Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-07-08
GENERAL NOTES.

The Chicago Journal says that there is a
quiet boom in Central Illinois for ex Gov.
ernor Richard j. Oglesby for United States
Senator, and it wonders not at it because
"Uncle Dick has strong hold upon many
an honest Republican heart in Illinois.
Perfect-Longshire" were the names
as they appeared in the advertisement of
a marriage in an Ohio town last week, the
bridegroom being II years old and making
his third venture, and the bride 65, and
both being the most wealthy and highly
respected residents of their town.
A wise Canadian Judge has decided that
farmer who "as an amateur" goes out
into the woods on Sunday and taps trees,
and gathers and boils sap, and makes
sugar, cannot be convicted of violation
of the Sunday law because he is not in this
pursuing his ordinary vocation.
The late Captain William Tobey, of
Thomaston, Me-, left an estate valued at
SIG, $50, and a widow, seven children, and
no will, and his seven children have joined
in petition to the Probate Court that
their several distributive shares in the es-
tate be decreed to their mother, Mrs. Lu-
cinda F. Tobey.
John Gyumber, so long known as the
sleeping hungarian, is again an inmate OF
the poor-house in Allentown, Penn, the VIC
tim of probably mortal disease. He re-
Gently refused an offer to travel with a
circus at S25 per week, preferring to work
hard for few dollars to making an exhibit
ton of himself.
The late Mrs. Eleanor Parker Long, wife
of Burgers B. Long, of Philadelphia, be-
queathed an estate valued at 5000, 600 for
the establishment of home tor orphan
girls in that city, especially the orphan
daughters of Union soldiers and firemen, in
compliance with request from her nother,
from whom most of her property was re.
ceived.
The Reims Chamber of Commerce esti.
mates the total yield of this year in the
Champagne districts at 300, 600 hogsheads
red and white wine The quantity to be
converted into champagne is 200 600 hogs
heads, or about so, 900, 900 bottles. As the
official figures state the annual shipments
from Champagne at 20, 900, 900 bottles, the
1881 vintage equals two and a half years
consumption.
Two hundred and fifty tons of white
granite are being put into a monument to
the late Seth Adams, in Rochester, n. II
his native town. Mr.. Adams went to Bos-
ton in 1928, with So in his pocket and me-
chanical capacity in his brain, which ena.
bled him to work well at fifteen different
trades, but the foundation OF the fortune
he acquired he found in previously unsuc-
cessful sugar refinery which he was COM
PEELED to take in payment OF debt.
The Buffalo Commercial Advertiser says
that the receipts of cattle at that city in
1881 were 3,543 car loads less than in 1880 ;
the receipts of hogs LIS car loads less,
and the receipts of sheep lS9 car loads less.
The local trade, however, was heavier than
in former years, more cattle and other
kinds of stock having been consigned di-
rect to that point to be sold there. On the
whole, the business was remunerative and
fairly satisfactory.
What did the people eat before they had
potatoes? The potato is modern vegeta-
BILE, the first mention being that of Pedro
Cieca tl5S6l, who says that the people of
Quito eat a root which they call
pdpas. No mention is made of the
potato in Gibbons "Rome nor in Virgil's
Georges, which is an agricultural work.
Few families would feel comfortable if de.
prived of potatoes for a week, and yet the
world had TO do without them for more
than 5000 years.