Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-05-05
BRIEF REFERENCE.

| peles have been nicely planted In a circle De-
tween the boiler department and machine
shops, near the new depot.
The Knights of Pythias Picnic Committee
offer prizes for archery and base ball, and ask
clubs and persons desiring to compete to send
in their names to S. A. Wolfe.
The City Board of Education will hold
special meeting this evening to open and con-
slider the bids for furnishing the new text
books.
There are uncalled for messages at the
! Western Union Telegraph Office, for JAS
Kits, j. 2. Stone and I. w. Messenger.
It is J. E. Hobbie not w. H. Hobby, who
was elected School Census Marshal the other
night by the Board of Education.
The real estate auction sale by Bell & Co,
for the 9TH, takes place three miles east OF
Roseville, not Rocklin.
1t commenced raining in the mountains
last evening, with the barometer indicating
continuance.
Two cars of immigrants will arrive from
the East this evening.
| The river last night stood at % feet and IL
inches.
HANDSOME WoRK.-Frommelt & Kern,
artists in fresco, who have an office on
Fourth street in this city, have about COM
pleted the ornamentation in fresco of Pioneer
Hall. The work will bear critical inspection.
The main hall ceiling is set off in three PAN
els The central one is broken circle with
four maroon corners, in which are the imp.e-
ments representing the mechanical arts, agri-
culture, mining and commerce. Around the
circle runs a floral border The prevailing
tint of this and all the ceiling work Is pink
ish-gray known as French gray, OF which
there are many shades, all worked out from
combination of blue and red The side
panels bear each a landscape view.
One is a view of the Golden Gate
from Black Point, the other the halt of an
emigrant train at the crossing of Green river.
Both views are creditable, and are in the
highest style of the frescoing art. Each panel
is in broad deep blue border, with black
corners and ornamented with gold. The
cornice of the hall is in the prevailing tint of
the ceiling, with pale blue and deep maroon
trimmings, relieved by gold and bronze color
worked ON the stucco ornaments and by deli
cate straw-colored standings. Below this is
| the wall border, consisting of a series of
miniature lambrequin points in shades of
green. The walls are finished in darker
| tint of French gray The ceiling is worked
| in water colors and the walls in oil. The
two center pieces from which the chan
deliers depend are touched in gold
orange and white and maroon. The
wainscot border is green and drab.
The upper and lower halls and stairway
entrance with ante-rooms and Secretarys
office are finished in uniform style with the
main hall, but of course less deliberately. On
the ceiling of the Secretary's room is now
| being worked view of Suffers fort in 1919.
| The frescoing is claimed to be, and probably
is, the best ever done in this city. 1t GER
tainly is very handsome work, and has been
very faithfully executed. 1t will be COM
pleted this week. or nearly So and when the
building is thrown open for inspection it will
| be admitted to be the most attractive public
hall in the interior of California, and will re-
fleet credit not only upon the Association,
| but upon the artists.
Police CoURT.-The following cases called
in the Police Court yesterday were disposed of
as follows: Jack Dowd, for misdemeanor,
continued till the oath. Walter Marshall and
]. w. Stephenson, for battery, continued
until the 9TH. Chas. Tobin and Mike Ryan,
atoned for breaking the peace by paying s.
each. Get You was found guilty of keeping
an opium den and paid a fine of $40 and
costs. Woody Bryant, the boy who mis-
placed the railroad switch, will receive sem
for disturbing the peace, and in default of
payment was committed to the County Jail.
D. Z. Brown, for the same offense, was dis
charged. The case of Agnes Miller, for re-
ceiving stolen property, was continued till
the 9th VIM. Brown, for being drunk, for
feited deposit of s.. Tom Kenney's cases,
for battery, was continued till the 9th ; as
also the case of Cummings, for disturbing the
peace. w. Heard, for getting drunk, paid
/ fort no iu6ip sid of fba
Gordon was treated to 20 days in jail for
being beggar and healthy. A drunk COM
| ing to the judicial notice cost Chas. Blangot
| 81 80. All Lee, convicted of petty larceny,
was fined S32 80, which, being unable to
settle on demand, compromise was effected
whereby he will cancel the sum with 30 days
in jail and leaving his picture in the police
art gallery Murray deposited s. for his
drunk and forgot to afterwards call for it.
PIcNICs.-The Improved Order of Red
Men, represented by the four Tribes of the
Order in Sacramento, will celebrate the
flower moons advent by picnic on Tam
many's Day, May 18th, at Natoma Grove.
Announcement of all the details is elsewhere
made. There are to be several fine prizes for
racing, archery, military team shooting, etc.
The prizes are now on exhibition at Aliller's
! ~
First Artillery band, fourteen pieces will fur
nish music for the occasion. The Red Men
have won an enviable reputation for good
management at these annual excursions and
that it will be maintained this year cannot be
doubted. The committee are making extra
exertions TO afford pleasure to all who attend.
The spring season is so backward this year
that the Tammany picnic has great advan
tage, and will find the Natoma Grove region
i %f,,11 nd rna
street Methodist, Kingsley Chapel Methodist
and NJ E. Church South Sunday schools
have union picnic at Cothrin's Station, on
the Placervile and Sacramento Valley Rail
road May 9TH. The grounds are thirty-eight
miles from the city, and said to afford unu-
sual facilities for a day of enjoyment. AT
8 o'clock this morning the st. Paufs Church
picnic excursion train leaves for Natoma
Grove.
The CAPITOL PARK.-The Capitol Park
Commissioners are considerably exercised
over the problem of the Capitol Park extern
sion. Before surrounding it with new
fence, some of the Board think the plat
ought to be raised at least two feet. Burns
slough and the late storm recently drenched
it so that the ground has grown up rank with
weeds. and what little grass there was on the
borders is in a poor way and likely to be
choked out, while numbers of the trees have
been killed As to what ought to be done to
make it fitting accessory to the Capitol and
old grounds, is what just now disturbs the
Commissioners, and what to do and how to
manage the financial question in it and do
what ought to be done, is knotty. In this
connection correspondent who has ali eye
for the harmonious in landscape gardening,
echoes the questions of many as to why the
State gardeners have never supplied the places
of the dead and removed trees, on the north
terraces of the old park, with fresh shrubs or
trees from the nursery that lines the outer
beds of the park. The open spaces look bad
be says, and the cost of transplanting he
places at nothing. Possibly the new gar
dener will fill the blanks at the proper time
for transplanting.
FUNERAL OF All KEE.-The funeral of
the Chinaman killed in the encounter with
III. V. Jurgens, took place yesterday after
noon from the rooms of Coroner Vermilya,
under the auspices of the Chinese company
of which deceased was a member, and was
very largely attended. 1t is stated by his
friends that his name was not All Chez, as
given in the inquest proceedings but All
Kee The leading members of the company
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