The morning call., 1893-10-03

Poor Addie," as Addie Gilmour is
called. has gone to her grave in Colusa,
and the soil is scarcely placed over spot
which hides so much shame aud woe when
the man who is charged with the malprac-
tice that caused her death is harried by a
woman who calls herself his wife because
he has by contract deed entered upon an-
other marriage. Be a nan baseness itself
he will still find women to profess devo-
tiOn to him and when scorned to cherish
projects of revenge. Quite what passed
ID conversation between Mrs. Kennedy,
or West, and the prisoner is not known,
but the doctor was In a state of fright
when the interview was interrupted and
was glad to get back to his cell. 1t would
be a curious result if he has rendered
himself open to prosecution for bigamy.
but perhaps that annoyance dlstresses him
much less than the more serious charge
upon which he has been jailed.
The situation In Rio de Janeiro is still
anarchic. De Mello is mercilessly COM
pelling a surrender and is invoking all the
terrors Of b0m bardment aud starvation to
aid his purpose. Miseries indescribable
must exist among the Brazilians ashore,
but they arc of little weight in comman-
der estimation compared with the sue
cess of his strategy. During all Sunday
the shells shrieked over tffe city. Many
lives are possibly lost and much property
must have been riddled and demolished.
How the admiral gets powder enough for
such prolonged devastation Is q point not
explained. but he has evidently large
supply. kilograms about the situation
are as usual 0ne-sded. The rebels win at
all points in one set and the Government
in the other. Civil war on broader scale
than the blockade of the ports seems now
inevitable. Brazil will not recover from
its irruptive disposition for many years.
The wonderful runs of salmon in Alaska
described by the surveying party just re-
turned are no doubt familiar to those who
are in the canning business. A generation
ago the big fish in shoals were quite as
numerous on the upper waters of the
Columbia and its tributaries, and would be
as numerous still but for too seduIous car.
ming. Business men have pushed this
enterprise fast with view TO supply the
markets of the world, and the cat ch has
been indiscriminate and extermina.ive.
Alaska will in time fall off in the prOduc-
tiveness of her fisheries. but at present the
seas and rivers TEEN with magnificent food
fishes, and the capitalist thinks less about
supplies than prices. On the Siberian and
Japanese side of the Pacific the salmon is
also abundant to an astounding extent. A
net cast across some Of the rivers lands
several hundreds of grand fish at haul.
Europe was perhaps equally we'll supplied
10 far-off times.
The plumbing of the new City Hall.
with the exception of the wings, is in a
chaotic condition, according to Architect
Shea. The basement is overrun with sew
~1ye n -
carried up the ventilators for consumption
in the public offices, pipes are without con-
nectiops or are leaky and broken down,
and the contracts seem to have been
seamped most scandslously. Putty an
swers for lead only for a time. ard bad
metal joints soon go 10 worse. Before the
buildings embellishments can be put on
workmen must begin in the basement de
noyo. 1t is pretty kettle Of fish, but a