Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-02-05


Prince Bismarck has been studying the
financial results of high license, and now
contemplates increasing the royal revenue
of Germany $f2,000,000 per annum from
wholesale dealers in spirituous liquors.
1t is thought that tho increased county
licenses to S25 per month upon beer con-
cert-saloons, with female accompaniment"
as just imposed by our Board of Super
vlsors, may possibly close these institutions.
It's just possible, however, that Sacra-
mento could continue to exist if they were
closed.
There IS an evident desire upon the part
of our Kansas City contemporary to be
modest and not hurt the feelings of others
when it remarks: Without desire to
appear hoggish, the Kansas City Journal
wishes to announce that Kansas City, since
November l, 1885, to date, has packed more
pork than st. Louis and Cincinnati put
together"
The San Francisco Journal of Commerce
has just issued its annual review in ten
mammoth pages filled to the brim with in
terestlng statistical and other valuable mat
ter. 1t gives complete list of exports and
imports for the year 1885; list of marine
disasters for the year; description of lead
ing educational institutions in California,
Illustrated; volume OF products of the
State, etc.
gentleman reports that night before
! last two or three gangs Of boys, from the
age OF 10 to 20 years, were perambulating
the streets in the lower part of the city after
midnight, in semi-state of intoxication,
and playing the role of most approved
hoodlumisn. 1t would be well for the po-
lice to take these youthful groups in out of
the cold, when found in such a condition
| at unreasonable hours, and furnish their
names for publication, in order that their
parents and friends may know of their
whereabouts and operations.
''W r. G." of Rocklin sends the follow
ing questions: when did Governor STAN
ford break the first ground for the Central
Pacific Railroad at Sacramento? Who was
President of the United States then? Who
was appointed to receive the road as Com.
missioner? and who appointed him. An
answer to these questions will be favor
TO me"
REPLY: The first spadeful of earth was
turned by Governor Stanford on Front
street between and X, in this city, on
January s, 1868. Abraham Lincoln was
then President. The Commissioners to ex-
anime the road We're appointed by the
Government and different ones were so ap-
pointed from time to time.
The Board of Supervisors did very
proper and wise thing when, on Monday
last, ii unanimously adopted a resolution
to permit the Howard Benevolent Associa-
ton of Sacramento to draw from the County
Hospital fund $3.50 per month. The
purpose of the Hospital fund is to
care for the poor. The entire history
of the Howard Association in the city has
! been record of utmost devotion to this
work of charity and self-Sacrifce for the
good of the homeless and helpless. Its
| funds have been most wisely and econ
omically expended, and the appropriation
now made by the Board of Supervisors
| could not be dispensed through any other
| agency to effect so much relief and good to
the needy poor as through the Towards.
The unusual number of destitute people
appealing to the association for aid is not
! from the city alone, but from the county as
well, and many of the cases are such that
1t is heart-rending not to be able to give
some assistance. The Board has done most
wisely to thus provide funds for this work,
and it will be expended by the Towards in
manner TO give the greatest possible relief
Tor the amount of funds to be dispensed.