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Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-01-01

FIXING A MIRROR IMAGE-A German
scientist has succeeded in obtaining a
chemical composition, by means of which,
1t IS claimed, mirror image may be fixed
and sold as photograph. With this COM
position the mirror surface is painted, and
the back part'o the mirror receives also a
coating of oil. The mirror thus prepared
Is held before the person who is to be pho
tographed. The oil coating evaporates,
and the likeness of the person remains in
natural colors on the light surface. The
image so fixed is brought into bath. and
is exposed half an hour in the sunlight be.
fore delivery.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-01-01

Secretary Evarts tells an anecdote about
John Marshall, who, when fellow-passen-
ger in a stage coach exclaimed eve are
near the birthplace of Patrick Henry !;
how could he fail to be an orator when
born amid this grand scenery" replied ::
" Young man, this scenery has been here
ever since Patrick Henry was born; but
there has not been any more Patrick
Henrys."
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-01-01

As the happy couple were leaving the
church the husband said to the partner of
his welded life. Marriage must seem a
dreadful thing to you. Why, you were all
of tremble, and one could hardly hear
you say 4 WILL" 81 will have more
courage and say it louder next time, said
the blushing bride.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-01-01

Al.
Excess of expenditures S236. $50 20, which
was paid to the amount of SOL GS3 56 for
support of the State Government from bal
ance to credit of general fund at the begin
ming of the year. The remaining excess was
for expenditures from the special fund.
The Legislature of 1880 appropriated over
80, 600 900 from the general fund, but fixed a
tax levy that raised for that fund only 81 $780,
600. 1t became necessary to borrow from
other funds nearly $3.50, 600.
The balance in the general fund at the
close of the year was S163,7 100 SO. The July
claims exhausted it.
The school fund receipts were 81, 6S1,-
902 ~ apportioned 81, 5G6,171 "a; balance
for next appOrtionment, S175,730 S. total
securities held for school fund, S2,006 SEQ );
balance in State school land fund at close of
year, S97, sos O8; bonds held by the State for
University fund, ST. 100000; interest on the
same for the year, 81, 327 go.
Funded debt of the State is So, 403, coo.
OF this only S7l3 900 is in private hands;
the balance is held in trust for school and
University fund.
OF the delinquent tax upon personal prop
erty that of San Fran cisco amounted to
1925, 662 80, or about so per cent. of the total
State delinquency.
The receipts into the State Treasury for
the year from the counties for taxes, estates
of decedents, school land interest and prin-
cipal and reclamation tax were as follows
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-01-01
Value of railroads, street and steam,
ssessed BY Assessors, in following counties !:
PETROLEUM EXPORTS FROM 1862 8
TO 1880.

Although a small amount of petroleum was
exported in 1862, no &C cunt was kept of it,
nor is the return for 1923 complete, it being
estimated that as much again was sent abroad
unenumerated. In the earlier years, about
as much crude as refined was exported: but
of late years, the crude has constituted only
small portion of the quantity exported:
QUANTITIES AND VALUES OF PETROLEUM.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-01-01
a religious body having resolved to bnild

A religious body having resolved to build
a new church, the pastor went about
begging, accepting not only the widows
but the child's mite. In the Sunday-school.
a few days afterward, while instructinq the
children, he compared himself to shep-
herd, and then inquired what the latter
did with his flock. One bright-eyed little
fellow. promptly replied, "He shears
them"
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-01-01

OF these are amounts outstanding as fol-
lows Against general fund. S37, 991 9S !;
State school fund, SIS 46.
The valuation of real and personal prop
erty, and the rate of taxation on each 800,
from the organic alton of the State Govern
ment to the year 1879 so, is shown as follows :
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-01-01

An excellent grease for wagons may be made
of one pound Of tallow, quarter of a pound
aof castor oil ald a quarter of pound 80
51laclz lead. Melt the tallow and grind tie
Szhcie together until cold and well mixed.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-01-01
STATISTICS OF THE STATE.

Abstract from reports of Assessors to the
State Board Of Equalization, showing the
number and kinds of personal property as
sessed in 1880:
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-01-01
IND VALUES
EXPORTED.
Uhe month estimated at one-eleyenth OF eleven

The quantity exported in this period was
3.06l. 1l0,622 gallons, equal to 70 542, 765
barrels. For this there has been received
1852, 1872 645. In round numbers, an indus
Try unknown some twenty years or so ago
has, it is estimated, enriched the United
States by the pretty sum of billion dollars,
one-half of which has been given US in cash
BY foreign nations.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-01-01
THE PRESIDENTIAL VOTE.

The following is an analysis of the official
vote by States for President at the late cleo
ton. There were four candidates:
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-01-01

A TABLE

Showing financial CONDITIONS a ss % H % $780, as s State being eH and
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-01-01

Can the astronomers hunting pastime be
properly called shooting stars :
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-01-01

lily never causes disqui-
among his friends. New York
MEMS.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-01-01
WHEAT CROP OF THE UNITED STATES

fHueie sVIHs SlaIIsIlcs CONCERNING the Great
Cereal
Charles Worthington, statistician of the
| Department of Agriculture, has completed
his final investigation and compilations in
regard to the wheat crop of the United States
for 1880, detailed statement of which, by
| States. is as follows:
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-01-01
THE STATE FINANCES.

Statistics of the Treasury and Funds Of
the State
The report of the State Controller for the
thirty first fiscal year makes these showings
for the year from July 1, 1879, to june 80,
1880:
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-01-01

Assessed. Number. A ".
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-01-01

The State Board apportioned mortgages in
cases where one mortgage covered property
in more than one county. Assessed value of
the mortgages, 81, S64, S71; assessed value of
property mortgaged, 81 427, 091. The value
of the moftga yes is GA 71100 per cent. of the
assessed value of the property.
The Board of Equalization thinks that if
money had been loaned upon the property at
the margin warranted by safety the assess
ment of the real estate should have been
So, 729,742.
Amount of mortgages, 800, 81, III assessed
value OF real estate and improvements, $780,
694, 217. The real estate and improvements
OF the State is mortgaged TO the amount of
LOLA of their assessed value.
Net amount of solvent credits assessed,
$40, 1854, III. Per cent. of personal property,
exclusive of money, to which solvent credits
amount, Ii 35.100.
Assessed value of shares of capital stock,
IS, 449, 329; value of franchise assessed by
Assessors, SIG, 347, 146.
The two principal assessments of franchises
are San Francisco Gas Company and Spring
Valley Water Company, each 81, 600, 900,
both of which will doubtless be contested
The assessment of shares of capital stock
is based on market value after deducting the
value of property assessed to the corporation.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-01-01

Thirty.two of the thirty-eight States show
an increase in their total vote over their fetal
in 1876; and six States, all Southern, show
decreaSa az foIlouc
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-01-01

The first column does not show the number of
pounds TONS as the case may be, because some of
the Assessors failed to state them. The average
value on the total value, however, is correct.
Number of acres of land assessed in 1880,
20, 1l6, ESQ., 1879, %, 024 057 excess in 1880,
1882. 023. Average value per acre in 1880,
81 o..
vAIrE nE REAL ESTATE ANrn r,Ippnrr,rr,NrS
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-01-01
Grand totals ,439 10 436 O6O sos, 720 IA 107

------y-1-
Dow's vote-Connecticut, 4O5 Iowa, 47O Ken
gan, 942; Minnesota, 2S6 New Hampsnire' $50 :.
New Jersey, 1875 New York, 1,5l7 Ohio, . els :
Pennsylvania $50; Rhode Island, 20 Wisconsin,
81. Total, 9,644.
moCu Note IooO.' y 1890
Increase IT'S SSs
Garfield over Hancock .................... 1863
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-01-01
Total bushels. ...........4S0 $40, 728

The followiog compilation will show at a
glance tie comparative yield in the several
general divisions Of the c uutrE. in bushels:
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-01-01

No returns from Mono, Suffer or Yolo counties
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-01-01

s y,o os ZOO Value of IT,, 80, 81, p..o Amt of State
"a estaa sonal prop ,rnrertv ltaXacnl and county s.
o- e' erty. fiot'-' ~ I
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-10-20
State Board of Agriculture.

At meeting Of the State Board Of Agri-
culture, held at st. Louis during the Fair,
President Walker stated that the special
subject for consideration was the sale of az
ricultural lands granted by Congress to the
use of schools in this State, of which land
about 10000 acres have been sold. Only a
small percentage had been appropriated to
the Agricultural College, and the President
thought the Board should make it their in
terest to see the proceeds of these lands
properly invested, as the college was suffer-
ing for fixtures and stock. Prof. Swallow
continued the subject in a similar strain,
and at the conclusion of his address DR.. II.
d. Shannon offered the following:
Resolred, That a committee of three be ap-
pointed to report to the annual meeting of
the Board of Agriculture of Missouri, the
amount of endOwments and resources of the
Agricultural College, its Investments, the
sources from which derived, the disposition
of principal and proceeds thereof under the
law; the relation of the Agricultural College
to the University, and the needs of the Col
lege, and that the President of the Board be
the chairman OF the committee.
Messrs. Eshbaugh and Moore were APP
pointed to serve with the chairman on said
committee, and the meeting adjOurna
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-10-20
PITH AND POINT.

Would you call pretty girls soft
hat "duc-tilep" 1t Is flexible, you know.
Wi and Wisdom.
"A Canadian paper says that Cana
dian girls make better wives than any to
be found on this side of the border. Let
'em come over then and get husbands
worthy of them.-Bu6aio Courier.
Baseball is called our national
game; and latterly the Boston nine
have been doing SO nobly that they
themselves are in danger of being called
the national game.-NeCton RepuJii-
can.
-" Eloquent" said the Denver man
of his favorite clergyman, eloquent
why he's the most eloquent man in
America. He can hold his congregation
in their seats with a first-class dog-fight
in progress outside. "-BoSton Post.
-Philadelphia papers are complain
ing of the scarcity Of pretty girls on the
streets. This reminds US that we have
before wondered whether Philadelphia
has any pretty girls at all or not. II
she has, they must all be concealed be-
hind those confounded shutters. -Lo,ccH
Courier.
-"My son." said the wise father,
deity laying the skate strap along the
shrinking back of his bowling son, "l
am doing this for your own good" And
as the lad jumped clear over the saw
buck he walled, "Don't make me too
good, dad; 'be not righteous overmuch,'
you ow."-Bvlinqton Mwkeye.
st. Louis is to have grand pageant
called the "Veiled PROPHETS. the per.
formers wearing wells so they can not be
recognized. It's good idea. It Is very
distressing to all concerned to have
Prince Carnival, King Momus, or Prime
Minister ISRAELI halted and dunned for Q
wash bill.-7eras Sitiings. .....
I'll think it all humbug for man
to attempt to disparage his own impor.
lance. A man should think good deal
of himself. II he doesn't nobody else
will. I think . good deal of myself, and
/ think ought TO; it's duty" Thus
Smith. every true" said Fogg, shut
1t doesn't reflect much credit on your
taste. "-Boston Transcript.
Il stood on the porch at evening.
And the June. bug bright, IN the starry night
Flew merriiy through the town.
o, sweet were the gentle xephyrs
That blew from the balmy South
And red were the lips, and sweet the sips,
That took from the pretty mouth.
Her tiny waist was encircled
Said !, 'Whosc duciy lucky are aS your oraf lover"
Yours. she murmured. sand whose ara
your
o, the hallowcd hours OF that EVENING"
o, the cruel caprice OF Fatel
And fired me over the gate. ''''
Chicago TvSSsne
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-10-20
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

"A German physician asserts that
railway employees are liable to anec-
tons Of the spinal cord.
The annual production in the United
States for several years past has been
about seven billion pins.
1t is Sir John Lubbock's opinion
that bees are, in rough kind OF way,
sensitive to color, and that their favorite
color is blue.
There is in the Paris Electrical Ex-
hibition an induction coil capable OF
giving a spark forty-two inches long
and piercing block Of glass six inches
thick. ls-D ,ll
The Superintendent of the Census
Bureau says that Notwithstanding the
large production of coal in this coun-
try, the use of wood for fuel is greatly
in excess of coal, the ratio being as four
to one.
cyclones are observed to extend
over a circle from one hundred to i've
hundred, or sometimes one thousand
miles in diameter. In the West Indies
they are sometimes as small as one hum
dred miles in diameter, but dilate to six
hundred and one thousand miles on
reaching the Atlantic. They sometimes,
however, contract, increasing greatly in
violence during the process.
Prof. Hutchinson has, in one Of his
lectures, mentioned very interesting
fact ascertained in Berlin. Among Ro-
man Catholics, who prohibit marriages
between persons who are near blood
relatives, the proportion of deaf-mutes
is in 5000; among Protestants, who
view such marriages as permissible, the
proportion is 1 in 1000; while among
Jews, who encourage intermarriage with
blood relations, the deaf-mutes are as
In 400.
Eggs, says NJ. Arsonval, during the
first days of incubation absorb much
heat. This process Is accompanied by
an absorption of oxygen and an album
dant liberation of carbonic acid. During
sleep animals absorb much oxygen and
evolve little heat, the emission of car
bonic acid varying very little. Animals
are not merely the seat of oxidations and
conclusions. Every living being Is, ut
the same time, a reducing apparatus
which effects synthesis.
1t was the discovery of sheet-iron
rolling i'm 1928 which gave the great i'm
petus to the tin-plate trade in England.
The manufacture of timed sheet iron
had been introduced there from the con-
tinent in as early as 1910, but it had not
become established until about half n
century later. and for many years the
English continued to import plates from
Hamburg, to which they now send thou.
sands of boxes annually. The Cont
mental and early English tin-plates were
hammered, not rolled.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-10-20
Miscellaneous Items.

Farmers in Northwestern Missouri
have Just awakened to the fact that swim
oilers have been working a very old dodge
on them. The swindlers represent them
selves as agents of a grocery house, and in
duce their victim to sign an order for goods,
which as time rolls round comes up for COL
lection at bank as a genuine pr0missory
note.
The Collier White Lead Company, of
st. Louis, has filed charges of incompetency
against the Fire Department of that city,
alleging that its works could have been
saved at the recent fire by proper manage
ment.
Big crowd at the st. Louis Fair.
About forty suspected pickpockets
were collared by the detectives and locked
up for safety during the recent st. Louis
Fair.
Arthur Kelly, a porter at the South
ern Hotel, st. Louis, was almost instantly
killed by falling through the elevator shaft,
a distance of five stories.
1t rained the first three days of the st.
Louis Fair.
Judge Irwin z. Smith, well-known
st. Louis lawyer, died recently at AIbu-
querque, n. NJ, where he had gone for the
benefit Of his health.
The Southern Methodists at Rolla will
soon build beautiful church.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-10-20
What Electricity Is Doing.

Ex-Minister White says that while in
Paris he visited the Electric Exposition.
He says Mr.. Edison has one of the finest,
If not the finest exhibit in the building.
The Siemens Brothers, of Berlin, who
are laying the new Atlantic cable, have
also fine exhibit. The electric rail.
road, as laid in Berlin and Paris, Is a
perfect success. al Think said Mr..
White, cit will create revolution
before long. The elevated railroads
must soon adopt that system, for II does
away with the wear and tear Of the
heavy engines. Siemens Brothers are
preparing to establish a new road In
Berlin about four miles long. The only
apparatus the car carries Is carried in
box underneath the floor about three
feet long, three feet broad and eighteen
inches high. The car stops and starts
as easily as horse-car, and runs ct the
rate of about fifteen or twenty miles an
hour.o ~. -
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-10-20
A, Terrible and Fatal Disease

A recent dispatch from Parkville, Plati
County, to the Kansas City Times, says:
For the past two weeks there has been q
great deal of sickness in this vicinity, re-
sembling smallpox, and a number Of
deaths have occurred. The disease first
the mouth of the Little Platte aud extends
beyond Waldron. Nothing was thought Of
it at first, and physicians and others visited
the sick until the malady became widely
scattered, and up to date not less than
dozen deaths have occurred. Last night
there were four deaths in the Beckley
neighbOrhood, the collins being ordered from
this place. There Is no disease at present
in Parkville, and a movement is on foot to
guard the roads leading into town from the
infected district, stopping. people from that
neighborhood from entering. A carrier is
to be employed to convey back and forth
such articles and necessaries as are required
by those outside. Pupils are being with
drawn from the public schools, and The in
dications are that unless roads are quaran-
tined, the students in the college will stam-
pede and make general exodus from the
place. Physicians are strong in the faith
that the disease, be it what it may, will be
confined to the at present infected districts,
on the island and four miles back in the
country.
From Mr.. Threlkeld, a farmer living near
Parkville, the Times obtained the following
additional information:
The disease broke out between Parkville
and Waldron, two stations on the Council
Bluffs road. 1t was brought there bv-a tramp
laborer who came from Kansas City seeking
work and was taken sick with the complaint
and died. Every one who attended his fu-
neral was stricken down with the scourge.
The bodies are covered with the most horri-
BILE sores, and fairly rot and tester before
death ensues. A person who dies with this
disease can not be lifted into the coffin. The
flesh falls from the bones and the bones
themselves crumble and break when han
died. Many of the citizens think it is the
old black smallpox. a very virulent form of
the disease, in which the body is covered
with black eruptions, and few who are taken
survive. Whether it Is ANYTHING more than
smallpox remains to be determined. The
families reported to be most afflicted in the
part of the country where Mr.. Threlkeld
came from, were those Of Mr.. Beckett and
Mr.. NaylOr.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-10-20
MISSOURI STATE NEWS.
The Farmers. Congress.

The Farmers Congress-, held at st. Louis
during the recent Fair. was attended by
delegates from Missouri, Illinois, Arkansas,
Kentucky, Tennessee and Michigan. Hon.
John Walker, President of the Missouri
State Board of Agriculture, presided, and
Prof. George C. Swallow, Dean of the Mis-
souri, Agricultural College, acted as Secre-
tary. Mr.. Walker, in calling the meeting to
order, said:
GENTLEMEN-Our Southern brethren have
come to us, and l, as President of the State
Board OF Agriculture of the State of Missouri,
nave called this body together that we may
receive these gentlemen and provide for the
Temporary organization of a Farmers Con-
vention. Our State Board is not so largely
to have seen, but we are in hearty accord
with the purposes of this convention, as I'M
derstand them. 1t will be the purpose of the
organization when completed to prepare sta,
tistics concerning stock and crops in al
quarters OF the country. And not only this,
out the comparison of the most COM
ton. 1t is fact that while in the
North farmers are using the best kind of. ag.
I1cultural implements, the poorer and more
imperfect are sent to the South. Now, we of
the North do not propose to say this or that
piece of machinery Is best, but to recommend
the best class and leave the trial of our South
ern brethren to decide which is best for their
practical purposes. Then the question of the
10000 miles of tributaries will come up tor
large share of our consideration. The move.
ment must not be local, but must be national
If 1t realizes all that is hoped by its projectors.
Gov. Crittenden having appointed the mem
bers of the State Board of Agriculture as dele
gates to this Farmers Convention, we are as
sembled and are now ready for preliminary
organization.
Organization was completed by the cleo
tion of the following officers for the ensuing
year: President, Col. 7. j. Hudson, of
mississippi; Secretary, j. v. Scott, of Tex
arkana, Ark Assistant Secretary, X. NJ.
Lear, Hannibal, Mo-, and NJ. B. Hillyard,
Mobile, Ala; Treasurer, Prof. j. N. Town
send, Columbus, o.
Addresses were delivered by number OF
the delegates, Constitution and Bylaws
was adopted and the Congress adjourned 10
meet in st. Louis on the Friday preceding
the Fair in October, 1882.