Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-01-16
THE METROPOLIS.
THINGS IN GENERAL AND OTHERS
IN PARTICULAR.
A Quiet Sensation = Solitude -Su-
premacy-B ossism and Juries-
McCarthy's Flight.
Correspondence of the RRooRD-UN1oy. |

Correspondence of the RRooRD-UNIoS.
SAN FRANCISCO. January IL, 1886.
The attempted sensation of the Hill
Terry marriage fell very fiat here. Our
San Francisco press has been aching for a
long time for something in the way of a
sensation, and at last it came from Stock
ton-the home of the cranks-designated
under our laws and legislation as home
for the insane. Judge Terry is a figure in
the history OF this State One thing in this
connection is worthy of mention: that the
brass buttoned, blue-coated Barnes is not
again going to lift his forefnger and point
it at Sarah Althea in open Court, and say
You miserable woman-wretch! You
are trying to wreck the fortune of my
client" Barnes is afraid of Terry. This
is cold fact; and now that Allie Hill is
Mrs. Terry, the redoubtable hero of the
Seventh Regiment, National Guard of the
State of New York, who went on thirty
days tour across the Long Bridge over the
Potomac and then, like, the King of
France with his thousand men, marched
back again, is not so belligerent as he
used TO was" Abusing Sarah Hill, and
Mrs. Terry, are two different conditions
However, the Sharon fight is the Sharon
fight, and let the Kilkenny cats fight it out
on their own line
CLERK MCCARTHY.
While the disqualification. so to speak. of
Jack Mccarthy was scarcely a nine
days wonder. there exists in this city con-
siderable speculation as to the motive of
his sudden departure. Rumor has it that
the mere debts that he owed were not the
inducements 10 accelerate his hasty fight
Ger the placid waters of the Pacific to the
land of the cannibal. There is a little
thing in connection with a certain matter
wherein il was intimated that Supreme
Court decisions were in the market for
sale, barter, or advancement on the cal
endar. This Insignificant trif1ing with the
right of litigants was, by an accident, ex-
posed. Result: The Supreme Court re-
terred the matter to the Bar Association
an irresponsible and unofficial body -
which referred the case back to the Supreme
Court. Mccarthy, the Clerk of the Court,
being gone, how easy to say that our great,
digniiied and Supreme Court was not to
blame for Buckeyes combinations, "as
all the dirty work was done by our Clerk,
and he has gone where the woodbine
twineth :" If all this frivolous talk of
malicious designers is true, Mccarthy has
made of himself a vicarious sacrifice that
Will give him golden throne in the heaven
of whitewash.
SOLITUDE SUPREMACY
There is funny little story going about
as to San Francisco caste. | suppose there
is not Pacific coaster who has not heard
of Mob Hill, and few who do not know its
location. In my Fathers house are many
mansions, is a piece of Scripture which
the BonanZionaire James c. Flood. has
probably read, and he thought he would
add one more mansion that would eclipse
and overshadow the others. So he got up
upon himself and he raked Europe and the
0uarries. carpenter shops, paint shops and
forests OF fine woods, carvers and painters.
sculptors and imported hod-carriers to
build him house on the hill where it
would surely stand About the time
that the broWn-Stone front began to assume
the proportions of the Tower of Babel.
Governor Stanford was elected to the
United States Senate, Mr. Crockers bust
ness required his presence in New York,
Mrs. Hopkins preferred the climate of
Massachusetts, to that of California, and the
immediate neighbors of Jim Flood were
somewhere else. The house is very grand.
and very expensive, but it stands alone in
its glory, and Mr.. Flood is, like Robinson
Crusoe, monarch of all he surveys-except
the encroachments of the Cinnamon who
are moving with solemn tread towards Mob
Hill, and who are now within a stones
throw of our one and only brown-stone
front
SELECTION OF JURIEs.
Ihe new Constitution left the question
OF the selection of juries in a very much
mixed condition, and our blind boss was
cute enough to appreciate the situation and
nix up, with the conniyance of one of our
Ind.
select and control a Grand jury that has
been in session for some ten months. The
object of this patriot was to secure Grand
Jury that would give him control of the
police force for political purposes. But
the best laid schemes of mice and men
gang aft agley,' and the boss wasn't big
enough for his job. 1t was necessary to
put few respectable men on the jury to
give the body tone, so to speak, and the
result has been that Buckley has accom-
pllshed nothing except arousing public
sentiment to the danger of the Grand Jury
system as defined by the new Constitution.
Recognizing this sentiment, ana scenting
the slumbering volcano the Superior Court
met in executive session, in which reso-
luton was introduced and passed that here
after the jury panels should be drawn by
the Presiding Judge of the Superior Court
instead of the Judges who try the criminal
cases. Not at all strange to say, the Grim
Inal Department Judges (Toohy and
Murphy. two gentlemen accredited to
United States citizenship from Marseilles,
France, voted against the resolution, but it
was passed nevertheless. The point in this
is that it removes our jury system from the
realm of bossism, the new Constitution to
the contrary Notwithstanding. Judge Ed
munds was chosen as presiding Judge, and
if he does not fairly fulfill his trust, the
people of San Francisco will b. mistaken
in their estimate of his integrity.
IN INSURANCE CIRCLES
Here there is a laugh over the threat put
forth by the London and Liverpool and
Globe Insurance Company, that unless the
United States reformed its currency, the
company would withdraw its business
from this country AS the story goes, a
travelling agent of the company came here
from Australia loaded with English SOW
ereignS. In paying off some bills he re-
ceived a few cart wheel dollars, and pro-
tested as only Britisher can protest when
he thinks he is wronged. His money was
perfectly good for anything he wanted to
buy, but ii was announcement, you know,
and 'ow about the blarsted h Exchanges
Somebody, to guy him, told him to write
to the Times; but he said he would prefer
to write to the main h'agency at New York,
ana tne result was tne ietter 10 McInerson.
THE DYNAMITE SCARE,
Which was very thin sensation, has died
a natural death. The men engaged in it
were evidently mere tools. of whom / can
not say, but it will come out sometime;
but whatever may be developed, there will
be no getting over the fact that our greatest
detective, Ike Lees, has once more succeed
ed in making himself ridiculous. The
whole thing was puppet-show, gotten up
for display, but it fell as fiat as Sam Patch
on his last and fatal jump. 1t was intended
TO kill off DR.. ODonnell as thorn in the
side of the Democratic party; but if the