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and is reported as saying that the road
will be rushed through.
The second item came in dispatch
from Monterey to the effect that word had
been received there from New York that
the bonds of the Monterey and Fresno
Company had been placed with an East
ern syndicate. According to the report,
the projected line has been changed SO
that the road will run to San Jose instead
of Monterey. II was also stated that the
work OF construction is expected to begin
early in March, or just as soon as the
route can be located from San Juan.
The third dispatch was from San Diego,
and announced the reception by Philip
Morse, president of the Chambe of Com
merce. of letter from E. G. Potter of
Chicago, who, after writing of the pro-
posed organization OF steam ship line be-
tween San Diego and the Orient, went on
to say movement has been set on foot
by capitalists in Chicago and New York
to construct transcontinental railway in
the East with terminus at San Diego.
When to these three lines, which seem
to be fairly we'll assured, there is added
the certainty of the construction of the
San Joaquin Valley road, southwark to
Bakersfield and later OH to this City, it
will be seen that the outlook for railway
building for California during the coming
year is decidedly good. 1t must be borne
in mind, moreover, that these reports re-
fer only to great undertakings. There are
many smaller roads that are almost GER
tain to be constructed during the year.
Among these is one small in length, but
great in cost; which will also be great in
results. This is the roadway which will
complete the gap in the coast line of the
Southern Pacific
With such prospects before US of i'm
prcvement in our transportation system,
even the least sanguine will begin to feel
hopeful of the coming year. The con-
struction of railways affects every indus
try in the State. and with the Frightening
outlook for railway work there comes
therefore new glow on the horizon of
every city and every county in California.
The San Francisco call., 1896-12-30
PERSON AL.

Lorin Farr of Ogden is at the Occidental.
G. w. Smith Of uba City is on visit here.
DR.. NJ. F. Price of Los Angeles is in the City.
s H. Storms of Sacramento is at the Cosmo-
politap.
Edwin swinford, an attorney of Colusa, is in
the City.
Wood Fosstick of New York arrived here
yesterday.
willard H. Dunbar of Boston is a recent ar
rival here.
o. C. Hopkins, business man of Petaluma,
is in town.
w.R- Guy of San Diego was among yester-
days arrivals.
w. H. Hilton, vineyardist of Glen Ellen, is
on q visit here.
Clark Alberti of San Diego is spending few
days in this City.
Lieutenant J. e. Nolan Of the United States
army is in the City.
t. M. Gibson and Mrs. Gibson OF Kaslo, B. c.,
arrived here yesterday.
J. Naglee Burk, the capitalist, of San Jose,
arrived here last night
D. P. burst, the extensive fruitgrower OF
Wheatland, is at the Grand.
DR.. william de Forest of New York is among
the arrivals at the Baldwin
Fred Searls and E. J. Rector, mining men
of Grass Valley, are at the Palace.
Wilbur Field Smith of New York, who owns
string of fast horses, is in the City.
Jesse D. Carr, the well-known landowner OF
Salinas, came up yesterday to stay awhile.
E. T. Nicholson, with his wife and family
all of Lowell, Mass. ars at the Cosmopolitan.
Q. Kobayasni, Anew York merchant who is
on his way to Japan, is at the Cosmopolitan.
]. Sibbolds, wealthy pioneer resident of
Santa Rosa, is among the arrivals at the Russ.
Ex-Judge o. Clarke who is engaged in lum-
bering at Mott, Sisklyou County, is in the
City.
B. F.. Mccullough, cattle-raiser of Crows
Landing, on the Sacramento River, Is at the
Grand.
F.w. Brown and Leroy M Taylor of Wash.
ingtop, D. c., are among the arrivals at the
Palace.
s. B. Hynes, general manager of the Los
Angeles Terminal Railway, is among the ar
rivals here.
G. P. Castle. the merchant, Of Honolulu, ar
New York.
DR.. George n. Redding left last night over
the Sunset Limited for New York, to visit his
brother, Joe Redding.
j. H. Aldrich, wealthy resident OF New
York, arrived here yesterday. He has come
for rest and recreation.
A. Wright, wealthy merchant of New Al
bany, Ind, is here on . tour of the world, and
is at the Cosmopolitan.
G. Shinn of San Luis Obispo, owner OF large
area of land and extensively engaged in fruit
growing, arrived here yesterday.
J. M. Van Mast, an extensive carriage manu-
facturer of Chicago who is thinking of open
ing house ct Los Angeles. is at the Russ.
E. A. Ford of Pittsburg, general passenger
agent of the Pennsylvania Railroad west of
the city of his headquarters is at the Palace.
E.. Jacobs, the grain-grower OF Tulare
County, known all over California, and one of
the earliest settlers at Visalia, arrived here
yesterday.
Superior Judge Belcher is acting as presid-
ing Judge during the absence from the City
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of Judge C. w. Black, who will not return till
about January 15.
John Biddall, a prominent rancher and
dairyman of Woodland, arrived in the City
yesterday and went to the French Hospital to
undergo surgical operation.
Colonel ]. w. Hardin. the millionaire cattle
owner of Santa Rosa, is at the Russ. Colonel
Hardin's cattle roam in Nevada, Idaho and the
corners of California and Oregon. He has been
in the business many years.
DR.. Charles Van Bergen of Paris and Mrs.
Van Bergen arrived here last night and are at
the Palace The doctor is an American born
in Paris. His father is the oldest resident of
the American colony in Paris.
Ambrose Bierce, the versatile editorial
writ ter and satirist, who came out from his
Eastern trip a few weeks ago very much
broken down in health. has removed from his
home in Berkeley to Los Gatos. The heavy
sea air of Berkeley irritated his asthma
greatly, and so a dry atmosphere at a higher
altitude was recommended. He recently
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AN INCIDENT IN HISTORY.
Lewiston Journal.

'eThere is some doubt as to what part the
Nineteenth Maine played in the war. though
most of the boys think it put down the rebel
lion," said Major Parsons the other day. ''The
fact is the Nineteenth ate up the Southern Con.
federacy. They stole pigs, robbed hen-roosts,
cleaned out orchards and cellars and foraged
the country so thoroughly that the rebellion
had nothing left to feed on and so lay down
and died.
Then Al Wells of the same regiment took up
the thread of the story:
ave were sweeping along one DAY, dining on
the fat of the land as usual. Another troop
was ahead, and between them and US rode
General Hancock. As the general was passing
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AROUND THE CORRIDORS.


A. M. McDon aid of Sonora, one of the own
ers of the noted Belleview mine. eight miles
northeast of that brisk mountain town, has
been at the Lick for the past few days.
He says the activity in mining Is marked all
over Tuolumne County, and that the best
evidence of it is that. during the past year
there has not at any time been q single idle
mill except in few instances for a brief time,
and owing solely to lack OF water.
Mr.. Mcdonald is employing twenty men,
and is milling large amount of ore each
month.
.We have 1O-stamp MILL" said Mr.. Nc
Donald, "and have cleared $36, 900 over all
expenses during the past year, besides doing
considerable development work. Our mine is
in the eastern mining belt of California-the
same as the Zeile and other mines in Calaveras
County about West Point.
IA large amount of money has been taken
out of Tuolumne County during the year that
The San Francisco call., 1896-12-30
HER WISH.

Three maids together sat one eve
And chatted, in the g'oaming,
OF what they'd wish for, most Of ALL
Through all their fancy roaming.
The first one said and heaved sigh,
Gould have one wish granted,
I'd long for wealth: am so poor,
'fis what I've always wa nted"
E" But have wealth." the second said,
"And still I'm sad and lonely:
And so I long for lover true,
Who'd love me for love only"
"And have wealth and lover both,
Yet don't think 1t wrong or
Wicked" the third one said. "But oht
long for something TO long for?"
T.. II. GRAHAM DEWEY In Life,
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NOT HARD TO SAY 1T.
Pittsbnrg D,snatcb.

PlttsDurg Dispatch.
Apropos of Mr. Choate and the New York
senatorship some one told me story the other
day-I think 1t was Mr.. Barry, the affable and
agreeable CORES pondent of the New York Sun
which is so good that it is possible 1t has
been told before, but a good story is never
spoiled by the retelling. 1t seems that Mr..
Choate and Mr.. Reed, T. B., the Gear, were
with Mr.. Wolcott in his library one evening.
They had dined together. and over their cigars
were discussing with wisdom, that IN the
Journalistic profession would bring $50 col
umn, the affairs of the day.
s'You will hardly believe it," said Mr.. Choate
when the decanter was psssed to him." but I
never have taken drink OF whisky, never
played game of poker, and never bet on a
horserace In my life."
II wish 1 could say that" sighed Wolcott.
why can't your drawled Reed. "Choate
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NO ROCK. BOUND COAST.
BOSTON Post.

Boston Post.
1t was 276 years ago December % that, ac-
cording to the late Mrs. Hemans-
The breaking waves dashed high
On stern and rock bound coast
and the much-abused Pilgrims hove to OF the
Gurnet and landed in Plymouth Bay. The
imagination of the poetess stood her in good
service, for while there is little doubt that
''the breaking waves dashed high" the s.stern
and rock bound coast was conspicuous by its
absence, for more sandy stretcn of shore
than in this particular locality cannot be
found this side of Cape Cod.
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one plantation the aged proprietor came out
and stopped he generals party.
"sGeneral,' said he, 1want some sort OF safe
guard Those troops that, have just gone by
Stole my pigs, lifted my hen-roosts and emp
tied my cellar
"I'm sorry said Hancock.
eyes replied the old man, 'they stole ev.
erything but my hope of imm ortality. Thank
God, none of them can steal that
ssDon't be too sure about that retorted the
general The Nineteenth Maine is coming
next"
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"Hrs. winsIow,g soot6ing

Has been used over fifty years by millions Of
mothers Tor their children while Teething with per
feet success 1t soohes the child softens Ii gums
allays Pain. cures Wind Collie. regulates the Bowel,
and is the best remedy for Darrhoas, whether arls
ing from teeshing other causes For sale by drug
gists In every part OF the world. Be sure and ask
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CALlFORNIANS IN NEW YORK.

NEW YORK, N. Y, Dec. 29.-At the St.
Cloud-Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Heyman and Miss
Paselle Heyman; Barrett-P. S. Bates; Metro
pole-H. B. Calisher, F. A. Glace; Marlboro
S. Bernstein, J. Feigenbauer. The Heymans
are bound Europeward.
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A BOX PLEAlED SKIRT.

The new skirts are cut with two cores in the
back, which form ox-pleats. The one shown
here has in all seven cores, the two side cores
flowing wide at the foot and close-itted over
the hips. The great advantage gained by two
side cores is the permanent good shape, for
these cores do not stretch out of shape, as e
wider and necess arily'm more bias gore would
All fabrics are cut in this way, and the side
cores are usually cut straight at the front
edge; but if striped goods is used they may be
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skirts and recommend themselves because Two
or three different colors will generally mar
monte with them, and SO great variety IN IN
waist is possible. One of brown with place. i;a
satin threads, the flowers being lnoennioe e anat
tones of violet, had a brown velvet coat
basone a black satin waist and g waist OF
violet chiffon trimmed with sable tor evening
| Lrraa
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phillips Rock island Exonr.,on,

Leave San Francisco every Wednesday, via Ria
Grande and Rock Island Railways. THROUGH
tourist sleeping cars to Chicagoand Boston. Man
ager and porters accompany these excursions "a
Boston For tickets. sleeptng-car accommodation
and further information. address Clinton Jones
General Agent Rock Island Railway, 80 Monr
gomsry street. San Francisco
The San Francisco call., 1896-12-30

OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES is perfectly dry soft
and mild, being entirely free from the mistS com.
mon further north. Round-trip tickets by steam.
ship, including fifteen days board at The Hotel del
Coronado. $65; longer stay So so per day Apply
New MOnLgomerY st. San Eranciscn
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CALIFoRNlANS IN WASHINGTON.

WASHINGTON, D. c., Dec. 29.-Elbridge
Wickes of San Francisco is at the Shoreham; !;
L. D. Beardsley, San Francisco, Willard's Ho-
tel; William T. Best, Los Angeles, National
Hotel
The San Francisco call., 1896-12-30

Street improvement progresses as rap
idly as if almost every highway were 6
Taeetrack.
The San Francisco call., 1896-12-30

Wherever the streets are lighted the
people are delighted, and the movement
goes on.
The San Francisco call., 1896-12-30

1t is pity Santa Claus did not think to
give Bryan a new hobby.
The San Francisco call., 1896-12-30

Even the most progressive teachers at
the State convention will find that the
people of San Jose need no higher educa.
tion in the art of hospitality.
The San Francisco call., 1896-12-30

1t does not show up much like holiday
week, but perhaps Friday will redeem il
as starter for the New Year.
The San Francisco call., 1896-12-30

There has never been such a luminous
holiday season since the town began.
The San Francisco call., 1896-12-30

The Southern Pacific swore in court
that its rates in the San joaquin could not
be reduced, but nevertheless, and notwith-
standing, they have been.
The San Francisco call., 1896-12-30

His Mamma-Did Mrs Wiley treat you like
one of the family, Tommy?'
Tommy-No'm; like three of the family.
Mamma-How do you mean?
Tommy-She made me go to bed right after
supper just like her own little boys.-Roxbury
GaZetta.
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cut straight through the center, thus lining
the edges both bias and making the stripes
meet at the seams. The back cores are cut
with the straight thread through the center
in any case.
Black satin is still as much used as any
blouse waists or coat basques for full dress oc-
casions. The latest thing is the lining of
white silk. finished with a plain binding OF
quite out of date. The only stfffening now
used is a band of haircloth about six inches
wide arthe loot, and even this is omitted in
many skirts, the flare depending on the proper
lining.
Dresden silks are much used for separate
The San Francisco call., 1896-12-30

There are a few men in New York who are
d irectors OF so many corporations that their
fees for attending board meetings alone con-
stitute good living income. Samuel D. Bah
cock has the reputation of being in more
directorates than any other one man. Russell
Sage is very close second, ana at one time
Samuel Sloan was good third.
The San Francisco call., 1896-12-30

There may have been disappointments
somewhere, but for the San Joaquin ii
has been year o. the biggest kind of re-
aliZatiop.
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In complaining at European courts OF
the threat OF American interference in the
Cuban war, Spain has found much sym
pathy but no help.
The San Francisco call., 1896-12-30

If there is any truth in the report that
Premier Canovas of Spain said he was
greatly pleased with President Cleveland's s
attitude he must be very fond of fat
thing.
The San Francisco call., 1896-12-30

SPECIAL Information daily TO manufacturer
business houses and public men by the Press
Clipping Bureau (Allen'sl, $40 MONTGOMERY :
The San Francisco call., 1896-12-30

Chicago has discovered that while en-
terprlse is good as general thing, it is al
ways well to have conservatism in the
banking business.
The San Francisco call., 1896-12-30

There is work enough in the report OF
the Code Commission alone to keep the
lawyers of the Legislature busy for sixty
davs
The San Francisco call., 1896-12-30

1t looks as if the Sultan were counting
on the Kaiser, and there may be trouble
ahead for Europe around the sick mans
bedside.
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1cEcREAx and cakes euillet,s, eosLarkin..

California glace fruits, SOC pound, in hand
some baskets. Townsend's, Palace building
The San Francisco call., 1896-12-30

For the twelfth time in succession the Prince
of Wales has been nominated for the ONCE Of
Grand Master of English Mark Masons.
The San Francisco call., 1896-12-30

The Hungarian caricaturist, Jarko, who died
q few weeks ago. made more than $4,000 draw
ings in the sixty-three years OF his Lie.
The San Francisco call., 1896-12-30

PHYSICIANS recommend Ayers Pills for dys-
pepsia and liver complaint, and for general
family use. See Ayers Almanac.
The San Francisco call., 1896-12-30

1. threatens to be a Legislature of ten
thousand bills.
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1t is now believed that Olney raised the
point of the Presidents exclusive right to
deal with foreign affairs simply to set Con-
gress to talking about the constitution in
stead of Cuba.
The San Francisco call., 1896-12-30

A considerable number OF Japanese have
found their way into service in New York
households, and according to the New
York Post ''sanguine people see in this FL
tering immigration way out of the COM
plexities of the servant problem" From
which it is easy to foresee that sanguine
New York is going to have disappoint-
ment.
The San Francisco call., 1896-12-30

The winds and the waves as well as hu-
man testimony are working for San Pedro,
and if the Government commission de-
clares for Santa Monica it will have to de-
clare against nature.
The San Francisco call., 1896-12-30

Cornelius Vanderbilt has hobby which he
insists upon riding even while restrained
from business by sickness. He takes per-
sonal interest in the dairy and the poultry
yard on his model farm near Newport. Praise
of the giltedge butter produced on that farm
is sweeter to his ear than the most enthusi-
astic commendation of his costly and artistic
mansions.
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We have illuminations almost every
night.
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1t seems the administration has decided
to take steps preparatory to forecIosing
the government mortgage on the default
ing Pacific roads. The funding bill is
evidently no sure thing.
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Marion Crawford has returned from Italy
and is settled down in New York for another
winter of hard literary work.
The San Francisco call., 1896-12-30

II Bryan had as much sense as Senator
Hill he would be silent; if he had as
much composure as Cleveland he would
90 fishing; but being what he is there is
no hope for him unless he gets the lock-
The San Francisco call., 1896-12-30

There is movement in Colorado to erect a
monument to the memory of Zebuon Pike,
the first explorer of Pixies Peak. The Denver
Times, in commenting favorably on the move
nent, says that courageous old Zebulon,
with his loyal band of surveyors, reached the
noted mountain and its more noted crest
ninety years ago, fifty years before the pio-
neers came into the State"
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Larkin street was lovely.
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Bryan's exultation at the Lincoln ban
quet over the fact that prosperity has not
yet returned to the country shows him to
be an unmitigated calamity howler. The
Nebraska people ought to suppress him as
a public nuisance.
The San Francisco call., 1896-12-30
PARAGRAPHS ABoUf PEOPLE.

Verdi is at work on an oratorio to keep him.
self busy. He denies that he has any inten.
tion of writing an opera.
The San Francisco call., 1896-12-30

The Scots have begun raising money
for Burns monument by poetic appeal,
and before long they will get to the stage
where they will bring in the cakes and
the barleycorn, and then the thing will be
done.
The San Francisco call., 1896-12-30

The gold Democrats have at last found
a straw that seems to be blowing their
way and are now calling the attention of
the country to the fact that Palmer re-
ceived more votes in New York than
Bryan did in Vermont.
The San Francisco call., 1896-12-30

In an interview with the Baltimore Sun
General Bradley t. Johnson, strong
sympathizer with Cuba, says there is no
need of Americans enlisting to help the
Cubans. as the patriots have already more
men than they can arm. The proper
caper for the lingo, therefore, is to stay
at home and send his rife.
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After an interview with the President
elect Senator Wolcott says there will be
an international conference on the subject
of bimetallsm within a short time after
Major Mckinley is inaugurated. Thus we
have another assurance of better prospects
for silver not far in the future.
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a Colorado desperate, who owns up
to killing three men, burst into
tears when sentenced to death,
thus showing there are gentle feel
ings in the human breast which being
rightly touched will make even the tough
est weep.
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The CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL.
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BUSINESS OFFICE:
10 Market Street,
San Francisco, California.
elephone. .MaIn-1s6s
The herald., 1896-04-05

not enjoy life for week. The rest Of
the train crew and q few passengers
fell upon the proud spirited Breathitt
county boys when they had shot their
pistols empty, and sat upon them until
Clay City was reached. and Tom John
ston, the effective and persuasive
town marshal, assumed charge.
Senator Brown, of one Of the interior
districts, was my seat mate one day on
the Cincinnati Southern. At a way
station some Salvation army soldiers
took the train.
"There has been great change in re-
ligious methods within my remem-
brance," said the senator, re1ectiveIy.
"Befo' the difficulty 'tw'vt the moth
and south there we're h.eat religious
gatherin's as regular as harvest. Mig
gers and whites f1ocked to 'em in
droves. Yo' couldn't stop 'em. It
looked like the preachers brought the
power with them-that's what we
called the religious feelin'-power-and
then they'd work upsthe excitement
one OF these camp meetin's all havin'
the power at once, a-hollerin' an a.
singin' till yo' couldn't rest. It's very
excitin'. I recall one camp gatherin'
over at Foxtown, on the Lexington an
Richmond pike; they had the power
hard there. I never did know befo' nor
since such strongly marked cases. One
was that of most beautiful young
woman-one of the most beautiful
young women, l reckon, sir, that Kahn
tucky ever produced. She come a-r'ar.
in an a-chargin' down the open space
to the preachers platform, for all the
world like 2.year-old thoroughbred
turned out to grass. On she comes
a-jumpin' an hollerin' an her eyes
blazin' like young suns. It was
most a noble sight, the way she
cavorted. just as she was nigh me she
gives a special holler an falls clean
exhausted onto the ground. She was
bantin' like a colt after ruanin' the
Darby distance an looked most at
tractlve and appealin' I turned an
left, It was too excifin' day fer me-"
"Why didn't you pick uer up and re-
suscitate her, ST natorf'
"Well thought of that too, but I
passed it up. If she WAS a-counter-
feitin' didn't want to be the means of
caterin' to her vanity. If it was sho'
enough case of power it was case for
providence to attend to not me."-Chi-
cago Times-Herald.
The herald., 1896-04-05
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nayor strong's Doubles

Mayor Strong of New York rejoices in an
embarrassment of doubles. One of them is
the ticket agent at the Staten island ferry,
and the other is a humble painter and Ela-
zier on the east side of New York. Both
men are said to look very like the mayor.
indeed, SO much SO as to cause comment
by all who have seen the city's chief execu-
tive and the two doubles.