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STRUCK BY A TRAIN
Thomas Latham Injured by Being
Knocked From TrestIe.

Thomas Latham Injured by Being
Knocked From a TrestIe.
Thomas Latham, a man 80 years of age
and resident of Sacramento for several
years, was struck by the outgoing Red
ding passenger train yesterday morning
on the trestle between this city and Swim
gle's station. He saw the train approaching
and supposed there was room for him to
step to one side and allow ii to pass by.
He did so, but was struck by the plat
form OF one of the cars and knocked off
the trestle.
The train was stopped and he was
brought to the Receiving Hospital in this
city, where City Physician Nichols at
tended him. He was found TO have been
severely bruised in the small of the back
and on the thigh.
There being no accommodations at the
Jail, he was removed to the County
Hospital, and reports from there last
evening showed that he was getting along
nicely.
He has father and brother living in
this city
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Plenty of Scissors.

Too many people fail to keep proper
supply Of scissors in the household. 1t
is false economy to allow single pair 10
do all the work. The work-bask ct
should be furnished with long, slender
shears for general cutting, short button
hole scissors to do their own work, and a
pair of small scissors for general use.
There should be a special pair of scissors
to clip papers, if any of the family keep a
scrapbook, as nothing Injuries scissors so
quickly as using them to cut paper and
cloth indiscriminateIy In the country
you want SCISSORS to cut flowers. There
should always be a pair of scissors in the
kitchen for trimming lamps and for vari-
Gus other uses there. Neither scissors,
knives nor any other steel instruments
should be heated, because in doing so
you run the risk of taking the temper
out OF the instrument, and if once out il
can never be restored. The fact that the
temper" is gone is shown by the steel
turning blue. An experienced cutter
can sharpen an instrument which has
lost its temper" but it will not remain
sharp for any length of time, and the
process of sharpening needs to be re-
peated indefinitely and frequently, until
1t becomes burdensome.
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I would like to ask these Trustees of
ours one or two questions:
When Mr.. Henry asked permission a
few weeks ago to run his road on p and
Sixth streets, did you not publicly and
openly say that if he would run it on
Second or Third street Il forget which,
he might have the franchise?
Did you not base your only, objection
to the franchise on the ground that you
wanted that portion Of the city to have a
road?
Would not a road on Second and P
streets have been just as much an oppo-
sition to Mr.. Carey's O-street road as one
on Eighth and p?
If not, please inform the public, who
pay you for your services, how you ar
rive at your solution of the question.
If it would be illegal for Mr.. Henry to
lay his track on z street while the latter
is being graded, to connect with branch
on Eighth, how much less illegal would
it have been for him to do so If he had
accepted your terms to run his cross-road
on Second street?
You now say you don't want to do Mr..
Carey an injustice by allowing another
company to operate parallel road.
Very good. Now, please inform the
public what it is the city owes Mr.. Carey.
How much did he pay for his valuable
franchises, and what is the nature of the
DIlgatlOn Ihat the c1tlZenS are under TO
protect him in monopoly of one en-
tire half of the city? Who promised him
any such protection? Did he ask it when
| he got his franchise for nothing?
How much longer do you gentlemen
whom we employ to look after our public
affairs propose TO allow one man to tie up
| miles Of valuable streets by granting him
franchises for nothing, while refusing
franchises to men who want to invest
money and build up the city?
But, above all, please let your en-
ployers the taXpayers) know how the
situation has become 50 changed since
you were willing to let Mr.. Henry run
down Second street and out street.
| And, by the way, has the honorable
! Mayor OF the Capital City no opinions OF
! his own on SO important an issue? True
| he has voted to deny Mr.. Henry the
privilege Of throwing his money over the
walls of the city and into it, where the
people might get some benefit from it.
| but if he knows why he does so he is
| wiser than anyone else, for he has given
no reason for his course. Perhaps, how
ever, he is shrewd enough to see in what
a ridiculous light his colleagues have
| placed themselves by talking toe much
and intends to profit thereby. In the
language of the poet How long,
Lord, how longn
SEND FOR MACHINES.
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THE LOCUST INVASION.
Pamphlets Dealing With the Subject
Can Now be Had.

Pamphlets Dealing With the Subject
Can Now be Had.
Edwin Willitts, Assistant Secretary of
the Department of Agriculture at Wash
ington, writes to Edwin +. Smith, Secre-
tary of the State Board of Agriculture.
that through the blunder Of the party to
whom the application for copies of the
grasshopper pamphlet was referred the
latter were not sent as soon as desired.
nor in nearly the quantity asked.
There have been received but 500 copies
by Secretary Smith, who will, without
cost, mail them TO applicants in the order
of the receipt oftheir applications.
The pamphlet is known as Bulletin
No. %, on Destructive Locusts" Much
delay has been caused by the non-arriyal
of this work, as Secretary Smith, by di-
rectlon of the State Board of Agriculture.
telegraphed for the work on June 18th.
Consequently, applicants have not been
supplied as rdpidly as desired. But all
are now supplied and others will be by
return mail.
This work is most valuable in giving
the history and habits of these frightfui
pests, and show by enlarged plates their
appearance when at their work of de-
struction. The pamphlet also contains
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1T IS VERY HOT
Yesterday the Mercury CrawIed Up to
the 100 Mark.

eStefuay the Mercury CrawIed Up to
the 100 Mark.
The temperatures yesterday at 5 A. NJ.
and P. NJ, according to the Weather Bu-
reau reports, were 640 and go, while the
highest and lowest were 1902 and 64o, with
gentle northerly winds and cloudless
sky. Yesterday made the ninth success
i've hot day.
The following data shows the length of
each hot spell in July, from 1878 to date,
that was continuous-one day following
the other, viz: 1877, nine days, highest
temperature, l030; 1878, six days, highest
temperature, go; 1879, ten days, highest
temperature, 1902: 1880, three days highest
temperature, 9So; 1881, six days, highest
temperature, 99o; 1882, fourteen days,
highest temperature, 9S0; 1883, three days,
highest temperature, 104o; 1884, three days,
highest temperature, 90; 1885, five days,
igheS0emperature. 98'; 1885, ten days,
ighesttemperature,l 1862; 1887, nine days,
highest temperature, ,99o; 1888, eleven days,
highest temperature, 104o; 1889, six days,
highest temperature, l040; 1890, ten days,
highest temperature, 1922; 1891, up to date,
nine days, highest temperature, 1902.
The highest and lowest temperatures one
year ago yesterday were 920 and SO, and
one year ago to-day 94o and go.
The barometrical readings at A. NJ.
and P. NJ. yesterday were 29.S9 and 1918
inches, respectively. 1t would now be a
be very pleasing change, but a high
barometer prevails in Washington and
Oregon and low one in Central and
Southern California, causing north winds
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EQUALIZTNG TAXES.
w. f. Bowles Protests Against Re.
ducing 81 Firms Assessment.

w. f. Bowles Protests Against Re-
ducing Firms Assessment.
At the meeting of the County Board OF
Equalization yesterday w. e. Bowles
filed protest against reduction of the
assessment for State and county taxes
against the property of A. A. Van Voor-
hies & Co., upon the ground that the re-
duction asked for would, if granted, not
equalize the assessment of the property
contained in the roll, but on the contrary
would have an opposite effect, and would
not make the assessment conform to the
true value OF the property in money, as
provided in Section 1878 Of the Political
Code.
The matter was set for hearing on the
3d.
The. following additional applications
for reductions were filed yesterday:
B. F. Tade, improvements on the north
half of lot 8, II, 1, Tenth and Eleventh
streets, from $3.50 to 500.
Mrs. NJ. Murphy, Improvements on
the north q feet of lot 10, C, ID, Twelfth
and Thirteenth streets, from $3.50 to $3.50.
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cuts of machines used in their extermi-
nation In Kansas and other States.
Not much encouragement is given
therein, however. for the determination
of the winged insects. In reference
thereto Professor Riley, the Entomologist
of the department and author of this
work, says:
1.-THE complete destruction of the
winged insects, when they swoop down
upon country in prodigious swarms, is
impossible. Man is powerless before the
mighty hosts"
But he makes suggestions therein
where remedies may be used to partly
check their invasion in some cases. Not
much hope is given when they come in
clouds and settle on a green patch of trees
or vegetables, as they have done in some
localities this year. Soravenous are they
that devastation takes place before the
unlucky owner fully realizes what he has
to contend with.
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INC CovelI-yyosbbrrn Case.

Yesterday Judge Catlin made an order,
in the case of B. II. Covell and wife VS..
w. w. Washburn, that new trial be
granted unless within ten days after
notice of this order defendant file his
written consent TO a modification of the
Judgment, so as to authorize reconvey-
ance of the premises described in the
complaint, provided plaintiffs pay or
tender 10 defendants within thirty days
the sum of 81 200 and interest thereon at
the rate of l per cent. per month, COM
pounded monthly at the same rate from
June l, 1888, TO June 5, 1889.
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Federated Trades.

At a meeting of the Federated Trades
on Saturday night committee was ap-
pointed to draft set ofresolutions to pre-
sent to Rev. j. Silcox, thanking him for
his able address on the labor question.
The committee was also instructed to
have 10000 copies ofthe address published
for general distribution.
The delegates from the different unions
made their reports, which were generally
good in every branch.
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NOTICE.

II HEREBY GIVE NOTICE TO ALL.
| liquor sellers who retail liquor in less,quan-
titles than one quart, that if they do not com
ply with the provisions of the ordinancelately
passed by the Board of Supervisors before the
10Th DAY OF JULY, 1891, they will be
proceeded against according TO law.
p. +. DOLAN, County License Collector.
SacramentO. July IL. 1891. iy15-6t
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MAJ the Lord Heln los.

Eps. RECoRD-UNIoN: was present ct
the meeting of the Trustees yesterday
1yben that body refused the Electric
Railway Company the franchise it
asI,ed for on p street, and more
bu,niliating exhibition never witnessed
in nv life. and / have attended great
many public bodies when in session.
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Sent TO an A asylum.

Yesterday afternoon Belle Sullivan, a
woman 40 years of age, was examined as
to her sanity and declared insane by Drs.
Simmons and Gardner and Judge Van
Fleet. She was taken to Napa by Deputy
Sheriff Johnson.
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THROAT diseases commence with a
cold, cough or overwhelming the voice.
These symptoms (which, if neglected,
often result in chronic trouble of the
throat are allayed by the use of Browns
Bronchial Troches.
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Poisoned by Ice-Cream.

AT the ranch of j. j. Merkeley, up the
river, several persons on Saturday even
ing partook of ice-cream, and most of
them were more or less poisoned 1t re-
quired the services of a physician to
relieve their distress.
1t looks as If the old-style of ice-cream
making will have to 90,
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THAT tired feeling is entirely overcome
by Hoods Sarsaparilla, which creates an
appetite, rouses the liver, cures headache
and gives renewed strength and vigor to
the whole body. Be sure to get Hoods
Sarsaparilla, which is peculiar TO itself.
Sold by all druggists.
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TO A. BURNS.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE
81 al Tor - zoe u co1nnoGnr OF q stow in tb,
center of road at the corner Of sections Is,
16, 81 and %, township north, range =
east, Mt. Diablo base and meridian, and rum
ming thence north along section line between
land of a. Burns and y. l.. Drew 20 chains,
continued north f0.13 chains TO the quarter
section corner between sections ] 3 and 6 at
the south end of road now open; thence
west DO feet to end of fence at south end of
road; thence south through land Of ~ Burns
4o.13 chains to center of road on section line;
thence east 10 feet TO place OF beginning, con-
tanning 2 40-100 acres, will be heard and de-
termined by the Board OF Supervisors of Sac
ramento County, California, at their Office IN
the Hall of Records Building on street, be-
tween Sixth and SeN enth, in sacramento City,
on AUGUST q, 1891, at 10 O'Clock A.. u.
iy13-2w w. w. RHOADS, Clerk.
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The Italian army contains nearly 2,000,-
600 men, or, TO give the exact figures,
l,928,972. Among them are $4,000 Alpine
soldiers trained and Injured to the hard
ships of mountain warfare.
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IRRIGATION DISTRICT BONDS.

CEALED PROPOSALS WILL BE RE-
~ ceiYed by the Board of Directors of the
East Riverside Irrigation District at their
Office, in East Riverside, San Bernardino
County, Cal, for the purchase of three hun
dred 1900 bonds of said district, of the de
nomination OF five hundred $500 dollars
each, till 1 P. N. on TU ESDAY, the 4th day of
August, 1891, at which time and place said
board will open the proposals and award the
purchase to the highest responsible bidder
Said bonds bear interest at the rate of six (6)
per cent. per annum, payable on the 1st day
OF January and July of each year.
None OF said bonds will be sold for less than
ninety t90) per cent. of the face value thereof.
Done by order of the Board of Directors of
the East Riverside Irrigation District.
j. a. VAN ARSDALE, Secretary.
Dated July z. 1891. ie1 H-o0t
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ANGosTURA Bitters, the world re-
nowned South American appetizer, cures
dyspepsia, etc. DIR. j. G.. b. Siegert &
Sons, sole manufacturers.
The record-union., 1891-07-21

The total amount of life insurance in
Great Britain is nearly Identical with the
total national debit
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EVERYBoDYs COLUMN
Correspondence of Interest to t
General PubIfe


fUnder this heading the RECoRD-JTSToN
will publish short letters nom correspondents
on topics of interest 10 the general public The
matter in these communications will be un-
derstood TO represent only the views of the
writers. All communications must lie accom-
roanied by the name OF the writer not for pub
1jcation, unless so desired, but as guarantee
- GOOD faith.-EDS.l
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-05-13
Astonishing Fecuudity Of Goldfish.

1t IS said that between go, 900, 900, 900
and 100, 900, 900, 900 cod6shes are taken
from the sea around the shores of New
foundland every year. But even that
quantity seems small when we con-
slider that a single cod yields something
like 3,5OO,OOO eggs each year, and that
over 8, s,oOO,ooo eggs have been found in
the roe of single cod. A herring OF six
or seven ounces in weight is provided
with 80, ,O0O,O 900 ova. After making all
reasonable allowances for the destruction
of eggs and of the young, it has been
calculated that in three years q single
pair of herrings would produce 154, 900,
600. Button once said that if pair OF
behring's were left to breed and multiply
undisturbcd for a period twenty years,
they would yield tish-bulk equal to the
size of our globe!- Louis Republic.
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wanting ana Getting.

It has been said that the reason so few
people get what they want il this world
Is that they do not want it hard enough.
There is profound truth at the bottom OF
this odd conceit. Earnest striving AMI
perseverance are rare qualities. A little
struggle, and then a falling OIL;
q few faint efforts, and then despair
this is the usual story of attempts to "get
anything" whether it be q physical,
mental OF spiritual good. But to long
for thing SO strongly that for the sake
of its attainment one can conquer obsta-
'cles, live down opposition, ignore dis
couragement, and work peraistently and
through years of trial and obscurity to-
ward the ful6lment of hope-is not
this the record of all grand achievements
and the history of all purposeful lives2
Many more wishes might be realized If
people were willing to pay this Price for
them. Anything worth having in this
world is dear, including experience.
Genius itself has been defined as only
unlimited patience, or an endless capacity
for hard work.
It was told of some celebrated general
that he never knew when he was de-
feated. By-and-by he could not be de-
feated. A little of the same spirit in
fused into ordinary life work would
make many dream possible that now
seems to the wistful dreamer as extrava-
giant as the cloudiest castle in SPAIN
Harpers Raaar.
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Making Live Wires Dead.

A Bostonian has invented device to
insure the safety of people and animals
travelling along streets and roads from the
olive" electric wire when it breaks and
falls, putting life in jeopardy. 1t is an
attachment to be connected with the
wires at intervals of about $50 feet, and
consists of piece Of rubber about eight
inches in length, in the centre of which
is spiral spring, to one end OF which is
attached an insulated wire connected
with a piston in the centre. At the
other end OF the mechanical device is a
copper wire. The idea is to connect it
with the electric wires attached to the
trolley poles. When attached to the
wire the spiral spring is pulled back to
its full extent, and in case a wire should
break the end upon which is the piston
portion of the device recoils instantly to
the other end and shuts of all the cur
rent on the wire, thus making the wire
which las fallen "dead" one. 1t is
also claimed that if broken electric
wire falls upon fire-alarm wire with the
new construction attached it will not in
terfere with the working of the fire
alarm.-MD York Commercial Adoertiser.
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WORDS OF WISDOM.

Be quick to love, make haste to be
kind.
Our thoughts Of to-day are our actions
Of tomorrow.
Wien man feels wise it is sure sign
that he is not the man.
i man who takes care of his youth IS
ap, to be wise old man.
Nature protects the majority or the
earth would become depopulated.
The affecting of virtue will not pre-
vent the consciousness of the deception.
The world is getting on toward SIX
o'clock in the morning, instead OF SIX
o'clock in the evening.
That time is the worst employed which
we give to regrets, unless we lclrn from
them the lesson of the future.
Every individual has place to fill in
the world, and is important in some re-
spects, whether he chooses to be so or
not.
There is no remorse go deep as that
which is unavailing. If we would be
spared its pains let US remember this in
time.
It is the cultivation of the moral side
of our natures that has given to our peo-
pie as nation their great strength and
grand strides.
Anger is often evidence of conscious
wrong. Those who are right can afford
to wait in calmness and patience for
their vlndicatiou.
:, If people worked as hard after mar
riage to keep each other as they did be-
fore the engagement to win each other,
marriage would be more Of success.
The rule for the givcs and receiver OF
benefit is that the one should straight
way forget that he has given it and the
other should never forget that he has re-
ceived it.
How easy is the thought, in certain
moods, of the lovliest, most unselish de-
yotion! How hard is the doing of the
thought in the face of thousand un-
lovely difficulties.
It takes but moment to close the
doors tight against temptation, when it
hasteus elsewhere. And this is better
than to live hours, days or years under
the shadow Of regret.
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Turf Cutting in Ireland.

Among the chief characteristic feat
ures of Ireland are the extensive peat
moors that occupy principal portion of
the center of the islsnd, the most i'm
portant of which is the great bog OF
Allen. It's original extent comprised
1000, 900 acres; but by cultivation its
size has been considerably diminished.
In the form of table-land, it rises 27O
feet above the level of the sea, extends
within twenty miles of Dublin, through
Kings County, reaching east and west
beyond the Shannon into the counties of
Galway and Roscommon, and spreads
through Meath and Westmeath north,
and south into the Queens County AMI
Tipperary. Two important towns oc-
c1py the center of the bog-Tullamore
and Philipstown-and the arteries by
which the turf is conveyed to the city of
Dublin are the Grand Canal and the
Royal Canal.
A weird spot for the wayfarer is that
wild moorland; here and there he comes
across primitive attempt at habita-
ton, half burrow, half hut-it is the
miserable hovel of the turf cutter, the
tenant of few acres; he selects dry,
sheltered nook, burrows a floor, erects
a few bogwood stakes and forms q roof
with heath and rushes, leaving q hole
that serves for q chimney. From this
wr.tched shanty he and the various mem
bers of his family issue forth to their
daily toll of preparing the turf for the
various markets.
The saving of the turf consists of six
operations cutting, spreading, footing,
rickling, clamping. and drawing home.
! A DAYS work is called "dark." One
mar generally goes before the cutter and
levels the banks, if necessary. Another
man attends to the barrows and wheels
the turf to the spreading field. The
spreading is generally accomplished by
; women and children; in favorable wealth
er it lies for about q week, having been
! turned in the meantime to dry the other
sides. Then it is ready for footing-a
process of setting in small stacks OF
about twelve sods each. In this condl-
tion it is left for period of about ten
days, after which the turf is rickled.
Rickling consists of placing about twelve
footings on their sides, one turf deep,
and about two feet high. Having re-.
mained so till it is thoroughly dry, it is
then stored in clamps or stacks oil from
twelve to thirty feet long and ofpropor'
ton height and depth, and in this form
it lies on the banks Of the canals till it's
removed in the barges TO the city market
or brought in the smaller turf cots to be
vended in the. streets of Athlone and
other towns on the river Shannon. Some
enterprising firms have within the past
three years engaged in the manufacture
of peat litter in the bog of Allen, and
speculation in this direction has so fal
proved profitable to the speculators.-
Pail Mall Gazette.
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pEKN DUCKS.

Pekin ducks are probably the most
valuable breed of ducks known to-day.
They are very large, mature early, and
have snow white plumage. Their eggs
hatch two or three days sooner than any
other variety. The duckllngs hatch out
stronger and seem to grow faster than
the young of any other breed, and they
can be raised anywhere that you can raise
chickens.
The young ducklings feather up rap.
idly and grow to good size in from six to
eight weeks. This makes them well
adapted to raising for the early markets.
They are excellent foragers and excel
lent layers. With good range they re-
quire but little feed, and the young are
not subject to roup, cholera, gaps, and
the like as arc young turkeys and chick
ems.
They command good prices in the
markets, and will weigh from frourteen
to eighteen pounds per pair the first year
without much fattening.
As egg producers their record is re-
markable, and they come as near being
perr,tual layers as any of the breeds of
fowls.-Farm, Field and Stockman.