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Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-12-27
Confessed His Guilt.

CHICAGO, December Goth. = Billiard, a
young clerk for Giles Brothers, jewellers,
was arrested tonight, and has confessed to
thefts amounting to S., 600.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-12-27
Fertilizer works Burned.

CHARLESTON IS. CO., December 26th.-The
Edsto Phosphate and Fertilizer Works
were burned tonight. Loss, $500, 900.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-12-27

Thoroughbred st. Bernard dogs sell at
anywhere from $3.50 to 81 900 each. One
dog of the Convent of St. Bernard is said
to have saved more than forty human lives.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-12-27
State BOARD of Education.

This body is announced to hold its quar-
terly session at the State Capitol, com
menciDg at 1880 o'clock this morning.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-12-27

A service of carrier pigeons is to De es-
tablished between Zanzibar and Like Ny
ASA, in Africa. The stations will be thirty
miles apart
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-12-27
SUNDAY sERMoNs-

Dew. A. C. BANE WILL PREACH AT THE
III seyenth-street Methodist Church SUNDAY
at II A. NJ. Subject Drifting and Sailing At
$50 P. NJ: Taking Stock, or Lessons From the
Dying Year. 1ts
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-12-27
REV. A. T. NEEDHAm

WILL PREACH IN THE sIxTH-sTRFFT
~ II. L. Church on SUNDAY MORNING.
Subject: THE Old Year's Funeral" Evening
'lRa- stupts. AZ Fe'ea.ses
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-12-27

Deatn Oh d neil-huoWu EOrtralt 4 aInttr
Boston, December 26.h.-Charles Os-
good, in former years well-known por-
trait painter, died yesterday in his S1st
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-12-27
NEW PROCESS CORN MEAL

1T EUB0URG & Lagos, STAR MILLS AMI
~ Malt House, 1O16 to 1920 Fifth street,
manufacturers OF malt and all kinds of mesl,
Also, dealers in hops, eorks, produce, graiI,'
feed and brewers supplies. Special attention
Is called to our new process corn meal and
iaTlIla Exchange sold on the principal cities
d Silrona NIT
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-12-27

BEEcHAM's pills cure sickheadache.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-12-27

WHERE INDIANS HIDE AND FIGHT.
In moving forward on the floor of this
desolate region our progress was suddenly
INSTRUCTED by ditch with vertical walls
and of a variable depth, but rarely more
than six or eight feet wide. These were
created by the latest rain, when travel must
have been altogether impracticable. At
this time the soil was as hard as chalk.
We saw no living thing but some dimin-
utive antelopes, which believe appeared
surroundings.
PREHISTORIC BONES.
But the most astonishing feature of the
scene was the abundance of fossil bones
which were everywhere to be seen. Some
were exposed to wind and sun, the soil
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-26

The Day Alter.
Ev'ry heart seemed full Of great gladness,
Eyes wore a soul-given shine;
But. alasi many hearts feel the sadness
OF fover-indulgence in wine.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-26
THE MUTTERINGs AGAINST CAMERoN

The Senatorial situation in Pennsylvania
is peculiar this year, though 1t holds no
promise as yet of any unusual outcome.
Goodness, not to speak of strained relations,
among prominent Republican leaders and
workers who in years past pulled together
has quite clearly led to disposition in GER
tain quarters to take up new candidate in
place OF Senator Cameron. The
Philadelphia Press voices this de-
sire. Again, SOME of the Delamater
supporters are ofish to the Senator,
and from still another element of the party
come prophesyings of opposition unless he
alter his course on the force bill. There are
squally signs for Cameron in the sky, but
the chances are, Oh the whole, against their
materializing. Cameron can only be beaten
in caucus or by bolt of at least twenty-six
members. There is probably not county
in the State which could not offer at least
some candidate as capable as Mr.. Cameron,
but the latter has the prestige of possession
and the support of his old following, includ-
ing members of the Legislature whose
pledges he shrewdly sought before the cleo
tion, either personally or through agents.
- When Cameron was making this canvass
with more or less openness, and with ru-
mored $780, 900 contribution to ex-Chairman
Cooper for the special purpose, was the time
when he could have been opposed with a
fair show of success. The fight against him
now-especially over the force bill, which is
a dead issue and was never a good one-de-
pends wholly upon some odd chance materi-
alizing. Cameron doubtless already has the
caucus pretty we'll set up. The hunt for 26
Independents, however, has begun. 1t will
be gratifying intelligence if so many are
found who feel themselves in a position to
exercise an entirely free choice uncommit-
ted to Cameron by past associations or re-
cent pledges. But if Unexpectedly these
shall be found, we trust they will not be so
foolish or impracticsblt as to pretend to
base their course on the Senator'S opposition
to the force bill, in which he is in accord,
not at variance, with the wisest judgment of
his party. This, indeed, is one OF the few
positions upon which he has been conn.,
mended very generally through the coun-
try, and neither he nor Quay has lost any.
thing by running counter to Speaker Reed
and President Harrison on this score.
The election for Senator will come of
early next month. Meantime it will be Gu.
rious to hear the threatenings of opposition
grow louder or feebly die away, as they SC
often have done heretofore.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-26
RAPID TRANSIT DEATHS.

During the past year the cable roads in
this city have killed II persons, and the
electric street ears have killed one. This
exhibit is interesting from several points of
view. 1t first suggests the idea that this is
pretty high price to pay for speed and COM
fort in travelling between our homes and
places of business. The next idea is that
the apparent greater safety OF the electric
roads balances the account rendered in favor
OF the cables by experiences with the recent
storm. How many of these deaths were due
to negligence on the part of the persons
killed or of the motormen we are not in
formed But it does seem we might have the
blessing of rapid transit by some means
without this awful mortality.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-26
THIRD PARTY MOVEMENT.

President McGrath, of the Kansas Farm
ers' Alliance, takes a sanguine view of the
third party movement when he says it will
soon include all of the labor organizations.
1t has been the experience of labor leaders
in this section, and of officers of national
organizations, that with two parties in the
field it has sometimes been almost impossi-
BILE to hold the orders together. Trying to
bring them all together under one political
standard is likely to be still more serious
matter. The Alliance certainly made good
showing in the last election by getting their
candidates through as members of the old
parties, and they may lose their whole want
age in the third party experiment.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-26

in their treatment of the aborigines. Gen
eral Pope's weil-known remark, "How can
We expect the Indian to observe treaty
which he sees us violate every day to his
injury?" and other similar opinions are
cited. All of this leads the society to
appeal for different order of things. The
friends are convinced 'That course OF
justice and kindness toward this people
would be productive of lasting peace" as us
illustrated by the early history OF the Prov
ince of Pennsylvania"
There is much justice and reason IN the
Quaker view of this matter, notwlthstand-
ing the popular belief that the only good
Indians are dead. 1t is the testimony OF all
officers on duty ar the scene of the late dis
turbances that insufficient ratioDs and injus-
tice on the part of the whites, or more
particularly rascally government agents,
caused the trouble. And it is significant
fact that since the rations have been in
creased the warlike spirit of the Indians has
been gradually subsiding. Hungry men
are desperate men the world over, be they
white red, black or yellow.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-26
CHANGING THE InRY SYSTEM.

Minnesota has taken a step for reform in
the jury system by inserting clause in the
State constitution providing that in civil
cases the agreement of 10 out of IL Jurors
shall be sufficient. In one respect this step
is wise, as it necessitates the corruption of
three Jurors instead of one to bring about a
disagreement But in respect to the weight
of verdict rendered it is rather a detrac-
ton. That some reform of the jury system
is desirable cannot be doubted. 1t is, how
ever, an open question whether the Mime
sofa constitutional amendment is going in
the right direction. 1t would seem that
competent persons elected by popular vote,
as the judges are, and subject to frequent re-
election, with emolument, would strike more
nearly at the root of the matter. An i'm
proper verdict would certainly cause the de-
feat of juror at the next election.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-26
and the little long.tailed monkey of South

and the little long-tailed monkey of South
America; the camel and the llama.
1t is not necessary to cite any more proofs
OF this class. In the estimation of this
scientific gentleman Africa is much better
adapted to the support of the higher orders
of animal life than either of the Americas
If his reasoning means anything it means
that Africa should support the highest type
of civilization. This is. no doubt, good
theory. But what is the fact? With the
single exception OF the ancient Egyptian
civilization and the possibility that an older
civilization preceded the Pharaohs in in
terror Africa, that continent has been drag
ging along in the most debased savagery
known, except the low life of the South Sea
Islands.
Recurring to the animal life theory the
American buffalo, now nearly extinct, is
certainly superior to his fellow in any other
part OF the world. As Tor transplanted ami
mails the American continent appears to be
remarkably good soil for them-at least
some types. The Texas steer-he of the
wide-spreading horns and irresistible eecen-
tricities-is so far superior to his Spanish
progenitor that he can hardly be put in the
same class. Domestic animals have reached
the highest perfection here.
That American civilization be destined to
decay may be probable-it may even be
susceptible of proof. Other civilizations
have faIlen-not from exhaustion of re-
sources, but through the habits OF the peo-
pie. But it will certainly require more data
than the Washington scientific gentleman
produces to convince any reasoning mortal
that the conditions of life necessary to the
proper development of an anthropoid ape
are in anyway connected with the environ
ments productive of the highest civilization.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-26
SOCIAL CHATTER.

MISS STELLA HAYS will take her second and
final step into the social world at the grand
ball given for her at the Duquesne Clubhouse
this evening by her mother, Mrs. John Shoen-
berger Hays. The first step was taken at the
reception and tea given recently at the Hays
mansion.
THE Balmoral Choir, at Carnegie Hall to-
night and tomorrow night. will undoubtedly
bring out large audience, as the popularity of
the choir is only exceeded by the popularity of
its manager, Leonard Wales Scotch, Irish
and Ensfish melodies will be given.
A REVIVAL of a Welsh custom by members
of the Missionary Church that meets in
Superior Hall, Allegheny, resulted in the
Eisteddfoa given there yesterday afternoon
and last evening.
THE ladies of the Eighth Presbyterian
Church, West End are making great prepara-
tions for their annual supper tomorrow. A
Chinese delegation will be in attendance.
THE American Social, composed of the Gen.
eral Marion Council, Jr. o. q. A. M, held its
annual reception in the Palace Rink yesterday
afternoon and last evening
Miss HAMILTON will give dancing recep-
tion this evening for the members of her
class.
THE Misses Lyon, of Stanton avenue. enter
tanned merry Christmas company last even.
ing.
THE Sylvan Social gave reception yester.
day afternoon and evening at semple's Hall.
THE Allegheny German gives a reception to.
night at the Monongahela House.
THE big dance at she Kenmawr. tonight.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-26
A NOVEL SUGGESTION,

That is a somewhat novel idea, to light up
dangerous railroad crossings at night. If it
will save single life it is good idea, too.
The killing and manning of people in this
country is frightful. Thousands every year.
We are supposed to be. above everything, a
a money making people. Yet it is fact
beyond controversy that death is the most
expensive luxury tired people enjoy.
Death is dead loss. 1t is, therefore, not
merely humanitarian interest to save life,
but it is public economy. In this view OF
the matter every effort should be made to
reduce the chances of death, and the scheme
to light up dangerous crossings at grade is
to be commended. At the same time it is
well worth considering whether it would
not be better economy to abolish all the
grade crossings.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-26
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

HON. PoTIPHAR PEAGREEN is one of the or
naments of the Georgia Legislature.
THE REV. c. H. STURGEON writes from the
South of France that he is slowly but surely
recovering his health
MRS BESSIE HELM !F, the President of the
Association of the Collegiate Alumna, has ed
tied II volumes of the Appellate Courts for
her father. Judge Bradley. 1t is her intention
to practice law.
NINE CARNoT has required the Mayors Of
the 20 ACCOMPLISHMENTS of Paris each to draw
up a list of 20 widows having the largest num-
ber of children, whom Nine. Carnot desires to
help on New Years Day.
DIR. EMILY KEMPIN, who delivers law lect-
ures to the Woman's Legal Education Society,
is a slender woman with fair hair. and wears a
long black gown, pleated into velvet yoke,
and the cap of the University of Zurich.
MISS FLORA <. POWERS. stenographer to
the Attorney General,..i said to be one of the
most indefatigable workers at the capital, fire.
quently working far into the night in a stress
of business, not absenting herself on Sunday.
MRS. JAMES G. BLAINE. JR, is described as
having the handsomest hands and feet of any
woman in New York. They are perfect. and
have escaped emancipation from the long ILL.,
ness that their owner has suffered.
in Berlin. His uncle, the Mikado of Japan, has
sent him 20 that city, accompanied by three
secretaries and six young Japanese noblemen,
for the purpose of attending the maritime and
other studies.
A B. FROST is one OF half dozen Amer
Ican illustrators to whom art has brought hand
some fortunes, "lettered ease" and rural COM
fort He lives on good-sized farm near Mad
ison N. j. dresses as he will and dispenses a
generous hospitality.
Mrs. O'SHEA is described by q writer, whose
intention is clearly not to f1atter, having the
thick lips and bulging brow we see in the Cleo.
patra medals, and as being as cold blooded or
dinarily as Cleopatra was known to be. She is
not very tall or big-boned woman, but is
ruddy and full blooded; her hair is blond and
profuse, and her complexion is fair.
THE Duke of Marlborough has secured op
tions on large tracts of land in Alabama and
Tennessee, which are supposed to contain coal
and iron. He has returned to London with the
idea of interesting some of his English friends
in a plan to organize company which Is te
furnish the capital for the development oi
these lands, and if need be to furnish the funds
to build a city something after the plan OF
Birmingham.
SIR JOHN POPE HENNEssY has spent most
of his life abroad, but is in many respects q
typical Irishman. When it was known in Corh
last year that he had bought Rostellan Castle
and was coming homo to live, much curiosity
was expressed in social circles in the South oi
Ireland as to what Lady Hennessy was like II
was known that she was native of Maur1tius
where she possessed vast estates, but opinion
was divided as to whether she was black or vel
low, those being the colors popularity supposed
to belong to the inhabitants of tie island.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-26
LIBERAL DISTRIBUTION.
Mr.. George w. Chiids Made Christmas Gifts
TO the Amount of $4,000.

PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 25-George W. Childs
left his Office last night happy in the conviction
that he had made happy Christmas for many
of his fellow creatures. During the day he dis
tributed upward of $4,000 In checks and cash
besides hundreds of books and other nice
things. OF the large amount of cash which he
gave away $4,000 went to his employees in the
Public Ledger building Each individual re-
ceived his present inclosed in an envelope bear
ing his name. and the amount in every case was
regulated according to the recipients worth.
No one was overlooked from the basement to
the composing room. Each of the Office boys
received So while some of the editors gifts
were up in the hundreds. The checks ranged
invalue from 500 to $500 each. Mr.. Childs per-
sonally placed the gifts in their envelopes so
that no one should know how much he gave
each person. Not even was the cashier,
Colonel Muckle, taken into the secret. Ali the
latter did was to furnish Mr.. Chids with so
much cash in $40 bills, SO much in $50 notes,
and SO much in big crisp Slo0 greenbacks. Nor
did his good work end here; for when he
started homeward it was with big pocketful
of bank bills ready for distribution among his
domestics.
"My greatest happiness at Christmas" he
modestly said, "comes from the fact that am
able to give happiness to others, and thank
God that He has placed 1t in my power to do
this"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-26
oUAKERs DEFEND THE INDIANS.

At meeting of representatives of the Re-
ligious Society of Friends, commonly called
Quakers, of Pennsylvania, New Jersey and
Delaware, a memorial on the Indian ques-
ton was prepared for presentation to Con-
gress. The memorial sets forth the deep
concern of the society with the recent In
dian troubles ani charges the whole diff
Guilty to the perfdy of the whites in these
terms: 'sIt has been the uniform testimony
of those who have been familiar with the
facts, that the Indian has rarely been
chargeable with disregarding treaty stipula-
tions which he has comprehended and rati-
fed. While on the other hand it is we'll
known that almost, if not all, wars of the
United States with the Indians in the past
have been the result of injustice or perfidy
on the part Of the whites
General Harvey, himself an Indian
fighter. is quoted as saying that the Indian
has always borne wrongs sin silence that
never fail to drive civilized men
to deeds of Violence" and that
the whites have been uniformly unjust
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-26
CURRENT OPINION.
Matters of Interest Referred to With and
without Bias

Matters Of Interest Referred to With and
without Bias.
New York Tribune: One thing is certain:
Ex-President Cleveland hypnotized the Reform
Club Tuesday evening
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle: The at.
mosphere of the Reform Club din ner was too
Mugwumpish for Governor Hill, and SO he
stayed away.
Buffalo Express: However else he conducts
the campaign against the Indians, General
Miles should not throw bombs among them.
They have buns enough now.
NelO York World: Can IL be that the veto of
the Bar Harbor postof1ice bill has anything to
do with the fact that Mr. Blaine lives in sum-
mer in this interesting Maine village?
Cincinnati Commercial ozette: With sl5,-
OO0O to $50 Coo 900 capital going into new mer-
camille and manufacturing enterprises weekly,
the old business year is closing out with good
record, and the wisdom of the tariff law is es
tablished..
Philadelphia Times: If there is one proverb
utterly discredited and gagged by the weather
of the past few years it is that about the green
yule and the fat churehyard. All the same a
little sleighing ana skating would be accept
able.
NetO York Stds Now Boston is complaining
of dirty streets. and Chicago and Philadelphia
are distracted over the same trouble. In our
unhappiness here in New York it is some con-
ISOLATION to know that other communities are no
better off than we are.
Philadelphia Inquirer: The Presidents
veto of the bill for public building at Bar
Harbor will be seized upon by the opposition as
an infallible indication of his hostility to Secre
tary Blaine; but the reasons he gives for it are
so clear and convincing, and show such an in
&t,, hat aeHR Il
not be surprised il they had been furnished by
Mr. Blaine himself.
Phflddetphiu Record: General Buffers an
nouncement of his retirement from public life
will occasion general regret. With all his &C.
centricities of thought and action, Mr.. Butler
has always been recognized as an active
minded. brainy man; and he has made his mark
in the pages of his country's history-military.
civil and poIitical-and always in an individual
and piquant fashion. His withdrawal to the
quietude of privacy will be a strange expert
ence for himself, and will despoil the held of
national politics of one of its unique and divert
ing characters.
ST. Paul Pioneer Press: People who imag-
inc they see war cloud gathering about the
Behring Sea dificulty should not get nervous.
The United States have very little to fight
with and the British very little to fight for in
that controversy. War is expensive, and when
it comes to spending money, your mutual
friends, ]. Bull and Brother Jonathan, usually
do little figuring before they invest. A
few bales of furs wherewith to adorn the
bodies of women and empty the pockets of men
are an insufficient casus belli between enlight-
ened nations. The attitude Of the Canadian
poachers is like that Of an urchin throwing
stones at his neighbors and then yelling as he
runs: "You Just better look out or III tell my
big brother on you.n