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Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-01-30

FIGHT WITH A PYTHoN.-Toward the
end OF 1882 several English newspapers re-
printed from journal published in Singa-
pore the account of fight between a man
and python, which would indicate that
the Guy Livingstone type of muscular
heroes is not extinct among Europeans in
that settlement. One day news was
brought TO the curator of the museum that
a great python, which was on exhibition
there, had escaped from its box, and was
careering about the building, no doubt
thoroughly enjoying the fight of the at
PENDANTS and visitors. The brute was no
less than % feet long. At that moment
the curator happened to have bottle of
carbolic acid in his hand. It was q most
exciting tussle when they came together,
and for few moments the shivering
natives could not make out which was
snake and which was man." The guardian
OF the museums treasures had secured a
firm grip of the python's throat, but on the
other hand the serpent had coiled its
crushing folds around his legs. Had it
been question Of strength merely, the boa
must have won the day the curator would
soon have been only fit 10 make a stuffed
mummy in his own museum. But after a
struggle or two more. ne managed cleverlv
10 decant the bottle Of carboiic acid down
the reptiles throat-the grip on which he
had never relaxed. The boa had been evil
Gently unaeoustumed TO the drink-nay. it
evidently disagreed with him. The coils
loosened from the curators limbs. cor
vuisive shUdder went through the entire y
feet of snake, and in a few minutes the
great python was dead After which it is
70 be hoped that the spectators gratefully
brought their deliyerer somethingreyiving.
for wrestling with a python in the tropics
must be decidedly warm work.-IGood
Words.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-01-30

REVIVAL OF BUsINEss.-The trade out
look has recently greatly changed for the
better in the United States 4 demand
has sprung up for all kinds of goods,
and better feeling exists than has been
felt since the summer of 1881. The
railway wars have come 10 AN end. and
as a consequence there has been a
remarkable appreciation of securi-
ties of all kinds; fully 20 per cent. has been
added TO the market value of bonds and
stocks. As the total valuation of our rail-
way system, as represented bg its securi-
ties, aggregates over $S,000,000 600. the ef-
feet is felt in every part of the coun-
try. The community feels richer. an
consequently more able TO spend and
to consume. Our crops of corn, cotton,
oats and fruit are exceptionally large. The
demand for our petroleum also is steadily
increasing, and hence it really seems as if
the revival in business is genuine and
likely to last.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-01-30

BREAD, saturated with st. Jacobs Oil,
cures chicken cholera. Force it down throat
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-01-30
THE, BEST

Hair restorative in the world is HALLS
HAIR REVIEWER. 1t cures al diseases of
the scalp, and stimulates the hair glands
TO healtLful action. Il stops the falling of
the hair; prevents its turning gray; cures
badness, and restores youthful color and
freshness OF appearance to heads already
white with age. The following are few
illustrations of what is done by
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Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-01-30
CHEESEMAN'S Specific Mixture.

With this remedy persons can cure themselves
without the least exposure change of diet or
ehange in application TO business. The medi-
cine contains nothing that is Of the least injury
70 the constitution. Ask your druggist for it,
Price, 81 a bottle. n7.IyT1ls
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-01-30

The total rainfall at Woodland this sea-
son is 1912 inches.
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LIFE SCHOLARSHIPS, So

SEND FOR CIRCULARS.
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than Of saving q certain amount Of
money. AS things stand, If an Amer
lean holding national bond is
paid In silver 1t is a matter OF
little difficulty to get the silver
into q shape that will transform the
amount coming TO the creditor into
gold. But our bonds are on the worlds
markets, and are held by persons in
other lands, and privileges and oppor-
tunities open to us who reside in this
country are not proftably available to
persons resident abroad. Amid the
clamor and contention now going on
upon this subject II is well worth going
back to the penonal and official ex-
pressions given in the Herald that
had public utterance at the time the
manner OF settling the war debt was
under discussion. Whatever conclu-
sion the unbiased reader may arrive
at, as true American he must con-
tend that by no act, no tampering with
equivocal words, shall any engagement
his country has made be violated, but
that all that her honor, her dignity,
her grand, good name require shall be
done to the utmost punctilio.
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the purpose, in which the comfort Of
the cattle would be consulted and over
crowding prevented, and that all rail-
road and steamboat companies en-
gagged in such traffic be required to
provide proper yards at stated dis
tances where the cattle could be un-
loaded and supplied with pure water
and good food, and that at such points
the cars or boats engaged in such
transportation be thoroughly cleansed
and disinfected. It is further recon-
mended that on the appearance OF the
disease among the cattle, either in the
infected section or among cattle in
process OF transportation, system OF
strict quarantine be established, and
that no infected cattle, or cattle ex-
posed to injection, be permitted to
leave the quarantine or be offered for
sale within forty days, or until the
extreme period Of incubation has ex'
pired
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-02-26
The Duke Of sevIIIe's Sentence Con.
firned


MADRID, February 25.-The Su-
preme Council Of War has confirmed
the sentence imposed on Don En-
rique De Bourbon, Duke of Seville
and lieutenant. colonel of the regiment
OF Albuera. This places Don Enrique
on the balf-pay list. His offense was
the utterance Of disrespeCtful and
abusive language against the Queen
Regent. He attempted to force his
way into the presence of the Queen at
a time when she had given orders
that she would receive no one but
Cardinal Benavides. 1t was claimed
by the offenders friends that he was
under the influence of liquor, but he
was on military duty at the palace as
guard, and when repulsed from the
Queens door slandered her. This
subjected him to a court-martial, and
the Bourbon family felt the disgrace
of the young dukes sentence so keenly
that they offered no interference to
the course of military proceedings
against their relative, who all dur
ing the trial was treated as an
ordinary officer. The Dukes father
also named Don Enrique De Bourbon
was, it will be remembered, killed
(eome historians say murdered) by the
Due De MontpensieT, the father o.
Mercedes, Alfonso's first wife, in one
OF the most remarkable duels evel
fought. This took place on the Ar
tillery grounds, near Madrid, or
March IL, 1870, and after each com
Blatant had fred two ineffective shot
and Don Enrique had wasted his third
the Due De Montpeneier took DELHI
crate aim and shot his Antagonist
through the head, killing him almost
instantly.
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Clerks, Repef IcIal League.

WAsHINaToN, February 25.-An as
ISOLATION was incorporated here yes.
terday under the name OF the Clerks
Beneficial League. Il is compo led OF
government clerks, and its object is 10
assist discharged clerks by paying to
each 5000 when removed. The asso.
citation was formed s year and half
ago, but was not incorporated because
OF the change in the administration,
the projectors being fearful that 1t
would not succeed on account of the
sweeping discharges that were ex-
pected. The present Administrations
policy has been 30 conservative in
that respect that it was thought safe
to 90 ahead. Each member is re-
quired to pay an initiation fee OF 81,
aad whenever a member is discharged
a sufficient sum ito make the 1900 is
assessed upon the remaining mem
bsrs. There are two classes Of clerks
composing the association, one con-
sistinR of those under the civil service
law, and the other the per diem clerks
and those outside of the law
Branches will be established in all the
large cities for the postotfice and Gus
tom-house clerks,
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-02-26
New Kind OF sensation at Paris.

PARIS, February Pa new kind OF
sensation was made in the Chamber
OF Deputies this afternoon. A strange
man in one OF the galleries excitedly
drew a revolver, fred it twice with
downward aim, and then coolly threw
a letter toward M. Clemenceau. The
man was quickly seized and hurried
out by the police. When the excite
ment had subsidized flattened bullet
was found at the feet of the President
of the Chamber. The prisoner said
he was a soldier who had been so i'll
treated by his superiors and ignored
by the officers Of justice that he re-
sorted to the desperate expedient OF
creating the sensation in the Chamber
of Deputies in order to secure atten-
ton to his grievances. The prisoner
gave his name as Horier, and said he
was an officer in the French army. He
asserted that the letter which be
threw toward M. Clemenceau con-
tanned an offer TO give the government
the names of the betrayers of Metz.
In a latter declaration the prison.
or said that in no other way &c
we'll as that he had chosen could he
attract 30 much attention TO himself "a
what he desired to tell the public. He
wished, he declared, 10 have attention
drawn to his trial, because at 1t be
would greatly add to the information
now possessed by the French people
about the surrender at Metz and the
presence of German spies in the French
army. The culprit's name is nov
gwen as Peronnier. He Is undoubt
eddy insane. He served in the French
army in the Franco.G German war.
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The shin hallway RilI

WASHINGTON, February 25.-The
substitute for Mr.. Reagan's bill, to in
corporate the Atlantic and Pacific Ship
Railway Company, was reported hack
to the House to-day. The changes OF
interest made in the original bill by
the committee are as follows: A re-
quirement that the railway shall trans
port vessel of 1000 tons burden, in
stead of 5000, before the liability Of
the government begins; a provision
that the obligation OF the government
shall cease unless the company shall
keep the road in good repair, which
shall be evidenced by il safely trans
porting a vessel which with its cargo
aball weigh not less than 1000 tons
an amendment making the lawful cur
rency Of the United States. or its
equivalent, and in the case of Mexican
vessels transported the Mexican silver
dollars, receivable for tolls (the orig
insl bill provided for payment in
gold): q provision for the trial before
the United ST. pcourts OF controver-
sizes arising ;-.4his country between
the company and its stockholders OF
the United States, excluding questions
arising in Mexico, or affecting the
company's territorial rights.
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-02-26
The HAWAIIAN Treaty,

WASHINGTON, February 25.-Mr.
Carter, the Hawaiian Minister, said
to-day, in regard to the statement fur
nished to the Ways and Means Com
mittee by Mr.. John E. Searles, j.,
about the Hawaiian treaty, that 1t is
nearly four years since Mr.. Searles Wis
tied Hawaii, and thai the report which
he then signed with the other two
commissioners, was considered very
favorable to the treaty, and was so
mentioned by Secretary Folger in his
annual report Of 1888. Minister Car
ter said that the statement that the
duties remitte I'D would pay for the ex-
ports to Hawaii might be made in re-
gard to our trade with most any other
country. One might ss we'll say that
the duties remittsd by the United
States on coffee would pay for all
American exports to Brazil; one might
az we'll say that in any bargain he had
made gift by not charging more THAI
he had charged. He added that a
counter statement would shortly be
made before the Ways and Means
Committee by his counsel. he re-
garded the attack upon the treaty as
the outgrowth OF business jealousy be-
tween the refiners Of New York and
San Francisco.
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-02-26
EAION,s ANSWER.

For practical good sense commend
us to Dorman B. Eaton. His head;is
level on all questions, and especially
on civil service reform. The Rspub-
licans are trying to show that Presi-
dent Cleveland is proscriptive, and as
proof refer to the removals in the
New York Custom House. Dorman
B. Eaton, in an article in Lippinootfs
Magazine, recalls the fact that few
years ago when Republican collectors
succeeded Republicans In the New
York Custom.House, one removed $50
Of his sos subordinates, another $40
out OF S92 in sixteen months, and q
third three every FIVE days until $50
had been cast out. By the present
Democratic collector, with 1900 en-
ployes under him, only about seven
changes have been made, while less
than $50 OF the 2207 officials in the
Treasury Department have been die
placed since the Inauguration OF Presi-
dent Cleveland.
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-02-26
AFFAIRS IN GUATEMALA.
A sad Condition OF Affairs Prevail
ing.

NEW York, February 25.-The Mad
and Express publishes an extract from
a private letter from Director General
Pratt of the Guatemala service. He
Gays there are daily arrests there OF
political offenders; that it is lumored
that Mrs. Barrios, widow Of the late
President of the republic, and now a
resident OF New York City, has given
100000 to assist in fomenting disorder;
that two vessels under the Costa Ri
can flag, with men and arms, have
been off the coast Of Honduras; that
Soto, late President of Honduras, also
resident in New York, is aiming at the
Presidency Of Guatemala, Honduras
and Salvador. A reporter for the pa
per visited the peRons mentioned,
who live in adjoining houses, in great
elegance, on Madison avenue, but who
are not OH speaking terms. Mrs. Bar
rios is said to own property in Guate-
mala valued at $l4,000,000. She de-
MED having sent any money to her
native country IS charged. Ex-Presi-
dent Soto denied that plans were on
foot to make him Chief Executive of
the three republics. He described
President Bogran, who succeeded him
in Honduras, as bloodthirsty tyTant,
and said that he (Soto) had secured
the enmity of the lsts President Ba'-
rios because he refused to play the
role now undertaken by Bogran.
The reporter suggested to him that
mauy people believed him the owner
and filter out Of the steamer City OF
Mexico, recently seiE I'd by the United
States for violation Of the neutrality
laws.
He said: al have declined to dis
cuss this matter before, further than
to give simple negative answer, but
l think the time has arrived when
should speak more in detail. The
City Of Mexico is not owned by me
OF my agents. She is not IN
command Of the revolving Gen. Del
gado, but is naviRated solely under the
orders of Capt. Kelly, who sailed IN
her from this port. She is an unarmed
merchant vessel, and not cruiser oil
tIoopship. She is now at Key West
and will doubtless be promptly, re-
leased. Gen. Delgado and about
twenty-five Hondurans, who fed from
the prosecutions OF Bogran, are
aboard. There is not an arm
aboMd except the signal gun, which
every steamer carries. She cleared
regularly from Belize, in British Hon.
duras, where she took her passengers
who were to be landed at Blue Fields
oa the Mosquito coast. She then
steamed to st. Andreas. The filibus
tering party reached there ahead o.
her, and the crew Became SO much
sngered at being kept at sea for no
purpose that they refused TO dc
further duty. They delivered them
selves up to the American com
mercial agent, who represents
the American consul at 81. An
drsas, and he communicated with the
Consul at Aepinwal, who notified
Admiral jarrett of the trouble. These
are all the facts, and if they consti
tute the City OF Mexico pirate, why
she is a pirate, and her crew should
be hung at the yard-arm. Bot pirate
orno pirate, | have had nothing to DC
with her.
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the Cattle PIAEae An the west and
south.

WASHINGTON, February 25.-Repre-
sentative Swinburn, to whom all mat.
ters relating to cattle fever In the
Western States, Texas fever or cattle
plague in the Southern States were
referred by the House Committee on
Agriculture, has made report on the
euhiect, in which he makes thorough
scientifc review OF the question. He
says the condition Of t5e infected cat
tie and the symptoms before death,
combined with the appearance of the
animal after death, all lead him to be-
lieve that there Is astrong analogy be.
tween cholera In the human race and
the so-called Texas plague in cattle in
the manner Of its mode of propaga.
ton and spread among cattle, as well
as very many conditions and symp-
toms in common with yellow fever.
1t would seem that the dis ease, Ike
cholera, is spread by the excretions
OF the infected cattle in the course OF
Transportation, and that cattle which
have been apparently free from the
disease have possessed the germs
which they have in course OF
transportation, and which have
been received by and infected
other cattle. Should this be true, the
report says, the remedy would be very
simple, and may be made effectual by
an efficient quarantining Of all dis
eased cattle or cattle that have been
exposed 70 the disease. In this case,
a board fence separating the well from
the SICK would be q sufficient prevent.
i've. DIR. Swinbarn expresses the
opinion that injected Northern OF
Western cattle do not transmit the
disease enc to the other. de recon-
mends an appropriation tor scientific
commission 70 investigate the plague
and discover, II possible, its cause he
also recommends the enactment Of
law rcQuiring the transportation o.
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THE STATE CAPITAL.
A WOMAN RUNNING AWAY PROM
A FORTUNE.
Judge Reds Recent DeeisiOn i'm
the Penitentiary "rime Allow
ance" Cases.
Especial TO TIE APPRAL.t

NASHVILLE, Tenn, February 25.-
Detective Norris, of Springfield, o.,
arrived here to-day and revealed
a sensational disappearance. Three
years ago Edward Lay, a wealthy
manufacturer at Bridgeport, Conn.,,
and his wife separated. Their only
child, girl, was given 10 Mrs. Lays
sister. The wife became a sporting
woman and went West, and in Omaha,
Denver City and Kansas City her
beauty and intelligence made her
noted. Last September Lay died
without a will, and his property,
worth $4,000, thereby went to his
wife and child. Trace was here lost
of the wife and detective was put on
her track. 1t was necessary to find
her to take out administration papers,
The detective has followed her four
months, but everyclew was intangible.
The woman was in Nashville week,
and was known as Ida Sherwood. The
detective came here, but she was
gone, end it was said by awoman who
met her that she had left for New Or
leans. Her other alias is Ida Clifford.
The detective is certain that she
knows of his pursuit Of her. He
thinks she avoids him because she has
enough refinement left TO desire to
end her DAYS in Obscurity and let the
fortune go to her child, rather than
claim it and blast the Child's future.
Mrs. Lay is a brunette, twenty-six
years old, and finely educated.
Mrs. d. w. Henry of franklin,
Tenn, was deserted to-day by her
husband. He left with $4,000 in his
pocket for Mobile, Ala, it is thought.
Mrs. Henry is daughter Of Chas.
Redmond, wealthy stock breeder,
and all the parties moved in high
| circles,
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American ins.itut. OF CivIcs.

WASHINGTON, February 25.-The
first annual meeting of the American
Institute OF Civics was held here last
evening, Chief Justice Waite, presi-
dent OF the Advisory Board, presid-
ing.
The annual address was delivered
by Henry b. Waite q Boston. The
other speakers were the Hon. }. X.
Hawley, Commissioner Eaton, DIR.
Geo. b. Loring, JusticeStrong, Jerome
Allen and Gen. r. ID. JIussey OF New
York. A Board of Directors was
elected, as follows; Chief Justice
Waite, Senator Colquitt, Gen. Eaton,
ex-President Porter Il Yale College,
President Johnston Of Tulane Uni
versity, Louisiana; the Hon. Hugh
McCulloch, President julius II. See
I've of Amherst College, Senator Nor
rill, Secretary Lama, Senator Haw-
ley, Senator Wilson, Senator Blair,
ex-Justice Strong, A. R. Spoford, Maj.
]. w. Powell and W. A. Newell OF
Baltimore.
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MUST WE PAY GOLD.

Oa Monday the New York Herald
cont aimed an article showing what title
and right the national bonds have to
be paid in gold. The word "coin"
used in the public acts Of that time
has, since the heavy decline that has
taken place in the current value Of sill
yer, become equivocal. The question
there fore arises whether the United
States would be justified in taking sd.
vantage Of an equivocAl word to save
itself some millions OF money by pay
ing the national debt, and the interest
upon Il, in Q coin that was, when the
debt was contracted, worth 100 cents,
In q coin the same in name but worth
only 79.lS cents2 Is the dollar Of
to-day q dollar in the same sense II was
when the debt was incurred? In pro-
portion AS interests differ opinion
differs upon this points there any
authority In existence In reference to
this diHerenceP The Hralds article
shows that the authority Of official
papers, and especially the expressions
used In Congress in precise and I'M
mistakable terms decided that the
debt and interest was to be paid
in gold. An effort was made TO
pay q position, ii not the whole, in
greenbaeks. In Congress one side
commended in favor Of gold" the
other side objected to gold" in pay.
ment, both sides using the word
gold" with frequency aud in man.
ner that cannot be mistaken. It is to
be wished that every one interested in
the question could read the article, as
it cites the names and expressions Of
the speakers. The decisive argument
appeared to be that as the United
States desired that its bonds should
be dealt in in the worlds markets, in
the same way as the bonds of other
nations, it was absolutely necessary
that payments upon them should be
made in the worlds currency. 1t is
for those who read what eminent and
official persons said in their official
character, legislative or administers
tive. 70 decide whether those expires
sions do not bind the United States tC
pay its bonds in gold. II It does, the
question Of whether that was the bes
policy or not is no songer open to th'
man who has sufficient regard for hi
eonutrrfn think more II maintaininl
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-02-26
The Educational Convention.

WASHINGTON, February 25.-At the
closing sessions Of the convention OF
the Department of Superinte ndence
of the National Educational Associa-
ton to-day Mr.. Warren Highley OF
New York read a paper on Forestry
in Education" He spoke of the
wanton destruction of forests in all
parts Of the world, and strongly urged
the importance Of instruction in the
elements OF tree culture in public
schools, and the observance OF arbor
days in all cities and towns in the
country. Other papers were read, as
follows: 81 language Training in Ger
man Sch o ols," by w. @. Dougherty OF
Illinois, and "City Supeiintendence,"
by ]. w. Akers of Iowa The conven-
ton then adjourned.