Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-10-04
O t AND COMMENTS.

A bird's-eye view from Trinity spire,
New York, brings into range of vision
10000 saloons, and yet the residents of
Gotham are a very thirsty people.
The American Party seems doomed
to remain in obscurity for a season. Even
Mr.. Pixley, its foremost advocate, refuses
the use of his name to lead il to victory the
present autumn.
It is stated that Judge Williams. of El
Dorado county, intends ~resigning soon
after the first of January next. This will
place the naming of his successor in the
hands of Governor Swift.
Blaine is booked to stump Pennsylvania
for the Republican ticket. It's a safe place
British lion on questions of manufacture
and the fisheries dispute will immensely
please the Keystone voters.
The Republican campaign badge consists
of a tin disc the size of a silver dollar, and
is inscribed John +. Swift, Tinker and
Statesman So it has come to pass that
the epiIhetical brick" tinker and huck-
steT which was SHE'D by a Democratic
orator with q view to demolish the Re
publican castle, has become the chief cor
ANA SSGllC VI A4N ANBANi9 4lGth6 COA4ACC.
For cool, unalioyed political buncombe
and claptrap the National Greenback Con-
v%ention, which met in a 7x9 room at the
Hotel Windsor, Manchester, New Hamp-
shire, last week, takes the whole bakery
and the adjoining property. Here is their
opening declaration THAT until every
man, and child has a home across
the threshold of which no tax collector,
creditor, landlord or master can or dare
pass, the ultimate purpose of Greenback-
ism will not have been Obtained
A committee of leading citizens of Pla-
cerville and Ell Dorado county will hold a
conference in San Francisco to-day with
Senator Stanford, c. P. Huntington and
other prominent officials Of the Southern
Pacific Company. with a view to securing
the speedy construction of the Sacramento
and Placerville Railroad to the latter city.
II is to be earnestly hoped that the arrange
ments to bring Sacramento into closer rela-
tons with the people of Ell Dorado county,
together with their fertile lands, rich mines
and valuable timber belt, will be success
fully effected.
SHASTA COUNTY GRAPEs.-The Shasta
Echo says: We mentioned last week that
Mr.. Lowe had sent Muscatel grapes grown
in Happy valley to Professor Hilgard, for
analysis. The following report has been
received Your grapes and letter of 21st
arrived duly. The grapes showed over .2S
of sugar by spindle test, and the wine is
now fermenting. think it doubtful that
it will 90 through entirely, in which case
we shall make a fortified sweet wine of it.
/ The grapes l consider to be of extra fine
quality in regard to sweetness as well as
aroma. l nave rarely tasted as good, and il
you can grow plenty of them, they ought
TO command a good price as table grapes
they would also make first-claSS raisins in
an appropriate drier. The acid l find TO be
rather low-.345 per cent. Wine grapes
!, usually have from 40 to IS, and of course
they are not adapted to the making of dry
wine. l would ike to know the age of the
; vines producing these grapes; also, a sam
pIe of the soil. / have had some of the
:. latter from your region, but they differ SC
much in different localities that it is hard
to Judge from one ridge to the other"