Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-10-26
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.

kOOnA- tft Liz AsssS
A FAULTY DIRECTORY. side Of the
main entrance to tie rotunda az the Capitol
a large heavily.framed plate glass sign has
recently been put up. Each one Is several
feet in length. and constitutes directory to
a wing Of the building. These signs or d.
rectory bulletin-boards are understood to
have cost several hundred dollars. The let
terine is il gold leaf, with black ground
work. Each directory is surmognted by an
enlarged design of the Great Seal OF State in
cold leaf and black Such work. to be in
keeping with the surroundings, should be in
the highest style of the sign painters art, but
il is very far from it. Many of the letters
are poorly finished more violate the plainest
rules applicable to their formation; some are
not upright; they are not of uniform size in
lines where they should be Of equal hight;
in many cases letters touch each other that
should not; and, worst OF all, the numbers of
the chambers and rooms which conclude each
line, instead of being directly underneath
each other, as required by good taste, and
from top to bottom in true perpendicular,
form a line that Is irregular, broken, offensive
to the eye, and nearly as crooked as
Petaluma creek. Such a line no
printer would be allowed to set up in a
newspaper Office. In some places the edges of
the letters are uneven, and bits of gold-leaf
are seen beneath that have not been worked
out. The leaf is also of varying shades,
which show joints not permissible in first
class work. The whole work is severely crit.
cised daily by people to whose eyes the defects
noted are Immediately apparent One of the
errors of the work is found in its punctua-
ton, commas being used where periods should
be. Perhaps the most serious defect in the
lettering is in the formation of the Rs and
SIS, the former being uniformly top-heavy and
the latter in most cases having the upper sec
ton thrown out to the right over the perpen-
dicular of the lower section. Sign work ex-
ecuted az is that in the Capitol Directory
frames would hardly be accepted for an or
binary business sign of the street. The gen.
eral judgment expressed is that the painter
should be made to correct his errors.
MERCHANDISE REPoRT.-The following
freight passed Ogden for Sacramento on the
22d: For a. A. Vanwalkenberg, case whip
handles: S. Il. Davis. / box hardware G.
II. Stevens & Co., cage shoes; Continental
Oil Company, car coal oil; Standard Oil
Company, car oil; D. w. Earl, ~ steel
shoes, box and 2 steel dies L. J. Dierssen,
! box personal effects Whittier, Fuller l.
Co, 2 cases Photographic goods; J. Frank
Clark, boxes burial cases; r. E. Gogings,
box drugs, i keg insect powder; Mebius &
Co., 10 packages tobacco, 8 bundles raisins,
40 barrels cranberries A. A. Van VOORHEES,
& Co., 1 box hardware, s bales blankets;
Central Pacific Railroad Company, cask
sinks, l roll wire cloth, l barrel lantern
globes Hale Bros. & Co., box and cases
cotton goods l bale blankets Adams, Nc
NELL & Co., box blank books, box ruled
paper; A. Coolot, 8 boxes cigars; A. Meis-
Ter, 6 bundles wheels, boxes bolts, crases
singletress, 2 bundles shafts Maggie Nc
Laughlin, case bedding, l sewing machine
j. G. Aver & Co., cases almanacs Hunt
ington. Hopkins & Co., 40 boxes horse nails,
2 visas. boxes axes w. A. & G. S. Hough-
ton, 8 cases books; Waterhouse & Lester,
boxes carriage hubs.
DAMAGES CLAIMED.-The trial of the case
of Mrs. Blake vs. a. Coolot, fer injuries re-
ceived by tbs plaintiff on July 5, 1880, from
falling of the awning where she resided at
the corner of Eighth and K streets, was COM
sented by w. A. Cheney, Elwood Bruner
and Matt. L. johnson, and the defendant by
n. Greene Curtis and L. j. Clunie. Suits
for damages in connection with the same
accident, which it will be remembered &C.
Cured as the procession at the Fourth of
July celebration was passing, were some time
since tried in the Justice Court and dismissed.
The present case differs from those, in that
the plaintiff was residing as tenant IN the
house to which the awning was attached.
Mrs. Blake received injuries about the head
and feet from which she is still lame, and
claims damages to the amount of 81 coo. The
trial will be concluded to-day.
COMMERCIAL Governor Dana has ar
&c., ,,.,,a- xr;4b Io-.,o
Jacinto, light. The transportation of wheat
by boat has almost ceased below Knights
Landing. So much has recently been shipped
by river to Vallejo that the river front is
blockaded with it, ia storage for ocean ship
ment. On this account the grain now being
handled IS mostly sent by rail from Knights
Landing to Vallejo, and left in warehouses
upon the railroad further back in town.
POLICE CoURT.-In this Court yesterday
Frank Luken was found guilty of disturbing
the peace and fined $50. Charles Mains, ar
rested for vagrancy, was discharged, as no
complaint was on file. Peter jennings for
feited s., deposited as security for his return
to answer to the charge of being drunk. The
case of John Woods, arrested upon the charge
of illegal voting, was continued until this
morning.
POLICE ARREsTs.-Tim Foley was arrested
yesterday by officer Arlington upon charge
of battery, preferred by his wife John Has
kin, drunk, was arrested by local Martin !;
Wah Fab, battery, by officer Arlington !;
John A. Reeves, battery, by local Martin J;
All How, stealing watch and chain, by officer
Arlington and George Karcher, local.
INCORPORATED. There have been fled
articles of incorporation with the Secretary
of State by the Sherman Mining Company
of California. Principal place of business,
San Francisco. Directors-H. Hopper, j.
3. Croker, Jr., Augustus Waterman, G.
l.. Mccoy aud II. p. Smith capital stock,
$1,000. 600, in TO- 600 shares.
FINAL TRp.-Frank Gleason, convicted of
killing neighbor in Tehama county, by rea-
son of difficulty about some land, and who
was recently sentenced to the State Prison
for the term Of his natural life, was yesterday
taken through to San Qaentin by Sheriff Eos
ter, of Tehama county.
TRADE-MARKs.-Claim for trademark has
been fled with the Secretary of State by the
California Paint Company, Of San Francisco,
for " G. P. Co." upon paint. Also, by J :.
Earle Son, of San Francisco, to the trade
mark g Golden Sheaf for -four.
For REPAIRs.-The barge Jacinto, which
ran aground few days since up the river,
has been brought down light by the steamer
Dana, and will be placed upon tie marine
ways at Washington for repairs.
BARoMErRIc AT the 3 P. NJ. measurement
of temperature of the water in the river yes
terday at the railroad bridge. il was found
TO mark 80 degrees. and the atmosphere at
the same time 81 degrees.
NOTARY PUBLIo.-Alexsnder Mills, Jr.,
has been appointed By the Governor as No
tary Public for Modoc county, to reside at
Lundy.
BIRD SALE.-The auction sale of birds viii
be continued by D. J. Simmons at Az ]
street to-day.
TODAY, we give each customer bottle Of
shoe dressing. j. 7. Grifitts, Receiver OF
Red House Shoe Department.
MES's shirts and drawers, % cents each.
Red House.
MEN's fine neck bows, in black and colored,
three for 10 cents. Red House.