Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-02-19

national in their scope ard American IN
their character be permitted. The protest
came too late for action by the committee
The Opposition to the Grant Retirement
Bill.
PHILADELPHIA, February 18th. The
action of the Democrats in the House, and
of Rosecrans especially, toward the Grant
retirement bill, is severely censured by IN
dependent journals here and elsewhere.
The Times saws /: General Grant has passed
the point when the shaft of partisan war
fare can be hurled against him. Neither
political nor business errors can justly
weigh against his undimmed fame as the
first soldier of the land. The Press reminds
Rosecrans that behind the view of forget
fulness which peace has generously cast
around q certain episode III his military
career is a skeleton which it is not well for
him to force upon dress parade.
Views Of a Veteran Journalist.
CHICAGO, February 1Sth-The Chicago
Tribune has the following: A cheerful
view of affairs, politically and in business
way, on the Pacific slope was taken by
Loring Pickering, of tue San Francisco
Gail and Bulletin, who was at the Palmer
House yesterday. " do not think the
election of Leland Stanford to the Senate,
cans to the railroad cause. The bitter feel
ing against the Pacific road has of late been
diving out, as other roads have been built,
the general idea being that none were
making too much money. That Stanford
will devote his immense fortune to public
ends is the prevailing impression, which
seems to be well grounded He has man
now looking over various plans. Among
them are plans for a school for the me-
chanical training of workmen, which VIII
be at Menlo Park and one for great mu
scum in San Francisco. The latter was the
project Of the dead son and his ideas Will
be faithfully carried out. Mrs. Stanford
has been on the graves brink for several
years, and | am convinced that 1t Is the
aim of both her and her husband TO give
the remainder OF their lives, together with
their fortune, to the general good of the
State"
Speaking of business on the Pacific slope,
Mr. Pickering said the entire labor was
employed and all in all, it was much bet
ter than was anticipated. With the low
price of wheat last fall, farmers had turned
to producing other crops which had paid
well, and general industries were looking
up. Nevada was for a time falling back,
but rs soon as labor went down TO 81 per
day instead of 81, mines could be worked
more extensively than at any time hitherto,
and the State would make shoot upwards.
1t was hoped that Cleveland's Secretary of
the Treasury would rule differently on the
admission Of Chinese than had Secretary
Mccullough and this would remove the
last good ground for complaint against the
restriction not being sufficiently operative.
Cotton-Laden steamers Burned.
MEMPHIS (Tenn.(, February 1Sth.-This
afternoon fire was discovered among some
cotton on board the steamer Ida Darragh,
alongside the wharf boat of the Memphis,
Arkansas City, Vicksburg and Arkansas
River Packet Company. The flames soon
enveloped the steamer, and were commu-
nicated to the wharf boat. The Anchor
Line steamer City of Helena, which was
lying at the foot of the wharf boat was
also ignited and burned. The Ida Darragh
has Just arrived from the Arkansas river
with 219 bales of cotton and 1000 sacks
of seed which was lost. Insured in local
companies. The steamer was a little over
two years old. and was valued at $50, 000 :;
insured for $4,000 The CITY of Helena
was owned by the Anchor Line Company
OF ST. Louis, and was valued at 100000 :;
uninsured. Her cargo consisted of 100
barrels of oil, valued at $1,000 fully in
sured in Thomas WellfUrd's agency OF
Memphis. She had also $50 bales of cot
ton and 10000 feet Of lumber. The wharf
boat, valued at $4,000, was partly insured.
No lives were lost
4 Musicians Obsequies.
New YORK, February 1Sth.-Dr Leopold
Damrosch's funeral took place this after
noon from the Metropolitan Opera House
where he so long welded the baton The
body was inclosed in a casket upon which
lay palm branches tied with white ribbon,
which was borne up the aisle of the opera
house and placed in q catafalque close to
the c;-draped chair of the dead leader
in front Of which his baton lay upon the
music-rest he used. The opera house was
heavily draped in mourning, and thousands
OF people were in the building On the
stage were several hundred members of
the 0ratorio Symphony Societies. An
abundance of floral tributes ON the stage
filled the air with perfumes Some of
these tributes bore suitable inscriptions A
committee from the Thalia Theater met
the remains at the entrance of the opera
house, and the casket was borne in upon
the shoulders of a committee from the
AriOn Society. The procession was pre-
Ceded by the Directors of the opera house
Felix Adler, Rev. VIM H Cook and Henry
Ward Beechcr, and followed by the Direc-
tors of the Oratorio and Symphony Socie-
ties. The family of the deceased occupied
the prosccnlum box.
Steamer Ice-bound in Lake Michigan.
SOUTH HAVEN (AIich.), February 18TH
The propeller Michigan, which left Grand
Haven a week ago last Monday, has been
heard from. She is locked in the ice
tweuty-three miles west Of here, unable to
move. Seventeen OF her crew crossed the
intervening ice and reached the shore some
miles north of here last night. They had
a perilous and wearisome journey. One of
the men gave out and was carried five miles
on the back Of another They say thirteen
men remain on board the propeller; that
they have rations for twenty-five days and
80 tons of coal; that the ice extends west
ward into the lake as far as the eye can
reach.
The Governorship of Wyoming.
CHEYENNE, February 1Sth.-A large and
enthusiastic Democratic Convention was
held here this evening. and passed resolu-
tons stating Il belief that President Arthur
will not fiji the vacancy in the Governors
Office, and recommending to Presdent-elect
Cleveland Hon. Morton L. Post the pres
cnt Delegate i'll Congress from this Terri
tory, for that position, in accordance with
the principle adopted by the National
Democratic Convention, declaring in favor
of appointments TO Federal offices in Terri
tories being made from bona lide residents
thereof
New York Anarchists.
New YORK, February 1Sth-The Anarch-
lists of this city have called Il mass meeting
for this evening, to commemorate the death
of August ReinSdorff recently executed in
Germany. 4 large bill, with black Dor
der. which has been extensively circulated
among the Socialists contains extracts from
Reinsdorti' last speeches, with comments
on them by the Anarchists of this CITY 1t
directs special attention TO Reinsdort1' 5 cry
to the workingmen Down with the
bal.ot-box. Ii is time for YOU to actr'
Also 10 his remarks to the Court that had
sentenced him: Tie social question will
never he abandoned, even if there are
hundred tribunals. The people will one
day have dynamite enough to blow you
bourgec Isle all up"
a Strange Series of Accidents at IA Tu-
neral.
New YORK, February 1Sth.-A special
from Erie, Pennsylvania, says: The re-
mains of the daughter of John Wells were
being carried into the Methodist Church in
WeSieyville, Pennsylvania, yesterday by
four young lady pali-bearers, when two of
them slipped on the ice-coyercd steps and
the coffin fell. The casket was burst open,
the corpse to roll out upon one of
the PROSTATE young ladies, who was fright
ened into insensibility. The body was re
piacpi and The Sprricp rhOplugln6 Al tho