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Sacramento daily record-union., 1889-06-15
The First Postmistress.

The hrst PoStmistreSs was the widow OF
| Colonel Andrew Balfour of Revolutionary
times. She was Miss Elizabeth DAYTON
of Newport, r. |. Balfour came to Amer
lea from Edin hrrgh, Scotland, in l772,
landing at Boston. He was few years in
the North and married Miss Dayton in
New York city. In 1777 he sailed for
Charleston, but the distracted state of the
country induced him to leave his wife and
her children with relations in New Eng
land until he could prepare Southern
home for them, but soon after this the tide
of war turned South and rolled It's wave
over the CarOlinas, and her husband cast
in his lot with the defenders of the home
of his adoption North Cardinal, but he
soon fell a victim to the barbarity of
party of royalists, led by Colonel Fannin,
British officer, who murdered Balfour in
his house in the presence of a sister and
his eldest child.
As soon as Mrs. Balfour heard of her
husbands tragic death she hastened South.
coming in care of General Greene, who
landed at Washington. From thence it
was tedious trip through the country
to the home in Randolph county, where
her noble husband was murdered As the
country was still unsafe, Mrs BaIfour
deemed it improper to live upon the planta-
ton. With sorrow she turned away from
his lonely resting place and went to Sails
bury until she could return to the spot so
dear TO her. While residing in Salisbury.
President Washington appointed her Post
mistress, which position was filled with en-
tire satisfaction. and when her accounts
were audited she was only one,half cent
behind-SunRy South.
Sacramento daily record-union., 1889-06-15
One Yenr of Hin I.icnn.a

To-day the high license law begins the
second year of its existence as a statute of
the Commonwealth Of PENNSYLVANIA. For
tWeiyemonth IL has been subjected to the
severe tests of actual enforcement, rendered
all the more searching because of the
diverse interpretations of its provisions in
dulged in by Judges of the various Courts,
and because of the scarcely disguised hos
tllity Of tanatical Prohibitionists on the one
hand and Of the advocates of unrestricted
sale or unlimited license on the other.
There are counties in the State in which
1t has been bent from its purpose to
suit the views of one or the other of these
antagonistic factions; yet the confidence of
the great mass of the people in the statute
as wise measure ,Ofregulation and restric-
ton has steadily remained unshaken.
In this city, under careful and prudent
administration of the law, its beneficial
results have been so immediate and so an
parent that it is doubtful if more than the
merest handful Of people outside of the
number OF those directly interested in the
traffic would desire to see the old order of
things restored. The high license law
has brought peace and order to locali-
ties where before its advent riotipg.
confusion and misrule made day and
night hideous. 1t has commanded in
creased respect for and strengthened the
hands of municipal authority. 1t has put
an end to the use Of the saloon as a rem
devious for criminals or as a tool in the
hands of political corruptionists.
The twelve hundred odd sellers of
liquor at retail in the city are picked
men, who recognize their obligations to
uphold and to obey the law. To take the
saloon out of politics to drive thieves,
thugs and desperadoes out of the liquor
business and commit it to the hands of
men who may be trusted not to abuse the
privilege, and to create a general senti-
me9t in favor of sobriety and self-restraint
These are among the important reforms
promised by high license of which the
community has already witnessed the full
fllment
1t is not likely that the people of Penn
sylvania will surrender so valuable an ad-
junct of social reform and good govern
ment at the behests of extremists devoted
either to rain water or to rum. The high
license law is well worthy another years
PhiJddelphid Record.
Sacramento daily record-union., 1889-06-15
Wasting Labor Funds.

The workers of this country have paid
an enormous sum of money into the treas
uries of the Knights of Labor. Its use
may have been of service to labor, but
probably no one will claim that the money
could not have been of vastly greater serv-
ice to labor if used differently. The sale
of Pythagoras Hall in New York the
other day shows how careless some of the
officials of the organization are dealing
with the funds of workingmen. They
took about $4,000 of the money obtained
from the wage-earners of the State and
bought this hall subject to mortgage ofS36,-
900. The mortgage was foreclosed and the
property sold for S40,50O, or only enough
to cancel the mortgage and cover the ex-
penses Of the sale. OF the nearly $4,000
paid by the Knights of Labor, not cent
Is recovered-th wage-earners are Cleaned
out" Of the whole amount, simply through
the bad financial management of the or
ganization
If all the millions of dollars contributed
by members of this organization through
out the country had been well invested in
stead Of being wasted in the effort to sup
port hopeless strikes and in support of
walking delegates, organized labor would
have now an income that would place it
on footing it has never been able to
reach and arm it for rational struggles as
1t has never been armed.-MlUaukee
Sentinel
Sacramento daily record-union., 1889-06-15

the sham service that is given by ignorant,
and really oyerpaid servants to-day, sensi-
bic New England girls who are anxious to
be taking care of themselves and earning
good wages, would fit themselves at the
cooking schools, or in any way they found
available, they would not long wait for
employment, and they would be valued
immensely by their employers. When one
realizes how hard it is to find good women
for every kind of work in our houses. and
what prices many rich people are more
than willing to pay if they can. be well
suited, it is wonder more girls are not
ready to seize the chances. 1t is because
such work has been most always so care
lesSly and badly done that it has fallen
into dIsrepute and the doers of it have
taken such low rank. Nobody takes the
trouble to fit herself properly, but women
trust to being taught and finding out their
duties after they assume such positions
not before.-Sarah Oine Je1reH in C0nqre-
qqtiOaahd.
Sacramento daily record-union., 1889-06-15
Haytian Naval Discipline.

As an example of the lack of discipline
on board the vessels of the Haytian navy,
Mr.. Palmer relates the following amusing
incident: The Dessalines had Just returned
from a cruise and anchored at Port au
Prince, close to the shore She was moored
so that her forward gun pointed straight
at the principal hotel of the place, in front
of which many guests were lounging. Ac-
cording to custom. the man-of-war pre-
pared to fire one gun to announce her an
choring, and as the big ten-inch gun was
loaded with blank cartridge the gunners
simply pulled out the tompion and blazed
away. In an instant the air was filled
with missiles of some nature, and the
guests in front of the hotel fled in terror.
1t was afterwards discovered that one of
the cooks had stored a basket of knives,
for ks, spoons and tin pots into the gun,
and these had bombarded the hotel.
Sacramento daily record-union., 1889-06-15
Most Excellent Advice.

| wish that it were in my power to per-
suade young girls who wonder what they
shall do to earn their living, that 1t is really
better to choose some business that is in the
line of woman's natural work. There is
a great repugnance at the thought of being
servant, but girl is no less a servant to
the man who owns the shop where she
stands all day behind the counter, than
she is where she waits upon the table, or
cooks the dinner in pleasant house; and
to my mind there would not be a moments
question between the two ways of going
out to service. The wages are better, the
freedom and liberty are double in one
what they are in the other. If instead Of
Sacramento daily record-union., 1889-06-15
Written for the RECORD UNION.
IDEALS.
Perhaps our yes have never seen
The sweetest singing bird:
And there are fairer songs, I Ween.
Than we have ever heard.

Perhaps our eyes have never seen
The sweetest singing bird:
And there are fairer songs, ween,
Than we have ever heard.
Some land methinks has sometimes known
Sublimel flights than these
IEat classic Greece claims all her own,
On her Demosthenes.
Aud there are deeds more truly grand
Than read in gloomy rhyme.
Lost to manBiGd, because no hand
Wrote them for coming Time.
OF have thought penued somewhere
Lines of more tender grace
Than these finish now with care
10 take their vacant place.
And are they lost -? Perhaps not so;
We know not what is best;
But songs gone from me years ago
seem sweeter than the rest.
If we should hear the fairest song
The human heart could thrill,
Yet even then our hearts would long
For something better still.
And earth's best pictures, rich and rare,
From masters old and quaint,
All speak OF visions still more fair
Than man can ever paint
There is, there must le, yet day.
l know not when twill be,
Our hearts shall yield unto the sway
OF perfect harmony.
Sacramento daily record-union., 1889-06-15
Power of Conscience.

Coal magnate-"My dear, couldn't
sleep last night"
Wife" No wonder; the room was ter
ribly warm"
Yes, the room was warm, but that
wasn't what was the matter. NY con-
cience troubled me-"
"Eh?"
"Yes. l got thinking of all the poor
people in the world, and what hard
time they had to get along, and l couldn't t
help thinking 1t was pity they had to
pay so much for things"
"Yes."
"Yes; and firmly resolved that with
Heavens help I'd reduce the price of coal
twenty-five cents ton before the Fourth
of July-but l guess may be fifteen cents
will be enough" h."-Ne7g York Weekly.
Sacramento daily record-union., 1889-06-15
It's the Way You Behave,
Don't be surprisedbecause you find
80 many men to doubt inclined
When you infallibly exact

From them the guarantee of fact.
And this is all right. If you are i'll and
hear of means of relief, you want proof
of its power.
DIS. STARKEY & PALEN =" From the
basis of benefit received l heartily recon-
mend your Compound Oxygen Treatment
to all sufferers from asthma" ArTMoRE
ROBINSON, Wakefield, II |. DRs. STARKEY
& PALEN =" Since using your Compound
Oxygen Treatment have had no return of
asthma" Mrs. c. RoBY, Chelmsford, Mass.
A brochure of 200 pages, containing
the history of the Compound Oxygen
Treatment in cases of consumption, bron-
chiis, asthma, catarrh, dyspepsia, nervous
prostration, rheumatism, neuralgia, and
all complaints of chronic nature,
will be forwarded free of charge to
any one addressing DRs. STARKEY &
PALES, No. 1923 Arch street, Philadel-
phia, Pa, or 40 Sutter street, San Fran
cisco, CAL
Sacramento daily record-union., 1889-06-15

A fair trial of Hoods Sarsaparilla for
scrofula, salt rheum, or any affection caused
by impure blood or low state of the system,
will be sufficient to convince any one of
the superior and curative powers of this
medicine. Buy it of your druggist. One
hundred doses 81
Sacramento daily record-union., 1889-06-15

over $50 years old, and have not been
trimmed or cultivated for more than half
century, yet they produce from $500 10
81 900 worth of olives every year. Last
year, from about three thousand vines of
the old Mission grape, they made $500
gallons of wine (which sold for So. .5OOl
and $50 gallons of brandy They also sold
one hundred gallons OF jiguor de Tina.
made from species of cacti, for 81 - per
gallon
An American widow, Mrs. Wardell
runs and manages 600 acres. which she
bought of the international COMPANY
about two years ago. She has raised corn.
two crops year, eight feet high, and oats
seven feet from the ground. Her melons
and vegetables aStoniSh the natives, and
hers Is one of the show places Of the sec
ton
An Italian celonist is growing grapes
and making wine with great success. \
British officer, who has cultivated the vine
in Upper California, is now pursuing the
same@ivOCation on the Peninsula. because
lie says he can get more here for his
money. \ company of young men from
New York, proteges Of Andrew Carnagie.
have purchased several hundred acres
with the intention Of following Horace
Greeley's advice Of growing up with the
country. Fifty families of Swedes. who
enriched themselves in Kansas, and became
weary Of the extremes of heat and cold
there, Will begin again as pioneers on !, 500
acres Of new land in Lower California.
AMONG OTHER INTERESTING CoLoyIsrs
Is young German Baron and his wife,
who raise fat poultry on one of the COM
pany's ranches. They are ia q better posi-
ton to enjoy life than most settlers. being
in receipt of q monthly income from the
old country. There is an English country
gentleman, who, disgusted with the fall Of
rents at home, sold his paternal estate and
came TO make a home in the new land.
This Britisher whose fine stock has won
many prize at Islington, says: ~ shall
import the best cattle and horses. and have
the very best stock in the country. What's
more, III nave colony 3f fine fellows out
here. When you come to make us a visit
you shall have the best of horses to ride.
the hest Of milk to drink, the best food to
eat, and the best of company TO entertain
you. The climate and soil are far ahead
Of old England, and am awfully glad
came"
There are lords, and counts. and barons.
and other titled personages from across the
sea, and younger sons" of noble houses hv
the score. Many of them howling swelis
at home, who here settle down to business
with grim determination and do not dis
dain to blister their aristocratic digits in
srubbing roots Or digging for mineral
wealth. And truth comPels me to add
that there are
Sacramento daily record-union., 1889-06-15

Comparison, more than reality, makes
men happy, and can make them wretched
Felthan.
Sacramento daily record-union., 1889-06-15

The best place in California to have your
printing done. A. ], Johnston & Co., 4l0
street, Sacramen o.
Sacramento daily record-union., 1889-06-15

SIS, ,OOO-S20 acres three and half miles
from Grass Valley; 200 acres cultivated and TO
acres timber; 20 acres OF tame grass meadow
and large natural meadow; never-failing
stream OF water runs through the place;
farming implements so with the place.
$55O-S0 acres of fine fruit land in the warm
belt OF Nevada county, twelve miles from
Auburn; bargain.
So, ,S5O-333 acres two and a half miles
from Nevada City; partly cleared; three acres
fruit; good two-story house; under ditch.
So, ,6OO-44O acres of land in Pleasant Val
ley, near Pan Valley; most all level land:
this land is worth $40 per acre.
$IO,OOO-7OO acres in Penn Valley: all
under fence; partly cultivated: free water for
large portion of it, part of the tract is
heavily tlmbered with oak and pine.
ap4-tfTTS
Sacramento daily record-union., 1889-06-15
OUT ALL NIGHT.
OUR CORRESPONDENT VIEWS PARIS
BY GAsLIGHT.
The Cost of Living in Quiet Way in
the Gay French Metropolis
Missionary Work.

Special Correspondence of the REooRD-UNIoN.
p,pTS Nav 1890
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-09-03
JUTE BAGGtNG. IN GREENE.

We, the committee of the different
Alliances of Greene county, having
assembled together to consult the best
interests of the farmers of said county
in regard to the trust on jute bagging,
be it
Resolved, That we reafirm our de-
termination to conform to the resolu-
ton of the Birmingham Alliance Con.
vention; that we will use no covering
for cotton except the cotton cloth, and
we request all farmers, whether mem
bers of the Alliance or not, to use no
jute bagging.
ResozUed further, That all merchants
in the county be requested not to buy
any jute bagging for their trade, and
we urge all members of the Alliance
to patronize those merchants who buy
no jute bagging in preference to those
who do, and we as Alliancemen will
give the merchants. and farmers who
are not Alliancemen all the aid in our
power to produce the cotton cloth.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-09-03
FROM OLD GAsToN.

PLEASANT RIDGE, N. c., Aug. 26, 'S9.
Mr.. EDIToR:--I write to inform
you that Pleasant Ridge Alliance, No.
1907. is moving along with the faith
fut We began September, 1888, with
FIVE members; we have now thirty
two of the best of members. We
have all contributed literally to the
State agency fund. We have seal
and are doing business in business
like manner We are establishing q
Farmers Alliance store and expect to
hire business man to run it for us.
We are also establishing cotton e.
change and hope to elevate the price
of cotton this fall. We had grand
Farmers Alliance picnic on August
Oath, and speeches from the following
gentlemen: DIR. w. 81. Wilson Milt,
G. Arrowood, Beatty Smith and Jonas
Stroup. Music for the occasion by the
Clover Cornet Band. The speakers
addressed the audience with great
power and effect The audience con-
sisted of about FIVE hundred men,
women and children. After the
speaking was over we all partook of
a bountiful dinner and took up of the
fragments several baskets full
Crops look fine In this section of the
country, and we are like a bobtail
Shanghai on rickety hen rooss
looking around for better times.
Wishing you and your paper abun-
dant success, am,
Fraternally,
NJ. G. KAcAID.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-09-03
RALEIGH N. c., sEPTEMBHR 5. 1889.
FROM FoRsYTHE.
LawIsvrLLs ALLIANcE, No. 943,
Aug. II, s89.

Aug. II, '89.
Mr.. EDlToR:-As have not seen
anything in your most excellent paper
from our Alliance, l viii undertake
to give you q few dots. We had
quite an interesting county meeting
and considerable business was done
Notwithstanding the weather was
very unfavorable. We endorse the
action of the legislature in regard to
the incorporation, and also the action
of the Birmingham convention, the
consolidation of the Alliance and
Wheel. We do not believe in many
resolutions but keep steadily march
ing on to meet the enemy and resolve
to conquer or die. This is the grand.
est effort the farmers have ever made.
Organize, 1 say, and let us plan for
ourselves and stop having so-called
shaTpers to dictate for us. Let us
pull together, pull long and steady
and we will reach the top before
a great while. We need more good
lecturers in every community and
The PROGRESSIVE FARMER In every
family would be conducive of much
good in turning men from their evil
ways Our lodge numbers 40 mem
bers. We have contributed $50 to
the business agency fund and sent it
to Bro. Graham sometime ago, but
have not received our certificates.
Will try and do more in the future;
would like to see the State Exchange
established and in good working
order.
We have had rain, rain. Water
courses have been higher than they
have been for years. Great damage
to crops, mill property and bridges.
With much success to THE PRoGREs-
sIvE FARMER, I am,
Fraternally yours,
J. r. HAUsER.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-09-03

Alliance men know HOY to answer
such inquiries. If yon are friendly to
the Alliance come inside; if not a
friend just stand from under. The
Alliance has sat down to stay.
Home Alliance, No. 5l2, has 70
members on its roll, every one solid.
No iute in ours; not as gift.
On the 7th of August, Home Alli-
ance held a barbecue pionic. Now,
brother, IL you had never been at one
of these Alliance dinners, we would
tell you something about it. You
may rest assured that Home Alliance
does not do things by halves, and
you can guess as to the result A
success, socially, which means fulfil
ment of the first part of our order.
We have not said anything about
the State Alliance; we thought that
Bro. L. L. Polk would know how to
fix that part of the proceeding in his
happy style, and send it to the world
through his. paper. When we say.
world we mean the whole earth and
the rest of mankind. If they do not
all read your valuable paper they
ought to. May your shadow never
be less until rings and trusts are no
more. Yours fraternally,
J.H. CALDWELL.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-09-03
The FARMERS AND THE pAc-
GING TRUST.
[special 70 lhe Aeeoclared presa.l ]

RALEIGH, n. c., Aug. "a.
Col L. u. Polk, President of the
Interstate Farmers Association re-
turned here to-day from the meeting
Of that body at Montgomery. In an.
swer to an inquiry as to the status of
the fight between the farmers and the
lute bagging trust, the Colonel said:
1t is approaching crisis. The Ali.
ance is encouraged by the friendly
action of the American Cotton Ex.
changes-by constant accession of
mills that are going to manufacture
the cotton bagging and by the una.
nimity and determination of the farm
ers throughout the South to fight it
out to the bitter end. The Interstate
Association, not an Alliance organiza-
ton, is sohdly against the jute trust
which has an active, shrewd. and
Jealous ally in the cotton speculators
or gamblers in futures. They have
sold large quantities of cotton to Be
delivered in the early fall, and they
are dreadfully alarmed. Cotton IS
being held back by farmers and the
price is advancing, and to-day, it is q
singular fact that the spot. cottons are
actually selling at higher figures than
their contract prices. These men
must have cotton or they are hope.
lessly wrecked. They have sold and
they must deliver, hence they are put
ting forth powerful efforts to force
cotton on the market. 1t is ludicrous
to read their dispatches, circulars and
bogus letters now crowding the
columns s,of the daily papers. They
magnify the growing crop and hold
up present prices, and claim that they
must decline. They parade the non.
action Of the Liverpool Exchange and
positively assert that it will not recog.
nize the cotton bagging. If the Liver
pool Exchange has SO declared, / have
failed to seethe Official announcement.
We do not expect the cooperation Of
Liverpool until it is forced. English
capital, English shipping and English
fAanu1actares and Liverpool specula-
tors, of course, are all interested in
the perpetual use of jute; but all this
commotion in the cotton circles in
America is the work of gamblers in
futures, who have millions at stake
and who are now standing face to
face with financial ruin. They donot
care how cotton is wrapped, for the
terrible reality stares them in the face,
that they must have sufficient cotton
to fill their contracts and they must
have it quick So desperate have the
spectators become, that they already
have SCENTS travelling from farm to
farm in some Southern States, offer
ing to buy cotton and advance money.
This is struggle, not for temporary
triumph over the bagging trust, but
one for a great principle, and we viii
not relinquish the fight.