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POVERTY'S MISFORTUNE.
A Land Litigant Who Experienced Its
Full Force.
He Could Not Put Up For the Costs of
Continuance, and Had to SUBJ
NIT to the Result.

The Supreme Court filed its decision on
Saturday in the case of David Eltzroth
VS.. Patrick Ryan, ct al. (appellants), APP
pealed from Tulare County.
Eltzroth brought suit to quiet title to a
section of land. Ryan, who lived in Ore
gon, was on his way to Tutare County,
and when he arrived at Oakland he found
his attorney i'll and unable to accompany
him. He went to Visalia alone and had
an attorney ask for a continuance of his
case. When the request was made the
court asked if the defendant was ready &c
pay the costs of a continuance. Ryan
said he was not, and the continuance
was therefore refused. The trial was
had and judgment rendered for the
plaintiff.
The Supreme Court says: Every at
torney is supposed to examine the facts
and study up the law OF a case before he
enters upon the trial Of it. And where,
as here, an attorney suddenly becomes
sick, and is thereby prevented from
being present at the time set for trial, a
postponement should undoubtedly be
granted for such time, at least, as will
enable the litigant to procure another at
tOrney, and have him become familiar
with the facts and the law which he is ex-
pected to present. But, under our Code,
whenever postponement of trial is
asked on any ground, the court is author
lied, in its discretion, to make the pay
ment of costs condition of granting the
same. This condition was imposed by
the court below, and not accepted by the
defendant"
The judgment and order are therefore
affirmed.
In the case of Cavanaugh VS.. Jackson,
appealed from Stanislaus County, the
judgment is reversed. The dispute was
relative to the boundary line between
two ranches.
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question and will he the means of put
ting this city in the front rank of all
others on this coast; it is this:
Let the press of this city urge the pass
age OF our new charter, and if, by its
passage, it will wipe out the Funded
Debt Commission, well and good. This
will be one step in the right direction.
Then let us issue new bonds redeena-
BILE in twenty years, and drawing per
cent interest. Then let our own people
have the first privilege of taking any
amount they choose of these bonds, and
let the balance be disposed of In the
Eastern market. The debt will then be
settled, to all intents and purposes.
And if this plan be carried out, instead
of, as Judge Beatty says, waiting six
years 10 have prosperity stare us in the
faee-in less than that time this city will
have population of fifty thousand peo-
pie; our property values will be raised to
over forty millions of taxable property,
and our rate of city taxes will be less
than 81 on the 500. Some people will
say, ''but we still owe this debit Sup
pose we do owe it, 1t will not be due for
twenty years, and by that time Saera-
mento will, in all likelihood, have a
population of one hundred thousand peo-
pie, and the debt would be but a mere
bagatelle.
No, in my Judgment this is the true
way to get out of the grasp of these Shy
locks, for, while our debt is in their
hands, they will grasp for the last pound
of flesh; in fact, we must do something of
this kind. Look at our poor sewerage
system, and then at our City Fathers
hiring place in which to hold their daily
meetings! Where is there city on the
coast, except this, that the city offices are
not owned by the commonwealth?
venture to say there is not one. And
this is all caused by our having to pay 55
per cent. of our taxes toward this debt
that is hanging over us.
Yes. refund it-let the next generation
help to pay for the improvements that
we are making for their benefit. It is
not the amount OF this paltry debt that
we owe that is doing us so much injury,
but it is the way we owe it, What is a
million of dollars to the wealth Of this
city? 1t is really nothing. There is no
city in this country, of any note, but is
in debt more or less, and were we to wipe
out this nightmare it would be like put
ting her in the position of handsome
train of Pullman cars-all ready and
loaded with happy people, and only
waiting to be attached to the locomotive
that would speed them on to prosperity
j. G. MARITIME.
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New Interpretations.

The following articles of incorporation
were filed in the Secretary of States
Office Saturday:
Mexico Mining and Development Com
pany of Los Angeles. Capital stock, S40,-
600. Directors "A. Med. McCook, L. A.
Grant, K. II. Wade, I. J. Notion, c. W.
Hunt, G. Holterhoff, Jr., Charles A.
Mariner, I. B. Burnett and A. p. Ma
ginnis.
Gavilan Mining and Milling Company
of Riverside. Capital stock, $1,000, 600.
Directors-James ii. Crossman, J. A.
Allen, J. S. Castleman, G. w. Sylvester,
G.. l.. Bush, II. w. Bordwell, w. A. Pur-
iDgton and 2. s. Dinsmore.
Fresno Flume and Irrigation Company.
Capital stock, S500,000 Directors-F
Bullard, J. NJ. Heiskell, r. B. Johnson,
L. ]. Miller and H. L. Musick.
First Congregational Church of Christ
in Petaluma. Directors-Henry John
son, II. P. Brainerd, Thomas A. Gilbert,
Ruth A. French, Mrs. Nj. NJ Codding.
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THE SAME THERE.
People in Marysville Also Object to
Street Rubbish Fires.

People in Marysville Also Object to
Street Rubbish Fires.
One of the most disagreeable nuisances
inflicted upon the people of any town or
city, remarks the Marysville Democrat,
is the practice by some people of burning
rubbish at night. The smoke arising
from these fires is impregnated with a
most sitting odor. and as the atmosphere
is heavy at that time of the day, the
smoke spreads out and remains close 10
the ground, filling every house in the
neighborhood with the sickening fumes.
There is nothing more disagreeable OF
Objectionable than To retire to your room
for an evening and be compelled to
breathe the odors of a burning rubber
boot, garden hose or pile of feathers.
For the sake of suffering humanity the
nuisance should be abated
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THE WEATHER.
One-Fourth of an Inch of Rain-Fair
But Cloudy To-Day.

One-Fourth of an Inch of Rain-Fair,
But Cloudy To-day.
The Weather Bureaus reports show a
rainfall on Saturday evening of .O4 of an
inch, making 10 of an inch for October,
which added to the 10 of an inch in Sep
tember, makes 20 of an inch for those
two months.
During early Sunday morning there
was measured .04 OF an inch of rain,
making for this season to date "a of an
inch, as against 80 of an inch to an equal
date last year.
The highest and lowest temperatures on
Saturday were 6So and 50o, and yesterday
640 and 520 The highest and lowest one
year ago on Saturday were S0o and AZ, {,
one year ago yesterday 7S0 and 40, aid
one year ago to-day, 770 and 420, showing
the temperature at present to be cooler
during the day and warmer at night than
it was last year at this date.
The mean temperature and total rain
fall for September is as follows for the
stations of the Weather Bureau Service
below:
Fort Candy, SO and 6 inches of rain:
Portland, $50 and 5inches of rain; Rose
burg, $50 and 3 inches of rain; Red Bluff
66o and go of an inch of rain; Sacramento
640 and 10 of an inch of rain.
The barometrical readings at 5 A. NJ and
5 p. NJ. yesterday were 30.13 and 30.0S
inches, showing but slight changes in the
weather. Lieutenant Finley predicts fair
but cloudy weather up to Il NJ. to-day
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More City Debt Talk.

EDS. REcoRD-UNIoN: Some of the
daily papers of our city have put on their
war-paint and are having regular Kill
kenny cat fight over our bonded indebt-
edness; and, let me tell you, these gen.
tlemen are all off on this subject The
idea of us waiting for the next six years
for these bonds to mature is simply pre-
posterOus. We have been waiting for
the past twenty years on these very same
promises, and we are about as near liqui-
dating this debtas we were then.
No, talk is cheap" but it takes money
to pay 81 IS on the Sl00 of our city taxes.
But | have a suggestion, and if carried
out think it Will solve this perplexed
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service, shall never forget interests OF
,he Paclnc Coast and the advantages /
have derived from study of its remark
able climate and resources.
u shall probably retire from official
charge of the branch office about Novem-
Der 10th, when my successor. r. f, Ker-
KAN, will assume control.
Again, thanking you for your cour-
tesy and aid, and wishing tile acquire
ment OF every advantage for the welfare
Oh the Pacific Slope, / remain, sincerely
yours JOHN P. FINLEY.
First Lieutenant, Ninth Infantry" !"
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CALLED TO WASHINGTON.
Lieutenant Finley Relieved of His Du
ties as Chief Signal Officer.

bACS us SiiASI SiElldi ol1cSrs
The following letter received from
Lieutenant John Finley, who has had
charge of the Pacific Coast Division of
the Weather Bureau, explains itself:
"This communication will convey to
you the information of my relief from
duty as officer in charge of the Pacific
Coast Weather Service, San Francisco,
Cal, under instructions from the Chief
of the Weather Bureau, who has directed
me to proceed to Washington, d. c., and
report to him. feel that / cannot leave
this field of work in which I have taken
SO much interest without giving you and
many others slight evidence of my sin
cere appreciation of your generous CO.
operation with me in efforts to build up
the Weather Service on the Pacific Coast
Without your assistance in furnishing
reports, distributing official information
and otherwise encouraging the work, the
measure of success would have been less
While called to another branch of the
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Wanted at Colfax.

EDS. RECoRD-U UNION: AS you kindly
offer to publish short articles in your
"Everybody's Column" that are of inter-
est to the general public, please publish
the following: We are in need of tim
smith. Mr.. Moody, who carried on that
business here last, died over two years
ago. l think this a good opening for
some one to start business.
WIN. BENJAMIN.
Colfax, October 80. 1891.
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Total disbursements.......... S26, ,6o1 80
Amount in City Treasury ........... $95. .295 81
Improving the Convent Grounds.

A committee consisting of Bishop
Manogue, Chris. Green and Colonel
James McNasser on Saturday opened the
bids for filling in the block OF land occu-
pied by the convent in the northwestern
portion of the city.
There We're several bidders for the
work, but James Touhey secured the
cents per cubic yard. This morning Mr..
Touhey will put force of men and fif-
teen teams at work, and the raising of the
block will be completed in about a
month
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graneea patlu for tt,p aeo anusr.
.SALB On MILLINERY GOODS!
-CON1N1ENCING-
Wednesday Next
AT 8 *. M.

We have purchased large stock Of Milli-
merry Goods from Mrs. E. A. Wayne who
formerly did business in San Francisco. This
stock comprises all the latest and newest
styles in Ladies' and Children's Hats,
Trimmings, Ornaments, etc. Wishing to dis
pose ofthese goods quickly we shall sell them
at less than the wholesalers price. We have
also secured the services Of Mrs. Wayne to
assist in selling the same. This will be one
Of the grandest opportunities ever offered in
this city for ladies to secure great values at
low prices
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Deserted His FamiIy.

On Saturday Officer Mclaughlin ar
rested here young man named A. H.
Dunn, on charge of having deserted his
wife and infant in Oakland
Dunn was employed in a store here.
but has been taken to Oakland to answer
the charge against him.
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Sleepers for Oregon Emigrants.

Hereafter there will be through line
of tourist sleeping ears for the accommo-
dation of travellers from Portland to Dem
yer, via Sacramento. Heretofore this ar-
commodation was only afforded as far as
this CITY
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CATARRH causes discharge from the
nose, bad breath, pain between the eyes,
coughing, choking, ringing noises in the
ears. Hoods Sarsaparilla, ,iby purifying
the blood, cures catarrh.
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Berlin Cough Cure.

For coughs and colds and ali lung and
throat affections this article has superior
merit. It is perfectly harmless, gives imme,
diate relief, and cures the worst cases in from
Two to three days. Endorsed by our best phy.
sicians. Try bottle and you will ALWAYS
keep it. Price, 90 cents a bottle. The W. il
Bone Company, san Francisco, sole propri-
etors. Kirk, Geary q Co., sole agents Try C,
@. Liniment for aches and palms.
RESIDENCE of seven rooms (S145 K street,
to rent November 1st Inquire at 63l street
at COOper's music store 4
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EvERYBoDY'S COLUMN

Correspondence OF Interest to the
General Public.
Under this heading the RECORD UNION
viii publish short letters from correspondents
on topics of interest to the general public. The
matter in these communications will be un-
derStOod TO represent only the views Of the
writers. All communications must be accom-
panied by the name OF the writer not for pub
lication, unless so desired, but as a guarantee
of good faith.-EpS
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City Finances.

City Auditor Young makes the follow
ing report of the receipts and disburse-
ments of the city for the week ending
Saturday, October 81. 1891.
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GIVE up an hour or two Tuesday morning
and attend great auction sale OF Alsip & Co.
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Trimmed and Untinned Hats in a Great Variety Of
Shapes All Fall Styles
Silks VeEek, Ribbons, Tips Feathers Birds, Wings
Ornaments, Flowers, ETC., Etc.

Storms are brewing How about your
waterproof garments? We carry the CANDEE
brand of Rubber Goods the best in the world
and the lowest prices. Boots, Shoes, Arctics
Foothods, Gossamers, Gents and Boys Rubber
Coats in all grades, Leggings Pants and Hats
We also have the Anchor brand of Oil Clothing
at prices less than inferior brands
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-10
francis STRONG DOCTRINE

The responsibility of Government for
the protection of foreigners under its
jurisdiction, already bothering the United
States, Italy, Chile and China, comes up
in new and most vigorous form by the
reported claim of France on the new Gov
ernment of Brazil fo- reparation for the
killing of FrenchmeE by Fonseca's under
lings.
One would suppose that there could be
10 more complete way of disavowing and
escaping responsibility for the wrongful
acts Of de facto Government than by
overthrowing it. To make Brazil response
BILE for Fonseca's acts after Brazil has de-
posed him, does not look like international
justice. The French claim is probably
based on the ground that as Brazil as a
nation undertook the protection of French
men in its territory, it was Brazil's duty
to provide or maintain Government that
would carry out the agreement.
This, as we have said, is very extreme
doctrine. 1t would be especially uncom-
Portable for the United States, if it should
be established as principle of interna-
tional law.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-10
SOUTH CIR FL7Na,s REroRM.

Il is a striking indication of the spread
OF new ideas in the South that the lower
branch of the South Carolina Legislature
has passed a pronibitory bill. The South
ern mind when it fakes hold of new crazes.
like temperance or agricultural organiZa-
ten, is ant 10 go To extremes. The sud
den rise of the Alliance to the extent of
capturing the Democratic organization,
and the hardly less abrupt advance of pro-
hihition to the degree of prevailing in one
branch of a Legislature there proves this.
The hill is rigid one, adopting the plan
OF the Iowa law, in prohibiting not only
the sale of liquor. wine or beer in any
form. but also their transportation by
railroads in the State. 1t was passed by
light vote Of 40 to 81, fifty members being
absent. the majority of whom we may
conclude did not want to vote for the
hill but had not the stamina to say SO.
How the bill viii fare in the Senate is not
known. 1t would not be at all strange if
the anti-ProhibitioRiSt element were able
10 block it there: but in any event, the
Governor Of the State has declared against
the Prohibition policy, SO that South Car
ollla VIII not yet atClili tile elltile dool-
ton OF The liquor traffic by statute.
While it is not necessary to Endorse Pro-
hibiIion in South Carolina if is satisfactory
TO note the grea progress in her rather
impu!sive adoption Of the new reform.
The spectacle of that State taking up
an idea for which her people used to de-
spise the fanatics Of Maine. Iowa and
Kansas, shows what difference there is
between the South Carolina of the pres
ent generation and the South Carolina of
the last one
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-10

ical, calculating and unrelenting Fred
erick. But the present Emperor's eccen-
tricities are the exact reproduction, with
Nineteenth Century glass to them, OF
the half-cracked performances of Fred
er1ck the Greats father, Frederick Wll-
helm. The same belief that as guardian
and master of the people the ruler must
supervise all their private affairs, the
same assertion of the divinity of his abso-
lutlsm, and the same wild pursuit OF the
eccentricities that take hold of their minds
mark both rulers. Frederick Wilhelm's 8
eccentricity took the form of recruiting
regiment of giants, beating idlers and tops
with his cane on the street, and threaten
ing to send his son, afterward the Great
Frederick, to execution for military
mutlny. Modified by Nineteenth Century
education, his descendants crankiness
breaks out in preaching sermons and tell
ing his troops that they may have to shoot
down their fathers and mothers at his
orders.
The Nineteenth Century may yet mark
another difference The elder HOhen-
zollerns performances were accepted by
the Eighteenth Century with submission
until he died. The difference in the
people under the progress of a hundred
and seventy years makes it quite probable
that if the imperial crankiness is not re-
strained the German people may conclude
that the absolutism which sets them at
killing their fathers and mothers can be
dispensed with.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-10
BLAINE SHOULD ~rEAk.

Once more Elliott F. Shepard'S news
paper positively asserts that Blaine will
decline to lead his party in 1892. As
Shepard is the chief promoter of Har1ison's s
candidacy, his statements should be taken
with the allowance due to this fact. But
it IS also well TO remember that on this
account the New York editor is watching
the Maine man closely. and is IN position
To know something more about his inten-
tons than the average political prophet.
Hence his periodic assertions that Blaine,
To use a modern Americanism, ''isn't in
IT, have a weight that will do more harm
than coed, as they tend TO make the situa-
ton embarrassing
Such positive utterarces are annoying
t. a very large majority of Republicans ?
They will he 10th to believe them, especially
when coupled with the statement that
Blaine will step aside in the interest of
President Harrison, which assertion
forms a part of Shepard's last announce
nent on this vital political subject, pub
liShed elsewhere in this mornings Dis
PATCH
But there is q way to silence Shepard
and satisfy the masses. All Mr.. Blaine
has to do is to say yes or no. And he
should speak positively and soon. Har-
rison boomers may be shooting off their
Blaine declinatior wadS Just to draw the
Piumed Knights fire. If they succeed in
inducing a return shot, SO much the bet
ter for the public in general and the Re-
publican party in particular.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-10
uouE,z0LLgRN EccENrR1c1r1Es.

Cable dispatches show the doubt as to
tie sanity of the German Emperor is
gaining ground in Europe. Some of his
late utterances have been OF a startling
character; but as up to the present the
ma anifestations of alteration have con-
sisted of claims upon absolute obedience
that can only repcl fealty, going to the
length of assuming the function of relig-
ious instruction, the case is hardly made.
It appears beyond dispute, however. that
Germany is under the dominion of an alb
solute ruler too eccentric to be safe, while
hardly crazy enough to be put under re-
straint.
This condition is not new thing in
Hohenzollern history. Indeed it dates
back at least as far as one prominent in
stance in the early part of the last CEN
turv. 1t has been said that the present
Hohenzollern is. anxious to compare him
self with Frederick the Great There is
little in common between the flighty
and impulsive William and the Gym
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-10
DEATHS HERE AND ELSEWHERE.
Robert S. Cassatt.

Robert S. Cassatt, whose death in Paris
was announced by cable Yesterday, was born
in Wheeling, W. Va, in 1906. After coInplet-
ing his education he removed to Pittsburg,
where he engaged in the banking business.
He was very successful, anu soon attained o
prominent position in the community. He
was the first Mayor of the city of Allegheny
and served in that position with
distinction. Some years after his retire.
menJ from office he removed to West Ches-
ter, and thence to Hollidaysburg. He then
went to Philadelphia, and again engaged in
the banking business, becoming q member
of the firm of Lloyd, Cassatt & Co. He iden-
titled himself prominently with the business
and social life OF Philadelphia, and was one
OF its best known citizens. Upon retiring
from business he spent some time in travel
and in 1877 lie removed to Paris, where he
has since resided. He leaves wife and
three children, a daughter and two sons.
His daughter is Miss Mary Cassatt, q we'll
known artist now residing in Paris. His
sons are a. j. Cassatt, of the PENNSYLVANIA
Railroad, and j. G. Cassatt, of Cassatt & Co.,
bankers Of Philadelphia. Mr. Cassatt was
successful man, and gentleman of the
old school.
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TO TRAIN SERVANT GIRLS.
Mrs. General Logan Gives This Novel Idea
Boom in Washington.

Boom in Washington.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 9-[SDeciM. IA prelim-
mary meeting was held to-day at the resi-
dence OF Mrs. General Logan for the pur-
pose of organizing society for the educa-
tion of servant girls in the various branches
of domestic labor. The institution, which
will embrace both white and black has
for it's object the betterment of working
women by giving them free education and
thorough training in all domestic work by
the establishment OF school of industry,
where girls and women, not younger than Is
or older than 80 may apprentice themselves
for period of not less than six months or
more than one year. Cooking, washing,
ironing. dressmaking, plain sewing by hand
the duties of mattresses and maid will be
thoroughly taught.
Mrs. Logan opened the meeting with a
brief explanatory speech, stating the urgent
need for some such organization in the dis
trict. At the conclusion of her remarks she
introduced.Mrs. Day of ewOrleans, the origi.
nator of the plan, whose success in New
York in the organization of schools of in
dustry have emboldened her to push
her efforts in the direction OF Wash
ington. Among those who became perma-
nent IN ember of the new organization are
Bentley, Tullocl, McMurdie, Somers, Dudley,
Ford Thompson, Conger, Sworde, Rankin
and Butler.