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Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-01-05
MINING NOTES.

The Blsksmore mine in Trinity county is
showing up well.
The Ferguson mine. Nsriposs county, is
shut down for the present.
The copper furnace at Soda Springs, Inyo
county, is soon to start up.
A large vein of fine looking ore was located
at Lundy, Mono county, last week.
Assessment work has been vigorously
prosecuted this month in the various mining
camps.
A big thing, in the shape of six.foot
ledge, is reported st Desdwood, Trinity
county.
1t is rumored that big mining strike has
teen made about thirty miles southeast OF
the Quijotoas.
A two foot ledge of good ore has been
struck on Little Deer Creek, Nevada county,
in the Coe claim.
A piece Of gold weighing FIVE ounces was
picked up at the Bald Mountain Extension
in Sierra county last week.
The North Bloomfield Company in Nevada
county are now working about seventy men,
with plenty of gravel ahead.
The Grand Prizs, in Sierra county propose
tunnel to tap the channel in about l.5GC
feet. The ground is near Poker Flat.
The Cranberry mine, near Ferguson's,
Msriposs county, has completed water
ditch, with power ample to run two srsstras.
W. a Greenly is preparing to erect FIVE
stamp gold mill or Cottonwood creek, some
FIVE miles above Piper ranch, Fish Lake val
ley, Inyo county.
While doing the assessment work on the
Eva mine, situated Aurora hill, E'me-
ralds, New, Developments were made that
promise exceedingly well.
The Swansea furnace, in Iuyo county. run
but short while, the breaking Of pump ne
c5ssitating lis stoppage. A success is sntici-
pated when it gets at work again.
At the Il us quicksilver mine there has
been considerable trouble experienced lately,
and among other things the pumps necesss-
rily remained idle several hours, causing the
water to food portions of the mine.
The Calico mics send good reports of the
work beiug done there. The Bismarck is
shipping ten tons of 500 ore per dav. Tue
Humbug has on the dump lot of $50 ore
and the Kearssrge is taking out $500 ore.
The -Four Hills mine in Plumss county,
which in a month or two yielded more than
500. 0O0, was crossed by a trail which has
been travelled ever SKINNER since that county
was Inhabited by the white man, and at one
time a shaft was sunk within few inches of
the rich deposit
Last Friday at Bodie an Indian exhibited
few ounces of gold, but would not tell
where he got it. only so far as to say that he
had been st work in a placer back of the
hill. The gold WAS coarse and smoothly
washed, and near as the Free Press re-
porter could comprehend from the aborigine,
the metal came from the vicinity of Rough
Creek.
Articles of incorporation of the Colorado
Copper Mountain Mining Company were
filed in the County Clerks office. The pur-
poses Of the company are the buying and
selling of mines and mining property, min.
ing and milling of sll kinds of ores and
metals. erecting. buying, selling and operat-
ing quartz mills, copper smeters and other
machinery and devices for the reduction of
ores. The principal place of business is Los
Angeles. The term for which the corpora
ton is to exist is fifty years.-[Los Angeles
Herald.
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LOOK OUT FoR cEssPooLs.

7. NJ. Clark, in an address before the
American Institute of Architects. calls
teaching cesspools the skeleton in the
closet, SO to speak, OF nearly all country
houses, ''To say nothing of such acct.
dents as having horses or sometimes chill.
dren break through the rotten covers, or the
insecure arches, to be pulled out with diff
ticulty, and perhaps not uninjured. the
teaching cesspool is source Of contamina
ton to both ground around it and the air
above it. 1t is very common where such
reservoirs are placed near houses, to cover
them with loan and SOW grass on them, but
this only drives gases which come from
them to seek roundabout but easy path
into the atmosphere through the surround
ing soil. There is no difficulty about this
mode OF exit we know that wind passes
freely through brick wall and that the
emanations of cesspool under a house
meet with little interruption from a layer
OF concrete, and Notwithstanding a certain
superstition to the contrary, any person
with nose can convince himself in warm
weather that the stencil from a covered
cesspool is capable of being annoying. if
not dangerous, to the inmates of ali houses
within a hundred feet radius at least. 1t
10 SuAIOuS. alsp. tuaI bUe pTOuuCLs Oh Jl6
putrefaction going on in the cesspool,
which probably contains some ammonia,
have marked influence upon the vegeta-
ton growing about it. In one case within
my knowledge, cesspool buried deep in
the ground was covered with flower bed,
and although the surface of che liquid in it
was several feet below the ground, the
flowers bloomed so brilliantly and grew SO
luxuriantly as to attract constant attention;
and in another instance, where the cess.
pool was nearly as far beneath the surface,
and had a drain of loose stone far below the
ground, connecting with it as an overflow,
the site of the cesspool and the course of
the overflow were marked by an enormous
growth of grass and weeds. Few persons
who understand the principles of house.
drainage can see such sights as these with
out a conviction that our future progress in
the art of clean living must be mainly in
the direction of utilizing our house refuse,
by completing the cycle of conversion of
organic wastes into vegetable matter which
nature has so benefcently provided In
door and Outdoor,
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THE FIERY SUNSETS AGAIy.

Norman Lockyer's theory regarding the
sunsets of fire and the abnormal rosy red
of sunrise for the past month or more has
been freely published. He holds that they
are due to the atmosphere being sur
charged with volcanic pumice. dust from
the great eruptions in Java. We have
already expressed the belief that it is more
reasonable to attribute the peculiar rosy
phenomenon to the passage OF the earth
through vast mt soric belt, or an atmOs-
phere of meteoric atoms or dust. Some
days ago we were at pains to set forth IN
detail the reasonableness of this theory,
which is that INDUCED in by eminent as
tronomers and meteorologists. 1t is not to
be denied that Mr.. Lockyer's opinion is
entitled to great weight. His judgment
constitutes high authority and must
command respect. Still, we think the
improbabilities it assumes to be realities,
greater than the evolution of the truth de-
mands. For instance, to hold that vol
canic dust is spread over so vast space as
the entire North American continent and
half Of South America, and eastward to
the shores of England and westward to
the China seas and India, calls for mar
velous stretch of credulity to believe that
SO great territory can be so heavily
charged from single distant source.
Again, if it ia volcanic dust, it is palpable,
and should lessen in density, fall through
the air and soon disappear; but the fiery
sunset CLOVIS grew more and more
brilliant for some days and continued for
period disproportioned to probability.
Again, three days after the Java eruption,
the discolored suns as seen later in India,
were noticed in Brazil, thousands of
miles away, and it is not conceivable that
the dust could have been thrown out so as
to float that distance in that time, for il go it
must have moved at greater speed than is
lessor Helmholtz, at Berlin, claims to have
measured the medium through which the
suns rays pass and produce the effects
noted, and finds it to be near the outer limit
of our atmosphere, or forty miles above
the earth, which is an improbable hight
for volcanic matter to attain. Again,
the Java eruption took place late
in August, and according to Mr.. Lockyer
we must believe that the dust output of
the craters still fingers in the air in Janu.
airy, although it must be of matter heavier
than the earth's atmosphere. Bat, as
Niche Smith has stated, there is still
stronger fact that initiates against the
Lockyer theory, and that is that in 1881
similar phenomena were observed but
there were at that time, and had not been
for long time, any great volcanic erup-
tions. 1t is not at all likely that any de-
monstration can be made of the actual
causes of the fiery sunsets of 1883, and
they will therefore continue to be shrouded
in sufficient mystery to excite the wonder
and fear of the superstitious, the sdmira-
ton of the artistic sense, and the determi.
nation of the scientist to search for the
natural cause.
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PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.

Candelaria is rapidly rebuilding.
The Sonoma potato crop was unusually
good.
Petsluma has six wagon and carriage fact
cries.
The Petaluma Courier urges war against
the larks.
Fresno City has a well-organized lyceum
and public library.
Gurneville's lumber prospects for the
spring are looking well
The young men of San Bernardino are
forming literary society.
Steel and iron works for Cotton are ;couf.
IDENTIFY spoken Of by the Semi-Tropic.
Placentis District, Los Angeles, has voted
unanimously bonds to build a school-house.
A tobacconist of Carson sent 100 plugs of
tobacco to the State prisoners as a Christmas
present.
A rooster at Ansheim is trained to raise
chickens. He now has charge OF twenty.
three little ones.
The increasing population of Salt Lake
will necessitste the storage Of water in rsser
voirs in the canyons.
The framework for the building to be used
as a hatchery ct H5tsl Del Monte Mon.
terey, is up, sad viii soon be ready for bust
ness.
A joint stock company is being organized
in Dixon for the purpose of constructing q
three-story brick hotel, to cost in the neigh
borhood of $4,000.
A piece of redwood bark was found by
workmen in the Table Bluff tunnel. AS the
specimen was imbsdded at depth of four
hundred feet. says the Ferndale Enterprise
we conclude that redwood timber fourlshed
before Table Bluff was thought of.
The Petaluma Courier says it ia ru.
mored that further work on the new Court
house at Santa Rosa has been enjoined by
heirs of the Harmon estate, who claim inter
est in the plaza on which the bulldog is be.
ing erected. The Santa Rosa Democrat of
the q says the work is going on and the
force is TO be increased.
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at heavy personal loss to per-
feet themselves in military art. They
are liable to call to suppress riots, aid the
civil authorities in the maintenance of law
and order and the enforcement of the de-
crees of the Courts, and to protect prop
erty in which they have no personal inter
est. To them is committed the care of the
arms of defense belonging to the State to
them the people look for the first acts OF
defense when rude assault is made upon the
State by foreign enemy or domestic foes
There is scarcely a State in the Union
where the Importance of the National
Guard is not more deeply realized than
| here. With US it exists in a miserably
starved condition, and the wonder is that
it is maintained at all, since the officers
! and men are required to put their hands IN
their pockets and tax themselves to sup
| port it. Here, so meager have been the
appropriations that the annual State en-
campments have been abandoned, to the
great announcement of the Guard, while
New York has enlarged her system, estab-
lished State camp, and SO arranged that
| all the companies of the State, without any
cost, can enter 1t for instruction at any
time during an entire month OF each year.
| This State should not only be more liberal
in its support of the militia system, but
should see to it that the burden of its sup
port does not fall upon the guardsmen.
They should be paid for their time spent
in annual encampments, and every dollar
they pay out for clothing and other neces-
saries in the service of the State should be
returned to them. They should be fur
nished armories and comfortable quarters
at State expense, and not, as now, be
driven to annual begging in order to pro-
vide necessary drill halls. They should
receive from the General Govern.
ment the new arms that General
Cosby asks for, and they should
be afforded by the State full opportunity,
without personal cost, to become perfect in
their use. In every State the teething
period of infancy has made itself manifest
in snarls at the militia, but as States grow
older they abandon petulant ways, and
with broad hberality encourage the
militia arm of the Government and cherish
it quite as tenderly as any other part Of
the State system. This is especially true
of New York, Pennsylvania, Tennessee,
| Louisiana, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Mary
land, and Massachusetts,, and should be
the policy of California.
We need an enlarged and perfected citi.
zen soldiery, to the end that within the
people shall exist, and from without the
people shall come when necessity demands,
a force against which nothing can stand,
and to the end that the world may learn,
and know for fact, that we have at com
mand patriotic reserve force, in the form
OF civilian army, that is not only resist
less, but which finds its strength in the fact
| that it is skilled in the arts of peace.
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THE AGRICULTURAL soCIEfY'S oPPoR-
TUHITY

In the present month, on the delivery to
the State of the new Exposition building
now being erected in this city, a meeting
of the State Board of Agriculture will be
held. 1t will be an especially important
meeting, for it is probable that the frst
steps will then be taken in preparation for
the next annual exhibition of the State
Agricultural Society. There is, however,
another, and quite as important, subject
that should be considered-the Worlds
Fair at New Orleans. We maintain that
none can more appropriately insugurate
a movement to secure superior exhibition
of California products at that Fair than
our State Board. 1t is said that some of
the Directors and officers are already con.
sidering plan for county exposition
organizations to promote the exhibition of
examples Of the products and industries OF
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THE CoREAN EXHIBITION.

We should certainly give more attention
to the request of the Coreans for contribu-
lions to their permanent exposition at
Seoul than it is now receiving. Corea is
not large country, but its trade with us
promises to be very considerable at an
early day, and to grow into something OF
very much Importance. The Corean prop.
osition has the ring of the right kind of
metal in it. They propose to establish a
museum of the products of foreign indus
tries and foreign growth. They rightly
conceive that this will be the very best
method of securing the attention of their
people to the most improved agricultural,
mechanical and mining appliances. Corea
has II, 900, 900 people, who have for cen.
turtles been shut out from the civilized
world. These BOW manifest remarkably
strong desire to become our friends, to
adopt our farm machinery, to test our
utensils of trades, of household use, and
the tools of the mechanic arts. They are
willing to give us the full advertising ben.
eft OF the exposition, and permit us to
placard our goods with price lists and so.
licitations. The great Corean fair begins
in April, and those who purpose being
contributors must busy themselves at
once, for the goods first there will be first
placed on view. There are special reasons
why California manufacturers should bestir
themselves to put samples of their goods
on exhibition at the Corean capital as early
as may be, for we are nearer to that coun.
try than any other section of the United
States, and should lose no opportunity to
build mp trade with people that is anx.
ious to deal with US.
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IT is reported that one of our Congressman
has said, relative to the proposed new Postoffce
building in San Francisco, that he can well get
81 100000 from Congress $780, 900; that he inds
Congressman Of the East have not heretofore under
stood the needs OF this coast as they do now. Very
well and why cannot s2OO, 900 be secured for a
Postoifce, Land Office and Revenue Office in Sacra
mento? True, the 100000 now asked by Mr.. Glas
cock will secure good building but 1t will not be
in dimensions or accommodations such building as
is here needed. For years our plea has been put in
By Congressman, blt has uniformly had the deaf
ear of Congress. Just hope is stronger and the
prospect brighter, but confess that our expecta
ton is not sanguine We much fear that it will be
the old story repeated
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THE WASHINGTON MONUMENT

The masons stopped work December 24Eh
on the Washington monument, leaving the
shaft for the winter at hight of 40 fec t.
At this elevation it is the loftiest artificial
structure on the continent, and, with very
few exceptions, in the world. 1t is now
almost the exact hight of the cathedral at
Antwerp. 1t is higher than any specimen
of Moslem architecture, the highest min.
aret, that of the Mosque of Sultan Hassan
at Cairo, lifting its highest point only to
2S2 feet above the pavement. The highest
bell tower in the world, the Canpanile of
st. Marks at Venice, is nearly 100 feet
lower than the present shaft of the monu.
ment. OF the few works of man which
can still look down on the unfinished trunk
of the monument are the two tall Chin
neys of manufacturing works in Glasgow,
one $50 and the other 400 feet high the
great pyramid of Cheops, now $50 feet
high; st. Peters at Rome, 800, and the
Gothic cathedral at Amiens, 422 All
these will be in turn surpassed by the mon
ument until it towers above all the
created works of man. Its nearest
neighbor in the air will be the main
tower of the new Philadelphia City
Hall, which is designed to be 80 feet
above the pavement or only - ieet lower
than the monument The ascent of the
monument is made in platform elevator,
on which the marble blocks are hoisted to
the summit. The trip is an interesting
hut not altogether pleasant experience
For nine long minutes one is drawn upward
in the cold, damp, dark passage, with moth
ing to distract the mind from the moral re.
Elections which occur to it under such cir.
cumstances. Colonel Casey, unde- whose
efficient direction the shaft has progressed
thus far without error or accident is now
preparing his report covering the years
work. At this time he cannot give the re-
suit in detail from an engineering stand
point. At the conclusion of work last fall,
when the monument had risen to hight of
$40 feet, the total PRESSURE borne by the
bed of the foundation as "A, 81 tons, or
nearly 90 100 of the total pressure to be
finally placed upon it. The settlement up
to December, 1882, was on an average
about one inch and a quarter for the
structure. Correspondence Inter Ocean.
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LADIES LIPS at all gatherings in the
city the most startling thing to one of the
masculine gender" said a Wis tor to St.
Louis, is the appearance of the neither
lip of the bellies of st, Louis. On four out
of five the indentations of their teeth are
percephble, having callous spots not unlike
those on the hands of those engaged in
manual labor, and detracting materially
from the beauty of their face and the lexi-
blity of the mouth On inquiry by St.
Louis reporter as to the reason for this, of
one of the young ladies with whom the
gentleman relating the incident was well
acquainted, it was learned that ladies bit
their lips for the purpose of causing the
crimson blood to rush forward as soon as
the pressure of the teeth was removed,
thereby giving the roseate hue of their bru-
nette sisters Of southern chimes. Soon it
becomes permanent habit and leaves un-
slightly indentatIons, surrounded by rim
OF callous flesh, and marriDg their appear
ance. In taking trip on the Olive-street
line it was observed that out of eleven lady
passengers seven were biting their lips, and
all had the unsightly spots referred to-
II the process is continued for any length
of time the blood refuses to flow as desired,
leaving the lips as colorless as the pallid
cheek of pencil eating school girl -[Chi-
cago Times.
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There is now on exhibition at Oswepo
n. Y, singular freak of nature to which
has been given the name of the "Bear
Man." 1t possesses some characteristics
of human being, but more of the bruin.
1t originated from Queens county, New
Brunswick, and has been on exhibition
about two years. The thing is certain " a
curiosity, walks on all fours like a bear
talks little, and is well calculated to ex.
cite feelings of disgust in the mind of anv
one who sees it, except admirers of mon.
strosities, and there are many such.
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The official reports received yesterday place the
deaths from cholera last summer in Egypt at be-
tween 65 900 and 600 This is fearful mortality,
and the probability is that it will be repeated next
summer Cholera is still prevailing in Cairo and
and Alexandria and along the lower Nile.
That there is greater danger Of its breaking over
bounds and invaoing Europe and America this
wear, than there vas last year, is admitted by al
the experts.
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RETALIATION

The indications are that Congressman
are very nearly unanimous in favor of Civ
ing to President Arthur the power he asks,
to enable him to apply to France and Ger.
many their own policy regarding exclusion
of American products. Diplomacy in this
matter means retaliation, and the sooner
it is applied the better Weurged it upon
the last Congress, and long since declared
in favor of it, and have at no time found
any reason for changing our opinion that
there ia no obligation, moral, international
or of other character requiring us to suffer
commercial assaults such as Germany and
France now make upon our hog products,
canned goods, etc. There is but one
method known of convincing these stub.
born people of their error, and that is by
giving blow for blow. Let US exclude
their adulterated and falsifed wines and
other products, by which they reap large
profits, and within three months we shall
hear of more liberal policy being adopted
toward our exports.
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Perosmic acid is new remedy employed
by Professor Winwarter in generous and
scrofulOus swellings. 1t is used by inject.
ing daily three drops of one per cent so
luton of the acid. This treatment causes
tae tumor to soften and decrease in size.
In about month the dead tissue is throwp
of and the tumor disappears. No curative
effect upon the cancer itself has been OBJ.
served from this remedy.
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The Indiana Democratic Editorial Convention has
resolved that broader circulation of Democratic
newspapers is necessary, to the end "that the pur-
poses of the Democratic party may be more
freely brought to the understanding Of the people
genera IT," This is brazen-the people now under
staud pr cisely and in detail the purposes OF the
Democracy They are, in brief, to get Republicans
out aad Democrats in, and, secondly, to put Dem
ocrats in and Republicans out
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OF the postal revenues for the last fiscal
year So II per cent was collected In the
Northern States and 10 80 per cent. in the
Southern States.
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Sweet is the breath of praise when given
by those whose own high merit claims the
praise they give.-[ Hannah Moore,