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Sacramento daily record-union., 1889-08-31
extended use of foreign methods in build,
ing railroads and foun6ries.
Decision Reconsidered


WASHINGTON, August 30th.-The Treas
ury Department has reconsidered yester-
days decision in the case of Sherwood q
Sherwood of San Francisco relative TO
transportation and expectation entry for
the benefit of drawback, via New Orleans,
on certain wines in warehouse at San Fran
cisco and authorizes the Collector of Gus
toms TO enter the same for transportation
and expectation and benefit of drawback
Mexican Delegstes.
WASHINGTON, august S0th.-The follow
ing delegate to the Congress of American
nations has been appointed by the Mexi-
can Government: Senior Matiss Romero;
by the Government of Honduras, Jeronimo
Relags; by the Government of Ecuador,
ex-President Jose Caamano.
Redding's Postmaster.
WASHINGTON, August S0th.-The Post
Office Department announces the appoint
ment of twenty-nine Presidential Post
masters. Among them was that of Chaun-
cey c. BGs. of Redding, Cal.
Sacramento daily record-union., 1889-08-31
PORTLAND PICKINGS.
Drowned in the Columbia River" G
Protect the Germans"

Protect the Germans"
PORTLAND (0r), August h.-Articles
of incorporation of the Carbon Centre Lead
and Silver Mining Company were filed in
the County Clerks Office this morning.
The incorporators are George L. Story,
Nathan Elliott, George Robertson, R. w.
Emmons and D. w. Burnsley. Capital
stock of corporation 81 00O, 900.
A corpse was found in the river to day.
In the coat pocket of the deceased was a
diary in which was written in German,
August Fischer. born in Berlin, August
"a, 1927, God protect the Germans" Other
writing in the book showed that he was an
exile from the "Faderland.n The corpse
had been in the water about two weeks. 1t
is evidently case of suicide.
1t is reported here that the schooner
Rawena is in the breakers in Yaquina Bay
near Newport. The schooner is Just re-
turning from cruise, and is supposed TO
be total wreck. The crew was saved.
Sacramento daily record-union., 1889-08-31
Death of Mrs. snllixan.

Boston, August 30th--Mrs. Catherine
Sullivan, mother of John L. Sullivan. died
this evening from water ON the heart. She
was native of Ireland, 50 years old.
Sacramento daily record-union., 1889-08-31
Haunting the Scarlet Woman.


LONDON, August 3Oth.-Robert Wallace,
q member of Parliament for Edinburgh, in
an interview to. day, said : The National
lists seem to think that having got Glad
stone they have all Liberalism. This is
not so. The PresbyteriaUs and Freekirk-
ers rub their eyes at the proposal to fiaunt
the scarlet woman in an attempt to endoW
an Irish Catholic University, and will rally
under one banner all enemies of denomina-
tionalism."
Edward Corbetson, the member from
Dundee, being interviewed on the same
subject, said the Liberals would fight
to man if the proposal retained anything
like its present form. If the Government
and the Nationalists meant business it
would be haTd fight, and he could not
say where it would end.
Evening Dress.
LONDON, August 30lh.-The Archbishop
OF Canterbury is shocked at the idea of a
bridegroom taking part in wedding cere-
mony in evening dress. He thinks such a
costume deseCrates the sanctuary, and to
prevent such Cesecration he has issued an
edict against the issuance of special licenses
for later hour than o'clock in the even
ing. He would like to limit the celebration
OF marriage to o'clock, and only under
exceptional circumstance or in case of dis
q
later hour than 8 o'clock.
Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland.
LONDON, August 3Oth.-Farewell ad-
dresses have been sent to the Marquis of
Londonderry, the refining Lord. Lieuten-
ant of Ireland. In replying to them he
said he was pleased TO be able to assert that
the state of the country has improved, and
rejoioes that he is only parting officially
from his friends
Two Men Killed.
CHAMBLY CANTON (Que), August 30th.-
An explosion occurred to-day in the pack
iDg-room of the Belolid Powder Works,
killing two men, named Joseph Favreault
and Samuel Bette.
Japan Floods.
LONDON, August 30th.-Later accounts of
the floods in Japan claim that ten thousand
persons perished. Twenty thousand are
homeless. The property loss is enormous.
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In FOREIGN LANDS.
The British Parliament PrOrOsued by
Queen Victoria.
THE LONDON LABOR TROUBLES.
All Union WorkIaen to be Ordered
Out on Monday-Two
Men Killed.
vICToRIA's SPEECH.

tssEcrAL DISPATCHES TO THz REooRD-vHroN.I
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ALONG THE PACIFIC COAST.
Gold Leaf and Adonis Pace Very
Past Heats at Peta'uma.
SANTA ROSA HOUsE.BREAKERs.
Native Daughters at Suisun Dedi.
cate Their New HaII-Mur-
derer Captured.
san FRANCISCO NOTES.

ESPECIAL DISPATCHES TO THE RnOoaD-usros !
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PITTsBURG. August 30th.-In the first
game to-day the home team punched their
hits in two innings and won easily. In
the second game Morris was bit hard; the
visitors took the lead at the start. Score:
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PLAeuEaINE La J, August Wilson
Nockum, colored, was hanged here to-day
for the murder of Ben Fisher, eolored, last
March.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-09
THAT WONDERFUL ELIXIR.

PHILA DELPHiA Inquirer: DR.. Brown.Se.
guards elixir wal discovered too late to save
the Greenback party.
CHICAGO HeruId: A turtle dated 1771 has
turned up on the Massachusetts coast. The
turtle, instead of the lamb and the guinea pig,
might be used, perhaps, for ccrupounding the
elixir of life.
CHICAGO Inter Ocean: Some future DON
nelly viii doubtless discover cryptogrammatic
evidence that DR.. Brown-Sequard was not the
original diseoverer of the "elxir of iife;' that.
in fact, the secret of the rejuvenating art was
known to thu ballet girls many years before
the venerable Sequard was born.
NEW YORK Sun: The silliest humbug of
the day is. probably, the rejuvenating elixir
which DR.. Hammond is Sad to be administer
ing TO broken down old chaps in Washington.
Is it fraud? Is i lunacy? Who knows?
BOSTON Gto6ei In the midst of the dog-day
season. when news is dull, this unexpected re-
yival of the speculations of the alchemists is
certainly rather entertaining
CHESTER NeUs: If DR.. Brown-Sequard's
elixir of life should I'LL the BILL it will be rough
on the undertakers Still they may exc out
miserable exlsteAce as long as ice cream and
bad whisky are fashionable luxuries.
CHICAGO Times: When what we now know
as whisky was first distilled the chemist pro-
nounced 1t the water of life. 1t has instead
proved itself the bane of many mans exist
ence, merciful to HIN only when it cuts him off
from a life which became daily horror.
Brown-Sequard's euid win have its run, and .
disappointed but > credulous world viii stand
expectantQ Qf The next great dtssoverE
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-09
PITTsBURG, FRIDAY, AUG. Q, 1889.
AN URGENT DUTY.

The facts which are set forth in our local
columns concerning the overcrowded condi-
tion of the Dixmont Insane Asylum, does
not reflect credit on our civilization. In the
discharge of the public duty of caring for
the insane it is not sufficient to provide ac-
commodations for 400 patients and then to
jam nearly 200 together there. The addi-
tion which will give accommodations for 12S
more can hardly be dignifed with the name
of relief, in view of the fact that the num-
Der already there will still be nearly 200 in
excess of the normal capacity.
Such a state of affairs is not creditable to
our State. 1t is little more than travesty
upon the proper discharge of the duty of
caring for the insane. 1t certainly affords
testimony to the good work of the Dixmont
staff, that with this crowding the physical
health of the patients remains remarkably
good. But it is evident that with insane
patients crowded two in bed, the care and
separation needed to give them a decent
chance of recovery is impossible. 1t is an
urgent public duty to provide ample accom-
modations for all patients.
At an era when millions are going into
money-making projects it is not right that
the few thousands required to give the in
firm wards of the public decent treatment,
has not already been provided.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-09

it temporarily2 The fact is that the trust is
but form of organization to accomplish
ends, which under favorable conditions,
have been made just as offensive and dam
gerous to the public without that form. The
Standard Oil monopoly was formed and
ruled with its greatest tyranny without a
trust; the anthracite coal combination has
never found it necessary to adopt the trust
method; and the proposed salt combination,
as well as the recent exploded copper syn
dictate, deemed it possible to be offensive
and grieyous monopolies without adopting
the trust device, which has been invented
for the sake of making some of these mo-
nopolies permanent.
The Philadelphia Press took a much
more decided aud reasonable views of what
is needed. 1t urged the State recent Con-
vention to adopt a resolution against call
trusts or combinations which seek to pro-
mote monopolies, suppress competition.
limit or control production and enhance
prices" The only trouble with the Press
position is, that, as experience showed in the
case of the anti-discrimination resolution,
Pennsylvania platforms are not very bind
ing on such subjects. 1t was just about as
we'll that the Republican convention did
waste valuable paper by making empty pro-
fessions on that head.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-09
A THIN STORY.

A specimen OF the fapdoodle with which
it is attempted to feed the public, with re-
gard to trade movements and railway inter
ests, is afforded by dispatch sent the other
day from Chicago, concerning the report that
big syndicate of foreign capitalists is going
to buy up the entire surplus wheat crop of
the Northwest, and ship it to Europe by the
Duluth and Canadian Pacific routes. Be-
fore the American railroads find out what is
going on. it is asserted, they will ''lose this
important source of revenue in consequence
of the restrictions OF the Interstate Com
merce law, which do not affect Canadian
lines"
The surplus wheat product of the section
referred to is from 100000 to 1O0. .0O0, 900
bushels. 1t is evident that if any syndi-
cate has a control of the neat little
sum of from $50, ,OOO, geo to S12O, 900, 900
required to take this surplus out of
the country and to sell it in the European
markets, its result will be to give the
farmers of the Northwest large price for
their crops. No one can buy up such an
amount of the product of any section with
out sharply advancing prices. The gain to
the country, therefore, in giving the farmers
liberal prices for their wheat, will be almost
unqualified, in the view that the interests of
the common people are paramount to the
interests of the corporations.
AS to the old and somewhat threadbare
statement that the restrictions of the Inter
State Commerce law do not affect Canadian
lines, that is made out of the whole cloth.
The Canadian lines which do business in
the United States are just as much subject
to the Interstate Commerce law as the
American lines are. This appears plainly
from a reading of the law. and has been
affirmed by the Interstate Commerce Com
mission. 1t is true that we have not heard
of any very violent efforts to enforce that
measure against any OF the railroads; but
the immunity of the Canadian lines from
prosecution under the law is not more
marked than the immunity of the American
lines.
OF course the story is one Of the current
trade roorbacks. No. syndicate has the
money to buy up the wheat crop, and the
wheat will be taken out of the country by
the railroad lines which afford the best and
cheapest routes for shipment.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-09
WASHINGTON THE RIGHT PLACE.

Chicago, with characteristic Western
push, offers premium of $780, OG0 to have
the Worlds Fair OF '92, while New York
has not got beyond discussing demand on
the National Government for an appropria-
ton. Very soon the selection of site will
be involved hopelessly in the rival demands
of cities East and West, unless the simple
plan is followed of having the fair at Wash
ington. Where the National Capital is,
there the fair should be. Besides, Washing
ton is fully as convenient for foreign exhib-
itors and for the people of the United States
as any other point named. 1t is well adapt
ed for "show" city, the streets and spaces
being ample and not overcrowded by trade.
Also, Washington could make the most
interesting of all exhibits for a Worlds Fair
in the year of grace 1892. 1t could show
Congress, if needs be, in special session
making the laws for great nation. Strang-
ers from the effete monarehies of the Old
World could then see for themselves the
simple and unostentatious machinery by
which the greatest of modern republics is
run.
Washington is the right spot for the
Worlds Fair.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-09
THE sPEAK-EAsY PROBLEM.

1t was an accepted theory in police circles
under the old liquor laws that the city force
had nothing to do with people who sold
illegally, unless wink at them. Once in a
while there was a vigorous raid on violators
of the license restrictions, but the usual
official attitude was one of mastery inactiv-
ity. This is kept up, more or less, toward
the ''speak-eaSies, % else the blackmailing
prosecutors could not reap such a harvest of
victims. The business of instituting prose-
cutions with view to settling" them for
money is one which the courts of this coun-
ty have hitherto punished with great
severity in the cases of convicted barrators.
They will. doubtless, know how to deal with
any new offenders brought before them. But
the other side of the question is that
the policy of inaction by the regu-
lar police authorities toward the
''speak-easies" is untenable. AS long
as they are permitted to flourish, it is sure
that there will be those to make trade of
bleeding them. So far as the phlebotomy
affects merely the violators of the license
law there will not be much sympathy for
them; but the spectacle of one abuse -four
ishing upon another suggests that the sim
pie and most commendable procedure is to
close up the places where it is necessary to
drink in soft, low voice. The parasitical
ofense of prosecutions of these places, con-
Quoted in whisper in magistrates back
rooms, and settled for an inducement, will
then of necessity speedily disappear of them
selves
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-09
PAPAL POSSIBILITIES.

The idea that the Papal power is coming
more closely into relation with Anglo
Saxon politics, and that the next Pope must
be a man who can speak and think in En-
giish, if the seat of the Papacy is not trans
ferred to some English-speaking country,
forms the basis Of very interesting article
in the Contemporary Reuieao, liberal extracts
from which appear in this issue of THE
DISPATCH. 1t is of significance whether
regarded as possible boom for Cardinal
Manning, or as rejecting the idea which
has generally been regarded as gasconade
of possible removal of the seat of the Pa
pacy from Rome. The main obstacle to the
latter project is the obvious fact that in any
English-speaklng country the Pope would
have to be satisfied with as slight meas
ure of temporal power as he now has in
Italy.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-09
PEOPLE OF PROMINENCE.

THE Queen will have replica Of her jubilee
portrait by Angeli made for the Victoria Art
Gallery at Melbourne.
MISS NORA PERRY is in rather poor health
at present. She is now visiting at West Med
ford, Mass, and will spend next month at
Sharon.
THE latest about Chauncey M. Depew is that
he is tired of railroading, and intends to resign
the Presidency of the New York Central Rail-
road for the purpose of devoting himself
to politics.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES says that in re-
viewing his life he finds that he has taken more
interest in surgery tLan in poetry, but he real
ICES that his fame will rest upon the efforts of
his pen, not OF his knife.
PROF. WILLIAM T. HARRIS, the new United
States Commissioner of Education, is President
OF the Concord School of Philosophy, having
succeeded Bronson Alcott, but the position is
now good deal of sinecure.
JOHN CoRBUTT, of Philadelphia, has been
elected one of the officers OF the Photogra-
piers Association of America, now holding its
tenth annual convention in Boston. He was
the first man to make dry plates in this
country.
AN old chum of Explorer Stauley's, now City
Controller of Omaha says that when they
were both there 20 years ago Stanley was the
readiest and most accomplished liar he ever
knew. Stanley was then correspondent for
several Eastern papers.
THE courtie-s of the boy King of Servia have
been trying, with some success. to set him
against his mother. "You are King now"
they said to him, land don't require to be gov
erned by your mamma" To which the lad re-
piled. "oh, yes; Pm King. and can take care
of myself"
GENERAL VAN VLIET, the Oldest Brigadier
General in the United States Army, now on the
retired list, is on his way from Washington 80
his home in New Jersey. He is "a years Of age
and has been 50 years in the service. he has
ruddy face. overfowing with good humor, and
bushy gray hair, worn long.
THE last Harvard College bulletin shows that
our American colleges have counted some long
lived men among their graduates. Nathan
Birdseye, graduate OF Yale, lived to be more
than l0S years old; the Rev. John Sawyer, of
Dartmouth. was also over LOB when he died; he
received from his college the degree Of D. D. at
the age of l02; Judge Timothy Farrar. of Har-
ward, lived to be over l0l, and received the de-
gree of Ii. D. on the completion of his hun
dredth year. NJ. Chevreul, the French chemist,
who recently died in his one hundred and third
year, had also received degree from Harvard
College.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-09
PLY THE MOP AND BROOM.

A suggestion is made that the city clean
the streets leading to the Exposition grounds.
That idea is timely. All the streets should
be put in neat order before the visiting
thousands come to see the show, but particu.
larly those which lead to the Point
Pittsburg is so occupied with planning
for new streets that the old ones remain a
long distance behind the ideal of cleanli-
ness. In the hustle and hurry of business
our home people, who have been long in
ured to the mud and dust which make the
order of things in the suburbs, are by no
means fnicsl about dirty streets. But
when the country cousins come to see the
Exposition even the floors Of the city should
be swept and garnished for their reception.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-09
OUR RIVER INTERESTS.

The purchase of a controlling interest in
the Cincinnati and Pittsburg Packet Com
pany indicates gratifying tendency to in
crease the PIttsburg interests in river trans
portation. The drift of the past twenty
years away from the predominance which
Pittsburg once had on the Ohio has not
been for the benefit of Pittsburg. Of course
the perfection of railroading mas made it
necessary that it should in great measure
supplant the slower water routes. But for
certain lines of traffic the river Transports
tion is far the cheapest, and in others it
affords valuable check on railroad rates.
Under these circumstances it is good
news that Pittsburg capital is to take hold of
this steamboat line and is going to develop
and extend its usefulness. Every Pittsburg
interest will join The DISPATCH in wish
ing the reorganized packet line ample sue
cess, and liberal supply of such patronage
as will not only assure it prosperity. but
will reflect the prosperity of Pittsburg's
shipping interests.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-09

AN example of the way in which hope
springs eternal in the human breast is af-
forded by statements in esteemed cotempo-
raries. that Major Serpa Pinto's expedition
up the Shire river, in Africa, is for the pur-
pose of opening up water communication,
which is stated to be "slready assured by
the Nile for nearly the whole distance from
Khartoum to the Zambesi." In view of the
fact that two thousand out of the three
thousand miles of water communication
along the Nile is in the hands of our pleas
ant friends, the Soudanese, who make a
practice of killing all traders who come into
their country, the present assurance of
water communication from Khartoum to the
Zambesi does not seem very strong.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-09
A. BIG DAKOTA DITCH.
A Project for a Waterway From Bismarck
to Sc. Pnul.

to Sc. Pnul.
GRAND FORKS, OAK. August 8-Infuen-
tial citizens of Fargo, Bismarck and Grand
Forks have developed a remarkable canal
scheme. The idea is to construct a canal from
the Missouri river at Bismarck, l.66S feet above
the level of the sea, to Lake Traverse and Big
Stone Lake, 800 feet above the level of the sea.
1t will run through section in North and
South Dakota that is in great need of irriga-
tion. If desirable lateral canals can be con.
structed by the various counties, hundreds of
thousands of acres of arid land can. be re.
claimed while the cultivated land would be
wonderfully enhancedin value.
The fall of the canal Will be sufficient to keep
up steady current when properly protected
by locks and dams. At the lakes dams and
locks can be easily constructed so that part of
the water will be forced into Lake Traverse
and part into Big Stone Lake. The water from
Lake Traverse flaws northwafd in the Red
river of the North A few locks placed at the
proper points alonS the route toward Winnipeg
would retain sufficient water during the entire
season to make sure of navigation. The water
from Big Stone Lake flows southwark through
the Minnesota ritter TO the Mississippi. BY
proper dams and docks this stream could be
made navigable.
This canal wouldmake an easy water course
to st. Paul and Minneapolis, and for that mat
ter clear to the Cuff of Mexico if few million
dollars were expended. 1t would also tend to
rednce freight rates on wheat for export and
on imported raw material The coal mines of
Western Dakota would also be easy of access.
The canal, ir is estimated, would cost 81 oOQ0O0.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-09
HOTEL FOR BRIDAL PARTIES.
A House TO be Erected for the Exclusive Use
of Honeymoon Couples.
From the London Figaro

House TO be Erected for the Exclusive Use
of Honeymoon Couples.
From the London Figaro.I
1 am awaiting further particulars of that
Honeymooners' Hotel, which. according to a
circumstantial correspondent, is to be built on
the South Devonshire coast for the special and.
possible. sole use of newly married couples
on their wedding trips. That the surroundings
Of the establishment are to be made as idyllic
and fairylike as possible need scarcely be said.
Romantic arbors in shady corners, gushing
streamlets. secluded sylvan hooks are to be
provided ad lib., while. with the aid of science.
every night will be a moonlight one and every
day one of seeming bright and warm sunshine.
The prospectus is even said to hint at the pres
ence OF mechanical nightingales, which, thanks
to persistent winding up, will warble on every
suitable tree.
The decorations, artistic and otherwise, of
the hotel are, of course, to be all in character,
though must admit that question whether
the proposed transformation of the ordinary
weakkneed hota walters and the somewhat
too substantial cAambermaids of the provinces
into attendant Ganymedes and Hebes, as
artistic In their poses they are classical In
their attires wall really be an advisable step to
take. The laying on of Eolian harps and
other mysterious music IN every apartment is
another detail open to criticism. But there is
nothing like actual experience, after all, and
shall be curisus to hear more about the Honey
mooners' Hdef when it has been opened for
business for tfew weeks.