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Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-10-25

rIYO RENT FOR ONE OR A TERM OF YEARS
All of the POL acres conveyed to me as my
separate property by my father, John f. Nc
Cauley, March 4, 1873. except the part thereof
leased heretofore by me for grain raising to
Messrs. Journeys The land and premises here
by offered embraces all of the grass and pasture
lands of the Arno Stock Farm, except one field,
and includes the Family Residence furnished or
unfumished), Hay Barns. Horse Barns and
Stables, Granery, Blacksmith Shop, Trainers
Cottage, Mems House, Corrals, Paddocks, Track
and outlets, orchard of Bearing Trees Wind
mills Engine, Tanks, etc, etc, all and singular
the Improvements and fixtures upon or belong
ing to said farm; and also the Stubble Pasture
upon the land cropped by the said tenants. and
one-half the ThraShed Straw Possession given
Immediately. For further particulars apply to
Messrs. Beatty IL benson. attorneys at-iaw, Sac
ramento, or to the undersigned upon the prem
Uses. fo20-10tl MRS. ALICE NJ VALENSIN
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PROPOSALS
Fob
BUILDING MATERIALS, ETC.
SAN Francisco DEpoT OF QuARTEEMAsrERl
DEPA RTMENT,

UEFARIMENT,
SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, October 10, 1854.
SEALED PROPOSALS IN TRIPLICATE. SUB
- jeet to usual conditions will be received at
this Office, until u O'Clock noon on MONDAY,
NOVEMBER 10, 1884, at which tine aud place
they Will be opened in the presence Of bidders,
for furnishing Lumber, Shingles, Lime, Hard
ware, Faints Oils, Glass, etc, etc, for Posts in
Arizona.
The Government reserves the right 10 reject
any or all proposals.
Preference given to articles of domestic pro-
ductiOn and manufacture, conditions OF price
and quality being equal, and such preference
given to articles of American production and
Manufacture produced on the Pacific Coast TO
the extent of the consumption required by the
public service there.
Blanks with list and description of articles,
and containing full information ms to bidding,
etc. will be furnished by this Office on appliea-
ton GEO. H. WEEKS,
ol5-l2t Major and Quartermaster, [. s. Army.
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KNOW THE TRUTH!

A. J. POMMER, Sacramento:
DEAR SIR-This is 20 certify that the Domestlc
Sewing Machine received the only premium
awarded at the State Fair of 1854. Also, Silver
Medal for Elegant Machine Embroidery. Very
truly, EDWIN F. SMITH, Secretary.
See the Domestic Sewing Machine, sos street,
A. J. POMMFR Agent. S30-iplm
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CAUTION.

DON'T BE MISLED BY REPRESENTATIONS
IL of full iron frames in Upright Pianos as
animation IT will be found that the MATHU-
SHEK Upright Piano is the only Piano that has
a cup of wood bushing forced into solid iron,
into which the tuning pins are set, which no
other Piano has. Take toothpick or penknife
blade, and you can insert all around the tuning
pin in all otLer Pianos down to the wooden
plank, which viii prove the above assertion.
Then note the MATHUSHEK, ard dout he de-
ceived. Agency, 527 } street. s52plm
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NOTICE TO FAMILIES.

rTl,KE TINE BY THE FoRELoCKi L AM
| now prepared to furnish all kinds of Wood
and Coal at the lowest rates, by the cord or car
load. Call and get prices.
W. F. OSBORN,
Proprietor II. p Osborn's Wood and Coal Yard,
SOC street au24ptf
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CATCH WoRDs.-It would be very diff
cult to say what constitutes the popularity
of catch-woyd. 1t is not the obviousness
Of It's point. Lionel Brough's new express
sion, " Not too much, but just enough, has
not always a very clear significance, but as
it occurs in Babes it is certainly very
funny. Another phrase, " l don't do it for
living" is all over the East End, having
been speedily borrowed from play at the
Standard. Yet sometimes likely phrases
do not catch, Some time since VI, Marius
was constantly reiterating, hope don't
go toe far" in some piece or other, and
while ii was just the sort of saving to lay
hold, it never .did.-IIllustrated Sporting
and Dramatic News.
1t is the stronges: possible argument for
our Immortality that nine of every ten hui
man beings believe in it.
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The wings of the common fly vibrate at
the tate of $50 strokes per second, and
those of the mosquito about 1000 strokes.
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Our candidate fer Township Justice is
Judge Haines. 1t don't need for me to say
anything in reference to Uncle Gabriel :,
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: REAL ESTATE, ETC.
ARNO STOCK FARM

ss- RENT AND OTHER COLLECTIONS MADE
al2-2ptt
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ANY PARTY CAN RUN IT
If they only try. | have not anything to
say against the present incumbent; he has
I'made an excellent Sheriff He is a good
man he has done well as deputy and
High Sheriff l have not word to say
against him as regards his public record Or
private lite | have known him for years.
Still | may say that in every element that
goes TO make up man, J. w. Wilson is
his equal. In addition, J. w. Wilson has
that which ought to commend him to the
support of this people-he has wife and a
family, and he has brought them up here
in Sacramento -[applausel-while his
Democratic opponent, nice gentleman as
he is, is content to follow the example of
his candidate, Cleveland, and remain a
bachelor. You ladies ought all to support
Wilson [applause]; every man in the
county ought to support Wilson, because it
is setting bad example to elect bachelor
to office, if all reports are true. Laughter
and applause.l J. W. Wilson has been in
office, and was under the hottest fire that
ever a man was in office-except myself
Laughter While he was Supervisor of
this county friend and foe alike searched
his record, and to-day he points with pride
to ii as the record of an honest man and
an ineorruptible public officer J. W.
Wilson will make a good Sheriff, and, if he
is elected, | am authorized to say that he
will be Sheriff of the county, and viii be
the Republican Sheriff of the county
[Applause.l
1t does not need for me to say in this
county that has seen Henry Buckley grow
up, but very little in his favor You know
him; you watched him as a little boy going
to school; you watched him as young
man studying in our public schools; you
watched him as student of the law; you
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-10-25

THE REPt BLltAN FAIRLY,
With its candidates and its record, presents
itself again before us. The Republican
party needs no eulogy at my hands. You
know its birth, its history and It's glories.
1t was born of the moral influences and
sentiments of the country; it was neces-
sity; il grew with the moral strength of
the country, and gained in manhood and
in vigor rs the moral elements of society
were vivitied by the teachings Of the great
and the good men that founded it.
1t came into power in 1861. II
found the National Treasury empty ;
it found our navy scattered and destroyed ;
it found our army cut up into little cor
poral attachments it found the stores of
war given or sold to the rebels it found
the national credit gone-vanished; it
found the industries of the country par
alyzed, the manufactures stopped; il
found open and armed rebellion controlling
one-half, and secret rebels the other half
of the country. Right manfully, right
bravely, right nobly it grappled with the
difficulties before. it. Now turn back the
pagesAof the history of the United States
for twenty-three years, and examine the
results of twenty-three years of Republi-
can rule of and upon the country, and
what do they present? We point
proudly to the work of the party.
We see that treason and rebellion
have been crushed beneath the heel
of the workingman and of the rich
man and Of the poor man and of the free
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-01-31
Brains or Bangs.

That was very true remark of SUI
pcrntcndent DartU ut Lyndonville
this week, that the greatest hindrance to
education now-a-days is i'll the district
school. There is nothing III the world
50 valuable to young man OF woman
starting ont to make a success of life,
as thorough education, and it is just
as impossible to get useful knowledge
without having solid basis to build
upon as 1t is to erect monument with
out Il foundation. People are begin
ming to ignore this fact. The fallaciOuS
idea that pupils can make up at the
academy for time lost i'll the common
schools has taken root to an alarming
extent and given rise to the inditfer
euce deprecated by Superintendent
Dart. School houses are not kept up
as they should be. "The old school
house was good enough for me" many
an old farmer has said. Yes, but was
the old farm house good enough for
you Why shouldn't a school house,
in which much of the lives of your
children are passed, have modern con-
veniences and improvements as we'll as
their home But look at the average
district school house in Caledonia
county 1t is lOw-rooted, i'll ventilat-
ed, cold aud badly lighted. 1t lacks
fresh water, and many other things, so
essential to the health aud happiness
of children.
But there is another and still more
important fact to be considered. Cheap
teachers are being hired more and
more. Intelligent, sensible young
women, to whom twenty years or more
of life. the principal part of which
was given to the requirement of
knowledge, have given ability and dis
erection to teach, are driven out of the
back districts by school girls, who will
work for nothing and not earn their
money. Children 90 To school to learn
something, To be taught. But how
can they be instructed 10y the modern
shallow minded, frivolous, banged
hair school girl OF fifteen or sixteen
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-01-31
Note and Comment.

Considerable fuss is being made be-
cause Fred Douglass, at the age of %,
has married a white woman. His
children by former wife are naturally
the most put out. But it really seems
to be nObody's business so long as the
colored leader and the woman are sat
isfied. Aud it is to be presumed that
they are.
Matthew Arnold has hit one mark
at least. ~ think" he says, "you
editors make too much of the sort of
news. which is excluded from English
newspapers and appears only in police
papers,
Montpelier's Hiram has a very soft
side toward Standard Oil Payne for
president, and seems much pleased be-
cause the New York Graphic speaks
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-01-31

combination one-fourth and ene-half
pound butter prints in various styles
Isn't it about time Northwestern
Vermont was represented on the Off
cial board ?
So many new members joined and
paid their dues that they became a
fresh cause of anxiety to overwork ed
Secretary Tinkham.
Ensilage started in rather slowly,
] but came out with flying colors.
The butter exhibited by George B.
Williams of WaIpole, n. H., attracted
/ general attention, and was seemingly
the most perfect that could be pro
duced. Mr.. Williams left mercantile
business and adopted farming, and has
given great attention to the produc-
ton of butter He submitted his
products to marketmen and asked theii
criticism, and from information he got
from them in regard to the wants Of
the markets and his own conception,
of what first-class of butter should
be, he now produces an article
which puts him in the front rank o
dairymen in this country.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-01-31

of his editorial utterance as straw.
A straw's weight, forsoOth
A man named Virgins was caught
in the big snow blockade at Kingston
last week, and the laborers, thinking
he was the weather prophet, refused
TO shovel path for him. .-
While Senator Edmunds advocates
postal telegraphy, he strongly opposes
the purchase of existing lines by the
government. He thinks they should
be continued to keep up healthy COM
petition,
Bradley B. Smalley, Burliugton's
railroad man for whom the democratic
representatives voted to succeed Ed
munds, is looming up as the probable
minority candidate for governor.
The Fall River cotton manufacturers
have reduced wages again about eight
| per cent, making total reduction ot
45 per cent. since 1873. The mills
make dividends, the manufacturers arc
not united on this policy, and the op.
eratives are very indignant. A more
statesmanlike settlement of the rela-
tions of labor and capital seems to bt
in order at Fall River.
BY the way, Vermont can have Ben
Butler.--[Springfield Republican.
Thanks, thanks. Ship by cattl,
train, in refrigerator car. C. O. ID.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-01-31
Food for the Flames.

One fact was conclusively shown by
the Danville fire. The means of pro-
lection in that and many other Gale
donna towns are wholly Inadequate
Last weeks blaze was serious enough
to be sure, but what might it not have
been under untavOTable circumstances.
Had the wind been from the north-as
it generally is on Danville green-the
houses south Of the church, and posi-
bly, the Elm house and other residences
beyond, would surely have been burned.
Such loss would be incaiculable to
place of Danville's size. And that
village is no exception. A fire starting
on the north side of Peacham corner,
Mclndoes, Passumpsic. or Barnet, the
wind being in the north, would prac-
tically destroy the whole village. But
what can he done Danville had Il
hand engine, but not enough water to
put out the smallest blaze. There can
be but one reply get the water. 1t is
easily done. Water can be brought to
Danvlle green, it was estimated last
fall, for $1,000. The other villages
could obtain it cheaper. And how
small is that amount compared with
the loss liable to be caused by IA single
cOntlagration
Most Caledonia villages could get a
sufficient head of water to obviate the
use of an engine. But suppose it was
necessary to buy and maintain an en-
CINE. The little village of Cabot
doesn't find it burdensOme In fact,
that enterprising hamlet would proba-
bly, not dispense with its steamer and
corps of fire laddies. if it was known
that the place would have ho fire fOl
half il century. 1t gives "A kind OF
military tinge to Il village, stimulates
local pride and gives the boys some
offices to pass around. 1t certainly
does no harm and may do much good
Each Caledonia village will do we'll
at any rate, to look about and see
what can he done. Aud Danville
Well, Danville had better sell it,
engine.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-01-31
General News.

The members of the Second Presby
terrain church at Chicago lately gave
It reception to Rev. Dir. r. w. l'atter-
son, for thirty-two years their pastor
on his SEVENTEEN birthday. The doctor
said that since he came to Chicago in
1872 the Presbyterian churches had
grown from two to forty.
When a party of Apaches from New
Mexico We're introduced to President
Arthur the other day, Augustine, the
biggest and most clearly uuwashed
savage of the lot, rushed up and seized
the chief executive III his arms, ex-
claimed, ''God il Il great man, but the
Great Father is Il GREATER" aud held
and lmgged his victim for a Ioug half
minute. The president showed his
disgust plainly, but was helpless.
Chicago el-keepers have sab
scribed $500 to capture the demo
cratic convention.
Robert Harris, IA director of the
Northern Pacific and one of the vice
presidents of the Erie, has been elected
to succeed Mr.. Willard as president OF
the former road. Mr.. Harris was form
erly president of the Chicago, Burling-
ton & Quincy, and is considered good
railroad man. He was chosen through
the influence OF Frederick Billings.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-01-31
Tempting Death.

That sad event at st. Johnsbury
Centre this week, because of which a
bright little boy, the JOY and hope of
his parents. now lies at the point of
death. brings forcibly to mind the dan
ger of handling or keeping dangerous
weapons. 1t brings to mind the for
tuuatc escapes from the use of firearms
in st. Johnsbury during the past few
months. A workman on the Noyes
block was struck in the neck by a
spent bullet and was slightly injured.
4 bullet whizzed into Il shop and drop
ped upon the floor, near the occupant
of the shop. In each case boys were
PLAYING with Il revolver, which was
discharged. Pupils have refused to
accompany playmates on their way to
school bccausc they carried revolvers
in their pockets.
1t is time this temptation of death
was stopped Unfortunately there is
no law in this state against carrying
concealed weapons. But where the
officers seem powerrss the people
must act. Let parents investigate this
matter. Let school teachers and
school committees look into it. Let
every body, who has any regard for
the safety of life and limb, find out
what is going ON. Then, if the law is
inadequate, and it is send represen-
tativcs to Montpelier who will act
promptly and thoroughly.
St"rckeeprrs are selling revolvers to
boys. aud young men are trading pis-
tolls with them.
There is no call for concealed weap-
Ons in Caledonia county; and the man
OF boy who carries one is Il contempt
blc coward. and may almost any day
prove murderer.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-01-31
Vermont News.

Clark Whitney Of Westminster tried
to kill himself last week while insane.
He will probably die.
A St. Adams young man froze both
hands, both ears and his nose. while
driving ten miles TO Swanton last
week.
The celebrated buck, Draco, owned
by Spear Bros, of Braintree is dead.
His fleece last year weighed b pounds.
He was valued at $1,000.
Addison county produced l0,00t
pounds of honey last year. j. H.. Mead
of West Rutland got 273 pounds from
one hive.
Middlebury has shipped 100 more
merino rams for Australia. ...
A Fletcher young man named Harry
Clapper fell ont of his sleigh while re
turning from party obe night last
week and was found dead III tho
morning. Rum did it.
A little Rutland girl, becoming
wearied with the qnarre!ing of two
younger children over a glass Of milk,
exclaimed, ''What's the Use of fighting
forever over that milk There's a
whole cOwful out in the barn
The stone cotton mill at North Ben
nington. which was owned by Trenor
W. Park, is to lie used as a watclI-case
factory by New York and New Haven
parties.
The motion of Receiver s. NJ Gleason
of the Vermont copper mining com
pany for the sitleof the entire mining
property, fixtures and personal proper
ty Of the company at Ely and Cornish
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-01-31

years, who teaches to pass away the
long summer and get rid of work at
home Such schools are far worse
than none. The growth Of a child's
brain is stunted by such treatment.
A pupil cannot be expected to grow
mentally when his INSTRUCTOR reared
in the same perniciOus way, cannot
answer the simplest questions, and Is
only too ready to convey the impress
sion that they are unanswerable.
The children had far better stay 1T
home and teach themselves. as they
would have to do, for their mothers
don't have the time.
The plain truth is, that the average
voter in the average district ia stingy.
And that isn't the worst of it. His
stinginess has warped bis Judgment
till he cannot see that he is working
against his own interest and the inter
ests OF his children. But the voter
isn't the only one to blame. The town
| superintendent comes in for his share
| He is given the power to issue per
mits" to would-be schoOlma' ANS, who
are unable to get certificates, and most
rOundly does he abuse the privilege
There are cases probably when it i.
advisable to give permits, but they art
very few and far between. A permit
is frequently given, however, to teacl
small school. "She knows enough
to teach those few numbskulls," hai
! been remarked more than once. Blu
the fact remains that a person fit t.
teach half dozen children we'll, car
teach four times as many equally well
and that an incompetent person has M
more business to SOW the seeds of ig
norant stupidity in one child's braiI
than in the brains of twenty. And
Il numbskull doesn't need careful
teaching, who does
Farmers have found out that it pays t.
keep good cows and make good butter
And it pays to maintain good schools
Don't forget that.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-01-31
GOV. ..Iack" NIattOcks.
AN oLD-TIMER GIVES SOME INTEREST
INC; RFMINISCENCEs

AN OLD-TIMER GIVES SOME INTEREST
ING "REMINISCENCES.
"You don't remember old Gov. Jack
Mattocks, do you ?" queried pleasant
faced stranger with fringe of white
whiskers under his chin, as he dropped
into car seat with a Caledonidn -
porter, at Dauville the other day.
"No, thought you wouldn't. But
knew him well when he lived out at
Peacham, and 1 tell you we don't have
such governors nowadays. When he
addressed jury, he just gazed into
vacancy. I've seen him many a
time staring off into the distance,
but talking in his plain, blunt
way without any attempt at or
atOry. But he always got there. !
never knew him to lose a case. He
never made speech in his life. The
nearest he ever came to it was the
night we heard he was nominated for
governor. A lot of us gathered around
AZ lII " slG ia "a
tight place, but he got out of it slick
as a whistle. He just got up and said :
Boys, | thank you and now if you
will elect me governor, I'll tell yOu
what I'll do. l will appoint two
thanksgivings and no fast. Good-by.
"Another time, ! remember | was
taking tea with the governor after his
return from congress. We got to talk
ing about John Quincy Adams, who
was making such fight in congress
then for freedom and the right of pc
tition. Upon my asking the governor
| if Mr.. Adams was not becoming pet
ulant in his old age, his son William,
in roguish way, asked his father il
men, as they grow old, are not apt to
| become petulaut. The governor
| looked at his son half minute and
then said: Tve lived a good many
! wears, Bill, but | have observed that it
is not half so apt to he the case that
old men are petnlant, as it is that
| young men are saucy.'
"The governor never got into SO
close il corner that he couldn't say
something. One New-years morning,
after he had passed the night at a
| friends house, as he was bathing and
preparing for breakfast, he unfOrtu-
nately leaned against door at the
/ head of the stairs leading to the
! kitchen The door gave way, and the
women folks, busy getting breakfast
were astounded to see rolling and
! nmbling into their presence chubby
fat old gentleman III a most unpresent
able attire. But the governors ready
wit came promptly to his aid, for pO-
litely exclaiming, Ladies, | wish you
all happy new year. he FASTENED
back to his toilet.
.'But the snicide of his son George
broke the old mans heart" the speaker
continued in ii lower tone, as the train
rolled over Fairbanks village. "Ht
was never the same after that. | re-
member another young man named
Orrin Brown killed himself the same
year. Soon after the two suicides
were buried, their fathers met at the
door of the old Peacham church OF
the hill. They clasped hands, bu
neither said word. Their emotions
We're too deep for expression, 1t wa'
the saddest sight ever saw"