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Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-12-16
Cousups Chinese Certificates.

WASHINGTON, December 15th.-Congress-
man Morrow called at the Treasury De-
partment to-day, and asked for an explana-
ton regarding the admission of two China
men who landed in San Francisco bearing
certificates from the United States Consul
at Hongkong. The Treasury officials said
they supposed the certificates were issued
by the Consul prior to August 12lh, when
the amended circular 10 Consuls was PRO
mulgated. and Morrow was assured that no
Chinese would in future be allowed 10 land
on such certificates.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-12-16

Arrivals at the Golden Eagle Hotel yes
terday: c. s. Nicholson, San Francisco :
Albert May, Woodland Mrs C. H. Nc
Call, J. C. Mccall, Stockton; Mrs. Hop
kins, Miss Smith, Oakland Arthur DON
nell, Mrs. w. H. Brown, Mr. and Mrs. E.
N. Gage, San Francisco; r: H. Magill,
Alameda; E. H. Fritch, C. S. Meyers, J. d.
French, E. Clark, F. H. Breyfogle, J. M.
Stafford, r. B. Davenport, G. W. Barnhart,
Samuel Thall, San Francisco.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-12-16

General DeCourcey, commander of the
French forces in Tonquin, has telegraphed
the War Office that General de'Negrier has
cleared the Marble mountains, north of
Maidoung, of Black Flags and pirates, and
captured number of fortified caverns and
a large quantity of arms and ammunition.
One cavern was desperately defended, and
fully 100 pirates were killed before it could
be taken. Numerous war junks were sunk
between the Rapids and Bamboo canals.
The country has been pacified.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-06-26
A DINNER TO HENDRICKS.
He Embraces the Opportunity to Make a Few
Remarks About Ciyil-Seryice Reform.

BOSTON, June 25.-At the Parker House, this
afternoon, Vice president Hendricks was ten
dered a reception and dinner by the Bay State
Club. Plates we're laid for 300, and about that
number gathered to do honor to the swar-horse"
from Indiana. Prominent among those present
were Governor Castor, Colonel Taylor, Con-
gresham Collins, Hon. Edward Avery, Charles
P. Thompson, ex-Mayor Prince, Mayor O'Brien.
Hon. John Quincy Adams, Josiah g. Albeit, and
numerous State and municipal officials.
Colonel Taylor, president of the club, pre-
sented Mr.. Hendricks, who was received with
three cheers After thanking the club for the
honor conferred upon him, referring
to his reception at Yale and Har-
yasa, .ouchlng upon the result In
Indiana last fall, and expressing the opinion that
The troubles in Massachusetts had passed, she
would take her place beside Indiana as a Dem
ocratic State" he took up the subject of civil
service reform. giving "reminiscences CT his serv-
ice as commissioner of the General Land Office.
He said that when he entered upon the duties Of
that Office the work was four years behind, and
when he retired the business had been brought
up to within four months of date. He brought
this about by requiring % per cent. more work
from clerks, and this he regarded as reform.
The speaker commended that reform of the civil
service did not rest with the Presi-
dent, but with the chiefs of bureaus
anu the CLERKS VINO perform the WOfK. In TINS
connection he said: That administration when
ever and wherever it may be, that will fill all
the bureaus in Washington City with capable
men at the head, and tell them that the work
devolves upon them, and hold them responsible,
will bring about certain and prompt reform. I
think we are going through all right.
1t vas a good while that the
Democrats were kept out. For a
quarter of a century the sentiment of the coun-
try had been enforced with cruel prescription
the Democrats shall not share IN the honors OF
the puDiic offices of the country [applausel-I
was a cruel, cruel prescription, such as never
advocated towards the opposite party, for know
there are honest men among them, and l would
not today, if l could do it, take the charge
of this entire government away from
the opposite side. They pay their taxes, they
contribute to the support of the country, they
help to fight the battles when horrid war comes
upon us, and it is but fair they should share in
the honors. But it is not fair, and never
has been fair, that they should clutch
them all, and say to the young men of the Demo-
cracy, You are not to be trusted; you shall not
share in them.'" [Applause.l
He closed by saying that after the next Ma
tional election, in which he proposed to have no
personal inter est, (cries of Head of the ticket
next time he wanted to come back and meet
the Bay State Club. bringing good news from
Indiana.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-06-26
New York

ASSISTANT SECRETARY HAY is taking a
greater load on his shoulders than any other
sick man on record. He is engaged now in
carrying out his theory that congressman are
no better than any other citizens when it
comes to recommending applicants for Office.
The rule put in practical operation involves
daily wrangles with representatives, and pro-
duces much rage among ambitious members
who do not relish being reduced to the ranks
by a man who is a mere Sub" himself. Two
Democratic senators who were refused per-
mission to see the papers in regard to certain
postofices, served notice upon the audacious
official that next winter they would find a way
to see those papers without his permission,
and went away vowing vengeance. The rules
adopted in the postoffce and other depart
ments and the opposition to them by con-
gressmen foreshadow a struggle between the
rival powers next winter, which will involve
the principles of congressional influence and
senatorial courtesy in the matter Of patronage.
The belief, fondly enunciated by the mug
wumps, that with the advent of a reform"
administration patronage would be unknown,
has not been realized. Patronage still exists,
but the question is who shall WELD the i'm
portant political lever.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-06-26
JOHN MCCULLOUGH.
His Worldly Possessions, Domestic Life and
Theatrical Career.

Theatrical Career.
New York World.
Mccullough has sufficient money to keep him
in comfort during the remainder of his life. Be-
sides a note for $40, 900, he owns some stock in
the Boatmen's Saving Bank of st. Louis, and
other property worth from Sic, 900 to 500, 900
more. He is about fifty years of age and has
been connected with the stage for over thirty
years. For many years he has not lived with his
wife, though he always provided for her hand
somely. and whenever he visited Philadelphia
went to see her at her comfortable residence
there. He acted with Edwin Forrest for years,
and after the latter's death was manager of q
San Francisco theater for a time and then star
red in ''The Gladiator 'Virginius," and other
tragedies. In the spring of 1864 he made a trip
to Europe for his health. He opened his fall
Milwaukee, Wis, and while there it was noticed
that he forgot his lines in many pieces and be-
haved strangely. From Milwaukee he went
to Chicago, where he was to play
for two weeks at McVicker's Thea
ter. While there his condition grew
worse, and McVicker Cancelled his engagement
after the first week, and Mccullough attacked
him and tried to beat him. He then was brought
East, and his agent Cancelled all the dates he
had made for the season. When the time arrived
that he was to have opened in ST. Louis, some
three or four weeks after he left Chicago, Nc
Cullough went to that city, and, as usual, stopped
at the house of his friend, Mr.. Thompson, OF
the Boatmen's Bank, and while there many idi-
osyncrasies were noticed. Among other things
out of the ordinary he did was to kiss everybody
n the house, men and women alike, before sit
ting down to his meals. He imagined that he
had to play his engagement in st. Louis, and
since then has several times gone to theaters un-
der the same impression that he had to play at
them. During the past few months he has been
nearly all the time in New York, and has given
great anxiety to his friends, as no restraint has
been placed upon his actions. Not long ago he
was very nearly run over while crossing Broad
Way. His fits of violence have Steadily Increased
and his lucid intervals have been growing fewer
and further between.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-06-26
The Generals Doctors,

New York Special.
A friend of DR.. Douglas has written a letter
to the Tribune declaring that ''none have
made greater sacrifices than DR.. Douglas to
alleviate General Grants sufferings. He neglects
a lucrative practice that he may he at his pa
TENTS beck and call day and night"
This view of the case, expressed here not for
the first time, was submitted to one of the sur
geons of the city to-day. He said:
"It is true that DIR. Douglas has given up
everything, be it little or great, for General
Grant, and the n~otoriety that he will get from
the case will not, in my opinion, repay him for
his time. At least it would not pay me. There
is a great difference between notoriety and repu-
tation. There is precious little reputation to be
got out of this case. Notoriety IS of no value
to any one, and DR.. Douglas is too old a man to
reap any benefit, even if it it would give him a
reputation. There are very few doctors who
would attend General Grant for nothing.
must say that | believe that DIR. Douglas has
done everything for the General that could have
been done. The cancer could never have been
taken out, even Units first stages"
'Dr. Shrady has done a good deal of surgery
at the Presbyterian Hospital within the last five
or six years. and enjoys a steady income from
the Medical Record, of which he is editor. He
can afford not to charge anything. DIR. Sands is
one of the most eminent physicians in New
York, and has a large and lucrative consultation
practice.
by the way. DR.. Douglas is the brother-in-
law of old DIR. Horace Green, who invented the
probang, and who once announced that he could
see the iarynx OF any man. and observe his vocal
chords. The physicians here wouldn't even listen
to HIM. They pooh poohed the idea, and said
positively that such a thing was a physical inn
possibility. One day the old Doctor had.a patient
in his Office, and operated upon him.. The pa
tieEt died in the office, and the Doctor was ar
rested for manslaughter. Ths facts were that
the man died of aneurism, and the operation
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-06-26
Blaine's Political Future.


Washington Dispatch to Portland Advertiser.
A well known Maine man who Is visiting in
last Novembers struggles brings him closer to
the heart of the people of his State, and there is
no place within their gift he could not have by
indicating that he would take it. He can return
to the Senate or to the lower House within two
years if he chooses. And as he intends to re-
main in the public view it is more than likely
that he will accept a seat in Congress after his
literary task has been completed. Either Sena-
tor Hale or Congressman Milliken would retire
to give place to Mr.. Blaine if he should desire to
return to the active duties of the House or Sen
ate. Small as the return, Hale could become
Governor. Frye would not yield unless com
PEELED to, and it would keep Blaine busy to beat
him if he tried. There is a general feeling here
that the matter can be arranged to accommodate
all the statesmen. There is also a belief that
while Mr.. Blaine may go back into public life for
a few years, he will not permit himself to be
again pushed for the presidency.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-06-26

THE Atlanta Constitution piously AYERS that
slavery, instead of being a curse to the negro
race in this country, was an active instrument
in the hand Of Providence, in fact, the chief
means used, for fitting them for freedom. This
being the case, what did the shareholders
mean by interfering with the hand of Provi-
dence, in the shape of the Union army, which
reached down there to set the negroes freeg
Possibly they differed with the superior power
in thinking the slaves ready for liberty, and
wished to do missionary work on them for a
longer period.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-06-26

1T is a singular manifestation Of disap-
proval, but a wholesome one withal. The
Hotel Brunswick, New York city, will close
on Wednesday next for wan of patronage.
The hotel never has been paying property, but
the greatest and fatal blow was given it two
years ago, when the notorious Billy McGlory
succeeded in hiring it's d%ining-hall and paglors
for a nights spree, to which he invited the
female denizens of Hester street and the
Chatham-street toughs. The affair became
public, and since then the hotel has been
under social ban. 1t never recovered. 1t is
too bad that this evidently powerful influence
is not exerted in some other directions as we'll.
1t would work wonderful reforms where greatly
needed.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-06-26

IT is announced by the Democratic organs
that the President and Secretaries Manning
and Whitney are bending their giant intellects
to the solution Of vexing political problems in
New York. Upon the unraveling of these
Knots, and the application of healing lotions
to the compound fractures in other portions
Of the party framework, will depend the re-
suit of the fall election. The Secretaries
named are said to be in a continual state of
mental anxiety, and the President is reported
to give much anxious thought to the question
of how he shall guide the party, SO that it
may steer clear of snags. 1t is not unlikely
that he gives his zone day of" each week to
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-06-26

ANOTHER pronunciamento is issued from
She office of Assistant Postmaster-general
clay, namely, hat no new postoffices will be
established until some way is devised of get
ting rid of the crowd of applicants that now
throng the department every day. Coaxing
having done no good, threats are now being
Tried, and, as there is no probability that these
will brighten the hungry and thirsty, it may
be expected that dornicks will soon be let fly.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-06-26

THERE could be no stronger proof of the
fact that a college education does not necessa-
rily make a man a gentleman than the remark
of Judge Stanley Woodruff, of Pennsylvania,
at Yale College, in int1 oducing Mr.. Hendricks
'fas the gentleman who had been twice elected
to an office which he had filled but once"
That would have done in a meeting of some
Democratic ward club, in the heat of a cam
paign; but for any man to utter it at a COL
lege commencement, in the presence of a
mixed audience, where partisanship had no
business to intrude-and where Mr.. Hen
bricks, with characteristic courtesy, forebore
to obtrude the faintest allusion-simply dem
onstrated him to be an impertinent, unman-
nerly boor.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-06-26

The salutatorian of the DePauw graduating
class feelingly inquiries, as the subject of his
essay, What Shall We Do with Our Ex-Pres-
idents?" The president of the State Univers-
ity, during one of his summer tramps in
Georgia, when engaged in trying to get the
entire vertebrate fauna of that State in alec.
hol, answered a similar query by saying that
they should all have been preserved in alcohol
and put upon the shelves Of the Smithsonian
Institution, at Washington, as ''type speci-
MEMS" so that after generations of school-born
historians and politicians might have them for
inspection, inspiration or warning, as the case
might suggest.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-06-26

THE indianapolis Sentinel is indecently I'M
fair in its editorial allusion to the Journals
treatment of the Insane Asylum matter and
DR.. Harrison's letter. It says we purposely
held back the publication of the letter, and,
also, printed it con an obscure page with ad-
vertisements, and asserts that '"the purpose
evidently was to misrepresent the facts and
prevent the public from seeing the other side"
Whatever the reason that the letter Of DR..
Harrison did not appear the day after its re
ceipt at night by the Journal, it does not lie
in the mouth of the Sentinel to manufacture
one that it regards discreditable to us, for it
is notorious that the Sentinel makes a regular
habit of printing charges against people and
then p~eremptorily denying them the right to
appear in it's columns in defense or reply at
any time. Instead of the letter of DR.. Harri-
son appearing on can obscure page" it was
printed on a page always taken up with i'm
portant local matters, and in addition we called
editorial attention tot in the 'leader' which so
exacerbates the Democratic organ. If the Senti-
mel feels called upon to defend the remarkable
course of DR.. Harrison as president of the
benevolent boards, it should do so with some
little regard to the NEST ordinary principles of
common courtesy.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-06-26

NeW IOTk SpeCIaI.
Thomas A. Edison and Stephen d. Field have
pooled their patents on appliances for electric mo-
tors. DIR. Field said to day: within two months
the electric motors will he as complete a success
on the elevated railroads as horse cars are on
Broadway. We are now laying rails for cleo
tricity between the tracks of the Second avenue
elevated railroad from Chatham square TO Har-
lem, and if we cannot run over the whole hne |
Our trial proves that not half enough has been
claimed for the electric motor. All electricians
who have seen the motor work declare the
problem solved so far as the electrical part is
concerned. 's#A
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-06-26

the consideration Of the matter. The mug
wumps, who showed symptoms Of seven kinds
of fits when President Arthur signifed a viii
lingness to take a hand in State politics, show
no disposition to horn the present administers
ton of, but on the contrary appear anxious
to know what method is to be adopted for
saving the pieces in order that they may
assist. AS yet no satisfactory plan seems to
have been devised, but the faithful may rest
calm in the assurance that the powers at
Washington will do what they can to ''carry
New York"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-06-26
General GOrdOn's Diaries.

CaDIe SptClaI.
The diaries are a strange medley, written evil
IDENTIFY in perfect sincerity, but varying in style,
manner md subject from page to page. One
page will be an abstruse statistical discussion of
the social and political aspect of the Egyptian
problem: then follows perhaps a page reading
like a biblical commentary, with many scriptural
quotations and cross references, giving Gordon's
peculiar views, which the editors are compelled
to make a great effort to explain in foot-notes;
then suddenly a bit of "Reminiscences of life in
England or elsewhere. or a story about some
Arab child. Then he turns aside to discuss his
own feelings and habits, and ends perhaps with a
funny sketch, followed by a declaration that he
is resigned to Gods will. Much is underlined.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-06-26

SPEAKING Of the effect of a tariff on the
manufacture and price of steel rails, the
News says that in 1870, when a duty of 500
per ton was imposed, and 1--WE were paying
$lO6. rs, they could be had in Liverpool for
$50 81, or laid Town in New York for about
$54." Inasmuch as, counting freight. Ameri-
can consumers could have the English rails
laid down in New York for about $54 a ton,
which was $52.75 a ton less than the Amer
lean price quoted, we do not think there
could have been many American rails sold. The
law did not compel railroads to buy American
rails, and we have no idea American railways
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-06-26

FOLLOWING the example set by the couple
that were married at the commencement at
Bloomington, this State, two graduates of the
Reading, Pa, High-school have started in mar
ried life from the graduating platform. This is
not a bad idea. The yourg folks were class
mates and doubtless knew each other as we'll as
people not married can know each other. The
lady in question will not follow the way Of Miss
Oura Hasbrook, of Hoboken, and a graduate of
Vassar. who secretly married a skating rink
manager only to discover later that he was not
only already married but the father of seven
children. And the Reading young man will not
go crazy over some ten-cent actress to the ever
lasting disgrace of his good sense.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-06-26

For his OWL good and public safety it is
high time that actor John McCulloch was shut
up a lunatic asylum. The silly sentiment
which has induced his friends to permit him
to run at large in his crazed condition, because
Of his past reputation, cannot be too strongly
condemned Presently. if not put under re-
~straint, he will commit some act of violence
which will be a tragedy in real life, and some
one, not the actor himself, will be to blame.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-06-26

THE proprietor of an English weekly paper
offers to give $500 to the heirs of any person
found dead with a copy of the aforesaid paper on
his body. The idea, of course, is to reap the
benefit of the advertising that would follow. 1t
was probably suggested to the editor by the way
American papers generously advertise the revol-
ver-makers of this country. A man never blows
his brains out but what the particular make of
weapons is described, as though that had any
connection with the tragedy. 1t would be
equally sensible to publish the name of the
maker of a razor with which a throat was cut.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-06-26
The Outlook in New York.

National Republican.
Hon. Frank Hiscock, of New York, believes
that the Republicans have an encouraging out
look for victory in his State. ''The Republicans"
he said, 'are strongly organized and are work
ing Systematically and with a harmony that has
been wanting for some time. Everybody is sat
isfed with the work of the Legislature, and the
not have any effect"
who will be the probable nominee of the
Republicansp
81 do not know. Neither party has crystalized
can be had, and altogether / feel very we'll
pleased with the present outlook. That's all that
can be said now"