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The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-01-10

prccediL, ,.-4l a4tS Commander w. H.
Renshaw, u. S. NJ, had held the city
under menace Of the guns of his little
flotilla, consisting Of the Harriet Lane,
Owasco and Clifton and the ironclad
Westfield, all lying in the channel of
Kuhn's wharf, with an auxiliary of SOC
Massachusetts, soldiers bivouacked ON the
wharf and protected on the land side by
chasm in the flooring, where planks
had been removed to form parapet.
Magruder masscd column Of infan.
try ana artillery in front of the wharf
during the night Of Dec. 81, with his
cannon trained upon tho Harriet Lane
and upon the camp of the Massachusetts
men. The signal gun WAS fred at 4
O'Clock the morning Of the lst The
gunners of the Harriet Lane, being
alert, answered with shower of iron
hail. and the Owasco soon Joined in,
driving the Confederates from THEN
pieces. Under cover of the artillery duel
q band Of Confederates swan around
the ends of the wharf, bearing scaling
ladders and planks with which to bridge
tn6 CDosn OVernedu. lucy Wcfo uuni'
ly repulsed by musketry fire from the
plank barricade and canister from the
boats. Meanwhile the Confederate ma
val contingent, led by the cotton clad
packets Neptune and Bayou City, steam
ed np In rear Of the Union feet The
Bayou City opened ON the Harriet Lane,
but at the second shot the gun exploded,
killing her captain. She then used her
ram upon the Lane. which had mean
while sent the Neptune to the bottom.
Magruder's sharpshooters on the Bay
on City piled their rifles upon the
Lane. which soon fell prey to board
ers, but not until her chief officers,
Commander Wainwright and Lieuten
ant Edward Lea. had been killed, both
in close combat. and her crew driven
below. To add 10 the disaster the West.
field RI 4 aground aud was blown up by
order OF Renshaw. who perished In the
explosion. The Ownsco and Clifton then
sailed away, and tho Massachusetts men
surreadered. CRoRoB l.. KIIAKR
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-01-10

ACCORDING TO the usual morning re-
port from headquarters, the police last
night arrested Ia prisoners, secured two
stores, suppressed -four disturbances and
gave accommodation to "a lodgers. 1t
Is to be hoped that none of those wicked
burgiars took advantage of all this vigi :
lance to crack safe somewhere where a
policeman was not.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-01-10
ASSEMBLY AND GAMBLING LAW !!
MANY Members ere Glad to Put Thems elves on Record
Before the Public
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The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-01-10
ECHOES OF The PRESS.
NEW ENGLAND.
Fire Insurance.

BOSTON Nomtncrciai builotin
All things come round to those who will but
wait aud at last fortune has smiled on the Gre
insurance business, Managers disconsolate
from series OF unfavorable years may now
take heart again. The losses for the year will
be IN the neighborhood OF ls7 mil
ions against i5S D'illioas the precediag
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-01-10

THE Young Mems Democratic Club
held their annual banquet last evening
and gave an informal reception to the
candidates for postmaster, after which
Colonel FRANKLIN PIERCE OWEN told
them why it happened, from Scituate
point OF view.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-01-10

GOVERNOR GREENHALGE is in favor of
municipal suffrage for women, which
indicates an extraordinary breadth Of
view even for Governor of Massa-
ohusStts.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-01-10
Full Associated Press Dispatches
THURSDAY. JANUARY 10. 1895.

In New York city the snow that is
backed into the gutter is subsequently
Thrown over the street by the street
s'cleaning" department to be trodden
down and gradually dissipated. That
y one method of cleaning streets.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-01-10

LET the policeman go to sleep in some
cosy doorway. Let him fool away
time with Mary Ann. Let him drop in
at some convenient and hospitable re-
sort and get tipple. II is better that
his movements be thus diversified than
that burglars should be able to know
exactly where he is at every hour of the
night.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-01-10

LADY HENRY SOMERSET is reported
10 have remarked the other evening that.
s'We EnglandD promise not to send over
any more paupers if America will
promise not to send us any more mil
lionaires like WILLIAM WALDORF
AsToR." Lady HENRY SOMERSET can
evidently be very absurd without trying
very hard.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-01-10

THE inroad into the Solid South is
demonstrated with peculiar force, in
Florida, where the Democratic vote
was 10, 900 less in 1892 than in 1888 and
10. 600 less In 1894 than in 1S92-the vote
being reduced from 10000 to 10000 in
the six years, or cut in two.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-01-10

The Mayors new secretary is to be
congratulated and so is the Mayor. The
appointment is calculated to make His
Honor solid with the press, and the
press is not bad lot to make yourself
solid with.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-01-10

The post Of duty for the policeman at
/. certain hours is at certain police patrol
call. And the expert cracksman can
figure on that as confidently as he can
the policeman's regular call on the pret-
tiest girl available on the beat.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-01-10

Now it is South Dakota's treasurer
who is discovered to be defaulter. He
got away with s35U,0OO and this is
enough to seriously embarass aState like
South Dakota.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-01-10
Editorial Sclf-Abnegation.
Orange Enterprise.
STORIES OF HEROISM.


NO. ?.
Magruder's s,e On ,sSs Ssw ,,o YsaI,' ss.s
Recapturc OF ing Confederate
Galveston. Magruder, effected
the rocapture of the city Of Galveston
from the Upion fQroae For two mouths
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-01-10

The detective department states that
II has discovered dead loads OF clues 10
he jcwelry robbers. This irnpels us to
{. tote again the observation Of the
young man who knew that the maiden
Of his heart was true rs steel because
she told him 30 herself
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-01-10

SHOULD Secretary CARLISLE resign
there will be plenty of Democratic
statesmen lying around loose, after
March A, to select his successor from.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-01-10

THE policeman stood by the "duty
CALL" Whence all but him had fed.
The burglar man, he cracked safe, AS
that policeman later read.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-01-10

THE Providence police have first
class reputation, but they seem to be in
danger of getting it stretched.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-01-10

WHATS the matter with licking the
chap that manufactured the stickless
postage stamps?
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-01-10

The Government will shortly want
another SOC, 900, ,0o0-but where viii it
net il?
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-01-10

PERHAPS we might form a vigilance
committee.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-01-10

The Japanese armies find marching
3n snow as easy as rolling of a log.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-01-10

BILL SPRINGER still thinks the cur
rency bill is alive. Don't mind him.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-12-05
ENGLAND REFUSES.

What appears to be an authentic report
announces that Lord Salisbury refuses to
accede to President Cleveland's demand
that the dispute over the boundary be-
tween British Guiana and Venezuela be
submitted to arbitration. The text of his
communication will not arrive till Friday
and hence it is impossible to say whether
the English Premier has given dignified
reason for his refusal or offered a reasona-
bic substitute for President Cleveland S
proposition. This proposition was set
forth in the Presidents message to Con-
gress the other day. In measure it COM
mits this Government to the Monroe doc
trine. At least it declares that no Euro
pean power shall forcibly acquire territory
on this continent, and that claims to addi-
tional territory must be submitted to the
arbitration OF some great nation.
If it is true that Lord Salisbury has sent
merely a fiat refusal Congress has no
choice but to sustain the action of the
President. There need be no alarm that
this will plunge the United States into a
war with England. That country is
famous for "bluffing," but there is not
sufficient at stake in the Venezuela prin-
ciple TO warrant it in inviting armed hos
tilities from this country, backed by every
other nation on the continent.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-12-05
WOMEN RBPORMERS.

In what direction and to what extent
the women of the City who have organ
lied to correct evils intend to push their
efforts no public disclosure has been made
1t is important to know that women are
coming to appreciate their responsibility
and power. Along certain lines of action
in which their services might be made OF
great value they viii encounter no respect
able opposition and rouse none but an evil
antagonism.
1t might be of the greatest Importance
to them to ascertain if their organizat ton
is truly representative Of the loftier aims
of the sex in its various departments of
life, for while the education of women
would be an admirable ambition it cannot
be accomplished in the absence of their
sympathy. The woman or the man who
is dragooned into the support of anything
is an enemy in camp.
The reforms which are always safe to
undertake and needful to accomplish are
those which bear directly on the material
things OF life. The science OF good living
embodies the whole proposition and lies
at the root OF every worthy abstraction.
Those who know how to live wisely may
ne depended on to act intelligently in mat
tiers OF morals, politics or religion, even
though they may have diverse conceptions
of those distractions.
The concrete things in San Francisco
whose evil is susceptible OF reformation by
women are so numerous that the danger in
assailing them lies in their confusing num-
Der and variety. There will be an almost
irresistible temptation to cover too much
ground, and so fail to accomplish any,
thing. Concentration of effort upon one
thing at time offers the only hope of sue
cess.
The one thing selected for reformation
should be that which is most prominently
before the public, rather than something
else which may be a greater evil, but which
happens not to be receiving great popular
attention. This proposition does not pre-
clude the fact that reform movement may
control and direct popular attention by
uncovering and pursuing evils which 9TH
erwise might not receive this needed wide
attention. But this fact of wide popular
notice must exist, as without it the con-
solidated moral pressure of the community
cannot be made available, and it is the
most powerful of all agencies for the cor
rection of wrongs.
The press is the one overshadowing and
controlling agency Tor the working of re-
forms through dissemination of news
concerning evil. Whatever other agencies
may be at work, they must all depend for
their higher efficiency on the press for
wider publication of their views, labors
and discoveries. In all reformations where
publication is essential (and that is almost
invariably the case), the daily newspapers
must be regarded as necessary instrument.
If they are of the right kind they will
gladly assist, but their Judgment on the
score OF expediency must not be questioned.
So far as THE CALL is concerned it will
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-12-05
,ladly assist worthy and intelligent efforts

gladly assist worthy and intelligent efforts
for the common good.
No more inviting field for missionary
work can be found than the external
aspect of the City. This does not mean
to say that the morals of the people do not
need improving, nor that many private
and public wrongs do not need righting.
The beauty of working both for material
and moral improvement is that they do
not conflict and that they may be carried
on simultaneously.
If body of intelligent and public
spirited women had made it their task to
see that the private street work done under
the supervision of the Street Superintend-
ent had been honestly done, the scandals
which the Grand Jury is now disclosing
would have been impossible. The work
would have been honestly done, the City
would have been greatly benefited, prop
erty-owners would not nave been swim
died and political corruption would have
been checked. This is merely an Illus
tration of the far-reaching material and
political results which would have flown
from SO simple a matter as watching one
class OF public Improvements. We need
good improvements and boulevards and
many other things in which the power of
women might be employed to conspicuous
advantage
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-12-05
HOW BOSSES THRIVE.

Intelligent citizens should not for mo-
ment lose sight of the fact that every one
OF the scandals which the Grand Jury is
unearthing in municipal affairs is the
direct product of boss rule. This is true
of the shameful work in the Street Depart
ment, and if the alleged misconduct of the
majority in the Board of Supervisors is
proved it will be traceable to the same
source. In the latter case we observe a COM
bination by Democratic and Repub lican
members, constituting the "solio eight
and voting consistently together against
the minority of four on every proposition
which would present an opportunity for
securing plumber, if that is the aim of the
majority Although these members were
nominated by regular party organizations,
it was at a time when the parties were
VIGOROUSLY under boss rule.
Good men may be and often are nomi-
mated and elected under these circum-
stances. They are needed to lend respect
ability to the ticket and deceive the
respectable voters of the parties into the
belief that all the candidates are worthy
But invariably the bosses make sure that
a sufficient number of their INSCRIPTIONS
tools are elected to constitute a board Of
plunGerers.
Another feature of boss rule is that
bosses o. opposing parties work secretly
together for the common purpose of plum
dering. Fit should happen that munic-
ipal board should be elected which is COM
posed of members of opposing parties
about equally divided a combination is
effected.
1t is an infalIible proposition that where
such combination is seen in a governing
board the com bining mem bers are the tools
OF bosses and are organized for plumber. No
other conclusion is possible. The pride
which honest men have in the party which
elected them will prevent their forming
permanent combinations with officers
elected by an opposing party, and above
everything else will keep them from q
course in combination that must newt
ably create belief that they are dishonest.
The thing which most gladdens the heart
of boss is independent" and citizens F"
and reform" parties. Tammany had been
crushed forever in New York but for the
division of responsibility and q scattering
of its energies by such means. In fact,
these distracting side issues are sometimes
started by the bosses themselves, and with
a high-sounding title are made to serve as
trap for eminently respectable but emf
nently foolish citizens. The Civic Fedora
ton of San Francisco may take whatever
consolation it can find from all these con-
siderations.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-12-05

OF court and offered his services to help arrest
every man who cheered. "Silencep' roared the
Judge: This is contempt, and I'll fine every
man II it is repeated"
ment for the people and the case went 10 tns
jury. They. were out about an hour and
agreed that 1t was impossible to agree upon
verdict. They stood seven for conviction and
three for acquittal. The case will come up
again later. The cost of defendants counsel,
S4O, was made up in ten minutes by the as
Sembled hunters.
With the full knowledge that the seven men
who stood for conviction are honorable, just
men, and would have found verdict accord
Ing to the preponderance of evidence and moth
ing else, and with all due respect to them, we
VIII venture the opinion that they were en-
tirely wrong and will try to prove it to them.
MT. Cathey is a hunter who has been very
unfortunate in the last two years in many re-
spects. He has had sickness to contend with,
had his tent robbed and most OF his worldly
possessions stolen, and got into this scraPe. VI
course these facts would cut no figure IN the
intricate workings of our laws if he was guilty
OF the charge, but every one knowing him and
being acquainted with his business knows full
makes me pig gun ana anin ne
larks, squirrels and what ducks and geese he
can with a small gun, and that he makes a
specially OF trapping turtles. He does not own
an OK nor does he use one. He has an old
mule and cart which he uses to haul
his, game to town for shipment He
had an OK and used big gun short time
his No. s for sale to numerous likely buyers
We are personally acquainted with him and
are willing to stand before the God OF heaven
ana take oath that the accused is not guilty Of
the charge, and there are dozens of men ac-
quainted with him who would do the same
thlng II 1t were possible to get the oppor-
tunity.
We will not discuss the justice of the law,
but admitting that it is a law, and that all laws
should be obeyed, we should like to ask why
Mr.. Cathey was arrested instead of some of
the influential hunters who are more amply
blessed with worldly goods and who would adj
init using big guns to shoot ducks. Two men
told Mr.. Mcfarland on day of the trial that
they were using big guns and that if he would
come to their camp they would show him how
to make q shot on ducks. Mr.. Cathey was un-
justly arrested, and the District Attorney did
not show the best of perception in trying to
convict him. He did what he thought his duty
for he thought defendant was lying when he
gave his testimony, and there is where his
judgment fooled him.
Now if the officers feelings are ruffled let
them consider the matter thoughtfully, make
dlligent inquiries as to the methods pursued
by Mr.. Cathey in the pursuit of game, and see
if they don't admit their mistake. We could
give the names of men who would stand trial
cheerfully, and whom a jury could not fail to
convict. If convicted the law would be tested,
and the matter settled one way or the other.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-12-05
CATHEY NOT CONVICTED.
Los Ranos lcal.l Enterprise.

Los Banos (Cal) Enterprise.
The trial OF j. NJ Cathey for having in his
possession No. shotgun came up before
Judge Cothran Saturday forenoon. twas to
have begun at 10 A. NJ. sharp, but the Judge
did not arrive till an hour later, at which time
court was called.
The jury as it was accepted was composed of
C. o. Freeman, W. J. stockton, g. d. Soper r.
w. Wood, w j. Jameson, E. II. Hoffman, f. M.
Wilcox, C. W. Wood, w. W. Wood and c. X.
Stafford. All intelligent and passably good
looking.
Game Commissioner Mcfarland was the first
witness on the stand He testified that he had
driven ND to the tent of defendant and caught
him in the act of concealing a large gun, ana
that he had stepped around his tent and took
the gun, which was used as evidence in the
trial. f. E. Pedlar testified materially to the
same thing as Mcfarland. Their testimony
was very damaging from one point of view,
but didn't amount to much after all, If the
jury construed the law to mean that gun
found in mans tent in game field was
prima facie evidence Of his guilt. The de-
fendant did not deny having the gun, but did
deny using IL to shoot ducks or anything else.
There was not much evidence given further
than that, for the case virtually depended on
the lury's Interpretation OF the law governing
the use of big guns.
During the trial the room was crowded with
hunters, all of course friends and sympathizers
with Mr.. Catney. After the testimony was all
IN Attorney Hayes in his argument in rustic
eloquence said: "If those officers had entered
my tent and taken any OF my property without
search warrant would have arrested them
and taken them to Jail as robbers, and the law
would have upheld me in doing it, The sem
tlments OF the hoary -headed orator touched
responsive chord in every hunters heart and
the applause was deafening. The dignity of
the court was outraged to such an extent that
Prosecuting Attorney Ostrander moved that
the Judge tine every one of them for contempt
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-12-05
JAPANESE COMPETITION.
Los Angeles Times.

San Francisco importer is quoted as saying
that he can pay 60 per cent duties on certain
kinds of goods imported from Japan and then
undersen Americans in their own market.
Competition of this kind is only possible when
labor is robbed of its just compensation. One
of the great problems OF the near future will
be that OF protecting ourselves against the in
dustrial ruin which competition with the
unde RED and underpaid hordes of the Orient
threatens to bring upon us. Tariff protection
of the kind that protects will cease to be
question of expediency, and viii become
matter OF absolute necessity.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-12-05
UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS.
Oakland Enonirer

THE CALL states that the addition to the list
of members of the California Academy of Sci
enees OF several Berkeley and Stanford profess
sors has had wholesome effect. We are glad
to know it, and trust that the wholesome effect
Will broaden sufficiently to become an entire
rev departure. Here Is well-endowed insti-
tuition, with fine opportunity for promoting
original scientific research, and what has it
been doing? Has 1t really accomplished re-
suit in the last five years which the ordinary
citizen of California can call to mind? We
fear not. Then let the university professors go
in, stir things up and make for the California
Academy of Sciences q reputation on par
with its opportunities.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-12-05

THE TACOMA EXPOSE.
Whatcom fWasb.) ReveilIe.

" HdtVUIIi " HsIl htNtIIt.
The fullest, clearest and best account OF
Tacoma methods which has come under our
notice is that published in the San Francisco
CALL, made by lady reporter sent specially
for the purpose. Threats OF personal injury to
CALL representatives for making known the
details of crime in the famous Round Valley
region win have no weight with such o man
as Mr.. Shortridge, or such paper as THE CALL
If there be pace in this country which needs
the calcium light of newspaper publication
thrown squarely upon it, in the interest of
decent government and the good name of Cali
fornia, it is the locality of Round Valley.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-12-05
KEEPING THE MACHINE OUT
Ukiah Herald

The San Francisco CALL, one of the best
papers published on the coast, has consented
to help the printers OF that City by allowing
the boys to still use their "ruie and stuck for
at least year and a half to come. This move
on the part of THE CALL is commendable, and
we trust when the time rolls around some
means will have been arranged to still keep
the s'machine" out