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Marhem in CoIusa County.

WILLIAMS, February 14th.-On Stewards
ranch, seven miles from here, two men
named Meyers and Golden quarreled about
blowing. In the fight that ensued, Golden
bit off Meyers left ear. A constable has
gone to arrest Golden, who will be tried for
mayhem
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INV ORh, February I4th.-Ihe ITlSH
World has the following
PARIS, February l4th
There was full meeting of the Land League Ex
ecutve Council to-day, to consult to future action
Parnell presided. Arrangements were made to carry
on the work of the Land League in all eventualites
There will be iinching. The organization in Ire.
land is well nigh perfect The people are of one mind
and one spirit. Put no faith in the ridiculous and
malicious rumors in circulation in the English
papers, and which may be telegraphed to America,
concerning the officers of the League. These stories
are manufactured for purpose. Parnell returns to
Parliament to oppose the passage OF the arms BILL
From thence he will proceed to Ireland Dillon re-
places Davltt. Numerous meetings are now being
held in Ireland to denounce the conduct of the Gov
ernment and to protest against coercion. The
Government is committing bunder upon bunder.
We feel confident that the coercion bill when passed
will fail OF its end. PATRICK EGAN,
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enc Year at san Quentin.

SANTA CRUZ, February 14th.-Charles Jor-
dan was arraigned before the Superior Court
this morning and pleaded guilty He waived
time for sentence and was given one year in
San Quentin.
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greater business capacity is not developed
hereafter, more than half the bills on file
will fail to be reached
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PACIFIC COAST.

LAST NIGHTS DISPATCHES TO THE RECORD
UNION.
A FAILURE TO CONVICT.
The Jury in the Gray Murder Case
Cannot Agree and are Discharged.
SMALLPOX SCARE AT RIO VISTA.
Suicide of Lady at Los Angeles by Cut
ting Her Throat
OREGON AND WASHING ON TERRITORY
Passengers from the East by Way of Car
lin and Mojave
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Arrival OF Mails.

YREKA, February 14th.-The mails de-
layed since January 29th arrived this evening
from the south. The weather is cold, but
pleasant.
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PHOSPHATE SOAP,
BREWERY FOR SALE.

YEyHE FOR YEARS wELL-KNoWN 3
ST. Louis Brewery, t&ESssA
Situated on corner Of Sixth and G streets yz4
in ,he city Of Sacramento, is, on account OF Shs
death of my husband, for sale cheap. Inquire at
PREMISES. fessplgl' MAGDALENA oGHS.
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SECOND nIspATCH1

SANTA BARBARA, February 14th.-Intense
Indignation prevails over the verdict in the
Gray trial. There is supposed to be move
ment on foot to get the defendant released
on bail
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NEVADA.
The Legisiature.

CARSON, February 14th.-Brumsey intro
duced in tine Senate a bill to prevent the en-
ployment of fl yhters in mines. The bill rela-
tive to the organization of National Guard
was tabled in the Senate this morning. The
bill providing for the care of destitute and
abandoned children passed the House also
the bill to provide revenue for the support of
the government. Powning has introduced
a bill to amend the habeas corpus Act. 1he
Senate meets in future at 1890 A. NJ.
SECOND DISPATCHl
CA6soN February I4th.-The Judicial Com
mittee are in session tonight, TO consider the
bill to release Carrick's bondsmen. 1t is
thought that the bill will not pass the Sem
ate. A bill was passed in the Assembly this
afternoon giving wives the same property
rights as their husbands.
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The Gray Murder Case-Failure
on a Verdict.

SANTA BARBARA, February 14th.-The
jury in the Gray case were discharged at 10
o'clock this morning, having been out forty
one hours. The first ballot stood four for
murder in the first degree, four for man
slaughter and four for acquittal. Last even
ing they asked for instructions, after which
they stood ten for conviction and two for
acnuitta1
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Residsnce Dnmnged by Fire.
southern Pacific Passengers.

NAPA, February 14th.-The residence ard
urniture of G. r. Gritman was to-day dan
aged by fire 10 the amount of $500.
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TRADE FOR FARMING PROPERTY,
A Splendid New Residence

In the city of Sacramento. The Lot is s0xf6O feet,
located in the very best residence portion OF the
city; is well filed, and planted to Valuable Orna-
mental Trees. and well swarded to Blue Grass
Curb, Is feet; good sidewalks; shade trees, all
growing Cork Elm and Lombardy Poplar The
house is new finished less than one year-bas 10
rooms, closets linen closet, handsomely atted
up, and a wel-appointed, large bath room. There
is a brick basement feet high. The entire plan,
architectural design and finish of the house are after
the most modern and approved style Tho place IS
new and attractive and cost incuding Lot, Fences,
Curb, Trees, Sward and House, Se, ,50o-could not
be reproduced to-day for ssII,O00. Wiil be sold at
bargain or traded at far valuation fOE country
preperty-the latter preferred. Apply q. once
d8-2plm
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House of Commons.

LONDON, February 14th.-I In the House of
Commons to-day, the Home Secretary said
the power to open letters in transit through
the post is reserved to the Home Secretary
for exercise in exceptional cases. He de
clined to make any statement as to whether
it had been recently exercised. Joseph
Cowen (Radical) gave notice of further
question on the same subject.
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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

special Meeting OF sacramento a
Royal Arch Chapter, No 3, at the hall, ~
THIS Tuesday EVENING, February Is, RE
1881, at O'Clock Soiournng Companions "
are cordially invited to attend. By order of
C. NJ. COGLAE, H. P
A. A. REDINGToN, Secretary. fe15-lt
special Meeting OF Sacramento e
Lodge No. 40, f. and A. NJ, THIS Tues 10 =.
day. EVENING, at o'clock, foI work in AE
Second Degree Visiting brethren cordially "
invited. By order. E. c. ATKINSON, w. NJ.
R. G. IRVINE, Secretary. fel5-lt'
4 oST-A GRAY HORSE-BLANKET. FINDER
/ will please leave same at the stables OF T. D.
SERVER. fe15-1t
Committee Of Arrangements
ANTl-HYDRAuLIC MINING DEBRIS MEETING.
TENHE ABOVE. NAMED COMMITTEE WILL MEET
i THIS Tuesday) AFTERNOON, at o'clock, at
the Office of George Cadwaader, northeast corner OF
Third and streets. r. T. DEVLIN,
fe15-1t Secretary Citizens Committee Of Fifty.
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NEW YoRk, February 14th.--A United
States National Bank was organized to-day,
with the following Directors: General U. 5:
Grant, II. Victor Newcomb, II. I. Vail
president of the National Bank OF Gom-
nercel, Morris r. Joseph, Henry u. Hyde
Company. Logan G. Murray, William r.
TcaYers and John ]. McCoak. The new
Sacramento daily record-union., 1881-02-15

OTTAWA, February 15th-A M-The SEN
ate passed the railway bill at midnight. The
Governor Generals signature only is lacking.
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FOREIGN NEWS.
The Land League.

New YORK, February 14th.-The Irish
World has the following:
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TOLEDO tO). February 14th.-The outlook
this morning is more favorable. The water
The Goldsboro star. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1881-18??, 1881-10-01
WORDS OF WISDOM.

No man is so wise that he may not
err.
No ashes are lighter than incense, and
few things burn out sooner.
Faith and hope themselves shall die,
while deathless charity remains.
There are as many wretched rich men,
in proportion, as there are wretched
poor men.
Men may say Of marriage and women
what they please, they will renounce
neither the one nor the other.
Wecensure the Inconsistency of women
when we are the victims. We find it
charming when we are the objects.
There is no greater fool than he who
thinks himself wise; no one wiser than
he who suspects he is fool.
Every man has three characters; that
which he exhibits, that which he has,
and that which he thinks he has.
We are always more disposed to laugh
at nonsense than at genuine wit; be.
cause the nonsense is more agreeable to
us, beings more conformable TO our own
natures fools love folly and wise men
wisdom.
No life is wasted unless it ends in
sloth, dishonesty and cowardice. No
success is worthy of the name unless it
is won by honest industry and brave
breasting of the waves OF fortune.
There is great difference between the
two temporal blessings, health and
wealth wealth is most envied, but
least enjoyed; health is frequently en-
joyed, but the least envied and the
superiority of the latter is still more OBJ
vious that the poorest man would not
part with his health for money, but the
richest would gladly part with his
money for health.
When man thinks nobody cares for
him, and he is alone in cold and selfish
world, he would do well to ask himself
this question "What have / done to
make anybody care for and love me, and
to warm the world with faith and gener-
osity9" 1t is generally the case that
those who complain the most have done
the least.
The Goldsboro star. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1881-18??, 1881-10-01
AN ENGLISHMAN'S OPINION OF US.
What Bull Run Russell Thinks ofthe United
Stntes Now.

What Bull Run Russell Thinks ofthe United
Stntes Now.
While the welfare and prosperity of
this republic do not, in any manner,
depend upon what our English cousins
think of us, yet we never object at all
to hearing them express their opinions,
and we can take them for what they are
worth. DR.. William Fl. Russell, the
English correspondent, DIETER known
in this country as 'Bull Run" Russell
from his remarkable departure from the
scene and description Of that battle,
having finished his tour of the United
States with the Duke of Sutherland and
his party, has now given expression to
his views upon some of the things he
has seen, and they are not uninterest-
ing reading. He pats Americans on the
back a trife, or rather, gives them a
back-handed compliment by saying that
they have improved greatly. "Their
traditional inquisitiveness," he says,
"either never existed OF ID has disap-
peared, and I have seen no evidence of
the self-assertive manner that was once
attributed to Americans. No one shows
an impertinent curiosity as to your
business. who you are or whence you
come. find no offensive self-assertion
among the American people now, what
ever may have been the case
years ago" In addition to this DIR.
Russell said "Where you can't raise
wheat you raise gold, and where you
can't raise gold you raise lead, and
where you can't raise lead you raise
silver. It's something everywhere-a
country of wonderful resources. Of
course, border life was expected to be
little strange and rude; and when
people asked where Sutherland was, or
crowded to see the Duke, it was all
accepted as part of the play. But
when you come, as you will by-and-by,
in the great West, to separate the vice
and the crime from the industry and
steadiness and to settle into crystalline,
social body, it will be great country,
with great future before it. Tt did
seem little unusual, however, that
every spot in the West the party visited
should possess some legend of how some
person was shot. But these things, I
suppose, are inseparable elements of
life on the border, and as the civiliza-
tion of the East pushes westward,
furtherand further, they will disappear"
DR.. Russell does not tell us anything
striking that we did not know before,
but he seems to have learned lesson
from Dickens, and to have resolved not
to say anything about this great land
of ours and its inhabitants. which in
after years he would be compelled to
ask our pardon for.
The Goldsboro star. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1881-18??, 1881-10-01
In q Siberian Prison.

A political offender gives an interest
ing account OF his exile in Siberia:
When we were locked up for the night,
our cell suddenly assumed more home
like and comfortable aspect. Night is
the only time when a convict feels at
home in his prison. During the day he
is always on the alert, always expecting
a sudden irruption, an unwelcome visit
from the officers on duty. But as soon
as the doors were locked everybody sat
down quietly in his own place, and
almost every one got out some work.
The room was suddenly lighted up, as
each man had his own candle and candle
stick, the latter being frequently made
Of wood. The air grew worse as the
night advanced. In one corner a group
Of men squatted around q small piece of
carpet which served as card table.
There is in almost every cell convict
who is the fortunate owner Of square
bit of carpet, candle, and pack Of
horribly greasy cards, all of which
articles are designated collectively by
bu6 uhIl0 VI uldluhu, n ulhluhu Is leb
for the night for fifteen copecks.
The men always gambled high, each
player laying down before him q hand,
ul of copper coins, and never leaving
the game till he had either won or lost
everything. One Of the poorest Of the
prisoneys was employed as sentinel, and
mounted guard in the passage, ready to
give the alarm to the gamblers in case
the major OF one Of the officers on duty
should come in. Not unfrequently the
poor fellow had to stand for six or seven
hours on bitter cold winter night in
dark passage, listening attentively to
each noisesor sound from without. for
sometimes the major caught sight Of the
candles from outside, and burst into the
prison like whirlwind. In such cases
it would have been too late to put out
the candles, hide the maidan, and pre-
tend to be asleep. However, as a neg
ligent sentinel was always cruelty beaten
by the irate players, such Interruptions
were comparatively rare. These card
parties frequently lasted all night.
The Goldsboro star. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1881-18??, 1881-10-01
The Spiders Intelligence.

If you anchor a pole in body OF
water and put a spider upon it, he will
exhibit marvellous intelligence by his
plans to escape. At first he will spin a
web several inches long and. hang to one
end while he allows the other to float
off in the wind, in the hope that it will
strike some object. OF course this plan
proves failure, but the spider is not
discouraged. He waits until the wind
changes, another direction. Another
failure is followed by several other
similar attempts, until all the points of
the compass have been tried. But
neither the resources nor the reasoning
powers Of the spider are exhausted. He
climbs to the top Of the pole and ener-
getically goes to work to construct q
silken balloon. He has no hot air with
which to initiate it, but he has the power
of making it buoyant. When he gets
his balloon finished he does not go off
upon the mere supposition that it vii
carry him, as men often do, but he
fastens it to q guy rope, the other end
Of which he attaches to the island pole
upon which he is prisoner. He then
gets into his aerial vehicle, While it is
made fast, and tests it to see whether its
dimensions are capable of the work of
bearing him away. He often finds that
he has made it too small, in which case
he hauls it down, takes it all apart, and
constructs it on larger and better plan.
A spider has been seen to make three
different balloons before he became
satisfied with his experiment. Then he
will get in, snap the guy rope, and sail
away to land as gracefully and as
supremely independent of his surround
ings as could we'll be imagined. Seth
Green.
The Goldsboro star. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1881-18??, 1881-10-01
A GLIMPSE of Mecca.

The town lies in basin among steep
hills of from five hundred to seven hun
dred feet in height and probably not
more than one thousand two hundred
to one thousand five hundred above the
sea- The whole of this valley-about
one mile and a-half long by one-third of
mile across--is packed and crammed
with buildings Of all shapes and sizes,
placed in no kind of order, climbing far
up the steep sides Of the surrounding
hills, with here and there an outlying
house on the summit of some rock, look
ing as though crowded out and waiting
for chance to squeeze into the confu-
sion below; curious gray mass, fiat
topped, to European eye roofess, half
plastered, for plaster in this climate is
always either being put on or we'll ad-
vanced in coming off, but never to be
seen in it's entirety.
The walls of the houses are composed
Of uncut stone and rubble from three
to six feet thick, in very high buildings
even thicker. Gut stone is used only
for the sills of windows or jambs and
arches Of doorways, and very little brick
is employed anywhere. Notwithstand-
ing the substantial thickness of the
walls, tottering ruins may be found by
the side of the most thronged thorough
fares in every part of the city. Many
of the houses are of great height, large
and factory-like, full Of little windows.
Seldom two adjacent houses face the
same way or are the same height. Moth
ing resembling o row or street could by
any stretch OF imagination be extricated
from such chaos OF Amasonry. 1t is
impossible, even from anselevated point
Of view, to trace hundred- s.as yasas or
open space between houses in any direc-
tion (many of the passages are boarded
over, which to a certain extent conceals
them), except on the outskirts of the
town, where two or three suburbs
straggle off up the less inclined outlets
from the valley, and where the ground
is not so thickly built ever, though with
the same systematic irregularity.
The rule seems to be that no two
things must be alike, an Eastern char
acteristic developed into fixed law of
non-uniformity in everything about
Mecca, town which, built as it is of
the crumbling rock about, made to ad-
here with thirty per cent. Of coarse lime,
together with the dusky crowds creep
ing in swarms about it's dark lanes and
streets, if such mere tortuous intrica-
cies can be called SO, suggests the simile
of the giant ant hill most strikingly,
and indeed it applies better than any
other description. There is a great
sameness about all this detailed dissim-
ilarity, from the midst of which the
harem stands out most prominently, at
once fixing the attention, and indeed it
is the main feature of Mecca. 1t is a
large and quadrangular open space, its
longest direction, northeast by east and
southwest by west, inclosed within four
arched colonnades or arcades, one hun
dred and ninety yards on the longest
sides by one hundred and twenty-seven
yards on the shortest, close up to which,
except on the east side, where it is
bounded by a street skirtlng the hall of
the harem.
The Goldsboro star. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1881-18??, 1881-10-01
An Old Norwegian Town.

StaVanger IS one OF the most ancient
towns in Norway. It looks as If it were
one of the most ancient in the world !;
it's very brightness, with it's faded red
houses, open windows and rugged pave
meats, being like the color and smile
one sees sometimes on cheerful,
wrinkled old face. The houses are
packed close together, going uphill as
hard as they can roofs red tiled gable
ends red tiled, also, which gives droll
eyebrow effect to the ends Of the houses,
and helps wonderfully to show offpretty
faces beneath them, looking out Of win
dows. All the windows open in the
middle, outwards, like shutters and it
would not be much risk to say that
there is not window-sill in all Stavan-
ger without flowers. Certainly, we did
not see one in three hours ramble.
From an old watch-tower, which stands
on the top of the first sharp hill above
the harbor, is sweeping offlook, sea-
ward and coastward, to north and south !;
long promontories, green and curving,
with low red roofs here and there, shot
up into relief by the sharp contrast of
color bays of blue water breaking in
between distant ranges of mountains
glittering white thousands Of islands
in sight at once. Stavanger's approach
strikes Norway's keynote with bold
hand, and old Norway and new Norway
meet in Stavangor's market-place. An
old cathedral, the oldest but one in the
country, looks down a little inner harbor,
where lie sloops loaded with gay pottery
of shapes and colors copied from the
atest patterns out in Staffordshire.
These are made by peasants many miles
away, on the shores OF the ijords bowls,
jars, fower-pots, jugs and plates, brown,
cream -colored, red and white; painted
with flowers and decorated with Grecian
and Etruscan patterns in simple lines
The sloop decks are piled high with
them-a gay show and an odd enough
freight to be at sea in a storm. The
sailors heads bob up and down among
the pots and pans, and the salesman sits
flat on the deck, lost from view, until a
purchaser appears. Miraculously cheap
this pottery is, as we'll as fantastic Of
shape and color: one could fit out his
table, off one of these crookery sloops,
for next to nothing. Along the whary es
were market-stands of all sorts; old
woman selling fuchsias, myrtles, carrots
and cabbages and blueberries, all to-
gether piles of wooden shoes, too
clumsy things, followed out of a single
chunk of wood, shaped like a Chinese
junk keel, and coarsely daubed with
black paint on the outside; no heel to
hold them on, and but little toe. The
racket made by shutting along on pave
ments in them is amazing, and "down at
the heel" becomes phase of new signi-
ficance, after one has heard the thing
done in Norway.-Atlantic Monthly.
The Goldsboro star. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1881-18??, 1881-10-01

NO. Ii.
Katie Mulkerns.

Katie Mulkens, Of whose life-saving !
deeds the Gourier-Jom7aal treated -. 80
eral days ago, ought to have o medal
or, better still, she ought to have sub.
stantial testimonial from those who ap-
preciate her courage and modesty. The
feats of this young Grace Darling have
not been accomplished with boat aud
oar and on stormy nights about wrecks,
but in their way they are just as worthy
Of reward and Of recognition as any
others. Her efforts have saved the lives
of children, who would otherwise have
been at the bottom Of the river. A re-
porter of the Courier Journal went down
to learn something about the heroine of
the river front.
With John Tully, the Falls hero, as
guide, the reporter was led to two
story brick tenement, setting back from
Fifth street, near the river. This was
the home of the heroine She was
found in the kitchen, and very gra-
ciously submitted to an interview from
the reporter. She is very modest in
speaking Of her heroic acts, and indeed
did not seem to think she had done any
thing out of the usual routine Of her
duty. She smiled, however, when the
reporter spoke Of medal, and thought
it would be very nice to have one. She
is about fifteen years CT age, with neat
little figure not above the ordinary
height of one Of her years. She is mod
est in her demeanor and reftu Mi q
sweet face, with regular f H. nd
lssge lasgss black la,1 .SS eyes, dueqA pus lsasa
pearly teeth, and :, ,roI 'eI"F
darling Of tie 6fsrr So i"N
The period Of ht
only a space Of TIN
that time she has
eight little boys Wl girl =
fallen into the river. Within T. ..eek
she rescued two. Last Friday evening
little girl fell off pole into the river,
and she waded in and pulled her ashore.
Saturday afternoon little boy was
standing on barge catching at drift
wood, when he fell in. Katie heard
his screams, and, rushing to the place,
caught him by the hair as he bobbed up
through the drift. Summer before last
she saved three lives and last summer
three more.
Brave little Katie has the picture of
Grace Darling and had heard Of her
deeds Of bravery, but in saving the lives
Of the children she never thought she
was emulating the deeds of the heroine.
She has not yet acquired the art of
swimming, and when asked if she could
row boat, blushingly replied that she
could with one oar. Katie should have
a medal.