Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-02-06
WAYS OF THE WORLD.
CHANCES AT LIFE IN THE ME.
TROPOLIS.
Chinese CrOwding into the City
The Salvini EDgagement-Not
Wicked Husband.
correspondence of the RECORD UsIos.l

q week, but the crop of suicides is about up
to the standard DR.. Mcdonald, the slayer
of young Mish, has been held to answer for
murder. No testimony for the defense was
Offered in the examination, the prosecution
simply presenting plain statement of facts
to show that Mish had been killed by Nc
Donald. The defendant maintained the
same cool, calm demeanor that has charac-
terized him since his arrest, which aggra-
waiting and uncalled for action on his part
his countenance as exhibiting fiendish
Indifference to the terrible enorrnity of his
most horrible crime" or words to
that effect 1t is more than proba-
bic that when a jury comes to
pass on McDonalds case it will render a
verdict to the effect that, when he slew
young Mish he was simply repelling an
outrageous invasion of his household. The
trial will settle the question, and ii would
be almost as bad for correspondent to at
tempt to acquit him without trial, as for
the San Francisco press to presume to con-
vict him without trial. McDonald's
young and pretty wife, the cause of his
troubles, sat at her husbands side during
the examination, and her fresh and inno-
cent appearing face had the effect of soften
ing somewhat the austerity of the press re-
porters.
THE CHINESE LOCKOUT.
Two causes are operating to crowd the
Chinese quarter in this city as it was never
damned before. One is the occurrence of
the Chinese New Year, which always dis
tributes large number of holiday taking
Cinnamon in the streets and alleys of Chi
natown, and the other is the presence of
numerous Cinnamon who have been ex-
PEELED from interior towns, and others who
have been displaced from work by the
movement against Chinese cigarmakers
and shoemakers in this city. So great is
the crush that it is almost impossible to
push ones way through the struggling
mass of Monaghan humanity, and, viewed
from an elevation, Chinatown looks one
vast conglomeration of blue-bottle flies
creeping along the sidewalks. This aggre-
cation must result in the exodus of large
number of Chinese to their native land or
to some field where their presence and labor
would be more welcome than here. There
is no work for them now, and the wealthy
Chinese or their companies have no use for
a dead-broke and idle Chinaman; but. |
believe, it is part of the contract that the
company importing the coolie shall return
him to his native land, dead or alive. Not
withstanding the great swarm of Chinese
now infesting the city, instances of their
maltreatment are rare, despite the mouth
ings of sand-lot orators and the threats of
Falstaff 0'Donnell and his hungry and
ragged following. In fact, so well are the
life, person and property of the Chinese
mr. natn 1 in haf ic ito a
mon occurrence to see Cinnamon shake
Denis Kearny by the hand, without the
least fear that he will open that Grecian-
cut mouth of his and swallow them whole
without salt
It rather looks as if the Salyini season at
the Baldwin will be fizzle. He opened
in The Outlaw" Monday night, TO a fair
house. the dress circle and parquet contain
ing fashionable audience, and the gallery
being pretty well occupied by compatriots
OF the tragedian from sunny Italy. Sew
eral of the fish-stalls and vegetable-stands
were almost bare of their usual quota Tues
day morning, and on Monday evening
there was marked scarcity of " da lemon
droppa and ida roasta chestnutta' on the
street corners. The newspaper critics say
that Salvini is a great tragedian, and as it
is their business to know, | am not pre-
pared to dispute the statement. They say,
however, the The Outlaw is not up
to his vigorous style; that his best hold
is in Othello, in which he yanks Desda-
mona around the stage till the audience
begins to fear that her remains will have to
be gathered up in basket. The lady who
plays Desdamona TO his Othello is said to
receive fabulous salary, and medical at
tendance, spiints, lotions, ointments, ETC.,
free. One of the papers, which makes
speciality of mentioning the names of fash
ionable people present at the play, prints
among the names Of other distinguished
Italian connoisseurs at the Salvini first
night that of Don Patricio Murphy The
Don doesn't sign his checks Don
Patricio Murphy because in business and
everyday matters he is incognito as to his
title, and doesn't get mad when some old
acquaintance greets him as Pat" which,
l suppose, is his maiden name. The Don
was not the only representative of a noble
house that was present. There were also
such notable foreigners mentioned as the
Baron James L. Flood, the heir TO the
noble brown-stone 'front.' also. according
to the account, the daughter of the High
Chancellor TO his Majesty King Kalakaua,
King of the Cannibal Islands. VIII toady-
ism never stop in the San Francisco
press Salvini appeared Tuesday night in
"Othello," and disappointed his audience
by failing to break Desdemona in two.
The dramatic taste in this city is evidently
running to the athletic, and the Moor of
Venice, with Salvini as Othello and John
l.. Sullivan as Desdemona would take like
wild-fre. The actor. however, did satisfy
his audience, according to a newspaper
critic, by developing the wild beast,
Whatever that may mean An innovation
by Salvini, and one that should be most
severely condemned, is that he carries
Desdamoua OIL the stage, and metaphor
ically smothers her behind the scenes. in
stead of permitting the audience 10 witness
her death agony. Evidently Miss Allen
can't die as well as Julia Deane Hayne
used to die in East Lynne
POLITICAL RuMoRs
Are as thick as the morning fog in San
Francisco, and they are dense enough to be
real Democratic fogs. 1t is a well-known
fact that Chris Buckley has for long time
had an eye 10 gaining the control of the
police department for political uses. BY
judicious use of the power of the Courts, he
has been fought OF, and the department kept
as much as possible out of politics. BY
clever, but unreasonable, and, as most
people think, unlawful trick, Buckley, iu-
dicially aided, secured a Grand Jury, the
majority of which was under his whip.
This Jury has been in session some ten
months and has been held by Buckley as
club over the heads of the police officials,
and it is stated that every short
coming. fault or peccadillo of the
department has been investigated
by this body. 1t is now common talk that
some sort of compromise has been made
with Buckley, in order that the Grand Jury
report on police matters may not be too
glazing, and that, in consonance Herewith,
certain policemen to whom Buckley is an
tagonistic have been dismissed from the
force, and that more heads are to fall in
the basket at his dictum. That there are
evils in the Police Department is well I'M
derstood, but, on the whole, ii is an efficient
and reliable force, and, if it is
true that it has in an iota
been subjected to the dictation
of Buckley then, pity It's, It's true"
There is no question but that Buckleys
inflooance" is on the wane. He knocked
out from under himself his best prop when
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