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INSPECTION OF BOILERS.
A Plea for the Passage of Assembly Bill
No. 80 Upon the Subject.

A Plea for the Passage of Assembly Bill
No. 80 Upon the Subject.
EDS. RECORD UNION The bill introduced
in the Assembly by Mr.. French is a worthy
measure, and should receive the serious
consideration of the Legislature 1t pro-
vides for the inspection of steam boilers,
licensing steam engineers, and for the bet
Ter protection and security of life and prop
erty in the State of California. We know
that there has been an alarming increase of
explosions of the boilers of stationary and
portable engines, caused by the ignorance
or carelessness, or both, of the men who
had charge of them. Il will not call them
engineers, as they are unworthy the name.)
The natural ayarice of men has led them
to resist the enactment of all wholesome
laws on this subject, and to place incompe-
tent men in charge of their engines and
boilers simply because they work cheap.
In many cases relatives, mere boys, are
placed in charge of boilers without any
previous training by a skilled engineer.
There is probably no nation that has
so stringent and rational laws on
the subject of steam boilers as
France. That country has district inspect
ment, whose duty it is TO supervise the
construction of all boilers in his district,
and to make a record of its SIZE form, thick
ness and tensile strength of plates, size of
rivets, braces, stayboltS and tubes and TO
state whether single or double riveted
seams, and TO prescribe the number of at
mosphereS or pounds pressure of steam it
may carry during the first year of its use.
1t is also the duty of the inspector to sum-
mon board for the examination of all
applicants for licenses TO act as engineers or
managers of steam boilers of different
classes. All boilers are carefully examined
and tested annually, and consequently ex-
plosions of steam boilers are of very rare
occurrence. The provisions of this Act
need not apply to locomotive boilers, as the
officers of railroads have long since made
stringent rules for frequent inspections and
tests of these boilers. The whole system
in France is made self-sustaining, or
nearly SO, as it may be in this
State. Men are respected and trust
ed in their professions or trades
in proportion to their knowledge and skill
in their particular professions or trades
How ridiculous it would be for a mechanic
country and attempt to practice law with
out any previous study. What an outrage
on the community it would be for men to
attempt to practice medicine without hay
ing studied medicine, surgery or anatomy
Some such bill should be passed (properly
guarded) with the number of district depu-
ties limited to the necessity of the case, and
would be the means of saving many lives
and be advantageous TO all parties con-
cerned. Respectfully,
AN OLD ENGINEER
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ment of these forces to every other element
of production, to the incalculable benefit of
all. What, TO the superficial mind, seemed
the beginning of irreconciliable antago-
nisms, stood revealed TO his clearer and
deeper insight as q relation of the most
complete interdependence His contribu-
tons to the literature of that men,
orable discussion were not voluminous.
but were exhaustive, and evinced a
clear comprehension of the fundamental
principles by which all differences were
to be eventually resolved. He wrote with
that comprehensiveness which is possible
only to a fullness of knowledge, and his
arguments in support of his theories have
never been successfully controversial
These arguments survive in all the fresh
ness of their originality to-day They are
the calm, dispassionate reasonings of A
lucid intelligence, fully sustained by the
profound conviction of their business,
while in literary style they combine the
grand simplicity of truth with the grace
of unostentatious dietion. The election to
the United States Senate finds Governor
Stanford holding a position of pre-emi
nence in the broadest modern field of com
mercial financial and administrative actiy-
ity. He will bring to the discharge of his
new duties profound knowledge of fiscal
HoilcV, acquired IN the best school of COM
| mercial and material progress. He will
command the attention and respect of his
compeers of the Senate bv the bold origin
atty of his conceptions, the fervent patriot
ism of his purposes, the ripenesS of his
experience, the breadth and clearness of
his observation, the firmness of his indi-
viduality, and the cultured diplomatic
| attributes of his mind. In the great art of
attracting and holding the confidence of
the masses of men, he is a master The ac-
quirement of high distinction among men
has served only to strengthen the bond
between himself and the great mass of
common humanity. His ideals of great
ness have been formed upon the models of
those who have created commonwealth,
and have earned an enduring place in the
gratitude of mankind by unselfish devotion
to the blessings and triumphs of peace
rather than upon the brilliant central
figures of ambitious war A Senator by the
ripeness of his wisdom. a commoner by the
breadth of his humane sympathies, III the
unassuming greatness of his character the
cODtitd and the c1rid stand reconciled.-
[San Francisco Spirit of the Times
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STRIPPING THE CAPITOL.

At every session of the Legislature there
is made an effort to remove something from
the Capitol building There are now but
two things remaining there attractive to
the large number of people who visit the
Capitol. These are the State Library and
the meteorological cabinet For the re-
moval of the latter to Berkeley bill has
already been introduced in the Senate.
The cabinet is now in safe place, in a
ire-proof building, and under the care of
the Trustees of the State Library The
officials of the library are under in
structions to exhibit it to all who desire 1t
is located in Il room but one flight of stairs
above the floor of the legislative chambers.
and is Just where such collection should
be. 1t belongs in the Capitol, and should
remain there. The meteorological Bureau
at San Francisco has an ample and con-
stantly increasing cabinet, and San Fran
cisco is thus supplied to her fullest need at
the expense of the State At the State
University there Is fine collection, and to
add that now at the Capitol to it, is not
needed for the better instruction of the
pupils, nor, according to the report OF the
President, is there room for anything more
there until new buildings are erected. But
why should there be such persistence in
stripping the Capitol? 1t has not now
outside of the few portraits of some of the
Governors, a single art work purchased
by the State. There is one fine
group of statuary, but it was
placed in the rotunda by private munif-
cence, and the Legislature has not vet
been polite enough to acknowledge the
gift. The inches for statuary are empty;
there are no art works in keeping
with the beauty of the interior of the
building. Not even the interior of the
dome has been finished as planned, and
the dusty ground tint remains on which
white and gold were TO be laid in relief The
Supreme Court has been taken away, and fills
now the form of law by briefest sessions
at the Capitol. The library of the Court
has also been renewed In dusty silence
whole tiers of rooms are kept under lock
and key as chambers for the Judges who
come so infrequently and have latterly got
the art of stripping down to so fine point
that they squeeze whole session into
forty-eight hours. Even the Legislature
closes its eyes to the bold removal of one
Francisco. We shall presently expect to
hear Of a bill to remove the Mills statu-
airy, since its solitariness is such rebuke !
We shall not be surprised to learn of an !
early effort to take down the ornamental! |
chimney pots and add them to the spoils
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A THOUGHTFUL REVIEW.

In all that has been said or written con-
corning the selection of Governor Leland
Stanford as n United States Senator,
nothing has been more calm and philo-
sophical than the article we this morning
reprint from the San Francisco Spirit Of the
Times. 1t rises to the higher plane of
critical analysis, uncolored by partisan
prejudice, and free from congratulations
and platitudes. 1t is thought suggesting
thought, and fortified by the logic of rea-
son. We commend it to the reading of
those who admire the analytical STYLE
and that system of reasoning which reaches
by direct processes.
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Manufacturing Company, exploded this
morning. The building, which was badly
demolished by the explosion, caught hire,
and will probably be total loss. Some
portions of the boilers were thrown dis
lance of several blocks Two men are
missing, but it has been impossible as yet
to make search for them.
The Mexican Invasion of Texas.
GALVESTON, February Sth.-Sensational
conflicting reports continue to come from
Carrie Springs. All accounts agree that
another sharp recounter took place between
the Mexicans. and the Sheriff's posse, in
which three more of the raiders We're
killed and a division of the raiding band
driven back across the Rio Grande. An
other fight with the marauders is expected
before the border is cleared. The authori-
ties of Dimmit county have been rein
forced by men and arms from the adjoining
counties. \ heavy posse of ranchmen are
securing the country for the other division
of the raiding band.
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INSTALLATION AND BANQUEr.-The lodge

INSTALLATION AND BANoUEr-The lodge
room of Cresco Lodge, No. 2O3, /. O. G. r.,
Calf, was filled to its utmost capacity with
members and visitors from neighboring
Lodges last Tuesday evening, the occasion
being the installation of officers CT the local
Lodge. After the routine business was
concluded, Deputy James Ferguson con-
Quoted the ceremonies of installation, after
which all were seated TO an excellent ban
quet in an adjoining hall. Unlike her sis
ter towns, Gait is becoming more temperate
every day, and the young man who fire.
quents saloons and patronizes their
proprietors does not stand nearly so high
in the social circles as does the young man
who eschews such company. Gait has not
near so many drinking places to-day as
she had when her population was only half
so great as at present. The Lodge received
an addition of thirty-fve members during
the last quarter, making a total member
ship of eighty. 1t is expected that the
number will exceed one hundred ere the
close of the present quarter.
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of San Francisco, and if this is not fol-
lowed up by plan to remove the carved
bears heads from the newell posts of the
stairways, and finally by a proposition to
cart off the State Library, We shall be sur
prised. 1t is to be hoped that the bill to
remove the cabinet of minerals viii be
killed in committee 1t should be left
where it is, that tourists and citizens of
our own State visiting the Capitol, as they
do, may find there fairly representative
display of the mineral wealth of the
Sfnta
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VALUE OF THE SALMON CArcn.-Fish &c

VALUE OF THE SALMON CATCH-Fish Com
missioners Dibble and Buckingham are
using every effort to secure the passage of
the bill now before the Legislature, one of
the provisions of which is the establish
ment of a State salmon hatchery some
where near the headwaters of the Sacra-
mento river. The money value of the sal
mon catch in the Sacramento river is more
than 81 900 per annum, which at once
gives an idea Of the importance of the in
dustry, and shows the necessity of keeping
the streams properly stocked to avoid IA
tai depletion. The Commissioners give the
assurance, and who should know better
than they, that unless the State makes the
proper provision, by the establishment of a
State hatchery which will have a capacity
for Matching at least 100000 of eggs per
annum, that in few years the rivers will
be comparatively bare of salmon and this
great industry completely destroyed
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-02-09

MENTAL PHENOMENA REDUCED TO
FIGUREs.-Anv physician, we apprehend,
will consider it quite within the bounds of
probability that l per cent. of the popula-
ton of the country is subject to remark
ably vivid dreams, illusions, visions, etc.
This viii make half a million such people
in the United States. Each of these per-
sons may be supposed to have fifty friends
or relations of whom l per annum dies.
If they are subject to dream or vision
once week, there is one chance out of
seven that they have one on the same
day that the friend dies. Let us suppose
that it takes Il combination of eight separ-
ate and Independent points of resemblance,
between the vision and the circumstance
attending the death of the friend, to con-
stitute remarkable coincidence, and that
each of these has probability of one-half
We shall have, in one case out of 256, a
remarkable combination of condolences.
Putting these results together, we may
infer that, as matter of fact, some extra
ordinary coincidence between the circum-
stances of death and the dream or vision
by a friend of the dying person does occur
somewhere in the country nearly every
day in the year, Science.
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WHILE we have no delight in the an
g,iish of Others, we really cannot express a
regret we do not feel that the RECORD
UNION is not conducted to suit the partic-
ular fancies Of our local evening contem-
porarv.
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THE RECORD UNION is the only paper on
The coast outside Of San Francisco, that re-
csipes the full Associated Press dispatches
from all parts Of The world. Outside of San
Francisco It las no competitor, in point Of
numbers, in its home and general circulation
throuohovt The coast.
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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
NOTICE, CAPITAL TURF CLUB.

VNHERE WILL BE A MEETING OF THIS
/ Club
This CMonday) Evening, February 9, 1885.
At the Golden Eagle Hotel, at S o'clock sharp,
All members are requested to be present.
LIZ [, fi.p.lI
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The Justinian Code was compiled by a
Commission appointed by Justinian l., 52S,
and in it the 1000 volumes of the statute
law were reduced to fifty. The Digest, In
stitutes and Novels were promulgated in
534, and collectively they make up the
Body OF Civil Law.
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CARD OF THANKS.

7 HEREBY TENDER MY SINCERE THANKS
l. to all those who so kindly volunteered al my
concert last night, as well as to the public in
general for their kind appreciation. Respect
fully yours Gfe9-lt$l HEINRICH STEINBACH
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NOTICE..

LII CREDITORS OF a. McREA ARE RE
n queSted to present their claims forthwith to
J. LYMAN. Suffer street, Folsom. Sacramento
county, Cal. The estate being ready for dis
tribution it is necessary that all claims be veri
fed and presented within sixty days from this
date, or they will not be considered
Folsom, jar uary IS, 1885. ]. LYMAN,
ja29-2p69t Assignee Estate of Alex McRea.
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WANTED,

A GOOD AND RELIABLE SALESMAN FOR
"A Wholesale Liquor House; must be well
acquainted in Sacramento city, on the river,
and surrounding towns. No notice taken of any
applications unless good references are given.
Address " COMMERCIAL TRAVELLER p. o.
Box 1919, San Francisco. ja29tfned
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LAST NIGHTS NEWS.
TILDkN'S PREFERENCE FOR THE
SECRETARYSHIP.
Yellow Fever ON the LackawaBna-
Young Girl Killed by Train
Chicago Socialists.
SPECIAL DISPATCHES TO THE REooRD-uslosl
DOMESTIC.

Tiiden's Preference for q Cabinet officer.
WASHINGTON February Sth.-The Sunday
Herald to-day published an interview with
an unnamed member of Congress, who is
said to enjoy in an exceptional degree Til
denis confidence. According to this repre-
sentative. Tilden recently said TO him:
will tell who | should like TO represent
New York in Cleyelands personal
councils. and it is General Francis c.
Barlow. Ny reasons are these: General
Barlow was a Republican in good
standing in 1876. So trusted was he, that
his party friends had him sent to Florida
with the present Secretary of the Navy.
When Barlow got there, he found such a
condition of things that he was obliged to
report to the Republican National Com
mittee that Florida was Democratic. For
this act no man was ever so abused as was
Barlow He quit the Republican party
and organized the National Civil Service
League, of which George William Curtis
is the President, in New York. This
Association or Civil Service League
elected Governor Cleveland. | have in
formed Cleveland that of all others | would
prefer General Francis Barlow as Secretary
Of War, first, because he was brilliant
young soldier, and won his double stars by
the most gallant courage, as General Han
cock, in whose corps he serve!, has told
me; second, there would be no better repre-
sentative Of the American volunteer SOL
der than the man who went from cap
taincy to Major-Generals commission,
every step traced by the track OF blood ;
third, because he had the courage of his
opinions, and when he found where the
party he had gloried in and fought for was
leading, he stopped and turned back. Then
he is gentleman born. He is a hand
some, well set up officer, who never knew
what fear was, and as a soldier without fear
and without reproach. These are my rea-
sons for indorsing so highly General f. c..
Barlow"
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The Extra Session Question.

elect Cleveland and majority of the Dem
ocratic Senators and Representatives are
opposed to an extra session of the Forty
ninth Congress. 1t is not likely an extra
session will be necessary to provide requi-
site supplies for the maintenance of the
Government, with possibly the exception
of the navy bill, over which dispute may
arise between the houses as to the wisdom
of completing the monitors and continuing
the construction of the new ships of war.
The failure of Congress to provide a ma
tional bankrupt law will be the real reason
for calling an extra session of Congress, if
one is called
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Personal Property Receipt Book. 50 in
each, one-fourth bound in duplicate, per
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WASHINGTON, February Sth.-The re-
vival of the report that President-elect
Cleveland contemplates the appointment
of Randall as Secretary of the Treasury
attracts very little attention here, while
Cleveland might go farther in the choice of
a successor to McCulloch than Randall, ana
fare infinitely worse
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Signed L. II. FASSETT, Chairman.
STALL Attest: W. B. HAMILTON, Clerk.
Adopted by the following vote: Ayes-Stein-
man, jackson, Bates, McMullen at Fassett.
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PEORIA tIll.), February sth.--Three boil
ers in the starch works Of the Frmenich
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MISCELLANEOUS.
ORDINANCE No. IL.
Establishing the Rates to BIO Paid by the
County for job Printing, Stationery,
Blank Books, Advertising, Etc, for the
year 1885.

VlHE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF THE
| County of Sacramento do ordain Ms follows:
The Board of Supervisors of Sacramento
county State of California. hereby establishes
the following prices at which said county shall
be supplied with Job Printing. Stationery and
Blank Books. and the prices at which County
Advertising shall be done or in excess of which
no such supplies or advertising shall be pro
cured, this ordiuaCe being in accordance with
Section D. of Act approved March H. 1888:
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Cleveland Visits Tilden.

New YORK, February President
elect Cleveland, accompanied by Daniel
Manning, left at o'clock this morning for
Greystone, to visit Mr. Tilden.
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Five hundred Assessment ClasSificRtions
blank royal lgX4, ruled and printed, per
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The Greatest Revolution the World Has
Ever Seen Threatened.

CLEVELAND, February Sth.-F L. Gegcr
of 81 Linden street, former agent of the
International Workingmen's Association of
Anarchists, says there are four groups of
the order in this city, with 200 members
and many sympathizers. Two are Bohe-
milan and two German A fifth (Ameri-
cam will be organized tomorrow. He says
the workingmen here are ripe for riot,
and that unless the times improve the
greatest revolutions the world has ever
seen will be inaugurated. The Socialists
are increasing in number here very rap
idly. Geger is a railroad clerk The pres
ent agent Of his group is Franta Sakrid, of
1S6 Croton street
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CEEsros Uowal February Sth.--A seri-
Gus accident occurred about ten miles west
of this place this afternoon. As the train
on the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy
Railroad, westward bound, approached a
bridge across small stream, it struck a
broken rail and tilted along on the ties I'M
til it ran on the bridge, which went down,
carrying with it two coaches and a sleeper
containing from 20 to % passengers. Fol-
lowing is a list OF the killed Robert
Brown, Mount Pleasant, Ia; Mrs Powell,
New Albany, Ind; Mrs. W. c. Carroll,
Saugache, Col. Seven were injured.
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Two Girls Struck by Train and One
Killed.

WEATHERFoRD (Tex.) February S;h.-
Two young men-Frank A. Frees and
Frank b. Dorsey-were seriously stabbed
last night by man named Ii. NJ Martin
Martin arrived on the midnight train with
six children, his father and mother-in-law.
Accosting Frees and Dorsey on the street,
they directed the strangers to hotel, when
Martin, without provocation, plunged
dagger into the breast of each man Martin
was arrested this morning.
Explosion of Three Boilers.
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Eighteen quires Warrant Register ne
dunn, Elk. X. Bands, ruled and printed.
-Four thousand AsseSsD ent Lists, full sheet
deny 24ib. printed on four sides, black
ink, County Blanks, per ,0O0.,...,............
Six thousand Assessment Lists. half sheet
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Two hundred Books, y pages each. ono
fourth bound, news, printed on back.
Twcnty-cight Books 80 pages i'll each. half
bound, No. i'll tripiicate, perforated twice,
full sheet Lib Hat letter, ruled ami
printed. ..........