SUNDAY EDITION. PRENTICE ANTMTAiTIAITBAiAi SPECIAL … · PRENTICE MULFORD. Incidents in Hie Career...
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A SHIP RAILWAY. Large T«s«el* to Be Transported Ovrr Mild at Laud. Cblcajo Tribune. At the last session of the Ontario Legisla- ture an r.ct was passed loeorporating the Ontario Snip-railway Company. The proj- ect of this company is to build a three-track railway from Toronto on Lake Ontario to Collingwood on Georgian Bay in Lake Huron for the purpose of hauling lake ves- sels between those two points. E. L. Cor- theli of Chicago is the consulting engineer of the enterprise. He said to a reporter for the Tribune that there was no doubt about the feasibility and practicability of the scheme if the money fir it can be raised. Trie plans are substantially the game as those prepared for tiie Tenuantep^c ship- railway projected by the late Captain James B. Eade, and of which Mr. Corthell is now the engineer. Simply stated the plans provided for basins or docks at the terminals, which can be emptied and nile at will, and where the vessels can be floated on and off the enor- mous car designed to transport them. On the car the vessels will rest securely on cradles. The car Itself will be drawn by »ix or more powerful locomotives. The sccompanying illustrations, willgive a clearer idea of the ship railway than can be con- tpyed in a description. From Toronto to Co'lingwood the proposed route Is practically a straight line, but on the Tehuantepcc route there are several de- flections which give rise to the necessity of building water turntables, it being Impos- sible to haul the. long car around curves. At the turntable the vessel is Boated, turned in accordance with th« direction of connect- ing line, reloaded and sent on his way. Mr. Corthell said the completion of the Ontario line would save 500 miles of tortuous navigation through the St. ('lair River, JLake Krie and Niagara Palls. It would take directly from Lake Huron into Lake Ontario traffic which now stops at Buffalo. Yes-els from Chicago to Dulutb drawing 20 feet could go to Ogdensliur;; and down the .St. Lawrence, nearly 200 miles furtiier ci t titan they can go now. "Ten important points en Lake Ontario and the whole Atlantic 6eaboar<l." said Mr. Corthell, "would be vastly benefited, to say nothing of the West and North j because loads could be carried to much farther be- fore breaking bulk." The length of the proposed line Is 6G miles, through a comparatively level coun- try, where no rock is encountered. Mr. Cnrtbeil's estimate of the cost is 115.900,000. In the act incorporating the company David Blalo of Toronto was made manager. Mr.liliiinsailed for London July 5, after Consulting several New York banker*, for the purpose of interesting English capital- ists in the scheme, He was accompanied to New York by President lirickman of the Rochester' Board of Trade, who subse- quently said the project was favorably re- ceived on Wall street. There were to be three railway tracks of the standard scuuge, 4 feet 8% inches, with rails 110 pounds per lineal yard. It was Intended to transport vessels (I 1000 tons register, or, say, 2000 tons displacement weight ami 14 fret draft. The estimated cost was 112,000.000. It is tm practicable, except at great cost, to build the railway on a straight line be- tween, the two points. There will neces- sarily tie in the central part of the route two, end perhaps three, deflection tables for changing the direction. The grades, as as- certained from all available data, will be 31 feet per mile as a maximum, although OS) the larger part of the route the grades will be 11 feet and 14 feet per mile. The summit to be surmounted Is 670 feet above the mean level of Lake Ontario. The Hr-'icti. oublic roads and xaLLroa&s to be crossed can all be easily provided for. The material to be moved is entirely ear !,, no reck being found on the rout**. The harbor improvements at the termini will not be expensive. AN OCEAN STEAMER IN TRANSIT Ill* Mijni'i Veto. Mayor Sanderson yesterday vetoed the order recently made by the BoaWd of Super- visors granting permission to Charles A. Hanson to put in a steam boiler for a dye- inc establishment at 315 Guerrero street. The citizens of that locality protested vehemently against the granting of the order before th« Board of Supervisors, but their protest whs not heeded. They then protested to the Mayor with the result as slated. The cause given for the veto is the endangering of life and i roperty by tho placing of a steam boiler in. the locality indicated. Hi*Left Lee Waa Brokrn. Dennis Gorman was badly Injured yester- day morning while -handling 'freight at Fourth and Townsend streets. A pile of boxes tonpie.d over, and one of them falling on his icft l"(t fractuied it badly, lie was taken to the Receiving Hospital for treat- meat. W. WALKERLEY'S WILL. Bill In Equity Filed to Euforca m Special Trout. A bill In equity was filed in the Superior Court yesterday at the instance of Mary S. Doughty et a]., plaintiffs, against Columbus -"'"'•'•• 9? -' defendants, to enforce the performance of a special trust and for the accounting of the trust estate of William Walkerley, deceased, by the trustees thereof and for other purposes. The tes- tator died testate in the county of Alaiceda, September 16, 1887, and duly made and pub- lished his last will on June 2, 1887, and there- after, on September 7, 1887, duly made and published a codicil to said will. The value of Che real property of the deceased was ?.s;»,000 and upward. Certain allegations Bra made of wrongful conversions of money belonging to the estate by the trustees and executors to their own private use and to other persons. It is asked that an order, decree or Judgment be entered to declare that the defendant?, Columbus Bartlett, Martin Bacon and Frank Barker, hold in trust the property of deceased for the pur- poses directed by the will of deceased; that the other defendants account for the real and personal property of deceased which has come into their posses- sion; that the sum of $20,100, received out of the estate by defendant Blanche 11. Walkerley, the young widow of the de- ceased, «8 family allowance In contraven- tion of the terms of the will be adjudged to have been received hs interest on £100,000 to be paid to her in semi-annual in- stallment* during her life; that the decree of the Superior Court of Atameda County of October '_'•_'. 1888, setting ap.ut Knit Oak- land block of land 121 to Bald Blanche M. Walfcerluy was beyond the jurisdiction of the court mid was the result of collusion, nnd that all orders of said court in connec- tion with SHid estate, except the admission of the will of the 'eased, be declared null and void; that the MM trustees take pos- session of said block of laud and that the shiiii' be sold and the proceeds applied to tliH trust purposes as expressed in the will. It Is also Hike i that judgment be entered against the trustees for such sum or sums as may be adjudged to be due from them as executors or trustees to the trust estate and the beneficiaries under the will for the mis- appropriation and waste of tho estate and mismanagement thereof, and that the trus- tees be enjoined from asking any commis- sions pendißf the litigation. 1 ii" plaintiffs are nephews and nieces of the deceased. PRENTICE MULFORD. Incidents in Hie Career of a True Californiaii, • A Genial Man, a Humorist of the Finest Type-Hi» Life in the Mines-Literary Experience in London. \u25a0Written for The Moksinr Call. I have asked permission of The Call to follow the footprints of a few California writers and shall begin with Prentice Mul- ford, and not entirely because he was a great and good can. but largely because he was a Californian to the core. lie carried his camp life with him to the end. He lived his camp life in London: kindled his campfire on the Campagna; broiled his beefsteak on a stick in the ruins of Ciesar'a hails on the Palontiue, and then placidly fed the little she wolf there with the bone and fragments through the iron bars of the cage; while . the gay Italian cuard in plumes and cock feathers laid his hand on 1*Is sword and frowned at this serene apparition in i\ woolen shirt from the other side of the globe. And even in his death he was still cam pine, prospecting; all alone, as usual — a jug of water, bread, meat, a pinch of salt and pepper for the n-h he might catch, r.en- cil and pad for the beautiful thoughts that inielit come ; and so Prentice Mulfordpushed off from the shore and was never seen alive any more. Where he was going, what he whs going for, when coming back, what matter? That was the last voyage of the lone wanderer. lie was found dead, drift- ing away in Jiis can: c on L>ng Is'and S und last year, a pad in his lap, a pencil iv his nana and 30 cents In his pocket "The world is round, ns you have heard, tin doubt; the wheel has ran a full circle, and i am here." This is from one < f his last letters to me, written at Sirs Harbor, Long Island, where he was born at. d raised, it is pleas- ant to know the gentle wanderer had gotten back home, and that he started almost from the old family fireside on what the French call 'the grand excursion." The grandfather of I'rentice Mulfora served with Washington through the li \u25a0volution as I surgeon, and about the only thing I ever knew him tc rare for in the war of ancestry or family traditions was the yellow and stained old Continental discharge of his grandfather and a most Haltering and laud- atory letter from his commander-in-chlef, although the Mulfords were of a proud old English stock. 1 once went with Prentice -Mull' rd from London to the old family estate and "castle." He asked and obtained per- mission for the day to roam the grounds and haunt the ruins and do entirely as he pleased, lie wa< very hatpy for this privilege. And when the still but kindly forty-second cousin turned back to the modern residence and leftPrentice to medi- tate amid the mossy ruin» that lay strewn about under th«* noble oak-* be fell upon his knees there beside a noble ancestral tree, struck a match, made a tire, unrolled a little pack and broiled a beefsteak. People fancied Mutforrl impractical, help- less. Not so. lie simuly had no ambition for fortune or fame. It is he who defined ambition as only a form of selfishness. But if you fancy him helpless or weak in any way, go through his White Cross Magazine. As an instance of his unselfish contempt for distinction, I may say that he edited and wrote the best part of my hest-paying book. "Life ' Among the Modocs," while with mo in London, and would take no part of the renown and but little of the money, al- though it wa* brought out by Bentley, pub- lisher to the Queen, and made a great stir. You tee— by way of briefest explanation — the London fog and hard work had brought back an old attack of Idaho snow- blindness and I lay there sick, blind, heir- less aud without money. So he came and took an old novel which I had written and Ina I). Coolbritb had pied and corrected, and tried in vain to sell, and ho wrote it all over again and called it my "LifeAmong Hie ifadocs,** depending on my facts for his fiction and on the newspaper accounts of my life in the mountains for his facts. The last thoughts in the book were his. It made a pot of money. Years later, as it refused to die, I cut it up, and to-day it Is loafing around the bookstalls under tho name of "My Own Story." bat to get back to California. His family bad got a place for him as clerk in a dry- goods store, where he was placed on com- pleting his education. Of all places, a dry- goods store! Of course he ran away; went to sea. in a small way, for a time. And then he en- gaged as cook to come around the Horn on a Midler loaded with iron. Hard, bard] Head his grim account of this gruesome voyage in the Atlantic Monthly and you will know something of the painful sen- sibility of the boy, who. born and bred a gentleman, found rum -elf tied to n dog, and a bulldog at th.it, for a master. One fanny thing I must tell. They put in at some Bahama port for rice, rum and molasses to cheer and feed tli*> hard crew and cruol master around the Horn. Ah, the molasses and rum and the rum and molasses which they were to have as they neared the Horn. At last they wen to tap the two hotheads. An apple "dr.if" and » big tin pin of rice— glorious! And the skipper sent Mnlfnrd down, as they sat there at the end of the feast, for more mo- lasses and a little more rum. But the next morning— rip! rap! snap! The old skipper cama strutting up the steps, streaming from his knees to his heels with rum and molasses, both fists in the air, and his lace blue with rage and ironclad oath*;. Poor Prentice! in his haste Id please the cruel master he hart forgotten to stop the rocks, and the belly of the ship was knee deep with the precious stuff-*. A pleasant whaling voyage or so from San Francisco toward the North Pole, but do profit, and Multord took to the mine*. Kith the usual luck, or rather the. want of luck; and then, like Bret Ilarte, took to school-teaching. And here, for a time at least, he found Runshlne and calm, sweet weather. The camp or cabin life, the sweet solitude of It, and th* opportunity for thought, medita- tion, the liberty to be yourself entirely, suited his will. Both as man and school- teacher ho lived alone as a rule, all the time d' in« iii" own cooking and wiiat pertains to cabin life; and here, I reckon, was formed or at least solidly crystallized that disposi- tion to solitude winch so possessed him all his later years. Now di.n't imagine that the hermit, so called, is a sad or morose man always. A man »'ho ii a complete man is sufficient unto himself, as a rule. Mulford, so far from being -ad or morose, was the sweetest tempered and gentlest gentleman 1 ever saw in his line of employment. Jin wan, in fact. Just what his writings indicated, a most genial man, a humorist of the finest type; not loud or lurid, but gentle, fine, re- fined; in fact, not a Joe Miller but a Charles Lamb. Ho took to solitude to avoid friction; the wear and tear of contact witli coarse, hard natures that rasp us and ra«p us day alter day till the akin is too sensitive to bear more of it, Let me set down one single in- cident in his mining and school-teaching experience, and then we will get forward to hi« wanderings and literary work. Young, handsome, of good family, with a bright literary day just dawning, fur he had begun to teach with pen and tongue at the same time, he became engaged to a charm- ing young girl, and they were to have been married soon. How often he used to revert to the pleasant walks and talks with her under the onks on the Sierra foothills, Id Ulnae dear old days. Prentice lived with me for years in London, and hardly a month passed that he did not turn to those gentle days of loveland and of dreams. You cm see the poppies, the Mariposa lilies, the wlde-boughed oaks, the brown, tawny hills of that time and place in all bis early Writ- ings. She died? No, not at all. She has a large and happy family; visited me here lately ana talked endlessly, along with her stout and jolly husband, about Prentice Mnlford. And what broke it off ? I »m in doubt whether 1 should say more. For both she and her appreciative husband were silent cm the subject. But lam tempted to en forward, although Prentice Mill ford with his dry, meditative and fragmentary style could only tell this. One evening in London as bo sat talking and telling over for the twentieth time his dt'lightful Moonlight walks and talk! on tt:e Bowery hillsides of California he finally looked at me and said wit 11 that low, quiet chuckle peculiar to himself, as if laughing away down In his boothecls: "Do you know how a cow gets up?" "Yes, I do. A horse gets up when be l«t down with his head first, but a cow don't." lie chuckled quite a while and then went on: Tea, I know now, but I only found it out that last night. You see, she had been telling me over and over again that I was too sober and thoughtful; didn't have enough fun Inme. Well—chuckle, chuckle, chuckle— as we got back nearly to the gat:: there lay their big cow in the trail, and so, to please her, it suddenly struck me that it would bo funny to jump on the old cow. You see, she was lying there right in the way. and—chuckle, chuckle, chuckle— of), lord! scoot, scoot. You bet, a cow gets up the wronc way. Over her head and down the hill like a frog to where her father stood by the gate—chuckle, chuckle, chuckle— he helped me back to my cabin." "And did that break the engagement?" "Break the engagement! It broke my nose and nearly broke my neck: broke up the school, too, for I couldn't show mv face for a mouth, so I went down to the City and went to work for Joe Laurence on the Era." Hut whether it whs the break and cross In bis love affair, or what. Premie* never in the city quite equaled the work done at that time under the oaks with his sweetheart; and so he must again be going, this time to Europe. 1met him at the home of Ina D. Cooibrith by appointment, and to tie delight of all he pulled out two handful* of gold before he had fairly got his bat 1 11. "Took me three days; first day I walked up and down all day outside ami looked at the bank; second d.iv 1 went in and asked if I could see Mr. Rnlstou ; saw him through the glass, and ran away. Bat the third day 1 went straight in, straight up, told him right out 1 wanted to go to London, «nd he laid out all this gold; and I'm going." This little incident is due to tne memory of Ralston, and it cannot hurt Prentice Mulford. Maybe be returned it. I know ho was very honest and proud In money matters, and would accept nothing from any one without return, as a rule. Mulford mai rind in London while living with me in Museum street, near the British Museum, and was very happy. His wife was a most beautiful and*good English girl, and Lady Hardy and others of rank and literary eminence took great interest in the new couple. He took his little wife with him all over the w.- rid—to ill the gr*at fairs at least— making his way a3 usual with his pen and sometimes giving lectures; she melting into his nomadic and bohemian life with a graM and agrceablencss that was de- lightful. But little more remains to be said, for his life and work from (hat time became a part of the literature of hi* country. When lie was placed at the head of the. "White Cross" publication Mr?. Roosevelt of New York wrote me, "Prentice, your Prentice, is new making fame and fortune together." But 1 hear that lie died poor, poor as he had lived ; and that the little 90 cents found in his pocket when bit body was picked up on that lone last voyage in the drifting canoe was his fortune. Aud that was quite enough. He had inherited a burial place with his fathers, and he had plenty of true Jrionds to lay him to rest there And it is well. 1 do not know that Cali- fornia has particularly cared for this love camper and prophet and painter of her tawny hills, or for any other of her minis- ters that have been thus far as to that ;aud it is probable that Ralston is the only man that ever reached him a hand with anything in it. Peace and honor to them both ; love and companionship beyond the water?, where they "alike, singularly enough, Sought their final rest. Joaqiix Miller. TrentKe MulforJ. TRACK, TRAIN AND TRAFFIC. News Gathered in Railroad and Shipping Circles. The Great Salt Lake Red to Form Four Sep- arate Corporation* to Protect Local and Transcontinental Batei. The directorate of the San Francisco and Great Salt Lake Railroad, now increased to 16 member-, held a meeting on Friday to got acquainted with each other and to exchange ideas. The new members met the old ones and together they met Manager Leeds of the Traffic Association. The business of the meeting brought out no new fact. It only confirmed what The Call announced several times during Hie past few w»--k«, namely, that ,ere is no doubt of the enterprise being a success in every way. All the preliminaries Will be completed within a few days and the pub- lic will be informed through these columns of the complete plans. Very few months will have to pass before work will be Actually commenced, and, in this connec- lion, a inemli .t of the directorate said yes- terday that tn- people seem to h<- strangely impatient. "They seem to think that gre.it enterprises like tiie one we have on hand can be carried out in a day" ; and he added: "but tho vast amount of preliminary work w bieb lias to be done before a new railroad, 900 miles in length, can be said to bo i:: a condition for its promoters to be absolutely certain that they can carry out their project Is immense." THK FINAN< lAI. QUEBTIOH. The director then went on to say th it, as a matter of eour«e, the fiunnml question whs the odo whirl), up to date, delayed matters more titan anything else. It had long since been dft-rnitued to build that road with independent capital, but when the .Southern Pacific Company learned that men with money to Invest were approached in the interest u( the new toad, th> y at once sent acents to Hit* capitalists in question and offered them inducements to put their money into Southern I'acih'c stock. In some cases they succeeded and in others they met with point blank refusals, but their tactics ha I the effect to cause annoying delays to the Salt Lake road projectors. Traffic MtMgei Leeds is happy because th- clipper-ship competition with the trans- continental freight traffic is a success and because the m- re ban is ou both ends of the comment are taking every possible advan- tage of the cheap rates thin established. lint Mr. Leeds has still a much greater ta-U before him in his struggle to reduce the local freight tariff. THE LOCAL TRAFFIC. II says that as lon- as the Southern Pa- cific Company baa an absolute monopoly of all the l"c \\ traffic there It only one remedy to relievo the people, of the Suite from op- pression, hiul that in legislation. "Competing transcontinental lines can bring only partial relief unless they also build up competing local lines," says Mr. Leeds, and he told the, directors of the San Francisco and (in Salt Lake road so plainly on Friday, as a consequence of his remarks it is now proposed that the new company .shall form four corporation.*, earn one of them having parts of the scheme us its main object. One of the corporations will propose to build the line through to Utah and the other three wilt cover the va- nous sections of this State and build lines north and south touching ail the fertile val- leys and populated district*. W. 11. Mill* of trie Southern Pacific has a new scheme for the distribution of fruit from overland train*. The fruit, as shipped at the present, la put into refrigerator cars and dispatched to Chicago 01 New York direct. Tim cars are not opened in tiausil and all the points between Sacramento. Fresno, Los Angeles or wherever the ship- ment la made and the destination of the car have no opportunity to buy California hint. Mr. Mills is preparing a paper on the subject, which he intends to read to the M .ite lioard of Trade shortly. The board of control of the League of ProgfOia baa another big project on md which will be discussed Hud acted on to- morrow. It is said to be of political impor- tance. The North Pacific Coast Hnilway's new time-table as printed in Thk Call's a<lTer- tising columns ttoes into tll\'ct t>-<Say. It shows that the 9 o'clock A. M. txcurfion triiin, wbteh formerly left l,eie mi Sundays for Camp Taylor, TooUMM and Point Rtftlj has been discontinued, and that the DM- iiiiv morning 8 < 'dock train for Cazadero Mini Hie Russian River couutry will be cou- tlllUUU. The 1 \u25a0 •!\u25a0<»«• l>. |i ti i \u25a0\u25a0\u25a0<>\u25a0. t. The will of Charles Forsythe, who died on July lti, was tiled for probate yesterday. He left an estate valued at £6183 H4. which he beQueathed to his brother, sister and The will of Stephsn Thomas was also filed for probate, lie died on July B and bequeathed bis estate, valued at t-l,^ Ml . to his widow. The Sheriff .-u-.1. William F. Dulan, formerly of Merrick & Dolan, has sued Sheriff C. S. Laumelster in the Justices' Court for |38t*tfct value of curtain goods and chattel* contained in the Hawthorne saloon, 400 McAllister street, which the defendant seized and refused to give up possession of. lieectiani'i PIUi sen well because tbej cur« ARMS OF PRECISION. Maitaansbii) in tie Beplar Amy aM tte National Goal Phenomenal Scores With the Springfield Car- bine—The Militia Ignoring Long-Range Target Practice. Wrlttsn for The Morning Call. Rifle practice In the regular army to-day is conducted with some regard to the condi- tions that exist on the field of battle. Time was when the National Guard of the coun- try led the army in all that pertains to this essential branch of military education. To- day the National Guard, or at least that por- tion of it in California, Is far bebiud the regular troops in methods of target prac- tice. Its foremost marksmen make their brilliant scores in covered shooting galleries and along sheltered ranges. The instruction of reeruit9 is conducted in the same places. They ar* thus released from the obliga- tion to study tho effects of light, the varying changes in the condition of the atmosphere and the disturbing influence of the wind upon their own rilles and upon the course of the bullet. They also confine all their practice to a range of 200 yard*, as though an enemy in war would be sufficiently ac- commodating to stand and be shot down at a regulation distance. Such a thing as prac- ticing at unknown distances, or at 300, 600, COO or 800 yards, is unknown in the regular National Guard rifle shooting to-day. When the fever first broke out 6ome year- ago shooting at all these distances was very common, and the California Rifle Associa- tion provided for prize matches and records over ranges up to 1000 yard*. The shooting matches at these distances were held at Bay View, the Presidio and at San Bruno. That was the period when education in the modern system of nile practice commenced and when California sent a tram of National Guardsmen under General John McComb to Creed moor and won the chall«>ngo trophy from New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts aud New Jer- sey in the iutcr-btate match. "1 lie regular army at that time had not awakened to a realization of the Importance of instruction in the art of shooting accurately with the Springfield breechloader or carbine. 11. id General Cutter's mm at the battlo of Big Horn known anything about the \u25a0hooting power of their weapons the fear- ful chapter of the massacre, of seven com- pauies of the Seventh United States Cavalry by the Sioux warriors would never have In en written. As fur back M IM7civilian soldier* were laboring in the East to arouse an interest in the need of a belter acquaint- ance with the value of military weapons. The War Department, however, took no iii'ti'-e of the efforts ol these civilians, and Cnstol and his men rode to their doom. A lad, then at West Point, now Captain Bluut, was, however, watching the incep- tion of this treineuduusly momentous mili- tary reform iv the militia c teles of New Jersey aud New York, and when ho took his place in later years as an effieer in the army he made it his study and specialty. In time he won renown by giving to tho army its present system of small arms target practice, and the code under which it Is ought, "Bluut's Small-arms Firing; Regu- lations." Unfortunately for its fame and its effi- ciency under lire, the National Guard of California lias wedged itself into it groove. It clings to the 200-yard idea. All its rffi- cient records are made nt this distance and under the shooting-gallery conditions al- ready mentioned. Tim season's practice just closed on the Presidio ranite Illustrates the superiority achieved by the regular soldiers. Tney have fired their practice rounds in the teeth of the winds that blow in through the Golden Gate; they have been compelled to use their judgment as to the condition of the atmosphere at different times— whether clear or cloudy ; aud some marvelous scores have been made at various. distunes, indi- cating a high decree of skill. The once despised carbine, which many intelligent officers have de rted as being almost worth- lea*, was the weapon used. The official returns are not made up yet, showing the comparative merits of the marksmauship a: the various posts, but fißQUgti is known to authorize the assertion that Troop li of the Fourth United States Cavalry has excelled all others lit the De- partment of California if not in the Di- vision of the Pacific, which includes, also, the Department of tlus Columbia and the l>«'i'Hi t iu t of Arizuna. Helow arc given a few specimen scores of the results of the individual firing by the embers of Troop B during the present summer at the Presidio ranee: TWO HUNDRED YARDS. Pi ni|i .'"tin I*. Eagau . *2l \u25a0_> t '."2 '21— 87 Dr. Wuo.i •_•! is iS 19- 83 m-iro.im rraiicis \v»rren -.0 -1 'i'Z. 19— 82 Private Wllllani B. l)ul'o:« 81 II iv •-»()— so Private Kr^nk s-cborer _^17 '23 IT •_\u25a0:< - hi) Caputn J&itiea l'ark<>r M I] _\u25a0_\u25a0 17— go f*frge»nt Caprou... 18 IS VO 18 "21 i.".' \u25a0•\u25a0• 22— ••,< Private E-C. Mars!). '2o 19 '20 '21 18 lit 18 19-154 Capron is what is known as a second-sea- son mau. Those In ibis class are required to fire eight scores of five shots at each dis- tance. The recruit class are also required to expend the same quantity of ammunition. The men who lire four scores at each rango are the most advanced class and ere desig- nated subs' qne:it-st men. Marsh be- longs to the tecruit class. lie thus in his first trial Qualifies as a' sharpshooter. Dr. Wood a!«.. scored 81 points at this ranee witl a Springfield rale, his string being 2' 20, 20, 19. THREE HUNDRED TABD9. Trump. Svaur«>lt....2S 22 2* 23 23 M 22 19-180 Private -'ill ii I*.Emm 22 20 -;* 24— »i» Corporal itiomas Parker M 24 23 20- 87 l»r. Wood is 22 23 21— 84 •*"i mt rrancli Warrni 23 20 21 20— 84 $ere*.-ini Caprmi 22 22 21 22 22 21 -jo 17—167 Private Fr»ncl» Laud* 21 20 21 19— 81 Itlacksiulth Peter Kir,* 23 17 20 21— si Sergeant WUilaa Wilson j.i 22 17 19— 81 Dr. Wood at this range also scored 79 points with a ritle, bis string beln^: 19, 20, -'", -'". The firing at 300 yards is done from a bitting posture. FIVE HUNDRED YARDS. Private K. I>. ltanney 21 M20 21— 82 i«erzeant 4. W. Warren ...n 18 20 22- m Private Robert 1). Cooper . iji 21 20 21— hi Bergi ('apr0n.... 21 21 19 23 18 20 20 20 20-162 Private V.Schorer iy 20 II 20— mo Private Tbonias WaiiHce . 2-' 2O 19 19— M I'M. U, hiililn.au... 21 21 20 22 2'J '-0 18 18— Pflvate ranri- I. mule 20 20 m 19— 78 Pvt. [arc Man* 2U 19 19 18 2U 17 20 17—150 Sergeaol Caprei is a second-season man and Private Mush Is in the recruit class. The firing is from a prone position at 500 yards. SIX HIXDKK!) YAltni. Private John F. liatchford 23 21 II 19— 81 Serjeant K. barren Vi» 22 22 17— 81 explain . lame* Parker ill21 17 21— 78 Serceant t-'ai)r0n....21 20 17 20 10 i:> 18 18—1 M Private Joliu P. Etna. . .. in IS 19 is- 7* Private K.C. Mmli.'JO 19 19 SI 10 15 16 20-146 Beneaul Wllil.itn Wilson 18 j« 19 19— " -i Pilwie V.liiiain Oubols 18 "JO 17 17— 72 Sari.ii.T M. Casey it> 2U 17 18- 71 I*nvat« Frank Schorer 20 17 16 18— 71 The foregoing may be considered phenom- enal shooting with the carbine at «300 yards. '1 lie bullet weighs 405 Bruins and the. charge of powder 55 grains. Dr. Wood .-core. I 77 points at this range with arilleßnd with the same weapon 71 points on the 800-yard tar- got. Captain Parker, in cnmmiifl of Troop B, fourth Cavalry, takes an earnest and studi- ous interest in the subject of marksmanship. He has an idea which, if adopted aud em- bodied in the firing regulation?, would add at least 20 per cent to the. value of a volley of musketry. Ho is of opinion that Urn present command: "Company, ready I Aim! Fire!" are all wrong. The men always begin the lull on their triggers at the command "ready," and by the time th» comiUHnd of execution, "fire," is given the aim is more or less deranged, and hence the shooting rather wild. He believe-, that the true command for volley tiring to secure the highest results should be: "Heady! Aim! Company! Fire." Such a command, he is Vi»rv positive, would greatly steady the men, relieving them from the nervous- ness cnused by the explosive monosyllable form in vogue of the command of caution and execution. Th« trigger mint be pulled very slow ly, he say?, and its no man ran mill th< % trigger till the command "fire," they should be taught to aim at the command "ready."' Under the present mode there Is a groat deal of shooting over and under the mark, which would be corrected by the -change in the commands suggested by Captain Parker. H. G. Mi\\v. t niti - nipt of Court. Ida P. Randall has obtained an order from Jud^e Ilobbard citing her husb.ind, William F., to appear and show cause vthv he should not be punished for contempt of court for failing to piy her S3O per month. The defendant is employed in the. Mint, and was ordered to pay this amount in January last, lie now owes his wife about $_ ( (ju. I Uli'llv tO \i.mi «•,. James Hurst has sued John F. Michel in the Justices' Court to recover $250, the value of a horse which plaintiff alleges the defendant drove so cruelly as to cause its death. rroHPiniiiij Fruit- l>dd!f>ra. The 10 fruit-peddlera who were arrested for ' obstructing the street appeared in Da- p&rttaent 1 of the Police Court yesterday nntl their cases \rere continued until next Friday. Merchants along * Market street. between Kearnv and Grant avenue, have been greatly annoyed by these peddler*, whose wagons obstruct the street aud make it lmposs.ble for carriages of customers to find a place to step. The storekeepers have engagtd Attorney E. B. Peixotto to prose- cute the peddlers. SENT TO NAPA. Mary McToland Declared Insane— Sin. Kate Smith* Mania. Yesterday the case of Mary Mr-Poland, charged by Dr. Fefevre, Superintendent of the City and County Hospital, as being in- sane, and whose case has caused more or less contention among physicians, was finally settled and the girlsent to the Xapa Asylum for Insane. Since her first and second examinations, which resulted in her being declared sane and insane, the girl has been at the Home for Inebriates under the watchful eyes of Dr. Jewell. It was his testimony to the effect that there was no doubt of her in- sanity that caused tier commitment. Mrs. Kate Smith of ci Twelfth street was also sent to tho a»yiu<n at Napa yesterday as violently Infant and dangerous to be at large. _________ CALL QUERY COLUMN. Tie Federal Eiifct-Hotir Law Is for General Application. Telescopes at Mount Hamilton-Sheridan in the Frencb-Girman War-Greeley's Candidature. Not a_X.egal Discharge— A. A. C, City. An enlisted man of the N. G. C, who having served his first term of enlistment and lias not re-enlisted, yet for almost two years thereafter is allowed ail the privileges of membership in is company, but then is dishonorably discharged for nou-attendance at drill*. may with justice claim that such discharge is illegal. Not having re-enlisted a second time, he was not in the military service of the State, and, therefore, could not have been dlscharzed, honorably or otherwise. The effect of the expiration of his first term of enlistment was to discharge him. If ho was dishonorably discharged, it must have been by a court-martial, and obviously the court had no jurisdiction over him or his case under the circumstances. Telescopes at Mouxt Hamilton— J. J. C, City. Among the astronomical in- struments at Mount Hamilton are the following: The big telescope, whose visual objective is 3G inches clear aperture; the 12-inch refractor, originally made and mounted for Dr. Henry Draper and his private observatory at Hastings on the Hud- son; the 4-inch comnt-seeker; the G^-inch equatorial; the 6%-inch Bepsold meridian circle; the 4-incii transit and zenith tele- scope combined, and the universal instru- ment, which has an aperture of 2.15 inches. Greei.ey's Candidature— J. \V., City. Horace Greeley was nominated for the Piesldency by the Liberal Republican party, which had called a convention at Cincinnati, Ohio. On the sixth ballot he received 332 votes against 822 for Charles Francis Adams, a sudden concentration of th« votes having been effected. Immediate chances swelled his majority, so that when the vote was finally announced It stood Greeley 482, Adams 187. Toe Democrats after that also formally nominnU>d him and be was the cau- didate of two parties in 1872. He Did Speak —W. X.. City. The answer of the Q. C that ex-Judge J. F. Sullivan had never siokfn on the sand lot was given on the authority of his brother, in the absence of the gentleman himself. Since then the (}. C. has been advised to the contrary by Mr. J. F. Sullivan, and the files of The Call of the 'J4:h of August, 1871), have been consulted to verify the state- ment that he had spoken on the previous day on the historical sand lot. Sheridan in Europe— F. W. s., City. To say that Sheridan was on "overseer in the Franco-Prussian war for American in- terests" i-< nrrant nonsense. During this war of 1670-71 thi late M.«jor-G<Mieral Sheri- dan visited Europe and by invitation of the German Emperor was present as a specta- tor at several famous engagements, and that was the lout; and short of the au.tir. Railways ix Gki:m any— 11. \V., City. The great majority of the German railways are now owned by the imperial or state Gov- ernment. Out of 23,968 miles of railway completed and open for traffic only 3613 miles belonged to private companies, and of these 617 were worked by the Government. Narrow-gauge lines in 1889 l measured 542 miles, of which 246 were Govermuf-nt lines. Tlaini v Answkijkd— O. A X., City. The Q. C. answered as plain as language can Make it that the marriage with tlie daughter of one's sis.'er is an incestuous union. It incestuous, necessarily it is not a legal matri;igt\ is forbiddtu by the law of this State auu, of course, is punishable as a crime. At thk Last Ki.ki tioh— C B. Y. Jr., Banta Crtn, CaL ti) The total vote at the I'rc-i -.t'litiil election la 1888 was 11,384,937. 1 The vote, of the Fiohibitton p.trtv was 251,147. (•"> Colorado gave a majority of 9700 and California a plurality oi 7111 for the ll. 'publican candidate. A QiAi.iriFn JrnoK— (J. C. I?., City. A person to be uualiiird to sit as a juror must atnoii-' other things have been assessed on the last asaeeMaent roll of his county for property owned by him. The same quali- fications as iv State courts are demauded in tr.e Federal tribunals. Tiikkk Mist Bl Dn>lOATH>ir —J. D. ON., City. There must have been a dedi- cation to the public as a thoroughfare by deed or use before the city can prevent the closing up of that street by those claiming to own it as private property. Via Nicaragua— G. E., City. From Liverpool. England, to Auckland. New /.aland, via Cape Horn, ItIs 12.400 miles, via Cai o of Good Hope 13,975, and via the proposed Nicaragua canal would be 11,349 miles. AT Map.f Island- B. E. 8., City. If onco the Q. C tins answered a half dozen times that to place ;i bi>y ou a mnn-of-war one n.ust apply for his enlistment at the recruiting oflice at Mare Island. PITTSBURG LANDixa—J. F. T., City. The Thirty-second Illinois and the gun- boats Lexington and Tyler were engaged in the battle at Pittaburg Landing, Teuu., fought on March 2, ISG2. Italy's Dsbt— a. N., City. The capi- tal of Italy's consolidated and redeemable debt amounted on July 1, 185)1, to 11.800,- --452.529 lire Dk LxSSSPfI J. S., City. Ferdinatid de I>e«seps. who projected and constructed thn canal of Suez, arrived in this city in lbiW ou the 17th of Murch. Not in tiik Compact— J. F., City. Most assuredly there are reliable insurance com- panies repiesmted iv this city which are not iv tbu compact. ( UM Cm- 11— H. K. 13., City. Address BailltT Esva Wa-hburn of the Supreme Court regarding the chess club and its headquarters. Mo.nmoi th Pauk- J. D., City. The racetiack at Mopiouth Park, N. .1., may be considered, tho finest iv th« United States, and probauly is PSACI Jl r.ii.EKS— I. W., City. The great "peace jubilees" projected by Gilruore were held in Boston in IBG9 and 1872. Population-— J. G., City. The census showed 298,907 inhabitants in San Francisco aud 205,870" lv Detroit, Mich. Norn; Laik.kii— J. G., City. There is not a t neater in Detroit, Mich., larger than the Gruud Opera-house in this city. Looking Backwakd— A. M. S., City. The Hist Sunday in the month of August, MBit was on the 84. Wohth 10 Cents— S. M. I)., City. A dime of 1838 is worth 10 cents and no mure. Nil Oi.i.i \\»— M. C, City. The popu- lation of Now Orleans was >,<>;<•. tl.. Divurre Mill. An order has been made by Ju.lgo Slack in tho divorce case of Johauna Keiter that Urn plain titT be paid $75 per month alimony, S'2oo for counsel foes fttt.l«SßO for costs. Dora M. Moiteno lias been granted a divorce from Ctiarles Molteno by Judge llebbard for desertion and failure to pro- vide. Both parties are natives of the Hawaiian Islands. . A divorce complaint has been filed by Mary L. WincsUank ngaiust Benjamin Wineshmik. SEX JEALOUSY IN FRANCE. Curious Sacial Conditions in the Euro- pe»n jiuhi i<- . London T#legrapti. It is not at all unlikely that the jealousy or the downright aversion shown by the French medical students to female* com- petition arises from that curious social con- servatism which prevail* among a nation who rarely miss the opportunity to pro- claim themselves the most democratic peo- ple in Europe. There have always been a great many crafts and employments open to Frenchwomen from which Englishwomen were, until a very recent period, al- most entirely debarred. From time im- memorial in I'aris and other large French towns the shopkeeper's wife has offici- ated as his bookkeeper and cashier, and very often late nt night, while monsieur Is playing dominoes or billiards, or enjoying his cigar and his "hock" at his favorite cafe, uiiidame is painfully balancing her books behind the counter of the deserted but still brilliantly litshop. Women, again, in France have an almost entire monopoly in siMlinii newspapers at the kio^Ques. or in keeping "bureaux de tabac." 'they may also practice art, without Ift or hindrance, and they may attain, if they have the talent and the capacity, bright eminence as paint- er?, sculptors, engravers, or draughts- women in black and white; but the Academy of Fine Arts persistently sets its face against th« admission of lady mem- bers although, as Mme. Leon Bertatix, the president of the Union of Feminine Artists, has just pointed out, there were in the last century two lady academicians— Mme. Ter- bnrsch ntid the renowned portrait 1 muter, Mme. Vigee-Lebrun. GRANT'S FAbT HORSES. Dow the General Secured a Bargnin— % Gift Prom th* Hultnu. American Trlbnne. Next to Washington, Grant had perhaps the best horses of any President, and one of the best horses he drove was secured right here at the capital. His name was Butcher Boy, and Grant named him this from the circumstances attending his pur- chase, lie was out driving one day while he was President and lie tried to pass a butcher's cart, but though he had a fast horse the cart kept in advance of him, and he saw that the horse which pulled it was a good one. He kepi after the rait until itgot into Washington and fol- lowed it to it* stand near the market and marked the place at which the driver stopped. He then sent a man to buy the horse and he got it for a small amount, but it turned out to be a fast horse and a good one. Speaking of Grant, one of his closest friends here at Washington was General Ed Beale, aud it was to General Beale that he gave two of the horses which were sent him from Turkey by the Sultan. and I think these : are now on General Beale'a hum near Washington. While I was in Turkey a few years ago I had a chat with the dragoman of our legation at Constanti- nople and he told me a queer story of ttie selection of these horses by the Sultan. The Sultan had sent the Instruction that they should be sent to President Grant as a gift from him, and the Minister had, in c.inpany with this dragoman, tried them. One was a magnificent Jet black stal- lion, but in riding him the Minister thought he discovered a fault, and he in- sUtecl that the dragoman should take him back to the Sultan and ask him to send a better noise. The dragoman replied that bit could not do this; the hordes were a ttllt, and he used the proverb about not looking agift-ht-!se in the mouth. But tho Min- ister insisted, and the dragoman went to the bultan and asked for an audience. He is, by the way. a man of line &e;isiliilities, and as an Interpreter for the legation be is the must imports Dt of all men to Americans in Turkey. Said he to me: "Ifelt very much ashamed of myself and my ml-sion, and I did not know what I couM do until ai last a thought struck me that the horse was a black one and that black wa* the color of mourning in America. When I entered the palace the first thing the secre- tary asKed mo was as to how the Minister and myself liked the honest and I replied ihat they were the finest horses that we had ever seen, and that our President would feel very proud and would be delighted with the gift. I then went on to praise the horses, and especially the black one, which I said was magnificent in every respect, but —here I stopped, and th.c secretary anxiously asked. 'But what? Is there anv- thinc the matter with the horse?' " '-No,' said I, 'but you Rn<iw black is the color of mourning in the United States. It means dentil w:th us and I just wondered whether such a gift might not be considered ominous if sent by the Sultan.' The Secre- tary saw the point at once, he spoke to tha Sultan, and 1 was thanked for my sug- gestion and the horse was cliHtiged for on« of another color and as sound as a dvliar." A mysterious ringing of electric be'ls in a house iv Switzerland whs traced to a spider, wlio-e web had connected two wires. THE FINEST FREIGHT STEAMER. The New Nnrnntc Brats the Record Acrnti th«» Atlantic. New Yorn Sun. * The White Star twin-screw freighter Na- ronic finished her maiden voyage to this port from Liverpool on Sunday in 9 days 4 hour? and 21 minutes, beating the best first trip of any cargo steamship in thu world. She and her sister ship, the Bovic, launched last month, are the bluest freighters afloat and will doubtless be the faslest The Naronic covered 3003 knots and averaged 14 knots an hour. The >iaronic and the Bovic are several hundred ton i larger than the Nomadic and the Tauric, each of which measures 5741 tons gross. The name Boric is about the equivalent ol Tauric la meaning, being de- rived from the word for "ox," as the latter is from the Latin word for "bull." Nomadic and Xaronic, too. have a kindred meaning. A nomad is a rover of the earth associated with the cattle business; Nannie might be freely interpreted as meaning fljater or sea rover. The Naronic is 470 feet long, 63 feet beam and 35!'2 feet deep. Her eugiues are of the triDle-cxpaosinn type. She is fitted up es- pecially for the safe transportation of cattle and horses ami iresh meat and fruit. She can accommodate, wittiout crowding, 1050 head of cattle on her upper and main decEs. Horses are carried in spacious stalls amid- Sblps, where they will bo least affected by the moticn of the ship. When the l>ovic is put in service tbe Wliite Stsr line will send a twin-screw freighter from New York every Tii3sday aud one from Liverpool every Fiiday. THE WHITE STAR TWIN-SCREW FREIUUTER NARONIC. SUNDAY EDITION. THE MOKKIXG CALL, SAN FBAHCISCO, SUNDAY, AUGUST 7, ISO'J-SIXTEEX PAGES. PAGES 9 to 12. &J*kJr I \»0 \J ISam L|/ THE BABY? . . j**V.-f r *r3**~> I „ THE SKIN ALSO .«^?%?ssSi*j*£Jl needs food. If 5?V^?)C^. your oomplexloa r »-*v'^'^l^^B^>'^ \». " sa|i " w - ' ***• &&f^?'^&: \ • « l»ec.«use yoa ' i_^ •^raraEwßS-^y neglect to feed it 4^S \&%&*^a£iS jf wlUl L.>i.\ Mon-- /* v V|ll!>>WU|^r TK7, po-it!rely / 1 P'JfgkMf the only safe and T 4-^il%&£) reliable sk in food t^ ~ * / f*Smm a>id tissue builder 1 vt^Hr known.- ScientlA- V, .^ajWL cully prepared 7~~X >^^^&^_ ftntl entirely frre ,f '^H^ls'^Hs^v Iro '" any l:ijar| - --d«^'/;"^iS?«ib>S^Ss?Ja oussub?tacce. It ws!&"^tU t\»3Erl»w|^\V i * urßl aU(I neceu- \e'«^^7tjV<W-«^a^l<»"- B..ry secretions of WS^&w]ffi&JffignfiGt/W4 tlici^i-.Mturiiiii f^MjsACiiM J /^ li ''^\ n "" "'-" I- 1 tita ~s llrm and healthy //(.Id. f'.Wtf'/iai'rOQTy matter horn VU m your coinolexlua ha« become. Trits wonderful skin food will maxo It beautiful, a sour, e <>f pride to yourself an>i a div Itgbt to ail your Irlenda, a trial convloces tli-> most skeptical. No face powder should ever be used without llrst rulii>itie a little of c e Lor.A Momtu Cbemk Into the stein. thus softenln^the complex! >.i and preventing thv: powder 'ruin cio^g 11^ the pores of the sKlit. PRICE 7"c POT LASTS THREE MONTHS. SUPERFLUOUS HAIR Removed by the Electric, Needle, GUARANTEED PERMANENTLY. Ladle* at » distance tro;»ted t>y correspondents for all Itleuiishes or i>crn ts of Faco or FUure. .. MRS. NETTIE HARRISON, (AMKHICA'S ISKAUTY T>I>*TOK) 26 GEARY STREET, SAN FRANC ISCO, CAK l.atli«"< out of t')\vn siMiiliii; this ad with lO<'«nt.« In stamps will receive !>;> ok of instructions and a box of .skin I'mul and Face Powder free. Ask your ilrtigßlst to order it for yon. lr he should not have it In stoc*, or if mors coiiTenl-jnt, so:id nt 75c and we will send you a pot, express prepaid. t-» aay part of the United States, Never let 1 tales* • \u25a0nan persuade you to try something else, said t > bo just as good. J v3 l it Stt An «xe«Uent av?d mild Cathartic i ur«l» VeSTftablA. Takon tVMordtnv to diraotloaS restore boalth and rssiavr vitality. jt(« %to • Udi. Suld hjr all iriiita •\u25a0 lui &1 u a#i2 _^__ m _^_^ DRY GOODS STROM ANTMTAiTIAITBAiAi FOR THE SECOND WEEK OF OUR If the wonderful success of the first week of our Great Reduction Sale of all summer goods can be taken as a criterion, the satisfactory realization of our efforts to make itsurpass our famous sale of a year ago, when we closed out the Bankrupt Stock of Sullivan, Burtis &Dewey, becomes almost a foregone conclu- sion, but to make the desired result doubly certain we continue the sale This Week with Still More Powerful Inducements in All Departmeits. GREAT VALUES IN STAPLE GOODS! Es^ We reserve the right to limit quantities and none of these goods will be sold to storekeepers. At II Cents. At 7 1 /* Cents. 45-inch XX UNBLEACHED SHEETING, 400 pieces STANDARD DKESS SEER- reduced from 1314c a yard. SUCKERS, fine grade and good styles, reduced from 12%c a yard. At 13% Cents. At .-7 o __ fe 54-inch XX UNBLEACHED SHEETING, ICOO Dipcp . gfnuivf sro \Cl\ 7FPHYR reduced from 10%c a yard. r^i v ? r> u\ V. v *. i . LU / AA V7 /3 ' GINGHAMS, 31 Indies wide, 150 dit- ferent slyles, reduced from 25c a yard. At 16 Cents. 72-incl) XX UNBLEACHED SHEETING At 45 Cents. reduced from 'Me a yard. 2 cases SUPERIOR GRADE ECRU TABLE DAM ASK, undressed and very service- able, reduced from 60s a yard. At 18 Cents. 81-inch XX UNBLEACHED SHEETING At SVs Cents reduced from 2-/ 2 c a yard. 1250 p!ece , S£ A»£ DOWN FLANNEL . ~ ETTES, in stripes, plaids aud figure* At 2O Cents. reduced from 12%c a yard. 90-inch XX UN BLEACH SHEETING. * reduced from 25c « yard. At $5.50 a Pair. 250 pairs FINE WHITE FAMILY BLAN- At 10 Cents KETS, reduced from $7 50. 45-inch BLEACHED PILLOW SHEET- A . _\u0084 „ t ING, reduced from 12' 2 « a yard. At 6 * Cents. 2,"0 pieces ENGLISH FLANNELETTES. (All other widths in Bleached Sheeting in in dark and medium colors, reduced proportion.) from 10c a yard. ftt/jff^*' MURPHY B7ILDINQ / (/(/ Mel Sires!, " corner of Jones, / S-AJKT PRAJNTCISCO ______ DRY GOODS. \u25a0 SPECIAL SPOT-CASH PURCHASE! —^~JLT~^» — Owing to the depressing effect that the intense heat prevailing in the East has had on the Cloak trade of New York, our Cloak Department Manager Mr Mclnerny), now in that city, secure! a leading importer's entire stock in the following lines at about 25c ON THE DOLLAR FOR SPOT CASH, and having just received the go:ds by express we place them on sale at the following Prodigious Reductions to Close Them Out ! LADIES" JACKETS. LADIES' CAPES. At SO. At $2.50. LADIES' Dor BLE- BREASTED LADIES' CAPES, iusbadesof lan.trimmed BEEFER JACKETS, m small checks with ** ™* *\u25a0 >*> will he closed ou < and plaids and ia gray an 1 tan solid lvl- Wlth ]et' worttl 5< ** Wlll be clObeU out or?, worth 750, will be closed out at at $2 50 each. S3s ° eaCl \, Mrm At 3>5.00. »\u25a0\u25a0»« . At BiOO< LADIES' CAPES, in tan mixed and black LA ?.£ 'kUKV^S^S^S? »««'•>* —»J -» «»•* ««''•>• " and in small checks, in light and medium ribbon, worth $10, will be closed out at shades, fastened with arl and fancy «;.-> each. buttons, worth $10, will be closed out at Sseach. A.t $7.50. At 47.50. LADIES' CAPES, in striped materials, LADIES' DOUBLE-BREASTED REEFER plain tan and tan mixtures, and black, JACKKIs, ii; >i.al ( of gray and tan trimmed ™ lh good duality of ribbon, and iu mottled goods fastened with . large pearl buttons, worth 812 SO, will be worth £12 50, will be closed out at $7 50 closed out at $7 50 each. each. LADIES" NEWMARKETS. At 33. 00. LADIES' DOUBLE-BREASTED NEWMARKETS, in light tan striped all-wool cloak- ing, with adjustable capes, finished at neck with fancy cord oruameuts, worth $10. will be closed out at $5 each. -At $7.50. LADIES' NEWMARKETS, in dray and light and dark brown striped cheviot, with ad- justable cape?, double breasted and fastened with bone buttons, worth $12 50, will be Closed out at $7 50 each. /Sflf^^ MURPHY BUILDINC, / (/(/ Market Street, corner of Mm, /
Transcript of SUNDAY EDITION. PRENTICE ANTMTAiTIAITBAiAi SPECIAL … · PRENTICE MULFORD. Incidents in Hie Career...
A SHIP RAILWAY.Large T«s«el* to Be Transported Ovrr
Mild at Laud.Cblcajo Tribune.
Atthe last session of the Ontario Legisla-ture an r.ct was passed loeorporating theOntario Snip-railway Company. The proj-ect of this company is to build a three-trackrailway from Toronto on Lake Ontario toCollingwood on Georgian Bay in LakeHuron for the purpose of hauling lake ves-sels between those two points. E. L. Cor-theli of Chicago is the consulting engineerof the enterprise. He said to a reporter forthe Tribune that there was no doubt aboutthe feasibility and practicability of thescheme if the money firitcan be raised.Trie plans are substantially the game asthose prepared for tiie Tenuantep^c ship-railway projected by the late Captain JamesB. Eade, and of which Mr. Corthell is nowthe engineer.
Simply stated the plans provided forbasins or docks at the terminals, which canbe emptied and nile at will, and where thevessels can be floated on and off the enor-mous car designed to transport them. Onthe car the vessels will rest securely oncradles. The car Itself will be drawn by»ix or more powerful locomotives. Thesccompanying illustrations, willgive a cleareridea of the ship railway than can be con-tpyed in a description.
From Toronto toCo'lingwood the proposedroute Is practically a straight line, but onthe Tehuantepcc route there are several de-
flections which give rise to the necessity ofbuilding water turntables, it being Impos-sible to haul the. long car around curves.At the turntable the vessel is Boated, turnedin accordance with th« direction of connect-ing line, reloaded and sent on his way.
Mr. Corthell said the completion of theOntario line would save 500 miles of tortuousnavigation through the St. ('lair River,JLake Krie and Niagara Palls. It would takedirectly from Lake Huron into Lake Ontariotraffic which now stops at Buffalo. Yes-elsfrom Chicago to Dulutb drawing 20 feetcould go to Ogdensliur;; and down the .St.Lawrence, nearly 200 miles furtiier ci t titanthey can go now.
"Ten important points en Lake Ontarioand the whole Atlantic 6eaboar<l." said Mr.Corthell, "would be vastly benefited, to saynothing of the West and North j becauseloads could be carried to much farther be-fore breaking bulk."
The length of the proposed line Is 6Gmiles, through a comparatively level coun-try, where no rock is encountered. Mr.Cnrtbeil's estimate of the cost is 115.900,000.
In the act incorporating the companyDavid Blalo of Toronto was made manager.Mr.liliiinsailed for London July 5, afterConsulting several New York banker*, forthe purpose of interesting English capital-ists in the scheme, He was accompanied toNew York by President lirickman of theRochester' Board of Trade, who subse-quently said the project was favorably re-ceived on Wall street. There were to bethree railway tracks of the standard scuuge,4 feet 8% inches, with rails 110 pounds perlineal yard. Itwas Intended to transportvessels (I 1000 tons register, or, say, 2000tons displacement weight ami 14 fret draft.The estimated cost was 112,000.000.It is tm practicable, except at great cost,
to build the railway on a straight line be-tween, the two points. There will neces-sarily tie in the central part of the route two,end perhaps three, deflection tables forchanging the direction. The grades, as as-certained from all available data, willbe 31feet per mile as a maximum, although OS)the larger part of the route the grades willbe 11 feet and 14 feet per mile. The summitto be surmounted Is 670 feet above themean level of Lake Ontario.
The Hr-'icti. oublic roads and xaLLroa&s to
be crossed can all be easily provided for.The material to be moved is entirely ear !,,no reck being found on the rout**. Theharbor improvements at the termini willnot be expensive.
AN OCEAN STEAMER IN TRANSIT
Ill*Mijni'iVeto.Mayor Sanderson yesterday vetoed the
order recently made by the BoaWd of Super-visors granting permission to Charles A.Hanson to put in a steam boiler for a dye-inc establishment at 315 Guerrero street.The citizens of that locality protestedvehemently against the granting of theorder before th« Board of Supervisors, buttheir protest whs not heeded. They thenprotested to the Mayor with the result asslated. The cause given for the veto is theendangering of life and iroperty by thoplacing of a steam boiler in. the localityindicated.
Hi*Left Lee Waa Brokrn.Dennis Gorman was badly Injured yester-
day morning while -handling 'freight atFourth and Townsend streets. A pile ofboxes tonpie.d over, and one of them fallingon his icft l"(t fractuied itbadly, lie wastaken to the Receiving Hospital for treat-meat.
W. WALKERLEY'S WILL.Bill In Equity Filed to Euforca m Special
Trout.A bill In equity was filed in the Superior
Court yesterday at the instance of Mary S.Doughty et a]., plaintiffs, against Columbus-"'"'•'•• 9? -' defendants, to enforce theperformance of a special trust and for theaccounting of the trust estate of WilliamWalkerley, deceased, by the trusteesthereof and for other purposes. The tes-tator died testate in the county of Alaiceda,September 16, 1887, and duly made and pub-lished his last will on June 2, 1887, and there-after, on September 7, 1887, duly made andpublished a codicil to said will. The valueof Che real property of the deceased was?.s;»,000 and upward. Certain allegationsBra made of wrongful conversions of moneybelonging to the estate by the trustees andexecutors to their own private use and toother persons. It is asked that an order,decree or Judgment be entered to declarethat the defendant?, Columbus Bartlett,Martin Bacon and Frank Barker, hold intrust the property of deceased for the pur-poses directed by the willof deceased; thatthe other defendants account for thereal and personal property of deceasedwhich has come into their posses-sion; that the sum of $20,100, receivedout of the estate by defendant Blanche
11. Walkerley, the young widow of the de-ceased, «8 family allowance In contraven-tion of the terms of the will be adjudgedto have been received hs interest on£100,000 to be paid to her in semi-annual in-stallment* during her life; that the decreeof the Superior Court of Atameda Countyof October '_'•_'. 1888, setting ap.ut Knit Oak-land block of land 121 to Bald Blanche M.Walfcerluy was beyond the jurisdiction ofthe court mid was the result of collusion,nnd that all orders of said court inconnec-tion with SHid estate, except the admissionof the willof the 'eased, be declared nulland void; that the MM trustees take pos-session of said block of laud and that theshiiii'be sold and the proceeds applied totliH trust purposes as expressed in the will.ItIs also Hike i that judgment be entered
against the trustees for such sum or sumsas may be adjudged to be due from them asexecutors or trustees to the trust estate andthe beneficiaries under the will for the mis-appropriation and waste of tho estate andmismanagement thereof, and that the trus-tees be enjoined from asking any commis-sions pendißf the litigation.
1 ii"plaintiffs are nephews and nieces ofthe deceased.
PRENTICE MULFORD.
Incidents in Hie Career of a TrueCaliforniaii, •
A Genial Man, a Humorist of the FinestType-Hi» Life in the Mines-Literary
Experience in London.
\u25a0Written for The Moksinr Call.
Ihave asked permission of The Call tofollow the footprints of a few Californiawriters and shall begin with Prentice Mul-ford, and not entirely because he was agreat and good can. but largely becausehe was a Californian to the core. liecarried his camp life with him to the end.He lived his camp life in London: kindledhis campfire on the Campagna; broiledhis beefsteak on a stick in the ruins ofCiesar'a hails on the Palontiue, and thenplacidly fed the little she wolf there withthe bone and fragments through the ironbars of the cage; while . the gay Italiancuard in plumes and cock featherslaid his hand on 1*Is sword andfrowned at this serene apparition in i\
woolen shirt from the other side of theglobe. And even in his death he was stillcam pine, prospecting; all alone, as usual
—a jug of water, bread, meat, a pinch of saltand pepper for the n-h he might catch, r.en-cil and pad for the beautiful thoughts thatinielit come;and so Prentice Mulfordpushedoff from the shore and was never seen aliveany more. Where he was going, what hewhs going for, when coming back, whatmatter? That was the last voyage of thelone wanderer. lie was found dead, drift-
ing away in Jiis can: c on L>ng Is'and S undlast year, a pad in his lap, a pencil iv hisnana and 30 cents In his pocket
"The world is round, ns you have heard,tin doubt; the wheel has ran a full circle,and iam here."
This is from one < f his last letters to me,written at Sirs Harbor, Long Island,where he was born at. d raised, it is pleas-ant to know the gentle wanderer had gottenback home, and that he started almostfrom the old family fireside on what theFrench call 'the grand excursion." Thegrandfather of I'rentice Mulfora servedwith Washington through the li\u25a0volution asIsurgeon, and about the only thing Ieverknew him tc rare for in the war of ancestryor family traditions was the yellow andstained old Continental discharge of hisgrandfather and a most Haltering and laud-atory letter from his commander-in-chlef,although the Mulfords were of a proud oldEnglish stock. 1 once went with Prentice-Mull'rd from London to the old family estateand "castle." He asked and obtained per-mission for the day to roam the groundsand haunt the ruins and do entirely as hepleased, lie wa< very hatpy for thisprivilege. And when the still but kindlyforty-second cousin turned back to themodern residence and leftPrentice to medi-tate amid the mossy ruin» that lay strewnabout under th«* noble oak-* be fell upon hisknees there beside a noble ancestral tree,struck a match, made a tire,unrolled a littlepack and broiled a beefsteak.
People fancied Mutforrl impractical, help-less. Not so. lie simuly had no ambitionfor fortune or fame. It is he who definedambition as only a form of selfishness. Butif you fancy him helpless or weak in anyway, go through his White Cross Magazine.
As an instance of his unselfish contemptfor distinction, Imay say that he edited andwrote the best part of my hest-paying book."Life'
Among the Modocs," while with moin London, and would take no part of therenown and but little of the money, al-though it wa* brought out by Bentley, pub-lisher to the Queen, and made a great stir.
You tee— by way of briefest explanation—the London fog and hard work had
brought back an old attack of Idaho snow-blindness and Ilay there sick, blind, heir-less aud without money. So he came andtook an old novel which Ihad written andIna I).Coolbritb had pied and corrected,and tried in vain to sell, and ho wrote it allover again and called itmy "LifeAmongHie ifadocs,** depending on my facts for hisfiction and on the newspaper accounts ofmy lifein the mountains for his facts. Thelast thoughts in the book were his. Itmadea pot of money. Years later, as it refusedto die, Icut itup, and to-day it Is loafingaround the bookstalls under tho name of"My Own Story."
bat to get back to California. His familybad got a place for him as clerk in a dry-goods store, where he was placed on com-pleting his education. Of allplaces, a dry-goods store!
Of course he ran away; went to sea. in asmall way, for a time. And then he en-gaged as cook to come around the Horn ona Midler loaded with iron. Hard, bard]
Head his grim account of this gruesomevoyage in the Atlantic Monthly and youwill know something of the painful sen-sibility of the boy, who.born and bred agentleman, found rum -elf tied to n dog, anda bulldog at th.it, for a master. One fannything Imust tell. They put in at someBahama port for rice, rum and molasses tocheer and feed tli*> hard crew and cruolmaster around the Horn.
Ah, the molasses and rum and the rumand molasses which they were to have asthey neared the Horn. Atlast they wen totap the two hotheads. An apple "dr.if"and » big tin pin of rice—glorious! Andthe skipper sent Mnlfnrddown, as they satthere at the end of the feast, for more mo-lasses and a littlemore rum.
But the next morning— rip! rap! snap!The old skipper cama strutting up thesteps, streaming from his knees to his heelswithrum and molasses, both fists in the air,and his lace blue with rage and ironcladoath*;.
Poor Prentice! in his haste Id please thecruel master he hart forgotten to stop therocks, and the belly of the ship was kneedeep with the precious stuff-*.
A pleasant whaling voyage or so fromSan Francisco toward the North Pole, butdo profit,and Multord took to the mine*.Kith the usual luck, or rather the. want ofluck; and then, like Bret Ilarte, took toschool-teaching.
And here, for a time at least, he foundRunshlne and calm, sweet weather. Thecamp or cabin life, the sweet solitude of It,and th* opportunity for thought, medita-tion, the liberty to be yourself entirely,suited his will. Both as man and school-teacher ho lived alone as a rule, all the timed' in« iii"own cooking and wiiat pertains tocabin life; and here, Ireckon, was formedor at least solidly crystallized that disposi-tion to solitude winch so possessed him allhis later years.
Now di.n't imagine that the hermit, socalled, is a sad or morose man always. Aman »'ho ii a complete man is sufficientunto himself, as a rule. Mulford, so farfrom being -ad or morose, was the sweetesttempered and gentlest gentleman 1 eversaw in his line of employment. Jin wan, infact. Just what his writings indicated, amost genial man, a humorist of the finesttype; not loud or lurid, but gentle, fine, re-fined; in fact, not a Joe Miller but a CharlesLamb.
Ho took to solitude to avoid friction; thewear and tear of contact witli coarse, hardnatures that rasp us and ra«p us day alterday till the akin is too sensitive to bearmore of it, Let me set down one single in-cident in his mining and school-teachingexperience, and then we willget forward tohi« wanderings and literary work.
Young, handsome, of good family, with abright literary day just dawning, fur he hadbegun to teach with pen and tongue at thesame time, he became engaged to a charm-ing young girl, and they were to have beenmarried soon. How often he used to revertto the pleasant walks and talks with herunder the onks on the Sierra foothills, IdUlnae dear old days. Prentice lived withme for years in London, and hardly amonthpassed that he did not turn to those gentledays of loveland and of dreams. You cmsee the poppies, the Mariposa lilies, thewlde-boughed oaks, the brown, tawny hillsof that time and place in all bis early Writ-ings.
She died? No, not at all. She has alarge and happy family; visited me herelately ana talked endlessly, along with herstout and jolly husband, about PrenticeMnlford. And what broke it off ? I»min doubt whether 1 should say more. Forboth she and her appreciative husband weresilent cm the subject. But lam tempted to
en forward, although Prentice Millford withhis dry, meditative and fragmentary stylecould only tell this.
One evening in London as bo sat talkingand telling over for the twentieth time hisdt'lightful Moonlight walks and talk! on tt:eBowery hillsides of California he finallylooked at me and said wit11 that low, quietchuckle peculiar to himself, as if laughingaway down In his boothecls:
"Do you know how a cow gets up?""Yes, Ido. A horse gets up when be l«t
down with his head first, but a cow don't."liechuckled quite a while and then went
on: Tea, Iknow now, but Ionly found itout that last night. You see, she had beentelling me over and over again that Iwastoo sober and thoughtful; didn't haveenough fun Inme. Well—chuckle, chuckle,chuckle— as we got back nearly to the gat::there lay their big cow in the trail, and so,to please her, itsuddenly struck me that itwould bo funny to jump on the old cow.You see, she was lying there right in theway. and—chuckle, chuckle, chuckle— of),lord! scoot, scoot. You bet, a cow gets upthe wronc way. Over her head and downthe hill like a frog to where her father stoodby the gate—chuckle, chuckle, chuckle— hehelped me back to my cabin."
"And did that break the engagement?""Break the engagement! It broke my
nose and nearly broke my neck: broke upthe school, too, forIcouldn't show mv facefor a mouth, soIwent down to the City andwent to work for Joe Laurence on the Era."
Hut whether it whs the break and cross Inbis love affair, or what. Premie* never in thecity quite equaled the work done at thattime under the oaks with his sweetheart;and so he must again be going, this time toEurope.
1met him at the home of Ina D. Cooibrithby appointment, and to tie delight of allhe pulled out two handful* of gold beforehe had fairlygot his bat 1 11.
"Took me three days; first dayIwalkedup and down all day outside ami looked atthe bank; second d.iv 1went in and askedifIcould see Mr. Rnlstou ;saw him throughthe glass, and ran away. Bat the third day1 went straight in, straight up, told himright out 1 wanted to go to London, «nd helaid out all this gold; and I'mgoing."
This little incident is due to tne memoryof Ralston, and it cannot hurt PrenticeMulford. Maybe be returned it. Iknowho was very honest and proud Inmoneymatters, and would accept nothing fromany one without return, as a rule.
Mulford mai rind in London while livingwith me in Museum street, near the BritishMuseum, and was very happy. His wifewas a most beautiful and*good English girl,and Lady Hardy and others of rank andliterary eminence took great interest in thenew couple. He took his little wife withhim all over the w.- rid—to ill the gr*at fairsat least— making his way a3 usual with hispen and sometimes giving lectures; shemelting into his nomadic and bohemian lifewith a graM and agrceablencss that was de-lightful.
But little more remains to be said, forhis life and work from (hat time became apart of the literature of hi*country. Whenlie was placed at the head of the. "WhiteCross" publication Mr?. Roosevelt of NewYork wrote me, "Prentice, your Prentice,is new making fame and fortune together."
But1hear that lie died poor, poor as hehad lived ;and that the little90 cents foundin his pocket when bit body was picked upon that lone last voyage in the driftingcanoe was his fortune. Aud that was quiteenough.
He had inherited a burial place with hisfathers, and he had plenty of true Jriondsto lay him to rest there
And it is well. 1 do not know that Cali-fornia has particularly cared for this lovecamper and prophet and painter of hertawny hills, or for any other of her minis-ters that have been thus far as to that ;audit is probable that Ralston is the only manthat ever reached him a hand with anythingin it. Peace and honor to them both;loveand companionship beyond the water?,where they "alike, singularly enough,Sought their final rest.
Joaqiix Miller.
TrentKe MulforJ.
TRACK, TRAIN AND TRAFFIC.
News Gathered in Railroad and
Shipping Circles.
The Great Salt Lake Red to Form Four Sep-
arate Corporation* to Protect Localand Transcontinental Batei.
The directorate of the San Francisco andGreat Salt Lake Railroad, now increased to16 member-, held a meeting on Friday to gotacquainted witheach other and to exchangeideas. The new members met the old onesand together they met Manager Leeds ofthe Traffic Association.
The business of the meeting brought outno new fact. Itonly confirmed what TheCall announced several times during Hiepast few w»--k«, namely, that ,ere is nodoubt of the enterprise being a success inevery way. All the preliminaries Will becompleted within a few days and the pub-lic will be informed through thesecolumns of the complete plans. Very fewmonths will have to pass before work willbe Actually commenced, and, in this connec-lion, a inemli .tof the directorate said yes-terday that tn- people seem to h<- strangelyimpatient. "They seem to think that gre.itenterprises like tiie one we have on handcan be carried out in a day";and he added:"but tho vast amount of preliminary workw bieb lias to be done before a new railroad,900 miles in length, can be said to bo i:: acondition for its promoters to be absolutelycertain that they can carry out their projectIs immense."
THK FINAN< lAI. QUEBTIOH.The director then went on to say th it, as
a matter of eour«e, the fiunnml questionwhs the odo whirl), up to date, delayedmatters more titan anything else. It hadlong since been dft-rnitued to build thatroad with independent capital, but whenthe .Southern Pacific Company learned thatmen with money to Invest were approachedin the interest u( the new toad, th> y at oncesent acents to Hit*capitalists in question andoffered them inducements to put theirmoney into Southern I'acih'c stock. Insomecases they succeeded and inothers they metwith point blank refusals, but their tacticsha Ithe effect to cause annoying delays tothe Salt Lake road projectors.
Traffic MtMgei Leeds is happy becauseth- clipper-ship competition with the trans-continental freight traffic is a success andbecause the m- reban is ou both ends of thecomment are taking every possible advan-tage of the cheap rates thin established.lint Mr. Leeds has still a much greater ta-Ubefore him in his struggle to reduce thelocal freight tariff.
THE LOCAL TRAFFIC.II says that as lon- as the Southern Pa-
cific Company baa an absolute monopoly ofall the l"c \\ traffic there Itonly one remedyto relievo the people, of the Suite from op-pression, hiul that in legislation.
"Competing transcontinental lines canbringonly partial relief unless they alsobuild up competing local lines," says Mr.Leeds, and he told the, directors of the SanFrancisco and (in Salt Lake road soplainly on Friday, as a consequence ofhis remarks it is now proposed that the newcompany .shall form four corporation.*, earnone of them having parts of the scheme usits main object. One of the corporationswill propose to build the line through toUtah and the other three wilt cover the va-nous sections of this State and build linesnorth and south touching ail the fertile val-leys and populated district*.
W. 11. Mill* of trie Southern Pacific has anew scheme for the distribution of fruitfrom overland train*. The fruit,as shippedat the present, la put into refrigerator carsand dispatched to Chicago 01 New Yorkdirect. Tim cars are not opened in tiausiland all the points between Sacramento.Fresno, Los Angeles or wherever the ship-ment la made and the destination of the carhave no opportunity to buy Californiahint. Mr. Mills is preparing a paper onthe subject, which he intends to read to theM.ite lioard of Trade shortly.
The board of control of the League ofProgfOia baa another big project on mdwhich will be discussed Hud acted on to-morrow. Itis said to be of political impor-tance.
The North Pacific Coast Hnilway's newtime-table as printed in Thk Call's a<lTer-tising columns ttoes into tll\'ct t>-<Say. Itshows that the 9 o'clock A. M. txcurfiontriiin, wbteh formerly left l,eie mi Sundaysfor Camp Taylor, TooUMM and Point Rtftljhas been discontinued, and that the DM-iiiiv morning 8 < 'dock train for CazaderoMini Hie Russian River couutry willbe cou-tlllUUU.
The 1 \u25a0 •!\u25a0<»«• l>. |itii \u25a0\u25a0\u25a0<>\u25a0. t.
The willof Charles Forsythe, who diedon July lti, was tiled for probate yesterday.He left an estate valued at £6183 H4. whichhe beQueathed to his brother, sister and
The will of Stephsn Thomas was alsofiled for probate, lie died on July B andbequeathed bis estate, valued at t-l,^Ml. tohis widow.
The Sheriff .-u-.1.
William F. Dulan, formerly of Merrick &Dolan, has sued Sheriff C. S. Laumelster inthe Justices' Court for |38t*tfct value ofcurtain goods and chattel* contained in theHawthorne saloon, 400 McAllister street,which the defendant seized and refused togive up possession of.
lieectiani'i PIUi sen well because tbej cur«
ARMS OF PRECISION.
Maitaansbii) in tie Beplar Amy aMtte National Goal
Phenomenal Scores With the Springfield Car-bine—The MilitiaIgnoring Long-Range
Target Practice.
Wrlttsn for The Morning Call.
Rifle practice In the regular army to-dayis conducted with some regard to the condi-tions that exist on the field of battle. Timewas when the National Guard of the coun-try led the army in all that pertains to thisessential branch of military education. To-day the National Guard, or at least that por-tion of it in California, Is far bebiud theregular troops in methods of target prac-tice. Its foremost marksmen make theirbrilliantscores in covered shooting galleriesand along sheltered ranges. The instructionof reeruit9 is conducted in the same places.
They ar* thus released from the obliga-tion to study tho effects of light, the varyingchanges in the condition of the atmosphereand the disturbing influence of the windupon their own rilles and upon the courseof the bullet. They also confine all theirpractice to a range of 200 yard*, as thoughan enemy in war would be sufficiently ac-commodating to stand and be shot down ata regulation distance. Such a thing as prac-ticing at unknown distances, or at 300, 600,COO or 800 yards, is unknown in the regularNational Guard rifle shooting to-day. Whenthe fever first broke out 6ome year- agoshooting at all these distances was verycommon, and the California Rifle Associa-tion provided for prize matches and recordsover ranges up to1000 yard*.
The shooting matches at these distanceswere held at Bay View, the Presidio and atSan Bruno. That was the period wheneducation in the modern system of nilepractice commenced and when Californiasent a tram of National Guardsmen underGeneral John McComb to Creed moor andwon the chall«>ngo trophy from New York,Connecticut, Massachusetts aud New Jer-sey in the iutcr-btate match. "1 lie regulararmy at that time had not awakened to arealization of the Importance of instructionin the art of shooting accurately with theSpringfield breechloader or carbine.
11. id General Cutter's mm at the battloof Big Horn known anything about the\u25a0hooting power of their weapons the fear-fulchapter of the massacre, of seven com-pauies of the Seventh United States Cavalryby the Sioux warriors would never haveIn en written. As fur back M IM7civiliansoldier* were laboring in the East to arousean interest in the need of a belter acquaint-ance with the value of military weapons.The War Department, however, took noiii'ti'-e of the efforts ol these civilians, andCnstol and his men rode to their doom.A lad, then at West Point, now CaptainBluut, was, however, watching the incep-tion of this treineuduusly momentous mili-tary reform iv the militia c teles of NewJersey aud New York, and when ho tookhis place in later years as an effieer in thearmy he made it his study and specialty.In time he won renown by giving to thoarmy its present system of small armstarget practice, and the code under which itIs ought, "Bluut's Small-arms Firing; Regu-lations."
Unfortunately for its fame and its effi-ciency under lire, the National Guard ofCalifornia lias wedged itself into it groove.Itclings to the 200-yard idea. All its rffi-cient records are made nt this distance andunder the shooting-gallery conditions al-ready mentioned.
Tim season's practice just closed on thePresidio ranite Illustrates the superiorityachieved by the regular soldiers. Tney havefired their practice rounds in the teeth ofthe winds that blow in through the GoldenGate; they have been compelled to usetheir judgment as to the condition of theatmosphere at different times— whetherclear or cloudy ;aud some marvelous scoreshave been made at various. distunes, indi-cating a high decree of skill. The oncedespised carbine, which many intelligentofficers have de rted as being almost worth-lea*, was the weapon used.
The official returns are not made up yet,showing the comparative merits of themarksmauship a: the various posts, butfißQUgti is known to authorize the assertionthat Troop liof the Fourth United StatesCavalry has excelled all others lit the De-partment of California if not in the Di-vision of the Pacific, which includes, also,the Department of tlus Columbia and thel>«'i'Hi tiu t of Arizuna.
Helow arc given a few specimen scoresof the results of the individual firing by the
embers of Troop B during the presentsummer at the Presidio ranee:
TWO HUNDRED YARDS.Pi ni|i .'"tin I*. Eagau . *2l \u25a0_> t '."2 '21— 87Dr. Wuo.i •_•! is iS 19- 83m-iro.im rraiicis \v»rren -.0 -1 'i'Z. 19— 82Private Wllllani B. l)ul'o:« 81 IIiv •-»()— soPrivate Kr^nk s-cborer _^17 '23 IT •_\u25a0:<
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Caputn J&itiea l'ark<>r M I] _\u25a0_\u25a0 17— gof*frge»nt Caprou... 18 IS VO 18 "21 i.".' \u25a0•\u25a0• 22— ••,<Private E-C. Mars!). '2o 19 '20 '21 18 lit 18 19-154
Capron is what is known as a second-sea-son mau. Those In ibis class are requiredto fire eight scores of five shots at each dis-tance. The recruit class are also requiredto expend the same quantity of ammunition.The men who lire four scores at each rangoare the most advanced class and ere desig-nated subs' qne:it-st men. Marsh be-longs to the tecruit class. lie thus in hisfirst trial Qualifies as a' sharpshooter. Dr.Wood a!«.. scored 81 points at this raneewitl a Springfield rale, his string being 2'20, 20, 19.
THREE HUNDRED TABD9.Trump. Svaur«>lt....2S 22 2*23 23 M22 19-180Private -'illiiI*.Emm 22 20 -;* 24— »i»Corporal itiomas Parker M24 23 20- 87l»r. Wood is 22 23 21— 84•*"i mt rrancli Warrni 23 20 21 20— 84$ere*.-ini Caprmi 22 22 21 22 22 21 -jo 17—167Private Fr»ncl» Laud* 21 20 21 19— 81Itlacksiulth Peter Kir,* 23 17 20 21— siSergeant WUilaa Wilson j.i22 17 19— 81
Dr. Wood at this range also scored 79points with a ritle, bis string beln^: 19, 20,-'", -'". The firing at 300 yards is done froma bitting posture.
FIVE HUNDRED YARDS.Private K. I>.ltanney 21 M20 21— 82i«erzeant 4. W. Warren ...n 18 20 22- mPrivate Robert 1). Cooper . iji21 20 21— hiBergi ('apr0n.... 21 21 19 23 18 20 20 20 20-162Private V.Schorer iy 20 II20— moPrivate Tbonias WaiiHce . 2-' 2O 19 19— MI'M.U, hiililn.au... 21 21 20 22 2'J '-0 18 18—Pflvate ranri- I.mule 20 20 m 19— 78Pvt. [arc Man* 2U 19 19 18 2U 17 20 17—150
Sergeaol Caprei is a second-season manand Private Mush Is in the recruit class.The firing is from a prone position at 500yards.
SIX HIXDKK!) YAltni.Private John F. liatchford 23 21 II19— 81Serjeant K. barren Vi» 22 22 17— 81explain.lame* Parker ill21 17 21— 78Serceant t-'ai)r0n....21 20 17 20 10 i:> 18 18—1MPrivate Joliu P. Etna. . .. in IS 19 is- 7*Private K.C. Mmli.'JO 19 19 SI 10 15 16 20-146Beneaul Wllil.itn Wilson 18 j« 19 19—
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Pilwie V.liiiain Oubols 18 "JO 17 17— 72Sari.ii.T M.Casey it> 2U 17 18- 71I*nvat«Frank Schorer 20 17 16 18— 71
The foregoing may be considered phenom-enal shooting with the carbine at «300 yards.'1 lie bullet weighs 405 Bruins and the. chargeof powder 55 grains. Dr. Wood .-core.I77points at this range with arilleßnd with thesame weapon 71 points on the 800-yard tar-got.
Captain Parker, in cnmmiifl of Troop B,fourth Cavalry, takes an earnest and studi-ous interest in the subject of marksmanship.He has an idea which, if adopted aud em-bodied in the firing regulation?, would addat least 20 per cent to the. value of a volleyof musketry. Ho is of opinion that Urnpresent command: "Company, ready IAim! Fire!" are all wrong. The menalways begin the lull on their triggers atthe command "ready," and by the time th»comiUHnd of execution, "fire," is given theaim is more or less deranged, and hence theshooting rather wild. He believe-, that thetrue command for volley tiring to securethe highest results should be: "Heady!Aim! Company! Fire." Such a command,he is Vi»rv positive, would greatly steadythe men, relieving them from the nervous-ness cnused by the explosive monosyllableform in vogue of the command ofcaution andexecution. Th« trigger mint be pulled veryslow ly, he say?, and its no man ran mill th< %
trigger till the command "fire," they shouldbe taught to aim at the command "ready."'Under the present mode there Is a groatdeal of shooting over and under the mark,which would be corrected by the -change inthe commands suggested by Captain Parker.
H. G. Mi\\v.
t niti-nipt of Court.
Ida P. Randall has obtained an orderfrom Jud^e Ilobbard citing her husb.ind,William F., to appear and show cause vthv
he should not be punished for contempt ofcourt for failing to piy her S3O per month.The defendant is employed in the. Mint,andwas ordered to pay this amount in Januarylast, lie now owes his wife about $_((ju.
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James Hurst has sued John F. Michel inthe Justices' Court to recover $250, thevalue of a horse which plaintiff alleges thedefendant drove so cruelly as to cause itsdeath.
rroHPiniiiij Fruit- l>dd!f>ra.The 10 fruit-peddlera who were arrested
for'obstructing the street appeared in Da-
p&rttaent 1of the Police Court yesterday
nntl their cases \rere continued until nextFriday. Merchants along
*Market street.
between Kearnv and Grant avenue, havebeen greatly annoyed by these peddler*,whose wagons obstruct the street aud makeit lmposs.ble for carriages of customers tofind a place to step. The storekeepers haveengagtd Attorney E. B. Peixotto to prose-cute the peddlers.
SENT TO NAPA.Mary McToland Declared Insane— Sin.
Kate Smith* Mania.Yesterday the case of Mary Mr-Poland,
charged by Dr. Fefevre, Superintendent ofthe City and County Hospital, as being in-sane, and whose case has caused more orless contention among physicians, wasfinally settled and the girlsent to the XapaAsylum for Insane.
Since her first and second examinations,which resulted in her being declared saneand insane, the girlhas been at the Homefor Inebriates under the watchful eyes ofDr. Jewell. It was his testimony to theeffect that there was no doubt of her in-sanity that caused tier commitment.
Mrs. Kate Smith of ci Twelfth street wasalso sent to tho a»yiu<n at Napa yesterdayas violently Infant and dangerous to be atlarge. _________
CALL QUERY COLUMN.
Tie Federal Eiifct-Hotir Law Is forGeneral Application.
Telescopes at Mount Hamilton-Sheridan inthe Frencb-Girman War-Greeley's
Candidature.
Not a_X.egal Discharge— A. A. C,City. An enlisted man of the N. G. C, whohaving served his first term of enlistmentand lias not re-enlisted, yet for almost twoyears thereafter is allowedail the privilegesof membership in is company, but then isdishonorably discharged for nou-attendanceat drill*.may with justice claim that suchdischarge is illegal. Not having re-enlisteda second time, he was not in the militaryservice of the State, and, therefore, couldnot have been dlscharzed, honorably orotherwise. The effect of the expiration ofhis first term of enlistment was to dischargehim. If ho was dishonorably discharged,it must have been by a court-martial, andobviously the court had no jurisdiction overhim or his case under the circumstances.
Telescopes at Mouxt Hamilton—J.J. C, City. Among the astronomical in-struments at Mount Hamilton are thefollowing: The big telescope, whose visualobjective is 3G inches clear aperture; the12-inch refractor, originally made andmounted for Dr. Henry Draper and hisprivate observatory at Hastings on the Hud-son; the 4-inch comnt-seeker; the G^-inchequatorial; the 6%-inch Bepsold meridiancircle; the 4-incii transit and zenith tele-scope combined, and the universal instru-ment, which has an aperture of 2.15 inches.
Greei.ey's Candidature— J. \V., City.Horace Greeley was nominated for thePiesldency by the Liberal Republican party,which had called a convention at Cincinnati,Ohio. On the sixth ballot he received 332votes against 822 for Charles Francis Adams,a sudden concentration of th« votes havingbeen effected. Immediate chances swelledhis majority, so that when the vote wasfinally announced It stood Greeley 482,Adams 187. Toe Democrats after that alsoformally nominnU>d him and be was the cau-didate of two parties in 1872.
He Did Speak —W. X.. City. Theanswer of the Q. C that ex-Judge J. F.Sullivan had never siokfn on the sand lotwas given on the authority of his brother,in the absence of the gentleman himself.Since then the (}.C. has been advised to thecontrary by Mr. J. F. Sullivan, and thefiles of The Call of the 'J4:h of August,1871), have been consulted to verify the state-ment that he had spoken on the previousday on the historical sand lot.
Sheridan in Europe— F. W. s., City.To say that Sheridan was on "overseer inthe Franco-Prussian war for American in-terests" i-< nrrant nonsense. During thiswar of 1670-71 thilate M.«jor-G<Mieral Sheri-dan visited Europe and by invitation of theGerman Emperor was present as a specta-tor at several famous engagements, andthat was the lout; and short of the au.tir.
Railways ix Gki:many—11. \V., City.The great majority of the German railwaysare now owned by the imperial or state Gov-ernment. Out of 23,968 miles of railwaycompleted and open for traffic only 3613miles belonged to private companies, and ofthese 617 were worked by the Government.Narrow-gauge lines in 1889 l measured 542miles, of which 246 were Govermuf-nt lines.
Tlaini v Answkijkd—O. A X., City.The Q. C. answered as plain as languagecan Make it that the marriage with tliedaughter of one's sis.'er is an incestuousunion. It incestuous, necessarily itis not alegal matri;igt\ is forbiddtu by the law ofthis State auu, of course, is punishable as acrime.
At thk Last Ki.ki tioh—C B. Y. Jr.,Banta Crtn, CaL ti) The total vote at theI'rc-i-.t'litiil election la 1888 was 11,384,937.
1 The vote, of the Fiohibitton p.trtv was251,147. (•"> Colorado gave a majority of9700 and California a plurality oi 7111 forthe ll.'publican candidate.
A QiAi.iriFn JrnoK— (J. C. I?., City. Aperson to be uualiiird to sit as a juror mustatnoii-' other things have been assessed onthe last asaeeMaent roll of his county forproperty owned by him. The same quali-fications as iv State courts are demauded intr.e Federal tribunals.
Tiikkk Mist Bl Dn>lOATH>ir —J. D.ON., City. There must have been a dedi-cation to the public as a thoroughfare bydeed or use before the city can prevent theclosing up of that street by those claimingto own it as private property.
Via Nicaragua— G. E., City. FromLiverpool. England, to Auckland. New/.aland, via Cape Horn, ItIs 12.400 miles,via Cai o of Good Hope 13,975, and via theproposed Nicaragua canal would be 11,349miles.
AT Map.f Island-B. E. 8., City. Ifonco the Q. C tins answered a half dozentimes that to place ;ibi>y ou a mnn-of-warone n.ust apply for his enlistment at therecruiting oflice at Mare Island.
PITTSBURG LANDixa—J. F. T., City.The Thirty-second Illinois and the gun-boats Lexington and Tyler were engagedin the battle at Pittaburg Landing, Teuu.,fought on March 2, ISG2.
Italy's Dsbt— a. N., City. The capi-
tal of Italy's consolidated and redeemabledebt amounted on July 1, 185)1, to 11.800,---452.529 lire
Dk LxSSSPfI J. S., City. Ferdinatid deI>e«seps. who projected and constructed thncanal of Suez, arrived in this city in lbiWou the 17th of Murch.
Not in tiik Compact— J. F., City. Mostassuredly there are reliable insurance com-panies repiesmted iv this city which arenot iv tbu compact.
( UM Cm- 11— H. K. 13., City. AddressBailltT Esva Wa-hburn of the SupremeCourt regarding the chess club and itsheadquarters.
Mo.nmoi th Pauk- J. D., City. Theracetiack at Mopiouth Park, N. .1., may beconsidered, tho finest iv th« United States,and probauly is
PSACI Jl r.ii.EKS— I. W., City. Thegreat "peace jubilees" projected by Gilruorewere held in Boston in IBG9 and 1872.
Population-— J. G., City. The censusshowed 298,907 inhabitants inSan Franciscoaud 205,870" lvDetroit, Mich.
Norn; Laik.kii—J. G., City. There isnot a tneater in Detroit, Mich., larger thanthe Gruud Opera-house in this city.
Looking Backwakd—A. M. S., City.The Hist Sunday in the month of August,MBit was on the 84.
Wohth 10 Cents— S. M. I)., City. Adime of 1838 is worth 10 cents and no mure.Nil Oi.i.i \\»— M. C, City. The popu-
lation of Now Orleans was >,<>;<•.
tl.. Divurre Mill.
Anorder has been made by Ju.lgo Slackin tho divorce case of Johauna Keiter thatUrn plain titT be paid $75 per month alimony,
S'2oo for counsel foes fttt.l«SßO for costs.Dora M. Moiteno lias been granted a
divorce from Ctiarles Molteno by Judgellebbard for desertion and failure to pro-vide. Both parties are natives of theHawaiian Islands.. A divorce complaint has been filed byMary L. WincsUank ngaiust BenjaminWineshmik.
SEX JEALOUSY IN FRANCE.
Curious Sacial Conditions in the Euro-pe»n jiuhii<-.London T#legrapti.
It isnot at all unlikely that the jealousyor the downright aversion shown by theFrench medical students to female* com-petition arises from that curious social con-servatism which prevail* among a nationwho rarely miss the opportunity to pro-claim themselves the most democratic peo-ple in Europe. There have always been agreat many crafts and employments open toFrenchwomen from which Englishwomenwere, until a very recent period, al-most entirely debarred. From time im-memorial in I'aris and other large Frenchtowns the shopkeeper's wife has offici-ated as his bookkeeper and cashier,and very often late nt night, while monsieurIs playing dominoes or billiards, or enjoyinghis cigar and his "hock" at his favoritecafe, uiiidame is painfully balancing herbooks behind the counter of the desertedbut still brilliantlylitshop. Women, again,in France have an almost entire monopolyin siMliniinewspapers at the kio^Ques. or inkeeping "bureaux de tabac." 'they mayalso practice art, without Iftor hindrance,and they may attain, if they have the talentand the capacity, bright eminence as paint-er?, sculptors, engravers, or draughts-women in black and white; but theAcademy of Fine Arts persistently sets itsface against th« admission of lady mem-bers although, as Mme. Leon Bertatix, thepresident of the Union of Feminine Artists,has just pointed out, there were in the lastcentury two lady academicians— Mme. Ter-bnrsch ntid the renowned portrait 1 muter,Mme. Vigee-Lebrun.
GRANT'S FAbT HORSES.Dow the General Secured a Bargnin— %
Gift Prom th* Hultnu.American Trlbnne.
Next to Washington, Grant had perhapsthe best horses of any President, andone of the best horses he drove was securedright here at the capital. His name wasButcher Boy, and Grant named him thisfrom the circumstances attending his pur-chase, lie was out driving one day whilehe was President and lie tried to pass abutcher's cart, but though he had a fasthorse the cart kept in advance of him,and he saw that the horse whichpulled it was a good one. He kepi after therait until itgot into Washington and fol-lowed it to it* stand near the market andmarked the place at which the driverstopped. He then sent a man to buy thehorse and he got it for a small amount, butit turned out to be a fast horse and a goodone.
Speaking of Grant, one of his closestfriends here at Washington was General EdBeale, aud it was to General Beale that hegave two of the horses which were senthim from Turkey by the Sultan. and Ithink these :are now on General Beale'ahum near Washington. While Iwas in
Turkey a few years ago Ihad a chat withthe dragoman of our legation at Constanti-nople and he told me a queer story of ttieselection of these horses by the Sultan.The Sultan had sent the Instruction thatthey should be sent to President Grant as agift from him, and the Minister had, inc.inpany with this dragoman, tried them.One was a magnificent Jet black stal-lion, but in riding him the Ministerthought he discovered a fault, and he in-sUtecl that the dragoman should take himback to the Sultan and ask him to send abetter noise. The dragoman replied thatbit could not do this; the hordes were a ttllt,and he used the proverb about not lookingagift-ht-!se in the mouth. But tho Min-ister insisted, and the dragoman went tothe bultan and asked for an audience. Heis, by the way. a man of line &e;isiliilities,and as an Interpreter for the legation be isthe must importsDt of all men to Americansin Turkey. Said he to me: "Ifelt verymuch ashamed of myself and my ml-sion,and Idid not know what IcouM dountil ai last a thought struck me that the
horse was a black one and that black wa*the color of mourning in America. When Ientered the palace the first thing the secre-tary asKed mo was as to how the Ministerand myself liked the honest and Irepliedihat they were the finest horses that we hadever seen, and that our President wouldfeel very proud and would be delighted withthe gift. Ithen went on to praise thehorses, and especially the black one, whichIsaid was magnificent in every respect, but—here I stopped, and th.c secretaryanxiously asked. 'But what? Is there anv-thinc the matter with the horse?'"
'-No,' said I, 'but you Rn<iw black is thecolor of mourning in the United States. Itmeans dentil w:th us and Ijust wonderedwhether such a gift might not be consideredominous if sent by the Sultan.' The Secre-tary saw the point at once, he spoke to thaSultan, and 1 was thanked for my sug-gestion and the horse was cliHtiged for on«of another color and as sound as a dvliar."
A mysterious ringing of electric be'ls ina house iv Switzerland whs traced to aspider, wlio-e web had connected two wires.
THE FINEST FREIGHT STEAMER.The New Nnrnntc Brats the Record
Acrnti th«» Atlantic.New Yorn Sun.
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The White Star twin-screw freighter Na-ronic finished her maiden voyage to thisport from Liverpool on Sunday in 9 days 4hour? and 21 minutes, beating the best firsttrip of any cargo steamship in thu world.She and her sister ship, the Bovic, launchedlast month, are the bluest freighters afloatand will doubtless be the faslest TheNaronic covered 3003 knots and averaged 14knots an hour.
The >iaronic and the Bovic are severalhundred tonilarger than the Nomadic andthe Tauric, each of which measures 5741tons gross. The name Boric is about theequivalent ol Tauric la meaning, being de-rived from the word for "ox,"as the latteris from the Latin word for "bull." Nomadicand Xaronic, too. have a kindred meaning.Anomad is a roverof the earth associated
with the cattle business; Nannie might befreely interpreted as meaning fljater or searover.
The Naronic is 470 feet long, 63 feet beamand 35!'2 feet deep. Her eugiues are of thetriDle-cxpaosinn type. She is fitted up es-pecially for the safe transportation of cattleand horses ami iresh meat and fruit. Shecan accommodate, wittiout crowding, 1050head of cattle on her upper and main decEs.Horses are carried in spacious stalls amid-Sblps, where they will bo least affected bythe moticn of the ship.
When the l>ovic is put in service tbe WliiteStsr line will send a twin-screw freighterfrom New York every Tii3sday aud onefrom Liverpool every Fiiday.
THE WHITE STAR TWIN-SCREW FREIUUTER NARONIC.
SUNDAY EDITION. THE MOKKIXG CALL, SAN FBAHCISCO, SUNDAY, AUGUST 7, ISO'J-SIXTEEX PAGES. PAGES 9 to 12.
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ha« become. Trits wonderful skin food will maxoItbeautiful, a sour, e <>f pride to yourself an>i a divItgbt to ail your Irlenda, a trial convloces tli->most skeptical. No face powder should ever be usedwithout llrst rulii>itie a little of c e Lor.A MomtuCbemk Into the stein. thus softenln^the complex! >.i
and preventing thv: powder 'ruin cio^g 11^ the poresof the sKlit.PRICE 7"c POT LASTS THREE MONTHS.
SUPERFLUOUS HAIRRemoved by the Electric, Needle,
GUARANTEED PERMANENTLY.Ladle* at » distance tro;»ted t>y correspondents
forall Itleuiishes or i>crn ts of Faco or FUure. . .MRS. NETTIE HARRISON,
(AMKHICA'S ISKAUTY T>I>*TOK)26 GEARY STREET, SAN FRANC ISCO, CAK
l.atli«"< out of t')\vn siMiiliii;this ad withlO<'«nt.« In stamps will receive !>;>ok ofinstructions and a box of .skin I'mul andFace Powder free.
Ask your ilrtigßlst to order it foryon. lrhe shouldnot have it Instoc*, or ifmors coiiTenl-jnt,so:id nt75c and we willsend you a pot, express prepaid. t-»aay part of the United States, Never let 1tales* •\u25a0nan persuade you to trysomething else, said t >bojust as good. J v3lit Stt
An «xe«Uent av?d mild Cathartic iur«l»VeSTftablA. Takon tVMordtnv to diraotloaSrestore boalth and rssiavr vitality. jt(«%to•Udi.Suld hjr alliriiita•\u25a0lui &1u a#i2
_^__ m _^_^DRY GOODS
STROM ANTMTAiTIAITBAiAiFOR THE SECOND WEEK OF OUR
If the wonderful success of the first week of our Great Reduction Sale ofallsummer goods can be taken as a criterion, the satisfactory realization of ourefforts tomake itsurpass our famous sale of a year ago, when we closed out theBankrupt Stock of Sullivan, Burtis &Dewey, becomes almost a foregone conclu-sion, but to make the desired result doubly certain we continue the sale ThisWeek with Still More Powerful Inducements in AllDepartmeits.
GREAT VALUES IN STAPLE GOODS!Es^ We reserve the right to limitquantities and none of these goods will
be sold to storekeepers.
At II Cents. At71/* Cents.45-inch XXUNBLEACHED SHEETING, 400 pieces STANDARD DKESS SEER-reduced from 1314c a yard. SUCKERS, fine grade and good styles,
reduced from 12%c a yard.
At 13% Cents. At .-7 o__
fe54-inch XX UNBLEACHED SHEETING, ICOO Dipcp.gfnuivfsro \Cl\ 7FPHYRreduced from 10%c a yard. r^iv?r>u\ V. v *. i . LU/AA V7/3
'GINGHAMS, 31 Indies wide, 150 dit-ferent slyles, reduced from 25c a yard.
At 16 Cents.72-incl) XXUNBLEACHED SHEETING At 45 Cents.
reduced from 'Me a yard. 2 cases SUPERIOR GRADE ECRU TABLEDAMASK, undressed and very service-able, reduced from 60s a yard.
At 18 Cents.81-inch XXUNBLEACHED SHEETING At SVs Centsreduced from 2-/2c a yard.
1250 p!ece, S£A»£ DOWN FLANNEL.~ ETTES, in stripes, plaids aud figure*At 2O Cents. reduced from 12%c a yard.
90-inch XXUNBLEACH SHEETING.*
reduced from 25c « yard. At $5.50 a Pair.250 pairs FINE WHITE FAMILYBLAN-
At 10 Cents KETS, reduced from $7 50.45-inch BLEACHED PILLOW SHEET- A. _\u0084 „
tING, reduced from 12' 2« a yard. At 6 * Cents.2,"0 pieces ENGLISH FLANNELETTES.
(Allother widths in Bleached Sheeting in in dark and medium colors, reducedproportion.) from 10c a yard.
ftt/jff^*'MURPHY B7ILDINQ /(/(/ Mel Sires!,
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corner of Jones, /S-AJKT PRAJNTCISCO
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SPECIAL SPOT-CASH PURCHASE!—^~JLT~^»
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Owing to the depressing effect that the intense heat prevailing in the Easthas had on the Cloak trade of New York, our Cloak Department Manager MrMclnerny), now in that city, secure! a leading importer's entire stock in thefollowinglines at about 25c ON THE DOLLAR FOR SPOT CASH, and havingjust received the go:ds by express we place them on sale at the following
Prodigious Reductions to Close Them Out !LADIES" JACKETS. LADIES' CAPES.
At SO. At $2.50.LADIES' Dor BLE- BREASTED LADIES' CAPES, iusbadesof lan.trimmedBEEFER JACKETS, m small checks with **™**\u25a0 >*> willhe closed ou<
and plaids and ia gray an 1 tan solid lvl-Wlth ]et'worttl 5< **Wlll be clObeU out
or?, worth 750, will be closed out at at $2 50 each.S3s
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At 3>5.00.»\u25a0\u25a0»« . At BiOO< LADIES' CAPES, in tan mixed and blackLA?.£ 'kUKV^S^S^S? »««'•>* —»J -» «»•* ««''•>•
"and in small checks, in light and medium ribbon, worth $10, willbe closed out atshades, fastened with arl and fancy «;.-> each.buttons, worth $10, willbe closed out atSseach. A.t $7.50.
At 47.50. LADIES' CAPES, in striped materials,LADIES'DOUBLE-BREASTED REEFER plain tan and tan mixtures, and black,
JACKKIs,ii;>i.al ( of gray and tan trimmed ™lh good duality of ribbon,and iu mottled goods fastened with .large pearl buttons, worth 812 SO, willbe worth £12 50, willbe closed out at $7 50closed out at $7 50 each. each.
LADIES" NEWMARKETS.At 33.00.
LADIES' DOUBLE-BREASTED NEWMARKETS, in light tan striped all-wool cloak-ing, with adjustable capes, finished at neck with fancy cord oruameuts, worth $10.willbe closed out at $5 each.
-At $7.50.LADIES' NEWMARKETS, indray and light and dark brown striped cheviot, with ad-
justable cape?, double breasted and fastened with bone buttons, worth $12 50, willbeClosed out at $7 50 each.
/Sflf^^ MURPHY BUILDINC, /(/(/ Market Street, corner of Mm,/
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