Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-01-31
rHE DAfLT RECORD UNION.
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.
TIE WEATHER.

TIE WEATHER.
James 3. Barwick, Sergeant Signal Corps,
U. S. A, furnishes the following regarding
the weather: The night of the 20 h and SOth
1 put my extra minimum Thermometer upon
the tin roof of the signal building, to see
what the difference was between the tempera-
ture of the air during the night and the tenn
neratnre of the tin roof. The lowest reached
by my minimum thermometer in the instru-
ment shelter was 32'; the lowest point the
one on the roof reached was 49, or 14' below
the freezing point. The thermometer was
covered so thick with frost that at s o'clock
A. N. 1 had to scratch it off with my finger
nail to be able to record the reading. The
following is the temperature observed during
the day by thermometer on the roof in the
sun and the thermometer in the instrument
shelter in the shade: 8 A NJ, in the shade,
&c. a. NJ, on the roof (the Thermometer in
the shade and the whole of it covered with
frost). 29'; II NJ, in the shade, Az; II NJ, on
the roof FIN the sum. 703; 2 P ", in the
shade, so P. NJ, in the sun, So; P. n,
in the shade, 55'; P. NJ, in the SUP, IA
e. & y Ia 'ns Sna'S' o = NJ ID 'A' SUD-
It will be seen that the highest temper
ature in the sua was, at 2 P. NJ, SO, while
the highest in the shade did not occur until 5
P. NJ, 55'. The reason for this is explained
by Professor Loomis as follows: The high
est temperature Of the day should occur
when the amount of heat lost each instant
by radiation is Just equal TO the heat received
from the sun. Before midday the earth re-
eeives from the sun more heat than it loses
by radiation, and its temperature rises.
After noon the earth receives each instant
from the sun less heat than it did at noon,
but the heat received is still greater than
that which il lost by radiation; hence the
maximum takes place some time after noon.
During the night we receive no direct heat
from the sun, and the earth cools by radia-
ton. The lowest temperature should occur
when the heat received each instant from the
returning sun is just equal to the loss by
radiation. This occurs about an hour before
SUNRISE"
1t will be seen by my observations that the
heat of the sun began to decline, while the
heat in the shade was increasing and in
creased 90 in an hour, while the suns heat
was decreasing and had decreased s. during
the hour showing, as Professor L)omis says,
that the heat Of the direct rays OF the sun de-
crease after noon, while the temperature OF
the earth increases and as the air resting on
the earth is heated both by the direct rays OF
the sun and by the heat radiant from the
earth, it is very plain to be seen that Their
mometer in the shade would rise for some time
after thermometer in the sun had begun TO
fall. 1t would be very interesting expert
ment to place o Thermometer on the grass and
have others above that, at different lengths,
to show the difference in the temperature dur
ing the night. The experiment would be very
much mora interesting il it was taken during
a long spell Of northefly winds, and then dur
ing the prevalence of the southerly winds;
and still more interesting data could be OBJ
tanned by having two Thermometers near each
other at each elevation, one kept dry and the
other wet, thereby ascsrtaining the dew poius
and relative humidity at each elevation dur
ing the night
POLICE CoURr.-Two brothers. John and
Dan Lynch, diminutive in size and aged re-
spectively IA and IL years, entered plea
of not guilty to charge of disturb
ing the peace. The testimony brought
to light an old feud existing between the
father Of the boys and the complaining WIT
ness. a next door neighbor. the witnesses
for the prosecution laid so much stress upon
the trespass of some cows and goats. mixed
up in the case, that the boys were almost lost
sight of and the Court pronounced them not
guilty of anything except seeming negH-
oence in allowing the animals to browse on
the premises of complainant. They were
therefore discharged after receiving lew
words of wholesome advice Inc cases OF
Robert Brooks and Eugene Watson, accused
of malicious mischief were continued till
Wednesday. The mischief complained of in
these cases is vandalism in removing gates,
defacing and injuIing property, etc, matter
to which the attention of the police depart
ment has been frequently called in these col
umns, a matter in which the entire commun-
ity is interested, and one that demands and
will no doubt receive searching and thor
ough investigation The case of All Flung
Toy, defaulting creditor, was continued till
Tuesday.
MERCHANDISE REPORT. = The following
freight passed Ogden for Sacramento on the
9th: Huntington, Hopkins & Co., l car
nails, car iron pipe; Ball, Luhrs d Co., %
barrels hams Ames, Earle & Co.. L car
stoves w. r. McRae, II bundles paper; n.
S. Arnold 4 Co., case carriage axles; ID.
Fisher. 2 boxes candy. The following freight
passed Ogden for Sacramento on the 18th:
Continental Oil Company, car coal oil;
Huntington, Hopkins & Co., car nails, l
car steel car galvanized roofing iron. The
following freight will arrive by the Atchison,
Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad: Whittier,
Fuller l. Co, l barrel paint; John Breuner
4 boxes chair stuff Huntington, Hopkins
Co., boxes horse nails.
THE SUMMERS CAsE.-Mrs. Annie Sum
mers, wife of Thomas Summers, referring to
an item concerning Summers, and which ap-
peared in the RECORD UNION Of yesterday,
denies enphatically that some OF the state
ments made concerning her husband are true
She saws: ''As the wife of said Thomas
Summers, know ne is not wanted IN Oregon
on any charge for threats against life, or tor
forgery / have been with him all the time
for four months last past, and know there IS
no such charge against him, nor was the
prison bars sawed off by him in the Oregon
iail.n Mrs Summers evidently IS not ac-
quainted with all the particulars 10 the case.
The records show the fscls to be substantially
as first stated.
PAINFUL WouND.-While Robbie Fay was
hunting on the Whitcomb ranch on Sunday
last he met with serious and painful acct
dent. He and Others were riding along in a
wagon, when Fay reached back to get his
rife, which was in the bottom of the wagon.
In drawing the gun towards him muzZle first,
il was discharged The ball entered the
fieshy part of his right hand, blowing deep
furrow: then it glanced along the arm, in
fictiug q slight flesh wound.
AUCTION SALE Bell & Co. auctionsers.
will sell this morning at IL o'clock, at sales
room No. GIG J street, between Ninth and
Tenth. one good open buggy, Sacramento
make. Also, at same time and place, large
lot of walnut furniture, bedding, erockery,
glass. wooden aud tin~are. Sale positive.
In Che future the furniture and other sales of
this firm will be held in their capacious sales
room, into which they recently moved.
INcoRpoRArED.-There has been fled with
the Secretary of State the certificate of in-
corporation of the Inyoreka Mining Compa-
nv. Of Inyo county. Placa of business, San
Francisco. Trustees-H. L. Graves, f. B.
Wilde, j w. Schsefer, Charles z. Chesley
and VIM. D. Johnston. Capital stock, Sl0.-
600, 000 in ice, 000 shares OF slO0 each.
New ESeLASD DINNER. = The coffee
house of the Woman's Christian Temperance
Union, at No. 300 ] street, viii be opened
with New England dinner tomorrow at IL
A. NJ, and continue till 2 P. NJ.
ApPoIkTED.- Governor has appointed
as Notaries Public, N w. Scudder, of Peta-
lima q w. Cross. OF Nevada City: G. I.