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Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-01-01

The RECORD UNION in behalf of repre-
sentative business houses again presents
an elaborate review of the leading indus
tries and the trade of Sacramento. 1t
embraces nearly all the prominent estab-
hshments which offer to the trade of the
interior special advantages as against COM
peting markets. The matter in every in
stance, as heretofore, was procured of the
firm or person named, or prepared by
them, and we have reason to believe that
every statement was made in good faith,
and that every claim set up can be practi-
cally demonstrated The business men of
given to the habit of putting forth claims
which they cannot maintain, and realize
that policy of that kind would be sui
cidal. The inducements they offer for the
Interior trade are, in the main, based upon
the natural market advantages of Sacra-
mento, which are concisely set forth in
our general business review elsewhere, and
to which we call especial attention. In
this department all there treated upon
and affirmed, is attested by the volun-
tary statements of those who are engaged
in the leading lines of business in this
city. 1t will be observed that there is a
marked unanimity of expression by our
merchants, manufacturers and artisans as
to the peculiar advantages of this market,
and that all those engaged in like lines of
business have given very much the same
reasons for their claims upon the interior
trade. To the thoughtful this cumulative
testimony is of marked Importance. 1t
may be accepted as proof OF the sound
ness of the claims of this market, which
have been so frequently set forth, not only
that our business men are unanimous in
sentiment and argument concerning them,
but that the dealers and people generally
of the interior of the State have recog-
nized these claims, availed of and profted
by them, and have done so more generally
and freely during 1879 than in any pre-.
vivus period.
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L. KREUzBERGER, 4l6 K sTREET-GRocER
SPICE Mills

Kreuzberger has been in business here
for twenty-four years. He keeps full
line of family groceries, teas, sugars, cured
meats and general family supplies. The
main branch of his business, however, is
the conducting of coffee and spice mills.
Ground coffee and spices of all grades are
put up in large quantities, and have at
tanned State reputation for purity and
quality. His trade is extensive throughout
the interior, and he sells at the lowest pos
sible rates.
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through to L street from that point, 16O
feet deep by 100 feet in width. On X
street the east 40xS0 has three floors, the
next westerly 40xl00 has three floors, the
rear 4Ox60 has two floors, and the l. street
front l00xl60-has one floor. Beneath
the sidewalk on K street is storage space
l4xS0 feet. This gives floor area OF
46, 100 square feet, every foot OF which is
not only utilized but crowded. A COM
plete and accurate description and de-
tailed account of the iron and warehouses,
which are not equaled upon the Pacific
coast for convenience of arrangement and
capacity, appeared in the New Years num-
Der of the RECoRD-UNIoN for 1879, and at
tracted marked attention. The establish
ment is divided into thirteen departments,
and the business Of the house is so wide
spread, its reputation SO well established,
the character of its dealings so thoroughly
appreciated, the large capital invested, and
the house connections with leading marts
and manufacturers of the world are so
clearly realized by the people of the Pacific
slope, that it would now bea work of superer-
ogation to enter upon an account OF them IN
detail. The present review will, therefore,
be devoted to a notice of the stock of most
OF the various departments of the Sacra-
mento house. These are so varied that,
for convenience sake, they have been placed
in different parts OF this review OF the
business of Sacramento, being classified
under appropriate business heads, with
references from one to the other.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-01-01
BAKER & HAMILTON,
IMPORTERS AND MANUFACTURERS OF AG
RICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS AND
MACHINES, ETC.
sAcRAMENro ANp sAN FRANcIsct

SACRAMENTO AND SAN FRANCISCO.
[see hardware barbed fence-wire; betting; hose,
This firm, whose extensive establishment
is located on ] street, between First and
Second, with additional warerooms on
Front street, and the vast extent of whose
business is familiar to the people and the
trade, besides dealing largely in all kinds
of hardware, keeps every class and kind
of agricultural implements and machines
known to the business. The house is agent
for the following celebrated machines, etc. {:
Holliugsworth sulkey rakes, Tiger (self-
Dump sulkey rakes, the Buckeye mower
and reaper, the Champion mower and
reaper, the Case header, by ]. I. Case &
Co., Racine, Wis; the genuine Pitts
thresher and mower, the Balm, farm and
freight wagon, Ames' portable engines,
Baxter engines.
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railroads and face the water front, making
his facilities for receipt and transmission Of
goods completely favorable, and enabling
him to forward goods to any destination
upon the day the order is received. He is
exclusively wholesale grocer. He i'm
ports direct from first hands and keeps
constantly on hand full line of all family
| groceries and provisions OF superior quail
! ity. His trade extends throughout North
ern and Central California and the adjacent
States and Territories. This house makes
speciality of Whittaker's standard hams,
bacon, shoulders, etc, put up at st. Louis
The establishment is equal to the demands
of the most exacting jobbing trade, and its
rates are down to the lowest wholesale
figures reached by any dealers.
HALL, LUHRS AND CO., IMPORTERS AND
WHOLESALE GRoCERs.
The business of this firm is managed by
two of the members, Thomas B. Hall and
Charles A. Luhrs, both young, energetic,
fair-dealing business men, fully alive to the
requirements of the trade, and who have
in little more than two years built up
very large trade, which issteadily increasing.
They occupy one of the largest and finest
business buildings in the city, at the corner
of Third and X streets, and keep a most
extensive and varied stock of choicest gro
ceries-ail of their own importation from
first hands. Among the goods this firm
handle, there may be mentioned the cele
brated "Our Taste" extra sugar-cured
hams-the most popular in the market
Monticello pickles and sauces; G. Conrad
& Co. IS Budweiser beer-the best brewed
In the United States; Garden Valley Fac
tory cheese Cedar Hill, Malaga and Mus
catel raisins-very fine; genuine Georges
Goldfish, Xxx; extra boneless fish, In 5
and 80 pound boxes, X. l.. c.; r fat mess
mackerel, in 5-pound weight cans
Atmore 4 Sons genuine plum pudding, 3 I'D
cans; Atmore 4 Sons mince meat, 5-fb
wooden pals; Our Taste oysters, large
selected and delicious favored; Pride of
the West soap, full weight pound bars;
Pride OF the West improved wax candles,
Pride of the West kerosene oil, $50 fire
test, water white teas, II. L. & Co., extra
May pickings, Japan H. L. & Co., choice
garden, Japan ii. L. & Co., natural-leaf
basket fired Oolong; cup and saucer
brand Japan choice Formosa, Diamond
H., English breakfast, Young Hyson and
Gunpowder teas. In liquors they have
Pride of the West, Old Honesty, Golden
Vale, E. c. Berry and Rockfeld Mills
old Bourbon whiskles imported wine, GIN
and brandy. In cigars they keep the Ell
Guardian full Havana. Ionp-fiiler. and Os-
car Amanda brands; and IN the tobacco
line, Charm of the West and Golden
Thread fine cuts, Our Taste and Red Tag
twists, Old Honesty and Red Tag navies,
all sizes and styles.
This establishment has become one of
the leading wholesale grocery and pro-
vision houses upon the coast. They can
fill all demands with the choicest goods,
upon shortest possible notice and at prices
as low as the very lowest. They invite
trial and the house may be safely COM
mended to all who deal in its lines.
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THE DAILY REC0RD-UNI0N.
THCRsDAY............ JANUARY 1, 1850.
QUADRUPLE SHEET.
TWO HUNDRED
Special Detailed Statements
Concerning
Representative Business Houses Of
Sacramento.
The Grocers, General Merchants,
Manufacturers, Importers, Arti-
sans and Dealers of saora-
mento to the Trade.
How They Do Business and Their
Claims.
What Inducements they Of
fer to Buyers.
The Claims of this Trade Center Set
forth in Detail in these Lines"
How They Do Business and Their
Claims.
What Inducements they Of
fer to Buyers.
The Claims of this Trade Center Set
forth in Detail in these Lines"

AGRICULTURAL I'M LADIES' CLOTHING.
PLEMENTS. LIQUORS.
ARTISTS SUPPLIES. LUMBER.
BANKS. MACHINISTS.
BLANK BOOKS. MARKETS
BOILERS METAL WORKERS
BOOKSELLERS. MILLS.
BOOTS AND SHOES. MIRRORS
BOX MAKING. MILLINERY
BREWERS. HOLDINGS.
BROoMS MUSIC
BRASS WORKS
BUTCHERS. OILS
ORGANS.
CARRIAGES.
CARPETS PALS AND TUBS.
CARRIAGE TRIMMING. PAINTS.
CLoTHIERS. PAPER HANGINGS.
CONFECTIoNERS. PIANOS
CRACKER BAKERS. planning MILLS.
CRoCKERY. PLUMBERS.
CUTLERY. PORK PACKERS
POTfERIES
DENTISTRY. PRODUCE.
DIAMONDS PRINTING.
DOORS AND sAsHEs.
DRUGS. sADDLERY.
DRY GOODS. SEWING MACHINES.
OVERS SILYERWARE.
SOAP
FANCY GOODS. SPORTSMEN'S GOODS
F0UNDRIES. SPICE MILLS.
FRUITS. STONEWARE.
FURNITURE. STOVES.
sTATIoNERs
GAME.
GLASS. TAILORING.
GRAIN. TANNING.
GRAIN SEPARAToRs TINWARE.
CROCERS TOOLS.
ToBACCONLSTs.
HARDWARE. TURNER.
HARD WOODS.
HARNESS. UNCERTAINTIES SUP.
HATTERS. PLIES.
HIDES. UPHOLSTERERS.
HOTELS
WATTS AND TANKS.
ICE MAKERS. VAULTS.
INSURANCE.
IVORY WORKER. WIND MILLS.
WOOL
JEWELERS. WOODEN MILLS.
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HUNTINGTON, HOPKINS AND Co.-TooLS OF
THE RApM

HUNTINGTON, HOPKINS AND CO.-TOOLS OF
THE FARM.
[See hardware cutlery; sportsmens goods; tools !;
house fittings carriage fittings; gas fittings, etc
The iron and hardware house of Hunt
ington, Hopkins & Co. deals also in the
tools of the farm, such as scythes, snaths,
shovels, rakes, hoes, picks, mattocks, axes,
batchets, spades, forks, scales, steelyards,
sleeves and novel farm implements, kitchen
ware, barn utensils, and all kinds of wrought
iron and tools for the farm blacksmith
shop, bellows, hammers, tongs, ETC., gal
vanized and black barbed fence wire, and all
kinds of tubs, pals, wooden handles, and
other wares for dairy, house, field, kitchen
or pantry.
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KHGORE e. TPACV

WHOLESALE AND RETAIL GROCERS AND
PRODUCE BUYERS, 9l8, s15 X STREET.
A REPRESENTATIVE JoBBING HOUSE IN
GROCERIES.
This firm keeps full line of groceries,
provisions and feed, and sells goods as far
north as Red Bluff, to eastern Nevada and
into the mountain and many of the valley
counties The firm is building up large
and profitable business. 1t makes spe-
cialty of interior orders.
]. 7. PIKE, FAMILY GROCER, 726 STREET.
Mr.. Pike keeps what is essentially the
cash family grocery establishment Of Sac
ranento. He keeps full line of family
grocery supplies, case goods, fine groceries,
dairy products, etc, and supplies the city
and surrounding country at rates ON the
lowest current grade. The location of the
house is excellent, and its advantages are
surpassed by none in the city. Without a
great amount of excitement, Pike has qui-
city built up fine business.
H. H. PAULK, GROCER, Sl4 STREET.
Mr. Paulk has established here within
the year. He conducts his business
strictly upon a cash basis. There is no in.
stance in which we have knowledge, where a
like business has been so rapidly built up as
this. Credits are absolutely barred to all,
and goods sold at the lowest possible rates.
Every class of family groceries or supplies
are constantly and rapidly handled, and
his business has become firmly established.
As family grocer Mr.. PauIk takes front
rank in the city.
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IMPORTERS.
ADAMS, AoNEILL Co. WHOLESALE GRO
GERS
TO TIE TRADE OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
AND NEVADA.
In returning our thanks to the trade for
their very liberal patronage during the past
year, we, at the same tins, ask for con-
tinuance Of thosa fsvors, assuring them
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S. H. DAVIS, 7O4 j STREET,

Deals in hardware and mechanics tools,
and also carries complete line of pocket
and table cutlery, as well as splenagd
assortment of bracket saws for amateur
wood workers, together with impression
paper, books and sheets of design, light
woods of various kinds, saw blades, and
general assortment of light farming i'm
plements. Mr. Davis house is the sue
cessor of one of the old pioneer houses,
which he keeps fully up with increasing
demands and receives deservingiy large
patronage.
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BOOTH AND CO., WHOLESALE GRoCERs,
LIQUORS, ToBAcCos, ETC, FRONT, BE-
TWEEN ] AND STREETS

".AO1-A%ohA>S
LIQUORS, ToBACCos, ETC, FRONT, BE-
TWEEN J AND K STREETS.
The name of this firm is familiar through
out the State with all people, and the es-
Enlistment is one OF the most extensive
in the United States. 1t covers two floors,
each 50 by $50 feet. The firm deals in
every kind and merchantable variety of
groceries and provisions, cured meats, fine
wines and liquors, tobaccos, cigars, case
goods, CONNECTIONS, etc. The business of
the firm is widespread throughout Central
and Northern and much of Southern Califor-
MIA, and Nevada and the Territories, and is
50 well established that one can scarcely
conceive of the contingency of its ever
coming to an end Indeed, the firm say
that the business constantly increases in
volume, and extends its influence over a
larger area annually. The same firm has a
house in San Francisco of much the same
character but which cannot be said to be
superior to or so well known as the Sacra-
mento establishment.
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GROCERS.
and Retail Provision Sup
plies,
IMPORTERS.

fsee Lreuoas; GRAIN; FssD TosAoco; croARs
PRcDUcEl
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that with the prosperity of a good year has
come to us increased facilities for placing
the best goods on the market at the lowest
possible figures. The fallacy of the argu.
ment that some may have held that we,
as Sacramento house, have not been able
to enter into competition with San Fran.
cisco houses in regard to extent and vari-
ETY. of stock, has been
CoNcLUsIvELY PROVED
This year, inasmuch as nearly every acqui-
sition TO our list of patrons has been de-
rived from those houses heretofore dealing
exclusively with San Francisco.
This condition of affairs is. as is easily
demonstrated, the result of the staid bust
ness temperament of our merchants. Here
we are practically separated from that de-
sire for the rapid accumulation of property
outside of the legitimate channels of bust.
neso, and as a consequence we continue in
an almost uninterrupted career of material
advancement. The condition of our mar
ket, as whole, affords very gratifying
assurance of renewed confidence in bust
ness, and indicates that step forward by
our house Is not transient, but permanent
1t must be plain to all that those men who,
as they acquire capital, turn it into their
business and do not divert it into other
channels, will continue to rise until they
reach point higher than those who are
frequent on the scene of illegitimate spec
ulation, and are not infrequently unwit-
tingly drawn into that pool where rapid
success is too often followed by rapid mis-
fortune 1t has been said with truth that
all branches of business will meet with re-
vulsions just so far as the improvement in
them is but apparent, not real. The truth
of that saying is demonstrated very forcibly
in our city by commercial statistics, which
show, instead of decline, a steady adj
vance.
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CONTINUED ON PAGE ea
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1880-09-24
How q Murder Was Discoyered.

From a private letter by Sir j. II.
LEROY, lately governor Of the Bermuda
islands, Professor Moseley extracts an
account of singular discovery OF muir
der. In the autumn of 1873, Bermuda
woman suddenly disappeared. Her
husband was suspected OF having caused
her death, but as no trace of the missing
woman could be found, there seemed
little probability that the crime would
be detected. A week after the dsap-
pealanoe, however, some Somerville
boatmen, looking out toward the sea,
were struck by observing in the LongBay
channel, the surface of which was ruff
fled with a slight breeze, long streak
of calm, such as cask of oil usually
diffuses around it when in water.
The feverish anxiety about the missing
woman suggested some strange connec-
tion between this singular calm and the
mode of her disappearance; and the
spot being found to iemain. several men
visited the place in boat two or three
days after it was llIst noticed. and drag
ged the bottom of the channel. The re.
suit was the finding of the nearly flesh
less skeleton to which heavy weight
was fastened. Some bits of clothing
proved the identity of the body. The
husband was fisherman, and Long
Bay channel being a favorite fishing
ground, he calculated, truly enough,
that the fish would very soon destroy
ali means of identification; but it never
entered his head that as they did so,
their ravages, combined with the pro-
cess Of decomposition, would set free the
oily matter which was to write the
traces of his crime on the surface of the
water. Tie husband was found guilty
and executed. Professor Mosely be-
lieves this case must be of unusual in
terest to medical men.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1880-09-24
Ah0ut fha Hair

The cause of gray hair is the destruc
ton of the top of the papilln, or life and
color-giving bulbs at the root of the
hair. Not only old age, but nervous de-
biiity or exhaustion arising from over
work or dissipation, will cause the
color of the hair to cease, and there are
many instances on record of the hair
being turned suddenly white by
great shock to the nervous system,
among the best known being that of the
unfortunate Queen Marie Antoinette.
1t has also been stated that hair will
sometimes resume its original color
again, as in the famous case of Naza-
relia. Nazarelia, a man los years old.
was, in l774, at Vienna, presented by
nature with n new set of teeth and
restoration of the black hair of his
youth; also Sir John Sinclair. a Scotch
man, dying at ITO, rejoiced in a youth
FIJI headof hair during the latter years
OF his life. "Variegated hair which
is alternately banded black and white, is
noted among the hirsute curiosites OF
nature, and green and blue hair have
been described by some authorities; but
these colors owe their production to the
influence of surroundings in which their
subjects live. the green hair belonging
to those who work in copper mines, and
blue to those whose occupation is cobalt
mining. Workers in indigo also have
blue hair. In TIipoli and Turkey the
ladies paint the hair of their children a
Qermilion color.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1880-09-24

II is not generally known that there
are insects which possess peculiar cleo
trical properties. Kirby and Spence, in
their entomology, describe the Reduvius
Serratus, commonly known in the West
Indies by the name of the wheel bug, as
an insect which can communicate an
electric shock to the person whose flesh
it touches. The late Major General
Davis, of the British Royal artillery,
well known as a most accurate observer
of nature, and an indefatigable collector
of her treasures, as well as a most ad-
mirable painter of them. once said
that, when abroad, having taken up
this animal and placed it on his hand
1t gave him a considerable shock
with its lega, as II from an electric jar,
which he felt as high as his shoulder,
and dropping the creature, he observed
six marks upon his hand where the six
feet had stood. Two similar instances
of effects upon the human system re-
sembling electric shocks produced by
insects, have been communicated to the
chronological society of England, by
Mr.. Yarrell; one mentioned in letter
from Lady de Grey, of Groby. in which
the shock was caused by beetle, one
ofthe common elateridae, and extended
from the hand to the elbow on suddenly
touching the insect; the other caused by
large hairy lepidopterous caterpillar,
picked up in South America, by Capt.
Blakeney, r. N, who felt on touching
it sensation extending up his arm,
similar to an electric shock, of such
force that he lost the use of his arm for
time, and his life was even considered
in danger by his medical attendant.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1880-09-24
Squeaking Boots.

A correspondent tells in the Nustcal
World an incident about Rubinstein,
the famous pianist. The kind of man
who was the occasion of the incident is
very well known to all concert-goers.
The writer says: 1t was good to see
The genuine enthusiasm he awakened,
and to hear the applause and almost
acclaim which greeted him as he
finished. 1t was well known that he
never responded to an encore, but the
evident desire of tine audience seemed
to touch him little, and he kindly and
graciously came back, and, with almost
a smile on his face, began that beautiful
"Nocturne' of Chopin's in + sharp.
His mood was a very responsive one
Just then, and he gave to the tender.
dreamy thought new charm. 1t was
a beautiful moment; the player rapt,
absorbed; the listeners intensely silent,
when suddenly the spell was broken.
The inevitable man with the squeaky
boots, who frequents all public enter
tainments, and who never has the good
breeding to sit one out, was here, and
Just at this impressive moment deemed
1t his duty to leave. So, during one OF
the softest and most impressive pas
sages, this individual got up and pre-.
pared to travel the whole length OF
the circular gallery. AS soon as he
started Rubinstein's face lost its rapt
look, and he seemed annoyed; but when
the man arrived in the center, opposite
him, he could bear 1t no longer and
taking his hands from the keys, and
looking up at the disturber said, in
audible German:
What does that stupid fellow mean
by his eternal walking aboutp 1t IL
impossible to playw and he arose and
left the piano. 1t was Just rebuke.