Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-01-27
BREv1TIES.

A car load of -four was shipped from Tn
market last evening TO Los Angeles. AIS
car loads of lumber to Benson and Nlllcol
Arizona.
Nine car loads of steel rails were forwarde
yesterday for the Southern Pacific Railroad
Fifty-eight immigrants from the East wi
arrive by the afternoon overland train to-day
Fourteen car loads of cattle passed throug
yesterday from Halleck to San Francisco.
The river marked % feet 2 inches last even
ing.
| A MORNING BATH.-An individual VIII
gives his name as Dan Murphy, weighing
about 200 pounds, and who, to save tn
trouble and expense of trunks in travelling
was dressed in three shirts and other CORE
spending underclothes, two pairs of pants. |
goodly supply of coats and vests and TIVE
overcoats, had misfortune yesterday morn
ing in getting his whole wardrobe wet. I'll,
had been over in Washington drinking pretty
| heavily during the night, and singing We
won't go home till morning." and returning
a little after o'clock in a pretty bilariou!
condition, managed in some way, when al
most across to this side of the railroad bridge
| to fall over into the river. The water was
| twenty feet deep Or more at the place he
went in, but fortunately. after being taken
| by the current about thirty or forty feet, he
carromed against one OF the piles of the wharf,
which he Immediately embraced and gave
such an alarm for help that he aroused all the
inhabitants of the lower part of the city and
Washington. The bridge-tender, who was
near by and supposed, when he heard him
fall into the river, that the bridge had cap
sizad Immediately went out in skiff and
rescued him. He was then taken to the po-
lice station and placed in warm room in
bed, while his many changes of raimeRt,
which filed the Jail yard, were hung out to
dry. He is reticent as to his place of resi-
dence, and avoids giving much information
about himself, but says he will never drink
another drop of liquor as long as he lives
but this is probably because he thinks he is
never going to get dry again.
PROFESSOR WYTHE's LECTURE.-Profes
J. II. Wythe lectured before the Educa-
tional Institute last evening at the Sixth
street M. Z. Church. The lecture was on the
subject of "Living Matter" wherein he
treated of elementary life principles, and
drew the line between living and non-living
matter. The church was filled to its utmost,
many very young boys being among the
auulIOIS, anu lIlt5e lle leCIuE6T especially
sought to interest, and to lead all
of his hearers to physiological and
miccoscopical studies, giving them glimpses
of the wonders such reading will open up.
The lecture was deeply interesting, but would
have been enjoyed three-fold hal the church
been properly lighted. No audience can be
comfortable in light less than cheerful, and
the economy of gas practiced in the church
last evening cast funereal gloom and half
obscurity over the room that was very try
ing and death to enthusiasm. Iu brightly
lighted room, where the gas-meter is turned
on full head, the drawings on the board by
Professor Wythe would have been seen and
enjoyed by all without injurious visual effort.
MERCHANDISE REPoRT-The following
freight for Sacramento passed Ogden on the
9th instant For D. w. Comstock. car
load furniture, l box iron bolts 3 bundles
hat racks, barrel wire Huntington, Hop
kins & Co., barrel iron rollers, cases door
nails, cases planes, AZ boxes axes handled
255 bars iron, 1S6 bundles of iron, 3 boxes
hardware w. L. Strong & Co., bags grass
seed; Baker & Hamilton, IL boxes printed
paper; n. S. Arnold 100 iron wagon axles,
2 wrought skein boxes; Adams, Mcneil &
Co, 10 cases canned poultry A. Dennery.
10 barrels lamp chimneys r. Stone & Co., l
case names W. A. & C. S. Houghton, 4
cases envelopes L. K. Hammer, box piano
stools Lindley & Co., 400 cases canned corn !;
Billingsley & Co., 60 dozen brooms; j. C.
Aver & Co., box almanacs; Hale Bros. &
Co., box dry goods.
OPIUM SMOKERS. Rider and local
officer Karcher investigated an opium den on
1 street, between Third and Fourth, yester-
day afternoon, and there found John Cham
bers and Tom Shields, two young fellows
about q years of age, who were taken to the
lookup. They have been frequently arrested
for opium smoking. and seem to have 10
other occupation. Upon reaching the jail
they desired to be placed together in the
most comfortable quarters, but they were
treated to separate small dark cells, with a
view of making their frequent returns less
agreeable. They have heretofore been dealt
leniently with by the Court by reason of their
earnest promises to reform.
3 MILITARY acknowledgements Perkins is
to review the several military companies of
the California National Guard located in this
city next Tuesday evening at the Pavilion.
With view of retaining sufficient room in
the hall for the movements OF the companies
during review, the attendance will be limited
to the State officers and members of the
Legislature, to whom invitations have been
issued Seats are to be provided on one side
of the hall for the guests. After the cere-
monies the Governor and staff and military
committees of the Legislature will be enter
tanned by the brigade and regimental officers
at the Langham.
YoLo SPoRTsMEN's CLUE. = The Yolo
county Sportsmen's Club, G. w. Bently,
President, and C. II. Garroutte, Secretary,
has announced its first annual tournament to
be held at Woodland on the 5sh and 9th OF
March, 1881. The tournament is free to the
State. The regulations are !: Fifteen single
birds, at twenty-one yards rise, Cosmopolitan
| Club rules to govern. The entrance is SIS,
! to be made on or before March LIST. Twelve
prizes are offered, ranging from 500 to S15
each. Many members of the Forester Club
and also from Folsom, have announced their
intention to be present at the shoot.
MURDER AT FIDDLETowN.-Pete Eraw, q
this city, who has grocery at Fiddletown,
Amador county, received dispatch yesttr
day morning that Mr. Ketchental, who hac
charge of it, was murdered at that placs
night before last. No particulars were given
and as the location is some distance from any
telegraph station, no further Information ha!
yet been received, Mr.. and Mrs. Eraw
upon receipt of the dispatch, Immediately
left for Fiddletown, from whom the facts vii
soon be learned Mr.. Ketchental was a ma
tive of Germany, q bachelor, and about 6C
years OF age.
Communicative last report the steame
Neponset departed for the upper Sacramento
The Ceres passed up with barge Rosalind
loaded with lumber. The Varuua CAM
down with barge of grain. The Governc
Dana departed for Jacinto with merchandise
and towing barge Jacinto as far as Fremont
| The G. Nj. Small passed down from Marys
vile for San Francisco with produce. Tn
schooner D. G. Haskin arrived from Sal
Francisco with lumber to Friend s. TER,
Lumber Company.
LECTURE UPoN ASTRONOMY. = Professo
Proctor, the eminent astronomer, now e.
route from Australia to his home in the East
has by special invitation of citizens here cor
sented, by a telegram received last evening
to deliver lecture in this city on the ever
ing of the Sd of February. The lecture wi
be under the auspices of the Sacrament
Literary Institute.
| PERSONAL ohm F. Swift was in the cit
yesterday. Mr.. and Mrs. Swift will leav
for Washington next Saturday. r. N
Briggs, Superior Judge. and B. II. Mile
County Clerk, of Mono county, were in til
CITY Yesterday, en- route for San FRANCHISES
Judge Belcher and Mr.. Binney of Marysvil
passed through to San Francisco yesterday