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Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-08-29

THE San Francisco tailor, G. McCallum,
No. 426 J street, Suffer Block, has choice
stock of imported and domestic goods for
mems suitings and pants. Call and see. his
cash prices for the best of made-to- order
goods
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-08-29

Santa Barbara is soon to have steam
laundry.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-08-29
ADvERTIsEmENr mESr1os.

Autograph quilt social
Knights of America, P. ", Monday.
Baseball, Recreation Park tomorrow morn
.nR
Card of thanks-AiTs. A. ]. Henderson.
Irish National League-To-morrow evening
Sumner Post G. a. X Funeral notice
Annual meeting of Pioneers tonight
Concert and dance at Richmond Grove
Pupils received by Professor Rowen.
Notice 10 those having stock TO sell.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-08-29
Auction Sale.
By Dock & Co, this morning,


busIness AdVertisements,
Meinstock & Lubin-A social question
Hale Byos. d Co.-Corsets.
Notice to hotel and saloon men-China Hall
Cure for the deaf
Peoples Savings Bank 400 street.
Frank +. Stevens, piano tuner.
Fall millinery-A1rs. Barber 4 Pealer.
For sale-Lot in City Cemetery
Receivers sale-Ed. D. Taylor receiver.
Red House-One thousand lots.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-08-29

OYSTERS Fresh EASTERN CANNED AND
SHELL OYsTERs.-We desire to call the
attention of the public that we are in re-
ceipt .daily of large invoice of Eastern
oysters. We guarantee these goods to be
of the best and freshest in market. We
are also in receipt of large invoice OF
huckleberries, blackberries, raspberries and
strawberries Also, one of the best select
assortments of fruit, vegetables, fish and
poultry in season. A liberal discount will
be given to the trade d. De Bernardo &
| Co., 306 and 80 K street.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-08-29

Maximum temperature 80: minimum tenn
perature, 53.7. JAMES a. BARWICK,
Sergeant, Signal Corps, L. s. 4.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-08-29

J. KRONER, the popular merchant tailor,
at No. Ais J street, announces a grand re-
duction of 25 per cent. on all suits, ordered
in the next 60 days. You will find it to
your advantage 10 call and see the beauti-
full styles just received.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-08-29


AUCTION SALE-Dock & Co. will sell at
auction at 1905 K street, between Tenth
and Eleventh, at 10 A. NJ. to-day, horses,
wagons, harness and carriages. Also, an
organ, furniture, carpets, etc. AT l P. NJ.
they will sell the contents of the store
No. 800 street, consisting in part of fur
+niture, stoves, crockery, glass and tinware,
carpenters tools, benches, tables, etc. Tie
sale is positive, the owners Of the property
going out of business on account of sick
ness.
BASEBALL To-MoRRow.-At 10 clock to-
morrow morning there will be an interest
ing game of baseball at the Recreation
Grounds between the Knickerbockers of
Sacramento and the Brighton Club, for $50
side and the gate receipts. Both sides
feel confident of winning, and it is ex.
pected that the contest will be close.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-08-29

Everything in Buggy Whips A Black-covered Whip,
p cents. One that is quarter wEaebone, ST. and
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-08-29

All the delicious and refreshing odors of
tuners as Lubin, Atkinson, Lundborg, COL
and others. Also, Florida Waters and Face
Our prices are an inducement for people to bu
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-08-29

Mems Silk-clocked Balbriggan Half Hose IS cents.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1885-02-07
FOR, DUB YOUNG FOLKS.
A LITTLE DARLING.

Pops darling Is little. SO little-so sly;
plump little darling with pretty blue eye;
And she's sitting and singing,
Her tiny feet swinging,
Yes, swinging on papas desk, way up so high.
She's a dear little darling, bright sunny ray.
And she's laughing the while-wc are looking
her way;
Now cooling, now winking
At Pop while he's thinking
And writing of baby dear, swinging away.
And thus in the evening sits baby up here.
Sits singing and swinging-Pop's own little
dear,
Making work Of lifetime
One ray of bright sunshine,
For oil Is commitment when baby Is near.
Now darling grows sleepy, keeps wake, but in
vain,
And she lays her head where SO oft it has
lain.
Now she's noddine, nid-nodding,
Some dreamy land plodding,
And we soothe her to sleep till the morrow
again.
SO here we sit musing-once moro in the
While the light fiickers drearily pale in the
room,
Some fairy-land seeming,
While thinking and dreaming
OF little ones mother, low down in the tomb.
London Young Folks Weekly Budget.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1885-02-07
The Springfield Armory.

The Armory shops will turn out moi Q
rifles this year than ever before since
the war, the average being 140 day.
Last years product was $4,000, and the
product of the year before was 32,0
The amount of work depends on the
amount of the appropriation, which is
about S400, 900 year. The shops are
now working at the best advantage for
all concerned. There are 45S men as
against Ais year ago. Since March
the eight-hour system has been in force,
and there has been general readjust-
ment of wages. Formerly skilled and
unskilled day laborers alike received
$2.75 day. The average pay is still
about the same, but the tariff has been
adjusted so as to make the wages agree
more nearly with the capabilities of the
workmen, and to make the change from
ten hours to eight hours without loss to
the Government. 1t is found the men
work so much more effectively in pro-
portion under the eight-hour rule that.
with the more equitable arrangement of
wages, the cost Of the rifle has not been
increased. Such increases as there might
have been is more than compensated
for by the good machinery and inn
proved methods introduced. Spring
fsld Repxbllcan
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1885-02-07
TRAMP LIFE IN ENGLAND.

vagabonds Liable to Arrest at Once II
They are Caught Begging.
The laws regarding tramps are of a
very severe character in England. They
are liable to arrest at once if caught
begging. In walking over English
highways / had many long talks with
tramps, and though they were willing
to accept any doceur might offer them
under the inspiration of sad stories
which they rehearsed to me-tales of
their poverty and hardships-I noticed
they never asked aims of me. / re-
member of only one exception to this,
and that was in the case of lame and
weary old soldier whom fell in with as
we were both tramping over the road
that leads from London to Oxford. He
asked me for a little money-asked
most timidly, and casting glances the
while up and down the broad
and beautiful highway, as if he
feared he might be detected in the
''crime" he was committing. He was
a very old soldier, and appeared as if he
might have told the truth when he said
he had fought in all climates for six
pence day and the glory of the flag of
England. Often in English graveyards
have fingered over inscriptions on the
tombs of British officers where were re-
corded the campaigns in which they
had fought, and noted how their battles
had taken place in various corners of
the globe, quite often on American soil
in the revolution, or in 1912. And this
veteran may have tramped with English
troops in the United States. Generally
the tramp can obtain lodging and break
fast at the workhouse by paying his
scott in work at breaking stone or some
thing of the sort. But remember one
case at Keighley, the home of the
Brontes, where a poor tramp was
arrested for begging after he had been
sent foodless from lodgings in Keighley
.'union." When brought before JUS
tice it was proved that it was not the
custom for the Keighley workhouse to
let their tramp dodgers have anything
to eat. One class of tramps of the better
class which fell in with were the stall
wart mechanics travelling from city to
city in search of job; and I often
found them pleasant and instructive
comprehension Boston Commercial
Advertiser.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1885-02-07
NOT A BEGGAR.
How an Impecunious Fellow Raised the
Wind In Detroit.

How an Impecunious Fellow Raised tho
Wind In Detroit.
Gentlemen" he began in smooth,
molasses sort of voice, II am dead
broke but no beggar. 1 want to raise
about three dollars, but shall do it in
legitimate manner. Now, then, let
me ask you to inspect this
He took from his pocket piece of
iron chain as large as his thumb and
containing six links and passed it
around. After it had carefully been in
spected by each of the party he con-
tinued:
II want to bet my overcoat, which is
certainly worth $40, against 50 in cash
that none of you can separate one link
from the Others"
The piece of chain was passed around
again to be more closely scrutinized,
and finally one of the party, who was q
machinist, returned it with the remark:
'And want to put up that sum
against your overcoat that you can't do
it yourself
.'Done!'' said the stranger as he pulled
off his coat.
Coat and cash were put up in the
hands of stakeholder, and the stranger
asked the group to follow him. He
walked across the street and into a
blacksmith shop, and picking up a
hammer and cold-chisel he deliberately
cut out a link. The crowd stood around
like so many pumpkins at a county
fair, but when the stranger held up the
l;,,L ap1 ola;p,a1 fba ofoLoS fba m,
chinist recovered his wits sufficiently to
exclaim:
''Sold by professional deadbeat!
The money is yours, old fellow, but in
exactly thirty seconds after you receive
it / shall begin to kick, and you had
better be twenty rods off,
''Thanks-glad to have met you
good day!" replied the stranger, and he
was out of sight in seven seconds.-De-
troit Free Press.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1885-02-07
An Astonished Elephant.

An Irish gentleman with red artificial
whiskers, four men with burned cork
faces, dashing young woman in white
satin, and several other curiosities came
flying out of the back windows aud
doors of Forepaugh's Dime Museum
last night. From the subterranean
depths under the stage of the theater
came series of the most distractine
cries, mingled with Embarrassing roars.
The unearthly noise was made by
Adam Forepaugh's clown elephant
Pickaninny, who had dropped through
the stage and gone crashing into the
green-room, where the actors were
waiting for the curtain to go up on the
next entertainment. The occupants of
the green-room supposed that the walls
of the theater had fallen in, and fled
wildly to the street The surprised and
frightened elephant lay on his beam
ends in the middle of pile of broken
boards and tattered scenery. He had
fallen ten feet, and he made no effort to
extricate himself, but lay where he
landed, roaring in way that aroused
the neighborhood. He was pulled out
and taken up stairs to the stage, and. as
an elephant expert said that the animals
cuts and bruises were not serious, the
beast was put through his performance
as usual. The trainer, in rehearsing
the beast in somersault between per-
formances, had allowed him to roll
upon weak trap, which gave way, and
the playful little proboscidian went
heels over head down below. An extra
force OF carpenters spent the night brac-
ing the stage to resist the one-ton aero
batic performances of Pickaninny to.
day. Philadelphia Tines
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1885-02-07
A STRONG sWoRDFlsH.
He Drives His Blade Through Nine Inches
| of Copper and Wood.


of Copper and Wood.
A very remarkable event has occurred
in the recent experience of the three
masted schooner Themis, of Boston,
commanded by Captain N. E. Kendrick,
and now lying in Ship Island harbor.
The Themis sailed from Mobile on
August with cargo of lumber for
Tampico. She was tight vessel, taking
in very little water and requiring but
little use of the pumps. On the fifth
day out from Mobile Captain Kendrick
himself tried the pump and found no
water-that is, none above the five
inches play allowed between the lower
end of the pump and bottom of the
hold. An hour or two afterward the
mate happened to try it, and to the
great astonishment of the Captain, re-
ported twenty inches of water. The
water was pumped out, but was soon
found to be running in again at the rate
of nearly twelve inches an hour. This
was near the bottom, and of course the
rate of leakage would diminish as the
elevation of surface of the water and
extent of its cross section would increase.
1t was enough, nevertheless, to create
alarm, and to keep the crew continually
employed at the pumps during the pass
age to Tampico, and while discharging
the cargo, these efforts were redoubled.
1t was fully ascertained that the leak
was not near the water line-as had
been hoped-but at the bottom of the
vessel. Finally, the mate, cropping and
exploring about the bottom, reported
that he had found horn sticking in the
ceiling or inner lining of the timbers,
which he could not remove. He was
told to break it off,. and at length
brought up about two inches of what
the captain OF once recognized as the
end of the blade of sword-fsh.
On further examination it was found
that the blade had penetrated, in the
first place, the copper sheathing of the
schooner; then the outer timbers of the
hull, four inches in thickness; next a
vacant space of nine inches between the
outer and inner timbers, or ''ceilipg" and
lastly four and one-half inches more of
solid wood constituting the ceiling, al
together nearly nine inches of plank and
copper, with eleven inches of vacant
space, including the two inches of the
end broken off. How much of the sword
remained outside has not yet been as
certained. The blow was struck from
below, in direction nearly vertical, and
some idea of its amazing force may be
found from the figures above given. The
point of impact was little forward of
the mizzenmast, about three feet from
the keel, on the starboard side. BY
tearing away part of the ceiling Captain
Kendrick was enabled partially to stop
the leak, and to bring his vessel first to
Appalachicola and thence back to Ship
Island, where he was sent for quaran-
tine, although he had clean bill of
health. This is, no doubt, the most ex-
traordinary case Of piscatorial swords
manship on record. There is no room
for question of its entire truthfulness.
The fragment of the sword is still stick
ing in the bottom of the schooner, and
will be available for examination when
she comes to be locked for repairs.
o. Times Democrat
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1885-02-07

fumed porker is enough to run y bear
through two counties.
witnessed a most comical, though
costly, illustration of the hogs dread OF
a bear in the Teche country during the
war.
Convalescent in hospital eagerly ac-
cepted the invitation of gentleman to
spend a few days on his plantation or
Bayou Teche. The evening we arrived
l heard the planter "blowing up his
overseer for not having the hogs, that
ranged in the timber bordering the
swamp, out of the corn-field. Thenext
day the hogs got in again, and again
the overseer '.caught it," johnson,
know the fence is poor and should have
been renewed last winter, but there's
no chance to do it now and / insist that
you have the holes in it chinked so as
to keep the hogs out, or they will de-
stroy the crop"
During this lecture two of the plant.
er's sons rode up with the skin of a
bear that they had just killed on the
edge of the swamp, near the corn-field.
Johnson's eyes glistened as he saw the
fresh skin. '.All right, Mr.. Parker, I'll
keep them hogs out Of the field now,"
was his reply.
Every well. Don't you kill them,
thought
mo, I'll not kill them"
That evening johnson succeeded in
tolling large boar into the lot. He
was penned and sewed up in the bear
skin.
The next day the hogs made their
regular raid on the corn-field, and then,
with all hands present to witness opera
tions, the boar was turned into the same
field. Scared badly at his surround
ing" he rushed at full speed for his
comrades for countenance and pro-
lection.
Terrified at the sight of an apparent
bear charging towards them, a stam-
pede ensued among his comrades, and
the finest scrub race occurred right
there that / ever witnessed.
.Booh! boohr' was the starting sig
nal and away they went at full speed,
closely pursued by their supposed enc
my. The nearer the bear got the faster
the bunch ran. When the leading ones
got to the hole in the fence, where they
had crowded in one at time, few
got through in regular style; but the
balance were too much pressed for time
by the demon in pursuit to await their
turn-they charged the old fence, which
gave way, and into the woods, headed
in the direction of the swamp, holly
pursued by their handicapped comrade,
they disappeared.
Two years afterward while walking
down the strand in Galveston was ac-
costed by the negro porter of drug
store, who reminded me of having seen
him at Mr.. Parker's, his old master, the
time they sewed up the boar in the bear
skin.
II remember you now, Nelson.
How long after I left Mr.. Parker's was
it that the hogs came back?"
Guess them hogs mus be runnin'
yet, mass'r, or all got drowned in de
swamp" was Nelson's reply; ''at leas'
we neber seed hide nor har of single
one of 'em back dar up to de time l lef' ,
bout two months ago. "-ArkansaW
Trareler.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1885-02-07
THERE'S BLUE SKY OVERHEAD.

The earth is dark and drear,
There are perils in the way;
A thousand little trials
To encounter every day:
But though full of gray and gloom
The path our feet may tread,
Look up, traveller,
There's blue sky overhead
We journey TO the right,
And v Q journey to the left,
And strive TO find the treasures
OF which we are bercft;
When hope has ceased TO smile,
And the heart is filed with dread,
Look up, traveller,
There's blue sky overhead
The shadows dark may lie
AL around us like pail:
And on sad and somber scenes
May our level chances fall;
But above the things of earth
Look up, traveller,
There's blue sky overhead!
The summer days go by,
With sweet memories In their train,
The autumn days draw nigh,
And the earth is drenched with rain;
But when dear delights are past,
And the joys of life seem fed,
Look mp, traveller,
There's blue sky overhead!
Though underfoot the thorns
And briars may abound,
Though death and desolation
Encompass us around,
Though all the springs run dry
That once our pleasures fed,
Look up, traveller,
There's blue sky overhead!
Josephine Pollard, In N. Y. Ledger.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1885-02-07
HOW THE DEACON WAS FOOLED


Out ON . Larlk-A Hard Nights Work
The Deacon's Thanks.
I'm proof against You this year,
boys. Every door and gate on the place
is locked up tight"
Deacon Bump stood at his gate, with
a good-humored smile, as we boys went
along in the early evening, intent on
playing Halloween jokes upon such
neighbors as might have left us any OPP
portunity.
THAT isn't fair, deacon. You ought
to have left us a little chance
Couldn't do it. I'm getting too
old, you see, to be trottlng all over
town after my traps. Go long with
yorall. You won't find anything loose
here"
We went on and had the usual
amount of sport playing the same old
tricks.
Passing the deacon on our way back,
we stopped on perceiving that his lights
were out
1T would be jolly to play the good
old soul some sort of joke after all
his care-wouldn't it?" said Harry
Grant.
sTip-top. Can't we?' said another
1T was a regular dare to us. We
ought to do something
We consulted.
On the other side of the quiet village
street stood wagon, loaded with cord
wood, large and heavy.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1885-02-07
KILLED BY ELECTRICITY.
The Fate Of a Man Who Recklessly Han.
died an Electric Current.

The Fate Of a Man Who Recklessly Han
died an Electric Current.
John MCGOWAN, molder, with two
friends, stepped into the electric-light
works last evening. and obtained per-
mission from one of the men in charge
to go through the works. MCGOWAN
declared that he knew considerable
about electricity and its workings. They
entered the generator room from the
engine-house and going over the north
west corner of the room stood before q
thirty-light dynamo. They stood before
the machine for a few minutes, when
MCGOWAN was observed to bend down
and reach out his hands. Instantly he
was drawn close to the generator and
did not utter a sound. He was dead.
In the front part of, and well under, the
dynamo are two brass rods about four
teen inches long. To reach these one
has to make special effort, as other
parts of the machine protrude beyond
them. They are known as the positive
and negative rods, the former receiving
from the generator the electric current
and conducting it to the insulated wire
which carries it out to all the lamps in
the circuit belonging to the machine.
The negative rod receives the current
from similar wire that returns it from
the lights and is thereby conducted back
into the generator. The circuit is thus
made complete. These two rods spring
from cylinder on opposite sides when
they are about four inches apart. Then
they extend downward forming cone
and are nearly two feet apart at the
widest point. MCGOWAN caught hold of
the positive and negative rods and was
killed as quickly as he did so. Instead
OF going out over the circuit the cleo
tricity took the shortest route, and was
passing out of the generator to the posi-
tive rod where McGowan's right hand
was, and on through his body to his left
arm and back to the negative rod and
into the machine, and so on around.
One of McGowan's friends attempted to
seize him.
For Gods sake, don't do that OF
you'll be killed instantly" shouted Engi-
neer Wagner as ne shut down his
engine and, in his excitement, pulled
the plug in the switchboard which
breaks the electric current. This last
act could have been of no benefit to
MCGOWAN, even if he were not already
dead, as he was at the dynamo and had
formed a complete circuit before the
switching-off point was reached. The
contraction of the muscles of the body
was so great that his legs and arms
were drawn out of shape, and his head
was drawn forward so that the chin
pressed tightly against the chest. As
soon as the engines could be stopped
and it was considered safe he was taken
away from the rods. So firm was the
attraction that pieces of his skin adhered
to the rods. -Syrdcxse Herald
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1885-02-07

y. H. Saunders, of Chicago, H. M
Taylor, of Texas and j. H. Payne, of
Kansas City, have been appointed by
Commissioner Loring as Board of
Health, to be connected with the Bureau
OF Animal Industry to prevent the spread
OF contagious diseases among stock.
This board is provided for by the Act of
Congress establishing the bureau
Chicago Tribune.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1885-02-07

The stockmen in Southwestern Col
orado are tired Of the outrages commit
ted by the Ute Indians. and have re-
solved to kill on sight all Indians found
of the reservation.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1885-02-07

DIR. Hammond, Of New York, adj
vises women who wish to be beautiful
y live upon mutton
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1885-02-07

A scientific man says soft porous
clay makes the best pipes for tobacco
smokers
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1885-02-07

"A kindness can never be concealed,
pot even by repaying n