Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-10-29
BRIEF NEWS NOTES.

Hon. Adm Thayer, of Worcester, Mass,
made speech before the Massachusetts
Club. of Boston, in defense of the caucus
system, declaring it to be indispensable
and the safeguard of the Republic.
The Providence Journal regards it as a
remarkable illustration of the equality OF
the States that each selected as It's candi-
date for Presidency of the Senate one OF
the Senators from the two smallest States
in the Union.
The Denver Coli Ne,cs says that a
Methodist Episcopal preacher IN Pueblo,
Col, adopted the original expedient, few
Sundays ago, of having the choir sing the
morning hymn from the steps in front OF
the church to attract congregation.
Land in certain parts of France appears
to be lying idle for want of hands to Guilt
vate it. The price OF manual labor in the
lands, and in some cases even vineyards,
are for the time neglected altogether.
Higher pay is to be had in towns in pur-
suits that are not SO laborious as work in
the vineyards, which requires laborers to
be at their posts early and late.
The Lansing (Mich) Republican of Sat-
urday says Governor Jerome has set
tied the Relief Committee wrangle by
appointing State committee, with ex-
Senator Henry P. Baldwin, of Detroit, as
its Chairman This will restore conf
dence, and benevolent people should no
longer withhold contributions because of
any uncertainty that the funds or supplies
will not be judiciously applied"
An exploring expedition on the coast..of
Peru, made by the officers of the Chilean
steamer Angamos, has discovered new
guano deposits. One of these is on the
Tortugas Islands, and is computed to con-
tain 60, 600 tons of guano; and the other
in Ferrol Bay, to the south of Chimbote, is
said to possess 10000. The guano is con.
sidered of frst-class quality, easily acces-
sible for shipment, and the estimated value
is Sc, 900, 600.
The old battle-ground which adjoins the
tabernacle in Tottenham-court road, Lon.
don. where George Whitefeld used TO
preach, is about to be converted into a
place OF recreation for the people of the
overcrowded neighborhood. 1t is thought
to be especially fitting that place, thus
associated with him, should be set apart as
q SpOG WQtIS iicSu Cda bc ODtdlutu ny
the class among whom the influence of the
great apostle of Methodism was greatest.
The commune of Elm, recently SO nearly
destroyed by landslip, was one of the
earliest in Switzerland to embrace Protest
antism in the days of Luther OF the Elmer
family, twenty-six of whom are believed
to have persisted in the disaster, it is said
that they have pedigree which dates from
the thirteenth century. An estimate has
been made OF the contents of the slip which
shows that it contains stone enough to
build two cities as large as Zurich, and the
populai ion of Zurich is 1000.
By a recent census, the population of
Prussia is set down as q, 27S, 395 souls, of
whom l, l22, 40 live in Berlin. Eastern
Prussia has l, 1888. 1856; Western Prussia,
], 405, SOS; Bradenburg, :. 39S, 09l /; Pom.
erania, l,540,034; Posen, 1908. 397; ST.
lesia, 4,007, 473; SAKE, 2,313,0 Sles-
wick. Holstein, l, l27, l49: Hanover, 2, l2O,.
1861; Westphalia, 2,043, 242; Hesse-
Nassau, /, $50, 376; Rhine Prussia, 4, 074,-
100, and Hohenzollern, 1854. Among
the Governmental districts Munster has
40, 544; Wiesbaden, 73l, 425; Coblentz,
GOA, O52; Dusseldorf, 1881. $50; Cologne,
7O3, 937 and Aix-la-C hapelle, 525, 697.