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BOOTS AND SHOES.
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WADDEY'S.

10 KING STREET ALEXANDRIA, VIRGINIA
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TABLE LINENS. NAPKINS, TOWELS AND

TABLE DAMASk-12 pieces heavy Blcached
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Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-08-02

sition of mining detritas in the streams
will be entirely prohibited 1t must
be, sooner or later, and to the end that
it may be done at the earliest moment.
the rights of the riparian jewellers TO have
the destructive process shut off from fur
ther damage should be enforced before the
law. But when this is fully, as has already
been partially accomplished, it will remain
the duty of the Federal Government to
facilitate the natural tendency of the river
to scour out its bed, by artificial aids, and
to this end all legitimate means should be
employed to bring Congress to consider the
case of the Sacramento river, and to act
vigorously for its restoration to something
approaching its original integrity. Until
this is done, and the descent of the sands
in the canyons barred from passage into
the river, we cannot expect restoration of
the stream 1t never will be what
it once was, but its navigability can
be greatly improved and its inviting
character for fisheries vastly enhanced. The
subject is one of commercial importance
The fishery interest must be restored if it
is possible of accomplishment. The next
Legislature should feel such pressure on
this subject next winter that it will not dare
TO ignore IL
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-08-02
OREGON.
Portland Paragraphs.

PORTLAND August 1st.-The weather is
clear and very warm.
The farmers of western Oregon and east
ern Washington Territory are i'll the midst
of the harvest.
1t is very gratifying to know that the re-
cent heavy and prOtracted rains resulted in
little damage to the grain and hay crops.
The firm of Mckenzie & Kavanaugh,
wheat dealers doing business here and at
Pendleton, were attached to-day by Kosh-
land Bros, of San Francisco, for the sum
of $1,000. There aresother creditors here,
but no other attachments have been served
as yet. 1t is thought the firm may pull
through all right
To-day suit was instituted in the United
States Circuit Court by Edward Murphy,
of this city, against the firm of Smith
Bros. & Wilson, for $4,000 damages for
personal injuries sustained by heavy fall
while in the employ OF the firm.
The total number of arrests made by the
police here during the month OF July was
27S.
A. G. Hamilton, a well-known merchant
of this city, died quite suddenly last night.
Deceased was prominent Odd Fellow.
George Justice, proprietor of livery
stable, living at Grants Pass, Jackson
county, Oregon, had trouble yesterday
with a young Indian. The row resulted in
Justice shooting the Indian twice, intiicting
wounds necessarily fatal. Both parties
had been drinking heavily. 1t is claimed
that Justice was the aggressor; that he fol-
lowed the Indian, firing at him. The In
dian finally drew knife and turned on
Justice when he received the fatal shots.
The wounded man is the son of Umpqua
Joe, the old sub-Chief of the Umpqua In
dians. Justice was arrested at once, and is
now in custody, awaiting the result of the
Indians injuries.
Theodore Jacob committed suicide yes
tcrday at Baker City, by taking dose OF
poison. The cause is unknown.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-08-02
SOME oF ITS opPosITIoN.

Prof J. Harris Patton, author of A Con-
else History of the American People, y
Natural Resources of the United States, -
and similar works, is out in a compact
volume entitled THE Democratic Party /;
It's Political History and Influence The
$50 pages Of matter are calmly written, and
the historical recitals and proofs marshaled
in orderly array. They go to show that the
Democratic party is proven by its history to
have been the party of mistakes. In the
sixty years in which it dominated the nation
it made for itself history studded with rec
ords of its blrrdering, and has occupied a
plane Of action that is to be described by
but one word, Opposition
1t is the only policy on which the party.
as now constituted, is agreed In the outset
the party arrayed itself against the policy
of Washington, that the Government
should assume and maintain neutrality i'll
respect to wars between other nations.
Jefferson and his school held to thepolicy
of giving little protection to our commerce
on the ocean. His was, in fact, Prof. Pat
ton holds, the policy of China-that the
United States should stand, regarding to
its commerce, in respect to Europe, az China
did tc the rest of the world, l. e. in
insulation.
The majority of Democratic statesmen
opposed all movements toward human free
dom, and were the supporters and apollo
gists for human slavery.
Jefferson, Monroe and other leaders of
the same school Of statesmen opposed the
policy of Internal Improvements
Cheappostage policy originated in a Wing
Congress, and was opposed by the Democra-
cy audit was not until 1863 that the Demo-
cratic opposition was finally broken down
and cheap postage made reality.
The Homestead law was born of Re-
publican Congress in 1868, and in oppose
ton to the Democracy The Democrats of
both North and South had for years voted
against it.
The Democracy opposed bitterly the con-
struction of trans-continental railways, on
the only basis upon which their construc-
ton was possible If the Democracy had
its way, the roads would not have been
built for two decades after the time they
were completed.
The Democracy has opposed, uniformly,
any system of facilitation of mercantile ex-
change between the States, from the oppo-
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-08-02
AN IMPORTANT INTEREST DECLIN.
ING.

The salmon run in the Sacramento river
has decreased until it has proved disastrous
to canneries and fishermen. 1t promises to
become extinct In this dilemma the fish
ermen threaten to violate the close season,
and defy the law. The cause of the decay
of the fisheries is attributed, first, to the sea
lions at the Golden Gate 1t is said they
destroy $500 pounds of fish daily. 1t is
alleged that the throwing of trimmings
into the river by the cannery employees is
another cause of the .slackening Of
the run, it being held that the
fish avoid waters into which parts of
the bodies of dissected fish are cast This
may be a fanciful, or it may be a cogent,
reason; certainly fishermen have faith i'll
it. One admitted prime cause is the sur
charging OF the waters of the river with
mining detritus and the coating of the bed
Of the stream With hydraulic sands and
slickens. These evils destroy the feeding
grounds and obliterate spawning beds.
That the fouing of the water by mining
processes tends to repel the fish IS certain,
while ovcrhows, owing to the raised river
bed, certaiAly carry many young fish into
basins. where the falling of the waters
leaves them to perish. The catfish is said
10 be destructive of the young fry salmon.
Added to all these misfortunes is the dis
continuance of the McCloud Fish Matching
establishment, heretofore maintained by
the United States Government.
In contrast to the depletion of our fisher
les, is the oyercrowding Of northern
streams by salmon. The runs were never
so great there as now. 1t is held by some
that the salmon willreturn next season 10
the Sacramento, but fishermen generally
are not consoled by this possibility. 1t is
certain that the next Legislature must give
this matter of the supply Of food fish
greater attention than has been accorded
by its predecessors. The Fish Commits
sioners, IN the first place, must be given
ample means and full power to carry on their
work of protecting the fishery interests,
even to the destruction of the seals and cat
FISH. In the next place, the funds for the
maintenance of a sufficient river police
force under the direction of the Commits
sioners must be provided, and the Matching
establishments must be fostered If the
McCloud hatchery can be reopened at reas-
enable cost it should be done. There is
probably no location 50 well adapted to
taking salmon and stripping for the
eggs and milt as the McCloud river
II it is true that it cost the
General Government but $4,000 per year,
this State can well afford to re-estabHsh
the hatchery The cultivation of food
fish is becoming more and more public
necessity. As the cost for flesh food adj
vances, the demand for fish will increase
and the necessity for meeting the demand
becomes imperative upon the State. The
clearing Of the water and bed of
the river of slickens and sand is,
of course, the great desideratum.
But we cannot expect this to be
accomplished at once. 1t is the hope
that Il will be done; that the further depo-
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-08-02

sition to the United States Bank to the Bit
ter opposition to the relief given financial
affairs in 1868, by the establishment of Ma
tional Banks, by which the whole brood of
wildcat banks and the whole mass of fiuc-
tuating bank notes were swept away, to the
relief of the whole nation-as any man who
remembers the old free-bank-note-isSue
days viii readily recall.
The Democracy fought every step ever
taken to bring about a resumption ofspecie
payments, and when it was accomplished
in 1879 they prophesied the direst results.
The Democratic statesmen fought every
step taken to enact laws to prevent fraudu
lent voting for Presidential Electors.
1t is needless to go over the whole long
list of opposition positions the party has
held. The record is tedious one, and Pro-
-fessor Patton's historical recital of it is
clear and unmistakable
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-08-02
THIS moRNING,s NEWS.

IN New York yesterday Government bond'
were quoted at 1908 for As of 1907, 1125s for 41s
sterling, 81 s21z94 S415; 100 for IS; silver bars
i103s.
Silver in London, 5O75d; consols, 100 1S-i6d
per cent United States bonds extended l05
IS, 1914 AIS, 1l6.
In San Francisco Mexican dollars are quoted
at S9}499O cents.
The stock market in San Francisco which
braced up" a little at Thursdays close was
Off" again yesterday morning and on the
regular call shares continued to seek q lower
level Hale & Norcross declined to 50 so, Chol
lar to s. So Potosi to 81 So Savage to 81 2 Sierra
Nevada to 81 %, Mexican to So, Ophir to 81 45
and nearly everything else was weaker along
the Comstock line.
a grain-field fire near Maxwell, Colusa county,
Thursday, did considerable damage.
At Bakersfield, Kern county, yesterday, fire
destroyed $4,000 worth of properly.
Alexander Jefferson (coloredl was hanged in
New York yesterday for murder.
In fire at New York yesterday one person
was burned to death another fatally injured,
and three others badly burned.
At Cambridge. Nd, yesterday, Frederick &C.
phas (colored) was executed.
During the past week 25l business failures oc
Cured in the United States.
The Greedy relief squadron arrived yesterday
at Portsmouth, n. H.
Three young men were hanged at Scottsboro
Ala. yesterday, for arson.
The New York Sun urges that CLEVELAND
should be withdrawn from the Democratic
ticket.
1t is again reported from Europe that war be
tween France and China is inevitable.
The Contagious Disease bill has passed to a
third reading in the English House of Lords.
J. c. Wertbaugher a prominent citizen OF
Butte county, died in Chico yesterday.
T. J. Askin was knocked down by runaway
team in Los Angeles Thursday night, receiving
injuries from which he died yesterday.
Congressman Culbertson, who shot himself in
Washington, is considered out of danger.
Wilson Stevens a mulatto boy, was hanged
yesterday at Trenton, s. c., for the murder of
his employer.
caving bank near WATERFOWL. y Y, yester-
day, buried and killed three children.
The harvest is in full blast in western Oregon
and eastern Washington Territory.
The Governor General of Porto Rico died
Thursday ofyellow fever.
The taxable property in San Luis Obispo
County, after equalization, amounts to ss,50OOOO
During July but 27S arrests were made b the
police of Portland, Or.
\. G. Hamilton a well-known merchant ed
suddenly in Portland, Or, yesterday.
4 reunion of army chaplains, Union and Con
federate, began yesterday at Ocean Grove, \ .
Jay-Eye-see trotted mile at Providence, r.
yesterday, in 2:lO-beating all previous efforts in
that direction.
James Kennedy was found dead in his bed at
Victoria, B. c.. yesterday.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-08-02
THE MIsFoRTUNEs OF CAPITAL CITIES

Because of some alleged heavy charges
in fitting the Assembly chamber at the
Capitol for occupancy by the Republican
State Convention, and for which the cit-
zens OF Sacramento are not blameworthy,
some bitterness of expression has been in
dulged in regarding Sacramento. 1t is
even said that it is doubtful if any State
Conventions will be called to meet again
here for This reason. 1t seems to have been
los. sight of that Sacramento has nothing
to 10 with the internal economy of the Cap
ito building, nor had it anything to DO
with the contracting of the bills for the ex-
penses. assuming them to have been excess
i've Had they been given the opportunity,
it is not to be questioned that the people Of
the city would have provided for the Con-
ven,ion 1t viii at least have the effect Of
causing our people to look after such mat
tiers hereafter. if they are to be criticised
regarding them and be held up to ridicule
for that in which they had no part
Which reflection brings to the surface the
subject with which this article has been
entitled. y State Capital is always tar
get for the enyious, and the object of as
sault IL seems to be impossible to delo-
calizc q capital What is true Of Sacra-
mento IS true of the capital Of almost every
State in the Union. 1t is considered the
proper thing to sdgmatize such cities as
State pensioners, and the people as subsist-
Sea-. ,,...,, +l,, .-.,,,, d.. tl... c.I Co., H. n.
table of the Commonwealth Yet il is a
fact hat a single factory employing 100
men is a source of greater profit
10 city than the location Of
a Capitol and the biennial sessions
ola Legislature. II is held to he quite the
proper thing to repeat the thrcadbare With
ciSm concerning the fat picl,ings the
capital enjoys Yet it Is perfectly well
known that il has no appreciable influence
upon tie prosperity of town that has any
claims to commercial importance. It docs
not certainly. in the case of Sacramento
add to or detract from its trade, nor enlarge
or restrict the area Of It's commerce. It
neither promotes nor binders the building
of homes; il makes no clearinghouse
keepers millionaires, nor does it justify in
vestment 10 maintain paiatial hotels In
fact, precisely the sneerng concerning one
town that is the capital would be INDUCED
in toward any other town that might be
the scat of Government The localization
of a capital is the same, and always will
he no matter where the States official
headquarters may be, and sensible people
will realize this after moments reelection.
SO far as Sacramento is concerned, she is
the capital of California only in part.
Several of the chief departments associated
with the seat of Government are elsewhere
located. and the State officials, as a rule,
gre mere soiourners. She has but one
5ate institution that is Of especial local
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-08-02

The Albany Journal, in manly tones, do
nounces mud-slinging in this campaign, and de
clines to repeat scandals about Governor CleVe-
land 1t calls especial attention to the fact that
the original utterance of the scandals was made
by an independent, not a Republican paper-the
Buffalo TsleWGph-and adds that the Governors
organ. the Albany Argus, has deemed the mat
ter worthy of discussion, and has entered upon
It, This commits the Governor very unwisely,
most men will think, to policy that will force
the matter into the campaign. It was a grave
mistake Political issues should not be dragged
down to filthy debates. Republican selfrcspect-
ing journals should refuse to engage in these
scandals
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-08-02

IT is charged that the Mormon Church in
Utah will contribute $4,000 TO the national
Democratic campaign fund. It is certain the
Republicans will receive no such aid from the
Mormons The polygalnists' organ at Salt Lake
pronounces for Clevelend. It sees clearly that
the only hope of defeating the Hoar bill, passed
by the Senate, resides in a triumph for the Dem
ocratic party in November next.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-08-02

THE Cardiff Times, a prominent English pa
per. says: Mr.. Blaine is perhaps the mos
capable man in the United States, and one who
if he becomes President, as he probably viii
may prove thorn in the side of this country
He is an ardent advocate of the Monroe doc
trine. by which the United States may, octopu;
like, spread its arms over the whole of North
and south America, and thus claim the exclu
siye control of the Panama canal"
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-08-02
SATURDAY.......................AJ
-Ee RHcoRD-UNIoN. is Tie only paper on

TIE RECORD UNION is the only paper on
the coast outside Of San Francisco, that re-
ceiees the full associated Press dispatches
from all parts of the wOrld. Outside Of San
Francisco 1t has no competitor, in poiat 0,
Numbers, in its home and general circulation
throughout the coast.
s. c. Beckacith, Tribune" Building Ncu
York, sole agent for the Eastern States Wm.
Cameron, No s Nec Montgomery street, San
Francisco, special agent for San Francisco and
yieiniy.
TIE REcoRD-UNIoN's challenge Of FS5ru-
ay Is, 1884, to the " Bee" as to circulation,
end repeated July %, 1884, remains open for
acceptance.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-08-02
Gather here is beautiful.
Stabbing ARRAY.

VICTORIA August 1st-This afternoon, a
Chinaman employed at the Heatherne shoe
factory stabbed a countrymanin the region
of the heart with a shoe-knife, infiicting
wound which is thought will prove fatal.
The offender escaped before the astonished
known, and the police viii probably capture
him.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-08-02
NEVADA.
Indian Rnv Crenated.

VIRGINIA, August 1st.-The Indian boy
who had his hand cut off, and who was iu
ternally injured by being run over by the
cars yesterday, was taken from the County
Hospital by crowd of forty Piutes last
night The boy died, and this morning a
crowd of Indians cremated the body. They
will never allow one of their people to re-
main al the hospital.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-08-02

THE State Board of Health of New York is
alarmed at the overcrowded condition of the
cemeteries of Long Island. 1t is feared that soil
pollution is go great already that the public
health is endangered. Another argument in
favor of cremation. Brooklyn may well be
alarmed us she is, al the official reports regard
ing danger from her cemeteries. She should
set up cTematories. Within ten years that will
be the most popular mode, as it is the wisest
and best mode of disposing OF dead bodies
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-08-02

THE idea that the United States will ever be
called on to pension the soldiers of the South
ern Confederacy is political nightmare, upon
which none but the ignorant and prejUdieed
ride.-[Oroville Mercury.
Let us reflect. Was he not a man they call
Ben. Butler, who stood up before the Democratic
Convention at Chicago, and told it that that was
precisely what one plank in the platform
meant? Did not this same old man declare that
he was in favor of it, too, and did not he intro
duce resolution to that effect, which the
timid majority chokcd of?
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-08-02

REFERRING to the constant quoting of the New
York Heratdas having bolted" the Republican
ticket, the Vallejo Chronicle pertinently axis some
one to name Il Republican nominee for the
Presidency that the Herald ever supported.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-08-02

A PROMINENT Democrat and ex-Congressman
of Kentucky says: " served four years in Con
gress with James G. Blaine, and l regard him
the ablest and broadcast statesman in this coun.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-08-02
BRITISH COLUMBIA.


VICTORIA, August 1st.-The Chinese Vice
Consul was grossly insulted last even
ing by blackguard boys throwing stones
and mud. He escaped unhurt, and the
police are trying to find out his assailants
The people are scandahzed by the outrage
Captain Atkinson remains seriously ILL.,
James Kennedy, employed by the Hud-
son Bay Company, son of the late DR.. Ken
nedy, was found dead in his house this
afternoon.
The weather here is beautiful
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-08-02
UTAH.


Death OF Way-Up" Mormons : Field
Fires.
SALT LAKE, August 1st.-L. W. Hardy
one of the presiding Bishops of the Nor
mon Church, died at his farm, four miles
south of this city, last night, of paralysis.
W. W. Taylor, son of the Mormon
prophet, and himself a high priest, died OF
collie this morning.
Extensive fires on the lava beds north Of
Snake river, Idaho, are destroying the win
ter ranges of that Territory. An area OF
thousands of acres has been completely
denudcd of all vegetation.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-08-02

THE Chicago Journal puts it thus: Shall
England or America win in the Presidential
contest ?" That is the question.