Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-04-29
NOTES OF THE DAY.

An editor of Cincinnati paper died this
week, and his remains were cremated at
Lancaster, Pa. 1t is very appropriate that
those who have been engaged in burning
up" Others in their lifetime, should at last
be cremated themselves.
The people at the East seem not only to
be OF opinion that boycotting is un-Amer-
lean, but are moving to practically demon
strate the basis of their belief by ex-
tensively arresting those engaged in it, and
applying American law to their cases. We
shall soon have decisions in many States
upon the subject.
The fact that employers are forming
themselves into organizations or leagues at
the East, and that strikers are being met in
many instances by the proprietors closing
down works and preparing for European
summer trip, thus largely decreasing de-
mand for labor, seems to be bringing a new
phase into the so-called labor question.
This is the floral season for Sacramento,
and the city is just now putting On her
most gorgeous apparel. There is no city in
the Union which can show such floral
beauty, and so profuse, as the capital CITY
in the spring and early summer. Our
Eastern visitors now stopping with us for
brief stay, as they arrive from the East or
are about to return to it, appreciate and re-
mark upon this fact. Even the far-famed
southern California can bear no comparison
with us in this regard, and this comparison
IN favor OF Sacramento is made everyday
by the numerous Eastern tourists now
" doing" the coast.
a Rev. E. d. Jones, Chinese mission
airy, now in New York, stated a few DAYS
to
ne was IN favor of more effective restriction
laws against Chinese immigration. as ex-
perience shows the Chinese become cor
rupted here by American life. In other
words, the hcathenism of China is superior
10 the influences ofChristianity of America.
If the Reverend Jones is telling the truth,
will he be SO gracious as to explain upon
what basis he is to excuse himself for re-
turning to China, as he is about to, for the
sole purpose of palming off upon the i'm
maculate Asiatic heather the contaminat-
ing religion of Christianity
Our evening contemporary, the Bee,
which never makes a blunder-never, IL
lumined the dreariness of its first page last
evening with a portrait purporting to be
that of the eXPresident of the one time
Confederate States of America. 1t will
amuse the primary class to learn from that
reliable journal that jefferson c. Davis, the
gallant Union General who fought at
Stone river, Chicamauga, Pea Ridge and
in other historic battles, for the old flag,
was President of the Confederate States.
1t will puzzle those familiar with the por-
traits of historic Americans to recognize Jeff
Davis, the Confederate, in the picture our
contemporary presents. His long, sunken
face and sharp features will be sought for
in vain in the full, broad countenance
palmed off for the ex-rebels. " If friendly
suggestion may be offered without offense.h
the RECORD MON, to return a recent COM
phment, would advance the idea that
little more harmony" in the columns of
our esteemed neighbor'' between ordi-
nary intelligence and the commonest facts
of modern history would give an APP
pearance of greater contemporaneousness -"
(whatever that may mean" to the publ
cation as a whole" In addition to the
ability to purchase Sir John Maundevilles
book of travels for dime, our laundering
neighbor can examine, without cost, in the
Free Library, various works and encyclo-
pedias which will inform its historical
editor of the fact that the gallant jeff C.
Davis, of Indiana, was not a rebel.