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Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-12-04
Our Serni-TrOpic.

Northern California is fast coming into
notoriety as the land of the orange and
other semi-tropical fruits. A citrus fair is
to be held at Sacramento comprising fruits
from the middle and northern counties,
and it promises to far excel even the State
Fair. After the exhibition, the Southern
Pacific Railroad Company has kindly of
fered to transport The fruit on exhibition to
Chicago free of charge, that the people of
the East may learn that northern California
has semi-tropical cline not excelled by
southern California.
1t is well-known fact that oranges ripen
in northern California month earlier than
they do in the southern portion of the
State. 1t is fact, too, that the average
temperature in the midland and foothill tier
of counties does not fall below that of
southern California. As an instance, the
temperature at Riverside, San Bernardino
county, on the 10Th inst, was 50 below the
freezing point, and Riverside is renowned
for its fine oranges while as far north as
Shasta the thermometer has not fallen to
so low point this fall. Says the Sentinel
The temperature in Red Bluff this fall
has not been down to freezing point, and
oranges, lemons, lines and olives are
growing and ripening nicely, and will, we
hope, be ripe enough to make creditable
eAEtDlL at lIlS CltIuS all Oh the 1Oln OF
December. The temperature in Tehama
county seldom goes down to the freezing
point, and flowers grow and bloom in the
open air all winter And Tebama county
is a northern county in every sense of the
word being 100 miles north of Sacramento
Few understand the peculiar climate of
California and the people at the East can
not realize the fact that a country in the
same latitude with New York city can
raise oranges, lemons, figs, and have flow
ers blooming in their yards the whole year
round. Yet such is the faet-and when
the people of the East are made acquainted
with these facts, northern California will
have a regular boom. Why, we have
seen peaches, figs, grapes, nectarines and
other tender fruits growing luxuriantly
near the very summit of the Sierra Nevada
mountains, 5000 feet above the level Of the
sea- And we have no doubt but what
oranges would grow there on the southern
slopes Of the mountain sides. Californiais
a great State, and wonderful as it is great.
NoE Hand Tl-ib7tY1e
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-12-04
TELEGRAPHIC BREYITIES.

1t turns out that the defalcations of Reed
the Boston financial gymnast, will foot up
some $4,000.
In the case of the National Soldiers
Home against General Butler, the jury
found verdict for S16,53 against General
Butler.
Articles of incorporation have been filed
for the San Bernardino and Los Angeles
Railroad with capital stock of 81, 100000
with 81 100000 actually subscribed.
Falkenberg, who is charged with an at
tempt to tamper with a juryman in the
case of doodle Alderman McQuade, has
been held for trial in the sum of 81 600.
Colonel Henry D. Wallen, United States
Army, retired, died Thursday of heart dis
ease. He was born in Georgia in 1915 and
commanded the Salt Lake exploring expe-
dition in 1859.
The Philadelphia Times contains an
article charging that gamblers and thieves
are running that city, and pay the police
for protection. The gamblers openly boast
that they are paying for police protection,
and that they are guaranteed immunity
until April 4, 1887, when the present
Mayors term expires.
The following appointments of Post
masters have been made for Northern Cali
fornia: J. B. Rice at Fair Play, Ell Dorado
county, vice George w. Mckee, resigned
Charles Conley at Conley, Sacramento
county new office; William T. Baldwin
at Comptonville, Yuba county, vice Will
lam H. Colvin, resigned Alfred Atkins at
Fort Jones, Siskiyou county, vice q B.
Carleck, removed.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-12-04
California Dried Fruit Market

The market for California dried fruits,
under Chicago quotations, as given by
Amory Bigelow's market review of Novem-
Der 9th, is as follows:
Raisins are maintaining quite satisfactory
prices and are firmly held. Prunes are a
little slow for the lower grades, bat the
medium and better grades are in good de-
mand, and the stock of these goods on the
spot is light. Buyers show disposition
to carry more of the better grades of Cali
fornia prunes than heretofore, and this is
about what we anticipated, just as soon as
the trade realized that the California fruit
is SO much superior to the imported French
prunes. The Florida and Jamaica oranges
are arriving quite freely now, and the de-
mand is improving.
General quotations are Raisins, London
layers, S. IS to 81 95; loose Muscatels, 81 IS
to 81 IS per 2o-pound box. Prunes, as to
size, 81 to u cents. Aprleots, eyaporated,
90 to "a cents in 25-pound boxes; sun
dried, IA to Is cents, in sacks. Peaches,
eyaporated, peeled, q to % cents in 90
pound boxes; unpeeled 16 to II cents in
50-pound boxes; sun-dried, u to - cents,
in sacks. Plums, eYaporated, pitted, IS to
131 cents in 50-pound boxes sun-dried,
III cents, in sacks. Almonds, soft shell,
Is cents; walnuts, II cents. Oranges,
Florida, So to So So Jamaicss, So SO to s.
per box per barrel, S. so.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-12-04
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

Mrs. Rena Kent has returned from the Bay.
W. D. English, of san Francisco, is at the
Capital Hotel
l. Oppenheim, of San Francisco, is visiting
his parents in this city.
G. w. Carey has returned from San Francisco,
very much improved in health.
Mrs. Charles Coglan has returned from an ex-
tended tour of the Eastern States and Canada.
Miss Alice Mason, of San Francisco, is visiting
her relatives Mrs. James ellis and Mrs. Charles
w. Bell.
Misses Maud and Ella Granger, of Grass Val
ley, are visiting Sacramento and will remain
till after the Citrus Fair.
Judge S. c. benson has returned from trip
TO Placerville where he was engaged as counsel
in the celebrated toll-road cases.
DR.. C. NJ. Wozencraft, of S an Bernardino, and
one Of the surviving members OF the first Consti-
tutional Convention, that met in Monterey in
1919, was in Sacramento yesterday, en- route to
Oroville.
Arrivals at the Capital Hotel yesterday @. NJ.
WoZencraft. San Francisco; +. K. Downer, Dow
melville; VIM. II. Myers, Coloma; A. A. Wood
San Francisco; W. A. Gibson Los Angeles; W.
II. Mcclure, stockton; James F. WEIGH, Red
Bluff; Alien Towle, Towles VIM. D. English
Oakland: ID. Fl. ellis, Delta; A. p. Moore, Phil.
Openheimer, San Francisco; Mrs. W. r. Barnes,
Mrs. J. c. Sepulveda, A. H. Estill, Sacramento.
Arrivals at the Golden Eagle Hotel yesterday:
VIM. Winterfeld, George Watt, N. Morgan, L. J.
Meyers, Julius Merzbach, A. Marks, san Fran
cisco; W. H. Coats and son, East Saginaw,
Mich; Miss Emma Hagger, Miss Matte Furgu-
SOD, Miss E. Baueker, Miss V. Nelson, +. Law
ton, Sol Smith Russell, F. G. Berger, F. K. Ham,
A. II. Warren, F. P. Marsh Cy. Van Etten Sam
Hollub, Boston; G. +. Mckinney, Bridgeport; s.
T. Williamson, Bodie; Wal. J. Tusks, Alameda:
L. g. Harvey, Oakland; A. W. Coombs, Clover
dale.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-12-04
THE INDIVIDUAL RESPONSIBILITY OF
THE AMERICAN CITIZEN.

The Current is very clear and convincing
in this statement: "If public opinion
could be gathered and placed in one man,
given an individuality, and made to feel the
weight of responsibility at present col
lectively shared, its impulses toward the
right would be quickened, and its influence
easily given bounds. AS it is, the lines
are dimly drawn, and we often wonder
where they begin and where they end"
The problem of society long has been
and is still, how to awaken in the individ-
ual members of communities realizing
sense of the personal responsibility attach
ing to the citizen as constituent of social
organization. In democracy the one
chief i'll is the disposition of each to leave
to the other the performance of public
duty. In most monarchies, to the ruling
class the people commit the burden of
such matters. Whatever there is of
quickening of the sense of duty-doing in
the citizen, must come from philanthropic
conviction. Those are the best ordered
communities where the citizen realizes
and acts upon the truth that he owes more
to society than it owes to him.
What is eyerybody's business is no
body's," is trite saying, but one pregnant
with truth and full of sermons on duty
doing. With here and there exceptions,
such teaching is of little avail in this day
in America. For community ills, result
ing from neglect to discharge the obliga-
tions each one owes to society, are per-
mitted to augment until, by necessity
no longer to be denied the stand
ard of reform is tardily raised. In
none of our public affairs is this bet
ter exemplifed than in our political
methods. Parties are permitted TO drift
into controls that in using abuse power,
and then the reaction comes on, in which,
by spasmodic exertion and swift political
rebellion, party reforms are temporarily
brought about only to be again abandoned
to the mercies Of the merely sordid parti-
sans. In other words, the neglect of the
individual citizen to direct the first steps
taken in shaping local, State or National
policies results in unrepresentative and NAL
administration, and the monopolization of
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-12-04

orange and white pointer dog Tom
Pinch, by Tom ex Beulah.
C. L. Ecklon, of Folsom, names red Cor
don and Irish setter Rip, by Count Rouge
ex Queen.
]. B. Martin, of San Francisco. names
lemon and white English setter dog Dash
ing Money, by Dashing Monarch ex
Armida.
Post & Watson, of Sacramento, mama
blue bolton Llewellyn setter bitch Sweet
heart, by Count Noble ex Dashing Novice.
Same enter blue belton Llewellyn setter
bitch Janet, litter sister to Sweetheart.
General George B. Cosby, of Sacra-
mento, names liver and white pointer dog
Bow, Jr., by Ranger Boy ex Josie Bow.
Members of the club and others desiring
TO witness the trials will leave Sacramento
on the Lathrop train at 11:30 on Saturday,
the 18th, arriving at Hanford that evening.
Fare to Hanford, IS 70. On the return
trip the fare will be but one-third, or 81 &C
for the round trip.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-12-04
NEWS OF THE MORNING.

EAsrERN.-The President is said to be
afflicted with both govt and rheumatism.
There is said to be a prospect of a
reconciliation between all the Republican
leaders Secretary Whitney has filed his
annual report Complaint is made in
New York that inferior raisins are sent
from California to I'LL contracts made for
the best article. Consr -ssmsn Mcke ma
arrived in Washington yesterday, and Nor
row and FELTON, will arrive to-day ......There
was marked advance i'll wheat in New
York yesterday ...... The W. c. I. q. of Mis-
souri, has sent written reprimand to the
Presidents wife because she attended a
dinner where wine was used "A st. Louis
syndicate has purchased an immense tract
of land in Mexico for cattle rGnge......A
well-dressed woman, who gave her name
as Catherine Skillings, attempted suicide IN
New York hotel yesterday ......Silver in
New York, 975.
FoREIGN-The French Government was
defeated in the Chamber of Deputies yes
terday, and the Cabinet Ministers all re-
signed The Scotch yacht, Thistle will
compete for the American cup next year.
1.-THE Bishop of Manchester, Eng, has
ceased to be a teetotaler ...... The German
Government earnestly pleads for the Reich
stag to pass the bill to increase the amy.
......Cholera still prevails at Buenos Ayres.
Morlatti, Partisan crank, has tasted 80
days, but is unable to stand......Silver in
London, 454d.
PACIFIC CoAsT.-The Beaver murder case
at Visalia attracts much attention The
new bridge across Bear river, near Wheat
land, has been completed......Miss ]. c.
Jones, of Fresno, has sued Rev. D. o. Kelly
for defamation of character, in calling her
bad" THE Biddle will contest is the
oyershadowing topic in San Luis 0bispo.
wv. S. Russell miner, was killed at
Forest Hill on Thursday. 800. Elder Roberts,
charged with unlawful cohabitation, has
skipped his bonds in Salt Lake......The re-
port that smallpox exists at Nogales, Ari-
iona, is denied...-.Jas. Candles was killed
by man named Strickler at Oregon City,
Or, yesterday. wv. II. Carlson has sued
the San Diego Union for libel
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can make. It wil call from a property
assessed value of $1,000 but the sum OF
fifty cents; from homestead assessed at
$4,000 but the sum of ST. But these small
sums added to the funds used already to
aid the development of the country, ought
to. and we believe will, bring about re-
suits that will greatly augment all prop
erty values in this city, and therein re-
sides our local and purely selfish interest.
We are now forever rid of the Fowle bond
tax of seven cents annually, SO that this
new levy will not be any increase of taxa
ton whatever.
On the day after the Trustees agreed to
submit the proposition to vote, the
RECORD UNION warmly announced its ap-
proval. Subsequently it referred to some
objections raised, and answered them
especially the absurd one that increased
immigration, production and consumption
will benefit the merchant class only.
No benefit can accrue to our dealers and
manufacturers that will not be felt proper
tionally by all citizens. Moreover our
merchants have long contributed to immi-
grafton work, and many have paid regular
monthly sums to it.
What we are doing here is not drop to
bucket compared to what has been and
is being done in southern California. There
they have demonstrated that every dollar
thus invested is five dollars and more
earned. Increased values, resulting from
augmented desirable population, have
made fortunes for hundreds there, and re-
| duced taxation to a low rate for all. Los
Angeles in 1878 had but 5000 population.
1t now claims to have nearly 10000. IN
1880 the population of the county was
1881. II is now about $4,000. San
Diego in 1880 had S,618 1t now has 19,
800. San Bernardino in 1880 had 1856. 1t
now has 1900. All this increase is due
to local effort. Without it those sections
would have stood still. They made their
advantages known, and they have reaped
the reward. Comparatively We are I'M
known at the East, and it is due to the
fact that we have not helped ourselves to
the extent we should. We have far better
environment, better climate, greater and
better production, better ard nearer mar
kets, greater certainty of rainfall, no
deserts to reclaim, no sandy wastes to re-
deem from desolation. Yet, comparatively
we stand still, and every conner tells us it
is because our section is little known
abroad.
An article in the Overland Monthly
for December, on the marvellous growth OF
southern California, presents statistics
which, though repeating our figures, are
best given in tabulated form:
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Field Trial Entries.

Following are the entries to the all-age
stake of the Pacific Coast Field Trial Club,
to be contested for at the coming meeting
to be held in Fresno county, commencing
one week from Monday next
J. N. Bassford, Jr.. of Vacaville, names
lemon and white pointer dog, Lemmie B.,
by Prince Ranger ex Oracle Bow.
VIM Schneider, of San Francisco, names
lemon and white pointer dog, Mountain
Boy, by Grouse e1 Nell.
Same, names lemon and white pointer
bitch, Lassie, by Prime ex Forest Lily.
]. G. Edwards, of San Francisco, names
black, white and tan English setter dog,
Royal Duke H., by Regent ex Dolly.
], Martin Barney, of Dutch Flat, names
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-12-04

By a dispatch in another column it will
be seen that our raisin-growers are warned
of danger ahead Some of them have been
selling by sample and bearing the market,
but failing to deliver goods up to the
standard. AS result, the California raisin
business is receiving punishment at the
East. 1t justifes indignation and heat, to
learn that selfish and cold-blooded men
will thus place in peril so large and i'm
portant an industry. Honest raisin-pro-
ducers should organize to protect them
selves against, and to discover who are the
black sheep and goats in the trade
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-12-04
POPULATION.

Special taxes are obnoxious to many,
but a wise investment, even if it is a tax,
is the act of the provident man. What
little effort has been made in this section
has resulted well. The benefit has been
great, very great but all the contribution
has been from residents; nonresident
property-holders have escaped burden,
but will most largely reap the benefits.
The direct method of reaching them is by
tax.
The need is great for immediate action
to fix populations. For we are in the
formative stage. Where capital and popu-
lation settle now, there will they remain,
and determine what places shall stand still
and what advance. The well-to-do home
seekers, not idle, empty-pocketed men, are
coming to the State. The need is to
expose to them the products of our section.
The place to do it is Sacramento, where
the excursionists daily land. We are told
that among the crowds of Eastern peo-
pie who visit the city's Art Gallery, on o
street, and express their appreciation of
this people because of it, the one chief
inquiry is, where are your markets, where
can We examine the products of your
north section? The proposed tax is to
answer the need such inquiries indicate,
and that every one knows to exist, and
the lack of which greatly cripples the eff
fort to locate newcomers in our section.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-12-04
SAN FRANCISCO AGENCIES.

The paper is for sale at the following places {:
L. P. Fisher, Room q, 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.
~ Also, for sale on all Trains leaving and
coming into Sacramento
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-12-04
THE PROPOSED TAX.

A proposition viii be voted on next
week to advise the Trustees to use sum
equal to FIVE cents on each hundred dol
lars of valuation, for the founding and
maintenance of a permanent exhibition in
this city-in connection with the immigra-
ton work--of the products of northern and
Central California. It will not be the pay
ing out of spot sum, for the auditing
power of the Trustees viii be exercised
over the payment of all claims upon the
fund.
The sum to be raised is not large, but 1t
will prove the wisest investment this city
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-12-04

SAN FRANCISCO is in the throes Of an
other stock craze and stock tumble. The
people learn no wisdom from these expert
ences. The hope to get something for
nothing is never given over. Though all
the stock gamblers know that somebody
must lose if anyone gains-since the values
of the mines have not changed-yet they
trust to "luck' and shrewdness to be found
among the winners and escape the fate of
the wrecked, whose i'll fortunes strew the
path Of every stock boom.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-12-04

The Western poet, Benjamin F. Taylor,
was happy in his thought, if not wholly
original, when he protested against the
monopolization of the expression that the
sun never sets over England's soil. For he
pointed out that if the British
Morning drum beats round the world,
1t is a grander thing to say the sun can
never bid good night to the great Repub-
lie, since the god of day halts moment on
Alaska's shore, "just as he makes SPLEEN
did lift above the woods and fields of
Maine
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-12-04

The RECORD UNION is the only paper on
Che coast, outside Of San Francisco, that re-
osives the fiaR associated Press dispatches from
al ports Of The World. Outside Of San Fran
cisco il has no competitor, in point Of num-
6ers, IN as home and ge'lerGl circulation
throughout the coast.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-12-04

Advices from Sonora state that the Mex
lean Government is carrying on an agrees
sive campaign against the Yaquis.
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81 Nice No COOK STOVE 1or So
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-04-29
Washington Waifs

The question OF the redemption OF trade
dollars was considered by the senate COM
mittee on weights and measures yesterday.
A proposition submitted as an amendment TO
the bill providing the amount redeemed
should come out of the monthly bullion pur-
chase was rejected by vote of to 3, Repre-
sentatives Bland, Lanham. Bynum, FELTON,.
Norwood and McCreery voting against the
proposition, and Representatives Seymour.
James and Little in favor of il.
Argument was begun in the supreme court
of the United States yesterday, in the case of
Lorenzo Snow. a Mormon who was sent TO the
penetentiary under the Edmunds act for un-
lawful co-habitating with seven women. The
points at issue makes the evidence admissible
TO prove the ofense and the construction and
effect of the third section OF the Ednunds
act
The Louisville postofice matter was before
the senate committee on postofiices yesterday,
Senator Beck and Representative Willis adyo-
eating and Senator Blackburn opposing the
confirmation Of Mrs. Thompson.
Secretary Manning has so far progressed on
the road TO complete recovery that he was
able yesterday 10 take a long drive about the
city without fatigue. Among his callers TO
day was ex-senator Mcdonald of Indiana.
Representatives of the dairy interests of
the country 10 the number of fifty appeared
before the agricultural committee yesterday
and urged the taxation of the manufacture
and sale of imitation butter.
The investigation committee to inquire into
the southwestern strikes went to St Louis
yesterday.
Secretary Whitney has requested that the
Atlanta be put IN condition for sea as speedily
rs possible
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-04-29
BoYCOTTuNG A RESTAURANT.
Pension Clerks Decline to PatrOnize
Their Restaurant.
Special to the Globe.

Special TO the Glooe-
WASHINGTON. April 2S.-An amusing
boycott has been declared by the pension
office clerks against their caterer. The po-
sition of caterer in any of the departments
is one much sought after. With the in
coming of the Democratic administration,
most of these department restaurants
changed hands. That in the pension office
has the largest patronage, and is the most
profitable. Secretary Lamar gave the priv
ilege to Charles Gautier, who is a son of
old Gautier, who kept the famous
restaurant on the avenue, that in its time
was as well known as Delmonico's in
New York. Gautier was given apartments
in the basement of the new pension build
ing, which he fixed up as we'll as he could,
although the place was by no means fit
one for the purpose. His cooking is ex-
eellent and his prices are thoroughly satis-
factory to the clerks, but they object to him
because Grand Army man wanted the
place and the Grand Army posts have de-
clared a boycott on him. He has hardly
any business. The girl clerks carry their
lunches and his patronage now is chiefly
limited to few cOlored men and a score of
non-army men who do not care fig for the
bOycOtterS.