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Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1880-09-13
Music Books at cost, at Sheib's
Belmont County Fair

to be held at ST. Cl~airsville, O., on Sen.
TENDER 18th, 10th and 18th, 1850. On
above dates a special train will run az
follows: Leave Wheeling, city time, h,
7:25 A.. N ; fare, round trip to St. Clairs.
vile, Sl.00. Leave Benwood at 40
NJ; fare, round trip to st. Clairsville, 81
cents. Leave Bellalre, Columbustime. a.,
$40 A. NJ; fare, round trip to II. Clan,
vile. so cents. Arriving at It. Clair
vile at 0 A. NJ, Quincy at $3.50 P. ".
!. ii. PATTERSON.
President St. Clairsville Railrosi
W. l.. REPPERT.
Passenger Agent Il. & q. T. Z
MUSICAL instruments at cost, a.
Sheib's.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1880-09-13
Harrison County Fair.

The annual display Of TIE Harrison
County Fair Association, at Clarks.
burg, September 18th, 10Th and 10th,
promises 10 exceed in general attract
~iveness any previous effort OF the farm.
ers Of thar section, and there is every
reason TO anticipate a largely increased
attendance. kramer's full band has
been engaged To furnish the music for
the occasion, and the Il. X q. Il. Il. Co.
will issue half fare tickets from all points.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1880-09-13

THERE was great complaint, last night,
over the fact that the lights on the west
side OF the Second warl market We're not
lighted. Ladies who usually take their
way to church through the building,
were afraid to try i; and consequently
the COMPLAINT.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1880-09-13

school Snits in endless yari-
ety .t Ochm a. Cos isne Price
clothing House, '3S1 MARKER
NJ, adjoining opera Mouse.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1880-09-13
GEO. R. TAYLoR--pRY GOODS.

Musical Goods at cost, at Sheib's.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1880-09-13

AccoRDkoNs at cost, at Sheib's.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1880-09-13
IF you DESIRE TO BUY ANY

Musical instruments at cost, a.
Sb,;his
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-01-28

EGYPTIAN MASONRY.

1t is stated that in removing the Egypt
ian obelisk at Alexandria, for shipment to
New York, number of articles have been
found buried under it, which demonstrate
the existence of Freemasonry in ancient
Egypt. a Mason of erudition is said to
have examined these objects, and to havs
satisfied himself that the connection is
clear. The New York World, which has
been taking special interest in the mat
ter, cautions its readers against too ready
acceptance of this story, and probably the
caution is not unreasonable. For while we
think it capable of demonstration that
many of the forms of Freemasonry
are derived from Egyptian legends
or ceremonials or scientific instru-
ments, it by no means follows that
anything resembling Freemasonry as
now known existed among the ancient
Egyptians. There are few religions or
beliefs of any kind which have not some
traces of oldworld mythology or ritual
about them, but it would be very rash to
argue from the presence of such traces that
these religions were known to the ancients.
That somewhat has been filtered down from
the mysteries Of Isis and Osiris into mod
srn Freemasonry, is tolerably certain, but
we do not believe that the obelisk or any
other repository of relics can prove that
Masonry, as now understood, had an ex-
istence in Egypt four thousand years ago.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-01-28
GOVERNMENT RAILRoADING IN GERMANY.

Bismarck is about to enter upon the ex-
pertinent of placing all the railroads of
Germany under Government ownership
and control. 1t is an undertaking which
will no doubt be productive of valuable ex-
perience for the rest of the world, butsthe
grounds for believing that it must ulti-
mately prove failure are so strong that
verylittle doubt on the question can be
entertained. A similar tendency toward
state ownership has been developed in Bel
GUM, and NJ. de Laveleye, the distin-
guished Belgian economist, has been study
ing the arguments for and against the
movement with characteristic thorough
ness and impartiality. In recent paper
on this subject he sets down the advan-
tages and disadvantages OF the system
in regular order. He thinks that
the Government will profit from the in
crease of traffic that shippers viii derive
benefits from lower and more uniform
tariff from continuity OF transportation !;
from economy of time, through the avoid.
ance of transhipments and through the
equalization of rates earned by the cover.
ing of the losses ON ill-paying lines by the
profits on the lucrative roads. On the
other side are to be set the disadvantages,
which are as follows: "Q.) Employees
twill be more numerous under the State
ethan under the company system. Po-
% litical considerations superadded to
90 those influencing corporations will give
place-hunters an advantage. o. The
claw of self-interest and responsibility is
" always less active in the service of
"the State. 81 The eMgencies of
electoral interests have an in
"a huence on the construction of lines,
"their route, and on the tariff; and this is
"simply detestable. g. If there is any
thing Objectionable in the management
{" the Government is held responsible. If
there is delay or accident, the cry will
abe Down with the Ministry (5.) The
patronage of the Government viii be
" enormously increased under the state
system, and the party in power will
naturally use this power as means of
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-01-28
FEES.

Mr.. Satterwhite calls our attention to
the fact that his fee bill requires all fees to
be paid into the county treasury. This is
doubtless an improvement upon the old
system, but the question whether the fee
system is desirable one is not settled by
it. A principal cause of complaint in any
system of the kind is the incessant and
vexatious imposts placed upon the transac-
ton of business requiring to be done
through public functionaries. 1t is form
of taxation open to grave economical OBJ
jections, and it is likely to prove seriously
embarrassing to the poor at critical june
lures. We are satisfied that the multiple
cation of fees is against public policy,
whether the fees are pocketed by officials,
or are covered into the public treasury.
Those modes of collecting revenue are al
ways to be preferred which entail the least
inconvenience and annoyance upon the tax
payer, and the fee system cannot be re-
garded as one of these methods.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-01-28
CURRENT ITEMS.

The royal baron of beef which, with
the boar's head and game and woodcock
pies, decorated her Majesty's sideboard at
Osborne on Christmas Day, was cut from
fine shorthorn OK, bred and fed upon the
Prince Consort's model farm at Frogmore.
The baron weighed upwards of 800 pounds,
was roasted before the great kitchen fire
at Windsor Castle, and when cold was sent
two days after to the Isle of Wight.
In selecting articles for a scrap book it
sometimes occurs that one wishes to save
the matter that is ON both sides of the
clipping. This may be done by splitting
the paper. Place the paper under piece
OF glass, so that it will be smooth, after
which it is thoroughly soaked with water,
when, with little care, the upper surface
OF the paper can be entirely removed. The
process is as much matter of curiosity as
utility.
In poem read by Robert Grant at the
reunion of the alumni of the Boston Latin
School, the other day, was the following:
I'll give you toast, and you'll drink it, know,
Both you whose thin tresses are white as the snow
And you whose young hearts it is fair TO assume
Like our stocks aud our statesmen, are all on the
BOOM
IT'S our great public schools-may their influence
spread
Until statesmen use grammar and ounces are dead,
Until no one dare say, i'll this land OF the free,
"He done" for he did" or Its her for " it's
She
In London, on the Surrey side, many of
the 'horse cars are drawn by mules, and
these mules come all the way from Ken
lucky. There is curious old law still
extant in London which forbids the use of
mules or donkeys for purposes of traction,
but nobody paysany attention to it. What
we call in this country the "bob- tail" car,
which does away with the conductor, and
requires that the passengers put their fare
in box, has been taken to London, and
seems to be as popular there as it is I'M
popular here.
In the Corporation Galleries, Glasgow,
is exhibited the Prince of Wales Indian
presents. 1t comprises abont 2,QG0 differ
ent articles, and is considered to be the
richest series of high-cass Indian work
manship ever brought together. The value
OF the articles 1t is impossible to estimate,
but the gold and silver and precious stones
with which they are ornamented must be
worth hundreds of thousands of pounds
and it may be mentioned that there is a
shield the value of which is variously esti-
mated at from ESQ, 900 to ESQ, 900. 1t is
covered over with diamonds, some of them
of great size.
How spiders live under water is thus ex-
planned: The creature goes to the surface
OF the water and moves all its legs busily,
Just as if it were trying to crawl out of the
water. Suddenly it gives a sharp jerk or
kick, and dives beneath the surface. 1t
then looks exactly as if it were surrounded
by case of polished silver, owing to a
bubble of air which it hasfnclosei beneath
its long hind legs. Besides this there are
a number of smaller bubbles which cling to
the other legs, and which can be added to
the principal bubble when needed. The
supply of air is sufficient to last TIE spider
for a considerable time.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-01-28
MISCELLANEOUS.

The Consul. General at Melbourne writes
to the State Department December LIST that
several companies have been formed to de-
velope the production of petroleum, found in
large quantities and of good quality in vari-
Gus parts of the Colony.
The trade of the United States with Aus
tralia is only four per cent. of the total trade
of the latter with all other countries. With
Great Britain it is over $4,000, 600. With
the United States it is less than So 900, 00c.
A st. Petersburg dispatch says: The re-
ports of an attack on the Russians at Tchi-
kislar arose through raid having been made
on Russian convoy on the 9TH instant be-
tween Tchikislar and Chatte, resulting in the
capture by the Tekke Turcomans of a part
of the transports.
An Italian Government steamer has left
Alden for Assab Bay. Abyssinia, with ar
tifcers and laborers. The Italian Consul in
vites traders to settle there.
A telephone test was made Sunday be-
tween Omaha and st. Louis, distance of
40 miles, and was completely successful.
Conversation was carried on plainly. The
"Sweet By-and by " was sung in St Louis in
clear baritone voice, and every note was
distinctly heard in Omaha The song was
then repeated at Omaha for the benefit of st.
Louis
The Rather mine, southern extension of
the Homestalie, at Deadwood, D. r., was
sold Saturday to Californian for $50, 900.
The Governor Of Rhode Island, in his an
nual message. recommends that women be
given the right to vote ON school questions,
and that prohibition take the place of the
present liquor law.
The Republican State Committee of New
York will meet Saturday.
The Governor of New York has refused to
commute the death sentence of Orlando
Greenfield, the Oswego wife murderer, and
he will be hanged on Friday next.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-01-28
Sized AND STABLE DOOR.

In the light of recent events the action
of the Legislature in repeating the Rogers
Act serves to furnish remarkably apt
Illustration of the adage about locking the
stable door after the steed has been stolen.
For the San Francisco Supervisors, paying
no attention whatever to the repeal of the
bill, have coolly gone to work and passed
a resolution accepting the award of the
Commissioners who acted under the bill,
and providing for the issue of bonds to pay
for the purchase of Lake MERGED. And as
the Supervisors appear to have the law on
their side, since the award upon which
they have acted was made while the bill
was in full force, and since the repeal of
the bill cannot affect any contract entered
into under its provisions, it is in order to in
quire why SO much anxiety was manifested
to get this bill repealed? When the
repeating Act came before the Legislature
the Commissioners had met and made their
award, and the repeal could not undo what
they had done, supposing their action to
be otherwise legal. No doubt the case
will be taken into Court in any event, but
it is not clear that it has been helped at all
by the repeal of the Rogers Act. Indeed
this whole matter seems to be involved in
that peculiar kind Of mystery which sug-
gests the idea of having been manufactured
expressly. 1t has never been at all def
nitely demonstrated in what interest the
repeal of the Rogers Act was sought, and
now it appears doubtful whether it could
have been in the interest of anybody, see
ing that it came too late to change the
situation. The Courts may repeal the
award of the Commissioners, but, unless
they do, it looks now as though San Fran
cisco would be the owner of Lake MERGED,
,lOleus ,.ols41e
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-01-28

The governmental control SYSTEM mas
often been proposed in this country, but =
is evident that every one of the objections
to that plan discerned by NJ. de Laveleye
would operate with greater force under
democratic government than they could
possibly under monarchy or an abso-
lutism. The measure which Bismarck is
about to force through the German Parlia-
ment may not produce its worst effects
while his strong hand is on the helm of
State, but when he is gone and weaker
ministers succeed him, and faction becomes
powerful, the governmental railroad owner
ship will become powerful factor IL
politics. and as it does so its usefulness to
the public will diminish. There is in
every such scheme the possibility
of, enormous corruption and waste,
and the temptations to use such agency for
political purposes are certain to be so
strong that it can only be a question of
time for this prostitution to take place.
In the United States government railroad
system would, under existing conditions,
be at once and Immediately utilized
as part and parcel of the spoils of
party warfare. 1t is probable that in
a very few years the profits which
corporations have derived from transporta-
ton would disappear, being absorbed in ex-
travagance, waste, inetficiency, and pecu-
lation. Rival politicians would promise
reductions of rates without any regard to
the cost of operation and repair, and pres
emily deficiencies would begin to appear in
the annual returns, and taxation would have
to make them good. Thus the people
would be made to pay through the nose
for the luxury of Government transporta-
ton, and they would discover, when it was
too late, that they had only succeeded in
increasing enormously the army of Office
seekers, and in intensifying all the worst
evils of faction by enlarging the spoils of
office, and attracting greater numbers of
ambitious men from legitimate avocations
to the devious and demoralizing ways of
professional politics. Ten years hence it
will be in order to inquire how Bismarck's
experiment has succeeded. By that time
it will probably be realized that Govern
ment ownership of transportation is not
what It's advocates have hitherto imagined
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-01-28

land, Beloit Wis; Joseph Milvern, Davis
vile, Cal; q. ii. Lester, Binghamton, NY;
Mrs. Wilmington, Miss Platt, Isaac Nj. Mer-
rill, Sol. Goldsmith, Jeremiah Lynch, San
Francisco; Mrs. L. G. Hagar and child.
Oakland Richard Reiff, Yokohama.
Five through emigrants left on last nights
emigrant train, to arrive in Sacramento
February Sd.
Charles Francis Adams on the Reagan
Bill.
WASHINGTON, January 9th. = Charles
Francis Adams, Jr., addressed the Commerce
Committee on the Reagan bill to-day. He
advocated the extension of the Massachusetts,
plan of an Advisory Railroad Commission, to
which all complaints should be referred.
This had worked admirably in Massachusetts,,
and an extension of the system over the
country at large, he thought, would be ben
efcial. He believed in the main provisions
of the Reagan bill, but thought a Commission
better,
An Important Suit-suEcidc OF Preacher.
GAINESVILLE, January 27th.-Three suits
were filed in Court to-day against the owners
of a New Orleans packet, on which the suit
ors were bound for Cincinnati, and which
burned on the passage, Gripping all of them
for life, and doing them other damage. The
suit is for $50 900 damages, and is considered
very important.
Charles Ponder, aged so, preacher of the
M. Il. Church, hanged himself o-day, four
miles west of New Albany. Cause, insanity.
His Usual style.
CHICAGO, January 27th-Denis Kearney
spoke tonight to goodsized audience in
Mccormick Hall, in his usual style.
The Alleged Masonic Discoveries In
Egypt.
New YORK, January 2Sth-A. M.-The
World publishes card from Garringe, re-
ceived by cable from Alexandria, as follows
L do not consider myself to be competent in
point of Masonic knowledge to confirm the
views and statements of DIR. Fanton in regard
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-01-28


Indian Jim came to town Thursday,
bringing portions of a huge bear He
brought the paws and gall to sell to the
Chinese, and sold a ham to one of orr cit
liens. The ham weighed nearly forty
pounds, so that its original possessor must
have weighed nearly 500 pounds, although
from Jim's description Of the animal we
should believe it weighed twice as much.
He would have brought it all to Truckee.
but had no means of transportation. 1t
was killed on the other side Of Lake Tahoe.
near the headwaters of the American river.
Jim says that in capturing it he had a
pretty close cali. He discovered the bear
in brush thicket near dark, and came
close upon him before he know of his pres.
ence. He fired at him, but, it being near
dark, made bad shot and hit him back of
the heart. only wounding him. Mr.. Bruin
then made rush for Mr.. Injun, who took
to his heels, and found retreat up small
pine tree. The tree being so small around
the bear could not climb it, he immedi-
ately proceeded to gnaw and tear it down.
While in this precarious situation the In
dian made another shot with telling effect,
by shooting him through the head, his as
sallant falling instantly. Jim does not
seem to be cowed by his close call, but says
ne Is ready for another bear hunt
lIruckee Republican, January oath.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-01-28

"carrying measures and maintaining its
.ascendancy." On candid comparison
NJ. de Laveleye considers that the disad-
vantages by far preponderate, and this is
unouess ;onably the opinion which has been
reached by az who have examined this
question carefully.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-01-28
TRANSFERS OF REAL ESTATE.
Recorded January 9th.

Dennis Dalton TO James and p. Ryan, January
o7th-Two tracts in She'd N Gr.nt, one containing
100 acres and the other 90 acres IS, 900.
L. j. Russell to e. W. Harvey, January Dist
Four-acre lot in northwest quarter Of section Y,
township north, range q east $3.50.
Rachel Uhl TO Helena Plag, January Goth South
half Of lot s, and J, Twentieth and Twenty first
streets; $3.50.
J. X. Chandler and J. L. CLARK to c. F. johnson,
May q, lS77-Ilalf acre in Florn east and adjOin-
ing the depot $50.
c. F. johnson to Fred. Sugdon, October g, 1879
half acre, town OF Florin, east and adjoining the
depot 1000
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-01-28

The citizens of Orleans Bar, on Klamath
rver,, have held public meeting and
passed resolutions in favor of banishing
from the community all persons who fur
nish liquor to Indians.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-01-28
TELECRAPHIC.

LAST NIGHTS DISPATCHES TO THE RECORD.
UNION
NATIONAL CAPITAL MATTERS.
The Internal Revenue CoIlectorship CUES
ton,
PRESENT ASPECT OF AFFAIRS IN MAINE.
Decision Of the Supreme Court Regarding
the Fusionist Questions.
PASSENGERS COMING WEST IN RAIL,
Prospects in Regard to the Grant Presi-
Dental Boom.
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS OF FOREIGN NEWS.
Alleged English League with Persia and
Beloochistan.
Efr Etc. ....,.............Et Etc.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-01-28
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
METROPOLITAN THEATER,

Lessee and Manager. sAM'L CoLvILLE
" L 6oy It sent me forth, takes back a man -
MR.. SAML CoLvlLLE, one of Sacramento's earliest
citizens after an absence of % years. returns the
proprietor md manager Of the most complete and
arstst organization in the world for the representa-
ton of Light Musical and Mirthful Entertainment
and known as the '
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-01-28

The grounds of objections stated by the
tempt to make it appear that the Repuoli-
cans sought to coerce them was absurd.
They exhibited an equal ignorance of par
liamentary methods, of their duty to the
people, and of the proper limitations of
partisan opposition. There was no parti-
san question at issue, and there could not
be one. The Republicans, recognizing
their predominant responsibility, and re-
solved not to be accused of any effort to
evade the new Constitution, had deter
mined to put an end to the dilatory and
futile habits which had grown up, and to
do the work before them energetically.
That was the whole proposition, and
it was this practical and public-spir-
tied and honorable determination to give
the new Constitution fair play, that
was SO obstinately opposed by the very men
who pretend to be its special champions
and supporters. OF course it was certain
from the first that the obstructionists
could not carry their point, and this fact
aggravated the wantonness and perversity
of their action, for as they had nothing to
hope from resistance, it was clear that they
had no object but the obstruction of bust
ness. Their folly will be seen by inquiring
what course they would have followed if
they had been in the majority. Accord
ing to their own statements they would
have insisted upon adhering to the ordi-
nary practice, and, as everyone can per-
ceive, this would have resulted in the de-
feat of the revenue bill, and probably
would have rendered an extra session
necessary. We should therefore have had
the spectacle of the new Constitu-
ton members arraying themselves in
opposition to the new Constitution, and if
the Republicans, being in the minority,
had taken the position they have now done,
it is obvious that the obstructionists would
have been forced to follow their lead in or
der to save themselves from political wreck.
A more tatuous policy than these members
have pursued, indeed, could not be con-
ceived. They have shown themselves an
mated by blind and narrow craftsmanship
precisely when their own partisan interests
should have dictated course of liberal
accord with their colleagues, and in doing
this they have rendered the sincerity of
their devotion to the new Constitution La
bic to sharp suspicion.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-01-28

Fishing by torchlight is common
pastlme for some in Lower Lake, Lake
county.