Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-11-19


I very largely increased in Ulster county
and elsewhere along the Hudson river.
Producers say there is no fear of over-pro-
duction. The West Shore Railroad has
opened scores of new markets III the Forth
and west, and in the Eastern States via
Albany and the Hoosac tunnel In less
than ten years the entire Hudson valley
Will be one vast vineyard.
The Native Wine Trade.
| New York, November 1Sth.-The Cali
fornia wine trade is very much interested
in the action of the State Viticultural So
| clety to protect the trade against spurious
wines manufactured here and elsewhere.
| One Of the oldest California importers in
the city, established eighteen years, SAYS
The spurious business was never carried
on here so largely and boldly rs now Their
agents presume TO offer their manufactures
to reputable houses in the trade and in the
State, and they embrace all lines of the
native wine business, with limitations we'll
calculated to deceive ordinary judges Eff
! teen to twenty firms are engaged in the
adulteration here, and some ON a large
scale. Their names are well-known to the
trade, but dealers naturally decline TO give
them. Spurious wines sell from fifteen TO
thirty-tive cents, some higher, principally
| to saloon and reStaurant-keepers, and
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cheap California wine, with glucose
water, favored and colored TO suit
emergencies The opinion of the
| best-informed California dealers here is that
only additional Congressional legislation
will meet the difficulty. The present rev
enue law taxing the manufacture of sprui-
Gus wines is imperative, and by some re-
garded as unconstitutional A similar law
to that passed by the New York Legislature
under which the spurious butter trade is
| now being vigorously handled here, is
wanted for the protection of the native wine
| trade"
One Californian said " The skill attained
| in the manufacture of spurious white and
red wines equals the finest products of the
| imitation of butter in the market. Califor-
MIA sherry, so-called, but made in Beaver
| street, of little spirits, some raisins, conSid
| cradle water and sherry fiavoring, which
| deceives good judges of the California arti-
! Gle and costs the manufacturers As cents
per gallon is sold at 65 to IS cents Cali
| fornia champagne, another big Swindle,
which has an extensive sale, is simply
! cheap California wine charged with gas"
| A respectable dealer in California brandy
said to your reporter: The adu!teration of
| California wines is also done in San Fran
cisco by INSCRIPTIONS dealers. Many bit
The Chinese Case in New York.
New YORK, November 1Sth-The case
of the Chinaman who arrived in the ship
Twilight, and whom the custom officers re
fused 10 allow to land, taken in connection
with All KEGS case, reported in these dis
| patches, awakens unfriendly criticism here
among a large portion of the community
opposed to the Chinese Restriction Act
! The Twilight case is the harder, because,
according to Captain Johnsons testimony,
| the Chinaman actually resided in America
| before the Restriction Act was passed. He
was paid off and discharged with the rest
of the crew on arriving here. The friends
| of the Chinaman here muster III strong
| force for his release. He will probably
land, papers or no papers.
The Observation-Disclosures Suits.
NEW YORK, November 1Sth-When the
! four suits brought by David Stewart against
| Coils p. Huntington involving large
amount of money, were called for trial to-
! day before Judge Beach, in the Supreme
| Court an affidavit was read from ex-senator
| Roscoe Conkling, counsel for defendant
setting forth that he had been employed as
| counsel by the Democratic party to watch
their interests at the canvass of the Presi-
! dental votes. and that, therefore, he was
unable to appear in the suit, and asking for
a postponement until such time as he could
! be present. Joseph II. Choate, counsel for
| plaintiff, argued against a postpOnement,
and said there was no doubt now who was
elected President.
The Commissionership of the Bureau of
| Labor Statistics.
| WASHINGTON, November 1Sth.-It is said
tonight that the President has finally de-
terrnined to appoint John Fehrenbatch to
! the position of Commissioner of the Bureau
of Labor Statistics Fehrenbatch is at
| present Supervising Inspector of Steam
| Vessels for the southern district of Ohio,
with his headquarters at Cincinnati. He
has been prominently identified with labor
organizations for some years, is Il practical
mechanic and thorough business man,
and his appointment is understood TO be
acceptable to all interested III the success
of the Bureau.
Sensation at a Wedding.
ST. LOUIS, November 18th - Edward
Amiens was about to be Joined in marriage
to Mrs. Laura Carroll at St Nicholas Church
Yesterday, when q girl of slight figure, with
] streaming hair and weeping eyes, entered
! and said: " Don't marry him; don't marry
! him, please. He is my husband" The
| bride tainted and the groom turned pale.
| The priest looked dumfounded, and the
girl continued He betrayed me, under
| promise of marriage, and only last week
he said we should be married at Christmas
and now he is going to take some one else
| He is killing me- BY this time the bride
revived, and, throwing her arms hysteri-
| cally around the groom, cried: = No one
can take him away. III have him, any
| how" Father Schafer would not proceed
with the ceremony until he consulted with
oil "A
the truth of the girls statement, but il is
said he went before Justice subsequently
and married Mrs. Carroll. Virginia de
| Mattoes is the name Of the girl who stopped
| the ceremony.
| A Young Girl Hangs Herself.
| PITTsBURG, November 18th - Priscilla
| Brown, aged IS, of Rochester, thirty miles
| from this city, committed suicide yesterday
morning by hanging The Browns were
once wealthy people, and still move in the
| best society circles The girl had many
admirers, but favored Henry Gross Her
parents interfered, and yesterday morning
when the family arose the girl appeared in
| unusually good spirits, went out to water
her flowers and in a few minutes was
| found hanging by cord to a rafter in the
barn. She had tied her feet with hand
kerchief, mounted chair, fastened the
Japanese Rice Crop Destroyed.
New YORK, November 1Sth.-Japanese
commercial houses say the typhoon Of
September wrought great destruction to the
japanese rice crop. The circular Of Dan
Talmadge Sons saws the grain was Just at
the harvesting point and much of it was
cut. Large tracts were laid waste, and the
standing grain was so tossed to and fro as
to thrash out thousands of acres. and but
little was left save straw. The effect OF this
is already seen in the markets of the world,
prices having advanced several points.
The "Graphic :" Property.
New YORK, November 18TH" The
Graphic may be sold tomorrow said
Manager Hinckley, yesterday, to a reporter,
8 but it will be like passing out of my right
hand into my left hand. ! own all the
stock, all the bonds, all the judgment, anC
have possession, and the sale will he made
merely to put matters on more satisfactory
basis. 1t seems ridiculous that the paper
should, in one sense, be conducted as
foreign corporation. The foreign part OF
the paper passed out of existence long ago."
EuoliSI, RroDcb of the Salvation ARMY,