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WILL CONGRESS Do IT.

Referring to the ST. Paul Waterway
Convention recently held, the Chicago
Current says that the Committee ON Reso-
buttons adopted eyerybody's pet scheme
" but after all that is the only truly ma
tional way Of dealing with so great CUES
ton. If one river be worth improving
then another just as long, and just as easily
improved is equally as worthy" This is an
odd statement 1t does not follow that
rivers are entitled to equal consideration
because they are of equal lenghth, or call
for about the same outlay of Improvement
Except that the Current is apparently Sc
rious We should be led to believe it to be
indulging in sarcastic expressions. If one
river be worth improving, them under like
need another just as worthy of improve
ment is entitled to equal consideration.
That is the only proper way of stating the
proposition Now, to apply it locally. If
it is important that S25,0o000O shall be
spent annually by the Federal Government
upon waterways in the northwest to effect
water communication between Lake Mich
igan and the Mississippi river; to store
water above Minneapolis for use to fortify
navigation at low stages of the river;
to remove Instructions in the
Missouri; to dig cut and scour out a number
of streams in Illinois, Wisconsin, Mime
sofa and in that region generally then it
is not too much TO ask the Federal Govern
ment to expenl one or two millions of
dollars annually upon the chief rivers Of
California for eight or ten years to save
them to the commerce Of the world, to the
people along their courses and to the State
1t is difficult to understand what there
is so appalling in the suggestion that Con-
gress shall expend few million dollars
upon these rivers in the next decade. The
sum aggregated is large distributed it is
not and in any light Is not disproportion-
ate 10 the need. When it was recently
suggested to a Congressman that it would
require some millions of appropriation by
Congress within the next few years to
save the Sacramento river to the people
ne replied; Congress will never do it."
If this judgment is sound-but we do not
accept the foreeast-there is very little
hope for this people. The State certainly
will not aud cannot furnish the means
though it may well contribute to them
If the judgment Of the engineers-and we
believe they are all agreed upon that
points correct that there must be made
very heavy expenditure. or the low lands
will he covered up wholly by the debris
that VIII descend 10 destroy them, the bays
irreparably injured. and the nayigability
of,,the river reduced to miserable apology
and if the Congressman is also correct in
judgment, then it follows that when we
shall have stopped hydraulic mining, as
must be done, we must sit by and coolly
await the inevitable aud disastrous sequel
of State and Congressional non-action.
But that viii not be the result. The river
must be saved. Congress and the State
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TIME TO UNITE.

In the Current Rev. Dr. Meloy discusses
the question of the union of the Northern
and Southern branches of the Presbyterian
Church. The reverend essayist says ::
" When the Blue and the Gray march to-
gether at the funeral of Grant, it is time
that those who profess to have Jesus as the
Captain Of their salvation should lay aside
their old strifes." Yes, and all the secular
world with perfect sincerity responds amen.
This union is certain to be effected, and
the Presbyterian world is already indulg-
ing in anticipatory rejoicing. Now Christ
ian soldiers in the Northern and Southern
battalions of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, how is it with you?
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san FRANCISCO ITEMS.

Alta meeting of the California Produce ex-
change Thursday it was unanimously de-
cided to disincorporate the organization.
On Wednesday night w. F. Witherill,
an inmate of the st. Mary's Hospital, was
killed by the accidental escape OF gas in his
room.
1t is stated that several San Franciscans
talk of buying the famous yacht Puritan,
which is to be sold by auction in New York
next Wednesday.
The imposing ceremony of comforting
the palium on his Grace Archbishop
Riordan, will be celebrated at st. Mary's
Cathedral Sunday.
Mrs. Bertha Sheeffer and Mrs. Margaret
Mooney, both suffering from mania melaf-
c'tolid, subsequent to childbirth, have be n
committed 10 the Napa Insane Asylum.
David Kanary, pioneer painter of this
city, jumped from the San Rafael ferryboat
into the bay on Thursday, and was
drowned He weighted his shoulders with
lead before he jumped
Henry WILDER, postal clerk on the
Deming and Los Angeles Railroad, has
been transferred to the San Francisco and
Los Angeles Railroad. W. II. SehiIling,
postal clerk on the latter road, takes Mr..
Wilber's place.
There is in port little fat-bottomed
sloop which draws only twenty-five inches
OF water, and is of only seven tons register.
which has just made a trip from Puget
Sound having on board a man and his
wife and two children as crew.
Two appointments in addition to those
previously noted have been made in the
Appraisers Department of the Custom
house Frank D. Sweetzer is appointed a
Waterman, and J. J. Farrell is appointed L,
be laborer in the Appraisers store
The officers of the police have been
notified by Chief Crowley that as they are
ex officio health inspectors they must pay
particular attention to the abatement Of all
nuisances prejudicial to public health.
failure to carry out the order on their
beats will be visited by personal response
qility.
Lieutenant Craig, of The Signal Service.
received his ordss Thursday. relieving him
from duty at San Francisco. The local
Signal Service Observer, Nelson Goronl.
viii take charge of the Office until Chief
Signal Officer Hazen's return from Europe,
abOu October 1st, when an officer will be
assigned to succeed Lieutenant Craig.
Appraiser Beck denies the published
statement that Wallace Beck is in Internal
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TIE THING TO Do.

To talk about dredging out the river
while the flow of slickens and sand into it
continues Is folly. Where one spoonful
can be taken out ten will come in. But
when the active work of sending it down
is stopped, as it must be, and speedily, it
will in winter continue to come from old
deposits. Here is the problem that of ali
Others viii be most perplexing to the
Federal Government. To an extent the
river viii seour ont after cessation of by
drauhcking, But the tributaries of the
Sacramento are slicI5ens-ladened they
come to The river at a sharp grade, at
much greater inclination than that of the
Sacramento, and food-waters will bring
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THE RAILROAD TAXES.
IMMENSE SUM IN THE HANDS OF
THE TT0RNEY-GENERAL.
statement of Amounts Paid on Ac-
count for the Years 1888 and
1884 by Railroad Companies.
IS. f. Alta. sentemher 18Th |


In the Circuit Court Yesterday. on his
own motion, Attorney General Marshall
was made attorney of record in a number
of the old railroad tax suits. Creed Hay-
mond, in behalf of the railroads. made an
offer TO pay to the Attorney General, in be-
half of the State, the sum of 1928. $50 63 on
such suits, stipulation being filed that
such payment should not prejudice or af-
feet any right of either party to maintain
suits to recover the balance claimed hy
complainant. The suits are to recover dis
puted taxes, and the money offered is what
the railroads consider just, but what Attor-
ney-General Marshall considers part paw
ment. They were begun in the Superior
Court and transferred to the Circuit Court
on April 9TH. Similar payments in previ-
Gus suits have not been recognized bv Con-
troller Dunn. The suits and the amounts
ordered to be paid are as follows: Central
Pacific, $169,6S5 Southern Pacific Sl24
720 81; Northern Railway Company, SIS
GAG SO; San Pablo and Tulare. s.. Dos so
California Pacific, S14,172 %; total $500.
$40 63.
Mr.. Raymond said he was prepared to
make the tender OF the money good The
Attorney-General said he would accept
such offer, and the Court issued an order
that the sum specified above should be paid
over in United States gold coin to the At
torney-General of the State of California
within five days. Subsequently. during
the day, the railroad companies paid TO the
Acknowledgement its tender on the taxes of
1884. The following statement illustrates
how tax matters stand to-day:
THE CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN PACIFICs.
Amount of taxes paid by the Central and
Southern Pacific Railroad system on ac-
count of taxes assessed for the years 1888
and 1891:
To the State of California s2l1. IFS 10
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.hey make upon themselves:
STEPHEN Z. TYING. SR.

In the death of Rev Stephen II. Tying,
Sr., there went out of the world a preacher
who was not so famous as his wonderful
powers in the pulpit should have made
him. The same brilliancy and force and
scholarship at the bar would have made
him leader and his name familiar to all
ears For, to a certain extent, at least.
the pulpit ut this day is repressive, in the
case Of the sincere man who occupies it.
That is to say, it does not, so5greatly as
even two decades ago, makes its possessor
Il prominent man in the world without as
well as within the church. This man is
summed up by the Current rightly d" A
lover Of the people" All lovers of the
people arc modest, unpretentious and sin
cere men. 1t is not possible to conceive
of such a man as boastful. selfish, or
vain. 1t IS only the demagogue who
pirates Of his love fog his fellows. He is
most aptly described by Mrs Foltz in her
lecture on Col. Baker, as liar made per-
iect by practice. Or. lying was simple IN
all things except thought, and in that his
profundity was of the massive order. Had
ebeen stimulated by the ambition that 50
often actuates men in other learned pro-
LESSONS, he would have led christian hosts
in reformations, have waged war upon sin
in the heart of the sinks Of vice or in the
halls of gilded folly. Within the church
he was father to whom hundreds of thou
sands looked up with veneration, and whose
sublime life OF love for his fellow-men won
the admiration and respect of all com
munities feeling its influence. 1t is many
years since we were within the immediate
atmosphere where this eminentIy good
man made himself felt, but life cannot be
so long that the fragrance of the remem-
brance of that period will grow faint.
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An InvaIuable .InurnaI.

No family in central and northern Cali
fornia should be without that valuable
journal, the SACRAMENTO WEEKLY UNION,
the oldest established weekly on the coast
The publication is made up of the choicest
matter from the DAILY REcoRD-UNIoN, and
is complete in all its departments 1t is
edited with ability, and stands foremost
among the journals Of the Pacific coast
Estate Fair Guide.
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Attorney General Marshall now has in
his hands 1854, 299 05 belonging to the State
and counties as above set out and about
Sl400 belonging to the State and counties
of Placer, San Joaquin and Contra Costa,
collected on taxes for the year 1882, and has
paid TO other counties on the taxes OF 1850
1881 and 1882 about 100000 making his
total collection over million dollars. Of
the taxes assessed by the State Board of
Equalization the railroad companies have
paid in addition 10 what has passed through
General Marshali's hands about $4,000.
making in all over $l,S00O0O, exclusive Of
local taxes, which in that tine have
amounted to about 500. 900 moro
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Coon POKER HANDs.-The Auburn Re.
71ubZ;cn5, furnishes The f,,Ilo-..iro

publican furnishes The follooing
The following story may aot be true. but
it is said that not many 5 adays ago two
owners of small ranches in the lower part
of The county metin a saloon and sat down
to a friendly game Of poker sporting
man, who happened TO be present, soon
took hand, and after few turns lie dealt
each of the Others what they had reason to
believe were Top hands while he himself
passed out and left them to bet They bet
all they had in sight they dug up all they
could find, but were not satisfied Finally
they placed their hands in sealed envelopes
and went out to borrow. After hypothe-
eating their homcsteads they returned and
each put 10 his pile. When it came 10 the
show down; each had four aces and 4
king. In the meantime the sporting man
had mustered the entire community 10 wit
ness the fall of the curtain.
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Revenue Collector Ellis office receiving a
salary of $1,000 a year, and that Newton
Beck is in the freight weigher's department.
Mr.. Beck says he has no son Frank or
son-in-law. But the statement that he is
Appraiser is correct Wallace Beck is em-
ploYed b. Sisson 4 Croker. al rruckee
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DAILY RECORD UNION

lie KEcoRD-UNIoS is the only paper on
the coast, outside Of San Francisco, that re-
ceres the full Associated Press dispatches
tran al parts Of the UorId Outside Of San
FrdnciscO ii Ids M competitor, in point OF
numbers, in ia home and general circulation
throughout ohe coast
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will not permit its destruction. 1t is the
right of the people to have its improve
ment entered upon, and its protection from
future assault assured, and the State and
Congress uM do it.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-09-19

A NEW FRUIT TREE.-Attenton has been
called 20 a hitherto unknown fruit tree
which Las been found in the southeastern
part OF the Island of New Guinea.
1t grows to hight of sixty feet.
and bears a large globule fruit,
wholesome and palatabie, with a flavor
resembling that of the pear. Baron Won
Mueller, the Austrian botanist, has
named the tree Bassia Erskineana, and The
fruit is known to the natives as Posi-Posi
Il Arkansaw Traveller
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SAN rRANo1soo AGENCY.

L. P. FISHER is Sole Agent for this paper in
ssn Francisco and vicinity. He is authorized
20 receive advertisements and subscriptions and
collect for the same. Rooms q and D, Mer.
chants Exchange
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THE River Convention at St. Paul
voted that it would be only proper thing
for the Federal Government to expend
twenty-five millions of dollars annually
upon the navigable streams of the North
west. TO this Southern Congressman give
assent, as well as those Of the West. Why
shall not we in California upon the same
principle base a claim for appropriations
to reclaim and save our rivers? Relatively
to our Importance as State and a COM
mercial area, our rivers are worthy more
attention than those of the Northwest, be-
cause they are in more immediate danger
OF great damage, and have already been
sadly neglected and seriously injured.
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THE BRANCH LINES.

Aside from the assessment made by the
State Board of Equalization the Central
Pacific and Southern Pacific Companies
have paid in assessments made by County
Assessors for the years 1888 and 1884 the
sum OF sos, 1911 %, making a grand total
of $9409iS 10.
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a paper gave an account Of a society
event, and in speaking Of one beautiful lady
of quite large proportions, it said: Mrs
- possessed form that Juno might
envy The editor went home, and left q
subordinate to get out the paper, and the
next morning he read in his paper that
= Mrs. - possessed form that Jumbo
might envy"
The clever turn everything to account
IFontaine.
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WHEN the millennium comes all the
work will be done by the Keely motor
[ philadelphia Record. Then hasten the
day and turn the thing loose upon the
cleansing of the country of political boss
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The FOLLOWING
SPE CIAL BARGAINS
Are for Tro-davs

E&& x A&SA Il &SASEIN
LoT L.
100 Dozen Ladies Fancy-stpe Hose, per pair
% Dozen Ladies Good Muslin Cheme ruHed
Everlasting trmmng), % cents each
LOT 3.
Ladies Fine Muslin Chises with yoke Of linen Tochon inserting
LOT A.
Ladies stye with yoke of
wide embroidery, so cents each. 0'
80 Dozen Ladies Fancy Border Handkerche,
LDT q.
50 Dozen Boys Linen Standing Collars the
LOOT z.
10 Dozen Ladies Fancy Figured Stripe Collars
IoT 8.
Mahogany Table Oil Cloth q yards wide) 25 cents yard
LOT ..
Turkey Red Damask 56 wide IS cents a yard
LOT 10
q inches wide cents a yard.
EaoT HI
LADIES TWo-SrRAP KID SANDALS, 90 CENTS PER PAIR.
LOT ~
Ladies So so Fuscalped Kid Foxed Lace Shoes for 81
LOT l8
Misses Kid @ Kd Toxgd Shoes IS cents pair Also
LOT La
Kghtshirt Muslin So cents each
LOT 15.
Eghtshirts Wamsu Muslin rmmad with
colored embroidery, ST. %
REID -HoUSE;
Nos ia and TIC and 7l3 and us Sacramento
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B@5~ The above are but few of the many thousand
BARGAINS to be found at our Stores. Buy only at
L. L. LEWIS co. s., the most complete House
furnishing Establishment west of the Rocky Noun
tains.
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T.oTs q.

LOT 8.
so Dozen Ladies Fancy Border Handkerchief each
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u
% Dozen Ladies'
Everlasting trimmng), Is cents each.
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LOT q,
LOT 4.

Ladies Fine Muslin Chemises with yoke OF linen Tochn inserting
edging so cents
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Ladies Fine Muslin Chemises Hubbard style with
wide embroidery, so cents each.
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linen Standing Collars IN the best Of styles cents
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EaorTa 8

100 Dozen Ladies Fancystrpe Hose, cents per pair
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-09-19

IaoE 8-
gany Table Oil Cloth Oh yards widel 25 cents yard
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With dreSsy young ladies, however, the
polonaise closed down the front and made
very long and full is the leading model. A
wide hem or simple binding, like that of
a coat, is often the only finish to the edge
of the entire skirt front and back.
In the list of light woolens, and especi-
ally those of nuns yelling and albatross
cloth, are sent out some very lovely new
patterns dyed in the most exquisite and
delicate shades of shell pink, silver and
sky blue, mauve, beige, canary. and hello
trope, the family colored grounds printed
or embroidered with single flowers match
ing in much deeper coIoring the lighter
shade of the fabric itself. Other patterns
are tufted with raised figures in minute
but CAV colors of silk or chenille similar TO
the tufted fabrics worn III evening dress the
past season, but finer and more elaborate,
the simple tuft being changed to tiny
spray of flowers, or one single bud and
foliage or a full-blown rose. y SoF silk
warp is added to the more expensive veil
ings and other sheer wool fabrics, giving
them a lustrous and beautiful sheen, and
also adding to their beauty Of effect in the
full, ample folds and drapings of the new
long French oyerdress and polonaises.
The large gay-colored neckerchief knot
ted la marine is thing Of the past. 1t
once charitably covered the sins Of the
dressmaker. which were many and frequent
collarwards. In the graceful and perfect
fitting tailor-made' dress of the day no
such glaring mistake Is made, and to cover
up the {" set" Of the collar would be to do
the artistic originator :. gross injustice.
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COMMERCIAL.
MARKET.

nACgAMENTo. April Sd.
FRUIT-Lemons, Sicily, s. 75a6 p case; Lines
plies. 5000 ? dozen: Cocoanuts, S69650 q 100; APP
pies. Sl@1 90 p box; Los Angeles Oranges
81 5o@1 10 Riverside do, S2@g2 25 Navel do, SAG
90 Strawberries, sa)Gei0c q bsk
PIE FRUIIS-AsSOrIeu, Z1s-tD cans, p doZ
81 80; assorted, gallon cans, 81; Peaches, 211zz
,, cans, 81 70; Portland Blueberries, Pm cans,
g; Whortleberries, 81 rs; Capital Asparagus,
81 25 = dozen cans.
DRIED FRUITS-Apples, sliced, S1Is@4c q II;
do quartered, 3}g@tc; Pears, peeled. 566c; do
unpeeled, 415c; Plums pltted. 9110c: Peaches,
lO144@1le; do peeled, lsI@21c; Prunes, German
and French, 7@l0c: Blackberries, i0@11c;
Figs, California, 5@6c = b.
TABLE FRUI1S-Assorted, 2lS-ib cans, , doZ
s. 10@2 Is: Peaches, g 50 Bartlett Pears, g. 40
ries, 81 3d. Strawberries, 81 70; Apricots, % Is;
Muscat Grapes &: Red Currants, u 40; Cherries,
& 606a2 70.
VEGETABLES saltLake Potatoes. 81 %; Early
Rose do, 90c@S1;P ctl; Celery, 60c p dozen on
ions. S5@5: Cabbage, 81; Carrots, 60@T0c p 1906
TurnipS, 75c; bunch vegetables, Pie 8 Goz
Parsnips, 1c; Beets, 75c: Horse Radish. 6aSc ?
b; Garlic, 10@l1c; Asparagus. 314@4c: Rhubarb,
= II Peas lose 2 Ii Summer Squash, 15c :, d.
BREADSTUF FS-Flour, 81 % p barrel; Oatmeal
s. 70 q 100 lbs; Cornmeal yellow, s2@2 % ;
white; s2@2 IS: Cracked Wheat. 81 1872 10.
en- young Boosters, IS 50@6 50 "a dozen 4;
Broil FRS, S4@5; tame Ducks, S6 so; Geese, 81 50
a. . pair; Eggs choice lots, I7@1Sc = dozen.
GAME-IIare. 81 1902; Rabbits, sl@l so !;
Mallard Ducks, SSGl3 so y dozen; Teal, Sl@1 so
p dozen; Sprig, S2@2 50 p dozen.
DAIRY PRODUCTS-Butter. choice, 21@23c
? n mixed lots, in rolls, 2092lc Cheese, Cali
fornia, i2@13c; Western flats. 16@,17c: Marin s
Cream, l7f11Sc
HAY, GRAIN AND FEED-Oat hay, s12@l5 p
;on; Alfalfa hay, Ss9lO p ton; Bran, Sli q ton;
Middlings, SIC . ton; Barley, wholeS1 10 ground,
81 Is; Wheat 81 % I3cWt; tame Oats 81 50; white