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Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-12-21
HOLIDAY HAIL NATTER.
AN ENORMOUS BULK OF IT GOING
THROUGH THE POsTOFFICE.
A Special Delivery System to be Inaugu
rated Tuesday and Wednesday,
Perspiring Clerks.
"How's that for mail ?n

Postmaster Coleman had escorted thu
reporter into the big mailing room at The
Postoffice last evening, and pointed to {
stack of mail-pouches that reached nearly
to the ceiling, which was the result of the
great American custom of Christmas gift
making. Within the past two or three
days the business of the office had in
creased fully one-third, and, what was
worse, tie mail consisted to great degree
of cumbersome packages.
THAT must be weeks mail" suggested
the newspaper man.
Wrong. That's this afternoons depart.
ing mail only, and, what is more, that is
only a portion of it. That is only the
Eastern and Northern MALL
Mr.. Coleman then went on to explain
that this force of clerks have been kept ION
the jump" night and day since the rush
started, but despite the great amount oil
mail matter to be handled, they had not as
yet allowed any of it to accumulate upon
their hands.
The amount of matter passing through
the Postoffice this year, both coming in
and going out, is said to be almost unpre.
cedepted in Sacramento. But, as the Post.
master happily put it, it was indicative Of
good times" and neither he nor his
clerks had any complaint to offer. But
although there has been veritable LAM
at the institution for the past couple Of
days the worst is yet to come.
II don't anticipate much more trouble
from the departing mall said Mr.. Cole.
man, because l believe that the bulk of il
hes been disposed Of You see, persons
who send presents to friends living ct q
distance have already mailed them, and
we will now only have to handle those
destined tor places only short distance
away. But where we are going to catch
Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday is from
the incoming mail. That all has to be sort
ed and delivered, you know, and very rapid
~ at that, in order to keep up with it. 1
have no doubt but that the delivery this
year will be enormous. judging from what
has already come in"
The Postmaster has devised means of
facilitating matters, however, that will
meet with hearty approval from the citi-
zens. On Tuesday and Wednesday he will
press into service an extra carrier, who
will be provided with delivery wagon.
These will attend exclusively to the deliv-
cry of packages too heavy for the regular
carriers, and will save the persons to whom
the parcels are directed the trouble OF
going to the postoffice for them, according
to the usual custom This will also prove
great advantage to the clerks at the
Office, who otherwise would have to de.
vote much of their time to the delivery
window,
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-12-21
PROPERTY TRANSFERS.


Deeds to Real Estate Filed With the
County Recorder.
From law and abstract Office of Brlsie 4 Tay.
lOr. southeast corner of Seventh and j.
The following transfers of real estate have
been made since the last published report
Stephen ". Haynie to William B. Freeman
North quarter of lots and 6. @ and R, Twenty
third and Twenty fourth streets; $40.
Mrs. Nellie Wright to EdwinlK. Alsip-Lot 8,
Il and I, Fifteenth and Sixteenth streets; grant.
Edwin K. Alsip to Mrs. n. ] Mayhew-south
lis feet Of lot s. and I, Fifteenth and Six
tenth streets: $4,000.
b. A. and Mrs. NJ. J. Mayhem to 8. Prentiss
Smith-The south half of north half of lot 5,
n and o, Fifth and Sixth streets; the north 81
feet of south 9s1z feet of lot s, NJ and N. Fifth
and Sixth strs cts; the west As feet Of lot and
@, Eighteenth and Nineteenth streets; grant
N. D. Rideout to Mrs. Fannie L. Clarey-Lot g.
and 8, Twentieth and Twenty-frst streets
A. l. Frost to John L. Frost-Lots3 and o.
Nonte Visa tract, containing two acres; love
and aAeck10n.
Edward +. and u. T. 8. ssarls and 7. =. Sui
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1hey are True philantbroni.t.

Every now and then" remarks the
Placerville Republican, "a xnan turns up
somewhere in the mining counties with a
gold indicators machine appearing I'M
der various high.sounding names, but
always supposed to infallibly point out the
location of the precious metal The latest
acquisition of this kind in Ell Dorado
county was in the neighborhood of Green
Valley, and the owner of the machine
offered to indicate the existence of other
metals besides gold by making suitable
changes in his apparatus. We wish we
had a gold indicator. If we did, nobody
would catch us fooling round showing gold
to other people. We'd find it for our own
use and benefit, as the lawyers say
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-12-21

females; between 10 and is years,
between Is aud 20 years, twenty-six males
and sixteen females; between 20 and %
years, seven men and thirteen women;
between % and 80 years. one man and five
women; over 80 years. two men and nine
women.
Thirty counties in the State are at pres
ent represented by one or more inmates in
the home. Sacramento county has sent
four and San Francisco ffty.three.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-12-21

the honesty and respectsbility of his pa
rents, and the fact that prior to this trouble
he had borne an excellent reputation and
had never associated in any manner with
the criminal class. His petition IS signed
by Hon. Frank McCoppin, Hon. William
]. Bryan and many other citizens OF San
Francisco equally prominent and we'll
known, and Hon Judge ]. Valentine, Gen.
eral Mansger of Wells, Fargo q Co.. has
written letter Withdrawing all opposition
on the part of this company"
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-12-21
THE rEEBLE-M1NDEn.
Some Facts Concerning the Institution
in Which they Live.

Some Facts Concerning the Institution
in Which they Live.
the sixth annual report Of the Trustees
of the California Home for the Care and
Training of Feeble-Minied Children was
issued by the State Printer yesterday. The
report shows that the affairs of the institu-
ton are in prosperous state and the sani-
tary condition is good.
OF the sum of $4,000, appropriated by
the last Legislature. $4,000 was expended
in the purchase of the new site near Glen
Ellen, and the balance. $40, 600, is to be ex-
pended on the buildings. Of this latter
sum IS 600 was spent in architects salaries,
attorneys fees, travelling expenses in search
of location, advertising, ETC., leaving
$4,000 wherewith to defray expenses for
the buildings now in course Of erection.
On October LIST there were 126 inmates in
the home-seventy males and ffty-six
females. Between the sges Of 8 and 10
years there were twelve males and three
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-12-21
Accident to Miss Carol Grouse.

The many friends in Sacramento of Miss
Carol Grouse will be panied to learn of an
accident that recently befell her in San
Francisco. She suffers from dislocated
right arm and several painful bruises about
the body. The mishap occurred near the
Tilton boat house. Miss Grouse was stand
ing on the bluff. when she slipped and fell
upon the Jagged rocks few feet below.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-12-21
I.iheral Endorsements.

Mrs. Leland Stanford has donated $780,.
900 for the endowment as permanent insti-
tutions of the kindergartens bearing her
name. The following are Trustees of the
fund: G. F. Crocker, Timothy Hopkins,
R. ]. Wilson, Joseph Grant and Henry
Lathrop.
Mrs. Senator Hearst has endowed three
kindergartens in San Francisco, and there
are eleven yet remaining to receive con.
tributlons from the friends of education.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-12-21
A Missing countrvn,an.

The police have been notified that
George Lewis of Sierra Valley has been
missing since Friday. He was stopping at
the Western Hotel, and was last seen at
about 10 O'Clock on Friday night in CON-
pany with hard-looking tough.
Lewis is described as being nineteen
years of age, six feet tall, and of 100
pounds in weight. He is of dark com.
plexion and smooth face, and wore a
heavy, dark coat and striped pants.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-12-21
TRANSACTION IN HOPS.
Horst Brothers aye Sued for the Value of
Seventeen Bales.

Horst Brothers aye Sued for the Value of
Seventeen Bales.
Suit was commenced yesterday in the
Superior Court by Harriet NJ. Bentley and
s. a. Bentley. against Paul, Lewis and E.
Clemens Horst-who do business under
the firm name of Horst Brothers-for
1867 81 and costs of suit.
The plaintiffs allege that, on the 18th of
September last, they sold and delivered to
the defendants seventeen bales OF hops,
the agreed price therefore being o9l cents
per pound, making the total due, 1867 50.
But they allege no part of this sum has
been paid, hence the suit. S. Scion Holl
and Frank Estabrook are attorneys for the
plaintiffs.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-12-21
Chinese Leaving the Country.

An old Chinaman, one who has been in
California upwards of ten years, and
worked along the Sacramento river since
his advent here, departed last week for the
old country. He stated to the Rio Vista
News that his people are going back to
China at such q rate that in five years the
fruit ranchers along the river will expert
ence great difficulty in securing Chinese
help, and that in eight years hardly a
Chinaman will be found on the island fruit
ranches, so rapidly are they leaving the
COrntrY.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-12-21
Wheelmen,s Election.

The Capital City Wheelmen have elected
the following officers for the ensuing term:
President, II. G. Toll; Secretary, Eli Leev-
enworth; Captain, L. S. Epson: First
Lieutenant, w. A. Hubert; Second Lieu
tenant, H. r. Bernard; Bugler, R. T.
Brown. The club has set apart Tuesday
evening of each week as Club Night" for
the reception of its friends. Invitations
for tine annual reunion, to be held Decem.
Der 31st, are being issued
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win have . Rehearing.

Attorney General johnson will shortly
file notice with the Supreme Court Clerk
for rehearing in the case of the People
VS. Bemmerly, which the Supreme Court
reversed several days ago, on the ground
that the Jury was not properly instructed
as to what "a reasonable doubt" was.
Bemmerly was tried in Yolo county be-
fore Judge Garoutte, and was convicted OF
murder in the secord degree.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-12-21
S.cpAMrxro Anril 81 1san

JOHN F. CooPER-Dear Sir: The "Math-
ushek' upright piano purchased OF you
some time since only convinces me that
my judgment of its merits were correct. I
believe the solid iron-frame "Mathushek''
upright the best for California climate, and
/ heartily recommend the "Mathushek" to
any one wanting . strictly first-class piano.
T. H BERKEY.
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patrons Of Harlots ,

Rev. A. T. Needham, pastor of the Sixth
street NJ. z. Church, will this evening de.
liver sermon on the above subject, a:
revealed in a midnight tour among the
Msgdalenes." a tour Of that kind should
be productive Of abundant material for
timely discourse.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-12-21
pousrIsss coMMENpAsLE.

A Pardon Granted to a Young Man Who
Went Wrong.
The Governor granted q pardon yester-
day to Richard E. Taylor, who was con-
yicted in San Francisco of forgery in Oc-
tober, 1889, and sentenced to three years
imprisonment. In granting the pardon the
Governor says:
.Taylor's pardon is requested because o.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-12-21

This is the universal expression of those
who have seen the elegant line of rugs on
display at Locke & Lavensons. They also
have large assortment OF portieres, carpet
sweepers and other useful articles suitable
for Christmas gifts
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-12-21
Pu,s and Her Pursn,r..

The devotees of hare coursing anticipate
great sport to-day in the fields along the
Marysville road some miles from the city.
The rendezvous will be at Maurice Haley's
place at Q o'clock. Some of the best dogs
in the State will be put down.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-12-21
nona az II sI,ouId R..

You can have your silk hat ironed as it
should be by taking it to Chss. J. Freder-
icks & Co.. S02 street, free of charge.
They also carry an elegant line of stylish
hats
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-12-21

Slater, the test medium, will reappear
tonight at Pythian Castle. and also on
Monday and Tuesday evenings.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-12-21

APPLEs.-Bellhowers Spitzenberg. Bald
win and Rhode Island Greening apples, di-
rect from Siskiyou county. The finest in
the city. Secure box before they are all
gone, ct 1.-THE Pacific"
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-12-21

In Switzerland, it is said. they will pay
higher wages to milkmaid who can sing
| to the cows than to one who can not. This
| is done on the principle that bad treat
ment of COW injuriously affects its milk.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-12-21
Turkeys and Targets.

The rifie-shooters will have their sport
to-day on the American river rifle ranges.
Turkeys will be put up to be shot for at 200
yards, and there will be plenty of them.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-12-21

NEW cheap pianos from S275. superior to
same class sold through sub-agents for 1925
and upwards. John F. Cooper. direct
manufacta-esa' AGENT
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-12-21

PRESENT for Christmss-6ve shares Occi.
dental Building and Loan Association
new series. E. Z. Alsip, Secretary, 101s
Fourth street.
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The barometer Rising.

The temperature at 5 A. NJ. and 5 P. N.
yesterday in tLis city, was 36o and $40
while the highest and lowest was $40 and
$40, with fresh northerly winds and cloud
less sky. There was quite frost in the
morning.
The highest and lowest temperature one
year ago yesterday was $50 and 46o, with
Is of an inch of rain, and one year ago to-
day 4So and 400, with 81 of an inch of rain.
The barometer yesterday was considerably
above 80 inches and rising.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-12-21

OCCIDENTAL Building and Loan Associa-
tion; new series Of stock. Invest and save
your money. E. x. Alsip, Secretary, 1915
Fourth street.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-12-21

OCCIDENTAL Building and Loan Associa,
ton offer their new series Of stock. Splendid
investment. E. &. Alsip. Secretary, 10lt
Fourth street.
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GAN FRANCISCO STOCK SALES.
SAN FRANCISCO, December 20, 1890.
MORNING SESSION

OCCIDENTAL Building and Loan Associa.
ton have issued a new series. Get few
shares-a profitable gift. E. K. Alsip, Sec.
rotary, 10l5 Fourth street.
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AMusEMENTs.

man and Thomas b. Hubbard to We;nstock.
Lubin Co. Lot 4, and I, Fifth and sixth
streets ->. - -
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-12-21

The Frank Daniels Company concluded
its engagement at the Metropolitan The
alter last evening. Little Puck was the
attraction.
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NEW SERIES

ISSUED BY THE OCCIDENTAL BUILD
i ing and loan Association. No better
Christmas present for your wife or children
han few shares of this stock. No safer in
vestment can be made. a few shares for sale.
Apply to undersigned, Secretary, No. 1c15
Fourth street. EDWIN X AL>IP d1I-14t(Suj
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BORN.
Sacramento, December 17-wife of G. W. Far
rem, son.
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ITO RENT-A HOUSE OF FIVE ROOMS,
i with modern Improvements. No. 1926 r
street. d2O-3ts
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nRESSMAKING MRS. MAY STEVENS,
- formerly with Mrs. schirmer, ha S
opened frst-class dress making parlors at 916
Seventh street, buck of Coopers music stores
Ladies' children's and infants white under
wear specialty: plain sewing solicited. o22tf
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-12-21

| ITO LET-FOR HOUSEKEEPING, FOUR
water; also, bath. Inquire 12ll street. dl9-5t+
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-12-21

The Commissioners call attention to the
fact that 1852 of the 81 900 appropriated for
the improvement of Fifteenth street, along
the eastern line of Capitol Park, has been
expended in that work, and the remainder
returned to the Treasury.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1890-12-12
lie Was Innocent.

81 missed several of my chickens last
night, Uncle Jasper. Do you know any
thing about them??"
"Cunnel, I believe de law do not re-
quire cullud gemmen to answer ques-
tons which mout discriminate them
selves."-Puck.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1890-12-12
An Eve Glass, but No String.

Max O'Rell writes in The Washington
Star: 1.-THE young French dandy takes
kindly, too, to the single eye glass,
which, to be really effective, must now
be worn without a string. l do not
mean that the string takes away from
the virtue of the glass, but it has been
decided that it detracts from the stylish
ness of the elegant aid to vision.
IAN eye glass must not now be IN APP
pendage, but n part of ones self. The
aim is clearly to show that one is SC o
fdent of his ability to maintain the
glass in position that a string is needless.
The great desideratum is to be able to
eat with it, ride with it, dance with it,
laugh with it, sneeze with it Gf you can
see with it so much the better, in fact,
to look as if you slept with it and found
it in its place in the morning.
"Of course accidents will happen to
the best regulated eye glasses, and neces-
sarily part of the training for wearing a
stringless one properly is to learn to
pick it up nonchalantly when it does
stray away from home, unless you adopt
Mr.. Whistler's plan. He carries a sup
ply in his waistcoat pocket, and if one
deserts him replaces the rambler from
this reserve stock"
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1890-12-12

There is a little green card in use by
the p~ostofice department that is a terror
to careless letter carriers. 1t is Il terror
only when they have once been caught.
Very seldom, indeed, are they caught
the second time. This card is dropped
in q letter box, and on it is marked the
time it was put in and also the time it
should be taken out by the carrier. A
record iskept by the chief of the carriers,
and if that little card does not turn up
with the other mail with which it is due
it is clearly to be seeR that the carrier
has not taken the mail from that partic-
ular box.
The object, Of course, is to test the
reliability of the carriers. Where there
is any complaint on the part of citizens
about the hardness of local mails, then
o little green card is dropped in one or
more boxes in the district from which
the complaint comes. Sometimes it
shows carelessness ON the part of the
carrier and sometimes it does not. 1t is,
however, not necessary that there should
be complaints, for frequently the cards
are put in the boxes of the most efficient
men. Of course they are happy when
they discover them. But where's box is
missed in which there is a green card,
then the carrier is bound to get into
trouble, and very serious trouble at that.
Lewiston Journal.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1890-12-12
On tho Drummer.

ut was disgusting. The fire didn't
reach my room until an hour after | had
left it." said the drummer.
"Well, what Of it,"
"Imight havs had forty minutes more
Eleep."-Harpers Bazaar.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1890-12-12
Protector Against Nicotine.

An electrical engineer of Carphin
Springs claims the invention of a mouth
piece for pipes that will prevent any
connection of the nicotine deposited in
smoking with the tongue. He makes ga
hollow ball, with a short tubular or
slotted stem attached to it, which is in
serted into the usual oriice in the mouth.
piece of the pipe, IT cigar or cigarette
holder. so that the smoke shall pass out
through the tube or slotted stem and
upper slotted part of the ball, and the
tongue shall rub against the ball in the
mouth Of the o%rifice, and thus avoid or
prevent the saliva of the mouth from go
ing or working back in the mouthpiece."
New York Telegram.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1890-12-12
Why He Cried.

Passerby-Why do you cry, little boy?
Little Boy-On account of pa. If he
comes homo without me ma will give
him an awful thrashing.-Texas Siftings
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1890-12-12
exposure Of Ones weakncsses.

A special weakness Of a mar is ex-
posed by his Unfortunately accusing
others of the same defect. When a per-
son, in criticising the character or dis
position of others, applies with a certain
blind persistency n or two common
faults to them all, now perchance hitting
the mark and now flying far wide of it,
we may be sure that these very faults
are possessed by the critic in a marked
degree, though they are often in a meas
ure concealed by the complications Of
his own character.
They seem to stand beforc his minds
eye as glasses of various c%olors, giving
corresponding hues to whatever is
viewed through them, as he who looks
at the sky through a colored window
will see it red, yellow, green or other
wise, as the case may be. One who de-
sires to rid himself of faults will do well
to scrutinize himself in this respect, and
if he finds a tendency to harp IN some
particular weakness of human nature he
may feel assured that there he car apply
the pruning knife.-New York Ledger.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1890-12-12
Oysters.

The very newest thing about town is
the Bombay oyster"
The Bombay oyster" isn't an oyster
at all, Of course, but this is the name
that has been bestowed on it.
1t is a composition sufficiently simple
and common to please the lean and lard
ed purse alike. It is nothing more than
an egg dropped unbroken into a tumbler,
and deluged with vinegar, and sprinkled
with pepper and salt.
1t is consumed always before break
fast, and by a great many sporting men
in the city.
One of its effects is to counteract the
evil tendencies Of yer eating. Some
stout men like Bombay oyster in
the morning, and eat nothing again until
noon. For a bilious stomach it is the
finest kind of a remedy.-Boston Globe.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1890-12-12
The Height of Our Ancestors.

Although it is needless to tell readers
that all sp%eculations upon this matter
are without foundation, it is curious to
find in a work published in IT'S by a
member of the French Academy Of Sci
snces the following statements. Ac-
cording to this author, Adam was 1913
feet 8 inches in height, while Ewes stat
ure is asserted to have been 11s feet 0
inches and 8 lines. Noah, we are told,
attained a height of only 81 feet; Abra-
ham was barely 20 feet in stature, while
Moses is alleged to have measured only
10 feet in height. N. Hallock in
Christian at Work.