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THOSE CONFEDERATE BONDS,

The Bank of England is to a great many
people very mysterious, in fact almost
mythical institution. They are prepared
to hear at any time that there is an estate
Of thousand millions OF dollars, the
whole of which is in gold coin and depos-
tied in the remarkably elastic vaults of
this truly wonderful bank. A perfect
swarm of these stories has been buzzing
through the newspapers as long as we can
remember, and singularly enough the heirs
of these splendid estates are perpetually
getting lost, SO that the money lies in the
bank and grows and grows, until some day
there arises passionate cutlery for Ameri-
can heirs, and then for the next six months
our Journals vie with one another in extra
illustrating the estate, and in finding brand
new heirs for it all over the country. The
heir market having apparently been slack of
late, some gifted being has invented de-
Hghtful story about a littlesum of six million
POUNDS sterling, said to have been depoz-
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ODDS AND ENDS.

A very disagreeable old lady-oid Ma
LARA.
Kind words resemble the baldheaded-
both can never die.
A worm has been found which attacks
the ice crop and ruins it.
What rifles country postmistress is to
have postal card come TO the Office writ
ten in French.
1t is to be presumed that the man who
plays the cornet was educated at an insti.
toot.-[Boston Courier
Skilled engineers are said to be wanted
on the railroads but there's killed brake
men enough on all of them.
The funniest event of the age is the
death OF a pauper in Pennsylvania aims.
house with $40, GOO insurance upon his life.
An American hotel, on large scale, is
to be built and run in Paris. The diamond
OF the head clerk is to be five hundred.
dollar-stone, and this will furnish an index
to the plan of the house.
The vacation-Summer is that season of
the year in which a man carries his pockets
fuH OF railroad mars and summer. resort
prospectases Ter week and then decides
to so where he did last year.
The most remarkable utterance. proba-
bly,, to be found in Thomas Jefferson's
writings is the expression that he chad
rather live under newspapers without
government than under government with.
out newspapers.
A New York paper speaks of man
who "quietly submitted to arrest after he
had received several blows across the head
with the policeman's club" That New
York police force is terror-so uncon-
scious and dead men.
Seeing the constant reading which gees
on in the railway ears, how the men pore
over endless newspapers and women devour
countless novels in poor print, one can
hardly avoid having the gravest apprehen-
sion In regard to the eyesight of the COM
ing generation.
Times changes Old Mr.. and Mrs.
Smiler are looking at the comet from their
chamber window. No, MoiIie, no, that
cannot be the same comet of 1S43, the APP.
pendage is so very much larger" But,
my dear Horace, the comet was younger
then. They retired in silence
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SMALL PoX.

1t appears that there is no State quaran.
tine law in California. The separate coun-
ties can establish quarantine regulations,
but the State has been left without any
machinery for putting in motion the power
of self-protection which it necessarily
possesses. Under these circumstances
there is no other way of protecting the
community than for the Executive. who
represents all the latent as well as active
powers of the State, 10 put aside forms and
assume the authority which it is his duty
to do in great emergencies. It is appre-
hended by many physicians of great expe-
rience that an epidemic of smallpox
threatens the State. and that the disease is
being brought here by emigrants. The
State Board Of Health has no power to
deal with the matter, but it is manifestly
the proper organization to be vested with
the necessary authority. This investiture
can be conferred by the Governor, and he
should empower the Beard to establish a
regular and efficient quarantine on the
State line; that is to say, at or near True
kee. If this enemy is to be fought we
must clearly meet it at the outworks. It
viii not do to let it enter the State,
and then enter upon the hopeless
tlsk of isolating it. Quarantine at
the State frontier is the only prac-
teal remedy to BE adopted, and
il ought TO be adopted without further loss
OF time. The Governor risks nothing in
empowering the State Board of Health to
act in the case, for there can be no cues.
ton as to the right and power of the State
t, protect itself against contagious dis
elses. It is mere sanitary measure, but
it is a highly necessary one. We are in
formed that the medical men who have
examined the situation most thoroughly
are fully convinced of the reality and ex-
tent of the danger. They say that unless
prompt and energetic protective measures
are taken we shall have smallpox here in
al epidemic form in very short time.
id they add that it Is al pearing In par
ticularly virulent form. Those who re-
m amber the terrible smallpox epidemic
of San Francisco in 1867 will agree with
ne that no time ought TO be lost in fortify
ing the State against this formidable foe.
A iudicious and effective quarantine at
TrucSee now may er able the doctors to
overcome the disease already in the State
But if this warning ard advice are neg
lected. a month hercs it will very prob
ably be no longer possible to cope with the
danger,
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s per cent. absolutely, at which the Senate
ID it.
StsM Ann:i.er g f.rank.n

s per cent. absolutely, at which the Senate
fixed it.
sim Another Crank.
Niw YoRK, November 2d.-Ths Worlds
Washington special says: a 'fcrank
called at the Capitol today, claiming to be
elected Vice, President, and that Davis was
usurper. He said he had been unable TO
come here earlier, because of sickness. He
was surprised to learn that the Senate had
adjourned, but said he should wait until De.
ceinher before pressing his claim further.
Then he would assume the chair and expose
Davis pretensions. The visitor was middle
| aged and bsneyolent-lookiug. He said his
name was Thomas Jefferson that he was a
grandson of the Trainer of the Declaration
and minister by profession. On this last
account he intended to make it one Of his
first duties after taking efiice TO dissuade
Senators from indulgence in whisky and other
incorporate habits. Politically ne said he
was a Wing, with Know Nothing tendencies.
The Captured Desperate.
CHICAGO, November ID. The Times
Menominee. Wis, special says: Lou Will
Jams, in charge of Under Sheriffs Knight and
Coleman and several deputies from Milwau-
kee, arrived here on the Central train this
evening, and was quietly taken to the Jail.
No demonstration was made; in fact, but few
knew of the arrival until he was safely placed
behind the bars. A strong guard is quartersd
at the jail, and every precaution taken to
protect the prisoner. People here are in
grea. doubt as to his identity, and are inclined
to give him a fair show.
The Late Presidents Estate.
CLEVELAND, November 2d.-Mrs. Garfield
went to gainesville to-day and took out let
ters of administration. The bulk of the prop.
erty is the Mentor homestead and the Wash
ipgten residence The life insurance of $50.
600 has been equally divided between the
widow and family.
Suicide of Lawyer.
BUFFALO. November 2d.-William H. Cur
nee, one of the ablest lawyers in western
New York, whose brain was affected by
s1nstroke received four years ago, drowned
himself III the Niagara river to-day, under the
hallucination that heWould die in the POOR
house.
Stage RObber disposed or.
GALVESTON (Tex.), November 2d.-The
Meas San Antonio special SAYS: The iury
convicted VIM. Petty of stage-robbery, and
fixed the penalty at ninety-nine years in the
Penitentiary.
Destruction by Fire.
ST, LOUIS, November 2j.-The Phoenix
planning mill was totally destroyed by fire to.
night. Loss, $50 600; insured, S26, 0O0. The
mill was owned and operated by George
Breckenridge.
Killed Himself.
ATLANTA (Ga), November 2l.-Rufus
MCPHERSON killed himself to-day in the bar.
room of the Kimball House. The alleged
cause is that his grandfather disinherited him.
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tied in the Bank of England by the ex-
Confederate Government during the REBEL.
ion. According to the story the Confed-
crate Government appears to have somehow
lost the combination subsequently, and SO
the money could not be drawn out. And
now it is whispered that JEFF. Davis and
Judah P. Benjamin have laid their heads
together to get hold Of this windfaH by
presenting Confederate bonds in exchange
for it. Nobody troubles themselves to
inquire in what manner the Confederate
bonds are to be utilized. But it happens
that inst at this moment there is strange
and in fact inexplicable demand for these
documents, and this is quite enough to
start the story on its travels. The account
of the grand treasure hunt has been spoiled
at the last moment by the cold statement.
made by the Pail Nal Gazette, that no
such Confederate deposit exists IL the
Bank Of England. If inquiries of that
kind were to he made on the threshold of
every sensation of this sort, it would be i'm
possible to foat any Of the fifty-million
pound estate narratives, and thus cur
current literature would sustain a distinct
losz. It is, however, rather discouraging
to find that the American reading public
does not seem to become more critical and
exacting with the lapse of years in these
matters. but that it accepts with child
like and touchingly simple credulity state
ments compared to which the venerable
story of Jack and the Bean-stalk is a
model of scrupulous veracity and pat
tern of literary talent If our profess
sional liars would only make it appear that
they felt called upon TO do their work care
| fully and with circumstance, it would be
some slight consolation. But they pitch
US great coarse hunks of lies, unlocked,
rude, ernbryotic, as it were, with cynical
confidence which speaks volumes of their
knowledge concerning our gulli5ilIty.
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WANrEp-A cHR1srMAs STORY

The REcoRD-UMoS viii pay fifty dollars $50 fol
the best Christmas Story, not less than ten mol
more than fifteen columns in length. To assis
competitors in gaugAg the length of their compost
tons, we may as well state that column OF tbs
type in which the story is to be set contains about
1850 words, and that a legal folio contains 10t
words. Those who wish TO compete for the prize
will be free to choose their subject and to place
their stories wherever they please The storie:
must be delivered at the UNION office by the
18th of December in order to allow sufficient time
for their examination. This is good opportunity
for aspiring authors who feel that they would be
the better for little extra pocket.money at Christ
mas
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TO AGEars.

Large extra editions of the issues OF the wBEKlY
UNION and the daily RKcoRD-UsIoN, containing the
opening chapters OF the serial story to be COM
meneed November 1st, viii be printed. Back mum.
bers OF the papers containing the story fromits com.
nencement can therefore be had at any time during
jts n,hlicatio,,
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Adyices from Mexico.

to be supplemented by civil one, which will
be sustained by a military force sufficiently
strong to crush all armed resistance.
Adyfces from Mexico.
CITY OF MEXICO, October 27th.-In the
terrible storm at Manzanillo four large yes
sells and al the small craft in the harbor were
lost. The Custom-house and stores of Oct
ling, Slatill. Decamann, American Consul
Ruiz and Others were completely DESTROYED
No additional loss Of life is reported. The
Pacific Mail steamer due the day Of fbe
storm had not arrived at last accounts.
The Administration candidates elected the
President Of tie Senate and Deputies for No
vembsr.
Aanian and Piaisscd Coming to California.
TORONTO, November 3D. anlan goes to
CALIFORNIA; to play star engagement at $500
each OF six appearances. Plaisted also goes
cut on a salary Both men have their ex-
penses paid by Captain Mullett.
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"Sixteen years married and still happy
incredulously muttered the henpecked
husband. "Sixteen years married" re.
peated the good na.ured man, 'tand hap
pier now than ever" 6 You surprise me.
g ] don't mean to. My wife ran off with
another man six months after our we'd
ding. 81 Brooklyn Eagle.
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TORPID Liver and kidneys poison the bloe6.
Kidney-Wort revives them and cleanses the
system.
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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

Atatel meeting OF Washington a
Lodge, No. 20, T. and a. II , at Masonic IA
Temple, THIS Thursday EVENING, "
November Sd, at7 o'clock. Visiting brothers " \
are cordially invited. L. C. JORDAN, Secretary.
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Fidelity Grove, No. 81, U. A.. o. D..
The officers and members of the above Grove are
hereby strictly requested to attend their regular
meeting, THIS tIbursday) EVENING, at 7:30
o'clock sharp, for installation OF officers for the
ensuing term. The officers and members of Wal
halla Grove, No. 6, and soiourning brothers of the
A. PELIIER, N. A.
j. P. scHuEUsIeER. Secretary. n3,lt
baptist sociaL-The First Baptist Church,
wi give Social, FRIDAY EVENING, November
4th An attractive musical programme viii be pre-
sented, in which Mrs. Lanphere, Miss Fannie Hub.
McKeeber and DR.. Frost viii take part. Admission,
25 cents. n3-1t
NTNEY ARDS AND FARMS FOR SALE. asS;ss
Y have several, and some OF them at very SsSsf
reasonable prices. There are good bargains -.-4e'-
now offered in this line Inquire OF CARL STR0BEL,
Land agent, No. 32l ] street, Sacramento. n3.6t'
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LAMPS came informally a month ago.
We haze aeever spoken OF them bsst once.
and get trade ie them IS finely started, and
demands haze been eUe?s greater than the
supply. 1t IS not claimed that they haze
peculiar virtues, or differ from other lamps
52a SOcr02aee aeto- except 5n one point, IOev
and sold separately, SO that If one piece Is
broken, 1t can be replaced here at a,ay time.
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THUBsDA N0TE5FBER s. 1881.
TEMpERATuRg goR YEsrgrnAY

Highest, GO
Lowest, ............. 40
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shipping Potatoes from Ireland to Amer.

New York, November 2d.--The CONNER
ciaI Bulletin says Already we have had the
importation of beans and cabbage from Eu-
parent shortage at home. On the heels Of
this intelligence comes the announcement
that potatoes are being brought in consider
able quantities from England to this port.
Yesterday Bulletin reporter saw forty bar
refs of Champion and other varieties, grown
in the North of ireland, offered fer sale on
This market
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Cashier Baldwin's speculations.

NEW YORK, November 2d.-The GfQphsc
of the Mechanics National Bank of Newark,
lost a great deal Of money on coal shares
about Che time Of the coal war, and has been
a dabbler in Wall street for q great many
years. Sometimes he made money, but was
oftener a loser, and was frequently robbed by
professional pointers and blacknlaiiers.
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The minnesota Debt.

ST.. PAUL Mimi, November 2d-The
House adopted, by u to %. the Senate bill
to adjust the old bonded debt, but amended
it so that the rate Of interest shal not exceed
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CAIRO, November 2d.-Herr J. Won
Schoeffer, Diplomatic Agent and Consul
General of Austria at Alexandria, has been
appointed the Austrian Minister to Wash.
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CHICAGO, November 2i.-The Panama
Star and Herald of October Oath says What
does De Lesseps mean by fsvoring the en-
ployment of conviets from New Caledonia to
work on the canal here? We have criminals
enough, as it is, among our population.
There are hundreds of people guilty Of muir
der who are roaming the State unwhipped OF
Justice, and any addition to their number ia
thu manner indicated is sheer madness.
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THE UTEs.
Preparations for Their Removal to the
New Reservation.
They will be Accompanied by 81,
Hundred Troops.
Their Removal will Take Place With
in the Next -Four Weeks.

Denver, Col, Aug. 3.-Otto Mears,
of the Ute commission, arrived here
to-day, en- route to the new Ute reser-
walton, on White and Green rivers, in
Utah. At Salt Lake he will be Joined
by Commissioner Russell, and the two
will proceed to the reservation under
escort of soldiers, and prepare it for
the reception of the Indians, whom,
Mtars says, undoubtedly will be moved
in four weeks. Major Berry, under the
present arrangement, will continue as
agent. The Indians were notified three
weeks ago that their removal would
take place within two months. They
say very little, but Mears thinks they
will move without trouble. In any
event, they will be escorted by six hum
drsd troops. He says all the new lands
assigned are better than any part of the
Uncompahgre reservation. For the
present the southern Utes belonging to
a portion Of the reservation In Laplata
county cannot be moved, but after the
others are gone they will probably be
anxious to follow. There will be settled
Oh the new reservation the Uncom-
pahgre, Uintah and White River Indi-
ans. numbering in all twenty-seven
hundred
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Denver, COL, Aug. 3.-The Tribune's
Las Vegas special from Socorro. New
Mexico, says: An engagement between
renegade Apaches and Ranchero Mex
leans has just taken place on Red Creek,
in the San Mateo mountains. Seven
Mexicans were wounded, and one died
this morning. Government scouts ar
rived here this morning, and report the
Indiana, who are supposed to be under
the leadership of Name, coming north,
killing everything in their way. A
large number of defenseless whites are
reported killed already, and there can
be no mercy expected for those yet to
be encountered. Four sheep men have
been massacred in the San Mateo
mountains, and other sheep men are
missing.
A later dispatch from Captain Jack
Crawford, at Fort Craig. Gays: At
11:30 the Indians jumped Mitchell's
party of ten Americans and twenty-six
Mexicans, who went out from Chloride
City on the trail, in Red Canon. The
fight lasted until dark. Three Indians
were killed and nine Mexicans and
Americans wounded and killed, with
two missing All their horses were
taken by the Indians. Lieutenant
Guilfoy has started on the trail.
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BRIEF TELEGRAaIs.

August, Mich. Fourteen builings
comprising the business part.of the city,
were burned to-day. Loss not known.
Goletta: Two battalions of French
troops and one battery Of artillery have
arrived here and are camped under the
walls of the town.
Buffalo, Aug. 3.-Wm. G. Fargo,
president of the American express
company and mayor of Buffalo, died
to-day, aged 63.
San Francisco: Bishop E. 0. Haven
died at Salem, Oregon, yesterday after
noon. The immediate cause of his
death was uremia. Aged sixty.
Plattsburg, N. Y: Charles Parker,
the Adirondack guide who grossly as
saulted woman, taking her to camp
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New York, Aug. 3.-A Washington
special to the Evening Telegram says:
That the members Of the cabinet now
believe that the president is out Of dam
ger, is made evident by the preparations
OF some of them to leave Washington
at an early day. Blaine has fixed Aug
ust 10th for his depart for Maine
with his family. Hunt will start on a
tour of the northern navy yards, If pos
sible, on the 10th. Lincoln will return
to Rye Beach next week. and Mac
Veagh will go to Pennsylvania about
the same time. The president this
morning again asserted that he could
feel the ball distinctly. when be. was
raised into sitting posture, although,
unable to do 30 when reclining. This
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LATEST BULLETINs.

Washington. Aug. 3, p. m.-The
president passed a very satisfactory day,
aud the wound continues to do well.
He takes an adequate Quantity of nour-
ishment and appears to be better than
at any time since injured. The rise In
the temperature this evening was slight;
at present his pulse is 10S. temperature
99.4, respiration 10.
1Op. m. The progress of the presi-
dent toward recovery to-day was
marked and satisfactory. He has taken
rather more than the usual amount
of nourishment In the opinion of the
surgeons. the president is better and
stronger to-day, than at any time here
tofore. DR.. Agnew returned to Phila-
-delphia this morning, and DIR. Hamil-
ton arrived from New York at 1890 p.
m. In view however of the presidents
extremely favorable condition, DR..
Hamilton was not here tonight.
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ing party, has escaped from bis captors.
The hotel proprietors and guides are
anxious for his recapture and punish
ment.
New York. Aug. g. 3.-Commissioner
Fink announces Q meeting of the joint
executive committee for the tenth Of
August to consider the causes of the
ruinous railroad war.
West Newton, Pa: Six men were
arrested to-day on suspicion of being
the murderous thieves who were dis
covered at McKeesport last night, and
who escaped after killing one man and
wounding another.
Boston: The city assessors report
that the city property has increased
$25, 600. 900 in the past year. The rate
of taxation has decreased from S15.2 20
per $1,000 to $3.50 for the coming
year.
st. Louis, Aug. 3.-The brewers war
has begun, and threatens to be bitter
and destructive of rates. All brewerys
in the city followed the lead of the
Winklemeyer, and reduced the price
from So to 81 per keg.
Bethel, Maine, Aug. 3.-The Indian
attack on Bethel, August 3, 1871, was
commemorated to-day. The block fort
aoain WAS occnnied nv sssettlers.r war
again; surprised and burned by ''sav-
ages" and an address, poem and parade
followed.
New York: A Sitka correspondent
writes under July 9th: About "a, ,00O
were taken from the placer claims dur
ing the past month. The quartz claims
are being thoroughly prospected with
most satisfactory results. The mining
settlement is growing, and next season
promises the most stirring times.
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San Francisco, Aug. 3.-In the mint
investigation to-day, G. w. Bryant,
melter and refiner at the Carson mint,
was the principal witness; he said he
had obtained some bullion for the Car
son mint from the Northern Belle, and
by remelting and refining it, found he
could not work it without loss to the
government, and ON notifying Mr.. Low,
OF the Anglo Californian bank, that
charges would have to be imposed, the
bullion was taken away from the Car
son mint. Bullion from the Northern
Belle went through Carson enroute to
San Francisco, but they could not OBJ
tain it, although they paid the some
price as the San Francisco mint.