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Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-11-12
City Finances.

Following is statement of the receipts
and disbursements of the City Treasury
as shown by the City Auditors report fol-
the week ending Novem her 9th.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-11-12
Auction To-aIorrow.

Bell & Co. will sell tomorrow, at their
sslesroom, No. 927 K street, the balance of
the bankrupt stock from Saturdays sale !;
also two houses of furniture.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-11-12

If YOU want ANYTHING in the musical
line go 10 Hammers store. Largest music
stock Of music and musical merchandise in
pianos.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-11-12
saloon BurpIarized

The beer saloon at 726 < street was burg
larized on Sunday night, and 800 cigars,
silver watch and SO one-cent pieces carried
off
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-11-12
The Talk of the Town.

In all arrangement of the liver cure is
certain if you take Simmons Liver Regu-
1af0r
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-11-12

Birth death, and marriage notices must be sen, IN
by responsible parties, and paid for at the rate Of %
cents each; funeral notices, Is cents.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-11-12

Wy II. QUINN, LATE MANAGER OF THE
w Golden Eagle Barber Shop, has opened
his new TONSORfAL PARLoR at 1908 Sew
enth street, bet. and K. ol1-1m
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-11-12
MARRIED..

Sacramento, November 11-By the Rev. John
f. Won Herrlich, Rector of st. Paul's Church
Augustus C. Parker to Anna Mcdowell, both
o. Central Point. oregon.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-11-12
AMERICAN STEAM LAUNDRY

Nineteenth and Stsss Sacramento.
WHITE LABOR ONLY, LINEN POLISHED
w IN the neatest manner. We guarantee sat
isfaction AL ordinary mending sewing on
buttons, etc., free Of charge. washing called
for and delivered TO any part Of the city. once,
at SaWtelie's book store, 708 and 10 J street,
splm z. q. GREEN, Proprietor.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-11-12
Horses for Liy ~, Brewers, Grocers,
Butchers, Etc.

WE HAVE AT THE STOCKYARD5 100
w head fine Geldings and Mares from ouI
Siskiyou ranch These horses are all well bred
and will be sold a. reasonable prices il applied
for at once A. HEILBRON q BRO, No 2l7
sr,aet ie12-tf
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-11-12

Prang's Art Books, Holiday Cards
Satin Novelties, ready to-day.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-11-12

Panhandle Dinner Knives silver-plat
blades, with deep embossed hits, 81
Butter Knives, 81 25.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-03-27
MATTHEWS SUCCESSOR.

1t is reported from Washington that
President HARRISON is thinking of
naming Judge COOLEY as the late AS
sociate Justice MATTHEWS successor
on the supreme bench. The president
may be thinking Of it, but that is as far
as he will go. The appointment would
be an eminently fit one, and it is not
strange that Judge CooIEY's name
would suggest itself first of all to the
presidents mind when he gives his at
tentlon to this matter. But it so hap
pens that Judge CooLEY's position as
chairman of TIE interstate commission
has won for him the i'll will of all the
corporations, because he has refused to
interpret the law in their favor when it
was designed for the protection of the
people. JAY GOULD will be opposed to
Judge CooLEY'S nomination.. The
VANDERBIITs will oppose it; so will
CHAUNCE NJ. DEPEw; and Messrs.
BLAINE and WINDOW are sure to throw
the weight of their influence against it.
The corporation lawyers in the senate
would only be too glad to punish Judge
COOLEY for his independence by reject
ing his nomination if it should be sent
to that body. However good the presi-
dents intentions may be. or however
kindly he may feel toward Judge
COOLEY, it can be set down as an abso-
Lutte certainty that the late Justice
MATTHEW'S successor will be a lawyer
who has not offended the corporations.
President HARRISON has a chance to
distinguish himself by sending Judge
CooLEY's name to the senate and by
keeping it before that body until he
forces his confirmation. But unfortn-
nately, the president is not a man who
wants to gain distinction in that way.
He has been a corporation attorney
himself too long to be capable of MAX
ing vigorous fight in behalf of the
npDOIp
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-03-27

weather bureau has not vet attained
that perfection which was expected of
it when first established, and, perhaps,
never will; but the service IS of so
much value that it has grown to be in-
dispensable. Its predictions are not al
ways verified: still, they can be relied
on in most instances, and the saving in
life and property to this country since
the weather bureau was first established
is almost incalculable. The strongest
argument in favor of the service is that
there is not community now provided
with signal station which would
be willing to give it up; and
we venture the prediction that,
if the SCHEFFER bill becomes a
law. it will never be repealed. Its
provisions are of more Importance to
the Inhabitants of farms and country
towns than to the residents of the cities,
because the latter are already provided
with service at the expense of the
national government.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-03-27
PROHIBITION COFFEE.
"A Novel Way to Circumyent Cold
Water Laws.


Said a commercial traveller to a Buff
falo Courier correspondent: "There
are many eXpedients resorted to in the
prohibition towns in the South. by
which any one so inclined may get
'drap' of the forbidden beverage. A
novel one is that adopted by an old ne
gre at small station on the Illinois
Central railroad. AS soon as the train
stops he boards the smoker with a
tray bearing some bottles and a
few cups, and crying: Mice hot coffee
here, gents. Only cents If any one
signifies desire for coffee he asks him:
does you take yo' coffee wild cream,
sab, or cleah?' If the passenger wishes
it with cream he pOurs it, already
mixed. from one of the bottles, and re-
ceives his nickel. If, however. he says
he will take it clear, the old darkey
sounds him with: ''Dat kind OBJ coffee.
sab, comes Is cents; does you wish dat
kind sah?' If the response is in the
affirmative he pOurs from another bottle
draught of good old eXhilarating corn
juice.
$50 seldom is it that any but the
initiated wish coffee without cream in it
that the old fellow rarely gets into
trouble on that score. All the COM
merclal men are on to the trick, and
they are numerous and constitute quite
a trade. As he stands in with the rail-
road men he does not fear betrayal from
that quarter, and SO does quite thriv-
ing little business"
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-03-27
EEOPEMENTS.

The elopement of the young and
glddy daughter of the chief justice at
tracts more attention than such events
usually do, and there is prevalent dis
position to look upon it as very venial
escapade-in las an exhibition of in
dependence and pluck that might bring
the palms of observers together. There
have been incidents of the kind that
were justifiable, but the only excuse
apparent in this instance is the desire
to retain in the parental pocket the ex-
pense of fitting wedding, or to secure
desirable advertisement for a debut
upon the stage. The example is bad
and infectious. People in the suscepti-
BILE years of early life are quite apt
enough to do foolish things and run on
the perilous edge of ultimate disaster.
An elopement is bad start for married
life, and the participants are fortunate
If their folly does not materialiZe and
cloud. if not wreck, their own lives, as
well as pain and wrong others The
ideas Of romance and sensation in such
episodes are the vapors of mental dis
ease and feebleness, and it would be
well if public sentiment had a condem-
natory yigOr that would restrain even
the most Anticipated young people.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-03-27
usURY LEGISLATION.

A prominent business man OF the city
asserts that the effect of the pending
usury legislation is already being felt in
this community. and that its effect is to
keep away capital which is very much
needed at this particular time. He re-
lateS instances within his knowledge of
where several persons who had ar
ranged with Boston and Philadelphia
parties for large sums of money to be
expended during the coming summer in
important improvements in this state,
and have now been notified that the
loans will be withheld until it is def
nitely known what action the legislature
will take on the uSury bill. If the bill
is enacted into law in its present shape,
the money will not be advanced accord
ing to previous arrangement.
Thus the advocates of the bill are en-
abled to see that they are legislating
against public interests. If we were in
that happy condition that we did not
need any more money than is to be
found within the limits of the state, no
serious objection could be urged to the
bill; but as we are not in that fortunate
condition, the gray mare becomes horse
of another color. When it is remem-
bered that the state is barely in
the infancy of development, and
when we consider the possibilities
that lie before us in case we can COM
mand capital enough to develop all
our resources, it does seem that the
legislature must be stricken with judi
cial blindness if it adopts any such pol
icy as that proposed by the usury bill
now before it. We have a good usury
law on the statute books, and one that
is understood abroad as well as at home.
Our people have suffered no special
hardships from its operation. There
have doubtless been instances of eXtor-
ton, but the law was not responsible
for them. They were committed in
violation of law: and if there is any
particular weakness in the present law,
whereby the eXtortioner Is able to evade
its provisions. then it is all right enough
to amend the law so as to prevent ex-
tortion. Yet there is no occasion for
the radical change proposed in the bill
now before the legislature, and seeing
that its passage is sure to do an i'm
mense injury to all business interests,
and as certain to retard the develop
ment of the state. we fail t) see the
wisdom of pushing such a measure. If
members are impelled to support it be-
cause of the clamor throughout the
rural districts for its passage, as some
of them say they are, they should re-
member that those who raise this ciamor
have not considered the subject in all
its bearings, and are ignorant of the
prejudicial effects the bill will have in
case it is enacted into a law.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-03-27
BOUNCING THE COoSs.

There must be something wrong in
the White house. TO the outside pub
lie there appears to be conflict in the
establishment relative to a solution of
the race problem. President HARRISON
has taken occasion to express unliounded
sympathy for the colored race, and has
promised to use all the power of his adj
mInistration to elevate them in the So
clal scale. And yet.while he is holding
these promises to the ear, the better
half of the administration, who has as
sumed the office OF mistress in the
White house. is breaking them to the
hope. She is cleaning out every coon
in the establishment and filling their
places with white help. OF course, no
one will deny to Mrs. HARRISON the
right to employ domestics from any
class that she prefers, and to surround
herself with Just such help as is most
agreeable to her. But there is an old
fashioned notion still eXtant that people
ought to practice what they preach and
if there is to be no discrimination on
account of race or color during this adj
ministration, then why this wholesale
iShoNoi VI oiio OoioIcd SelfdlttS IRON
the White house? The most of them
are old attaches of the establishment,
some of them have been there through
a half-doZen administrations. and one
has been fixture there for over forty
years. All of them have been faithful
and well behaved. Yet Mrs. HARRISON
has cleaned out the whole batch, and
for no other apparent reason than that
she doesn't like niger. There is an
inconsistency about this thing that will
have to be explained.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-03-27
THE STATE PRESS.

The GLOBE is a newspaper full of
vim and nterprise.-Faribault Dem
ocrat.
Gordon E. Cole addressed the legisla-
ture last Friday on the dressed meat
bill. 1t is becoming quite the general
thing nowadays for the thinking people
to mistrust ''colored gentleman in the
woodpile" when this legal luminary
arises to address the state legislature on
any toplc--Mankato Democrat.
Senator Edwards, who declared that
the country newspapers in Minnesota
could be purchased for less than 500
each, is one of the first men honored by
the Republican party and rewarded by
the office of collector OF customs of
Minnesota. and the booted Republican
editors have not word to say in re-
monstrance, but stink Off rubbing the
sore place. Query? Did he size up the
newspapers of his own faith correctly?
st. Vincent New Era.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-03-27
WEATHER TALK.

They had good deal of fun with the
weather up in the state senate yester-
day. 1t was during the discussion of
Mr.. SCHEFFER' bill to extend the
operations of the chamber of commerce
weather bureau throughout the state:
and the members of that august body
took advantage of the opportunity to
make all manner of sport of the profess
sional weather prophets. Senator Ed
WARDS told the story of a Fillmore
county farmer who pinned his faith so
closely to official weather predictions
that he lost his entire crop waiting for
rain that had been promised, and didn't
come. Such stories are all amusing
enough, and serve. in their way, to show
the fallibility of all human knowledge:
yet they are not arguments of sufficient
weight to disproye the value of the
weather signal service. 1t is tue, the
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-03-27
GUESSING MATCH.
A Few Tests Which illustrates
Common Errors of Judgment.

Common Errors of Judgment.
Pittsburg Dispatch.
A crank who is an occasional visitor
to downtown office entered the place
the other day when nobody appeared to
be very busy. Some one was telling
story in which he made mention of
some object ''about the size of a silver
dollar" when the crank interrupted the
speaker with the remark:
''Ill bet IS there isn't man in this
Office who can tell without measuring
what the exact size of silver dollar is"
The bet was not taken, for nobody
knew. The crank went on:
Il am also willing to give SIS to the
man who will take his pen or pencil
and draw line which shall represent
the exact diameter of silver dollar"
Upon this all hands made the attempt.
A piece of paper was taken, and each
took his turn at drawing line upon it.
When all had finished the crank took
dollar from his pocket and placed it
successfully over each of the marks.
Some of them were too long by half an
inch, and some lacked almost that much
i'll length. There wasn't one which was
not as much as an eighth of all inch out
of the way. The eccentric visitor said:
For men who handle as much money
as you do, it is strange you are not more
familiar with its size and appearance.
Now let me test your judgment in an
other matter. Here is long sheet of
white paper, which ] will place upright
against the wall back of this table.
Now take your pencils and mark on the
paper what you think is the height
OF an ordinary silk hat. Some of you
have silk hat here, l suppose?"
milne is in. the other roOm," an
swered one of the clerks.
''Well, let il stay there until we want
it. Now try to guess how tall the hat
is, and mark the paper accordingly"
The estimates afforded curious Illus
tration of the way mems opinions will
differ even about small matter. Be-
tween the shortest and the longest
mark there was a difference of nearly
four inches. When the hat was brought
out and set upon the table against the
paper, all the marks, with two eXcep-
tions, were from one to three inches too
long. The nearest guess was made by
man who made mark about three
quarters of an inch too short. Then the
crank asked for an estimate of the diff
ference in the height of his Derby and
the silk hat. The gueSsers didn't come
as near as before.
That Is the way it is" said the
crank. People have an idea that a high
hat is ever much higher than a common
one, yet you will find if you measure
both that the difference is very little.
The eye that is not trained in measur-
ing distances will lead its possessor into
some serious errors of Judgment"
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-03-27
Ex-Congressman P. P. Ma
honey Is Lying at the
Point Of Death.
His Physicians Have Given
Up ALI Hope--A Biograph-
zeal Sketch.
An Order Of the Land Office
Touching Des Moines
River Lands.
Work Of the Maritime Con-
ference--The Aqueduct
Trial.

WASHINGTON, March 26.-At mid
night the physicians IN attend
ance on ex-Congressman P. P.
Mahoney had given up all hopes
of his recovery, and said that his death
was only question of few hours.
Peter p. Mahoney was born in New
York city June %. 1S4S. He was edu-
Gated in the grammar schools of that
city, and was engaged in the dry goods
business for several years. He held no
public office until he was elected to the
Forty-ninth congress. He was re-
elected to the Fiftieth con-
gress. but in the last campaign
failed to receive the nomination at the
hands of the Democraticconvention. His
successful competitor was John NJ.
Clancy. To MIR. Mahoney's disappoint-
ment at that time his present illness is
part attributed. Mr.. Mahoney was
married only two months ago. His
wife has been with him throughout his
sickness.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-03-27

with ten good horses each, and
started overland in punches of four or
i've. They were Instructed to avoid all
towns and ranches, and make all haste
to the rendezvous, about thirty miles
from here. 1t was a roundabout Jour-
ney of nearly 1000 miles, but every man
of them showed he possessed the proper
requisite of hard riding by appearing
at the rendezvous within twelve days.
Within two days it became known
that Half-breed Jack had been hung
near the head waters of the Yellow
stone. The following day it was
learned that Turkey Williams and
Broncho Charlie were hanging in the
cottonwoods, about ten miles above
Miles City. The next day it was Splay-
Foot Hartnett's turn. 1t was then as
serted that Scar-Face Mosley and
Humpy Jack were lying dead in
their shack near Glendive, shot to
death by the ''Stranglers," as they had
already come to be known. Investiga-
ton showed that the two men were
alive, and apparently as ready to steal
horses as ever. The next day they
were killed in exactly the manner
rumor had already disposed of them.
Rumor had preceded reality in a man
ner dramatic enough to put a ten
sion on the strongest nerve. The
man who had started the false report
was searched for in vain. Every man
who had helped spread it had heard it
from some other man. Nothing could
have so we'll advertised the work of the
''Stranglers." 1t showed conclusively
that they were not an unauthorized
gang OF murderers whose mission it
was to Kill every man they met. They
mad undoubtedly been hired to do their
work.
A THOROUGH CLEANING OUT.
No one in this county had enough
money to do this except the cattlemen.
Then for the first time it was noticed
that every man killed so far was
notorious horse thief. From high
handed law-breakerS, the "Rustlers."
who had heard of the operations of the
strangers" became the most abject
OF towards. Many sought safety in inn
mediate flight, never more to be seen in
the cattle country. A few, fool
hardy, enough to brave the APP
proach of their Nemesis, paid The
others i'll their flight rushed into the
very arms of the strangers" After
the beginning of the reign of terror
caused by the death of Scar-Face Mos
ley and Humpy Jack, the strangers"
had divided into seven parties, each
under the leadership of trusty Mon
tana cowboy, and, striking out in as
many different directions, worked with
the energy of fiends to gain the $1,000
prize which was chung up" as added
money" to the most successful party in
this terrible man hunt.
The end was not long in coming. In
less than two months every man known
or suspected of being horse thief was
either dead Or driven from the country.
The strangers" appeared to melt in
thin air as mysteriOusly as they had
come into being, and to this day it is
not known, except by the members
themselves, the eleven cattlemen and
four outsiders, who composed the FAM
GUS band of men that freed Montana
and Western Dakota from cattle thieves
by killing siXty-three of them and run
ming hundred others out of the coun.
try.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-03-27
OPPOSED TO PROHIBITION

1t is significant fact that in Massa-
chusetts and Pennsylvania, where con-
tests over constitutional prohibition are
in progress, some of the leading clergy,
including members of the C0Dgrega-
tional, Presbyterian and Methodist de-
nominations. take ground against the
movement. Even the Congregational
newspaper in Massachusetts opposes
the amendment. One of the ablest di-
vines in Pennsylvania pronounces pro-
hibition as unscriptural and wrong in
principle, as well as adverse to the
genius and aim of free and constltu-
tionaI government. As practical meas
IRE of reform, he says it has been
largely failure, and tends to create
community OF spies. informers and hyp-
ocrites." That impression seems to be
growing among the more considerata
and thoughtful, and the effect is seen in
the voting had on the question both in
the East and the West. The friends of
temperance and the champions of pro-
hibition are not Identical in person and
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