
point will be upon the resident Chinese
/ The subject is an open secret, and is being
freely discussed in all public resorts were
| intelligent men congregate to interchange
ideas upon the current topics of the
moment. Although riots and mobs are
| greatly to be deprecated, yet, from what
can learn, the time is not far distant when
the $4,000 or 10000 unemployed laborers of
San Francisco will rise en- masse and de-
mand what they deem their rights, regard
less of the country's laws. The murmur
OF discomfort is gradually growing more
| distinct and it has already reached the
| listening ear of the Chine e, who are pre-
pairing themselves for the most desperate
emergency. The subjoined will corrobo-
rate the foregoing statement.
CHINESE PURCHASE OF THE PALACE HOTEL
Recently ii was common report that a
Chinese syndicate had offered 50 DOC, 900 for
the Palace Hotel property. Believing it to
be canard, l visited one of the
Cinnamon, and Intercepted him
relative TO the matter. He answered
in the affirmative, adding that the syndi-
cate had been prepared to pay 81, 500, 900
for the property, but upon mature DELHI
| Grafton they arrived at the conclusion that
the investment would prove an unwise
one at the present juncture. They soundly
reasoned that by thrusting themselves in
! the midst of the fashionable white quarters
just now and occupying the most ornament
al edifice in the city, they would be piiing
combustible material upon smoldering
fire. thus Fastening on what they also be-
| lieved the inevitable, and further nego-
tiations for the purchase were set aside
| This is one of the most convincing proofs
of their faith in the coming Storm
Ny information relative to the existing
| dissatisfaction among the laboring people
| is derived from cool-headed workingmen,
who advocate conservative measures, de-
nounce mob law, and all that; but they
declare it will be miracle should the tide
! of Indignation and desperation of their CO.
laborers be stemmed. These men have
lost confidence in the potency of the Re.
striction Act, and have no longer faith in
| the general Governments disposition and
power to protect them against the most
servile pauper-labor competition. They do
not purpose initiating the French Com
une-indiscriminately sacrificing life and
| property-but will confine themselves
solely to the expulsion of the obnoxious
element. OF course l merely give you this
as a matter of current news.
PALMY DAYS AND MEN OF NEVADA.
The impecunious Nevadan, whose gener-
osity naturally knows no bounds, after
yainly struggling to earn a living in this
! city, runs 10 Seed or, in other words
grows misanthropic His nature is a sym
| pathetic one, but reyerses upon reverses
have tendency to sour the milk of human
kindness contained within his bosom, and
1t appears TO delight him to gloat over the
| fallen fortunes of those who were contem-
poraneous with him in the Silver State.
especially those who gave him disastrous
stock points" That is not characteristic
| of the average Neyadan, yet when he is
| being pulled from pillar to post by the
| more prosperous, he evinces a desire to
| drag all down to his unfortunate level. He
only grows morbid when perpetually col
iiding with frigid humanity. Trans
! plant him to the region a little
beyond the Sierra Nevada summit, thrust
him amidst the associations which had
been his for fifteen or twenty years, and he
will thaw out and resume his former
generosity of disposition and geniality of
nature.
Last evening, standing in front of the
Lick House, | engaged in conversation
with one of this species. iIeswas a Com
stocker, very seedy in appearance by reason
of protracted but unwilling, fdleness.
squirting tobacco juice all over the side
walk, and commenting upon all old Neya-
dams passing by, whom ne had known in
better days" The poor fellow was in
garrulous mood, With an
INCLINATION TO TELL ALL HE KNEW.
Turning to me, he observed: Young
man, do you see that swarthy fellow mop
ping his beetle-brow with four-bit kerr
chief? | knew him when he was a hostler
in a Carson City stable, and he couldn't
write his name, almost. Somehow Bill
Sharon picked him up and took likin' to
him, and bye-an' bye he made him Super-
intendent of the Belcher mine, when the
stock was sellin' for more'n thousand
Are you listenin'? He got awfully rich
millions, | tell you. He cut big splurge
for awhile; got married to a nice lady and
gave big blow-outS. At first he wasn't
good hand at this sort O business But he
was always watchin' people how they man
aged to behave at his table, until Ire got to
be as big fish as any of them at the din
ner-table swim. His time, however, was
cut short they say he wanted to be
bigger man than his boss, so he got left
They say he don't drive any four-in- hand.
or even one-in-hand, now
1t seemed like q good evening for ex-
millionaires to be passing by the Lick, and
while the loquacious Comstocker was re-
placing the old quid in his capacious
mouth, a former popular Superintendent
of the Ophir mine CHANGED along. "Ah :"
resumed the old man, that's a Teller I'd
like to see rich again but m afeared he'll
never be-" Then, dropping his voice to a
melancholy tone and wistfully gazing after
the discussed person, he continued, What
a wreck bad luck, dependency and ingrati-
tude on the part of others have made of
him. Maybe you never saw Sam when he
was one of the finest specimens of physical
manhood? Why, be had more money
than a mule could pack, but he thought
the thing d last forever, and his hand
was always in his pocket The boys in his
mine always got chance at deal when
he could do il on the square. Poor fellow
H might be small bonanza king to-day,
had not certain doctor formed
A CONSPIRACY WITH SANS WIFE,
And tried to palm strange baby on him
as his own. That broke him all up and
he's never been the same man since Ener-
gy, ambition-all gone. Well! there is
old ]. NJ. Walker continued the brief
biographer. relieving his mouth of half
he was about the solidest man on the
lode Guess he amt rich now, Ell? He
was a millionaire almost before any of EN-.
John o. Earl, McCreary and such men were
mighty small fish in the puddle when he
was q whale. He was interested in all