Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-03-24
BREvITIEs.

New buildings are in course of erection il
almost every part of the city.
Tim Lee ia hunting jIrymen. He has tt
have 100 for next Wednesday.
/ The weather yesterday was mild and
spring-like. Thermometer, ~.
Only one case in the Police Court yester
day. The lone drunken man." fine, s..
The Board of Supervisors was in session
| yesterday but transacted no important bust
ness.
j. Il. Corbin will present the winning dog
in the coursing match next Sunday hand
some silver collar.
Sacramento river is clearer low than it has
| been since 1850. It's hight last evening was
10 feet and inches.
Con Sullivan's dog Grant was ran over and
killed by the Hayes truck yesterday when it
was running to the fire.
The latest report Is that the Hall of
Records will be completed some time during
the present year. Some doubt it.
The streets have become SO dusty during
the past two days that the sprinkling carts
have been brought into requisition.
The Executive Committee of the Tax
payers Protective Association meet at the
Office OF Sweetser & Alsip, on Fourth street,
this evening.
Flags were raised all over the city yestsr-
day when the news was flashed across the
wires that the Chinese bill had passed the
House of Representatives.
A new brass band has been formed by the
consolidation of the Jones l. Beebs's and Mel
vile & Clayton's bands. In the future it will
be known IS the Hussar Band.
The Licensed Dealers Executive Committee
baI har 70 inf lact of
the club rooms of Joe Goddard. They took
! in forty new members yesterday.
The express train from the East was about
an hour late in arriving here yesterday. The
delay was in consequence of q wheel under
the mail car breaking at Blue Canyon.
P. A. Callihan is engaged in circulating a
petition, which is being largely signed by
non-taxpayers, asking the Board of Trustees
to repeal all ordinances for the collection OF
business licenses. What next?
FREE LEC1URE.-Hon. Eli johnson, of
Brooklyn, n. Y, who arrives here this morn
ing from the East, delivers free lecture to.
night at the Congregational Church, on tenn
perance. His subject is "What they drink
and how they make 1.-THE power of the
traffic" Mr.. johnson is spoken of by East
q
as affording his audiences most agreeable
entertainment. He illustrates his lectures
with complications of compounds from
which cheap liquors are made. MIR. johnson
is en- route for Australia.
AUcT1oN.-Sh & Smith will sell at
auction tomorrow, at 1880 a. NJ, at their
salesroom, No. 1913 K street, large lot OF
goods removed to their store for convenience
of sale, in part as follows Walnut chamber
set, cottage chamber set, green rep parlor
set, six double beds and spring mattress s,
two new carpet covered lounges, three tap
estry carpets, two cooking ranges and fxt-
ures, gold-plated watch and chain, twenty five
new albums, and large variety OF other
goods.
SUPERIOR Court JURIsDIcTIoN.-The Su-
preme Court has held in the case Of David
Bixler vs.. The Board of Supervisors of Sac
ramento County, that the Superior Court has
no jurisdiction to review on certiorari the
action of the Board in vscating an order
directing supplemental assessment to be
made in reclamation district, because such
action was ministerial aud not Judicial in its
nature.
AUCTION To DAY.-Bell & Co., auctioneers,
will sell this morning, at 1880 O'Clock, at
salesroom, No DIG ] street. large invoice of
furniture, bedding and housekeeping goods of
all kinds, consisting, in part, as follows: Two
good bed lounges, two bedroom sets, with
clipper-edge spring and top mattresses, and
| feather pillows, two cook stoves, one range,
wardrobes, tables, chairs, center tables, etc.