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The record-union., 1891-02-25

Senator Dray was absent from his seal
yesterday, on account of illness. Sena
tor Seawell has not yet sufficiently re-
covered to resume his place in the Senate
The record-union., 1891-02-25

CTRICTLy FTRST-CLASS. FREE. BUS
- to and from the Cars. B. Il. BROWN. for
merly OF the State House Hotel, Proprietor.
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Hoods Sarsapariila is the best blood purifier
all humors, cures salt rheum. boils, pimples,
etc. The seyerest cases of blood poisoning
have yielded to its superior curative power. 1t
accomplishes remarkable cures where other
preparations utterly fail. Try it this season.
a have been troubled with kidney and
liver complaint and nervous debility for over
five years, and spent over four hundred dol
lars tor medicine and advice, but found no
cure. l thought would try Hoods Sarsapa-
rilla, and am glad to say it has given me re-
lief. was formerly very nervous, but am
much better since taking Hoods Sarsaparillav y
II. NJ. HAEDENBRooK, Ration, New Mexico.
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Governor Markham yesterday ap
proved the electric railroad bills.
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THE SADDLE ROCK
Restaurant and Oyster House.

LuRST-CLASS HOUSE IN EVERY RE-
I spect. Ladies' dining-room separate Open
day and night. BUCHANAN * CARkA-
CHER, PToprietors. No 1ol Second street
between ] and K SacraTneltn
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INTERNATIONAL HOTEL

GHEAP FURNISHED ROOMS BY THE
" day, week or month.
fo-tf w. A. CASWEEL. Pronrietor
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Speaker Coombs is confined to h
apartments from illness.
The record-union., 1891-02-25

The bill providing for the acceptance
by the State of the Sutter Fort property
was read the second time in the Senate
yesterday and passed to engrossment
without a dissenting vote. There is little
doubt of its passage.
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Hoods SarsapanIa

Sold by all druggists. 81; six for So. Pre-
pared only by C. I. HOOD & CO., Lowell, Mass
100 Doses One Dollar
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Ff7HE LEADING HOUSE OF SsCRA-
mento, Cal. Meals, 25 cents. WM. LAND.
Proprietor. Free Bus to and from hotel
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Sold by all druggists 81; six for So. Pre-
pared only by c. 1. HOOD & CO., Lowell, Mass.
100 Doses One Dollar
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Notice Of Administrators Sale Of Real Estate.

Land Agent of the c. p r. r. Fourth and
Townsend streets. San Francisco. Cal fe14-2m
New-York tribune., 1891-12-16
Amnsemenis.

ACApEMY-2-s-Cfnderela.
AMBERG's THEATRE-s-The Carbonari.
BIJOU THEATKE--e-S :10-Thc City Directory
BROADWAY THEATRE-s-rhe Merry Monarch.
CASINOS :15-The Tyrolean
COLUMBUS THEATRE-S-Lttle Puck.
pALY'S THEATRE-2-s h5-The Last Word
EDEN MUSEE-wSx Tablcaus
GARDEN THEATRE-S-La Cigale.
GRAND OPERA HoUSE-2-s-Mr wilkinson's widows.
HARLEM OPERA HOUSE--s-Amy Robssrt
HARRIGAN'S THEATRE-2-S-Relly and the 400.
RERRMANN'S THEATRES :30-The Junior Partner.
HoYT's MADISON SQUARE THEATRES :3o-A Trip
to Chinatown.
ROSTER & BIALS-2-S-Vaudevie
LYCEUM THEATRES :l5-Lsdy Bountifu.
METROPOLITAN OPERA HOUSE-s-u Trovatore'
NEW PARK THEATRES :l5-Shaun Rhue
NATIONAL ACADEMY or DESIGN-9 a. m. TO ana
80 TO 10 D. m.-Autumn Exhibition
NIBLo'S-2-Nordeck S-The Athlete.
pALMER'S THEATRES ;15--Aabama
PROCToR'S THEATRE-2-S :15-The Lost PARADISE
STAR THEATRE-S 15-Miss Helyett.
STANDARD THEATRES 1j-Euchred.
TONY PASTORS NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
ITALIA THEATRE-S-Dic Hoimannssetaeht'
UNION SQUARE THEArliE-2-S 15-The Cadi.
ArH STREET THEATRE-2-s-Marouineen.
New-York tribune., 1891-12-16
FOURTEEN PAGES.
THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

Foreign.-It is said that Brazil and the Argen-
tine will negotiate with Germany, Austria, Italy.
England and Belgium for treaties OF commerce.
- The Governor of the State OF Sac faulo.
Brazil, yielding TO the popular demand, has re-
signed his Office. - An unsuccessful attempt
to obtain money from Berlin banker was made
nv a man who initiated the method followed by
Russell Sages assailant. - Mr.. Gladstone lett
London for Biarritz. - John Dillon was In
iured at Ennis in a conflict between Parnelltes
and McCarthyites.
Domestic.-The arrangements Tor reciprocity
with Jamaica were concluded, resulting in large
concessions to the United States. - The
Onondasa disputed election cases were argued in
the Court Of Appeals. 60 Judge Fursman, at
Troy. granted an order restraining the Dutchess
County Clerk from forwarding the returns for
Senator to Albany - A collision occurred on
the New-York Central near Fish<ill, in which
q fireman was killed and an engineer wounded.
- The annual dinner of the Massachusetts,
Board of Trade was held in Boston. 80 -Four
cities in Massachusetts elected municipal officers.
City and Suburban.-The head of the bomb
thrower was identified by the parents of Henry
L. Norcross, of Boston, as that Of their son. -
An old mans body was found at window where
il had been for two days in full view from the
elevated railroad. - Edward NJ. Field was in
dicted and sent TO the Ludlow Street Jail -
The annual dinner Of the Columbia College Alumni
Association of New-York was held. "A woman
was murdered in Brooklyn and her child fatally
injured by robbers - The annual dinner of
the New-York Alumni of the Massachusetts Agricul-
tural College took place. - Stocks quiet and
irregular, strong in the early dealings and after
ward dropping. The final variations were divided
between gains and losses.
The Weather.-Forecast for to-day Foggy and
cloudy, possibly with shower, followed by
clearing; warmer but growing colder in the
night, Temperature yesterday Highest SO de.
grees lowest, 40; average, AZ 1.s.
New-York tribune., 1891-12-16

who are to be examined by the experts give onei,
testimony in public? In other words, why should
not the investigating engineers conduct tnelr
inquiry with open doors and admit the reporters
TO all their proceedings? Is there anything con-
nected with this most important matter thao
ought to be concealed? II is the common ne-
lief that the crushing of the conduit was tne
direct result of the fact that the contractors were
allowed to pile unlimited quantities OF sand on
il from their adjacent excavation, and that they
were permitted to do this through either care
lessness or complacence on the part OF the De-
partment ofCity Works. The public has right
to know all the facts; it ought not to be con-
tent merely with the conclusions which the
engineers arrive at upon those facts. If Mayor
Chaplin had any public spirit, he would insist at
once upon having this investigation held with
wide-open doors. But the insensibflity which he
has shown as respects public opinion, especially
in holding fast to the Mayoralty after accepting
seat in Congress- seems to make an appeal to
him hopeless. But City Works Commissioner
Adams ought to feel strong desire to improve
his position in the eyes of the community. lie
has been badly discredited by the water-works
accident. A simple request from him would in
duce the expert engineers to change their policy
in this matter Will not his failure to speak it
inevitably lead to the conclusion that he fears
the result of free and open investigation?
New-York tribune., 1891-12-16
SOME MYSTERIES EXPLAINED.

The number of strange disappearances reported
in the press during the past few months is
something remarkable. 1t has reached the pass
that we think no more Of reading each morning
of the mysterious disappearance Of prominent
business or professional man In some part of the
country than we do OF seeing the account OF the
death of the oldest Frccmason or OF the youngest
soldier of the late war. We are in the midst OF
an epidemic Of disappearance, and though many
men like Virgins, PETER, Dyrenforth, and such
folks, who ought TO disappear, do not, others arc
constantly going There is reason for every
thing. There must be a reason for this. We
believe that we have struck on the correct ex-
planation OF these disappearances. IL is nothing
more nor less, we believe, than conspiracy on
the part of the seepng-car porters Of the country
These unfortunate men who have dropped out of
sight have been shut in upper berths by the
porters and left to their fate.
Early last fall we noted the case OF
sleeping-car porter in Alabama who had been
Enchcd He had not done anything in particular
more than any porter is always doing, but there
happened TO be determined lot of passengers
on the train-the style Of men who made UP the
Boston Tea Party, for instance-and when they
came to the tall timber they signalcd the en-
gineer to stop, cut off twenty feet of the bell
rope and took the porter out and lynched him.
We suspected at the time that the porters Of the
country would take terrible revenge, yet did
not anticipate anything worse than the putting
Of still cheaper quality Of molasscs in their shoe
backing But 1t seems that they determined to
pus down the mutiny among the passengers with
New-York tribune., 1891-12-16

which resulted dieastrousy for his Governmens
he sent delegates 10 the Pan-American Congress
who were markedly hostile to the proposed m
ternational policy because they chose to assume
that it embodied the leadership OF the united
States in a continental league of nations. Those
delegates were unceasing in their efforts to thward
the aims of that diplomatic conference, and in
MANY ways revealed the national jealousy OF
the United States. There had been no Itata
episode there had been no diplomatic contro-
yersics over rights of asylum; and there had
been no American cruisers on the West Coast OF
Chill but hostility and Jealousy existed and
were plainly shown.
The United States is so pacific In Its foreign
relations and 80 well-disposed toward all the
world that ID is not easy for Americans to be
convinced that there is nation on this continent
that diskes them and would be well pleased
il it ever had chance of sending its best cruisers
north TO shell San Francisco. Nevertheless that
Is the fact and our people may as we'll recognize
It. That the feeling of resentment is not re-
turned it is almost needless to add. Americans
have every reason for liking the Chilians for
their fine qualities as a race and for their pro-
gressive tendencies as nation. 1t ought to be
one of the chief aims of American diplomacy TO
restore the friendliest possible relations with
Chill but in order to do this firm, uncompro-
missing stand must be taken whenever the honor
of the United States is at stake, as it has been
in the Itata affair and in the Valparaiso out
RACES 1t would be the worst possible result, If
through weakness, timorousness and indulgence
on the part of the United States Chill should
find cause for vainglorous feeling that it had
triumphed over it's great rival. That would be
sowing dishonor, and the reaping would come in
a future West Coast war.
New-York tribune., 1891-12-16
PERSONAL.

General Butler continues 10 make steady proe,s~
toward recovery, but It is slow work. As yet IA I.
not able TO leave Ids house.
Ex-senator Wallace OF Pennsylvania who ~.
Obliged to make an assignment some months an. 4,
IN fair way to get his feet financially. The cou,t
has vacated the ass gnment and flle MANAGEMENT ~
his property now returns 10 his own hands
DR.. NJ ~ Cornelius, pastor Of the Eastern Prssb,;
terian Church of Washington, has refused seversi
offers OF salaries much larger than that he receives
from other cities although he has been at the capttsi
but little more than year.
Van Dyek, the wagnerian tenor, rs only thirty yeau
Old When he went to Paris In 1883 st was 10 study
Journalism, although he was fond OF music, and hs
soon became attached to the stan Of "Ls Patres n
happened evening that vidaps cantsta was To b
performed publicly ut the French capital. and tbs
tenor, Ward was i'll. With fear and trembling Van
Dyck agreed 10 sing the role, and his success tern
df,termned his future career But during most NJ
time since then he has devoted himself mainly 10
Wagncr's music.
10 has been mentioned In The Tribune already thsa
Speaker Crisp Is the son Of an actor and actress
few months after his birth his parents played an en-
gagement in Boston, This was in the summer Of ls4s
and the opening play was "The Rivals Mr.. Cnsps
character was Bob Acres and he is said to have ned
Il WE'LL Mrs Crisp is well remembered for her excSeu,
personation OF Meg Merres. In fact In the several
parts for which they were cast, they succeeded N
making q favorable impression Another son, Harry
Crisp. also went on the stage and became well Known
in Boston and New-YOrk. He older than Charles y.
Frau DR.. Emily Kemrin, who is we'll remembered n
tbs country since her tour here year ago. has made
fresh attempt to secure license TO lecture ntens,
ttonal law IN the University of Zurich The Faculty Of
jurisprudence consented provided that The Senate f
tbo University should rafy the arrangement But her
appHcation was refused By the latter body, this time
nv a vote OF 10 to 10. These odds however, vers
not as great as those Of three years ago, when similar
nroposai was acted upon. The objection not per.
sonal to Dr. Kempin, but was mace to the admission
of women as academical teachers.
New-York tribune., 1891-12-16

an iron hand. Naturally they turned !" Ouo
deadly MINER berth. To any one VINO mas o,..
sJent in an upper berth the possioih'y oi i,'
.huttina I'D with snap must have occuricu
In the carly days Of sleeping-cars' many
nromncnt men were thus snuffcd out. lneh
stout twisted wire with q ball on the eho ., ;,
q, was attached to the upper she'll lnis o',
Ia hooked into hole in the back OF thc S@ay
thus preventing the accidental closing Oh 'no
elevated berth But when large coiored man
With a dark hand and white eyes unhooks tnis
hall and. after carefully removing any vaiuaoiss'
hunts the berth shut with his head, how Is d
man going to get out? In point OF iac' he
sn,t ooinp TO get out at all when man Is
in the county jail there is. always good cnancc
that he will get out-that is, II be is guiity-
but the man in the closed upper per.h S'"nu'
No show whatever. Still there must DC sooies
Of men in this country who are to-day 'huS
hottIed I'M. There is not much room. In an
upper berth when it is open-what mus' IL NC
when IL is shut? ,.,.,.
Let lis not at this season OF hoiioay
rejoicing forget our brethren who are hermeticahy
sealed in upper berths by the avengins
hand of the porter. We should say, indeeo.
that something ought to be done about IT, Wha'
DOES the new Democratic House say to this out
rage on the people? viii it rise up ana open
tbese upper berths and release these prisoners
We hone so. We can't see that Democratic
House could be better employed.
New-York tribune., 1891-12-16
THE DISTRESSED FARMERS BILL.

While Senator PETER and others are engaged
in loading down the Senate and the House with
bills for the relief Of agricultural distress i might
be well to glance at certain other bills OF much
more practical value 10 the farmer, namely, the
bills he has presented and been paid for products
sold within a few months. 1t is true, only
faint conception of the magnitude OF these bills
can be formed from commercial statistics, be-
cause these cover only recorded receipts at very
few points The Boards of Trade and other
commercial bodies at the North are content with
records of receipts of grain at only nine Western
points, and scarcely any records are obtaina6le
of-receipts of cattle and hogs while OF the sales
of farmers to local traders elevators, and dealers
not for shipments through the chief centres there
is no record whatever. ~
Yet the bills which the farmer has presented
for grain alone, and only through the dealers OF
nine Western cities, are of considerable magnl-
tude Then when the receipts of cotton alone
at the few out-ports and at thirty-one interior
towns since September 1 are added, without
making any account for other Southern farm
products, the amount already paid to the farmers
is found to be large indeed. Taking the farm
prices as they have Just been reported by the
Agricultural Department, and the recorded re-
ceipts at nine points for grain from August 1 to
December 5, and at points above named for
cotton from September 1 to December IL, the
farmers bill would read substantially thus:
New-York tribune., 1891-12-16
No OCCASION FOR SECRECY.

A few weeks ago our sister city, Brooklyn, was
face to face with an appalling disaster. \ seii-
ous break occurred in the conduit through which
its entire water supply is carried, and for a day
and half an absolute water famine was not
only imminent but actual. Fortunately, the
break was sufficiently repaired within the period
named TO permit the flow of water to be resumed.
Now, the cause of this accident and the respon-
sibty for it constitute one of the most important
and interesting questions that can be presented
for the consideration of the people of Brooklyn.
As is altogether proper, the Commissioner of City
Works has, after long delberation, engaged
three eminent engineers, unconnected with his
department, to make an investigation, and their
work has already begun. There is no doubt Of
the competency of Messrs. Fteley, Worthen and
Martin for this task, and whatever conclusions
they may arrive at will be accepted by the com
munity without hesitation.
But what reason is there why all the processes
of the investigation should not be thrown open
bo the public? Why should not all the witnesses
New-York tribune., 1891-12-16


The distressed farmer already has had his pay
for these products at least and for other products
in the aggregate probably worth about as much
more His distress appears to be OF rather
unusual type. Manufacturers and merchants
generally have to sell on credit, but the farmer
sells for cash, if indeed much of the price has
not been previously advanced to him in goods
or money Within four months he has taken in
more cash than any other branch OF trade in the
United States takes in during an entire year, and
has received better prices than usual for the best
crops ever grown, and yet his professed defend
els in Congress insist that his great distress
needs immediate legislative relief.
No doubt il is true that considerable part
of the money the farmer has received has gone
to pay debts. A great many farmers owed some
thing on their farms, and have been paying off
mortgages this year. Whether they were wise
in buying more land than they could pay for is
another question. Many other farmers have
borrowed money to pay their hands, or to pay
for implements and machinery, or had run in
debt for supplies to support their hands Whether
it would not have been wiser for them had they
saved some working capital for such purposes
and bought little less land is another question
But it is plain enough that the farmer has sold
this year enough products already to clear off
a vast body of indebtedness, and, moreover, he
has barely begun to sell, since the products yet
10 be sent to market include more than three
times as much wheat more than fifty times as
much corn, and fifteen times as much oats as he
has vet marketed. His bill thus far covers only
part of what he has found time to market in
four busy months before the closing of roads
and the lakes by winter. And the rest Of his
bill will arrive after time
The only real relief for the farmer reaches
him when he has good markets and fair prices
for his products. This year he has been helped
by bountifu season, helped by an industrial
policy which has built up multitude of factories
and mills crowded with workers who consume
MS products, helped by Reciprocity which opens
better markets abroad, and helped by the mis-
fortunes of agriculture in other countries The
vast network of railroads all over the West is
so crammed with cars engaged in moving the
farmers products that the blockade is called
car famine by merchants, and over 10000 new
cars have been ordered within two weeks by only
a few of the railroads. Relief for the farmer
comes when the rolling wheels of million cars
take his products to Market and not from the
speeches or bills of those who talk about his dis
tress
New-York tribune., 1891-12-16
PLAIN VORDS ABOUT chill.

There is a radical mistake made by nearly all
Democratic journals in theft treatment OF the
Chilian complications They assume that the
il-will displayed by the Southern republic
toward the United ST es is attributable to special
causes, such as tb diplomatic course of the
State Department at the close of the war with
Peru, the pursuit of the ltata, the naval manoeu-
vres of the American fleet and recent proceed
ings of Minister Egan. They contend that
Chflian resentment has been caused by the over
bearing and meddlesome conduct of the State
Department in these matters, and that when it
eliminated in the assault upon the Baltimore S
men at Valparaiso Americans were simply reap
ing what they had sown. This general view
is grounded upon misapprehensiOn OF the essen
tial cause of Chian hostility to the United
States.
Chill is inhabited by the most patriotic, enter
prising and ambitious race in South America.
10 is the only nation in that quarter of the world
which has waged successful wars of conquest
and enlarged its territories at the expense of its
rivals 1t is the most aggressive country in
tropical America, and has the best fighting stock
in its army and its navy. BY its victories in the
West Coast war and by the development of its
commercial marine and mining and agricultural
interests it has secured position of prominence
in the Southern Hemisphere 1t is in the north
ern half of the continent alone that Chill has
any rival to dispute its ascendancy in the Ameri-
can family Of nations For that reason patri-
otc and vainglorious race dis4ikes the United
States. Any one who has had personal ac-
auaintance with Chilians in their own country
knows that they are inordinatey jealous Of the
United States. II is this feeling Of jealousy
which promotes senstiveness and irritation when
ever the two countries are brought into dplo-
matte relations Chill, having no rivals whom
she fears on the West Coast, and proudly as
serting her ascendancy among the Southern Ie-
publics is always disposed to cherish resentn,ents
against the Northern Commonwealth.
This feeling was entertained by Balmaceda
no less than by the Congressional leaders who
are now in power. A year before the civil war
New-York tribune., 1891-12-16

Fursman, of Troy and granted by him, restrain
ing the Democrat whom Mr.. Hin put in the
place of Mr.. Hoffman, the Republican County
Clerk of Duchess County, from forwarding to
Albany the correct returns for Senator. This
new clerk of Duchess displays the same spirit
which the Governor has shown in all these pro-
ceedings, and evidently feels in no danger OF
suffering the fate of his predecessor. An appli-
cation will be made in Brooklyn to-day to have
Judge Fursmans order vacated.
New-York tribune., 1891-12-16

the arch before suspendng work for the winte,.
This memorial Of our great celebration In isas
is to be most creditable structure, architectur,v
and acsthetically, and there ought to be no dIs.
nculty in obtaining the money required to carr,
it to completion in accordance with the admirable
design of Mr.. White. New-York is pledged I.
this enterprise. which is now far advanced, ana
must sec 1t through handsomely.
New-York tribune., 1891-12-16

The gratifying assurance is given in our Wash
ington dispatches that Reciprocity with Jamaica
will soon be an accomplished fact. This will
complete our series of treaties with the British
sugar-producing colonies in the West Indies.
The negotiations which have led to these happy
results have been conducted with great skill, and
the success which has attended them is triumph
for the Harrison Administration involving vast
benefit to American commerce.
New-York tribune., 1891-12-16

The New-York bomb -thrower has found an
irnitabor in Berlin who has evidently studied with
care the recent occurrence in Mr.. Sage's office.
His conduct up to a certain point was almost
precisely the same as that Of the man now
identified as Norcyss, but his courage failed
him at the last moment, and there was no ex-
plosion, although explosives were found in his
possession after his arrest. The conduct of the
two men was strikmgly similar, and there can
be no doubt that the second case was patterned
after the first.