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The Use Of Chances.

"Men are divided into three classes"
said one of Theodore Winthrop's char
acters-. 'thenr as grabs their chances,
them as chucks away their chances, and
them as lets their chances slide" The
truth in this rough classificationis Illus
trated in business and professional life
on every side. Men are seizing their
chances by making the most Of their
opportunities, saving a dollar if they
can not save more, investing securely in
things of intrinsic value that are now
selling cheap, working industriously
while they have health and strength,
and turning everything to the best ac-
count in achieving the end which they
have in view. Men are throwing away
their chances by an opposite course
by spending clear up to their income,
by betting or gambling on issues which
they can do nothing to control, in the
desperate hope of gaining money with
out giving any equivalent, by dawdling
at the beginning Of their career instead
of putting in their best work, and by in
dulging in dangerous vices under the
idiotic plea of .'seeing life." Men are
letting their chances slide by giving up
to inertia or laziness, by waiting fol
something to turn up instead of turning
up something. and by drifting instead
of pulling an oar. Quoting the remark
of Lowell, that Chance was the frs
man who treated To-day as though i
were as good as Yesterday" a religious
| journal lately said thatiti is quite as i'm
portant ito treat To-day as though i
were better than Tomorrow This i
certainly true of the. improvement o
chances.-Boston Herald.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1884-12-27

he really deaf, Laura? He looked
wonderfully knowing, like he might
have heardme." ''Guilty conscience"
said Laura. "Didn'tI say he never
spoke word all summer, and he is as
deaf as a Sphynx. l do wonder if he
will remember me. Men Of his age
and opinions do love to snub us. and I
would not be surprised that he did not
recognize me-"
just then the curtain went up, and,
rs they could afford a treat SO rarely,
they listened, and no more was said of
MIR. Spencer.
At the close, while Mr.. Spencer was
struggling with his overcoat, the two
girls made their exit, but what was
their dismay to find it raining, and
they with no protection from it and no
money to hire . cab. 20, what shall
we do" said Sue; ''our clothes will be
ruinedp' Just then a voice behind
them said: "Miss Hyde, allow me to
see you and your friend to carriage.
The girls looked at each other in con-
sternation, but said never word, and
before they could realize it were seated
in a carriage, with Mr.. Spencer OPP
posite. Laura looked down in her lap,
Sue out the window, but true to hel
character, she saw the righteousness Of
the situation, and. after vainly strug
Cling to control herself, burst into .
peal Of laughter, which only added e
Laura's Distress 50 much that Mr.
Spencer leaned across and said; g.
viii explain. Miss Hyde, Il you WI:
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1884-12-27

Two officers Of Sullivan County, N.
Y, got hold of the wrong man while
seeking an escaped lunatic. and tried
to coax him into q carriage. The victim
thought they were bunco swindlers att
tached to 3 circus which was in thei
neighbofAood. and . hard fight preceded
On sxplapation, TROY gSNsNs:
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The Horseshoe fall at Niagara has
worn away the rock and receded dis
lance of 100 feet in the last thirty-four
years. Buffalo Express.
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Hon. Hamilton Fish ought 10 be

Hon. Hamilton Fish ought 10 be-
as good authority among Republicans
as the New York Tribune is, and this is
what Hon. Hamilton Fish has said Of
Cleveland: II have the greatest respect
and admiration for the Democratic cam
didate. and personally should like to
see him President. He has made q
splendid record as Governor, and be-
;Eeye would do equally well as Chief Ex-
ecutive.n Theabuse Of Cleveland comes
from the little souls, with hardly an exI
ception, who do not know what honor
or respectability is.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1884-12-27

LIN regard to the discovery Of silver
'orel in New York and other Atlantlc
States, Prof. Newberry asserts that sill
yer is not uncommon along the Appa-
laohian range, but seldom occurs in pay
ing proportions. Nine-tenths of the
mines in. these districts faiL-M r.
Tribune.
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--"polecat college" Is the nama Of a
schonl situated pear Sparta, Ga
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-06-24

Southern Russia still continues with all its
vigor The riots at Adzess have been followed
by other riots at Simpheropol, and now Mini
Noygorod has followed their example. The peo-
pie, infuriated by some alleged misdeeds of the
Jews, attacked their houses, threw the furni-
ture INTO the Streets abused the women and
chased the terrified men through the thorough
fares. The Jews made for the headquarters of
the military and police. They were followed
and Intercepted, and all their appeals for mercy
were unavailing. When caught they were
beaten with sticks and struck with stones. In
some cases they were hanged to lamp posts and
in other cases were kicked into the cutters and
left there to die. The people were frantic. The
police could not control them, and are charged
with not having seriously attempted TO
do so. The cause of the outbreak is not yet fully
known, but is supposed to be owing to the al
legged habits of usury followed by the Jews and
general prejudices There were in all eleven
Hebrews killed and forty wounded The peo-
pie are still laboring under great excitement.
Reciprocity Treaty.
OTTAWA, June 23d-It is reported that the
Government has arranged a reciprocity treaty
with the United States, and it will shortly be
made public. The new treaty will follow the
line OF the former reciprocity treaty, admitting
national products and some articles in early
| stages of manufacture The defeat of the Nor
rison tariff bill, in the United States House of
Representatives. is stated to be largely due to the
renewal of negotiations.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-06-24

Visigoths prosecuted them in the sixth and
seventh centuries, and the Byzantines in
the eighth. In the eleventh century they
appeared in Russia and Hungary, and
were soon assaulted. Spain, Italy, Portu
gal and Greece long treated them with
greater liberation than any other nations,
and among those peoples they !arose to dis
tinction in art, politics, science and war,
and shed luster upon the learning and
the history of the nations. But in Russia,
Germany and England for centuries the
condition of the Jews was most deplorable
They were deprived of the commonest
rights shut out from honorable occupa-
tons, beaten, driven and murdered, over
taxed and robbed with impunity, even
bought and sold as slaves, slaughtered by
mobs, and burned at the stake as sacrifices
in the name of religion and civilization
The notable Hungarian trial of 1888 was
but the heightened shadow of bitter false
accusations and farces in the name of
Justice that disgraced earlier periods. The
crowning of Richard L. of England was
celebrated by the Jewish massacre
at York, and in 1890 they were utterly
driven out of the kingdom, as they
were a century later from France. They
were charged, in the fourteenth century,
with being the authors of the plague, and
all Germany united in horrible persecu-
| tons, burning them by the thousand at the
stake. Even Italy, heretofore protecting
them, and Spain and Portugal, their long
! time friends, fell upon them with slaughter
and slavery in the same period. At the
very hight of the bitterest prosecutions
America was discovered, in which the Jew
| has found a refuge securing him against
the superstitions of the ignorant, the cruel
ties of the mercilesS and the fanaticism of
than half expired before the greater cruel
| ties toward the Jewish race ceased; but
even since, and especially in Hungary,
! Eastern Russia, Austria and Germany, they
have been subjected to occasional outragcs.
| Indeed. not until within forty years did
Germany relax its intolerant conditions,
The outrages now reported from year to
wear in remote sections of Austria and
Russia, such as those referred to by yester-
days telegraphic adyiccs, are but the expir-
ing embers of the intolerance and bloody
prosecutions which have followed the
movements of the Jew throughout the old
world and have driven his people so largely
to the shelter of English-speaking races.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-06-24

WELDING THE GAvEL.-The Speakers
| desk is sort of marble pulpit, behind
which Mr.. Carlisle sits in great arm chair
holding in his right hand the ebony handle
of an ivory-headed gavel. This, in case of
disorder, which often occurs, he brings
down with laundering rap upon the
board top of the marble pulpit. 1t sounds
when used with vigor like the shot of a
pistol, and is the terror of long-winded
speakers. Mr.. Carlisle uses the gavel lightly,
but Sam Cox, when he gets in the chair,
brings it down with all his might, and the
other day when he was raising it up for a
mighty stroke the head came off and flew
to the floor. Often the gavel breaks and a
new one is procured. Sam Randall was
very hard on gavels, and broke a great
many during his term as Speaker. He has
these in Il cabinet at home which he shows
to visitors as a sign of his former power.
One of these is a beautiful one which he
got during his last term as Speaker. 1t was
made by Georgia mechanic of one hum
bred and ten pieces of hickory wood
cleveland Leader.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-06-24
THIS MORNINGS NEWS.

In New York yesterday Government bonds
were quoted at 11S1l for As of 1907, 11O14 for AS
sterling, 81 S414@4 SG1k; 100 for IS silver
bars, I10%.
Silver in London, SO 11-16d consols s915-16d
5 per cent United States bonds extended, 1O5
Is, 12124; AS, 1857.
In San Francisco Mexican dollars are quoted
at SS@SS13 cents.
The San Francisco stock market opened yes
terday with Il fine advance along the line of the
north-end Comstocks. The outside stocks were
also quite active. Bodie sold freely at 81 400
30. not having so strong look Mono rose
sharply to 81 10. Navajo jumped up to 81
Eureka weakened to 81 10. After the Board the
market chopped around considerably.
Jew batting in southern Russia still continues.
Cholera is committing great havoc in Toulon,
France, twenty deaths having occurred there
Sunday
A baseball player was killed by lightning at
Central City, Col, Sunday, and another fatally
injured.
1t is now thought in Washington that Congress
viii adjourn July 5th.
Mormons to the number of 500 arrived in New
York yesterday from Europe en- route to Salt
Lake
c. H. Armstrong, who came to the Pacific
coast nearly forty years ago, died suddenly yes
terday in Portland, Or.
A miraculous escape of woman and child
from death is reported from Tacoma, W T.
Near Lewiston, Idaho, Hiram Kelley was
drowned by the capsizing of boat.
Smallpox continues to spread throughout the
metropolitan districts of London.
The remuneration of Nice to Italy is proposed.
An explosion of powder at Pontremoll, Italy,
killed thirty persons and injured seventeen
Others.
John H. Wells has been nominated by the
President for Postmaster Mt Auburn Cal.
A serious conhagration occurred yesterday at
Shenandoah, Pa.
A steamer from China yesterday brought $50
Celestials to San Francisco
CHASTITY story of premature burial comes
from Wheeling, w. Va.
Canada has arranged a reciprocity treaty with
the United States.
An attempt was made at HooperviIle Utah,
yesterday, to murder the correspondent of the
Salt Lake Tribune.
The Hoar bill, recently passed by the United
States Senate, was generally denounced by the
Mormon preachers In Salt Lake, Sunday.
The Fitz John Porter bill is in the hands OF
the President, and will be laid before the Cabi-
net to-day.
The Commissioner of the General Land Office
has finally decided the San Francisco pueblo
land case, which has been before the Interior
Department since 1877.
William &. Schwend accidentally shot and
killed himself in Monterey county Sunday
The coal miners strike in Hooking valley,
Ohio, throws ) 900 men out of employment
John Burns, while endeavOring to escape
from the Arkansas Penitentiary yesterday, was
shot dead by guard.
Serious forest fires are raging near Calais, Ne.
Four men have been Killed in eastern Ken
lucky within the last few days.
The missionary brig Morning Star has been
wrecked on the China coast but no lives were
lost
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-06-24

HoPs IN ENGLAND-Le Mays special hor
market circular, dated London, June 4th
says : There is great increase of fly,
and lice are being deposited very fast This
state of things prevails generally in almost
every district During last week 1.-THE latter
part especially large business was done
and the lowest class of English hops have
advanced Is shillings per cwt Good wealds
and Sussex are also to 10 shillings per
cwt. dearer Last week. transactions nearly
cleared the market of everything offering,
and the few planters now holding hops de-
cline to sell. There is vermin also in the
Alost district We have just received the
following cablegram from the center of the
hop-growing districts of New York State
Great damage done crop here; frost
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-06-24

THE real joke Of the day, the hugest of the
season. is telegraphed all the way from Wash
ington, and is to the effect that Congressman
FULLY. Of this State, is poisoning ont as Cub
ernatorial candidate. They may treat it seri
ously in Washington, but over here it is stu
pendous cause for the broadcast merriment. In
the name of all that is sensible, who are Mr
Tully's " friends in Washington who declare
that :" he can be elected
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-06-24

HAwAII's CONGRATULATIONS REC
oED-UNIoN acknowledges the receipt of the
following card from the Saturday Press of
Honolulu, Thomas G. Thrum proprietor
THE Saturday Press of Honolulu, H. l.,
upon receipt of the news of the nominal
ton of James g. Blaine as Republican can
didate for President of the United States,
hastens TO send congratulations to its con-
temporaries across the water, and unites
with them in the hope of victory at the
coming election
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-06-24

THE agony is growing fearfully, and the criti
cal point is evidently nearly reached for the
Erdnincr has taken TO double-leaded editorials
in defense of the work of the Stockton Conven
ton. When paper gets so extrayagant as to
use two whole leads between the lines of politi'
cal editorials something is about to happen, and
IL well To look for blood in the moon.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-06-24

THE san Francisco Examiner has this: \
fool Republican paper in Philadelphia thinks
that Tilden would never have written that let
ter if he had not been afraid of Blaine. What
the deuce does Providence mean by not send
ing the fool-killer to Philadelphia The an
swer is obvious; because the foolkiller has bus.
iness enough in the Examiner Office and among
the Stockton Convention Democracy TO engage
his attention for the entire season
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-06-24
SAN FRANCISCO AGENCY.

The office of the RECORD UNION in San Fran
cisco is at No. New Montgomery street-Palace
Hotel, opposite the Grand The paper can be
obtained at all the principal news-stands.
WILLIAM CAMERON,
Special Advertising and Subscription Agent.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-06-24

OF CALIFORNIA,
GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC. J
The attention of the Department Commander
has been called 20 the fact that at recent polit-
ical meeting in Oakland, Cal, certain members
of the Grand Army of the Republic appeared
thereat with the badge of our Order fully dis
played and wearing caps with the q. 4. r.
wreath attached thereto. The Department Com
mander is surprised that any comrade in full
possession of sound reasoning faculties should
be so Indifferent to a sense of honor and propri-
ETY. as to seek to involve the Order in trouble
and place it in false position before the public
1t has been repeatedly and Justly stated that
the Grand Army of the Republic is non-political
in its character, embracing within its ranks rep
resentatiyes of all political creeds 1t is there
fore, but proper and consistent to presume that
each representation will be sufficiently indie
pendent to stand upon its own ground, and re-
frain from borrowing strength from an order so
noble and elevated i'll its purposes as the Grand
Army of the Republic. If comrades, in
exercising the rights of citizenship, transgress
the fundamental principles of our order, they
retard its progress and work and do it an ire
parable injury. 1t is hoped that there will be
no recurrence of such an offense as wearing the
badge brother insignia of our order at political
meeting and that further action will be I'M
necessary. By order of
j. NJ DAVIS. Department Commander
J. II. GILMORE Asst Adjutant-General.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-06-24

Twas afflicted with kidney disease, and
suffering intensely l was induced to try
Hunt kidney and Liverl REMEDY, and
before had used two bottles was entirely
cured. Richmond Henshaw, Providence
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NOTICE..

VNHE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE STOCK
holders of the Central Pacific Railroad
Company, for the election of Directors for the
ensuing year. and for the transaction of such
other business as may be brought before the
meeting will be held at the office of the Com
pany, in the city of San Francisco on TUESDAY,
the Sth day of JULY. 1854.
ieI3-2ptd T. H. MILLER. JR., Secretary.
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TERMINAL RAILWAY COMPANY.

NOTICE.-THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE
~ Stockholders of the Terminal Railway Com
pany for the election of Directors for the ensu-
ing year, and for the transaction OF such other
business as may be brought before the meeting,
will be held at the Office OF the Company, in the
city of San Francisco, ON WEDNESDAY, JULY
O. 1854, between the hours of 10 \. NJ. and > p. NJ
". V. HUNTINGTON, Secretary.
San Francisco, June -, lSSi je20-2ptd
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-06-24

Do NOT 90 to the country without bot
tie of Angostura Bitters to flavor your Soda
and Lemonade, and keep your digestive
organs in order. Be sure il is the genuine
Angostura of worldwide fame and manu-
featured only by DR.. J. g. b. Siegert & Sons,
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-06-24
CALIFORNIA PACIFIC RAILROAD co.

NOTICE-THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE
~ Stockholders of the California Pacific
Railroad Company, for the election of hi
rectOrs for the ensuing year, and for the
transaction of such other business as may
be brought before the meeting, will be
held at the office of the company. in the city of
San Francisco, on WEDNESDAY, JULY O. 1SS4,
between the hours of 10 A. NJ. and , P. NJ.
w. V. HUNTINGTON, Secretary.
San Francisco, June 20, 1881. je20-2ptd
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San PABLO AND TULARE R. R. co.

NOTICE.-TEE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE
~ Stockholders of the San Pablo and Tulare
Railroad Company, for the election of Directors
for the ensuing year, and for the transaction of
such other business rs may be brought before the
meeting, will be held at the office of the Com
pany, in the city of san Francisco, on WEDNES-
DAY, JULY 9. 1881 between the hours of 10 A NJ
and . p. NJ. W. v. HUNTINGTON, Secretary
San Francisco June % 1884 ie20-2ptd
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-06-24

To THE LADIEs-Lades desiring to be
perfect in their toilet should make it a
point to use no perfume excepting Elite
Bouquet. Its fragrance is sweet and last
ing. For sale everywhere.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-06-24

THE Republican State Central Committee
has acted wi ss,y in selecting the Capital as
the place of assemblage for the next State
Convention. 1t was well also to put the
Convention late in July-indeed, it would
have been better to have fixed date for ii
even a month later still. As it is, the cam
paign for local purposes will be sufficiently
extended to try the patience of the people
and exhaust the energies of the candidates,
to say nothing of depicting their purses.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-06-24
FOREIGN.

PARIS. June 23d.-Twenty deaths from cholera
at Toulon were reported yesterday. The city is
in panic.
LATER-Reports of cholera in Toulon are
officially confirmed. Troops and dock laborers
have been chiefly attacked. 1t is pronounced
to be Asiatic cholera Quarantine has been
established everywhere. The news caused
sensation in Paris.
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NORTHERN RAILWAY COMPANY.

NOTICE-THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE
~ Stockholders of the Northern Railway Com
pany, for the election of Directors for the ensu-
ing year. and for the transaction of such other
business ms may be brought before the meeting,
will be held at the office of the Company, in the
city of San Francisco, on WEDNESDAY, JULY
g. 1854, between the hours of 10 a. NJ. and p u.
TIMOTHY HOPKINS, Secretary.
San Francisco, June ~. 1854. leo 2ptd
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Frightful Fate of a Young Bride.

WHEELING ". Val June 23d.-A CHASTITY
story of premature burial has just come to light
of last year. On exhuming the remains last
week for removal to another cemetery the
friends were Mortified to find the body turned
over, the hands filled with long tufts of hair
the face, neck and bosom scratched and Scared
and the lining of the coffin torn into fragments
in the desperate efforts of the entombed victim
TO escape Since the discovery the young hus-
band has been Frustrated and his life despaired
Of 81 rpl withhold
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missionary Vessel Wrecked.

Boston, June 23d.-A dispatch received by the
American Board of Commissioners of Foreign
Missions dated Honkong, June 21s announces
the total loss of the missionary brig Morning
Star at Kusail. The crew and passengers were