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The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1895-12-02
The care OF Al.caaam Roads.

The London Road Improvement As
ISOLATION has promulgated sundry rules
regarding the care of macadamiZed
roads, some Of which may be considered
timely:
Never allow a hollow, a rut or pud-
die to remain on a road, but I'LL it up
at once with chips from the stone
heap.
Never shoot stones on the road and
crack them where they lie, or a smooth
surface will be out of the question.
RecoIect that hard stones should be
broken to finer gauge than soft, but
that the two-inch gauge is the largest
that should be used under any circum-
stances where no steam roller is en-
ployed.
Use chips, if possible, for binding
newly laid stones together, and re-
member that road sweepings, horse
droppings, sods or grass and other
rubbish, when used for this purpose,
will ruin the best road ever construc-
ted.
Never allow dust or mud to lie on the
surface of the roads, for either Of these
will double the cost of maintenance.
RecolIect that dust becomes mud at
the first shower, and that mud forms
wet blanket which will keep road in
4 filthy condition for weeks at a time,
instead of allowing it to dry in few
hours.
Remember that the middle of the
road should always be a little higher
than the sides, so that the rain may
run into the side cutters at once.
Never allow the water tables, gut
tiers and bitches to clog, but keep them
clear the whole year through.
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1895-12-02
BRIEF NOTES

Tamale functions have been intro
duced in Folsom.
l.. Elkus, the San Francisco merchant,
is at the Golden Eagle.
Large quantities of hops are being
shipped East from this city at present
II. Weinstock has been appointed
special administrator of the estate Of
Adele Lyons, deceased.
he death is announced of Mrs. F. S.
Zoiler, botter known as Madame An
drews, the fortuue-teller.
James Bishop was severely burned
about the hands and face while at work
in the railroad blacksmith shop on Satur-
day.
George NJ. Mott has given notice that
he will ask the Superior Court 10 set
aside the judgment recently granted b.
Ruhl.
Hugo and Max Hornlein and John
Marsh OF this city have purchased the
Cafe Royal saloon in San Francisco, and
took possession of it yesterday morning.
Frank Kinney is accused of having
signed the name of Mrs. Terry to a re-
cept for board bill at her Frout-street
hosiery, known as the Hibernia Hotel.
lie IS under arrest for battery, also.
Editor Mcfarland objects TO COWS with
bells being allowed 10 run at large over
the town OF Folsom. He doesn't seem to
mind the cows so much, but the bells be
objects to strenulously. Wait till that
new brass band begins to toot.
General \. p Chapman came down
from Red Bluff last evening and departed
TOR Chicago and Washington. He is one
OF the committee selected to try and pre-
vail Oh the Republican National Com
mittee to hold its convention in San
Francisco.
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1895-12-02
FASHION WORKERS
Great Army of Persons Employed on
NNomen's, Bro-oNS.


Paris is the city where the dress
making trade hourishes as it does in no
other city in the world. In 1886 the
number of couturieres, as given in the
Annuaire du Commerce, the CONNER
ciai directory of those days, was only
13S There were besides 81 shops for the
sale of ready made feminine apparel,
but there were none, as there are to-
day, which sold lingerie or certain arti-
cles exclusively. In the "BOttin, as
the Paris directory is Familiarity known,
OF 1895, there are 1,G36 couturiereS and
200 commercial houses for the sale OF
ready-made garments, besides many
establishments which manufacture and
sell "jupons de dessous, or under-pet-
ticoats, alone. The number of working
Gressmakers in Paris is estimated as
Coco
In all France, according to NJ. Georges
Michel, the industry of manufacturing
the various articles of WOmens dress is
in the hands of 81, HOG male and 1868
female owners of shops or factories
These furnish employment to IOU,SOl
persons, of whom over half million
are women. In addition to these there
are go, 800 persons who make their llV-
ing from industries which are tributary
10 that of the manufacture of femln-
inc apparel. The total value of the prod
uct OF this labor from so many hands is
estimated as l, 163, $50, coo francs, or
go To, GOO
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1895-12-02
DERS, LESSON.
A Raft of Rats Drawn by Fire.

ut is an indisputable fact that fire
will draw rats" said Louis SimOnds OF
St Louis During d recent big fire
near the river bank in st. Louis fire
brigade acted the part of Pied Piper OF
Hamelin, and, with the assistance Of
the flames, drove out of their hiding
places into the Mississippi as many rats
as did the mythlogical musician.
While the water was lighted by the re-
Election of the con1agration, a black
mass was seen floating toward the
east shore of the river This proved
TO be some thousands of rats.
They were headed by their chieftain,
ar extraordinarily large black fellow,
and finding their quarters attacked ~
the flames. had taken to the river for
representation. The current carried
them a considerable distance out of
their course and during their passage
some hundreds of them We're drowned.
Spectators on the bridge made bets on
the race, but they We're all declared off,
because. on the Illinois side, there was
no landing place handy for the fatigued
rats, and as far as could be seen, with
the exception of the strong fellows, the
whole bunch persisted in the river
Kansas City Times.
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1895-12-02
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

A. D. Bulger is back from his trip to
Arizona.
W. II. Sanders left on Sunday for
Helena, Mont, TO be gone about two
weeks.
Neal Mcdonald and Miss Ida Dobblin
of Dutch Fiat were married yesterday at
lib Third street, also Sherman Curran of
Truckee and Niss Ella Blinduke CT this
city. The couples were the recipients of
many beautiful presents.
A. Abbott, late cashier of the California
State Bank here, is reported TO have
struck it rich in the Mexican mine re-
Gently secured by himself and George
Beveridge and ia which John Daggett
and other capitalists are Interested.
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1895-12-02
Her LABORS IN This CITY ENDED
Mrs. Van Colt Made Her Last Ad-
dress Yesterday.
n Meeting at Which Only Women
Were Her AuditorS-The Men
Came Next.

Mrs. Van Colt, the evangelist, who
had been conducting a revival in this
city for two weeks at the SiXth-street
NJ. e. Church, closed her labors yester-
day. Her meetings were largely at
tended, for Mrs. Van Colt is very
bright and interesting woman.
Yesterday afternoon she held serv-
ice for women only i'll the basement of
the church, the pastor himself being
excluded. What passed in that secret
conclave is not fully known, but when
at p. m. Mrs. Van Colt addressed the
members of the Y. NJ. G. A, who had,
while waiting her coming, listened to
short addresses by Secretary Ekins
and State Secretary Speares, she told
the boys that the ladies had made
solemn vow to do better for the future
to touch the harp gently when at the
bargain counter, to be moderate in
their desires as to balloon sleeves and
pom-pom hats, and that they would see
that their little maids came straight
home from school. The men seemed
to think that the millennium had
daWned, and many wore Self-SatlSned
I-told-you-SO sort of d smile.
'Woman's place is the mightiest
place in the world" said Mrs. Van Colt.
II am new woman, but new woman
of the old stamp. Woman is the
child's first God. Honest sons and
virtuous daughters owe it to parental
care that they are so. Man is the
priest of the home woman the priestess.
If men and women realized and full
filled their responsibilities, instead Of
leaving religious instruction to the
pastor and the Sunday-sch teacher,
the ignorance of young people as to
their duties in life would be less ap-
parent"
The happy look on the faces of the
older men vanished as Mrs Van Colt,
with sharp invective and biting satire,
slashed right and left, not sparinS Off
cial members of the church, as being
derelict in their duty in the matter of
daily family prayer and the practical
exhibition of Christian life.
There were quite number of young
men present, but Mrs Van Colt said
nothing in particular tC them, and did
not allude to craps or studhOrse-p poker
nor the other delights of gilded youth
in any way.
There was then a general hand
shaking procession and the meeting
was over.
The church was packed in the even
ing, and Mrs. Van Colt delivered an
address to the unsaved. 1t was her
last appeal, and a powerful and elo-
quent one, and was not without an
immediate effect, as att the end of it
several who had not before gone for
ward went to the altar and asked for
the prayers of the congregation.
Mrs Van Colt leaves the city to-day
for other fields of labor. but she leaves
behind her many people who have been
led to Christ through her miniStratiOnS
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1895-12-02
SAGGING WIRES.


They Came Near InjurinG Several Peo-
pie Lust Night.
One of the telephone companies came
near having heavy bill OF damages to
pay yesterday.
Two or three of the wires on Second
street had been sagging all day, and last
night as the driver OF the Golden Eagle
bus was going TO the depot. one of them
caught him under the chin and fairly
lifted him out of his seat before he could
stop bis horses, cutting his throat little.
1t also caught boy who was on top of
the bus and nearly hurled him TO the
pavement.
The driver of the Western Hotel bus
was also caught III the same way last
night. it being so dark ne could not see
the wire.
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1895-12-02
aforementioned OF Portugal.

The "Clubo l de Decembro" First OF
December Club, composed of Portuguese
citizens, last night celebrated at For
esters' Hall the 255th anniversary of the
independence OF Portugal. There was a
large attendance and the occasion was a
very enjoyable one.
John Picanco WAS President of the Day,
and addresses were delivered by A.
Flores, john Silvera and others. After
the exercises there was a banquet. fol-
lowed by dancing.
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1895-12-02
RIFLE SHOOTING.
How the Militia Marksmen Lined-Up
Yesterday.

LOW inc 0lIillia h0fksIlleH Iiueu- y ID
Yesterday.
The scores made at the butts yesterday
by Company Z, were as follows:
Captain Shoemaker II, Lieutenant
Fields 10, Lieutenant Hughes II, Sergeant
McMartin II, Sergeant Bessey 40. Ser
geant Gunter 40, Corporal Nutting ~.
Corporal Hughes So, Corporal May berry
So, Privates Meredith IS, Thompson 81,
80, JOHN Fleckenstein Al, Hardness IL,
Showalter d, o. Il. Hughes Al, }. Meyers
Al, Perkins Il, Common IS, Webb SO.
The pool shooting resulted in the fol-
lowing scores:
Lieutenant Hughes 45 Sergent Bessey
So. Privates Measure 81, Hardness IL,
May berry 81. Conner 30, T. Cook 81, Ser
geant McMartin IS, Sergeant Gunter ~,
Captain Shoemaker 40, Privates John
Fleckenaiein 40, Perkins II, Howerton
4S, Corporal Hughes II.
After the pool shooting, there was a
tifty-shot match between Privates How
erton and Perkins, in which the former
gave the latter ten points, with the fol-
lowing result:
Howerton. Al. A, As, 42-223
Perklns..... ..............42, II, II, Al, 42-2lO
COMPANY q.
Sergeant Klein Al, Sergeant Guth SO,
Sergeant McCarty q, Corporal Kelly Y,
Corporal Leibling II, Corporal De Finnes
Al, Corporal Brown Il. Privates Johnson
~. Gruhler II, Aime 40. Petitdidier 10,
White 40, Peak 80, Aiilliken IS. klees 81,
Striplin 81. league 50. Ruhstaller 50,
Kies 50. McLane 80 Cook 50, Ulery u,
Plummer IL, Thomas6.
The pool shooting resulted:
q. III. Johnson IS, X. De Finnes 10. p.
A. Brown A, J. l.. Guth 43, j. Nj. MILL
ken -, }. McMartin II. j. Gruhler ~. T..
W. White il, Z. Cook Al, j. A. Klein 30,
f. Ruhstaller IS. s. Leibling IS. a. j..
Petitdidier 81. f. Peak SO. a. j. McLane
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1895-12-02
Nfne New Faces.

Beginning tonight, at the Old Pavilion,
the Vivian De Monte Company will be re-
iniorced by nine new performers. includ-
ing male and female acrobats, song and
dance and change artists. At the enter
tainment last evening there was no medi-
cal lecture or sale but one continuous
programme. The new mem bers of the
company come 10 DR.. Clark with the
highest recommendations, and genuine
histrionlc treat IS anticipated all this
week.
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1895-12-02
SIRENS AND SUCKERS
One of the Daily Complaints That AL
Made to the Police.


Made to the Police.
man named Burns reported to the
police yesterday that he had been robbed
of 800 and lot of nuggets. He was
drinking the night before, and went
home with some woman. but he had not
the slightest idea what she looked like or
where the place was.
Officer Douglas made tour of the town
with him. but could find no place that he
could identity, so 1t is not at all likely
that he will ever see the color OF his
money again.
Almost every day such cases are
brought to the notice of the police, and
the sirens seem to be making a good
thing out OF the suckers.
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1895-12-02
stole a Match Box.

Tom Kane was arrested yesterday by
officer Wilson for stealing stone match
box from All 10y, familiarity known as
Pat Ma!loy. He was walking along with
it under his coat when he was arrested
All 10y said .'If he ask me for four bit
to get something TO eat, L give him, but l
no like him steal five cent wort"
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1895-12-02

A man having proposed marriage was
told that he would be accepted if he would
give up the use of tobacco. Being in a
frame OF mind to give up something he
promptly gave up the idea of getting
married, and the state of single blessed
ness ia which he exists is something
beautiful to see.-San Francisco Exam
iuer
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1895-12-02

Officer Douglas on Saturday night ar
rested j. Dunn ana a. Lupton on Front
street, they being engaged in following a
drunken Swede around for the purpose
OF robbing him. a charge of vagrancy
was placed against them.
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1895-12-02
HOTEL ARRIVALS.

Arrivals at the Golden Eagle Hotel
yesterday: w. d. Shattuck, Boston; j..
p. Eisen bach, New York; A. y. Butts.
Angels Camp; Augustus II. Den, Santa
Barbara; George ID. Headrick. Cincin-
natl; S. Cohn, J. Jacobs. T. G. Arnold,
B. O. Schucking, L. Elkus, San Fran
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1895-12-02
A Mysterious Affair.

About 1l:20 p. IN. on Saturday night
four shots were fired in the vicinity of
Twenty fourth and X streets, and those
who were attracted by the shooting saw
two men walking hastily away, but were
unable TO find out anything concerning
the cause of the shooting. 1t is not
mn or not.
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1895-12-02

Lieutenant Baden Powell of the Brit
ish army claims to have made success
full experiments with n monster kite of
500 square feet. supplemented by three
smaller kites, the team to carry q man
aloft. The tests were made only when
gentle winds prevailed. The device is
10 serve as an occasional substitute for
the captive balloon.
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1895-12-02

Last night young man whose name
could not be learned had a severe fall at
Fifth and ] streets while trying to board
a street car. lie was taken to his home
in carriage.
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1895-12-02

In Lublin young woman named
Semschalowa has been sentenced TO
twenty years Imprisonment at hard Ia
Dor for cremating the living bodies of
the two small children of neighhor
with whom she was at enmity.
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1895-12-02

The people believe what they read
about Hoods Sarsaparilla. They
know that il is an honest medicine,
and that ii cures disease That is why
you should get only Hoods.
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1895-12-02

A Cough Cold or Sore Throat re-
quires immediate attention. Browns
Bronchial Troches will invariably give
relief pc a box
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1895-12-02

The State tobacco monopoly puts $751;
000 900 into the French Treasury annu-
ally
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1895-12-02

San Jose Herald: From certain
alarmist local and editorial articles
that are being published regarding an
invasion of our markets by Japanese
goods it might be inferred that an eff
fort will be made in Congress this Win
ter to restore the Mckinley tariff or
pass some measure of like character.
That is hardly likely to be a success
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1895-12-02
VOICE OF THE PRESS
Expressions From Newspapers of In
terror California.

Red Bluff News: If the report is free
from sensationalism there is cause for
uneasiness in the news lest the devel-
oping manufactures of Japan should
soon flood this country with cheap
goods at prices which will defy COMPETE
ton from our own manufacturers and
which Will demand the erection of bar
riers to keep them out. We can easily
compare with Europe but when the
Chinese and japanese enter the market
with goods equal to our own and at
prices far below the cost of produce
ton here, we shall be compelled to pro-
tect our people just as we have pro
tected them against Chinese immigra-
ZION
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1895-12-02
THE TURKISH QUESTION.
Germany'S Action Has Given Lord Sails
bury a Decided Check.
THE KAISER DOES NOT FAVOR A
NAVAL DEMONSTRATION.

The Berlin Government Holds That
Extreme Measures in Turkish
Waters wo9Id be Inopportune. and
Adheres Steadfastly to Its Refusal
to Lend Germany's Strength TO the
Carrying Out of Any Policy De-
signed to Break Up the ottoman
EmnirA.
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1895-12-02
4 TARIFF DFBATE.

Pasadena Star: Free-tr England
is suffering in its agricultural and hor-
ticulturaI interests IS it has not SUI
fered for many years. a Berkeley
farmer thus expresses himself on the
subject of low prices in a recent letter
to a Bristol paper: / see in your lead
ing article of yesterdays paper some
comments on the British farmers way
of growing fruit. and the uselessness of
trying to compete with our half-starved
fruit and badly cultivated orchards,
which you maintain is the rule of the
country, but which ! say is not the case
j should thank you. as g British farmer,
if. instead Of finding fault, you would
tell us where to find a profitable market
for our first-cless fruit, second to none
which Mr. Gladstone advised us to
grow as help these bad times. and
which we now find is worth but little
more than for pigs to eat, after railway
rates. etc. have been paid If the farmer
cannot turn his hand 10 something
more profitable than growing fruit and
making cider. I think his end is not far
distant. with the low price of bacon
and cheese at present"
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1895-12-02

Riverside Press: In spite of the twad-
die of the foolish, who spend their ener-
gies in talk rather than in labor, no
country affords better advantages for
the poor boy who is intelligent and in
dustrious than this. Another evidence
Of this is furnished by the late e. d.
Jordan. the Boston dry goods million
aire, who was a fatherIess boy that went
TO work on a farm at the age OF "a for
81 a month Socialists who denounce
pIutocrats should say where they would
draw the line against small boys who
start in life with nothing but capital
of American grit and American oppor-
4IJnifiQS
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1895-12-02
JAPANESE COMPETITION.

Fresno Expositor: Some of the news
papers are going into political Mysteries
because they think the country is going
to be ruined by giving the people oppor-
tunities to buy goods good deal
cheaper than they can get them at pres
ent That would, indeed, be a curious
way of bringing a people to poverty,
giving the things they have to buy for
about half what it costs to make them
themselves. If any one with a thimble
full of brains will stop a minute to ana
lyze the problem presented by the re-
ported commercial enterprises of the
japanese, which. it is said, are to fur
nish the American people with large
variety of goods at a wonderfully low
price, he will see that it is going to take
a long time to impoverish them in that
way. Themoney they Will save in pay
ing only half as much as they used 20
for things they must have will remain
to be expended on other things. Our
people, then, will have to work only
half as long to get the money needed
to buy what they want. and will have
greater leisure TO improve their social
and educational opportunities, and will
reach a higher stage of civilization.
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1895-12-02
THE WILSON BILL.

Colusa Sun: OF course the Wilson bill
aids France, though nobody viii pre-
tend that was the design of it. The orig
inal purpose was to aid England and If
France gets incidental help-well, the
trainers Of the measure cannot justly
be blamed.-S. F. Bulletin.
The Bulletin ought to get itself on a
higher plane No newspaper having any
pretensions to decency ought to put out
editorial expressions that every single
reader knows to be entirely and COM
pletely dishonest. No man believes the
editor of the Bulletin to be an idiot, but
every man knows that it is either dis
honesty or idiocy that could prompt
such a sentence. Whatever may be the
opinion of anyone as to the effect of the
Wilson or the Mckinley bill, every
American knows that the intention of
the supporters of both was to benefit
this country and no other. The man
who wrote the paragraph quoted is
fully aware Of that fact. He would hate
to write himself a narrow minded
idiot by having anything else
understood He intended sim
ply to be smart but that kind of
"smartness" is entirely inconsistent
with a paper claiming responsibility.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-01-19
The BrookIvn Trolley Strike.

BROOKLYN, n. Y, Jan. 19.-The city
awoke this morning to find itself an
armed camp. Quietly the call for troops
had been issued, and during the night
while the snow was falling the soldiers
marched quietly to their posts of duty
at the armories. At daybreak all i'm
portant depots and stables of the trolley
car companies were guarded. Gen.
McLeer had ordered out the entire
Second brigade, numbering about 5000
men. The streets around the depots
were kept clear of people and as the
strikers seemed to realize that the
troops meant business there was no in
dication of trouble At 9 o'clock this
morning cars were in operation on all
the lines that were open yesterday, and
the Bergen street line was added to the
list early to day.
Mayor schieren Gays that the COM
panies operate their cars all right now
that ample protection is afforded them.
He said the city is quiet and order is
restored.