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The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-04-07
ANNOUNCEMENTS.

A DAM GRIFFIE's Tent aud Awning store, %
~ West Maryland, moved to l9t L lst Washing
ton street. II
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rupts a community that should be shocked,
but is not. We understand bill is before
the Legislature providing that all execu-
tions shall take place at the State Prison,
and be certified to by the officers of that
institution. 1t should pass. We are gra-
tilted that a Sacramento Assemblyman has
had the courage to introduce and advocate
it. Let him afiix a section declaring 1t to
be unlawful-under penalty-for any per-
son to print or publish. in any form any
other account of the execution of a crimi-
nal, executed under the laws of this State
except such official statement as the law
requires to be placed on record. OF course
this will be censorship of the press, but 1t
is lust such censorship as should be exer-
cised and the sooner the better. No re-
porter who has witnessed an execution or
written up a sensational account of hang
ing, will testify otherwise than that such
publication as the press makes is democrat
izing and thoroughly vicious.
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CONCERNING HANGING ENTERTAIN.
MENTS.

The Sheriff of San Francisco announces
his purpose of putting a stop to hanging
matinees that is, there will be under
his administration no more violation of the
law that prohibits public executions. He
proposes to admit no more than twelve cit
liens to witness an execution, and the
press reporters are to be admitted in addi-
ton. In this he is wrong. The reporters
should be excluded also Two vicious
things are connected with executions in
California. First, the admission of a
crowd to witness the death agony; second,
the publication of detailed accounts of the
hanging" to cater to morbid taste.
We should provide by law that the ut
most privacy should be observed at execu-
tons, consistent with safety to the law
that resides in the presence of Il few wit
nesses to its due enforcement We should
prohibit the publieason of long accounts
that are so worked up" As 10 stimulate
an appetite for the horrible Public exc
cutions and sensational accounts of them
tend TO defeat the very end of the law in
ordering the execution of a criminal
They give the offender opportunity to pose
upon the scafiold and to win something of
the character of martyr, 4 hero or " a
game man." We should make executions
rs odious as possible, and the scaflold as
dread an engine Of justice as we may. We
can do this by Shrouding both
with silence From the hour Of final
condemnation the man should to all prac-
teal intents, be dead to society. His very
name should he blotted out, and his body
be known by n number only. lie should
be executed at the State Prison, and no
county community should be stirred to its
depths by the baleful coming on Of hang
ing day." There should be published no
accounts of the last night, and last meal.
and last words Of the wretch. We should
permit no record of his final preparations
for death; the priestly connseling the
march to the scafiold; the speech upon
the trap; the adjustment Of the moose
the click of the hangman's trap catch
the plunge of the body downward the
lutter of the heart; the contortions Of the
limbs; the examination by the physi-
slams; the record of the seconds Of ebbing
life the taking down Of the remains; the
removal of the cord that choked lie OF.
Of the human being the burial, and all
that Our present practice adds to the NOR
bidly and awfully romantic that inspires
some men to commit crime for the very |
sake of posing for a brief moment before |
the public 1t lessons, instead of intensi-
flies, the horror of the moose; il hardens
and renders callous the hearts Of the |
young; it cultivates cruel and cold
blooded spirit; it detracts from the iniiu
ence of the execution as a deterrent; ii
contaminates the public mind, creates
thirst for blood, and demoralizes and cor.
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CONTEMPORARY EXPRESSIONS.

SILVER coinage must be suspended in this
country, as it was many years ago in the coun-
tries belonging to the Latin Union, if the ae-
tual presence and equal value of both metals
are to be assured. To drive ont either gold or
silver will be equally fatal to the principles of
bimetallism; to preserve the equilibrium of
money values between the two in this country
will be to promote and hasten the international
agreement which is necessary to the permanent
establishment of bimetallism- Chicago Trl-
bune
THE policy of free trade has made great pro-
greSs since the election. Democrats who feared
TO ayow their principles during the campaign
now openly advocate Il tariff for revenue only,
and Republicans who clamored for high tariff
are willing 10 argue the question more patiently
and examine into the true causes of the great
industrial depression. suspicious that the cam
paign thunder that they listened to was not al
together administration Herald
THE man who makes a brave, honest. de-
termined effort to succeed in the battle of life
whose motives are pure and whose actions are
guided by a just and decent regard for the rights
and interests of Others: whose soul is comprised
by liberalism so cosmopolitan as to shrink
from the performance OF nothing that tends to
elevate and instruct, to purify and make better
all classes and all kinds of beings that make up
the warp and wool of human society, will
achieve the victory and gain the reward.-[San
Jose Times Mercury.
THERE are more than twenty members of the
present Congress who represent a smaller voting
population than our Congressman, as shown by
the official returns as published in the Con
gresSional directory Reese River (Nev) Re
yei,le, on Nevada's Representation"
Nc. we want no alliance with England. We
are strong. while her strength is fast ebbing
away. Nor specious pies. nor fitscme fiattery
shall make Us forget the lessons OF the past or
become nnmindful of the prospects for the fi
ture.--iSRn Jose Times Mercury.
AN ENTHUSIASTICALLY the letter OF Dr.
Shorb to a Senator on the question of irri-
CATION, which appeared in our issue of
yesterday, the address was My Dear
Friend" and question mark ~ appeared
after the word friend. which was uninten-
tional. The name OF the person addressed
was first written and it was sent to him in
that way. The copy was given to another
person to judge of the propriety of its pub |
LEGATION, and the question mark referred 10 |
the propriety of inserting the true name or |
simply friend. Thus it got into the paper !
through an oversight. II is small mark, |
but it might convey very wrong i'm !
preston.
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OF SECRET MARRIAGE.

There has been laid before us the print
ed argument of Hon. William NJ. Stewart
in the Sharon case, in which he holds that
there can be no valid secret marriage I'M
der the laws of California. We believe
that to be a true conclusion. Long before
the Sharon case was decided We expressed
surprise that the defendant did not take
the position that, even if all the plaintiff
claimed were true, there was no marriage,
and, resting there, go to the appellate
Court upon that point But a Superior
Court has decided that there was a mar
riage by secret contract between the plain
tiff and defendant As Mr.. Stewart puts
it, the Court holds that the phrase "mu-
tual assumption of marital rights, duties
or obligations" in Section 80 of the Civil
Code, means nothing more than clandes-
tine intercourse We do not believe that
such meaning was intended to be expressed
by the lawmakers. The Legislature has
refused to set this matter at rest by SIM
pie enactment requiring all contracts to
marry to be put OF public record. 1t fol-
lows that parties may marry by secret con-
tract, and at will divorce themselves by
destruction of the contract-that is, if the
decision of the Superior Court of San
Francisco is right Interpretation of the
law. We do not believe it is law. As Mr..
Stewart well says: Although, by the
common law, consent alone might consti-
tute marriage yet it is a remarkable fact
that no unsolemnized secret marriage has
ever been held valid. In every case re-
ported where an unsolemnized marriage
has been held valid there Las been some
publicity" But it would have been "a
small matter for the Legislature to set all
doubt at rest by requiring record to be
made of all contracts of marriage.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-02-17
SAN FRANCISCO AGENCY.

L. P. FISHER is Sole Agent for this paper IN
San Francisco and vicinity. He is authorize
10 receive advertisements and subscriptions, and
collect for the same. Rooms q and -, Mer-
chants Exchange.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-02-17

The REcoRD-U UNION is the only paper on
,ke coast, outside Of San Francisco, that re-
etyes tie full Associated Press dispatches
from all parts Of The tcorld. Outside Of San
Francisco it las no competitor, IN point q
Numbers. in its home and general circulation
THROUGHOUT the coast.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-02-17
OF UNIVERSITIES.

Saws the Modesto Herald: The build
ing of the Stanford Memorial University
Will be the death knell of the State Uni
versity. There can be no question as to
that" Nothing of the kind. 1t will have
most beneficial effect upon the State
University; Will serve to put it upon
still higher plane, and to command for it
the very best talent of the ages. 1t will
make it more truly State University than
it now is. In no State or country has the
founding of great school by private bene-
faction had any other than an elevating
and stimulating effect upon existing
schools The erection of colleges and
academies and universities only serves,
with their increase, to better them all,
and to secure to the people loftier and
more beneficial results from all.
SENATOR FILcHER claims that Section
II of his bill Senate Bill No. % gives
ample remedy to proprietors of lands who
desire to buy water of ditch company,
but are refused the privilege Of bringing
pipes or bitches over the land of another,
by which passage alone the lower lands
can be reached. The Senator is probably
correct. But the difficulty is that Sec
ton / is in bill of many sections, and
it is one among many bills on the irriga
ton and water-rights question. 1t is not
likely to pass as it stands. A compro-
mise measure will probably be settled
upon. What the foothill people want is
that such law as is expressed in Section
II of Senate Bill No - shall be enacted,
irrespective of whatever else is done re-
garding general irrigation schemes. Their
plant is distinct and clear from all other
irrigation matters. Their request is a
reas latie one, and the Legislature should
grant ito wit: give the proprietor of
land desiring to use water the right to
condemn and pay for a right of way for
water from source of supply to his land.
As matters now stand a proprietor adjacent
to ditch can, by surly refusal, prevent all
landowners below him procuring water
from the ditch. There should be no hest
tation in applying a remedy for such cases.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-02-17

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GENERAL NOTICES.
Whit q PITY

That the otherwise beautiful girl should have
such bad teeth. And all because she did not
use SOZODONT 1t costs so little 10 buy il con-
siderng the good it does. and its benefits stretch
out into her future life Poor girl fe26lyTuThS
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-02-17

ANGosrURA BIrTERs were prepared by
DIR. j. g. b. Siegert for his private use
Their reputation is such to-day that they
have become generally known as the best
appetizing tonic. Beware of counterieits
Ask your grocer or druggist for the genu
inc article, manufactured by DIR. J. G. B.
Slegert & Sons.
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Mrs. z. w. Stevens, Test Medium, is
located ut No 1l2l Ninth street, between X and
l.. Seances Tuesday and Friday Evenings.
iaAD-lmR
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Redding's Russia Salve. the universal
remedy for burns, sealds, cuts bruises and flesh
wounds oll-iyTuThS
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-02-17
DISAPPOINTMENT.
JAMES MCCLEERY,
CANDIDATE FOR
Third TruSGS ..
ELECTION MARCH 10, 1885.
fel7-1t&
IN MEMORIAM.

WHEREAS, FOR THE FIRSTsTIME SINCE
w the organization of Sunset Parlor, No. %,
n. S. G. W., the smooth course of its existence
has been interrupted by the death of f. HOW
ARD MOORE, charter member, and one otits
brightest and most energetic brothers; therefore,
be it
Resolred, That in the death of Brother Moore
Sunset Parlor has sustained a great loss, and its
members have had removed from their midst a
a brother who was beloved by them all for his
warmth of heart and brilliancy of intellect:
ReSOlred, That the Parlor recognizes the mate
rial aid rendered to ii in its infancy by Brother
Moore, who was ever willing to devote his time
and lend his counsel when it would tend 10 fur
ther the interests of the Parlor:
Resolued That the Parlor sincerely sympa-
thizes with the family and relatives of Brother
Moore in their bereavement, and deeply regret
that God in His infinite wisdom, should have
seen fit to take from this world and call to him
self young man of such great promise and
possessing so many fine traits of character;;.E
ResOlred, These resolutions be spread upon
the minutes of the Parlor, a copy sent 10 the
family of the deceased brother and to the press
for publication, and that ;he charter of the Par
llor be draped in appropriate mourning for the
period of so days.
JAMES B. DEVINE,)
WV. MARVIN, JR., Committee.
fe17-1t J. F. TALBOT,
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The Brand on Cain

Was not more fearful than are the marks
OF skin diseases, and yet DR.. Pierces
Golden Medical Discovery" is a certain
cure for all of them BlotcheS, pimples,
eruphons, pustules, scaly incrustations,
Jumps, infamed patches, salt rheum, letter,
boils, earbuncles, ulcers, old sores, are by
its use healed quickly and permanently.
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United States Senate.

WASHINGTON, February 16th.-The Chair
laid before the Senate a memorial from the
Legislature of Arizona urging that certain
coal fields in the White Mountains Indian
Reservation be separated from the reserva-
ton and the right of the DISCOVERIES thereof
be recognized. Referred.
The Postoffice appropriation bill was laid
before the Senate and referred.
After some discussion the Senate pro-
ceeded with the consideration Of the In
dian appropriation bill.
Vest read letter from the Governor of
Montana. saying that Notwithstanding the
relief offered by the Government the con-
dition of the Indians in parts of Montana,
from exposure and starvation, was pitiabe
in the extreme. 1t was useless, in Vests
opinion, to say, Let the Indians work or
die" That was simply saying, Let them
die" You might as well say to the chill
dren in the cradle, go to work or die"
We are under much more Christian obliga-
ton to these heathens in our own Terrific
ries than to heathens in Asia and Africa,
but no starving Indian had ever been
brought to realizing sense of Christianity.
After further debate Vests amendment
to increase the emergency fund from
S25, 900 to $4,000 was agreed to.
The anti-foreign contract labor bill then
was formally placed before the Senate but
on Dawes suggestion it was unanimously
| laid aside to continue consideration of the
| Indian appropriation bill.
After lengthy debate the bill passed
substantially as reported from the Senate
| committee.
| Hale called up the agricultural appro-
priation bill, but at Plumb's suggestion it
went over till tomorrow.
Sawyer, from the Committee on Post.
offices and Post Roads, reported favorably,
without amendment, what is known as the
subsidy clause proposed by Frye to the
postoffice appropriation bill.
A bill was introduced by Dolph, making
Seattle and Tacoma. Washington Territory
ports of delivery. Referred.
| adjourned
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MATTERS AT HOME.
FREEING WEATHER AND FRESH
ETS IN THE EAST.
Mrs. Dudley in Court-Pneumonia in
New York-The Peabody Benefi-
cence-F'oreigp News Items.
DOMESTIC NEWS.

SPECIAL DISPATCHES TO THE KEooKD-uslos.l
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Consolidating California Railroad Lines.

New YORK, February l6th-The Chron-
icle says of the Southern Pacific: The
January earnings show an improvement
over last year. 1t Is understood the lease
of the California road south of Gordon
Except as to the Colorado division, which
has been leased 10 the Atlantic and Pacific
Company, has been renewed for a further
period OF ten years for rental sufficient TO
pay the fixed liabilities, with the right re-
served to the lessee company, in the event
that at any time IL desired to establish a
through line between San Francisco and
New Orleans in connection with other por-
tionS of the route that such lease may be
assumed by the Southern Pacific system.
without. however, relieving the present
lessee of its responsibility in case of default
by the new lessee. The bendholders of the
Southern Pacific of California have thus
not merely the obligation OF that company
and lien on its roads and land grant as
security for the prompt payment of their
interest. but also the pledge Of the Central
Pacific Railroad Company. This foreshad-
ows land il is confirmed by the recent ac-
ton OF the Southern Development Com
pany in uniting the lines between New Or
leans and IL Paso), consolidation under
one management and ownership OF all the
roads between New Orleans and San Fran
cisco. so as to form one continuous main
line via Houston. Ell Paso and Los Angeles.
The Houston and Texas Central is not in
eluded in the arrangement Possessing
steamer lines to- this city, such q gigantic
would result in a great corpo-
ration. Doubtless the desire to economic
as much az possible the operation of several
links underlies this important step. The
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-02-17
Mrs. Dudley Arraigned.
Severe Weather Again East OF the
Rockies.

Rockies.
CHICAGO. February 1Gth.-The weather
here and throughout the Northwest gen.
orally to-day is again intensely cold. At s
o'clock this morning in Chicago the mer-
curry indicated 15o below zero. The weather
is clear, but the air is filled with little par
ticieS of snow that are being blown around
by the keen wind which prevails. Trains
yesterday were somewhat delayed by snow,
but the situation is not regarded as serious
by railway men who have been seen to-
day All east and wcst-bound trains are
starting out on time The southeastern
lines are subjected to delay The prospect
is not encouraging for warmer weather
Storm signals are flying. and further drop
of the degrees is predicted. At Omaha it
is l3o below zero, st. Paul 10o below, Des
Moines l6o below, Dubuque 50 below,
Fargo (Dakota) 2So below. Jamestown $50
below, and Winnipeg $40 below.
RAILWAY TRAFFIC IMPEDEp.
Further and later inquiries develop the
fact that the Chicago and Alton and several
other smaller lines are blockaded The
former sent out one train about noon, but
expresses little hope of being able 10 get it
through. The Grand Trunk refused con-
signments of freight this morning. The
chief trouble is south and southeast Trains
west and north are nearly on time
ST. Louis, February 16th.-Chicago trains
have been abandoned out of here on ac-
count of the snew blockade The Burling-
ton arrived seven hours late. All trains
east of the Mississippi are late. The Wa
bash. Illinois Central. Chicago and Alton
have been abandoned.
NEW YORK AND ELSEWHERE.
New YORK, February I6th.-Thc heavy
rain-storm here to-day gave place to wind
storm in the evening During the day
Theodore Ernest was blown from the roof
of 14S Franklin street, and killed. Will
lam Howe, a cartman, and Samuel Walters
were fatally injured by a flying sign. A
large iron shutter of the new Mortimer
building fell on the roof of the Stock Ex-
change, and made large hole. Snow and
.ain prevailed along the Hudson river
north of Poughkeepsie, and trains are
1!ockaded by snow The Hudson and
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-02-17
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

The Revival Meetings at the NJ. e.
Church South are increasing in interest. A
large attendance last night, and much interest.
fel7-lt*
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Andrew Jackson's Private Papers.

WASHINGTON, February 16th.-Colonel
Andrew Jackson, grandson of the late
President Andrew Jackson, who resides at
the Hermitage, Tennessee, to-day took out
letters of administration upon his grand
fathers estate, and Immediately. through
his solicitors, John Paul Jones and Robert
B. Lines, filed a bin in equity, setting forth
that the widow of the late Hon. Montgom-
cry Blair, and her son, Woodbury. Blair,
now have possession of, and claim to own,
q large number of very valuable papers
relating to the public and private life of
General Jackson, and praying for an in
junction against the defendants. to prevent
them from disposing of or publishing any
of said papers, It is stated that these papers
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The Peabody Fund.

NEW YORK, February 16th.-A special
cable says The annual report of the Trus
tees of the Peabody fund, issued to-day,
would cheer the soul Of the philanthropist
were he alive. During the year the Trus
tees opened eleven blocks of buildings in
Clerkenwell, containing 5l4 rooms, all oc-
cupied eight blocks at Little Cram street,
containing $50 rooms, now being let; five
blocks at Islington will be opened before
midsummer; five blocks erected at West
minister will be ready for occupation at the
end of the year. Up to the end of last year
the Trustees had provided for the artisan
and laboring poor of London 10 IA rooms,
besides bathrooms, laundries and wash
houses, occupied by Is, 153 persons.
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The Deadly Pneumonia.

New YORK. February 16th.-Dr. Dam
roch's death was on nearly everybody's lips
this morning. All the papers have ex
tended editorial tributes The suddenness
of the death recalls the fearful mortality
this year among well-known citizens from
pneumonia. This city averages from 5000
to 1000 annually, making about one eighth
clans frankly admit that little progress is
being made in the treatment Of pneumonia,
and that. more than almost any other
maladv, ii battles their skill.
The Evening critic., 1885-04-10

WANTED-A SECONDHAND TOP BUGGY,
w width OF track 8 feet, at $50. Address
.. D., Critic ofllco. adobe