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An exchange says that in an Oregon
breach of promise case the woman swore
that the accused had hugged her every
night for six months and Sunday night
until 8 o'clock in the morning. The indus
trious and untiring webfooter was fined 81
and costs
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SENSIBLE CANADIAx.-Mr Gadbois, Of
Brockville, Canada, after being cured of a
prostrating malarial disease contracted in
Texas, by means of Warmers Safe Pills and
Safe Bttsrs, writes to us {: IS / shall never
travel in that climate without your Safe Pills
and Safe Bitters as part of my outfit.
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In the center of Malheur river, near the
Stone House, Baker county, Oregon, is an
island twenty or thirty feet in diameter,
out Of which hot water gushes. The island
is covered with grass, and the phenomenon
is an interesting one.
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the two. When you have ne that you have taxed
all that there s in existence. trust that the good
sense of tn Senate tina. he justice of this meas.
ure, that the duty owe 10 those great masses OF
this Senate to adopt the amendment which | hsye
prdsposel
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WANTED, LOST AND FOUND.

Advertisements of five lines this department are
Inserted for 5 cents for time; three times foE 50
cents or rs cent? per week
q FASHIONABLE DRESsMAKER, LATELY
~ from the East would 90 out by the day or
take work home Inquire at 923 Tenth street be-
tween and J, first house from j. mr2 Iw+
WTANTED-AT HoUsToNS EMPLOYMENT
w Office, Fourth street. door south of K.
ALL KINDS OF HELP, Male and Female.
Particular attention paid to supplying families
and hotels with help. FREE OF CHARGE. fl3-lm
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FOR SALE.

SToCK, TOOLS AND FIXTURES OF A "a
- S Ove and Tin shop, situated in one of I'd
the b st mining towns in the State. Doing SEsX
good business An old stard. Established IL
Tor he last sixteen years. Also, Fireproof BRICK
STORE. viii be sold or rented. All will be sold
Cheap for Cash. Apply to c. B. BROWN, Placer
Yilla Cal. f1S-1n1n-
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TAXING eAVIEGS BANKS.

Speech of Senator Sears IN the Senate
of California on Wednesday Evening
Earch 3. 1880 on the Subject Of Tx
Taxation OF Deposits in Saving:
Banks
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II, III, PIERSaS.

nENTIsT, AIS STREET, BETWEEN GEO
~ Fourth and Fifth, Sacramento. Arti Eg+YfYa
fetal Teeth inserted on Gold Vucante aud all bases
Nitrous Oxide or Laughing Gas administered for the
painless extraction Of Teeth. dI4-Im
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NOTICE..
TO COUNTRY MERCHANTS and RETAILERS

TO COUNTRY MEKCHANIS ana RETAILERS,
ON RECEIPT OF SIS WILL SEND TO ANY
address sample of my specialties, con-
sisfinr of bottles DR.. RENZ'S Herb Bitters, 8
bottles Blackberry Brandy, bottles Rock and Rye,
and 8 bottles fine old Bourbon Whisky (the last
named trademark Bonanza") all justly caleorsted
Goods and recommended for medicinal and family
use. J. REM Wholesale Liquor Dealer, No. 2l9
Commercial street. three doors below Front. San
Francisco. ja30-lp3m
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CENTS % 70 cents Der Week.
ENOR SALE-A NEAT PARTITION OF TWO
E' inch Pine and Redwood, eight feet high and
sixteen feet long; round corner. Win be sold
cheap. Inquire at the DENTAL DEPOT. Masonic
Temple, southwest corner Sixth and SITS. mr3-St*
TNoR SALE OR TO LET HOUSE ON
street, between Fourteenth and Fifteenth,
containing 10 rooms, with large lot Inquire at 1l22
II street. mr2-iwa
TNOR SALE-AT A BARGAIN, TWO VALUABLE
E Patents. Three Thousand Dollars can be
realized from them each year this coast alone.
Address "Patentee" RECORD UNION office. f17-tf
LNUBNISHED ROOMS TO LET - PLEASANT,
IL quiet home-like rooms, neatly furnished. To
Rent by the Day. Week Month, at prices that
cannot fail to give satisfaction. Northwest corner
Third and J. Entrances on J street. and on Third,
between and streets. MRS. TEN EYCK. ial0.tf
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WATCHES, CLOCKS, JEWELRY
j. HYAIAN, .IR..

wv ATCHlIAKER AND JEwELER, NO.
w 1856 street, between Fifth and Sixth gTTA
Just received a very fine lot of Watches and E1A
Jewelry, which will be sold at a very low st,. -
price. Watches and Jewelry ca. .efully repaired
Iia7-1n1ml
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= COOL 60 I'D .
w a r M e & e T
ARE The BEST INDICATIONS OF GOOD HEALTH !
Whereas the reverse OF this IS
a sure sign that some part OF, the
human machinery is out Of order.
needing immediate attention and
repair.
Re The BEST INDICATIONS OF GOOD HEALTH
Whereas the reverse OF this is

present the feet sound pair SHOES or
Without this there constant risk
of results often ending only death itself
Elm of namely GOOD SOUND
SENSIBLE OF SHOES stock and note
prices
We claim that our advantages over all others
munity great.
The cardinal principles upon rooted and
applies fcy other Depart
ments
Here elsewhere quantities. and STRICTLY FOR CASH
Therefore position public
largest closest which
ual alsmanp percentage 0 profit has been added.
system having everybody and under
who judge shoe leather
with the wist merchant the
mostf favored purchaser.
Remember of
the andh
therefore, object simply posted without
hesitate and w1lga you information desired
these speeltes idea Of
.' & ;.'' '',' .'' :: . '' s
ENEANT@' SHOES
q neat slipper black brown blue d.red
81 per pair
Newport
desirable shoe handsome and dresy-fts welE
French Kid Buoned sizes o to 5 81 Is per pair
"a fine shoeno better fit madel
CHsLDREF'S SHOES!
Solar Tipped Shoes laced 81 p" pair
AN article that n its grade AL
B. Calf School Shoe, laced per pair
Oil Pebble Goat buttOned ....Si o' per par
"a durable SHOE sesutable for fine wea
MISSES SHOES.
CThs give
honable edressh
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r n HEAD OF THOROUGHBRED s-ns.----xs
~ Durham BULLS from one to S@Sss2sssz&&A
two years old. and 10 Head of either N
COWS or HElFERS. VIII be sold st--s<asz-=>sA-
priyste sSie at WICK'S RANCH, Butte county.
ja5o-2m Address NJ. WICK, Oroville, Cal
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DENTISTRY.
w. W0GD,
L. Il. BREWER,

H ENLIST, SOUTHWEST CORNER OF ea
H Seventh and streets, in Bryte's new cfirfY5
building, up stairs. Teeth extracted without pain
By the use of Improved Liquid Nitrous OXIDE Gas.
ldl6-lnlnnl
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RANCH FOR SALE,
AT 4 BARGAIN.

FEyHEWELI-KNOwN SALISBURY RANCH, f7esE
containing about 800 Acres, beng OF esSTSs
the best Grain Land ever offered for sale -s4a==
in this county Produces from % to 35 bushels
Of Wheat ana 20 TO so bushels Of Barley the Acre
Soil Of sandy loan formation, and from to 10 feet
deep. Failure Of crop has never occurred upon the
place Has
Good Dwelling aud 0ui-buIIdings.
Railroad Station, with Side Track, and Scales,
Plows, Harrows, Carpenter and Blacksmith Tools;
splendid Well Of Water, with Horsepower and Large
Tank.
Railroad Trains pass at Station four times each
day Place IS wen imbered. Sitra on line of sac
ramento Valley Rai,rold, Is miles from Sacramento,
at Salisbury Station.
AT The land rents for So per Acre
Cdeh. Sk1lc place mast be sol,s fmme-
dfatcIy. rs the proprietor Is going 20
leave the STATE. Tahe part cash.
Apply to SWEETSER & ALSIP, Real Estate and
Insurance Agents No. l0l5 Fourth street, between
and X, Sacramento. fls-tf
DURHAM CATTLE FOR SALE.
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TO LET CR FOR SALE.

Advertisements of five lines in this department
inserted for % cents for time three times for 80
cents rs cents per week.
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DURHAM CATTLE FOR SALE.

Apply to swEETSER & ALSIP, Real Estate and
Insurance Agents No. 1Ol5 Fourth street. between J
and K Sacramentn. fl9tf
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TnEnpaRE GLANCEY.

THEODORE Clancy.
YEyHE GENERAL AGENCY OF THE RECORD
UNION for San Francisco, both for Circulation
and advertisements, is in the Office OF Theodore
Glancey No. acS Montgomery street, Rooms
and IN iS-1Dt
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WILLIAM b. MILLER

MO. 100 STREET, NEAR SEVENTH, %
~ Matchmaker and Jeweler. Importer SSsN
aud Dealer in Watches, Siiverware, Jewelry, e. d
etc Repairing speciality, under Robert sSSs.s,E
Marsh. All country orders promptly attended to.
tr4fr
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Is there any equity in this position Mr. President
is it not wrong from the foundation upwards No
justify this position upon the basis Of
right. l have beard Mr.. President, from some OF
the Senators-one at least! think it my friend
here, Senator Hill, said that there lobby here
for these institutions. II there is, have failed TO
it. / can tell that gentleman, as tell others,
that there is lobby In the State OF u, ,250 poor
people uho ask him not to place this burden upon
their earnings because they have placed II IN the
savings bank where they believe 1t is secure. The
amendment which / have offered proposes that
when the Assessor comes around and the man gives
in his statement of what he has, he gives in his
stitement of everything except his deposit
in the savings bank, and the reason why
,his is exen pit is because the mortgages
on which all this money is loaned is taxed to the
bank, and then the surplus they have on hand in
money is taxed to the bank, ard that is all that
ought to be taxed II it is to be taxed but once If
you tax these depositors-these IL 25o-it will put
the Assessor to great df al of trouble He will not
r.aeh one-quarter OF them. But II you 60 TO the
b; nix and there ascertain the m rtgages that are
outstanding, and ascertain the amount OF money
they have in their yauts it is easy matter to tax
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]. u. KLINE.

Q.ate with wachhorst, and successor to Floberg,)
"YATCHMAKER AND JEWELER,
Nv No. 60 street, between Second and %S4>.
Third Dealer in Watches, Clocks Silver E-41~p
ware Jewelry, etc. Repairing in all its Ss.ssS
branches specially. under Mr.. FLoBERG.
lol0-lpiml
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-07-28

ST LOUIS july 27.-Joseph Staafs, young man
WHO was married only nineteen days was shot dead In
his ward Centraa H. Sunday night by
person think IL Of suicide while others believe
n haye "a a
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d RAILROAD OPENING DELAYED.

MANCHESTER, N. H., July 27.---Last April
George o. Ramsde of Nashua, appointed receiver
OF the Manchester and Keene Railroad Com
pany by the Supreme Court Of New Hampshire pending
the legal controversy between that corporation
and the Nashua and Lowell Railroad Company. He
authorized to expend to be furnished by the
original petitioners in equity, to put the road In
condition to be operated. The receiver having
discharged these duties, these petitioners now ask
that authority be granted him to contract with rc5pOn-
sible parties TO open and run the road, and
o hearing was had to-day before Chief JUS
tice Doe. The Nashua and Lowell Com
pany claims the right to operate the lower
end OF the road but the Court them until August
to determine whether they will operate the whole lire.
II not some other arrangement will he authorized by
which public will be accommodated until legal ques
tons now pending fully determined.
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DEATH IN A COAL NINE.

THREE MEN CHOKED BY BLACK DAMP IN PHILA-
DELPHIA AND READING MINE.
PoTTsvILLE, Penn. July Plat IL o'clock
last night Jonathan Wasley, superintendent, Francis
Wmau inside boss and John Reese. district superin-
tendent all Of the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and
Iron Company descended the Keey Run coliery to ex
anime the ventilation. Nothing further was heard Of
them until this morning. when II was discovered tDa
the gangways were all choked with black damp and
the men were cut of from the open air Rescupg parties
have work since dawn trying unsuccessfully TO
preak through the deadly damp. dozen miners thus
far have taken out by the foul air and
turned the physicians. No hope Is enter aimed
that the imprisoned men alive. They all have
families.
Intense excitement prevails about the mine. and hun
deds OF people have gathered there. All work in the
neighbOrhOOd has been suspended.
Ldter-The three persons who were eut on by the
black da mp were found at o'clock this afternoon, all
Ann
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FOREIGN NOTES.

LONDON Tuesday. July 27. 1880.
The World says: "The famous violinist. Ole Bull is
ILL., and has been obliged to cancel his Swedish engage
ment
Anew weekly Journal TO be called Saturday After-
noon Is apou to appear under edorshp of Mr. Far
jeOn, the novelist.
Mr.. william II. Vanderbilt has made Manager Gye a
tempting for performances by the C0vent Garden
Opera Company in New-York during the next Universal
Exhibition.
Berlin dispatch to The 81. Janiess Gazette says {:
Prince Bismarck will go Gasten after his visit to
Kissngen and not expected to Berlin again before
Christmas.
1t is rumored that the Hon. Ftzroy Kelley, Chief
of Exchequer. will shortly retire. and that Sir
Henry James. the present AttorneyGenera, will be
raised TO the bench.
AT the anniversary banquet OF the corporation of
Trinity House, Mr. Lowell. the American Minister re-
piled to the toast OF Our Distinguished Visitors"
which coupled with Mr. Lowell's name.
QUEBEC July 27-It is stated that Mr.. Attorney-Gen-
era Anglers will shortly leave for England to argue the
appeal the of the Queen against the Aaaya on
behalf or the Government OF Canada, before the PrVy
Council
A dispatch from Geneva to The Times saysi "The
Canton OF Schwyz roestabshed capital punishment
aud has enacted that executions shall be pubic. This
makes the fourth canton which has restored the pun
ishment OF death"
BERLIN, July 27.-Prnce Bismarck left Berlin yester-
day for Kissingen.
PHILRPoPoLIs, July 27.-The Municipality has passed
a resolution proposing to erect memorial 10 Madame
skobeleH ON the spot Where she was nu.leIeu ny
Ouzatis, who officer IN the Roumelian Militia
PANAMA. July ia law passed on June IA last re-
vokes law OF 1877 banshing certain bishops from
the Republic the charge OF being implicated In po
tcal intrRues The restored preates are the BshOps
OF Popayan Paste. Antioqula Medillin and Pampiona
FRANKFORT July 26.-The German American gym
nasts have arrived participate in the German
Gymnastic Festival beginning tomorrow. They were
enthusiastically greeted Replying to an address OF
welcome from ne Festival Committee. Gustav Rietzka,
n Ia
German Fatherland
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THE WORLD ABROAD.
,,,ypv Observation-Disclosures FATE.

TURKEY OBSTlNATE-LlMASF FATE.
our.x RrsIs1ING THE POwERs-A POLITICAL
p,ppIr IN PRANcE-NEws FROM SOUTH AMER
~. WHICH INDICATES THE DESTRUCTION OF
IIuA-MINoR NEWS.
The foreign news continues to be interest,"
,rc II is believed that Turkey has MADE
nor reply to the Powers, but the
character of the reply is not yet known.
The Sultau, however, is obstinate Ihe
,,ocni6eent naval demonstration to be
r,ode by the Powers in Turkish waters Is
riewed with distrust in Turkey. The COM
oond of the feet will probably be shared by
Enol;sh and French Admirals. The projected
ris;t of Gambetta and Grevy to Cherbourg is
likely to he postponed until the conduct OF
Admiral Ribourt on the National Fete day
,ap he investigated. He refused to show
h,ntinc on his feet on that day, although
bo foreign vessels at Cherbourg did display
,he;r flags. Full advices have been received
from Peru as to the threatening aspect
If affairs there on June 80. Lima was
to he bombarded and to be consigned to pillage
when captured. The inhabitants are fleeing to
Tarma for refuge. The Gillian transport Ma
,ouas has been blown up by torpedo In
Russia there is an exposure of the horrors OF
a public prison. The Irish Compensation bill
is 70 he fought bard in the House of Lords.
volcano has broken out at Guatemala.
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THE VIRGINIA KU-KLUX.

THE WORK OF SUPPRESSION PROCEEDING SLOWLY
THE MATTER TO BE BROUGHT BEFORE THE
GRAND JURY.
IBY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUNE.l
WASHINGTON, July 27.-A short time since Wash
ington dispatches to The TRIBUNE gave the history
of the organization and work of the Ku-Klux Klan
in Scott County. Virginia. 1t was then the opinion
of local judicial authorities that the organization
woud be vigorously dealt with and broken up by
tho courts. Their outrages mp to that time were
directed to whippings and threatenings, although
one or two people had been fired at and forced TO
leave the county. 1t seems that the work Of sup
preston is not easy asit was expected to be- The
Lee County (Vd.) Sentinel says:
The party who shot and killed "Tandy" Baker, in
Scott County, few days ago. statement or Whlch ap
pcsred in tis paper last week. also shot son OF Pluk
nev Carincr esq. who also in the KuKluN band,
th shot Ia king effect the mouth OF young Cartner
knocking out All Of his front teeth Eleven OF the ku-
kux rarty have been recognized, and the matter VIII be
brought before the Grand Jury OF Scott county Inc
man who committed the homicide cannot be found ne
either having fed the country or is hid In the ridges in
order to save his own life, vengeance having been
sworn against him on the part OF the ku-hlux.
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TIE IRISH COMPENSATION BILL.

SECOND READING IN THE HOUSE or LORDS An
NoUNCED FOR MONDAY NEXr-sIGNiFICANCE
OF THE VOTE IN THE COMMONS
LONDON, Tuesday. July 27, 1880.
I'm the House of Lords this evening, Earl Gran
vile, Foreign Secretary, introduced the Compensa-
ton for Disturbance in ireland bill, which passed
the House of Commons last night, and fixed the
second reading of the bill for Monday next. Earl
Dartrey LiberaD, on behalf of Earl Grey Liberal)
gave notice Of motion to reject the measure
Earl Grey has volunteered to lead the opposition to
the bill.
circular addressed to the Peers requesting their
attendance in the House of Lords Monday Au-
gust 2. to oppose the second reading of the Com
pensation for Disturbance in Ireland bill, is signed
by the following Wing Peers: Lord Aveland,
Carysfort, Dartrey, F1tz William Sligo, and Somer-
set.
The London correspondent Of The Edinburgh
Scotsman saws. 81 hear that forty Liberia Peers
have promised to vote for the Compensation bill"
In the division on the Compensation for Disturb
ance in Ireland BILL in the House of Commons last
night thrty-seveu Home Rulers voted with the
Government, and 206 Conservatives and twenty
Liberals voted in the minority. No Conservatives
voted with the Government
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THE COTTON WORM IN THE SOUTH

MOBILE, July 27.-Professor Riley, Chef
chronological Commissioner Of the United States ad-
dressed the Cotton Exchange to-day He said be naa
just visited North Carolina and Georgia. points on tne
railroads In this State aud the cotton centres in Misss
sppi, far where the cotton at present ex
He had other observations made all along the line
OF the Alabama Central and Vicksburg ana Me-
rIdian Railroads, and found the worms IN
most of the fields. the evidence being
that they have been there full month before ana
in instances the fourth generation was just hatcn
ing In sufficient numbers TO cause serious injury 10 COT
In the next fortnight Nine planters out OF ten rae
through their fields and come away with Tie dea tnat
there because the insects are as yet
quite small or just Matching. The moth when IL also
cal ed fly Is aDOut and eggs constantly being aid
Regarding the best and cheapest poison, he referred
10 London purple refuse material, obtained in the
manufacture OF aniine H also said that though
the worm is in fields II the planters poison and the
weather is good, there ma be a very good crop
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THE CABINET MEETING.

WASHINGTON. July 27.-Secretaries Evarts and
Sherman of the State and Treasury Departments,
were the only heads of departments present at the
Cabinet meeting to-day.
The Spanish outrage question was not discussed
during the meeting, but Secretary Evarts referred
to the fact that Admiral Wymans dispatches of last
Friday had been furnished to the public through
the medium of the press before they were handed
over to the State Department. and he took Commo-
dore Jeffers, representing the Navy Department,
mildly to task for this 4" leak in his department.
Secretary sherman during the meeting alluded to
the encouraging condition of the Nations finances
as shown by the excess Of receipts over ,expendi-
tures for the present month, and predicted q con-
tinuance of this healthy and favorable condition Of
affairs
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THE FIRE RECORD.
STORAGE LOFTS BIIRNED.
FIRE IN THE OLD PINE STREET CHURCH OF Bos-

FIRE IN THE OLD PINE STREET CHURCH Of bos-
TON.
BosToN, July PA fire was discovered
this afternoon in the picture store OF l.. G.. Moore
the ground floor OF the Old Pine Street Church,, at
Washington and Pinests. The fire spread rapidly ana
soon extended through the building, breaking through
the roof completely destroying it and burning out the
whole upper part of the building which Is owned by
william f. Weld. The loss the building Will prob
ably be S25,0oO
The structure is well known one Of the old land
marks of Boston, and built for the old Pine Street
Congregational Society about 1880 OF late years IL has
been used various purposes such as armOres ward
For the last ten years the wnoe uppr
part OF the building been used for storage purposes
The fire originated IRON stovepipe in Chinese aun
dry on the first floor. Among the occupants
OF the building. L. G. Moore, picture dealer, loses
SO 700, insured for $1,000; c. Heines sons furniture
dealers lose 81 900 insurance, $4,000. THIS hTrn
also rents the whole upper part OF the build build
ing and let's it out for the Aprage OF furnl
ture. There was large amount OF furniture
stored with them, including several valuable pianos
which will be total loss The building insured tor
ST. 500 in the Liverpool and London and Globe aud
Sprng for So $50 each and IN the Providence Wash
ington Mechanic Mutual of Boston, for S2ooo each
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DEEP SEA SOUNDINGS.
IBY TELEGRAIH TO THE TRIBUNE.

WAsHINGToN, July 27.-An interesting book
has just been printed at the Government
Printing Office, being description of the
methods and machinery used on the coast survey
steamer Blake III making deep sea soundIngs. work
in which she has been engaged for several years.
The volume is from the pen of Lieutenant Com
mander Sigsbee. under whose direction 2776 miles
Of sounding lines have been run in the Gulf Of
Mexico.
Captain Patterson. in his preface to the book,
saws that by reason of the improvements in the
methods of deep sea soundinQs. work of that char
acter is now accomplished almost as readily as or
binary littoral sOundings.
The work being one in which all maritime nations
are engaged to some extent, this book has been pre-
pared az n contribution to the sum of knowledge
npon the best methods employed. The book con-
tains many plates illustrating the manner of using
the mach nerY.