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Sacramento daily record-union., 1881-02-17

L. VI. Stevens, 800 j street, near Third
Fine imported wines, liquors, ETC.; also the best
cigars in the city. ja2S-1m
Sacramento daily record-union., 1881-02-17

LADIES CHEMIsEs, handsomely trimmed,
at Is cents. Fancy Goods Department,
Mechanics Store.
Sacramento daily record-union., 1881-02-17

All who Have Tried w. +. PeteFsOn's
Ornamental Cakes, Tarts and Mince Pies, say they
are the best ever bought. Try them. d2-1m
Sacramento daily record-union., 1881-02-17

EMBBoIDzRIEs at Hale's,
Sacramento daily record-union., 1881-02-17

HANDSOME LINE OF GENTS NEcKwEAR,
including all the latest novelties and designs,
! at Red House.
Sacramento daily record-union., 1881-02-17

BoYs' SCHOOL SUITs, at 81 70. Clothing
Department, Mechanics Store.
Sacramento daily record-union., 1881-02-17

CHHDREN's HEAVY LEATHER SHOES, sizes
from to 10l waterproof, 81 per pair, at
Red House.
Sacramento daily record-union., 1881-02-17

TIE " WEISsTooK' CORSET, good article
at rs cents. Fancy Goods Department, Me-
chanics' Store.
Sacramento daily record-union., 1881-02-17

IMPORTANT Partisan corset, double
steel. all whalebone, costs only 60 cents II
bought at Hale's. though 81 has been the
,,r;rs at which it has heretofore been sold by
their competitors. 1t is good corset for %
Icarifs
Sacramento daily record-union., 1881-02-17

OPERA BoUFFE CORSET for 75 cents at
Hales-a splendid bargain.
Sacramento daily record-union., 1881-02-17

Among the guests present were citizens of
Sacramento in great number, altogether too
many to warrant personal mention at this
time. All the members of the Legislature
were present and all the State officers.
Among the ladies and gentlemen from abroad
opportunity permitted note to be made OF
these: General George 5. Evans, Con.
0,Conuor. Judge Ames, Alex. Badlam. San
Francicso; p. A. Humbert, Chas. S. Rey-
noIds, Virginia City; Major W. NJ. Edgar.
I, C. REYNOLDS, San Francisco; Thomas H.
REYNOLDS. Sacramento; T. J. Blakeney, Ed
1vaTd Curtis. C. F. Bassett, W. I. Baggett,
G. D. Bunker, Misses Bunker, San Francisco;
T W. Hutchings, Yosemite Capt. Van Oter-
endorp and family. J. L. Tharp, Col G. f.
CrocLer. Gen. McComb and staff, j. Neff. Pls-
Ger county Judge Schell, Stanislaus county !;
Sacramento daily record-union., 1881-02-17

Twenty-seven immigrant passengers will
arrive from the East this afternoon.
Sacramento daily record-union., 1881-02-17

A DUMMY HooDLUM-There is shooting
dummy standing in the front door of the
establishment for the purpose of attracting
those who occasionally try their skill in that
direction. Ordinarily this dummy, which is
very good and natural one, by the way,
with gun in one hand and holding out bird
in the other, stands motionless, and does not
even turn his head during the day, but yes
terday il got upon bender, and exceeded the
bounds of propriety towards ladies passing
by, The wife of well-known business man
on j street was out shopping, and as she
| passed she looked up and. mlstaking the
dummy for some cheeky, bold fellow standing
| there and staring at her, she turned her head
| in disgust at his impudence and hastily
| passed by. a short time afterward she had
occasion to pass there again (probably not
out of curiosity, and just to see if he was
standing there yeti, and casting a glance
| that way sure enough there was the fellow
yet, and in addition to the previous staring
he now even winked at her. This insult ex-
ceeded her power of self-control, and she at
| once started for the individual with uplfted
umbrella, and was about to demand hasty
explanation when she discovered that her
imagined hoodlum was simply an innocent
| wooden dummy, without the slightest inten-
| ton, towards her. She Immediately made
hasty retreat without even stopping to apol-
ogize to her victim.
POLICE ARREsrs.-The following arrests
were made in the city yesterday: John
Burns for burglary, by officers Rider and
Campbell; Jacob Stortz, violating health
ordinance. by officer Frazee Charles Fergu-
son. discharging firearms within the CITY
| limits. by local officer jackson; Frederick
| Hughes, disturbing the peace, by officer Fra
zee Johanna Hagel, disturbing the peace,
by railroad officer Brissen.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1881-01-29
The Fire Laws Of Japan.

The severity with which per-
sons In Japan are punished who
have the misfortune TO be burn
ed out IA stated as follows by the
Scientific American.
Ii the house Is occupied and is
accidentally set on fire the person
through whose carelesness the fire
is started receives ten days i'm.
prIsonment with hard labor; If 1t
is inhabited and the fire be pro-
duced by the proprietor, then he
is punished with twenty days; if
the fire spreads to other houses,
the sentence is forty days, and
when anybody is killed thereby,
one degree heavier but If the per-
son killed is a ralBtive of the first
degree, the punishment is one
hundred days; If the house belongs
20 the government, one hundred
day., If temple. from sixty days
to one year, but ten years are in
fiicted If it happens to be one Of
the great temples of Isle, or in the
precincts Of the Imperial Prlace.
If robber sets fire rnintentionally
to house, he is punished with at
least three years imprison ment
with hard labor. Decapit alton
awaits inceniaries, ten years penal
servitude an attempt at arson; the
punishment being mitigated if
the would-be incendiary is a serv-
ant who has just received q sharp
rebuke, or if the attempt be made
on an uninhabited dwelling. If a
man sets fire to his own house,
ninty days, but if the fire spreads
to houses in the neighborhood,
two years and a half, and penal
servitude for life is inflicted if the
offender profits by the opportunity
of the fire to purioin goods or
property.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1881-01-29
How Mules Came into Fash
ION.

Few of the farmers of this coun-
try are aware what a depth of
gratitude they owe George Wash
ington for the introduction of
mules into general use for farm
purposes.
Previous to 1888 there were very
few and those of such inferior or
der as to prejudice farmers against
them as unfit to compete with
horses in work upon the road or
farm. Consequently there were
no jacks, and no disposition to in
crease the stock; but Washington
became convinced that the intro
duction of mules generally
among Southern planters would
prove to them a great blessing as
they are less liable to disease,
live lenger aud work upon short
or feed, and are much less liable
to be injured than horses by care
less servsnts. AS soon as it be-
come known abroad that the illus
trious Washington desired to
stock the Mount Vernon estate
with mules, the King of Spain
sent him jack and two jennetts
from the royal stables, and La
fayette sent another jack and
jennet from the Island of Malta.
The frat was gray color sixteen
hands high, heavy made, and of
sluggish nature. He was named
the Royal Gift. The other was
called the Knight of Malta; he
was about as high, 1.-the and fiery
even to ferocity.
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Rules OF the House.
Oil City Derrick

At an Oil City hotel boards a
father and son. The latter has
been in the habit of staying out
later than his father liked and one
day the father said: my son,the
rule of this room hereafter is, that
every person must be in before 10
O'Clock, or else remain outside"
"Yes, sir" said the obedient
son.
A night or two afterwards the
father was detained by his bust
ness until nearly IL O'Clock and
on reaching his room, found the
inside bolt drawn. He Knocked,
and was soon answered with.
who's there?'
"Your father; get up and let me
in"
"See here, the rule of this room
is that every person must be in
before 10 O'Clock, or stay outside.
Now don't make any more dis
turbance about here"
The father slept in another room
that night.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1881-01-29
Breaking the Golden Rule

Richard Grant White discusses
Interestingly, in the New York
Times, the dispositions of certain
persons to be uncharitable in speech
and actions towards Others with
whom they have no relationship, and
who have never done them the slight
est injury, oftentimes not being &C
quainted by sight. He says:
"The cause of such enmity is one
of the mysteries of human nature.
Such enmity would seem to evidence
that in some hearts there is a spring
of spontaneous malignity. There is
an offense known to the law as mali
cious mischief, by which term is
meant those injuries, generally to
property, which are done apperantly
without any other motive than that
of wanton desire to do mischief to
others. And these offenses are often
committed by those who would not
readily be guilty of a serious crime,
or even of a sin. A woman who
would not steal dollar or a yard of
silk will, in mere malice, ruin anoth-
er woman's silk gown, if she can do
so with, as she thinks, no chance of
being found out. The other woman
may not have done her any wrong,
may not be even her rival; but for
some reason underlined to herself,
perhaps even unacknowledged, she
hates her, and it is gall to her to see
that woman handsomely apparalled.
The philosophy of much of this
enlightenment he suggests in this par
agroph:
SIN a word, envy, sheer envy,
makes active, malignant enemies.
Vanity wounded, not through inten-
ton, but by the mere successful dis
play of superior abilities, rankles in
to hatred. 1t is essential that sue
cess should Bttend the manifesto
tions of superiority for nothing is
so grateful to some minds, nothing
falls so soothingly upon some souls
as the knowledge that man whose
strength they feel, but do not &C
knowledge, has made vain effort tC
rise above their own level of medi-
ocrity.
"Success of a person, in the same
strata of society with detractor, tC
a degree exceeding that of the often
der, might also be mentioned as q
prompting to violence of words and
deeds. Jealousy of another's good
fortune has its Illustration all about
us-sOme very amusing at times
others equally sad. We all know
such cases."
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1881-01-29

a NEGRO PRINCE FROZEN TO
DEATH.-Near Warrenton juno
ton, Va, there lived in a cabin
by himself an old Negro named
Hannibal Brown. He was brought
to this country from Africa about
the year 1920. He has always
said his father was a King, who
wore Jewels and owned many men.
He WIS emancipated before the
war, and was one of the few col
Ored men who owned slaves, and
we believe he is the only eXcep-
ton throughout the entire South
who retained and exercised all
the rights of ownership after the
war was over. He was a black
smith, and one of the most skilled
of workmen. He was devoted TO
the cause of the South, and dur
ing the war would not shoe horses
for the Federal soldiers, but when
ever they applied complained of
pain in his back and went to bed.
On account of this devotion,
which he did not try to conceal,
ne was imprisoned lOf SeVeral
months in the Old Capitol at
Washington. The bitter cold
weather which we have just had,
found, the old man very feeble
and with no one to see that he was
properly cared for. He did not
like company and would not per-
nit anyone to live with him SO
when the sun rose clear and cold
on Wednesday morning the 29th
of December, it peeped through
the cracks of old Hannibals cabin
and found him, sitting ins a chair
all alone by the smouthering en-
hers of his fire, dead. He had
frozen to death and was not dis
covered until probably week
after his lonely death. -Warrentop
Solid South.
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A Chapter on Clerks.

How difficult it is to distinguish
them from proprietors until you are
used to them. Then it is easy Pro-
prietors wear clothes that clerks
would not be seen wearing to sift
ashes in.
At the start. however, clerks al
ways speak of themselves as "saleS-
men, They have a faint idea that
the word is in the directory and
means something.
The king clerk is tie s'hoor walk
err" He is a drum major without
hearskin cap or baton, and fills an
important position in an important
manner. Poor humanity always
feels its knees quake when before his
awful presence, until he says, "show
these ladies some hose" and it is
proved that he is but mortal.
The active clerk shows all the
goods in his department, talks a
steady stream and wears customer
out. He makes a few sales and
doesn't stay long in place.
The listless clerk, with dropping
eyes and pale necktie, drops his goods
Oii eilC OOuhbCl III ~ oOh b-OdLC-d-GlFO
sort of way, wearied by the exertion,
and the customer trades with him
because he is so refreshingly lazy.
The poorly dressed clerk. There
are no facts in regard to his nom
entity.
The "masher" as a clerk. He is
engaged because of his superlative
attraction to silly women, who call
on him every day and buy some lit
tie knick-knack in order to bask in
the sunshine of his radient and
charming smiles.
The genuine business man some
times begins life as a clerk, but he
pushes out Of the position in an
amazing hurry.
The lady clerk. Who would be so
ungallant as to say she is not inter
esting. She is. Gentlemen always
like to trade at the counter where
she presides, and she is usually as
signed to department where they
are sure to come on little errands.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1881-01-29
Man a Fighting Animal.

DO what we will with him, man is
naturally a fighting animal. There
is curious autobiography to be
found in Southern bookshops, writ
ten by an old hunter about century
ago. There is the same thirst for
blood and fierce love of the chase in
it as if beast of prey or greyhound
were telling its story. The most
amusing example is where the old
man tells how he and his sons once
trained some young dogs to hunt
bears. II put on the skin of an old
BEAR" he says, land crawled on all
fours, while Elisha and Job drove
the pups on. They were scared at
first, but presently the whole six at
trcked me furiously, bit my calves,
tore my hair, hung on my ears. L
began to shout Enough = but Lisha
cried, Don't, dad, don't it's the life
OF the pups, (" He adds, "Of course
/ staid. l had consideration for the
dogs.o 1t takes great deal of train
ing to root out this instinct from
men who inherit it. Everybody
knows the history of the fighting
Quakers during the revolutionary
war. Many of the staid sons of staid
sires OF the same faith slipped out of
meeting during the last war to shout
der a musket. One venerable old
friend in Germantown, Pa, found
that three of his sons had gone to
this conflict against which his creed
arrayed him. The youngest felt that
he, too, must go, but fearing to tell
his family, he took his gun one day
and began to clean it, placing him
self in his fathers way. The old
gentleman saw him and paced slowly
up and down, but said nothing.
Presently he approached the young
man. "Cbarles," he said deliberate
ly, ''if the devil has made thee feel
that thee need one Of these worldly
instruments, spare not thy money,
but get the best" Alexander Camp
bell, the most combative of Scotch
rcformers and theologians, once SUBJ
mitted his head to the fingers of a
phrenologist, who had no knowledge
of Mr.. Campbell's calling. The man
finished his examination with the
words: "From your executive abili-
ty and love of fighting, sir, you are
or ought to be a great SOLDIER The
aged clergyman heaved sigh, "No,
sir, no. Circumstances were against
me. But according to my opportu-
nifty, I've done what | could've
done what l could"
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1881-01-29

The expression 'Cut dido" is
said to have originated in the
following way:
1t Is told in history that Dido, a
Queen of Tyre. about eight hun
dred and seventy years before
Christ, fled from that place upon
the murder of her husband, and
with a colony settled upon the
northern coast of Africa, where she
built Carthage. Being in want of
land, she bargained with the ma
lives for as much as she could sur
round with a bulls hide. Having
made the agreement, she cut the
BULLS hide up into fine strings and
tying them together. she claimed
as much land as she could sur
round with the long line thus
made. The natives let the cum
ming Queen have her way, but af-
ter that whenever anybody played
a sharp trick they said he had
"cut a dido" and the phrase has
come down to onr day.
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Habitual Costiveness.

Is the bane of nearly every
American woman. From it
usually arises those disorders that
so surely undermine their health
and strength. Every woman
owes it to herself SUD 20 her fami-
ly 10 use that celebrated medicine
Kidney Wort. 1t is the sure rem
edy for constipation, and for all
disorders of the kidneys and liver.
Try it in liqnid or dry form.
Equally efficient in Gather FORM
Boston Sunday Budget.
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An Amusing Incident.

New Years Day being chiefly de-
voted to calls, fashionable young
swell of this city, who abounds in an
abundance of conceit, was one of the
many who called upon Miss -, on
Third street. The young lady, who,
by the way, detested the swell, while
he thought she was badly ''gone" up
on him, received him with all the ETH
quette she had her many other call
ers, and he prolonged his visit much
longer than the rules of the day al
lowed. The young lady began to
think of some way by which she
might rid herself of her unwelcome
visitor, but no plan was offered until
one of the young ladies remarked:
"Mr. -, how do you like the
way Miss IS hair is done up !?
IT'S the latest style.''
After gazing upon the frills, etc.,
he said:
Every nicely-au-but she has too
much of somebody else's hair upon
her head. Pray, why do you wear an
others hair ?"
The young lady replied:
fray, MI. -, WHY 10 you wear
the skin of another calf upon your
feet ?"
A moments silence, the young
man bid them adieu, and made a
hasty exit, while the merry peals of
laughter were ringing in his ears
from the bevy of young ladies at the
parlor window, and he was forced to
mutter, II wonder what she means?"
-Er.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1881-01-29

A little girls essay on a COW: -
"a COW is a big brown animal.
1t has four legs. one on each con-
ner, and tail behind. 1t is q
very beautiful animal, the COW is.
1t gives us milk, butter, cheese
and knife handles. The cow is O
woman animal"
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A little girl who was disappoint-
ed because her name could not be
found in the Bible, said; "Never
mind! l will be such a good girl
that if another Bible is written my
name will 60 into it,
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J. F. BOYD, Superintendent
CHAS. FELDMAN, Agent.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1881-10-15
Capitol Hill Enters a Protest.
Editor of THE EVENING STAR:


SIR:-I noticed that 81 /. Ayenue, uakas n
warm protest against the suggestion of Lieut..
Greene in his report, that hereafter the prop
erty abutting on the streets improved should
bear portion of the expense.
IL strikes me that such protest comes with a
PAD grace from that section, for it has been pro-
vided with improved streets, two-thirds of the
expense OF which was paid out of the general
fund. OF which the taxpayers of East Washing
ton paid their proportion, while they got com
paratively no improvements. 1t is now pro-
posed to provide r. /. avenue with new
pavements q second time while East Washing
ton goes without anything but its Dutch Gap
canals and mud roads left by the Board of
Works, and ''R- /. Avenue wants the whole ex-
pense paid out of the general fund
IL seems to me that it would be much more
just and fair for that section. which has been
once provided with improved streets. to wait
until the rest have had their share before it Is
provided q second time; or. If it must have a
second set OF improvements, that it should pay
for them ITSELF at least until the rest Of the city
has been once served.
Lieut.. Greene's report shows that nearly all
the money expended since the present form of
government established in 1878, has
been for replacing the wood pavements, the
great bulk of which has been spent in
the West End; and he insists that the
same policy shall be pursued for the future I'M
Gil Trey are all replaced, which he calculates will
take three years more. Now, sir, want to en-
ter red-hOt protest against this policy. There
Is not particle of justice or reason in it, The
only fair way is to give to each section it's share
In proportion to the taxes it pays; and those
sections which did not get their share originally
should have it made up to them, before any
more Is expended on those streets which were
Improved originally. They have had their share
ond great deal more. Now let them wait until
the rest of the family are helped before they
hand up their plate for a second supply.
CAPITOL. HILL.
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1901 THE GREAT 100 4
1OOl PENNSYLVANIA ROUTE 100
TO THE NORTH, WEST AND SOUTHWEST.

wv PENNS1LtAN1A KOU1E NV
s,,,x,,I DOUBLE TRACK, STEEL ;t RAILS So.
TRAINS LEAVE, WAsHiS s from MD Depot corner
For ps, of Sixth .aa and md strses a. follows
Sleeping Cars 10 Pttsburg and Chicago; go a. m.
daily. with Sleeping Cars from Harrisburg 70 Gin
with Palace Carr 10 Pittsburg - 80
BALTIMORE AND POTOMAC RAILROAD.
TarIor Car to Watkins and the North, at 500 Al
prday. with Palace Cars to canandasua and Wat
For Wilamsport Lock Haven and Elmira. at 10 80 g.
For New d Yo4f, s sn9e fSe i Fnst
do;d5 m, limited ress Of Pullman Parlor Cars.
For Brooklyn n. T., all through at Jer-
sey City with boats of Brooklyn Annex. affordns
ferriage across New York city 'N-''e 1'N'''
For Philadelphia, 500 M. 10 80 a M 200 $40 1000
0d Ims d fEs 1Ds 80 No ds ss
s g 1000 sn% and asS
Sunday; 500. 1880 am, 400. $40. $3.50. 1000
For Popes Creek Line. $40 am and 4:4o p m daily.
For Annapolis. go a. NJ and 4;4o PM daily. except
ALExANDkiA AND FREDERICKsBURG RAILWAY,
AND ALEXANDRIA AND WASHINGTON
For Alexandria. 1.oo 7:2o 800. and IL 80 am 40
zoo So $40 and li;So pa lo On Sunday 1t
daily, and 5 90 p. daily, except sunday.
Trains leave Alexandria for Washington 6:oo sos and
m. aud 200 midnight. On sunday at sos aud
1000 Am 90 and 3 :o5 pm.
Of 18th street and avenue, the depot
where orders be left for the checking Of baggage
j. Il. WOOD, General Passenger Agent.
FRANK THOMSON General Manager. noy29
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STEAMERS, &c.

YORKTOWN CENTENNIAL.
POTOMAC STEAMBOAT COMPANY,
It'll Street Wharf
DAILY LINE TO AND FROM YORKTOWN
STEAMERS GEORGE LEARY AND GEORGEANNA.
BEGINNING MONDAY. OCTOBER II.
Leave Washington each day at returning leave
Yorktown each day at D. m
BOTH STEAMERS on MONDAY.
Fare to Yorktown and Norfolk s.. so each way.
Meals and StaterOoms extra.
No second class tickets sold
NoTE.-The Steamer EXCELSIOR having been char
tered by the Congressional Committee will remain at
Yorktown during the Celebration.
FOR YORKTOWN, NORFOLK, PORTSMOUTH,
FORTRESS MONROE, P1NEY POINT
AND POINT LOOKOUT.
steamer George Leary on TUESDAYS, THURSDAYS
and SATURDAYS, at pm.
f1TSt-cass fare to Yorktown, Norfolk and Fort
First-cass fare to Piney Point and Point Lockout so
Second-casS to Pney Point and Point Lookout. IS
Tickets and staerooms for and information fur
Cooks Tours. 1881 Pennsylvania avenues ST. Marc Ho-
tel Rooee's Cigar Stands. at principal Hotels: b.
PolkinhOrn next to City Post Office; and at Company
Office 7th street wharf.
On and after THURSDAY, October 18TH the George
Leary Will stop at Yorktown and returning her
regular trips to Norfolk Tuesdays Thursdays and Sat
uryiays. VIM. p WEIGH AGENT
GEORGE MATTINGLY. General Supt OILS
CSrTI,A