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GREAT coNsForEvcr

The Chamber also suggested that the
landowners and public-spnted citizens
of the state would give their aid ana
efforts towards making proper exhibit
Of the resources of their section at the
Exposition TO be held this fan. and 20
furnish By pamphlet or otherwise, I'M
formation regarding their section and
lands for distribution to home and In
Vestment seekers and parties Interested.
The subject was thoroughly discussed.
and il was the unanimous sentiment Of
the meeting that the matter Of immigra-
ton was Of the greatest consequence, and
would result in untold good t0 the State
should desirable settlers bee induced %
immigrate hither. The following, offered
by MIR. Grant Of HenricO, was adopted:
Resolved, That IN the opinion of the
Joint Committee IL Is very desirable 10
hold the Immigration Convention sug-
gested by the Chamber Of Commerce. and
that a committee Of five be- appointed
TO arrange for the same-three members
from the Executive Committee and two
from the Citizens Auxiliary Committee.
with the President Of the Society added
as chairman.
The following committee was appointed:
Uenry w Wood, chairman, II. l. Lor-
raine and +. s. Rose, Of Richmond: ".
d. Grant. OF HenrcO. J. Is. watkins.
Of Chesterfield, and w. y. Atwood Of
Biacksburg.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1894-08-12
THE MOVEMENT ENDORSED.

The following extracts from report "
action OF the Joint committee IN regard
10 holding the Immigration Convention
shows the Importance attached 10 Z
by the Chamber Of Commerce:
Richmond. Va, June T.. 1894
Pursuau, o. 4 sugplstl0n made by the
Chamber a. Commerce, that the Virginia
State Agricultural and Mechanical So
cisty call an immigration Convention.
- be- held In Richmond during the
joint meeting Of the Executive Committee
and the Citizens Auxiliary Committee
was called for June IL. lSs4 Az the meet
ing the following gentlemen were pre-
sent; Messrs. Henry w. Wood. Writ T..
Taylor. Thomas Christian John Murphy,
". Harlwicke, OF Richmond; Prof. W.
b. Atwood, Of Blackshug, Geo. h. Muir
rell Of Bedford; W. ". Ilobs0n, of Pow
hatdn; Frank Guy and W. T.. Grant, Of
H,nrico; Or ". Q. Holt Of SUSSEX; COL
W r. Wicham, of Hanover; and j. B.
Watkins. OF Chesterfield.
The Secretary read the report from
the Chamber OF Commerce, lon which that
body pledged Its moral support 20 the
movement, and declared that the subject
~ immisration was ono OF great lmpoI-
lance to tine state, and urged that me
landowners I'm every county of the COM
mOuWcalth, and especially i'm the fifty
three counties OF Eastern Virginia, avail
themselves as speedily as possible OF the
opportunity afforded by the Immigration
Act. adopted at the last meeting of the
General Assembly, for the organic ton
of local immigration societies, Win
view OF inauguratlng q general and Sys-
tematic effort t. encouraE- Immigration
into the Commonwealth OF virginia, ana
TO turn the tide of desirable immigrants
and Investors from Northern and North
western States now seeking southern
homes I'm this direction
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1894-08-12
rAvnnAHLF RArrs.

The meeting Will be- held during the TX
position, when the very low railroad rate
Of one fare for the round trip VIII De in
effect. and besides the satisfaction " At
tending the convention. you VIII nave
the opportunity Of attending the Virginia
Exposition, which promises 10 be the
most successful IN many years
The convention viii Dee called 90 order
October l6, 1894, AT 1870 -. NJ, in the
Assembly room ~ the Chamber Of Com
merce, corner Ninth and Main streets.
The delegates and representation pro
videl for are embraced I'm the following
resolutions adopted by the committee
having same in charge:
THAT on the part Of the state of Viz
ginia. his ENcellenCy, Governor Charles
Il. OFerrau. Colonel Thomas Whitehead
Commissioner If Agriculture. ana the
State Board Of Agriculture. be especially
invited 20 attend and participate in the
PROCEEDINGS of the Convention.
THAT the chairman OF Boards OF Su-
peuvlsors ue requested ~ appoint three
delegates 10 the convention, and that
representatives of county on other Apri-
cultural Societies and prominent agri-
cultursts from all over the State be
invited 10 attend
THAT transportation companies and
commercial and trade ORGANIZATIONS Of
Virginia be requested 10 send repreecnta-
tives.
That the cordial support Of the press
throughout The state be invoked 90 aid
in securing the success Of the conven-
tiJn."
The record-union., 1894-09-20

AT low water navigation for heavy boats
oi1eh ceases and the vessels have to be
tled up until the tide rises, and even then
there is scarcely water enough. Large
areas of low land are now uncovered at
low tide that heretofore were always SUBJ
merged, and on these flats tules have
grown and extended into the river until
at some points it is difficult at high water
even to distinguish the course of the
stream.
These results are due, it is charged, to
'he government engineers overlooking
the effect of the cuts upon the action of
the tides-though it may be said that
possibly the engineers simply followed
legislative direction. But in answer to
this excuse, it is to be considered that
Congress does not act IN ordering engi-
neering work without having engineers
cedent.
When the river flowed in it's old course
through many windings. the rise of the
tide from Suisun Bay into the river met
the slow outcoming tide and held the water
from upstream. When the tide fell in
the bay, the tidal discharge from the river
was so slow. by reason of the curves in the
stream and the consequent long course,
that 1t was never completed, until the in
a.
preserved at navigable depth. But since
the completion of the final "cut-off" at
Twenty Slough, a few months
ago, the fall of the tide in the bay gives
rapid relief to the tidal rise in the river,
and the water runs out with great veloc-
ity and completes its discharge, at least
in lower courses, so that at low water the
river is nearly empty and navigation by
the usual heavy boats is pretty nearly all
checked, and is often brought to stand
still. This has had the effect of bringing
out the two suggestions-one is for food
gates and the other for turning the river
back wholly into the old channel The
hoodgate idea is impraeticable. Only at
enormous cost could such gates be put in
and maintained in the lowland districts,
where the cuts have been made, and it is
doubted by many if such gates could be
set at all. To turn the river into the old
channels means to close the cuts by fills
at the mouths and heads; in other words,
to undo what it has cost so much to do.
These difficulties on the San Joaquin may
serve as warning-at least put us upon
inquiry concerning the propositions that
have been made for cut-offs in the lower
Sacramento.
The record-union., 1894-09-20

THERE is general approval by the State
press of the proposition to abandon San
Quentin as a State prison aud consolidate
the prisons at Folsom. 1t would appear
to be economic and move in the direc-
ton of still better prison management.
1t is theoretically made clear that at Fol-
som the prisoners can be made self-sup-
porting, and their reformation promoted
by industry not possible to be economic
ally prosecuted at San Quentin. 1t is the
poorest policy in the world to keep pris-
oners idle and go into the market and
buy goods for prison use made by con-
vict labor in other States.
The record-union., 1894-09-20
THE ELY TRIAL.

The trial of Prof. Ely of the Wisconsin
University for economic heresy is bad
for the university and bad all around.
Ely is shrewd, brilliant and aggressive
man of broad learning. He has allowed
his theories to lead him somewhat into
radical socialistic paths tending towards
what some assume to be anarchy. But
his trial will simply exalt him among his
school that may be of infinite harm to
social order and progress.
Prof Ely is an extremist, a talented
man, profound reasoner; but his eco
nomic doctrines are not more radical than
have been advanced by score of lead
ing theorists of the extreme socialistic
class in this century. If he is teaching
socialism under the guise of political
economy the Regents should dismiss
him and do so without trial. For the
member of school faculty is simply an
employe whose services may at any
time, and even without cause, be dis
pensed with.
To try Prof. Ely, however. is to pos
sibly make martyr of him, and that will
not protect the youth of Wisconsin
against any error of his doctrinal papers
and monographs, of which his ability is
prolific. Of course great harm can be
done by a man of Ely's ability if he is the
propagandist of error, and the State can
not keep in its faculty man who teaches
the disruption of its social organization
and the overthrow of it's constitutional
system. Prof Ely denies that his theor-
izing goes to this extent. He holds that
he is simply advancing ideas of reform
as against existing and corroding error,
which will. if not checked, undermine
the social and political edifce.
The mistake we say, in this case, is in
placing Prof Ely on trial. That act has
made him known far and wide, and if
there is error in his teaching it will serve
to make it more dangerous because of the
attempt to punish for opinions sake.
We concede that young men and
women are sent to advanced schools to
be broadly educated, not to be infected
with the peculiar set notions and theories
of members of the faculty. The college is
not debating school; it is forum of in
struction in truth and this fact Professor
Ely has lost sight of in substituting
his theories as subjects Tor argumenta-
tive discussion among his classes. If he
is, for instance, as is charged, teaching
socialism, he is abusing his trust and is
not educating. But just what he is doing
the Regency might have made up its
mind to and have dropped the matter or
have displaced the teacher without
trial. He would have had no cause of
complaint since he is employed at the
pleasure of the Regents. The formal
trial, we repeat, is what has made Pro-
fessor Ely the hero of to-day, and may
make him the martyr of the time to the
cause of disorder and anarchy, and that
too, without Professor Ely himself in
tending to occupy such position.
The record-union., 1894-09-20
ASSESSMENT NOTICE.

EEATHER RIVER CANAL COMPANY
L Location of principal place OF business:
sacramento, California
Notice Is hereby given that at special
meeting OF the Directors, held on the 1th day
OF September, 1894. an assess ulent of ten Il o.
cents per share was levied upon the capital
STOCK OF the corporation, payable Immediately
10 the Secretary, j. l.. Giliis, at his Office in
Sacramento Cal.
Any stock upon which this assessment shall
remain unpaid on Tuesday, the 9th day of
tiSed for sale at public auction, and unless
payment Is made before Will be sold on
TUESDAY. the 9th day of November, 1894
sessment together with costs OF adEertisino
and expenses OF sale. j. L. GILLIS, Secretary
sacramento, Cal. sci 3-4t'Th
The record-union., 1894-09-20
NOTICE OF ASSESSMENT.

T I'VE OAK CONSOLIDATED GOLD MIN
= ing Company-Location OF principal place
hereby given that at a meeting of the Direct
ors OF the Live Oak Consolidated Gold Minina
company, held on the 4th day of SeptembeT
was levied upon the subscribed eapital STOCK
OF the corporation, payable at the office of
SAID company, No. 914 Ninth street. Sacra-
on or before Tuesday, the 2d day of October
at 2. NJ
any stock upon Which this assessments shall
tober. 1894, Will be delinouent and viii ha
advertised for sale at public auction. and. un
less payment is made before viii be sold ON
3le, 5he @oD DA OF OCTOBER, 1894, to pay the
delinquent assessment, together with cots 80 Of
advertising and expense OF sale.
A. MEISTER, Secretary
once; No. 9l4 Ninth street, between and
-. .2.IOL elllICutO Clty, Oat se6-4t1h
The record-union., 1894-09-20
A MATTER OF ECONOMY.

1t has been wisely resolved by the city
authorities that no more streets or alleys
shall be graveled in Sacramento; that
hereafter stone or flint or macadam or
semi-macadam or bituminous rock for
street and alley work only shall be or
dered. Gravel, such as we get or can get
here. has been found very uneconomic
and unsatisfactory, and by no one is any
longer desired.
But how unwise and wasteful we are to
send into other counties for fine broken
stone and machine-prepared road dress
ing and haul it long distances, when we
have the very best trap-rock known in
our own county which we can crush and
deliver for surfacing at third less than
we now pay for the broken stone we i'm
port.
cobble is the best road metal in the State.
The dressing it affords is actually a
cement, and ''sets' so firmly as to out
wear any other surfacing material. For
the miles upon miles OF streets and alleys
and roads that will be macadamized or
stone dressed from this time on
in city and in country, we will
need many thousands of tons of broken
stone. A saving of one-third the cost of
imported broken stone of lower quality
will amount to very large figure for
taxpayers in the economy of this matter.
What we need, and the sooner we get it
the greater the saving. is the setting up of
heavy, large capacity machinery to crush
in large quantity. since it is the cheaper
plan, and furnish the Sacramento road
metal to the people at the low figure that
is possible compared to the high price we
now pay. Some time ago this plan was
advised by public meeting held in this
city and movement was begun to form
the necessary company to enable the
home road metal to be prepared. But the
scheme has Jagged and not much has
been done towards carrying it out and in
the meantime we continue to pay heavily
for such road metal as we need.
1t would seem that it would re-
pay capital well to prepare this metal
and still give the people the crushed
stone cheaply. The State Prison Direct
ory has favored it by Offering transmit
ted power at desirable figure; the ma
terial itself has been offered at a nominal
sum by those on whose lands it lies, and
there are miles of the deposits along the
American River. If Sacramento enter
prise does not avail of these advantages
soon, it is likely that private shrewdness
will, and we shall have then to pay more
smartly to get the prepared material than
if an organization of public-spirited citi-
zens takes hold of the proposition, con-
tent with a fair margin of profit.
During the next five years it is reason
ably certain that, beginning with present
demand, we will need at least from $1,000
or 10000 tons of this street and road ma
terial annually, and probably before long
twice that quantity. With the very best
road metal in the land at our very doors,
shall we fill the demand for such material
by importation or the costly hand-b break
ing system, or adopt the switter and more
economic plan of crushing at the places
of origination and make a saving at both
ends of the candle-namely, in the cost
and in the increased values and aug
mented benefits flowing from economic
street construction?
The record-union., 1894-09-20
PROPOSALS.

SEALED PROPOSALS WILL BE RE-
y ceived at this Office until
Monday, October l. 1894, at IL NJ,
For furnishing paper and other material for
the State Printing Office. for the year begin
ming the first Monday in October, 1894, and
ending the first Monday in October, 1895,
and for paper and material for manufacturing
State Text Books. Bidders will furnish full
samples, with price per pound, and also the
names of the makers whose stock they pro-
pose TO supply. Bidders TO comply with pro-
visions of Section of an Act approved Feb
ruary 26, 1855, and Sections 532 and 3235
of the Political Code. The board reserves the
right to reject any and all BIDS and 10 accept
all or any portion OF any bid. Schedule fur
nished on application to this Office.
A. j. JOHNSTON,
Superintendent State Printing.
The record-union., 1894-09-20

PURNsHATAM RAo TELANG, Hindoo
Pundist. who has been studying Ameri-
can customs and society, declares that
hotels and restaurants feeding -piaces'
he calls them-have, together with our
manner of bringing up our children, es-
pecially our girls, direct tendency to
injure home life. This Hindoo has fallen
upon a truth of which all thoughtful
Americans are fully cognizant-only, he
speaks; we remain silent.
The record-union., 1894-09-20
NOTICE TO BRIDGE CONTRACTORS.

NOTICE Is HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE
~ Board OF Supervisors of the County OF
sacramento, State of California, will on MON
DAY, the 1st day of October. 1894. at 10
O'Clock A. NJ, at their Office, on [ street be-
tween Sixth and Seventh, Sacramento City
tresue bridge across the laguna on township
line road between townships and north.
range Z east, Mount DiabIo base and me-
rIdlan. Commencing in the center OF road on
thence east across creek eight spans OF nine
teen feet each, or 152 feet to Ist bank. To be
a seYen-toot bulkhead on each side of each
end. Said bridge to be constructed according
TO the plans and specifications on file in the
County Clerks office. 4 certified check of o
per cent. of the amount of bid must accom-
pany each bid, the board reServing the right
to reject any and all bids.
SEAL. w. B. HAMILTON
Clerk of said Board of supervisors
sci I-2W
The record-union., 1894-09-20
SCIENTIFIC, CULTURE IN JAPAN
industrious and Enthusiastic Investi-
0aLOl.s are Enund Ihar.a

gators are Found There.
The war between China and Japan has
served 10 bring into prominence many
important and interesting facts concern
ing the latter country. The population
OF Japan IS over 10000, 900, the males pre-
dominating. Six OF its cities nave over
100000 Inhabitants, eleven more than o.,
U0O aud over 100 have 10000 TO ), 600 souls.
There are only about 10000 foreigners IN
the country, most of whom are in busi
ness. Japanese students OF foreign cult
ure go chiefly to the United States, Ger
many, England, France and Italy. The
japanese are most industrious and en-
thusIastic Investigators OF Western sci
ence, III which they are much more
skilled than the Chinese, and Tor twenty
years they have had an Imperial Engl-
neering University and other colleges,
With American and European Professors,
who, however, are being gradually sup
planted by natives. 1t was here that the
celebrated London Professors, Ayrton
and Perry, began their professional ca
reers, and Professor Ewing OF the ! nj
Verslty OF Cambridge also spent several
years IN Japan IN similar capacity. The
japanese are described as being much
qulckert learn than the Chinese, though
some say they are not quite so solid.
This. however, is questionable, and it Is
certain that Japan has produced several
mathematlclans, whose papers have APP
peared in the transactions OF the English
Royal Society, and whose results nave
advanced physical science.
One of the best known and most inter-
estlng products OF Japan is the famous
Japanese lacquer, which is got from the
urushi-naki, a tree about thirty feet high
and thirteen inches in diameter. The
tree attains its utmost productiveness
in it's eighteenth year. The gum is OBJ
tanned by making horizontal cuts in the
bark in summer, and collecting the
milky juice, which turns brown ON eX-
posure To the air. The lac is purified by
tiltration, and bleached in the sun. The
colors of the various kinds of lac, of
which there are about twenty, are pro-
duced by pigments, and gold or pearl
limitations are made by mixing gold dust
or mother of pearl powder with it. The
lacquer withstands high temperature,
Is unaffected by acids or spirits, ard
rather improves than fades with them.
1t is applied with DAD brushes OF stiff
bristles inclOsed in wood, and cut in the
same way as an ordinary lead pencil
when the bristles wear down to the wood.
The record-union., 1894-09-20

A SCIENTIST, say the dispatches, has
laid claim in Brazil to discovery of the
microbe of yellow fever and of malaria.
and that he will attempt by incubation
to make this discovery the means of pre-
venting yellow fever. If we mistake not
bacteriologist of Brazil, years ago, dis
covered the microbe of yellow fever.
We remember commenting upon the dis
covery at the time. 1t was on exsmina-
ton of the grave-earth Of yellow fever
victims, with view to determining how
the bodies of such should be disposed of,
that the discovery was made. This was,
however, prior to the Koch and Pasteur-
ian theories Of incubation being estab-
lished. OF course, if the experiments to
be entered upon are successful. great
The record-union., 1894-09-20

good will have developed for mankind.
But the same dispatches declare that the
microbe of malaria. This we must re-
serve the right to disbelieve. Malaria
is the word for bad air, and as for the
aff1iction we term malaria, that may be
any one thing of many. If there is the
specific disease malaria, we confess to
never having heard of it. Diseases re-
sulting from bad air there certainly are,
but that there is any disease known as
bad air is news to most people.
The record-union., 1894-09-20

THE New York Constitutional Conven-
Office of Governor four years-an error
on the part of that body. An election
every two years for Governor is bad. AS
it now stands there is an election every
year in New York for some State officer.
The California system is far superior.
The record-union., 1894-09-20
TROUBLE ON THE SAN JoAoU1N.

Even the most skilled engineers some
times make blunders, as has been demon
strated on the San Joaquin River. Below
Stockton several short cuts from time
to time have been made by canals, elimi-
mating great bends and tortuous windings
from the river navigation.
The last of these was made under Act
of Congress of 1891, at Twenty-one-mile
Slough. These cuts were calculated to
save a great many miles of travel, and
they did, but now it is discovered that
both In the cuts and in the old channel,
and notably at Twenty-one-mile Slough,
the bottom of the stream is apparently
coming to the top, and the greatest diff
Guilty is experienced in navigating.
The record-union., 1894-09-20

The RECoRD-UNIoN and WEEKLY
UNION are the only papers on the Coast,
outside Of San Francisco, that re-
ceiUe the full Associated Press Dis
patches from all parts of the UorId. Out
side Of San Francisco, they haze no COM
petitorS, either an influence or home and
general circulation throughout the State.
The record-union., 1894-09-20

WHATEVER else may come to pass, the
continuance of the era of distrust, the re-
newal of boycott idiocy, the sounding of
the trump of doom-let US at least be
spared the announcement, since now he
is defeated, that Colonel Breckenridge
proposes to go upon the stage or take to
the lecture platform.
The record-union., 1894-09-20
DELINQUENT SALE NOTICE.

n AIoMA VINEYARD COMPANY. LO.
IN cation of principal place of business San
francisco, California. Location of works,
Natoma, California. Notice-There are delin.
quent upon the following described stock on
account of assessment No. a LEVIED on the
1lth Jay OF August, 1894. tne several
amounts set opposite the names of the re-
spectlve shareholders as follows: