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END OF 4 LIFE DRAMA.
A Once Wealthy Woman Dying Uncar


A Once Wealthy Woman Dying Uncared
For in the slums.
20 dear God in Heaven! Only lei me see
my boy and I'll be ready to die"
The speaker was woman about 40 years
old, in squalid hovel In the worst part of
the slums. The room was thronged with
women, into whose hardened faces crept a
plying teDderness-in whose eyes were
tears. Outside the curses of men, the dis
cordant laughter of ragged women and the
prattle Of little children could be heard.
The woman within. with rags thrown
about her as she lay on filthy pallet, was
Mrs. Mary Oliphant the widow of Dr.
Charles Oliphaut, once prosperous drug
gist and prominent politician of this city,
He was moderate drinker, and his wife
followed his example. Soon both were con-
tirmed drunkards, and when he fell VIC
tim 10 drink his wife's downfall was rapid.
1t was the old, old story, that can meyer
lose 1t pathos. From sin in silk, with gilded
surroundings, voluptuous music aud the
clinking of the champagne glasses. the scene
quickly shifted to rags and squalid novels,
the whisky flask and the mud of the cutters.
There was an only child, bright and hand
some boy, who was idolized by his parents
His mother had 10 give him up. His uncle
was appointed his guardian and he was
placed at Girard College. After this the
wretched woman lost all interest In lite and
was soon as low as human being can fall.
When this poor unfortunate was so desti-
tute that she was without home and had
not crust to eat Sallie Foster, a black ANA
ION of the slums, whose tender heart was
unhardened hy the sordidness of her sur
roundings. took the white woman in and
tended her with mothers solicitude and
constancy. even paying the premium of the
small life ro!icy. which will keep the unfor-
Inmates body out of potter's field.
AT the corner Of Lisbon street and Goucho
place may be witnessed the closing scene in
this life's drama.-Philadelph Times.
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Cnrnentera, NIar.hal,

Carpenters Union. No. 4s3. has elected
James Bell aid 10 the Grand Marshal and
G. +. Schadt Marshal for the union on Labor
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the parish OF K:IgooGet, County Waterford, Ire
land aged 104 years and 8 months
HARRIS-In this city. August 2S, Julia Fillmore
J. HAIRS aged 10 years. j. =
MEEG ANzIn this city. August 2s, James, be-
loved husband or Ann Meegan. native OF County
Monaghan. Ireland, aged 80 years.
BARBER-In stockton. August Is. Everett Athsr-
ton Barber. beloved chlld of Hyland Z. and Hat
tie A. Barber, aged rs days. o.: =.
o'CoNNoR-In Yalentia. ireland. August 8. Cath:
crime, relict OF. the late jeremiah O'Connor. and
mother OF Mrs. Daniel O'Connor OF San Francisco
and Mrs Mortimer Sullivan OF Memo Park, aged
"a years aud 10 months. - -
MEoRER-At ca. on board ship Emily Reed. Feb
81 years. r. -. .--.:,-- -: -:
CLdFFoRD-In this city, August %, Mary Ann
Cllnord. anatye OF England, aged 45 years, - =:
WALSh-ln san Rafael, August 80 Alice. infant
daughter OF Waiter and Mary A.,Walsh. ~: =.
BATAILLE--In this city, August 81 1891, Gabri-
ellie Bataile, q native OF Hayre. France, aged 50
years, 3 months and IS days =: .-'.IEE
So. ~. CITY AND COUNTY HosPIr Al. =. ...f.. Il.
RHoDEs-In the City and County Hospital August
80, John Rhodes, \ native OF Pennsylvania ayed:
5Syears- =-,:.. -. = ~ - :.
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ened her general indifference to the COM
ments of Americans, but sheis determined
that the virulent and brutal gossip to which
she has been subjected during her absence
shall be ventilated in the courts. Mrs. Pot
ter's statement that actresses must neees-
sarly have more latitude than women of
ordinary station is sensible enough She
says also that very few women of the
stage could stand the raking which she
has received in the papers without hay
ing their regulations more or less furnished.
An English lawyer who has been examining
her scrap-book and comparing the extra
ordinary scandals which 1t contains with
Mrs. Potter's actual movements in the An:
tipodes claims that 9S per cent of the stories
published about the tour of Mrs. Potter in
India and Australia are entirely false.
Nlnety-eight per cent is rather heavy: This;
information-such as"it is--comes in a pri-
vate letter from London, written by mem-
Der of the firm which has Mrs. Potter's
affairs In hand. ~. =
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HANGED HIMSELF.
Suicide Of an Inmate of Private Asylum a
cfncEtnu

Suicide Of an Inmate of Private Asylum at
80. Stockton. --.-.....
STOCKTON, Aug. 31.-Cascea D. Williams,
a mechanic, 80 years Of age, committed sui
eide this afternoon at DR.. Clark's private
hospital. where he was an insane patient
He was closely watched, as it was feared he
might attempt to injure himself, but during
the twenty minutes absence of his attendant
he hanged himself to a bar across his room
window, using a common red cotton hand
kercnief. When found he was dead and
suspended from the window bar, which is
about five feet above the floor. Deceased
lived here where he has parents. de IS
the father of two children, but his wife
married after securing a divorce and since
that time his mind has been affected. He
was taken out Oh trial Wednesday last rs
he was much improved, but ON Saturday his
parents found it necessary TO send him back.
The Coroner's Jury found according to the
above facts and fully eXOneratad the at
PENDANTS and managers OF the Pacific Asy-
lum from all blame. -. :... .--
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HIS TACT SAVED HIM. :
How Senator Cullom Met Prisoner
and PardOned Him.

How senator Cunom Met % Prisoner
and Pardoned Him.
On one occasion Senator Cullom, then
Governor OF Illinois, made a visit TO the
State Penitentiary at Chester, in the SOUTH
ern part OF the State. One OF the prisoners
was serving life sentence for murder.
The circumstances Of the homicide were as
follows:
The man had killed one of his neighbors
in an ARRAY that was the result of political
discussion during the war for the Union.
He had been sent in punishment for his
crime 10 the Joliet Penitentiary, from which
prison he had been transferred to the one
at Chester. The prisoner was probably 60
years Of age at the time noted, and had
been in durance vile for long number of
years.
he had been most exemplary inmate of
the Institution, having uniformly conducted
himself in manner that had gained for him
the implicit confidence of the prison author
tiles, and as a mark of this confidence he
had been placed in charge of the inside door
of the building. Through this door all who
entered and left the place had to pass. .
On the occasion of Governor Cullom's
visit, having passed through the outside en-
trance, the Governor gave the usual alarm at
the inside door, The prisoner guard at once
opened the wicket, when Governor Cuilom,
in Il spirit OF pleasantly, made the unneces-
sary inquiry:
"Will you let me in ?"
In reply the prisoner instantly unlocked
and threw open the large door, and bowling
low, said with impressive gravity:
with pleasure, Governor. VIII you let
me out?"
The story would be incomplete If 1t could
not be recorded that its sequel occurred
within few months. when the Governor,
having satisfied himself of the excellence OF
the prisoners character, and that his offense
had been fully expatiated By his long i'm
prisonment, granted him an unconditional
Observation-Disclosures Post.
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THE THEATERS.
Goodwin Receives a Welcome
Amounting to an Ovation.
"a Parlor Match" Has damned House
Pretty Performance of THE Burglar"
"a Victim of Circumstances"

Several people were of the opinion that
Nat C. Goodwin's imbroglio, with his wife
about that certain New York brown-stone
front would affect his engagement in this
city, citing the late Dion Boucicault during
his last visit TO this city as an example.
They were very short-sghted people who
made these remarks, and if they had been
present at the Baldwin last evening they
would have readily acknowledged how lin
tied their vision was where an American
audience-a California-American audience
is concerned. There was not seat to
spare anywhere in the auditorium, and the
wall-fowers were in plentiful crop. When
Goodwin came on the audience kept
up a fire of applause all along the
line, and were unwilling to let him
60 on with the text OF the play
till he had made speech, which he did net
but plunged in medias res at once. which
meant fun alive from beginning to end.
There is only one character worth noting in
1.-The Nominee" and that is Mr.. Nat c.
Goodwin himself, as Jack Medford. man
of the world. His support amounts to moth
ing, and some Of the people are painful on
account of imperfect enunciation = MIR.
Henry Woodruff as Porter Vane. the anna
pOlltlCEdB, -lOL 0AdDlpIc. 4uhoo AtooA
Van Barclay (Niiss Elsie Lombard. jack
wifes sister, made very pretty figure in a
riding habit, but Miss Jean Clara Walters
as Mrs. Van Barclay, Jacks mother-in-law,
dwarfed every body by her strong Western
presence. It's no wonder Jack asked his
friend Murray in satrical way, after one
of his mother-in-law's outbursts, if he
did not think she was bird" 'The
Nominee" was preceded by lever du
rideau called Barbara" by Jerome Il
Jerome. which played till after 8 o'clock.
The piece is feeble in construction and was
as feebly acted. Ittakes peculiar kind Of
talent to construct these One-act curtoiu-
lifters, and 1t taxes good actors TO give
them the proper kind of verVe after they
are constructed. If we cannot get any bet
ter article than Barbara" 1t is just as
well to continue drawing on the French
market. They do those things SO much bet
ter in France.
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Striking .cThs Match"


"a Parlor Match" one of the most pune
tual of our visitors, was duly produced Mt the
New California by MessrS. Hoey aud Evans
in the presence of an exceptionally large
audience This faree-comedy must be IA
vorite with the San Francisco public when
it can assemble packed house with the
mercury marking $50 to 9O0. The general
business of the piece is not much altered
since it was last presented TO us, about two
years ago, but there are new aud more top
ical songs and very we'll balanced quartet
of vocalists draw applause and redemandS
for their concerted numbers. Unquestion-
ably this quartet is good one, the audience
being judges, for they would rather have the
singers on the stage than off it. Evans and
Hoey are proprietors of this carefully built
up work of Jun and stand to win good deal
of money from it. Only their winnings will
be from those who are above the ground to-
day aud not from the buried treasure OF
Captain William Kidd. the search for which
is buriesQued in the business.
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ANxIous FRIENDs.

An Account of the Disaster by One Who
p Was on the Train.
- large number Of people we're waiting
at the ferry last night when the last
boat arrived from Oakland, bringing the
passengers oil the Inflated Sacramento train.
Only one of the injured passengers came on
70 San Francisco. He was George w. Max
well, the attorney, who was brought across
the bay on afreight-truck. He was In the
smoking-car, and escaped through a hole in
the side of the wrecked car, with very
severe cash in his right leg, close to the
knee.
. hylett R. Cotton Of this city was also on
The train. BE said: I'VE left Sacramento
a few minutes behind time, and al the time
of the accident the train was running fully
forty miles an hour. / was in one OF the
rear cars when the crash came, an was
thrown clear over the seat. AS soon as the
car came to a standstill every one got out,
and / ran forward to render what assistance
could.
1.-THE entire train had left the track. The
place where the accident occurred is about
six miles this side Of Sacramento. at a trestle
fully twenty feet high. The engine left the
rails first, followed by the whole train, and
ran for some distance on the ties The first
car to turn over was the express-car, then
the mail, baggage and parlOr cars followed
one aft er the other. All these turned COM
pletey over in the fall and landed bottom
side up in the gully, and were smashed 10
pieces.
at is wonder how any one inside either
Of them escaped alive. The smoking-car
probably saved the rest OF the train, as it
stood on end in the gully with the day-car
next to 1t resting on its end. OF the ten per-
sons In the parlOr-car only one escaped I'M
hurt, but all managed to get out unaided,
with the exception OF the porter, colored
man, whom we could NOT find for nearly an
hour, and we supposed he was lying in the
wreck dead. He was found at last buried
under big pile Of wreckage, and had to be
chopped out. He is probably the worst in
iured man taken from the wreck, being
badly hurt internally"
Professor Anderson, State Superintend-
ent of Public Instruction. was severely cut
about the head, but came on to Oakland.
Mr.. Cotton says that as soon as possible a
man was sent back to Sacramento for aid,
but as he had to 60 on foot, ii was fully two
hours before the needed assistance reached
the scene Of the disaster. Among those on
the wrecked train was DR.. G. NJ. Dixon of
Sacramento, who no sooner realized what
was the matter than lie had his coat off and
did all in his power TO relieve the sufferings
of his fellow passengers. Every one on the
train was loud in praise Of his energy and
ability.
Half a dozen others who we're on the
train spoke in the same strain, and at
kributed the wreck to the spreading OF the
rails. The BODY OF the mall clerk was
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A fire started in the kitchen Of Mrs
Harris boarding-hous at I13 Twenty-sixth
street at 1850 o'clock yesterday morning.
and an alarm was turned In from Box 236.
The boiling over Of pans Of fat caused the
blaze, and the loss was So.
The alarm at 8 10 o'clock in the afternoon
from Box Il was for fire IN a two-story
Eleventh and Twelfth, owned and occupied
by w. j. Brown. The damage was $40.
The fire was caused by boiling oil being
overturned in the kitchen.
At6 o'clock an alarm was rung in from
Box 81 for fire in an old stable in the rear
OF the southwest corner of Jap an and
Truck Company. No damage was done 10
the stable, the flames being confined to a
pile Of straw on The floor
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FOOTPADS FOILED.
Sergeant Hugh Monahan Frus.
trates Their Designs. .

- - .
Another case of footpads was developed
last night, and in a locality where there is
very little police protection. That the foot
pads were not successful is owing to the
energy Of Police Sergeant Hugh Monahan..
As two young men were walking along
Green street, near Polk, they were suddenly
confronted by two men, one of whom held
pistol in his hand. The young men were
playing on banjo as they walked along,
and the footpad, as a preliminary, demanded
the instrument. pointing the pistol to.en-
force his request. Just at this moment Ser
geant Menahan rounded the corner aud came
upon the dramatic scene. -, III .:.~: :.
He at once took in the situation and
started for the man with. a pistol, telling
him he was a police officer, and that he
placed them under arrest. The man threw
away his pistol and both footpads started to
run. Sergeant Monahan was too quick,
however, and overlook one of the runners,
at which the other stopped and began to
follow the officer. -. =. r.. r. -.
Near the corner of Polk and Broadway
the second footpad suddenly rushed for
ward and struck Monahan with a heavy in
strument two heavy blows on the head.
breaking his hat and cutting his scalp in
several places. M0nahan reached for his.
asSailant, and with the assistance of the
young men who were assaulted managed
to take the footpads to the North End sta
ton, where they gave the names of Frank
Maynard and George Brooks
Brooks stated that he resided at 1882
Union street, but Maynard refused togive
his residence Brooks was charged with at
tempt to rob, and Maynard with battery.
Brooks is the one who first had the pistol
and demanded the banjo, and MAYNARD is
the one who followed and struck the officer.
Brooks threw away his pistol before he was
arrested, and it is supposed he picked it UP
and struck Monahan with the butt-end
when he came up from behind.
After he had booked his prisoners Ser
geant Monahan went to the Receiving Ii cs-
pital. where his head was dressed by AS
sistant Police Surgeon O'Brien. One Of his
scalp wounds was four inches long. His
right ear was also badly gashed. Later in
the night the police found the pistol which
Brooks had thrown away. and also discov-
cred that the instrument with which Mona
han was struck was a slung-shot, which was
found near the spot where the struggle took
Mace. =
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mPrince MethusaIem.n

Not new comic opera, but of unfailing
interest, no matter how often it is played,
was the attraction at the Tivol. 1t was
given to large and apprecistive audience.
There were no less than sixteen principal
people in the cast besides soldiers, pages,
court ladies and courtiers on the outside.
Miss Tillie Salinger did the Prince, son of
Cyprian, in very gallant style. and was
ably supported by the rest of the people in
the distribution. Phil Branson, the tenor,
composer of the future, appeared to very
good advantage as Tfombonls in the re-
hearsal scene, on which the curtain went up
in the first act. We cannot say Branson is
fully-hedged tenor, but he makes the most
of the feathers he has got. Mr.. TESTS new
drop curtain, "Under Loves Guidance"
does not look as we'll with the footlights on
it as was expected. We advise him to re-
touch the male figure and to change the at
titude OF both the lady and her love to
less constrained one. "Fatinitza will fol-
low the Prince" September 7th, at this
theater,
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New Use for Cotton.secd OIL.

with lead, which Is said to have been dis
covered, is found practicable. the value
of that abundant product will be greatly in
creased. The process, as at present defined.
is of the utmost simplicity. One gallon of
pure cotton-seed oil is placed in suitable
of molten lead are poured. After a
thorough stirring the lead separates into
globleus, and when the oil has been poured
off, after cooling, there is found to be bout
seventeen pounds of the lead. the renal nder
having been absorbed by the oil. On the
lead being again melted, and the operation
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ACurious Collection Of Names.

A woman who crossed from New York to
liverpool three weeks ago writes back that
in the hurry to catch train TO London she
left portmantean on board.
When the loss was: discovered she sent
the key 10 Liverpool acquaintance, asking
that the bag be passed through the customs
and forwarded. The friend went to the
proper officials. who sald
"Oh, yes; there are three articles left by
passengers per -"
When the three articles were examined
one turned out to be a package, OF deck
chairs labeled "The Rev. E. c.. Body" the
second was the lady's portmanteau marked
Mrs. a. b. Sole" the third was white
box for MIR. r. A. Death The collection
of names was curious.-N. Y. Recorder.
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DISTRICT FAIRS.
An Interesting Meeting Expected This Week
at Woodland

An Interesting Meeting Expected This Week
at Woodland.
WOODLAND. Aug. 31.-The Thirteenth
District Agricultural Fair opens here to-
morrow. The Directors say that every
thing is ready for a grand display, both at
the stock ground and in the pavilion. The
stock parade takes place on Tuesday morn
ing at 10 o'clock The entries of live stock
are much larger than was expected; so
much so that extra accommodations have
been provided. The pavilion opens to-mor-.
row evening. and the. exhibits are all in
place. The building is 160x50 feet. and
every foot of space is occupied. The dis
play Of fruit promises to be extraordinarily
good. The town is filled with gamblers
with every known device, and so far they are
running their games without being mo-
Tested. Racing begins on Tuesday, at 2
O'clock. the programme for the first day
comprising running, pacing and trottng
races, in each of which some Of the best
horses in the circuit have entered. Twelve
thousand. dollars will be distributed in
purses and premiums. ..r.- =
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The halls of Mrs. Hopkins-Searles' palace
at Great Darlington, like the halls in the
song. are marble halls. The electric lights
are set In pillars Of onyx, and shed a re-
fulgent glow. soft-tinted by their passage
through the stone. The MUSHROOM is fifty
feet long and forty-two feet high. of quar-.
tered oak, and paneled in stucco of ivory
tint.
Each panel contains a costly oil-painting.
an idea Of the value Of which may be had
from the fact that one Of them dropped
from freight-car, and in the settlement
$4,000. There are forty rooms In the
house. and all Of them are furnished in
prodigal disregard Of money.--Mail and Ex-
press.
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Union Higb.schcol Districts.

FAIRFIELD. Aug 3l.-By returns of the
vote on August 29,h, the following districts
were organized in a Union High-School
District: Crystal, Fairfield, Union; Conner,
Dover and Green Valley. The vote was
practically unanimous.
WINTERS, A"g. 31.-An election to bond
the Winters School District for $4,000 was
held Saturday and resulted in favor of the
bonds by majority of 1873. The total vote
was 147. A two-story brick building. con-
tanning six rooms, will be built
SANTA CRUZ, Aug. 31.-An election was
held in this city to-day to determine upon
the organization Of Oh school in accord
ance with the new law. A large vote was
poIled, which was almost unanimous in
favor of high school, there being only
eight negative votes,
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RETURNED sEALERs.
a POaching Vessel Captured and Captain
Shot .. ...s.. .

a Poaching Vessel Captured and a Captain
Shot. .t.... =.
VICTORIA (B. c.. Aug 3l.-Four more
sealing sehooners have returned to port
the Carlotta C. Cox, Annie c. Moore, Bore
ais and Geneva. The CarIotta c. Cox
brought 1913 skins, the Geneva brought 496,
Annie c. Moore 1850 and the Borealis 1900.
All were warned to leave Behring Sea.
They report seals very plentiful.
The There's brought news of the Hamil-
ton Lewis, CAPTAIN Alexander Mclean,
having been captured by a Russian gun
boat while poachinE off Copper Island, in
Russian waters also that the schooner Web
ster. Captain Dan Mclean, had undertaken
raid on enc Of the Russian seal islands.
and the poachers were caught. Mclean
was shot In the LEG, but the rest of the crew
managed to regain the schooner and escape,
leaving Mclean prisoner.
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AMONG TIE TOILERS.
Declined to Accept Reduced
Wages

Thirty shoemakers employed In the bot
toming department OF Jones tS Glanylle's
factory quit work yesterday on account Of
reduction Of wages ranging from 81 10 S12
per week per capita.
They say that the firm gave as It's reason
for reducing wages that 1t Is unable longer
to pay the price it has been paying FOR labor
and successfully compete with Eastern
manufacturers