Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-08-04

| field said that there had been mistake made
| In announcing that he was to make speech,
but he could not look upon a great audience
| in Ashtabula county, recognizing so many old
| faces and old friends. without at least sa ying
good-by before he left. "If I had time to
stay here long enough" he continued, "the
influence and presence of this audience and
the monument in the square would force a
| speech from me. Ideas are the only things
| in this universe that are immortal. Some
people think the soldiers are chiefly renowned
fer courage. That is one of the cheapest and
commonest qualities. We share it with
the brutes. The difference between
the n and US is this = they never
hold reunions to celebrate their yicto-
ries; they never build monuments over their
slain comrades. Why? Because they have
no ideas behind their warfare. Our race has
/ ideas, and because ideas are immortal, if they
be true, We build monuments to them. The
dead al past our help and past our praise.
We can give to them no glory, we can give
to them no Immortality. They do not need
US, but forever and forevermore we need
them. The glory that trailed in the clouds
behind them after their sun had set falls with
a benediction on us who are living, and it is
to commemorate the Immortality of the ideas
/ for which they fought that you assemble to-
day to dedicate your monument, that points
up toward God, who leads them in the glory
of the great world beyond" After express
ing the qualification and joy it afforded him
to meet his neighbors and constituents, and
sharing with them the memories and inspira-
ton the celebration caused General Garfield
concluded by introducing General Ben. Har
| risop.
The Hudson River Tunnel-Slow Work.
| New YORK, August 3d.-The work at the
| Hudson river tunnel moves forward with
aegravating slowness. The water is beyond
the control OF the two pumps now employed.
1 This morning it had flooded the newly-made
excavation up to the base of the rotary
pumps, which are intended to carry it away,
and it was impossible for the men to work.
1t is now proposed to put up third pump.
| The two now at work have combined ca
pacity of LOGO gallons per minute.
Railroad Accident.
| WORCESTER Mass.), August 3d.-A car
loaded with snaphtha in an eastward-bound
freight train jumped the track at Rockdale,
on the Boston and Amboy Railroad, tonight,
and fourteen cars loaded with merchandise,
three of which with the naphtha, were burned,
the naphtha taking fire when the accident oc-
Cured. The road was blockaded for two
hours, and a new track around the debris had
to be built to open the road. The loss will
be about $4,000
| Killed by an officer.
MONTAGUE (Texas), August 3d.-W. w.
Taylor, Deputy Sheriff, to-day attempted
to arrest Martin l.. Minnot, notorious des-
perado of this county. Minnot thrust pis-
tol in Taylor's face and fired, missing him.
Taylor shot three times killing Minnot in
stantly.
A Fri:htfuI Jump.
| PHILADELPHIA, August 3d.-During the
| progress of fire in a mattress factory on
North Twenty second street this evening
Elizabeth Oglesby and Emma Barnes leaped
| from the third story window to the ground,
the former sustaining injuries which will
probably prove fatal Miss Barnes escaped
with cut on her head and a few bruises.
General jail Delivery.
HAMPSTEAD Tex, August 3d.-A party of
sixteen broke into the County Jail tonight
and released all the prisoners. A negro pris-
oner proceeded to the house of the Sheriff,
informed him of the escapade, and returned
| to his quarters in the Jail.
Fire at st. Louis.
| ST. LOUIS, August 3d.-The extensive
works of the st. Louis Sewer Pipe Company,
owned by Isaac l.. Downes, situated on
Austin street, between Sixteenth street ana
Tryon Avenue, was partially burned tonight.
Loss, $50, 900 to $4,000.
A Railroad Runner.
CHICAGO, August 3d.-The Inter Oceans
Washington special says that Jay Gould is
contemplating severe blow at the Northern
Pacific by building branch of the U nion
Pacific to Puget Sound. taking Cheyenne as
the starting point While he proposes to
reach Puget Sound ahead of his rivals, he
expects to make paying stopping place at
the National Park, on the Yellowstone.
Fraudulent " Medicine Men,"
PHILADELPHIA, August 3i.-Rev Thomas
B. Miller has been held in bonds of 81 900 to
answer for his share in the alleged fraudulent
practices in the Philadelphia University of
Medicine and Surgery. The Court refused
FL. Hehnroth, of Buchanan's Medical Col
lege.
Northumberland Passengers.
OMAHA, August 3d. = The following
through passengers were on o-day's train,
leaving at 12:15 p ", to arrive in Sacramento
August 7th: Adolph A. Son, j. C. Meus.
dorffer, S. Greenbaum, San Francisco; Ruth
Totten. New. Sharon, Ia; Mrs. r. J..
Beamer, Woodland Carrie D. Perkins. Col
Z. Symington. Naponee, Canada; John Scho-
field, Illinois B. f. Mexican, Terre Haute,
Ind.
Thirty-one through emigrants left on last
nights emigrant train, to arrive in Sacra-
mento August 10th.
Silver and Stocks.
New YORK, August 3d.-Silver bars, 1l44
money easy, 2t@3; Governments quiet
stocks closed hrmer Western Union,
1074; Quicksilver, 10; Pacific Mail, 41s
Mariposa, }; Wells-Fargo, 1863; New YORK
Central, 1881; Erie. 49l; Panama, 1907
Union Pacific, IS; bonds, 1923; Central
Pacific 764 bonds, IL, Sutro, 1s-
The AIabama Election.
y Y a 81 nv =
| Montgomery (Ala.) special says: The result
has been that while the Republicans polled a
larger vote at the election than at any cleo
ton for years, they We're deliberately counted
out by men occupying responsible positions
in the world, who think it no otfense to steal
the vote of negro or Republican.