Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-08-14
AMERICAN AFFAIRS.
DATE F0R THE CONTEST FOR THE
AMERICAS CUP.
Fishing Party Drowncd-The Gut
ting Affair-The Hop Fields
Cigarmaker's Strike.
lspsdAL DBrATcHEs TO rzE ssOoRD- UNION.


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nave permanent interests in the CITY, ar,
- last taking alarm at the disgraceful con
clifton Of things at the City Hail. and ari
resolved to do something TO improve il
Accordingly a circular letter, Responsible
signed, has been sent to a number of well
known citizens of position and wealth
within the past few days, asking for con.
ference, the time and place 10 be determined
hereafter, with the view of taking such
steps as will rescue the administration from
the deep sea of corruption into which il
has fallen. The first step will be the
choice Of some energetic man of high
character, wholly disassociated from
the local political rings, for Mayor.
The name Of David b. Stone of the
,}0lvaQ! Of Commerce, is put forward as a
rallying point. Coincident with this
movement, but wholly Independent of it,
IS an address which has just been issued
by the Committee of One Hundred with
reference TO the burden of taxation which
mas been imposed upon the citizens of New
ork by the party leaders and machine
politicians The annual appropriations for
municipal purposes are said to be vastly in
excess of the cost of governing any other
great city in the world, and from 50 to 200
per cent. greater than the cost of governing
any city with which New York is to be
compared. The circular estimates the cur
rent expenses for each inhabitant from the
year 1910 to 1884 TO have increased from
81 % to $25 28, and refers to the shabby
condition of the public buildings and the
temporary perishable condition of the
wharves at the piers and the sewers gen
orally. 1t urges among other things the
separation of local from national and State
politics, the control of them by the people
IN their own interests, the concentration of
responsibility, the separation OF admins
trative duties and accounts, and the selec-
tion of all municipal officers on the
ground Of integrity and capacity alone.
Showing Up Contract swIndles.
New YORK, August l3th.-The Sun has
started ON u crusade against the new aque-
duct contractors. 1t accuses Clark Il 0 Brien
OF sub-letting their contracts and then of
compelling the latter TO pay commission
to them on the supplies furnished and
money advanced, and then of freezing the
sub-contractors out, and stepping in to
complete the contracts when the difficult
part of the work is done. Maurice 3. Flynn
IS connected with Clark & O'Brien in vari-
Gus ways. The Sain makes sweeping
assertion against the gang of intending to
swindle the city as well as the sub-con-
tractors. 0'Brien is Chairman of the Dem
ocratic State Central Committee.
The Race for Americas Cup.
NEW YORK, August 13th.-The America
Cup Committee has fixed the date for the
international yacht race for September 7th,
9th and l1th. The first races will be over
the New York Yacht Club course. The
second twenty miles to windward and
back from points of the Hook, and the
third, if the third is necessary, over an out
side triangular course. The trial races, to
select a sloop to meet the Galatea, will take
place August 21st, oath and 26th. The
Mayfiower, Puritan and Priscilla will be
the yachts entered. The Atlantic in all
probability, will not enter. Captain Joe
Ellsworth has been convinced by the Nor
folk Yacht Club that he has no business
with white sloops. The Priscilla is good
boat, but not good enough for Boston
sloops. The verdict of all who were in the
cruise of the New York Yacht Club was
practically unanimous that either the Pur
Itan or the Mayhower would defend the
cup.
WASHINGTON, August l3th-The Erening
star has the following: 1t is said that
Treasurer Jordan contemplates sending in
his resignation. 1t is also said that he does
aot quite agree with Secretary Fairchild in
financial questions. He was very much
opposed to the ten million bond call which
was issued yesterday. Hisspolicy, which,
II Is ulSCIOSeu oeCIetd4J hdillllIS WOulu
have carried out, was TO call in no more
bonds than the law required for the sink
ing fund. Fairchild 5 also radical in his
ideas on this subject. 1t is thought that as
long as he remains at the head of the De-
partment he will act upon the policy in
dicated by Yesterdays cali. In that event,
it is asserted that Jordan will resign as
soon as he becomes convinced that Mr.
Manning will not resume his place at the
head of the Department.
Washington Notes.
WASHINGTON, August t13th.-Postmaster-
General Villas left Washington this after
noon He will be absent about month.
There will be no further appointments of
Presidential Postmasters until after the
Presidents return from his summer vaca-
ton in the Adirondacks.
George f. Smith, of Iowa, and W. W.
Caraway, of North Carolina, have been ap-
pointed Postofice Inspectors. The ap-
pointment fills the list of vacancies.
Troop NJ, First Cavalry Captain Moses
Harris, has been ordered from Fort Custer,
Mont, to do police duty at the Yellowstone
Park.
The amount OF three per cent. bonds
held to secure the national bank note circu-
Iation, included in the fourteenth call, is
sued yesterday, is $7,S56,750
n. NJ Bell, Superintendent of Foreign
Mails, left the city this evening for New
York, to confer with Penfeld, agent of the
Panama Railway Company, on the subject
Of the transportation Of United States mail
20 points south of Panama.
Japanese OfficiaIs.
NEW YORK, August 13th.-Captain Saigo.
Secretary of the Navy OF Japan, arrived
at the Windsor Hotel yesterday from San
Francisco. He is accompanied by several
subordinates of the Japanese Navy, includ-
ing Captain Shibayama, Lieutenants Fu-
naki Yoshu and Hidaka, and Paymaster
Katoka and party. They were received on
their arrival by Mr.. kuH, the japanese
Minister at Washington. They started for
Washington last night and upon their re-
turn will visit the Navy y ards at Brooklyn,
Boston and other cities on the Atlantic
coast. and will sail for Europe in about two
weeks.
The Hop Fields.
New YosK, August 18th. A dispatch
from Malone, N. Z, says: The conyic-
ton gains ground in franklin county that
the hop prospects are gradually growing
worse In many yards not hop has come
out of the burr. In others, where hops are
one-half to three-ouarters formed, mold is
already perceptible. Only here and there
yard seems clean and thrifty. The ex-
recitation is that some hops will be grown,
but not nearly as many as was generally
thought even fortnight ego. The market
is very quiet, but practically unchanged as
TO price.
Tilden's Love.
New YosK, August 1Sth.-The Star says:
Near the end of the legacies in Tilden's S
will is one of the interest on 100000 to
Miss Celeste Stauffer, of New Orleans. An
intimate friend of the Staufer family eI.
presses himself confident that Iilden at
one time seriously contemplated matri-
nony, and was suitor for Miss Stautfer's
hand. He met her n 1880 or 1881 and i'm
nediately fell in love with her. Isaac
Stauffer, her father. Is senior partner O