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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-10-12
BINGO'S AIR CASTLE.
The Story Of the Romance That
the Twins Discovered.

SCENE.-The schoolroom at the house
of MacTavish. Time-Five o clock on
a blazing July afternoon. Enter Tam
my and Joe, christened Thomasina
and Joseph. twins. aged nine years,
and youngest members of the family of
Macravish. They promptly take up
their abode behind a screen, from
which underground they watch the
other inmates of the room with looks
of intensest curiosity, coupled with
derision.
Seated in low rocl1ing-chair lounges
the prettiest girl, bar one, in all Stony
shire. And before her stands, arms
akimbo and hair disheveled, a young
man named Johnny. who considers the
aforesaid girl to be the prettiest, bar
none, in all the three Kingdoms.
80, Alicia!' he says, admiringly, as
she holds up her pretty hands to dis
play ring upon the third finger of
her slim left hand. 80, Aliciam
johnny" she says. decisively, elf
you say 20, Alicia again l shall take
this ring off at once. Do you hear,
sir? l shall take it off at once; and,
and"
And then you will put it on again."
he remarks quietly. with an air of as
surance that makes her laugh in spite
of herself For Alicia knows. and she
knows that Johnny knows, that of all
things in this wide world she, Alicia,
loves rings better than any thing else.
You remind me- she says, pres
emily, ''of q certain poet who wrote e
play in which came a line:
"'Oh, Sophonisba Sophonisba, OH"
on hearing which one of the audience
groaued:
''oh Jimmy Thompson! Jimmy Thompson,
"Whereupon there was an end of he,
l suppose says Johnny, totally un-
moved by the poets fate.
II do not know. He was not he
that have heard much about. Be-
sides. who cares about a dead poet?
l." with fascinating smile-"I pre-
fer living-Johnny"
30. Aliciar' in rapturous tone.
40, Alicia" groans the mocking
echo from behind the screen, where
upon Johnny, dashing around it,
catches both criminals by the hair and
drags them forward, looking red and
happy.
NOW, imps! how long have you
been hiding there?'' he asks, sternly,
as remembrances of various tender and
silly speeches rise to his mind.
That is not your business, says Joe,
aggressively.
Only short time" murmurs Tam
my, "but we have enjoyed it so much"
Thank you so much for such a
pleasant afternoon" adds Joe, with q
grin, which for combined wickedness
and Joy battles description.
Little wretches!"
Children" says Alicia, languidly,
''go to bed immediately"
The culprits exchange glances of
alarm and penitence-the penitence
that arises from a conviction that after
the playing comes the paying. And
then, with sudden change OF front,
they assume pathetic and innocent ex-
pressions, as of kittens who wonder
why boys and dogs do not chase each
other instead of chasing them.
Sister" says Tammy in beguiling
tones, do not send us to bed and we
will tell you all about the other couple"
What! Who?" Alicia is wide
awake.
Tell me all about it, Tammy. You
are dear, good child Tell me at
once what you mean"
''Bingo." cry fanny and Joe in one
breath.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-10-12
The Hangman's Stone.

There are numerous large powders
in different parts OF England, which
have received the name of Hang.
mans Stone" in consequence of 3
legend which attaches much the same
story to each. There were two fields
in the parish of Foremark, Derbyshire,
called the great and the little hang.
mans stone. from the powders which
they contained. In the former there
was stone five or six feet high, with
an indention running across the top of
it. This peculiar mark was explained
BY the tradition that once upon time
thief, having stolen a sheep. placed
his booty on the top of the stone while
he rested, but it slipped off and
strangled the man with a rope which
tied the sheep to his back, the inden-
tation being made by the friction of
the rope passing back and forth in the
struggles of the dying man to extricate
himself. Notes and Queries.
The toll keeper has the interest of
the town at heart. When a circus
passed over the bridge the other day
he let the elephant go free, for" said
he, Il considered the town and didn't
charge any thing for him, so that if
any accident happened in crossing, the
town wouldn't be in for it. "-Eastport
(Me.) Sentinel
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-04-25
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL,

DIR. ]. R. Lame has returned from San Fran.
cisco.
DR.. W. A. Briggs is recovering rapidly from
bis illness.
F. F. Chase. of Truckee, and L. B. Rhodes, oil
RENO, are in the city.
Albert Gallatin and wife left on the Redding
tram yesterday morning.
Superior Judge Murphy, of Del Norte county.
was in this city yesterday.
J. D: Matthew and Joseph Madden were down
from Newcastle yesterday.
NJ. Van Guelder, of this city, and Miss Cassie
Maupln were married at Franklin on Tuesday
Miss Fanny Thompson, daughter of ex-Con-
gresham Thompson. of Sonoma, is visiting
friends here.
days at her mothers home in this city, has re
turned to Oakland.
George W. Peckham, Chief Secretary of the
last Senate, was in town Yesterday and signed
the journals of that body.
Drury Melope, ex-secretary of State, accom-
panied By his wife, were in town yesterday as
guests at the Alexand Ter Carroll wedding
A dispatch from Washington states that B. L.
Steinman and j. c. Pierson, of this city, are
| there. Harrison still holds the FORT however
George E. Guard Department Commander of
the Grand Army OF the Republic, and Assistant
Acknowledgement +. II. Bacon both of Los An.
geles, passed through last evening, on their
way to the Marysyille Encampment.
II. F. Smith, Jr., of Oakland, Vice Depart
ment Commander Of the Grand Army OF the
Republic, accompanied by S. S. Petit. OF the
Council OF Administration, stopped over in
| sacramento yesterday on their way to the En-.
campmeIt at Marysyille.
Arrivals at the Golden Eagle Hotel yesterday:
Miss sherman, Reno; Frank Z. Austin, Stock
| ton; S. Z. Graham and wife, NJ. Spencer and
wife, Little Tycoon; ]. NJ Sheehy, S. f. Boyle,
NJ. Q. Maple, s. Brownstone, G. (. Livermore
II. Wolf, c. II. Jones, W. ". Piper, San Fran
cisco; George Riddle, Cambridge; 2. E. Oakley,
| Oakland; (. A. Duvierer and wife. Lakeport
Arrivals at the Capital Hotel yesterday:
Frank II. Austin and wife. Sacramento; Miss
Runyon, CORTLAND; d. Manix, San Francisco;
F. 5. Macomber. Sonora; +. F. Chase, Truekee;
A. J. Summer. Dixon; J. Danielwitz Sacramento:
| J. d. Matthew, Newcastle; Ed. Christv, Folsom;
| l. b. Rhodes, Reno, New; Mrs. Fred Merrill,
Suisun; John Lee, Miss. Reta Dennis, San Fran
cisco; d. McLanahan. Franklin C. Meaden,
| ii. ]. sheldon, Nebraska; c. /. Neal, San Fran
cisco; H. j. Palman, Yolo.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-04-25

THE Indianapolis journal issued a call
for descendants of revolutionary sires to
make themselves known. but it did not re-
eeive from the people of its city single
response. But this does not of necessity
prove that there are no descendants Of rev.
dictionary sires in the Hoosier city. 1t
simply indicates, as the Inter Ocean puts it,
that there are none who keep sufficient
record of their genealogy in these busy
days to be able easily TO establish their
claims. 1t may mean also that those who
have possession of record evidence to show
that they sprang from such stock, do not
deem it necessary to respond to the news
paper call for inquiry into their domestic
concerns. The fact that a mans great
grandsire wore spurs and fought in the
days that hied mems souls, is of no value
TO him in giving him position in this coun-
try and day, nor should it be. In very
e,aany cases, too, the contrast between the
progenitor and the descendant may not be
very pleasant to the latter. Moreover,
there is GROWN disposition, and one to
be encouraged and conserved, to resent the
inquiry that the modern newspaper man
too often holds it to be his duty to make into
the affairs of the home. The personal
business of the sensational newspaper in
the majority of cases is positively offensive
and impertinent.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-04-25

THERE is one instance now of record
where knowledge of the art of self-defense
proved the salvation of a mans life. In
his Arctic excursion Lord Lonsdale fell in
with particularly savage tribe Of In
dams. They first put him to "the warriors
test of courage" rushing upon him in a
body with drawn knives, but not striking
when they found he did not finch, and
that his pulse remained normal That
night the tribe set upon him their chief
assassin, who sprang on him out of am
bush and attempted TO stab him. The
Englishman's training in boxing served
him we'll. With left-hander' he laid
the savage low, and on the assault being
renewed, aright-hander" sent the fellow
spraying, stunned and helpless into a
corner. The tribe was so asionished at
the skill of the white man, that they made
him obeisance, and from that time he had
no further trouble with those particular
Indians.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-04-25
Man Wants a Tonic

When there is lack of elastic energy in
the system, shown by sensation of lam
guor and unrest in the morning, frequent
yawning during the day aud disturbed
sleep at night. Hostetter's Stomach Bit
tiers infuses unwonted energy into the en-
feebled and nervous, endowing them with
muscular energy, an ability to repose
BEAUTIFULLY and digest without inconven-
ence. Nervousness, headache, bilious.
ness, impaired appetite and feeble, trouble
some stomach, are all and speedily SET
right by this matchless regulator and in.
vigorant. The mineral poisons, among
them strychnia and nux vonhica, are never
safe tonics, even in infinitesimal doses
The Bitters answers the purpose more eff.
fectually. and can be relied upon as per.
fectly safe by the most prudent. Fever and
ague, kidney troubles and rheumatism
Weld to it,
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-04-25

THERE is considerable degree of harsh
feeling among newspaper men in San
Francisco against the builders of the
cruiser Charleston because they refuse to
admit representatives Of the press on the
occasion of the trial of the warship. There
ought to be no complaint. The vessel has
not been accepted by the Government, the
trial is therefore one that concerns, most
of all, the men who have advanced the
money and done the work according to
the contract for her construction, and it is
very easy to understand that they wish to
be left free to give the cruiser trial pri-
vately, that any possible defects in her
build or machinery may be remedied with
out the noise and buster the newspaper
men would be sure to make over the reye-
latlon of any misconstruction that may de-
velop but be capable of correction. These
builders have great deal at stake upon
the success of the ship, and should not be
handicapped by the criticisms of reporters
not one of whom is ship-builder or ship
owner, or has anything at stake in the
trial, and whose presence on board the
vessel could not contribute to the success
of the trip, but whose accounts of it might
occasion great deal of public uneasiness
that in no manner whatever would be ben
ehcial to the country. We believe the
builders are right in limiting the witnesses
of the trial trip to experts in building
and handling and to engineers and ma
chinists.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-04-25
THE BOYS ARE SAFE,
A Messenger Boys Interview with Mr..
Huntington.

- AASooC16cE DoyB interview with MIR.
Huntington.
The San Francisco E1aminer Yesterday
published the following:
There are dozen messenger BOYS en-
ployed in the buildings at Fourth and
Townsend. All are very young. They are
not hard-worked, but come and 90 with
mechanical precision from the Directors
rooms to all the offices up and down the
four flights of stairs in the building.
For week past reports have been cir
culatlng among the employees that Mr..
Huntington and his associates were devot-
ing much OF their time to reducing the pay
roll. This talk frightened the boys, and
they met on Saturday last and fixed I'D
petition, which reads as follows:
Mister Huntington and Mister Sanford. Us mes
senger boys that you employ TO show PEG ole
into your offices and TO run on errands in the
building don't want You to cut down our wages
Some OF US hear that you and Colonel Croker
and Mister Stanford are cutting salaries down.
Most OF 1t get Si2 month Please don't make
it any smaller Yous have got lots of money.
Then their great difficulty arose in select
ing one from their number to present The
memorial.
Jack, you take it," said the little lad
who ushers visitors before Colonel Croker
You know you sat next Mr. Stanford at
lunch one day, and he asked you to pass
the macarori and cheese He knows YOU
now"
But Jack" who is Passenger Agent
Goodman's faithful messenger, declined the
honor. Mr.. Stanford" said be, hasn't
noticed me since that lunch"
The boys decided the point BY drawing
lots, and the chance chose JACK"
He intended TO give il to Senator STAN
ford, but on opening the door found Mr..
Huntington in the room.
AT the noon hour the messengers
crowded around Jack +" and anxiously
asked. What did he say?''
We'll, you see, boys | opened the door
and saw Mr.. Huntington. Mr.. Stanford
wasn't there. | dion't like TO go in, but
Mr. Huntington says, Come IN That's
why went in. / gave him our paper. |
started then to walk back to the door
without turning round my back ID him,
see?
| ." Wait says he. So stood by his Ia
BILE all a-shaking. He's going to give me
| fits, thought | ia my head | was awful
'fraid But he didn't, boys"
What did he say, Jack? asked the
boys in one breath.
He said, What's your name, my little
man.? told him, you know. Then he
told me to tell you boys that he wasn't
going to take any of our money from US
and he patied me on the head, and then BIZ
| told me could 20.
He stuck our paper in his pocket.
believe he wss almost crying. He had some
water in his eyes, and l saw it run dowr
his cheeks into his whiskers."
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-04-25
SERENADED AT PALO ALTO,
Senator and Mrs. Stanford Entertain til
University BAND

university Band.
MAYFIELD, April 24th.-Last evening
Senator and Mrs. Stanford were the happy
recipients at their Palo Alto home of a
serenade rendered them by the University
Brass Band of Mayfield consisting of
twenty. six pieces, under the able direction
of Professor George Dewey, of San Fran
cisco. The band has been organized only
five months, and at their beginning re-
celved much welcome assistance and en-
couragement from both Mr.. and Mrs. STAN
ford. After listening intently to number
OF choice selections, both of them expressed
their great surprise and qualification at
witnessing the rapid progress which the
band had made in so short a time. and
cordially invited them all inside to partake
of refreshments.
Mr.. Stanford spoke many words of praise
and encouragement to the young men COM
posing the band, and briefly outlined the
great educational advantage, particularly
musical, which he proposed to supply at
the great University which he is founding
here for the benefit of the present and all
future generations. At the conclusion of
his remarks, he and Mrs. Stanford escorted
their visitors all through their beautiful
residence, and showed them the many rare
and elegant furnishings which they have
lately received from Europe. After which
the band played few more selections. and
receiving many thanks from Mr.. and Mrs.
Stanford for the evenings entertainment.
and cordial invitation to return, took
their departure, all highly pleased with
their most cordial reception.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-04-25
A Good Basis to Start From
Had we control of earth, we say
We'd make II worth controlling;
Begin at home, that is the way


That is. if you are i'll, get well, how !?
This way;
DRs SrARKEy & PALEN: 81 used your
Compound Oxygen Treatment for obstinate
asthma. 1t worked like magic" +. CUL-
BEgrsoS, No. SD Petroleum street, Oh
CRY. Pa. DIS. STARKRY & PALEN: I"
used your Compound Oxygen Treatment.
My lungs have not been as well for years
as now in consequence" WILLIS DELoNe,
Taylor, N. Y.
Drs. Starkey & Palen's Office records show
over As, 600 different cases in which their
Compound Oxygen Treatment has been used
by physicians in their practice, and by in
valids independently. A brochure OF 200
pages containing the history of the Com
pound Oxygen Treatment in cases of con-
sumption, bronchitis. asthma, catarrh, dys-
pepsia, nervous prostration, rheumatism,
neuralgia and all complaints of a chronic
nature will be forwarded free of charge to
any one addressing DRs. STARKEy & PALEN
No. 1879 Arch street, Philadelphia, Pa.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-04-25

.SoME idea of the interest that is excited
bythe anticipation of the great celebration
in New York next week may be gained
from the fact that many advertisements
appear in the papers of that city offering
large sums of money for eligible sites from
which to view the two great professions
that are to move on Tuesday and Wednes-
day. There are also advertisements offer
ing points of view for which enormous
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-04-25
AGRICULTURAL PARK.
Sunday and Tuesday, April 28 spd 40.

DY SPECIAL REQUEST THE MISS Myrtle
ID PEEKS RUNNING COMBINATION. -Four
Races each day. MISS PEEK and MISS WILL
JAMS will positively ride and drive each day.
Miss Peek has just purchased of Professor Nc
Donald the celebrated Trained Horse FRED
ARNOLD, JR., for four thousand "a 900 dollars.
ms horse will be driven each day on the track
without any lines OF bride. This is the only
horse in the world exhibited on a race track BY
q lady, driven at full speed by the whip only
On one OF the above days Miss Peek viii drive
MIN 10 sulky to best $50 without lines
s9- Races called at o. clock Admission, so
cents; Children, rs cents ap25-5t
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-04-25

The New York Tribune enters its pro-
test to proposals of marriage being made
by typewriter letters. and wants the line
drawn at the telephone as the extreme
limit of liberation. Both should be con-
demned by the ladies, for both are cow
ardly resorts. There is nothing in the
estimation of sensible woman equal
to the proposition in propria persona. There
IS no romance, no poetry, no emotion in
the type-writing device, and great deal
less in the non-secretive "hello" machine.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-04-25
PRoHIBIrIoN met its Waterloo in M.

PROHIBITION met its Waterloo in Mas
sachusetts on Monday. The strangest
thing about the contest was the action of
the keepers of low saloons. These men
uniformly voted with the Prohibitionists,
because they hoped thereby to kill off the
high license that threatens them. Be-
lieying that prohibition would prove mop
erative, they preferred that the amend
ment should be adopted, which would, of
course, prevent any license system being
put into force.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-04-25
THE almost magic growth of the city

The almost magic growth of the city
of Guthrie, which sprang inside of ten
hours from a hamlet to place of Is, 900
inhabitants, and in which an election for
town officers was held before dark on the
day of the birth of the new city, illustrates
IN striking manner the push and enter
prise of the pioneer class and the restless
spirit of peaceful conquest that urges our
people westward to victory over nature be-
yond the borders of settled civilization. 1t
may be that the city of Guthrie will prove
10 be one of but "shreds and patches" and
that its collapse may early follow its birth.
But 1t is more than likely that out of its
canvas and cabin state ii will grow into
strength and symmetry 1t is only ex-
ceptional when the founders of Western
town abandon it. The foresight, or the
mere accident that gave the place being,
has most generally served TO make and
preserve it, town at least The capacity
and aptitude of our people for selfgovern-
ment is wildly illustrated in the example
of Guthrie. The first thought after the
population massed was the preservation of
order, and the adoption of means for the
establishment of authority. This was eff
fected without difficulty and before the
sun set on the day that converted the
hamlet into city and peopled it with
restless, energetic and fearless population,
The machinery of the law was in full opera
ton and the strong under restraint from
trespass upon the rights of the weak We
do not believe that in any other country
on the face of the globe such scene as
that Of last Tuesday at Guthrie could be
paralleled, since there is no other land in
which the people are cultivated to such
self-confdence, or such submission to the
viii of the majority.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-04-25

The Atlanta Constitution speaks of the
citizens who throng 10 the White House
about this time as pestiferous mob"
How differently the Constitution looked
upon the same kind of "mob +" in the
early days of 1885.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-04-25
To-day,s weather Indications.

Calyornia-Fair: westerly acildS; slightly cooler
IN the interior; nearly stationary aoeoter along the
coast.
Oregon and Wdshington-Locdt rains, folloa0ed
by dr lceGther; tceSterly winds and cooler in the
eastern portion Nearly stationary temperature in
The toester1, portion.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-04-25
FESTIVAL OF ROSES.
rs OPENING NIGHT. "a

TURNER HALL, APRIL 18th o6rH. 9TH.
j Unique Designs. Artistic Representations.
leaux, under direction of MRS. GENUNG. Fine
programme, changed nightly. Full orchestra.
Grand Rose March at $50. Single tickets. SO
cents; Season tickets, 81; Children's tickets,
rs cents. If
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-04-25
Yub. County Case

There wss filed yesterday in the Office of
the Supreme Court for the Sacramento
District an order reversing the judgment
in the case of d. J. Kertchem VS.. Z. George,
Yuba county case.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-04-25

No BUFFET should be without a bottle of
Angostura Bitters, the South American APP
petizer. Manufactured by DR.. ]. G. B. Sic
CERT & Sons. Ask your druggist.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-04-25
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Bids for RefreSbment PRIVILEGES

EOR THE UNION sUNDAY.scHooL PIC
l. mic will be received by ]. HILLHOUSE.
1725 street, up TO noon MONDAY, MAY 6, 1889.
Picnic to be held at East Park ap25-3t
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-04-25

The romantic story of the adventures of
year in Arctic regions, by young Lord
Lonsdale, and which appeared in the
REcoRD-UNIoN of yesterday, reads like a
chapter from an Arabian tale, in Its thrill
ing recital of hairbreadth escapes, priva-
tons, suffering and exploration. The
more methodical account that the traveller
will write out from his diary entries will,
unquestionably, prove of much value to the
English and American Geographical So
cieties. According to Lord Lonsdale
there must be made some very material
alterations in our maps of the topography
of the Alaska country, and the character
and courses of the streams, as laid down on
accepted charts.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-04-25
Hay For Sale.

pIxTY TO SEVENTY TONS VOLUNTEER
ID hay, 81 per ton for all, 0. So per ton
: l0i5 Fourth street, Sacramento. or S. RODGERS,
] Walsh's Station.