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GENERAL AND PERSONAL.

NJ. Mayer, of the Gaiety Theater, Lon
don, offers to undertake the dictatorship
of the Paris Coincide Franchise without
ton, providing he is permitted to take the
company to London for three months in
each year.
Frau kammerer, a born klopstock and
niece of the author of the Messias, has
just died at Metz at the age of co. She
was Ii years old at the time of Klopstock's
death, and up to the last she continued to
recount her personal "reminiscences of her
famous uncle.
Otterbein University, at Westerville, o.,
the chief literary institution of the United
Brethren in Christ, held commencement
on the 18th ult. The attendance during
the last year was 23l, of whom thirteen
were in the senior or graduating class.
Both sexes are admitted on equal terms.
Nobody ever sees Mr. Ruskin's books on
sale in the London shops, for the simple
reason that the eminent critic boycotted
the booksellers and the booksellers retorted
by boycotting him. The Ruskin Society,
of Manchester, have arranged with local
bookseller to keep Mr.. Ruskin's works in
stock.
A Bostonian, John McAdams, has in
vented ship brake, which is made like
pair OF fins Of fish, lying fiat along the
side of ship when in motion. To stop
the ship to prevent collision the arrange
ment is suddenly spread out perpendicular
with the line of the ship, which is brought
to sudden stand-still.
1t is proposed to honor the memory of
Garibaldi by changing the name of his old
home Isola di Caprera to Isola di Garibaldi,
and by building there an hospital for in
valid soldiers, who shall be the guardians
of his tomb, and lofty lighthouse, which
| all mariners on the Mediterranean would
know forever as the Garibaldi beacon.
Wilkie Collins is engaged in writing a
new serial story, the publication of which
will begin next month. In this work the
| question of vivisection is placed in new
point of view by tracing the effect of the
habitual practice of cruelty on human char
acter. The story will be translated into
the French, German, Italian, Dutch and
Swedish Languages, by special arrangement
with the author.
DR.. Christopher Graham, of Kentucky,
although 9S, suffers from no ailment,
save deafness, and is still an active
and eager searcher for mineral speci-
mems, which it is understood he will
bequeath to the Louisville Library
Museum. He is one of the original ten
members of the famous Boone Camp Hunt.
ing Association, founded forty years since,
which was maintained for twenty years
with great success.
Peter Griffin is Georgia negro with a
300-acre farm, all under cultivation, and a
good house. He has this year 100 acres in
corn, 20 acres in oats, will make so bales
of cotton, raises everything he wants, and
has more money than he needs. The At.
lanta Consultation remarks that "Peter is
doing more for the real independence Of
his race than all the pestilent, load.
mouthed negro politicians that ever wrote
or talked about the wrongs of the blacks n
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running The Soudsn. The most serious
danger which menacss Egypt at this mo-
ment however, is connected with her ag-
ricuItural system. 1t is we'll known that
agriculture in that country depends en-
tirely upon the annual inundatlons OF the
Nile. This iuundation begins generally
about the end cf June, and reaches its
maximum hight about the third or fourth
week in September. A rise OF about
twenty-four feet is considered good
Nile" a rise of twenty nine feet con-
stitutes dad Nile :" and one OF nine.
teen feet is also bad, because too little.
The inundation is distributed throughout
the country by means of an elaborate sys-
TEN of canals, and here is where the danger
arises. For in order to obtain the fnll ben
eft of the flood it is absolutely necessary
that every one OF the canals, with all
their branches and subsidiaries, should be
most carefully tended. These canals are
all provided with weirs and sluice
gates and dams. Tits necessary that when
the Nile is admitted into the larger canals
below Assouan, they should be filled to
OVERLOOKING before the inundation is per.
mitted to reach the lower lands. The
same process of holding back and over
flowing has to be followed at each step Of
the descent, and that the whole system
may be effectually carried out, the Fella-
heen must be at their posts and at.
tending to their duties. But if Arab
Pasha is able to hold out he is certain to
call upon the Fellaheen for help, or,
which is more probable, to conscript them,
and thus they are in danger of being taken
from their work at the most critical time
of year, and of being kept from home not
only during the inundation but during the
succeeding seed. time. The results of such
| events would be disastrous. Not only
would the cotton crop, which is the staple
of Egypt, be failure, but the wheat, and
dhouna, and barley, and legumina,
and grass crops would also fail, and famine
might easily supervene No doubt Arab
cares nothing for any such considerations,
but England must take them into account,
and it seems probable that the only way to
prevent such evils is to force the fighting as
much as possible, and either crush the
rebel leader at one blow where he is, or
drive him so far up the country that he
will be unable TO interfere with its agri-
cultural system. The fact that the Egypt
ians have as yet stubbornly refused to avail
themselves of labor saving machinery for
the most part, renders it the more necessa.
ry that the Fellaheen should be at liberty
to take care OF the crops for since agri-
cultural operations are still performed
there in the same manner and with the
same tools as in the time of the Pharaohs,
it is impossible to do the work without a
great number of hands. This is the most
serious danger of the situation, and it is to
be hoped that due regard will be given to
it in arranging the campaign against Arab.
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Don Cameron appears to be initiating
Macbeth. Finding that Birnum Wood is
really come to Dunsinane, and that all his
supposed guarantees for success are delu-
sive, he gives the melodramatic order:
Ring the alarum bell Blow wind, come wrack
At least we'll die with harness on our back !
He cannot persuade the Independents to
pull down their ticket and let him nomi-
nate new one with a packed Convention,
and so he tells his friends that he will
=" fight the course" and that after all he
does not greatly care how the struggle
ends. The Independents would have COM
mitted fatal blunder had they accepted
his proposals. Probably they would have
driven the anti. boss element over to the
Democracy. As it is the Camerons will
certainly be defeated, and it is quite posi-
BILE that the Independent ticket may carry
the State. Even if it fails to do that it
will obtain larger vote than the regu.
" lars, " judging from the present indica-
tions, and it will break up Bossism in
Pennsylvania once and for all"
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a DIsTRUsTFUL PATIENT" One day
this intelligent statesman, feeling unwell,
sent for kaid Maclean, who hurried down
to him and, finding his liver was affected,
went home for box of blue pills. Re-
turning with them himself to the Vizier's,
he gave him couple. The patient, taking
them in one hand, drew NJ toward him
with the other and, forcing the pills into
his mouth, obliged him to swallow them.
Now, he said, with an air of triumph,
l will take two myself in little time.
On being expostulated with afterward on
his unworthy suspicion, he tried to excuse
himself, saying, We'll, you see, l thought
some of the servants might have tempered
with the box and poisoned the medicine
in which Gaze, don't you see you would
have poisoned me 2 suggested his benefac-
tor. 'Ah, God is great was the reply,
and the matter dropped. "-[Captain Trot-
ter's "our Mission to the Court OF No.
rocco"
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MONTREAL, July I8Eb.-To.day Il was
made known that the mansion Of MELVIN
Smythe, an American capitalist from Boston,
resident here, had been entered last night by
band Of scoundrels who carried off his
third child, bright boy of 2 years. On the
cot from whence thu sleeping babe was stolen
a letter was found, demanding the payment
of $4,000 within two days, or his existence
would be terminated. Most horrible thrests
were also contained in the note against the
fathers life if he failed to comply or set the
police at work. At late hour this evening
the abducted lad was found standing alone
on doorstep a mile from home, and re.
stored 70 h;a naranta
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AFTER BUSINESS Hours The road the
business man travels in pursuit of COM
petence or wealth is not macadamized
one, nor does it ordinarily lead through
pleasant scenes and by well-springs of de-
light. On the contrary, it is rough and
rugged path, beset with "wait-a-bit "
thorns, and full OF pitfalls which can only
be avoided by the watchful care OF circum-
spection. After each days journey over
this worse than rough turnpike road, the
wayfarer needs something more than rest (;
he requires solace and he deserves it. He
is weary OF the dull prose of life, and athirst
for its poetry. Happy is the business man
who can find that poetry and solace at
home. Warm greeting from loving hearts,
fond glances from bright eyes and welcome
shouts of children and many little arrange
ments for comfort and enjoyment that
silently tell of thoughtful and expectant
love; the gentle ministrations that beguile
US into an old and cay seat before we are
aware of it, these and like tokens of SYM
pathy and affection constitute the poetry
which reconciles US to the prose of life.
Think of this, ye wives and daughters of
business men,
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A NICE POLICEMAN.

1t looks as though the police of San
Francisco might presently begin to com.
pare favorably with those of New York.
The other day a newly appointed officer in
the former city saw hack driven by
without lights. Failing to stop the vehi-
Gle by hailing, he drew his pistol and fred
five shots at the hackman. Happily he
was not good marksman, and SO escaped
the commission of murder. But we should
like to know under what ordinance police
men are authorized to shoot at hackmen
who have no lights out, and whether a
failure to have hack lamps lighted in San
Francisco is really punishable with death -?
If not, it would seem that this officer had
in some slight degree exceeded his duty,
and that, to say this least, he owed the
hackman an apology for missing him SO
many times.
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fell upon their krees. asking forgiveness for
their unbalief 1t happened, however, that
the doctors arrangements fer prayer miscar.
ried. and no prayers were made.
Grant as the Republican Candidate for
Governor Of New York.
NEW YORK, July 19th-A. M-Ralative 10
the PROPOSE to make Grant the Republican
candidate for Governor Of New York, 'to
unite the party" the Times says: Grant has
suffered q good deal from his friends, but q
more gratuitous use of his name could hardly
be imagined than that made in correction
with the struggle for the Guhernatorial
nomination of his party in this State.
The idea that q division CT the
stalwart strength on variety Of candidates,
and its subsequent consolidation under the
cry of Grant and harmony would carry
the State Convention, is entirely worthy Of
sponsible for it. As contribution to the
current politics, it is about as ap. as
new discovery in collar physics
There is no very great proportion of the peo-
pie of this State standing on tiptoe to discern
the coming man for the Governorship. In
fact, more languid appreciation of partisan
politics than is possible at the present time
has not been known in the memory of the
o dest citizen.
Prize Fight Arranged.
New YORK, July 1Sth.-A prize fight has
already been arranged between Tug Wilson
and Sullivan.
| Tug Wilson Enthusiastic Over America.
NEW YORK, July 19sh-A. Mug Wilson
yesterday was without scratch or confusion.
He spoke contemptuously of Sullivan
hard hitting" " l think" said he, "that
can knock him out in square fight with
bare knuckles. l am anxious to meet i'm in
the ring, and match will be arrang ed at
once if possible. Return to England? No,
sir; never. I am going to settle down here,
and to declare my Intention of becoming a
citizen at once. If fought all my life in
England l would not be able to make as
much money as l made last night. This
seems to be the paradise of professional pu-
gilists. 1t will be many long day before
they catch me on the other side of the At
lantic again. Last nights experience settled
it. was treated magnifcsntly. Everything
was square and aboveboard."
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SECOND EDITION.

second edition OF the REooRD.USroS is issued
ZACH day atsPs bringing the Eastern and coAs
eSs up to thA: hour. By this arrangement the
RECORD UNION will present the latest news obtain
,tIe at all points east and north OF Sacramento.
The regular morning edition OF the RECORD SIoS
. carried by morning t-ans, and Is ahead Of all
co ppettors as far north Chico. the California
and oregon Railroad; west to Benica, and south to
stockton, and east o colfax, FOLSOM and Placer
ollie and all intermediate places. The second edition
matter will be found each day upon the third page.
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TEg PROSPECTS OF EGYPT

If Arab Pasha can be got to stand q
battle, he will be very easily disposed of,
for the Egyptian army, or what is left of
it, will no doubt dispense after very little
fighting. Arab may, however, escape into
Upper Egypt, and there foment trouble.
and he may possibly join himself to the
new false prophet who is just now over.
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Patents 10 Pacific Coast InyentOrs-The
Australian Mails for Eurepe-sequel 10
the Great Poker Game - Republican
Senators and the Adjournment Cues
tiOn-Damaging stOrms-spOrts of the
TurfThe New York Greenback State
Conventional Fight 10 the Death In
Louisiana Courthouse 49, Congressional
PrOceedlngs-Etc
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The Puget Sound people oppose the proposition
to make Washington Territory q State The Wala
Walla Union says the cause of the hostility is that
four years ago Constitution was framed in Wala
Walla, and afterwards adopted by large majority
Of about half the voters in the Territory which by
Its provisions gave the Puget Sound politicians alb
sOlute control of the proposed State They fear that
= new Convention would shear then of their
strength
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A LEARNkD Judge in Missouri,li delivering an
opinion in which the validity of the Sunday law
was sustained said " How startling would the
announcement be to the people Of Missouri that, by
their organic law, they had abolished Sunday as a
day Of rest and had put it out of the power of the
Legislature ever to notice it as such. With what
would the toil-worn laborer receive the in
telligence that there was no longer by law day of
rest from his labor"
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WASHINGTON, July 18th. - Patents were
granted to the following Pacific slope invent
ors to-day Rich +. Bridewell, San Fran
cisco. brake and starter for street cars ; j Ohm
B. Conrad, Portland, balance slide valve ;
Lee D. Craig, San Francisco, snow-removing
device John A. Gallagher, Chinese Camp,
Cal, chair Brace Ferdinand Gundor, Port
land, watch oiler; William J. Houston, San
Francisco, soap tablet Loo Chow Fan, San
Francisco, shoe Robert H. Lucas. San Fran.
cisco, refrigerating by ammonia; Albert
Luck, San Francisco, soldering machine ;
Chs rles H. McGlashan. Santa Barbara, rail-
road train telegraph David R. McLenuan,
St. Helena, Cal, vehicle; Albert Neustadt.
San Francisco, carpet sewing machine Rus
sci NJ Q lackenbush. Santa Rosa, Cal, We
hicle brake John w. Rush, Stockton, sulky
harrow Charles d. Smith and David Ssn-
dsrs, of Amador City, and e. Z. Woodbury..
Of San Francisco. ore concsatrator; VIM.
Taggart, San Francisco, preserving poles.
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REPRESENTATION,

WTHEREAs, BY AN ORDER OF THE BOARD
w Of Supervisors Of Sacramento county made
in conformity with Section 1923 Of the Political
Code, and entered Of record on the 9th day Of De-
eember 1884, caLceling all names then on the Great
Register Of said county, and requiring rereS i5tra-
ton Of the voters therein, all persons entitled 70
be registered as voters in said county are hereby
notified TO present themselves at the once OF the
County Clert In the Court-house at the city oil sac
rafnento, for such rezst ration.
THOMAS II. RERKEY,
4, County Clark
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ACCORDING to Iowa papers the success of the pro-
hibition clause in the State Constitution is due to
the influence Of the ladies. In Des Moines and other
cities and towns the women took most active part,
aud long lists Of committees, consisting Of the most
respectable ladies', printed. who remained at the
polls all day and used all their powers of persuasion
A GREAT deal of fuss is being made about the de-
tention in certain cases Of short paid letters. An
old postmaster thus puts it: 1.-THE man who in
this daylight of knowledge does not know enough
to put three-cent stamp on letter, other than a
drop, ought to go of and die
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A ST. LOUIS boy drank milk without taking the
chew OF tobacco out Of his mouth. The milk washed
the tobacco down his throat, and he died of nicotine
poisoning Let this be warning to milk drinkers.
We have nothing to say about tobacco chewers Of
course.
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The Signs Of the Times says the late cyclones,
earthquakes, etc. indicate that the latter days are
drawing to close, and the final smash up is near at
hand Get the ascension robes ready
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BLACK DIAMOND COAL
AND SCREENINGS.

EyHE ABOVE WELL KNOWN SUPERIOR
4 MONTE DIABLo COAL, the most economical
That can be used fer stam Ia for sale in lots TO suit
at Black Disnoni Landing, Contra Costa county
and at the office OF the COMPANY, southeast corner
oil Folsom and Spear streets, San Francisco.
p. B. CORNWALL,
NIT President u II n II m
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Among the recent acquisitions from
Babylonis made by the British Museum
are numerous contract tablets in Babylo-
man cunctform, large fragment of early
Babylonian history, and part of hymn ON
the occasion of the entrance Of Cyrus into
Babylon.
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MANY Mohammedans believe that a new Messiah,
who is to restore to Islam all its pristine glory will
appear on the shores of the Mediterranean on the
18th Of November next.
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FOREIGN AFFAIRS.

The Egyptian situation-FamiHe Feared
in Ireland-The Arrears Bill in the
House of Comm ons-The Stolen Rody OF
the Earl OF Crawford Recoverable
bellion on sB'ail Scale In Mexico
Eeid Abduction of Child at Monirea
The MeNice-Guatemaia 0uestIon-Esc.
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GENERAL GRANTS OPINION.
PHILADELPHIA, July 1Sth.-General Grant
has been giving his opinion upon the Egypt.
ian question to Record reporter. He sides
with England, and says the people of Egypt
are ten times worse off than the M roes of
the South. He believes an English protec-
torate would help develop the resources of
the country and Improve the condition of the
peopIe
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SUMMARY.

The second race was for the 2:25 class, for
a pure of 81, COO, with $500 extra to beat 2:22.
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Another Arctic Expedit,on.

COPENHAGEN, July 18th. The Danish
Arctic exploring ship Dejmphma, Lieutenant
Hoogaard commanding, sailed to-day. A
large crowd witnessed her departure.
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A ooRREsPoSDEST writes to suggest a &c big thing"
He wants capitalists to put up large hotel here,
and through underground pipes pump pure noun
tain air from the sierras to the guests in their
rooms. There's originality for YOU
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PARsoS HICKS is about to publish life OF Presi-
dent Garelds ASSASSIN. The people OF these United
States are certainly being thoroughly punished for
their sins
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A norELrKEEPER of this city complains that the
Understanding habit has SO increased that the
carpets Of most OF his bedrooms are being ruined
by the burning ends of the cigarettes used by his
customers
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Tie Australian Mails for Europe.

New YORK, July is h.-The train with the
Australian mails arrived at jersey City at
halfpast this morning. The Arizona, which
was to have taken them, left at the same
hour. By previous arrangement, however,
the cars were run to the extreme end OF the
wharf, and the entire 257 bags of mail hu5-
risdly shipped on the tug Fletcher, which
afterwards overhauled the Arizona off Coney
Island. inside of Sandy Hook. This pisce of
work will cave two hours in time to persons
receiving mail on the other side. Indepen-
dent of the fac. that the overland route is
much shorter from New South Wales and
New Zealand, and includes in it
the Fiji and Sandwich Islands. there
will be a double advantage at the present
time while there is doubt as to the security
OF the Suez Canal route. In times of perfect
tranquility, mails from Melbourne or South
Australia can be deli, cred in Londoa by the
overland route rs quickly as by the Suez
Canal route, and should any event arise TO
stop the free course through the canal, the
expedition used by the New York postal sn-
thorities in this case will doubtless be cited
in referring to the value OF the route by way
of San Francisco and New York
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London houses are 80 fimsily built that
the introduction on the underground rail-
roads of the Westinghouse brake, with its
instantaneous stoppage of trains, is shaking
walls down with the jar.
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Tax town Of Santa Ana is to have raisin packing,
establishment 1t is believed that raisn.curing will
sson become leading industry in southern Cali.
foruia
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LorTE, Heinrich HERES only sister, to whom the
haii-rathetic, half-cyuical verses, "My child, we
were two children" were addressed, still lives,
bright and active old lady, in her 10Th year.
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THEY have silver mine at Candelaria, il the
True Ffssure ia to be believed, that is worked so
easily the men have only to shovel up the ore like
gravel
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BosroS "esthetics " are discussing the question
whether Iowa should be pronounced E-o.A, accent.
ing the last syllable, and pronouncing the "a" as
In day, or Eowah.