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Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-09-22
BRIEF MOTIFS.

A list of appointments is published Of
meetings in the Second Congressional Dis
tlict, to be addressed by Hon. II. T. Page,
Republican nominee for Congress Hon.
Newton Booth, Hon. C. n. Fox and General
John +. Miller. The meetings commence at
Forest Hill tonight, and close at Georgetown
on the 1st Of November.
As an evidence that "the farthest way
around is the surest way home" carload OF
coffee and sugar from ST. Louis passed
through Sacramento en- route fer Silver City,
New Mexico, which is some ways east Of the
present terminus of the Southern Pacific
Railroad.
There are messages at the Western Union
Telegraph Office for Mrs. John G.. West, ID.
Durkson. J. II. McLane, VIM. ii. Drury,
Rola Williams. Arthur l.. Harris, Lieut..
Paul Il. Scott, Col. j. II. Dickinson, Mary
G.. Ashby, Geo. Huscroft.
There will be meeting this evening Of
Sumner Post, and all members OF the Grand
Army of the Republic, at s o'clock, to make
formal visit to the President and General
Sherman.
The Sacramento Camp of the Army and
Navy Republican League hold meeting this
evening, com mencing at o'clock, at Skin
ners ball, corner of Sixth and j streets.
]. Hoehu. J. w. Boyde. wife and daugh-
ter, William Johnston. Miss Matte john
ston, Miss Della Johnston, of Sacramento,
will arrive from the East this morning.
W. B. West of Stockton, a member of the
Vinicultural Board, will deliver lecture on
raisins at the Sixth-street NJ. I. Church this
evening, commencing at o'clock.
| One carload Of lumber for Benson, Arizona,
was forwarded from Sacramento yesterday
A bill of hardwood lumber was also shipped
to Helena, Montana Territory.
There viii be Land League meeting this
evening at st. Roses Hall on Seventh street,
between J and X, commencing at half past
7 o'clock.
The Temperature Of the river is being per.
cept,bIy affected hy the cooler weather. and
yesterday at p. NJ. measurement. marked 50
degrees.
The banks, railroad Offices and leading
business houses will be closed to day, on ac-
count of the reception of the President
Senator a Cameron and wife, of Wiscon-
sin, are among tie passengers to arrive from
the East on this mornings train.
Mebius L Co. shipped a carload of hops
to New York yesterday and carload to
Chicago on the day previous.
Nathan Cole, Jr, representing the ST. Louis
Globe. Democ.at, is at present in the city, at
tending the State Fair.
Eighty-6ve immigrants will arrive from the
East to-day, inclu ling Al males.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-09-22

HATS HATS. HATS Soft and stiff, high
and low crown, wide and narrow hrim, black
or white, brown or slate color. Hats Hats
Hats Mechanics Store.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-09-22

PFuYpER's OREGoN BLOOD PURIFIER is the
best remedy for that dread disease. dyspe psia.
for it regulates the Emphatic system and bad
secretions
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-09-22
Grand Hotel Property {!

CIrUATKD ON THE CORNER OF FROM.
- and streets, Sacramento city, directly OPP
pos:te the steamboat landing and the railroad
depot. The best location in the city for hotel
aud business property. VIII be sold low, with favor:
able terms as to payments, or leased for tern Of
yesrs at low rental. In uire Of CADWALADER
PARSONS, No. 81 street, Sacramento; or 8.
DEWEY, a08 Pine street, Ssr Francisco. au22 sp&f
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-09-22

THE LARGEST and most complete assert
ment of fancy ribbons to be found in the city
at Fancy Goods Department, Mechanics
Store. All the latest and most fashionable
designs and shades.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-09-22

NAGLEE BRASDY-Pur,s st and bes. in the
world. S. II. Middleton, agent, No. Ais
Pine street, San Francisco.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-09-22

REMEMBER the oxy-hydrogen light tonight.
Bear in mind it costs nothing, and will please
and amuse YOU. Corner Fourth and K
streets, Mechanics Store
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-09-22

HANaER's GLycEgoLE OF TAR, for coughs ard
colds, contains opiates astringents. fhe bet
pre- paration out for children.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-09-22

THE best appetizer Outlook and Rye.
George w. Chesley, sole agent
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-09-22

HAVE TRIED Hammer Cascara Sagrada
Bitters, and find they are all they are recon-.
mended to be. o. N. CRoNKITE, Sacramento.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-09-22

LADIES do not forget to see the elegant and
stylish hats and bonDets at low prices at Mrs.
f. Katzenstein's Millinery Emporium. Cos
street
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-09-22

THE HAYES HAT.-Best in the market.
Finest appearance and best material used in
hats. Mechanics Store.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-09-22

HAMMERS ECAscARA SAGRADA BITTERs cures all
comrlants arising from an obstructed state OF the
system,
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-09-22

BOUGHT BY THE CASE from the manufac-
turers. That's the way they get their hats in
the Mechanics Store.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-09-22

SOMETHING INTERESTING, attractive and
entertaining. Everybody should see it. TIE
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-09-22

PHYSICIANS RECOMMEND glass of IXL
Bitters before meals as a cure for dyspep ia
and Indigestion. 1t is pleasant and whole
some beverage.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-09-22

The PUBLIC ARE INVITED to call and sam
pie DIR. Thomas Halls Pepsine Wine Bitters
in the lower hall of the Pavilion. Absolutely
pure A splendid tonic.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-09-22

You CAN Buy your dry goods at bedrock
prices at the Bed House.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-09-22
AUCTIONS.

REGULATE THE LIVER with Hammers Cascara
Sagrada Bitters. and health is the result.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-09-22

CANEL's HAIR CIoTH, 10 cents yard at
L. Bien's. Eighth and streets.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-09-22

AUCTION SALE.-Ths auction sale of Bell
& Co., advertised to take place to-day hiss
been postponed until Friday morning, at II
A. N.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-09-22

CABINET ENAMELED PHOTOGRAPHS, 50 pei
dozen; card photographs enameled, 81 30 pei
d, zen at j. Asher's Opposition Gallery, $40 j
street. between Eighth and Ninth.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-09-22

CHANGE To-NIeHT.-The Stereopticon
will present several new scenes this evening
Don't fail to see them, and remember the
place Roof Of Mechanics Store.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-09-22

New STYLES OF BurroYs, cf every descriI
ton, at l.. Bien's, Eighth and streets.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-09-22

HIS RxcELLEYcY, RUTHERFORD B. HATES.
President of the United States, has been ia
vited to attend the Theater to night and is
expected to be present
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-09-22

A CHANGE To-NIGHT The Stereopticon
viii present several new scenes this evening.
Don't fail to see them, and remember the
place: Roof of Mechanics Store.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-09-22

CROWDED FULL with the choicest goods in
the market in every department, and the one
wrapping up more goods for 81 than any
house in the city, the Red House.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-09-22

NoT1cE the hat display of the Mechanics
Store in the Pavilion. Remember that for
the largest stock, the latest styles. the lowest
prices and square, honest treatment, you
must go to the Mechanics Store.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-09-22

I THE VERY LATEST STYLES in ladies' Shet-
land shawls, Nubia fascinators and chill
drens hoods; also ladies' and childFen's wool
and cashmere hosiery just placed in stock at
Fancy Goods Department, Mechanics Store.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-09-22

H. II. PAULK, CASH GROCER, S14 K street,
sells two cans of jelly for so cents; stsr
chocolate for % cents per pound NJ. NJ. L
Co. 5 tea, 40 cents per pound large cans sar-
dimes for % cents l0-pound sack Of Eastern
oatmeal, 60 cents; Boston syrup, per gallon,
IS cents.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1880-01-23

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Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1880-02-28
DISAPPOINTED HOPE.

She was waiting at the lattice,
Where the snowy plunled clefnatis
Translated for her gratis sHst
What the breezcs sung and sighed;
And the dainty tondcrnesses
OF the sunbeams ON her tresses
Left her traced in the cares-es
of the golden morning tide.
The iinnets were a-cooing,
And :hc dapper bees wGoing,
And the dews were Interviewing
All the flower covered fays;
While lightly from the dingle,
The zephyr, lone and single,
Game up 60 intermingle
In the Leaf -entangled maze.
She waits another coming,
Her heart it, riches summing,
TIL suddenly drumming
From the gravel walk arose,
4 hope triumphant filed her.
And clear the words that thrilled her:
Look here, you, Jane Matilder-
Come and knuckle them ar clotbesp'
N. y. World.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1880-02-28
ANsyER HIN soF7IY.

Answer him softly. You can not know,
In the depths below,
How sharp was the struggle, the fight he
made,
Ere the price he paid = A ~
And yielded his soul to tine tefnpter's power
In hasty hour.
Answer him softly; for il may be
Like the sturdy tree,
which tested in many a storm its strength,
To be rent at length
He struggled full oft, and resisted well,
Though ut last he fell.
Answer him softly, lest You be tried
On your weaker side, as =
And fail, as before you so many have done,
Who in Thought had won;
Fail, too, ere temptation had spent its force
In its subtle course.
Answer him softly; for none can tell,
When the storm clouds swell,
Whose bark shall weather the tempest, or
whose
Its venture shall lose.
Speak gently, the weakest may stand the
gale,
The stoutest may fall.
Boston 7rareiier.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1880-02-28

pions are found on the steamers, intro
duced, no doubt, in the wood used for
fuel. One day, while the writer was
watching the hands taking wood from
canoes longside, from one of the logs
pitched on board was dislodged scor-
pion, which fell on the naked left arm
of a man keeping tally at the gangway.
Astonished by his sudden flight through
the air, the animal remained perfectly
still. The man never moved muscle,
and quietly raising his right hand,
dipped it away with his fingers and
thumb. 1t was very neatly and coolly
done; and he thus escaped a sting,
which he no doubt would have received
had he tried to brush it hastily away
Harper's Young Folks 10 1m
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1880-02-28
THE CANNON'S MOUTH.
Men Have Been There, and Yet Died Of
Old Age.
From the Detroit Free Press.l

Old Age.
from the Detroit Free Press.
There is nothing connected with a
battle so exciting as 10 see a battery of
flying artillery take position. Troops
open right and left, drivers lash and
shout, horses plunge and rear, and guns
and caissons dash through and over
every thing until reaching the chosen
spot. A line of men waiting for the
fight to open will show pluck and
enthusiasm with the booming of the
first gun, and the faster the battery is
worked the more impatient will the
supports become for close work. No
one viii say that an army could be sue
cessful without artillery, and yet those
who hold the lannon's mouth y TO be
king Of terrors or the Jaws of certain
destruction will feel disappointed when
they come across statistics showing how
little damage is inflicted by cannon
compared with the musket.
Ii is often said of a man: He
would not be afraid to march up to the
lannon's month"; and vet it is not 4
high compliment to his bravery. Just
previous to the first fight at Bull Run a
brigade of infantry made reconnois-
sance towards Biackburn's Ford to see
how the enemy was posted. a Michigan
regiment, in reserve Just outside the
fight, was opened on by six field pieces
in plain sight. The firing was rapid
and lasted for half an hour, and yet not
a man in the regiment was even wound
ed. Massachusetts troops, advancing
into the woods, fought against cannon
mounted on an earth-work for fully
twenty minutes, and Yet all their loss
was from the musketry of foreign
troops. On this occasion no less than
200 round-shot and shell were utterly
wasted
During the Sunday fight at Bull Run,
a full battery. posted on the left, and just
outside the fight, kept up continuous
and rapid fire on a highway three-quar-
tiers of a mile away, over which the
Confederates We're marching as they
went into action or changed positions.
Shot and shell could be seen to strike,
and outside OF tearing cover off an
army wagon, and the killing of a horse
or two. no damage was done. 90 Y
AT FAIR Oaks the artillery fire was
fierce, and seemingly destructive. Trees
Were rem. and shivered. great burrows
plowed in the ground, and shells
screamed everywhere over the Hattie
field. Yet the loss of life by muske;ry
was in the proportion OF twenty 10 one.
The Third Michigan Infantry lost more
men in five minutes by infantry fire than
any brigade lost an day by shot or shell.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1880-02-28
Why the Sky Appears Blue.

"Why is the sky blue?" is question
which has often been asked, but never
satisfactorily answered. Helmholtz
offered an explanation which depended
on the reflection OF solar light by the air
particles in the atmosphere. These
particles being very minute would re-
fleet preferably the shortest waves of
light, namely blue waves, while they
would allow the longer waves, CORE
spending to green and red light, to
pass through them; just as a log of
wood floating on the surface of still
water would throw off the tiny waves
caused by falling drop in its neigh
borhood, while the same log in long
ocean swells would be tossed to and fro
without noticeably impeding the pro-
gress of the waves.
DIR. Z. L. Nichols, in the Philosophical
Magazine for December. has PROFOUND
ed another view, which has much to
recommend it. According to Young
and Helmholtz's theory of color-impres-
sion there are in the eye three sets of
nerve-termini, one set chiefly influenced
by the red, another by the green, the
third by the violet rays. The impression
of color is the resultant Of the intensities
of these three effects. The impression
upon these nerves is not directly proper
tional to the intensity of the ray, the
different nerve-termini being subject to
different laws. For very feeble rays the
'.violet" nerves are very sensitive,
while the green" and cred y nerves
scarcely act at all. As the light
.vsa hn -aI
and green" nerves increase in
activity, while the "violet" nerves
become tired and dazzled. For rays of
dazzling brilliancy the "red " nerves
are in their most sensitive condition.
Thus, of the simple colors, as the bright
ness increases, red and green change to
yellow, blue becomes white. Daylight
at ordinary intensities affects the three
sets of nerve-termini equally; the re-
sultant impression is whiteness. Now
daylight is simply the light of the sun
weakened by manifold diffuse retiec-
tons. The direct rays Of the sun, aswe
let them fall upon any colorless object,
appear also white light; but on at
tempting at noon on clear day to gaze
into the suns face the impression is of
NtifbN- II II tnut tHt
rect rays differ in composition from
diffuse daylight but that the .'violet''
nerves can not transmit the action Of
such strong light. The moon, with
enormously less Illuminating power than
the sun, seems bright, and is far bright
er than the open sky. In passing from
the intensity of the moons rays to those
reaching us from corresponding bit Of
the open sky, We may, perhaps. take q
step as great as that between the bright
ness of the sun and moon. In general,
white light will appear bluer and bluer
as its intensity diminishes, and this law
will apply to the skies rs the light they
reflect becomes flinter. and fainter they
will increase in blueness, even though
the light by the process of reflection
suffer no change in composition. -Lon-
don academy. ~ aiF l
g. - $-----------
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1880-02-28

"A Wholesome Cake: One pint of
raised dough, like wheat bread dough;
one teacupful of sugar, one of butter,
three eggs well beaten, one teaspoonful
of soda, one cupful Of stewed rsisins,
and half a teaspoOnful each OF cloves,
pimento, cinnamon and nutmeg. s Roll
the raisins well in flour before mixing
up. This makes very nice, whole
some cake Let it stand in 4 warm place
till it is raised light, and bake with
slow fire. - 81, v'-ea, s,l as4
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1880-02-28

IJiron-holders should have cover OF
white cotton cloth made to fit nicely,
and fastened on with buttons, and when
1t becomes soiled it can be removed,
washed and replaced. H'~q 2
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1880-02-28

A MAINE man. who. didn't care, two
shakes Of a lambs tail about the news
papers rode fourteen miles through a
fierce snowstorm 70 get a copy of a
weekly that spoke of him as ga promi-
nent citizen. " Boston Post eN-
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1880-02-28

ADO over artilerN uueis, winch WIZ
pronounced fiendish, blood-thirsty and
50 forth. At Antietam a Union and
Confederate battery, not over han
mile apart and in plain sight OF each
other, had one of these dueis, lasting
forty minutes. The guns were worked
for all they were worth, and when the
duelended the loss was horse Killed.
the wheel of a caisson shattered and two
infantry men lying In support killed
A change of position sent the writer's
regiment over the ground occupied by
the Confederate battery, and here was
found two disabled horses, a dead artii-
lerist and the wreck of a caisson. Dur
ing the forty minutes that these twelve
guns were banging away with such little
result four or five sharp shooters Just 10
the right killed more than dozen men
and made no fuss over 1t.
Ire had splendid position for his
artillery at Fredericksburg, yet the
Union troops swept forward unmlndful
of the fire until they reached the point
where the Confederate infantry could
begin work Shells exploded In the air
or beyond the line, round-shot took men
singly, and no great damage was done
until grape and canister came into
play The Union guns on the other
bank of the river, numbering AT least
one hundred aud htty, Doomed away Tor
several hours al the town ana III Lees
troops above, Yet they did not cripple
the enemy as much as tine hre rom a
single infantry regiment.
At Savage Station. when Mcclellan
was changing base, mon battery was
charged by Confederate regiment.
They came across an open held, In PLAN
view and on level ground, with SIX guns
playing away on them, yet they cap
tured the battery with a loss OF only
eleven men killed, and four OF these
were killed by one shell. A Union regl-
ment rallied on me guns, iouSht over
mem manu- 10 manu- anu recaPtuieu
them' ana IN zen minutes each regiment
lost over hundred men.
1t is popularity supposed to be for
lorn hope when men rush forward on
battery, but any old soldier would take
his chances there sooner than in trying
10 dislodge infantry from the cover OF a
stout rail fence. At Second Bull Run
the writers regiment swept forward to
capture some field pieces which had got
their range down fine and were creating
considerable havoc.
There were four cannon, and they
covered about the same front that the
advancing regiment did. They used
shell at first against US, and in twelve
or more rounds we lost only three men.
They then changed to grape and CAMS
ter. and before reaching the guns our
total loss was fifteen men, We marched
square at the cannon, preserved n good
front, and the artillerists could not have
had better chance. Had we been adj
vancing on 100 infantry behind a fence
ar IN rifle uits our loss would have beep