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Saturda, al.
cashed, it is generally spent at the
stores by Monday morning. When
the fruit is scattering, hands are paid
3 cents per quart. When they get
abundant the price is generally reduc-
ed to two and q cents per quart. At
the north and West the common price
is not much more than one cent. We
have known hands at these prices to
make from 81 to Sl.50 per day
working six hours-as pickers don't
generally commence work until about
0 o'clock. when the dew is off. 1t gen.
orally takes from five to ten pickers
per acre, so twenty acres of berries in
the height ofthe picking season would
require from 100 to 200 hands, to eep
well up with them every day. Most
ly women and children are employed,
as men scarcely make good pickers.
HOW THEY ARE GATHERED.
When the hour for packing begins,
each hand comes to the box house
and takes four quarts on a little
basket made for the purpose of hold
ing the boxes. They then commence
taking the rows separately, having
some one with the whole picking sea-
son TO see that the berries are not
gathered too ripe, have the proper
Iannfh n attached apI ~ III tl air ls,vaa
and give them tickets for the number
of quarts.
These quarts are carried to the
packers-house, where they are packed
into crates holding "a quarts each.
These crates are branded with stencil.
placed in spring wagon, and carried
to the shipping place.
Small tickets are changed up for
larger ones during the week, and on
Saturday evening they are cashed.
Sometimes there is good deal Of
risk in sending Strawberries long dis
tances to market. If the berries are
picked soft, aud there is too much
rain. they reach market in bad condi-
ton, and bring low prices. The fruit
is very perishable and to handle big
strawberry crop and get it into
market, requires more than ordinary
care and attention.
MAKING BOXES.
Material for crates and boxes is
either purchased in Memphis, Cairo,
or Golden. Ills, where there are box
factories. The lumber Is received gen.
orally by car loads in packages, car
ried to the box-house, and made into
boxes and crates. Boys soon learn to
make quart boxes and turn out from
800 to 400 per day. We have seen
hands make 1000 quart boxes per day.
Generally a fine brading tack is used.
Some years there lie q good deal Of
money In strawberries. other years
they fail. It depends very mnch on
the season and the manner In which
the crop Is marketed.
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Buncknl.
Bates Digest,
BrOom's Legal
Curtis on Pateu
Drake on Attach
Devereaaxs' Kline lat, vol
Daniels Chancery Practice, 18th edition, vols.
Daniel on Attachment, vol. 1869.
bellows Review vols.
Flanders on Fire Insurance. VOL, 1871.
Fletcher on slavery, Iol., 1852.
farren's liill IN 'hanccry vol, 1866
Graham a Waterman On New Trials, vols, %
edition,
GalIaxy, 1865 -.ls7O, Completely
llurd On llabeas Corpus, 1858, vol.
Hutchinson's Forms, Miss vol.
Code of Mississippi vol.
billiard on Torts VOL, 1866.
Remedies Tor Torts. vol, 1869
Horrigan 4 Thompson ON Se.fdefense, 1 vol.
History Of a lawsuit tCharacters) vol.
Leading Criminal Cases by Bennett Heard, 2
vols,
Lawyers Record and Register, Ulmap, VOL, 1872.
Laws aud Ordinances OF Boston, VOL, 1869.
Laws OF Mississippi, | vol, 1872, VOL, 1873
1874 1875 l vel. 1876, | vol. 1878, | VOL 1880 4,
yol.-Code Of 1897, volume.
MuTray's United States Courts, 1 VOL, 1869.
Maryland Report, vol %
New Hampshire Reports, vol H.
North on Probate Courts OF Mississippi I vol.
Otto's Reports, vols. and 2, tUniied States SUI
Parsons Law Of Businc s. vol
Parsons on Contact, vol. 2, 1864.
Ram on Facts, vol. 1879.
kly's Medical Jurisprudence of Insanity, | vol.
Remarkable Trials. VOL
Roseee's Criminal Evidence. | VOL, 1866.
Redfeld on Carriers, vol 1869.
saints Dictionary OF the Bible, { vols half calf,
1870, Ia fne copy.)
Southern Law Review, vols. l., and 3, ls72-74,
unbound.
story's Conflict Of Laws, 9th edition, 1865
on Agency, | VOL, 9Th % 1879.
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HOW sTRAwBERRIEs ARE MAR
KETED.

We were asked to write an article
on the modus Operandi of marketing
Strawberries, as a great many people
know nothing of the way they are
gathered and sent to market:
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CURRICULUM:
FACULTY.:
CAS- AT PRESENT CONSTITUTED


FACULTY.:
CAS- AT PRESENT CONSTITUTED
G. A. IIuDDLEsfoN, "A. b.,
President and Prefes OF Mathematics
DIR, +. NJ. HUNT, a. NJ,
Professor of Science and Political Economy
Il. +. OUSLEY, A. b.
Professor Of Latin, Greek and Literature.
DR.. II. II. HARAl SON,
Professor of Physiology and Chemistry.
+, B. -WOODLEY.
Master OF Prnmanship, and A'JihH ih
Mathematics and Literature.
MISS Attic CHAMBERS, NJ. 4. l.
Principal Of Introductory Department.
MRS. THERESA TASCIlENEElGER,
Principal Of Music Department.
DR.. ii. IL. HARALsoN College
DB. X. + AUSTIN, Ply sieians'
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MISS Attic MBEl,S, NJ. T.. u
Principal of Introductory Department.
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PICKING.

Preparation for picking sometimes
begins month before the season COM
mences. Material for boxes and
crates is received and mad up. Pick
ing season is q Ola d; ''c'
ers. TIL
bte,.
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MRS. THERE'S TASCIlENBERGER,
Principal Of Music Department.
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DR.. III. IL, HARALsoN College
DB. X. + AUSTIN, ! Physicians
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-01-07
THE SKIPPING QUESTION.

The New York Chamber of Commerce
has been struggling with that question of
the revival Of American shipping which so
exercised the San Francisco Chamber a
short time ago. The New Workers do not
appear to have brought any original ideas
to bear upon the matter. They are for the
most part content to travel in the old
ruts. Their principal suggestion is for
the removal of duties upon the materials
employed in ship-building. This sugges-
ton would no doubt tend to facilitate the
construction of ships, always provided that
there was any demand for them but the
New York merchants do not seem to have
realized that before there can be revival
of the American shipping trade there must
be revival of our foreign commerce. 1t
would he of little use to build ships in this
country if there was nothing to carry in
them. 1t is true that they might compete
for the carrying trade of Europe, though
that would be uphill work. But they
could not make it any easier to sell Amer.
lean manufactures in foreign markets, and
after all that is the main end to be sought.
The New York Chamber of Commerce will
have to turn its attention to the tariff in
other particulars than the materials in ship.
building. Ii it cannot bring itself to do
this, and to face the actual situation, it
might as well spare the public its plati
tudinous and futile resolutions.
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TIE DEVICE OF A rovIcE.


EDS. RECORD UNION: Congressman Rose
Grams has. as his first legislative step, intro
duced bill to erect Government building
in the city Of San Francisco. It IS verv
common thing to exhibit gratitude for election
to a seat in Congress, by introducing bill to
erect a magnificent Government building in
the chief city r. the district represented bv
novice, and IL is quite as common q give the
bill no further Thought or attention. The intro
duction of the bill is expected to achieve for
it, author high reputation for energy, and
perhaps it should be esteemed a full reward
Tor the support accorded by a city TO have its
name mentioned in such a bill. Sscra-
mento has been thus bonored three
times, and although the bills introduced
were never designed for anything more
tasn o Congressional assurance tha. the city
was not wholly forgotten, still the city has
shown 2 marked degree of prosperity ever
since the Introduction OF the irst bill Ia
the case OF this city, that lead has been
worked Tor all it Is worth, but General Rose
Grams can play that card at least twice mora
as to San Francisco. After thst he viii
probably have to resort 70 introducing bin
Tor the purchase by the Government Of the
Spring Valley Water Works, with a view to
supplying free water. He could begin by
asking for $500, 1000; not that thai amount
would be sufficient, but Government SO
thoroughly uniformed as ours would not
see the point until after it was fully COM
mitted to the expenditur. OF this sum then,
rather than lose that amount, il could be de-
pended upon to follow up the matter by ap-
propriating five or ten millions more. Bills
TO spend Government funds il any
are always popular-in that COM
nunity, and General Rosecrans has evil
iently mapped out for himself long career
n Congress; at least he has taken a we'll
beaten path. x.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-01-07
SARGENT AND GOAT ISLAND

If there is any one point upon which the
average San Francisco editor ought to be
sensitive, it is the former raid against Sem
ator Sargent because of the Goat Island af-
fair. If there is any illustration which
San Francisco editor ought to avoid, if he
has any sense, it is that episode To ac-
cuse Mr.. Sargent now of having done
wrong in connection with Goat Island, is a
stretch of impudence and imbecility which
perhaps no other paper than the Chronicle
would be capable of. For it is most GER
tainly understood of all men in California
at the present time that Senator Sargent
was thoroughly and completely right in his
proposition to give Goat Island to the Gen.
trail Pacific Railroad Company for ter.
minus, and it is equally understood that
among the many exceedingly foolish things
San Francisco has done, her opposition to
this scheme was one OF the most silly and
suicidal The policy which directed the
opposition was sheer dog. .the.manger
policy. San Francisco had no use for Goat
Island, and was never likely to have, but
her stupid newspapers imagined that the
way to get credit for public spirit was
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-01-07

bility of II and to declare their complete
conversion to the opposite opinion. Yet
this ia what Grant has done here. He ad-
nits with complete candor that he had
never read the papers in the case; that he
had allowed himself to be deceived by an
incorrect map of Porter's positions in the
first and second days of the second battle
of Bull's Run; and that he had further
allowed himself to be prejudiced against
Porter by General Pope. But he says
that at last he has gone carefully and
thoroughly into the records of the case,
and that after three days of close investi-
CATION he has become convinced that the
verdict of the Court. martial was unjust !;
that General Porter did his full duty on the
field of battle that he has for nineteen
years suffered under a cruel and unde-
served stigma and that he ought to be
restored to his rank in the army. We say
that considering everything this is a noble
action OF Grant, and it causes US to regret
all the more that he should ever have
forsaken for civil life that military career
in which he had attained so splendid a
fame, and all his associations with which
were SO honorable to him. And it is GER
tain that in this matter his opinion is en-.
titled to very great weight. In question
of military Judgment few men are more to
be depended on, and when he finds himself
forced to the conclusion, despite his long.
held prejudice, that General Porter did his
whole duty in the battle at which he
was adjudged to have played the
traitor, the weight OF authority is with
the new opinion, and not with the
conclusions of the Court martial. In
fact after such complete reversal OF
Grants old ideas OF the whole subject, the
most fixed believers in Porter's guilt must
| find that the foundations of their faith
have been undermined, while those who
have from the first held that the General
was wronged will be all the more eager to
| nave MIN V1nulcateu. IL IS OF course I'M
possible in such case to atone for the
past. No restoration of rank can compen.
safe for nineteen years of obloquy. Nc
money payment can heal the wounded
spirit of brave soldier SO prosecuted.
Yet the United States cannot afford to act
meanly in matter of this kind. The
restoration must be complete in all re,
spects. There should be no haggling over
| dollars. All that Fitz John Porter can by
any possibility claim would not be in any
true sense payment for his injuries it
would only be an attempt on the part OF
his country to palliate the injury it had in
flicted upon him.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-01-07
EVIDENTLY INSANE

a man named Bailey committed suicide
in this city the other day, leaving letter
There is passage in this letter which
proves the insanity of the suicide concIu.
sively. He refers to some Order, con.
gregated in the city" which is prevent.
ing him from doing what he wishes. Now
this is perfectly trustworthy proof Of
madness. 1t is indeed one of the COM
monest indications of incipient insanity.
Whenever man begins to believe that
some secret Order is plotting against him,
he is already far gone in general paralysis
of the insane, and he ought to be looked
after. Unfortunately too many people are
careless about matters of this kind. They
hear friend say things of this kind, and
merely wonder or laugh at him. When,
soon afterwards, they learn that he has
perhaps taken his own life or that of some
of his family, they remember, too late,
how "queer he had been previously. 1t
is therefore well to bear in mind that strong
apprehension of conspiracy is in ninety
nine cases out of hundred a sure symp-
tom of brain disease.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-01-07
KARL MARX.

1t is said that Karl Marx is dying. He
has filed a perfectly unique position,
has welded a great though Ineffective in.
huence, has been the center of all manner
of cloudy revolutionary movements which
came to nothing. He appears to have
been born with a genius for conspiracy.
He was the Moltke of secret political or.
ganization. All the myriad associations
of Italy and Germany and France, and the
sham conspirators of the United States
also, were in communication with Karl
Marx. He sat like spider in the center
of his web, and directed everything. No
doubt he was man of considerable power.
He must have had the special power
which commands the obedience of men.
And he created the International. We
can all remember, for it Is very few years
ago, how portentously that organization
doomed up at FIRST 1t was to be the or.
ganized expression of Labor all over the
world. 1t was to be the machinery by
which Labor was everywhere to utilize it's
strength in affecting legislation. 1t was to
Withstand the Absolutist governments, and
finally to overthrow them. 1t was to put
an end to Wars, and Tariffs, and Custom
houses, and national prejudices, and every
thing tending to exclusiveness. In short,
it was to fraternize the whole world.
t. LA
crosses, but they did not do much good,
for when it came to defining
programmes many foolish things were
said, and it became disagreeably
apparent that very many of the
most enthusiastic members asked nothing
more than chance to upset all existing
institutions. Nevertheless the Interna-
tional continued to grow. 1t had its
lodges everywhere, and it commanded
money, and it possessed an elaborate or
ganization, and had its regular organs, and
appeared to be going forward in business
like way. Then came the Franco German
war, and the closing horrors of the siege of
Paris, and amid the fumes OF petroleum
and the sharp rafting crash of the platoon
volleys at Satory, the International disap-
peared. It died of the Paris Commune.
From that time to this 1T has been inert
and hfeless. Karl Marx was not response
bic for the blnnders of his followers. He
was philosopher, and in the modern way
he sought the Great Secret But he lived
to see his doctrines thrown aside; to see
Bismarck stealing his thunder to check
mate the Socialists; to see French Repub-
licanism drawing away further every year
from the principles of Sansculottism to
see the P4ternal theory of his dreams en-
ployed to buttress Miitarism, and to post.
pone the emancipation of Labor. He has
lived long and an eventful life, but how
little of fruition has blessed his pain.
ful labors. As he prepares to leave the
world in which he has played so active a
part he must surely feel that after all his
endeavors the work remains to be done
almost from the very beginning.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-01-07
TIE Court adjourned till $3.50 a. NJ. to-day.
DESIRES TO MAKE SOME CORRECTIONS

j. f. Talbot, recently a witness in the
Gold Run case, now pending in the Superior
Court of this county, takes issue with the
testimony of witness II. H. Brown. The
controversy relates to the early history of In-
diana Hill. Mr.. Talbot, in a letter to the
RECORD UNION, saws: " In his testimony as
published in the UNION, MIR. Brown is re-
ported to have said, [ was one OF company
of five that first located on Indiana Hill.
Our location on that hill was prior to the
organization of the mining district The
facts are, as | had stated. Numerous compa-
MES had located claims on the Hill, and the
mining district was as perfectly organized,
according to the rules and customs of
miners, long before he was known in the
district, IS it ever has been since In ref
erence to mining at Indiara Hill,
ne says: They commenced Hydraulic min
ing there in 1858. The first hydraulic mining
ever saw was at Nevada City, in 1855. I
went to that place to examine this process az
that time, with view of introducing the
same process on Indiana HILL As 8 fact
in the history of that place, hydraulic mining
had its origin right there, without being in
troduced by Mr. Brown OF anyone else and
many of the improved appliances we're origi-
Dated by practical miners in that section of
country. Regardless of the credit or csnsure
that may be attached 1t this tine, and with
out the remotest idea Of committing a nuis-
snee, early in the season of 1858 I originated
and put up the first hydraulic that was ever
put up on Indians Hill, Gold Run, or on
the Dutch Fiat divide. 1t consisted of can
vsss hose, the water being discharged through
q wooden nozzle which l constructed, under
a fifty or sixty-foot pressure, against the bank
and gravel. l don't suppose there was q
miner in the district but what had seen this
hydraulic in operation, and had his say
about it."
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-01-07

to reaist everything that promised to
benefit the public, and so they led the
community in that preposterous cru
SADIE. There can be no doubt that If the
matter had to be determined again, Goat
Island wonld be given to the railroad by
an enormous majority. No honest man
or Journal any longer pretends to think
that the former position of San Francisco
was right OF defensible. They are all
heartily ashamed of it, and they feel that
Mr.. Sargentin this affair showed much more
sagacity than they exhibited themselves.
The attempt therefore to find leverage
for abuse of Mr.. Sargent in the Goat Island
case is particularly ill.judged, and it shows
how desperately hard up for accusations
against him his enemies must be when even
a professional black mailer like the Chroa-
icle is compelled to fall back upon so thin
charge. The simple truth is that in the
Goat Island case Mr.. Sargent represented
the best interests of San Francisco and
California with his customary fidelity, and
but for the perversity and folly OF a part OF
the San Francisco press, he would have
doubtless carried the proposition to a sue
cessful issue, and have earned and re-
ceived the most sincere thanks of the COM
munity His good intentions were per.
verted by the malice of fools, but the wis.,
dom of the plan is no longer open to
| question.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-01-07
Aeg1cULTURAL INSTRUCTIONS.

The publication is entered upon In this
issue of the RECORD UNION of series of
papers upon Agricultural instruction, !"
to which we invite especial attention.
Professor Hilgard in the chair of agricult-
ure in the State University, recently com.
menced the term series of lectures to the
agricultural class. These lectures consti-
tute the teaching course, in largest part, in
that department of the University, and
embody the results of the chemical analy.
SIS conducted in the department, and of its
experimental curriculum, as well as of the
observations taken and the statistics and
facts gathered concerning the climates,
soils, methods of cultivation, and earth
production upon the Pacific coast. These
lectures will be reproduced by an ad-
vanced student in a form adapted
to publication. They will thus constitute
a complete digest of the instruction given
at the State University in the science of
agriculture, shorn of application and
rendered more valuable still by the addi-
ton of the thought, experiment, research
and study of Mr.. M. H. burst, the writer,
who thus, in a high sense, makes the
papers original. To those unable to attend
the lecture course of the University, and
especially to the thoughtful agriculturists
of advanced years, these papers, supple
mented by their own experiments, and
weighed by the Judgment of their own OBJ
servation, viii prove of profound interest.
They will possess, indeed, very high
value as presenting in a practical and we'll
digested form the whole course of agricult-
ural instruction in the University. This
department in the institution is pos
sessed of the most ample facli-
ties for obtaining agricultural in
formation, conducts an experimental
farm, and makes careful and constant
study of the soils and products of the State
and of all matters relating thereto. The
papers will be found to be of character
justifying their careful preservation either
by filing or in scrap. books, and it is be-
lieved will do much toward the dissemina-
ton of practical information concerning
the advance and discovery being made in
agricultural science.
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TIE wgEKLY UNION.

The WEEKLY UNION ior 1882 viii be found to be
decidedly the best ard most desirable paper issued
among all the weekles of the coast. II is sent out
in two sheets each of eight pages-one on "eanes-
days and one on Saturdays. 1t therefore goes TO us
readers otener than the old style Of weekly JOURNAL
and its news is fresher and very neatly on level
in point OF time for country readers, with the usual
daily paper. The WEEKLY UNioS has full, reliable
market reports, complete telegraphic advices from
all points domestic news, edtorialy treats all cur
rent topics OF public importance addresses itself in
a specia department to agricuturists, gives atten-
ton to the household, fashions, art, science me-
oh anics, etc, and to general literary matter tales
sketches, poetry, reviews Of new books, ETC. The
WEEKLY UNION is mailed to any address, one year,
for e. 40
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GRANT AND PORTER.

On the principle Better late than
" never" General Grants letter to Presi-
dent Arthur in regard to General Fitz John
Porter is matter for satisfaction. It is
perhaps due to Grant to say that however
culpable his previous refusal to give this
case fair examination, there are not many
men who, having once committed them
selves to an adverse view, would have had
the courage and the manliness to acknowl-
edge their error, to accept all the response