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Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-09-04

I>ihAL faRE, ZEN YORh,
But was Immediately informed that it
more nearly resembled Dublin Park, so
recently called to the attention of the world
by the atrocious double murder commit.
ted there. Never having "done " Europe,
the statement remained andisputed. As
the road Iade turn around particularly
large mound new scene broke upon the
view, TIE many towers visible created
the impression that possibly it was Came.
lot we were approaching, but closer view
developed the fact that it was fort Jones
the towers belonging Co a couple of
churches. iiouring mill and hotel. The
town resembles Etna in nearly eve,v
respect and holds the same relative nos;i.
ton to the lower part thu. Cal.ahan's does
to the head o. tho valley. In passinp
from Atna TO the latter place we left the
town OF Orc Elmo, which, we were informed
polls over one hundred votes, a. well as =
large arm of the valley known ga Indian
Greek, aomo distance to the westward.
AT all places throughout the valley where
stoppagea were made we were greeted with
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-09-04
ANOTHER RECONNAISSANCE

ALEXANDRIA, September 3I.-A meeting
was held Friday to consider The position of
the September and October contracts for cot.
ton and seeds. Ithas been found impossible,
In the present state of the country, t, make
deliveries in those months. A committee Of
principal merchants and bankers has been
formed to ascertain the exact position Of the
market, and report within fourteen DAYS.
New cotton should be arriving now, bus the
crop OF 1882 is behind end deficient, owing 10
the absence eft labor ard irrigation, and
under the most favorable circumstances a
large deficiency is expected ard reported,
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a remark that the barley seemed to be
principally oats, and the road led to Fort
Jones, was met ty whitening glance OF
scorn, INTENDED t. chow utter contempt for
my appreciation OF the beautiful. As we
came nearer TO Fort Jones occasional
mounds were eeen rising from the center of
harvest fields. go regularly constructed as
to give the appearance of being artificial.
The surroundings and the still smooth and
level road led me to remark that il would
remind one OF
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-09-04

IED LET-FU FINISHED ROOMS, SUITABLE
Il Tor gentlemen or gentleman and wife hath
room attached; all modern conve.liences board
convenient, Inquire at Thirteenth and streets
over store s41u,-
Barbour County index., 1882-05-25
How lniuns Farm.
Bigmarck Tribune.

DBlnarCk IIDune.
A gentleman just up from Standing
Rock agency said the Indians were en-
gagged in planting. In answer to an
inquiry as to how the reds were pro-
crossing in the peaceful ways of gran
gering, he smiled and said their man
ner was edd. Every year they seem
to know less about how to farm. This
is attributable to the fact that they are
learning the ways Cf the whites too
rapidly. They begin to understand
that as soon as they can grow crops
their rations will be cut of, and hence
their growing ignorance of agriculture.
If they are given bushe1 of beans to
plant, they will eat nine-tenths of the
amount and plant one-tenth, and the
one-tenth will be dumped in three or
four holes in the ground. Last spring
they were furnished with five bushels
of onion seeds. They couldn't eat
them, and consequently planted the en-
tire five bushels on a piece of ground
fifty by one hundred feet. They were
too lazy to prepare a larger patch, be-
sides it would have been contrary to
their policy Of maintaining the ration
system. When the onions came UP it
was curious sight to see the young
stinkers crowd each other. The whole
dry, naked surface of the ground was
raised up on top of the sprouting plants.
It is our informant's opion that the
present generation of IDjuns will not
make successful grangers.
Barbour County index., 1882-05-25
Gen. Washburn's Career.

Ex-Congressman and Gov. Cadwal-
lader G. Washburn, of Wisconsin. was
born at Livermore, Me-, April %. 1918.
entered the legal profession, and went
to Illinois in 1889, and to Lacrosse,
Wis, in 1859, and practiced law in
both places. He was first elected to
congress in 1854, and served in the
Thirty-fourth, Thirty fifth and Thirty
sixth congresses as Republican. At
the breaking out Of the rebellion in
1861, he declined a reelection to con-
gress, raised regiment of cavalry. and
became its colonel. In July 1864, he
was made brigadier-general.
He was promoted to major general
in November of the same year and
served with distinction to the end of
the war. In 1866 he wa, again elected
to the Fortieth congress and reelected
to the Forty-6rst. In 1871 he was
elected governor Of Wisconsin by the
Republicans over ex-senator James r.
Doolittle. In 1873 he was again the
Republican candidate for governor, but
was defeated by Democratic and
Greenback coalition. Since then he
has been largely engaged in the manu-.
facture of lumber at Lacrosse, Wis.
and of -four at Minneapolis, Mimi. He
reached the age Of Ga last month. He
was son Of Israel Washburn. a Maine
pioneer, who settled at Whites landing
on the Kennebec river, in 1906. and
died in 1876, at the age of "a. Among
his brothers are Israel Washburn. Jr.
Republican congressman for ten wears
before the war, war governor of Maine
and collector of customs at Portland
since 1868; Elihu B. Washburne, 1.-THE
only one of the family who spelled his
name with an e member of congress
continuously from December, 1853. tc
March, 1869. became the so-called
"father of the house" by the Longest
continuous service, and was secretary
OF state and minister TO France under
President Grant; Charles A. Washburn
an active Republican politician, and
editor in California, and minister &c
Paraguay under President Lincoln.
Samual b. Washburn, a Wisconsin
lumberman. and naval Office during
the war; and William d. Washburn. OF
Minnesota. an active Republican poll.
tician and at present a member of con
gress from the Minneapolis district
Rarely have there been so many illus
trious sons OF one father, and Gov
Washburn, of Wisconsion, was by nc
means the least able and successful of
the Washburn family. he leaves an
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The Development of Man.

The paper contributed to the May
number of the Atlantic Monthly by
Mr.. John Fiske, the ablest of Ameri-
can philosophical writer's, upon "The
Arrival Of Man in Europe" is one of
extraordinary interest. AS the results
of his studies he finds that four races
of men have s1ccessively lived in
Europe. First, the men of the River
Drift, who lived by hunting and used
only rude chirped-stone implements
Second, the Cave Men, now represented
by the Esquimaux, who possessed finer
tools and weapons, and had some ar
tistic sense. Third, the Iberians, who
sharpened their implements, were
farmers and weavers, built houses and
boats, and it is believed had some
knowledge of an existence after death.
Fourth, the Aryans, who came from
Central Asia, and intermarried with
the Iberians, and with them became
the prOgenitors of the modern people
of Europe. The men of the River
Drift, Mr.. Fiske believes, belonged to
the Pleistocene period, which began
24O, 600 years ago, and he is inclined to
believe that men had inhabited Europe
100000 years earlier than that period.
That Mr.. Fiske is devoted advocate
of the evolution theory is shown by
the following statement from his pa
per:
1--WE see man living on the earth for
perhaps half million years, to all
intents and purposes dumb, leaving
none but geological record of his
existence, progressing with infinite
slowness and difficulty, making NO
history. Yet his geological record is
not quite like that of the dog or the
ape, who could not chip flint, and in
the incised antlers of the Cave Men
we see the first faint CLEANS Of the
divine intelligence that was by and by
to shine forth with the glories of a
MichaelH Angelo. We cannot but sup
pose that during those long dumb ages,
through infinite hardship, and through
the stern regimen of deadly competi.
tion and natural selection, man was
slowly but surely acquiring that intel.
lectual life which was at last to bloom
forth in history, and which has made
him "the crown and glory of the uni
verse"
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expected this season to exceed 10000
QUO bushels-the chief deficiency being
In the South Australian exports. Stocks
i'm the United States, Canada. and Aus
tralia-the homes of $4,000. 900 of peo-
ple-will be exhausted this season a.
they were never exhausted before,
while Great Britain and the continent,
which are even now living from hand
to mouth, instead of drawing their
summer supplies mainly from Atlantic
ports, will have to rely almost exclus
lively on the fag-end Of the arrivals
from Russia and California and the
new crop in India. How to make both
ends meet was from first to last the
great problem of the season, so that
the California and Oregon surplus of
50,000.000 bushels, instead of being a
supeIfuous quantity to he got rid of at
all hazards, was vital necessity for
Europe.
Bat while it was not the true policy
Of California to be the chronic bear of
the European wheat market during the
last twelve months, it is quite Certain
that she will only discontinue that pol
icy through sheer exhaustion-such as
is now expected to occur in Oregon
long before her next harvest is reaped
Even in the case of California there
may be some slight interval between
the old and the new crop that will com.
pei inactiOn and allow prices abroad to
reach their natural level. Daring that
interval California may see her way to
organize a proper home market, so as
to relieve the farmer from the burden
of carrying the entire wheat surplus
on his shoulders and prevent any undue
pressure to sell in the future; that
home market must have its foundation
i'll properly organized produce ex-
change and enlarged export -four in
dustry. With these two requisites,
California wheat cannot fail to sell at
fair prices in Europe, and to command
spot value fairly proportioned to the
prices ruling in other exporting coun-
tries.
Barbour County index., 1882-05-25
Charcoal and its Uses.

Charcoal, laid fiat while cold on a
burn, causes the pain to abate imme-
diately; by leaving it on for an hour
the burn seems almost healed when the
burn is superficial. And charcoal is
valuable for many other purposes.
Tainted meat, surrounded with it, is
sweetened; strewn over heaps of de-
composed pelts, or over dead animals,
it prevents any unpleasant odor. Foul
water is purified by it. 1t is a great
disinfectant, and sweetens offensive
air if placed in trays around apart
ments. 1t is so very porous in its
"minute interior" it absorbs and con-
denses gases most rapidly. One cubic
inch of fresh charcoal will absorb near
ly one hundred inches of gaseous am
monia. Charcoal forms an unrivaled
poultice for malignant wounds and
sores, often corroding away dead flesh,
reducing it to one quarter in six hours.
In cases of what we call proud flesh it
is invaluable. 1t gives no disagreeable
odor, corrodes no metal, hurts no tex
ture, Injuries no color, is a simple and
safe sweetener and disinfectant. A
teaspoonful of charcoal, in half a
glass of water, often relieves a sick
headache; it absorbs the gases and re-
lieveS the distended stomach pressing
against the nerves, which extend from
the stomach to the head. 1t often re-
lieves constipation, or heartburn.
Barbour County index., 1882-05-25
estate that must amount to couple of
millions of dollars or more.
LongteIloW.

London Times.
Although the aggregate sale of Mr..
LODgfellOw's works can not, or course,
be known, there are still statistics to
be advanced which prove him to have
been the most popular of contemporary
poets. For example, by the close of
February, 1881, there had beeen sold
the following numbers of the various
collected editions of the poems named
Diamond" 10000 copies; Red Line, {"
20,500; Household" $500, and Iii
Bray 5000. But, besides this, in.
Vulnerable editions of Longfellow's
works and of individual poems have
been printed in the United States.
Australia, and England, while transla-
tions are known in all the European
countries. No other author has prOba-
bly, been 50 widely translated; the
German translatiOns from him number
&c, the Dutch 2, the Swedish 5, the
Danish 2. the French 8. the Italian 9,
the Portuguese 4. the Spanish l, the
Polish 3. and the Russian, Latin, He
brew, Chinese, and Sanskrit each. As
regards particular poems, Allibone
states that, twenty-five years ago, those
up to that time published had circu-
lated as follows: "Voices of the
Night" $4,000 copies; Ballads and
other Poems," 10000; "The Spanish
Student" $4,000; "The BelfIey of
Bruges," $4,000; "Evangeline," 81, 900;
THE Seaside and Fireside," 10000:
"The Golden Legend" 1900; "Hia-
watha," which had only been out eight
cen months, $4,000. Of the prose
works, "Outre- Mer'' had circulated T.
500 copies; Hyperion" 1850; and
"Kavanagh," 10,500; or a total of
293, 500 copies for the poetical and 32.-
$50 for the prose works, yielding a
grand total of 326,U56 copies. This
sale was reached within ten years from
the date of the publication of EVAN
geline," and Within less than twenty
years from Longfellow's first appear
ance with volume of original poetry.
Barbour County index., 1882-05-25
Why Printers are Philosophers.

Printers are generally not only the
most intelligent class Of artisans or
mechanical manual labO1ers, but they
are also noted for their habit of taking
philosophical, if not cynical view, of
human life, and its ordinary and extra
ordinary belongings. a real old typo
is rarely astonished or seriously dis
turbed by anything, and if there is a
hole in anybody's armor he is pretty
sure to find it; if there is flaw in the
human machinery, the printer will de-
tect it, and not seldom his comments
thereon dc SAVIOR of cynicism. A writ
or in the Boston Traveller, in endeavor-
ing to explain this. says:
81 stood within the composing room
of great daily newspaper. There
was nothing to delight the eye-no
pictures, statutes, or sumptuous furni-
ture. Serious looking men were stand
ing before their cases so fixedly that
nothing less than the falling of the
roof would distract their attention.
Scarcely sound was audible but the
faint click of type falling into place.
never before realized so forcibly the
cause why newspaper printers are, as
it is said, naturally cynical. To-day
they set up the type that tells the
world of rejoicings and festivity, to-
morrow the same type is made to pro-
claim disaster and mourning; the same
type which carries to 10000 homes
the inaugural message of the ruler of
5O,O0O,000 of people has not time to
lose its sharpness by use before it is
employed to report the funeral Grafton
in the capital of the same man. The
momentary contraction of the fore
finger of despisable wretch levels ex-
alted hopes and robes the whole civil
lied world in sable. If there is a spot
on earth where the instability of human
affairs is epitomized hourly, it is in the
composing room of a daily new spaper." ."
Barbour County index., 1882-05-25
Envying a Rich Man.

Youths Companion.
Some years ago there lived man
in Philadelphia who was envied by
hundreds. Jacob Ridgeway was worth
five On six millions of dollars, for
tune which was then exceeded only by
Girard's and Astor's.
''Mr. Ridgeway," said a young man
with whom the millionaire was con-
versing, "yoa are more to be envied
than any gentleman know"
"Why SOP" responded Mr.. Ridge
way, Il am not aware of any cause fol
which 1 should be particularly en-
We'd"
"What, sir!" exclaimed the young
man in astonishment. "Why, you are
a millionaire! hink of the thousands
your income brings every month";
"Well, what of thatP" replied Mr..
Ridgeway. Call l get out of it is my
victuals and clothes, and 1 can't eat
more than one mans allowance and
wear more than suit at time. Pray,
can't you do as much?"
"Ah. but" said the youth, "think of
the hundreds of fne houses you own,
and the rentals they bring you"
"What better off am for that" re-
piled the rich man. 81 can only live in
one house at time; as for the money
1 receive for rents. why I can't eat it
or wear it; 1 can only use it to buy
other houses for people to live in; they
are the benefciaries, not l."
"BHt you can buy splendid furni-
ture, and costly pictures, and fine car
riages and horses-in fact, anything
you desire"
"And after have bought them," re-
sponded Mr.. Ridgeway, "what thenf
l can look at the furniture and pic
lures. and the poorest man, who is not
blind, can do the same.
81 can ride no easier in fine car
liage than you can in an omnibus for
Eve cents, without the trouble of at
tending to drivers, footmen and hos
tiers; and as to anything DESIRE /
can tell you, young man, that the less
we desire in this world, the happier we
shall be.
Cali my wealth can't buy single
day of more life-can not buy back
my youth-can not procure me power
to keep afar off the hour of death, and
then, what will all avail, when in a
few short years at most 1 lie down in
the grave and leave it all forever :?
Young man, you have no cause to envy
me-"
Barbour County index., 1882-05-25

MAYOR GRACE presided over a
meeting of Irishmen in New York,
held to denounce the murder of Caven-
dish and Burke. One hundred police
men were stationed about the doors,
and O'Donovan Rosa, who occupied a
central seat, was closely watched by
officers. Mrs. Parnell was loudly
greeted. Richard O'Gorman was inter-
ruPted by call for three cheers for
the assassins.
Barbour County index., 1882-05-25
its Star Still Ascending.

In a recent call upon Mr.. w. III.
McAllister, 206 Front street, general
agent for the sale of the Star Chewing
Tobacco, he thus spoke to one Of our
reporters: 81 was tortured with pain
from acute rheumatism, and cared not
whether I lived or died. I tried st.
Jacobs Oil-just two applications of
which entirely cured me."-SGn FYon-
cisco (C0l.) CAL.
Barbour County index., 1882-05-25

SEVERAL English detectives have
sailed for New York, and the force at
Queenstown has been increased.
Nangle was confronted at Dublin with
the boatman who he said offered him
Rl00 to assist in the assassination,
and was shown to be a liar. Fresh
arrests are continually made, and the
police are confident that they have i'm
portant information.
Barbour County index., 1882-05-25

AT a reception given Mrs. Parnell
in New York, she stated that her son
framed in Kilmainham Jail four amend
ments to the land act which were re-
Gently introduced in the house Of COM
mons, and would not accept release
until Gladstone agreed to present them.
Barbour County index., 1882-05-25

VIRGINIA @. PENNY, of Louisville,
a lady of hne literary abilities, has
been sent to the lunatic asylum Of
Kentucky. One brother, a navy lieu
tenant, is in an insane retreat in Penn
sylvania, and another, DIR. Penny,
killed himself with revolver.
Barbour County index., 1882-05-25

COLONEL FoRsYTH had an interview
with the daughter of Chief Loco, who
said that thirteen Indians were killed
in the tight at STEMS peak. Forsyth
thinks that not over forty braves es-
capped from the encounter with Garcia.
Barbour County index., 1882-05-25
THE HOUSEHOLD

DELICIOUS CORN Virginia
pone Is made as follows: Twelve heap
ing taoiespoonfuls of new cornmeal. a
piece OF perfectly sweet butter half
the size of an egg and half a teasnoon-
fui OF SALT; over this pour hot water
enough to make it into a batter. which
is to be well beaten; then, when cool
enough so as not to scald them, add two
eggs, and again beat vigorously for
about five minutes; put into little bans
-gem-panS are best-and bake i'm a
medium hot oven for about thirty.five
minutes. Eat while warm, with new.
sweet butter.
To CLEAN TEETH "A good way to
clean teeth is to dip the brush in water.
rub it over genuine white CASTLE soap,
then dip it in prepared chalk. A lady
says: 81 have peen eomplimented up.
on the whiteneSs of my teeth, which
were originally anything but white.
have used the soap constantly for two
or three years, and the chalk for the
last year. There is no danger of
scratching the teeth, as the chalk is
prepared, but with good stiff brush
and the soap it is effectual as soap and
sand on hoer."
A DELICATE DIsE.-Beat two or
more eggs, the whites and yolks separ.
ately, add little sugar, and if you wish
crumb crackers into the dish and eat.
This will often agree with the stomach
when it rejects other food; it is easily
assimilated and can be taken without
an appetite, and without hindering the
organs of digestion. Excessive men,
tai or bodily fatigue renders the stom-
ach incapable for the time of perform
ing its Office, and this simple dish will
reeuperate the strength.
CARROTS AND ONIONs.-Cut into
thin slices one onion and three carrots,
and toss them into a sauce pan with
about one ounce of butter. take care
that they do not burn; season with
little pepper and salt, and when they
have become light color sprinkle
with little flour, and put in a small
quantity of stock; place the sauce pan
on the side of the fire and let them SIM
mer gently until perfectly done.
REMEDY FOR CoLDs.-The following
is an excellent and safe remedy for
children's colds: Take onions, sliced
thin, and sprinkle loaf sugar thickly
over them; put it in the oven and sim.
mer until the juice is thoroughly mixed
with the sugar. 1t makes a thick syrup,
very nice. Give teaspoonful as seems
to be needed, four or five times day.
Barbour County index., 1882-05-25

A PRACTICAL Test of an electric accu-
mulator has been made by the steam
ship Labrador, which INDUCED in lights
all the way across the Atlantic from
electricity stored April 25 on the other
side.
Barbour County index., 1882-05-25

BUFFALO BILL, who already owns
an extensive cattle ranch near North
Platte, Neb., is pressing suit to re-
cover lands at Cleveland belonging to
his grandfather, and has been offered
$300,000 to compromise.
Barbour County index., 1882-05-25

In obedience to public sentiment,
Mr.. James Gordon Bennett will aban-
don his proposed arctic expedition,
which was to have been on a much
grander scale than that of the ill-fated
,Jeannette.
Barbour County index., 1882-05-25

EVANSVILLE. Ind, has made con-
tracts for electric lights in the streets,
and expects to complete the system in
ninety days.
Barbour County index., 1882-05-25

MICHAEL DAvITT sends cablegram
to friends in New York, stating that
he has private information that he is
to be sacrificed to satisfy the vengeance
Of Irish landlordism,
Barbour County index., 1882-05-25

INDICTMENTS have been found at
Washington against William Brock
way and Charles Smith for stealing
from the treasury department the plates
and dies from which were printed the
spurious bonds placed on the market
by them.
Barbour County index., 1882-05-25

ROBERT SMALLs, formerly a con-
gresham from South Carolina, is the
lion among the colored people of Bos-
ton. During the war he ran a Charles
ton tug out of the harbor, and surren-
dered her to the authorities at Wash
inQton.
Barbour County index., 1882-05-25

THE Marquise de Chambrun, with
her four children, was escorted to
YORKTOWN by Colonel Peyton and
shown the spot where CORVALLIS
signed the articles of capitulation.
Barbour County index., 1882-05-25
The Assassin's Daily Bread.

AS he nears the time fixed for his
death, the assassin Guiteau is living
more .bountifully, albeit in Jail, than
ever before. His appetite is capacious,
since his daily bread is found to con-
sist of from one and half to two
pounds of beef, nine eggs, fifteen to
eighteen slices of bread, besides fried
potatoes, coffee, and fruit. Sergeant
Mason. it may be presumed, is not
thus pampered, but there is no demand
by the curious to interview Mason, who
has neither autographs nor pictures to
sell. Meal time is the sclid and refresh
ing hour with Guiteau, but he does at
neglect his bible. The daily perusal
of the good book affords him, upon
good stomach, considerable consola-
tion.