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Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-08-09
THIS MoFNING's NEWS.

In New York yesterday Governments bonds
were quoted at 1lg5s for As of 1907 ll25s Scr 4s;
sterling. 81 s3@4 S. 1905 for IS; silver bars,
1909
silver in London, 5O13-1ed Consols, 100 19-l6d
s per cent. United States bonds, extended, 105;
is, 12s14 AS, I151s.
In San Francisco Mexican dollars are quoted
at $4,000 cents
Mining Stocks were fairly active at San Fran
cisco yesterday morning, but prices were not so
good as they were Thursday morning. Mexi-
can, Best d Beleher, Savage and Potosi were
without change Alpha, Alta, Benton, Crown
Point and Belcher were SC 70 35c higher, Other
descriptions were sc to SOC lower.
Three prominent Japanese tea merchants are
on a tour of observation in the United States.
Captain Robert H. Waterman, the well-known
shipmaster, did in suisun valley yesterday
morning.
Blaine addressed mass meeting Of ex.soldiers
at Old Orchard, Me. last Thursday evening
The Greedy relief expedition arrived at New
York yesterday.
Stillmasher, the murderer, wGs hanged at
Vienna yesterday
There was bloody encounter near Fredonia
Tex, last Monday, in which three men were
killed and one seriously wounded
fatal cattle disease has broken out at LIE
mars, Iowa.
Jack Woodland, the well-known dairyulcu,
was murdered near Weber lake last night.
Edward Johnson, prisoner, attempted TO es-
cape from San Quentin last Thursday.
There is rmor in New York that Hendricks
proposes to resign from the ticket.
The French Government viii consult the
Chamber OF Deputies before ordering an attack
on Foo Chow
proposition is on foot to consolidate the Cal
ifornia and Consolidated Virginia. Mining com
panies.
Jay-Eye-see, in an attempt to bea. his own
record, made mile in 2IC34 yesterday
The Acting Secretary Of the Interior refuses
to order a survey of Arsenal Island, opposite st.
Louis.
The Great Council OF Red Men at Nevada yes
terday adjourned sine die
The Hungarians are leaving Lehigh county,
Pa, for their native land.
A call has been issued for a meeting st New
York OF the Executive Committee of the Ma
Iional Union League.
Destructive rain-storms occurred in upper
Austria yesterday.
The river Sile has commenced its usual rise.
The Russian Government has issued q circular
to Principals Of schools, holding them respon-
sible for revolutionary tendencies Of their
scholars.
The Mayor OF II Paso Texas, telegraphs that
there is no yellow fever at that place.
Holmes, Lafferty & Co., live stock dealers of
Pittsburg, Pa, made an assignment yesterday.
SIX of the assailants of Lizzie Bradley at Pitts
burg, Pa, have been committed for trial.
Charles Wilson, merchant of Kallatapa
Choctaw Nation, Was assassinated yesterday.
Mrs Woods, q native of Switzerland. commit
ted suicide at Oregon City.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-08-09
THE LATEST THING OUT.

Some French enthusiasts have revived
the doctrine of mesmerism with enlarged
claims, under the name of hypnotism
They claim that person placed under the
hypnotic influence is the slave Of the will
Of the operator, and that he can keep the
victim under power for some forty days, or
even more. The claim is made that per-
son hypnotized can, for five or six weeks,
under the control, be compelled to do GER
tain acts at fixed periods of time. Thus, if
told TO go, on a certain day, at a certain
hour, and do a specific act, he will, when
the time arrives, follow the order in every
essential detail. The mystery, or the chief
mystery in the doctrine, is the prolongation
of the mesmeric power, when space sep
arates the operator and time has
elapsed between the hours when
the spell is worked and the
act commanded is done. All this is some
thing to doubt, and to treat as nonsense; ;
but we cannot SO treat credible witnesses
who assert the reality of the exercise of
the power But we doubt their Judgment
and question the tests of evidence they
have applied. There may be powers
as yet but little understood, by which the
viii ofone person may be briefly, insensibly
enslaved to that of another. There is rea-
son TO believe that by psychological in
fuence this has momentarily been done;
that men have been impressed to act ire
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spective of, or while their own wills were
suspended, and that this volition has been
subjected to the unexprcssed but mental
command of another. But the French
doctrine now advanced goes beyond all this
and suIpasses reason, belief, and flies in the
face of all the researches of science, by
which Mesmer and his followers were
shorn of most of their locks If this new
tangled doctrine is true and if it is to be
practiced, we are no longer TO be free-wili
agents; we shall be liable at any time to do
things for which we are wholly irrespon-
sihle, but for which law and good morals
will hold us strictly accountable. We may
be made the instruments of villainy, the
tools of criminality, the weapons of offense,
the victims of hate and the footballs OF
within. 1t is a most unlovely contempla-
ton. All the good that may come out OF
scientific inquiries into this so-called new
power cannot compensate for the possibil-
ity of i'll to flow from it. if all that is told OF
it be true. The very idea, as a thoughtful
contemporary suggests, of being turned
into time-locks at the within of any one per
son who may subordinate our will to his, is
enough to set the nerves all on edge If
this kind Of progression goes on, men must
cease to look each other in the eyes, and
hereafter assume the hang-dog counter
anccs of towards and guilty beings.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-08-09

der the annual exb, Jition success.
AS the Capital City, Sacramento's best
efforts are pledgedto maintain the honor
conferred upon BIER, but above and beyond
any and all considerations of entertainment
or amusement or of profit that the Far
fortnight Suggests, the exposition should
possess a. value to every citizen who has
the interests of the State at heart. The
scheme of these annual exhibits is to make
them truly representative of State indus
tries and products. They have not been SO
in the past SO fully as has been desired
in truth they have most frequently been
meagerin i.nportantd departments, but under
the new system, by which the exhibitions
are held officially by the State, they have
| taken on new form, and approached mere
and more nearly TO the standard set up 1t
is not expected that the ideal exhibit will
| be attained this year. Such excellence
viii result only after some years of effort,
and after the people have come to full
realization of the relation of the State ex-
positions to the whole State, and after they
awaken to the fact that Sacramento has
only geographical relation to them, and
that citizens in every section have an equal
and undivided interest in the success Of the
State Eair
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-08-09

The compiler of the work holds that il is
not probable that the cost of mileage con-
structed in three years since 1880 equaled
the increase of the funded and floating
debts by at least S20O,000,O00. The cost of
mileage constructed certainly did not ex-
coed, according to his estimates, $50, 600
per mile. The general distrust that pre-
vailed in the markets in the year he at
tributes to the immense increase of ficti-
tious capital and the enormous decline in
the price of railroad securities. The de-
fusion prevalent as to their value from 1879
to the close of 1888 was taken advantage of
by unscrupulous spectators on a vast scale.
The delusion was increased and prolonged
by payments on a very large scale Of inter
est and dividends from capital. " In this
delusion," he adds, the most loud
mouthed and INSCRIPTIONS promoters
usually had the greatest success. The de-
fusion eliminated about the time of the
opening of the Northern Pacific, in con
nection with which visionary schemes of
immense magnitude had been put upon
the market. Their worthlessness, and the
rapid decline of their securities, exercised
4 powerful influence upon the public mind,
which continue to the time of writing
this The distrust extends alike to good
and bad, so that prices at the present time
have as little reference to the values as
they had at the beginning Of 1888. The
distrust will probably continue until time
shall show what securities are well based
There are some very suggestive remarks
concerning the waste of capital in insane
rushes to fill new fields with roads, as, for
instance, in Colorado, where a nominal ex-
penditure of nearly $l00,000,000 is almost
wholly unprOductive. 1t is added:
The remedy, il there be any, lies wholly with
investors. In nearly all the States and Terri
tories the construction of railroads may be car
ried on under general laws and without appli-
cation 70 their respective Legislatures In pros
porous times the success that old lines have
achieved is predicted OF every new one. and
the public are attracted into the new by having
issued 10 them often 81 in securities in various
forms for one of cash paid in. It not infre.
quently happens that the venture, in the outset
SO promising, involves the loss of all the money
actually paid into il. In the greater number of
cases the disasters that have oyertaken numer-
Gus enterprises schemes could have been
| easily foreseen, and were foreseen, by persons
familiar with the manner in which such enter
prlses or schemes were gotten up and put upon
the market, and familiar with the sources, ten
deney and extent of the freight and passenger
traffic of the districts or sections which such
schemes were profeSsedly 10 accommodate and
the provision already made therefor.
On the basis that the cost of the roads in
the United States in money in operation in
1888 did not the exceed the amount of the
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-08-09
THE RAILROAD REPORT.

The advance sheets of the seventeenth
volume of Poor's Railroad Manual, being
the issue for 1884, are at hand, and indicate
the high value as statistical work the
book will have when it comes out in full
From the Introduction We ascertain
that the railroad mileage for 1SS3-which
is the year treated in the volume-to the
close of the fiscal date, June Both, was
I2l, So, G,753 miles having been constructed
within the year. The average mileage
operated was 110,414. The increase of share
capital stock in the year was $207, 024, 759
and the funded debt aggregated S3,455,o40,-
1888, an increase of $2t9, 497 ,060 for the last
year The floating debts of the railroads of
the country increased in the year $61, 1885,,
3SS the aggregate being $332, SIC, 345. All
liabilities for 1883 amounted to $7,495, Al
31I The total per mile for completed
mileage was $62,1 76. The total of stock
per mile SCI, 1903 The total for 1881 was
SC, 278. sos ,452, per mile $60,645. The total
for 1880 was s., 1902 OBS, 257, per mile $5s,
e24. The total for 1879 was 1882, 01751
per mile $57, $50 While the apparent cost
of construction has steadily increased, the
real cost has steadily declined. Of the
gross receipts, s215, 2S7, S24 were received
from passengers, $549, 756, 695 from freight,
and $5S, 72S, 405 from miscellaneous sources.
The net earnings for the year were $685.,
Oil ,Ss4, an increase of so, 461 0S2 from the
previous year. The amount of interest
paid was $173, 139, 064, an increase of $18,-
S43,684 from the previous year. The
amount of dividends paid was $102, 052, 54S,
an increase of $2l, LA from the previous
year. The percentage in 1888 of gross
earnings to investment was 1899 per cent;
in 1882, Hi; in 1881, Ills; in 1880, 11.36;
in 1879, 1880. The percentage of net earn
ings to investment in 1883 was 4.49 per
cent; in 1892 481; in 1881, 4.56; 1880, 5.04,
and in 1879, 440 per cent. The earnings
per mile of all the railroads operated for
1888 were, gross, $7,461; net, $3,051 in
1882, gross, S7,377; net $3,0o5; in 1881,
gross, s7,5i8; net, sSo78; in 1880, gross,
s. AS; net, $3,31S; in 1879, gross, 1862;
net $2,76l.
a statement in tabulated form Of the con-
dition of the roads of the country, in geo.
graphical groups, presents this exhibit for
the Pacific group;
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The Value of a Fence.

During the battle of Chickamauga Gen
eral Wood, commanding division, in
making a change of position on the left
near RoSsville, suddenly found himself in
command of only a single brigade, with the
Confederates in full sight in his front, and
already beginning a movement to flank his
position. His division had been badly cut
up and demoralized, and he was at that
moment without single piece of artillery
The brigade stood between the Confederate
right and the road to Chattanooga Let
them flank or crush this brigade and thew
were on the flank of the Federal line of
battle.
Wood realized the situation, and, al
though outnumbered three to one. he de-
termined to be wiped out right there rather
than give way. He had fair cover in the
shape of fences, walls and standing timber.
and to reach him the Confederates must
cross an open valley. Across the center of
this valley ran fence, a portion of which
stands there to-day. 1t was mostly of stone,
with heavy logs resting on top. Wood sud
denly realized that if he could secure and
hold the fence he could make his inferior
force a match for the enemy preparing to
move.
The Confederate commander saw the
value of the position at the same moment,
and 1t was a question of which side should
get there first. On the Federal side it
rested with the One Hundred and Twenty
fifth Ohio, that regiment being nearest the
fence. When ordered forward the men
gripped their muskets at trail, pulled
down their caps, and lowered their heads,
and at the word they rushed as if breast
inga storm. More than one poor fellow went
down under the rain of bullets and frag-
mentS of she'll but the fence was reached
and cover obtained. The Sixty-fourth,
Sixty-fifth and Fifty-eighthIndian followed
and the whole brigade were scarcely under
cover when the Confederates were within a
stones throw. They had to give back be-
fore the terrible fire, and for time were
badly demoralized. Before they could
flank Wood out of his position the gap in
the Federal lines had been filed Detroit
Free Press.
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funded debt and floating debts, $3,767, 41o,-
72s. Mr.. Poor finds the inyestmGnt was
most profitable enc. The net earnings were
for the year nearly per cent of the cost of
the roads. lie adds that If fictitious capital
could be eliminated from their accounts
their success as investments would lave
no parallel" IF to net income be added
the advantages that flow from them the
result would be matter for especial Won
a.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-08-09
27 PER CENT. DIFFERENCE.
The Royal" the Strongest and
Purest Baking Powder.

Our attention has been called publications Price Baking
Powder Company the obvious which rid themselves Of
baking powder
manufactured by that house.
whether the Price baking powder equal Royal
purchased open market
Chandler, Of Health the
port revealed powder per
strength the Royal"
When compared in money difference would be as follows
One pound "a Royal Baking
pound can Prices worth
Baking Powder been Sighting
up practice substituting Phosphate,
baking powders stop pointing
engaged palmng upon
public cheap injurious powders
wholesome article 5 sold
The Royal Baking Powder has the commentator of the most noted
country purity
injurious nature being grape
exists.
HOAGLAND. President
BAKING
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Well, there is one thing sure, said Job
Shuttle, as he closed discussion on the
wrongsidedness of everything in general
there is no justice in this world, and it
makes me blue to think of it, "True,
job said Patience "but the reflection that
there is justice in the next ought to make
you feel a great deal bluer."
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-08-09
The REcoRp-UN1oN is tie only pepper o.

The RECORD UNION is the only paper on
the coast, outside Of San Francisco, that re-
ceiyes the full associated Press dispatches
from ell parts Of the word. Outside Of San
francisco Il has no competitor, IN point Of
Numbers, in its hons and general circulation
throughout the coast Challenges Of TWO TO
ONE, coperiag poiats above, extended to local
aaily papers, ren'air open for acceptance
S. c. Bcckwith, 4" Tribune Building, NeU
York, sole egent for The Eastern States. WT''
Cameron No. 8 -Ne0 Montgomery street, Sen
Francisco speciol cge7s for San Fror'eisoO's'r'd
~,icinity
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-08-09

THE Celtic AmcricGr, of Cincinnati, says: We
place the names of Blaine and Logan at the
hesdof our columns because we believe that
those names mean thorough American policy
for the future in this country"
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-08-09

WV. ]. GLEASON, Of Cleveland, Ohio, has re-
signed the Craftsmanship of the Democratic
Central Committee of that city, and come out
for Blaine and Logan, and he declares his belief
that three-fourths of the Irish-Americans will
vote for these candidates
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-08-09

THE Winsted Comm Press says that the Dem
ocratic managers have sold out to the Republi-
cans. By no means. They have simply made
the blunder they can always be counted opon to
commit. There is no need to buy that which
comes your way freely
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-08-09

THE left-hand foot of q graveyard rabbit
which has potent influence among the South
ern negroes, has been presented to Governor
Cleveland as a talisnan in the campaign. The
rabbit from which the foot was taken was shot
on the grave of Jesse James. The foot was SUI
perbly mounted and engraved in solid silver by
jewelers. in Eufaula, Ala
That settles it. Blaine had as well re-
sight is not conceivable that he can with
stand the charm of left-hand foot of a
graveyard rabbit shot at the grave of Jesse
James. 1t was very unfair of Governor
Grover Cleveland to accept this talisman
of victory We did not expect it Of him
We shall begin to believe the naughty
stories they tell of this bachelor Governor
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-08-09

BUFFALO T1sa says "The Democratic organs
are Travelling in great distress to know what
their platform means. Is it protection or free
trade-both or neither? There's big money to
be earned by the man that solves the riddle
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-08-09
OPPOSITION TO IMPOSITION.

T NOW SELL THE FOLLOWING BRANDS
[ of Cigarettes at cents package: Pet, Ca
poral cork mouth piece, Turkish Patrol, Old
Judge, Full Hand Three Kings, Gold Bar Our
Taste, Little Beauties (pressed and round), Sweet
Caporal, Sport, Richmond Straight No. l. Van
itx Fair, Kinney's Full Dress 20s, 10 cents
Also the following brands of Tobacco at 50
cents pound: Climax star, Horseshoe, PAGES
Brand, Cable Coil, Tomahawk, Bullion, Natural
Leaf Dime and Nickel Nuggets, j. B. PAGES
Private Stock, Red Cross, Barndoor and various
other brands. Get your Cigarettes and Tobacco,
also all the leading brands of Imported Cigars,
at s. LOORYAS Crystal Palace Cigar Store,
102l Second street, between and X. jy93plm
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-08-09

DO WE recall history correctly? Is not this
the same Mr. Hendricks who waited Uncle Abe
Lincoln driven out of Washington with
switches, and who resigned his pew in church
because the pastor preached sermon and
prayed for the preservation of the Union?
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-08-09

GENERAL BUFFERS acceptance of the Green
baekLa Party nomination frightens no one
but Democrats They alone will suffer.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-08-09
Fire Caused by Lightning.

PARIS, August Sth.-A house at Villar
Turin, near Brides lie Bains, was struck by
lightning. The flames spread rapidly, and
many houses were burned before it could
ba SirhI,IaG
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-08-09

THE prophesy is made that Ohio will go Re-
publican in October because Of the free-trade
ideas of the Democratic leaders in that State.
That viii do to say, but Ohio viii go Republican
in October because the people will do nothing
to imperil the chances of James G. Blaine
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-08-09

THE shasta Courier says there is not mug
wump in all that section. The same here No
mugwumps il Sacramento county.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-08-09
a Circular to PRINCIPALS Of Schools.

ST. PETERSBURG, August sth.-The Rus
sian Government has issued circular to
the Principals Of schools in Russia, hold
ing them responsible for any revolutionary
tendencies their scholars may have, and en-
joining them to maintain strict super
vision over their pupils, in order to dissi-
pate the slightest favor of Nihilistic senti-
mcntS
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-08-09
Wants S,eedv Satisfaction.

BERLIN, August Sth.-The German Gov
eminent has sent Granville, British For
eign Minister, the declaration of the Cap
tain of provision cutter, that that vessel
was pillaged in the North Sea by four Eng
lish fishing smacks, and that the pilot and
cook, who resisted the pillagers, were men
aced with death The Captain identifies
the vessels by their trademark and num-
bers The Berlin Government asks for
speedy satisfaction.
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Destructive Rain-storms.

VIENNA, August Sth.-There were VIC
lent rain-storms yesterday at Linz, Upper
Austria, Grein and Kirchslag districts.
Many persons were injured and large
number of buildings were washed away
The Nile Rising.
CAIRO, August Sth.-The Nile has risen
six feet in three DAYS.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-08-09

PANAMA, August 8th-The Star and
Herald reports a malignant and pernicious
fever at San Carlos thirty eight miles from
Panama There were nine deaths in from
twenty-four to thirty-seven hours. The in
habitants are panic-stricken. 1t believed
the epidemic is due to intense malarial
poisoning. Panama is very sickly, and
there are from ten to fifteen funerals daily.
The heat is intense
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THE CREDIT OF AUTHORSHIP.

Another literary dispate, involving the
credit of authorship, has arisen. 1t prom
Uses to resemble. in yigor, though concern
ing lesser matter, the debate that has SO
long been maintained and is now undergo
ing a season OF especial agitation, as TO
whether Bacon wrote Shakespeare's dra-
mas. The claim is made that there is error
in the credited authorship Of the exalted
poem entitled what is Prayer and be-
ginning;
Prayer is the souls sincere desire,
Unuttered or expressed;
The motion of q hidden fire
That trembles in the breast.
Prayer is the burden of d sigh.
The falling of Il tear,
The upward CHANGING Of an eye
When none but God is near.
Prayer is the simplest form of speech
The infant lips can try;
PRAYER the sublimest strains that reach
The Majesty on high.
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The United States Mediating Between
France and China.

LONDON, August Sth.-A dispatch to the
Times from Foo Chow says: President
Arthur is mediating between France and
China, and has autographed instructions to
John Russell Young, United States Minis
ter at Pekin. France desires settlement
within a week