Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-05-15
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.

RED MEMS PIoNIc-The members and
frieRds of the Improved Order of Red Men,
and all other reputable people who choose TO
go, will ON Monday at s a. NJ. leave the new
depot on special trains for Natoma Grove.
where the Red Mems annual picnic will be
held The committees of management say
that the grounds, being high, rolling, and of
sandy composition, are dry and in better or
der than ever before known, and that the
most delicate need have no fear of attending
because of supposed dampness, as the con-
trary Is true of the grounds in all parts, and
that to-day's and Sundays sunshine and
breezes will add to the dryness of the grounds
indeed, though they are already dry enough,
and Just right for thorough enjoyment. EX-
press wagons will call tor baskets at these
places and hours Twentieth and G, Z :;
Sixteenth and ID, 7:l5; Fourteenth and @,
1920; Twelfth and d. 7:25 Tenth and T..
1870; Seventh and G, $40; Fifteenth and H.
z; Seventeenth and NJ, 7:15; Tenth and o.
7:20; Sixth and O, 7:30 Sixth and NJ, 1856 ::
Second and NJ, 7:40 Sixth and J, Z /; Thir
teenth and K, 7:15 Twelfth and ], 7:20 /;
Tenth aud K, 7:25; Seventh and |, 1880 /;
Sixth and K, 735; st. George building en-
trance, $40; Fourteenth and 2, = Seventh
and p, 7:20; Fourth and p. 7:25 Third and
p, 1870: Second and O. 7:35 At the picnic
prizes will be awarded for military team
shooting, archery team shooting, lady arch
ers, gentlemen archers, amateur archers, la
dies foot-raeing, misses foot-racing, ladies'
egg-Tace, gentlemen's foOt-race, sGck-race
base ball match and other amusements.
A TRIBUTE OF REsPEcT.-The Sacramento
Pastoral Association at its meeting May 10th
adopted the following minute: The Pas
toral Association of Sacramento feel deeply
afflicted by the death of S. B. Gregory, pas
tor of the Calvary Baptist Church and Vice
President of this Association. Brother Greg
DRY has endeared himself to Us by his gentle
spirit and warm Christian feeling We have
found him brother beloved, true, earnest
and consecrated; for depth and genuiueness
of piety; for well-developed manly charac-
ter; for simplicity of life, showing itself in
guilelessness, and in great modesty and hui
mility for the warmth and breadth of his
sympathies, stepped in Christian love for
his devotion to the work of his Master, not
only in his own parish, bnt throughout the
city for catholicty of feeling, in which his
large heart, without lacking in love for his
own denomination, welcomed other Chris
tians as having an equal place in the service
of Christ he has held high place in our re-
CARDS, and we cherish his memory very ten
derby and sacredly. We feel deeply the loss
to us individually and to our Association.
We sympathize with his stricken and sorrow
ing Church, and pray that the influence and
SAVIOR OF his ministry may long linger among
them. And we tender to his family our
warmest feelings Of coincidence and sympathy.
and offer our earnest prayers that the dear
Lord viii comfort and sustain them in this
great sorrow"
TRoPIcAL PLANTs-Master Mechanic A.
J. Stevens, while upon his recent "trip to Ar.
iona, procured four large specimens of the
Yucca Gloriosa, or Bayonet Plant, alias
Adams Needle, which is quite a curiosity in
its line in this section of the country. The
leaves Of the plant are shaped very similar to
a bayonet, are from hve-eighths to three
fourths of an inch wide, and about two feet
long. 1t sends up a Towering stalk from It's
center similar IN appearance to that of the
Century plant, but not more than from two
to three inches in diameter and generally
five to seven feet high, but they have been
seen as much as twelve feet high This stalk
during its towering season is profusely COW
cred with cream-cOl0red flowers, which are
exceedingly fragrant. The plants are to be
put out at the grounds about the railroad
shops, which are already assuming the APP
pearance Of beauty and taste by the variety
of trees, shrubs and plants. Another lot of
orange trees have also just been received
from Los Angeles, to be planted in the rail
road yards
AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATIONS. Certificates
have been filed with the Secretary of State
showing that citizens have organized District
Agricultural Societies under the State law.
One is named the Ell Dorado Society, District
No. g. and the signers are thirtv-three in
number. Another Is for District No. T. and
known as the Sonoma and Marin Society, and
the signers are seventy-seven in number. An
other is for District No. g. Butte, Tehams
and Coiusa counties, and the signers are
eighty-one in number
INCoRPoRATED.-Artic of inc rporatiou
of the Amelia Gold Mining Company were
yesterday filed in the Secretary of States
office. Capital, 81 .O00. 600. D!rectors-A.
Chayanner, E. Gallaird, H. Barriolhet, An
tome Bord, Theodore lie Roy, Robert Watt
and jules Fircot. Also OF the MARYLAND
Gold Quartz Mining Company. to operate
in Nevada county. Capital $4,000 co.,
Directors-S. P. Dorsey, J. G. Coleman,
Edward Coleman, Stephen Moore and Sam
uel Bethel.
ZoUAvEs' ELECTION. - The Sacramento
zouaves tcolored) at their annual election
chose the following officers: Captain, Sims
Emery: First Lieutenant, Cyrus B. Cooper ;
Second Lieutenant. John Chambers Or
derby Sergeant, Fred Washington Second
Sergeant James Harris: Secretary, c. B.
Cooper; Treasurer, Isaiah Dunlap; Color
bearer, Samuel Gale.
POLICE CouRT.-Cases were disposed of in
the Police Court yesterday as follows: John
Ebberhsrdt, for battery with spade, trial by
Jury. verdict guilty; to be sentenced to-day
Jacob Rider, battery for striking with spade.
discharged. The cases of All Now, arrested
for petit larceny, and John Brown, drunk,
were continued until to-day.
HATS HAST HATS OF every style,
every shape, every color and every material,
from the ordinary wool to the finest quality
silver beaver. Our stock of hats is the largest
variety and styles, the most complete and
fashionable of any house in Sacramento
Besides purchased as thew are direct from