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A Wonderful Clock.

A clock that will run four hundred days
without winding is on exhibition in Il
downtown window It stands under glass
shade about fifteen inches high, and is Of
very simple construction The only APP
parent difference between it and a Con
necticut clock Of novel design is that in
place of pendulum it has time measure
Of equal exactitude in the shape of ro-
tary disk of brass containing springs, which
wind and unwind as it turns first in one
direction and then the other. The clock
is European invention and attracts con-
siderable attention from passers-by. A
salesman, i'll explaining its mechanism to
a reporter, said; There have been
former inventions Of clocks 10 run as long
time as this, but never on any such prin-
ciple or with any success, as they never
proved at all accurate. Until this clock
was perfected, no enc ever produced clock
of plain construction and general useful
ness that would run longer than week or
fortnight'at the farthest. A view of this
wonder would have delighted Huygens,
the father Of clockmakers, who produced
the first time-piece in the shape of a clock
80 years ago. New York Mail and
Express
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III Ed

Sacramento October 16-Frederick w. Hatch. a
native of Virginia, 6S years, months and Ii
days.
Friends and acquaintances are respectfully in
vited to attend the funeral, which will take
place from his late residence, No. SIP street,
between Eighth and Ninth, this afternoon at
o'clock; thence to St. Faurs Church, Eighth
street, between and J, where funeral services
will be held.
Sacramento. October 15-Daniel Blue Sr., ma
tive of Monroe county, Kentucky, IS years :
months and IS days
Funeral from residence this afternoon a. 1:S0
o'clock. Services at A. NJ. E. church,
Sacramento, Octoberl7-John, infant son of John
aud Sarah Hotz months and 10 days.
Funeral this Saturday afternoon at 3 o'clock
San Francisco, october 17-Frank Prentice (tor-
merly of Sacramentol, years.
Funeral viii take place on the arrival Of the
San Francisco train to-day, at u o clock NJ
Boston. Mass. October 17-Mrs. Asaph r Mich
OILS (rnother of DR.. II. L. Nichols, of this city,
ST years, S months and II days
East Norwich. Queens county, n. y september
%, lsSi-Daniel G Roberts father of Mrs. D.
E. Lumsey, Mrs. b. F. Cross and George Rob
erts, of Capay Valley, e. years and months.
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Facts and figures won't lie Take vour
choice-Blaine, protection and so cents a
pound for your wool, or Cleveland and
Henley and 9 cents a pound for your wool.
Under the high protective tariff Of 1867,
fall wool sold in Red Bluff in 1871 for 80
cents pound.
Under the high protective tariff Of 1867.
spring wool Of 1872 sold in Red Bluff for
81 cents pound
Under the revised tariff of 1888, fall
wool Of that year sold in Red Bluff for ?
cents pound.
Under the revised tariff of 1888, spring
wool of 1881 sold in Red Bluff for 10 cents
a pound.
| Under the same tariff fall wool of 1884
in Red Bluff is quoted at 9(911 cents a
pound.
The horizontal scale" Of the Demo
cratic party has been sliding down until
now, in the San Francisco market, south
ern coast wool is quoted at Cos cents a
pound.
Morrison's horizontal tariff bill pro-
posed to reduce the tariff on wool twenty
per cent lower than the revised tariff of
1888.
Henley voted against the motion to
strike ont the enacting clause of the Nor
rison bill, which was equivalent to the in
dorsement of the provisions of the bill
Red Bluff Sentinel
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Ancient Ruins in Sonora.

Ancient ruins have recently been dis
covered in Sonora, Mexico, says the New
Orleans Times Democrat, which, if reports
are true, surpass anything of the kind yet
found on this continent. The ruins are
said to be about four leagues southeast OF
Magdalena- There is one pyramid which
has a base of 1850 feet, and rises to the
hicht of $50 feet There is a winding
roadway from the bottom leading up on an
easy grade to the top, wide enough for car
riages to pass over, said to be twenty-three
miles in length; the outer walls on the
roadway are laid in solid masonry, huge
blocks of granite in rubble-work, and the
circles as uniform and the grade as regular
as they could be made at this date by our
best engineers. The wall is only occasion
ally exposed, being covered over with
debris and earth, and in many places the
sahuaro and other indigenous plants and
trees have grown up, giving the pyramid
the appearance of a mountain. To the east
of the pyramid short distance is a small
mountain, about the same size which rises
about the same hight, and, if reports are
true, will prove more interesting to the
arch9ologist than the pyramid.
There seems to be 4 heavy layer of 4
species of gypsum about half way up the
mountain, which is as white rs snow and
may be cut into any conceivable shape vet
sufficiently hard to retain It's shape after
being cut. In this layer of stone people
of an unknown age have cut hundreds upon
hundreds of rooms from 5x10 to 16x1S feet
square. These rooms are cut out of the
solid stone, and, so even and true are the
walls, floors and ceilings, so plumb and
level, as to defy variation. There are nc
windows in the rooms, and but one en-.
| trance, which is always from the top. The
rooms are about eight feet high from floor
to ceiling the stone is so white that il
seems almost transparent, and the rooms
are not at all dark. On the walls of these
rooms are. numerous hieroglvphics and
representations OF human forms, with hands
| and feet of human beings, cut in the stones
in different places. But, strange to say, all
the hands have fingers and thumb, and the
| feet have six toes. Charcoal is found or
the floors of many of the rooms, which
would indicate that they built fires III their
houses. Stone implements of every de
scription are to be found in and about the
rooms. The houses or rooms are one above
the other to three or more stories high
but between each story there is a jog or
recess the full width of the room below, SC
that they present the appearance of large
steps leading up the mountain.
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a STRICT SABBATARAN.-Not many
years ago a Free Kirk worthy, now at
rest, was fishing in the North of Scotland,
when he got into conversation with a
farmer and asked him how the recently
appointed Free Kirk minister was getting
on in his parish. The farmer, after con-
siderable hesitation, admitted that the
reverend gentleman was not quite SO great
4 flyorite as he might have been, because
il had been discovered that he was in the
habit of shaving on Sunday morning.
But" expostulatcd the piscator, "you
might as well say that your minister was
not to wash his face on Sunday" "Wash
my face on Sabbath p said the farmer. a
havepa washed my face on Sabbath for
tiye-ana-twenty yearsw
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OLD MEXICO.
The Lost Steamer.

GUAYMAs, October 17th.-The steamer
Newbern arrived late last evening, with
400 tons of freight and few passengers.
The wharf, on her arrival, was crowded, as
news was expected regarding the missing
steamer Sonora After. diligent inquiry,
your correspondent finds that the Sonora
left Mazatlan September Goth, and was seen
from shore off Altata on the Both, the day
of the tornado, when she was standing out
in the middle of the Gulf She had as Il
deck load some $50 bales of cotton for Al
tata Until the arrival of the New
bern hopes were entertained that she
had reached La Paz, or some inlet
of Lower California, but the steamer,
though constantly on the watch for her,
saw no signs, save some pieces of boxes,
lumber, etc. on the Gulf. She never
reached Lapaz, and the current opinion is
that she foundered at sea in attempting to
cross. This event has cast gloom over
Guaymas, as most of the crew have fami-
lies here.
The Ncwbern also confirms the report of
the entire loss of the schooner Antonio III
the same gale.
The Newborn has orders to try and find
any stragglers that may have been saved
ON her return trip. She leaves tomorrow
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General H. +. Sickles, the Colorado Com
missioner to the New Orleans Exposition
was telling some friends a few days age
about his first glimpse of mountain lion
He said: eve were living up in the noun
tains, and had quite herd of cows, among
them one, an old COW, who wore a bell
The COWS had been missing for several
DAYS and the boys were searching, and one
afternoon | thought | would try and see
what / could do. So ! mounted pony
and rode quite distance, when | thought
heard the old cows bell | dismounted
and started to prowl around among the
rocks and bushes. 1t had been raining
during the early part Of the afternoon, and
had an umbrella. | tied the pony to a
tree and started After had gone a short
distance ! caught glimpse Of the cows
As | started toward them, suddenly they
lifted their heads, crooked their tails, and
started away on dead run | was inst
wondering what frightened them, when |
heard a rustling in the bushes behind me
| turned around, and there, not ten feet
away, was big mountain lion standing on
a rock staring at me. assure you ! never
felt so bashful in all my life. hadn't a
gun or even jack knife, and there was
that beast staring and getting ready for q
spring. All at once / thought of my un-
brella, and as quick as thought ! raised
that much-horr0wed article and spread ii
right in Mr. Lions face. He didn't stop
to examine, hut made one great jump clear
across Il gorge and as he lighted gave a
yell that shook the hills. saw no more
Of him. When got home the cows were
there Denver Times.
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Uses of Arctic Exploration.

In 500 wears there have been some 300
Arctic voyages, for various purposes and
with various fates The Greely expedi-
ton was but one of - expeditions 800
men passed t,To winters within the Polar
circle, ard 10 of them only were lost. And
Lieutenant Ray says that the result Of the
observations of all these expeditions viii
be the doubling Of the knowledge of the
magnetic forces. That is to say, as the
Rev. Brooke Hereford states in his admira-
bic sermon on this subject, " Not one Of all
the 10000 craft sailing to and fro among
the many lands of earth but will be little
surer of its compass, little closer in its
reckoning, little safer, than it ever was
before" Is this worth nothing? Is not
the risk, the loss even, amply recompensed?
But also, as MIR. Hereford points out, the
moral qualities, the patience, the courage,
the self-denial, the faith, the endurance,
developed by these northern researches are
Incompatible "There is simply no other
chapter in the history Of human doings to
be compared with it. Beside it the ad-
ventures of commerce and conquest look
greedy and base, the stories of chivalry
are mere tinsel, the long heroism Of the
Crusades seems 4 fevered frenzy" Cui
boaos is not an argument to discourage the
restless soul which the prospect of peril
inspires, nor will the pathetic story of the
patient and generous endurance amid
apparently remedies suffering, which the
record of the Greedy expedition discloses,
dismay or deter other Greelys from daring
the same dangers. The Arctic story is one
of the saddest, but it is also one of the
noblest, in the annals Of human heroism.-
Harper's Magazine.
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OREGON.
Advices from Portland.

PORTLAND, October 17th.-On Wednesday
Theodore Clark, painter, of Portland, sud
denly disappeared. Search was made in
the Willamette river, and this afternoon it
resulted in the finding of bottle below
the city containing the words, Don't
search for Clark. He's all right" The
general supposition is that he drowned
himself after setting the bottle afloat.
The burning of the fishery belonging to
Captain Grant, of Murphy, Grant & Co.,
was done by Hot Spring Indians. and
caused loss of $1,000; insurance, Sc, 500.
The Indians have threatened it since last
spring, and the fishermen have been armed
all the season, but the Indians accomplished
the work last Thursday night.
The hop market Cd Portland is inprov-
ing, and better prices are obtained.
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The Dudes Latest.

Almost everyone has heard of the Chi
nese custom Of COMPRISING the feet in
order to make them small. A number of
Philadelphia dudes recently held meet
ing for the purpose of discussing the prac-
ticability of reducing the size of the pedal
extremities. After long consideration of
the subject it was the unanimous feeling of
the conference that the Chinese custom
was impracticable The members appre-
ciated the fact that to prove efficacious the
system in vogue among the Celestials
must be applied early in life and continued
regularly through course of years. More
over, even if that method was practicable.
the dudes were not willing to submit to
such prolonged martyrdom. 1t was plain,
however, that the dudish conference was
determined upon extreme measures.
I'VE must ave smaliaw feet, don't cher
know" piped one of the greatest minds Of
the group in sickly voice, it's so
deucedly vulgar, so it is, to ave such
awfully lawge feet, don't cher know.
S'pose we ave our lawge toes cut off? A
jolly bright ideah, by Jovep'
The suggestion impressed the confer
ence very fayorably, and it was decided
lual the members should consult proinl-
nent physician with the view Of carrying
it out. 1t is now asserted that Prof.
Pancoast, of Jefferson College, has been
called upon by several persons who wanted
their big toes amputated in order to re-
duce their feet to fashionable size. Its
simply fashionable craze" the Professor
Is reported to have said. at must be due
to the pointed shoe. You see, the cutting
off of big toe would not materially
shorten foot, but it would make the end
of it narrower, so that the patient would
be able to wear shoe as pointed as a
dagger This seems 10 be the modern
conception of the pedal beauty. Bv-and-
by the pointed shoes viii 20 out and then
these people who are having their big toes
sliced off will be sorry. have invariably
refused to perform the operation. call it
flying in the face of nature. The big toe
is not a superfuity; in fact it has very
decided use, and the profession should
discountenance any attempts to abolish it. y
| i Philadelphia Ledger.
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At dinner party clumsy waiter con-
trives to spill Il plate of soup down the
back and all over the dress of lady, who
raises a terrible to-do and seems likely to
go into Mysteries. pray do not worry
about it, madam" says the waiter, reas-
suringly there's plenty more soup in
the kitchen. I'll get You another plate. y
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4 writer in scientific journal says a
"black eye" is simply "a severe confusion
of the integuments rmder the orbit, with
great extravasatioa of blood, and ecchy-
mosis in the surrounding cellular tissue,
which is in tumeiicd state" And here
all this while we have supposed that a
black eye" was simply the result of a lit
tie man calling big man a liar Nor
ristown Herald.
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(jiltIjlc111aa
HIS. Smiths Case, and what the Rev. Mr.,
1IcKinstry has to say about it.

To THE PUBLIC: have been fearful sufferer
for fifteen years. most of the time with what has
been called Eczema or Salt Rheum, Psoriasis
and LepIa, and the like, and have always been
told that there was no cure for me. and have
been so discouraged that | had as soon die as
live. l have been so badly afflicted sometimes
that there was not the smallest spot from the
crown of my head TO the soleS of my feet that
was not diseased and as red as crimson. 1t
would commence in small white spots, which
had silvery appearance, but were not deep,
but If i attempted to heal them. or soon after
their first appearance, they would burn and run
together until there was 4 complete dry. red
scale, which would become so lntiame1 as to
crack and look fiery and angry, and the burning
sensation would be almost intoerab.e.
was at times so lame that l could scarcely
get about. and could not dress myself without
assistance. | have tried many remedies, and
have paid 500 ina single instance to a physician
but have ever Obtained only temporary relief
Although helped for Il time, | soon rclarSed
again To be as badly troubled as ever, and during
the winter of 1881 and lSS2 | suffered so much as
TO be entirely dis outraged. Last June however
was advised by Elder and Mrs. L. c. Mckin-
stry, who are well known in these regions, 10
try your CUTICURA REMEDIES; and l felt some
how n little courage, from their favorable opiu-
ion Of them. to try their virtue. About the sec
onG week of July last commenced taking the
remedies and within six weeks 1 began to see Il
permanent improvement, until now October
1st) am about as good as new, and ny flesh is
as the flesh of a child. MRS. BENZ. SMITH.
i certify that the above statement OF my vic
is correct, and join with her in expressing my
gratitude forthe great benefit she has received.
b. SMITH
I certify that the above statement is correct
Mr. Smith is prominent in this commu-
nifty, where he lives He is awell known dealer
in stock, and his statement with that of his
wife, is fully entitled to credit
Done at Stanstead Province of Quebec, this
twenty seventh day of October, 1889.
L. c. MCKINSrRY,
Minister of the Gospel
LATER have seen Mrs Smith recently and
believe her to be thoroughly and permanently
cured. L. G. MCkINSTRG,
Sec'y Advent Oh. Conf, Pc, Vt. and No. n. Fl.
BosToN, September 9, 1854.
CUTICuRA REsoLvENT, the new blood purifier,
and CUTIcURA and CUTICURA SOAP, the great skin
cures and beautifers, are sold everywhere, Price.
CUTIcuRA so cents; SOAP, % cents; RESoLvEST. 81.
Potter Drug and Chemical Co., Boston.
ap23-1YWS&wly
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Sacramento, October 17-wife of C. Lenoir, a
son.
Sacramento October 12-wife of s. Gould. a
shingle Springs, october 6-wife of D. T. Hail.
a son.
Mattesor.'s Ranch, Nevada county, October !
Wife of Vim. Dellinger, q daughter.
Johnson, q son.
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Considerable amusement was given re-
Gently at the Convention of teachers of
deaf and dumb in New York, when Pro-
fessor Samuel Porter, of the National Col
lege at Washington, who is deaf, exhibited
a pair of patent ears. With then he could
hear without the use of an ear-trnmpet.-
IN. \. Times.
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spring sold at auction for an average of
S142 so an acre, in 20-acre lots, now
readily sells at $3.50 an acre
Salt in their food when cooked, for
poultry, is a very proper seasoning, but
salt given in its raw state is deleterious, if
much of it is eaten by fowls. We do not
recommend its use in any form, save mixed
with their mash of scalded meal and
boiled vegetables.
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UTAH.
Serious RaiIroad Accident.

SALT LAKE, October l7th-In a collision
on the Union Pacific Tuesday morning.
near Bowie, runaway engine and caboose
wrecking train, Conductor James Ryan
was killed and VIM. Coombs, the fireman:
Peter Hanson, the engineer Adam Schil-
ling, another conductor and Superin-
fa,,Je,,t narI ,,-a-o I,,,-t
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The Clawson Polycamy Case.

SALT LAKE, October 17th.-John Taylor.
the Mormon Prophet, was on the stand to-
day in the Clawson polygah:y case. He
swore that he did not know where the En-
dowment House records are kept. and that
he did not know there were such records in
existence. George Q. Cannon, who was
wanted rs witness, and had been IN hid
ing, put in an appearance to-day He also
swore as Taylor did regarding the records.
A large number Of witnesses were exam
ined, all of whom were iii sympathy with
the defendant. The perjury was simply
colossal. Still the prosecution is making
ont strong circGnistantial case. Clawson' 5
polygamous wife has not been found by The
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PACIFIC SLOPE.
ANOTHER STAGE DRIVER THROWS
OUT THE BOX.
railroad Accident in Utah-Political
Gatherings-The Grand Lodge
of Weather.
CALIFORNIA.

ESPECIAL DISPATCHES TO THE rEoorD-usIos-
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suicide-Accident.

SALT LAKE, October 17th.-Dennis Nc
Nally, a miner, - years old, at the Samp-
son mine, Park City, committed suicide
last night by taking poison. Bad whisky
and bad women was the cause
Miss Lille Moulding, while out horse
back riding Yesterday. near Park City, met
with q probably fatal accident by having
her horse fall on her.
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ARIZONA.
En- Route to Alcatraz.

FoRT LOWELL, October 17ih-Two sol
der prisoners were brought here last night
from Fort Thomas. They viii be sent to
prison at Alcatraz. One goes for eight years
for maliciously firing into crowd of people
the other for five years for having drawn
knife upon another soldier with intent to