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THE WEATHER.
The Rain Lets Up, and an Unusually
Cold Snap Comes On.


lcopy1gAt lSS. by the cai for7aid associated Pres
MARYsvILLE, January 9Th This has
been the coolest day this winter The
highest temperature was 400, and the low
est 800, which is also the lowest minimum
reading for the winter by the self-register-
ing thermometer. The weather is clear
this evening.
ST. HELENA, January 6th.-This was one
of the coldess mornings of the season. The
mercury was 240. The hill-tops in the vi
einity are still clad in their mantle of
snow.
SAN JOSH, January Chit is clear and
cool. The storm is over.
MERGED, January 6th.-The fall of rain
yesterday was .0S of an inch for the sea
son, % inches. There was a heavy frost
this morning. The weather now is cold
and the wind northwest
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-01-07
A COLD DAY.
Congressman Morrow Fails to Thaw Out
Frigid Secretary.

Copyright, 1888, by the California associated Press
WASHINGTON, January 6th.-Representa-
tive Morrow interviewed the Secretary of
War to day relative TO the improvement of
the Presidio at San Francisco, and to con-
vert it into a sort of public park, with
buildings, drives, walks, etc, and planting
trees and plants to beantify it.
Secretary Endicott received Morrow's
suggestions with some coldness. Mr. Nor
row afterward attempted to see the Secre-
tary of State about Samoan affairs, but
found Mr.. Bayard out of the department.
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LIVING OFF THE DEAD.
A Long Island Town Whose Revenues
Come From Funerals.

IcePyrg. 1883, BY TIE California 4ssOciated Press.
New YORK, January 6th.-The town of
Newton, Long Island, few miles from
New York, is veritable City of the
Dead 0ne-third OF its area is devoted to
cemeteries, n which from twenty to thirty
thousand of the New York. Brooklyn and
Jersey City dead are buried every year.
There are sometimes as many as hundred
funerals on a Sunday. Miles of public
streets are kept up simply to give access to
the cemeteries. The town nearly got bank
rupt two years ago keeping these streets
repaired.
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RIG MONEY.
A Fresno Land Case Involving Nearly
Two Million Dollars.

Two Million Dollars.
1cOpyrlg. 1888. by tse California Associated Pressl
FRESNO. January 6th-To-day attorneys
Bergin and Meredith, of San Francisco,
argged the motion for change of venue
IN the famous suit of Clark against He'll
bron. The suit is to annul the contract for
the sale of the celebrated Laguna de Tache
grant, valued at 81 500 900. The plaintiffs
claim that the defendants secured con-
tract from Clark, who is now in the insane
asylum, when he was insane. and they
knew him so 10 be. The csse excites great
interest, on account of aeilbron, Lillis &
Co. being the great riparians who have
caused the people OF this county Sc much
trOuhle
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The Round valley Trouble.

fcopTight, 1883, tyae California AssOcated Press,I
CRESCENT CIrY, January 6th.-Captain
Dougherty, Acting Indian Agent, arrived at
Requa last Monday. Judge Murphy has
received letter from the Captain stating
that he would not come 10 Crescent City
unless guaranteed safety from arrest while
here. when Judge Murphy sent letter
guaranteeing him perfect freedom from ar
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More Work for Mare Island.
[copu+gAs. 1855. BY he cal.for,,ta A.soeia.sd Pr.

Copyright 1885, by the California associated Press.
WASHINGTON, January 6th.-Secretary
Whitney this morning gave Representative
McKenna positive assurance that the
Monadnock would be completed at the
Mare Island Navy Yard. Drawings for the
machinery are now being prepared.
The spars, blocks, furniture and boats
for the new cruiser Charleston will be built
at Mare island.
Mr.. McKenna will introduce bill in the
House Monday appropriating $175 600 Tor
the purchase OF tools and machinery re-
quired for a ship-building plant at Mare
Island Yard.
California Pensions.
ECopyght, 1883, Jyuis California Associatei Press
WASHINGTON, January 6sh-The follow
ing California pensions have been issued :
Lucy Ann, widow of Augustus D. Fair
banks San Luis Obispo; Emanuel Hawkin,
Arcata; Thomas Smith, Laytonville; VIM
W. Chapman, Petaluma; +. B. Hathaway
(deceased), San Francisco; Francis NJ.
Cummins, Los Angeles; Pierce Laffan,
Likely; L. Mourier, Roseville.
She Can't yete, All the Same.
Copyright, 1855. by t< California Associ.ed Prezsl
PrrTsBURG. January 6th.-In the United
States District Court to-day young Irish
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-01-07
ON THE RANpIr's TRAIL

General Lorenzo Garcia, it is rumored,
will be placed in command of the troops
fighting the Bernal bandit gang. Garcia
has been emirently successful in fighting
bandit Indians, In the campaign against
the Apaches in 1882 he killed thirty-seyen
and captured ll3 Indians in a fight in the
Sierra Madre. For his bravery in this fight
the American residents presented him with
a sword costing $3.50.
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THE REAPER.
Death Claims rs Its Victim Two Dis
tinguished Citizens.

tinguished Citizens.
WASHINGTON, January 5th.-General E.
B. Alexander, of ST. Paul, Mimi, died in
this city Tuesday evening, aged SO. He
was graduate of West Point in 1928. In
1S47 he was breveted Major for gallant
services at Cerro Gordo during the Mexican
war. He was in the recruiting service dur
ing the late war, and was breveted Briga-
dier. General.
BosToN, January 6th.-Hon. William
Parsons, the distinguished lecturer, is dead.
Mr.. Parsons, who has been a popular
lyceum orator in the United States for
many years, was born in Ireland GO years
ago, and was known in London as a
brilliant writer and eloquent orator before
he came TO this country.
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Double-Headed Verdict.
[copwigt. IS, ~ 0.e calyoIria AssOciated Press

IttgyT I Io19, " llt VIIII- 13zsVcI7tI
VIRGINIA, January 6th.-The Coroner's
jury in the case of Newton James, the 49,
year-old boy who was run over and killed
Oh the Virginia and Truckee Railroad west
of Gold Hill on the 4th, returned two YER
diets. The minority censured the railroad
con; pany for the boys death in not station
ing fiagmsn to warn trains that the de-
ceased was working in a cut. The majority
exonerates the company from blame.
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SLAVES IN TASGIER.-Slaves of every
description crowd and quarrel as they ell
their quaint earthen jars at one of the
broken-down fountains from which the
whole town is supplied, or go about the
streets carrying goatskins, from which they
offer water to thirsty passers at so much
drink. As their shrill voices proclaim the
freshness and eoolness Of their stock, one
realizes that he has before him an Oriental
custom which gives new meaning to
Isaiah, lii, l, where the Prophet calls
out, as though hawking the "water of
life: :" Ho, every one that thirsteth, come
ye to the waters, come buy < = witk-
out money and without price" These
slaves form a considerable part of the
population of Tangier They are mostly
of the deep black Guinea negro type,
brought from across the Desert of Sahara,
though sometimes unfortunates of other
races are kidnapped and sold into slavery
Public auctions are frequently held in the
main street of the bazars, at which chill
dren can be purchased for from twelve to
twenty dollars, while full-grown men and
women are sold at prices ranging from fifty
to one hundred dollars. Masters have
absolute power over their slaves, even that
of life and death, and in case of sale trans
fer them by means Of deed, Just as we
transfer farm Under the circumstance,
it is little difficult to say whether they
are real estate or personal property.-Cbs
mopolitda.
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THE STRIKE.
Matters in The Pennsylvania Coal Re
gion Remain About the Same.

gion Remain About the Same.
PHILADELPHIA, January 6th.-The situa-
ton of the strike is unchanged, and the
end seems to be as far off as ever. Coal is
scarce, and there are prospects of an ad-
vance in price.
at meeting last night of the Local As
sembly of Knights of Labor composed of
Reading Railroad employees, it was resolved
that in the coming election for Congress-
men they would support only those who
are pledged to repeal the tariff on coal.
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FRESNO ITEMS.

The Tenderfoot Railroad Boomers Fail
TO Materlalize.
fcerygh. 1883. BY ne calfor7lia Associated IressI
FREsxo, January sth,-rhe Unknown"
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DEMAND FOR A sHow-pows.

PHILADELPHIA, January 6th.-The Pro-
visional Committee of the anti-Administra-
ton Knights of Labor has decided to begin
suit in equity against the General Officers
of the Order for an accounting of funds,
and to determine whether any of the Off
GERS have been guilty of criminal acts.
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Six Men Killed by Collision on the |
Canadian Pacific.

Canadian Pacific.
MONTREAL January 6th.-Informatinn
was received in this city yesterday of a
disastrous railway accident on the Canadian
Pacific Railway few miles west of White
River, midway between Montreal and Win
nipeg, north of Lake Superior TAT miles
west of this city. Nothing definite has
been made known about the accident, and
no details have been secured. @. W. Spen-
Ger, General Superintendent, has left for
White River.
1t appears that the telegraph agent at one
of the stations on the line failed to cancel
a freight train, as he had been ordered to
do, and that it collided with another freight
train on a trestlework ninety feet high.
called the " red succorp trestle Both trains
fell from the track into the abyss below,
and two engineers, two firemen and two
brakemen were instantly killed. The other
hands were seriously injured.
ANOTHER ACCOUNT.
WINNIPEG, January 6th.-Canadian Pa
ci6c passengers who arrived from the west
to-day describe Wednesdays accident at
Middleton. Two freight trains met on a
trestle eighty feet high, between / and 2
O'Clock on Wednesday morning. The en-
CINE of the west-bound train became fast
ened in the trestlework and stuck there,
W1ll6 luc tSDUtf anu stNSIdl cars Jumped
over the top and went 10 the bottom. The
engine coming from the east went through
the trestle Immediately after the collision
and took down q numbee of freigltl ctfs
Two engineers, one fireman and one br ke-
man were killed outright.
4 SICKENING SIGHT
One man was wedged under the wreck
age and was noticed to be alive, and one
his comrades undertook to remove him by
grasping his hand. The rescuer was horri-
fed when he broke the mans fingers,
which had been frozen while in this de-
plorable condition.
Another man was seen under the wreck
all of his body being visible except his
head, which was horribly mangled
Nobody seemed to know the cause of The
accident. 1t was thought that the men had
been too long on the train going east and
had fallen asleep.
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REsURECTED RECORDS.
a Stock Firms Books Fished Up from
the Rivers Depths

New YORK, January CHA committee
Of the New York Stock Exchange has
been requested TO examine the books of
Dater & Timpson which were found in the
Hackensack river. The mystery regarding
the books has been cleared by the state
ment of Alfred Sidman. former conf
Dental clerk of Dater d Timpson, to the
effect that while laboring under mental
alteration he took the books. put them in a
sleigh, and driving to Hackensack river,
threw them in
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The first Raymond excursion of the sea-
son to California left Boston on Wednes-
day. 1t is one of the longest the firm has
ever taken, over 100 going on board at Bos-
ton, while as many more will join at Buff
falo, Cleveland and Cincinnati.
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BLUE AND GRAY.
Union and Confederate Soldiers Have a
Love-Feast in Florida

JACKSONVILLE (Fla.), January 6th.-At
the annual campfire of the local Grand
Army Post tonight, Major-General Scho-
field, U. S. A, made patriotic speech to
Federal and Confederate veterans, and had
a dramatic meeting with General w. S.
Wallack, of the Confederate army, who
was in the Mexican war with Schofield.
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MEXICO.
A Husbands Terrible Vengeanoe-The
Pursuit of Bernal.

NoGALEs, January 6th.-Details OF ter
rible double murder, committed in small
town near Guadalajara, Jalisco, few DAYS
ago, have just been received. A laberer
named NJ. 5andoval, returning to his home
at an early hour in the morning, found his
wife in 2 room with man. He procured
a butcher knife from the kitchen, returned
to the room, Stabbed his wife's paramour
to death, and cut his wife so badly that she
lived only long enough to confess and name
her assassin.
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WASHINGTON, January 6th.-In Thoebe's
appeal to the House Committee on Elec-
tons to-day he said: 'All / ask is fair
play. If Carlisle was elected by one ma
jority, l don't want the seat"
The most interesting suggestion is that
General Butler, of Massachusetts, may come
on Thoebe's behalf
Speaker Carlisle's friends say tonight
that he will insist upon the fullest investi-
cation that Thoebe can desire, and that
they viii demonstrate the absolute ab-
surdity of his claim.
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TnEY VAST A moNopoLY

The finish of the Bogardus- Winston
match of 100 live birds each for a purse of
$500, az Dayton, O., was & brilliant affair.
Bogardus won in . score OF 50 10 so.
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MATEREp STOCK.
The Air-Brake Company Adds Couple
of Millions to Its Capital.

Oh IfIIt1UIs 10 CHpIIHI.
PIrTsBURe, January 6th.-At meeting
of the stockholders of the Westinghouse
Air-Brake Company, this afternoon, the
plan of the Board of Directors to increase
the capital stock from s., 600 600 to S., ,000,-
600 was adopted. 1t is stated that 81 ,000,-
600 of this increase will go to the stock
holders in dividends, and the other 81 ,000,-
coo be available for subscription at par by
railroad corporations which adopt the i'm
proved Westinghouse freight brake.
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LONDON, January CHA telegram from
the Russian frontier states that eight Nj
hilisis, including the Cossacks whom
Tschernoff condemned to death for making
an attempt upon the life of the Gar during
his visit TO the Don Cossack country, were
hanged at St. Petersburg on the I'd.
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FROM STAGE TO COURT.
A Comedian Jnherits Fortune and an
India-Rubber Title.

MINNEAPOLIS tMinn.) January 6th.-The
comedian, Jacques Kruger, has just been
notified by his New York attorneys Of the
successful issue of law suit by which he
comes into possession of valuable estates in
France, and becomes Count de Cartier de la
Bais
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A rfammoth Timber-ship.

ST. JOINS IN. b., January 6th.-Hugh
R. Robertson, the protector of the Dig tim
ber-raft, says there will be no more timber
RATS constructed, but timber-ship will be
built, with spars and steering apparatus
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THE ABYssINIANs.
King John and His Blacks Continue
Their March to Massowah.

King John and His Blacks Continue
Their March to Massowah.
LONDON, January 6th.-A dispatch from
Massowah says: The King of Abyssinia,
accompanied by the Queen of the Vallo-
gallas and number of troops, has arrived
at Aksum. Two columns, commanded by
the son of King John, are nearing Osmara.
WANTS TO WEAR A CROWN.
ROME, January 6th.-Advices from Mas
sowah state that Rasalula has offered to
join the Italians with 10000 followers, on
condition that he be created King of Abys-
sinia in the event OF the d=feat of King
John.
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WANTS TO WEAR A CROWN,
FIGHT, NOT FUN.
Sullivan Refuses to go on Hippodrom-
Ing Tour with Smith.

LONDON, January 9Th. = Jem Smiths
backer wants Sullivan to give a series Of
exhibition contests with Smith throughout
the world, ending in California. Sullivan
has refused.
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NEVADA.

Whisky and Cold Weather Make a Job
for the Coroner.
fcopyrig, 1855. by The California ASSOCIATED Press
VIRGINIA. January 9th. = A drunken
Mexican, known as Spanish Joe" was
found lying naked on the floor of residence
to-day frozen to DEATH He went home
drunk late last evening, and although the
thermometer registered temperature of
only So above zero, it is supposed he
stripped naked and laid down on the bare
floor.
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TMINls PROPER AND IMPROPER.

stocking hung from the mantel-pieee
twas decidedly poor and holey;
But BAD as it was, 1t belonged 10 a man-
An editor meek and lowly.
1t hung all night till the light Of the morn
Came dancing through the sashes;
But alas. for the hose, and alas, for the man
Twas filed to the top with ashes.
Ashes of many hope deferred
and dust Of proerastination;
Ashes Of benefits conferred,
hpd ashes Of desolation.
Woe tofAe man with shattered socS-
Oh, darn it az, It's shocking
And woe to the fellow " no Elled II up
Alas for the editors stocking
-HaeteSsact Repu6hean.
Search the Scriptures and We shall find
autumn leaves.
The course Of true love runs over cor
duroy road.-Donnelty CIPHER.
1t is said that the hustle is going out of
fashiop, and the blanket newspapers are
very much concerned.
a Seattle (W ~ paper has long story
of man who is haunted by gas bill In
this locality the curiosity would be the
man who isn't.-libany journal.
The difIerepce between the life of an old
bachelor and the life of an old maid is
that one is full Of fun and the other isn't.
Just which is the one that has the fun
isn't stated.
The Popular Science Monthly tells of
man with both legs off who suffers from
cold feet. 1t is not much of a phenom-
enon, however. Doubtless he is married.
Albany Journal
I" Do you believe in a future state. sir %
inquired the long haired passenger, solemn
ly, as the gentleman returned the bottle to
his valise. " Yes (hic), SIR was the reply
:" live in Dakota"-N. Y. Sun.
"Your papa and mamma know what is
best for you, Tommy" said his mother.
Tommy rolled about good deal on the
rug and then said "Ma, do you know
sometimes | feel like being an orphan"
Out on the Pacific slope they are too
busy with corner lots to take to baseball
with any enthusiasm. Wait until the
mortgages begin to come due, then the
nine knocked out on the first base OF
doubled up with n hot ball will be very
restful.-Inter- Ocean.
a man in Dakota advertises that he will
be hanged in any mans place for 10000.
Wonder if he wants the money in ad-
vance? He doesn't appear to know much
about the law, anyway. A man who can
IaiSe 9AO,vVO lS DOg III Hucn uduSST Vi De-
ing sentenced to be hanged, no matter
how much he merits such a punishment.
That is, not in Dakota.-Drakes Magazine
A Philadelphia paper says; There is
legend to the effect that a man, in order to
eeonomize, had his gas-meter taken out
and substituted coal oil for Illuminating
purposes, and at the end of the quarter the
gas company presented him with bill of
$33 for gas consumed after the removal of
the meter" This may be a legend, but it
sounds like the plain, unvarnished, square
toed truth.
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Barnum is importing many wild ami
mails and promises to come out with his
show in the spring.
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The .g,d Enneror,, Hones.

BERLIN, January 6th.-Emperor William,
in his New Years letter to the Berlin
Magistracy, says: Il trust.that under the
protection of lasting power. which may
God vouchsafe. and by legislative measures
dealing with economy on social matters,
the welfare of the nation in future, as it
has been in the past, will be materially de
valorad y
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A report is current that the Washington
Insurance Company viii close up its busi-
ness.
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a Virginia Town Burning.

RICHMOND tVa.). January 6th-A tele-
gram from Louisa Couft-house says that
over twenty houses were burned tonight,
and the fire is still raging. Fire engines
left here By special train at 1 o'clock.
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KNIGHTS OF LABOR.
The General Secretary Claims 100000
Members in Good standing.

Members in Good standing.
PHILADELPHIA, January 6th.-Responses
to the notice of General Secretary Litch-
man for payment by Local Assemblies,
Knights of Labor, of the January tax are
pouring into the several offices of the Or
der Secretary Litchman says; THE show
ing is excellent. We have nearly 100000
members now, and all in good standing.
We are ready for the new year under the
yerv brightest of prosnectsn
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PACIFIC COAST.
A SENSATIONAL EXECUTION IN
ALAMEDA COUNTY.
Heavy Land Suit in Fresno - A
Drunkard's Lonely Death-An
Arizona Tragedy.
MURDERER SUTTON.

ysrzaAL DrrArcHrs To rHs ErcoRD-uNioH.l
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Petaluma Flour.

IcOpyrigt, 1888, By The California associated Press
PErALUMA, January 6th.-H. 7. Fair
banks has bought controlling interest in
the Golden Eagle Flour Mills A dividend
has been declared of per cent, and under
the new management flour will be pro-
duced in this section in greater quantities
than ever.
Progress of the Santa Rosa Railroad.
iCopyigki, 1885, byhe California Associated Pressl
SANTA Rosa, January 6ih.-The graders
on the Santa Rosa and Carouinez Railroad
have resumed operations since the storm,
and are making rapid progress toward this
city. 1t is stated that the graders will
reach Santa Rosa in thirty days.
Homicide in Mendocino.
UKIAH, January 6th.-John Watham was
shot and killed by Clarence White in
Round valley, this county, on Sunday
evening. The trouble grew out of the di-
vorce case now pending in Judge Wilson's
Court in San Francisco. John Watham
was a witness against Mrs. White, who is a
sister OF Clarence.
= Killed by an Oakland Train.
SAN FRANCISCO, January 9Th Special. |
A man supposed to be E. J. Hewes, a
partner of Paul Moroney. the stock broker.
was struck by the engine of local train
on the Oakland mole tonight and in
stantly killed.
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FOREIGN TOPICS.
AWFUL OBSTRUCTION CAUSED BY
FLOODS IN CHINA.
OF Thousands OF Lives
Terrible Railway Acct
dent in Canada.
TIE CHINA FLOODS.

SPECIAL DISPATCHES TO THE EBcoRD-uNIos,.,