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Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-02-09
Rule for Paying nuiie-Iaferrupted Mail
EactIilies-The Meaiher

GUAYBIAs, February Ssh The mercantile
community has been thrown into tumult
here by the receipt of en- order from the cap;-
tai at Mexico, directed to the Collector of
Customs, to the effect that on the payment OF
duties on imports at this port, 45 per cent.
must be paid in Mexican bank notes, 6 per
cent. in Mexican Central Railroad securities,
10 per cent in nickels, and per cent. in
Mexican securities. The bslauca, Is per
cent, is to be paid in silver. f. A Aguilsr &
Co. are appointed as agents of the National
Bank, and also agents of the Government, in
the matter of Bickels. Double duties
are caused by an iufrsction of the
rules, and to-day the law goes into
fore, So far as the large importers and
duty-psyers are concerned, the provisions Of
.he law are to their advantage, but small i'm
porters will suffer, from the factsthst 10
smaller bank notes than tens are to be had
a serious difficulty has also srisen in re-
regard to paper mails from the United
States. For thres days the larger portion of
Mr.. Markerts paper mail has been held st
Nogiles for want of proper stamps by the
Government postal officer. No letters or
paper stamps are to be had here, and there sre
chances for 60 almost complete interruption
of mail facilities.
The weather is cold, clear and quite healthy.
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FRANKLIN ITEMS.

a correspondent at franklin furnishes the
following:
Will Gillelsn, of Paradise valley, New,
visited relatives in Franklin this week.
Mrs. q. Hswett, OF Sacramento, is visiting
here, the guest of Mrs. Henry Ehrhardt.
Charles Weinrich, of Sacramento, was in
Franklin last Tuesday.
Mrs. George Roys has been very i'll for
some time, but is now slowly improving.
The school in Point Pleasant District re-
opened last week. Miss Hattie Parker is
teacher.
Uncle George Crum has been visiting in
Franklin this week, but, strange to say, has
not killed any more geese.
Mr.. Kloss is building new fence around
his ranch. It would be great improvement
in the appearance of the ranches if several
other farmers would follow his example.
Mrs. Jesse Dsrr had the misfortune to fall
and sprain her ankle several days since.
Mrs. Henry Derr has gone to Woodland to
visit her daughter, Mrs. Corb Barr.
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CHURCH MUsIC.-Iu recent remarks to
his congregation upon church music, Rev.
Henry Ward Beecher said OF one thing
l am determined, that music shall not be
in this church merely an ezhibitory mat.
ter-a mere matter of pleasure. So long
as am the administrator of public worship
l will not have it. l want music, and the
best we can have, but it must be religious
music. You can get enough of opera you
can get enough of concert-psr tculsrly
concert; operas are tedious. We should
have this grand old cathedral music.
When you can have the "rolling on the
summer sea, protest against an imits-
ton Of the katydid. Churcn music must
be help to devotion. am glad that this
church has congregational singing. It
took me eight years of my early ministry
here to introduce it. Some people say It
is not as good now as it used to BE. That
may be. The old church members have
passed away. You don't realize that am
preaching to almost totally new audi
ence. What we need is a re.drill of the
congregation for congregational singing,
and we will have it.
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The "DUGoNG," OR VEGErAR1Ax
WHALE.-A writer in the GeHtlemau's
Magazine gives some interesting parsicu-
lars relative to the species of whale, now
taken to a considerable extent in Queens
land, and valuable alike for its oil and as
food. It's size varies from eighty to twenty
feet in length; it lives upon submarine
meadows of seaweed it has no gills. but
breathes air by means of lungs; its head
is round and somewhat human like and
has hair something like that Of mans
beard. 1t is said many stories OF merman
and mermaid may be traced to these crea-
lures. Their oil is said to have all the
medicinal merits of cod-liver oil without
its unpleasant flavor at ordinary temper
ature it deposits crystals, as olive oil does
in frosty weather, but on warming slightly
becomes liquid and clear. The flesh ls
much priced in Australia, being cut of in
flitches and slabs, and it is stated that
" from the same animal is taken meat re-
sembling beef, veal and bacon.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-02-09

Legislature. composed exclusively of monog-
smist Mormons. which has been in session
four weeks, hss passed two unimportant bills
Bsirg elected under tie Eimunds law, the
Commissioners anticipated that the Legisla-
lure would ensct laws placing the Territory
in accord with the Government, but nothing
i, liable to occur justifying such anticipa-
tions. Governor Ramsey and Judge Garlic
ton are the only members of the Commission
at present in the Territory, but they are
closely observing the situation. The Gentilas
think the Commissioners will recommend the
substitution of Legislative Commission, or
something equally effective, taking the law.
masking power out of the hands Of the Nor
mon Church. II is conceded that the monog-
anist Mormon legislators are SIS subservient
TO the church as poIygamists, and do the bid.
ding of its leaders.
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THE TEHUANTEPEC SHIP RAILROAD
0ne of the leading engineers of the Eads
ship canal, in letter published by per-
mission in the Panama Star and Herald
gays Since l wrote you have bseu all
over the isthmus on foot and horse blck, in
steam launches Or in canoes. l have found
that all previous surveys seemed to take it
for granted there was but one route across
on the Atlantic side, and one expedition
after the other had bl;ndly played fcl ow
the leader over it. This route had wagon
and mule roads along it the whole way.
Finding indications of better country for
our purposes, but in the woods, l went
into it, leaving the wagon and mule reads,
and by dint Of some good hard work have
succeeded in procuring line over the
toughest section of the isthmus that had
most agreesbly surprised cur people in
New YORK, as it was entirely unexpected.
The first transit line ever run across the
isthmus was finished by US on the I6.h of
August lsst-distance being $50 miles.
You can form an idea of the difficulty of
securing a good line when one is not per.
mitted to use any curves of less then IF
teen miles radius. Everything indicates
that this enterprise is going ahead swim
mingiy.
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THE CoRINTH CANAL. Some further de-
tails have been received respecting the
ship canal now being cut, in the most lit.
eral sense of the word, through the 18TH
mus of Corinth. The actual length of the
canal, when finished, will be just under
four miles. The entrance to the canal will
be 92S feet wide, diminishing to p feet, the
depth &c feet. The nature of the ground
through which this canal has to be cut is
composed of three distinct kinds-frstly,
from the Gulf of Corinth, through plain
consisting OF sand and alluvial soil, for a
distance of just over three-quarters of a
mile secondly, through mountain range
varying in hight from $50 to 260 feet, Of
the length of p miles; thirdly, beyond
the mountain range to the sea, in the Bay
of Calamaki, the proposed canal will trav-
erse little plain of the length of about
two-ffths of mile, composed of slluvial
soil and rocks. The contract price of the
work is about $1,000, 900. Mining and
Scientific Press,
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VANCOUVER, February Sth,-Such conf.
derce has Chief Moses in the ability of the
Secretary of the Interior to pass bill COO
frming the agreement made between himself
and the Secretary last summer that be has
moved his people upon the Coleville reserva-
tion and taken up land aud expects 70 make
his home there. Should Congress now go
back on the agreement, then General Miles
will once more have an opportunity to show
the Indian. fighting stuff he is made of, for
war will be brought on unless the General
nips it in the bud. and be will be on the alert.
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OLD MENICO.


GUAYMAs, February Ssh.-Anto Mates, the
Lieutenant of Csjene, the Chief of the
Yaquis, WHO was arrested some four days ago
on political grounds by the authorities, com
mitted suicide in the city prison by cutting
bis throat from ear to ear, severing the jugu-
lar. He was a man of considerable authority
among he Yaquis. and was supposed to have
some peculiar mission here among them. Since
his arrest, though thoroughly searched when
in prison, he must have sscreted the knife, as ne
was put in solitary confinement, aud the
authorities expected from him important de-
velopments. His death, though seif-it flicted,
may cause trouble through Cajene to whom
it is said he was nearly related and warmly
respected
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BRITISH COLUMBIA.


VICTORIA. February Sth.-A large crowd
assembled this morning to witness the scull-
ing race between Lee and Cotsford. HsnIau
gave an exhibition Of fancy sculling before
the event Of the day took place. Lee and
C0tsford had good start, and both rounded
the mile and half buoys almost simultane-
cusly. Coming home. Lee did not appear to
pull his beat, bat won by about two boats
lengths. Time, about 21:13
For Further Dispatches See Last Pogsl
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An IMMENSE DANA French engineer
in Brazil has lately been selected to con.
s.ruct what will probably be, when COM
pleted, the largest dam in the world. The
main dam will be $40 feet long by IS feet
high, and two smaller ones will close side
dspressions. This work will. it is calcu-
lated, back the water over 500 acres, and
retain IA 900, 600 cubic meters of water.
sufficient to provide for all the cattle of the
regions during three years, and for the irri-
CATION of 5000 acres of fiat bottom land
alongside the river bed below. The rivers
of Ceara flow in the wet season alone.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-02-09

An expedition under the command of
Fl. II. Johnston, who has but recently re-
turned from the Congo, will set out in
March to explore the snow-capped peak,
Mount Kilimapjsro, in Eastern Equatorial
Africa.
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YOUNG BASE WAITER

WILL STAND FOR THE SEASON -
w at sixteenth and L streets. HisA R1
pedigree is as follows: Thoroughbred onA-A-A
the side Of the sire. and half bred Norfolk on the
side Of the dam. He four years old. Terms
Thirty Dollars gold JACOB SlORTL, Proprietor,
Sixteenth and L, northeast corner teSIplm
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ITAH.

MOnOSamisi Mormon legislature
SALT LAKE, February ssh.-Ths Utah
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PACIFIC SLOPE.

Hunter Shot TO Death by Mistake-Chief
Noses Movements Death sentence at
BartInez-The Utah Legislature First
Female Vote in Washington Territory
An Old Man Sentenced 10 Life Impris-
Onment-Etc.
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The other day A. P. Lipp, the crack
shot of Wheatllnd, bagged so quail near
that place in two hours shooting.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-02-09

RED BLUFF, February Sth.-At $50 TO-
night the jury brought in verdict of guilty
of murder in the first degree, with imprison-
ment for life, in the case against Henry Was
son, charged with the murder of l. S. Shan
non in the Sierras, on the ID of October
last. The case was submitted on circumstan-
tial evidence, and the decision is contrary to
public opinion. The trial occupied the entire
week, and was ably conducted on both sides.
Wasson took the sentence placidly. He is
man about 60 years old, and has resided
in the county for wears
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p ORovILLE, February SHY Yesterday after
noon a son of Joseph Mullen, of Concow
valley, Edward Derrick and three others,
were hunting in the hills near Concow. Der.
rick was on his hands and knees crawling
through some underbrush, trying to approach
some game, when young Mullen mistook him
for wild hog and shos him with his Win.
chester rife, killing lin almost instantly.
The lad who did ice shoJtiag is only about
10, while Der.i,k is u2rried man, and
leaves a wife and four children.
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Arrested for Obtaining Money Cndcr
prafausaS

ST. HELENA, February Sth.-W. S. Tom
liusOn was arrested here to-day by direction
of an officer at Merced, where he is charged
with obtaining money under false pretenses
He was working in the Times printing ofice
here since yesterday, and claims to be a
brother of Mrs. Secretary Belknap.
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CALIFORNIA.

ESPECIAL DISPATCHES TO THs REooRD-UNIoSl
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OREGON.
settlement Of a Iexed Question

u
PORTLAND, February S.h.-M;ss Kate
Ward, residing a: Tumwater, Washington
Territory, claims the distinguished honor of
being the first woman who ever cast a vote
under the new law. This claim has been
warmly contested by several other ladies in
different parts Of the Territory, but Miss
Ward has presented indisputsbe proof in
support of her claims, and has been awarded
the feather. This question has been agitsted
of late by the Territorial press, and now
seems settled.
Card from an "Iniured Democrat
PORTLAND, February S.h.-Captaiu John
McCGffeEty, whose name recently appeared
in the csblegrsms from London and Paris in
connection with prominent dynamite fends,
and for the knowledge Of whose whereabouts
the English Government offers LOCO, turns
out to be in Portland. He will publish the
following card in the morning papers
To Whom it May Concern; AS my name has been
coupled with recent clblegrams from England and
Ireland, linking with certain aggressous in Ire
land and England, having me at one time arrested
IN London, and at another at Paris, with standing
reward for my whereabouts, while l was
and still rambling through the
mineral belts Of the United States, my country,
therefore more, and for the last time protest
against such cruel calumny. l am neither an as
sassin murderer; neither do l associate with
such characters. Nor am ! connected with those
monsters who would destroy life and property in
England through the agency Of dynamite. While
my individuality has been grossly asSaied by these
iuvidous cablegrams, do not blame Great Britain,
inasmuch as trace their auimus to Irish quarters
whose leaders are cravens eXemphfyng the foulest
lie Of creation, covering before the inevitable death,
and al. through the instrumentality of the Cross.
CAPTAIN JOHN MCCAFFERTY.
Two Boys Drowned.
OREGON CITY, February Sth.-This after
noon Otto and Horace Schsm, sons of John
Scham, living here, aged respectively 10 and
II years, were drowned in O small lake on
the Clacksmas bottom, The boys were out
skating. when the ice suddenly gsve way. A
number of persons witnessed the accident,
but the boys both perished before assistance
could reach them. The bodies were soon re.
covered
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PAINTS AND OILS.

Z l. CHADDERD0N, IMPORTER AND DEALER
3D.. in Paints Oils, VarEishes, Window Glass,
Mixed PAints, Artists ard Painters Materials. Wal
apor, ETC. No. 2oi ( s., Sacramento iyl7lpi
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MARKETS.
CALIFORNIA MARKET,
No. sOs SECOND STREET. Bat. AND j.
a, HElLBRON g. gRo,

WHOLESALE AND RETAIL BUTCHERS
w Having purchased the City Market, on J
street, between Front and Second, from P. Herzog
We shall endeavor 70 keep the same supplied with
the BEST OF MEATS. We offer special inducements
to the trade, and being connected with the slaugh-
house by telephone, We are prepared 10 take or.
to orders from the country Live Stock bought at
the Highest Market Prices. iyIO-Iu
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MARITIME, February 8th.-Wm. Bennett,
lately convicted of the murder of w. O..
Baker at Stewartsviile, last November, was
to-day sentenced by Judge Brown to be
hanged on the 4sh Of April next.
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San LUIS OBIspo, February S.h.-The
Stockholders Of the new hotel. which is to
cosC $75, 900. are pushing tha building with
great enterprise. The citizans of this county
will make another effort, which will likely be
successful, leading to the building of o break
water at Port Hartford, an improvement
which the growing commerce Of this section
demands. The agitation commands the most
solid hackers in the county.
seven Years In San Quentin.
Los ANGELES, February Sth.-C. A Rey-
nolds, for the granddaughter of Mr.. Pollard at
Downey last August, was sentenced to-day
to seven years in San Quentin.
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The CoIusa Irrigation scheme.

WILLOWS, February Sth.-W. S. Green
and party completed the location of the river
canal of the Stony Creek Canal Company as
far as Willows to-day. The distance, by way
Of the canal, is twenty-five and three.qusrter
miles. A direct line is nearly twenty four
miles. No difficulty whatever has been
found, and the canal may be considered a
fixed fact. The people here will do all they
can to further the project, although the ceop
prospects were never better than at present
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The sharon Divorce Case,

The sharon divorce case.
SAN Francisco, February Shin tie
Sharon divorce case, the time was occupied
to-day by squabble over the question of tax
ing the deposition of Shsron's daughter. Lady
Hesketh. The Court finally denied the ap-
plication without prejudice, en- the ground
of 3 proper affidavit being wanting. The
affidavit will probably be fled tomorrow.
Republican County Committee of San
Francisco.
SAN Francisco. February Ssh.-The Re-
publican County Committee held meeting
to night. The roll Of the Clubs to be organ
izsd WAS referred to a special committee. A
resolution was offered. proposing that the
number of delegates to be elected from eoch
legislative district being known, each Club
shall be entitled to elect to the State COnven-
tion such proportion of the whole number
of delegates to which the district is entitled,
as the Club is to tie whole number of Clubs
in the district. The resolution provoked con-
siderable debate, and further discussion was
left for the next meeting.
Declared Unconstitutional
San Francisco. February S.h.-The Su-
preme Court to-day declared the McKen
laundry ordinance unconstitutional.
The Proposed Worlds Fair at San Fran
cisco.
SAN Francisco, February Sth.-An ad.
dress has been issued by the Executive Com
mittee of the Worlds Fair, calling attention
to the advantages that the entire cosst will
derive from such an exhibition. 1t also IN.
vites the CO operation of the public at large,
and concludes by stating that the committee
has determined, as necessary to demonstrate
the earnestness of the people. that a sub.
scription for half Q million dollars
will be opened upon conditions to be made
known at the time subscriptions are solic-
tied by the Finance Committee.
The COlusa Irrigation scheme.
WILLOWS, February Sth.-W. S. Green
apJ - tho location Of fba
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MISCELLANEOUS.

IS.
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dis ipi
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-01-17
No Mystery to him.

A stubbed farmer, who had come
to market with load Of potatoes,
entered q restaurant near the Central
Market and called for dozen oysters
dp the h.lf-shell. A couple OF jok-
ers happened to be in the place, and
while one attracted the farmers at
tcntion for moment. the other
dropped = bullet into one of the
oyster shells. The man gulped down
one after another until he got the one
with the bullet in his mouth. Calm.
ly and quietly he bit the lead with
his teetl-calmly and quietly he re-
moved it from his mouth and turned
to the light.
by George! but it's bullett!'
cried one of the men.
"Probably shot into the oyster to
kill him." added the other.
"Well, that is a mystery!" said
the man behind the counter.
"Gentlemen, that is no msytery to
me-" replied the farmer, as he dcpos.
tied the ball in his vest pocket. "At
the B@ttle of Fair Oaks. over twenty
years ago, was hit in the leg BY
that very bullet. It's been long
time working up, but she's here at
last, and I'll have it hung to my
watch chain if it costs $5"-Detou
Free Press.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-01-17
Miscellaneous.
Authorizations in Butter, :

AdulteratiOns in Butter.
When oloemargarine WAS first
brought into public notice there was
a good deal Of opposition to its intro
duction, as affording the ready means
of deceiving buyers, no matter how
much better it might he than poor
butter, how entirely harmless, and
how thoroughly cleanly were the
methods of its manufacture. Laws
were therefore passed in several of
the States prohibiting its manufacture
and sale, OILY as all the packages
should be distinctly branded with the
name ''oleomargarine.'' The farm.
ers and dairymen were most anxious
for this legislation. But since these
laws were passed there has sprung up
large business in which is called
"butterine," which usually consists
OF = little good creamery butter and
an admixture of oleomargarine oil and
neutral lard. The latter is simply
lard with all taste removed, which
increases its value about \ cent a
pound; but the butterine thus m ade
is hardly distinguishable ty the best
judges from fine creamery butter,
under which designation 4 great deal
Of it is now coming to market. The
winter is the best season for palming
off this adulteration, a. it does not
keep a. hard rs genuine butter in tn e
warm weather.-Scientihc Ameri.
can.