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, 1884-02-10

Now that the legislature has a bill
on the calendar to prohibit the sale OF
obscene literature, 1t should demon
strate its faith in good works. The
mind Of the rising generation is pol
luted by obscene pictures in certain
weekly publications which, unfortunate
ly, have enormous calculations. I'm
brIdled s~ensualty is the logical outcome
Of such teachings.
, 1884-02-10

Mr.. CoAD has introduced a bill to
remedy the defect in the existing law
of rewards. The defect is that rewards
for unknown persons are not oontem-
plated. The amendment introduced,
allows rewards to be offered in all cases
where the criminal Ia not under arrest.
, 1884-02-10
cerhasa,a of Publication,

NtFEH-Hts OF FuUINAFIUh'
TERRITORY OF WYOMING,
AUDITORS OFFICE,
Cheyenne, Feb. 7, 1884.
1t Is hereby certified that the London
and Liverpool and Globe Insurance
Company, OF Liverpool, in the king
dom of Great Britain, has complied
with the insurance laws OF this terri.
tory and is authorized to transact the
business of FIRE insurance In this terri
tory for the current year.
Witness my hand and seal OF Office
the day and year first above written.
JESSE KNIGHT,
sEALl Territorial Auditor Of
Public Accounts.
j. d. FREEDoRN,
Deputy.
, 1884-02-10
A Startling DiseoverY.

Physicians are often startled by remarkapIe
discoveries. Tho fact that DR. Kings new
lung d. eases is daily curing patients that
they have given up to die. is startling them
to realize their sense OF duty, and examine
into The mertts of this wonderful discovery;
result ng In hundreds of our best physicians
using II In their practice. Trial bottles free
at Cray q Pearse's drug store. Regular size
Ono dollar
, 1884-02-10

THERE is always a glow Of beauty
about most of the laws enacted in Col
orsdoi that is, they are 30 badly con-
structed as to irequire translation by
the courts. The worst or 1t, however,
is that the faults are usually fatally de-
fective.
, 1884-02-10

When a young nan tnss for three minutes
In church to brush q sunbeam of his coat,
under the impression that it is a streak OF
dust, and then looks up and sees a pretty girl
laughing at him. he kind Of loses the thread
Of the sermon. temporarily, as It wers.
, 1884-02-10
The attractions at Quincy & Pierce'i
continue hrst-class.

We do not sound a needless alarm
when we tell you that the faint of
scrofula is In your blood. Inherited or
acquired, 1t is there, and Ayers sar-
sapsrilla alone will effectually eradi-
cate 1t.
, 1884-02-10

Certificate OF Publication.
TERRITORY OF WYOMING,
AUDITORS OFFICE,
Cheyenne, Feb. 7, 1884.
1t Is hereby certified that the Califor7
mia insurance company, of San Fran
cisco, in the state OF California, has
complied with the insurance laws OF
this territory and is authorized to trans
act the business Of hre insurance in
this territory for the current year.
Witness my hand and seal of office
the day and year first above written.
JESSE KNOTT,
lsEALl Territorial Auditor Of
Public Accounts.
j. d. FREEBoRN,
Deputy.
8. B. futile Is agent Of this COM
pany.l
, 1884-02-10
Something

II Is singular that tho people OF Franco,
who eat horse meat and call It quail on toast,
should go back on the grstt American hog.
There is not a hog in all this broad land but
Is choicer than the best s-uperanuased hack
borso that a Frsnohman ever laid his jaws to
, 1884-02-10

The greatest medical wonder OF the world &.
Warranted TO speedily cure burns. bruises.
cuts, ulcers, salt rheum. fsver sores, cancers.
piles chtiblaine, oorbs, letter. chspped hands
and all akin eruptions. guaranteed to cure In
every Instance, or money reflndsd--x eonts
per box . For sale BY Gray y rsarss
, 1884-02-10

AFTER all, 1t is no great risk to in
troduce a bill in congress. Only eight
per cent OF all bills which are intro
duced become laws.
, 1884-02-10

WY should anyone wish to know
who wrote 1.-The Bread Winnerspn 1t
nisrepresents many facts while at
tempting to tell the truth. to the per-
sonal knowledge of the writer.
, 1884-02-10
II R-ouNp1Na-LINR

Crowd not too close upon the linei
Give space for eavesdrip, neighbor mine
As l upon my side must give;
Then, we in amity shall live.
] love thee dearly, yet 1 would
At some remove our dwellings stood;
Not wall to wall should we two build,
But so tho statute DO fulfilled:
Ths rain that courseth from the roof
The bounding-line shall put to proof.
II thou tue common wea would servO,
Tho law of dripping caves OBSERVE
Crowd not too closs, o n~eighbor mine;
The air-drawn limit is divine.
, 1884-02-10

TIE eight against Governor Murray,
of Utah, has weakened, bat still the
president hesitates about reappointing
him.
, 1884-02-10

THE Kelley motor and Ben Butler
will get OF top simultaneously.
, 1884-02-10

DR.. HAYFonp keeps his journalistic
telescope pointed at the legislature.
, 1884-02-10

"Little Joker'' Isl the best smoking
tobacco.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-02-16

the mature of the bonds whether they
were taken with notice that no suits upon
them could be maintained, or whether, as
claimed by the bondholders, the contract
is unconstitutional so far as the inhibition
regarding suits is concerned.
OF course, it may be replied that this
latter issue, though raised by the plead
ings, was not deemed by the Court properly
before it. The appellate Court, as rule,
goes off on collateral issues whenever the
opportunity offers. In this case it had it
in It's power to indicate what it thinks
upon the question referred to, and thus set
at rest matter that profoundly agitates
this community. Evidently it has not
done so. We are also equally in the dark
upon quite as important matter, and one
interviewer with the other-If mandamus
will lie to compel the Treasurer to pay
when he has the fund, because it is a
special duty epjoined by the law, will not
mandamus lie to compel other officials to
replenish the fund, levy the tax for it,
and to collect it after levy? If so, then
the inhibition against suits is avoided.
So far, then, as the main and all.im-
portant issue and the Supreme Court are
concerned, it appears to US that we stand
very much as James Russell Lowell face
tiously said he did when questioned sim.
ultsneously by pro.slavery men and aboli-
tionists-iacing south by north. 1t is just
possible that until the maturity of some Of
the bonds, and an attempt to collect them,
we will be unable to pin the Courts down
to fat decision upon the main issue.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-02-16
A HURRAH CAMPAIGS.

George William Curtis concludes that on
the part Of the Democracy the coming con-
test is to be hurrah campaign. Why.
how can it be anything else when the party
is an issueless one? Let US look at it. 1t
has 40 definite policy as to the tariff, but
suffers from a divergence of views that
threatens to disrupt it. 1t coquettes with
the whisky ring, but fears to pronounce for
it. 1t claims paternity for the civil service
reform measures, but permits Payne Of
Ohio to denounce them, and five Demo.
cratic Congressman to introduce bills for
their repeal. It has no policy concerning
the currency or shipping interests. 1t re-
ceives the proposition to inquire into the
Southern outrsges upon the rights OF vot-
ers with sullen silence, fearing alike either
to engage in or to stop the inquiry. 1t
cannot appeal to it's traditions, for it has
none that will bear recall. 1t cannot point
to any great social or political reform in
which it has led, except the lofty efforts to
perpetuate human slavery and disrupt the
Federal Union. 1t cannot deny that it
welcomes to and holds within its embrace
all manner of men whose instincts are an.
tagonistic to all governmental restraint, and
who are the trouble breeders of the world,
or, as Norcross puts it, "the very ele.
ments and forces which have led the way
to the overthrow of all free governments
which have heretofore existed" 1t has
one purpose and aim only-spoils ; or, as
Mr., Coal Oil Payne puts it, with blunt
ness that is at least commendable, the only
salvation for the Government is to put all
your fellows out and all our fellows in.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-02-16
THAT QUESTION OF DECEPTION.

In this issue we publish a communica-
ton from George Frederic Parsons in reply
to certain criticisms upon cis report Of, or
testimony concerning, certain spiritual
phenomena. 1t gives US pleasure to accord
Mr. Parsons hearing. He may be mis-.
taken. We most firmly believe he is. But
all religious belief belongs to the realm OF
unascertained knowledge. If faith is en-
titled to respect il is simply because it is
faith. However, unquestioning faith be-
longs to the field of intellectual specula-
ton. The assumption of Instability
belongs equally to all religions, whether
originating in Oriental meditation or west
ern philosophy. Mohammedan, Christian,
Jew, Buddhist and Mormon alike lay
claim TO the possession of infallible evi.
dence of the absolute truth. Ia every
mind the only true faith is that accepted
and received by each individual Uncer.
tainty acquires devotees maintaining its
infallibility, simply because in the realm OF
pure speculation conflicting theories are
equally demonstrable. The door is open
to all. Let the ghost seer enter the lists,
and if from the dark closets of the seance,
and the unintelligible characterization Of
the trance-upeaking platform any new
views of human duty may be acquired, in
the name of federation let the show pro-
coed.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-02-16

that the reputation of the Chronicle gives
pripla .fdcie credibility TO all that appears in
it. If that is the case, however.
it has changed good deal since 1
knew it, for then the reverse was
the fact. The attack, thus dishon.
estly made, has conspicuously failed. The
intended victim has not been crushed. On
the contrary, the moment her enemies were
forced into tangible positions, they hur.
| riedly disappeared. They were bold
dared not face the penalties of perjury.
And to-day, though SO many Of your con-
Temperatures stand committed to the theory
that was deceived, they are compelled to
see every morning the unanswered chal.
ienge which offers, and in good faith, to
pay five hundred dollars for proof of this
alleged fraud, which, according to these
papers, has already been established. II
that is so, how is it that nobody maniiests
! the least desire to earn this money Are
riches SO generally diffused in California
that five hundred dollars is no longer an
object? Among all the people who know
that somebody personated my daughter,
will nobody undertake to prove it for this
handsome inducement?
| submit that in the face of these consid-
erations it becomes the duty of honest and
conscientious journalists to acknowledge
that they were mistaken in this matter
that they adopted conclusions too hastily /;
that they found a verdict before the case
was submitted. As to those who reject all
evidence indicating impersonal p0enOm.
ena on a priori grounds, l have nothing TO
say to them beyond the remark that one
fact is worth a cart.losd of theories, and
that have the facts on my side. Those,
however, who are modest enough to think
that there may be still something in nature
for them to learn, recommend to observe
the phenomena for themselves patiently
and carefully. And may conclude by
stating that there is no record of any intelli-
gent person having undertaken to investi.
gate SpiIitualism thoroughly and without
prejudice, who did not come to the conclu-
sion that the phenomena were genuine.
GEORGE FREDERIC PARSONS.
New y ork, February 3, 1854
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-02-16
ECONOMY CT TIE FOOT OF THE
HoRss.

DR.. c. E. Page, in recent work on the
feet Of horses takes the position that un-
der many conditions horses will do better
service without shoes. Colonel G.. NJ.
Weld bears like testimony, drawn from his
experience. Arthur F. Ashley, in Land
and Water, protests against shoeing the
horse. He cites the case OF his own 90
year.old roadster, driven for years on the
hard roads about London unshcd, and the
hoofs of which are firm, hard and excep-
tionally good. The hoof in this case was
never cut away, neither was the pad which
resists shock, even touched by the pruning
knife. Shod, the horse stumbled and
brushed badly unshod, he does neither.
He cites the case of horses worked bare.
footed on rough roads in Africa, doing "a
miles in two hours OF horses driven 40
miles per day, day after day, in New
Mexico, without shoes. In Brazil the pack
horses are not shod, and yet do 20 to 90
miles day. Mr., Ashley claims that in
this matter of shoeing horses we are sim.
ply adhering to an old custom for customs
sake As to the race horse. every ounce of
weight tells against him, and there should
be efforts made to bring racing stock up to
barefoot work. He quotes racing au-
thority to show that 80 an ounce st the heel
tells more than pound on the back" A
London doctor tsstifes to his horse going
l3, 600 miles in five years over not too good
roads, drawing heavy brougham often,
and yet the hoofs showed no sign of undue
wear. 1t is an old saying that "one horse
can wear out four sets of legs. and the
conclusion is drawn that it is the shoe not
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-02-16
MINING NOTES.

The Australia and Last Prize, at Pinal,
A. T., have struck rich veins of ore, and
the camp is happy.
The French Ravine Company, at Rich
Bar, Plumss county, has struck into a
four-foot vein OF deccmposed ore, with free
gold visible.
The new Arizona mining camp, Quijotoa,
is becoming civilized. 1t now has a JUS.
tice of the Peace, lawyer, an assayer and
two Deputy Sheriffs.
Two arastras have been running on the
Cranberry and Rutherford mines, in Mari.
posa county, since the first of last month,
and the result is very satisfactory.
Mining in Shasta county is beginning to
look up again. The mines are promising
and the coming season will find trsnsporta-
ton increased by many miles of finished
railroad.
An extraordinary development of copper,
silver and lead has been made at a new
camp seventy.five miles east of Calico and
twelve miles from Bagdad station on tine
Southern Pacific Railroad.
The quartz miners at Yreka are busy
running tunnels to most of the mines, al.
though a few are troubled by too much
sipsge water, and also lack free water TO
run the mills in consequence of the cold
weather.
The Lamphier mine, supposed to be the
other end of the famous Confidence mine
in the Sugar Pine Mining District, Tuol-
umne county, is showing a splendid vein
carrying galena sulphuIets and coarse gold
thickly intermixed.
Latest reports from the coal mine re.
Gently discovered at the head of the Grape
vine, in Colusa county, are very encour-
aging. From about one inch of coal in the
beginning, it has widened into six-inch
vein, with sixteen inches of mixed coal and
sandstone.
The steady development of our mines ia
a thing that is fixed. We are no longer a
people looking for brokers to find US pur-
chasers for mines. We have turned to in
good earnest to develop our own mines,
and the late disclosures show the wis.,
dom and safety of so doing. -[Pinal "a IT,
Drill.
The San Bernardino Times says the
freight charges on ore from Calico to Pu-
eblo, Col, is S25 per ton against Sc % to
San Francisco, yet the miners get better
returns from the former after paying the
additional freight. Why this is so should
be investigated, and remedy applied that
will keep the business of ore reduction
within the borders of California.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-02-16
THE PAUL pRY oP TIE PRESS.

1" The Queen of Tahiti" say the dis
patches, on sailing for France this week,
declared that she never again desired to
see New York or San Francisco, on account
of the rudeness of the reporters" 1t has
remained for this dark.skinned petty mon
arch to administer a deserved rebuke to
one of our civilized methods. She referred
to the offensive practice of interviewing. p"
At its very best it is disagreeable, but in
its perversion under the sensational news
paper system it is indecent and without a
shadow Of apology. There are times when
it is needful for press reporters to ask pub
lie men to state their views for publication,
and the categorical style is then, when pur-
sued by gentleman, proper enough. But
the better plan is to indicate the topic
merely, and the points on which informa-
ton Is desired, and let the respondent do
all the talking. But the interviewer 1"
of the pure breed, the Paul Pfy OF the
press, is an abomination and a nuisance.
Without excuse he invades privacy with.
out text he matches from the simplest
conversation a long winded account that
seven times out OF ten bristles with false.
hood, misrepresentation and impertinence.
1t is the meanest device of the
INSCRIPTIONS to invade the rights
of others it is the weapon of
contemtible curiosity. No self-respecting
journalist will now tolerate the mere inter
view in his columns. In the case of the
Queen of Tahiti" we remember that she
desired to travel incognito that she came
with modest quiet and without announce
ment; that she had sent for no interviewer,
and had nothing to say to the California
public. But before she had finished her
first muffin at the Palace Hotel in San
Francisco, one of the interviewing kind
forced itself into her apartments, in.
terrupted her breakfast, insisted on know
ing who she was, what she came for where
she was going, and what laundry had the
favor of the royal order for the regal dirty
linen. The woman behaved as lady, and
very decisively gave the interloper to IN.
derstand that the press had no concern in
her or hers, that she was encrosching upon
no law, had invaded no hospitality, had no
opinions concerning the climate or this
people, and did not desire to be paraded
before the public to crafty the mean vani-
ty of a meaner journalism. No wonder
she never again desires to set foot in San
Francisco.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-02-16
LIQUOR QUESTION IN NEW YORK.

In a striking article on the liquor traffic
the Catholic World says "This great ques-
ton in New York State is fast approaching
to crisis Late events have done much
to reveal the animus and tyranny of the
LIQUOR trade. 1t is muniicent in its brides,
unbounded in its exactions, and in its
| nominations as merciless as Fate. 1t holds
| its whip over legislators, magistrates, COM
missioners of excise, and policemen. We
saw in the late New York election how
| long it remembered and pursued with its
vengeance a candidate for Secretary ,oi
State, who, when IN the Legislature, had
! failed to vote in its interest. 1t marks
| trades men with ban and forbids to trade
with them. 1t has a common purse, which
can be drawn upon at short notice, and
used secretly where money is stronger than
argument Such being the case, 1t Is easy
to understand how readily this trade can
undo in single season what the people,
rising in their might, had decreed and
meant to establish forever. Their work
of undoing is effected so silently and
80 quickly that the attention of
the public is gained only in time to
| lock upon the ruins of day. In
this way the New York excise legislation
of 1857, most admirable code as first
| framed, has been reduced to a thing of
shreds and patches to please the liquor
dealers. who now point to it in derision
to show the folly of making laws to re-
strain them. Is it wonderful that so many
call for a constitutional provision? We
cannot believe that widespread intemper-
ance is inseparabe from the sale of alco-
hello drinks. The evil arises from circum-
stances which have perverted an innocent
trade into fearful occasion of sin. Personal,
private effort, appeals from the pulpit, and
the example of societies can do something
to save individuals but on this vast and
bloated trade, as it exists in our day, these
influences fall like dust of confetti thrown
from the windows on riotous carnival
below. 1t calls for the giant power
of the State. And the State Is
bound to protect Us. Weighed side by
side with this intolerable evil, the COM
mercial interests of liquor makers and
Iiquor-venders swing like a feather in the
scale. And since in this country the law
making power is vested in the people, with
the consequent responsibility, let every
citizen take his conscience in his hand
when he goes to the polls. Let him ask
himself if this cause does not lift itself
high above every question of party poll
tics. Let him see that he helps put into
office no hireling of the trade, nor any one
that cannot be counted on to sustain whole
some laws restraining 1t.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-02-16

the road that hurts the horse. Much test.
mony is cited in support of this theory. 1t
would seem that there must come time
when we shall cease to lacerate the springy
hoof of mans best friend as we now do
and the time is already arrived when in
shoeing we should abandon the practice of
pairing away and destroying the natural
growth of the cushion nature provides for
the horses hoof to break the blow of his
foot, and at the same time cease to scar
and scorch the hoof with hot irons.
There is no defensible reason for
either practice, although the sheer
will insist upon the necessity of both
pairing and burning. As Mr.. Ransom,
quoted by Mr.. Ashley, says, the shoeiDg of
horses has become with us very much
matter of routine. In every other respect
we have made marvellous advances in the
production OF the very best horses as to
the feet OF the animals, however, we still
move in the old groove. The Plea for
barefooted horses may be answered by the
fact that in its natural state the hoof is
adapted only for grassy surfaces, or yield
ing soil, and not for artificial pavements,
and that it therefore becomes an actual
necessity to protect it, by shoeing, from
the unnatural wear and tear to which it is
subjected. But the same reasons cannot
apply excusatively for cutting and pairing
as Kendall puts it, with an idea of i'm
proving the hoof, when the one object
should be to let nature have her course as
much as possible, or, in other words, to
initiate the natural condition of the foot,
and only pare away such parts as have be-
come useless" He adds that the frog
should always come down to the ground to
receive the blow and break the conclusion
of the step, and, as a veterinary surgeon,
he enters his protest against cutting down
this pad. He declares it should not be
touched when healthy, except to cleanse
it. Likewise he objects to shoes smaller
than the feet, and the consequent trim
ming of the outside to make a fit. He
would have only such part cut away as is
prepared by nature to be cast off. The
chief rules to be drawn from the best au-
thorities, and upon which the insistence OF
the owner should be made to control the
sheer, are Fit the shoe to the foot always,
and not the foot to the shoe never apply
the hot iron; never pare the frog beyond
clipping the dead shreds; bring the foot
as closely to the earth as is possible.