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two REFORM SYSTEMS.

referring to the recent arrest of large.
number of boys in this city for practices of
malicious mischief, an esteemed CORE
spondent writes to urge the propriety of
agitating the public mind upon the ques-
ton of "need for a Reform SCHOOL, If
by that he means a school within a penal
atmosphere, the substitute for prison, and
yet affixing the prison stigma upon its in
mates, the proposition is bad one. If,
however, he means such system of recla-
nation of neglected and uncontrolled lads
as is in happy use in Massachusetts,, and
in partial use in Michigan; system of
which the Boys and Girls Aid Society of
San Francisco is a fair type, then the sug-
gestion is good one The REcoRD-UNIoN
has, on several occasions, dwelt upon these
schemes, and, at least to its own satisfac-
ton, demonstrated that the Reform School,
in the sense in which that term is gener-
ally interpreted, is but a preparatory
school to the final graduation of vicious
'iiihiudiS VI ouCu ilc IHuuSlTldi SCHOOL
at San Francisco is a fair type When the
State resolves to enter upon the discharge
of duty society owes to those of its ne
elected members, who by reason of tender
years are capable of being trained up into
good and useful lives it will adopt the
massachusetts system, if ordinary wisdom
and the experience of Others have any
weight with Legislators. Under that sys-
TEN neglected children, and those mani
Testing a strong disposition to lead
vicious lives, are gathered in, their
developing characters studied, their
tendencies and tastes carefully guided in
the right direction, and then homes are
found for them where the State keeps
watchful but kindly ward over the waits,
encouraging and aiding them and those to
whom their training is intrusted Massa-
chusetts does not find that three per cent. of
such youths disappoint her. On the other
hand, fully sixty per cent. Of industrial
and reform school inmates go to the dogs,
and become outcasts from society You
cannot clap uniform upon boy that
reads to all who pass, This is vicious
and dangerouc lad-avoid him" and ex-
pect good rian as result
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-03-27
RELIGIOUS NOTICES.

NJ. r. Church South, Seventh street, bet.
and K-The pastor is holding union revival
meetings III Petaluma. Rev. j. n. Atkinson will
preach at II \. NJ. Subject: " The Followers of
Christ At 80 p. VI 1.-THE Ransom of the
Soul" Mr.. Atkinson is of the most able
preachers on the coast, and the public are cor
daily invited TO hear him.
Preaching at the First Baptist Church
by the pastor, Rev. 4. J. Frost. Morning sub
ject History of the Baptist Church in the
Fourth and Fifth Centuries" Evening sub
iect And Satan Came Also Baptism at the
close of the evening service.
Calvary Baptist Church, street. be-
tween Twelfth and Thirteenth = Preaching
at II A. NJ. by Rev. A. G. Herrick Subject
% The Decision and Question of Queenly
Woman" Praise service at 715 Lecture:
" Character of the First King of Jerusalem
Baptism at the close. Welcome to all.
Congregational Church, Sixth Street, be-
tween l and 1.-The pastor Rev. W. c. Merrill,
will preach tomorrow at l0:i5 A. NJ. Subject
NJ. Evening service. praise and devotional. at
:. All are cordially invited
Y. NJ. C. A. Hall, Masonic Building,
sixth street, between and L-Address TO
young men only tomorrow afternoon at $50
o'clock by Charles NJ. Campbell. Good singing
All young men invited.
Central NJ. E. Church, Eleventh street,
between and Preaching by the pastor Rev
Thomas Filben, in the morning. Subject The
Draw-Net" Concert by the children of the
Sunday school in the evening. All are vel
come.
United Brethren Church, corner of Four
tenth and X understanding at ii A. N. and
7PM Sunday school at 9:i5 A.. N. All are vel
come.
Westminster Presbyterian Church, Sixth
street. corner OF 1.-The pastor, Rev. II. II. Rice
viii preach on Sabbath at 1915 A. N. and $50
PM Morning subject Secret Prayer" Even
ing: THE Resurrection at the End of the
World Strangers are cordially invited.
Sixth-street NJ. f.. Church, between X
aud Is-Preachng by the pastor, Rev. Z. K. Ollie.
Morning subject The Use and Abuse of Re
ligious Forms Evening Silent Preachers"
Baptism at morning service. Special music,
orchestral accompaniment. All are welcome.
Christian Church, Eighth, between n
and o-Preaching in the morning by E. B. Ware.
In the evening Moore Hesketh, Secretary of Y.
NJ c. A., will address the young people es-
pecialy. All invited
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-03-27
NEWS OF THE MoRNING.

FoREiGN.-England and Germany are
said TO be encouraging China to demand
indemnity from the United States IA
reign Of terror prevails in Lege Belgium
...... Gladstone is well enough to attend a
Cabinet council and the House of Com
mons.....The Governments Irish pro-
gramme has been settled by the Cabinet.
Silver in London, 46 1l-16; consols,
100 11-l6d; A.. 12S; AIS, Ia
EAsTERN.-lFrank Mulkewski, a Polish
murderer. has been hanged In Chicago.
IA quadruple tragedy occurred near
Old Columbus, Fla. Fire DESTROYED p
business houses in Salida, COL. The
North Buffalo Flour Mills have been
burned; loss, $4,000. The California
trees, delayed at Kansas City, have not yet
reached the citrus fair at Chicago. A
convict made remarkable escape near
Birmingham, Ala......Dr. Samuel Ward
Francis, oue of the best known physicians
in New York. is dead The Brazilian
frigale Almirante Barross has arrived at
New Orleans. United States troops are
being forwarded from New York to St.
boais -. Government bonds are quoted in
New York at 1861 for 4s of 1907; Il2s for
As; sterling, 81 S7@4 SO; 1909 for IS; silver
bars. 1923.
WAsHISGToN.-The youngest child of
Congressman Morrow is dead III is ex-
pected that the Hendricks monument fund
viii reach $3.50, 00..The Government
will devote $40 600 to the improvement of
the Sacramento, Feather and San Joaquin
rivers.....James Y. Mcdonald has been
appointed Postmaster at Sheridan, Placer
county, ....Senator Hearst is on his
way 10 Washington from Mexico. The
Senate has adjourned until Monday .....
The Edmunds resolutions have been
adopted in the Senate
Pacific CoAsT.-Jung Quong Sings ex-
ecution at San Jose has been postponed by
the Gevernor-....A fire destroyed the |. X.
L. lime works, near FELTON,. Santa Cruz
county. Part of Chinatown at Folsom
has been burned. Loss Of money and
bad health caused julius Ullman to kill
himself at Nogales, A. T..The strike of
longsho emen at Tacoma, W. T., has
ended in victory for the men.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-03-27
THERE is unnecessary concern over tn,

THERE is unnecessary concern over the
retiracy of Governor Murray of Utah.
The Administration is not so shortsighted
as to put man in his place less vigorous,
or less the friend of the law, and the enemy
of that abomination polygamy. Republic
cans might, for party's sake, pray that it
would make a mistake, but President
Cleveland will certainly do nothing of the
cerely committed to an aggressive policy
against the infamies of Mormonism to now
commit blunder.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-03-27
OPEN OR CLOSE SESSION.

The question is again up, Should the
executive sessions of the United States
Senate be made publie?7 The premise to
any conclusion in the matter depends upon
ascertaining whether the public good
would be conserved ~ such action. The
close session has been the rule for nearly a
century. 1t has the sanctity of age, there
fore, and it must be assumed that the wis
dom of experience has led to the retention
of the rule. We believe that publicity, so
far from evolving truth and securing
purity in the public service, would have a
directly opposite effect Senator'S but lit
tie less than other officials, are subject to
pressure, importantly, to threats, to the
assaults of the vicious and to attempts to
swerve them from the line of strict duty. The
secrecy OF the executive session certainly
gives freedom to expression and courage to
those susceptible to extraneous pressure
1t results that the fitness of nominees for
places of trust is discussed more freely in
close session, and that unftness is more
boldly presented in executive than would
be possible in open sessions. To say that
the close session gives opportunity for
assaults upon character, or motives, with
out like opportunity being afforded
the victim to reply, may be
granted, but it still remains that
the purity of the public service is
concerned, and that is the first considera-
ton. Moreover, the arraignment of nomi-
nees not being public, any charges laid
cannot iniure the party before the public
If we suppose the case of open executive
sessions, and still of boldness on the part
of the Senators in stating objections, we
must concede the assailed the opportunity
of reply and of offering proofs in defense
and the assailant like opportunities to
establish his charges. Such a system would
whelm the Senate in investigations, and
bring all other business to dead stand
still. There would be simply no end to
such work, and with twenty-six hours to the
day, and with every day in the year en-
pioyed, time would not suffice to give
" hearings" The open session would have
tendency to destroy the independence of
the Senator, and this is, after all, the
strongest reason for condemning the open
session proposition. The Senate should
be hedged about with just so much of
secrecy as is necessary to protect the Sena-
tors from assault, blackmailers, browbeat-
ers. the pertinacious and the offiee-seeking
bores. To remove the guard of secrecy
would be to convert the Senate into a
debating school with personality as the
chief tonic
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-03-27
CONTEMPT FOR LABOR.

We are in hearty concurrence with the
San Jose Mercury when it declares that the
creation of respect for labor, and the cult
walton of a spirit of willingness to per-
form it, among the girls and boys of this
State, is ga grander work than providing
for the mental and moral instruction of
the barbarians in the basin of the Congo
1t is very true that the present distavor
with which our youths view labor is
not their fault. They have not had
the example that teaches, nor have the
precepts preached to them been vigorous
or impressive. The fault resides with the
parents, and it can properly be placed no.
where else. 1t is, however, true that the
presence in our midst of a servile class has
bad very much to do with feeding a spirit
of contempt for labor in this State. To
this cause We come at last as one of the
chief factors in the condition in which we
find the youth of the State to-day-not
fitted as a rule for manual labor, and seek
ing in preference to trade and skilled work
of the hands with tools, those employ
ments with which is supposed to reside
something more of gentility-a false senti-
ment, and one that is doing incalculable
harm. The Mercury makes strong appeal
for philanthropic home missionary work
when it says: " If there is any genuine
philanthropy in California it will at once
proceed to attempt the undoing of the
work of generation by first convincing
the boys and girls of the State of the dig
nifty and rightfulness of every form of
honest labor and then devote time and
money to instructing them how to perform
such work efficiently. If there is not
philanthropy of that sort at hand, the
sooner we have an improved philanthropy
the better for US"
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-03-27
4 SENSATIONAL YARN.

4 long and sensational story comes from
Washington, that England and Germany
are backing China in her demand for
indemnity for the loss of property by
Chinese at the hands of American mobs.
It is said that the President and Cabinet
are annoyed, If not alarmed, at the fact
that a German squadron is cruising in
American waters and kept within three
days sail of our coast, and it is limited that
the squadron has something to do with the
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-03-27
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

MANNING's PATENT BULLET.-A test OF
Manning's fabricated bullets was made at
the range Of the Marysville Rifle Club on
Sunday last. Thirteen boards, sugar pine,
one inch and one-eighth in thickness, was
placed sixty yards distance. The first shot
with seventy grains of powder passed
through the entire lot. Then the target of
boards was placed at the 200-yard range,
and with the same amount seventy grains)
of powder produced the same result, pass
ing through tie entire lot, making fourteen
inches and five-eightbs of solid timber the
bullet passed ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS APP
nnal
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-03-27

MONEY PLENTY.-The Nevada Transcript
says; There is more coin among the
masses of laboring men hereabouts than
ever known before. We heard of gentle.
man who wanted TO borrow $1,000 and
made up his mind that he was not going
to pay over 6 per cent. per annum for the
use of it. He got it from laborng man
who was not thought to have 81 80. He
found about a dozen laborirg men who
could accommodate him at larger rate of
interest-mostiy at per cent
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-03-27

IN the name Of patience, will not the
telegraph reporters and the Eastern press
cease whelming us with news about that
q peach blow vase? Enough is enough
What difference, now, does it make whether
it is peach blow or crushed strawberry, or
worth $4,000 or $4,000? SOMEBODY has
been egregiously swindled in the matter
but with eyes open, and that should
end il
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-03-27

Tor the tutor to direct the vision upward.
The boys and girls of to-day who are to
be the chief actors on the stage of life
within the next fifteen years, should have
their literary training planned upon the
great middle piane-that is, neither in
cloud-land nor in the muck.
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SAN FRANCISCO AGENCY.

L. p. FISHER is Sole Agent for this paper II
an Francisco and vicinity. He is anthor.se1
70 receive advertisements and subscriptions, and
collect for the same. Rooms d ana p, Mex
ehsots Exchange.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-03-27

An EXCELLENT CEMENT.-A good author
ity SAYS that first-class cement with which
to fasten stone to stone, or iron to iron, is
made by mixing paste of pure oxide of
lead, htharge and giycerine;. This mix
ture hardens rapidly, is insoluble in acids
and is not affected by heat. 1t has been
used to fasten the different portions of a
fy-wheel with success, while, placed be-
tween stones and once hardened, it IS
easier to break the stone than the joint.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-03-27

LEE the cremationists of San Francisco
take heart. The people who live in the
cemetery region of that city, both beyond
and on the city side of the graveyards, are
resolved that the cemeteries "must go -
and they will. So, all over the land, it will
be, and the time will speedily come when
men will cease to put their loved dead
into the ground to rot. They will adopt
in time the chaste and wise practice OF
converting the flesh of their dead into
ashes, and over these harmless remains
erect monumental tokens of respect. The
world is moving.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-03-27

The REooRD-UNIoN IS the only paper on,
she coast, outside o. Saa Francisco, that re-
ceires the FIJI Associated Press dispatches from,
all parts Of The world. Outside Of Sa, IRAN
cisco IL has no competitor, in point Of num-
BEES IN its home and general circulation
throughout the coast
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-03-27

THE average English book-worm is as
stubborn and immovable as the Sphynx
Here We have Mr.. George Bentley raging
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-03-27

LIFT up your heads, friends of civil
service reform, The President, despite all
the Wild stories of his loss of faith in the
civil service laws, has within the past
forty-sight hours sent to Congress a mes
sage in which he reaffirms his loyalty to
the experiment" and declares:
Wherever this reform has gained foothold it
has steadily advanced in the esteem OF those
charged with public administrative duties while
the people who desire good government have
constantly been confirmed in their high esti-
mate oflts value and efficiency. With the BEN
eiits il has already secured to the public service
plainly apparent and with promise of increased
usefulness easily appreciated, this cause is COM
mended to the liberal care and jealous protec-
ton of COnoress
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-03-27

Has it. after al, been left to the women
of the California Board Of Silk Culture to
suggest woman's ineompetency in Offices
of public trust This silly quarrel in the
Board; this whipping out of the room at
a Board session because something was
done the minority did not like; this
taking forcible Possession of property of
the Board by one faction, and the resist
ance to it by another faction, is bad
very bad. We DO not know who is in the
right OF the wrong, but we do know that
these scenes will greatly augment the diff
cultyoi securing further State aid for a
feeble and worthy industry that is full of
promise for the State
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-03-27

ID. D. D. will cure biliousness, indiges..
ton and dyspepsia at once, at J. Hahn & Co.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-03-27
REP. STATE CENTRAL CJM.
The Complete List, with District an,
POstOftice Address

Following is the complete Republican
State Central Committee, which is to meet
in San Francisco on the 9th of April, to
select the location where the Republican
State Convention will be held and to fix
the date of mpetiny.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-03-27

over uncut books as almost absolute neces-
sites, because, probably, he has found now
and then book with too little margin.
He is fearful, too, that the illustrations
may not be exactly squared in the cutting
process. As final growl he objects to
wire in place of linen thread for stitching
a volume. Now, in America, the literary
class is exacting enough, but it seldom if
ever has cause to grumble over inaccu-
rately-trimmed pages or rivulet of mar
gin, nor do our publishers turn out works
with unsquared engravings. In truth.
the American book, in reputable hands.
comes from the press the perfection of
neatness and good taste. The most pre-
cious volumes do not need with US the
uncut leaves to satisfy American students.
Now and then work is thus issued as
for instance, some of the editions of Ban
croft and some Of the poets and reviews
but it is not in response to any strong
demand as in England As to wire-stitch-
ing and stapleing, it is so well done that
only few readers of books take note of
the wire superseding the thread. What
earthly difference it can make in ENJOYING
a good book we fail to discover.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-03-27

THE protest of Monsignor Capel, in his
last lecture in this city, was timely and true.
He entered the protest of scholar and
man of letters, against the use of big
words" and the intersection of foreign
words and phrases into English writing. He
declared that there never is, nor can be, any
need to step outside the English tongue to
find vehicles of expression. And he was
right, He is the most effective speaker or
writer who chooses the plainest, clearest
English words The man who revels in
" big" words-and really "big" Is the
right word here-shoots over the
heads of large number of
readers, and excites the contempt
of those he aims to inspire
with respect. 1t was something
indeed strange for a Catholic priest to
commend Ruskin as an examplar in pure
English, and advise that he be read as
such-Ruskin, who of all men has taken
Roman Catholicism across his knee Bat
it testified to the scholar rising superior 10
the priest in the matter of pure literature.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-03-27
L. l.. LEWIS & co.

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Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1886-09-22

on the 18th inst, was presented and accept
ed.
Also report from Street Commissioner,
showing that the estate of G.. w. Richardson
could not furnish all the lumber necessary
for city purposes as per contract, and that
10000 feet had to be purchased elsewhere
at an extra cost Of 90 cents per m.
REPORTS OF COMMITTEES.
From Ways and Means as follows:
To tho Hon. the Mayor and Common Coun-
eli Of the city Of Alpena!'
Your committee To whom was referred
the bill of the Alpena City Water Co.
would most respectfully beg leave to report
that they have examined the same and
find that the matter in regard TO the two
hydrants i'm said bill is correct, but the
amount 81 $500 for water rent, for the
quarter ending June 30th, is not correct,
but should be 81, 1880, in accordance with
resolution passed by this Council, Aug.
End, 1886, and your committee would re-
commend that the whole bill be allowed at
81 $500 instead $2,0SS.00 as rendered.
Moved by Alderman Campbell, support
ed Alderman McCandlish, that the report
of the committee be adopted. Carried, all
the Aldermen elect voting therefor.
Also the following report from same
committee:
To he Mayor and aldermen Of The city o.
Alpend
GESTLEMEN-E committee to whom
was referred the matter of police salary,
would most respectfully report that, in the
judgment of your committee, the salary
now paid is little too low, and would re-
commend that on and after the LIST of Oc-
tober next, the sum of $50 per month be
paid the patrolmen until further notice.
On motion of Alderman Carr, supported
by Alderman McCandlish, the report OF
the committee was adopted by the follow
ing vote: Ayes-Aldermen Kimball,
Carr D'Aigle, McCandlish, Daoust and
Campbell. Nays-None.
Report from Streets and Sewers, recon-
mending that 3rd street be opened from
where it intersects Wisner street OH quarter
line to city limits.
On motion of Alderman Campbell, sup
ported by Alderman Daoust, the report
was adopted and Comptroller ordered to
advertise for bids for opening said street.
All the Aldermen elect voting therefor.
Also report from same committee, recon-
mending that Chisholm street be paved
from Third street to Fifth street.
Moved by Alderman McCandlish. sup
ported by Alderman Daoust, that report of
committee be adopted.
Moved as an amendment by Alderman
Kimball, that Chisholm street, from 3rd to
10th, he paved on or before July LIST, 1887,
and that City Surveyor make survey, pro-
file, plan and specifications and report same
to Council. Amendment seconded by Al
derman Carr.
Amendment carried by following vote /:
Ayes-Aldermen Kimball, Carr, D'Aigle,
and McCandlish Nays-Alderma Camp
bell and Daoust. The original motion as
amended was then carried
On motion the Council adjourned.
A. HARSHAW,
J. d. TURNBuLL, Mayor.
Acting Recorder.