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ant remark about that section of the
country in the hearing Of the lady
named. For over a dozen years the
Blanchards have passed most Of their
time in Washington, the senator's serv
ice in congress having necessitated
long continued periods of residence
there. but Mrs. Blanchard is as enthu-
siastic about her spacious and beauti-
full home at Shreveport as is her charm
ing young daughter, Ethel, who is yet
a boarding school miss. Mrs. Blanchard
is a handsome woman, above the mid
die height, with dark hair and eyes.
Like few other wives Of men in con-
gress she is ready and discriminating
tallSer on topics Of national import but
among her chief delights is to talk in
praise Of the. South. Her memory is.
stored with pleasant pictures of South
ern scenes, and these she has no diff
Guilty in presenting in fluent and poetic
phase.
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Speaking of the members Of the COM

Speaking Of the members of the COM
pany Mr.. Hawk said:
II have often seen incorrect lists of
the surviving members Of that nights
cast. So far as can learn there are
seven members Of the company now
living. They are Mrs. J. H. Evans. who
is still acting under the name of Kate
Spencer; w. J. Ferguson, our call boy
who played a small part and is now one
of the best American actors; e. A. EN-
erson Of Lynchburg Va; Jennie Gour-
lay, now Mrs. Struthers Of Brooklyn;
May Hart, now the wife Of Charles
Brooks, a well known Philadelphia law
yer; John Matthews, prominently con-
nected with the Actors Fund in New
York, and myself"
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had cast a vote for him at the pre-
vious election. l voted here in Chicago
at the old engine house, No. 2, IN Dear
born, street, near Washington.
II decided to go to Philadelphia for
my own safety. Early in the morning
I went to the depot and heard that
the running of all trains had been
stopped. I walked back in Pennsyl-
vania avenue and presently heard the
bells tolling, and q man told me the
president was dead. Evidently I was
being watched, for the doctor Cancelled
the bail bond and l was imprisoned
for two days and examined for a Sec
ond time.
AT the end of two days I was re-
leased Oh two sureties and got permits
sion to leave for Cincinnati, where our
! company was to play an engagement.
At Harrisburg I had to wait over an
hour, and just as I was about to leave
was arrested again by the provost
marshal and held for four days, and
was released only OH an order from
Secretary Stanton.
Two days after the crime I wrote the
following letter to my parents in Chi
cago:
washington, D. c.. April 16, 1866
| WY Lear IdreuLS. 1ulS Is TIE lfSI Op-
| pCrtCnity l have had to write to you
since the assassination of our dear pres
ident on Friday night, as I have been in
custody ever since. I was one of the
principal witnesses of the sad affair, hav-
ing been the only one on the stage at the
time of the fatal shot.
II was playing Asa Trenchard in 'The
American Cousin The old lady of the
theater (NIrs. Muzzey) had just gone off
the stage, and l was answering her exit
speech when / heard the shot fired.
turned, looked up at the presidents box,
heard the man exclaim: sic semper
tyrannis!' saw him jump from the box,
seize the flag from the staff and drop to
the stage. He slipped when he gained
1 the stage, but got upon his feet in a mo-
ment, brandishing a large knife, saying:
"rhe South shall be free,' turned his face
in the direction I stood, and I recognized
him as John Wilkes Booth. He ran to-
ward me, and I-seeing the knife, l
thought was the one he was after-ran
off the stage and up flight Of stairs. He
made his escape out of IL door directly
in the rear of the theater, mounted a
horse and rode off.
1.-THE above all occurred in the space
of a quarter of a minute, and at the time
I did not know that the president was
Booth) he would have stabbed me.
81 am now under 81 900 bail to appear
as witness when Booth is tried, if
caught.
call the above have sworn to. You
may imagine the excitement in the thea
ter, which was crowded, with cries of
Hang him! who is hep from every
one present. -
1T was the saddest thing I ever knew
The city only the night before was illu.
minated and everybody was so happy
Now all is sadness. Everybody looks
gloomy and sad.
'"That night the play was going off sc
well. Mr.. and Mrs. Lincoln enjoyed il
so much She was laughing at my speech
when the shot was fired. In fact, it was
a laugh from the time the curtain went
up until it fell; and to think of such q
sorrowful ending. 1t is an era in my life
that shall never forget
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| The members Of the company sur
rounded me. Who did it? they were

The members Of the company sur
rounded me- Who did it?' they were
asking.
An actor said I.
What's his nameT ~. s..
I won't tell replied. There'n be
a terrible uproar and I want to keep
out of any trouble r.:
III. P. Phillips, our old man. turned
TO me and said: Don't be fool. This
man has shot the president and you
will be hanged if you hesitate to give
his name >...t-
1T was John Booth said.
''They were amazed. 1t afterwards
developed that only myself and a man
named Ferguson positively identified
Booth that night. Ferguson saw him
go into the passageway behind the
presidents box. Booth barred this door
behind him.
"AlthOugh the incidents connected
with the tragedy followed one another
with the greatest rapidity, every move
ment and the slightest action of those
about me, just before and after the
shot, are stamped on my mind so that
the picture stands before me as wildly
as though I had seen it yesterday
[ can see Lincoln unconscious in the
box, the doctors being pushed up to
him over the backs of two men who
had made sort of bridge of their bod
les, as it was impossible to reach the
president by the passageway. I can
see the look of madness on the face
OF Booth as he jumped to the stage
and that wild cry still rings in my ears
The excitement and uproar were fol-
| lowed by a sudden funeral hush as
id of 41,o
theater to 4 house on the opposite side
of the street. 1t was truly a night
never to be, forgotten.
II was Immediately arrested as a
witness and taken before Mayor Wal.
ZACH, who put me under $1,000 bail
DR.. Brown, who afterward embalmed
the body of the president, went my
security The doctor took me to his
house, and at o'clock in the morn
ing four officers came and conducted
me to Peterson's house, where the
president had been carried and where
the members of the cabinet had as
sembled.
'"They led me to the door of the room
where the president was lying uncon
scious. Mrs. Lincoln sat at the hea(
Of the bed and Robert Lincoln sat OF
the bed near the footboard. I remem
Der seeing the surgeon general and tn
II embers of the cabinet there. I wa
asked if I recognized the president a
the man shot by Booth and I answered
as correctly as L could
'"The feeling in Washington that nigh
and the next morning was so jntens
that l began to fear for my safety
Because Booth escaped across til
stage there were some who darkly hint
ed that some members of the compan
We're in the conspiracy. This made IN
mad, for I idolized the president an
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iished in almost the center Of the Chi
nese empire. They are, I am told,
making cannon and guns as good as
those turned out by our government
works, and the question of railroads
Is being agitated by some Of the most
progressive men of the empire. It may
take generations to bring the country
to the state that Japan has already
reached or the revolution, precipitated
by war, may come with rush. Just
now both Japan and China are torn
with discussions on the subject. There
are strong anti-foreign elements, and
an American buyer for a big New
York silk firm told me this morning
that he did not think it safe for him
to travel over the country while the
elections are taking place. The bulk
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1894-05-10
in AN OCEAN STORM.
ACROSS THE PACIFIC OCEAN TO
JAPAN.
How the Flovery Kingdom Looks
Covered With SnOw-Tumult Over
Elections-ChineseC Call Americans
"Hairy Barbarians.'

Under the shadow of the snow-clad
mountain, Fugiyami! In the heart of
howery Japan when the snow is on
the ground! In the land of the rising
sun with the sun left out! Surrounded
by bare-neckcd, bare-chested and al
most bare-legged nation on stills, l.
SILVER in my Overcoat as | write for
the homes of the baseburner and the
furnace Within the past three weeks
I have travelled 5000 miles and have
now nearly reached the other side OF
the globe. l am on my way to interior
China. and month later [ will be
in the very center Of the Chinese en-
pire, writes Frank G. Carpenter to the
Chicago Herald from Yokohama, ia
pan. I have come to the far east to
tell you Of the wonderful changes that
are taking place on the other side of
the world Asia is now one of the
great news centerS of the globe. 1t
is making history faster than either
America or Europe, and a wonderful
change is going on among the nations
of Slant-eyed humanity, which is bound
to affect every man, woman and child
in ChristendOm. This land Of Japan
made the start and it has now on it's
feet the seven league boots of modern
progress. 1t is jumping ahead faster
than any people have ever jumped in
the past and within twenty years it has
grown more in civilization than the Eu-
ropean nations have advanced in Gen.
turtles l see from a japanese news
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1894-05-10
FOND OF NOISE AND hustle

Ella Wheeler Wilcox Can Write
More Easily in Town Than in the
Country.
At the tender age of eight she began
to write novel, using scraps of paper
and the backs of envelopes. She start
ed out with the determination to have
an original verse at the beginning OF
each chapter, but a friend told her that
novelists never did that; they borrowed
other peoples verses. The sensitive
young writer at once stopped work ON
her story, convinced that real novelists
were not all her fancy had painted
them. For six years from that time her
celebrity was confined to the family cir
Gle. Then some of her work was print
ed, and from that time to this she has
been writer. She is a lively little
woman and declares that she can work
in the noise and rattle and hustle Of a
city far better than in place where
all nature is INDECENT about her and
where she grows indolent, too. She is
a sort of seventh wave, she says, borne
up by the six which preceded, and the
better social time she has, the more
parties she attends, the more she
writes, while, when by the sea shore,
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paper of this morning that Japan made
last year 12O,OOO,OOO postal cards at
O cost of so cents per thousand. l
can hardly realize it, and think there
must be mistake in the figures. But
there is no doubt that the postal service
here is as good and as cheap as that of
the United States and these people run
their postal arrangements, paying for
everything in silver, more cheaply than
we do paying in gold. The banking sys-
TENS, railroads. telegraphs and schools
of Japan are managed almost as care
fully and as intelligently as those of
the United States. There are 100 peri
odicals published in the city of Toxic
alone, and the newspapers are read by
the millions. In business and manufac-
turing ON large scale there is 4 move
ment all over the land. and reports of
the elections. which are now taking
place in the different provinces, show as
many quarrels and as much bribery
as though the Japs had taken lessons
of Our ring politicians.
Revolution in China.
A slower but as sure revolution il
going on in China. The four hundred
odd millions Of pig-tailed celestials are
pulling the Sits of their button-hole eye
lids apart, and it is only a question Of
time how soon they will be putting their
wonderful muscles, their sharp and
business brains and their cents day
habits of living into competition with
our eight-hour 81 day laborers as to
the manufactured products of the
world. They have coal and iron in ev-
cry one of their eighteen provinces
They can do as good work as we can,
and they will work twelve hours for
ore-twentieth the sum that our people
get. When they enter the modern man.
ufacturing race the question will not
be one Of competition. 1t will have
one of existence, and we will have to
build a protective tariff barrier about
the country as high as the Washington
monument or cut down our living ex-
penses to the size of the aluminium tip
on the top of it. At the present time
big cotton factories have been estab,
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LOVES THE SUNNY SOUTH.

Senator Blanchard's Wife q Typical
Southern Woman, Handsome and
Happy.
When the friends Of Mrs Blanchard,
wife of the new senator from Louisi-
ana desire to hear affectionate and un-
stinted praise Of the Sunny South, all
they have to do is to make some pleas
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1894-05-10
The Advice Was Good.

Gus De SMITH took your advice
and hit that fellow the first time he
tried to impose on me.
Pete Amsterdam-That was right.
"But he nearly murdered me.''
"Pshaw! You didn't hit him hard
enough
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1894-05-10

Mr.. Harry Hawk, who is playing
Gen. Septimus Cobb, in Darkest Rus
sia," was a member of the company
that occupied the boards at Ford's thea
ter Washington, the night Of Lincoln's
assassination. When the company was
in Chicago recently he related the story
Of the crime to a reporter Of the Chi
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1894-05-10

been seated in a box opposite that of
the presidents party, jumped to the
stage and grabbed me.
"'Where is that MANI he asked.
"sWi,at man!
""The man that shot the president
"'My Godv was all I could exclaim.
Then I saw in the upper box the presi-
dent leaning forward unconscious,
while Mrs. Lincoln supported his head.
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of the people of China are against the
foreigners and anti-foreign sentiment
increases daily. The literati of the
empire see the possibility Of a revolr-
ton and they are disseminating all
sorts Of reports as to the wickedness
of the missionaries and of the other
"red-headed, blue-eyed foreign DEVILS
as they call us. Out in the country
districts about this place have often
heard the words of Japanese which my
Interpreter tells me mean "hairy bar
barian' hurled at me, and in the streets
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LINCOLN'S DEATH.
THE TRUE STORY NOW FIRST

Mr.. Harry Hawk, IN Actor, Who
Was on the Stage Mt the Time of
the Tragedy, Relates the Story for
the First Time.
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ELLA WHEELER WILCOX

ELLA WHEELER WILCOX
she finds time and inclination to be.
idle. Generally, though, she is a busy
little soul who enjoys her profession,
and her life.
The record-union., 1894-06-15
sEcoNp DISTRICT coNGREssMAN.


The RECoRD-UNIoN has said that Grove
L. Johnson of Sacramento will be
United States Congressman in 1895; this,
because it believes his nomination next
week is certain, and that it will be equi-
valent to his election. The reasons for
this belief we recently fully set forth. and
they are in the main the ability. parlia-
mentary skill, natural leadership. polit-
ical aeumen and legislative experience of
Mr.. Johnson; qualities conceded to him
alike by friend and foe, and fully recog-
nized by the people. who want vigor-
GUS, aggressive and capable representa-
tive to go up from this district, who will
be felt in Congress and command recog-
milton there.
Mr.. Johnson's candidacy is then one of
merit. and that will, as it ought to, win.
The original idea of the founders of our
Government was that men would be
elected to the Congress of The United
States because OF their ability to repre-
sent the interests of their constituents
both aggressively and defensively, and
to strongly and properly present the
cause of the people they represent Mr..
Johnson fills this ideal more nearly than
any man the coming convention will
have before it. He will not command
the place because of wealth, for he is not
rich man; he will not command the
nomination on any other ground than
that of ability. tried and tested ability, as
the representative of an intelligent con-
stituency. Merit and ability are his
claims upon his party for the nomination,
and we do not know of any preferred by
others that ought to or can prevail against
them.
If it were possible for Mr.. Johnson to
be denied this nomination; if his con-
spicuous fitness were likely to be ignored,
then we might well consider whether it
is worthw hile for men of ability, merit
and honorable ambition to aspire to Leg
islative positions. But in Mr.. Johnson's
case we have not the slightest doubt but
that he viii receive the nomination by
acclamation. We believe he will be NOM
mated. and he will be elected assuredly.
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moves entire communities to rise against
great wrongs, to frown down great vices
and abolish great evils aff1icting the COM
munity body.
So that we have the same cause-im-
personality, impulsiveness and the COM
municability of impulse-operating to
make the public both courageous and
eowardly; to suffer at times under gross
wrong because lacking courage to resist;
to yIndicate its rights at another time be-
cause too courageous to suffer under evil.
But in the greater number of instances all
down the line of the history of persecu-
ton, of bigotry, of cruel inquisition. of
oppression, slavery to sentiment and
creed, turbulence to wealth and power, of
suspicion, distrust and injustice to men,
the public has been oftener cowardly
than courageous, oftener unjust than not.
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ernnaent.

Why should it have created "sensa-
ton IN Boston," as the dispatches advise
US, that a poor fool of society man killed
himself because the girl of his choice
married another man whom she loved
better? This society chappie, who killed
himself on Miss Wheelwrights wedding
day, demonstrated that he was no gentle
man and was unfit for the girl. because
he manifested such abominable taste. If
he really loved Miss Wheelwright, the
fellow Benjamin Cox would have done
nothing to mar her happiness on her
wedding day. If he was man of re-
fined feeling. or even of ordinary sensi-
bility, he would have been especially
careful to do nothing that would
cloud the bridal day of the woman he
loved but who did not love him well
enough to marry him. Cox is well dead,
and Miss Wheelwright has proved that
she was sensible when she refused to
marry him. But why should this sui
eide on a society girls wedding day have
stirred Boston so deeply? Boston ought
in its intellectual frigidity to be able to
rise superior to Miss Nancy qualms over
the dead body of a fool suicide like Cox.
The record-union., 1894-06-15
NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC.

NNRE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE
/ City Of sacramento on June 18th adopted
the following: Resolved, That the City Clerk
lie that this board viii not allow any bin for
material that is not accompanied by an order
signed by member of the Board of Trustees"
The City Charter, section 62, reads as fol-
lows: ''rhe board shall have charge and SUI
perintendence OF all public work of every
kind, not otherwise controlled by general law,
to be done for the city, and also of furnishing
all material and supplies for public use, ex-
cept as otherwise provided in this charter. 1t
shall be the duty of the board TO vigilantly in
spect all parts of the city anu cause to be done
from time to time such work as it shall deem
necessary or proper"
By order of Board of Trustees.
0. S. FLINT, City Clerk.
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NEW TODAY.
NOTICE OF COMMISSIONERS sale.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT, IN
IN pursuance of the decree of foreclosure
and sale made by the Superior Court of the
County of Sacramento, state OF California, in
the action OF Henry Wittenbrock, plaintiff.
VS.. J. O. Sherwood and II. ID. Millard.
defendants, on the sta day OF June,
1894 and an order of sale thereon issued
to me on the 14th day OF June. 1894,
whereby I was commanded TO sell the real
estate hereinafter described, and to apply the
MONDAY the 9Th day of July, 1884, at the
hour of i o O'Clock a. NJ, on the premises, sell
at public auction to the highest bidder for
county of Sacramento, State of California,
known, designated and described as lots L, 2
and OF fractional southeast quarter of sec
ton %, l. ~ X; E., NJ. ID. b. NJ; also,
subdivision "Joseph lowering" 91.1S A.
Leidsdorf Grant, or Rancho Los Americanog,
ana fractional lot OF section B, t. n, X.
E, NJ. d. b. NJ.
Dated June 4, 1884. jel5-4tE
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HARPER'S
Pictorial History
or THE
Civil w ar.

This great book has sold for years
at SIC to $50 in two big volumes.
The pages are I64xII4 inches.
There are 832 pages. Lots of maps
and sketches, and one big colored
map 23x33 inches.
People wanted them, but couldn't t
afford sI6 and kept asking for the
old Harper Weekly during the
War" After the pictures had been
put into this big, new, complete his
tory, the old Weekly plates were de-
stroyed and now those files are scarce.
But the big history was SO inter-
esting, and, being compiled from all
the official records, was so COM
plete and valuable that thousands
bought it.
Now it is all cut up and everybody
is getting it and being surprised.
1t is made into 26 big parts, 32
big pages in each, and printed on
nice supercalendered paper-better
than ever before-and has hand
some buff cover with emblematic de-
sign on each part.
The parts have sold as high as 81
each, but can be got for only 8 cents
each if you know how. The
pictures alone are worth more than
that, but the story and copies OF
many official documents and state
papers of priceless historic value, all
go in with the pictures.
The record-union., 1894-06-15

Tie RECORD UNION and WEEKLY
UNION are the only papers on the Coast,
outside Of San Francisco, that re-
ceaUe the JttU Associated Press Dis
patches from all parts Of the aOortd. Out
side Of San Francisco, they haze no COM
petitors, eithe' in Influence or home and
general circulation throughout the State.
The record-union., 1894-06-15

THE cut the Populists of Oregon
made was almost entirely into Demo-
cratic strength. This fact does not sus-
tain the chatter of the Democracy that the
Populists will draw more from Repub-
lican than Democratic ranks.
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RESTRICTION OF IMMIGRATION.
The stockton Independent says:

The Stockton Independent says:
People of foreign birth should not interpret
the present increasing feeling against too Tree
immigration directed against all foreign
born people. Every intelligent citizen knows
that among the most devoted and valuable
citizens in the country are men who grew to
manhood under other Governments. The
opposition is to indiscriminate immigra ton
and particularly to the half-barbarous hordes
whose idea OF q Tree government is one under
which they may DO as they please regard less
OF the rights OF Others.
No foreign born person who has be-
come useful, law-abiding citizen or res
ident of the United States can justly en-
tertain any idea that opposition to unre-
stricted immigration means enmity to
the foreign born. IN fact, some of the
warmest advocates of the proposition to
put up the bars" are to be found among
our naturalized citizens.
Sensible people-and the judgment OF
others is of no value-understand per-
fectly well that the demand for greater
restriction of immigration is the result of
conviction that American labor fit for
American civilization must be protected
against contact with the lawless non-
assimilative foreign order of immigrants,
who have no true idea of free govern
ment, who are ingrained with hostility
towards any lawful restraint and whose
methods of living are at war with the
system out of which the State expects to
raise up citizens for it's support and de-
fense, and for the maintenance of the
American order of civilization and gov
ernment.