Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-12-31
A Californian's Private OPT ion on Some
Things.

NEW YORK, December 30th-General
John Hewston, Of San Francisco, has been
spending some time at the Hoffman House.
He says everything in California is prosper
Gus, and that San Francisco is having a
steady and substantial growth. at is a
mistake to think" he said, that because
fortunes are not being made as rapidly out
there as they were years ago, we are not
progressing. | find people here in the East
who labor under that impression. One
reason is probably that some of our leading
millionaires have come to New York to
live. This is easily explained by the fact
that New York is the financial center of
the country. Men like d. o. Mills cannot
utilize their vast fortunes out there, as
there is not a demand for money. Then.
according to reports, it would seem that
our real estate is depreciating in value, Be-
fore the advent of the Central Pacific Rail-
road people thought the road would make
San Francisco within a short time rival
of New York. and that it would all at once
dump a million people into our State. In
view of this the value of al estate went
up beyond all reason. Ever since it has
been working back to reasonable prices L
venture to say that there is not to-day
better governed city in this country than
San Francisco
Is Blaine as strong as ever with the Re-
publicans of your State ~
" | think not. / have always been a
strong Republican. but am frank To say |
do not believe if Blaine is nominated again
be can carry California. 1t would be a
great mistake TO nominate him"
The Presidents Health.
WASHINGTON, December 30th.--Colonel
Lamont to-day said that the President con-
tinues to improve, and that there is no
trgth in the reports TO the contrary. He
was able to sit up nearly the whole dav
yesterday, and to-day held Cabinet meet
ing in his private room. The President
occupied an easy chair He has not de-
cided whether or not he will be present at
the funeral services of Senator Logan to-
morrow, and will not make up his mind
definitely until tomorrow morning, when
his feelings and the condition of the
weather will be taken into consideration
Some of the Cabinet officers to-day advised
him not to go to the Capitol tomorrow,
but TO save his strength for the necessary
strain of the New Year reception. The
President desires to attend, however, and
expects 10 90 SO If everything is favorable.
Colonel Lamont said there is not the
slightest doubt of the Presidents holding
the usual New Year reception on Saturday
A naval surgeon said today that il the
President expects to stand up for three or
four consecutive hours at a New Years re-
ception he will require something better
than rheumatic knee.
General Miles.
WAsuIyGroN, December 30th.-General
Miles left Washington for New York last
night whence he will proceed, after a stay
OF few days, to Prescott, A. T., and from
there TO Los Angeles, Cal, his new head
.rfa Ilsa Oh. .f l. H.,
will not seriously affect Prescott, though it
will help Los Angeles. General Miles will
leave regiment OF troops at Prescott to
watch over the interests of the people
there, while it is not probable that over
two companies will be stationed in Los
Angeles.
The Bee in His Bonnet.
New York, December 30th.-By no
means the least important in the political
gossip OF the day is the growing belief that
Cnauncey NJ. Depew, of the New York
Central Railroad Company, has a Presi-
Dental bee in his bonnet Depew himself
says nothing, but his active efforts TO con-
ciliate the labor element, and his generous
course toward the. employees of the Wander
bilt property, which he manages, are con-
sidered as surface indications of his inten-
tons. Railroad Commissioner John
0'Donnell. who is one of the keenest po-
litieal observers in the State, and generally
well posted, said Ny observation of the
course OF things in the Senatorship contest
leads me to believe that Depew is shaping
his course on that matter with reference to
the possibilities of his own nomination for
President in 1851
Application Denied.
CHICAGO, December 3O,h.-Judge Gres-
ham this afternoon refused to grant the
petition to turn over the Chicago and st.
Louis branch of the Wabash road TO the
Purchasing Committee, and entered an
order directing Judge Cooley 10 assume
control of the lines east OF the Mississippi
river on December 3lst
The Western Robbery.
KANSAS Cry, December 30th.-Superin-
tendent Damsel, of the Adams Express
Company ef St. Louis, arrived here this
morning with Mrs. Haight, ON the strength
/ Of the confession made by Haight He