Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-03-23

Company to furnish fuel for the Water
Works for 81, 600.
The Street Commissioner was directed to
advertise for bids for the contracts for water
ing the streets.
The Board adjourned after allowing the
following bills: Duly Bee So C. FL. Krehs,
$50 80; Charles Mclaughlin. SIC; George
jackson, s169 63; William Burchard, Sc !;
Samuel Hopper, So; E. r. Knox, S32 80 !;
o. Van Alstine, -; All Dan, 81 ; J. T.
Barron. Sc; FL. A. Weaver S37 so; L. Ber-
key, $45; W. +. Knox, SIS.
MERCHANDISE REPORT. = The following
freight for Sacramento passed Ogden March
Goth: For Henry Eckhardt > cases of fire
arms; S. Roth L box and bale sponges,
1 case of skins; Hartwell, Hotchkiss &
Stalker, l bundle of pulleys; r. Stone & Co.,
boxes hardware, sc boxes backing, 2
cases saddlery ware John 7. Stoll, l box
leather; w. d. C9mstock, l box dress goods ;
James |. Telter, boxes cigars Weinstock
x l4ubiD, box dry goods, II boxes and 8
cases hats; Samuel Nathan, box shirts G..
IL. Gilman, 81 cases boots; Hall, Luhrs &
Co, packages tobacco Waterhouse &
Lester, l car lumber q. w. Chesley cases
and kegs of sauce L. W. Schwambs, / box
holdings Locke g. Lavenson,,1 box paper
hangings; huntington, Hopkins & Co., 5
boxes OF hardware Geo. o. Bates, cases
lawn mowers, bundle handles; L. EIkus, >
cases shirts; Nj. Sulzsr, l box household
goods; Lindley q Co, - boxes baking pow
der; Mebius & Co., % cases tobacco; r. G..
Kirk Il Co. 8 boxes medicine Marcus G..
Hawley & Co., l box hardware Adams, Nc
Neil & Co., ISL boxes, l case, ) kegs and y
packages of tobaccas % cases matches; Il. A.
Broduret, l bundle household goods; d
Noel, boxes household goods; a. G.. TUFTS.
l box drugs; Fritz & Miller, 2 boxes GOTTA
trimmings; Rothfeld Bros, I box corsets.
Social AND LITERARY MEET1EG.-There
was large attendance last evening at the
Young Peoples social and literary meeting,
held in the parlors Of the Congregational
Church. The following programme was
given: Song, my Laddie Far Away,
Miss Il. Thompson recitation, " Count Can
despina's STANDARD; :" song, Nanny Lee, F"
b. II. Chapman; duet, selection from Bee
thoven, +. Palmer; recitation, "a Million Of
Gold" A. NJ. Auburtus; piano solo, selection
from Martha, Miss May Cummings recita-
ton, g Cataline's Defiance" a. Lyons :
duet, II Know Bank Wherein the Wild
Thyme" music, H. Waldron and G. Wilcox I;
T6ClJaetDu, liOLl OudhtspCdEc, DN MI OOnen
question box and critics report
ACCIDENTALLY SHOT. - Yesterday after
noon young man named Fred Smith armed
himself with a revolver and went out for a
promenade At Third and n streets be went
into grocery store for few moments, and
while there instituted an examination of the
weapon. Evidently the article was nov
elty to him, or else he ''did not know it was
loaded" but he found such to be the case
when he pulled the trigger and received the
bullet in his arm. The poor fellow, beliey-
ing he was mortally wounded, fell to the
floor, and when his friends gathered around
willed to each of them some of his personal
effects. The wound is not at all dangerous
the ball having entered the feshy part Of the
left arm.
FIRE AMONG THE Boxes Yesterday az
ternoon at half-past l O'Clock fire alarm
was turned in from box 81, and was caused
by a fire in the drying-house of N. S. Mich
OILS & Co.'s box factory, at Second and @
streets. When the hremen reached the place
flames were issuing from the doors and win
dows and the upper part Of the brick build
ing. The room was heated by two stoves,
and above them were large quantities of lum-
Der, SO closely Illteu together tn3b bne water
was not easily distributed After nearly an
hour Of hard work, however, the mass was
drenched and the fire extnguisbed. The
damage to the building and its contents was
about $780, there being no insurance.
POLICE CoURT-I the Police Court yes
terday Barney Hughes was sentenced to 40
days imprisonment for being a. vagrant
Morris Whalen, common druukard re-
ceived sentence of 80 days in Jail !; Tom
Kelly was fined $40 and costs for being
drunk, and Tim Sweeny, charged with the
same offense, forfeited s.; John White was
convicted of vagraney, and will be sentenced
to-day the case of j. c. Jackson, charged
with battery, was continued till to-day. (.
OFFICIAL VIsiTArIoS.-C California Lodge,
No. 1850, knights of Honor, last evening re-
ceived with due honors at its hall, in DAD
Fellows Temple, j. A. Cummings, Supreme
Dictator of the Order, who arrived in the
city from Boston, his place of residence, yes
ACCOMPANIED BY delegates from California
and Unity Lodges, to organize the Grand
Lodge of California tomorrow morning in
that city.
SURPRISE PARTY.-Last Sunday evening
many of the friends of Supervisor j. W.
Wilson visited him at his residence at Third
and n streets, the occasion being the forty
sixth anniversary of his birthday. A NUM-
Der of articles were presented HIM, and the
visit was enlivened with music. The visitors
were treated TO an excellent inpromptu
supper.
FREIGHT MOVEMENTS. = There were for
warded to the East yesterday | car load OF
wine. l Of mustard seed, 1 of hides, Of wool
and l of merchandise. There were received
here l car load of OIL l of wine, of wheels.
l OF cheese, l of merchandise, 2 of coal, Of
wood, of sewer pipe and 2 OF sundries.
FILED Hrs BoND.-Fire Commissioner W.
r. Jones has fled his official bond with the
Board of City Trustees, in the sum of 500, :
coo, with William Young, Willard Me
Laughlin, A. ). Vermilya. Robert Anderson,
Christopher Green and Alexander Nelson as
sureties.
A CARD.-MIss JOSIE SPENCER begs to
announce that from this date she will be con.
nected with the millinery department of
Messrs. Weinstoclz & Luhin, Mechanics
Store. where she will be glad to receive her
friends. as she can assure them that she has
now the best opportunity of furnishing
r.L;o,a HE work in al STYLES at really favor