New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-11-08
TALK IN LEADING CITIES.
san FRANCISCO.
McSWEENEY GETS HIS PAY - CHINESE
TOPlCS-LAWSUIIS
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S.S FRANCIsCo Nov. 7.-Daniel insolvency, the
Irish q suspect" who doomed up in the last PreSi-
DENTAL campagn and has since haunted the AL
ministration for reward. has at last received an
Inspectorship in the Custom House worth $l.SOo
veal The place was created for him, out INC
patriot at first scorned it because it was not
81 900 poSition lie finally decided, however, that
half A loaf was not to be thrown away, and OH
Thursday he qualified. His work iSsupposed 10 DE
investigating some of the alleged frauds IN the
Custom House service. The appointment was
complete surprise to insolvency and has put heart
into the weary oficehunrers who lave been
expecting places ut the public CRIB.
The China mail is now carried every twenty days
from this port by Occidental and Oriental steamers
Il has lrh found be! ter by the Post-Oce to allow
mail to accumulate hero between the sailing oil
these steamers than to repeat the disastrous
experimont of Sending it to China by way OF New
York Business men are much Disguised at the
sep.eless warfare of tho Postmaster General on
the Pacific Mail Company, as they sec between each
mail nav one of the Pacific Mail steamers ieare for
China without any but express letters. Under the
old system mail Lett here by both lines so that
letters were dispatched every ton days.
The usu al exodus of Chinese to attend New Years
festivities i'll their native land has been going on
for months and IT is estimated that each OF ionr
steamers carried 900 coolies Most Of these take
ont return certificates whether they intend to come
back or not. The majority, however, return as
their visits rarely cxtcnd beyond few months.
This year. it is said. the number OF visitors TO
China is largely in excess of the average.
The spirit in which white cigar manufacturers
here reroiye the appLicatiHh "r 'c snr "uAt thc
demand Of one firm this week. They co0ly
proposed that tho union give them white labor
STAMPS for 900 900 cigars already made LOT Them
bv Chinese and then thoy would discharge their
Chinese hauds. The only chance oil success Tor inc
Union is 10 arouse public sentiment ana boyc@U
Cbinose-mAdc cigars as well as other goods. This
will he uphill work because OF the mixed popula-
tion and general desire TO buy articles where tLcy
are sold cheapest.
Denis Kearnoy has emerged from his long
obscurity and is moro preaching crusade
AGAINST the Chinese. The old Sand Lot leader
warns his followers that tho only way 70 effect
anything against the coOc - to kecr tine movement
free from politics. lie denounced Coroner . Don
uclI uS "a crazy crank, wuO was eaten MP WIN
political ambition. The contest between these two
artists in Billngsgate promises to add to tho list oil
regular winter amuscmohtS.
TLe case of Main and other. AGAINST the Central
Pacific Railroad, concluded last werk Is only less
yoluminous than the Cotton suit The testimony
fill, 1870 pages printed with typewriter When
the testimony In tho ludg' allowed tho
plaintiffs mill January / TO file briefs. Then
liberal time Is given 10 dcicndantS reply ah'!
plaintiff, roolndor that decision X not looked
for before next July. The testimony Is more
complicated than IN The Cotton suit aud the trial
broti ght out no points of much general interest
A Mormon party of four men and three women
passed through hero this w"oh Oh their way 10
Honolulu TO cafty on missionary worn 49, tho, Sahd-
wien Islands. Elder Gate. wh" wa> III charge.
said that the Mormon colony on Oahu numbered
1000 The Mormous have dozen kanakaS at salt
Lake training them Tor missionary WORK among
thor own people. AID II i evident that u boom ia
plo,cltyimg among Hawaiian, has been planned
Another old Spanish grant h,, boon revived and
litigation began Ia recover o large block of land
near the heart 0i tillr Cty. In. T. the Narchini
grant which wa, sold IA loJC t. john h. Moore.
forna archives and good authorities regard il ~
fraudulent. This action. begun 10y Moore, was
probably stimulated 10y an alarm among property
owners caused by the Sherreboek claim These
Spanish grants are m3ulg fraudulent and good
lawyers h0id that where they have been declared
Invalid by IA competent court no suit should he
permitted TO Ia brought under them As II -.
1X pcnse to defend titles to land once covered hy
these Illegal grants.
The anti-Chinc,e excitement in Tacoma and
seattle ~ dcp"rcd H. violence that viii be sure 10
hurt the Coast at the East. there IA danger also
that California cities have been encouraged 10
adopt a pledge Of torCibly cXpcliwg the Chinese
from their bound, Th, plan can only result ~
arousiug sympathy with ia" Chinese. many OF
whom v i'll suffer loss aud hardship Ia san J"so
tho leaders Of tho Wnrkngmru's Association arc
beginning 90 talk ut thing out the coolies of that
place. This hostility t. the Chinese - probably
aggravated hv the wautun attack of the M"ugoHn
lahOrerS on the white foreman ~ Orange. winch
seems t. have been unDroyotcd. The bctt'r classes
OF people here do not counsel yiolenc" against the
Chinese because they know ~ viii react against
tie reputation of the ctJ. IN ldc1 Of the sort "l
people who train under Coroner VllOnncll may hr
gained from tho fact that the police TIN, week
have arrested of la, hruclmrn - a vdgTant.
and another was caught smoking opium in low
den in Chinatown.