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The record-union., 1898-03-07
PLUMBAGO MINE.
A Nevada County Property Which
Pays Handsomely.

NEVADA CITY, March t.-Superin-
tendent Mason w. Mather of the Plum
bago mine was here yesterday on the
way TO San Francisco with $16,00O
worth of specimen ore he has recently
taken out. One chunk weighing
ninety-seven pounds, is valued at $40
900 This mine has produced 100000
IN the past year. In four months time
two years ago it yielded 100000 1t
IS worked through a tunnel. The ledge
varies from one to four feet in thick
ness. The ore generally is of high grade
and extra rich streaks are frequently
developed. 1t is located on the Middle
Yuba River. five miles above Moores
Flat, in Nevada County.
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COURSING AT INGLESIDE.
Patria and Long Boy the Victors
in the Two Stakes.

SAN FRANCISCO, March G.-The
coursing at Ingleside to-day resulted
as follows:
All age stake-Second round-Mystic
Maid beat Meondyne; Old Glory beat
Gladiator; Glen Roy beat Mohawk; Pa
tria beat Fireball; Magic beat Occident-
al Koo Lawn won a bye from Widow
Brophy: Senorita beat Sly Boy; White
Lily beat Valley Maid; Van Media beat
Sweet Lips; Johnny r. beat Diana;
Swinnerton beat Grow Dog.
Third round-Old Glory beat Mystic
Maid: Patria beat Glenroy; Magic beat
Koo Lawn; White Lily beat Senerita,
Van Media beat Johnny r.; Swinnerton~
ran q bye.
Fourth round-Patria beat Old Glory;
White Lily beat Magic; Van Media beat
Swinnerton.
Fifth round-Patria beat White Lily;
Van Media beat Swinnerton; Van Nee
da ran a bye.
Final-Patria beat Van Media.
| Puppy stake-Second round-Bonita
beat Palmer Hill; Long Boy beat Mag
nesia; st. Nicholas beat Obediah:
Dempsey's Lass beat Rush o the Hill:
Royal Oak beat Star Pointer.
! Third round-Long Boy beat Bonita:
St Nicholas beat Dempsey's Lass; Roy
al Oak ran a bye.
| Fourth round-Long Boy beat Royal
| Oak; St. Nicholas ran bye.
| Final-Long Boy beat ST. Nicholas.
| AT THE UNION PARK.
| SAN FRANCISCO, March 6.-At the
| Union Coursing Park to-day the spe
I cial race, best two out of three, be-
tween Master Jack and O'Grady, was a
lively affair." One of the courses was
short and flukey O'Grady won. In
each of the other two, both long and
fair trials of merit, Master Jack beat
O'Grady pointless. the score being 10
to 0 in one and 1G to 0 in the other.
The concluding rounds of the all aged
stake resulted as follows:
| Second round-Tehron beat Mira
monte; Lissak beat Arapahoe; Lord By
ron beat E,min Pasha; Nellie 3. beat
Santa Alicia; Rosette beat Metallic;
Prescription beat Chit Chat: Flying
| Buck beat Lightning; Sarcastic beat
| Wayfarer; Tod Sloan beat Silkwood:
Waratah beat Chartist: Van Cloie beat
! Blackstone; Susie beat Rusty Cold.
Firm Friend beat Camilla: Move On
beat joy Bells; Douglas lost to AT Last
in bye.
Third round-Lissak beat Theron;
Nellie B. beat Lord Byron Rosette beat
Moore's Prescription: Flying Buck beat
Sarcastic; Waratah beat Tod Sloan;
Susie beat Van Cloie: Firm Friend beat
Douglas: Move On beat Fireball in
| bye.
Fourth round-Lissak beat Nellie b.;
Rosette beat Flying Buck; Susie beat
Waratah; Firm Friend beat Move On
| Fifth ties-Rosette beat Issak Susie
beat Firm Friend.
! Final-Susie beat Rosette
COURSiNC AT LOS ANGEL
| Los ANGELES, March 6-The cours
ing match al Agricultural Park to-day
was a thirty-dog stake. There We're
nine ties run and some excellent sport
was seen. Ormonde, a San Francisco
dog, won the first prize. Ormonde has
won over $500 since coming down here
and has developed into one of the finest
dogs which appear on these matches
AT Sunnyside Park Van Hechts Mon
lday Family, Monday Morning. Monday
Noon and Monday Night, took first, sec
lond and third prizes respectively
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CoURsiNG AT LOS ANGELES.
Will Not be Allowed to Float Over
American Territory.

TACOMA (Wash), March 6.-Ex-
Chief of Police d. o. Smith CT this city
arrived here yesterday afternoon di-
rect from Skaguay and Dyea When
he left SkagUay, four days ago, Mr.
Smith says detachment of United
States troops, consisting of two officers
and thirtythree men, had just started
up the trail to haul down the English
flag and order the Canadian mounted
police not TO attempt to collect Gus
toms duties at the summit. or, in fact,
on any Of the territory that is under
dispute.
At Dyea and Sisaguav. Mr. Smith re-
ports, there is serious talk of the Brit
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The Sewer Farm a Nuisance,

WOODLAND, March 6.-The jury
reached verdict in the case of Baird
Brothers VS.. City Of Woodland yester-
day afternoon. The sewer farm is de-
clared a public nuisance and plaintiffs
We're awarded $1,000 damages. Judge
Hart exonerated Editor DUNCAN and
dismissed the contempt case against
him
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Les Angeles Oil Wells.

Los ANGELES, March 6.-Recent
heavy contracts for Los Angeles oil
made by producers here with San Fran
cisco firms have encouraged the devel-
opment of the field here to considerable
extent, and no less than twenty wells
have been put down since the first of the
present month Twelve more are in
process of going down. A larger guam
tity of oil is stored here now, however,
than ever before
The record-union., 1898-03-07
The Rush to the Northwest.

SEATTLE Wash.), March 6.-Over
800 people left here to-day for Alaska
on the steamers Valencia and Queen.
The Valencia, bound for Copper River,
carried GOO; the Queen, bound for
Southwestern Alaska. carried 31S. At
Tacoma and other Sound points the
Queens list Will be increased to GOO.
PORTLAND, March 1.-THE steam
ship Oregon sailed for Southeastern
Alaska to-day with $50 passengers and
100 head Of live stock.
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May Lead to Serious Results

NEW YORK, March 6.-General Dam
iel Il. Sickles, who was Minister of the
United States to Spain from 1863 TO
1874. during which period occurred the
strained relations between that country
and the United States over the Nir-
ginius affair. said to-day that Spain's
request for the recall of General Lee
was a serious move, and likely to lead to
serious results.
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Attorney Finlayson Very Ill.

LOS ANGELES, March 6.-The life
of Deputy United States District At
torney James p. Finlayson. who has
been lying seriously i'll at his residence
TO West Eighteenth street, for several
days, is despaired of. Yesterday the
disease took a turn for the worse. and
his physicians are reported to have lost
hope.
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A Chinaman to be Executed.

SAN QUENTIN PRISON. March c.
Wing Tung, a Chinese, who is to be
hanged next Friday, viii be taken to
the death chamber tomorrow morning
Tung was sentenced to be hanged for
the murder of his uncle at the Globe
Hotel in San Francisco last September
1t is not anticipated that anything will
occur to delay the execution
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Passenger Rate War,

PORTLAND, March 6.-The Oregon
Railroad and Navigation Company to-
day put into effect the same rates to
the East as those prevailing over the
Northern Pacific and Great Northern
from Puget Sound points East The
new rate to Chicago is S31 so first-class
and S26 80 second-class. To New
York the rate is $40 and $50.
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Condition of General Rosecrans.

Los ANGELES. March 6.-The con-
dition of General Rosecrans, who is
lying at his ranch near this city, is re-
ported 10 be slightly worse tonight.
though the physician attending him says
there is still hope of his recovery. and
that even if the present attack proves
fatal he may linger for some days yet.
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Sudden Death at San Jose.

SAN JOSE, March 6-TIenry Philips.
formerly Secretary of the Commercial
Savings Bank, and at one time under
Sheriff of this county, died suddenly to-
day Of paralysis of the heart. He had
been in i'll health for many months He
was Sc years of age and had lived "A
years in California
The record-union., 1898-03-07
Suicide at Chico.

CHICO. March .6.-Wm. Wright, q
stage driver, aged ~, for many years
a resident of Chico, committed suicide
by hanging at noon to-day. For some
weeks past Wright had been despon-
dent over domestic and financial diff
culties, and last night was discharged
hv his erllflONer
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General Booth at Portland.

PORTLAND. March 6.-General VIM
Booth. Commander-in-Ch Chief of the Sal
walton Army. held three crowded meet
ings in Portland to-day. General
Booth and party will leave here for Ta-
coma and Seattle tomorrow.
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The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-03-24
The Water Lily.

Almost everybody has observed the
strange characteristic of the water lily
bud opening its petals at sunrise and
closing them again at sunset. 1t was
for this reason mainly that the ancients
held the water lily sacred to the sun.
Pliny says: lit is reported that in the
Euphrates the flower of the lotus plunges
into the water at night. remaining there
till midnight, and to such depth that
it cannot be reached with the hand.
After midnight it begins gradually to
rise, aud as the sun rises above the
horizon the flower also rises above the
water. expands and raises itself some
distance above the element in which it
grows. 1t was also through this Pc
culiarity that Hancarville proved that
the Egyptians considered the lily an
emblem Of the world as it rose from the
waters of the deep. -Pittsburg Dispatch.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-03-24

Near Chingkiang. China. is O great
albumen factory for the utilization Of
the duck eggs which are produced in
that region in enormous quantities,
flocks of 1000 and 5000 ducks being
by no means uncommon The eggs are
broken at the rate of from 40, 900 to
go, 600 per day by women, who separate
the white from the yolk, the former be-
ing carefully cleaned and dried until
they resemble fish glue, when they are
packed in 400 pound cases lined with
zinc. The yolks are passed through
sleeves into 20 gallon receptacles, mixed
with salt and borax solution, packed
in 500 pound barrels and used in Europe
for preparing and dressing articles of
superior quality. The albumen finds q
ready market in England, France and
Germany for dyes for the best cotton
goods. philadelphia Press.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-03-24
Catalani and Goethe.

One Of the best stories told of Catalani
Is associated with an occasion when at
Weimar she was placed next to Goethe at
fashionable dinner party. Catalani
knew nothing of Goethe, but being struck
by the fine appearance of tho poet she
asked the gentleman on her other side
what was his name. THE celebrated
Goethe, madam" was the reply. "Ah,
yes. Pray on what instrument does he
playp" was the rejoinder. He is not
performer, madam. He is the renowned
author Of 'Werther. +" "Oh, yes, yes, re-
member" said Catalani, and, turning to
the venerable poet, she addressed him,
"Ah, sir, what an admirer / am of 'Wer-
therP" A low bow followed in acknowl-
edgment
II never" continued the lively lady
g never read anything half SO laughable
In all my life. What a capital farce 1t is,
sirf" Madam" said the poet, looking
serious, "the Sorrows Of Werther' faroei"
"Oh, yes. Never was any thing so exqui-
sitely ridiculous" rejoined Catalani, still
laughing heartily. 1t turned out that the
lady had been talking all the while Of q
parody Of "Werther, which had been per-
formed at one of the minor theaters of
Paris. But fancy the modification of the
poet!-Cornhill Magazine.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-03-24
When Longfellow Came to Cambridge.

In 1886, when Lowell was sopho-
more, Mr.. Longfellow came to Cam.
bridge, young man, to begin his long
and valuable life in the college. His
presence there proved a benediction
and might say, marks an epoch in the
history Of Harvard. In the first place,
he was fresh from Europe, and he gave
the best possible stimulus to the bud
ding interest in German literature. In
the second place, he came from Bow
doin college, and in those days it was a
very good thing for Harvard under
graduate to know that there were peo-
pie not bred in Cambridge quite as we'll
read, as intelligent, as elegant and &C.
complished as any Harvard graduate.
In the third place, Longfellow, though
he was SO young, ranked already dis
tinctly as man of letters.
This was no broken winded minister
who had been made professor. He was
not lawyer without clients or doc.
tor without patients, for whom "a
place" had to be found. He was already
known as a poet by all educated people.
Edward Everett Hale in Outlook.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-03-24
Not His Province.

The New England ministers of early
days were expected to preserve an as
pect grave to the verge of solemnity ON
all occasions, not only OH Sundays, but
week days as we'll. If they possessed a
sense of humor, it sometimes made it
self evident even in the midst of devo-
tional exercises
One New Hampshire parish was
guarded and guided by quaint speaking
elderly man, who had slight lisp He
was fond Of outdoor work of almost
every sort and was an able farmer as
well as preacher, but all domestic mat
tiers he relegated to his wife.
One day the old travelling baker see
ing the minister at work in the field,
drew rein, and when the jingling of his
horses bells had subsidized he called out,
ANY crackers wanted today, parson?"
The minister raised his head and sur
veyed the baker from under his shaggy
eyebrows. No smilo of greeting crossed
his solemn face.
Abraham in the field" he responded
gravely. "Tharah (Sarah) in the tent. !"
and without another word he resumed
his hoeing and left the baker to digest
his Biblical reproof and drive on to the
house to find out if "Sarah' would buy
any of his wares.-Youth' Companion.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-03-24

Across the valo the noods are out,
The fools are out with rush and rout;
Across the world the floods are ont.
The land In In the sea.
And round the oak tree that displays
The bronze bright head in wintry days
The roaring current swings md swayA
Shouting his song OF glee.
And landsmen now y, watermen,
The robin. as the water hen
That makes her nest In reed and fen,
The robins Como afioat
The wind that rocks him to and fro
With soft cradle song and slow
Pleases him in the ebb and flow,
Rocking him in boat.
Flotsam and jetsam whirling by
The bridge where lovers meet and sigh,
The whirling crows flap wings and cry
And praise themselves that they
Have built their homes one story each.
In the tall masts of elm and beach.
And them no swelling food can reach
Till all the world be- gray.
The westward waters, cool, serene,
Mirror the sunsets gold and green,
"A road OF fame and emerald sheen
Broken to million lights.
Tho eastward waters take the moon,
Clad in the pearl from throat to shoon,
Whittier than any lily in June.
She scales the heavenward heights.
Pail Mall Gazette.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-03-24

During tho seventeenth century the
druggist came to America and closely
followed Engiish precedents, modifying
them. however, by the practice of the
Indians with whom he came In contact.
Quaok apotbecaries began to spring up
IN the new land, and in 1886 the colo.
ny Of Virginia passed a law which
among other things regulated the prices
and fees OF the druggist At this time
1t was fashionable for the druggists TO
practice surgery in addition to pharma-
cy, and the Virginia colony contained q
large number Of people who were prof
cient In both professions. In Massachu-
sets the business was largely in the
hands of Indians. schoolmasters, old
women and teachers. The Salem witch
craft delusion retarded the spread of the
druggist for some time in the Bay State,
for the popular impression fastened on
the apothecaries a susp.oion that they
sold the potions that were supposed to
produce the spells. Among those who
suffered persecution at this time mixers
Of medicine appear to have been promi
nent.
The drug shop had not yet become
distinct institution. 1t was usually a
branch of the grocery or spice business
In 1647 one Giles Forman of Boston
had, however, firmly established him
self as devoting special attention to
pharmacy. In l646 the first distinctive
drug store in America was opened in
Boston by William Davies. No doubt
more reliance was placed on drugs then
than now, when people are beginning
TO recognize the large part that fresh
air. dietetics and other hygienic meas
ures play in the successful treatment Of
disease. -Lippincott' Magazine.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-03-24
Miracles and DilettanteIsm.

"He (Pugin) visited SAINT Andrea
della Fratte, the scene of the miracu-
lous conversion of Able Ratisbonne, the
Jew. Able Ratisbonne entered the
church Jew and came out Christian,
having seen there, he stated, vision Of
our Lady. The story, Pugin said after
seeing the church, is demonstrably
false. The man could not have said q
prayer in such hideous church. Our
Lady could not have chosen such a
church for vision. The man could
have had no piety in him to have staid
in such "a church at all.
1.-THE friend to whom his remarks
were addressed replied, AS heard the
story, Ratisbonne was not at the mo-
Ilent praying, but thinking of the un-
couthness of the architecture of the
place. Pugin's whole face changed. is
that so? Then he was a man of God. He
knew what true Christianity was,
though he was a Jew. I honor him.
Our Lady would have come to him any
where. The story is demonstrably
true. life of Cardinal Wiseman, +"
by Wilfrid Ward.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-03-24
MUST BE OF GENTLE BIRTH.
Pages at European Courts, Their Pay and
Their Gorgeous Uniforms.

Pages ut European Courts. Their Pay and
Their Gorgeous Uniforms.
1t is only at the imperial and royal
courts of Europe that 1.-The pretty page
with the dimpled chin," so sweetly sung
by the poet. and who constituted one Of
the most picturesque and romantic fea-
lures of medieval times, still survives
Royal and imperial pages range in age
from ~ TO 10 years They are appointed
by the sovereign, enjoy pay, prerogatives
and perquisite, much as do the grownup
attendants on royalty, and are ascribed
certain definite duties. Gentle birth is the
first qualification for the post of royal
page. At the courts of Vienna and Mu-
Mich an ancestry of no less than Is gener-
ations free from any plebeian strains on
either fathers or mothers side Is required
In Britain and Russia so long a nobility
Is not demanded The pages of honor in
the court of Queen Victoria are generally
the sons of distinguished officers of the
army or Of high dignitaries of the royal
household.
These boys receive $500 a year each,
and when they have served a period of five
years each Is presented with a commission
In the guards. On state occasions they
wear gorgeous uniforms of blue and silver
Besides serving on such occasions they
have to devote a certain number of weeks
every year to more private service at
Windsor or at Osborne. One of their chief
functions is to bear the queen s train when
she holds a meeting of the privy council
The queen is rigid in her etiquette and
never presides at councils without wearing
her long black silk court train.
At the court of Berlin the pages figure
at all state ceremonies, clad, like those Of
England, in blue and silver. and at the
court banquets they stand behind the
chairs Of the royal and imperial person
ages. These personages, on rising from
the table, sometimes address few kindly
words to the boys and present them with
sweetmeats from the epergnes These pages
are chosen only from among the best look
ing boys of the School of Cadets, nearly
all the members of which are Of noble
birth. At the court of ST. Petersburg the
corps of pages Is a sort of imperial school
where number of lads, sons of noblemen
and state dignitaries, both civil and mill
tary, are educated at the cars expense
and under his supervision. On attaining
the eighteenth year they usually obtain
commissions as officers of the regiment of
Chevalier guards. -Pearson's Weekly.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-03-24
RELIC OF PAST AGE.


- 0ootury OaO NoWePoper 1uos - ~
msrksbly Well Preserved.
Mr. Glenn Brown, the architect, has
an interesting relic in the shape of an
old newspaper. probably one of the old
est publications TO be found In this
country. 1t is The Virginia Gazette
and Alexandria Advertiser. published
in Alexandria The copy is dated Thurs
day, April 30, 1898. The motto Of the
paper, which is printed under the title.
is as follows:
thou by whose almighty nod the scale
or empires rises or alternate falls,
Send forth the saving virtues round this landi
There Is no mention made Of the
names Of the publishers or editors, but
an advertisement, which Is inserted,
asks for rags, old seines. fishing nets
and the like to be brought. TO the Office,
SO that paper can be made from it,
From this 1t would seem that the firm
manufactured its own paper.
In the news columns, which form but a
small portion of the paper, the adver-
tisements covering greater part, is a
dispatch dated London, Feb. 25 pre-
vious, giving an account of an insurrec-
ton in Ireland. There are also publish
ed Paine's reasons for preserving the
life of Louis Capet The plan of the
new French constitution is given and
a number of dispatches from Paris APP
pear.
One of the most interesting advertise
ments in the paper is that of lottery.
1t states that it will be given by the
commissioner appointed to prepare the
public buildings, etc., within the city
of Washington for the reception of con-
gress and for their permanent residence
after the year 1900. Samuel Blodgett
was the agent for the affair in this city.
The capital prize was hotel, with all
furnishings. valued at $50, 1000. There
were cash prizes of $40, 900, the whole
amounting to $3.50, 600. The lottery,
by the way, was never held, as much
opposition was developed against it,
Samuel Blodgett was the one whose
heirs claimed large portion of the ma
tional capital
There are several advertisements for
runaway slaves, offering rewards of
from SO to SIC. There is an offer of
reward of $40, which would seem large
compared with those offered for the
runaway slaves, for eight bushels of
clover seed, stolen from Mount Vernon.
The advertisement goes ON to state that
the clover seed was stolen from the
granary and is supposed to have been
taken by negroes 1t is signed by An
thony Whiting, who was Washington s
overseer
There is an advertisement in the pa
per of the celebrated horse Eclipse, from
which many of the thoroughbred horses
Of the present day have descended.
There is also an advertisement of the
opening Of the city tavern at the sign
of the Bunch of Grapes" by John
Wise The statement is made that
and southern mails will arrive
at the Office until Nov. / OH Mondays, |
Wednesdays and Fridays at p. m.
On one Of the pages is song COM
posed for Lodge No. 10 "of Charles
town." commonly called Portobacco.
The paper consists of four pages of |
four columns each. The size of the
sheets is about IL by 10 inches. The |
paper was published Thursdays of each |
week. The SIS were all like f's. The |
paper has been remarkably we'll pre- |
served Washington Star.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-03-24
And So II La.

1t was an old fashioned spelling class
that is, the little girls were standing in a
row, spelling and defining" and the
visitor was looking on.
Jewel" said the teacher, and one lit
tie pink checked maid spelled it correctly
and then gave the definition, "Gem."
On that word it happened that the teach
er departed from her usual custom.
How does a gem lookf" she asked
What is a eemf"
The little girl did not know. The en-
tire class looked puzzled Finally one
lassie frightened and raised her hand tri
umphantly. When she was called on. she
almost sang out" In the excess of her
zeal:
"A little cake baked in a gem pani''-
Youths Companion.