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Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-03-04

PRISONERS En- RoUrE.-Deputy Sheriff
Wilson, of San Francisco, brought up last
evening, en- sou;c to the State Prison at
Folsom, James Mccarthy, who is to serve
five years for petty larceny, second offcuse;
VIM. Deming, two years, for an assault
with a deadly weapon Charles C. Pierson.
two years. for burglary in the second degree;
VIM Mitchell six years. for burglary in
the lirS; degree. Sheriff Smith, of Sonoma
county, also brought up last evening, for
the same destination. Henry Howe. who is
to serve five years for grand larceny; and
All Fong, five years, for burglary in the
second degree
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-03-04

AUSTIN (Tex.), March 3d.-In the Senate
Chamber yesterday Senator Harrison of
Waco horsewhipped L. s Farnsworth, cor
respondent of the Waco Examiner, for an
alleged misrepresentation in that journal.
The affair has caused q sensation.
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NOTICE. ADMINISTRATORS SALE.

HNlE SALE OF THE INTERNATIONAL. no.
Il tel Bus and a Set of Double Harness has
1875, Sale to take place at WILSON'S stables No
SlS street. Bids at private sale win be received
by the undersigned
Dated March >, 1885, mr%tJ
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EMMETT ANNIVERSARY.

TIME ROBERT EMMETT CLUB WILL GIVE
Il their Annual Literary Entertainment and
Ball in honor of ITeland's Patriot and Martyr
at ARNORY HALL, Sixth and l. SITS, WEDNES-
DAY, March 4th. Hon. PATRICK REDDY will
preside, and Judge D. j. TOOHY, of San Fran
CISCO will deliver the Address. All friends of
Ireland ere cordially invited to attend. Music
by the First Artillery Band. Ticket. admitting
gent and lady, 80 cents. fe25, 2SlSmr2.S,4
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-03-04

assailant jumped down nearly twenty feet
into the cemetery grounds and escaped.
A Newspaper Correspondent Horse
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DALE & Co:
OF SACRAMENTO,

Furnished all the Masquerade Goods
for the Ball at Single Springs, on
Friday Evening, February 9th, and
is also prepared to furnish every
variety of MASQUERADE GOODS
to all parts of the country.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-03-04
" LONE FISHERMAN, "

FIlHE FINEST FIvECENT CIGAR IN THE
Market. Also a fine liue of imported and
Key West on hand, at 22l street.
ia6-isim r. H. PETIT PrpDrsetOr
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-03-04
FROM FAR AND NEAR.
LAST HOURS OF THE REPUBLICAN
ADMINISTRATION.
General Grants Disease-Cremator
on Long fsland-T The Texas
Border-F Foreign Affairs.
DOMESTIC NEWS.

SPECIAL DISPATCHES 10 THE arconD-rsros.l
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AUCTIONS.
ASSlGNEE'S SALE
THURSDAY, MARCH 8. 1885,
a CTECN SALE

ZINE RESIDENCE, CORNER TWENTY Saz.
l. third and l streets, THURSDAY, March ~
ON al 10 O'Clock A. NJ New House and ~A--
Barn house has six rooms pantry and closets:
an modern Improvements, and necessary out
buildings; four hydrGnts. All in good order
Don't fail to cali and see f,975tS
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WANTED-A SITUATION. BY AN EXPE-
w nenCed Nurse. 10 nurse the sick: will
work by the day, week or month. Terms, rea-
sonable Inquire at MRS. DOUD'S, 1925 &
street. mri lws
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New YORK, March 3d.-The Herald this
morning has only one editorial, nearly
three and half columns long, commenda-
tory of Arthur's administration, and says
the comparison between Garfield and Ar
thur shows in a startling way of how very
little worth are contemporary judgments OF
public men. 1t thinks Arthur made bet
ter President than Garfield whose brief adj
ministraton the Herald bitterly disparages.
The Times also eulogizes the retiring
President, and says he has favorably disap-
pointed the expectations Of the country.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-03-04

ATANlED-A HOME FOR A CHILD IS
w months Old; one in which it will receive
q mothers care. Address j. W. this Office
mrl BIS
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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

Meeting of the German Frauen-yerein
THIS Wednesday AFTERNOON, at 3 O'clock.
at Che German Lutheran Church. Twelfth and
streets MRS. J. +. MAIER, President
MARTHA KoLLIKER, Secretary. mrl-il%
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-12-30

government has any constitutional right
to do is to hire the transmission
of messages, as it now hires the carry
ing of the mails. The federal Consti-
tuition specially provides for the estab
lishment of post-oflices and post-roads,
and consequently for mail service,
while no such authority is entertained
in the matter of regulating telegraphic
communication. Conservative people
who wish to limit the functions of the
national government as much as posi-
BILE are inclined to oppose the postal
telegraph scheme. The discussion of
the subject in the senate promises to
be interesting and instructive. In this
connection, it is an interesting fact
that Cyrus w. Field, who is large
holder of telegraph stocks, expresses
the opinion that the "time has come
when the United States government
should purchase all the telegraph lines
in the country. 1t would be great
convenience to the public" says Mr..
Field, if every telegraph .office was a
post-of1ice and every post-ofiice tele-
graph office"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-12-30

payment to the church Of that or any other
sum from the public treasury But have
not the willing hearts and open hands of the
American people yielded up many times
that sum TO the church, And are there not
watchmen upon her walls in every hamlet
throughout the land giving direction to the
spiritual energies of the people? And is not
the church, the free Protestant church,
though not in every place Congregational
in form, but none the less the church of the
Pilgrims-is it not everywhere working har-
moniously with the free public school for
the solution of the great American problem
upon the plan of the fathers? But what of
that other factor in the problem, the ballot
box? The discussion Of this question will
perhaps take us too much into the domain
of pure politics for an occasion like this,
and must be disposed of by the statement of
single truth. 1t is this; The balot-box
will always be just what the school-house
and the church shall make it. And when
the ballot-box shall have been brought by
these guardians of it up to an exercise of
the high functions required by the Puritan
model, we shall be not far from that good
time coming" when the intellectual moral
and spiritual forces shall have gained the
ascendant; and not very far, either, from
that happy time in politics, celebrated by
the balladist, when
No will he for party,
When all will he for the state
When the rich man will help the poor.
And the poor man will love the great"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-12-30
Vermont Democrats Happy at Last.

The Vermont correspondence of the Bos-
ton journal says that the democrats of this
state are at last within the borders of the
Promised Land" Three hundred hun
CRY and thirsty patriots have been pro-
Vided for. The rank and file of the party
are happy in the possession of nearly all the
paying offices in the state Faint murmur-
ings of discomfort have from time TO time
been heard in the land of the 90 Reformer ="
and the Prophet" Asaph has raised his
voice in protest against the bestowal of the
official loaves and fishes on the members of
the tribe of Bourbon, but the Bourbons
were strong and mighty and the followers
of Asaph weak and scattered: therefore it
came to pass that the ruler at the White
House put parchment with a gold seal
under the hat of each of the children of the
Bourbon tribe and commissioned them to
fill the offices in the Green Mountain pro-
vince until the republican uprising in 1888.
In other words, Messrs. Atkins and Smalley
have secured the appointment of about
every candidate recommended by them. 1t
has been sufficient cause for the removal of
federal official that he was a republican
and that democrat wanted the office.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-12-30
Vermont at New Orleans.

The New Orleans Daily States speaks as
follows of the Vermont exhibit at the
American exposition in that city: 1.-THE
New England exhibits in the government
building are remarkable more for their COM
pleteness and for the refined Judgment that
has been shown in arranging them than for
the actual space they occupy. This is par
ticularly true as regards the Vermont dis
play, which, under the skillful administra-
ton of Commissioner j, II Mead, is rapidly
approaching maturity, There is a wonder
fully interesting array of specimens--natural
agricultural and manufacmred-alread in
position, a few of which are now referred
to. The display of apples comprises a large
variety of the finest kinds grown in America,
mostly from the orchards of Mr.. e. f.
Andrews of Berlin. a bed of Vermont
celery in full growth is also conspicuous in
the display. From the quarries of Messrs.
q. X II. L. Barney of Swanton, the Burling-
ton Manufacturing Company of Burlington
and the True Blue Company of Rutland
are specimens of marble, polished and I'M
polished. Vermont produces slate in
greater variety than any spot in the civil
lied world, not even excepting Wales. EX-
cellent specimens are set out rough and
finely polished. The Howe Scale Company
shows thirty-one handsome varieties of their
specialtes, from the post-otice balance to
the largest farm scales, and the Messrs. Fair
banks are preparing a similar display of
scales There is splendid and large show
case in native woods-birds eye maple,
cherry and brch-which is being filed with
textile fabrics woman's work and other
objects made in the state. The State Nor
NAL School, Castleton, contributes excel
lent specimens of school work and fine
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-12-30

for the offices. The senators will be
sustained by public opinion in refusing
to make any factious opposition to the
President He has been elected, if not
by a majority of the people, at least
through the forms of law. He has thus
been intrusted with the responsibility
of appointment. 1t is proper that SEN
ators should leave as much of that re-
sponsibility to him and to his political
supporters in the senate as due re-
gard for the laws and the public well
fare will permit.-Trib,me.
THE Washington Star quotes Ten
nessee democrat as saying, in regard to
the civil service question, that it was
the intention of the party to 90 only a
little way in that direction, aud Mr..
Cleveland has gone altogether too far.
He says the situation reminds him of
the story of the monkey the sailor
brought home to his wife. The monkey
got to be household pet and was
always about the kitchen when the
woman was at work. The yard was
full of chickens, and every now and
then they would come into the room to
pick up crumbs. Whenever they be-
came too much of nuisance the good
woman would throw few grains of
powder in the fire to brighten them out
with the flash. One day the sailors
wife was away and the monkey under
took to run the kitchen. He watched
the chickens very carefully, and when
the kitchen was pretty well filled with
them he took down the powder-horn
and threw it all into the fire, blowing
himself and the surroundings sky high
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-12-30
Colonel b. b. Smalley Interviewed.

The following appeared in the New York
Tribune of Monday: 81 asked Colonel Brad
ley b.. Smalley, the Burlington collector,
yesterday about the distribution of offices
in Vermont. He replied that he had not
kept count of the minor appointments, but
that he thought the number of fourth-class
postmaSters changed was something over
three hundred in total of over five hun
dred. This large proportion of changes is
due, he added to the fact that in nine
cases out of ten the democrats in the towns
and villages have got together and agreed
upon a single candidate for the office. Thus,
with no contest, the changes have been rap
idly effected. OF twenty-eight presidential
post-ofices, the incumbents of fifteen have
been changed In no case has a removal
been made except on the expiration of a
term or for cause. There have been no po-
litical removals. The republican district
attorney, who has a commission dated in
January, 1885, has been most active par
tisan - chairman of committees, stump
speaker, etc. / have been asked to prefer
charges of offensive partisanship against
him, but shall do nothing of the sort. like
man who fights square and doesn't whine
when he is whipped ] want this man out
because he is on the other side. 1t would
be useless for me to say that did not try to
beat the republican party. If | hadn't, I'd
like to know where | would have any show
of getting a place now Colonel Smalley
told me that the kicking against the man
agement of democratic affairs in Vermont
is confined to Asaph Chids, formerly of
Bennington, now of Springfield. Said the
colonel: Childs has always been kick
ing, threatening to beat me as a candidate
for delegate to the national conventions,
and so on. The nearest he has come to get
ting on top was to poll twenty-five votes in
a convention of four hundred delegates
His brother is a candidate for postmaster at
Bratteboro He is better fellow than
Asaph, q will probably get the place in
spite of the relationship. "
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-12-30
Postal Telegraph.

Senator Cullom of Illinois has intro
duced postal telegraph bill, which
differs in some respects from the one
introduced by Senator Edmunds at the
beginning of the session. Mr.. Gull
lom's bill provides for the purchase of
any existing lines, at an appraised val
uation to be ascertained by a commits
sion of five disinterested persons, with
certain limitations as to the price to
be paid. 1t is expressly provided that
no line shall be purchased until it has
been shown to the satisfaction of the
commission that such line has earned
enough during the twelve months prior
to the passage of the act to meet the
necessary expenses of its maintenance,
reconstruction and operation. Before
any line is purchased the commission is
directed to ascertain its actual value,
which is to be computed on basis of
81 900 for every $50 net annual earn
ings, and it is provided that none shall
be purchased at higher valuation
than that ascertained upon the basis
thus prescribed. To pay for any lines
that may be acquired it is proposed that
thirty-year three per cent bonds shall
not be disposed of at less than par
There is pretty strong sentiment in
the country in favor of a postal tele-
graph, but the proposition that prob
ably has more general support than any
other is that the government shall con-
struct lines of its own rather than buy
existing lines; that it shall not have
monopoly of the business, but shall
simply be competitor, and by its low
rates compel the lines of private COM
panies to reduce their prices. 1t is
well argued that double system of
telegraph lines that can never be con-
solidated, secretly bought up, con-
Quoted for stock jobbing ends, or
crushed out in competition, is what will
best supply the public necessity. There
are some, and not altogether unreason-
able, objections to the scheme which
are raised from other sources than the
telegraph companies. 1t is argued
that if the government cen assume the
control of the telegraph ines, or es-
tablish competing lines of its own, it
can take similar action in regard to
railroads and manufacturing enter
prises. 1t is claimed that the most the
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-12-30
Congressman Stewart on the
House Rules.

Congressman John W. Stewart of YER
mont said to Tribune reporter, in New
York, concerning the question of the house
rules: The old appropriations committee
was penurious in the extreme. They were
not fair at all in their work. For instance
they reported an appropriation for the post
office department which Randall and every
body else knew perfectly well was not sufii-
Gent for its needs. They knew that the SEN
ate would raise the amounts. The senate was
republican, and they hoped that by acced-
ing with apparent reluctance to the senate
amendments to get the impression out that
the republicans were eXtravagant. There
were good many tricks like that which
have Disguised great many members. 1t
IS absurd to say that Randall and Holman
nave all the economy there is in congress. |
have seen the time when Randalls course
was simply scandalous in defeating egisa-
ton that should have been passed. He was
able to do it under the old rules. There
was an instance last winter. An old plains
man had his train confscated by the con-
federates. He was engaged in work for
the government at the time of the capture.
He could i'll afford to lose the amount.
After long time he had finally got his
claim before congress- 1t had passed the
proper committee in both houses. 1t came
up in the regular turn on the last day of the
session. One objection could stop its being
put on its passage. That was under the old
rules. Springer objected. He was asked
to withdraw his objection. He said he had
promised Mr.. Randall to object to every
thing, without exception The members
urged that this was a fair bill, and he adj
mitted it; they said it was Just claim, and
he acquiesced; they said the man was old,
and he replied that he knew it; they said he
was good democrat, and he said he had
heard as much. But he said his ultimatum
was the same. He was pledged to Mr..
Randall to object to everything. Well, |
am not in favor of letting the power of the
house pass again into the hands of any one
or two men, to be exercised like that"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-12-30

THE Presidents latest appointments
in Vermont have brought forth indig-
nant circumstances from the Brattle-
boro Rq0rmer and the small demo-
cratic faction which seeks to oppose the
autocratic power of Hiram Atkins and
b. b. Smalley. They now realize that
they are not going to have much inhu-
ence with this administration. Every
person who has not been deceived by
the hypocrtical reform pretensions and
sham methods of the administration
has known for long time that Hiram
Atkins and b. b. Smalley would event
ually control all the federal appoint
ments and patronage in Vermont.
The dissatisfied democrats might have
known, when they elected Cleveland,
that no other result was possible. We
cannot say that we have much sympa-
thy for them. 1t is " all in the family"
and the democrats must fight their own
battles. 1t is not likely that protests
from republicans will weigh much with
a democratic administration, and the
better course for republicans is not to
be drawn into the democratic fractional
contests and quarrels.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-12-30
Admitting New States.

The hostility manifested by several
democratic senators to the admission
of Dakota to statehood can hardly be
accounted for except on political and
partisan grounds. They are unable to
oppose her admission on the ground of
lack of sufficient population, for she has
about 262, 900, or more than 100000 in
excess of the number required by law
for one representative in congress.
Senator Vest of Missouri declares that
the action of Dakota in choosing state
officers and United States senators,
while yet in territorial condition, is
revolutionary, and the democratic OPP
position to Dakota's admission seems to
rest upon this flimsy ground. But it
appears that there is nothing unusual
in the action of Dakota. The Tribune
says. Atleast twelve of the states took
precisely that course to obtain admis-
sion into the Union. Indeed, some of
them went much further. The people
ofapart of the Territory of Michigan or
ganized themselves into a state and COM
pletely overturned and wiped out the
territorial government. Without wait
ing for any act of congress, they put
their state constitution into effect and
sent their senators and representatives
to Washington to demand admission.
Jackson was then president, and if it
was revolutionary act on Michigan's
part, assuredly he would have discov-
credit. On the contrary, he agreed with
Benton that no disrespect was shown,
and the representatives sent to Wash
ington in that way were admitted. The
case of Arkansas was similar Blu
chanan said that if there was ANYTHING
wrong or unusual in it, congress was to
blame for having failed to act sooner.
Tennessee as territory organized itself
into a state, and informed the govern
ment when it would put its state con-
stitution into effect. The venerated
Jefferson approved that course, though
no enabling act had been passed Min
nesota came into the Union in a SINH
lar manner. California, Oregon and
other states organized before the pas
sage of an enabling act.''
The real difficulty with the demo-
Gratis is that Dakota would be a repub-
lican state, and add to the strength of
the republican party two senators,
congressman and three presidential
electors. Partisanship can perform no
meaner act than to exclude a fully pre-
pared territory from becoming one of
the Union of States. There should be
no factious opposition to the admission
of any of the territories that can pre-
sent as good claims for that honor as
Dakota. A state government means
better laws and better administration
of them, and a stronger and steadier,
if not more rapid, development. No
partisan reasons can permanently bar
the admission of Dakota, nor of Wash
ington Territory and New Mexico,
when the latter can meet the required
conditions. AT the present rate of in
crease in the population of the several
territories, it is probable that the be-
ginning of the next century will find
the Union enriched by the addition of
sevennew states to the present number.