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THE BRUSH DAMS ON THE YUBA
AND BEAR RIVERS

The specifications for the brush dams
upon the Yuba and Bear are at hand.
The upper dam upon the Yuba is nine and
one. quarter miles above Marysville. The
distance across the river bed is about 4, 800
feet. The dam is to be erected eight feet
high above the general plane of the bed, :
and from four to twelve feet above the bed,
according to its elevation. At each end
the dam is to slope upwards until it reaches
an elevation of SIX feet above the level top
of the center Ga the north side the end
will be set in a bench cut into the rocky
point, and both ends will be covered and
protected by masses of rock. The dam
will consist Of downstream apron and
the dam proper. The apron is placed in
an excavation of from four to ten feet in
depth, and consists first of horizontal lay
ers of trees from four to eight inches in di-
ameter and twenty-fiv to thirty feet in
length, With the brush still on the trunks,
placed with the butts down the stream.
The layers are separated by poles and the
spaces filled solidly with small brush and
with gravel, to the extent OF thirty p .r cent.
of the bulk of the structure. The poles
and layers of trees are to be taste ed firm
ly together with iron spikes or wooden pins.
The surface is slightly below the level of
! the channel. Resting upon its upper edge
are trees with the butts down stream, but
each layer retreating up stream and separ-
ated and fastened as described. Resting
partly upon the upper edge of this, and
! partly upon the level of the sand Is the
dam proper 1t consists first of layers of
trees from fourteen to eighteen feet in
length, with the butts down stream, in
clining at an angle of forty.fiv degrees to
| the upstream bed and built UP to the full
hight of eight feet, the exposed butts form
ing the lower face of the dam and sloping
down at an angle of forty-fve degrees
| Upon the rear face Of this lie tress from
| 80 to So feet in length, whose exposed butts
! form the top of the dam, and whose brushy
| tops are sunken in an excavation form
ing the heel of the dam. Finally,
upon this is placed either mass of gravel
or of stone fragments. The work is to be
done in sections of not less than 100 or more
than 200 feet, the excavation in half of
each section at least to be complete before
any brush is laid. The trees are to be cut
below the dam, but at every 500 feet belt
must be left across the stream as far as II
goes Fascines or bundles OF brush bound
together with wire may be used where suf
ficient trees cannot be found within 2,0Ot
feet of the dams. Bids will be received
for excavation, brush and timber ballast
ing, gravel backing, stone backing, stone
weighing and protecting, and earthwort
embankment The second dam upon the
Yuba is two miles below the first, ant
about 5000 feet in length. The work il
about the same as on the first. The dan
ON Bear river starts from point some 2O(
feet above the end of the level at John
sons crossing. 1t will be about 600 fee
in length The Specifications of the seconC
Yuba dam apply to it completely. :
lTWheatland News, August 7th.
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HE1sous ATTEMPT TO COMMIT RAPE.

A most atroeious and misunderstanding
attempt was yesterday afternoon made by a
so-called man, in the lower part of the city, to
commit rape upon little girl between seven
and eight years of age. He was at work
cutting wood under the elevated walk near
where the child lived, and..calling her to him,
took her underneath the walk in secluded
place and endeavored to accomplish his iend-
ish purpose. The little girl was heard in her
expression of fright and he then let her go.
He was observed just then by young man
employed at an adjoining establishment. who
at once told his employer and was about to
run and tell the little girls father, but the
the father would at once commit murder by
killing the criminal. The proprietor there
upon sent his clerk with the utmost speed to
Chief Karcher to have the man arrested at
once. before the fact became known, and the
Chief detailed officer Ferral for that purpose,
who Immediately afterward found the man
at the place where he attempted to commit
the act and not knowing that he had
been detected in it. He was hastily
conveyed to the police office and
locked up, after which the officer returned
and informed the father of the facts. The
father, who is strong and resolute man, be-
came almost wild upon learning in relation to
it, and after little time remarked that he
was glad the man was arrested and out of
reach before he knew of it, for he would not
have allowed anything to prevent his in
stantly killing him. The little girl is an
only daughter, and greatly idolized by her
parents. The miserable villain who tried to
commit the unmentionable crime is Matt
McCabe He is stout-built man, of about
As or so years of age, of grayish whiskers
and hair. He did not effect the crime at
tempted, and the little one escaped unin-
jured, but the expressions of those who heard
of the occurrence last evening was that no
punishment was of sufficient severity to meet
he ofsnca
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ANN N BRrAp.-Ostensiblv. baking

ALUM IN BREAD Ostensibly, baking
powders, for the most part, have for a
basis cream OF tartar and carbonate of
soda but cream OF tartar itself is notori-
ously subject to adulteration, insomuch
that it is kept by wholesale dealers in dis.
tinctive grades, the lowest being grocers'
commonly adulterated with an earth
which contains alum-tbe kind retailed to
mix with an equally impure carbonate of
soda as extemporized baking powder for
home made bread. To discover whether
bread is adulterated with alum, soak a
portion in water, and add to the water In
which the bread has been soaked solution
OF chloride of lime, little at time, care
fully stirring if alum is present the mix
ture viii be pervaded with milkiness,
otherwise the liquid will remain limpid.
To detect alum in -four is more difficult.
The only safe course for housekeepers is to
use flour and baking powders of known
brands; to eschew all extemporaneous
baking powders especially ; and use such
only as are known to be chemically pure
and free from all injurious substances.
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Poison IN FRUIT JARs.-Four persons
were poisoned recently in Brooklyn from
eating canned cherries. Fortunately they
all recovered by prompt treatment. Prot
Geo. W. Plympton made an analysis of the
fruit left, and found the poison to be salt
of zinc formed by the action OF the acid in
the cherries on the zinc cover of the jar.
The preserving had been done with scru.
pulous care, and the jars were of kind in
common use and the contents OF several
had been eaten without any unpleasant
effects. On examining some which had
not been before opened, one having zine
top with porcelain lining was selected,
and in it there was no indication OF zinc.
But on pouring a portion of the syrup OF
this Jar into the zinc cover of the first,
and warming it over water bath for
three quarters OF an hour. the solution
promptly yielded to the test for zinc. The
case is not without parallel, and the public
should learn that the use of zinc or galvan'
lied iron in the preparation or preservation
OF canned fruits or vegetables is not fret
] from danger.
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TRANSFERS OF REAL ESTATE.
Filed August 18th.

J Popert ct al to A. T. Driver-August 4, 1880:
east 20 feet Of lot T. and west 10 feet Of lot g. be-
tween NJ and n, Nineteenth and Twentieth streets !;
$40.
J. II. Butler to NJ. Denicke-August 10, 1880
942 and $4,000 upon the MokelUmne river, for
$4,000.
Belle Scudder, to Philip Phillips-August @, 1850;
south quarter OF north half of lot 3, between ard
NJ, Second and Third streets, Sacramento; 81 ,l40.
Philip Phillips to Agnes Hummel-August 10.
1880 south quarter of north half OF lot g. between
and N, Second and Third streets, Sacramento
sl,14o
j. P. Counts ct al, executors OF Belle Scudder, to
E. F. Leeper-August 3, 1880; north half of south
half OF the north half of lot 8, between l. and N,
Second and Third streets. Sacramento Sl,505
& Z. F. Leeper to Henry Hansche-August IL, 1850
north hall of south half of north half of lot 5, be-
tween L and NJ, Second and Third streets, Sacra.
mento; 81 sos.
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MINING NOTES.


The Prescott Miner says that the great
future wealth of Arizona is in her coal
fields.
Prospecting is brisk in the Okanagan
district, B. c.
Over 2, 200 miners are now at work on
the Comstock.
The annual meeting of the Alta Mining
Company is called for August 10Th.
Mining operations in Aurora, New, are
quite lively at present, and the place has
an infant boom.
The Bodie Miners Union has over 81, 900
in it's treasury, and is otherwise in flour.
ishing condition.
An assessment of &c per share has been
levied on the Pittsburg Gold mine in Ne.
vada county, delinquent September 18th.
The indebtedness of the Crown Point on
the lst of August was over S2l, 900. An
assessment of $4,000 is now in process of
collection.
The Homer Inder says some of the
miners there have grown tired of waiting
for mill, and have gone to pounding up
their rock in hand mortars. The results
seem satisfactory.
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Sacramento Market.

FRUn-Our Sacramento quotations are from
the price-!ists OF W. r Strong & Co., and are
revised up to P N. yesterday. They rep
resent trade prices, and have in view selected
fruits suitable for shipment: Apples, 9Oeq$l %
pears ordinary varieties 75cdSl rs Bartlett, S2@
. 25; pruneS, 7oo90c . box peaches, 81 25a1 SO q
box figs, 6al0c q 10; plums, in variety, 75e@sl q
box; oranges very scarce, quota5le at $40 q n
so; Ausuast', s5(a5 80 2 box; lines, Mexican,
Ss@s so q box; lines, repacked, SO; bananas.
S3@s4 80 y bunch pineappleS, $40 g dozen; to.
matoes, 5oa75c box; watermeons Sld1 % o
dozen grapes. 81 40a1 60 o case; crabappes, 75c
asf IS :cantaloupes, 81 50d1 IS q doz. The first
Blue Malvoise grapes of the season came in to-day,
from the ranch of 81 oteiger, Vacaville.
FEED-Our quotations are from the price-lists Of
E A Burr of this city, and quotations are cor
rect.d to date Dat hay, SS@10 o ton, baled = al
faIfa, s7laS 2 ton, la ed ; bran, s11@i2 q ton
barley, 75aS0c y cwt.; ground barley, 90a95c %
cwt; wheat, 81 45a1 30 q cwt.; oats, 81 S5@2 q
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Card 20 Voters.

Republican, Democrat, Greenback, Work.
ingmen, or any other political Club, either in
Sacramento or vicinity, desiring Club uni.
forms, regalias, banners, etc., for campaign
purposes, will find it to their interest to apply
to us for estimates before ordering elsewhere.
WEINsTocK & LUBTN,
Projectors Mechanics Store
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PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.

There are twenty-one inmates of the
Sonoma county poor-house.
A new township called Gridley has been
established in Butte
The Napa Insane Asylum has been
greatly improved in appearance.
| It is thought that the hop crop of Mem
docino is worth over $50, 900 this year.
The Casper mill, Mendocino county, EN-.
ploys 100 men in the woods at present
Two mineral springs were discovered in
San Diego, on the Sweetwater, last week.
Young geese and ducks abound in great
quantities along the margin of Honey
Lake.
Bees are doing finely at Geyserville, and
honey promises to be one of the leading
products.
There is a mineral spring some six miles
above Stayton, Or, on the Mehama road.
The waters are impregnated with sulphur
and iodine.
Says the jacksonville Pqjdronidn A
heavy fire has been raging near the sum-
NIT OF Iona Prieta for the past two days.
At night the scene is grand.
Twenty three head of cattle were lately
stolen from Contra Costa and driven
through the Coast Range south. The
thieves have been secured by the officials
of Stanislaus county and are now in Jail.
The apple-tree lice have destroyed the
apple crop between Fosters, in Clackamas
county, Or, and Pudding river. Farmers
who in former years have raised 1900
bushels will not have enough for their own
use.
A man named Murray fell dead Friday
night while betting at faro game in Oro-
VILE. He had been coughing for a moment
or two, but raised his head and made bet
of five checks, and while in the act of lay
ing down the checks suddenly dropped
dead
The Gold Hill Neirs says that man
and his wife of that section have toiled
early and late to save money. She saved
5000 of her earnings, he $780, and they
wrapped the double eagles in napkin and
put the napkin and twenties in pot and
the pot in hole in the cellar, and no one
knew of their wealth, they fondly be-
lieved, except themselves But last week
they found the money was gone, and no
clue to the thief has been discovered.
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NJ. MISSIONER is reported to be engaged
upon two Immense pictures of Paris, one OF
which will represent the city during the
war time Of 1871, while the other will have
the more peaceful aspect of 1878. They
are said to be ordered by an American gen.
.ieman POSSIBLY MIR Vanderbilt), and for
them 500, coo viii be paid.
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Eastern and Foreign Markets.

NEW YORK, August 18th.
TRANSFORMATIONS and Wheat are quiet, latter
at 81 05dl 90.
woor.-California is steady at l6 a19c for fall
bury, and 20a2sc for clean fall spring bury esq
36e clean spring, $3.50 DC: pulled, 4oa5oc.
HrDEs- California are quiet at 22ttd23c.
GRocERIEs--Rio Coffee il active and firmer.
Refined Sugars are fairly active and firm.
TuRPESrlSE-ls firm a. 374@38e
PErRoLEUa-Is quiet and steady.
QuIcKsILvER-Is in speculative demand, and sales
are 400 TASKS at 42d4+c
MUSTARD SEED-Is quiet. Sales of 200 bags Cali,
f1rnia yellow at &c.
LIVERPOOL August 18th.
WHEAT Good to choice California, 9s Cd 10
los 3D. Spot lots are dull floating cargoes are
heavy; buy ers Of cargoes passage for shipment
are holding off, hoping to obtain concessions
weather brilliant
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Holman Hunt is at work on his large
picture, ''The Flight into Egypt" which
has already occupied his brush for four
years. A London paper says that there is
a wonderful donkey in the original which
has pedigree that can be traced back for
a couple OF centuries. The model for the
Virgin Mary was lovely Jewish maiden.
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CAUGHT IN THE Act. = About l o'clock
this morning local officer May observed a
man carrying box along street, and inter
viewed him in regard to it. His answers be-
ing unsatisfactory. the officer placed him un-
der arrest and conveyed him to the station
house. It was subsequently ascertained that
the box contained tomatoes, which had been
taken from in front of the store of Nj. 7.
Brewer & Co., to which place it was returned
by the officer.
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THE COURTS.
SUPERIOR COURT.

THURSDAY, August IL, 1880.
Judgments were yesterday rendered in cases here
tofore submitted as follows:
F. E. @. wslpole VS.. Vim. Strobel-Judgment for
plaintiff for $50
Mary Walpole vs. Vim. Strobe-Decison in favor
OF plaintiff for SIG, without costs.
VIM. O'Leary vs.. VIM. Strobel-Judgment in favor
of defendant.
Oliver Scudder We. ]. P. Counts ct al, Executors
estate of Belle Scudder and others Judgment in
favor OF plaintiff granting title to property de-
scribed in the decree also for costs,
Manuel Francisco, Massilino native Of the Acre
Islands, upon the testimony Of NJ. J. King and Man
uel Nevis, was admitted to citizenship
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The best hat ever exhibited for 81 so to 81
by the cappeTs, is sold for 81 at the Red
House.
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HUNDREDS visited the Red House yester-
day to avail themselves of the splendid bar.
Gains offered
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STATEMENT OF COUNTY TREASURER

D. E. Callahan, County Treasurer, makes
the following statement of receipts and dis
bursements during the month of July, 1880 !:
Balance hand July 1, 1880. s97, SAC IS
RECEIPTS
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The most essential thing for good living is
to drink good coffee, and the only man that
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THE WAY of the transgressor is hard, but
there are lots of things just as hard; for in
stance, it is hard for Pnilistine to get slS %
for suit of clothes which the Red House
sells for Sc; it is hard for man to become
live merchant when nature intended he should
saw wood and shovel hay. But the Red
House is the hardest thing the above men
toned people ever struck-to compare prices
with
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OUR MORO has always been to advertise
only what we have in stock. and at prices we
intend to sell at; that is why our ADVERTISE
ments can be relied on. and when you see
40 yards calico remnants for 70 cents ct the
Red House, you can depend on procuring the
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A FLooD of boots and shoes are being sold
daily at the Red House. See our advertise
ment for prices We challenge competition.
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PLuMs We will give. special bargains in
! plums for the next six days TO those designing
putting them up. Longton & Anthony, Fifth
| aud X streets.
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HuRRAH for Cole and his elephants,
Likewise his sisters and his cousins and his
aiints.
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HUNDREDS testify of the benefits received
from Rock and Rye. G. w. Chesley, ageuvs.
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WIDE AWAKE, eyes open and do not be
fooled by the cappers but go to the house
that gives square deal. Gents bose, all
grades, at the Red House.
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New CoMB HONEY, in 2-pound frames.
direct from Los Angeles, at 10 cents, at the
Cbean Corner Rochester Store. Pure noun :
ts;n cider vinegar, only % cents gallon !;
No I kerosene oil, % cents gallon; sugar
cured pig hams. only one bit pound eggs,
&225 cents.
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STAR MILLS AND MALT HOUSE
NEUB0ugG & Lagos,

AYoS. SO, 50 AND 81 FIFTH ST., SACRAMENTO
IN dealers in Produce and Brewers Supplies
Manufacturers of Malt and all kinds Of Meals etc.
Oatmeal, Cornmeal, Cracked Wheat, Graham Flour
Buckwheat Flour, etc. New Grain Bags Tor sale
Hl7.lpU
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MONEY TO LOAN.

1r1HE SACRAMENTO BANK HAS MONEY NJ
loan. in sums of ten thousand dollar, s snJ
rndar at lowest current rates, upon improved re's
estate. ,,,4,-.,sed IN the SACRA
,yEE * N RAM will receive prompt ttentiop,
HA tulS-2plm
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Bk1Er NOTES.

The force of men recently employed in
driving piles for foundation of the machinery
for the rolling mills, having completed their
work here, have gone TO Emigrant Gap to
assist in the rebuilding of snow-sheds.
A young man named John Mcdonald, en-
ployed at the works of VIM. Gattenburg,
met with the misfortune yesterday of catch
ing finger in lathe he was running, and
losing the end as far back as the first Joint.
The First Ward Hancock and English Club
hold a meeting at Father Mathew Hall, K
street, between Fifth and Sixth, this even
ing. Prominent speakers will address the
club.
The number of delegates and attendants of
the State Convention who left the city yes
terday was so great that extra cars were re-
CURED for all outgoing trains during the day.
DR.. Haas will repeat his Soiree Drama
tique at the Pioneer Hall, Saturday evening,
August 14th, at o'clock. The proceeds to
be given to charitable purposes.
Martin Strake publishes a card, in which
he says his saloon was not referred to in the
local item of yesterday morning, and which
is fact.
The first section of about thirty feet of
concrete foundation for the new Capitol
fence was laid yesterday.
The county warrants for pay for the month
of July will be ready at the Auditors Office
on Saturday.
The river last evening marked II feet l
inch.
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TWENTY DOLLAR PIECES FOR TEN DOLLARS,
is only fair comparison to the bargains.
We offer you to-day 40 yards calico remnants,
for Is cents; white skirts, tucked or en-
broidered, So cents 10 yards embroidery for
10 cents lawns, s cents per yard figured
r;oues. cents per yard white piques, -
cents per yard, Remember, these bargains
are not only on paper, but on our counters,
ubere all may see them-at the bargain
house, the Red House.
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MERCHANDISE REPoRT.-The following
freight for Sacramento passed Ogden on the
10th: For Huntington, Hopkins & Co., box
pulley blocks. 2 boxes hardware. l box ham.
mers; Lindley 4 Co, 30 cases cheese, 70 bar
rels hams; Miss Kate Roundtree, piano
! iboxedl, and A. Flohr, case shells.
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CITUATED ON THE CORNER OF FRONT
- and X streets, Sacramento city, directly op-
posite the steamboat landing, and the railroad
depot. The best location in the city for hotel
and business property. Will be cold low, with favor
able terms as to payments, or leased for terra Of
years at low reneal. inquire OF CADwALADER b
PARSONS No. 81 street, Sacramento /; or s. r.
, DEWEY. 2os Pine street. Sar Francisco. jy22-3ptf
Daily Republican., 1880-01-01
the Queen OF All.

Honor the dear old moihr-. Time
has scattered the snow faAss on hel
brow, ploughed deep burrows on hei
cheeks, but she is not sweet and beau
tiful now 7 The lips are thin and
sbrunken, but those are the lip:
which kissed many hot tear from the
childish cheeks, and they are the sweet
est in tn world. The eyeis dim, yel
it glows with the soft radiance of holy
love, which can never fade. All, yes,
she is dear old mother. The sands
OF life are nearly run out; but feeble as
she is, she will 60 further and reach
down lover for you than any one upon
earth. You cannot walk int midn;gh
where she cannot see you; you canno
enter q prison whose bars will keel
her out; you can never mount scat
fold too high for her to reach, that she
may kiss and bless you in evidences O
her deathless love. When the world
shall despise aud forsake you; when II
leaves Won by the wayside to die un'
noticed, thu dear old mother will
gather you in her feeble arms, and
carry you home and tell you of all youl
virtues until You almost forget that
your soul is disfgured by vices. Love
her tenderly and cheer her declining
y. airs with your devotion.