Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-02-09
TIE THEATER AGAIN.

| EDS. RECORD UNION 1 notice in your
valuable paper yesterday an article in rela-
and also read your very able editorial re-
marks concerning the proposition. Now, Mr..
Editor, as the writer of the proposition to
| buy the Metropolitan theater, would fully
concur with your ideas if there were not a
great obstacle in the way, which is this /: If
a new theater was to be built in the city, why
the owner of the Metropolitan would be
compelled to renovate it to compete with the
new one. and then it would be here, as it is
now in San Jose-a strong and bitter compe-
ti5ion for patronage-as you can now hire
either theater in ii at city for almost nothing.
there being such bitter opposition and |
don't see what there is 20 avert a like result
| in this city in case of your project being car
ried into effect, and thereby make both pieces
of property almost valueless. Now, Mr.. Ed
itor, if you can inform me how to overcome
the obstacle referred to. will heartily concur
in your proposition. Until then | will still
think that it would be wise, judicious and
profitable to buy the old building and inn
prove it. >.
| Political CoMPLICATIoN.-R have
been prevalent for some days that fusion
between the Workingmen and Democrats has
been effected for the purposes of the next city
election The truth of the matter was stated
yesterday by an undeniable authority. 1t
appears that the Democratic Committee and
the Workingmen's Committee did agree upon
a fusion recently. the basis of which is that
the Democratic Committee and the Working
mems Convention shall meet separately next
Wednesday evening. Each shall nominate
two of the four officers to be chosen. the Dem
ocrats naming Second Trustee and Fire Com
missi0ners, and the Workingrnen naming
Chief of Police and City Attoruey-the first
two VIM. Minis and Chris. Weisel, and the
last two Matt. karcher and w. b. O.. Keller.
Each party is to indorse the nominees OF the
other. and thus the coalition viii be completed
It now appears that everything is not lovely.
although the political goose hangs very high,
for the Worhingmen in large numbers are
protesting against the trade. They claim
That their committee has no authority to bind
their party that, On the contrary, it has 10
report all its acts to the Wednesday meetings
for action, and they boldly say that their
committee entered into the bargain because
of personal interest they feel in securing
| positions upon the police force in case of a
victory for the party. At last accounts the
committee had not succeeded in stopping the
kicking"
| a BOLD BURGLARY.-Y esterday morning
Manager Barton, late of the California
Theater, under whose management the Col.
vile Company played in this city, awoke to
find that his room at the Golden Eagle Hotel
| had been visited by burglars. He had re-
| tired about o'clock. after paying the salaries
of the members of the company and enjoying
game of billiards, and slept soundly unit
late. On awaking he noticed that his panta
looms had been removed from the chair or
which he placed them. A hurried examina
ton showed that S403 had been taken from
his pocket, though valuable gold watch was
| left The burglars entered the room from
the balcony on Seventh street through a
window, the lower sash of which had been
forced up and lowered again. The bolt on
the door had been pushed back, as if prepare
ton was made for hasty exit in case oil
necessity.
The New ELECTRIC LIGHT Some time
ago an account was given of an invention in
progress of development by Messrs. Rae,
Brewer & Waterhouse, looking to the prOduc
ton of an electric light which will burn with
out flicker, may be subdivided and adapted
to domestic uses, and that can be produced al
a low rate Of cost. Some of the burners and
appliances were completed a few days age
and taken to San Francisco and put in cir,
cult with electric light machinery in use
there. The result is reported as entirely
satisfactory. the new burners giving clear.
mellow light, perfectly free from flicker
| When placed ON a common circuit between
two burners of the old kind, both Pickering,
the new burner lost none of its steadiness
but gave light as satisfactory as in the hrst
instance.
CoMMERcIAL.-Arrived Saturday and Sun
day, steamer San Joaquin No. 3, from Sar
| Francisco. with merchandise and barge Of
i lumber for n. L Drew & Co., and shingle,
/ for Sacramento Lumber Company; Sar
Joaquin No. 3. from upper Sacramento, will
barge of grain for San Francisco; steamer
! Relief. from San Francisco. with potatoes tt
l. Bush, and barge of lumber for the Friend &
Terry Lumber Company. Departed-Sar
| JOAQUIN No. s, with barge, light. for the
upper Sacramento, and Governor Dana fol-
the same trip. The steamer Harriet passed
down with barge of grain from Colusa county
A NUIsANcE.-Every Sunday Chinamar
establishes a junk stand-a veritable "old
curiosity shop"-on the sidewalk on TEir(
street, near L That street has recently be
come !. popular thorogghfare, and the crowds
Of Cinnamon that congresate thereabouts are
q serious annoyance to people passing to OF
from the depot The cunning Celestial may
think that good place to catch ereeaers.
but the people are not particularly fond OF ell
bowling their way through crowd OF blue
shirted, big-boOted, greasy-cued, yellow-hueo
purloiners that rally round the market.
CRY LIBRARY REpoRT.-The following i
the Librarians report of the City Free Ii
brary for the past week: Whole number O.
books drawn during the week, III average
number per day, ITO. Number of fiction
621 history, 19y biography, %; travels, 81
general literature, sc; poetry and drama, II
| religious, 3 science aud arts, %. Percent
age of other works than fiction, 191; aver
age number of readers Fer day, 60.
THE DIcKENs.--A number of ladies ant
gentlemen, it is said, are about to take the
initial steps to hold q Dickens party hert
soon. Some sense in that rs compared tt
mere masquerades.
New CrrIzEN.-In the Superior Ccurt
Saturday, Joseph Cook, native of England
was admitted to citizenship upon the testi
mony of W. A. Chitteaden and Sila'
/ Chance.