Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-02-09
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THE BoYs' PRoTEsT.-Some school-boys of
the lower grades, who do net realize thai the
rules are made and enforced for their good,
thus set forth their grievances 1t is entirely
improbable that the boys will be g stopped
from playing marbles. The letter is
given exactly as written mr. RECORD
UNION: We boys of the Intermediates want
to know if they are going to stop us boys
from playing at all, because then it is no use
being boy at all. They first stopped us
flying kites in the city limits then they
stopped us playing ball in the streets. Wei,
that was all right. Now. at our schools they've
started in. First they took away our sling
shots. Well, that was right. But next tie
teachers took our tops away: then they
stopped us playing bali and bat in the school
yards then they stopped us playing pee-wee;
then we had only marbles left, for putty
blowers and such things went along with
sling shots Now a girl has stepped into a
marble hole and broke her leg, and now
some folks want the teachers to stop
marbles, and we will have nothing to play
with except buttons and for them we have to
have holes too. Now we logs think the
teachers ought to stop having boys in school
at all, for one boy was pushed down by an
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the boys arm in play, so there should not be
any boys. We want to know If every thing is
to be stopped because somebody sometimes
gets hurt; for in any play some one may get
hurt. If they take our marbles like they have
kites, balls, tops, slings, blowers, pee-wees,
and other things. won't they give us some
thing in the school-yard TO play with, or else
| say there shau't be any boys in the city at all?
Some of us think it would be better if we lived
out in the country, where they don't stop
boys from playing. ScHooLBoYs."
To Be CoNDENNED.-E. Muir writes COM
planning bitterly, that the Colville Troupe
management permitted a swindle to be per-
petrated on the People at Saturday g matinee
! He charges that numbers of seats were mark
| ed taken which were not, in fact, taken.
| Ladies we're told by the ushers that they
could occupy them on payment of an extra
| fee per seat and ladies who declined to
| submit to the extortion were compelled to
| stand up during the entire performance. The
management of the Colvilles was admittedly
| good here, but the practice of such acts as
charged by Mr.. Muir. in the absence of salts
factory explanation, should bring upon it un-
qualified condemnation. "Seat scalping"
was long since effectually frowned down by
this community and managers cannot afford to
revive it.
DEATH OF an AGED LADY-There died in
this city Saturday, at the advanced age of so
years. Mrs. Mary 4. McGown, native of
E Edinburgh. She was the mother of Mrs. Z.
Perrin, Of this city, and of David McGown,
pioneer and one of the best known of the
| G. z. 4. Il. conductors. The funeral Of Mrs.
McGown will take place from the residence
| Of Airs. Perrin, III and Tenth streets. at 8
o'clock to-day, and the friends OF The de-
ceased and Of her son and daughter are in
vited to pay the last honors TO the dead
lady.
Press BREAKFAsT.-Senator Paul Neu-
mann yesterday gave complimentary break
fast to legislative correspondents of the press
It took place at his residence on Tenth street,
near NJ. The guests sat down to table at u
" and arose at 4:30 P. NJ. There were pres
tent eight or nine Senators, five or six Assem-
| blymen. and correspondents and reporters of
Moe California journals. There was a feast
of reason, flow of wit and wine, generous
hospitality and unbounded sociability.
BICYCLE RIpIxe.-Tc-night at the Pavilion
bicycle exhibition will begin, Miss Lizzie
Baymer undertaking trip of 500 miles.
Miss Susie Wiley and Rhoda Lee will also
walk 600 quarter miles in LOCO quarter
hours. The performance will be under the
management of NJ. B. Dodge. This viii be
the FIRST cy hibition OF bicycle riding ever given
in Sacramento.
PERsoNAI.-George A. Case, Grand Master
L. o. o. F., was in the city Saturday, and
in the evening visited Industrial Lodge,
No. 150 He returned to San Francisco
esserday. Eli L. Blackmer, of San Diego.
| Grand Chancellor of the Order Knights of
| Pythias. has arrived in the city. Judge o.
| q. Pratt and daughter, Of Butte county, went
East yesterday.
Nor FoR GRAAT.--At the theater Satur-
| day night there was taken "straw," when
one of the actors asked, "Who is the peoples
| pet?" aud Man Friday. thumbing over his
dictionary, cried out exultantly, Grant"
| but of al that large audience there came ap-
| plause from only two or three, and the blank
| est kind OF silence followed.
The UNDINEs Tonight at Turner Hall
| the Undine Boat Club gives its tenth annual
invitation party. The simple announcement
| is sufficient TO warrant the prediction that
the party vii, be as completely social sue
cess as its predecessors. The hall is to be
| elegantly decorated for the occasion.
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