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BRITISH COLUMBIA.
Adyices fron, YIcioria.

VICTORIA. December 2d-A few days ago
news arrived from Yale that man named
Patrick Kelly had been found in an uncon-
scious condition on the trail near Spazzum.
His death was supposed to have resulted from
exposure, and Coroner's jury returned 8
verdict il accordance with this suppositien.
Nothing more was thought of the affair until
last evening. when man, who gave the
name OF John Kelly, surrendered himself to
the police, and after being duly cautioned,
made statement to the effect that he left a
public house on the Yale wagon road
in company with the deceased about
eight days ago. They were both under
the influence of liquor, and after tray-
cling together an alteration took place
between them, and from words blows ensued,
and John Kelly knocked the deceased down
and left him lying on the trail. and proceeded
to the city The circumstances did not dis
turb the deponent's mind until he read of
the death and the inquest, and then his con-
science so troubled him that he could not
rest until he had unburdened his mind. Last
evening he was taken to Jail for safe-keeping,
and on being Intercepted said he would
| rather not make statement as he supposed
that what he had said about being in COM
pany with deceased and knocking him down,
was said when he was under the influence of
liquor. He is man about 80 years of age,
and will appear in the Police Court this
morning.
SECOND DISPATCH.1
VICTORIA, December 2d.-The painful sus-
pense and great anxiety which have been mani
tested amongst all classes of this people fer
days past with regard to the illness OF Mr.
Justice Robertson, eliminated yesterday in
his demise. Although there was cause for
alarm from the time that the operation was
performed on him on Saturday last, yet up
to Tuesday afternoon 40 particularly unfavor-
able symptoms developed. He then began
to sink rapidly under the shock which his sys-
tenn bad sustained. For a short time yester-
day forenoon he seemed to rally slightly, but it
was only the last Pickering of exhausted
nature, for at $40 P. M. he died.
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TIE WEEKLY UN1oH.

Is constantly extending its circulation and widening
its influence. It's success is remarkable, and Is due
not only TO its high literary character, complete
news department and mastery editorial reviews
criticisms and Debates but to the fact that breaches
its readers in advance of all other weekes, and IS
therefore, fresher, frequent, and in every way
more desirable. 1t is a sx.een-page paper, issued
twice week, in eight-page parts and is mailed to
its readers Tuesdays and Fridays The advantage OF
this system is to be seen at glance. One is not
compiled TO wait whole week in order to learn
the of the preceding day. but he ha7 it before
him in from two 10 three days. The agricultural
department Of the WEEKLY UNION, prepared by a
practical and longexperienced farmer and agrcult-
ural observer and critic, makes it peculiarly vaua
BILE to the farmers OF California, especially as it is
supplemented by the lates. notes OF progress and
discovery CLEANED from the leading agricultural
Journals Of the world. The WEEKLY UNION is
mailed to any address, post paid year for 81 So
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PROPOSED NAVAL REFORM.

The Naval Advisory Board has made
report recommending the construction of
thirty-eight unarmored cruisers, five steel
rams, and five torpedo boats for coast and
harbor defense. Eighteen of the unar-
mored cruisers are to be capable of making
from fifteen to thirteen knots, and twenty
are to have speed of ten knots. The
rams and torpedo boats are to have speed
of thirteen knots. The remarkable feature
of these recommendations is that they con-
tain no proposal for armored vessels of any
kind. The whole of the cruisers are to be
built of steel, and we suppose equipped
with powerful guns. They must indeed
carry muchs heavier artillery than the
armored European vessels if they are to
encounter the latter at all, for it is clear
that unarmored ships cannot, with guns of
merely equal metal, venture to engage ar
mored ones. In the case Of the twenty
cruisers with speed of ten knots, indeed,
the necessity for heavy guns would be
paramount, for they could not trust to
their heels, but would have to fight
whenever they were overhauled, which
would probably be every time they were
chased. There are many European armored
ships capable of making fourteen and fiji.
teen knots, and several of these carry from
forty to eighty-ton guns. What kind of
weapons our unarmed slow cruisers must
have to match such enemies we leave to
the Advisory Board to determine but no
guns of sufficient caliber have yet been de-
vised. The five steel rams would perhaps
be useful, though without arnor they would
be exposed to very great risks. 1t must
be remembered that single shot from an
eighty-ton gun would probably sink any
one of the vessels recommended by the
Poard, and that unless they could lay com.
pletely beyond the range of an enemy they
would find no protection in their own bat
teries. On the whole, the propositions OF
the Board strike US as peculiar, though the
details of the report may serve to remove
many difficulties which are suggested by
the telegrsphic abstract of that document
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A WONDERFUL CURE.
Corsumptive at Deaths Door Brought
tn life

w Lie.
The following statement of William J.
Coughlin, OF Sommerville, Mass, in relation
to his restoration to health by Halls Balsam
for the Lungs, is so remarkable that we beg
to ask for it the attention of our readers and
their friends who have weak lungs or may be
troubled with coughs, colds or other diseases
of the throat or chest. Mr. Coughlin says
" In the fall of 1876 was taken with a VIC
lent bleeding of the lungs, followed by Sc
we're and painful cough, which gave me ne
rest, either day or night. l soon began to
lose my appetite and lost flesh considerably.
was compelled shortly to quit work, and
was so weak at one time that l could not
leave my bed unless | was assisted. In the
summer of 1877 | was admitted to the City
Hospital While there one of the doctors
said [ had hole in my left lung as big as q
half dollar. expended over hundred dollars
in doctors and medicines. Invent to the coun-
try on several occasions. but / could get no
hello. I still continued to fail until my
friends gave me up. was so far gone at one
time report went around that l was dead.
I was discouraged and gave up hope. but a
friend told me OF DR.. William Halls Balsam
for the Lungs. / laughed at nv friends,
thinking at that time that my case was in
durable. but they pleaded so earnestly that 1
got bottle to satisfy them, thinking it would
w 61DN, "hep, W my surprise ANU
qualification, soon commenced to feel better.
My spirits rose /; my hope, once dead, began
to revive. and to-day l feel in better spirits
than have for the past three years.
write this hoping you will publish it, SO
thas every one afflicted with diseased lungs
will be induced to take Halls Bslsam for the
Lungs, and be convinced that consumption
can be cured. I have taken two bottles, and
can positively say that it has done more good
than all the other medicines have taken
since my sickness. My cough has almost en-
tirely disappeared, and l shall be able to go
to work by the 1st of Jnne."
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GU1rEAU ON THE WITNESS STAND.

Guiteau has exhibited a cunning and
adroitness since he has been put on the
witness stand, which will probably make
shipwreck of his counsels theory of the
case. It would be difficult to find a
sharper witness, and it is perfectly evi.
dent that he knows very we'll what he is
doing now, whatever may have been his
mental condition when he murdered the
President. 1t is curious but quite con-
sistent trait Of his character that his enor-
nous egotism compels him to make the
best possible use OF his faculties at this
juncture, notwithstanding the obvious fact
that every manifestation of intelligence and
shrewdness on his part is cutting the
ground from under him. His sparrirg
with Jadge Porter, his instantaneous de.
tscsion Of She many traps laid for him, his
quick perception Of the extert to which a
rsfusal TO answer certain questions would
prejudice his case before the jury, ali show
shas he mas complete command OF himself,
and that whatever else be nay be he IS GER
taialy not fool. Asto his persistent tier
alton OF the nonsense atous MS insmrssiion,
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MR.. REDD1ae ON REFRIGERATION.

A particularly sensible and practical
paper on immigration was read by B. B.
Redding before the Social Science Associa-
ton in San Francisco the other night He
took the ground that "the great desidera-
" tum of the intending settler was definite
information concerning land open to pre-
"emption and homestead entry" He held
that the State should undertake the work
of supplying this information by means of
an immigration Bureau, and he referred to
the sources of information in the United
States and State Land Offices, as merely
furnishing in a voluminous and inaccessible
shape what must be picked out and put in
an Ineligible and compact form by those
who wanted to encourage settlement. Mr..
Redding further asserted that there was
a great deal more available land in the
State than most people believed or knew
anything about, and that this fact
would appear conspicuously when the
necessary work of compilation had
been done. There is no better authority
on the question of land in California
than Mr.. Redding, his official employment
as Land Agent of the Central Pacific Rail-
road having given him peculiar opportu-
mites for acquiring such information. His
ideas as to the character of the work to be
done are thoroughly practical, moreover,
and we quite agree with him that unless
these methods are adopted the present ex-
pertinent will prove certain failure. The
thing to do is to remove all the obstacles
between the intending settler and the land,
and to seek him with a well-digested
budget of accurate information, rather than
wait for him to go in search of it. The
RECORD UNION has always held that any
successful immigration aid scheme needs
the authority of the State as guarantee
for the truthfulness of its representations,
if for nothing else, and that guarantee has
much greater effect abroad than we who,
perhaps, have become too familiar with
such matters, are apt to realize.
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PASSENGER LISTS.

CARLIN, December 2l-Left here to-day,
to arrive in Sacramento to morrow: Miss
L. Crocker, d. B. Adams, Boston; Mrs. A.
L. Marble. Mrs. Cyrus Palmer, Mrs. W. B.
Greenbaum, Samuel Polaski, Mrs. Hugh
Burke, r. W. Simpson, B. G. Allen, George
L. Wedekird, Carl Rahsskopff Carl Uelner,
G. II. Condor. San Francisco Miss Lillian
Brown, Miss Kate Chester, Mrs. Stanley
Fetch, Frank Daniels. Ezra Stevens, j. A.
Norris, J. H. A. Ubery, Ed. Moran. C. H.
Newhall, Atkiuson's Jollities, Bush-street
Theater, San Francisco ; David F. Meikle,
John Montana, Frank Rockford, Jas Archie,
Jr., H. G. Taussig, A. G. Taussig, Denver,
Col; Joseph Gillivray. Mrs. E. A. Riley
and son, Oakland A. Pipher, Lander City,
Idaho; f. w. Rennick and wife, New York
city; John Noyes Butte City, Montana T.
I. Harris, and family. Colorado; 7. Har-
man and wife, Brooklyn. n. Y; Mrs. Aus
tin Munger and two children. Iowa Samuel
Jelly, Sacramento; Mrs. Jane Childs. Hi
nois 2. H. Cook, New Bedford M. S. Hib-
bard, Butte City; R. w Royce, E. B. Shaw,
Wood river Mrs. E. Emory, Alameda d.
Davidson, Salt Lake: Hrs. r. Taylor, Pitts
burg. Pa. 73 emigrant passengers, including
20 males, to arrive IL Sacramento December
4th.
OMAHA, December 2d-Left here to-day,
to arrive in Sacramento December 9th |.
Cnaries IL. Andreas, New ork Miss INNS,
Miss Wilson, Chicago; j. NJ. Barry and
wife, Newport, r. l.; Mrs. VIM. Webster
and two children, Reno Mrs. r. NJ. Aggarq,
San Francisco w. H. Benedict, Madison,
Wis; q o. Sullivan, Cincinnati; j. NJ.
earning, Philadelphia.
Forty-four through emigrants left on last
nights emigrant train, to arrive in Sacra-
mento December 9th.
NEwHALL, December 2d.-Passed here to-
day, to arrive in San Francisco tomorrow
F. J. Connolly, NJ NJ. Foss, S. A. Virgin,
S. Isaac. J. J. Mack J. E. Blake, San Fran
cisco; S. Mckinney, f. Rice, I. Linkersheim.
Los Angeles; Charles Tappan. J. Il. Phister,
Oakland: Mrs. G. Werner. Live Oak, Cal |;
Mrs. j; F: Ross and baby, Fl; L. Ross. May
field !; J. HI. Whittatch, Brooklyn, n. Y; J.
NJ. Williams, Prescott, a. T.; A. Goodman,
San Joaquin Lewis Depuy. Arizona J. L,
Brooks and wife, Tulsre; Mrs. Q. Hoffman
and child, Alameda.
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A NUCLEUS FOR A NAVY.

Secretary Hunt, in his report on the
condition of the navy, observes that at
least the country ought to maintain
nucleus for a navy, which could be filled
up in an emergency. We do not under
stand this observation. In the case of an
army the reasoning would be sound,
because an army Is composed of human
beings principally, and if there is skel-
eton army Of well-disciplined troops, it is
always possible to graft new recruits on to
these cadres, and so in comparatively
short time produce an army. But navy
consists principally of ships, and it is not
possible to turn merchantmen into men.
of-war by anchoring them alongside of the
latter. A nucleus of ships would remain
nucleus under all circumstances. If we
wanted fifty cruisers, and had ten, the
possession of these ten would not help us
in any way to procure the other forty.
Ships have to be built, and nowadays mer.
chant ships are almost wholly incapable of
oSluS successfully enupioyeu III binie vi
war, This is an era of iron-clads and
heavy guns, and merchant ships could
neither fight nor run from the present kind
of war vessels. If we are to have
navy fit for anything we must build or
buy regular war-vessels, and we must rely
upon them, and not upon patched-up mer.
chant ships, in time of need. 1t ia impos-
sible to mobilize a navy as an army is
modified. Men are always obtainable, but
ironclads are not, but when other ironclads
have to be fought it would be nonsense to
send unarmored vessels against them. We
cannot therefore have a navy as emu
"cleus." We may have weak navy, as
we have to-day, but however many vessels
it comprises it will be the only navy we
can depend upon in the event of war, for
considerable time at least There is only
one way to obtain navy that will serve us
when we need service, and that is to pay
for it. A militia navy is of necessity de.
fusion and sham on its face, and if Secre-
tary Hunt can make no wiser suggestion
than that, it is certainly time President
Arthur sent in the name of a new Secre-
tary of the Navy to the Senate for con-
firmatiop.
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TIE CASE OF LEROY.

It must be admitted that they do some
things better in England. Take, for ex-
ample, the case of LEROY. He murdered
an old gentleman in railway carriage on
the London and Brighton line. For mo-
uent the police were at fault. They had
had him in their hands, but let him slip.
He YVES quickly traced by the detectives,
however, and arrested. He was not clapped
in jail and left there for three or four
months before trial. He was indicted
promptly, and his trial was set for an early
day. He was tried, duly convicted, and
promptly sentenced to death. He was not
allowed several months to mediate over
his sentence or to move the government
for q reprieve. His execution was fixed
for about two weeks from his trial. Mean
time the prisoner had first made a full con-
fession, and then retracted it. 1t made no
difference. There was no doubt as to the
fact that he had murdered Mr.. Gold, and
the machinery of the criminal admins
tration did its duty. When the day set
for Lefroy's execution arrived, he was
taken out and duly and sufficiently
hanged, and SO the whole business, COM
mission of crime, arrest, Indictment,
trial, conviction, sentence and exc
cution, was over in about third of
the time it would have taken in this coun-
try to get the murderer indicted. Contrast
this prompt and vigorous administration of
the laws with the condition of things in
Chicago, one of whose journals recently
declared that though the Jail is full of
murderers, and though crime is so rampant
in the city that it is not safe to go out
after dark save in few of the principal
streets, yet there has not been an execu-
ton for three years. This journal further
alleges that for every murderer arrested
ten go uncaught even, not to say I'M
punished. This Chicago situation is next
to the social condition of the middle ages.
It is what urban politics all through
the country expose urban communi-
ties to. But assuredly it is state of
things which will have to be abolished, or
it will abolish civilization, and the first
step toward Improvement will be found to
be the introduction Of civil service reform
principles into politics generally.
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NEVADA.
Attempted Train-Wrecking.

RENO, December 2d-Two separate at
tempts to wreck trains on the Central Pacific
Railroad at Verdi occurred last night. Some
miscreant broke the lock of the switch at the
Verdi Flume Company's crossing, and threw
the switch open. The switch had been re.
paired and furnished with a new lock at
P. N. yesterday. At 500 the lock was broken
and the. switch thrown open. The switch
was fixed again, and one hour afterwards was
again disarranged in waiting for the emigrant
train: 1t is supposed to be the same man
who has been trying to burn up the town of
Verdi for months.
Miss Kate "A. Sill, Principal Of Bishop
Whittaker's school for girls in this place, died
at Virginia City yesterday, after a severe i'll
ness. Deceased was aged about 80 years, a
native of the East, has been connected with
the school since the opening and was highly
esteemed
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San Jose Items.

SAN JOSE, December 2d.-The Agricult
ural Society met this afternoon, and the prop.
osition of the old Society to lease the fair
grounds for 1882 for s., 900 was accepted.
The Secretary was instructed to request the
Governor to reappoint Directors Edwards
and Tenant, VIII e terms have expired. The
Secretsry's annual report was read, showing
the receipts of the last fair to have been Sl2,.
OH 05; disbursements, S10,674 70-leaving
81. 342 Is in the treasury.
The jury in the matter of the death of An.
tonic A. Del Castillo, son of the Mexican
millionaire, who died at the Auzerais House
yesterday, returned a verdict to-day to the
effect that his death was caused by delirium
tremens.
Burglars are about. Last night the marble
works of A. belong, on First street, and the
shop of C. Hommich. gunsmith, on Mar
ket street, were entered. Nothing of value
was taken from the former place. At the
latter number Of revolvers were stolen.
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FRANCE AND THE VATICAN.

It is stated that the Vatican proposes to
maintain temporizing policy with France
for the present. That is very considerable,
but it would be still more so if the Vati-
can had any practical alternative. No
doubt Leo the Thirteenth might emulate
the example of his predecessor, and scold
the French Government. He might go to
the length of putting an interdict on the
country. But as he has strong reason to
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that the woman is inferior to the man, and
that the more education is diffused the
more strongly must her inferiority be
brought out. He actually claims that it is
impossible, by Vassar Colleges and such.
like machinery, to put women on an equal
ity with men; that the feat is in fact i'm
possible, and that however fast and far
woman travels she can never hope to over
take man. We expect to see NJ. Delaney
torn to pieces by the furious Menads, like
a nineteenth. century Orpheus.
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The Trial OF the rrain.wrecker.

AUBURN, December 2d.-In the Superior
Court this morning E. L. Craig commenced
the train. wrecker trial, and continued until
late this afternoon. The Court adjourned until
tomorrow morning, at which time the Judge
will deliver his charge, and the case will be
submitted to the jury. This trial has occu.
pied the Courts attention twenty-five days
SO far, and has cost the county, it is esti.
mated, 5000 or more. The result in this
case may have considerable effect on the
manner of procedure in the trial of the seven
remaining CHARGES
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The Tour of Inspection-shootIns Arrays

Los ANGELES, December 2d.-To-day A.
N. Towne and party arrived in Los Angeles,
went down to Wilmington, inspected the
harbor improvements at that point, went
down to Santa Ana. and left in the afternoon
for San Francisco on the regular train.
Last night Williams, schoolmaster at
Santa Monica, shot Donald, the watermaster
at that point, through the lungs. The
wounded man is in critical condition. The
ARRAY arose out of dispute about a chill.
dren's concert.
To-day j. V. Beck shot Bill Maier, of the
New York Brewery, through the left arm,
in dispute about brewers yeast. Beck has
been released on bail.
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A Bonanza In ruoIup,ue Couu,y,

SONORA, December 2i.-Another bonanza
has been struck near Bald Mountain, about a
quarter of mile from the city limits, in
what is known as the old Sell 6 Martin claim.
Three levels, exposing 25 or 80 feet of two
foot vein, show all the quartz in sight to be
nearly half gold. The discovery is genuine
| bonanza of enormous dimensions. VIM.
Sell, the owner of the mine, is an old resi-
yoaro
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naman came to the house of Charles Wicks,
the nearest neighbor, with the following mes.
sage, written on the back Of promissory
note: My wife has poisoned me to-day.
q. W. Teller" By the time Wicks arrived
at the house. Teller was in death agonies.
The examination Of Mrs. Teller is now in
progress before the Justice of the Peace of
Eoia precinct. Her attorneys made,a motion
to allow her release on bail, which was re-
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PORTLAND, December 2d.-About noon to-
day, while Jas. Foley was standing upon a
scaffold of the unfinished Chinese block on
Second street. he was struck on the head bv
q large billet of wood purposely thrown from
an adjoining building, and knocked to the
pavement. His injuries are not considered
fatal. The blow was aimed by one China
man against another. The miscreant is
known, and viii probably before morning be
arrc-teH
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nan MIssing-FouI Piay Feared.

SPANIsHTewN, December 2l-Thursday
night the house Of Caiman, tie old Manila
fisherman, was burnt to the ground. Caiman
has been missing for over two weeks, and it
is feared that he has met with foul play,