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THE DREAM AND THE PRoB1rM.-A

The DREAM AND THE PROBLEM.-A we'll
known and esteemed Edinburgh advocate,
now dead. used sometimes to relate the fol-
lowing: While at school, one of the studies
in which he was most successful was math-
ematics. During the last sessions of his
school-life he was trying hard for one of the
mathematical prizes. Another youth and
himself were running a neck-and- neck race
for the coveted hozor. On regular recurring
days the boys in the class were set problems
to work in given time Each of the rivals
had done all the exercises correctly up till al
was fairly bafisd by one psob!em-the last
that was required to be done. BY no amount
of labor and pains could be succeed in soly-
ing it. On the evening before the day on
which the exercises were to be given in, he
had puzzled at the obdurate problem till late
in the night. At last still completely bafflsd
and mentally and bodily wearied by his long
work, he gave way, boy-lil,e, to food of
tears of vexation and modification, and 10
this state went to bed. During the night he
dreamed that he was again engaged in solT-
ing the problem, and that he worked it out
rapidly and easily to what he felt sure was
the correct result. Then deep and dream
less slumber succeeded. which lasted till
morning. When the boy rose, instead of
there remaining to him only confused rec
objection of having dreamed about working at
the problem, he sat down, and there and then
solved the exercise without the slightest diff
entity. The sequel to the story was, think.
that the two boys were bracketed equal. and
that each, therefore received prize.-ICham.
bers's Journal.
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SAN FRANCISCO ITEMS.

from San Francisco exchanges of January 2sth.l
The steamer Gaelic will be due from
Hongkong and Yokohama about the Ilth
proxlno.
The delinquent taxes are coming in
slowly, but steadily. The receipts aver
age from 500 to 81, 600 daily.
The merchandise exports of the past
week were valued at 1892, GAS, a decrease
of $4l0,G7 ON those of the previous week.
An unusually large meteor was seen to
traverse the southeastern portion OF the
heavens last night, about halfpast seven
o'clock 1t appeared to move slowly, and
left a long, brilliant tail of white light be-
hind it.
The Mayors health is improving rapidly
in consequence of the rest and quiet en-
forced ON him by his physicians. The
wound in the breast is almost closed, and
with care he will be about again next week.
The Superintendent of Streets yesterday
ordered the wholesale butchers on First
buildings erected upon the avenue, in &C.
cordauce with the resolution adopted by
the Board of Supervisors Lash Monday night.
The electric light introduced into the
Free Public Library in lieu Of gas, is prov
ing mere of a success than was at first an
ticipated, the large majority of the fire.
ouenters Of that Institution, and especially
those of weak or feeble sight, liking it
much better than gas.
Another Chinese passenger On the City
of Picking, who showed signs Of having
the varioloid, has been removed from the
quarantineh hulk Constitution to the Twenty
sixth-street Hospital. Vigorous measures
are now being taken TO guard against the
spread of the dread disease.
The trial of Elias J. Baldwin on an in
dictment which charges him with removing
spirits from his distiilery, located near the
city of Los Angeles, and storing the same
without paying the Government tax there
on, as required by law, was commenced
this morning in the United States District
Court.
Hattie Whitcomh, youngest daughter sf
j. p. Whitcomb, died at the home OF her
father, in Berkeley, yesterday afternoon,
from wounds inflicted by William Goss,
the details of which have already been
published. The unfortunate little creature,
only eight years of age, was sitting on a
knoll at the rear of the State University
building, in company with her sister and
Mr.. Jones, teacher in that institution.
Goss and a companion approached the To-
cality on their return from hunting eXpe-
dition. Seeing some object moving, he
presumed that a wildcat was about to at
tack him, and recklessly fred on the three
unsuspecting persons. Hattie's skull was
fractured, with the above fatal result.
Goss was arrested, but was subsequently
released.
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TIE coNDI11oN OF TIE NAVY.

The report on the condition of the navy
which we printed yesterday is not pleasant
reading. 1t is, indeed, almost too much
to call it a report on the navy, for what it
shows is, that we have no navy. a ma
ton of 45, 600, 600, inhabiting a continent,
and having no more than go guns ahoat,
and three-tourths of these antiquatod, does
not cut very dlgnified figure in these days
of enormous ornaments. And though our
foreign relations may be entirely satisfac-
tory just now, we must remember that
nothing tends to preserve the peace so
strongly as the reputation for ability to
fight. Now with such a skeleton navy
as is rotting in American dockyards
to-day, it is very clear that we
could not do any effective fighting
against even a second or third-rate power
1t is exceedingly doubtful whether we
could face even decrepit Spain on the
ocean. 1t lis quite certain that the navy OF
Italy would be too much for us. And
when We come to the navies of England,
France, and even Germany, it is only too
apparent that we could DO nothing with
them. We need not only more and better
vessels, moreover, but more and better guns
and armor. We have no artillery which
could compete with the heavy guns that
have been turned out of European
arsenals during the last five years.
10 doubt, in the event of war with
foreign power, we could in few
months arm and equip a respectable
fleet, but a foreign enemy would be very
unlikely to give us the required leisure.
In the rebellion the North had to contend
against foe in no respect better prepared
than herself, but it would not be thus i'll
foreign war 1t would be found necessary
to rely altogether upon torpedo service for
the protection of our almost illimitable
coast line, and somewhere the torpedoes
would be sure to fail. The maintenance of
all adequate navy is for the United States
mere business necessity, and if any way
can be found for securing the expenditure
OF appropriations in rational and honora.
bic way, the rehabilitation of our marine
ought to be undertaken forthwith
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MISCELLANEOUS.

The Board of Overseers of Harvard College
have decided, after long discussion, that
Rev. DR. Bellows of New York is ineligible
as member of the Board of Overseers, not
being resident of Massachusetts. although
receiving a majority of the votes cast at the
recent election.
The New Y ork police have taken into Gus
tody Charles Chorteau, aged q, brother-in-
law of Edward Timm, already under arrest
in connection with the murder of Annie
Douney.
A cooperative colony is forming in Brook
lyn, n. Y, for the purpose of settling upon
Government land in the vicinity OF Puget
sound. A meeting to promote the movement
was held in Union Hall, which was addressed
by DIR. p. H. Vanderweyde. editor of the
Practical american, and E. " Smalley.
For the fourth time in this century Lake
Zurich, Switzerland, is frozen over Lakes
Corat, Neufchatel aud Bienni and the river
Arve are also frozen over.
One of the main subjects to be presented
by the English Government for legislation at
the coming session of Parliament will be a
bill for the abolition of the law of premogeni-
ture and for a simpification of the transfer of
land.
G. c. Hayes, former Controller of Chi
cago, and for many years a leading business
man, died in that city Wednesday night, aged
SO years.
Crown Prince Frederick William started
from Berlin yesterday morning for Italy.
Sir William Erie, formerly Chief Justice
of the Court of Common Pleas at London, is
dead, aged 81 years.
Bullion in the Bank of England increased
e230,000 the past week. Proportion of re-
serve to liability, Az per cent. Amount of
bullion withdrawn on balance yesterday,
el56, 000.
Specie in the Bank Of France increased
IA, 425, 600 francs the past week.
1t is announced that the German Govern
ment intends to propose tax on all persons
exempt from military service
The passengers il the disabled steamer
Holland will be forwarded to New York in
the steamer Spain, which leaves Liverpool
February 4th.
A telegram from Berlin states that Ger.
many has recognized the Independence OF
Roumania.
A Boston dispatch says: In the case Of
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Charles Dimond, ex-Treasurer of the Massa-
chusetts Home Missionary Society, charged
with ENLIGHTENMENT, the jury disagreed and
were discharged.
Edward Middleton Barry, Royal Academ
lean, architect of the House of Parliament,
the new National Gallery and other import
ant structures in London, is dead, aged 90
years.
A Capetown dispatch says that General
Sir Garnes Wolseley has returned to Natal
from Transvaal.
The Treasury Department at Washington
yesterday purchased 615, 900 ounces of fine
silver for the Minis of Philadelphia, New
Orleans and San Francisco.
lie excess of exports over imports for the
twelve months ended December 3lst was
S2i5, 350,477.
The Virginia Republican State Convention
will be held April 1st
The Paris PGtrjc asserts that several Ger
man subjects employed in the Temple and
Antoine quarters have been summoned back
to Germany. and have left Paris.
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Court to-day. Physicians declared him in
sane, and he was remanded to the May term,
when, if his condition is the same, he will be
sent to the lunatic hospital.
The Pacific Halt Steamship Company and
ti,e Overland Railroads.
New York, January 29th.-The contract
between the Pacific Mail Company and the
overland railroads. by which the steamship
company received subsidy for agreeing not
to reduce rates below those of the railway
companies, expired in May last. The Pacific
Mail Company, after waiting in vain for a
more favorable contract, have determined to
put the passenger and freight rates between
New York and San Francisco low enough to
prevent underwriting by the railroads, and
have made arrangements for additional car
rying facilities between the two points.
The new schedule of passenger rates are
SO for cabin and $40 for steerage passen-
gers-a reduction Of over so per cent. on the
present rates.
Wells, Fargo Is 60. rs Nail Carriers.
WASHINGTON, January Goth Congress
man Page Of California appeared to-day be-
fore the Committee ON Post0tiice Officials, of
which Third Assistant Postmaster General
Hazen is Chairman, for the purpose of stat
ing his views with regard to the charges re-
Gently referred to that committee, to the eff
feet that Wells, Fargo l. Co. are violating
the law by operating an independent mail
carrying system in California and some a6-
jacent States and Territories. Page expressed
the opinion that the Increased facilities for
communication afforded by the enterprise
of Wells, Fargo & Co. were benefit
to the communities which the latter
served, and that the people should
not be deprived of them. He believed,
however, that proper checks should be pro-
vided, 50 that mails could not be carried to
the detriment of the Government service at
lower rates than those fixed by the postal
regulations The Delegates from Idaho and
Arizona were present, bat did not speak.
The opinion Of the postal officials seemed to
be that the service is legitimate, and that so
long as it is carried On under the provisions
of the postal laws, and in sparsey settled re-
gions where the regular mail facilities have
not been developed, the Government should
not interfere.
Parneli and DiIlon ia Connecticut.
NEW HAVEN, January 29th.-Parnell and
Dillon addressed large and enthusiastic
meeting in this city tonight, delegates being
present from all over the State. Mayor
Bigelow presided.
sacramento 10 be PItied.
OMAHA, January 29th.-Among the pas
sengers for California to day was Denis Kear-
ney, who viii visit Sacramento one week, and
then return to San Francisco.
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The provisions regarding insolvent cor
porations demand especial caution. 1t has
been sufficiently proved that protection for
the public requires the extension of the
grasp of the law so as to include the pri-
vate property of directors and stockhold-
ers. tits not enough that corporate prop
erty should be liable, but all the property
possessed by all who own stock in the cor
poration must be added to the fund from
which restitution can be had. The new
Constitution prescribes the extension of
the law IN this direction, and the provision
is one of the few wise ones in that instru.
ment. A bill has been introduced in the
Senate by Mr.. Dickinson Senate Bill No.
l3D, entitled can Act for the relief of
"insolyent debtors, for the protection of
creditors, and for the punishment of
Z" fraudulent debtors" which appears to
fulfill all the requirements of such law
We have examined it with some care,
and We do not find in it any loophole
for evasion, or any provision which
is not grounded upon some just and sound
principle We understand that it has the
almost unanimous approval of such men,
bers Of the mercantile community as it has
been shown to, and it seems to hold the
balance with judicial fairness between
debtor and creditor. A leading principle
of the bill is that all the creditors of an
insolvent estate shall share equally in the
proceeds. This is obviously just 10 the
creditors, while it imposes no new burdens
upon the insolvent The clauses in regard
to iusolvent corporations are stringent and
comprehensive. No corporation, however,
can be discharged from its obligations, and
this strikes US as in the line Of supertiuity,
since when all the property belonging,
first to the corporation, and then to the
directors and stockholders, has been appro-
priated to the liquidation of the corporate in
debtedness, a practical discharge is evident
ly reached, there being no longer anything
anywhere upon which further requisition
can be made, while as the stockholders can
go into bankruptcy individually, and be
discharged of their debts, there remains
nothing upon which to proceed thereafter,
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TIE WARNER BILL.

a dispatch states that the House Com
mittee on Coinage, etc, is about to report
in favor of the Warner Bill for free coin
age of gold and silver This news sug.
gests the impression that the majority of
the Coinage Committee are not in favor of
Letting well enough alone, but that they
wish to revolutionize the currency. The
effect of the Warner Bill would be to
food the country with silver, and thus to
precipitate the exodus of gold, and the
consequent substitution of silver for gold
as the basis of what is now enormously
called resumption. The substitution of
silver for gold as the basis of paper value
would result in the appearance of depreci-
alton in the value of tie greenback. The
bullion value of the silver dollar is now
about IS cents, but with large increase of
the coinage some change would probably
take place. A discount of at least ten per
cent. would celebrate the inception of the
new movement, and the premium on
gold would of course ssappear, to the de-
light of Wall street and the injury of the
country at large. The Warner Bill in fact
is so radical a measure, and SO inseparable
from the most pronounced currency here
sizes, that its Recommendation by the Coin
are Committee is rather remarkable. Il
is of course possible that the House, and
still more the Senate, VIII be disinclined to
act upon proposition 50 certain to force
the whole currency question again before
she people in the most emphatic way, and
herein seems to lie the main hope of escape
from this pernicious legislation. Some
day perhaps the public Will realize that
Congress is no more fl to be entrusted
with the control OF national finance than
drunken smoker is tit to be entrusted with
the care of powder magazine.
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DIED.

Sacramento, January 2s-sarah, wife of Robert
Reavcs, native Of California, % years.
Funeral notice hereafter
Sacramento, January 29-Georgie 4. Curtis, niece
OF Thomas Mcconnell, 10 years. months and IL
days.
Funeral notice hereafterl
Sacramento, January 2g-AIrs. Augusta Perry, I
native of New York, 70 years and months.
Friends and acquaintance respectfully invited
to attend the funeral, which viii take place from
the residence Of the deceased, street, between
Seventh and Eighth, tomorrow Saturday morn
ing at 1890 o'clock.l
Benton, Mono county, January 16-M;s Emma
Amanda brooks - years.
Benton, Mono county, January 17-hrs. Mary
Browne, So years
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and it would consequently be merely recog-
nizing an actual condition of things to say
that the corporation shall be discharged
when sill the available property OF itself
and the corporators has been absorbed
This, however, is question of compare
lively unlmportant detail, and in no way
affects the soundness and suficiency Of the
bill, which is probably in all respects as
good bankruptcy law as the State need
desire. We hope that it will be adopted.
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Tic New York stock iIarket...Centrai Pa
cifir.

New York, January 29th.-The Stock
Exchange in the early hours was a scene of
great excitement. aud the subject of it the
Central Pacific stock. Yesterday public
notice was given by a conn ittee of the syn
dictate which bought 80, 600 shares of Central
Pacific, with the privilege of $4,000 more.
that the same would be publicly sold in the
ordinary way at the opening of the Stock Ex-
change this morning.
The Eren,ng Post says: "The syndicate
employed five brokers, civ ing each an order
to sell 10, 900 shares on a scale of fractions
from so up to SIS. A. soon as the hammer of
the presiding officer dropped at 10 o'clock,
and business was formally opened, there was
such a rush in the Central Pacific crowd as
might have led a spectator to believe that
some one in the crowd was throwing about
five carat diamonds by the handful. Brok-
ers had their coats torn, and were in danger
of having their bones roken. In fact the
tumult was extraordinary, even for
the Stock Exchange, where excite
ment is the rule. The first sale
was at sii. There was then rapid advance
to 81 inside OF the first fifteen minutes,
This was followed by decline to S4J, and at
1920, with the price at IS, the FIVE brokers
lad each executed his order, and the sc. 600
shares had been disposed of. The company
had refused private bids for a large amount of
the stock. and as one purpose of the sale by
Huntington was to popularize the stock in
this market, it was thought best TO put every
one seeking to buy on the same footing.
Therefore the stock was put openly on the
market. The crowd which surged around
the sellers was so thick and So eager that the
pressure was really dangerous. One man
was observed with his collar ripped off. The
wild confusion which prevailed has rarely
Leen eoualed in the stormy annals of the Ex-
change. The average price was 81 and
fraction. The syndicate would have been
content. it is understood, if an average of SO
Rad been received. The whole transaction is
nnious in the history of the stock market,
and its successful result Is the general topic
of conversation in Wall street.
silver bars, 1139; money, 500; Govern
ments quiet |; stocks closed steady West
ern Union, 1921 Quicksilver. POI Pacific.
Sol Mariposa. /; Wells Fargo, 1ol; New
York Central, 1901 Erie, 465 Panama, 1oS;
Union Pacific. 935: bonds, no.. Central,
1o93: Sutro, 80 Leadville. 81; Caribou, 81.
Ingerson on Thomas Paine.
CH1c.eo. January 29th.-New Music Hall
was crowded to its utmost capacity tonight;
the audience having assembled to hear Colonel
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House.

WASHINGTON, January 29th.-The regular order
being demanded, consideration resumed of the
bill declaring all public roads and highways post
routes The previous question was seconded, and
the bill Iass,d-ayes, 1874; noes, 81.
Herbert, from the Committee on Judiciary, re-
ported bill providing that person shall serve as
petit juror in any United States Court more than
three weeks during any one year.
Pending action on the bill the morning hour eX-
pred.
a joint resolution sppropr;ating $50 600 for the
purpose Of enabling the United States Fish Commits
soner rep esent the United States at the nterna-
tonal Fishery Exhibition 10 Berlin in April next
was reported from tie Committee on Foreign Affairs
and objected 10 by Mem Han.
The Hou then went into Committee of the
Whole on the revision Of the rules.
Tucker, on the suggestion OF Blackburn with
drew his amendment TO prevent diiatOTy tactics.
Williams moved amendment that members
should not be called from the Chamber after l30.
Steele thought they might as well provide that
members must vote right.
Wil.iams-lhat would destroy the Democratic
party.
The amendment was rejected
A number OF amendments were rejected TO the
ru e regarding pairs, and the rule was passed.
To Rule 9-respecting questions of privilege
Springer submitted an amendment including among
those questions such conduct disqualified mem
Der from holding any Office of honor trust or profit
under the Government.
Garfield thought the House should act on such
questions only in case member had been convicted
of the crime.
The amendment was rejected, and the rule agreed
to.
Rule 10-respecting the composition of commit
tees-was amended by increasing the Committees
on Invalid Pensions and on Claims from 10 TO Is,
and the Committee on the Improvement of the
Mississippi and its Tributaries from IL to IS.
Rule 10 was then agreed to.
Rule 1l-declaring the duties and powers of COM
mittee5-created much discussion between Randall
and Shellabarger to the duties and past conduct
of the Appropriation Committee.
Without any alteration of the rule and without
concluding the discussion, the House adjourned.
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BORN.

Sacramento, january 2O-Wife Of ]. II. Herman, a
son.
Grass Valley, January 2a-WHe Of Martin McCarty,
4 son.
nolds,
,Iarysyille, January 2S-Wife OF II. Berg, a son.
Midd. town, January l7-Wife OF Mr.. IcGayan, a
daughter.
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TELECRAPKIC.

LAST NIGHTS DISPATCHES TO THE RECORD
UNION.
NATIONAL CAPITAL MATTERS.
An Ovation CT an Extensive Scale to be
rendered to Senator Blaine
PASSENGERS COMING WEST BY RAIL.
Exciting Scene in New York over the sale
Of Central Pacific Railroad Stock.
THE MlIsE TRICYCLE. VIRTUALLY SETTLED.
Indian Commissioner Hayt Removed from
his Position.
MISCELLANEOUS FOREIGN NEWS ITEMS
Disastrous confagration at Dublin,
Ireland.
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MARRIED..

Woodland, January &C. f. Thomas to Agnes
Bullock.
MarysyiIe, January rs Eetor II. Gibbius to Hattie
d Thompson
Middletosn, January 21-W Good to Mary Stark.
Woodland, January 2s-S. P. Cutler To Victoria
L3luc.
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NOTICE.
TO COUNTRY MERCHANTS and RETAILERS.

an RECEIPT OF S. WILL SEND TO ANY
~ address sample case Of my specialties, con-
sisting OF 3 bottles DIR. RENZS Herb Btters, 3
bottles Blackberry Brandy, bottles X ok ard Rye,
and bottles fine old Bourbon WHISKY (the last
named trade mark Bonanza'), all justly celebrated
goods and recommended for medicinal and family
use. J. REM, Wholesale Liquor Dealer, No 2l9
Commercial street, three doors below Front, San
Francisco ia3O1p3m