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The record-union., 1898-12-29
AGRICULTURAL PARK LANDS.
OFFERS SOLICITED FOR THE
PROPERTY.
Conference Between the Agricu1t.
ura1 Society and the Cham
ber OF Commerce.

The directors of the State Board of
Agriculture were the guests last night
of the directors of the Chamber of
Commerce at the rooms Of the Sutter
Club. It was an entirely informal af-
fair. having been arranged merely for
the purpose of consultation regarding
the disposal of the land embraced in
Agricultural Park and the establish
ment of new fair grounds in a locality
where accommodations for livestock
can be had on a larger scale.
It was the sentiment Of most of the
gentlemen present that the old park
should be. sold as a whole to some per-
son, company or syndicate that might
wish a good opportunity for investment
or speculation, rather than for the
Board of Agriculture to be delayed by
selling in small tracts.
It was conceded that the present
would be an excellent time for some
one to,invest money in the land, as real
estate. values have not recovered from
the shock Of the hard times that set
IN a few years since. and that the out
look, for better prices is very encourag-
ing, If not an assured fact.
President A. B. Spreckels Of the State
Board intimated that he may look into
the matter himself with a view to in
Nesting, but the Sacramentans were of
the opinion that some Of our own peo-
pde should buy the land, divide it up
and make the expectant profit out of it.
Secretary Smith states that the Board
of Agriculture is now in a position to
receive offers for the land, and that if
1t can soon be disposed of new grounds
can be opened In time for the next
State Fair.
In fact" said Mr.. Smith last night,
this could be done within three
months, but a little more time would
be better. 1t is a fine opportunity for
some citizen or company to make a
handsome turn by buying the land in
the present park at the prevailing value
pf real estate and selling it off in lots
or blocks at the increased prices that
are certain to be obtained very soon"
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BITTER WORDS FROM SAGASTA.
SAYS AMERICANS TREATED
SPAIN CRUELTY.
Declares That the Lesson Inflicted
Has Been Hard, But 1t Will
Be Fruitful.

NEW YORK, Dec. 2S.-A dispatch to
the World" quotes the London
Malls" Madrid correspondent as say
ing:
Intimate friends of Senior Sagasta
have supplied the following statements
made by him a few days before his
illness became serious:
THE time when the peace negotla-
tions We're in progress was time OF
the greatest bitterness to me. Many
night I could not sleep, and many
day I could not eat, so great was
my anxiety, so deep my fears that
what has happened would happen. l
know the Americans, and I guessed
what they We're going to do.
Some of the Spanish Commissioners
in Paris had, in the beginning, some
expectations in which I never partic1-
pated. though I some time hoped my
self that our opponents would not be
SO cruel to Spain as they have since
proven to be.
"As a rule, victorious nations make
generous concessions to the vanquished
people, in order to make their victory
more humane and to honor their foes.
In this way they avoid leaving a senti-
main through ages, and to expose vic
tors to retaliation of the most cruel
kind.
From the United States we have met
with no generosity, but only with lev
ity and deceit, carried to the extreme
of interpreting capriciously an i'm
portant word in the text of the pro-
tocol, in order to violate the principle
L. 1I,~ AZ 81 ho
had to suffer all this to prevent greater
evils.
I'm Cuba our army, always brave,
refused to accept peace. They wanted
to continue fighting against the in
vaders as we'll as against the rebels.
The General in command had hard
work to persuade soldiers and officers,
who thought themselves dishonored by
against their foes.
Here in Spain the danger was that
the people, agitated by so many mis-
fortunes, might reject a peace which
did not respond to their ambitions.
God only knows how earnestly and
how hard I labored to restore calm to
the popular mind and to quell the
movements which would have dis
turbed the country still more by en-
dangering not only the Philippines, but
also our possessions in the Atlantic
and Mediterranean and perhaps por-
tions of our own peninsula. Nobody
remembers this except those who can
measure the sacrifices I then made.
'Now all is ended, and we must look
to- the future. Elements are not want
ing for our regeneration, and our work
will be seen in time. The lesson in
f1icted upon us has been hard, but it
will be fruitful"
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His Worship Corrected.

At the licensing sessions held in a
certain west country city recently the
Chairman, dealing with the statutory
limit for bona fide travellers, and get
ting his expressions a little mixed, re-
ferred to it as being three miles as
the flow cries." Whereupon some one
engaged in the case ventured to correct
his worship With a deferential smile
this exponent tried to amend the
phrase, but could get no nearer than
Your worship means as the fly crows
or, rather" he added, hastily, "as the
cry flowsi' No one was sufficiently
rash to make further attempt. t.-Lon-
don Chronicle
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How Paget Took the Town.

Like his military colleague, Captain
Lee, Captain Paget's sympathies with
the American army during the recent
war were unconcealed. Like his coll
league, he used the word I'VE" both in
conversation and in his official reports.
regardless of the laws of neutrality,
and it is an actual fact that he ac-
cepted the surrender of one of the towns
in Porto Rico in the capacity OF a
United States soldier. / venture to re-
peat the story at the risk of Captain
Paget's reputation as a neutral. With
a party Of newspaper correspondents
he accompanied the advance of one of
the American columns of invasion.
When they reached a place where two
ways met there was an earnest contrO-
versy as to which was the right one.
The General commanding took the road
to the right, as advised by his scouts.
Captain Paget, with the stubbornness
that characterizes many Englishmen,
took the road to the left, because, ac-
cording to- his map, it seemed the
shorter and better one, and so it turn
ed out to be.
The correspondents, thinking they
would have more fun with Paget than
with the soldiers, accompanied him,
and when they reached the town were
astonished to find the Alcalde, or
Mayor, and the members of the Com
mon Council in dress suits, with white
ties and gloves and silk hats, standing
in the middle of the road, ready to sur
srender to the Yankee invaders.
AS Captain Paget was the only mem
ber of the party who wore uniform,
the Mayor mistook him for the COM
manding General, and supposed that
the correspondents composed his staff.
Nobody knew enough Spanish to ex-
plain the mistake and the newspaper
men insisted that Paget should take
advantage of the opportunity and ac-
cept the surrender. He did so with
great reluctance and as an officer of
her majesty's navy received the sur
render of a Spanish town. Fortunate
ly the advance guard of the army ar
rived in a very few moments, and Pa
get was relieved of his embarrassment,
although the boys still insisted that he
captured the Washington CORE
spondence of the Chicago Record.
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He assured me that the boy referred to
had made the same journey many times
before, and was indeed a full-fedged
yemstchick, or tarantass driver. AL
though inwardly protesting, / could do
nothing but accept the situation.
gave the word TO start Crack!
went the little fellows whip, and away
dashed the troika team Of three
horses. Our horses were already impa-
tient with the cold The night was
black and threatening, and the roadway
among the hummocks of ice on the riv-
er was almost indistinguishable. AS
the darkness increased, we frequently
missed it altogether, and the ponderous
sledge went humping and topping over
the icy hummocks, while our poorly fed
peasant horses strained every nerve to
keep 1t in motion. Two hours passed
by when suddenly the sledge stopped,
half tilted on a huge hummock of ice.
The horse is down, BARN" (master),
shouted the little yemstchick. l leaped
out at once, and ran to the horses head
to assist him to rise, but he did not
move. There was not even a sound of
breathing. I placed my hand over his
heart. There was not a beat. The
horse was dead. The poorly nourished
animal had succumbed to the excessive
cold and strain We took off the har-
ness, backed the sledge out of the way,
and then started off again with the two
horses remaining. The little fellow on
the box, I could see, was shivering with
the cold, as I myself was by this time,
for the exposure necessitated by the ac-
cident had chilled me through I Of
fered to take, and even insisted upon
taking, his place for a time, so that he
might warm up; but he resented this
intrusion as almost an indignity to his
calling. Not a murmur of discomfort
passed his lips. On we rode through,
the darkness; but how long I know
not, for, exhausted by twenty-four
hours constant travelling, I fell into a
doze. From this I was finally reused
by a sudden shock. We seemed to have
collided with something I looked out,
and saw that we had reached the next
village, and that our steaming, frost
covered horses, eager to get into shelter.
had run the shafts of our vehicle head
long into the gate.
What's the matter?" I called out to
the yemstchick.
Please, BARN, I couldn't hold 'enl,' -
came the reply, in a chattering voice.
That admission was sufficient; I
knew that the little fellows hands must
be either numbed or frozen, and for
that reason he could not pull on The
reins. [ jumped out, opened the gate,
and led the horses in; but he did not
move from his box; his legs were too
stiff with the cold. I picked him up
and carried him bodily into the house.
A basin Of snow was Immediately
brought to thaw out his frozen fingers,
while I removed his clothing to rub a
circulation back into his stiffened
limbs. With this and glass or two
Of hot tea we finally restored him to
animation. Even then he never ut
tered one word of complaint, and when
I slipped a rubIe into his glowing fin
gers he looked as cheerful as though
nothing unpleasant had happened.
If this, I thought, is the stuff the ST.
berian soldiery are made of, then Rus
sia need never fear q rival to her title
of Ruler of the Easti"
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A SIBERIAN BOY.
Little Fellow Who Drove a SIedse
Until Almost Frozen to Death.

''The Boys of Siberia" is the title of an
article in 'fSt. Nicholas" by Thomas G..
Allen, Jr. Mr. Allen says:
I have often witnessed the brave en-
durance of the Siberian boy, but never
to such an extent as while on a sledge
journey from Krasnoyarsk to Minus
insk. The road between these two
points during the winter is nothing
more than the frozen surface of the
Yenisel River; for the ice is over a
yard in thickness, and although the
swift current of the river crowds it up
into small hummocks during the early
winter, yet, with the packing of snow
and the constant wear of the sIedge
caravans, 1t affords a comparatively
smooth and solid roadbed The ice is
considered so safe that it is even used
as bridge for the trains of the Trans
Siberian Railway The ties are laid
directly upon the ice and the locomotive
with loaded train steams across. Fan
cy thousand tons weight crossing enc
of the largest and deepest rivers in ST.
IBERIA merely on frozen waterI
The incident I am going to tell oc-
CURED on one of the coldest nights I
have ever experienced, for the ther-
mometer stood at % degrees below zero.
In order to prepare for the long ride
to the next station, I had swallowed
three or four glasses of hot tea at the
yemsl1ic quarter, or station, and strap
ped on a heavy reindeer-pelt over my
huge Russian overcoat. On reaching
the sledge, or tarantass, which was
waiting, 1 saw on the drivers box
what appeared to be a solid ball of FIR;
but on closer inspection I found that
the bundle contained a boy not more
than IA years of age. His extreme
youthfulness surprised me, and i'm
mediately returned to the keeper of the
quarter to demonstrate with him
against detailing mere boy for such
an arduous duty on such a. cold night.
The record-union., 1898-12-29

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The record-union., 1898-12-29
PERSONAL MENTION.

Mr. and Mrs. F. J. Sermonet are Wis
kting friends in San Francisco.
Mrs. G.. H. Brusch is quite i'll of con-
gestion Of the lungs at her P-street
home.
S. c. Spagnoli a prominent citizen of
jackson, Amador County, is at the
Golden Eagle.
Mrs. II. r. D. Townsend and Miss
EAdah Townsend are visiting Mrs. E. j.
Hanna at Tenth and streets.
Franklin Hichborn, who will report
1he legislative proceedings for the As
sociated Press, has already arrived in
hhe city.
Judge D. K. Trask of Los Angeles
ewas in the city yesterday and received
his appointment as Superior Judge from
hhe Governors Office.
DR.. Thomas Ross is home again from
his visit to the East and Canada. On
fhe 1st of January DR.. Ross will as
Sume the duties Of Superintendent of
the Southern Pacific Company's Hos
pitaI, vice DR.. T. w. Huntington, who
becomes a professor in the medical de-
apartment of the State University.
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The Merchant Marine.

Sea power is the most potential of all
powers, as Captain Mahan has pointed
out with a precision and a convincing
ness that leaves nothing to be said. Sea
power does not consist alone in a navy
Captain Mahan makes that clear over
and over again-but the merchant ma
rine is an essential and invaluable fac
tor in the creation and maintenance of
sea power. We have navy, with a
glorious record, even if not numerically
great. AS it grows, however, we shall
be seriously embarrassed if we do not
parallel it's growth with that of an
American built, American owned, and
American manned merchant marine.
The record-union., 1898-12-29
AVALANCHE IN SWITZERLAND
Part OF Mountain Sweeps Down
Upon a Village.

LONDON, Dec. 2S.-Part of Bed Rock
Mountain, according to- a dispatch from
Airolo, a village Of Switzerland, Canton
of Tioino has fallen into Airolo, de-
stroying a hotel and several houses.
Three persons We're injured.
The scene of the disaster presents a
terrible spectacle, the debris of the
avalanche covering a square mile. The
hotel, with eight houses and twelve
other buildings, was swept into a great
heap Of matchwood. A new terror was
added by the outbreak of fire amid
the ruins.
Three dead bodies have been recov-
cred. 1t is estimated that the damage
will reach 100000.
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Mastering Out OF Troops.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 2S.-It is said
at the War Department that no change
in plans as to the mastering out of
troops will be made as a result of the
threatening outlook in the Philippines.
The Secretary of War has made some
progress in designating the volunteer
regiments to be mustered out, but no
announcement will be made until the
list is completed
The record-union., 1898-12-29
PhrenoIopy.

do yez b'lave in frinology?" asked
Mr.. Dolan, ''meanin' be that the
sighnce iv tellin' a mans charackter
be the Jumps an is head"
CIV coorse,' answered Mr. Rafferty,.
There's nothin' gives a better clew to
mans habits than Jumps, black eyes,
patches " shtickin' plaster, an the rest
iv such signs. Washington Star.
The record-union., 1898-12-29
Y. M. I. Ball.

AT Turner Hall this evening the
Councils Of the Young Mems Institute
Of the city will give their annual ball.
Every effort is being made to insure
one Of the pleasantest social affairs Of
the season.
The hall has been beautifully decorat-
ed for the occasion, and elegant souve-
mir programs will be distributed. Light
refreshments will be served.
The record-union., 1898-12-29
LOCAL LEGISLATION.
Citizens to Meet This Evening to
. Talk Over Matters.

Mayor Land has called a meeting OF
citizens TO be held this evening in the
hall of the City Trustees for the purpose
of considering matters of Importance
TO the city which are to come before
khe Legislature"
Whatever may be the matters to
which the Mayor refers, it is a good
plan for citizens to meet and discuss
them before any action thereon is taken.
1t might be good idea to have a COM
nittee selected whose duty it shall be
TO keep a lookout for all legislation that
might either directly or indirectly affect
The interests of Sacramento.
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Two Deaths in One Family.

Yesterday Miss Mary F. Ryan, sister
of Mrs. DR.. A. NJ. McCollum, died after
"a short illness, and few hours later
aner aunt, Mrs. Hannah FYaherty,
JDreathed her last. The latter was SO
years old, and for upward of twenty
years was housekeeper at the Elmer
The record-union., 1898-12-29
Cruiser Buffalo at Port Said.

WASHINGTON, Dee. 2S.-The cruiser
Buffalo arrived to-day at Port Said,
en- route to Manila, just sixteen and a
half days out from New York. Thus
she has broken all naval records up to
this point in her voyage. She is need
ed badly at Manila, as she carries 800
sailors to relieve men in Dewey's fleet
whose time has long expired.
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Disturbed the Mayors Peace.

Chief Dwyer yesterday afternoon ar
rested Ed Finley for disturbing the
peace. Finley was abusing Mayor Land
because he would not force SupeTintend-
ent Of Streets Touhey to put him to
work, the Mayor having said he would
not interfere with Mr.. Touhey in the
matter
The record-union., 1898-12-29
CIearanoe Record Broken.

NEW YORK, Dec. 2S.-The clearance
of sos, 656 bushels of wheat from New
York to-day breaks all records in the
history of the Produce Exchange. The
wheat is destined for general distribu-
ton in Europe. including Mediterran-
can ports
The record-union., 1898-12-29
Sacramento Gets 1t.

The next convention of the State
Teachers Association will be held in
Sacramento. City School Superin-
tendent Erlewine is entitled to credit
for his successful efforts on behalf Of
this civ
The record-union., 1898-12-29

Hotel. Both aunt and niece fell i'll on
the same day, and the former then
declared they would die at the same
time. "isfIgsfEI
The record-union., 1898-12-29

Special sale of fine millinery and
New Years goods; see show window
for prices. Sacramento Home Supply
Co., I'D j street.
The record-union., 1898-12-29

It is not necessary to conduct Croker
through the stockyards He is fresh
from witnessing a great slaughter
Chicago Record.
The record-union., 1898-12-29
Comforting.

What did Bridget say when she
broke the last cut glass bowl we have?"
''She said it should never happen
again. Chicago Record.
The record-union., 1898-12-29

Aged A No. l port wine, 81 gallon.
Theo Blauth, 407 K street. Tel. 297.
The record-union., 1898-12-29

Some people make the best Of every.
thing-and others take it.
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Tree Medical
Advice

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SPECIAL NOTICES.

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The record-union., 1898-12-29

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New-York tribune., 1898-12-31

Of view by comparison with that OF Lieutenant
Churchill Much OF it. indeed. Is devoted 'o
details that have now no general Interest iha'
he can describe stirring events In a stirrihe way
however Is shown in many places ho'"''' "
his description OF the masnihcent asshu'' Vi VI.
oordon Hirhlanders upon the lofty Dargai DUH
After desperate fighting. during Wh'e" o'''
three companies Of Ghurkas reached its paSe
alive. the ridge appeared to be impreshao'e
Nevertheless II must be taken. and the "oroo"S
were called upon TO do H.
colonel Matthias collected his men o" '"'
edge of the nullah. and said: Goroohs' 'ne
General says the position is 10 pe 'ahe" "' az
costs The Gordons are to do 1t" The men re-
ceiycd this with n low. determined H'uri""''
murmur bred OF the awful reality OF the mo-
,,,ou, h-ad with the sight Of the n1otionless
corpses OF their comrades lying in the path OF
a.o.h hafore them: with the wounded groahins
t. .he,r midst and the solitary little band OF
living hueginp the bare face OF the rock just
fow naces from them tney massed on the
limit OF the cover-a quivering line or herce'
dotarr,ined mon The signal was gwen the
gums boomed out their salvoes and the CHI was
crowned with circle Of bursting shraphei'
then the final order came-a momehtars pause
and the officers Of the Gordons dashed over 'ie
nuIlah The pipes rolled out the sioeah anu
with tight-clenched teeth the Hishlahders
burst into the open. IL was an a"lu wv '''''
utes The length OF the exposed zone was swept
with leaden stream and the dust OF the
striking bullets half hid the advancing men,
The head Of the upper column melted away out
a few struggled on and there were more 10 'aNe
the places Of the fallen. out over the cover
came the Killed soldiers; the Sikhs. Dorsets'
Derbvs. Ghurkhas. in spasmodic rushes as the
firing slackened and the cover halfway was
won. A moment for breath. and the men were
I'D again. Another terrible rush. another meo-
lev of struggling men and writhing figures ana
,he three companies of Ghurkas we're reachen.
When the tribesmen saw that the space was
crossed they left their sungars ana s'reai"eu
down the reverse slope Of the hill. Ihey hau
No wish TO meet men who could brave such Il
fire hand to hand"
Nor will any European troops be anxious 10
do so. The excellent Photographic views or the
Dargai bluff demonstrate. perhaps. even more
closely than these words the desperate nature
OF the assault.