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BENEVOLENT MIR. wIxaAM.

At meeting of the Ladies' Benevolent
Society, held the other day, it was resolved
that committee of four ladies be appoint
ed to canvass for donations, and in the
course of their peregrinations this commit
tee yesterday dropped into Mr.. Wixham's
office. He received them as a gentleman
of them began:
"Mr. Wixham, we are asking aid for
benevolent purpose.
"Ahi yes. Benevolence is bump which
should be cultivated. Are you looking
after poor folks?"
'sWe are"
every proper-very proper. You all
have children of your owns
"Oh, yes"
cali Of them are well fed, we'll clothed
and well cared for, are they?"
eyes, sir"
''That's very proper. presume their
stockings are properly darned, buttons in
their places, and they say their prayers
when they go to bed? Am correct?"
The women looked at each other in sly
way, and then at him, and one of them
said:
"We shall be very happy for any contri-
button"
"Yes'm, yes'm. You don't want this
contribution for your own families, Ell?
"No, SRI" answered four voices in
chorus.
"Well, l am somewhat inclined to be-
nevolence Hardly a day passes that l
don't do something for charity. Here's an
old account of S26 against MIR. -. l
know he's hard up and having close time
to get along, and yesterday l cancelled the
debt
One of the canvassers turned red, white
and blue, and looked out of the window.
That was her husband, but Wixham didn't
know it.
"And yesterday found a poor, forlorn.
looking little boy out there crying with
hunger and cold. He said his name was
Tommy -, and he lived at No. Sc -.
He hadn't been washed or combed for a
week, and felt sad for him. l was going
to take him home and feed him, but he
slipped away"
Another woman suddenly looked out of
the window, and her pulse ran up to l20 a
minute, but Wixham was an innocent as a
lamb OF any knowledge that it was her
boy.
1Heu YOU WUu diu us quOiicu viz
spokesman.
"oh, yes, certainly 1 will. 1 was SIM
ply figuring to see how much could spare.
/ signed note with Mr.. - last fall aud
had to pay it yesterday. That makes
me feel rather poor.
The third woman didn't turn red, but
green, but Wixham couldn't have possibly
known that it was her husband.
"Let's see. Let's see. l want to give
you all 1 can spare. Mr.. - on -
street, owes me four months rent, and I'll
give you an order on him for 800"
The four women rose up. They rushed
in solid body for the door. They went
out in heap. Some were red and some
were pale, and all mad. They tried to
speak, but they couldn't. and as they
fastened to get away from each other,
Wixham held up the half written order
and gasped:
"How very, very singular! Perhaps
they thought they couldn't collect the
money! Detroit Free Press.
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BONDS WANTED
-YoR THE
State School Land Fund.
OFFICERS STATE BOARD OF EXAMINERS, !

OFFICERS STATE BOARD OF EXAMINERS
SACRAMENTO, May 9, 1881.
HHE STATE GARD OF EXAMINERS WILL
receive sealed proposals for the sale to the State
of the bonds of the United States the civil bonds OF
this State, and the bonds IF the several counties Of
this State, to the value of hundred and twenty
five thousand dollars, at its office at the State Capt.
toll, until l o'clock P. M of
MONDAY. JUNE G. 1881.
Proposals will be received for the whole or airy
part of said sum, e but in shall the Board
pay more than the par value Of any bonds.
Bids must be for bonds and accrued interest
thereon Each bid must be accompanied with the
bonds offered to be sold or by OF the bonds Of
fered, as sample. and certified check drawn on
some bank Of good standing, drawn to the order OF
the undersigned, for sum equal TO 10 per cent OF
the amount of the bid which check will be forfeited
to the STATE if the bid which such check compa-
MES shall be accepted, and the party offering the
bonds fails to deliver the same.
Payment will be made in the gold coin OF the
United States.
The Beard reserves the right to reject any or
bids
Bids must state the Acts OF Legislature which
authorized the issuing OF the offered bonds
Bids must be indoised, Proposals for the Sale OF
Bonds" and must be adore sed to the Clerk OF the
State Board of Examiners
Bids will be opened in open ses ion OF the Board,
at O'Clock p NJ. JUNE 6, 1881.
ALBERT HART
m7.Im Clerk State Board of Examiners.
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THE AMERICAN FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE.
Miss Clara Barton, the American Florence
Nightingale, who devoted herself to sick
and wounded soldiers of our war and the
prisoners of Andersonville, is plain,
sweet face and elderly lady. She wears
her hair brushed plainly over her ears, and
dresses in rich and quiet taste. The lace
at her throat is often held by an enamelled
pin bearing the scarlet device OF the Society
of the Geneva Cross, of which order Miss
Barton was most active member during
the Franco Prussian war. As the aid, or
rather the instructor and adviser, of the
Grand Duchess Marie, of Baden, Miss Bar
ton did much toward establishing and per-
fecting the system of hospitals instituted
by that Princess, and in the few months of
that struggle did constant and faithful SER
vice for the soldiers of the Fatherland.
She is now in Washington.
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WOMAN SUFFRAGE IN FRANCE.

Alexander Dumas, in an interview, ad-
vocates woman suffrage in France. The
question is asked of him.
Then it is really serious, your demand
that wemen vote 2"
Nothing more nor less.
''But would you take away from them
all their grace, all their charm? Woman"
"0h here yoa come with your plati-
tudes; but don't worry about it; she shall
vote gracefully. At first it will create
French must always be in with laugh
But let them laugh; women will wear bon
nets la ballot-box, universal suffrage
waists, and political equality skirts. At
first it will make a sensation, then will be-
come fashionable; after that habit, then
an experience, then a duty, and at last
blessing. Be it as it may, it is already a
right. A few prominent ladies of the city,
some rich dowagers in the Provinces, and
some of cur farmers robust wives will set
the example and the rest will soon follow.
They will have meetings, assemblies, clubs,
as We have; they will say and do great
many absurd things as we do; they will
regret them as we do, aud little by little
they will learn to correct them. By mix.
ing more IN the politics of the country
they will do less to encourage that of the
church, which will not be bal thing
Finally-woman, that is to say-the moth.
er, wife, daughter, this half OF ourselves
in all ages OF life, having, as well as we,
responsibilities and duties this living be-
ing, thinking, loving, suffering, having a
brain, a heart, soul just as we have (if
surely we have one), has also necessities
and aspirations, special interests to be
promoted, improvements to accomplish,
and therefore certain rights to maintain
and enforce that require and ought to be
directly represented in the discussion of
public affairs by delegates chosen by her
self. Establish this new law of woman
suffrage as you may think wisest, with all
necessary precaution suitable to this conn
try so welded to routine, make certain
qualifications if you think best, but pass
the laws. There must be in the Chamber
of Deputies some of the women of France.
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SPECIMENS OF WESTERN MEN.-Gov-
ernor Ordway, Judges Kidder and Bennett
and Colonels Campbell and Lounsberry of
Dakota met casually in the Interior De.
partment at Washington recently, and
some one suggested that they were fine
specimens physically of Western men, and
asked about their hight and weight, which
proved to be as follows Ordway-Hight,
6 feet inches weight, 262. Kidder-
Hight, 5 feet inches weight, 232. Ben
nett-Hight, feet l inch /; weight, 1876.
Campbell-Hight, feet; weight, 24l.
Lounsberry-Hight, feet 10 inches !;
weight, 249. Average hight, 6 feet !;
weight, 234.
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BEFORE THE DAY-BREAK.

Before the day. break shines star
That in the days great glory fades;
Too fiercely bright is the full light
That her pale-gleaming lamp upbraids
Before the day break sings a bird
That stills her song ere morning hight;
Too loud for her is the days stir,
The woodlands thousand -tongued delight.
All great the honor is to shine
A light wherein no traveller errs
Aud rich the prize to rank divine
Among the worlds loud choristers.
But would be that paier star,
And would be that lonelier bird;
To shine with hope, while hopes afar,
And sing OF love, when 10 e's unheard.
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GREAT OPENING

or PIANOS, ORGANS AND MusICALRA
" Instruments of all descriptions, atffTTT
the SACRAMENTO MUSIC STORE, where
PIANOS of five different makers can be bought, on
installments of &c. or for cash, at 10 per cent.
reduction, from $500 upwards, giving with each
instrument, stool, cover, instruction book, and
written warranty of 10 years with each instrument
Also ORGANS of five different makers, from 500 up
to 500, on nstallments OF IS per month, with
CREMoNA vIoLINS, and other 6rst-class makers.
MARTIN GUITARS, BRASS INSTRUMENTS.
ACCORDEONS, etc, and SHEET MUSIC, at half
price; MUSIC BOOKS, etc. The public in general
are respectfully invited to inspect establishment
where we guarantee satisfaction in price, quality and
terms All kinds of Musical Instruments Repaired
with skill and dispatch. Warranted to give salts
faction. j. R. MENDOZA, 5l5 street, Sacramento.
Old instruments tas en- in exchange. al9.4plm
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And in accordance with law and an order OF the
BOARD of Directors made on the 18th day Of
FEBRUARY, A. D. 1881, SO many shares of each
parcel of such stock may be necessary will be
sold at public auction, at the office OF the COM
pany at Isleton Sac amento county, California on
at the hour of l o'clock p NJ. of said day, to pay
said delinquent assessments thereon, together with
cost of advertising and expenses of sale.
VIM. GUTENBERGER, Secretary
Office Sacramento, California No. 1881 Front
street.
fy The above sale il POSTPONED for thirty
days. VIM. GUTENbERGEh, Secretary.
Sacramento, April 5, 1881.
sH The above sale is POSTPONED for four
weeks VIM GUTENBERGER, Secretary.
Sacramento May 5, 1881. mr21td
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ASSIGNEE,S SALE.

TNDER AND PURSUANT TO AN ORDER
u made by the Superior Court Of the
county of Sacramento, in the State of Cali
fornia, MAY 6, 1871, and by virtue OF the
authority vested in me as Assignee of J. v.
SIMS, an insolvent debtor will at IL o'clock N. of
MAY q, 1881, at the front door of the Courthouse
of said county, sell at public auction for cash. all OF
Swamp Land Survey No. $50, of said county, which
lies west of line drawn parallel TO and distant
twenty-five rods eastery rom the east bank Of the
Sacramento river, contain ing about nineteen acres.
No bid will be accepted which is not for sum
greater than 5000. A. Hell Bh0N, Assignee.
FREEMAN & BATES Attorneys mIO-td
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MARKETS.
LEGAL NOTICES.
PROBATE NOTICE.

IN THE SUPERIOR COURT, STATE OF CALL
Il fornia, county of Sacramento, In the matter
Of the estate of E. G. CARPENTER, deceased.
Notice is hereby gwen that MONlAY, the Esd day
of MAY, 1881, at 10 o'clock A NJ. of said day. and
the Courtroom of said Court, at the Court house,
in the city Of Sacramento. county OF Sacramento,
and State Of California, have been appointed the
time and place for prov ng the will of said E. G.
CARPENTER, deceased, and for hearing the appli-
cation of AMOS p CATLIN, for the issuance u
him of letters testamentary thereon.
Witness my hand and the seal of said Court this
9th day of MAY, 1881.
[sEALJ THOS. H. BERKEY, Clerk.
ml0.l2t By ]. H. PARSELL, Deputy Clerk.
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NOTICE OF
DISSOLUTION OF COMPREHENSIVE.

THE PUBLIC ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT
i the partnership heretofore existing between E.
c. PARSONS and ROBERT KILGOUR, under the
firm name Of PARSONS, KILGOUR CO., is this
day dissolved by mutual consent, and that ROBERT
will hereafter be conducted by E. G. PARSONS, I'M
der the firm name of Z. c. PARSONS & CO.; and
E. c. PARSONS will pay all bills of the late firm,
ard will collect all debts due the late frm.
The firm of PARSONS, KILGOUR & CO. thank
the public for their past patronage, and hope they
will remember that E. G. PARSONS S co. will
continue at their old place OF business the Pavilion
at the southwest corner OF Seventh and ] streets,
Sacramento City.
Sacramento, May 6. 1881.
m7l0t PARSONS, lilLGoUR l. co.
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STOCK SALES.

Delinquent Sale Notice. = California
Sugar Manufacturing Company. Location CT
principal place of business and works, Isleton,
Sacramento county, California. Notice-There are
delinquent upon the following described stock, on
day Of FEBRUARY, A. D. 1881, the several amounts
set opposite the names of the respective share
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BERTAUp's INFALLIBLE IaEcrIoN.-The famous
French remedy for gouorrbna, eject, etc N. S.
Hammer, Sacramento agent for Pacific coast. Sent
q. o. d. TO any address.
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COMMENCEMENT OF THE sUMMER-TERM
u of the GERMAN-AMERICAN SCHOOL,
corner and Twelfth streets, MAY 18th. The
School will remain open during the Public School
Vacation. KARL HEINRICH, Principal. Private
Lessons in Music a2s-4pIm*
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REeUi ATE THE LIVER with Hammers Cascara
Sagrada Bitters, and health is the result.
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HAMMERS CiscApA SAGRApA BITTEfs are meeting
with the success they justly merit. Try it.
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Eastern and Foreign Markets.

NEW YORK, May 18th.
Observation-Disclosures isquiet and Flour is steady
BARLEY-Dull and nominal.
WooL-Dul.
LIVERPOOL May 18th.
wHEAr-Good to choice California, 9s 2dtg9s Sd
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HAMMERS CAscARA SAGRADA BTrTERs touches the
right spot In dyspepsia, constipation a-d liver COM
plant.
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Dr.. UYaAR's LIQUOR AHTrDoTE, carefully prepare,
Of the best Quill Bark by NJ. S. Hammer, druggist,
Sacramento. Cha celebrated cure for drunkenness.
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HAMMERS CAscARA SAGRADA BITrERs cures ali
complaints arising from obstructed state OF the
ystem
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FINE IxroR,ED CIGARS at Hammers Drug Store,
Fourth and X streets.
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a. =. xERes iIy "A

~ a. z Y "a l. n
HsouElY CORONER AND UEDEsTAKkR
10 los street, between Fourth and Fifsr.
Always on hand large assortment OF Metallic and
Wooden Caslsets, Serial Gases rnd CofilB. Shrouds
furnished and Funeral Wresths Preser, ed. Coffin
orders viii receive prcmp attention short notice
and at lowest rates. ala 4p1m
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HAMMERS Cascaxa Sagrads Bitters cures
constipation, liver complaint and purifies the
blood.
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HAMMERS 'Cascara Sagrada Bitters is the
best spring medicine.
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HAMMERS CAscARA sAeRADABIrTERs for habitua
constipation.
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HAMMERS Cascsra Sagrada Bit:ers is an
antidote for malaria.
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q, SCHAEFER,

ToOPER AND TANK-MAKER, NC. s9REA
~ Front street, near G. P. r. r. Freight ERSE
Depot Everything in the coorering line yE&9N
on hand. Tanks made to order at lowest prices.
Orders from the interior promptly attended to.
a19-splm
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BANNERS cAscaRA sAeRapA .BnrzKs stimulates
a torpid liver.
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HAMMERS DRUG STORE, Fourth and X streets
Sacramento.
, 1881-05-21
General Grant.

The lstest humiliation for General
Grant comes from the exposure and down.
fall of his friend, ex-senator Dorsey, OF
Arkansas. The new Postmaster General
has discovered that Dorsey las been
sy;ndling the Government for years IN
his mail contracts. He is a thief and
perjurer, and will probably be sent to the
penitentiary. The evidence Is over
whelming. Three months ago Grant
nras; IaI 81 i--l:....--- syi,.Ap u. A. H--A
to this same Dorsey, and there eulosized
him highly. Conkling was too smart TO
be caught In such company. He declined
the invitation TO the Dorsey dinner. "
all men on earth, Grant is the most un-
fortunate 10 choosing his friends. Beik-
nap, Babccck, Boss Shepherd, Tom Mur-
phy, Leet and Stocking: Mcdonald,
recently in the Missouri State Prison;
and now Dorsey" One by one the roses
fall" Was there ever such a crowd OF
boon companions to aEy public nr.a
No wonder General Grant seeks seclusion
in Mexico One query suggests itself:
Is IT possible that General Grant feii IN
with all these thieves by accident, or did
ne select them because he knew them TO
be unscrupulous- knew beforehand that
they would do any and every vile isb
required of theml What mercy to this
country it was that Grant fell into his
las. ditch at Chicago. Had he been
nominated for third term, and elected,
Who doubts that this old crowd would
have again swarmed around the White
House, suamped, prospered and stole, -
in the days Of yore!
, 1881-05-21
Thus far President Garfeld's admins

Thus far President Garfelds admins
tratlon has done excellently.
1t has inaugurated refunding opera.
tions at a vast saving, at the same time
sparing the country the infiction of an
extra session of Congress
1t has opened fire upon a ring %
thieves in the Pos:ofice Departp'-''f and
driven number of them Tom ONCE IN
disgrace
1t has maintained its independence Of
the Senatorial bosses, and refused TO
knuckle to the bully Conkling-
The only serious blemishes upon Mr.
Garfrld's record as President are the
nominations Of Stanley Matthews and
William E. Chandler.
But there is 80 much to be thankful for
the country will overlook an occasional
blunder.
, 1881-05-21
Astronomy for May.

The Nav moon filled on the 18th She
- r,,- 1.Ir,I,u..- WIN Mars on the z',I,
three DAYS after her last quarter. Inc
most beautiful celestial picture of the
month occurs on the morning OF the z"th'
f,r the waning moon will then be near
Venus. Saturn and Jupiter, though She
,,asses her conjunction with them all on
the previous day. As Venus rises on that
,,;no ,hout ten minutes after three
o,.IocL Saturn ten minutes later ana
J,n;ter about ten minutes after Saturl'
if the sky is clear. it Will be safe 10
uromise superb planetary show well
worth TAKING pains to witness. The new
moon of the 9th throws her shadow ovei
a norton of the earth, and causes par
| ,ial eclipse of the sun 1t is invisible
J. 80 but visible in the northern part o.
nO,~. and IN Northeru Asia
North Ameri0- "~linse will b'
The region of the greatest w.. :
| in the Arctic Ocean, where nearly throo
quarters of the suns disc will be obscured
The great feature of the month Is thu
marvellous planetary combination tha
uisHnvr.;sbes ;ts massage. No such mar
shaling of planetary c-la has occurred
for centuries in the past, nor Will b
witnessed for centuries to come. Five o
the eight planets form all almost straigh
line with the sun and the earth. Startin,
from the earth on the third, our brillian
neighbor Venus heads the grand array
The glorious sun comes next in view
while little Mercury on his western sid
is speeding with rapid steps to join th'
ranks. The vast orbs of Jupiter ant
Saturn little out of plumb, fill in tn
ranks slightly to the west, and Neptun
closes the show only one days trave
eastward of the lite. These huge deni
zens Of space span the inconceivable dis
tance Of nearly twenty-eight hundre'
million miles, stretching from the cart
to the system remotest bounds. Venus
Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune and Mercur,
clustering in the sign Taurus at the sam
time is phenomenon to be remembere,
for lifetime
, 1881-05-21

/ The mania for railroad building,
!, ssiG q fsifroad man to-day, sis tue re-
suit Of the methods 8 @hich railroads
are built. II q railroad Is TO be eAteIlded
| or new road built, the first thing IS to
form a construction company to build the
road. This company is composed manly
| of stockholders in the road 70 be built
If they t5ld maio-ity of TIE stock, so
much the better. They ran tSsn' as con-
trollers of the road, agree TO pay them-
| selves. IS the construction company, any
price which they, as the construction
| company, see st for building she proposed
road.
III is probably fact that ne ve;istrue-
ton company thus ORGANISED ever iaiied
to make money. As rule, the profits CT
such companies are enormous. as1ed
| a friend of rhine the other day why ne
wrpt into a certain road. Hang the
road he responded, : l went In foT the
sake of the construction company. The
| fact that construction companies are, IN
many cases, formed of the stockholders OF
a road gives an air Of plsusibility to the
statement that the construction company
IS merely device for enabling the road
10 do its work at cost, saving the con
structpr's profits also that the stock
holders would not be in favor of injuring
fcai which they owned by building
untimely extensions for the builders
profits.
"Th:s is doubtless true in some cases,
and would be true in more but for the
fact that stockholders can readily dispose
of their stock. The extension is built
with the proceeds of bonds The III
creased mileage eads lustre to the road,
the stock advances and the stockholders
sell ont. Then it is discovered that the
extensiGn Vas built too soon and that 1t
will be ten wears before it Earns EXPENSE;
meantime the parent road must pay
interest on the bonds and other fixed
charges, which takes So much from d'vl-
dends o;l the stock Of the parent read and
depresses the prise of its stock.
1.-THE mania fer railroad building
grows out of the profits Of construction
companies. There is 10 getting away
from it either Amy syndicate with sutii-
cient capital can buy control IN the
stock of any road can then issue the
bonds Of that road to any amount to pay
for extensions which the same syndicate,
under another name, cau build from no.
where 20 nowhere, and before tie public
realizes the situation the construction
syndicate has done its work and divided
its profits, while the stock syndicate mas
sold It's stoct and las gone short IN the
strength Of the drain upon the road made
necessary by the operations of the self
made syndicate. As long as rich men
want to make money, and there IS any
life in the market, this sort of thing will
90 on and viii hasten the crash which IS
only few years away"