Pike County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 38, Petersburg, Pike County, 9 February 1888 — Page 1

J. In MOntt Proprietor. i “Our Motto is Honest Devotion to Principles of Kijrlit.” OFFICE, orer 0. E, MOHTQOIIEBT’8 8tore, Mria Street VOLUME XVIII. PETERSBURG, INDIANA, THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 9, 1888. NUMBER 38.

PIKE COUNTY DEMOCRAT PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDaI. For on# rear. | For six months . or wiucBirnoHi fi For throe month*.. INVARIABLY IN ADVANCBiDTunanto rates ■ square (»lines'. one Insertion.$1 00 h rUlthiMl insertion... (0 A liberal reduction made on advertisement* runnln* three, six. and twelve months. Local and transient advertise menu must be t*M tor in advance. 3SI8

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mmnom carm. A. * ■OSRTCCT*. , rOSET * HONEYCUTT, ATTORNEYS AT LAW Pktoikiri, lad. 1 W81 practice in all the courts. AH bceineet pfMmi'l.jr attended to. A Notary Public eon•tartly In tlw ulw. Office over Frank A Horutu ook't drug store. a. r. ntcBABDso.a. a. a. tat lob. , RICHARDSON A TAYLOR. Attorneys at Law a PETERSBURG, IND. ^ ' Ptompt attention given to all bnelnesa A Nolarv Public eon»t«ntly In tlicotHcc. O'Jlcc In Carpenter Bunding. Mli and Alain. B. A. UT. J W. WIL5 JM. ELY * WILSON. Attorneys at Law, PETERSBURG, IND. AfOiHt't* in tUo Ilnnk lluiltlln(.*a ] ‘ T. 8. & eTsMITIL f '' (eticceeeors to Doyle A Thompson) Attorneys at Law, Real Estate, Loan & Insurance A£ts. Office, second Bo .r Bank Building. I’eierebury. I ml l ‘Hie bc«t Ft re and Ufe Insurance Compatii.s rt pr.-s. uUHl, Monty to loan on Aral tnortva.. s at seven ami ebrfct |H-r -H-nt. Pn.mi.i attention to col lections, and all butin ■>* intrusted to ua. _ h” f. ?o««HkM>. Mart rui-vta . Epwir Suiih. ' TOWNSEND, FLEENER * SMITH, Attorneys at Law T AND REAL ESTATE AGENTS, PBTEKHHURG, • • INDIANA. 1 Office, over «n» Frank’s store. Special atlent ion civrn toOollwiioiw, llu yin.: aiki tor i.an.la. F.xumiums Titles and Forntshlng Abstracts. K. R. KIME. M. !>.. Physician and Surgeon PETERSBURG. IND. offler, over llnrn-tt A A c'i store. residence on >cvcntn Htrv. t, ttucee insressouth of Main. Calls promptly attended to, day or night. _

J. B. DUNCAN, Physician and Surgeon j PETERSBURG, - INI), omc* on rtrrt'floor C»rj»n»»r Ilnlldlnu. C> B. BLACKWELL, M. D., ECLECTIC Physician and Surgeon, Office, Main «tr*et. between #th tnl 7th opposite Model Drug More- 1 jPBTEKSHUBG, : IXDI.m, Will pru-llr* Medk-Jne. Sunn-ry ,n l OIxMlHC* in town UMjl .o<>umry, *:id will \ »Ji «ny A P«r»>'f th« ©nmr.ft-v m ;©Sn«uUat!on. (tin.ale r iliMmmwtMrull)r iirauxl. ' . ' l 33. J. HARRIS,

-t-.:t • } Resident Dentist, PKTEKMM/KO, ISD. ALL * WORK WARRANTED. 0. K. Shaving Saloon, J. E TURNER. Proprietor. PETERSBURG, * IND. Parties «iibln| work don© at thoir n *t< * « sill kavf order; M the »h »p. n I>r. AtltmV new tu id n f, rear of Adams A JSoa f <lru| eto © CITY HOTEL Val*r Mew Htns|,mpit. liBWia KAXXi, Prop. for. Eighth ana Main su , opp. t ourt-houae, PEI F.RHBURO, IN’P The flty Heir! ta centrally located,, rta»aall Ita appointment*, and tike beat and rhrapeat hotel in the city. Sherwood Ho(isef Voder Sew Manainyaen*. h P4SSKLL &■ TOWNSEND. Pr p'ra. , Flrit aud Locust Street*,

V 1 UvnitMille, : : Indiana. RATES. $2 PER DAY. Samplo Rooms for Commercial Man. TIVATT HOUSE’ WtiUafloa. lad. Ontrully Located. and Accommodation* , rimoius. HENRY HTATT. Proprietor. I’cteknbik<.«. - - Indiana. CHARLES SCHAEFER, Proprietor. Looit.-J In the bu»lnf«. part of toon. Term, rrax-nable. A good liar, choice liquor*. Tobacco and Cigar*. Corner bCTeoth and Walnut alrvet*. Wh. n at Washington Stop at tho MEREDITH HOUSE. First-Class in All Respects. Una Uou Hiuii and A lb ton IIoiuu Proprietor*. Gko. E. Kombtkk, J«mi J. Motors, late of Cincinnati, late of WaaMneton.Ind. -HOTEL ENGLISH, ROSSETER A MORGAN;, Leawa. lndianapolia, Ind. Rou*e Elrgant, Table. Scrrtoe and Genera fop superior. Local ton beat tba elty«i the Circle. - Great Reduction ku.HiSiTc.iia Ttopubl o* hereto m formed that I wlBnea » kanie Mock of Saddlo* and Harm**, and •nRttinl kept by me lover than vw aoM to tkw pinoe before If you vant anytklngia a"» fall iv call on Mr *j a« I ot*r FRIO REWtS,

NEWS IN BRIEF. CMMfticd from Vartan Sautes. COMliTCWlONAL' 1 ROCKKDIMS& The Senav;, on the Sith, recover » 10-iao rai from the National Baard of Tra le to favor of reciprocal trade relations between tho United State, nod Canada. The proposition to ' reduce letter postage to oae cent was reported back adversely, and after considerable discussion the report .was placed on the calendar. Mr. Kvye offered a resolution Baking for certain Canadian statistics. The Bouse bill relating to a*• multure! experiment stations wss passed. Mr. Morgan, of Al i'wma. spake in orpotilion i to the Blair kdiieattonal bill for the third : t me.In the House, among the bills introduced were the following: To prevent aliens frofn entering homesteads and to provide for leasing gnuing leads: providing fora bounty on wheat, eo n and flour exported; to establish a United States tan 1 court. The report of the public printer replying to a resolution asking for an explanation of the allege! delay m furnishing printed matter an! the discharge of cert an employee was received and It aroused a lively discussion. The priding committee was instructed to investigate the management of the ofllee by Mr. Benedict and also of his pre ecessor. Tub Senate, oa the 31st. held an important session. Mr. Plumb s resolution calling for an Investigation of the alleged ineffletent mall service in the West was discussed at length and laid over without action. Bills granting' the right of way through public lands for irritation purposes, and to punish crime in the ndisn Territory, were passed. Senator Boar's Joint resolution for a constitutional amendment changing the time for the expiration of the terms of oOceof the President and members of Congress from March 4 to April 30. was adopted ..... In the House the bill was passed I author ring the constru tloo of a bridge over tie Missouri river at JcSerson City. Mo.; also bills providing for the erection of public buildings at Asheville, N. C-. Springtteld, Mo., and Monroe. La Is Uw Henate. on the 1st, Mr. Cameron Introduced a Nil to place on the peoslou rolL at the rate of one cent per month for each day served, all olfleeni «md enlisted men serving in the Union army during the war. Mr. Kuldleterger ine 11., have the treaty with lireat Britain considered in open session, and incidentally gave Mr. Blair, of New Hampshire, a rubbing down, and was sat down upon himself by the Chair._In the House the ijuest on of investigating the Heading str kc provoked a long and interesting discus sun result.ng in the passage of a resolution calTng for the appointment of a special committee to carry oa an immediate and thorough Intestlgatton of this subject- and also of the coal troubles in the Lehigh and Schuylkill coal regions. The Senate, on the H, passe! th* bill to increase the pension of the totally helpless to seventy-two dollars a mouth. Senator Ingalls announced the special committee on the Hac.flc railroad reports. Senator Kenna. of West Virginia. then replied to the address of Senator Sherman on the Bresideut's message, lie cx- * posed Lie Ohio Senator s change of heart on the tariff and Immigration ijth stionis to which Senator Sherman replied . . Tn the Bouse a bill was passed authorising the Secretary at War to convey to the City of Austin. Tex., a tract of land- for educational purjwses. The LowryWbite election contest was then taken up and d aeussed, buy no action was taken The Senate w. net in session on the 3d. In the House the Senate amendments to tht H, use bill to punish robbery, burglary au4 larceny in the Indian Territory were concurred in. ’ A number of private Nils were con tiderod. among them one fo'r the rel.ef of the sufferers from the wreck of the Tallapoosa. A resolution was oflered calling on the Secretary of the Treasury tor information la regard to the refusal ol the Canadian authorities io allow American wrecking vessels and machinery to assist American vessels while in distress In Canadian wile »; and as to whether Canadian wrecking vessels and machines are permitted to operate in Amer.enn waters A bill has tniroJured for the establishment of a soldiers' home at Knoxville. Tenx

I‘KK>ONAI. AND POLITICAL. The llouw bill introduced by Judge Ho -rrv o( Arkansas to punish horset biove* in the Indian Territory, has been passed hr the Senate. Heretofore the highest penalty for Imrse-stealing in that Territory ha» been a tins of $1,0.10 and Imprisonment not exceeding one year. The bill as passed extend* the time of imprisonment to fifteen year*. The State Department has been in- i formed by I'nited States Consul E'fwing ; at Stockholm that the Swedish Govern- j rami has declared against th» importa- 1 I on of pork from the I'nited States un-J leiis °it i* welt salted. The Consul says! ihe order li founded on a report that a j hog pestltencj Is raging in the CniteJ i State*. Ox the UMh General Sheridan wa* driven around Boston anil was greeted every* whereby tremendous-crowds, who cheered him wildly. A pubi c reception was given in Kaueuit Hall at noioii, and the place was pecked, the crowds extending far out into the street. Ox tbenightof the id the President and Mrs, Cleveland gave the third of the series of state dinner* to the jmticea of the M-pri-rae Court. The President escorted Mrs. Miller to dinn-rand ChiefJustice H aito e.cirte l, Mr*. Clevolau l. Ox (he 1st, a duel with swords was J fought in Paris, between M. Vignon. formerly secretary id M. Rouvier, and M. Bauer, editor of Oil Hat*. Vignon’s left arm was pierced bv M. Bauer’s sword. Ox the 1st Mr. Cos, the Irish Commoner, n« convicted and sentenced to a nioatli’- mprisonment. When this term is up he is to be rearrested. Ox the 1st George 1. Finley, leader in the famous anti-rent war in the Hudson and Mohawk valleys, N. Y., in i£ll-46. disfd in Now York aged eighty rears. Ox the night of the 1st the Loyal Beg ion of Massachusetts and Rhode Island ban-quots-d General Sheridan at B uston. There , was no s|ieech-making. The four hundred or more persons present included every j Jiving member of the L.>yal ie-gion in Massachusetts and Rhode island. Ox the 1st Mr. Eugene Zimmerman, formerly a director lu the Fidelity National Bank of Cincinnati, who was in Europe, when he was fhdlctel by the United Slates grand-jury for complicity

in tor \\ run - transaction* m I bat bank, ; return xL He want b>*oru Judge Sage on j ibe l<t, aud gave band ia tan turn of «u»x Ox the let ex-l,nrd Mayor Sail i ran Of | Dublin »»i reared from Tull am on* : prison, after two months’ confinement. ' A large crowd gathered in front of the { build ug and greeted Mr. Salliran with i gieat enthusiasm. Mr. Sullivan after- ; ward* received address# i from rarions delegation*. Ox the 31st Prof. Wm. McFarland, one ! of the oldest actors in this country, was | | found dead in bed at his home in Minne- j spoils, Minn. McFarland supported Mac- ] ! ready when the great Englishman was j ; in this country, and later tb# elder Booth, Adams, Edwin Forrest and all the old- j timers. Ox the M Her. \V. Frost died at his | residence in Omaha, Neb.. in the sixtysixth year of bit age. Rev. W. Frost wax a very prominent preacher in the Methodist Cuarch. He had occupied many prominent positions in the Hew England Conference including Charleston, Watertown and Boston. Ox the 3d the reanion and banquet of the survivors of the Thirty-fourth Congress at Washington brought together twelve gentlemen of National fame and historic prominence—two ex-Speakers. Banks and Grow; Senators Sherman and Morrill, ex-Senator Cragia and Messrs. lifR W Cumbach, James H. Campbell, Russell Sage, Abram Wake man, K. T. Strmnahsu, T. F. F agler and Guy R. Petton. The reception of the veteran leg is,store etas lately attended. A xcubca of importunt changes in the Ctyil-Servic* rules bare just been completed end vrotuu'gated by President ** • and the CirU-Bemoe Owns

AT Ottawa, Out., St Is reported that Sir Charles Topper fovors Cunmerciat reciprocity between Canada and the United Staler. Ox the SI Callao and Hark ns, the Irish* Americans, were convicted at Lwilion as drnamiters, and each was sentence! to fifteen years’ imprisonment. On tile 3d Mgr. Adam, of California, presented to the Tope a photograph of Gabriel, an Indian Catholic, one hundred and forty years of age, for whom be asked a special blessing. On the 31 Captain Ritchie of the State Line steamer Stats of Indiana was prere ited, ou beha'f of President Cleveland, with a gold sate i and chain, and Campbell, the first officer, with o binocular glass for saving the crew of tho ship Triumphant, of Boston, abandoned at sea. On the 31 Prof. Charles Linden. the naturalist, died In the Buffalo (if, Y.) Insane Asylum, aged fifty-six. Ho was prostrated by brain trouble while on a vacation trip to Carlton, Quebec, last summer, and never regained bis mental faculties. On the 3d Herman F. Harmon, an uncle of Mrs. President Cleveland (her moth* or’* brot her), died at Charlestown, Mass. CHIMES AM* C.tSfALTIKS. On the 8>th two cowboys, named Arthur and Potts, attempted to ruu t ie town of Buffalo Gap, a station on the Elkhnru road, in Dakota, when the citixms turned out in full force and killed both of them. Who fired the fatal shots no one knows, nor wants to know. On the 30th John Welsh. Edward Williams and Edward Kimberly were arrested at Baltimore, Md., on the charge of having cut the throat of Ross Chaney, house* keeper for Welch. All the accused are known to have spent the night of the23th in Welch’s house, and on the morning of the »)lb the woman was found dead in lied with her throat cut. Two German farmers of Campbell County, Dak., named Fred and George Cornell, while walking from Lasrracs to Mound City, lost their way, became exhausted, lay down to sleep and perished. The boslies were found the next day. Oy the 301 h Jacob "and David Campbell, father and son, of Jersey City, N. J., while, engaged shoveling snow for tbe Erie railway at Hampton, J». J.. were struck by an express train. David was instantly killed aud his father shockingly and fatally injured. At Urbana, O., on the 31st, the limited express, west-bound on the Pan-Handle railroad, ran into an o)>en switch and collided with a switch engine. Both engines were badly wrecked. Frank Brown, engineer. and Charles M. Alhand of the passenger locomotive were fatally injured, and Frank Shade, roadmaster, was killed. The passengers all escap'd. At Richmond the buildings of the Virginia penitentiary, leased by the Davis Shoe Company of Boston, and operated as a shoe factory, were discovered on fire on the morning of the 31st. The fiaraos spread rapidly, and despite tho efforts of the fire department the buildings occupied by tho shoe company were totally destroyed. together with tho valuable machinery and stock; loss, $200,000. In connection with a recent hank break, a number of Toronto (Ont.) bankers have been arrested on Charges of felony. On the 1st fire destroyed the mammoth dry goods establishment of Barnes, Hengeror A; Co.,at Buffalo, N. Y., and seriously damaged adjoining property, the loss being placed at $1,200,1)00. On the night of the 31st I’at Burke, sentanoad for a term of three years for grand larceny, from Sioux City, hung h mself in his celt at the Anamosa (la.) penitentiary. Ha used, his suspenders for a noose. On the 2d two men were kilted and several ’injured by a boiler explosion in a portable saw-mill Barnesville, O. On the 2d two miners were overcome by gas while descending tbs Germania shaft at Hurley, Wisland fell to tbe bottom. They were instantly killed, At London, op/abe 2d. the five Americans recently arrested for attempting a big forgery schenjie on the Bank of England, were examined aud remanded for trial. On libe 2d Hobart C. Howell, general superintendent of the general de'tvery department of tbe Philadelphia post-office, was taken into custody on a warrant chargi ng him with embexxleraent in taking a necktie •‘from a package before tbe same was delivered to |>arties to whom it was addressed.”

Nkah Cleveland, O., a powiler-inill was blow u to atoms on the 3d, nothing being left but a big bole in the grown). On the 3d eight iiersons were found dead an a house at Manchester, England. It is beliered they were poisoned. Oh the evening of the 3d serious rioting was reported from Shenandoah, Pa., started bv an attack of a 1:10b of men and bovs on the non-union miners as they were tearing their work. Sevemrpersous were wounded, and more trouble was exported. O.v the 3d a farmer »frora near Pixon, III., d ied from drinking a i quid coml«iui l from fnail oil and alcohol, which was-sold to him aa whisky by a Chicago drummer. At Titusville. Pa., the Kim Street school house, the largest in the city, built in IKTfK was completely gutted py fire on the ramming of the 3d. The loss is about $13,03% mostly covered by insurance.. Ox the 3i Judge Woods, in the Federal Court at Indianapolis, Ind., overruled the motion for a new tr.al in the case of Coy and IBernhaiiier. the conTicted tally-sheet conspirators. Coy was thou sentenced to the jienitentiary for eighteen months and.to j*ar a tine of $100. Bern hamer to cne rear ami to pay a line of $1 000. AT St. Joseph. 51a. a female child, about one week old, was found dead in an outhouse of the St. Loais Fuelling bottling works, by some employes of the house, Bruises on the child’s bead and body show that it was murdered. WSCKI.t.AVROl'9. Oil the Stst the ice gorge at St. Louis broke and did great damage to shipping interests. The main bxty of ice passed down the river daring the night. Air Toronto, Oht.. a society recently formed, styled “The League of the Roee,” threatens to institute prosecutions against ail parties wbora they can prove guilty of having contributed money to the “Plan of the Campaign,” or seditious funds w hich, they claim, is illegal in any part of tike empire.

Ar St. Andrews’ bay the Dominion fish* erv cruiser Dream is frosen in, and Maine fishermen are taking advantage of her misfortune to fish inside the three-mile limit. Reports from ths bay state that a large fleet of American vessels are fishing in Canadian waters, and that there is an abundance of fish. The local fishermen complain that through the severity of the cruiser’s Captain in carrying out his instructions, they have suffered great loss, and that they would much rather Americans fish iu their waters than that the cruiser should gel clear of the ics. On the 1st the trial of Thomas Callaa, formerly of Lowell. Mesa, end Michael Harkins, of Philadelphia, the alleged dynamiters, was begun at Old Bailey sessions, London. Tits public debt statement for January, issued on the 1st, was si fo’lows: Total debt, principal and interest, $1,700,191,451; debt, less cash in the treasury, $1,210,211,C8I; decrease of debt during month. $15. ■ decrease since June SO, 1887, $09, 217,855; total cash in the treasury, <550,' la a dispatch giving the text of the American pilgrims' address, the London ftiMM cores poo dent at Home says tho Pope bat since been surprised to lean that the majority of the pUgript word

Os the let Hartley & Graham, Hew York gun manufacturers, bid off the Remington armorv at $IiiOOO at the sale by order of the court in llion, N. Y. OS the 1st Winnipeg “Spring,"a famous fighting dog, who has won over one bantired contests, fought Madge, owned in Minneapolis, at the latter city, aud was killed in twenty-eight minutes. Both dogs fought at fifty pounds a-.i fyr fltM a tide. The Austrian Government, it is reported, has decided to a-k the delegations to rote lSO,Odi,OOS florins for the first expomes of mobilisation. At Drobmore, Ireland, sixteen youths have been sentenced to imprisonment for one week with hard labor for lighting bonfires to celebrate the release of William O’Brien. At eleven o’clock on the morning of the lilt earthquake shocks were felt at maitr paints fn Maine. Hew Hampshire and Vermont. No damage has been reported, hat the shock was severe enough to rattle w indows and dishes. O.v the 1st a vast industrial parade^ many miles long and occupying twohours a id a half in passing a given point, was the carnival attraction at St Paul, Minn. Evtry important bosiness-houss in the ci ty was represented, many by elaborate floats, showing goods tastefully displayed. and others by crews of nrtisans a t work. Os the night of the lit shocks of earthquake were felt throughout Scotland. AT Cornwall, Ont, fifteen hundred cot-ton-mill operatives are on a strike against a reduction of wages. Os the 21 two ear-toads of potatoes, corn and food were sent to the Kansas, sufferers, from Pie-re, Dak. The Chicago S: Northwestern furnished free transportation. Os the night ot the 21 the annual banquet of the Merchants’ and Manufacturers’ Association of Ba! timore, Md„, took place at the Hotel Itennert aud wan s.ittend'd by representative business men to the number of two huudred. Os the 2d the Supreme Court of Michh j;an decided the Palms will case by reversing the decision of the court below nnd sustaiuing the trust. The result leaves the will intact. A stork of indignation has been caused by the telegraph versions of a settlement lietween the main questions affecting the fisheries on a basis unfavorable to Canada in all parts of the Dominion. Certain provincial assemblies commemorative of the rule of Ciar Alexander II, will be suppressed bv Russia. Os the Sd the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce adopted the majority report o’ the committee receutly appointed to con- j older the tariff as affecting sugar inter-1 tests of t be Pacific coast. The report ad- j vocates that® the present tariff be main- ;

mratu. At Union town. Pa., tan prisoners escaped from Jail on the evening of the 2d, fey breaking throngh the rot ten floor of an unused cell into the cellar, and, making a hole in the wall, crawled through. At Louisville, Ky., a big combination ’to secure control of all the leaf tobacco in the country is said to be in process of formation. By-Laws for the government of the j organization has been formulated by the executive committee of the Southwest Texas Immigration convention. The Canadian Government, acting on information from the British War Office in L union, is about to inaugurate a system of coast defense. Di'KIno the seven days ended the Ad the business failures' numbered lor the United States, 217: and for Canada, 32, or a total of 279, as compared with 317 for the preceding like period, and 261 for the corresponding week of last year. Is Ireland the tendency of event', and the lack of assurance in Lord Salisbury’s remarks, makes the outlook 1 rather gloomy for the land element. It is estimated by an officer of the Philadelphia & Beading Railroad Company that at least fire thousand miner* returned to work during last week, and said that there are enough mines being worked to avoid any inconvenience to the company or to consumers. On the 3d two saw-mills at Port Blakely, op|>osite Seattle. W. T.t and tide largest on Puget Sound, were burned. The fire caught from n hot-box, and the wind from the belts caught the flames and fanned the j blaze the whole length of the ' 'mill. almost “ instantly. so that the men ! barely had time to escape. * The loss is : 1850,000; no insurance. On tbqjkl the arguments on the trial of Benjamin E. Hopkins, of the Fidelity Bank of Cincinnati, were concluded, and Judge Sage delivered his charge to the jury, who took the case under consideration.1 CONDENSED TELEGRAMS The Senate adjourned on the 2d until the 6th_....In the House on the 4th, after a number of petitions had been presented, consideration of the White-Lowry con- j tested election case was resumed. Messrs, j Moore and O’Parretl supported th e major i ; ty resolution, and Messrs. Rowell and Cockran spoke for thi contestee. Other : discussion was had, but the Rouse adjourned without reaching a veto. ! lit Dominion debt statement to Jan- j uary 31, shows: Gross debt, 1876,371,- < 967.8$; assets, $46,346S71.<»; net debt, i {33 <.038.616 79. Tu* Grant Monument Association have j invited artists, sculptors and architects to submit plans for a monument or me- ; morial building, based on an estimated

expenditure ol jjw.iwu. t John Jacob Asroa ha* complied with his wife’* request and presented tier splendid collection of lacet to the Metro* politan Museum of Art. • The eminently pacific character of libs Austro-tJerman treaty, just published,, is favorably commented upon by the press of Europe. Foca men wer e fatally burned in a mins explosion at Kaaticoke, Fa., on the 4th. Mas. Florence L Wilson, wife of the defendant in the Wilson-Moen blackmail case, was granted a divorce for cruelty on the 4th. The Reading strikers have reached the point of blood-letting. Several serious riots occurred on the 31 and 4 th. The special delivery systew&of the Post-Office Department has become a pronounce! success. The increase in business tor the quarter ending Decemlow 31 reached 1S.6 per c»nt. The success and safety of Lientenunt J. W. Oryvdon’s invention for charging shells with dynamite has been attested by the official report of the board cxiducting the Sandy Hook experiments. Two persons were killed and savinral seriously injured in u railroad accident at Steambury Station, on the Hew York, Pennsylvania & . Ohio railrtfM cu the 5th. Sxveh men were ktled by a toiler explosion at Belmoat, a, on the 4th. U BCG cat has adopted free trade. The steamer Daootah paaaed Capa Girardsau on the 4th on her way to Bt Louis, being the first boat np the river since the gorge brok*. Hearly |4,000 have been contributed for the three Nebraika school mistrei.ie* whose heroism nearly coat them their lives in the late blsxard. A GIGANTIC rate war among the Northwestern and Western lines is in full blast, and threatens to extend far into the Southwest. Benjamin H. Hopkins, ot the defunct Fidelity Bank, of Cinoinnati,was convicted on tite 4th. Motions tor • new trial and in arrest of judgment ware made. The steamsr Los Howell sunk in midstream near Helena, Ark., on tb* lUb >'« lives .loth

TALMAGE’S SE11M0X Fifth Discourse of thu Series to the Women of America. “The Vail of Modesty,* Showing the Beauty of This Virtue as Illustrated by Scripture Charac ;er—A Vlrtno Not Fully Understood. Rot. T. DeWitt Talmas:# preached the fifth of the "Series ol Sermons to the Women of America, with Important Hints, to Men.” His subject wis “The Till of Modesty,” and his text: The Queen Vashti refused to come.—Esther, L. it. If you will accept my nrm I wiT escort you into a throne root a. In this fifth s?rmon of the series of sirmtits there are certain womanly exceleneies which I wish to commend, but instead of putting then) in dry abstractsu, 1 present you their impersonation in one who seldom, if etjwu gets sermouic re cognition. Wfc stand amid the palaces of Shush an. Tfcelpinniwles are aflame with the morning iighb The columns rise festoonca and wreathed, the wealth of empires fleshing froi* the grooves: the ceilings adorned with images of bird and beast, and scenes of prowess and conquest. The wails are hunk with shields and emblazoned until it serais that the whole round ot splendor* is exhausted. Each arch is a mighty leap of architectural achievement. Golden .stars, shining down on glowing arapesquo. Hangings of embroidered sent, in which mingle the bluen ess of thebky, the greenness ot the grass, and tbe whiteness of the coa (m Tapestri« i hung on silver rings, wedding to* get ler the pillars of marble. Pavilions rea king out in every direction. These forptepose. filled with luxuriant couches, in tfbich weary limbs'sink unt 1 nil fatigue is submerged. These for carousal, where kings drink dowr a kingdom at one •w§]|ow. Amazing spectacle! Light of zilsler dripping tlown orer stairs ol ivory on’ shields of gold. Kloors of stained mArble, sunset fed and night black, and inlaid with gleaming pearl. Why, it seems as if a heavenly vision of amethyst, and jacinth, and topaz, and ehrysoprnsus had descended nnd alighted upon Pltiisban. It seems ns if a billow of' celestial glory In l clashed clear over heaven’s battlements upon this metropolis of Persia. Iu connection with this pataca there it a garden, where the mighty men of foreign lands are seated at a banquet. Under the spread ot oak, and linden, and setes the tables are arranged. The breath of honey suckle nnd frankincense 1111 s the a r. Fountains leap up into the light,the spiny struck through with rainbows falling in crystal ire baptism upon flowering shrubs, then rolling down through channels of marble, aiM widening out here and there into pools swirling with the finny tribes of foreign aquariums, bordered with scarlet anenionies, hyper cams and mauy-col . ored ranunculus. Meats of rarest binl and beast smoking up amid wreaths of aromatics. The vases filed with apricots and almonds. The ba-kets piled up with apricots and dates, and figs, and oranges and pomegran -

ates. Melons tastefully twined with leaves of acacia. The bright waters of Ktdaeas filling the urns, and sweating outside the rim in flashing beads amid the traceries. Wine from tiuirmpkl vats. of Ispahan and Shiraz, in not ties of tinged shell, and lily-shaped cups of silver, and flagons and tankards of so'id gold. The music, rise; higher, and the revelry breaks out into wilder transport, j¥"lthe wine has flusnedthe cheek and Wwled the brain, and louder than all other voice* are the h ccougb of the ineb iate, the gabble of fnols, and the song •f the drunkard. In another part of the palace. Queen Yashti is entertainin'; the Princesses of Persia at a banquet Drunken Ahasuerus says to his servants: “You go out and fetch Vashti from the banquet with the women and bring herlothis banquet with the men, and let her display her beauty.” The servants immediately started to obey tke King's command, but them was a rale in Oriental society that no woman might appear in public without having her face vailed. Yet. hero was a mandate that no one. dare dispute, demanding that Yashti come ia unvailed before the multitude. However, there was in YaShti’g spul a principle more regal than Alinsuerus, more brilliant than the gold of 8 jushan, of more wealth than the rea'm of Persia, which commanded her to disobey this order oil the King; and so all the righteousness, and bolinets and modesty of her natures rise up into sublime refusal. Hie says: “I will net: go iqto the banquet unvailed.” Of course Atasuerus was infuriated; and Yashti, robbed of her position and her estato,,ja driven forth in poverty and ruin to snffeF the scorn of a nation and yet to receive the applause oil after generations who shall rise up to adm ire this martyr to kingly imolisrii Well, the

list vestige or mat ressi is cone; toe !«*- gariaiul has faded: the last irch has fallen; the last tankard has been destroyed, aud Shnshsu is a rain; bat as long as the world iitands there will be maltitndes of men nnd women, familor with the Bible, who will come into i his picture gallery of God and admire tie divine portrait of VaRhti tfci> Queen, Vitsbti the vailed, Vashti the i.scrtflce, Vashti the aileat. In the first place, ] waut you to look •pon Vashti the Quesn. A bine ribbon, rayed with white, drawn around her forehead, indicated l or queenly position. It was no small honor to be Queen in such a realm as that. Hark to the rustle of her robes! Bee the biszs of her jewels! And yet, my friends, it is not necessary to have palace and rejral robe in order to be queenly. When I see n woman with stoat faith in God. pc - ting bar foot upon ail meanness, and selfishness, and godleas display, going right forward to serve Christ and the race ty n grand aid glorious service. I say: “That woman is a queen,” and the racks of Heaven look over the battlements upon the coronation, and whether she rome np from the shaatr on the commons or the nuns jn of the fashionable square, 1 greet her witji the shout: “4.11 bail! Queen Vashti.” What glory was there oa the brow of M (try of Scotland, or Elisabeth of England, or Margaret ol France, or Catherint of Rnssia compared with the worth of acme of our Christian i mothers, many of them gone into glory?, —or of that woman mentioned in the Scriptures who pat liar nil into the laird’s treasury?—it of Juphthah’s daughter, who mad - a demon stration of unselfish patriotism?—or of Abigail, who rescued the herds end flodit of her husband?— or of Ruth, who toiled under at tropical sun for poor, old, helpless Naomi?—or of Mrs. Adomrain Judson, who kindled the light* of salvation amid the darkness of Bur mab?—or of Mr*. Hemans, who poured out her hily soul in words which will foreoar be associated with hunter’s beam, nnd captive's chair, and bridal hoar, arid lute’s throb, and curfew’s knell at the dying day?—and scores and hundred* ol e-omen, unknown on earth, who have given water to the thirsty, and bread to the hungry, and medicine to the sick, an 1. smiles to the discouraged—Sheir footsteps heard along dark lane, and in f overnment hospital, and in ahns-honse torcidar, an-4! by prison gate? Thera may be no royal robe— there may be no pi'atiat aurr sanding*. She does not seed litem, for nl ohnrltabie men will

Notched lazaretto in greeting her a? she passed: “Hail! hail! Qoeen Vasliti.” Among the queens whom I honor are the female day-school teachers of this lard. I put upon their brow the coronet. They are the sisters and the daughters of our towns and cities, selected out olf a vast number of applicants, because of ’.heir special intellectual and moral endowments. There are in none of your homes women more worthy. These persons, some of them, come out from affluent homes, choosing teaching as a useful profession; others, finding that father is older than he used to be, and that his eyesight and strength are not as good as one.', go to teaching to lighten bis load. But 1 tell you the history of the majority of the female teachers in the piblic schoo's when I say: "Father hi dead." After the estate was settled the family, that were comfortable before, are thrown on their own resources. It Is bard for men to earn a livin g in this day, but it is harder for women— their health not so rugged, their arm not so strong, their opportunities fewer. These persons, after tremblingly going through the ordeal of an examination as to their qualifications to teach, halt bewildered step over the sill of the public school to do two things—instruct; the young and earn their own bread. Her work is wearing to the last degree. The management of forty or fifty fidgety and iutractible children, the suppression of

their Tices and the development or tbeir excellence!, the management of reward* apd punishments, the seeding of so many bars of soap and Cue-tooth combs on benignant ministry, the break-^ ing of so many wild colts for the harness of life, ssndt her home at night sreak, neuralgic, unstrung, so that olf all the weary people in your cities for five nights of the week there are none more weary than the public school teachers. Now, for Rod’s sake give them a fair cbpnce. Throw no obstacles in the way. It they come out ahead in the race cheer them. It you want to smite any, smite the male teachers; they can take up the cudgels for themselves. But keep your hands off of defenseless women, rather may he dead, but there are enough brothers left to demand and see that they get justice. Within a stone’s throw of this I uil ding there died, years ago, one of the principals of our public schools. She had been twenty-five years at that post. Shu bad left the touch of refinement on a multitude of the young. She had, out of her slender | U'-se, given literally thousands of dollars for the destitute who came under her observation as a school teacher. A deceased sister’s children weir* thrown upon her hands, and she took care of them. She was a kind mother to them, w hile she mothered a whole school. Worn out with nursing in the sick and dying room of one of the househo’d. she herself came to die. She closed the school book and at the same time the volume of her Christian fidelity; and when she went through the gates they cried: ‘Those are they who came out of great tribulation, and bad their robes washed -and made white in the blood of the Lamb." Queen* are all such, aud whether the world acknowledge them or not. Heaven acknowledges them. When Scarron, the wit and ecclesiastic, as poor its he was brilliant, was about to marry Madame de Maintenon, he was a-.ked by the notary what he proposed to settle upon Mademoiselle. The reply was: “Immortality t The names of the wives of-k'ngs die witjs them: the mime of the wife of Scarron will live always.” In a higher and better sense, upon airwomen who do their duty to God,will settle immortality l Not the mortality of earthly fame, which is mortal, but the immortality celestial. And they shall reign forever and eTer. Oh the opportunity which every 'soman has of being a queen. The longer I live the more I admire good womanhood. And I have come to form my opinion of the character of a man by h:s appreciation or non-appreciation of woman. If a man have a depress© 1 idea of womanly character, he is a bad man, and there is no exception to the rule. The vrtitings of Goethe can never havo any such att actions for me as Shakespeaie, liecause nearly all the wo-nanly characters of the great Ge>man have snm« kind of turpitude. There is his Mariana, with her

canuestine scnemin-, ana nis sngnon, of er:l parentage, yet worse than hnr ancestors, and his Theresa, the brazen, and h's Aurelia, of many intrigues and Pbilina, the termagant, and his Melina the tarnished, and his Baroness and his Countess, and there is seldom a womanly character in all his voluminous writings that would be worthy of residence in a respectab'e coal cellar, yet p'ctnred, and dramatized and ear blazoned till all the literary world is com l eled to see. No, no. Give me William Shakespeare’s idea of woman, and I see it in Desdemona, and Cordelia, and Rosalind. and Imogen, and Helena, and Herprions, and Viola, and Isabe’la, and Sylva,. and Berdita, all of them with enough faults to prove them human, but enough kindly characteristict to give ns the authoi’s idea of womanhood, bis Lady Macbeth, only a dark lack ground to bring out the supreme loveliness of his other female characters; Ob. women of America! rleo to your opportunity. Be no slave to prids, or worldliness, or sin. Why ever crab-1 in the dust when you can mount a throne? Be q ueens unto G< d forever. Hnil, Vashti! Again,! want you to consider Vashti the vailed. Had she appeared before Ahasuerns and his court on that etay with her face uncovered, she woo d have shocked all the delicaciee of Oriental society, and the very men who in t heir Intoxication demanded that she come, in their sober moments would have despised her. As some flowers seem to tbs ire beet in the dark lane and in the shadow, and where the snn does not seem to reach them, so God apnoints to most womanly nature! a retiring and unobtrusive spirit. God once in a while does call an Isabella to n throne, or h Miriam to take the timbrel at the front? of a host, or a Marie Antoinette to quoM a French mob, or a Deborah to stand at the front of an armed battalion, crying ont, ‘ Up! up! ThU is the day in which tin Lord will deliver 8iera Into thy hands.” And when woman are called to inch outdoor work, and to such heroic positions, God prepares them for it; and they have iron in their aoul, and lightnings in their eye. and whirlwinds in their breath, and the borrowed strength of the Lord Omnipotent in their right arm. They walk through furnaces as though they were hedges of wild flowers, and cross seas as though they were shimmering sapphire, end all the harpies of hell sink down to their dungeon at the stamp of their womanly indignation. But them are exceptions. Generally Drrcas would rather make a garment for the poor boy; Rebecca would rather fill th i trough for the camsls; Hannah erould rather make a coat for 8amoet; I maid would rather give tion for Naaman’s leprosv; Sarepta would rather gather a few sticks, to cook a meal tor famished El Hah: Pbobe would rather carry a letter for thsi inspired rather educate Timothy in I When 1 ses a daily duty—with < log at the table; bat *

through the streets with it masculine swing, gayly arrayed in a very hurricane of milliuery, I cry out: “Vaihti has lost her Tail.” When I sea a woman struggling for political preternsant and rejecting the duties of home as insignificant, and thinking the offices of wife, mother and daughter of no importance, and trying to force her way on up into conspieuity, I say: •‘Ah, what a pity; Ynshti has lost her vail.” Wuett 1 see a woman of comely features, and of adroitness of intellect, and endowed with all that the schools can do tor her, and of high social position, yet moving in so- i ciety with superciliousness and hasten'', ns. though she would hnre people know tlio r pise \ aud an undefined combination of giggle, and strut, and rodomontade,endowed with allopathic quantities of self, but only homcepathio infinitesimals of sense, the terror of dry goodi clerks and railroad conductors, discoverers of significant meaning) of plain conversation, prodigies in badness and innuendoes—I suy: “Vashti has lost her vail.” Again, I want you this meriting to consider Vashti the sacrifice. Wao is this that I see coming ont of that i alace gate of Shnshan? It seems to ine that I have seen her before. She comes homeless, houseless, friendless, trudging along with a brokon heart. Who is she? It is Vashti the sacrifice. O, wl at a change it was from regal position to a wayfarer’s crust. A. little while ago approved and sought for; now. none so poor as to acknowledge her acquaintanceship. Vashti the sacrifice. Ah, you and I l ave seen it many a time. Here is a homo empalacod with

beauty. All that refinement, and boots, and wealth can do for that 'Home has been done; but Abosuerus, the husbaud and the father, is taking hold on paths of sin. He is gradually going down. After a time he will flounder and struggle like a wild beast in the hunter’s net—furtbjr aw ay from God, further away from the right. Soon tho bright apparel of the children will turn to rags; soon the housebold song will become the sobbing of a broken heart. The olid story over again. Brutal Centaurs breaking up the marriage feast of Lapithm. The house full of outrage, and cruelty and abomination, while trudging forth from the palace gate are Vashti and her children. There •ire homes represented iu this house this morning that are in danger of such a breaking up. O, Ahasueros, that yon should stand in a home, t v a dissipated life destroying the peace and comfort of that borne. Oh tho women and the men of sacrifice are going to take the brightest coronals of Heaven. This woman of the text gave up a palatial residence, pave up all for what she considered right. Sacrifice! Is there anything more sublime! A steamercalled the Prairie Belle, burning on the Mississippi river, Blmiso, the engineer, declared he would keep the bow of the boat to the shore till all were off. and he kept his promise. At his post, scorched and blackened, ho perished, but he saved all tho passengers. Two verse) of pathetic poetry dercribe the scene, but Uho verses ape a little rough, and so I changed a word or two: Through the hot, block breath ot the burning Jim Bludso's voice was heart. And they-all had trust in his stubbornness, Andkncw he would keep his word. And sure's you're born, they at! gotoB Afore the smoke-stacks fell; And Bludso's ghost went up above In the smoke of the Prairie Belle. He weren't no saint, but at Judgment cuted, and a perpetual exile from every earthly comfort—waiting, waiting until the Lord shall gather up his dear chll

dren m a heavenly com*, ano no poor Vashti wilt ever b: thrust out (rum the palace gate. Jems, in silence, and answering not a word, drinking the gall, bearing the cross, in prospect of the rapturous consummation when Angels thronged His cha-dot wheel. And bore Him to His til rune; Then swept their *otde» harps and sung The glorious work is done. O, woman! does not thi s story of Vashti the Qneen. Vashti the vailed. Vashti the sacrifice, Vashti the silent, move your son!? My sermon converges, into the one absorbing hope that none of you may be abut out of the pa'ace gale of Heaven. Yon can endure the hardships and the privations, and the cruelties, and the misfortunes of this life, If you can only gain admission there. Through the blood of the everlasting covenant, you go through those gates, or never go at alt” When Rome was besiejmA. tbs daughter of its ruler saw the golden brace' ets on the left arms of the enemy, and she sent word to them that she would betray her city and surrender it to them if they would onl7 give her those bracelets on their left arms. They aesepted the proffer, and by night this daughter of the ruler of the city opened one of the gales. The army entered, and, keeping their promise, threw upon her tkeir bracelets, and aleo their shields, until nndsr their weight she died. Alas, that ell through the ages the same folly has been repeated, and for tbs trinkets and glittering treasures of this world men and women swing optrn the portals of their immortal sonl for t,u everlasting surrender, and die andsr tfas shining subThrougb the rich grace of our Lord Jesus Christ may you bu enabled to imitate the example of Rachel, and Hannah, and Abigail, and Debotab, and Mary, and Vashti. Ames! XU what IRUe, low, dw* calls of eanftnd prejudice, without on*, soaring thought «r melodious fancy, do poor mortals ferevwr creep! And yet the win seas to-d»y se HCftTCalJ JWMi wl1:

CENTRAL CALIFORNIA. A Trip Through SiwniaiMto Valley, th« Laud r.t Suiutiiae, Fruit u4 I'luwors. (.Special Correspondence.! SACRAiiiasro, Job. is, B» Here we are in Sacramento City after a visit to the surrounding country, under a cloudless sky, the thermometer this day standing at forty-eight degrees above arro„ merchants doing husintss with open doom, and people on the streets without wraps. Bowers blooming in the open air, orange" and lemons on trees in the door-yards of the oozy residences, a revelation to on* who arrives from the frmen east and who has dropped dowu m four hoars from the summit o( the Sierras where the snow hi ten feet deep and the thermometer at IB degrees below sera. Sacramento City is the capital of the State, is located eighty-three miles noriheasttrom oan Francisco at the confluence of the American and Sacramento rivers, tin latler n navigable stream, and is the railroad center and the largest fruit eh pping point m California Fifty-tour trains front sav.-n different directions arrive and depart daily, tae shops of the C, Is. it IS. famishing employment to two thousand nicetianics and laborera The city is built upon a level plain, wide streets running *6 right angles, lettered from A to V north to south,and 1st to 31st from west to east. Many fine bnildmgs adorn the residence portion of the oity, but many of the business structures with their wide awnings remum as erected daring the mining era of thirty years ago, preseii ting a novel appearance to us from UieEast The State Capitol building is modeled after the Capitol at Washington, and cost over two million dollars; is surrounded by grounds not excelled in beauty of landscape gardening and semitropical plants by any capital grounds in the United States The city boasts of the Crocker art gallery cos ting over four hundred thousand dollars, donated to the city, by Mrs. E. B, Crocker, Grid gallery containing a large collection of choice statuary and paintings, in which is lu active operation an art school. This gallery, second to none in the United States, w ill amply repay the tourist wha may visit it There are many other fine building*, among which are the new Catholio cathedral, Masonic and Qdd Fellows’ temples, different churches, school buildings, and two elegant theaters, numerous hotels and business & lectures The city contains about UO.OOO population, and has a large wholesale trade, one store having 1235 employes The city is well lighted by two electric light and one gas company. The State fairs are held here in September each year, the State Agricultural Society having a large exposition building and mile racetrack. An exposition building adjoining the railroad depot is being erected, where a continuous exhibit of the products of Central California will be shown and priuted information relative to same distributed. The irea of Sacramento County is till0,000 acres The land Is of three characters, foothill, pla ns and river bottom. The foot-hill land is peculiarly adapted to the production of fruits and grapes. The plains lands are mainly devoted to gra n raising, and no failureot cropa since the Arner can occupation ot this country. In some portions of the county fruits, ber ries and grapes are extensively produced on this oiass of land, and from small farms of forty and sixty acres considerable incomes are derived. The best lands art) those on the immediate banks of the rivers, and are devoted to the production of fruits and vegetables. The income per acre is fabulous, enabling the owners of the riverbank orchards to own and manage a line ot steamers on which their produce is transported to S n Francisco markets or to Sacramento City for shipment East, Pro

vtons to tlse iuss two years many or i lands were held in large tracts; now the owners are subdividing them and offering them for sale to actual settlers. For many years Cali fornia waa regarded as valueless save tor its mineral wealth, l.ut American enterprise has developed that its richness in toe line of agriculture and fruit raising ts inferior to hone in the v.:or;d From the cultivation of cereals the step was taken successfully In the line of fruit and vine raising, and lastly in the growing of oranges and lemons,consequently the fruit-grower bore has no waste time, hut can, if he will, utilise every day in the year. Ho may actually gather nnit of tome kind from his orchard every month of the year, as the winter fruits embrace oranges, lemons, pomegranates; oliTee and persimmons, which ripen during the months of November, December and January. The spring flrnits embrsoe strawberries, raspberries, blackberries and cherries, and are marketed in April, May and Jane. The summer fruits are apricots, pinns, peaches, tigs, pears and uectarines, and are marketed from June to October. The fall fruits ore apples, pears, grapes, quinces, prunes and peaches, to which nny be added almonds, walnuts and peanuta. Hops, broom and Egypt'an com,alfalfa, sweet potatoes, etc, are all grown with profit We who have spent oar lives cast ol: the Bocky Mountains can have no reasonable conception of a country that apparently has but two seasons, an autumn and spring, as it is here In the Sacraments valley. Tie rainfall commences about November 1 and ends in Mav, but only at intervals daring that time, so'that wtih few exceptions there is no cause for suspension from out-door labor. Plowing begins here as soon as the rains commence—in fact, many farmers who summer-fallow their lands In April and May seed the same in. August and September before the first rains The change from one season to the other is marked with no sudden or severe oiliuat!e changes Wbile sleet and snow, to say nothing of Miasards at this time of the rear, are the fortune of the people at the East, here in th; Sacramento valley the people sre basking under dear skies and can pjuok fruits and flowers ____ The writer noticed in one of the markets this morning the folkte lowing fruiti and vegetables, bein formed they wore grown In this Imn* vicinity; Asparagus, oauMiowor, cabbage, celery, art ohokes, sweet potatoes, sprouts, spsnnacb. peas, salsify, s ring-beans, new potatoes, onions, oranges, lemons, persimmons, English walnuts; almonds and raisins la an interview with tbe signal service officer located here. 1 am informed that this present winter has been an unusually cold one—:n fact, the coldest in the past thirtyfour years ■ . „ A few days sinoe a snow-storm actually swept over the valley and snow fell to the depth of au inch, i.ffordng great amusement to men, women and children daring the few hours it lay upon the ground. He also Informed me that Sacramento County shows a warmer winter, spring, and Yearly average temperature ana about the same summer and autumn temperature that the Northern Italy does, as great citrus belt in 1 ... ...... shown by the following table which he kindly furnished me;

Sacramento Co. Northern Italy., North Carolina. IR.l «.j| ».4 MJ 59 T4. »n. 0 31,8 9» ,6 77.9 64.0 81.91 •Below *eni A branch of the Central Pacific railroad la being completed to Flacerville (or what was known an Haofftown in the early min. rag days, and which waa IheobJectlTe point of the OTwlud emf grants), tile county seat of El Dorado Conner. Satd road is fifty miles long and runs through almost one continuous line of orchards. bop-fields aBd vineyards, iucimUug the famous Natemn vineyard and orchard of 2,000 acres, to Folsom, twenty miles distant from Snore Foot rivers traverse the county from < to west There art also some twenty ar lakes, which abound in trout To the and northeast of Piacarvilla, at a distance of about twenty-flu a miles, there la n magnificent forest of thousands of acres of majestic sugar pinn trees, measuring ten M if teen feet In diameter. shooting upward, straight and. beautiful, frequently to a height of 120 to ISO feet before a limb la reached Thia ftiot-bffl region of tie Sierras is being rapidly filled with industrious and thrifty small farmers who are deriving n good living and comfortable incoui es from the i of their twertty, forty and stod. charda and koi Ootoma, near i gold wtef.dlsoovtred, la about ten