The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 6, 1896, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 1896. CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, | Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES-—Postage Free: ALL, One week, by carrler..$0.15 . 6.00 Dally and Sunday Daily snd Sunday CALL, One year, by mail. Dally and Sunday CALL, siX wonths, by mail. Dally and Sunday Caxa, three months by mail Datly and Sunday CALL, one month, by mail.. Bunday CALL, one year, by mail. WEEKLY CALL, Oue y THE SUMMER MONTHS. Are you going to the country on a vacation ? If %0, it is no trouble for us to forward THE CALL to your address. Do not let it miss you for you will miss it. Orders given to the carrier OF left &t Business Office will receive prompt attention. NO EXTRA CHARG BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Street, Ban Francisco, California. Telephone .Maln—1888 ROOMS: EDITORIAL 517 Clay Str ..Main—1874 Telephone...... BRANCH OFFICES: 530 Montgomery strect, coriier Clay: open until 6:30 o'clock. Hayes street; open until 9:30 o'clock. Larkin street: open until 9:30 o'clock. £W. corner ixteenth and Mission streets; open until 9 o'clock. 2518 Mission stref 118 Ninth stree OAKLAND OFFICE : 608 Broadwey. ; open until 9 o'clock. open until 9 0'clock. ASTERN OFFICE : bark Row, New York Citye Special Agent TIHE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. e ————————— Wallace should have put his own order first. As the case goes now Assessor Siebe is he man who smiles. Mo earne "he noise of the Buckleyites denouncing y adds another humor to the situa- g a Grand Jury does to dodge its oppor- bout the only t with any vigor is tunities. Silver is rising in the market as well as in politics, in Europe as well as in America. 1f the Pacific Coast delegates at St. Louis are united the Pacific Coast can have a representative in the next Cabinet. 1t is now charged that the Sultan subsi- dizes murder in Armenia with as much regularity as if it were a state industry. Democracy may promise free silver, but the people will remember that Democracy promised a tariff that would yield a revenue. The Senate has got the filled cheese bill out of the way st last and now we may reasonably expect either business or an adjournment. Most of the City officials are so predatory that on a question ‘of their character the people would bardly make any other re- sponse than “rats.” The Democratic party will not die in its boots on election day, for the plain reason that it will be licked out of them before the election takes place. There is a prospect that when the crowd arrives at the St. Louis convention it will find the hotels have adopted cyclone prices and are trying for a clean sweep. To-morrow pemng the day of rest you will need pood reading to amuse your leisure and the best way to get it 1s to leave orders to-day for THE SuxpaY CALL. Itis said by New England Democrats that the strength of the Russell boom is its spontaniety, and it may be added that its weakness is its liability to spontaneous combustio! Congress has passed a bill providinga sum to- pay off the last claims of the Co- lumbian Exposition, but that doesn’t close up the show. The distribution of medals is still to come. Some say the tariff is the main issue of the campaign, and some assign that place to the money question, but all agree that the deficit and the bonds are not going to be forgotten. Democrats of the City are for Buekley, so the rural Democrats being against Buckley and against gold will have to stay in the woods when the convention meets. According to the English papers they are not the Czar and Czarina, but the Tsar and Tsaritsa, and we may as well adopt the spelling, as it seems more like what we might expect of a people who call Mos- cow Moskva. This year will certainly see the breaking up of the old alignment of parties. Men who think alike witl vote alike, and there will be no more taik about protection Democrats or Republicans who are in- clined to free trade. Articles of established reputation can al- ways be had if you insist on having them and there is no reason why any intelligent customer should aliow himself to be im- posed on by the substitution of another article of unknown value alleged to be just as good. As it is reported from Washington that there is something of a scandal involved in the selection of a design for the pro- posed monument to Sherman, the natural inference is it is to he & case of high art. That is always regarded as scandalous in this country. Attention has been called to the fact that this is the centennial of the Democratic party, it having made its first Presidential contest in 1796, when it undertook to elect Jefferson as the successor of Washington. It was beaten then by John Adams, and now in its decrepid old age it can be beaten by almost anybody. There is a probability that the old rule of Democratic conventions requiring a two-thirds vote to nominate candidates will be broken through this year as a mat- ter of necessity. Neitner the silyer nor the gold wing of the party will havetwo-thirds of the delegates, and as a compromise seems impossible there must be either a split in the convention or a nomination by a simple majority vote. The fact that the Liberals have gained two seats in Parliament will occasion but little interest outside of England itself. Since the retirement of Gladstone British Liberalism means nothing in which the world takes the slightest interest or has the least concern. It is hardly more than & waste-basket of odds and ends which the great man left behind him when he weut out of office, | without caring whetber they were true or JUDGE WALLACE AGAIN, The testimony given by Judge Wallace in the Siebe perjury case before Judge Campbell on Thursday was about the strangest that ever emanated from any man holding anything like his official po- sition. It was a source of new amaze- ment to those who have believed that Judges should be faithful in the perform- ance of their duties and impartial in the administration of the law. It showed by his own statements that Judge Wallace made returns of hls personal property false and that he ciaimed for himself in the case before Judge Campbell rights which he would not accord to others in a similar position before his own court. ‘When questioned as to the money he had in bank at the time assessment rolls for various years were made out, the Judge made the strange declaration that he did notknow. According to hisstatement his bank account was not balanced for years at a time and he never knew whether he had money in the bank or not. It seems never to have occurred to him that the tax law requires him to find out what he has when he makes his returns to the As- sessor. By returning no money on hand he virtually ceclared that he had none. Ignorance of the possession of property is no excuse when it would have been so easy for bim to learn from the bank what money was due him, nor can ordinary carelessness be accounted an excuse in a man of his position engaged in the task of performing a duty under the law which requires him to make a true return of his property under oath. In regard to his refusal to permit an ap- praiser to enter his house and estimate the value of his furniture, Judge Wallace declared the case before Judge Campbell to be a sham, inasmuch as it was not di- rected against Siebe at all, as pretended, but was designed as 4 persecution of him- self. On the claim that the case is of that nature he asserted he intends to stand on his rights as a citizen, and it was on these rights he based the defense of his refusal to permit the expert to make the appraisement. The claim which Judge Wallace thus makes before Judge Campbell is one he would not permit in his own court. The charge against Siebe before Wallace is as much a sham as the one against him pefore Campbell. How would it fare with a witness before Juage Wallace who should declare the prosecution of Siebe to be only the scheme ot a politician to per- secute the Market-street Railway Com- pany? How would it fare with a witness who, on such a claim, should assert his intention to stand on his rights as a cit- izen? An answer can be found in the way Secretary Willcutt hasbeen treated. In his own court Judge Wallace gives every aid he can to the politician who is conducting the prosecution which has for its aim an unrevealed object which it is difficult to believe to be to the public interest. There are fines and impns- onment for contempt of court dealt out to witnesses who do not respond to the questions of the prosecution before Judge Wallace. His attitude on the bench is very different from his attitude on the witness-stand. He is one of the Judges to whom it makesall the difference in the world whose ox is gored. This is why good citizens who desire to respect the courts read his evidence with amaze- | ment and are in doubt whether his con- duct as a Judge is not even worse than his conduct in regard to his returns to the Assessor. CONTESTING DELEGATION The Chicago Democratic Convention is almost sure to be a repetition of the Charleston convention in .1860. There probably would have been no very serious split at Charleston had there not been so many contesting delegations. Douglas had a large following, and because Buchanan’s administration wss making war upon him his friends were all the more determined to stand by the “Little Giant.” The consequence was that there were enough contesting delegates todoa great deal of mischief, which they did, and thus made Mr. Lincoln’s election cer- tain. The combined vote of Douglas and Breckinridge was larger than the vote that gave the Presidency to the Republi- can candidate. The administration left no stone unturned to cripple Douglas and strengthen Breckinridge, but although the administration candidate received fewer votes than did Douglas the election of either was made impossible. At the Chicago convention there will be enongh delegates for two conventions, and as the party is so badly split on the lead- ing question of the times it does not ap- pear how two conventions can be avoided. T he factions have gone to the utmost ex- treme on the money question, leaving no place at all for a compromise, unless the silverites surrender practically everything they have been contending for. Under the circumstances the Cleveland wing could not afford to yield an inch, for that woula be construed as meaning an official rebuke to the President, who is, by virtue of his office, the first man of the party. But there is still another wedge playing bhavoe with the party. The operation of the Wilson-Gorman tariff act hasdemon- strated the fallacy of Democratic tariff théories; besides there are now so many Democrats interested in industrial enter- prises and who would leave the party if it should declare for a still lower schedule of custom-house charges, that the factions are bound to make the money question the leading issue. And, as we have said, the factions are too widely separated on that question to hope for unity. Fortunately; or unfortunately, the ultra single goid-standard faction charge the other side with being little less than idiots when it comes to knowing anything about financial problems, and the silver faction retort by charging the goldites with having sold out the party to New York and Lon- don bondocrats. But it is an ill wind that blows nobody good, and the more bitter the Democratic faction fight, the better it will be for the country. DEMOCRATIC STUPIDITY. Perhaps they know what they are doing, but it was bad policy and worse politics for the Democratic side of the Senate to obstruct progress on the immigration bill. The only reason that can be given for such an act of stupidity is that by opposing the bill the Democratic party wainks it would make friends of the foreign element of the country, but it so happens that many of the strongest advocates of the measure are foreign-born citizens. The burden of the bill is o ex- clude adults who cannot read or write in their own language, and this proposition has met with the approval of nearly all foreigners who have identified themselves with this country. 2 But Democrats appear to be running wild these days. Their hand is against everytning and everybody that is calcu- lated to lift the country out of the mire and clay into which it has been drageed by Democratic recklessness. As to the pending immigration bill it could not be twisted into a reflection upon our foreign- born citizens. It is for their protection quite asmuch it nof more than for those who were born here; besides they know the Republican party is the friend and protector of every worthy man, no matter where he came from, who wants to become a true and loyal citizen and provide him- self with a home of his own. The bill should pass, because American home- builders need just duch a law. SILVER COINAGE IN EUROPE. There is quite an active European de- mana for American silver. It comes from France and Spain chiefly for coinage pur- poses, and the prices that are being ob- tamned are a shade higher than London quotations. It appears thatthe increas- ing demands of France and Spain more especially for a larger volume of circulat- ing money medium is the cause of th_« heavy buying of silver bullion in this country. Itis said that guite a number of our smelters are sold abead several months, and that there is only a small quantity of bullion now on the market in this country. It must be borne in mind that thisde- mand is not to meet the requirements of the arts and sciences, but for coinage pur- poses, and tkat, too, because it is needed to give those countries a necessary addi- tion to their circulating money. If, then, France and Spain can go ahead and coin American silver into money independent of the other nations of Europe, why can- not we? It is true, however distasteful the fact may be to the advocates of the gold standard, that the common people, those who make wealth increases possible, are everywhere demanding the unlimiteda use of silver as a money metal, and no doubt France and Spain are simply obey- ing public sentiment in throwing their mints open to silver. But coining silver in France and Spain does net help us in this country only in so far as the moral effect goes, but it should stimulate us to more determined effort than ever to oblige our Government to re- sume the coinage of the white metal. Our trade, traftic and commerce is suffering from a monetary stringency, and arbi- trarily so, for silver is arbitrarily and in- excusably withheld from its natural, proper and legitimate place in the avenues of our business life. “THE SUNDAY OALL” To-morrow’s issue of TE CaALrL will, perhaps, be ali the more interesting to the general reader because there will not be another wonderfui scientific discovery to chronicle at great length. There will be the same number of pages, however, and all of them will b filled with the choicest and most attractive of reading matter, There are many novelties in the regular Sunday departments and a host of bright features handsomely and artistically illus- trated. “The Sutter-street Mirage” and “Things That Happen in the City” will be far from dull reading. There will be a page of weird narratives about occult arts and magic, perhaps the most striking of which wili be told in the language of Tautriadells, the great English necro-| mancer and student of Bulwer Lytton. There are some further studies of the California snake, by those who have met him, and quite a novel pictorial and letter- press description of Maisons d’Ore in dif- ferent parts of the worid. THE SuxpAY Cary will, in truth, be filled with good things for all kindsof readers, the titles of which are far too numerous to mention now. A KENTUCKY ORATOR. A new thinker, a rapturous orator, &n econo- mist more luminous than light, has arisen in Kentucky. His tongue is tipped withsilver. His deep eyes are &s two full moons. On his lips the dullest statistical details have the beauty of roses. He makes political economy more interesting than Stevenson and more melodious than Swinburne. He cen reada table of figures with & voice so moving that plsxXnF birds twitter and die at his feet, and sheep forget their unprotected wool and hud- dle &nd bleat around him. He is the hope of the “silver Democrats” of Mercer County. He is the scourge of Wall street and the goldbugs. Allow usto introduce the Hon. Hez Lung.— New York Sun. ALONG THE SKIRMISH LINE. The Democrats are in for a Donnybrook Fair at Chicago sure. Wherever aleaaing Demo- crat’shead is in sight there will be another leading Democrat ready to hit it.—New York Recordor. The trouble with the sound-money Demo- crats is that they stand off and talk about the justice of their cause, while the free-silverites pitch in end elect the delegates.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Here is & ticket that ought tosuit the “boys.” It is Boies and Dubois.—St. Joseph (Mo.) Her- ald. These would be dull days in the United States Senate but for the efforts of David B, Hill to defend his dear friend, Mr. Cleveland.— Cleveland Leader. President Cleveland is one of the hardest men to ove in the country, both physically and mentally.—Bridgeport (Conn.) Post. There will be no further experiments with free trade in this country until a generation. arises that doesn’t remember any of the re. sults of that last previous experiment.—Chi. cago Times-Herald. ‘What would it profit Governor Matthews to gain the Democratic nomination on a free- silver platform and lose every Northern State?—Indianapolis Journal. It is a wonder that Boss Platt does not claim the solid delegation of his State for Governor Morton. He says McKinley sentiment in New York is simply the talk of the ‘‘antis,”” when, as & matter of fact, eight-tenths of the Repub- licans of the State favor the nomination of the Ohio candidate.—~Cleveland Leader. Judge Gregorowski, the Orange Free State magistrate who tried and pronounced sentence on the Transvaal conspirators, is of Polish origin, 39 years of age, and studied law at Gray’s Inn, in London. THE “TRUE BLUE” AROUND THE CORRIDORS. “Those old river beds about Forest Hill,” said Anthony Clark, the veteran goid-digger of that region, yesterday at the Lick, as he roused bhimself from a quiet nap, “‘are about the most interesting things that can be studied. Iown the Big Channel placer property there, as well as other hydraulic mines, but this is the prin- cipal one. ‘“There is no doubt about the natural chan- nels there being ancient river beds. Ihave been mining there forty-four vears and am firmly convinced of it. We get our water in that district from different streams. Our water comes from Shirttail Creek,n El Do- rado County. There is an abundance of it, and we are doing very well. “Inever knew of a better all-around mining district than this. There is a lot of pretty good mines there. They are mostly old mines, the most lavish extravagance. Not only were the royal party conveyed from the Thames to the Neva in the Victoriaand Albert, but that yacht was escorted all the way by two men-of- war. /5 ““All you have to do,” said Jules Simon the other day to President Faure, “is to ride straight and not to read the newspapers. M. Casimir-Perier lost his balance because he was always perusing the cuttings about himself, which after all were only dished up to goad him on to resigning.” The late Judge Fair of Atlanta, Ga., was a curious example of thrift carried to the verge of monomania. In his desk after his death were found all the ink bottles he had ever used —hundreds of them—and several thousand worn-out pens, and large bundles of envelopes which had been sent through the mafls and were wholly useless, “If you raise a load of alfalfa or some livestock, you never know what price you will get, but if you dig out gold you always know,” said Anthony Clark. (Sketched from life by a “Call’* artist.] and they return a steady output to their own- ers. uring these days the work on the mines is being pushed right along. There has been a good deal of rain up there; almost too much. in fact. Nearly all our properties are gravel mines. “Forest Hill is so high, being about 3300 feet above the sea, that the frost which came some | time ago, about cleaned us out of fruit. How- ever, there will be plenty of it in other parts of the county. “If you want a nice place to hunt quail, rabbits, deer and bear, you can find it upin our region. There are a great many mountain quail, rabbits in abundance, some deer and a good many bears. The bears are both black and cinnamon. “T used to hunt a good deal, and have killed all kinds of game in times past, but lstterly I have not givem mu ch attention to it. *No, I won't go home for a'week or 5o, not till I get out of money. Aslong as thatlasts I will stay. Possibiy I could get a little sack of gold down, too, if I wanted it. You're right, itis handy having & mine, where you can get your gold out, weigh it and end the whole matter there. “One beauty about it is that gold never de- creases in value. You getit, and it is always worth just so much. It fixes its own value. But if you raise a load of alfalfa, or drive a lot of stock to town, or engage in raising other things, you never know what price you will get. That's why I like gold mining.” COMING. Faint and far-off, hear the murmur Of an angel’s fluttering wings; Faint and far-off, h ear the charmes As her siren song she sings. Shie is coming Hear the humming Of the faintly fluttering wings. Pink and white, the eager mountain ‘Tops, expectent, stand ana wait: Silver sands at Neptune's fountain ‘Tremble lest she should be late. Eager mountain, Trembling fountain, Expectant of hier coming, walt. Budding roses hold their blooming Till her coming, and they furl The fragrant flags of their perfuming ‘Tlil sho starts the season’s whirl, Hear the humming Of the coming Of the same old summer girl. W. J. LAMPTON in Life, PARAGRAPHS ABOUT PEOPLE. M. Gervex is to paint a picture of the corona- tion af the Czar Nicholas for the city of} Paris, on a canvas 33x24 feet. Dr. Lapponi, physieian to the Pope, says: “If nothing unforeseen happens the hoiy father’s constitution is so sound that he may well attain his one hundredth year.” Princess Youriewski, the morganatic widow of the Czar Alexander 1I, has bought several acres of land at Nice, near the Boulevard de Cimiez, and intends to build a large villa there. Adolphe d’Ennery, the French playwright, has tried in vain to keep secret the fact that he and his wife have resolved to bequeath 2,000, 000 francs to the French Actors’ Benevolent Fund. . There will be a huge bill for the English tax- payers to defray in connection with the Duke and Duchess of Connaught’s visit to Moscow. All the arrangements were made on & scale of FLAG. The McKinleyites at the St. Louis Convention Will Wave This Flag When the Ohio Man’s Name Is Mentioned. It Will Be of Blue Silk, About a Foot Square, Bearing White Stars and McKinley's Portrait in the Center. PERSONAL. F. B. Jack of San Luis Obispo is at the Grand. G. D. Mulyehill of London is among the re- cent arrivals here. Lieutenant Kendrick of the United States navy is at the Occidental. G. M. Francis, owner of the Napa Daily Reg- ister, arrived here yesterday. Walter D. Tupper, ex-District Attorney of Fresno County, is at the Lick. D. A, Knight, the banker of Marysville, ison & visit here and is at the Palace. H. A. Robertson and wife of Stockton are guests at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. Charles F. Montgomery, editor of the An- tioch Ledger, is at the Occidental. Dr. Clarence E. Edwords, managing editor of the Kansas City Journal, is in the City. Among the latest arrivals at the Cosmopali- tan Hotel is Mrs. J. H, Shine, wife of Senator Shine. Edward Harris, & wealthy lumberman of Eureka, is registered at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. Charles Nerot of the Bank of Indo-China at Haiphong, Tonquin, is at the Palace en route to France, Charles Crosby, a merchant of Melbourne, Australia, is in town. He arrived on yester- day’s steamer. The Rev. E. R. Woodman, & missionary of Tokio, arrived here on yesterday’s steamer and is en route East. Dr. C. W. Aby, formerly manager of Mrs, Langtry’s ranch, is at the Grand. He registers from Sitka, Alaska. Lieutenant-Commander Edward W. Sturdy ot the United States navy arrived here yesterday from the Orient and is at the Occidental. Captain Bougoiny of Paris, who was for five years military instructor in Japan, and who is now interested in a line of ships plying in and out of Japanese ports, is in the City. A number of missionaries from India ar- rived here on yesterday’s steamer and are en route to visit friends in the East. They are Miss A. C. Thompson, Miss E. Thompson, Mrs. B. Chappel and Miss Locke. Colonel William Macdonald, who two weeks ago contracted facial paralysis while visiting his mines in Northern California and who has since been under the treatment of Dr. Farrell, has almost entirely recovered. He thinks he will be able to be about and attend to business again in a day or two. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N. Y., June 5.—At the Astor, E. Brown; Imperial, G. E, Don; Gilsey, Mrs, 8. Ross; Continental, Mrs. Pennycock, Miss A. Pennycock; Grand Union, S, P. Young;. St. James, J. Whitehill. Satled per steamer Stutt- gart for Bremen, Mr. and Mrs. A. O. Leuschner. Sailed persteamship Ems for Genos, via Gibral- tar, Pio Fortina. CURRENT HUMOR. ‘Wheeler—Saw a thrilling thing to-day. Run away horse went tearing along the sidewalk out in the edge of town and nearly ran over & dozen children before he was stopped. Walker—I guess the fool beast thought he was & bicycle,~Indianapolis Journal. “Mr. Badger, your oldest little boy seems badly spoiled.” “Yes, we can’t do a thing with him, but he’ll come out all right; his younger brother will soon be big enough to lick him.”—Chicago Record. 3 Ferry—Miss Morton told me fhat she thought you were quite a humorist. Hargreaves—Really, I— Ferry—At least I guess that was what she meant when she said you were such a funny little man.—Cincinnati Enquirer. Visitor—What makes you so ugly, Tommy?- Don’t you love your new little baby brother? Tommy (viciously)—Well, I did till somebody came in and said he looked like me.—Somer- ville Journal. A certain professor, on being asked what he knew upon a particular subject, replied: *‘Nothing; I have not even lectured upon it, sir.”<Tit-Bits. Nanny Goat—What do you think of this new movement in art? ‘Willie Goat (masticating & poster girl)—Well, it diversifies our menu, anyhow.—Philadelpnia North American. Distressed Young Mother (traveling with a erying infant)—Dear me!l don’'t know what to do with this baby. Kind and Thoughtful Bachelor (in the next seat)—Shall I open the window for you, madam?—Church Progress. Parson (to youngster fishing on Sunday)—My ‘boy, I'm surprised to find you here. ‘Youngster (innocently)—Do you know some other place where they bite better?—Up to Date. Mrs. Yeast—I wish I could think of some- thing to kéep my husband home nights. Mrs. Crimsonbeak—Get him a bicycle. Mrs. Yeast—That would take him out more than ever. Mrs. Crimsonbeak—Oh, no, it wouldn't. My husband got one day before yesterday and the doctor says he won’t be out fora month.— Yonkers Statesman. He—I see a New York firm is advertising “flowers by telegagph.” Bhe—I prefer to have them with the stems. Idon’t think they are as good wired.—Yonkers Statesman. 'We now have girls of every kind: The bloomer girl 50 pert, The golt girl and the horsey girl, ‘Who wears her brother’s shirt; We have the giddy summer girl, ‘The winter girl as well; But where, oh where’s the girley-gin? Can apybody tell?—Philadelphia Record. “Say, daddy. what is it that distinguishes civilization from barbarity?” “It is very simple; civilization consists in the art of killing your enemy with a cannon- ball at a distance of 6000 yards, and barbarity in slashing his head off with a saber.—Le Gau- lois. . ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. A BACK DaTeE—H. 8., City. The 31st of May 1858, fell on a Mond; PROMINENT WRITERS—A Reader, Bertha, Lake County, Cal. The questidn in regard to Eng- lish and American writers is too indefinite to admit of an answer FIVE-DOLLAR PIECE—G. M. B., Geyserville, Cal. No premium is offered for a $5 gold piece 0£1843. "The selling price of such a piece by dealers in coin is from $7 50 to $8 50. CasiN0—Old Subscriber. In the game of casino cards count first, and if in the final play each party has made enough goin!l to go out the one wno holds cards wins the game. FIVE-CENT PIECE—Cad, City. Silver five-cent pieces of 1861 and 1862 do not command any Hremmm, as dealers are well supplied. The lealers charge from 25 to 60 cents for a coin of either date. ONE OF 1824—A. F. W., Oakland, Cal. A half dollar of 1824 does not commeand any premium, as there is no call for such, but if {xoo“ want to buy one you would have to pay m 85 cents to $2 5 WEDDING ETIQUETTE—C. R., City. An answer to an invitation to a wedding is not necessary. Those who cannot attend either send or leave their cards for the hostess within a few days after the wedding. THAT TRAINING ScHOoL—H. H. W., Oakland, Cal. Asmno provision has yet been made for the establishment of the training school on Goat Island, there is no place at present at which to file applications. BooTH—A CALL Reader, City. J. Wilkes Booth, the assassin of President Lincoln, was nota communicant of the church you name ir your letter of inquiry, and in fact, so far as this department can learn, was not & commu- nicent of any church. FroM THE BATTERY—P. M., Sacramento, Cal. The distance from the Battery, New York, to Bledsoe Island, on which the Bartheldi statue is standing, 1s & little more than a mile and three-quarters; the distance from the same point to Governor’s Isiand a little more than three-quarters of a mile. LARE CouNTY—A Reader, Bertha, Lake Coun- ty, Cal. Lake County, California, is in the Seventh Senatorial District and in the Tenth Assembly District. Henry C. Gesford is the | State Senator representing that county. The county is in the Third Congressional District, which is represented by S. G. Hilborn. WOMAN SUFFRAGE—J. C. C., City. In THE CALL of April 1,in “Answers to Correspond- ents,” there was published under the head of “Voting in England” the status of female suf- irage at this time. Women in thatcountry ere disqualified as ecandidates for corporate offices. They may be elected parish council- ors for urban district councils and they may be cancidates at elections for vestrymen. THE OREGON—N. P., City. The weight of the bow anchor of the battle-ship Oregon, includ- ing the stock, is 12,874 pounds; that of the sheet-anchor is 12,873 pounds; the length of chains(four main chains), 120 fathams each; there are eight shackles on each chain; the iron in the chain links is 2)4 inches thick; there are four swivels on each chain; the in- side measurement of the links is, length 9 inches, width 4 inches; fiiteen fathoms of links weigh 4590 pounds, and each link weighs about 3817 pounds. These are fignres kindly furnished by George W. Dickie, manager of the Union Iron Works at the Potrero. JAMES KING OF WILLIAM—F. A, R., Milpitas, Santa Clara County. James King of William was editor of the San Francisco Evening Bul- letin prior to May, 1856. He took an active part, through his paper, in bringing about a reformation of the corrupt methods that then Erevniled in the City government and for this e was shot down by James P. Casey, a City official. For this murder Casey was hanged by the Vigilance Committe. He was the son of Willlam King and in order that letters that were intended for him should not go 1o other persons of the name of James King he adopted the addition “of William.” CHURCH PROPERTY—W. 8. C., Livermore, Cal., Mrs. A. M. M., Hawthorne, Nev., and J. P. W., Smiths River, Cal. Church property is not ex- empt from taxation in California and Louisi- ana. In other States it isexempt; in some States the exemption is limited to church property in actual use; in othersto all prop- erty, and still in others the exemption is for property that is not rented, and in othersex- empt undera certain valuation. A full list of exemptions was published in Answers to Cor- respondents in THE UALL of February 26 of thls(elr. Where there is a Bishop that church official i8 a corporation sole in this State, and he holds the property belonging to the de- nomination. Where church property is taxed the Catholic churches hayve to pay justthe same as other denominations. This depart- ment has not the space to enter into therea- sons for and against taxing church property. There are too many of them, and they wounld occupy more space than is allotted to Answers to Correspondents. WORLD'S GOLD AND SILVER—A. M., Aghews, Cal. The following table is said to be a con- servative estimate of the gold and silver of the world, which includes bullion and coin. Country. Silver. Tance. ... $700,000,000 United 690,000,000 145,000,000 110,000,600 go.ouo.wn 126,000,000 100,000,000 1,790,000,000 Austria. vee India and China.. ... .. $3,265,000.000 $3,590,000,000 5. 639,000,000 310,000,000 Aggregate.... .$3,800,000,000 $3.900,000,000 | These fls\!re are from M. L. Muhleman of the United States Sub-Treasury at New York. There are some statisticians whoclaim thatthe .ggra&n)te of the estimate is too low by $1,000,- Ctioa_Brates Mins 15 ‘goid: £5.301800.000; n ates Mint is gol ,901,900,000; sitver, $3,931,100,000. : S WANTS A PEACE CONGRESS Dr. Michel Revon, Philanthropist and Investigator, Arrives Here. Dr. Michel Revon, of Paris, formerly gm(eslor of law in the University of ‘okio, and now proprietor of the leading peace F-E“ in the country, was among the arrivals by the Peru yesterday. He has been studying the civilization of Japan. Dr. Revon is an ardent believer that the nutions should go to war no more. He has a strong belief that all international disputes should be settled by arbitration. ‘War, he says, is utterly incompatible with the good of humanity. He is desirous of interesting this country in peace measures, and that America with her advancement and intellifimc@ should do all in her power to establish a court of arbitration. The doctor will probably visit Washington and interest Congress in the matter. ————— The Sights Will Go. The sale of reserved seats for to-morrow’s ex- cursion to Sonoms Valley closes at 10 o’clock this evening at 833 O'Farrell street. A num- ber of very nice Ylmu have already en; fifd seats together, while the members of the Ei" i scers Club and their friends will practically fill a car. The schedule is arranged so that the excursionists may tarry an hour in old Sonoma, two hours at the baths at Agua Caliente and nearly four hours at Gien Efl:x.:.‘ It will be a basket-lunch outing, but arrangements have been made to feed a number at the notel. ———— Evangelist Sayford. S. M. Sayford, a prominent evangelist, who [LADY'S WAIST WITH PLASTRON FRONT. Areturn to fitted waists is noted in many handsome gowns. The one shown here is fitted by a dart on either side of the front, and has the usual back, side form and under-arm gore portions. The front has a vest effect, which is much liked, as the vest or plastron may be made removabie and thus admits of variety. The waist is very slightly pointed, and may be worn with or without the belt or ribbon. A waist of blue mohair had a vest of white pleated chiffon. The revers and cuffs were piped with white and a white ribbon coliar Was worn. A waist of pink si with black haa rever: cuifs of black faille frax , heavily crossbarred standing collars and SOFT baby cream, 150 pound, Townsend's. * L ———————— BEST peanut taffy in the world. Townsend’s.* e T T LoXDox “‘butter-scotch” tablets. Townsend’s.* S GENUINE eyeglases, specs, 15¢. 814 Fourth st. (nr. barber’s). Sun days 738 Market (Kast's).* ARk R ANICE present for Eastern friends—Town- send’s Cal. glace fruits, 50c1b. 627 Market st. * a2 .Sidi Ali, the Bey of Tunis, 1 likely to en- counter asea of troubles in the near future, for he has decided to become sn author. His forthcoming book is to be entitled *“The Guide of the True Believer in the Path of Duty.” It deals with the sanitary and legal obligations of the Mussulman, as well as with the tenets of his faith, - - — SPECIAL information daily to manufacturers, business houses and public men by the Presi Clipping Buresu (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery. * AT Il <A THE N. P. C. R. R., via Sausalito ferry, 1 put on additional campers’ and excursion trains June 15, between San Francisco and Point Reyes, arriving in San Francisco at 8:45 A. M. and leaving at 5:15 . M., which runs through a country unsurpassed for camping or aday’s outing. o S B The Season’s Family Excursion. San Jose and return $1. Iroquois Club out- ing. Train leaves Third and Townsend 9 o’clock, Sunday, June 7. Valencia-street station 9:10.* sabie M S i To San Jose and Alum Rock. $1 round trip, Sunday, June7. Palace cars leave Third and Townsend streets at9 o'clock. Family excursion, Valencia-street staton 9:10 sharp. v ideaed Picture Frames. We have improved our line of moldings for picture frames very much lately by adding a number of new patterns in oaks and gilts. Price always the lowest on the new things, and a discount of just one-half on about 150 gatxerns of old styles which we are closing out. anborn, Vail & Co., 741 Market st. > Watts—I agree with the Shah of Persia in re- gard to horse races. You know he said he took no interest in racing, because he already knew that one horse comd run faster than another. Potts—Of course one knows that one horse can run faster than another but you never know whether he will be allowed to do so. That's where the excitement comes in.—In- dianapolis Journal. “THE OVERLAND LIMITED” Via Union Pacific. oLy 8% DAYS TO CHICAGO—3: ONLY 42 DAYS TO NEW )uuxx{-'u,g Pullman double drawing-room sleepers and din- ing-cars, San Francisco to Chlcago, dally without change. Composite buffet smoking and library cars between Salt Lake City, Ogden and Chicago. Upholstered Pullman tourist sleepers, San Fran- cisco to Chicago, daily without change, and per- sonaliy conducted tourist excursions o St. Paal and Chicago every Friday. For tickets and sleeping-car reservations apply to general oflice, 1 Montgomery street. Steamship tickets on sale to and from all parts of Europe. D. W. HITCHCOCK, General Agent. —_—————— $67.50—Special Train—867.50. Repub- lican Convention at St. Louis. Leaves San Francisco Thursday, June 11, at 10 A2 via Salt Lake Civy-Denver, thence Buriing- ton Toute, The entire California and Nevada dele- gatlons have accommodations on this triin. Rate to St. Louls and return, $67 50. Bertns for this train must be secured at office of Burlington route, 32 Montgomery st. St. Louis Convention. Partieg taking advantage of the cheap rates to the Republican Convention can secure tickets re- turning via St. Paul and the Northern Pacific Railroad. T. K. Stateler, general agent, 638 Mar- ket street, San Francisco. ———— LADIES take Dr. Slegert’s Angostdra Bitters gen. erally when they feel low spirited. It brightens them up immediately. NEW TO-DAY. REAL ESTATE FOR SALE BY Thos. Mazes & Sons, REAL ESTATE AGENTS Aud Publishers “Real Estate Circular.” 4 Montgomery Street, UNIOY TRUST BUILDING, CORNER MARKET. NEW PROPERTY. A bargain—Lots any size, 137:6 feet deep, on King st., near Secord, on railroad tracks at water front, $150 a front foot: or 275 deep, through to ‘Townsend, $265 & foot. for double front. A Great Bargain—137:6x187:6; NW . corner Second and King, on railroad tracks to transfer steamer and Pacific Mail dock and on deep-water im'&" $30,000; or any size; spur-track into this r nd. $3000—Cottage and lot on Hayes st., near Fill- more; 22:6x70. Lot 45x100; Twenty-third st., between Capp and Missi6n. INVESTMENTS, Sansome st,, near Market; large lot and four- Iio%hflck bufldlni: rents $450; low price, £30,000—Rents $195; Pol . near California; 80x80; fine 3-story building; stores below and rooming-house above. Fourth-st. corner, renting for $225: 831,000. Rents for $274 50— Fine corner; Kllis and Hollis; 90x125; covered with 6 dwellings and 9 nearl; new flats; price asked, $27,000, and offers wanted ; it is an estate and must soou sell. Rents $186: $25,! : six well boilt 2-story houses: 7 roomsand bath each: Howard-st. cornes, mnear Hh. hslxwex;lhl»ut. blnllneu ocoodfll;l,‘:ll best part of the street; large 1ot and g -8t bullding, in stores; $17,000. o s HOUSES AND LOTS $2300 AND UP- WARD—EASY TERMS. $500 cash—DMcAllister st., near Baker: 25x100 and fine 2-story bay-window house, 10 rooms and modern conv-niences; price $>350. Corner residence; reduced to $4500; 3 blocks from Market st.: cor. Octavia st. and Hickory ave.; 10 rooms, bath and modern conveniences. Bush st., near Fillmore; 27x137:6, and fine @ story and basement house: 10 rooms and bath; in firsi-class order; very sunny ; $5500, XKeduced to $4650; Shotwell s ’rwanzy-lae:-nh: 56X98:i rooms and bath each; rents §30: fine street. Octavia st., bet. and 112:6, and 2-story in good order: W. side, near 5 is an associate of Dwight L. Moody, will de- liver a special address to young people at the Young Men's Christian Association andi- torium, Mason and Ellis streets, Sunday after- noon, at 3 o’clock. The gallery will be re- served for ladies. Mr. S8ayford is one of the most prominent evangeliss ot the United Bt and the service mises to be un- usually interesting. etc.; fine view: 86000; easy terms. California-s:. residence, W. of Laguna: lot 27:6 x137:6, and fine residence; nearly $3000 lately nton it; fine view from rear windows; only $8500—Bryaut st., N, side, bet. H 80,and cottage ot G fooms, :'Mel S0 basement ot 26:3x80: house has 18 rooms; only $2300; i e’ oLy 82300; very easy terms; Te-