Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-11-03
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.

the weather report of Sergeant NJ. NJ. Sick.
Ter, in charge Of the United States Signal
Station in this city, for the month Of Octo.
Der Highest barometer, 80. 2S4, on the 18th
lowest barometer, 90 737, on the Sth mean
daily barometer, % 997; monthly range Of
barometer, .497; highest temperature, So,
on the 9TH; lowest temperature. 46', on the
LIST; mean daily temperature, 81 r.; monthly
range OF temperature, 49, greatest daily
range OF temperature, 81, on the 14th !; low
est daily range OF temperature, IL, on the
8th; mean of maximum temperatures 70 ;
mean OF minimum temperatures. 40. s.; mean
daily iange of temperature, 1872; prevailing
wind, north; total movement of wind, 1856
miles maximum velocity of wind and direc-
ton, Is, southwest, on the 9Th; number OF
cloudy days on which no rain fell, l num-
Der Of fair days, z; number of clear days, 23
mean daily humidity, 54.3.
COUNTY HOSPITAL REPORT. The October
report of Dr. ). r. Lame, Physician in
charge of the County Hospital, is as follows
Number Of patients in hospital October LIST,
1l6; admitted during the month, IS; born
during the month. l discharged, 81; died,
5; remaining October 3lst, 10 highest num-
Der during October. III; lowest number
during October, 104; daily average, 110l /;
meals furnished destitute applicants, %.
The names of the deceased, their ages, nativi.
ties and causes of death are as follows Al.
fred Kennedy, ", North Carolina, general
paralysis; James Cassidy, 81, New York,
sanguineous apoplexy; John Caswell, %,
ireland, exposure and starvation Eddie Will
son, ! month, marasmus /; James GaffneY,
30, Ireland, consumption. The current ex-
penses have been as follows Salaries of SUI
perintendent and employees, S785; subsist-
ence, S7l7 50; gasoline, feed clothing. dis
infectants. expressage and repairs, S237 16
total, ST. 39 81.
HOUSE RoBBERY-At about o'clock yes
terday morning the grocery of James Popert,
at Twenty-frst and II Streets was entered,
and his residence, which was in the same
building, was thoroughly overhauled for val
uables. During their work Mr. Popert
awoke and started to get up, but one Of the
burglars fired a shot with his revolver tn
cverawe bin, and then ordered him to lay
still, and enforced it by keeping his re.
yolYer upon him at full cock While thus
overpowered, a confederate Of the man who
had the revolver searched the premises, and
having secured two watches and some money,
they LETT. No arrests have thus far been
had Watchdog poisoned during the recent
raid in that direction, and which connects the
poisoning work as a preparation to house
robbing, as was intimated at the time, to be
the probable object
MERCHANDISE REPORT. The following
freight for Sacramento passed Ogden on the
51st Holman, Stanton & Co., car plows
and reapers Scofeld & Tevis, SO bbls spirits !;
Continental Oil 6 Transportation Co.. 1880
cases and tank oil w. Il. knights, bbls
salt meat l keg saltpetre; Huntington,
Hopkins & Co, bales springs, boxes cut
lery, s boxes hinges, 200 kegs nails r. A
Fisk. bales and l box steel plates; Adams,
Mcneil 81 Co., 40 cases matches G. II. Gil
man, l case cloaks S. Morris, case paper !;
n. w. Powell, box household goods W.
a. u Q. 5. Houghton, l case and box books,
case lead pencils; Henry Fisher, 1 case
paper boxes, bundle books John f. Coop
er, boxed piano; j. Hearth, 3 cases shoes
Weinstoek Il Lubin, 26 cases boots and shoes
K. Stone Il Co.. box hardware; o. l..
Richards & Co, case oil.
IksTALLATIoN.-At a regular meeting of
Capital Lodge No. 81, L o. G. T., held last
evening, the following officers were installed
for the ensuing term: W. G. T., A. Wilson ;
W. f. H. s., Emma Lynch w. L. II. S.,
Annie Patterson w. " T., Ida May Rus
sci; w. s., j. i. Lucas; w. A s., Meredia
Truax; w. T. s., J. NJ. Rogers w. T.,
Mrs. Kate Smith; w. NJ, w. E. McKin-
ney w. D. NJ, Susie Folger; w. g., Mrs.
A. A. Catlin w, L. g., Jennie Logan W.
o. g., II. S. Brink The following were also
elected delegates to the District Lodge,
which convenes at Florin on November 18th {:
A. Wilson, Ida NJ. Russell, Sam Katzen-
stein. Mrs. Kate Smith, Jennie Logan and
Ed. KATE snstein.
SHERMAN's EDUCATED HoRsEs-The ex-
hibition Of Sherman's educated horses which
was given here during State Fair week. and
which met with such favor by all who at
tended it, is again to be presented in this
CITY, commencing to-day and lasting till
Saturday. These trained horses perform up
wards of 200 different tricks of the most in
teresting character, and which are done en-
tirely in obedience to the word of command,
making an interesting study as to the intelli-
gence OF the horse and its capabilities of I'M
Outstanding human language. Many of their
performances are simply wonderful, and SON e
of them can only be accepted as capable of
being done by dumb animals when they have
been witnessed.
TEMPERATURE FOR OCTOBER, 1SSO.-The
temperature, as computed by S. II. Gerrish,
from observations in this city att A. NJ,
P. NJ, aud 9 P. NJ, is as follows for 0cto.
Der: The mean temperature for the month,
5S.5S'; warmest mean day, the 5th 81 &C.
warmest extreme, the 9th, $40; cold
est mean day, the 30th, 81 33'; coolest
extreme, the 18th, 81 so. Frost on the
morning of the 3lst The mean tempera-
E,,Ya 80 O,Nvk,.
Sc 90 1877. 69.70'; 1876, So S20; 1875, 67 250.
Rain iSht sprinkle on the 4th. In 0cto-
Der, 1879, 0SfS of inch Of rain fell.
CASE OF SMALL-Pox.-Thomas Henry,
who has for some time been night operator of
the Railroad Company at Blue Canyon, was
brought to the Railroad Hospital in this city
few days since for treatment, and his case
has now developed as that of smallpox. He
has now been removed to the pest house adj
joining the County Hospital. Action has
been taken to prevent other cases by use of
disinfectants, and all the patients and attend
ants st the hospital will be vaccinated.
FREIGHT MovEMENTs.-The following car
loads Of freight were received in this city
yesterday One of wagons, 5 of wood, 2 of
granite, of barley, 10 of coal, of wool, of
oil, OF merchandise l of shakes, of lum
Der, of fruit, of nails, of oil, l of grapes
and Of ounces. The following through car
loads East We're also forwarded: Three of
hops, OF bullion and "copper" 2 of wool. 2 of
salmon, of dried fruit, Of barley, of wine,
of sugar and of rice
CORRECTING REcIsTRATIoN.-The County
Clerks Office was kept open yesterday for the
purpose OF correcting irregularities in the
Great Register and giving certificates of the
same 60 voters. Not to exceed half dozen.
however, appeared during the day, and these
were from misspelling names, by changing
adding emitting letter. The rejecting
of votes upon these slight irregularities
shows careful work in receiving the ballots.
STREET SPRINKLING.-The contracts for
sprinkling tie streets of this city expired on
the LIST of this month, and no sprinkling was
done yesterday. Street Commissioner Davis
will put on carts and have the principal
business streets sprinkled to-day, and should
there be no rain for the present soae action
will probably be taken by the city authorities
or locally TO have the wetting down resumed
till Probabilities sends US relief.
MARKING TIcKETs. Deputy Constable
May found boy marking tickets yesterday
near the first voting precinct at Third and
J streets and took him into custody. AS
the boy stated, however. that he had no OBJ
ject Ia doing the marking, and no one had