Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-02-20
PERSONAL POINTS.

Mrs Mvra Clark Gaines has lost by
death her only child, daughter.
Bayard Taylor's executor is selling lands
belonging to the Cedarcroft estate.
Among the passengers on the lost steamer
Rorussia was one family of nine persons
named Holden.
There is no happiness which will compare
with that which comes to man whose
bills are all honestly paid.
There are two classes who cannot bear
prosperity-one of them being those who
can't get chance to bear it.
James L. Moody, once Judge in St. Louis,
and for years leading lawyer, has drank
himself into the charity hospital.
Edward Atkinson, of Boston, will have
charge of the cotton manufacture depart
ment in the compilation of the next census.
P. S. Gilmore calls his alleged "anthem "
an offering to the nation, and an exchange
suggests that he make it burnt offering.
1t is bad habit to sand the sugar before
YOU go to family prayers. Wait until the
service is over and perhaps then you won't
do it.
Don't be suspicious of everybody. The
man who is everlastingly looking for evil
can find the greatest quantity of it in his
own life.
Oliver Ames gave one-thousand-
dollar railroad bond to each of the en-
ployes in the Boston Office of the Union
Pacific Railroad Company on Christmas.
II mans word is not az good as his
bend the best thing is to get on without
either. Ii this can't be done, look well to
the bond, and treat the word as if it had
never been spoken.
The little girl was quite right who said
she had been converted. and knew 1t be-
cause she felt all the time like giving the
best things she had to her sister. A little
more of that kind of conversion would do
older people no harm.
Not the least delightful thing in the
genial artist, Millais, is his manly tender
ness to children. Essentially child-lov-
ing man, he is not only the friend and COM
panion of his own children, but the lover
and comrade of all others, whom he cap
tivates by his kindness.
There are great many people IN the
world who are bound by the close ties OF
blood to the man who said that he had laid
I'D two shillings, one for himself and one
for the Lord, but that the one he had in
tended for the Lord had been lost in an
unfortunate speculation.
Mrs. Ella Duprez recently appeared in
Kansas City in the disguize of male de-
tective. When her sex had been revealed
by some accident, she confessed that
for several years she had been tracking
a man who had killed her brother, j. w.
Laforce, near Houston, Texas, in April,
1874.
Seymour G. Stone had one of the best
equipped shoddy mills in the vicinity of
Bennington, Vt, and he knew it and was
proud of it. One Saturday afternoon it
caught fire and was burned to the ground.
The owners heart was broken. While the
mill was in flames he fell to the ground
and died before medical aid could be rem
dered.
The First Baptist Church of Chicago,
over which Rev. DR.. Lorimer is settled,
expressed their respect and admiration for
their pastor by unanimously voting to raise
his salary from S., 600 to Sc, 900. DR.. Lor-
inner thanked his people for this unex-
pected vote of confidence, but declined to
accept the gift.