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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1889-11-16
GRADED MOURNING.
The Kind OF Grief That Inspires Very
Little sympathy.


Little sympathy.
Two columns of q fashion letter are
devoted to fashionable mourning" to
the minutia of texture. cut and finish
imperatively demanded Of those who
mourn by milliner's chart II this
sort of mourning were rare, such let
tiers Of description and advice would
never be written as q business or paid
for by newspapers. To go into mourn
ing. to wear black clothes when some
one dies that we love, Is as natural as
the tears we would hide behind thick
vcils, but the grief that expends itself
in the niceties Of mourning, in style
and etiquette. is grief that Is COM
forted by the advertisement that it
makes for itself. Grief that is con-
cerned with the depth Of hem, width
OF q handkerchief border and the length
OF time it must be adopted. is Of that
quality which wins the envy of other
mourners and little sympathy from
amused observers.
Dress makers, when interviewed.
claim that mourners are their most
fastidious customers, as the sombre-
ness and unbecomingness of dead
black must be overcome by artistic
arrangements and ingenious adorn-
ment. The length of time that deep.
half and light mourning shall be worn
is nicely graded by conventional rule.
The husband heading the list, and the
time exquisiteIy adjusted down to the
mother-in-law and the mother-in-law's
relatives; when mourning by the cal
ender is fully understood, how to do it.
and in what, is explained by card ETH
quette and fashion plates. At certain
stages OF sorrow we may admit certain
friends alone, with cut-jet and patent
leather slips. Later on mere acquaint-
ances may visit us. in the stage of
s.pale iavenders" and soft dove
shades" While all mourners receive
due attention. the widow is the pivotal
strength of the mourning business.
The sanctity of her grief meets the
most obsequious Difference from silk
worm to the shopkeeper. She is even
told the width OF her cap border, and
whether it is black, edged with white,
or pure white this season."
In this progressive age. marked par
ticularly by the emancipation of wo-
men into larger lives and higher am
billions, it is singular that fashionable
mourning" with its pretense and affec-
tations Of grief. mourning as a pastime,
diversion and fashion can be toler.
ated. That deadly fear of convention,
in which women have so long beer
trained, is the probable reason; q fea,
which puts thousands of women int
mourning who feel no grief or in
wardly rebel at the parade and show.
ing over breaking heart. -Washing'
ton Post.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1889-11-16

FRoM the Herald Of Faith, st. Louis, Mis-
souri,. August 10, 1887.
Referring to 6hallenberger's Antidote for
Malaria, the business manager Of the Herald
Of Faith would say, that he gave this med
icine . personal trial, and was speedily
he then recommended 1t to F. ]. Tiefen-
braun, 1915 Papin street, and to police ON
cor Neidenger, ut the Union Depot, both OF
whom were cured by it Of chills and fever
Of several years. standing. Recently his
wife, after . fever Of several days durar
ton, took . single dose and was perfectly
cured. In view of these remarkable cures,
and remembering how much money 10 spent
for quinine, 50 little to be depended upons
and often so injurious, we can only wish
that Shallenberger's Antidote would come
into general use
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1889-11-16

BY no meana Persons of herculeau
build frequently possess minimum OF gen.
uine vigor, and exhibit less endurance than
very small people Real vigor means the
aSin-v to digest and sleep well, and to per.
form Reasonable amount OF daily physical
It il because course Of Hostetter's 6tom-
ach Bitters enables the enfeebled dyspeptic
to consume the allotted activity Of every
day life, as well as to participate without
discomfort in its enJoyments, that 1t IL such
Q prominently useful medicine.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1889-11-16

The Wagner Palace Car Company is revo-
lutiouizing the equipment of its cars and
making them superior 10 anything of the
kind in the world. One Of the greatest i'm
p-ovements is the lighting of the cars with
gas, The New York Central & Hudson
River Railroad Company IL also equipping
Its passenger coaches with gas. About one
hundred OF them running out of New York
pressed in : cylinder Under eacS car, and
one filing Of q cylinder will last the round
trip between New York and Chicago. The
gas is made from petroleum, and furnishes
. 60candle power light Is againsta 16candlo
power light under the old method. Coaches
lighted with grs are rs light e. . parlor, and
In the daytime.-Rome IN. " Sentinel.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1889-11-16

THE railroads OF India" says Q writer
on the orient, shave almost done away with
caste" Never mind, wait until they get to
introducing American sleeping car porters
and the system win at once be re-estab-
lished.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1889-11-16

A eoosEBxnRY bush, growing ont Of TIE
side Of . maple tree, twenty-five feet from
the ground, was seen In Johnsbury, W.,
when . tree was felled In the courthouse
yard the other day:
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1889-11-16

Do You wish to know how to have no steom,
and not half the usual sc0rk on wasli-day
Ask your grocer for bar Of Do6bfns' Elec-
how. Be sure to get no imitation.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1889-11-16

HARSH purgative remedies arc fast giving
wav to the gentle action and mild effects Of
Carter's Little Liver Pills. If you try them,
they win certainly please you.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1889-11-16

For all arrangements Of the liver. etom-
ach and bowels, take DR.. Pierces Peliets.
One dose.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1889-11-16

CALIFORNIA fruit growers, who used to
throw away their peach pits, are now get
ting six dollars ton for them. They are
worth this for fuel. They mako hot and
aromatic IRE.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1889-11-16

You cam thelp liking them, they are 20 very
small and their action is SO perfect. One pill {
dose. Carterss Little Liver Pills. Try them.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1889-11-16

A MoNEoB CouxrY (O.) man drove to
town the other day Tor the first time since
fall and heard that Harrison was elected
President He doesn't take paper and it
was news to him.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1889-11-16

EVERY trace Of salt rheum II obliterated
BY Glenn's Sulphur Soap.
HiVs Hair and Whisker Dye, 50 cents.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1889-11-16

An Austrian botanist Prof. PeyritscA,
has discovered that double flowers may be
artifcially produced by mites, and believes
that each flower has its peculiar mite-parar
site which gives rise to the doubling.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1889-11-16
Salt Rheunn

Often causes ereat agony With its intense itehtna
and bnrnins. Hoods earsspariIla. the great BLOOD
purinsr, cures self Fheum and AL sk1n diseases. y
thoroughly cleansss. ronovstes and enstehes ne
blood. Give Il . trial.
sAftsr The failure Of three SINFUL physloians -
cure ny boz Of salt fheum. I tried Hoods eersepar
rilla and Olive Ointment. have now Esd four
boxes Of Ointment and one and half bottles OF
earsaparla and the boy h TO all appearances con-
pletsly CURED. He 10 now four years old. and has
been a0lctod since h vas elk months OF age"
MIS-. y. eANDERsoN. Is Nswhall g., Lowell. Mass
Hood's SarsaparlIIa
Sold BY all druggists. III sx for s. Prepared only
By Q. L HOOD CO.. Apothecazies. Lowell Mas.
100 Doses One Dollar
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-08-01
THE RAILROAD SHOPS.
superintendent Wright Explains the
Temporary Reduction of Force.

Superintendent Wright Explains the
Temporary Reduction of Force.
]. B. Wright, Superintendent of the
Railroad, yesterday explained to reporter
of the RECORD UNION the causes for the
large reduction in the force of men en-
ployed in the shops in this city, which has
been going on for some time past. Al first
twenty to forty men were laid off each
week, but last week General Superintend-
ent ]. A. Fillmore sent an order to lay off
500 men, thus reducing the force TO l, 2G0,
at which number it is to be maintained for
a couple of months.
About $50 stopped work last Saturday
night and the other $50 will quit during
the present week. 1t is not intended to
make any further reduction, and Mr.. Fill
more states that after a couple of months
the force will be increased again as rapidly
as necessary to keep up with the work, the
probability being that by the first of the
year from 1000 TO $500 men will be at
work again.
Mr.. Fillmore says that the reduction is
made necessary by the condition of the
company's business. In the first place
there has been employed at the shops, up
to this summer, an unusually large force
of men, and the road is in excellent shape
as regards the number and condition of its
cars and engines. There is, therefore, no
necessity for so large a force on repairs.
Then the operation OF the Interstate Com
merce Act, and the advantages and privi-
leses it has given the Canadian Pacific
Railway over the United States roads in
the handling of transcontinen' al freight,
has SO decreased the volume of business of
the Southern Pacific Company that not
only are its gross earnings seriously cut
down, but it finds that it has on hand much
more rolling stock than it can use. The
Canadian Pacific is heavily subsidized by
the Dominion Government, has no taxes
to pay, and can, by charging higher rates
on local traffic, capture the bulk of the
through business. The Southern Pacific
Company cannot meet this competition be-
cause oil the operation of the long and
short-haul clause of the Interstate Com
merce Acs, and as result its business is
being destroyed by the road on the north,
which has been well named 1.-The British
Government on wheels"
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-08-01
LIKED THE DOUGHNUTs.
A Party of Immigrants Stay at the Lunc1
Counter Till Their Train Departs.

A Party of Immigrants Stay at the Lunch
Counter Till Their Train Departs.
The other morning the railroad depot
was the scene of good deal of confusion.
There arrived on the overland train from
the East family of Portuguese immi-
grants on their way to San Francisco. The
train stops here for breakfast, and the
whole party, numbering nearly dozen,
repaired to the restaurant in the depot and
ordered their mornings meal. They were
quite while eating-in fact, so slow that
The conductor shouted "all aboard" Just as
they had commenced to drink their coffee.
They were told to get on the train, but
paid no attention to the adyiceS as they evil
IDENTIFY intended to get their moneys
worth. The train pulled out and was well
under way when the whole band rushed
out screaming at the top of their voices and
endeavoring to board the moving cars.
Several yardmen held them back, with no
little difficulty, as it was feared an accident
might befall them. The train went on, but
the party were assured that their tickets
would be made all right 50 that they could
go on the afternoon train. Ii is needless to
say they We're on hand for the next train.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-08-01
HOW IT HAPPENED.

Owen Morgan Explains How He Nearly
Burned the Western.
Owen Morgan, thu warm headed and
whiskered gentleman who set fire to the
bed in which he was sleeping in the West
ern Hotel, Monday morning, was examined
in the Police Court yesterday on a charge
of arson.
Mr.. Land, proprietor of the hotel, the
night clerk, the watchman and the bell
boy all testified to the circumstances of the
discovery of the fire as heretofore pub
hshed.
Morgan then shuffled up to the stand
and related what he could remember of the
affair. He started in drinking Saturday
night as soon as he alighted from the
Stockton train. He did not remem
Der exactly how much he drank,
but to the best of bis recollection he drank
about thirty schooners of beer, aud as
many glasses of whisky, and then went to
bed comparatively sober. The next night
he started in again, and this time sue
ceeded in getting glorious-he had no idea
how much liquor it required to bring BIN
TO that stage. He went to his room about
3 o'clock Monday morning. Just before
getting into bed, though, he remembered
that he bad left package in the last saloon
he had imbibed in, and, putting on his
coat and pants again, he went out for it.
When he returned few minutes later the
window curtain was ablsze. He tore it
down, and it fell on the bed, setting it on
fire too. Selling glass of water he doused
it on the bed, and, he thought. ex,in-
guisked the blaze. Thinking then that the
hotel people would complain about the bed
being burned he concluded to skip out
And he dad But the police located hin,
and placed him under arrest.
That was his sad tale.
The case will be decided by Judge Buck
lev to-day
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-08-01
MORE PROMISES.

Again the Government is About to Start
Work on the New Postoffice.
Joseph Steffens, President of the Board
of Trade, is in receipt of letter from Con-
gresham McKenns, detailing tle result of
recent correspondence with the Treasury
Department at Washington in regard to the
new Government building. Mr.. McKenna
is informed that, after unavoidable delays,
the Department has at last got the plans
and specifications prepared, and that work
will shortly be commenced.
Deputy POs,m sster Leake has forwarded
to the Department specimens of the pink
stone now being used in the construction
of the Stale Bank building in this city.
Samples of building stone to be found any,
where in the vicinity of a proposed new
public building are required by the Super
wishing Architect before determining of
what particular material the structure shall
be built.
There is one thing that the Board of
Trade should urge upon the authorities at
Washington, through Congressman Nc
kenna, and that is the necessity for COM
mencing work on the foundation for the
building at once. Even now the water is
close to the surface of the site, and the
foundation can be laid only in the fall. If
not done between now and the rainy season
the work will be delayed until another
year. 1t is all important that this matter
be looked after.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-08-01
Looks Like DEMONSTRATING.

ON Sunday last two men who were
working for grain-thrasher near Rose
vile, one of whom is named Donahue and
the other Ed Pearson, borrowed horse
cart from their employer to come to Sacra-
mento. Arriving here. Donahue found his
vile i'll, and sent Pearson back with the
horse and vehicle. On Tuesday the latter
Was found lear the Twelve-Mile House
on the Auburn road, but the horse was
missing.
Yesterday the owner came to town and
sought out DOnahue, who was surprised at
learning that Pearson had not returned the
horse aud cart, and Sheriff McMullen was
applied 10 for warrant for his arrest on a
charge OF grand larceny II was placed in
the hands of Deputy Cogswell, who went
10 Roseville yesterday afternoon to serve il.
report having been received that Pearson
was there and painting the village red.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-08-01
sIortraced for sinteen .Iilliops.

There was filed for record yesterday in
the Recorders Office a copy of mortgage
given by the Central Pacific Railroad Com
pany 10 the Metropolitan Trust Company
OF New Yo;k on its property in this State
10 secure The payment of 5000 fifty-year
5 per cent. bonds, in the sum of 81 900 each,
aggregating SIG, 100000. Copies Of the said
mortgage have been filed in the counties Of
San Francisco, Alameda, Tulare, Fresno
MERGED, Stsnislaus and San Joaquin. The
mortgage covers fourteen pages of closely
printed matter.
There was also fled for record the release
of mortgage made in 1886 by the Central
Pacific Company TO w. + Brown and +. 5.
Douty, ~ Trustees, the same having been
fully satisfied and paid
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-08-01
THE WYEELMEN.
They Want a Bicycle Track Laid at the
Fair Grounds

4hSy w u Lana AT the
Fair Grounds.
The Sacramento Wheelmen's Club are
circulating petition about town to have
the Directors of the State Agricultural So
ciety allow them TO construct a quarter
mile track within the paddock at Agri-
cultural Park, just in the rear of the
judges stand and where it will be in full
view of the grand stand. The petition is
receiving the signatures of all the leading
firms and citizens, and will be presented at
the first meeting of the Directors.
The wheelmen propose 10 lay cinder
track thirty feet in width. to be surrounded
with neat fencing, if the Board will accede
10 their request. They say that wheelmen
from San Francisco and other places can
not be induced 10 come here and race on
the race-track, as it is too soft and not at
all suitable for bicycling. If they had a
good track, of the kind proposed, there
would be some grand speed contests on
public occasions, and hundreds of bicy-
clists would come here occasionally at the
annual reunions of the Pacific Coast
Wheelmen's Association.
There seems to be no serious objection to
the Directors granting their request There
would be less room on that side of the
track for those who like to view the horse
racing from their vehicles, but probably
there would be enough. Certainly, bicycle
contests could thus be made a feature at
the park, and 1t might show wisdom on
the part of the Directors to permit the
track to be laid.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-08-01
A LITTLE COOLER.
Yesterday a Slight Improvement on the |
Three Preceding Days.

Yesterday a Slight Improvement on the
Three Preceding Days.
The highest and lowest Signal Service
temperatures yesterday, says Signal Officer
Barwick, were $50 and 6lO, beng 60 cooler
than the day before, due, no doub;, to the
increased velocity of the wind, it being
from eight TO ten miles per hodr yesterday,
while on the day before it was but three to
five and six miles. This makes all the diff.
ference in the world with our summer
climate, for, give us a southerly breeze of
from fifteen TO twenty miles per hour, and
oVeTcodts would be necessary any night i'll
summer. But let the wind fan the brow
al the rate of from two to four or five miles
per hour and then the nights could be
spent in natures own garb without any
disagreeable consequences or danger of
colds being caught.
This knocks the spots" out of the old
saying of never mind the weather, so the
wind don't blow" 1t should be, to suit
our summer climate: Never mind the
weather, if the wind will blow"
The highest and lowest temperatures
one year ago yesterday were 76o and $50
The highest and lowest one year ago to day
august lst) were so and SO, with brisk,
southerly breezes and a cloudless sky. The
temperature yesterday at A. NJ. was SO
and at 5 P. NJ, 92o.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-08-01
FLIcKINGER,s FOLLY.
He Admits Having Allowed Boys to Visit
His Saloon.

The csse of John Flickinger, the saloon
keeper charged with allowing boys under
sixteen years of age to visit his place of
business, was tried before Justice Henry
yesterday. District Attorney Bruner con-
Quoted the prosecution, and E C. Hart de-
Tended the accused. There were quite a
number of ladies and gentlemen-members
of the Law and Order League-present at
the trial, beside the mothers of some OF the
boys who were found in the defendants
saloon at late hour in the night
The prosecution was pressed with vigor,
and the evidence in support OF the charge
was conclusive. Frank Lawrenson, Jerry
Lynch and James Lewis, three of the boys
found in the defendants saloon, testified to
having been there from half past o'clock
in the evening until half-past l in the
morning.
w. w. Cone and George Rose testified to
having found the boys there.
The defendant admitted that the boys
visited his saloon, but said that he did not
know their ages, nor was ne aware iof the
existence of such law as that under which
he was arrested.
Arguments were made by District Attor-
ney Bruner and Mr.. Hart. The Court, be-
fore pronouncing judgment, gave the boys
and the defendant sound lecture, and then
pronounced the latter guilty as charged
Sentence will be imposed on Saturday.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-08-01
CULLIEH'S PURE st. AOUIo
WHITE Lien AID
AMERICAN STEAM LAUNDRY,

AMhh1OAS S1G@-A 1hOS AS1
Nineteenth and Sta, Sacramento,
WHITE LABOR ONLY. LINEN POLISHED
w III the neatest manner, We guarantee sat.
isfaciion. All ordinary mending. sewing on
for and delivered to any part OF the city, OGaee,
at Sswtelle's hook store, 79s and 10 street.
Splm s. 81. GREEN. PoS0r'etoT
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-08-01
A BOYS MISHAP.
Johnny flanagan Gets His Toes Under a
Passing Railroad Car.

Johnny flanagan Gets His Toes Under
Passing Railroad Car.
About o'clock yesterday afternoon a
lad named Johnny flanagan, about IS years
OF age, had several toes crushed by car
in the vicinity of the gas works. He was
at the switch yards, and seeing train of
cars approaching, he edged in between the
fence and the track, in order to let the cars
pass by. As he was stopping down, how
ever, his foot slipped on a rock and his
leg was thrown across the rail. The cars
were by this time upon him, and the
wheels passed over four toes of the little
fellows left foot, badly crushing them.
Surgical aid was summoned, and the
doctors amputsted the big toe, but left the
remaining ones.
The young lad is said to have suffered a
mishap of almost the same nature about
six years ago. His father is one of the
railroad sectiou-foremen.
This is another warning to children to
keep away from the railroad tracks.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-08-01
GROSS OUTRAGEs.
Two Persons Injured by Torpedoes Placed
on Street Railroad Tracks.

Two Persons Injured by Torpedoes Placed
on Street Railroad Tracks.
About 10 o'clock last night a powerful
torpedo was placed by some malicious per-
son or brainless idiot upon the street rail-
road track near the State House Hotel
The first car that came along exploded the
missile, and young man-whose name
could not be learned-received a painful
injury on che leg, the limb being badly
gashed. A physician was called and
dressed the wound and the young man
taken to his home
few minutes later telephone message
was received from uptown stating that
another torpedo had been exploded on one
of the other lines, and that lady was
badly injured on one of her arms There
seems to be no clue to the perpetrators of
these OutrapeS