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sAvAeEs' MOTIONS OF NIGHTMARES.

One, however, of the most popular no.
tions of nightmare is that it is demon or
fend, who takes advantage of the hours of
darkness, when special license is supposed
to be given to beings Of the ghostly world
to take their walks abroad, to ride through
benighted districts, in order either to
throttle some snoring peasant, or to make
itself actually present in his dreams, and
thereby intensity their grim reality. In.
deed, this idea is found even among savage
tribes, and may be traced back to very
remote period. Thus, by way of ex.
ample, we are told how the North
American Indians, after night of
debauchery and excessive feasting,
are said to be visited by nocturnal visitors
of not very agreeable kind, who, with
threatening gestures, scare their sleeping
victims. The Caribs, when subjected to
hideous dreams, often on awakening have
declared that the demon Maboya has i'll
treated and beaten them in their sleep, af-
firming that they could even still feel the
effects of his rough treatment Hence, in
the early days of Christianity, the idea
found favor in many eyes that the demon
of nightmare was one of the means which
Satan employed for molesting and seducing
human bOuls. IeTsOus, tneISlOTc, WHosC
slumbers had been broken by impure and
unholy dreams, were believed to have been
unconsciously under the influence of Satan's
sway, and to have indulged in sinful de.
sires and inclinations.
Among the many tales which illustrate
the theory of the nightmare as being de-
mon, we may briefly relate Netherlandish
one, which is fair example of others of
a similar kind. Two young men were in
love with the same LADY. One of them, be-
ing tormented every night by a nightmare,
sought advice from his rival, who took ad-
vantage of his act of confidence, and gave
him the subjeined piece of treacherous ad-
vice Hold sharp knife with the point
toward your breast, and you'll never see
the mara again" His comrade thanked
him, but On returning to his rest he
| thought it as well to be on the safe side,
and so held the knife handle downward.
Consequently, when at midnight the mara
made her accustomed visit, instead OF fore
| ing the knife into his breast she cut herself
badly, and escaped from the room making
terrible noise. The legend unfortunately
does not tell MS the issue of this tragic af.
| fair, but we can only hope that the young
man revenged himself on his false and ma
licious rival by promptly marrying the
young lady.-[Gentleman's Magazine.
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SUFFERING TO BE BEAUTIFUL

Men, women and children all suffer for
the sake of beauty. The latter are made
to suffer by wearing as fashion or fond
mammas may decree, their little legs bare
in winter, hair falling over their eyes in a
straight bang, and l know of one mother
who kept the eyelashes of her baby
cut short until he was able to walk.
Another mother tied her child's ears close
down for years, SO thas they would grow
not only small, bat nestle snugly to the
head. Others bandage the ankles and tie
up the fingers, so that they will taFer,
while of the Chinese children it is almost
too dreadful to speak. They undergo
various stages of torture, commencing at
the age of years. First, the four toes
are forced under the ball of the foot
and bound in that position until
they lose their articulation and ident
ity as limbs, and become amalgamated
with the sole of the foot The second part
of the operation is torture SO terrible that
sickly children frequently die under it.
The sole of the foot is curved into the
shape of bow, bringing the great toe and
neel together as near as possible. The
natives of the Western Pacific, who have
naturally dark hair, wear it as light as
they can make it by the aid of the caustic
ash obtained from burned coal The
Venetian ladies used to spread their locks
in the sun to bleach them.
As to shaving, savages are about as
peculiar as the General who shaved every
morning during the retreat from Moscow.
We have often read of the discomfort they
were obliged to undergo by shaving the
head with shell or hard piece of flint, or
how it was necessary for a friend to
sit on the head of savage when he is be-
ing shaved, and how the favor is recipro-
Gated when the accommodating party's turn
comes.
The growing of finger nails has been car
ried to the extreme limit of possibility,
some having been seen in China nine and
ten inches long
We will not discuss the tattooing, ex-
cept to cay that its only real use was the
marking OF all members of the same family
SO that they could never deny their iden.
tity, nor OF the old barbaric custom Of
wearing large bones in their noses, SO huge,
in fact, that they were forced to keep their
mouth open in order to breathe, nor of how
in Peru the lobes of the ears were trained
to hang down to the shoulders, nor of how
many savages cut their noses, ears, lips and
other parts of the frame into various con-
ventional designs. 1t is sad enough to know
that we, as civilized people, suffer the tor
lures we do, without tracing the follies of
past ages. Do we not cut holes in our ears
instead of our noses, press our feet into
stiff, tight, high heeled shoes, and our
waists into the vilest kind of instruments
of torture?
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TELEGRAPHIC.
spEcrAL TO THE RECORD UNION
DOMESTIC NEWS.

The Search Ter the Jcannette survivors,
WAsHINGToN, February Oh. Secretary
Hunt received the following cable dispatch
from James Gordon Bennett, dated Paris, this
morning:
Your dispatch received. Siaee yeu have decided
10 send officers, defer to your judgment VIII you
kindly let me know their names, whether t1nior or
seni.r to Danenhower IN rank, by what steamer
they sailed, and when they VIII arriYe in Paris, 40
| may be of service in forwarding them 10 their
destination. The steamer Lena, which by Siberis-
kos kindness has been rendered to me, is OF course
at their disposal. Ny correspondent who is almost
at kutsk will know that the expedition ia to be in
charge Of officers of the United States navy, and viii
go simply as the HerGld correspondent.
Secretary Hunt also received the following
cable dispatch from Acting Minister Hoff-
man at st. Petersburg this morning.
"Danenhower acknowledges orders, aud win
proceed." The latter is in reply to the dis-
patch ordering Danenhower to proceed home
with the invalids.
The International Rife Hatch.
NEw YORK. February 6,h.-General Geo.
W. Wingate has received the following cable
gram from Sir Henry Halferd, in regard to
the terms proposed fer the international mil
itary rife match
CAMBRIDGE, February 9th We waive rifie.pgoof
mark. Cannot possibly guarantee return match
HALF0RD.
Church Destroyed by Fire.
RACINE wis J, February sih-The First
Methodist Church was burned here yester-
day. T. Q church cost S3S, 600, and the organ
S3, 600. TIE des estruction ef both is complets.
Insurance, SIS, co.,
Serious Explosion.
ST. LOUIS, February 6-h.-The explosion
yesterday afternoon of a large tank in East
st. Leuis, at the works situated north of tbs
National stockyards almost completely de-
molished the building, killed John Casseree.
and seriously injured jerome Tyler and John
Meyerhofer. Loss, $4,000
County Seat War I'm Dakota.
CHICAGO, February 6tb.-St. Paul specials
state: Grant county, Dakota, is embrOiled
in county seat war. The county records
are at Bigstone City, in defiance of an al
legged judicial decision that Milbank was
designated as the county seat in November.
Lately two County Commissioners tried to
remove The records to Milbank, supported by
200 or 800 armed citizens, but a similar force
at Bigstone prevented them. The specials
say that fully 800 armed men are now at
Bigstone, threatening to sheet whoever at
tempts to remove the safe. They have
bsrricade, have Indians to help them, and
desy disiodgment.
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NEWSPAPER WIT.

Esthetic editors have their paste made
from sun -four now.-[ Boston Commercial
Bulletin.
The statement may seem paradoxical,
but there ara persons who can't sing, and
yet they do.-[Lowell Citizen.
A mailed knight must have required
good many postage stamps to carry him
through Observation-Disclosures Courier.
A man in New Jersey died because he
could not tell a lye. Mistook it for
whisky.-[B Boston Commercial Bulletin.
Although big fellow, Oscar is called by
some small specimen of mana lily
putian as it were.-[ Boston Commercial
Bulletin.
Sir Walter Raleigh made his way to
fortune and fame by pclitepess. He was
not one of the Elizabethan ruffs.-[ Boston
Commercial Bulletin.
Nothing makes so much noise as rick
ETY. wagon with nothing in it, unless it be
a man who insists on talking when he has
nothing to say.-TNew York Herald.
By putting an or" in the wrong place a
Richmond printer made the editor say of
scene at the close of burial, "disconsolate
fiends stood riveted to the sport. IN. Y.
Post.
1t is said that being called mp at mid
night is not what is killing the doctors.
They are perishing because they expend so
much nerve force in trying to surround the
big words they use.-[Courier-Journal.
Master Tommy The had been very
naughty, and was now amusing himself
with his scripture prints)-" Here's Dan
iel in the lions den p Mamma (incau-
tiously)-" All what was he cast into the
lions den for? Master Tommy with tri-
umph)-" Cause he was good."-[N. Y.
Post.
The crop of almanacs for 1882 is very
copioas, and most of them abound with
excellent jokes, of which the following is
a sample "Dsar Sir: For two long years
l was confined to my bed. The doctors
gave me up as incurable. was finally in
duced to try bottle of your Lightning
Lubricating Liver Lotion, and now," etc.,
etc-[Texas Siftings.
Why is she SO cold Is it because
hirted at the ball?
Oris it that, on New Years day,
had no time to call?
Perhaps she saw me sit beside
Miss Thompson on the stairs;
But then one always does so
at those beastly crush affairs.
Can it-Ab, no, it must not be !
All else might do no harm;
But I am lost if have hurt
Her vaccinatsd arm
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San Francisco stock Sales.
BAN FRANCIsoo, Fe{ rnary Q, I3S4
,.1p,-,,y,. ,-s,y,a.,
Ono Exncrtence from MANY,

/ had been sick and miserable so long and
had caused my husband so much trouble and
expense, no one seemed to know what allied
me, that was completely disheartened and
discouraged In this frame of mind I got
bottle cf Hop Bitters and used them unknown
to my family. I soon began to improve and
gained so fast that my husband and family
thought it strange and unnatural; bat when
l told them what had helped me, they said,
Hurrah for Hop Bissers long msy they
prosper, for they have made mother well and
US happy."-[rhe Mother.
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Miss Genevieve Ward is quoted by the
New Orleans Picayune as making divers
pleasant speeches about the amiable
Wilde: I've known him since he was a
boy" said she. His mother is a charm
ing woman, and great friend of mine
highly accomplished she is, and Oscar was
always very nice until he got this absurd
esthetic notion in his head. He began by
wearing yellow cravats sometimes he and
Mrs Langtry, who is really very beauti-
full, would come to see me play. and she
generally carried lilly or two in her
hand. frequently sending them behind the
scenes to me, and was always charmed if l
carried them on the stage"
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Wbv can't people saw mother and fstle,

Why can't people say mother and father
in a better way than they do! Words,
cadence, infection and everything else has
got twisted and wriggled out Of shape. The
New York girl Gays mar with jerk ON
the r. The Philadelphia girl says magyar
through her nose. The st. Louis girl ssys
ma'mar; the Boston girl says mur.mur !,
the Baltimore beauty says mur-mur and
pur-pur. The little Canadian says pa ah
and ma-ah. The Alabama girl says porr
and morr the Brooklyn girl says par -pah
and mah-ah. The little London girls say,
"Now, popow. alb, you make me lowof f'-
[Quiz
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TEE WEEKLY Union
Published In ss1ni-weekly parssi
4 Issued On Wednesday and Saturday OF each week.
ouprising Eight Pages in each ISSUE Sixteen Pages
zach we < and Ia tie cheapest and most desirable
Home News and Literary Journal published on the
Pacific Goa Z
ASrf19, Ofta ~
rx-,s.yvaasrIx unaou, Alverffsfro tRasea
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Charged with Thert-Murder Trial.

NEVADA, February 6sh.-John Graves and
Thomas Bigger, two young men of this city,
were arrested last night, charged with having
stolen gold specimens while working in a mine
at Msgalia, Butte county. The Deputy
Sheriff of Butte county took them to Orc.
vile to day. The alleged robbery was com.
mitted sometime last fall. lis said that
there is positive proof of the guilt of the ar
rested parties.
The trial of Isaac Tsmkin, for murder,
came up in the Superior Court this morning.
but owing to the absence OF important wit
nesses, was continued till tomorrow.
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A Murderer sentenced 10 Death.

SANTA Rosa, February 6.h.-H. E. Brown,
the Mendocino highwayman, convicted of
Sheriff and then sentenced to death, having
been refused new trial by the Supreme
Court, was to-day again brought into Court,
aud Judge Temple. in brief form, appointed
Thursday. May 18th, as the day of execution.
Brown said nothing, but heard the sentence
with composure. He is pale, and in ill-health
from his long imprisonment Another appeal
will be made to have his sentence commuted
to imprisonment for life. The worst of the
gang is under life sentence in San Quentin.
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Official returns show how vast are the
flocks of sheep owned in the Australasian
colonies. The New Zealand and Australia
sian Land Company owns 300, 00o sheep /;
Robert Campbell, $50, 600; George Henry
Moore, 10000; Dalgetty & Co.. 20S, 600 !;
Clifford & Weld. $4,000; Sir Dillon Bell,
80, 1000; Hon. WIN. Robinson, 6S, 600; Sir
Cracroft Wilson. $4,000; Mr.. Kitchen,
80. 600; Allan Mclean, 500, 600.
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PACIFIC COAST.
LAST NIGHTS DISPATCHES TO THE RECORD
UNlON.l
CALIFORNIA.
The Weather.

PLAoERyILLR, February CHA warm rain
set in last night about o'clock. 1t cleared
off and froze, however. before morning.
-Four inches Of snow fell at Camp No. z,
about twenty-five miles above here. The
thermometer stood at 14' above zero. The
weather is very pleasant to-day.
CHICO, February 6.h.-Last evening about
5 O'Clock we had smart shower of rain,
which lasted about fifteen minutes, accom-
panied with distant thunder. The wind
changed to the north Immediately after, and
has continued in that direction since, cold
and piercing.
NEVADA, February 6th.-Two inches Of
snow fell here last night. The weather is
cold and freezing, and nearly all the water
bitches are clogged with ice and snow.
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Collision or Trains,

Los ANGELES, February 6th.-The east
bound freight and emigrant that left here last
night collided with the west-bound freight be-
yond Cabazon, on the eastern slope of San
Gorgonio Pass, near the scene of the smash
up that occurred about ten days ago. Both
locomotives and about thirty cars are re-
ported demolished, but nobody was hurt. No
further particulars can be learned,
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The White House-The o lest Dry Goods House
in San Francisco. We Import direct from. the
principal msrrs in Europe, consequently sell
lower than any other house in the trade Country
orders attended to. J. W. Davidson & Co., Nos.
lQl and lQ3 KearnY street. San Francsco.
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THE DYING BuDDHrsT's HYmn.

go to Him in whom all is,
The self existent Perfectness
Who knows not of fiuality,
The ly Being that can be;
Who, without motion can create,
Or, motionle5s, annihilate
A world whose cup Is brimmipg high
With will, and self, and blasphemy.
Unto the All be honor given
l shall not see Him, even in Heaven:
The outline of Infinity,
The substance Of Divinity,
Created spirit may not grasp;
Only by faith His knees clasp.
Ny little riil draws near the sea,
source Of my soul, come to Thee.
-fLondon Spectator
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A County Seat War In DakOta.
FOREIGN NEWS.
The Jews I'm Russia.

ST. PETERSBURG, February 6th.-General
Igpatieff, in receiving the Jewish delegates,
said he hoped that before many months the
western frontier would be opened to the
Jews.
The murder of the Jewish family near No
vidvor was committed by peasants without
the slightest provocation.
The Egyptian Situation.
LONDON. February 6tb.--Dispatehes from
Cairo and Paris are more reassuring concern
ing the Egyptian situation.
Homer Conferred.
CoNsTANTINePLE February Sth The Sub
tan has conferred the grand Gordon of the
Imperial Order of Osmanli upon Count Won
Moltke.
The lnsuFrectfon in Arabia.
ATHENS, February 6th-Fhe insurrection
in Yemen, Arabia, is gaining ground. Num-
bsrs of Arabs have deserted the Turkish
standard. The insurgents are in possession
of the principal interior towns, and occupy
positions from which they can only be dis-
lodged by large force.
Inventor Bead.
LONDON, February 6th.-Sir William Pol
liser. the inventor OF the Pelliser Toj=ctiles,
Ia dead
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Municipal Election al Chico.

CHICO February 6th.-The municipal elec-
ton took place in Chico to-day. There were
no party nominations, and mixed tickets were
used. The result is the election of 7. P.
Hendricks, Charles Croissaux and Charles
Ball for Trustees, r. Y. Randell for Marshal,
and r. e. Warren for Police Judge.
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China and Japan arrival of the REo do
.saacsPo.

China and Japan -Azriyaa of the Rio ds
.5aaeiYo.
SAN FRANCISCO, February Jth.-Arrivsd,
city Of Rio de Janeiro, fron RoBgkong. via
Yokohama:
HoHsKoRa January 18th
The relations between China and Japan are still
unsatisfactory. China is gradually ad ing to her
naval and shore strength.
Korean tnvoys have been dispatsA ed to Picking to
complain of i'll treatment Of he Koreans by the
] panese.
The provisions of theRusso- Chinese treaty are if
cult of fulfillment on tho Kuldi1 frontier The in
habitants Of the districts retroesded averse TO
Chinese rule Several revots have been quelled by
the Chinese with their customary barbarity.
The Chinese G vernment undertakes TO dredge
the Woo Sung bar and clean the channel to Shanghai
The young Emperor is reported ailiDg.
YOKOHAMA, January 2lst
The Emperor has issued address 30 the army,
telling the soldiers not to meddle with politics
The application TO United Sta es Minister Bingham
o'Nei, convicted of manslapghter by the United
States Consul at Kobe. has been rsiu used.
Sir Harry Parkes British Minister, arrives hero
next week The work Of treaty revision win i'm
mediately proceed. preliminary meeting Of the
foreign Ministers has already been held to prepare
e programme for the negotiations
Kurado has been appointed private adviser to the
Mikado-the most influential position in the En-
pire. The appointment is disappreyed by the ma
tive press.
Cadet midshipman cabinass, Of the United States
steamship Swatara, was accidentally shot and
killed at Kobe while at drill.
New vessels Of war are being laid down for con-
struction in the Yokosha ArseDaL
The native papers state that the United States
Government has applied to Japan for leave to buy
all the provisions for ships free of duty in open
ports.
The opening OF the port 0: Jinsen, in Korea,
to the Japlnese, has been postponed from April to
August next, at the request Of the Korean Govern
ment.
Attempted BsrSlary.
MARYsvILLE February CHA burglar
last night entered, by means of q rope let
down from The skylight, the area in the rear
of the hardware store of Wightman & Hamp-
ton, but failed to get into the store proper.
He escaped by means of tho rope, leaving it
dangling. The only thing missing is coat.
The rope was stolen from the adj oining prem
ises.
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ENLIST, NO COS STREET. Be RESA
4 tween Sixth and seventh, Sacramento S5SsS
fI1-1p1m
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OREGON.
Loss by Fire.

PORTLAND, February 6th.-A tire at $3.50
this moruing, at junction City, Lane county,
destroyed B rry's Hotel, j. B. Williams
saloon, Heath's saddle and harness shop and
Craig's saloon. Berry's loss, S12 600; in
sured for S6 900 Williams loss, $1,000 !;
insurance, $500. Heath's loss, $3.50; in
sured Craig's less, LOO; insured for
$500. Tie fire broke out in Berry's Hotel.
The origin is unknown.
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Orders by Mail receive special attention filed the
day they received.
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Rank Observation-Disclosures Resumed.

PORTLAND. February 6sh.-The Bank of
Pendlstop, Oregon, was incorporated to-day.
Capital stock, 100000. Incorporators-J.
G. Bean, s. B. Ro.hschild and p. Despains.
All the ice is out of the Columbia and
Snake rivera, and the o. r. and N. Company
gave notice to-day that they were ready to
receive freight
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School OF Civil Engineering. Surveying.
Drawing and Asssyng "a Post st. A Van der Naiilen
The Berkeley Gymnssium-A ffrss.ciass
Academical Institution. affords Classical,
Literary, Scientific cI business Education. For
catalogues or particulars, address JOHN r.
BURRIS, Superintendent, Berkeley, Cal
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ARIZONA.

The Charleston Robbery-Another Ac.
count.
TOMBSTONE, February 6th.-Springer &
Halke's store at Charleston, ten miles from
here, was robbed Saturday night of $3.50
at II o'clock. Just as Mr.. Springer was pre-
pairing to close, and while several citizens
were in the store, two men entered with shot
guns, while one stood guard at the door. The
guns were brought down and the order to
hold up hands given, and Springer was told
to open the safe, and be lively. The money
taken, the parties, who were disguised with
red handkerchief, walked cut mounted their
horses and rode off. A posse are now out on
their trail.
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Los ANGELES. February 6th.-The acci.
dent on the Southern Pacific Railroad, re.
ported this afternoon, was on the Colorado
desert, between Dos Palmas and Frinks
Springs, instead of Cabazor.
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HATE.
HAhowARE, IRON, STEEL, ETC.

Hermann, The Hafter-Na. 1886 Kesrny street,
near Pine. The finest hats at the lowest prices.
FaStorv. No. II Belden street.
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Coinage at the Carson Mint for Janury
was as follows Double eagles, $50, 600 +;
half eagles, s25. GOO; standard dollars,
sll3, 600; total, Sl9S, 600.