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Napa Races.

NAPA, August 21st-In the first race,
for the three minute class, trottiDg, the
purse of 81 600, by agreement, Beauvy Nc.
received the first money and did not start
Free Coinage won the second money, Ed
Fay third. Best time, 2:25l.
The second race, 2:30 class, pacing, purse
of 5000, was won by Rupee, Hummer Sec
ond. Best time, 2:194
The third race, for district two-year- olds
trotting, purse of $3.50, was won in two
straight heats by Annie Bell, Myrtle sec
ond. Best time, 2:38.
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Admission Day Railroad Rates.

SAN Francisco, August 21st. = Third
Vice. President J. C. Stubbs of the Southern
Pacific gives as reasons for not making q
halfrate excursion fare for the Native
Sons. the high price of fuel on the South
ern Pacific as com pared with Eastern roads,
and the fact that in 1887 a general re-
duction of passenger rates was made by his
company Of 25 per cent The present re-
duction of an additional SO per cent. makes
the fare cheaper than any Eastern road
ever gave
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NEW RAILROAD.

pxcrAl DarATcHrs TO THE EsccED-usuos.I
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The Charleston.

newport tOr.), August 21st--The United
States cruiser Charleston arrived at va
quina harbor this morning, fourteen days
from Honolulu, and sailed for Port Town
send at noon, after taking in fresh supplies
at Newport She made slow time to econo-
mize coal. Admiral Brown forwarded dis
patches to Washington from here.
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ISSUED BY THE
SACRAMENTO PUBLISHING COMPANY.
once. Third Street. between j and K.

THE DAILY RECGgD-UNION,
Published six days in each week, with Double
Sheet OF Saturdays, and
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MILTON, August Dist. : Joe Denton,
slayer of the landlord of Valley Springs,
has surrendered himself to Sheriff Thorn.
Alter a long chase to Jackson, thence
back across the hills to Copperopolis, the
Sheriff captured the Angels dynamite
fiend yesterday.
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THE WEEKLY UNION

Isthe cheapest and most desirable Home, News
and Literary Journal published on the Pacific
coast The SUNDAY UNION is sent 10 every SUBJ
scriber to the WEEKLY UNION.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-02

mere matter of political conventionality,
Not particularly have these facts been
stated often because he has often been a
candidate, but because the remarkably
clean record he has written, and because the
repeated acts of honesty OF purpose in the
dull routine of Office, has called attention
to him and caused the public to ask: "Who
is this mani" and now they know his his
tory off by heart.
Away back in 1886 Robert Morrow was
the able and esteemed editor of the Pitts
burg Mercury (now POST. Besides that he
was student OF the law of the land, and SO
well versed in its text and principles did he
become, that although never a member of
the bar, there were few lawyers in this
country who did not prize the advice and
assistance he gave them. His equal versa
tility with municipal affairs brought him
into places of trust and honor, and when he
died in 1862, be died In such an ofice-that
of Clerk of Select Council.
ALMOST AN EDITOR.
Such a man was the father of the present
Controller. In almost exactly the same
footsteps has the son been following, except
that the path has ascended (and is ascend.
ing) to higher points. True, the Controller
has never occupied an editorial chair, but
there is not a journalist in this city but who
will understand what q grand opportunity
Mr.. Morrow has had to edit all the papers
in town through the devoted reporters who
sit around his desk every day. Many a
consultation on policy has there been held,
and the next morning often the mild-spoken
little man has been astonished to find that
with strange unanimity the public press has
put in type his spoken editorial. Such
power is not held in the pent-up limits of q
single editorial chair.
Eustace was only % years old when his
father died, but Select Council elected him
to succeed his aged parent as its clerk. The
young man also took up the study of law,
pursuing it under the eye of George P.
Hamilton and John Barton, Esqs. He was
admitted to the Bar, but under pressing
solicitation of friend he took charge of q
set OF books for what be supposed to be a
few weeks time. But this business engage
ment lengthening, the war broke out, and
Mr.. Morrow found himself presently ap-
pointed Deputy Provost Marshal of Pitts
burg with j. Heron Foster.
FAMOUS AS SQUIRE.
AT the close of the war he became clerk
IN the office of the Clerk of Courts, under
John u. Brown. When Hon. William c.
mccarthy was Mayor Of Pittsburg he
selected MIR. Morrow as his deputy to pre-
side at bearings in the Mayors Office at
Municipal Hall. But long before this the
rising Young man had had experience in
administrative offairs. He had been elected
Alderman of the Sixth ward in 1858. and
upon the expiration of that term he was re-
elected. 1t was while serving this second
term as Alderman that be was made
famous all over the county as "'Souire."
He kept q little Office open in the Sixth
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The building is a landmark, having been
built in 1900. His wife was Annie Reed,
daughter of Ralph Reed, and they were
married in 1868. She died in 1879. Since
then Mr.. Morrow has devoted his home
hours to two children. The daughter, now
young woman, is at college in Ohio. The
son is in the public schools at home. Their
father sets them an example in hberality
and charity, for which he is well known
He is a strict churchmsn, never missing his
Wednesday night prayer meeting, Bible
ganizers of the Eighth U. P. Church in
Soho, and is still connected with it. He
has three times been delegate from Pitts
burg to the General Assembly of that de-
nomination, and only recently missed by
three votes being elected Moderator of the
Pittsburg Presbytery. He now resides in
modest rented house on Oakland avenue.
A MILITARY HERO.
Major Joseph f Denniston, the Republi.
can candidate for reelection to the CITY
Treasurer's Office, as is well-known, is a
military hero as we'll as an able civil execu-
tive. He lost a leg in the war, having been
all through the great conflict, not being
mustered out until nearly six years after the
fall of Sumter. He went out from Pitts
burg with the Friend Rifles, and was grad
ually promoted from private to captain, and
commissary of subsistence, and eventually
breveted major for gallant services. It
would take much space here to relate all the
story of Mr.. Denniston's hard fighting in
Virginia. He has always been foremost in
G. A. r. matters and is now o candidate for
Department Commander in Penusylvania,
In civil life Comrade Denniston has
equally made his mark, having been hon
ored by his fellow citizens with many posi-
tions of trust and responsibility, first as
Treasurer of Allegheny county for four
years, and for the past nine years as Treas
urer of this city-tvice reelected to the
position by the Endorsement of both political
parties.
THE MAJORS BUSINESS INTERESTS.
For 20 years he has served as director of
one of our large banking institutions, and
for seven years has been called to act as the
representative of the soldier interest on the
Board of Managers of the West Penn Hos
pital. position he has filled with benefit to
comrades in distress. The fact that he has
to furnish the largest bond in City Hall
does not bother Major Denniston. This
bond is for $3.50, 900. Yet he himself is not
a wealthy man. He was unsuccessful in
several business ventures, both before and
after the war. He lives in his own house
on Denniston avenue, East End, on part
Of his fathers old estate. The street was
named after his father.
Mrs. Dennisfon is lady whose acquaint-
ance is sought in the East End. The Major
married her seven years ago, and brought
her from Hagerstown, Md, where her par
ents had been Unionists during the war. 1t
is said that in profile she bears q remark
ably true resemblance to Maggie Mitchell,
tAe actress. L. E.S.
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but what it was cannot remember. Then L
stretched out my hands to greet you, and
woke, and that is all my dream"
She ceased, her gray eyes set wide, a.
though they still stroVe to trace their splr-
itual vision upon the air Of earth, her breast
heaving, and her lips apart.
"Grest heavenP he said, "what an i'm
agination you must have to dream such Q
dream as that"
Imagination p she answered, returning
to her natural manner. ''I have none, Mr.
Bingham. used to have, but I lost it
when lost-eVerything else. Can you in
terpret my dream? OF course you cannot;
It is nothing but nonsense-sueh stuff as
dreams are made o. that is all"
"It may be nonsense, but it is beautiful
nonsense" he answered. 81 wish ladies
bad more Of such stuff to give the world
"Ah, we'll, dreams may be wiser than
wakings, and nonsense than learned talk.
for all we know. But there's an end of it.
don't know why repeated it to you. am
sorry did repeat it, but it seemed so real il
shook me out Of myself This is what
comes of breaking in upon the routine Of
life by being three parts drowned. One
finds queer things at the bottom of the sea.
you know. By the way, hope that you are
I do not think that you will
care TO go canoeing again with me, Mr..
Bingham"
There was an opening for . compliment
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tnnnhed me ON the hreast.

touched me on the breast
"And suddenly an agony shook me like
the agonies Of birth and death, and the sky
was full of great winged angels, who rolled
up the mist as a cloth and drew wells from
the eyes of night, and there, her feet upon
the globe. and her star-set head piercing the
armament of heaven, stood Hope breathing
peace and beauty. She looked north and
south and east and west, then she looked
upward through the arching vaults of
heaven, and wherever she set Der eyes,
bright with holy tears, the darkness shriv-
eled and sorrow ceased, and from corruption
arose the incorruptible. 1 gszed and
worshiped, and, as 1 did so, again the sea
spoke unquestioned:
In darkness thou hast found light, in
death seek for wisdom
"Then once more Hope rent her starry
robes, and the angels drew down a veil over
the eyes night, and the sea swallowed me,
and sank till I reached the deep founda-
tions of mortal death. And there, in halls
of death I sat for ages upon ages, till at last
saw you come, aud on your lips was the
word OF wisdom that makes all things clear.
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ward, but there was either no crime up
there, or else Mr.. Morrow did not under
stand the modern method of inducing quar-
reling neighbors to enter cross suits, for the
Alderman had nothing to do but entertain
reporters ofthe daily papers when they came
out that way hunting items. Those re-
porters included Frank Case, the present
City Assessor. Judge" Ramsey, james NJ.
Purdy, John Neeb, Ed Locke, and host Of
others who have since become public
officials or newspaper proprietors. The
newspaper friendship then begun has lasted
through two or three generations of re-
porters, and rests on basis of personal
worth far above any sordid object.
THE FIRST CITY CLERK.
In 1872 Mr.. Morrow was elected City
Clerk, position which was new and which
he first organized. Up to that time munich
pal affairs had been managed clerically the
same as those of a provincial town. He held
the Office for several years. Since then he
has been City Controller, having been
elected three different times, the last time
being like the present campaign, the Dem
ocrats refusing to nominate anyone against
him. The Office is trying one, every year
questions arising in the financial affairs of
the city which the Controller has to look
squarely in the face with right on one side
and wrong on the other. How Mr.. Morrow
has met them, is we'll known.
Squire Morrow didn't want to be School
Director once, but the people of the Four
teenth ward elected him anyhow. He re-
fused to 60 near the polls for work, and this
fact encouraged the Democrats to hard work
for their candidate, Thomas B. Evans. But
Morrow was elected by majority of few
votes. Evans threatened to contest the
election.
$50 ahead, Tommy" said Mr.. Morrow,
''if you think there was any improper vot-
ing, and myself will pay the expenses of
the contest"
So Evans had the Court appoint a COM
mission to investigate. Morrow paid all
the expenses, and Evans succeeded in hav-
ing five or six votes thrown out, thus seating
himself. So the Squire did not have to be
school director after all.
Mr.. MORROW AT HOME.
Mr.. Morrow's home life is interesting
interesting from its very simplicity. Up
until 1884 he resided in the old Tustin man
sion on Fifth avenue opposite Seneca street.
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ruptedly, having been reelected five times
His popularity, and the high order of his
official services, can best be understood when
it is known that in three of these elections
he received the unanimous vote of the peo-
pie of his ward. representing all political
parties. In 1879 Mr.. Gourley was elected
President of Select Council, and for eight
years his course was indorsed by unani-
nous reelection to that position each year.
But one of his decisions was overruled by
Council.
Mr.. Gourley was married in 1867 to Miss
Jennie Brenneman, Of Pittsburg. He is
highly cultured, has read much and studied
much, and even while deep in the cares Of
business finds time to keep up with the cur
rent thought and literature of the day. He
is devoted to his pretty home, which stands
at the corner Of Logan street and Wylie
avenue.
THE DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE.
Hon. John H. Bailey, who will be the
Democratic nominee for Mayor of Pittsburg,
is native of this city. His father was one
OF those pioneers from the north of Ireland
70 whose influence in the building up Of
Western Pennsylvania's metropolis, the
present generation owes SO much. He was
merchant. and the earliest training of his
son John was 10 that line. But the boy
evineed taste for the professional side Of
labor. The public schools could not satisfy
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THE RABBITS LEFT HIND FOOT.
How the Georgia MOOnshIner Uses 1t to
Temper Justice.

How the Georgia MOOnshiner Uses IL to
Temper Justice.
Atlanta JournaI.J
The Georgia moonshiner is great be-
lever in the witchery of rabbits foot, the
one coming from the left hind leg of the
rabbit killed in a country graveyard. When
the moonshiner comes to grief he brings his
rabbit foot with him to Jail. When he is
called into court he rubs the foot over his
breast as soon as he enters the room. When
the Judge calls him to the front be rubs him
self once more and oftimes be drops the
charmed piece of property upon the floor.
IT he has his sentence suspended he at
tributes it to the rabbit foot; if he is sent to
Jail he consoles himself with the thought
that he has rubbed the charm upon the
wrong spot and carries it with him back to
Jail, firmly believing that it will, in some
magical manner, secure his release before
his time expires.
The colored janitor who cleans up the
court room had, at one time, sack full of
rabbit feet found by him upon the floor
where the saperstitious moonshiners had
dropped them.
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sou don't see his face one place you do the
other"
He was born at Thompsontown, Juniata
county, Pa, October 3, 1888. His father,
Joseph GOurley, was farmer and died in
1S4S, leaving two sons and one daughter
aged respectively, 3, 5 and years. Being
deprived of the support of her husband and
left without pecuniary means, the mother
decided soon after his death to remove with
her three children to Pittsburg. At the
age Of 6 years, therefore, young Henry was
placed under the care of a farmer in Pine
township, Allegheny county. Here he
worked until the age OF is. In order to
secure means with which to get an educa-
tion he contracted with neighboring farmers
TO cut wood at 40 cents per cord. In Is
DAYS he had cut so cords, earning $40 in
gold. Then, in the next harvest season he
added $50 more to this. With this money
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FIRE.PROOF HOUSES,
A Method Used by Wealthy Japanese-A
Kura Described.

n Mctnoo Oseo Dy wealthy Jap2neBe-A
Kura Described.
Detroit Free Press.l
The combustible nature of Japanese
houses renders large fires frequent and dis
astrous calamity; hence since long time
ago the more wealthy Japanese merchants,
as we'll as farmers, have been In the habit of
building kura or freprOof mud house CON-
tiguous to their shops and dwellings, yet
generally entirely isolated. Into these are
hurried at the first alarm which indicates a
fire approaching the premises the portable
property, household stufs, merchandise,
ETC., and the kura is then closed, and if time
permits, the joints of windows and doors are
sealed with fresh mud. A fire passing
around and over such structure will leave
its contents unharmed.
It is a very common thing to see in Yoko-
hama, in the streets of the native town,
many OF these kura built with much atten.
tion to architectural effect. They resemble
very closely gigantic freproof safes which
may be one, two and even three stories high.
The kura is built of light framework of
wood, between the openings of which is Sc
curely fastened open wicker work of bam-
boo. Then the whole wall surface inside
and out is solidiY filed with stiff plastic
mud taken from the bottom of the rivers,
and when thoroughly dried is smoothly
covered with stucco often treated ornament
ally.
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CHAPTER TX.
WHAT BEATRICE DREAMED.

WHAT BEATRICE DREAMED.
Geoffrey lay upon his back, watching the
still patch of sunshine and listening to the
ticking of the clock, as he passed all these
and many other events in solemn review,
till the series culminated In his vivid
reeollections Of the scene of that very morn
ing.
"I'm sick of it." he said at last aloud,
sick and tired. She makes my life
wretched. If it wasn't for Efie, upon my
word I'd. By Jove, it's o'clock; I'll
go and see Miss Granger. She's woman.
not female ghost at any rate, though she is
a freethinker-which," he added as he
slowly struggled off the couch, sis very
foolish thing to be-"
Very shakily, for he was sadly knocked
about, he hobbled down the long narrow
room, and through the door which was ajar.
The opposite door was also set half open.
He knocked softly, and getting no answer,
pushed it wide and looked in, thinking
that he had, perhaps, made some mistake
as to the room. On sofa placed about two-
thirds down its length, lay Beatrice
asleep. She was wrapped in a kind
of dressing gown of some simple blue stuff,
and all about her breast and shoulders
streamed her lovely curling hair. Her
sweet face was toward him, its pallor re-
lieved only by the long shadow of the dark
lashes and the bent bow of the lips. One
white wrist and hand hung down almost to
the floor, and beneath the spread curtain
of the sunlit hair her bosom heaved
softly in her sleep. She looked so won
drously beautiful in her rest that he stopped
almost awed, and gazed, and gazed again,
feeling as though present sense and power
were stilling his heart to silence. 1t is dan
gerous to look upon such quiet loveliness,
and very dangerous to feel that pressure at
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heavier, till at last it was thick as great
tress of hair, and the silver line bent
beneath the weight so that it soon must
break. Then, while wondered what would
happen. a white hand holding q knife slid
slowly down the silver line, and with the
knife severed the wrappings of woman's
hair, which fell and hoated slowly away,
like a little cloud touched with sunlight,
till they were lost in darkness. But the
thread of silver that was your line of life,
sprang up auivering and making sound
like sighs, till at last it sighed itself to
silence.
"Then 1 seemed to sleep, and when
woke was floating upon such a misty sea
as we saw last night. 1 had lost all sight OF
land. and could not remember what the
stars were like, nor how had been taught
to steer, nor understand where I must go. I
called to the sea, and asked it of the stars,
and the sea answered me thus:
"Hope has rent her raiment, and the
stars are set.
ST called again, and asked of the land
where I should go, and the land did not
answer, but the sea answered me second
time:
"'Child of the mist, wander in the mist,
and in darkness seek for light
''Then wept because Hope had rent her
starry garment and in darkness l must seek
for light. And while 1 still Wept, you rose
out of the sea and sat before me in the boat.
I had never seen you before, and still l felt
that had known you always. You did not
speak, and 1 did not speak, but you looked
into nv heart and saw its trouble. Then
looked into your heart, and read what was
written. And this was written:
"'Woman whom 1 knew before the earth
began, and whom L shall know when the
future is ended, why do you weep"
''And my heart answered, I weep because
am lost upon the waters of the earth, be-
cause Hope has rent her starry robes and In
everlasting darkness must seek for light
that is not Then your heart said, I will
sbew YOU light and bending forward you
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THE PRETTY BOOK AGENT.
A Boston Mans Method of Teaching Her a
Lesson.
Boston Globe.l


Boston Globe.l
81 was settling down to work." said a
book agent pestered man yesterday, "when
pretty woman entered my Office. No one
would suspect that she was a book agent.
She placed volume in front of me and be-
gan to talk. I told her would not buy the
book if really wanted it. Never mind,
said she, gsily. 1t won't cost you anything
to look at it.
"As she desired, did look at it. 1 read
the introduction and then chapter I. 1t was
about 10 o'clock when opened the book. At
II o'clock the pretty book agent had become
uneasy. Inever raised my eyes. Another
hour and she was pacing up and down the
floor. At o'clock when she had nearly
worn herself out, laid tine book down and,
putting on my hat and coat, said to the
thoroughly exasperated woman. That's
clever book, I regret that I cannot read more
Of it, but must away to dinner
"Ske was mad, bat she didn't say word.
Grabbing the book she showed it into her
satchel and made for the street."
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A Coming Lawyer.

One Sunday Bobby was discovered pound
ing nut trying to crack it. Mamma said
to him: why, Bobby, what are you
doing? 1t is wrong to crack nuts on Sun
day. Put them away; you mustn't crack
another one." She left him looking little
disappointed and soon heard him pounding
again. Returning she said: Bobby, why
don't you mind me?" "Zis isn't nuzzer
one, replied the little 4-year-old; "Zis same
one"
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THE PLAYWRIGHTSI LUCK.
Public Favor Sure to be shOwered on Least
Promising ThInKs.

IF you have to do with the public, says
Charles Hoyt, the playwright, in the St.
Louis Post Dispatch, never bank on what
you have carefully prepared, and particu-
be wary of what you think is sure to make
a hit. The most successful pieces of dra-
matte work are the merest accidents. You
can find that such is true by referring to the
history Of such men as Sothern; but have
seen it so often in my own career that am
convinced of it.
A thing may be good, and 1t may be funny
and all that, but no one can tell what will
please the public until the public hears it,
and nine times out of ten what you thought
would catch falls fat,