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BUSINESS coilEcEs.

Sanborne, Vail 4 Co.-Importers and Manufac+.
urers OF Mirrors, holdings and Frames. Chromos
Engravings, Brackets, Easels, Statuary ana
Artists Materials, No. S57 Market street
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PREVAILING pIscoNrRSr


THE KAFFIRs AND Beers.
LONDON, May 22d.-A Durham dispatch
says that the Kaffirs, in fight with the
Beers, lost 20 men killed.
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RUBBER AND OH, GOODS

Goodyear Rubber CO.-Manufscturers Of all
kinds OF Rubber Betting, Packing. Hose, Springs,
Boots Clothing, etc. No 577 and $40 MAJ street.
Davis a kellOgg-PioneerM Manufacturers of Cape
Ann Oiled Clothing. Hats, Covers, etc. Importers
and Deale in Rubber Boots and Wooden Goods
No. 81 California street.
The Gutta Percha and Rubber Manufact-
uring Company-Ma of Rubber Goods
of every description. Patentees Of the celebrated
Maltese Cross Brand" Carbolized Hose. Corner
First and Market streets. j. W. Taylor, Manager
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sTATIoNERs. PRINTERs, ETC.

BOlestall, Allen Il CO.-Wholesale Paper Deal
ers. Nos. Alb and AIS sanseme street.
Methodist Book Depository and National
Temperance Publication Society.-Rev. ]. b. Hill,
Agent. Agency for Stylographic Fountain Pens
and Stylographc Copying Books No. 1o41 Market
street. between Sixth and Seventh.
III. g. s'rocker a Co.-Importing and Manufact-
uring Statoners, Printers and Lithographers, Nos.
2l5 2l7 and 219 Bush street. above Sansome.
A. j. Seary-Stationera Publisher and Account
Book Manufacturer, 4O2 and 400 Sansome street.
Cooper's Book store-Ne. 745 Market street.
All kinds Of Stationery cheap.
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PROSPECTUS
OR THE
Bullion Hill Mining Co.,
OF Ell DORADO COUNTY, CALIFORNIA.
Incorporated March ii, 1881.
zoe, eco shares Par yaiue. 81 Each.

OFFICERS: T. D SERVER, President; j. b.
CoRsIN, vice-President; NJ. E. GATES, Treas
urer; j. H. DowNER, Secretary; DAVID
DAVIS, Superintendent.
ysyHIs PROPERTY IS SITUATED II MILES
north Of Single Springs, IL Dorado couu v,
California. A shaft has been sunk 40 feet deep,
developing ledge feet wide OF good milling ore.
1t is proposed to erect hosting works. and sysie.
matieally open the mine by the most approved pre-
cess. The Company is Incorporated, and offers a
linn ted number OF shares for SALE for the purpose
of a working capital.
/. The company has placed Thirty thousand Shares
in the treasury for this purpose, Ten Thousand to
oe sold at IS cents per share all the money to be
expended in developing the mine, when it is expect
ed that the developments will be such that the
m aiming 1wents Thousand shares will sell at 81 per
share and the proceeds be applied TO build suitable
mill and placing the mine on paying basis.
This mine offers superior Inducements to any per-
son for investment and is near Sacramento and open
to inspection to any or all persons before investing
The company owns 1,500 lineal feet on the ledge
and l60 acres of land adjacent to the mine plenty
of wood and water, and every facility for working
the ores cheaply.
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ToRAcco AND craARs.

Geo. LOOmis, Plaza stores-(Successor to C. p
Van Setback 4 Coz Importer, Wholesale and
Retail Dealer in Imported and Domestic Cigars.
Depot for celebrated brands of "Key Vest
Cigars; :" Old Judge" Fragrant Vanity Fair"
Caporal' Cigarettes and Tobsccos Pipes and
Smokers Articles generally; Yankee Notions,
etc Nos. i06 to 72O Kearny street, opposite the
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LAST NIGHTS DISPATCHES TO THE RECORD
UNION.
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PACIFIC COAST POSTAL CHANGES

An Ex-Clergyman Charged with Produc
ing an Abortion.
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The Star Route Frauds Further Ex.
pOSureS.

CHICAGO, May 22d.-On Friday night last
the Western Union Telegraph Company
received from New York direct, for the
Chicago newspapers alone. 109, 436 words of
special dispatches, 80 65S of which were parts
of the revised New Testament. As no pre-
vious notice of this extra work had been given
the telegraph company, and as it was in
addition to their regular press and ordinary
business messages, the feat is unparalleled in
the annals of telegraphy, and but for the
combined resources of the three former COM
panies, now under one manag ament, would
have been an impossibility. Twenty-one
direct circuits with New York were in use,
and the time consumed was less than seven
hours
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NEWS OF TIE MORNING.

In New York yesterday Government bonds were
quoted at 1923 for As of 1907 1909 for IS OF 1881
I12 for as; sterling, 81 8S@4 Sc; silver bars,
IFS
silver in London, 81 51Gd consols, IS ZIG; per
cent. United States bonds, 1925; As, ll6; AS,
ll5l
in San Francisco half dollars are quoted at / dis
count to par; Mexican dollars, s83@S9lc.
1t Liverpool yesterday wheat was quoted at 9s Sd
59s I'd for good 10 choice California.
James NJ Cleveland, pioneer merchant OF Mays
vile, died in that city Sunday
John De Bot was found dead sunday near san
Jose.
The Nevada Legislature, alter struggling all day
yesterday over the State Prison Wardenship elected
Garrard at the evening session.
The loss Of stock in Oregon and Washington Ter
Titory by the recent storm will be unusually heavy
All the buildings of the U. s. Fishery on the Ne
Cloud river were carried away by the late storm
inficting heavy loss.
Eleven jurymen have been secured il the Gray
murder case at Santa Barbara.
James Fowler shot aud killed A. Barnes at Custer
City, D. T., Sunday night and was hanged by tn,
Nigilantes soon after.
Snow prevented any trains from Chicago arriv
ing at Omaha yesterday.
grand ball was given at the Palace Hotel in sar
Francisco last night. in honor of King Kalaltaua.
h. b. Willoughby, a pioneer Of Oregon, died il
Linn county Saturday.
The Oregon State Woman Suffrage Association
meets at Portland to-day
Fire at Soap creek station, Benton county, Or.
also at Utica, n. Y.
Vanderbilt drew his check Saturday for the tota
cost Of moving the Egyptian obelisk from the Nile
to the Hudson.
Three accidents occurred Saturday on the New
York and New England Railroad
Richard Graves Mcdonnell, successfully Governor
OF South Australia, Nova Scotia and Hongkong, il
dead.
a sleet storm demoralized the telegraph wires
east of Omaha yesterday
The overdue steamer Batavia has been sighted,
aud is all right.
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gHE NEED FOR FLOOD STATISTICS.

We desire to direct the attention of the
Legislature to the fact that though it is of
the highest Importance that the behavior
and condition of the rivers should be
studied and recorded scientifically during
and throughout the flood season, It has
thus far been impossible to do anything of
the kind, for the reason that the State
Engineer Department has no funds to draw
upon for such purposes. This is another
illustration of that penny-wise and pound
foolish policy which is so frequently
adopted Hundreds of thousands of dollars
are expended in procuring preliminary
data for engineering purposes, but presently
a fit OF economy takes the Legislature. and
precisely when there is the most impera-
tive need for specific information it is found
that the work must be neglected because
couple of thousand dollars cannot be
had for it. Under proper system the
late and present foods would have been
observed IN the most thorough and COM
prehensive manner, and we should have
gathered mass of accurate observations
regarding the hight of the water, the We.
locity of the current, the effect of breaks
in the banks, the formation of new bars
and shoals, and many other matters con-
corning which it is most necessary that full
information be had. But owing to the
neglect and purblind parsimony of the
responsible authorities, the services of
the Engineer Department have been
lost to the State precisely when they
were most required, and thus the data for
intelligent conclusions as to the future are
rendered unattainable. It is too late now
to repair this deplorable neglect, but it
may not be too late to gather observations
which viii be of great use hereafter, and if
the Legislature viii authorize the necessary
expenditures we have no doubt that the
State Engineer will be able to put a sufi-
Gent force in the field Immediately. It
must be realized that in refusing appropri-
atoms for such purpose the Legislature is
preventing the people from securing the
information which can alone enable them
to protect themselves against the recur-
renee of disastrous h0ods in the future.
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rEE FARMER,s ooNYENr1oN.

A convention Of farmers met in San
Francisco last Friday to discuss the wheat
situation They agreed that the borrow
ers of money on wheat should pay the tax
and they passed resolutions asking the
Legislature to enact law doing away
with the double taxation now imposed
upon them. As this double taxation is
required by the Constitution it is not
perceptible what help the Legislature can
afford the grain growers in the premises.
1t is however something to know that the
farmers, who so vehemently declared that
there was no double taxation in the new
Constitution, have determined at last that
they were mistaken, and that they them.
selves have been caught in the syringe
which was set for their neighbors. Con-
siderable discussion was had in the con-
vention on the amount of wheat
in the State at the present
time, and a committee appointed
for that purpose reported that the surplus
on hand February lst amounted to 657,
600 tons. 1t will be observed that this
estimate comes much nearer that of the
RECORD UNION than that of the San Fran
cisco Produce Exchange, and it is probably
as near the fact as can be expected. Some
day perhaps the farmers will perfect ar
engagements by which they can ascertain
exactly what the wheat crop amounts to,
and then they viii not be liable to panics
and at the mercy of bear movements in the
market. a committee from the Board of
Trade made addresses in favor OF the
Nicaragua Canal, but as it was admitted
that this enterprise could not relieve the
present dilemma of the farmers they did
not appear to take much interest in it.
The question of transportation remains
undecided for the present, so far as we can
ascertain
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TIE SHIP RAILWAY.

Captain Bads appears to be making real
progress with his ship railway project, hav-
ing received the approval of Congressional
committee for bill granting his inter-
oceanic railway company Government
guarantee of five per cent. interest on a
capital of fifty millions, the said guarantee
to be withheld until he has demonstrated
his ability to carry vessel weighing with
her cargo not less than two thousand tons,
at the rate OF six miles an hour. At the
completion of the first ten miles the Gov
eminent is to pay the first installment, and
so at the completion of each succeeding ten
miles. The consideration is to be the con-
tract of the company to carry all the mails
and Government ships and material free of
cost It remains to be seen whether Con-
gress viii accept this bill, but it is evident
that if it does the ship railroad will soon
be begun,
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TIE PROPOSED STATE SCHOOL OF IN.
DUSTRY.

Assemblyman Harrison has introduced a
bill to establish State School of Industry,
for the reclamation of vicious boys. The
principles Of the bill are taken from the
reformatory laws OF several Eastern States,
The system resembles the celebrated Crof-
ton or Irish Prison system. Classification
of the inmates is provided for, and there are
three grades. The first commitment is to
the middle grade, whence the boy may go
either up or down, as his conduct decides.
Rewards and punishments constitute lead
ing feature of the place, and as regards the
general method, experience warrants the
belief that they would work well. There
can be no serious question as to the need
for some institution of this kind. We
have large class Of vicious boys. They
are prone to the commission of criminal
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PISTOL VS.. SNOWFALL.
A Teamster Temporarily Monarch of ALI
He Surveyed.
[Bodie Free Press, February 5th.

lBodle Free Press, February 9TH.
An elderly teamster of " stumpy build
was vending his way up Main street
Friday forenoon, describing the founda,
ton for worm fence along the side.
walk, when Johnny McGillivray, who felt
little playful, tossed SNOWFALL at the
typical bull.whacke-. The latter instantly
whipped out a huge, old-fashioned, brass
mounted dragon six. shooter, and, facing
about, leveled the weapon to sweep the
sidewalk he had just passed over, The
sun was shining warmly and the sidewalk
was crowded with men at the time, but
half second afterward the stores and
offices were crowded with men, and Johnny
was away down about Summers corral,
leaving the silent and solitary teamster
monarch of all he surveyed. The little old
man with the big gun stood at Browns
corner for a few minutes, waiting for some
other festive young fellow to open the ball,
but the ball-tossers appeared to have sud-
denly conceived the highest respect for
honorable old age, and the teamster pock-
eted his pistol and walked up the street
without having uttered word.
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TIE CITY DEBT.

The Bee last night said at is under
"stood that the City Trustees intend to
levy special tax for the coming year
amounting to some 1900 to meet Ger
" tain old Indebtedness, or past due cou-
pons and yet there are those who think,
and not without cause, as they claim,
Z" that the present Indebtedness can be re-
funded at fifty cents upon the dollar in
five per cent. twenty-year bonds. And
these people think that this is the better
plan" They must be peculiar kind of
people who entertain an idea at once
so preposterous and so glaringly adverse
to the interests of Sacramento. Moth
ing more ridiculous than this suggestion
of refunding the city debt at fifty cents on
the dollar has in fact ever been ad
vaneed and when the true inwardness of
it is explained we shall not be surprised if
the public think it as infamous as it is
irrational, The outstanding bonds of this
city amount to $l,I00,00O and the past
due coupons to 5000, coo. The Funding
Commissioners have for considerable time
been buying up the bonds at the rate Of
50 cents on the dollar, and the coupons are
purchasable at from 60 to 70 cents on the
dollar. Not long since the agents of the
bondholders made a proposition to
the city to refund the whole debt at
par at 4 per cent. in twenty-year bonds,
aud it was rejected by the Trustees. This
shows what likelihood there is that the
bond-holders would accept fifty cents on
the dollar, as rumor proposes. This
refunding scheme is, in fact, neither more
nor less than plan to compel the city to
pay interest on 100000 of past-due
coupons which now bear no interest.
The bond-holders believe they have too
strong claim to accept any such prop
osition as fifty cents on the dollar,
but their agents and attorneys are
DESTROYS of persuading the city to
pay interest on the coupons if possible,
and that is the gist of the proposal
We are surprised chat our contem.
Porary should, with its peculiar fnan.
cial views, have favored any refund
ing scheme. To be consistent with itself
At ought to have demanded that the city
debt should be paid Immediately out of
the funds in the treasury, or that if any
Fefunding was to be done it should be in
six.months' bonds at about u per cent
per annum interest.
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BEAUTIFUL MIRAGE.
Vessel and Wharf Apparently Suspended
In Mid-air


In MIDI air.
A correspondent of the Santa Barbara
Press, under date of February lst, thus de.
scribes a mirage seen at that place: Who
ever CHANGED to be near the old Mission
last evening between and o'clock, saw,
locking seaward, an unusual sight-a
mirage of the long wharf and the three
masted schooner lying alongside not dim
and indistinct, but as plainly silhouetted
against the evening sky as the hills or the
islands. The tops and base of the noun
tains were hidden in mist-a sort of evan
escent fog, through which the outlines of
the hills were dimly seen. CHANGING to-
ward the ocean the long wharf seemed
actually suspended in the air, and close
above it the outlines of the ship
lying alongside, with the masts par
ticularly well defined. / am sure
that no observer standing on the Calabrian
shore and looking westward upon the
Strait of Messina where the most remark
able mirages are Witnessed ever beheld one
surprising this. The horizon was much
depressed, the wharf enlarged and dupli-
Gated, with the seward end much ele-
waited, and the figure of the ship, also
much enlarged, hanging, as in mid air,
above it, while the sky surrounded these
objects with yellowish color. My friend
and 1 could hardly believe our eyes, and 1
proposed drive to the beach to see if
there really was any three.masted vessel
lying alongside the wharf. We found all
Just as we had seen it in the air.
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SUPERIOR COURT cALENDAT

Law calendar heard each Monday.
Cases marked to be tried 10y jury,
Trial jurors in attendance March s. 1881.
Thursday, February 10, 1881 - l73, Frederick
Lehman ct uN. vs.. Frederick Elliott.
Friday, February 1lth-35S, Mary I. Day vs. o. F.
S and C. Bank 279, Zenas W. Payne VS.. o. +. S.
and G. Bank Isl, Thomas Smith vs.. o. T. S. and
c. Bank.
Saturday, February 12th-544, F Kripp vs. Fong
See.
Tuesday, February l5tt-3o4 trick Hagan VS..
W. \. Murphy 3Sl, H. W. Baxter vs.. c. f Trask
ct al.
Wednesday, February 16th-519, C. S. F Single
ton W. o. n Morse; 515, Joseph Thompson -.
Patrick 5caulan, executor.
Thursday, February 1Ith-565, Vim. Beckman We.
E. Nj. Skaggs ct al.
Fritay February lsth-359, James a. Brink vs..
Emma Brink; 400, Joseph Bauquier, Jr-, vs.. Cath
wednesday, February 23d-l5,94s, P. wetrics W.
J. NJ Keller ct al; $50, Thomas o'Brien vs Michael
O'Hearn.
Thursday, February 24th-1s,$e2. II P. Merritt
vs.. VIM. Dresbach < Co; 1890, Capital Savings
Bank vs.. Dres5ach & Co.
Friday, February 25th-16,677, P. C. Scott vs.. ST.
ezra Lumber Company.
Saturday. February 26.h-57S, VIM. Kuhnle vs. S.
Goldman Matte kiburn vs.. Ross & Bauer.
Tuesday, March 1st-426, John Green VI. O. F. S.
and c. Bank; 1900, Minnie C. Buchanan ct al vs..
Manuel Castro ct al.
Wednesday, March 2d-50S Caddie Mcdowell VS..
Thursday, March sd-5s6. d. E. Alexander VS.. A.
C. Gardner 476. George Kneir vs.. NJ. NJ. Drew
ct al.
Tuesday, March 6th-People vs. All Chew Tenn
bezzlemenO'; People vs. c. Fl. Spear QibeDs.
Wednesday, March 9th-People vs.. Vim. Gale
Gspe)'; People vs. George Z. Landes Obi amy
Thursday, March 10th-People VS.. Robert Biggs
attempt 10 commit great bodily injury; People
VS.. C. W. Brown grand larceny)s
Friday, March 11th-People VIZ. Samuel Davis
(graud larceny; People vs.. 10 Davis and Max Mar.
cuse Us cases Of eFnbezzlement)%
Saturday, March 12th-54s, Jacob Kieber vs.
Ellen Currans.
Tuesday, March 15th-Peope vs. Nancy A. Ham
ilton (murder)- People VIM. Williams and r.
H. MaeKall (grand larceny
Wednesday, March 16th-People W. All Gee lat
tempt to commit rape)' People vs. Robert Nc
Clure (embezzlemeBt)*.
Friday, March 18th-3a3, Albert Semanza VS.
Mary Semanza ct al; 594, Albert Semanza vs.
Mary Semanza ct al
Tuesday, March 22d-16,5o0 P Clduc Va. Peo-
pies Ice Company (; 500, a. Heisen vs. A. Heymans
1860, W. +. Hearth vs.. L. Kumles
Wednesday, March 23d-I72 F. Miller vs.. Slcra.
mento City; $40, Thomas Anderson VS.. Richard
Bilby ct al.
Thursday, March 2.th-I6,521, NJ. W. Davis VS.
W l. Pritchardf lG,o74, Claus Anderson W. Jc
Davis ct al.
Friday, March 25th-127, Warren Heaton w. Pa
cihe Mutual Life Insurance Company 425, J. F.
Tranter W. Mary Hanlins
Tuesday, March 29th-50S, F. Co'ebaker ct al. vs..
Esau Gardner , 1853, Charles Swanson ct al. W
VIM. Swanson.
Wednesday, March soth-16492, H. G. smith We
o. f, S. and c. Bank
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A TEACHERS COMPLAINT. is a
great deal of truth and common-sense in
this complaint of an Indiana teacher :
Now run over programme Reading,
writing, spelling, arithmetic, geography or
history, language, music, drawing and
science. A lesson in each, except perhaps
the last, to be studied and recited each
day. Five and a half hours is the average
length of school day, an allowance of half
an hour to each study, both for its prepare
ton and recitation. Is it any wonder that
pupils get smattering of many things and
master nothing? 1t is not possible for the
immature mind of child to be spread over
SO much surface, hurried so from one sub
lect to another, and accomplish anything.
The new way is scarcely better than the
old. That compelled the child to spend
time upon things not needed in practical
life, but the study was discipline for the
mind. Hours, perhaps days, were spent
on single difficult problem, but when it
was accomplished moro had been gained
than the answer to that problem. Now no
pupil can spend time to work cot such a
problem, or he Is left behind in the race for
promotion.
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A NEVADA SENSATION.
The Lander County Authorities Frighten
West Bound PASSENGERS


West-Bound Passengers.
Nevada State Journal, February 4th.I
When the Lander county authorities
levied upon those trains of the Central Pa
cifc Railroad Company, at Battle Noun
tain, Wednesday, upon execution issued
upon Judgment for S24, 900 for delinquent
taxes, quite sensation was kicked up,
and the railroad boys threatened a little
riot; but they finally concluded that it
was not best to buck against the officers of
the county and State. Some OF the pas
sengers on the overland from the East,
which was also seized, for a while believed
that they had been captured by banditti,
and were frightened out of their wits, and
it was some time before they were made to
realize the true state of affairs. One East
ern clergyman, who was coming to this
coast for the first time IN his life, and who
had probably heard of the desperate char
acters who compose the population of this
State. actually offered the ringleader OF
the supposed desperadoes $500, all the
money he had, if he would spare his life
and let him proceed to California, where
he said he had widowed sister lying in
diving condition, from whom he had re-
ceived dispatch to hasten to her bedside.
He had no time to lose, for she might be
dead before he could reach her. To his
CONSERVATION the bandit refused to take
his money, and pushed him aside with the
eplthet, "You - lying, hypocritical
fool, get out of my way" The man got
out of the way as fast as possible and hid
biroeelf
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-02-08

FASHION NoTEs.-Coupons are not cut
by us this year. Railroads have long
trains and are trimmed with rich dividends.
The sole makes very pretty fichu. Checks
are very fashionable the first week in JAM
uary. Stripes are much worn at
Sing Sing and Concord. Figures are much
sought after; $1,000 is very pretty
one. Rich beaus are desirable for the
opera or theater parties. Dots will come
in again with the flies. Undressed kid viii
be used for children's bathing suits next
summer. Birds are used for bonnets and
the bills are very large. Night dresses
with good nap are the best. Old gold is
still put in stockings. Thin, fat pocket
books are in style since Christmas and New
Year Boston Commercial Bulletin.