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Quo RIVER RAILROAD.
Tine table corrected 10 DEC lS, 1885, Trains
Leave Panhandle Station foot Of Eleventh Btre0t,
aOar public landing, a. follows Central Standard
Hme-Whloh u % minuts HloWer than wheeling
an0' come sou.H.
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educational.
Nj. de CtlaRtaI Academy,
NEAR WHEELING, W. VA.

AsAltyeIghth year Of this well.fnown koad
~, under tho charge Of the Visitation Nuns
ssn on the ant Monday Of September next, and
suunu9 ten months.
hplh received at any time in the session.
fESO who desire TO place their daughters In an
lnaAaOn lnOrdlng exceptional advantages IL
AaVgei hOilLhiul and delightful location, o.
d1sat bOltd, thorough discipline and instruction
tAs hANdI Ok lifelong teachers, in every depart
ntStOI female adnCatiOu, including the lnodet
languages aud music, should hend for caalogp,
aAb SahOol Address,
Diretasoi the Academy Of the Visitation,
Mt. do CHANTAL,
nBnS Near wheeling, ". Va,
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EOR SALE ON EASY Trims.

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fSe Prop ny, No, 900, OIL the east side Of Mark
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Jat Tbs whole properly will bB sold fur SS,6,b
fnn q, l0D In G1n, the balance ia yearly pay
n,Rh VI $50 each, with SIX percent interest," For
JAMES L. HAWLEY,
MI 1910 Main Street
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A New York girl selected . gocialilt to
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our refusing to offer fair price for bonds
nut Meyer in the market as a competitor.
He bought bonds and coupons that sum-
mer at and below our sDrices. He forced
US to take his bonds at high figure, or
else let our money be idle and lose years
interest, and one years coupons off the
bonds we bought. Then, after compelling
Us to pay him 345 for his bonds, he brought
suit on his coupons, and compelled the
city to pay him par for his coupons of
1872 and 1873, when we were buying them
at from 20 to 90 cents on the dollar Thus
ended Mayor Browns famous financial
operation, on which he prides himself so
much.
Whilst this sort OF romancing on the
part OF the Mayor getting hold of one fact
and building up a whole fabric of false
hoods on ii, to try to show up his smart
ness, is certainly calculated to show him
UP il a rather ridiculous ana contemplate
light, there is another kind of faIsehood
rather more serious. He manufactures q
quarrel between Mr. Lord and myself out of
Whole cloth. He iHtimates that quarreled
with Mr.. Lord because he voted
with Mayor Brown and against my
self on this % cent proposition,
when in fact we all voted together, as our
journal, page 10, will show. But the OBJ
ject of that falsehood was to found on it
dirty, stupid aud malignant insinuation
against me, that had some dishonest mo-
tive for opposing the reduction in the price
of the bonds.
This communication is getting too long
and will close. | may answer some of
the Mayors other truthful propositions in
another communication. II. o. BEATTY.
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ASSEMBLY,.

FRIDAY, August 70. 1886
TIE House met at 10 4. NJ, Speaker Parks in
the chair. Quorum present.
Dr. May offered resolution authorizing the
Controller to draw his warrant on the State
Treasurer in favor of the Secretary of state for
S2l5, in payment OF one half the expense ia
CURED in decorating the State Capitol g. A. r.
day. In support of his resolution he stated
that the decorations cost $50, and new flag
for the building cost 50, making total OF $50,
one ha,f of which was TO be raid out of the
contingent fund OF the Senate and the other out
Of the Assembly contingent fund. The TeSolu-
ton passed unanimously.
The Committee on Attaches reported in favor
of paying Martin S.einmetz ST per day for
tightening the gas OF evenings. The report WAS
adopted,
The Postmistress was allowed an extra per
diem for extra duties performed.
The Committee on Public Expenditures and
Accounts reported several small bills back with
a recommendation that they be paid, and it was
so ordered
Assembly Bill No. 10. His request was granted.
McJunkin moved the reconsideration of the
vote whereby The House refused 10. concur in
the Senate's concurrent resolution 10 adjourn
sine die.
Munday moved call Of the House, and the
same carried.
After the roll had been called and it appeared
that all were present except those absentees
having leave Of absence, further proceedings
under the call were dispensed with.
Munday then moved that the motion 10 re-
consider De Iaid upon the table. III was tabled
by the following vote
Ayes-Ashe, Banbury. Barnes. Beard, Rritt
BuhleTt, Carter of Solano Clark Colby, Cook
Culver, Daley, Davis Deyeny, Dewitt, Dooling
Douglas Franklin. French Goucher, Henley
Hunt, Hussey, Kalben. Long, Lowell, May, Me
Donald, McGlashan, McMurray, Mesrs, Mo.litt
Morris, Munday. Patterson, Pyle Sullivan
Swayne, TORY, Van VOORHEES,, Watson of Ell
Dorado, Ward of san Francisco, Whitcomb
Wood, Yule Mr.. Speaker-I6.
Noes-Alny, Carter of Contra Costa Fire
baugh, Henry, HOLSTER, Jones, Iaughlin Loud
McJunkin, Mclean, Pellet, Reeves, Roscberry
Ward of Butte, Woodward -l5.
May Of San Francisco offered the following
RCs0lred That the Speaker appoint a commit
tee Of three to wait on His EXcellency the Gov.
ernor ana inform him that a disagreement ex-
lists between the Senate and Assembly with re-
spect to the time of adjournment, and that he
be asked to take such action as 10 him may
seem best, un6 er the provisions of the Constitu-
tion-Article ", Section II.
The resolution was adopted by vote of a
ayes to Il noes, the Vote being identical neg
.atively, with that Of the p eceding oll.call, ex
aeept Amy, who voted aye
The Chair appointed as such committee
Messrs. May, Mupday and Henry.
The House took a recess for twenty minutes
and the committee went in search OF the Gov
ernor
On Resembling McJunkin offered resolu-
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RELIGIOUS NOTICES.

Presbyterian Church, corner Sixth and
J. streets-pTeaching TO morrow morning and
evening by Rev. j. f. Wheeler. d. ID. Morning
service, lO45 evening, 7:45. The public are in
yited to attend.
Central NJ. Il. Church. Eleventh street,
between II and preaching by the pastor,
Rev. Thomas Filben. at 10:i5 aud 7:i5. Morning
subject The Wedding Garment" Evening
Jacob, or Type Deceit" All welcome. Seats
free.
Calvary Baptist Church, j street, be-
tween Twelfth and Thirteenth, Rev. a C. Her
rick, pastor-PTeaching at II A. NJ. and $50 p. NJ.
by Rev. Mr.. Ware, of the Christian Church.
Sabbath-sc at l215. Strangers cordially
welcomed.
Fourteenth street Presbyterian Church,
between o and P-Service tomorrow at II A. ".
Sabbath-scho0l at 1880 T. r. No evening
service.
Christian Church, Eighth, between n
and O-Robert L. Mediation, pastor, will preach
Sunday at II A. NJ. a missionary sermon. Night
subject: shall We Know Each Other in
Heaven All welcome.
Preaching at the FIRST Baptist Church
by the pastor A. j. Frost. Morning subject
II Know Thy Works" Evening subject: "He
that Hath an Ear Let Him Hear" All cordially
invited 10 attend.
NJ. L. Church South, Seventh street, bet.
J and K-The pastor Rev. II. c. Christian will
preach at both hours. Subject at IL A. NJ: Com
p aints of Living Mem" At s P. NJ: Moths
Which Eat Character and Ruin Souls" Every
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by direct tax, licenses which went into the
sinking and interest fund, and was paid di-
rectly 10 the creditors by the Treasurer
The other 81 ,500,000 was purchased up by
the Fund Commissioners with the $212, 0S0
which was raised by taxes for the Fund
Commissioners, and by the interest or
profit we made out of that S312,0S0.
And will say further, had not the Mayor
and other Trustees interfered with the
money that belonged to the Fund Commits
sonsrs and bad simply complied with the
plain letter of the law about our taxes, the
city debt would have been virtually paid
by this time, with only half the money
levied for us that asked for in my Original
scheme. And | will further say that the
Fund Commissioners so managed their
buying in of the city debt for period Of
eight years, that they Gid not enhance the
price Of bonds or coupons in the least
They went down from the first year 10 the
eighth year inclusive. They were lower
the seventh year than any previous year.
They also set out lower in the eighth than
in the seventh. BIT Mayor Brown put his
foot in it this year, and started them up,
and has managed TO keep them going up
most OF the time.
Now comes the second edition of another
little romance Of the Mayors. The first
edition was in the latter end of his article
in the RECORD UNION of June %. 1856. He
says, in his article of the 18th instant
q Note the fact that my first act on the
Board was to cut down the price they were
paying for bonds from 80 10 IS cents" A
short sentence. but it contains two pal
pable misstatements of fact First, he says
his FIRST act on the Board was TO cut down
prices, etc. Mayor Brown took his seat on
the Board February q, 1878 (see page 13 of
iourDaD. He made his motion to cut
down the price of bonds TO % cents on the
10Th OF May, 1S79-nearly fifteen months
after he took his seat If not very
useful during that period, he was certainly
very fussy; the record shows several acts
of his during that time. Second, he says he
reduced the price of bonds from 30 TO %
cents. This is another statement contrary
to the truth. The price of bonds was fixed
1878 (see journal, page 14), and it
never was changed from that until May
10, 1879, when Mr.. Brown made his famous
motion to reduce to Is cents. This motion
was accepted by Mr.. Lord and myself with
out any objection and so passed. (See
Journal of Fund Commission, page 15.)
In his former communication he says we
got all the bonds we wanted at that price.
We had money enough to pay for over
$4,000 in bonds. We kept that offer
standing for seven months, and got just
SIG, 100 in bonds-say about one-seTenth of
what we couid pay for. Then we had OF
readyertisein December. 1879 In January.
1880, we opened the bids and had to accept
Meyers bid for thirty odd thousand dol
lars at 34z cents-the highest price we
had paid since 1872. We only got 81 800
in bonds during the whole year, and that
ct price higher than an average for the
whole eight years.
This was not the end of our experiment;
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person not attending church elsewhere invited
as long as we have loom TO seat them. Our seats
are tree and all will be made to feel at home.
United Brethren Church, corner of Four
tcenth and K understanding at II a. ~. and
sP. N. by Rev. =. p. Hamilton. Sunday-school
at 4. NJ. Prayer meeting Friday evening.
Young Mems Christian Association-E.
? C. Gilbert, Secretary Woodland Association, viii
address young men only Sunday afternoon at
$50 O'Clock. Good singing 10y male choir.
Young men come.
Sixth-street NJ. T. Church, between K
and 1.-The pastor, Rev. +. +. Ollie, will
preach morning and evening. Morning sub
ject: what Think Ye of Christi? Evening
''Christs Cure for Trouble III are welcome. .
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ficulties about his truths are that they
are mostly falsehoods, and those that are
in some sense true are nevertheless stated
III such way as to convey false impress
sion to those who do not understand the
subject. As an illustration, the Mayor
stated in another article that the funded
debt of Sacramento city in 1872
was only worth 100000 in the mar
ket. 1t is true the funded debt and Fin.
terest past due at that time only amounted
TO about 100000. The bonds when sold
at that time sold at about 80 cents and the
coupons at an average OF 10 cents-say
equivalent to $500 900 for the whole debt
But only few scattering bonds could be
had at such prices. Had anybody under
taken to buy up the whole of them they
would have risen to par, and double the
Mayors figures would not have bought
them.
This is mere pe;tifogging. No one can
say what is the market value of a thing not
for sale. Bat | viii state for the Mayors
benefit what was our situation then and
what it is now:
The city owed then on its funded bonds,
past due and future coupons, about 81 l50,-
000, payable in thirty-one annual install
ments, ranging in amount from 900 to
$4,000. The city owed large debt not
included in the funded debt. Among
others the Towle debt. $4,000, principal
and interest. The Legislature of 1912
also authorized the issuance of 1000 bond
for Fire Department, and certificates
of Indebtedness for new water works,
etc, Altogether the debt of the
city already contracted and author
lied by the Legislature, amounted TO
about s4,G00,000. all payable in thirty-one
years. But, leaving out the other debt, let
Us look at the funded debt. This 81, $780,
000 was payable in annual installments
ranging from $4,000 TO $i93 600 year. At
the rate we were paying $4,000 a year it
would have required eighty-two years to
pay the debt if no compound interest was
collectable. Ii interest on the coupons and
bonds was payable after due "a question
not then settled) the city could never pay.
The debt would grow faster than the city.
My scheme was to levy a tax of so cents
on the 500 for eleven years, and let The
Fund Commissioners have the money to
invest in the city bonds and coupons as we
have been doing. With that amount of
levy told the citizens we could virtually
buy up the city debt. Ii there were two or
three hundred thousand dollars not paid,
by that time it could be taken up by our
interest fund.
Had my scheme as introduced the bill in
the Legislature been passed, the debt would
have been paid two or three years ago. and
we would not have needed eleven levies of
30 cents each, as asked for, bat eight lev
les would have sufficed. Bat reduced and
cut down as our income has been, the city
debt in fourteen years has been reduced in
all about s2,600,60O or if we confine our
selves to the funded debt, it has been re-
duced about $2,l50000. OF this amount
about $780, 600 to $780, 900 has teen paid ont
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REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.
Tfiled August Il, 1861


June ., 1SS6-Estste of Thomas G. Hedgdon,
deceased to Thomas W. oNeil-East half of lot
!. q and 4, Thirteenth and Fourteenth streets;
4S37 80.
August 16, lss6-F. A. C. Nichols to F. L.
AIitchell-South 20 acres of east half of south
west quarter of section 20, township north,
range east; 81 49,.
August a, fsSi-w T. Kay to David Finch
Lots and ,, block G., town of Folsom; s275.
July 20, 1SS6-Florence \. Burden 10 Mrs.
Alice Ward-Nosth 30 feet of south 100 feet of
lot l, G and II, Seventh and Eighth streets: s459.
Angus: 10, lSS5-FraDcis Odermait to l.. H.
Todhunter-West 90 feet of north half of lot J.,
\ and NJ; Fifth and Sixth streets; 5000.
Filled August IL, 1851
August Il. 1SS6-Ci. PARENT to A. Pennie-Half
interest in 81 acres adjoining the city on the
east.
August II. 1856. PARENT to j. NJ Fenton-
Similar amount of property in same locality.
August IA. IsS6-A. Penuie to g. Parenti-H6lf
interest in u acres in same locality.
August l., lSS6-Leyy NJ. Adrich to Mary E.
Tuttle-Lot IS town 0, Elk Grove; 500.
August >. lSs6-Hiram 5. Hunt to Mrs. Grace
III. Hnnt-Soutl a. feet OF east % feet of los i.
F aud G. Seventh and Eighth streets: also, east
half OF south hnlf of lot S, Eleventh and Twelfth
c ana d streets.
deceased, to I. H. Cook-Lot 6, L aid ", Seven
ieenth and Eighteenth streets: 81 30.
Filed August is, 1856
January i. 1856 = James q. and Martha
1ltOhiHstll ~ l%Cto1 JdA-icS WI
n0lly-Pieee of land in the northeast quarter of
section Il, township north, range east; 81 eco
August is. lsS5-F. ]. and x. II. Rhoads to
Catherine Murray-Two-fiths of the east half
of lot g. B and c, Twelfth and Thirteenth
streets: and lots G and :, c and ID, Twelfth and
Thirteenth streets; SEQ.
Flied August To- 1896
August IL, ls-S-Judias Harlow TO weinsocS
& Lubin-West 100 acres OF southeast quarter OF
section Is. township north range east; e, 500.
August IL, 1ss6-Mary eastman and others to
John J, Cashman-Lot l., OF the Sheldon Grant,
containing 7Go acres.
November p. iS7-Charles L. Baker and wife
to George 3. Baker-0ne-fourth of an acre in
Brighton township.
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gear operated by Independent steam engines
and pumps. The steering gear is connected
also with steering wheels in the ordinary
manner-the pilot-house being 40 feet
above deck, aflordipg the helmsman q
clear view fore and aft. There are four
bridges running athwartship, and another,
fore and aft, connecting the pilot houses.
Upon the deck are four tracks, extending
the entire length, with capacity for forty
eight freight cars with locomotive, or twen-
ty-four passenger coaches of the largest
class. The aprons connecting the boat with
the slips at Benicia and Port Costa are each
100 feet long. with four tracks, so arranged
that freight and passenger cars are run
aboard without being uncoupled from the
locomotive. The aprons weigh each 150
tons, and are worked by a combination of
pontoons and counter weights by hydraulic
power. In the hold of the boat are COM
modious quarters for the officers and crew.
On the deck are rooms for the transaction
of railroad business.
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CITY BOND QUESTION.
Another Letter from Judge II. o. Beatty
Upon the Subject.

Eps. RECORD UNION The Mayor in n
communication 10 the REcoRD-USIoS of
the 1lth inst. says: Now, l think l
have proven every insinuation and charge
have made, and refuted every assertion
he has made | am not aware that lie
has refuted any assertion have made, or
shown the slightest inaccuracy in any
statement l have made, except in stating
the amount Of bonds and coupons pur-
chased | included small amount of money
we had on hand with the bonds and
coupons.
With regard to his statements, | will say
that never in the course of my life saw so
many glaring falsehoods published in the
same space. cannot pretend to go over
all his false statements, but will point out
few He says, in speaking of the scheme
to repudiate the 1s72-76 coupons in the
fall Of 1880: First, II concocted
the scheme" and refers to Mayor
Turner and Others TO prove it. Mayor
Turner comes out III communication and
saws that ~ il did not originate with Judge
Beatty he opposed it quite bit
terly." "At this 1.-THE passage of the resolu-
ton not to pay the earlier couponsi Judge
Beatty became very angry and left the
meeting, swearing he would have nothing
more 10 do with it.
Now / think this would satisfy any one
outside of o lunatic asylum, except Mayor
Brown, that this was an absolute falsehood
made ont of whole cloth. But the Mayor
was not content With charging that | con-
coctcd this scheme but he says: at was
not only concocted by Judge Beatty. but at
every meeting to push said agreement with
few favored bondholders was urged upon
the Trustees by Judge Beatty, and he was
the moving spirit and spokesman in the
whole affair Now in this there are more
ialsehoods than lines. and all proved to be
falsehoods by his own witness. First
did not concoct it. Second-There never
was any meeting to push said agreement,
and John Brown knew it when he wrote
that sentence.
There was q meeting OF the Trustees with
a few of the taxpayers, to consider my pro-
posed compromise-that was to raise the
81 per cent. tax for the bondholders. This
scheme of Reputation was tackled on to it
on the motion of Mr.. McClatchy. l was
not the leading spirit, and not the spokes.
man for the project.
But the most important insinuation here
is that this was scheme for the benefit of
certain favored bondholders. AS | have
clearly proved that | had nothing 10 do
with it. this insinuation cannot affect me.
But will say for Mr. McClatchy that there
never was a base. more false or groundless
insinuation uttered by mortal man.
There were no favored b0ndhoiders,
and, in the nature of things,
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THE i" SOLANO.v
The Immense Railroad Transfer Steamer

The Immense Railroad Transfer Steamer
for Crossing the Straits of Carquinez.
The double-ender transfer boat Solano,
used for transferring trains Of the Southern
Pacific Company across the Straits of Car
qainez, between Benicia and Port Costa, is
the largest boat of her class alloat. Her
dimensions are as follows: Length over all,
424 feet length on bottom, l06 feet hight
at sides at center Is feet inches; az the
ends, from bottom of boat, 10 feet 10 inch
es moldered BEAM CA feet: extreme width
over guards, ll6 feet Gambler, or reverse
shear OF deck, feet inches; draft, light,
feet; loaded, G feet inches; registered
tonnage, 3,511.3l tons. She has two YER
teal beam engines, cylinders GO inches
bore, II feet stroke, built by Harlan Il Hol-
lingsworth, of Wilmington, Del; wheels so
feet in diameter, with q buckets each, Il
feet face engines are driven by eight steel
boilers, each rs feet long, feet diameter,
shells containing 1I3 tubes. inches diam
eter by Is feet long; total heating surface
III the eight boilers, 1850 square feet !;
CRATE surface, 2SS square feet, capable OF
driving engines with 1000 horsepower
each. The boilers are placed in Pairs on
the guards, forward and abaft the
paddle boxes, connected with the engines,
so that one, or all, may be used at pleasure.
The engines are placed on the central line
of the boat, fore and aft OF the center of
boat eight feet, making distance from center
to center of shafts sixteen feet, and not
placed abreast of each other as is the usual
manner. The object of this arrangement
is to give room on the deck for four tracks,
and each wheel being driven By an indie
pendent engine enables the boat to be more
easily handled in entering the slips. Among
other novelties in her construction are four
Pratt truSses, arranged fore and aft, directly
under the tracks, varied in size TO meet the
strains upon them. These give longitudinal
stiffness, and connect the deck and the bot
tom of the boat, making her, in reality,
huge floating bridge. In addition, there
are eleven water-tight transverse bulk
heads, dividing the hull into twelve COM
partments. rendering her absolutely secure
from all danger of sinking, besides adding
additional stiffness to the boat here are four
balanced rudders at each end OF the boat,
III feet long by 81 feet deep, coupled to-
gether and worked by hydraulic steering
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ExrRA-sEss1oNAL NOTES.

Assemblyman Britt. OF Lake, whose name ap-
peared amongthe published LET ofthose attached
TO the petition TO the Governor for the calling
of the extra session, writes to the RECoRD-U MON
TO the effect that he did not sign the petition.
and is not entitled TO any share in the credit or
discredit attached 10 the affair
II is alleged that in addition to signing the pc
tition to the Governor fer the extra session, sew
eral of the signers (who have since voted against
the irrigation bllsl also wrote private letters to
the Governor urging him TO take the action he
a;