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The semi-weekly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1879-1882, 1881-12-15
RESCUED FROM DEATH.

William j. Coughlin of Somerville
Mass, says: In the fall of 1876 was
taken with BLEEDING OF THE LUNGS
followed by severe cough. LOST my
appetite and flesh, and was confined to
my bed. In 1877 was admitted to the
Hospital. The doctors said had hole
in my lungs az big as half dollar. AT
one time was reported dead. gave up
hope, but a friend told me of Or.
WILLIAM HALLS BALSAM FOR
THE LUNGS ] got bottle, when TO
my surprise, commenced TO feel better,
and to day | feel better than for three
years past.
II write this hoping every one afflicted
with Diseased Lungs will take DIR. WILL
LIAM HALLS BALSAM, and be con-
WINGED tn t assumption CAN BE
CURED. / can positively say it has
done more good than all the other medi-
zines have taken since my sickness
DURNo's CATARRH SNUFF cures all
affections of the mucous membrane, of the
head and throat.
DR. Morris Liver PILLS are the best
Cathartic Regulators.
After sixteen years constant suffering
D. r. v. G. cured me Of Dyspepsia.
r. A. Bonita,
Cashier New York State Banking Co.
Syracuse N. Y
Guaranteed by all Druggists 1y
Your D. 3. V. G. has cured me OF
Chronic Diarrhea, Urinal difficulties and
Chronic Dyspepsia of Is years standing.
James Coakley, Bellisle, N. Y.
Gu0 toad hv IN n~r,%~s.e.
HOW TO TREAT YOUR WATCH.
Wind it up at the same time every day.
Keep it in as even temperature as pos
slble. Sudden transition from heat to cold
may cause the handspring to break.
you would keep it clean never put ii in
| any pocket except one of leather. Those
| pockets which are lined with cloth, cot
ton or calico, give by certain friction q
fluff, which enters most Watch Cases aud
mskes its way to the delicate parts of
| the watch. See that the pocket is turned
and cleaned often, and take an old linen
handkerchief and wipe carefully all the
dust from under the backs, bezel and
cap of the case. But above all you must
be sure that the Case fits firmly and to be
sure of this, select one where the paris
[center, backs, cap. &c., are each made
from one piece of metal.
The JAMES Boss PATENT STIFF
FENED Or FILLED GOLD WATCH CASE
is so made, and not only does such a
Watch Case become stronger and fit more
perfectly, but it enables the manufacturer
to turn and form three pieces of metal
1.-THE outer ones being of gold and the
iuner one of an inferior meta) into shape
for the round parts. making to all appear
ances and practical purposes just as good
a Watch Case rs the solid gold, at about
one-half the cost to the purchaser.
There are nearly one hundred thousand
of these Watch Cases now carried, and
their good qualities are acknowledged by
the same number of happy possessors.
All Jewellers keep them also illustrated
catalogues for gfatati0ns distribution.
The semi-weekly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1879-1882, 1881-12-15

The ties that connect business men
with the publie--advsrtise.
The semi-weekly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1879-1882, 1881-12-15
I Deem 1t My DUG To Tess

what DR.. Swayne's Compound Syrup
Il Of Wild Cherry has done for me. /
had violent cough, night sweats,
sore throat, great weakness, with Sc
we're attacks Of hemorrage, gave up
all hope ofrecovery. l am cured, a
sound and hearty man.
EDWARD Fl. HANSON.
Engineer of Sweeney's Pottery,
1884 Ridge Avenue, Philadelphia.
Over twenty-five years have elapsed
and still remain hearty man.
Mnysy Gre suR es-Jng from Colds
Dry, parched, sore throat, losing flesh
bronchial and asthmatic attacks. All
these dangerous symptoms are entirely
cured by "Dr. Swayne's Compound Syrup
Of Wild Cherry" The first dose gives
relief, and the worst cough and sore
- yield to its healing properties.
Sold by all si,lHiassxgS;sss at rs cents and 81
The large size is the most esonomical.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-03-03
HARDLY EDUCATED.

In speaking of the Beers in his lecture
the other night, Professor Norton observed
that they are an educated and progressive
people. We are somewhat curious to know
where he obtained this information, for it
is not in accord with any we have been
able to discover. Such accounts as we
have met with concur in describing the
Beers as on the whole, very ignorant peo.
pie, full of superstition, extremely con.
sentative in their habits and customs, and
SO little progressive as to cling with great
pertinacity to form of domestic servitude
which can only be correctly characterized
as slavery. They are in fact brave, stub
born, self.willed and intolerant race, having
no regard for their nomadic neighbors,
being given to encroachment and slave
hunting, and possessing in a marked
degree the. very qualities as colonists
which they complain of in the English.
1t is true that they have been driven, but
it is equally true that they have driven
Others. Had they been let alone few
years ago. when they had brought upon
themselves Zulu war in which they were
getting very much the worst of it, they
would quite probably have been extin-
guished. They themselves solicited Brit
ish aid at that time, and subsequently,
having had too much of it, they wished to
repudiate their own agreements. Hence
the present war.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-03-03

Anchor line of steamers for the transporta
ton of other freight. Through bills of ladiDg
will also be given at European ports on all
merchandise destined for st. Louis b. w.
Lewis, formerly President of the st. Louis,
Kansas City and Northern Railroad is Pres
ident of the company.
Local Option.
INDIANAPOLIS, March 2d.-The local OPP
ton law was defeated in the Senate to-day
by vote of % ayes to % noes.
DOVER (Del.), March 2d.-The local option
bill proposed by the State Temperance ALI
ance passed the House to-day, and the gen.
eral opinion is that it viii pass the Senate.
The Whitaker Case.
NEW York, March 2d.-In the Whitaker
case to-day, the letter of warning and other
communications were admitted, but as speci-
mems of handwriting only. The letters have
been given to VIM. E. Hagan. of Troy, an
expert. who will examine them and re-
port the result on Monday next, till which
time the Court adjourned.
silver and Stocks.
NEW York, March 2J.-Silver bars, 1134
money closed at 2; Governments strong
stocks closed steady; Western Union, 1913 +;
Quicksilver al Pacific Mail, So; Mariposa,
4; Wells, Fargo, AZ; New York Central,
1453 Erie, 4S8; Panama, 30; Union Par
cific, 1l54; bonds, 1134; Central Pacific
So; bonds, 1124 Sutro, l.
A Texas Murderer Captured In Colorado
DENVER, March ID. = Matt. Bangston
wanted at Houston, Tex, for the murder Of
street-car driver, was arrested at Como TO-
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Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-03-03
Marine Disasters.
MISCELLANEOUS,

De Lesseps says the Panama Canal will
certa' lly be finished by 1888, at the estimated
cos of 512, 200, 600 francs. The work will
not require more than 5000 to 10000 work
men in the most busy portion of the work,
who will be recruited from the colored popu-
lation of Colombia and the West Indies.
The coinage of the MINIS for February was
50, 55S coo, of which 81, S07, 600 was silver
dollars.
Among the items added by the Senate com.
mittee to the sundry civil appropriation bill
was $40. 600 for a new lighthouse on the coast
of California.
The President has sent to the Senate the
nomination of Henry W. Briggs, to be Post
master at Gilroy Cal. The nomination of
Samuel B. Axtell. to be Receiver of Public
Moneys at Boise City, has been withdrawn at
his own request.
Drouin de L'Huys, the French statesman.
Minister of Foreign Affairs under the Re-
public and again under the Emperor, is dead.
Bismarck has submitted to the Federal
Council draft of an ordinance for the crea-
ton of an Economic Council for the whole of
Germany. In consequence of the project be-
ing introduced as an ordinance and not as a
bill, it will not require the assent of the
Reichtag.
A Paris dispatch says: The committee of
inquiry in the case of General DeCissy unan-
mously decided to report him not guilty of
treason or, corruption, and not guilty Of
irregularities prejudicial to the state, by q
vote of II to 6.
The British troops under orders for Natal
will increase the force there by 5000.
A site to cost SOS, 600 has been selected on
Georgetown flights for new Naval Observa-
tory. The plan for the building has also
been chosen.
The Turkish Military Council has pointed
out to the Porte the necessity of acquiring
accurate knowledge of the district bordering
on Greece. The Porte has consequently de.
termined to send Ghasi Moukhtar Pasha to
the frontier with the commander in-chief.
The Cretan revolt against taxation is
spreading through the eastern provinces, and
the authorities are completely paralyzed.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-03-03
THE FREE LIBRARY.

1t is necessary at the coming city cleo.
ton for the people to choose five Trustees
for the Free Library. The law which pro-
vides for the election of these officers was
enacted last winter. The provision is not
a wise one, but it must be followed. The
Free Library is an institution which can
only be made successful by very careful
and economical management The funds
available for its maintenance are inconsid-
erable and unless they are judiciously ex-
pended the supply of books cannot be kept
up. 1t is desirable that in choosing new
Trustees the people should elect men who
can be relied on to preserve the popular
character of the Library. Such an insti-
tuition, being for the express use of the
people, ought to be so conducted as to
afford them the greatest possible good.
1t is evident that any change ia
the administration which tended to i'm
press a special bias of any kind
upon it, or which introduced narrow or
l4iDeraL views iuIo us ulreCGlOu, NOulll IT,
suit in its injury. The utility of free
libraries consists in their ability to supply
to the masses literature which cannot
otherwise be obtained to furnish the poor
with the means of self-culture to afford
the broadcast and most comprehensive line
OF standard works in the English Ian
guage at least. Manifestly, in filling IN
paid offices like these, regard should be
had to the inclination of candidates to give
their time to the public when called upon,
and those only who can be trusted to do
this should be chosen. There is plenty of
work in connection with free library for
such as are willing to do it, and it is
very desirable that earnest as well as edu-
Gated men should be selected. A collec.
ton of books of this kind ought to represent
the most broad and progressive tendencies
of the age, as matter of course, and
therefore it is necessary that some, at least,
of the Directors, should be conversant with
the various currents of modern literary
production. 1t is comparatively easy, by
the employment of little discrimination,
to secure the satisfactory administration of
the Free Library; but it is also easy, by
neglecting to attend to the matter, to de,
prive it of much OF its usefulness, or even
to convert it into a means of injury to the
community. In short, the selection of Lii
brary Trustees is worth public attention,
and we hope it will receive it.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-03-03
CROSS LEvEEs AND DRAINAGE.
The Views of Country Correspondent on
the Subject,

EDS. RECORD UNION: 1t seems that cross
levees are hurting Sacramento City as much
as they are hurting some of US in the country.
| see from an item in your paper of February
23d that L. III. Tryon and Others advised cut
ting the Freeport levee to get better drain
age for the city. The same advice would APP
ply to all cross leyess built between the city
and the natural outlet at Snodgrass slough.
1t is the cross levees that are doing all the
harm today. If the water was allowed to
follow the natural course it had twenty years
ago, it would all empty uninterrupted out at
Snodgrass slough into the Mokelumne and
drain ali cur land, the city included 1t is
the only way Sacramento City has to
drain, but at present neither she
nor we In the country can avail ourselves of
the natural drainage. Why not remove all
cross levees between your city and the lower
end of Snodgrass slough, and help nature
little In digging through a few high places
In doing this We have q natural drain for the
city as well as this part Of the county l
think farmers residing above CORTLAND, be-
tween it and the city, have found out, as we'll
as US living below, that to reclaim our land
and keep the foods from destroying what it
las Iahen US bue DSsG pdfI OF our lives TO
make, we must do it in a different manner
from that we have adopted. We want some
system about it. Between Sacramento and
the natural outlet, viz, Snodgrass slough,
there are now three grand Instructions,
namely, the Freeport levee, the Anderson
leyee and the Pearson leYee. Now, l would
ask, what is the use of these cross levees but
to hold the water back from going out
to tide water. If they had never been built
we would not have the water on our fruit
trees all summer. We would be dry at least
on our front land, and the city would have
natural drain for all time. My plan would
be to build good, strong levees from Sacra-
mento city to Tyler slough, thence to Snod-
grass slough (put good flood or tide-gates in
it,, up said slough and west bank Of Mokel-
umne, and follow the high land to place Of
beginning, which would include all of Dis
trict No. 2, and l think it could be done
cheaper, and within said boundary, more on
general principles than any reclamation this
part of the county has ever had. Our pres
emit mode of reclamation has only brought
disaster upon us. People who have lived in
this county for the last twenty-five years
have found out by this time that if they want
to save their homes they must work together
and stand by one another, and in SO doing
work in harmony and try to reclaim the best
part of Sacramento county from the devasta-
ton of foods, OLD SETTLER.
CORTLAND, March l. 1881.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-03-03
A SIMPLE MAGIC LANTERN.

All that is required says the Scientific
american, to make simple magic lantern,
is an ordinary wooden packing box. kero-
sene hand lamp, with an Argand burner, a
small fish globe and burning glass or COM
end of the box cut round hole, large
enough to admit portion of the globe,
suspended within the box, with the lamp
close to it. The globe is filled with water
from which the air has been expelled by
boiling. Now moisten the surface of a
piece of common window glass with a
Strong solution of sulphate of soda, or even
common table salt dissolved in water, and
place it vertically in little stand or slip in
front of the box, so that the light from the
lamp will be focused on it from the globe,
which in this case answers as the condenser.
The image of the glass will then be pro-
iected on a wall or screen of white cloth
some distance in front, providing the lens
is SO placed in the path of the rays of
light, little in advance of the stand, so as
to focus on the wall or screen. In a few
minutes the salt solution on the surface of
the glace will begin to crystalline, and as
each group of crystals takes beautiful
forms, its image will be projected on the
wall or screen, and as it is watched it will
grow, as if by magic, into beautiful forest
of fern. like trees, and will continue to
grow as long as there is any solution on the
glass to crystalline. Then, by adding a
few drops Of any of the aniline colors to
the water in the globe, the image on the
screen will be illumined by shades of col
ored light. The order in which the va
rious articles are to be arranged is, lamp,
fish, globe (both in box, stand holding win
dow glass covered with solution, lens ION
another standl, wall or screen.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-03-03
NOTES FROM FALL RIVER.

A correspondent at Fall River Mills,
Shasta county, furnishes the annexed items
in communication dated February Goth:
Our winter thus far has been remarkably
fine, as much so as any l ever experienced
in Sacramento valley Stock has done
well and required very little hay, and
farmers have an abundance of feed left
over. There will be a large area of land
sown with grain this season, provided
seed can be obtained, which is very scarce
now owing to the last summers drought.
This country hasssettled up wonderfully
during the last two years, and there is
plenty of room for more. What we want
is men of intelligence and enterprise. Bur-
ney, Fall River, Big Valley and many
others in succession, intervening between
here and Oregon, nestled quietly among
the grand old mountains, only await the
sturdy husbandman to convert them into
beautiful homes, and no country in Califor
MIA can surpass this for heaIthfulness of
climate.
am informed, and from good authority,
that several surveys have been made
through this section for railroad on what
is said to be very practicable route The
sHIlil VI IAlC IOSOilOIINC GlluiIl1 us
way through these rich, fertile valleys,
and finely timbered mountains would be
hailed with enthusiasm.
Fall River Mills, beautifully located be-
tween Fall and Pitt rivers, Immediately
above their confluence, has grown nearly
three.fourths its present size since the
writer came here three years ago. 1t is a
wide-awake town considering the distance
it is from the railroad 90 niles and de.
barred, as it were, from the outside world.
Furthermore, we can boast of as fine, or
perhaps the finest natural water-power in
this State. We now have one first-class
flour, saw and planning mill, and an excel
lent location for wooden mills and factories,
We have five stores, two hotels, two
blacksmith shops livery and feed stable,
barber shop, and last, but not least, fine
cornet band, organized about five months
ago, NJ. P Rose, leader The 22d of this
month the band played in public to large
assembly and was loudly applauded, which
reflects great credit upon their teacher and
the members of the band, as many of them
when first organized knew nothing of the
first rudiments of music.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-03-03
MINING NOTES.

The MERGED Hydraulic Company, Mari
po3a, have struck richer gravel than ever
before.
Very rich silver specimens are brought
from the Florida and Black Range Noun
tains, New Mexico, and the Los Vegas
Mining World says the general impression
prevails among old miners that the Chihua-
hua of New Mexico will be found in these
new districts, which have been held by the
Apache Indians until recently.
Authentic records make it appear that in
! Spain during more than two thousand con-
secutive years, and in Saxony and Hanover
for over nine hundred years. assures have
been largely worked, and they remain to-
day as good as they ever were. 1t is far
better to sink to considerable depth upon
one claim than TO do very small modicum
of labor on several locations.
Says the jacksonville Pajaronidn. Par
ties are working the black sand in the San
Andreas, where tunnel was run into the
hill year or more ago. Several tons of
this sand were worked, and gave such
| favorable returns that company was
formed. The black sand underlays about
all of the San Andreas rancho. The pros.
PCSOOAS AafC III pAONSu AlaCllACl1s
Says the Territorial Enterprise The
establishment of reduction works on the
river would not hurt Virginia City, and
would give the town of Sutro quite lift.
Assuming that the mills and concentration
works gave employment to from $50 to 200
men, it would be a mere trife to the swarms
of men that would be employed here. We
could well afford to let Sutro have that
number of workmen.
Three Mexican boys, one formerly a
boot black in Sonora, finding there was
nothing in it during the rainy season, left
the business to try his luck at mining.
They prospected near Nat. Arnold's claim,
in Clark's gulch, above Yankee Hill They
found some very rich float rock, put
stream of water on the ground, and after
sluicing and short run, they cleaned up
between $500 and $500 in quartz gold and
succeeded in uncoyering fine and promis
ing quartz vein.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-03-03
A coNJURER's REMARKABLE DISEASES.

NJ. Hartz, the conjurer, has just recov.
cred from disease which for three years
and eight months rendered him helpless
and part of the time speechless and blind.
After selling the shop in Broadway, near
Wallack's, where he sold apparatus for
conjuring, he set out in August, 1877, en-
trip to South America In the begin
ming of May, 1877, he was obliged to stop
his performances, and was brought back to
this city, arriving on June Goth. He
lived four weeks in the house of relative,
during whichstime he became helpless.
Then he was taken to boarding house in
Fifth avenue, where he was kept year,
then to house in Brooklyn, where he
lived nine months, and lastly to house at
Mount Kisco, where he remained till week
ago. According to his account of his dis
ease he lost power of action almost entirely,
his skin became fiaky and so soft that the
slightest touch caused him infinite pain. He
became unable to speak, could not open his
eyes, except for a wink, and the flesh
wasted away from his arms and the calves
OF his legs, though his body grew slightly
stouter. He could not bear any light, and
his sense of hearing was rendered wonder
fully acute. While in Brooklyn his room
was on the third floor IN the rear, and the
dining room was in the front basement. He
says that he was able to hear every word
spoken in the dining room. He says his
memory also became SO retentive that ne
could repeat all the conversation he had
heard in three years. A footstep seemed
as loud as the detonation of cannon, and
he waited with dread the hours beforehand
for the report of the sunset and sunrise
guns on Governors Island. He was not
able to swallow always, and he says he FREE
quently expected to die from that cause
Sometimes as many as sixteen days passed
without his drinking. He also ate very
little, fasting on an average ten days at
time. His sense of taste was entirely
gone, and he is only beginning to recover it.
After he had remained awake six months
it occurred to him that it was strange he
should live without sleep, and he wrote
with pencil an order to his attendant
directing the latter to wake him whenever
he appeared to sleep. This occurred only
few times. His beard grew to length
of eighteen inches and his hair reached to
his shoulders. His recovery was more sud-
den than the attack. One morning two
weeks ago strength came to him to get up,
and an hour later he was able to do feats
of strength that his attendant, six-footer,
was unable to perform. His skin is still
tender and his flesh resembles putty or a
bursted rubber ball, in that it retains for
some time depression after it has been
pressed. During the attack he had no
second sight experiences, but his wife re-
marked cynically that he knew all about
second sight. The disease is supposed to
have been disarrangement OF the nervous
system.