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THE DAILY RECORD-UNION* TI"ES»AT DECEMBER 7, J i lßs'i>.' SIX-PAGE EDITION NEWS OF THE MO RNING. In New York yesterday Government bonds were quoted at 111. for *s of 1907; 1011 for 59 of I— lt 110} fort_s; sterling, 84 h0&i .621; silver bar*, 111... . ... -- '■"• ' ' - ' " :" !a WpHB Sliver In London yesterday, SI 13-10 d ; consols, 9* "o-16 ; 6 per cent. United States bonds, 101} ; _, ll*>3;4_s, Ut}. AyAAA'L,' In San Francisco half dollars are quoted at J dis count to par ; Mexican dollars, £0} buying, 81 sell ing. • ■ .■ . 7: ' At O vcrpoo' yesterday wheat was quoted at 9s lid fel— 3 ' for good to choice California. Mining stocks were quite active in San Francisco yesterday morning, but very irregular. Alta opened 'at $10, or $3 lower than the lowest Board price on" Saturday, then fell to $9 75, rising to ,*lO at the opening of the second call, then dropping to (8 75, and fin— closing at 59 50 at the regular m truing call. Sitrra Nevada rose $1 37}' from Saturday, Mexican $1 25, and most other Com stock shares from be to 75c above the best rates Saturday. Hale — Hereto I dropped 50c. Mr. Ntate, a prominent citizen, died suddenly at Olympia, W. T., Sunday. V, j Duncan McNeil met w.th a' horrible d— th Satur day at Comstock, Douglas county, Oregon. John Dunn died of apoplexy in the city prison at Marysviile yesterday. " Counterfeit dollar* are circulating freely at To root* ' The Mount Shasta Grand Council of the Champi on. of Honor met yesterday at Shasta. . : '..'. r7. Duncan Mcßae, the wood c— tor, has failed at Carson, Nev , for _; ',0,000. . Seven men were fined from §500 to .1,000 at Cor son yesterday, for fishing in Pyramid Lake. Two steamers from Eurojie brootrfat to New York yesterday $1,317,000 ill gold, j A man was killed and two engines and a number of cars recked near Newark, 0., Saturday. , .- , A passenger on the westbound - express train killed himself yesterday the other side of Winn* mucca, Key. The death of Madame Thiers is announced from Paris. ■ A bill was introduced in the House of E*pre sent-five yesterday to cut down the Preside— B— ary to $—,000. ■"" ' " ' .7 The Japanese Embassador to France is dead. " The Kurds have killed and wounded over GOO pilgrims to Mecca. The increase in small-pox cases at San Francisco is so great that another enlargement of the pent house will have to be made. Congress assembled yesterday, and the last an nual message — President Hayes was read, the fail text ed which will be found in this morning's Re co ro-Umo— . With to day's paper a sixteen crtlumn supplement is issued, well filled with interesting and valuable matter. -7 CHINA AND THE OPIUM TRADE. - It is rumored that the new commercial treaty with China contains provisions in regard to the opium .trade which promise to produce very important results for the Chinese. It is said that our Commission ers agreed to consent that this country should be prohibited from engaging in the opium traffic, the object being to effect a leverage for : diplomatic action upon Eng land. The latter country, as is , well known, forced its Indian opium upon China at the cannon's mouth, in one of the most infamous wars ever engaged in by a na tion pretending to be civilized. It is in deed by no means improbable that if there had been any considerable American traffic in opium our Commissioners would have hes itated to accept a condition of this kind. But fortunately we have no appreciable in terest, in the sale of that poison, and so we could afford to help China in outm aneuver- ing England. .When the latter sees that the United States have . consented to this prol— bition she will be placed in. a quan dary. If then the insists upon the main tenance of her right to poison the sub jects of the Ptkiu Government, she must put the matter nakedly upon ; the brutal ground of self-interest alone, ' and we do not believe that in the face of the out cry such a position would extort from the civilized world, her Parliament would dare to adhere to the proposition. If the United States in this indirect way succeeds in liberating China from the curse which .the heathen rapacity of Christian England has fastened upon her, she will owe its a debt of gratitude which, - as usual with nations, she will take care not to discharge. Virtue, however, being its own reward, this consideration ought not to be regarded as of any consequence. -' -"-iV. — '—a-a : THE CHRISTIANCY CASE. The sensational episode which lias just brought the Christiancy divorce case to a standstill certainly dots not reflect any credit upon the late Minister to Peru. It appears that the whole case rested upon the affidavit of a hotel ' clerk to the effect that Mrs. Christiancy had occupied a room at his hotel with a person not her husband. And this clerk, being now confronted with Mrs, Christiancy in Court, declares that she is not the woman who was pointed out to him as Sirs. Christiancy, and that in fact he never saw her before. The singular fact about this is not that the clerk should have been mistaken, but that a suit for divorce should bave been commenced upon no better grounds. It is impossible to be lieve that any care was exercised in exam ining the truth of the clerk's statement, for it now appears that he himself relied altogether upon the statement of some body else, and had no personal knowledge of the identity of the lady whose character he!, nevertheless undertook to swear away, Mrs" Christiancy is to be congratulated upon . this vindication of her fame, :' but hardly upon the probable failure of ■ the scheme to ' separate "" her from a husband capable of so re—less and cruel an attack upon his wife's honor. . . RUMORS ABOUT REFUNDING. It is rumored that ' considerable eliffer ence of opinion exists among Congressmen in relation to the refunding bill which is now so peremptorily demanded. Secretary Sherman, it is ; believed, *, will - propose a three per cent, long bond for the majority of the lives and sixes, and also a three-and a-half per cent.' short bond. Doubtless Mr." Sherman understands as well as any man in the country what prospect th"re is of floating securities at lower rate* of interest than have yet been reached, and Congress is not likely to hit upon a more sagacious plan '. than that which his ripe experience suggests. :'; That the fives and sixes can be refunded below four per ' cent, appears ,to be admitted beyond controversy, and the question of three long or three-ana- a half short, is really one ore of simple arithme tic than anything else. SHOULD BE STOPPED. It appears . to ,; us . that . the hat- passing business in regard to General. Grant ought to be stopped, ■ if not by his real friends," • ; then by himself.l : It is now stated that a sum of $100,000 has been collected and is about to be given : to him. - Surely he will : not consent to accept such a gift • - What-" ever he stands in need of the country ought to supply, and we believe is willing ■' to . supply if . it ; is ; properly, approached. But this making of collections for bis bene fit is a kind of : indignity which we should i have thought him too proud' to submit to, and those who admire him too intelligent to force upon him. It strikes us as a very eorry business, bo fir "as it has gone. igf THE PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE. 77The"n essage of the outgoing President is usually of • more consequence to , him \ than of •• interest to the country. The i faces of men are always set forward, and they desire rather to learn the policy and "'. purposes t. of new rulers ; than to -review the coarse of I those who are about to withdraw from the scene of action. . -To the President himself,' however, . his -'■ final . message is . necessarily more than commonly important. He feels it proper and necessary, to rehearse the measures of his administration, to offer sug gestions for the use of his successor, and to make recommendations to Congress which his experience may approve. I It may often be that the last messages of a conscientious Executive contain - more , pregnant '-• and statesmanlike ideas than his earlier \ state papers, since after four years of govern ment' he certainly should be better pre pared to discuss grave questions under stand than when he entered office.. In these times, however, it is very difficult for Presidents to "offer - the public anything new. The press and the department re ports have always forestalled . whatever, of special interest the Government may have to communicate, before Congress : meets, and the result is that unless the Executive be an original thinker his messages are apt to be tame, trite, and not a" little super fluous. President Hayes has written at great length on this occasion, but alarge pro portion of his message is little more than a recapitulation of the statements and sug gestions of the heads of departments, and as these have already been published and commented on, it would be ' a waste of time to notice them again. 7 'Naturally President Hayes devotes considerable space to the important subject of , civil service reform. -What he says of it is partly a vindication and partly an exposition. He of ' course ] adheres to the principles which he has so frequently expressed, and he in timates that though the progress already made in the line of reform has not been very encouraging, yet the results of what has been achieved are so striking as to af ford a tangible basis for further and more vigorous effort. The country is by this time aware that President Hayes suc cumbed, in this regard, to circumstances which stronger men had previously. been much more disastrously overthrown by. But while he failed to carry out the reform he had at heart, it must always be remem bered to his credit that he refused to the last to acknowledge the supremacy of the po litical "bosses," and that he not only en dured the ostracism by which they sought to punish him, with good-natured con tempt, but succeeded in giving the country an administration entirely free from offi- cial scandals, and distinctly moral and ele vated in tone. Whether his views upon Civil Service reform will bear fruit in the coming administration remains to be seen. On the Southern question the President expresses himself hopefully, though as it seems to v-», without sufficient ground?. He endeavors to persuade himself that the change in the political methods of that region from bulldozing to ballot-box stuff ing is an advance in i civilization, and he thinks that in its turn ballot-box stuffing will give place -to better • methods. We are afraid that the change in Southern methods is really attributable to the dis covery that violence 7 was unnecessary, since fraud 'would produce the :S:***ie re sults with lets scandal and noise. That there is aby less disposition at the South to deny the negro j his politiciU rights we see no evidence. He is still disfranchised,' and those who disfranchise 7 him.7 appear in no way- inclined to abandon the power they have usurped. Mr. Hayes has, how ever, nothing to upbraid himself with in' this connection. He took the only course which the Constitution left open to him, and those who find fault with his policy hold by implication that they would have favored unconstitutional methods. , The President is quite severe on Mormon polygamy, and urges upon Congi ess j the duty of abolishing that institution. It is evident that he has not studied the ques tion sufficiently, and that his ideas upon it are rather j ecclesiastical than statesman like. It is not an easy matter to enforce laws which are obnoxious to a whole com munity, and this his Southern experience should have taught him. His recommenda tion that the Territorial Government of Utah be reorganized in order to give effect to Congressional legislation is not at all to the purpose. Any such ' policy '; would he sure to help Mormonism by lighting the flames of fanaticism, while it would merely confirm and intensify the ■ devotion .of the Mormons to plural marriages. - : The ques tion is one to be dealt with in the most cautious manner. Violent methods can only make bad worse. It is quite possible that influences now in operation will de stroy polygamy if they are , suffered to work quietly, but no coercive measures can eradicate an evil so intrenched by su perstition and self-interest. - The views of Secretary Schurz on the Indian question merit the approval of the President. He thinks that the wild tribes may bo : tamed . and taught to cultivate lands secured to them by better titles than they have hitherto enjoyed. Whether the breaking up of tribal relations by legisla tion is practicable we are not prepared to say, but we think the experiment at once bold and dubious. . We : are glad to find that reference 'is made -to the defenseless condition of the entire coast line, and that Congress is urgently recommended to make the necessary appropriations ; for fortifying our great sea-ports. v Unless - this is done, it may at any time become impossible to preserve the dimity of the United States against foreign insolence . or . aggre-ion. ' Reference is : made to the new - Chinese treaties, bat nothing new in regard to them is ' stated. The financial paragraphs" are little more than partial indorsements of the recommendations made by Secretary Sher man, -and, ; singularly ; enough,- the -silver question is not discussed. It is not neces sary to make any special , reference to the other topics discussed in the message. THE RAILROADS AND THE THUR MAN BILL. ■'— —T-. The United States Supreme Court, by its decision on the constitutionality of the so called Thurman bill, affirmed the right of the Federal Government to compel the Pa cific Railroads to make provision for the payment of their debts before those debts . had matured. It declared that Congress could take from the corporations so much of their earnings •as was necessary to the establishment and maintenance of a sink ing fund, and it held that these amounts could be collected annually or semi annually, —i might .be'; thought most con venient. In taking this position the judi cial " and : legislative 5 departments of -. the ! Government necessarily committed them selves to the theory that the debtor corpo rations : must be protected in the exercise of : those functions by which ' alone it can be possible for them to meet the demands of Congress. It is perfectly clear that if the Government compels a corporation to pay a debt out of its current earnings, it is under obligation to protect its debtor in | securing these earnings. .It cannot permit ; a subordinate 7" authority . to .; interpose 5 a i scheme . of "regulation" under which all , | guarantee : for the : receipt of any. definite ' : ' amount of earnings is destroyed. - It cannot ,". 1 insist that the railroads shall make bricks ! without straw. \ In such a . case ; every j assault upon the earning capacity of the rail | roads is an assault upon its own interests, j and it must guard those interests by the j j exercise of its ' power aud prerogative. The' Central Pacific ' Railroad has been I threatened by the new Constitution of this I State i with the practical destruction of its | wage-earning capacity. That instrument , has created a tribunal, under the style and title' of, a Railroad Commission, which is j clothed with authority whose full exercise j would divest the corporation of every yes- j tige of independence and self-help. It is ; empowered to fix schedules of charges for i 1 freights and fares without any reference to the business necessities of the corporation, j ' and by direct implication it is required to adjust these schedules from the standpoint of the popular , interest alone, which is equivalent to saying that the purchaser in stead ef the seller is to fix the price of the things to be sold. : '.. It is plain that the principle underlying this Railroad Commis sion is in complete contravention of the designs of Congress in passing the Thur man bill. That bill was based .on . the hypothesis that the then existing tariffs of ' charges would : enable the " companies to set asido a certain percentage of their earnings without injury to the \ interests ' they were compelled to conserve. It was conceived necessarily under the as sumption that the statue quo would be preserved, - and its enactment devolved upon Congress and the Supreme Court the obligation of preserving and maintaining the conditions whose existence it'assumed. But the State of California in adopting the new Constitution traversed the position of Congress. It decreed the creation of an entirely new condition of things as re garded the railroad. It acted without any consideration for the relations between the Federal, Government and the corporation. It undertook to deal with the latter pre . cisely as though it had been under no other than State control, and it . proposed to regulate and control the resources of the company in the most arbitrary and despotic manner. In doing, this it produced an issue between itself and the Federal Gov ernment, and one' which the latter cannot afford to ignore or postpone. If the State has the power to deal as it pleases with the earnings of the Central Pacific Railroad, it is perfectly clear that the United States can possess but the shadow of authority over the corporation. For it is apparent that the powers intrusted to the Stato Railroad Commission are of such extent that it could if it chose cut off the entire profits of the road. In that case the payments to be made to the Gov ernment under the Thurman bill could not be met. It would, however, be useless for Congress to complain of a state of things produced by powers wholly beyond the centred of the corporation.. It would have but one avenue of redress, and that would be by attacking the authority and jurisdic* tion cf tho ate in the * premises. That this : course will be taken there can bo no doubt, since not to take it would, be to admit tho" supremacy of State over National authority. It may be presumed without rashness that the Supreme . Court, which j has showed so marked a .lousy for the maintenance of Federal "supremacy in many instances, of late, and which is : in ' fact ' so deeply com mitted to a policy of centralization, and to the entire subordination, if not the entire abrogation, of : State rights, will find it necessary to take ' the position here indi cated when the case i 3 brought before it. Any other position, indeed, would be in contradiction to the principles so clearly enunciated in the Chicago Elevator cases, and in the decision on the Thurman bill, and would obviously go far toward over | throwing that elaborate edifice of national I sovereignty which has cost the Court sa much labor .daring the past decade. It may therefore be most taken for ''granted that the Supreme Court will hold the State Railroad Commission to be an unconstitu tional body, at least in so far :as the ple nary power intrusted to it is concerned. It will probably decide that the State cannot delegate power the exercise of which may involve the defeat of Congressional legisla j tion, and that it must, in undertaking the reg l ulation of the railroads within its limits, i confine itself . to such reasonable and jus! I provisions •as will not . endanger the rev enues of corporations indebted to the Na tional . Government. This appears to be tho inevitable line of reasoning in the case under discussion, and it is further evident that the Central Pacific Railroad Company is bound to urge the issue to adjudication, seeing that in the absence of any determi nation of the . question it is practically situated between the upper and the nether millstone. 1 The National Government says it must pay its debt. The * State Govern ment says it shall not *be allowed to con trol its own finances. Under these circum stances there is nothing for it but to bring the conflicting - authorities together, and obtain, as speedily as possible, the judg- I ment of the supreme tribunal upon their j relative powers in the premises. 1 SCHURZ ON THE TIMBER QUESTION. V Secretary Schurz in his report • calls .the attention of Congress to the rapid true- tion of redwood and other timber in this State, and urges protective legislation > as absolutely necessary to i prevent the , com- ! plete - disappearance of , the Big Trees. There can be no doubt that Congress ought to legislate in regard to ; timber, generally," in a more intelligent and effectual . manner than has yet been done. 7 The ; destruction of , the forests which clothe the Sierras :• is proceeding at a rate which in : less than a generation must produce most serious , ill effects upon the best interests of the State. In many places the demolition which is go ing on is not compensated by any new growths. 7 Indeed where the acclivities are steep the ! action of avalanches *, renders . a second growth impossible, and in this way, preparations are : being , unceasingly '-. made for the formation of torrents," and ; f or,., the future destruction of valley lands : by sud den floods. 7 All these matters we have re peatedly discussed, but Congress ;■ lias ; had too much political work in hand for several years to pay much attention to mere ques tions of practical legislation. V . .; THESE ORIGINAL STORIES. ': During the coming . year, and commencing De cember lit, the Wsb.lt ; Csiox trill publish three Prize Stories of California. 1: The first, 'AAiCpvbJ lication if which will commence in the first Keck . of December, r tall be entitled,' £ The Yentimt and A d centum of Charlie J Gould. ..J Thit it an in/ Untely . interesting Tttory of .- the ■ Stock-Gambling perio of California, and wot written by Edward F. Cahill, of hoi Angela.'; The price of the W_a_r Usios teill be ti SO perannu.tnJ'^a^^^^^^M -A Chicago girl made an unsuccessful at tempt at suicide by, swallowing brimstone. Now, 1 by chewing a little phosphorus, she ought to make a pretty gooa match. 77, v 7 COAST DISPATCHES. SPECIAL TO THE RECORD -UN I ON . j ■'. — — — ' I CALIFUKMA. — t-msm, — ' .iigmi" " mi 1111 1 - Moo lioesllon of International la it. >a . \ San 7 Francisco, % December j. 6th. — The ! habeas corpus case of j Clodomiro Cota came ! up in the Superior Court to-day. - Cota was j recently arrested under the extradition treaty' with v Mexico, charged ■--:■ with i kidnaping, ; handed over to the custody of I the Mexican I Coesu', and confined on board the Mexican I gunboat now in the harbor. :- His friends ob- I tamed a writ of habeas corpus returnable to day. A nice j question of international law i arose I thereon, counsel for the .* Mexican authorities holding that the Court has no jurisdiction in the j case, as a war vessel is legally part of the country to which it be longs. Counsel for : Cola wished to have the commander of the gunboat imprisoned for re fusing : to produce Cota. « In view of • the delicacy of the case, the Court took the mat ter under advisement until to-morrow. Cota's friends claim that the charge of - kidnaping is trumped up against Cota with a view of getting him into the hands of the Mexican Government, he having been engaged in the revolutionary movement against that Gov ernment. ;, .• v;77:-v,77 I I lie Mussel - -.-:•— Case— .Smail-Pox. San Francisco, D-cember 6:h. — In the Mussel Slough case nothing new was devel oped by the evidence offered in the after noon, Robinson and L.Opnenheimer both testifying to facts previously adduced. Tha increase in cases of small-pox is so great that additions have been made at the pest-bouse, notwithstanding which there are only five spare beds, and a still further en latgenient must be made." The Sclirorter .Wurc'cr Trial Oakland, December Oth. — The Court-room was again crowded this morning. When the outer doors were opened there was a rush of spectators to obtain seats. Those who could not get places to sit contented themselves with standing room. , Judge Green asked counsel engaged in the Schroder case about how long the trial would last. Hall McAllister said he believed the testi mony would all be iv to-day, and he supposed the trial would end Wednesday evening. . The entire forenoon was taken un by the testimony of Dr. Meares, Health Officer of San Francisco, in reference to insanity. When the Court-room doors were reopened at 1 o'clock there was another rush for seats, and very soon all the sitting and standing space outside the railing was pre-empted. : The defense recalled Sarah Gallagher, the servant girl in the Schroder family who testi fied on her first examination to so many in terviews with Dr. Lefevre. Mr. McAllister ln your previous testi mony you said that you sent for Mr. Mont gomery and told him that you did not want to be exposed. Did that relate to anything between yourself and Mr. Schroder? A.— No. Witness also testified : "I was in St. Joseph's Convent, . Sacramento, before I worked for Mrs. Schroder. I also worked in a convent at San Francisco." The defense then closed. The prosecution offered in rebuttal Schro der's evidence at tho preliminary examina tion, to which the defense objected, and pending the argument the case was continued until to-morrow morning. W.ratlie -cports. Placer December 6.h. — Rainfall for the stor_ , 7.— inches; for the sea-ron, 7.95 inches. Wind southeast, with prospects of more rain. Snow fell sixteen miles east last night. 7vv'.V . . VsoSic Shasta, December 6th.— Rain still con tinues to pour down. The rainfall to date is 6 3 inches. It is very cold, with tho wind from the south. . "77 : ■ PLYMOUTH, December 6th.— A strong wind is blowing from the southeast. The sky is overcast with heavy clouds, with indications of rain before morning. !>■: alii in Prison. . Mautsyi lle, . Decani G'.h. — A man named John Dunn was received in the City Prison last evening and died during the right of apoplexy. ."Deceased was a n .tiva of Ireland, aged about 58 years, end was lately •engaged on tho levee work near Wheatland. . A Santa Burlmra Phono— ciio.i. - Santa Barbara. December Gih.— Oa Fri day night, about 10 o'clock, a vivid Huh of lightning was observed at Los Alamos, sec 111 --jii'l'e-.i by tha loudest peal of thunder ever heard in that region. People lushed out of their houses and heard a sound like the rush in , of mighty waters, v which, after a time, subsided. . The next day for a few hours the Santa Yn»z and Santa Maria rivers were swollen to a remarkable extent. Lesipo creek, in Ventura county, j and Santa Ignaeio creek, near Go'eta, were also swollen enormously. The inevitable conclusion is that an immense waterspout burst in the Santa Inez moun tains, north of Santa Barbara, which flooded all the streams heading in the vicinity. Grand I'onneil of the Champion, or ':.''■:"' fl*— _ or. '."'-777 Shasta, December o;h. The MountShasta Grand Council of the Champions of Honor convened at Shasta to day, Grand Command er Aaron Bell presiding. Quite : a large number of delegates from the subordinate Councils are in attendance. .7 -."r 77 Mojave Passenger*. Mojave, December Cth. — following southern overland passengers passed Mojave to-day to arrive in San Francisco to-morrow : J. 11. Strobiidge, ' New Mexico ; G. H. Walker, San Francisco ; H. Light, '. Tomb stone ; T. F. Tracey, San Francisco ; G. Smith, San Francisco ; T. G. Jones, New York C. C. Reynolds. Los Angeles ; J. M. Rice, Globe ; J. P. Lawyer, Mr?. J. K. Weston, San Francisco ; Jas. Conway, Ben son. V. 7- ''____— ___' NEVADA. Passenger* . Passlnz Curl ln. Carlis, December 6th. — The following passengers passed Carliu to-day, to arrive in Sacramento to-morrow : Miss M. J. Miles, Ohio ; Mrs. E. S. Caldwell, ; Miss Jette Dilldieimer, Mr*. M. E. Hosier, J. C. Weber, 1 James W. Conrow, New York ; S. Leach, Miss Hattio Leacb, J. S. Waterman and wife, D. =R. Jones, ■ Illinois ; Miss Louise Liuter, St. Louis, Mo.; S. H. Brodie, San Francisco ; D. C. Spr»irow, Reno, Nev.; Miss M. I— aycraft, Canada; Mrs. E. Mayberry family, 11. Sherwood and family, Califor nia; Frank Eimes, Oakland ; Mrs. E. Cle ment, Carson City, Nev ; Mrs. Mary Mc- Gowan, Jersey City ; Bliss £la Chapman, Portland, : Me.; W. S. Tuttle and family, Kentucky; Mr. Mnrit, Omaha ; 39 emigrant passengers, including 33 males, to arrive in Sacramento December B'.h. A $50,000 Failure- Fined Tor Fishing. Carson, December Gib.— Duncan Meßae, wood contractor, failed here to-day for about 550, 000. ■ . : -■ -■ -"7--; '" Seven men were sentenced to-day in the United States District Court for fishing in Pyramid Lake. The leader, J. S. Sturgeon, was fined SI, OOO, and the rest SSOO each. " V Suicide on the Car*. . Winnemccca, ■ December ; Glh. — The body of a suicide was brought in by the express train from the east this evening. He was a through passenger from New York, went into the water-closet of the car, placed a pistol in his mouth and killed himself. "i". The body lies in the freight house awaiting the action of the Coroner. An examination of his effects show that he -. was a Polander, quite recently ar rived - from Europe.'. His name ' is Anton Ullinski. V He was probably 55 or 60 years of age, and quite ; bald. - He , had a heavy grey beard. I He was a tailor ; by trade, judging from his baggage, and had over $100 in coin and a list ol j bonds | for a large amount, to gether with •' letters from . bankers in New York. :No cause is known lor the act, as it could ' not have been from financial trouble. -..[■-■■ . ;.: y.-.-'J ■'_»«**s . •___•_. Frightful Death— Weather— Suspension of Navigation. Portland, December 6th.— A man named Duti— in McNeil, living at Comstock, Doug lass couuty, was instantly killed yesterday. McNeil became entangled |in the traces of a runaway ■ team, and '. was dragged over 100 yards. . His neck was j broken, also several ribs crushed, and his body horribly mangled. Deceased was aged 53 years, and a native of England. 7 -■■.:..-' "-. The . temperature 'i has greatly moderated here. " " ; A _ warm , southern v rain ? has # pre vailed during the afternoon : and evening The snow, which has fallen ,to a depth of a foot or more, is rapidly disappearing. 1 The storm has not extended more than fifty miles south. -_ Had the storm ; prevailed generally over the valley a . heavy , flood might be ex"- ' pected, . and i the , warm rain I will cause the snow to melt ,very rapidly. "; High water is I anticipated in a few days, but as ; the Willa mette is extremely low no damage will prob- I ably result. Report* from up the Columbia are .very ducouragirg. 7At ; Umatilla this i morning the j thermometer stood at 6" The ' temperature is very low at iWallnla, Celilo, The Dalies : and Cascades, rAt The Dalles and Cascade* the snow is fifteen inches deep,' ! and -a * heavy s storm " is * prevailing " The ! is fiUed with'fljaUng ice from the mouth of d the ' Willamette ;to th» head of, navigation. At the Dalles there is a tremen* * ___<_!__ |of 1 ice clear across j the river ' ' Should the weather continue warm here th.. I ice siege will not be raised and navigation re sumed for a week or ten days. .-* 7 ."" 7 Owing to the suspension of navigation mail communication is interrupted with all regions east of , the Cascade mountains,' and the , de pressing effects are felt on trade generally.'.:*-?' -06-o*l TKUEITOST. . tv.uilii-r Tousling Midden Dcatli.7 , . Olyjipia,' December (ith. — During the last 30 hours there has been a fall of IS inches of snow. ' The weather is now moderating, and a slight rain is falling. A.T.A-i- y-AA- ; 7 Coasting is all' the rage here, although sev eral casualt'es have occurred '■- among those engaged in it. 7 . 77;, 7.. iV. Yesterday morning Mr. Neate,' a ' promi nent drucgist of this place, died very sud denly. He went to his store and .opened it as usual, but in a short time returned home, complaining of feeling unwell. A physician was sent for, but before his arrival Mr. Neate was dead. He : has ■- been i for some time troubled ■ with gravel, and has been in the habit of taking small quantities of chloral to deaden the pain, and the doctor thinks he iv haste took too large a quantity, which caused i his death. V He leaves a wife and son. "■■■ ■ ' ■ A STORY OF THE WAR. Joseph Win d, an ex guardsman' of Libby Prison, tells the following story of his experience while standing guard over the prisoners one night in Libby Prison I in 1803 : "The building was so crowded with prisoners that a large number of them were Quartered in the second story of a building across the street. In the first story of this building j the prison j officers j had stowed a r large quantity 'of splendid, largo, North Carolina . sweet potatoes. About the , third * day after the prisoners had been placed in the: building it ■ was noticed that tho potatoes were r disap pearing at the rate of about a bushel : a day. At first it was thought that the rats had taken them, but a second thought showed that the idea was absurd.-. Sent*, nels were posted around the building, with orders to shoot any man caught stealing those potatoes ; but they didn't see any body to shoot, and, " although they were posted there day and night, and no ono was allowed to enter the room in which the potatoes were kept, they still continued to disappear. These potatoes at that time were considered luxuries, and the Con federate officers were nearly; wild with rage at their repeated losses. The doors and windows „of the room were sealed, and private marks were put on the wax. The next morning the officers went into the room. The wax was all right, but another bushel of potatoes had vanished. It was the maddest crowd you ever saw. They locked me in, and a lighted candle was put at each end of the room so that I could see. I was ordered to shoot on sight any body that I saw stealing those yams. I was terribly lonesome in that room. Just as fast as I would light one candle and go to the other end of the room to light the other, the rats would cut the first one down. They were regular Confederate rats, and a candle was a godsend to them. About midnight I heard a creaking, grat ing noise. . I cocked my gun and listened. The noise ceased, I could Bee nothing but the rats, and 1 began to think that the place was haunted. Presently the noise occurred again. I looked at the pile of potatoes, and presently saw something shoot from the ceiling and fall on them. ' ,1 saw it was a brick, and could distinguish a rope tied to it. I crept a little nearer to get a good look at the thing, but before I could examine it, it was drawn slowly up, and there was ■-. about a peck of potatoes sticking ' to it. It went up through a hole, which had been j cut in the floor above, and presently came i down again with a thump right among the potatoes. It was the most artful arrange ment you ever saw. The brick had about fifty holes drilled in it, and | through each j hole a sharpened teupenny naiL had been i run, so that when . the ; brick fell among j the potatoes these nails stuck into every one they tell on. I couldn't help laughing at tho smart dodge those Yankees hail taken. I gently pat my hand forward and caught hold of the rope. Pretty soon they begun to draw on it, and when it did not move I heard one fellow say : 'Steady, lioys ; the brick's hung in something. Pull her steadily without jerking.' They did pull steadily, and fairly lilted ,me from tho floor. 'No jerk; easy, boys, easy,' the director said, and they tugged away. I ■ got pretty red in .the face holding to the rope. v I was afraid to let go. be cause I thought some of tho3c spiked nails might strike me in passing. I thought of my pocket-knife, and hauled it out just as they were putting all their weight on the other end of the rope. I cut it in two, and the end shot back through the hole in the ceiling, and I could hear a rolling and tumbling on the floor above, show ing that the sudden giving way of the rope had had a disastrous effect. ■ I heard another voice say : There, now, I told, you so. You've broken the rope. We've lost our brick, and to-morrow we'll be found out.' Then another voice called out: . 'Can't you see it? We might hook it up.' Next I saw a long neck protrud ing through the hole, and a fellow peering down. • Then I . called out: 'If you trouble any more' of those potatoes I'll shoot.' That fellow's head shot back through that hole just like a terrapin, and it was as still as death up there. I hated to tell on them, because it wa3 such a sharp scheme of foraging- on the enemy, but I had to. When the officers went up the next morning to ex amine the room it took a long time to find the hole. Those Yankees had cut a hole about a foot square through | the floor, and it was : done bo neatly that it took good eyes to discover it." . 77W- AN UNKNOWN TURNING-POINT. _ — — — I In . 1532 Dr. Wood was surgeon of '■■ a twelve-gun schooner, cruising in the gulf. A man-of-war of - the existing Mexican Government V committed an act of piracy upon a United States merchantman. . The schooner captured the offender off Tam pico, in view of five consorts. But the Captain of the Port of j Tampico was a Baltimorean, a > townsman of Dr. Wood; and was aboard his ship at the time. He was by a ruse de guerre . decoyed aboaid the schooner, and held tliere until the de sired capture was completed, From that time till he met him in the City of Mexico, fourteen years later, Dr. Wood . had not heard of his Tampico townsman. But, while on this perilous journey, this friend came up to the doctor in a hotel in the City of Mexico. . They looked jat each other ; the recognition ,- was : instant | and mutual. The Captain said, gravely : '- 7 ' V " You took me prisoner once, and I have you now." The Doctor was startled, but, affecting indifference, made some light reply. The Captain took him to his own room and told him he Wis disgusted I with j the Mexican Government, and would never take part against ' his : own country. The streets of Mexico were rife with war news." Resaca de : la Pal ma and , Palo Alto had ! been fought, and Dr. Wood I heard, with bitter ness, the newsboys calling out exaggerated accounts of "Overwhelming defeat of the North Americans." But this . Tampico Captain was an I intimate friend of Torel, the Mexican War | Minister, | and he -told Dr. Wood these * accounts were false, pub lished to deceive the people. The flower of the Mexican irrny had been annihilated by Dr. _ Wood's • own life-long - friend, Zaoh r.ry Taylor. -V Surgeon Wood, through this channel, every night' learned the discus- sions of the Mexican Cabinet, and received, as it were, from the Minister of War him self, the latest secrets of the campaign and of the national policy. 7 All this informa tion, together with his own observations, ■Dr.", Wood promptly j transmitted to Sloat, through the Mexican mail?, under neutral i cover. ;On the receipt of this, which at , the time was characterized as " vital " and | " all-important " | information, Sloat - him- j self put to sea, and joined the Cyane and | Levant at Monterey, where, on the 7th of j July, he raised : the stars and stripes and j formally took . possession Bof ■* California. . Admiral ! Seymour arrived" one day later,* j and was terribly chagrined to find that he ' had been outwitted, that American patriot- | ism had been superior to his carefully laid { plan' V and -. that . California '• w as .- lost to , Great Britain forever. -[C. E. ; S. Wood in the Californian. ,7 '-'.*-,-.:* • -'■ " : a a A:J..:-y- VHAS-BK'* GLYCEROLS OF TAB, for coughs and , colds, contain* no opiates or astringent*. The best . . preparation out for children. 7-77 V ;"-,: .-' ■-■ .-..—-.•,■".? -"' '"■ .. , _ V \'J~A* ' -!____'» C_— — i Sairapa BtrritßS touch- the right spot in dyspepsia, canstipatioa and liver com- . - ■*dnt, '■■_ ■-,-,-" " _" faHAmo-'BOiaTCBROta' Tar. -The most TertKt -■ cough cure extant.> Hundred* can testify to It* good . effect* I HOLIDAY ISSUE. y Following the custom first established by this pa per the Record-Uhion will on the Ist day of Janu ary, ISSI, issue a mammoth edition containing valu able statistics, business review of Sacramento, and interesting special art— le*. -V "* ' The superior value of [ the New , Year's issues of this paper is already so well known as to require no detail of the prospectus. j The coitions of this spe cial issue have often reached 30,000 of the daily alone. 5 All matter presented in the daily reappears in the Weekly Union, thus receiving the widest and most general circulation. **"■_■ , "; 7 i '..V'V' ' 7The-EECOBD.U.siON andWEEKLT Union am the only, papers published " outside ef . the metropolis having a genera] circulation. -.- "-y :; The Weekly has over ten TiotEs the circu lation of its local —temporaries, and the largest and most general circulation of any weekly published on this 'coast.';'; -AJAy 77: , "_.! '-.;, ODDS AND ENDS. '.- Cider is so cheap in New Jersey that the Police Justices have • reduced the fine on drunks to half a dollar. : 7 The Detroit Free Press believes that the scenes of the new play, " Five Hundred Thousand Devils," are laid in Chicago. In the ordinary walks of life you can perform civil service : toward your fellow men without bringing in a bill for the pur pose."---• - .-"- ,- y'-T-'-t 7 The trees are beginning to get their trunks in order, and they'll keep thetei so all winter, so they can leave early in the spring. 77 ."..:";;: v.'; 77V 77 . A man " out west " was offered a plate of maccaroni soup, but declined it, declar ing that they couldn't play off any bilcd pipe-stems on him. ,7 .:. . 77 7 Spiccr says ' he has almost forgotten about baseball terms now, but when he goes to the museum he cannot bat think that R. M. is the right Field. ,-"; ■-' . '■ i A medical writer asks : "Does position affect sleep?" . Well, rather if you're hung up by your trousers on a spiked fence, you won't sleep very soundly. — [Boston Post. :.- -l\£A The Prince of Wales has won 875,000 on horse races. If he win or lose, it troubles him but little. In the former case, half a dozen of his subjects pay it ; in the latter, all of them. ' , A.'k'l -:.y "Landlady," said he, "the coffee isn't settled." "No," she replied, "but it comes 'as near -to it as your last month's board bill does ;" and that man never spoke again during the meal. It was not a bad comment on what some men call " business " that an old German made in . New York. He said: "Der beeples go round der streets all day sheat ing each odder, and dey call it pizziness ! " " By Jove '." exclaimed Harry ; " look at that girl ! What color 1 She's the picture of health." Said Dick, who has learned to discriminate between -nature and art, "A picture of health I A painting, you mean." - Emerson says a man ought to carry a pencil and note down the thoughts of the moment. Yes, and one short pencil, de voted exclusively to that use, would last some men we know about 2,000 years, and then have the original point on. . Everyone, at least once in his life, passes through the - rapturous experience of the young man -who, while sitting by the side of the lady of his choice, heard her heart beat so loud that he thought some one was at the door and cried cut " Come in." 7 A' Boston' publisher 1 announces : " " Out of the Deep ; Words for the Sorrowful." It is timely. A copy should be in the hands of every Democrat who voted for Hancock. • There is not a more sorrowful lot of people in existence to-day.— [Norris towu Herald. ,'-■■ :■: 7 ': : ■■; «'.; .'■»>.-- New .York belles, are wearing the Zulu hat. It is hoped that they. will not adopt the Zulu full dress. It would I occasion re mark, except at one of Queen Victoria's receptions. A Zulu full dress costs about twenty cents, and is cut extremely decol lete at both ends. vVV-. 71 Miss Florence Toole, the rear old daughter of the comedian, is described as the possessor of remarkable literary ability; and it is thought that her. father will pre sently be able to get his pieces written for him at home. V There's nothing like having the Tooles in the house- when one wants to construct a play. • . 77;:" 77 " It is understood that the New York Sorosis has decided that the cold shoulder be .turned- to . Sarah Bernhardt." [Ex. Bless you, dear girls, Sarah wouldn't mind cold shoulders if you did not wear more than a shoulder strap above your waist. If it was a question of cold feet now she might possibly object. \ Dennis Kearney has retired' from politi cal life with the pathetic remark that he "is now compelled to seek a livelihood " for his family. Seek ! as far away as possi ble, Denny. It would break all our hearts to see you step down ; from your proud pedestal of rant and blasphemy to indulge in so vulgar a pastime as labor. We notice 'in the Philadelphia Times a poem entitled "Another Autumn." If the editor of our esteemed contemporary had passed the autumn just closed in this city and read all the poems about it that came to this office ho would never think of let ting the tangle-haired brigade start in on another one at this season of the year. " Yes, I am up to my ears in business," said Jones, swelliugly. Well, there's no danger you'll ever get over tl- em, Jones ; not a bit of danger," said Smith; at the same time putting his thumbs to the tops of his own ears and flipping his hand) up and down like a loose casement in the win, , Jones wonders what the d.-uee Smith meant. , . A lady correspondent wants to know if we can tell her in a brief space "the b duti ful story of Lancelot ; and Elaine." BWe cannot ; but we can tell you briefly the beautiful story of Santa Claus and Elaine. The mare won the first heat in 2:20, but lost the race through a break on the home stretch. There was no horse called Lance lot in the race. You probably got things a little mixed. : i : 77.V 'A"young man in a dentist's chair in Waterbury, Conn., fancied he was riding a bicycle, and forthwith striking out with great vigor, put each foot through a pane of glass in, the window before ; him.— [Ex. And yet, while under the influence of the ana-3thetic he 7 probably felt no pane. [Richmond (Ya. ) Baton. Perhaps . the young man . imagined - he was : at a dance, and the prompter had: just called out : "All sash, hey [Boston Journal of Com merce. . v7-7'i'7% ' . The Buffalo Express wants to know who invented kissing. We don't think it was ever.' invented ;< : it just came kind o* natural, like a shock of sugar-coated elec tricity. .:. Our first i mother, iv her maiden innocence, asked Adam : to tell her if her back hair was all right, and we presume he couldn't help it. We couldn't .if we had been Adam; and the girl's mother away at a prayer meeting. — [ "New York Commercial." It only remains fur the : Commercial to tell who Eve's mother was, and • what church she attended.— [Buffalo Express. 7. :7r . j**' ;, In the cape of , a gentleman : wishing to marry literally 'in : the " market with his heart— he wears a plain or chased gold ring upon , the I forefinger of his left (or, heart) hand.77 When success attends his suit and he is actually engaged, . the j ring 1 passes .to the third finger. •• If, however,' the gentle-' man desires to tell the fair ones that be not only is not]," the market," but he does not design to marry at all, he . wears the sign upon : hia little finger, and all ladies may understand that he is out of their reach. .' This is important if true. '■; ■''_ Prince Pierre f Bonaparte, who was too crippled to witness his i son >R eland's civil wedding, . writes % from Versailles *to the Figaro: "In your notice of the "th of November of my son's marriage you omitted giving "him j the : titles ' to which : he ; has a right. -fi ßoland 'f is J Prince,' * Highness, and Moustigneur, -as my .daughter Jeanne is 1 Princess "and * Madame. I - count on your : equity for inserting this letter, and assure \ you of my high ,7 consideration." Prince i Roland, his . wife and i mother-in-law, after 1 the civil ceremony, drove ' to ..Versailles to , dine with Prince Pierre, who wept as Mile. , Blanc, the bride, begged him to regard her I as an affectionate daughter. " - Bi— at* - th* ' Liver with - Hammer**. Cascara Ssgrada Bitters, and health I* th* result. '...:.-"--';' j ! "yiJ^Ay-lA MARRIED. Sacramento, December B— By Rev. H. H. Rice, Wm. = Brewer, ( f Stockton, to Caroline Sparrow, of Sac- ' ramento. i>-tV *■- --, -— '--'_■*'- •-. ;-."* Sacramento, Decent cr 2— By P. H. Coggin*, Justice i of the Peace, Walter Bernard to Carrie Watkin*. I I 7vb6rn.?*:"7 Sacruu ento, December C -Wife of J. T. Kagee, a son. j^T^^^ M^^^^_j_______g____giigsMg«s*ii.sisiia**Msa^s, U'l aa-J^-'^a DIED. 7 ; ':{;'] ' V -v |.' Sacramento, December Howard, youngest son of I y E. and E. Fait, 3 months and 7 days. . , . ; : [Friends and acquaintances are respectfully invited j V to attend the funeral, which will take place from j " there-deuce of Matheno Wood, No. 502 0 street," between Fifth and Sixth, this Tuesday) afternoon a', 3 o'clock.] ,: - Sacramento, Tecember. 5-Friedrich Gotthold, 00 ; years. ;' /• [Friends and acquaintances "are respectfully invited | to attend the funeral, which will take place from Turner Hall, X street, bet wren Ninth and Tenth, this afternoon at 2:30 o'clock. I Near 'i Fresport, December ; s— Charles Neubauer (grandson of R. A. G. and Mary Gourlie), a native of California, 13 years, 3 months and 10 days. (Friends and acquaintances arc respectfully invited I to attend the funeral, which will take place from S the residence of j his grandfather, two miles below Freeport, this forenoon at 10 o'clock; thence to St. Rose's Church, where funeral services will be- held at 12:15 o'clock.] Florin, December 6— Mary E. Jackson, a native of j New York, 23 years. -. Ply mouth, December 3— Mrs. Susaunah Rodda, a native if Breage, Cornwall, England, 39 years. Plymouth December 3— Mrs. M«ry Coleman, a na- tive of Abcrsychan, Monmouthshire, Wales, ; 52 years and 25 days. ■ ■ - 7 Mortality Report, ' For the week ending December 4, ISSO, made by W. C. FARyswoRTH, Superintendent of the City ;, Cemetery. . Office, No. tot J street : ,_ November 27— Jaimcs o.* Breelon,'so years; Ireland. November 29- Mabel E. Hornback,2 years, 1 mouth and 14 days ; California. Mary Fa:. nandis, — years, 11 month's aud i days ; Ireland. *T fci:; "-". ■' a November 30— Henry : Sternfels, 09 years and 1 month ; German v. - . December I— Josephine Ruhl, I- year, 10 months and 13 days ; California. Richard E. Gaging*, 62 years, 8 months and 27 days ; Maryland. Besides the above there were brought here tor In- terment the follow-in : . _ November 29— Howard W. Banyan, i years, 5 months and 15 days ; California. '. November 30— Conrad Suns, 62 years; Cermany. Michael Cunningham, CO . v c- r;, ; Ireland. December Martin Ryan, 20 years Australia. December!! George Bene son, 35 years ; Denmark. George Foster, 37 years ; New York. " NEW = ADVEBTISEMMT-T The Annual Heetln ;>: sarranii-aio a Royal Arch Chapter, No. 3, at the ha:l, _^NA_ ' THIS (rucsday) EVENING, at 7 o'clock, >*ii\ j for the election of office— and the trausac- ' ▼ x . tion of Important business Sojourning Companions are cordially invited to attend. - By order of ■ W. B. DAVIS, H. P. A. A. Reuinotox. Secretary. d7-lt I. O. O. F.— ©Ulcers and mem- o^i____«_. ber* of Rising Star — sbekah Degree - 'a^^&S-' Lodge, No. S, are requested to attend -." -^ V the regular meeting to be neld THIS (Tuesday) EVENING, at 7:30 o'clock. SAXL— ! A. WHITE, N. G. Kat* Bovd, Secretary. a7-lt Attention. Men— en »! the Sacramento Turn Yen in.— members of the Sicrameuto Turn Vera— are hereby ordered to appear at their hall THIS (Tuesday) AFTERNOON, at 2 o'clock sharp, to attend the funeral of our late member, F. GOTT- HOLD. " _d7-lfi E. H«GkIaSTEIN, Leader Ancient Order of Forester*.— wish- ing to Join the above Order are invited to attend a preliminary meeting to be held at Henry Longton's residence, 614 N street, between Sixth and Seventh, WEDNESDAY EVENING, at 7:30 o'clock. d7-2f . A~ YOUNG WIDOW WISHES A SITUATION a* housekeeper for a widower with children ; city or country. Address 1411 J street d 7 3t* FOR SALE AT A BARGAIN-THE FURNl- ture and good-will of the Orleans Lodging- house, consisting of 35 finely furnished noma and 25 unfurnished room", doing a good business. The r ansient business amount? to from"-'5O to ¥100 per month. Apply on tbe premises, or to SHERBURN & SMITH, No. 321 X street, Sacramento. d7-lplw POPULAR LECTURES. DR. J. SIMMS, THE CELEBRATED PHY- BlognoD and entertaining speaker, will lecture on physiognomy each evening ibis week, - except THURSDAY, at the Congregational Church, on Sixth street, between T aim J, and delineate character each day, at the ante-room of the Church. . . ."■■ u7-5t- ELL.& KOLLIKkif, jK."o*^ X£J , a*"£», I'SKXEa SIATU AXI» 3 STREET— Just Received for the Holidays FINE TOILET SETS,* FINE CASES PER-^_« ' turnery, Lubiu's, Palmer's, Atkinson'* OS4 and Fellow's ,I..vUlN'i-: EXTRACTS. Y?/ ALSO _: .- < ._.:•»- LOT of FAXIT ARTICLES. - . d7-3rlm ■ ■ . NEW YORK MARKET, i Xoriheast Corner of Ii and Tenth Streets. A 'LARGE SUPPLY OF THE Jgjar.i— Cfv j\_ choicest kinds of Fresh and Sal; (gff $?*r?t* Beat* always on hand, delivered free , sjteii"-__N to any part of the city. " — a a : d7-4iilrn M F. QUELL. p¥EEA_B CffiiiEYr-l. TERRA COTTA AX9 WAKE. 3s_«_ _s_3 __■ __ _*3MCX_7__:, .Vc. 317 J .-Ire- 1. Mie-ramenlo, t'al. - - d7-3plm PROBATE NOTICE. STATE OF CAI IFuRMA, COUNTY OF SACRA- mento. In the Superior Court. In the matter of the estate of RICHARD E. GOGINGS, de- ceased. In the superior Court of the county of Sac- ramento. Tho People of the State of California, send greeting : In purruin ce of an order of the Hon. S. C. Denson, Judge of the Superior Court of the county afor. said, duly made and entered on the 6th day of DECEMBER, IS SO, notice is hereby given that MONDAY, the 20th day of DECEMBER, —80, at 10 o'clock a. m. of said day, at the Courtroom, at Court-house, in the county of Sacramento, has been appointed as the time and place for hearing the ajplicati' n of PHEBE D. . GCCINGS, RICHARD E. GOGINGS, JR., - and MARY EMMA MANN, praying that a document now on file in this Court, purporting to be the last will and testament of KICIIA-.D F. GOG- INGS, deceased, be admitted to probate, and that letters testamentary be issued thereon to said peti- tioners, who are named ther. in as Executors, at which, time and place a'l persons interested may appear and contest the same. "et- It is further ordered by the Court, that notice hereof be made by publication for ten successive days in the Record -Union, a newspaper printed and j published in said Sacramento county. Witness mv hand and the seal of said Court hereto affixed, this 6th day of DECEMBER, A. D. 1—0..-;?."... THOS. JL BERKEY. Clerk. By J. H. Parnell, Deputy Clerk. . L. S. Tat lor. Attorney for Petitioners. "--.-" ' " 07-10t-, ■ '•■ ■ DR. SPINNEY & CO., OF NO. II KEARNY STREET, SAN FSANCIS 0, Treat all Chronic and Special R— e_K_ 7 Toes*- tan WHO MAY BE SUFFERING FROM THE effects of youthful tollies or lcdiscre-ion, will do well to avail the— selves of this, tbe . re-- test boon ever laid at the altar of Buffering hr inanity. DR. SPINNEY will guarantee to forfeit $000 for every case of Seminal Weakness or Private Disea'.e of any kind or character which he undertakes and tails to cure ' - : ' __"'„„ VMIDDIE-ACED -EX. There are many at tho age of thirty U. sixty who are troubled with too frequent e-.'a-— - —tt of the bladder, often accompanied by a alight ana ting or | burning sensation, and a weakening of the J-eim in I a manner the patient cannot account for. • On exas, - ininir the urinary deposit* a ropy sediment will often be found, end sometime* small part-cUs of albumen | will appear, or the color will be < f a thin rciUtsh i hue changing to a dark and torpid appearance. | Tr..-reare many men who die of this difficulty, igno- I rant of the cause, which I* tne second stag") of *em- ! Inal weakness. Dr. 8. will guarantee a perfect cure ! In all such case*, and a health; reiteration of the «-cnito-nrinary organ*. I and 8 to _._____. Olflce hours-IO to 1 and Sto 8. Sunday from 10 to II a a Consultation free. I Thoreugh exam- - l a.^Cal,o^dre*S tro>t ' . No. 11 Kearay street, San Francisco. f p —For privato disease* of short standlug, a full I (•curie' of medicines, sufficient for a care, with all Instruction* will be sent to any address for 810. - - d7-4pSUwMTWThFtf V . ; TO . : f 3-2-__3 --ff^-?- ■'.'■ ' — — mHE ELEGANT TWO-STORY-AND.BASEJfENT 17 frame house No. 12;.', L strict (FRONTING j CAPITOL PARK). -, The house Is entirely new, hay- ' ing never been occupied; has seven Urge rooms, bath and closets, hot and cold water, gas and gas fixtures throughout. Bent, 845. • ALSO— on ; corner of . Fourteenth and F streets, 6 rooms ; $16. 7.7 ' - "V . ALSO— House on I iftecnth etreet, between I and J, 5 rooms ; *13. : : '■' ..v.v'T- 777;; 777. ••' : } ALSO— Several small houses, Wto $10 per mouth. j Apply to." :"' ." ' A." LEONARD,' . I n_l-2ptf : ■" " ; " "-' """'• No. 1012 Fonrth 'rtrce-'.'r FOB : S-__-X--E3, . 2 V»"_-» ACRE'" OF - LAND, EIGHT . MILES \ tt-it) below Caurtland, fronting one-half mile j on Miner's fcloi on the east, and one hail mile I on Prospect lough on the west. ■ A portion of the i tract is CHOICE VEGETABLE LAND. i" For irice and p—ticn— re,'*pply to the - '■-- t: nl7-?plei -. ■"•■■" SACRAMENTO BANK. , ; BTEINWAY & SONS' PIANOS. A HEYMAN, SOLE AGENT, I -J_fc_____ AHEYMAN, BOLE AGrNT, I ___§■_______, _ street, bet. 3xth and Be. enth ■ opposite Court-house. PIANOS TO I JB I I _BT Piano* sold on l_tt_fmenti.;. ■•*■■» 7'7s_P r ' v: " : " 8pl ? , '■'"- PANAMA CANAL ■ - . ■ .--- .-- ■ . - .- - . . .- , - ■ ■ ■ ..*,-.'.-,".*-.'■ THE UNIVERSAL COIBP_JY FOR TUB— -"..-'--.': , Construction of an Interoceanic Canal through the Isthmus of Panama, — — l-.VDKR tub— 7- V" Presidency anil Management of .";" M. FERDINAND DE LESS-PS, President of the Suez Canal Compiny.r. • -7v7 ASU WITH THK Patror.ase ard Assistance of tiro Principal Banks "and Bankers of Lurop^ and America. ISSIE OF 590,OGOShares of 500 each, ACCORCINO TO The Terms of Organization, va Deposit with .11. I'iiauipe.ier de Ribos, ;-','; ->otary PnMle. of Paris. THE PANAMA CANAL COMPANY WILL JL- be 1 organised - with a capital of 300,000,000 francs, consisting of €00,000 share? — 500 francs each ; 10,000 shares have \ been ■ reserved, ac- cording to the terms of organization, for the original grant :es, in consideration of t-he expenses incurred and grants ceded by them to M. Ferdinand^ de Lesseps," the , remaining j 699,100 shares j beinj* offered for V public subscription. The : subscrip- tion price -ia ' par, 500 '". francs per , share, ■ pay-* abe as Mows: T. verity live | francs * "'(54 SO) on subscription, 100 francs on an allotment to be mad* within thirty days from date of commission. „• Tho rcniai ning 375 francs will be subject to c— l, as may be deemed necessary by the Council of Administra- i tion, notice of which will be published it least three • month* in advance. No such call, however, can bo made before the expiration of one year from tha date of subscription. After the payment of _0 francs the shares can be exchanged for bonds, by the consent of the stockholders at a general meeting. The owner if each 20 shares will be milled to one vote in the general meeting. latere t will be paid at the rate of 5 per cent, on uli sums paid in , during the . progress of the work. Eighty I per cert, of the act earnings will be dis- I tributed to the shareholders, according to the I terms of organization. The requirements for official quotation will be fulfilled soon after the organization of the company. The public subscrip- tion will be opened in Europe and America on the 7th, Eth and Oth of December, 1880. Tho distribu- tion of shares subscribed will be made pro rata of the total subscriptions, without distinction of nationality. The following privileged subscription* are not subject to reduction : First, the sharehold- ers and delegates of the Suez Canal Company hay* the privilege of subscribing to omr Panama share for each share of the delegation of the Suez Canal Company ; second, the original subscribers to the Panama Cat**! Company have the privilege of sub- scribing for the Panama shares in proportion to their former subscription. In order to avail them- selves of this right, the privileged subscribers on paying the first 25 francs, should present their Sue- bands or their certificate s, proving their original Panama subscription, to the respective banking houses. Subscriptions will be received ia Paris by the Compagnie Univereelle dv Canal de Sue*, Comptitor Descompte, Societe dcs Depots et dc* Compte* Courantes, Societe Gene-r.l pour la Development dv Commerce et, de rindu.trie en France, i—tiiiue de Paris et de Pays Pas, Credit Lyo_ lais, Societe Financiere de Paris, Banque Descompte dc Paris, and at all tho offices of the branches and inland foreign correspondents. Also, in !' igiu.i', Ger- mane-, Belgium, Holland, Austria, Hungary, Italy, Russia, Spain, Portugal, Switzerland, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Turkey and Egypt, at the special houses designated. The Council of Administration has appointed a Special Committee— America to represent the Com- pany in this emission. Under the authority so given, the "undersigned will receive subscriptions by mail and telegraph. - "."■ v Messrs. DRKXFL, MOEGAN & ''.. J. & W. .SLI.'G'.IAN a. CO., WINSLOW, LANIER & CO., New York City, Special American Committee. «_* Subscriptions Received in Cilifornla •.'.;'. 7- —BY TUS 7-7 Anglo-Californian Bank, Limited, SAN FRANCISCO. * .nn ii i i ■ .i .ma— a. .-AMUSEMENTS.- XiETiiopoLiTAa\ Theater. erne-— at axi> TUESDAY EVENINGS, And TUESDAY MATINEE, D«c. Gill Hid 7l_ SST EogiiKeiiieirt for Two Nights lluly *64 Of the EMINENTLY SUCCESSFUL Comedian and Character Actor, : MILTON NOBLES ! Supported by his powerful. COMEDY COMB— TION, appearing in the original dramatic ipectaltiea with which his name has become iusepara' ly linked. MONDAY EVENING and TUESDAY MATINEE, Will be presented the popular American Melodrama, by MILTON NOBLES, entitled THE PHCENIX! irraKludTe?'} • * > WW" "OBITS 7 Jim itluelsoe, , * * " ' ■"■*« KOBIEI, As played by him over 1,200 time*. And on TUESDAY EVENING wi 1 bo presented I tho American Comedy-Drama, by MILTJN ' V • NOBLES, entitled A MAN OF THE. PEOPLE ! JACK RYDER (a Diamond i" l MI _, TO NNOELES. the Lough) I di at FRIEND&TEBRY LUMBER COMPANY. MANLTACIITRERS, WHOLE?/. l*. AND RB. i'J tall Dealer* in every kind and variaty ot BUILDING and ' FINISHING TIMBER and LUMBER, KILN-DRIED DOOSS, WINDOWS AND BLINDS I .. BT Special Order* and odd-sizes promptly filled, . and (hipped direct from the OREGON, REDWOOD and SUGAR PINE -ILLS of the Company. . GxKiaiAL Orrica, No. 1310 Second Street, M*aa U. Bra-icu Yard, Ccrssr T« ruth axo J STK«rt_ anlS-ltolm .... .. . ..." _E"o_E_. SALE, The Grand Hotel .Property, . CENTRALLY LOCATED, ON THE CORNER of X and Front street*. in the city of Sacra- mento, having a frontage of 85 feet, and being three stories in hight. A tui'ding of modern construc- tion, containing CO well-lighted and plea-rant room*, conveniently arranged, and provided with all recent improvement* and conveniences. Tho first or ground floor is occupied for stores, saloon, barber shop and hotel office, rented and yielding a fair Irrcon c, which can be materially increased by a reopening of the ■ upper portion of the premises. The building is in '-, good repair, and located on one i f the oldest and most popular hotel site* in the city. Its proximity to Passenger and Freight Depot, Steamlnat Land- ings, Express and telegraph Offices, Bank* aad business center, assure* a large and Immediate i profitable trade to tbe house.* . -i '-.j- %.>: r *'... 7 77 J —g-THIS PROPERTYTSJ^ Is for sale, and must be sold. '- ■. '" "—— _-.'■- -.' - - . - ' - __" Price. LOW— one-third cash; balance on i any time -ire i, at 7 per cent, per annum net. T <2T OFFERS? WANTED. ■_*; : For further particular?, i d-t'-efls Cad wnlader A Famous Real Estate Agent-, corner Third and J streets. Sacramento. -> '-.- n"..7-2plm FOR 5ALE, '..,. .'.. OAA ACRES OF FIRST-CLASS RECLAIMED &\t\f -TULE LAND, situaed about one mile south of the town of Isleton, on Andrus Island, and fronting on Jackson Slough, r For price and par- ticulars, inquire by letter or ia person of the ■-■:> 7^ nll-gptf _______*£_ ________ THE SACRAMENTO BANK WILL PAY THE HIGHEST MARKET PRICE 7. for State Controller"* Warrant* on the State Drainage Construction Fund and on the General Fund.";";-, ._',;'. 7 ED. R." HAMILTON, Caahier. 77 i— _f_ a