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Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-02-18
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.

Yuba City has organized pigeon-shoot-
ing club.
A goose-e egg that weighs ten ounces is on
exhibition at Vsllejo.
There are 5000 bales of hops in the hands
of hop-growerS of King county, Washing
ton Territory.
The name of the Nevada and Oregon
Railroad has been changed to the " Nevada
and California.
Anaheim papers are calling for the de-
struction of the linnetS which are stripping
the fruit trees of buds.
The Yakima (W. t. Signal urges the
planting of tobacco as a profitable crop in
the valley east of the Cascades.
Oysters measuring from an inch and a
half to two inches across the face are found
at Mud bay, near Olympia, W. I.
Reno, New, is talking about having 4
smelling furnace. Nearly all the money
to start the enterprise has been subscribed
The Clerk office in Shasta county is now
a paying institution. Last month the of
flee realized $104 over and above the Clerk 5
salary.
San Jose is the only city in California
with population exceeding 10000 that
not in debt There are bu, five such in the
United States
Seventeen of the convicts at the Seatco
CIV. IT, Penitentiary have been down with
a sort of influenza, which seems to be prev
alent at present.
The population of Los Angeles county
increased 1900 during 1884. The floating
debt of that county is S47, l95, and the
funded debt, sos 500.
A needle, which was accidentally run
into the foot Of boy named Cudney, in
Chico, fourteen years ago, worked out of its
resting place a few days since
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-02-18
THE GRANT RETIREMENT BILL.

Congressman Rosecrans, in opposing the
Grant retirement; bill, did not succeed in
concealing the personal animosity he en-
tertains toward General Grant. The
'reasons he advanced for refusing Cen
cral Grant the poor privilege of being
placed upon the retired list are not req
sons at all We have General Rosecran,'
bald opinion that General Grant is a
greatly overrated man--a Judgment in
which some millions Of the people refuse
to concur. We may very well leave to
history that paltry issue. 1t is sufficient
To know that General Grant was General
of the armies of the Nation. He fought
our battles ard won our victories. He
WIS called to the high Office of President
by the people. And now that he has re-
tired from public life. there is no reason
worthy the name wiz he should not be
placed, in common with other Generals,
upon the retired list of the army. The
nation will be more than ungrateflil if it
refuses him this. Il = rot question of
his comparative greatness, his poverty, the
resources upon which he may depend, or
his private bushes, relations; bat simply
ore of honoriug man in common with
others, by an act that will testify to the
gratitude and respect OF the people for the
services Of a great soldier
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-02-18
CONTEMPORARY EXPRESSION

A man while acting as Il witness forthc pco-
pie in a criminal trial is working for the good
aud protection Of the whole people Is it not
just then, that the whole people should be com
PEELED to pay him for his loss of time and ex-
pen>e? We believe that this should he n pa1t
of the expenses Of our criminal affairs Fern
dale Enterprise.
IL the opinion of practical men the state En-
gincer'S work in connection with irrigation has
been of great importance aud ought to be com
plctcd This subject is the most weighty the
State has had to deal with in legislation for
years, and. with all that the present Legislature
can do, will not be entirely disposed Of There
is work enough yet undone to justify maintain
ing the Engineers Office another two years
San Francisco Alta
II is not the effect OF the London explosions
upon Irish politics that most concerns either
England or the world. It Is the effect OF fresh
successes in the use Of dynamite upon that
anarchist element which has is representatives
everywhere, and which is in utilization, open or
covert, with a large number of Socialist and
Communist bodies. many of which do not yet
approve the dynamite policy. but all OF which
are liable to 80 over 10 it. because all OF them
are radically opposed 10 the actual tendencies
Of social developn emit New York Tribune.
When it is known that the disciples of sneh
men as Tucker. Most and other revolutionists
are multiplying all over the country, and that
every ship-loadof European Immigrants landed
at Castle Garden adds its quota to the number
it Is time that the Government should take some
action III the matter stockton Independent
The people of the State will never be satisfied
now unless the amendment is carried into exc
cution fully and faithfully There must be no
evading it. If its originators and successful ex-
poncntS are correct, they should be allowed to
show they are correct. IL the opponents are
wrong they should be proven wrong, and when
so proven they will no doubt willingly Gcl;nowl
edge their error.-Isanta Barbara Press on the
school Book Amendment"
There is no use denying that the dynamite
outrages which have been committed in Eng
land are not merely an outrage upon eiyiliza-
ton, but they are calculated to injure the cause
which those engaging in them foolishly believe
they are serving. -[San Francisco Examiner.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-02-18

INCoRPoRATED.-Th following articles of
incorporation have been filed in the Office
of the Secretary of State Rocky Peak Min
ing Company, for the purpose of mining
for gold and DINER precious metals in the
State of California, and buying and selling
mines in this State; principal place of bust
ness, Brandy City, Sierra county; Direct
ors, James Arnott, Philip Fendingham,
Peter Mondada, George s. Cooley, A. d.
Cults; capital stock, $4,000, divided into
$4,000 shares of the value of 81 each. Also,
of the Eagle Gold Mining Company for the
purpose of mining and milling for precious
ores in California, to purchase, own and
control water rights, etc; principal place of
business, San Francisco Directors Chas.
3. Shattuck Simon B. Morey, Preston
Woods, Frederic F.. Shearer, John W.
Stewart; capital stock, $l,000,000, divided
into 100000 shares of the par value Of $40
each Also of the Governor Morton Gold
Mining Company, for the purpose of buying
and selling mines and mining property and
real estate, operating and working mines
for gold and silver, in Washington Mining
District, Nevada county, and other places
in California; Directors, l.. A. Booth, H.
w. Brown, H. F Cooper, VIII Carson B.
J. Watson; capital stock, 81 100000, divided
into 10000 shares, OF the par vaiue of 800
each. Southern California Fire Insurance
Company of Los Angeles, for the purpose of
transacting a fire and marine insurance
business; principal place of business, Los
Angeles city, California; Directors, Ii. c.
Sigler, John G. Downey, Isaac Fellows,
John Lawshe, \. Vanderslip, P. NJ Green,
w. H. Perry, John Bryson, ST., L. +.
Spence, L. W Dennis, F c. Howes capital
stock, 5000 divided into 1000 shares of
the par value of 500 each; all of the stock
has been subscribed
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-02-18
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

J. Griffith. of San Francisco, spent yes
terday in this city
F. Birdsall left yesterday morning for
San Joaquin county.
Senator Cross returned 10 Sacramento
yesterday from Nevada City.
Sheriff Mccoy, of Yuba county, went up
TO MarySyille yesterday from here.
A. w. Sisson was in town yesterday, but
left for San Francisco in The, afternoon.
Judge W. c. Van Fleet will hold Court
this week at Woodland for Judge Garoutte.
Mr. and Mrs. George Reuter-, of Patter-
son, came to the city yesterday afternoon.
Frank Nicol, ex-Assemblyman from
Tuolumne, came down from Sonora yes
terday.
r. 0. Cravens and Charles +. Gardner,
Receiver of the United States Land Office,
returned from San Francisco yesterday
noon.
Lieutenant Craig, the newly appointed
Chief of the Pacific Coast Branch Signal
Bureau, is here on business connected with
the service.
Miss Lulu Winans, of Petaluma, who has
been visiting relatives in this city. leaves
for her home to-day. accompanied by her
sister, Mrs. H. Il. Coates.
In this city Mrs c. F. Foster Red Bluff:
Mrs. s. u. Wood and daughter, Wheatland;
Simon Cohen and family, Folsom; John S.
Reed, Ukiah c. \. Moves and wife, San
Francisco.
Among those who went down To San
Francisco yesterday were Mr.. and Mrs Jo-
seph Steffens. Mr.. and Mrs. III. NJ. Bernard,
General W II. Brown, G. II. Hubbard Por-
ter Ashe and Robert Gardner.
Charles L. Smith. for several wears news
agent on the California and Oregon paSSen-
ger train, making friends of all with whom
he came in contact by his energy, courtesy
and good nature, has ceased railroading and
entered upon the insurance business at
Marysyille.
Arrivals at the Golden Eagle Hotel yes
terday J. II. Braly J. NJ. Cory, J. w.
Ferguson, George H. Eggers, Robert Oulla-
han Miss Sadie Oulahan Fresno: Nining
Banker, Kern county; +. A. Tray, $ W.
While Bakerstield Thomas S Wells, Ne
vada City; John Lynch, Benicia; Alex.
Mclean, Oakland; John Reynolds, V.
Wurkender, San Francisco; ID. p burst,
Wheatland c. De Witt, Norfolk, Va;
Sam Miller, San Francisco; c. w. Cross,
Nevada City +. O. Regensberger, San
Francisco; W. 7. Browne, Stockton; Miss
os'OiiS NopiSNSSi MSS hiliilS MtSNCllSSi,
Campo Seco; s. CQhn and family, San
Francisco; Mrs. j. NJ. Tremble, Chico:
Mrs. Mcconnell, Elk Grove; Ed Maher,
\. S. Messenger, Campo Seco; H 5. Lub-
book, Alameda; T. p. Sherman, A. II.
Rose Oakland J. c. Boyle, ST. Louis, Mo;
j. w. Hudson, city; c. Block, San Fran
cisco; T. II. Richards, Boston John J.
Oge, William Best, A. j. Bryant, Sig.
Campobello, p. A. Finnegan and wife, San
Francisco; James Brus.e, Oakland A. S.
Barney, William Cronan, Henry Wise, San
Francisco; \. f. Hawkes., Alice s Hawkes.,
Miss L. Amix, Boston; A f. Davis, San
Francisco; John NJ. Ballou Iowa; George
L. Seybolt, San Francisco.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-02-18

Low TEMPERATURE.-The Chief Signal
Officer of the Army General Hazen, fur
nishes Sergeant Barwick with the lowest
temperature during December, 1884, for the
following points in the different States,
viz: West Laminas, Col, 2ll0 below zero,
and 534o below the freezing poinl Florida,
first ice of the season formed on the 10Th /:
Illinois, 11o below zero, and 43o below the
freezing point; Des Moines, Ia, 1So below
zero, and 500 below the freezing point :;
Pennington, Me-, $50 below zero, and go
below the freezing point; Hudson, Mich.
80 below zero, and 800 below the freezing
point st. Paul, Mimi, 800 below zero, and
$50 below the freezing point; Fort Benton,
Mont, $50 below zero, and 90 below the
freezing point; Fort Assinaboine, 500 below
zero, and so below the freezing point !;
Watertown. N Y, 100 below zero, and 30
below the freezing point Charlotte, n. c.,
plants froze i'll the dollhouse on the
10Th, and that city is consider
ably farther south than Sacramento !;
Charleston, South Carolina, fountains and
pumps in the city froze ON the 10Th, which
is another city farther south than Sacra-
mento: Cape May, Virginia, very cold !;
Dayton, Washington Territory, go below
zero, and $50 below the freezing point !;
La Crosse, Wisconsin, 26o below zero, and
$50 below the freezing point Cheyenne,
Wyoming Territory, temperature fell from
400 above to 100 below zero in four hours,
which is change of $40 in that time-that
is, a change of from 100 above the freezing
point TO 40 below the freezing point in
four hours, which is change of over 100
an hour.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-02-18
REV INSURANCE.

So fer Is the proposition to permit of
fcials to insure their bonds is concerned
VIC can see no reason 10 doubt the wisdom
of proposed legislation a bond insurance
company, to insure State, county, or city
against defaleation by officials, IS simply a
business institution Such insurance would
demand quite is high standard of in
tegrity as the present system requiring
personal sureties. But We can see many
reasons why such insurance should not
apply 10 employees in private business. 1t
would render employers careless of whom
they employed; it would reduce the wage
winners to mental piare, and prove de-
structive Of business ambition; it would
lessen the opportunities of advancement
and SET up a false standard of honesty 1t
would compel also wage-winners to bear
the burdens OF loss by reason of the dis
honesty of the few of their number. 1t is
being tried at the East, and while it APP
pears to he satisfactory to employers we
cannot yield the point that it will serve to
degrade the employed class, and to encour-
age laxity of business habit and integrity.
The employer under it i careless regard
ing the habits OF his clerk or cashier,
knowing that he can suffer no loss by rea-
son Of his loose ways; the employe, on the
other hand, becomes Indifferent regarding
his duty and his employer, interests.
knowing that he is secured against loss.
Indeed, the insurance itself must foster
dishonesty, since it offers temptations to
the weak and the vicious to defraud
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-02-18
The Planet Jupiter,

Rev. \. Slater furnishes the following !:
Jupiter, which for several weeks past has
been bright star in the east in the even
ing, reaches the point in its orbit of oppo-
sition to the sun February IS, 1885, so that
it is then on the opposite side of the Earth
from the Sun, rising in the east as the Sun
goes down il the west The Sun. Earth
and Jupiter are then in nearly straight
line. The plane of the orbit Of Jupiter
makes an angle with the plane of the
Earth orbit (which is the ecliptic) of Il
little less than one and one-third degrees.
Jupiter is situated at the present little
north of the ecliptic, and about three or
four degrees, little below, and to the left
of the fixed star Regulus, of the first mag
nitude, in the constellation Leo. When
Jupiter is at its point of opposition to the
Sun, it is the nearest to the Earth it ever
gets, and is the brightest it ever is As the
Earth moves through angular space nearly
twelve times as fast as Jupiter, and passes
onward towards the east around the Sun.
Jupiter recedes or falls back behind the
Earth toward the west rising nearly four
minutes earlier each succeeding evening, on
an average, throughout the year. and be-
coming more and more distant from the
Earth, and consequently appearing to us
less and less bright until it reaches the fur
Their side of the Sun (its superior conjunc-
ton with it,, in about six and a half months
from its point of opposition to the Sun.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-02-18
WELL PUT.

Says an Eastern contemporary "The
Continental and American Socialists care
nothing for Irish independence; yet they
are pleased at the success of the dynamite
out-ages. The reason = that they regard
every such outrage a M assault upon
modern society. These people cannot he
placated by reforms in any direction.
What they want is wholesale destruction.
At present they stand prepai I'd to help on
every seditious and anarchical movement,
on the general principle that whatever
disturbs existing institutions forwards their
ultimate objects"
The matter has nowhere been more con-
cisely stated or better put. The Irish Ma
tionalists already realize that they have
nothing al all to gain by utilization with
The anarchists Precisely what the Irish
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-02-18
NEWS OF THE MORNING


In New York yesterday Government bonds
were quoted at 1221s for Is of 1907; 1l2 for AS;
sterling, 81 s4G4 S71z 1917 for Ss silver bars,
1861.
Silver in London, 49d; consols, 99d; per
cent. United States bonds extended 1885, As,
1251s; As. 1855.
In San Francisco Mexican dollars are quoted
at $685. cents.
Mining stocks were not so firm in San Francisco
yesterday morning, especially the speculative
stocks, which just now appear to be Chollar.
Hale & Norcross and Savage. The Bodie stocks
were weak.
The New York Assembly passed resolution
yesterday calling On Congress TO pass the bill
placing Grant on the retired list
The Oklahoma invaders are to be arrested
again
There is dynamite scare in Switzerland
The Pope positively refuses to see Michael
Davitt.
In taking Langson, the French lost 81 killed
and ID wounded
prize fight with bare Bnucklcs took place
on barge in New York harbor yesterday.
The Arabs are said to be deserving from Me-
temneh and entering the British camp at Gubat
J. T. Reynolds was thrown from wagon and
killed at Lemoore, Tuiare county, yesterday.
John Krause, a prominent citizen committed
suicide yesterday at Suisun.
The weather continues severe throughout the
East and West. and traffic is at Il standstill in
many localities.
Oliver Leveur, a brakeman, was probably
fatally hurt on the Southern Pacific, near Teha-
chepi, yesterday
Hon. John NJ. Satterwhitc, ex-Assemblyman
and ex-State Senator, died Monday at San Ber-
nardino.
Fire destroyed a store and contents at Yount-
vile, Napa county, yesterday
Another effort is making in British Columbia
to extend the franchise to women.
Fifteen of the victims of the snowside disaster
al Alta Utah, have been taken out, twelve of
the number being dead.
Speaker Carlisle has so far recovered from his
recent illness to be present at the Capitol yes
terday.
John and Abram Jchnson were frozen to
death in the woods near East Tawas, Mich.
Three cotton-laden lighters were burned at
New York yesterday, causing a loss Of $4,000
Queen Victoria viii shortly have another great
grandchild,
A National League meeting in Newry, Ire
land, Monday, ended in free fight.
lncendiaries made an organized attempt to
burn Wheeling, W. Va, Sunday night.
\. f. Thompson, nephew of Ex-Governor
Pacheco, was found dead in bed yesterday at
Santa Fe, y. NJ.
Several games OF billiards were played in
Prescott, A. T, Monday night, for $1,000 side
The British House of Commons has restored
the reportorial privileges recently revoked.
Lake Michigan IS now entirely frozen over.
probably FOR the first time in its history
The Bundesrath has approved the extradition
treaty between Prussia and Russia.
- lA-fr- among the scenery almost caused u
panic il the Haymarket Theater, London, last
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-02-18

SETTLING IN Ell DoRApo.-The Placer
vile Democrat of the 18th says: The Ell
Dorado County immigration Association
has been busy this week with home-seekers
sent to Placerville by Dr. Latham of Sac
ramento. Two of these were ladies, who
have filed on land near Pleasant valley.
One gentleman. J. l.. McLarin, of Dakota.
had not been located when we 90 to press.
Let all who feel an interest in this work
become members of the Association. DR..
Latham will send us all the settlers we can
attend to. If our people will take hold of
this matter in earnest, we can double the
number of acres under cultivation in our
county, and make a sure thing of the rail-
road extension within the year. The Woolf
brothers have a little place few miles east
of Placerville, on which they have been
getting rich by raising strawberries and
vegetables. Three years ago they set out
Zinfandel grapes on one acre of billy land
for which they had no other special use.
The past season they sold $50 worth of
grapes, and made 500 gallons of wine
from this one acre. And we have thou
sands of acres of better land for sale at from
So to 81 Per acre. Where can the home
seekers do better? Philip Kramp has on
his ranch near Diamond Springs German
prune graft, showing growth of twelve
feet in single season. On what soil except
in FL Dorado county is this possible?
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-02-18
SAN FRANCISCO ITEMS.

John o. Earl and Ira p. Rankin, of the
Lick Free Bath Committee, report that they
have three. or four locations suitable for
baths under consideration. All are stu
ated south of Market street A decision
will be arrived at in few days.
What is pronounced by Coroner O'Don-
nell to be clear case of leprosy came like
a benediction to the Morgue on Monday.
in the person of Chinaman about so wears
of age who desired to be sent to the Pest
house. The Coroner accommodated him
with alacrity.
The hearing of the habeas corpus case of
Patrick Campbell was continued on Mon
day, by Judge Hunt, until next Friday.
This is the case wherein the applicant was
fined $500 by Judge Keyser, at Yuba county,
for disobeying an injunction in connection
with mining debris.
For the week ending on the 10th only six
wheat vessels were cleared, and only five
We're entered out for loading. Two of these
were iron ships at SIS cd, and the others
were wooden vessels, two of which received
35s and the other 35s Cd. This is the small
est movement in several weeks.
James Murphy, the aged father of DR..
James Murphy, of this city, who was born
in County Wexford, Ireland, in 1884, died
at the residence of his son, on Van Ness
avenue Monday. Deceased was nearly l0l
years old, but up to few days ago he was
accustomed to take his daily walk and to
read and converse about the current news
of the day.
The overland shipments of treasure hence
per Wells, Fargo II Co. S express during the
first half of February were as follows:
Gold coin ST i56
SILVER 0Stu
Silver 1900
The internal revenue collections i'll the
San Francisco District for the week ending
February nth Were as follows:
Si,cc
SpiTllS... lh,Jul
ll,u13
Miscellaneous 40
Total for week.. S35 6}2