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Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-04-19
THIS MORNINGS NEWS.

In New York yesterday Government bonds
were quoted at 1285 for as of 1907, 1877 for rs
sterling, 81 Ss@4 9015 1905 for S. 100 for 5s
silver bars, HES
Silver in London, 5034d consols. 102 S-16d; 5
per cent. United States bonds, extended 1O5; As,
126 as 1l515.
In San Francisco Mexican dollars are quoted
stS71a9sS cents.
Mining stocks were again weak in San Fran
cisco yesterday. The Best & Belcher assessment
sent the price down to 81 20, the lowest price in
long time. Gould & Curry sold at 81 25, which
is poor encouragement for these who have just
paid an assessment of fifty cents.
Robert Kuecklea killed himself at Arcata
Humboldt county, Thursday.
Rev. Father Francis J. Sanchez the oldest
priest in the State, died in Santa Barbara Thurs
day.
Wendell Phillips memorial services We're held
in Boston yesterday.
Frank Shenton shot and killed his father near
Golden Hill, Md, Thursday
Theodore Hoffman was hanged Yesterday at
White Plains, N. Y, for the murder of Jewish
peddler.
High water is still causing trouble in Maine
and New Hampshire.
1t is denied that yellow fever prevails in Vera
Cruz, Mexico.
Charles A. Spaulding shot himself five times in
New Haven, Conn, Thursday night.
passenger was robbed on a train near Poplar
Bluff, Ark, Thursday, ofS175OO.
City of Mexico dispatch says the entire
country is now tranquil.
Trevelyan, Chief Secretary for Ireland, has
been summoned to London by the Government.
Cholera killed 257 persons in Calcutta last
week
The Pope continues his crusade against secret
societies especially Freemasonry.
Convention of the Irish National League was
held in Kilkenny yesterday.
French gunbOat has been ordered from
Hongkong TO Canton.
Particulars of the recent fighting in Tonquin
are given this morning.
A levee on the San joaquin river near Lathrop
broke yesterday and it is feared that u 900 acres
of wheat viii be destroyed.
A negro who fired a house and burned four
children to death has been captured at Glads-
den, Ala.
A desperate fight with horse thieves took
place in Phillips county, Ark, Thursday.
Smallpox is spreading at Marshall, Tex.
Sixty fence-cutters have been indicted in Medi-
ma county, Tex.
George Leach, the oldest locomotive engineer in
the United States has been found drowned near
Indianapolis
Five carloads of tourists left Philadelphia yes
terday on an excursion to Colorado and Califor-
MIA.
The Yuba and Feather rivers are seven feet
below high-water mark, and falling slowly.
The Democratic State Convention of Oregon
adjourned sine die yesterday at Salem.
John Duncan shot his wife in the street at Chico
yesterday, and then blew out his own brains.
A grand pigeOSshooting tournament will take
place in Chico Monday
The United States Senate yesterday passed the
Postofice appropriation bill.
The Sacramento river at Colusa was nine
inches higher than ever before known Wednes
day night.
Great excitement prevails in Colorado over
gold discoveries in the vicinity of Pixies Peak.
Damaging snow and rock slides are of daily
occurrence now in Colorado.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-04-19
CALIFORNIA AND THE RAILWAYS.
Comparison with Roads of Eastern
States.
THE Railway Age. April 10th.

lIne Railway Age, April 1Otn-
California is State of vast area, Won
derful variety of natural resources and
splendid possibilities, under wise and pru-
dent government, and yet there is great
danger at present that its development will
be seriously checked and that capital and
enterprise will be frightened away from
further investments in public improve
ments unless the spirit of communism.
which selfish demagogues have excited, is
speedily brought under control by reason
and common sense. Isolated from the
older portion of the United States by a
vast stretch of mountain and desert which
could only be crossed by months of time
and great toll and exposure, and dependent
almost entirely upon her mining interests,
the growth of California was for many
years slow and her future was very doubt
full But finally after years of labor at
tended by great risk and uncertainty on
the part of few bold and enterprising
citizens of that State, transcontinental
railway was opened in 1869, and from that
time the progress of California proceeded
at a greatly increased pace Nevertheless,
so enormous is the territory of that State,
and so many are the impediments inter
posed by nature against engineering enter
prise, that the railway system of Califor-
MIA is still extremely small in comparison
with that of other States east of the Rocky
Mountains. At the present time, with an
area of about 10000 square miles-more
than two and half times greater than
that of Illinois-California has only about
1890 miles of railway, against about 5000
in Illinois. Compared with Massachusetts,
the area of California is as l56 is to s, and
yet, while Massachusetts, has one mile of
railway to about every four square miles,
California has only one to every SO miles.
The following diagrams will give better
idea of the comparative relations of the
three States named
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-04-19
COMPARATIVE AREA

1t will thus be seen that California has
urgent need of vastly-increased railway
facilities, and it would seem that her peo-
pie would offer the most liberal encourage
ment to any men who were willing to open
up her vast and unpeopled regions, and to
supersede the Ox-cart and the stage-wagon
with facilities for transportation so vastly
superior in respect TO cost, speed and COM
fort, as to be absolutely beyond comparison
with the primitive methods which pre-
coded them. The people of California, as
a class, are wide awake, intelligent and
liberal, and they are eager for railway de-
velopment and appreciative of the great
benefit which railways have been and can
be to the State. But, unfortunately, few
INSCRIPTIONS demagogues in that State, as
in many others, have succeeded in imbuing
many of the people with false and danger
Gus ideas in regard to the relations of the
existing railways to the public. These
demagogues have seized upon the fact that,
in a State where fortunes have been made
with such rapidity in mining and other
enterprises, some Of the men who have
taken the risk of building railways have
also acquired wealth, and from this they
have led the people to the preposterous as
sumption that therefore the railways are
charging extortionate rates. Forgetting
or endeavoring to forget, the enormous re
duction in the cost of transportation, the
vast increase of population which the rail-
ways have brought to the State, and the
development Of diversified industries to
take the place of decaying mining inter
ests, which the railways have brought
about, and most assuredly ignoring the
vast difference between railways in the
thickly-settled States and those which have
been built over the long stretches of desert
and mountain in California, these dema-
gogues have endeavored to excite prejudice
against the roads of their own State by
comparison of rates with those in the
East, instead of comparing the present
rate which they enjoy with those which
prevailed before the railroads were built.
Yet even these comparisons do not show
to the California railways, as
the following interesting table will prove:
INTER EsTISG COMPARISONS BETWEEN THE MASsA-
CHUSETTS RAILWAYS AND THE c. P +. Z. AND
1rf4T
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-04-19

the deepest concern in the settlement and
development of the States in which it does
business. 1t seldom can take up special
sections of State for advocacy, for obvious
reasons; its efforts must be general, and re-
late to the whole country. But the people
in sections cannot more economically pre-
sent their claims than through the agencies
cottonwood 70
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-04-19

THE Shasta Courier says it is due to the recent
unwise legislative assaults that northern Cali
fornia is to be deprived of the immediate bene-
fits of railway transportation, and that just as
the people of northern California and southern
California were felicitating themselves on the
early completion of railroad that would unite
two great and sympathetic States in future bonds
of interest and brotherhood, and permit the
great valleys of the Sacramento and william
cite to shake hands, the order comes to stop
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-04-19

THE Petaluma Arqus has this to say after a
lengthy consideration of the subject: The
broad assumption of the Wallace resolutions
that the Central Pacific and Southern Pacific
Railroads belong to the State, and that their
managers are simply administering public
trust. would not have provoked public criticism
or comment had they emanated from the brain of
an ayowed Communist"
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-04-19

THE Chicago Current indorses the course of Mr..
Sargent and adds that it is not his fault that his
diplomatic career has been comparatively brief
"The Government of William and Bismarck does
not deserve to be honored by the presence of an
American Minister until better manners are in
troduced at Berlin"
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-04-19
SAN FRANCISCO AGENCY.

The office of the REooRD-UNIoN in San Fran
cisco is at No. New Montgomery street-Palace
Hotel, opposite the Grand The paper can be
obtained at all the principal newsstands.
WILLIAM CAMERON,
Special Advertising and Subscription Agent.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-04-19

THE San Francisco Report still insists. and
with forcibleness that has not yet met
with anything approaching a response that an
investigation into the causes which led to the
issuance of the call for an extra session ofthe
Legislature should be made.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-04-19
LOOK! READ THIS!
ICE CREAM.
MRS. E. M. WIEDMANN.

NO. 40 . ST. Det' Fourth and Fifth,
rs PREPARED TO FILL ALL ORDERS. BOTH
i city and country for PICNICS and other
gatherings. with the very best of ICE CREAM,
at wholesale prices. Sole proprietor and man
ufacturer of the Celebrated California Sugar of
Lemon. Also, Wholesale Manufacturer and I'm
porter of Candies, and Dealer in all kinds of
Nuts. Branch House No. 4l9 K street Metro
pOlitan Theater Building). apl0-Sp1m
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-04-19
MISCELLANEOUS.
NEW BOOKS! NEW BOOKS!

James, Henry" Portraits of Places .......s1 50
James, Henry The Siege of London " ...... l 80
Ballou, NJ. M" Due West Round the
"oilu %
Anonymous-" The Bread Winners ''........... l 90
Fiske, John" Excursions of an Evolution
ist ..,,..... . %
Fawcett, Edgar An Ambitious Woman l so
Hardy, A. $" But Yet Woman" ......... l .
" Bottom Facts Concerning Spiritualism -. l so
Fletcher, Susan" Twelve Months III an
English Prison so
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-04-19

Howel's, W Dc Modern Instance" ..S 50
Lynch, Lawrence" Madeline Payne ....... l 50
Holmes, Mary J.-"Queen Heatherton 49,. 50
Livermore, MaryA"what Shall we do with
Our Girls Is
Arnold Edwin Indian Idylls ............. %
Greenwood. Grace" Girlhood and Woman
hood of Queen Victoria ..................-.... 50
Blake, william" Sound Bodies for Our
Boys and Girls 70
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-04-19

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The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1884-12-20

Ng>At recent agricultural fair in Santa
Barbara county, California, were beets weighing
weighing 1870 pounds, apples measuring fifteen
inches, and every other fruit or vegetable which
is grown in Northern Oregon or Canada. Tropical
fruits were represented by oranges, nuts, grapes
of every kind, dates from the imported date palm
Japanese persimmons, lemons, olives, pome'
granates, etc. Side by side with sage palms from
Ceylon were beautiful ferns from Japan and silve.
trees from the Cape of Good Hope, and near thes,
was the whitest honey in the world, the work O
Italian bees.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1884-12-20

@- The great body office holders (says an ex-
change) are the postmaster. The whole number
of postoffces is 5O,491. Of these eighty-one are
irst-class, 404 second class and 1887 third class
The remainder are fourth-class, and pay the
incumbent less than $1,000 year. There is
little competition for fourth-class officers, most Of
them yielding comparatively Insignificant CON-
missions. The offices above the fourth-class are
what are known as presidential" that is, ap-
pointments to them are made by the President
and confirmed by the Senate. These appoint.
ments are for term of four years. and the present
incumbents cannot be legally removed, save for
misconduct or disability, until their terms expire
Postmasters of the fourth-class are appointed by
the Postmaster General, and are subject to re-
moval at any time. The safety of the small-fry
postmasters will depend upon their own conduct
and upon the views ofthe next Postmaster General
in regard to civil service reform, though most Of
them don't care whether they are "safe" or not.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1884-12-20
THE WORLDS EXPOSITION AT NEW
ORLEANS.
Reduced Rates via the Pennsylvania R.

Reduced Rates via the Pennsylvania R. R.
The Worlds Industrial and Cation Centennial
Exposition opened at New Orleans La, December
16th 1884, and will continue until May 31st,
1885.
The success of this great show is now assured,
and in the vastness of its extent, the variety of
the interests involved, and the wide field from
which its features are drawn, it will exceed in
magnitude anything of its kind ever held in this
country. Besides a full representation of the
limitless industries and the unbounded resources
of every State of the Union, every country of the
world will display something of its resources it's
art, or its handiwork. The collection of inter-
national exhibits will be complete, and that in
connection with all the richness of America, will
form an epitome of the advance of civilization as
perfect as it is unique. Agriculture, mechanics,
art commerce, trade, and every branch of human
industry will make part of the great fair.
Its location at one of the foremost commercial
cities of the South, well as of the most at
tractive, fitted in every way for the entertain
ment of great gathering of people, lends added
interest to the enterprise. The winter season at
New Orleans is the most delightful portion of the
year, and the inhabitant of the climate of
the North would find most grateful change in
the genaty of Southern winter. Accommoda-
lions will be ample, ranging in expense from the
comfortable room of the visitor of limited means
to the luxurious apartments of the wealthy. 1t
will be winter vacation where one may find not
only health and pleasure, but profit and instruc-
ton.
For the benefit of the large number of visitors
who will be attracted thither, the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company has placed on sale at all the
principal stations of its system, excursion tickets
to New Orleans, good to return until May 31st,
1885. In consideration of the reduced rate at
which the tickets are sold they subject to GER
tain conditions as to limitation of trips going and
returning. These conditions are simple and will
be explained in detail by agents. The tickets
are of two classes: Those covering the same route
in both direction, and those covering one route
going and different route returning. The round
trip rate of tickets going and returning the same
route from Baltimore to New Orleans is $4,000;
and going by route and returning another,
$4S.O0, except where the trip is made in one
direction, via Atlantic Coast Line, when the rate
is $4,000.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1884-12-20
DEATHS,
Deaths Free--- Tributes, &C., 10 cts.

HOFF.-At her residence, near Towson, 81
Friday, December IL, 1884, Juliana In
Hoff, wife of the late Rev. John F. HofdA
in the Goth year of her age. az
BOGGS.-At Prospect Hill, Baltimore "
Nd, on the afternoon of December IRE
Miss Susan ]. Boggs, in the S7th yeaes
age. ,ra |
SCHUTz.-At Upper Falls, Baltimore CESS
December Is, Jennie, aged years a
months, youngest daughter of Freder.
Annie Schultz.
PULLIAM.-At Mount Vernon, on Decenn.S
Annie R. Pulliam, in the 37th year of hGl-
wife of Isaac J. Pulliam, and daughter &C.
N. and A. 7. Baldwin.
TRACEY.-Near Warren Factory, BALTIC. &C ,
on Dec. IL, 1884, Maud, infant daughto
Charles NJ, and Clara E. Tracey, aged mU
and % days. 4
DUTTON.-NearM Middle River Neck, this cot !.
on Dec. s, 1884, after long and painful illC
of consumption, Maggie S. Dutton, agede
years and days, daughter of Charles y
Clara H. Dutton.
WALSTON.-At the residence of her son-in-
John s. Tyler, near Govanstown, Md,
Anne g. Walston, in the list year of her ,
widow of the late William Walston, of Accoi
G. H., Va.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS 16, Emma D. Eaton, O.
AZ years, beloved wife of A. H. Eaton.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1884-12-20

Gg-At the annual meeting of the Maryland
State Grange, which was held in Baltimore last
week, Mr.. Henry M. Murray, of Anne Arundel
county, was elected Master, and Mr.. A. M. Stubs,
of Montgomery county, Treasurer. Mr.. Edward
Austen, of Baltimore county, was reelected a
member of the Executive Committee for three
years. 1t is likely that Mrs. Devries will take
charge of the business agency, and the Executive
Committee was directed to distribute to the Pa
irons of the agency the surplus profits resulting
from the operations of the house. The next meet
ing of the Grange will be held in Baltimore, Dec.
9th, 1885.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1884-12-20

re- Wheat, corn and oats are the lowest n ow
that they have been for years. The average farm
price for wheat Throughout the country is e5 cents
per bushel. The price in Nebraska is AZ cents,
Kansas As, Dakota 46, Minnesota so, Iowa 30,
Missouri 81, Illinois So, Indiana 81, Michigan "A
and Ohio rs. The farm price of corn averages 364
cents bushel, Kansas %, Iowa %, Missouri 20,
and Minnesota 81.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1884-12-20

NS-The great Worlds Exposition, at New
Orleans, was opened on Tuesday by President
Arthur, from the White House at Washington, by
simply touching button attached to the wire
which set in motion the great Corliss engine in
the exposition buildings hundreds of miles away
The ceremonies were of very interesting char
ecter and were witnessed by members of the Cab
met and their families, besides many other persons
prominent in official and social life in Washing
ton.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1884-12-20

@-Mr. Blaine has written a letter to his coun-
sci in Indianapolis, directing them to dismiss his
libel suit against the Sentinel newspaper of that
city. We think Mr.. Blaine would have acted
more wisely if he had never instituted the suit,
under the circumstances, no matter whether the
charges of the Sentinel true false, and now
to make the sweeping assertion that he could not
get fair trial in Indiana is to seriously reflect
upon the judiciary of that State and make enemies
Of people who ought to be his friends. We there
fore think that in this matter Mr. Blaine has gone
wrong all the way through.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1884-12-20

w- Baltimore Democrats had another big DEM
onstration at the ConcOrdia Opera House, on
Monday night last, in celebration of the election
of Cleveland and Hendricks. The men who were
at the head of this affair were of different stamp
from those who got up the German dinner, and it
is said the more prominent ones are not ardent
admirers of the Senator. This may mean that
when the time comes Mr.. German is to have some
opposition in his own party, Notwithstanding the
fact that he saved it from defeat on the 4th of
November. To a rank outsider this looks like
;norot;tuda
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1884-12-20
as- The young man James Mackin, :,

Ng- The young man James Mackin, VIZ,
convicted In the Harford county court OF III
in the second degree, for the killing of al
fensive foreign railroad laborer, was on So
last sentenced by Judge Waters to eighteeya
confinement in the penitentiary. Mackin
Is years of age and will be SO when his >,
expires. IA
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1884-12-20

ms The estimates for the fiscal year1t,
June 3Oth, 1886, submitted to the House
tee on Appropriations, amount to S254,ed
Among the items are the following; for len
100000, 900, for the Postofice DEPARTING
O99, 1859, for the Navy $3O,654,O 1O, for thias
$25, III, 4s9, for the Military Academy So
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1884-12-20

Mg-S Sir Moses Monteiore was asked some year.
ago to help man whom he had assisted several
times. "Itis doing anything for the fellow,
he was told by those about him. "The man is no
good; not worth helping" To which Sir Moses
made reply: "In that case shall help him de-
cidedly; for, if don't, am sure that nobody
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1884-12-20

re- The court records show that there are now
six hundred and forty-seven divorce suits pend
ing in Chicago, and in Philadelphia there are
seven hundred and eighteen. Referring to this
statement the New York Herald says "there can
be no question that seven hundred pending divorce
suits in single city indicate either an extraordi
nary extent of married misery or looseness of
divorce regulation which calls for correction"
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1884-12-20

@-The Chicago Times thinks that Mr. Arthur
has proved himself to be the best President that
the country has had since Abraham Lincoln.
Whether this be the exact truth or not, he GER
tainly has won for himself the high esteem of the
whoIe eouufrv
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1884-12-20

Ms-A new monthly publication, to be called
The Civil Service Reformer will be started in Bal
timore on January LIST, 1885. twill be published
under the auspices Of the Maryland Civil-service
Reform Association, with Mr. Francis King
Carey as editor, and Mr.. Henry F. Greene, bus
mess manager.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1884-12-20

@-A dispatch to the New York Saa, dated
Albany, Dec. 18th, says "when Senator Thomas
F. Bayard came to Albany and paid his respects
to President elect Cleveland it is understood that
he left for home with the assurance that he could
choose any position in the Cabinet, and he would
receive the appointment. 1t is said on good
authority that, after having deliberated over the
matter the Delaware Senator has sent note to
the Governor, which was received yesterday, in
dicating his preference for the portfolio of Seere-
tary of the Treasury. 1t is rumored that he will
accordingly be appointed to that position"
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1884-12-20

The Treasurer of the United States says
in his annual report that the national banks of
this country have, since the period of their es-
tablishment in 1858, paid into the Treasury S127,
2O6, las in taxes. This is vastly more than it has
cost the Government to supervise them. There is
should be continued for another day.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1884-12-20

EB Some Democratic ofice-seekers are indus
trously engaged setting their pins for next falls
campaign in the county. But "the best laid plans
of mice and men" often miscarry, and some of
these fine fellows are destined to be shelved for
all time to come. And then all the people will
say Ameni