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Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-12-20
SAN FsAscIsco AND VICINITY.

The fair for the benefit of the Magdalen
Asylum netted 1921 so.
Founders Day. at the Hastings Law
College was celebrated on Saturday
The cable of the Mackay telegraph line
has been laid under the bay to oaklend.
Great crowds of people visited the wreck
of the Atlantic on Sunday. No more bodies
have been recovered.
James Long, one of the pioneers, died on
Saturday, and thus closed another page in
the volume of Argonauts.
Judge Van Fleet has sentenced Thomas
A. Collins, who assaulted Mrs. Bell some
months ago in the Park, to twenty-five
years in the State Prison.
During the past week fifteen deaths oc-
CURED in San Francisco from diphtheria,
and DR.. Meares attributes that unusual
death rate to bad sewerage and drainage.
One of the prettiest churches in San
Francisco, and the latest addition to eccle-
siastical architecture, is the new Methodist
Episcopal Church on the corner of Twenty
first and Capp streets.
Edward B. Loring, an engineer, died in
his home, on Saturday morning, from the
effects of injuries received last Monday
while he was oiling the machinery in
Spaulding's carpet-beating establishment
The argument in the Hope habeas cor
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-12-20

a GROWING SEcTIoN-The southeastern
section of this county, adjacent to Bear
river, hiss been receiving considerable at
tention of late from those desiring to pur-
chase lands for settlement The altitude of
that region is about 1,500 feet above sea
level, and the lands sTe well adapted to vine
and fruit culture and general farming. The
disposition is ID buy small holdings, twenty
or forty-acre tracts, and those who have
been holding large tracts begin to realize
that it is good policy to so divide up their
lands as to induce settlement. There is
also in contemplation the construction
of ditch to convey water for irrigation
purposes, which is entirely practicable,
and its accomplishment would greatly en-
hance the value of the lands in question.
There is great extent of territory in the
western and southern portions of this
county extending from Bear river north
westward toward the Yuba that offers fine
inducements for settlers, as the lands are
good and the climate mild and healthful
These lands have faiBgrowth of timber,
are not expensive to clear up, and they
are held as yet at very moderate prices. II
will not be long before they will be in
quite active demand, aud then there will
be an increased price put upon them.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-12-20
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.

Filled December IA 1885,
August 10. 1SS6-Addie and George E. Mails to
James A. Love-Piece of land on the Sacramento
and Placerville Railroad: 500.
December l, 1SS6-William A. Pearson to " A.
Brown-West half of the northeast quarter, and
the east half of the northwest quarter of section
IL, township north range s east; 81 500.
Filed December Is, 1861
December 10, 1SS6-F. A. Jones to Mrs. C. NJ.
Treat-West 60 feet of lot 5, in the town of Elk
Grove; $500
December 10, 1SS6-F. A. Jones to S. A. Jones
Lot in the town of Elk Grove.
December Is, 1SS6-James NJ Henderson and
wife to Bartlett Kreuzberger-East GO feet of lot
2, NJ and n, Sixteenth and Seventeenth streets;
81 200.
Filled December 16, 1885,
December l6, 1Ss6-Mary Shower to Julia NJ.
Beebe-Thirteen and one half acres just east of
the city.
December 15 1SS6-Hiram Englert to Obed
Harvey, Sr.-Lot 5, block 2, town of Gait; 81 ,1OO
Filled December II. 1856.
December 10, lSS6-Isaiah Dunlap, by ]. W.
Wilson, Sheriff, to Sacramento Stamm, No. 124-
West half of lot 6, NJ and n, Fourth and Fifth
Streets g, 400.
December Is, 1Ss6-Sacramento Stamm, No.
ia, to Gustav Wahl-Property last mentioned;
&, $50 65.
June T. 1ss6-Heury wittenbrock to Frances J..
Observation-Disclosures quarter of the northeast
quarter, and lots 2 and OF section "a, township
10 north, range east
November %, 1SS5-Richard Reed and wife to
Katie Waldron-Lots and 10, block 40, town O
Folsom; $500.
December II, 1850. s. Ford to Susan NJ.
Ford-Lots and s, o and P, Thirtieth and
Thirty-trst streets.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-12-20

DEATH OF VIRGIL WILLIAMs.-Virgil
Williams, Director of the San Francisco
School of Design. died yesterday morning
at his farm near st. Helena The death
was sudden, Mr.. Williams being unwell
only few hours. The term of the School
of Design closed week ago yesterday, and
Mr.. Williams, accompanied by his wife,
went up to the farm, which for years past
has served him as vacation retreat and
shooting-box He was hunting in the hills
every day, complaining to his wife on one
or two occasions, however, that he must be
growing old, as he could not climb the
hills as easily as he once could. On Fri
day morning he set out with his gun and
dogs. but at 2 o'clock he returned feeling
very i'll and scarcely able to drag himself
into the house. He complained of severe
pains in the region of his heart His wife
applied some simple remedies, and toward
evening he expressed himself as much bet
ter. However, at his wife's solicitation, he
concluded he would come down to the city
yesterday and consult his family physician.
About midnight he was taken with pains
anew, suffering excruciatingly. 1t was i'm
possible to secure medical assistance, and
at o'clock he was seized by spasm and
passed away, his wife standing by his side,
but powerl rs to relieve him.-S T. Clsron-
icle December 18Th.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-12-20

THERE are evidences of disintegration
in the Order of Knights of Labor not pro-
phetic of its stability The revolt of the
Cigarmakers' Union against it has been
maintained. Now comes the news of the
formation of trade assemblies by skilled
workmen in the Order. This means that
the Trades Unions, having failed of fusion
in the Order of the Knights, the latter is
to go to pieces presently upon the rocks of
mere advisory union. There cannot exist
an organization made up of the member
ship of other organizations that have
within them still other organizations and
for the advocacy of methods not approved
by the first. That is to say, the new trade
assemblies-which include the local as
semblies of the mixed bodies known as
district assemblies-will absorb the vital
ity Of the knights and leave the latter a
mere form, to be used or put aside at will
And the reason for this is apparent. The
trade assemblies will embrace in each
group a membership common in purpose
and method, and these will never accord
to broad and general policies that would
require some subsection of their local in
terest.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-12-20
THE STRIKES IN SAN FRANCISCO


While the street-car strikers disavow
participation in the outrages in San Fran
cisco. which have had for victims women.
children and wholly disinterested travel
ers by the street lines, they must bear the
burden of the infamy, and ought to be held
to rigid accountability. Wholly aside from
any claim of equity in their cause. the
strikers are engaged in nefarious work, for
their occupancy of the streets. and their
attempt to prevent the roads involved from
receiving business, is that form of the boy
colt which New York Courts recently held
TO be criminal. Here we have the amaz-
ipg spectacle of men who voluntarily cease
work for street railway companies, endeav-
oring, by menace and solicitation upon the
public highway, to prevent people from
riding upon the cars of the assaulted lines.
The police department of San Francisco
appears to be unequal to the task of pro-
tecting either passengers or the property
of the companies from assault and damage.
1t is full time that these outrageous at
tempts to run other peoples business
were stopped. If the authorities are I'M
equal to the task, they will find no Diff
Guilty in securing the aid of the people
who believe in sacredly guarding the in
aIienable rights of free men, whether
they are street railway owners or
employees 1t looks now as if
marshaled lawlessness had cowed the po-
lice departments of the government in
San Francisco. The paraIleIism drawn
of the claim of right by the strikers to
occupy the line of the roads and drive bust
ness from them, and the guaranteed right
of the companies to run their cars with
such labor as they may choose to employ,
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-12-20
THE FOLLY OF ExcUsING CRIME.

Over in the State of Nevada they have
had some twenty years of experience in
licensing a vice for the sake of revenue.
Gambling has there been conducted under
letters patent, as We might say, fortified by
the broad seal of the State But here is
the leading journal of Nevada, the Ter
ritorial Enterprise, which speaks by the
card, denouncing the whole system. The
Carson Appeal had said: "If you could
stop the lottery craze by refusing to license
it, it would be a different matter"
Precisely the same argument has been
used insCalifornia in defense of PROPOSE
ton to license the most vicious forms of
gaming. The Enterprise replies to all such
fallacious argument, that it is no argu-
ment at ALL
Reduced to plain words. it means that what
ever vice community may have tenderness
for should be rendered easy of qualification by
legal enactment. This is a novel view to take
of the functions of governmeu Most people
have been educated 10 the belief that where a
vice shows such a tendency to run riot as gam
bling does in Nevada, it is the duty of the law
making power TO stamp il out by prohibitory
statutes. This doctrine is sound, too. unless it
can be shown that the love of gambling is a
salutary trait.
There is no answer to be made to that,
nor to this: "To expect immigrants to
come to State which looks upon lottery
gambling as a legitimate industry, is to
invite disappointment" And we under
take to say now, that if the officers of the
law were true to their official obligations
they could close up the open and notorious
policy shops in California and put an end
to the sale of lottery tickets here. which
are now disposed of and trafficked in with
out concealment. Some secret activity in
the vice would probably continue; but
that is true of all vice. 1t is not possible
to prevent all commission of crime, since
there is a limit to ingenuity in the law
But whenever people seek to excuse the
demoralizing, on the weak ground of ina
bility to wholly crush it out, they confess
to decadence of the moral sense that IN
time, as surely as effects are traceable to
causes, will put the community upon a
dead level with the lowest forms of civil
ization and corruption and make it moral
pauper.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-12-20
Cooperation.
is. f Evening Post I


Senator Stanford is about to introduce a
bill to facilitate cooperation among work
ingmen. He believes that the power to
labor is equivalent to the possession of a
certain amount of capital, and that when a
number of men pool their productive abil-
ity they should be able to form corpora
ton as strong as if it were composed of
stockholders whose contributions to the
enterprise were made in money.
While the millennium is no more likely
to come through such means than through
the naturalization of land or the suppress
sion of the liquor traffic, each of which is
believed by its enthusiastic advocates to be
the one reform needed to undo the effects
of Adams fall, every facility ought to be
given to labor to combine to the best
advantage. The real legislation of Con-
gress-that which was meant to be effect
i've, and was not passed simply for bum
combe-has all been in the interest of cap
ital. Money. which can always take care of
itself with tolerable effectiveness, has been
helped by national bank laws, railroad
laws and every other method to employ
itself with still great convenience. Now,
the main use of capital is to employ labor.
In almost every productive enterprise
wages is the largest direct item of expense,
and indirectly almost all the other items
become questions OF wages as well. If,
therefore, the labor can employ itself, pay
ing itself out of the returns of the business,
most of the necessity for the capitalist dis
appears. Senator Stanfords bill is intend
ed TO enable workingmen to make the mo
of the latent wealth that lies in their
muscles and brains. 1t proposes to open
the way to labor corporations, whose men,
berS shall have the advantages which the
present laws give to stock holders in money
corporations.
1t is not likely that the social problem
will be finally solved by such means, but
they will tend to relieve the present strain,
and to bridge over the gap between an old
system in decay and a new system not yet
thought out. They will give openings to
the energetic workingmen whose discon-
tent is so painful to the feelings of con-
servatives. If the whole industrial world
were divided among cooperative corpora
tions it is not likely that the mass of work
ers would be materially benefited. There
would be competition between societies as
there now is between individuals and
firms; the stronger and shrewder would
succeed, and the weaker and duller would
be crowded to the wall. But it will be long
before cooperation reaches such point as
to bring its own dangers. Meanwhile ii
would give an outlet for the energy that is
wasting itself in strikes. 1t would help to
overcome the objection to trades unions,
that they ignore capacity and reduce labor
to dead mechanical level. Under sys-
tenn in which combinations of producers
were common, mediocrity would work for
wages and brightness would set up for it
self
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-12-20

As VIEWED 0UTsIDE.-The citizens of
Sacramento have shown judgment and en-
terprise in the leyying of special tax for
the purpose of advertising the country
tributary to her. FL Dorado county is
tributary, has fine soil and resources, and
will reap portion of the benefits, yet our
county win not subscribe a dollar to help
on the good cause. With such class of
men managing county affairs, is it Won
der that the Sacramento and Plaeeryille
Railroad shops are ten. miles away from
whether we have free roads or toll roads,
that the city dare not incorporate for fear
of having to pay inst debts-in fact, is il
not wonder that our county has any life
in it, or any population.-Aouitan Demo-
Graf.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-12-20

pus case was continued by Judge Toohey
on Saturday until Tuesday next, when
Governor Stoneman. who has been SUBJ
penaed, is expected in Court with all the
papers in the case.
James Harding, the painter who fell
from house in course of construction on
the corner of Jones and Bush streets on
Friday morning, died on Saturday in the
receiving hospital. He was a native of
Massachusetts, A years of age and unmar-
ried.
A petition for the incorporation of the
Miners Aduocate Publishing Company was
on Saturday filed by A. 3. Hull, James II.
Crossman, j. NJ. Verdenal, r. Chute and
F. F. Carnduff The company proposes to
publish in this city newspaper named
the Miners allocate, devoted to mining in
terests. The capital stock is stated at $50,-
600.
The strike among the messenger boys
still continues. The companies, American
District and San Francisco, have agreed to
increase the compensation of the boys so
that with reasonable diligence an active
boy can easily earn rs cents day, the sum
demanded by the strikers, but under no con-
ditions will the companies pay the boys by
the day. The boys have thus far declined
the offer.
The Board of Regents Of the University
held an executive session Friday afternoon
at the Mechanics Institute. The only in
formation CLEANED was that loan of $13 900
had been made to Mr.. Johnson, of Oak
land. Another application for large loan
was rejected. The application of Professor
Patzger, of the German department of the
University, for an appropriation of 81, los
for German library was granted.
At about 4 o'clock Saturday morning
officer Conboy attempted to remove sup
posed drunken man from the sidewalk,
when he discovered the man was dead. AS
blood was found oozing from his right ear,
and his pockets were turned wrongside out,
it was at first supposed murder had been
committed. But upon making an autopsy.
DR.. Blach decided that death resulted from
natural causes. The body was identified
as that of Thomas Philips, fireman on
the steamer Santa Rosa. Deceased was a
native of Ireland, about As years of age,
and unmarried.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-12-20
California Fruits in Eastern Markets


The weekly market review of Amory
Bigelow, Chicago, concerning California
fruits, under date Of December 10th, saws
=" The trade in California raisins has been
active, but the jobbers are well supplied
and stocks are somewhat accommodating in
hands of some who have not large dis
tributing trade outside of the CITY. We
shall continue TO close out consgnments
promptly, when consistent with fair market
values, as the present outlook is not favor
able to holding.
California prunes are meeting with in
creased favor this season, and will ulti-
mately be in better demand than the i'm
ported French. for they are certainly
superior in everyIespect, and the prices
now being obtained will stimulate our
California friends in their efforts towards
an increased production. All consign-
ments are closed out, and more could be
sold at good prices.
"Our market quotations are to-day: For
raisins, London layers. 81 70 to 81 IS; loose
Mus atels, 81 so to 81 60 per 2l-pound
box; prunes, as to size, per pound, 7 to II
cents; apricots, evaporated, 25-pound
boxes, "a to % cents; sun-dried in sacks,
Is to 16 cents; peaches, evaporated, peeled,
50-pound boxes, % to 26 cents; unpeeled,
50-pound boxes, 16 to IL cents; sun-dried,
in sacks, 10 to 16 cents; plums, pitted, So
pound boxes, Is to 49, cents; almonds,
soft shell, Is to Isl cents; walnuts, 13 cents"
A letter from Pancoast & Griffiths, pro-
duce commission merchants, Philadelphia,
written to the REcoRD-UNIoN, under date of
the 18th inst, concerning the market of
that city is as follows:
The Philadelphia fruit market has not
been in better shape and more promising
for many years. There was not half a
general crop of winter apples east of the
Rockies, and this was mostly of common
and unkeeping quality and has been well
cleaned up. Nova Scotia yielded splen-
didly. but as the European crop is failure
that stock is finding its usual market in
Liverpool and London. The supplies of
dried apples and peaches are proportion
ately light, and prices tending up. The
Florida orange crop, estimated to be half
last year, is running largely russell, but
good quality, and selling freely already at
So to So 90 per box at private sales. 1t
seems to be very favorable season for the
substantial introduction of California
raisins here, and, although the fourth sea-
son of California raisin- grape culture and
curing for market, it is the first to seriously
interfere with the Mediterranean product
The few cars of California stock that have
been properly offered here this season are
claSsed prime, and compete favorably with
the imported at 81 to 81 25 for London and
81 75 to 81 for loose Muscatel, three crown.
The quality is fine; improved methods of
curing and more skill in packing show now
murh more merchantable article-yerv
different from that previously offered. The
best California brands are inquired for and
receipts are not'permitted to accumulate"
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-12-20
nit shippers, ] street, be-

Gregory & BARNES, fruit shippe,r.s, street. be-
tween Front and Second
S. Gerson & Co., fruit shippers street, be-
tween Second and Third.
A; S. Hopkins & Bro, wood and willow ware
dealers, street between Third and Fourth
Holbrook, Merrill & Ststsonc stove dealers
street, between Second and Third.
A: A. Van VOORHEES, & Co. saddle and harness
dealers, street, between Third and Fourth.
Puget Sound Lumber Co., G. W. Elliot, mana
ger. Second street. between II and /.
Richards & Knox, lumber dealers, Second
street, between L and NJ
Friend < Terry Lumber Co., Second street, be-
tween NJ and N
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-12-20

IT is but justice to record the fact that
the San Francisco press has been both gen
erous and Just in its reports of and COM
ments upon the Citrus Fair and the inter
probation of its meaning. The San Fran
cisco press needs still more to devote energy
to the building up of the interior. In its
prosperity it will find its own.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-12-20
San FRANCISCO AGENCIES.

The paper is for sale at the following places
L. P. Fisher, Room 81, Merchants Exchange,
who is also Sole Advertising Agent for San
Francisco; Grand and Palace Hotel News
Stands; Market-street Ferry and junction of
Market and Montgomery street News Stands.
az Also, for sale on all Trains leaving and
coming into Sacramento.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-12-20

The REooRD-UNIoN IS the only paper on
the codst, outside OF San Francisco, that re-
ceives the full associated Press dispatches from
all parts of the q0orId. Outside of San Fran
cisco il has no competitor, in point of num-
6ers, in its home ard general circulation
throughout the coast.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-12-20

The BIG TUNNEL.-The Nevada CITY
Herald says: We are informed on good
authority that the Gold Bank Tunnel Com
panys scheme is almost certain to run a
tunnel from the Yuba river south, to drain
all the mines in the region lying around
the Providence. Mr.. Williams, the regular
expert of the English syndicate interested
in the enterprise, has been here for few
days. He thinks favorably of the pros
pect, and says the syndicate has already
raised 100000 for working capital. II
this enterprise is successfully carried out,
1t will be of great benefit to the district 1t
will open up mines all along the contact
line upon which the gold belt is located. 1t
omens {sic) well for the success of the
scheme that such men as Hon. ]. NJ. Wal
ling, Pref. Muller and other prominent
and reliable gentlemen are taking an in
terest in it.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-12-20
GENERAL NOTICES.

Advice to- GsotEers.-Mrs. Wtnslow's
SOOTHING SYRUP should always be used when
children are cutting teeth. II relieves the little
sufferer ct once; it produces natural, quiet sleep
by relieving the child from pain, and the little
cherub awakes as ' bright as button" 1t is
very pleasant to taste. II soothes the child,
softens the gums, allays all pain, relieves wind,
regulates the bowels, and is the best known
remedy for diarIhoea, whether arising from teeth
ing or other causes. Twenty-Five cents bottle.
mr15 lyMWS
8. 8. S e. L. Southworth, Dentists, Sac.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-12-20

TURKEYS and chickens suffering with
cholera can be cured by st. Jacobs Oil.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-12-20

IT is possible that the Cars resolution
to grant his people constitutional form of
government has experienced chill. Moth
ing has been heard of his spasm of reform
since the brief dispatch of seven days ago.
announcing his intention to call his cabinet
together to frame a Constitution. His
father experienced precisely like symp-
tom of wisdom in his time, but soon re-
Tented his good intentions. Czarism has a
hold upon Russia that is not to be shaken
off without great CONFUSION. If it should
relax voluntarily it will be one of the most
fateful and momentous incidents in the
history of civilized peoples.