Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-04-16

the st. Louis strikers. After denouncing
Jay Gould as guilty of every crime, they
ask workingmen if they intend to let such
| man trample on their rights. The most
significant sentence is the advice to the ST.
Louis strikers not to allow crime to remain
| UNPUBLISHED an hour. This and the tie-up
| on the Third-avenue surface road and pos
slble strikes on other lines, indicate that
there may be trouble in this city in the
near future.
MORE STREET CAR LINES TIED Up.'
New YORK, April 15th.-Eleven hun
| dred employees of the Third avenue. Liv-
ingston avenue. One Hundred and Twenty
| fifth street and the Cable lines met to-
night, to decide the question of the con-
templated strike on account of the refusal
of the company to discharge non Union
employees. AT midnight it was decided to
tie up those lines at 4 o'clock. and, it the
demand is not acceded to, it is threatened
to tie up all the roads in the city.
The Ohio Bribery Case.
COLUMBUS, April 15th.-The legislative
| committee appointed to investigate the
charges of bribery in electing H B. Payne
Senator in January, 1884, reported this
evening.
The majority report, signed by three
Republicans, is lengthy, and is &C.
companied by eighty pages of evil
dence, the important points of which
are cited, to show that while some of the
| members of the present General Assembly
have been conclusively impeached, case
has been made as to corrupt methods, and
the testimony fully justifes that it
be certified at once to the United
States Senate, for action by that body
in considering Paynes right to his seat
Most OF the witnesses testifyipg as to
the use of money were Democrats.
some being ex-members of the Legislature,
who were at the time offered various sums,
notably Representative Kahoe, who testi-
fed that Senator Ramey offered him S., 600
to vote for Payne, saying that was what he
(Ramey) got. Evidence is cited to show
two banks wherein Ramey deposited 81, 500
each, and also to show large investments
at the time by State Senator Elmer White,
Representatives Mooney, Roche and others.
The majority report is somewhat sensa-
tional and has caused great stir, especi-
ally the evidence of l.. A. Russell, who tells
of picking up a $50 bill on the floor of
d. Il. Pages room, Page being Paynes
manager, and j. j. Hale, who told of
entering }. Huntington'S room unceremo-
niously and finding stacks of bills-more
money piled up than he ever saw in the
bank Of which he is Director. The COM
mittee sets forth that Huntington, who is
one of the Directors of the Standard Oil
Company, was regarded as the purser of
the alleged Payne fund, and as soor as
this committee was appointed he fled to
Cuba, and has not been available
The minority report, signed by the two
Democratic members, is devoted to argu-
ments to impeach the most damaging wit
| nesses, and while admitting that there have
been many newspaper rumors and much
testimony of a general nature as TO
corrup on and bribery, that there is
no direct evidence, and that the connecting
| link is out in every case, so that they hold
such evidence should not be certified to the
United States Senate TO blacken the charac-
ter Of any man.
Pending discussion to print the re
ports and substitute the minority for the
majority report, a recess was taken until
tomorrow morning, and the matter will
! probably be before the House all the week.
Forgetting Postmaster.
New YORK, April 15th-A Springfield
Mass, special says: There is a curious
| boycott in Mittaneigue, a small village
three miles from here. Michael Burke. a
young Democrat, was recently appointed
Postmaster, displacing Luke Bliss, stanch
Democrat, appointed thirty years ago. The
| office is one of the fourth class paid by the
| percentage on stamps sold. The business
men and mill-owners were not consulted.
and they kicked. Burke had hard luck in
| getting location for the office, but finally
succeeded. Now the mill people and many
others get their stamps elsewhere and place
their mail direct ON the trains They get
their mail at the Postoffice, but have moth
ing else to do with it. Burkes pay has
fallen to $500 year. He says politics
don't pay.
The Boycotted Bakery.
New YORK, April 15th.-The police ar
rested the placard- bearers and hand-bill
distributors in front of Mrs. Grays bakery
| yesterday, and the Police Justice fined
them 81 and costs each, and told them he
would send them TO BLACKWELL Island the
next time. Mrs. Gray has been summoned
before the Grand Jury to-day. and that
| body will look into the question of con-
| spiracy on the part OF the boycotters.
| The Oneida Community and Its Founder
| New York, April 15th.-John Hum
| phrey Noyes. who died at his home at Nj
agara Falls, Ontario, on Tuesday. achieved
distinction by founding a religion. based
upon the utter destruction of selfishness
and the most genial system of commun-
ism. He was the father of the Perfection
lists who peopled the Oneida Community.
| Noyes studied theology at Andoyer and
| New Haven, and was licensed to preach in
1888, but he was hurried away by the fam
atical study of the Bible and the frenzied
preaching of revivalists, under whose
ministrations he CHANGED to sit. He con-
celved altogether new ideas of the scheme
OF salvation, and his license as an orthodox
preacher was annulled. In the course of
time he drew about himself band of some
forty faithful followers at Putney. 1t was
IN 1915 that he first declared his peculiar
view of the relations of the sexes, and a
year later the Putney Community adopted
them in practice. They professed to repu-
date the doctrine of free love, but
women, as well as goods, We're enjoyed in
common lot by the Perfectionists, and the
equality of women with men in social and
commercial affairs was maintained. Finally
the little band of fanatics was driven by
force and threats from the community.
This led to pilgrimage to Oneida, Madi-
son county, New York, where, in 1S4S, the
now famous community was established
| with membership which presently grew
to over two hundred. They started in
with forty acres of untitled land, but in a
| little over twenty years the community
had acquired ga acres of land, abundant
water-power and manufacturing interests
representing some 100000 The system
vi complex marriage ana unltary home
worked its natural and most melancholy
results which were seen in the younger
generation, which came up under Mr..
| Moves control of the community. In 1877
ii was found necessary to abandon the in
stitution of complex marriages, and the
other practices of the communistic settle
ment fell into disuse.
| The President to be Married in June.
| New York, April 15th.-The Tribuaes
Buffalo special of April 14th says: Tie
| report of President Cleveland's engagement
| to Miss Frances Folsom, of Buffalo. seems
to be well founded. An Albany dispatch
says: The Troy lady mentioned as re-
| ceiving letter from Miss Folsom is Mrs.
Wellington, wife of Assistant United States
| District Attorney Wellington. She is a
cousin of General g. Barrett Rich. of Buff
falo, and was formerly Miss Townsend.
General Rich, to whom this dispatch was
shown this afternoon, said: Whether
Mrs. Wellington has received any letter
cannot say, but | will say to you the re-
port of Cleyeland's impending marriage is
| true. A lady friend of my wife-I prefer