Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-11-30
THANKSGIVING DAY.


This is the day set apart by the proclsma.
tons of the President of the United States
and the Governor Of California IS day of
Thanksgiving. In Sacramento there will be
general suspension of business. The banks
will be closed, and the Courts and schools
will not be open. There will be special
Thanksgiving services at Calvary Baptist
Church at 7:30 P. NJ. The usual Union
Thanksgiving services will be held at 10:45
A. NJ. a. the Westminster Presbyterian
Church, Sixth street, corner Of l.. The pas
tors Of the various city churches
will conduct the services, and Rev.
q. McKelvey, pastor Of Kingsley Chapel,
viii preach the sermon. The POstothce will
be open from 9 to 10 A. NJ. and from ! to 2
P. NJ. There will BIS no delivery of mail mat
ter by carriers except from the offce st those
hours. Wells. Fargo & Co.'S express Office
will open at II noon for thirty minutes for
the delivery If letters. During the day the
Sacramento Valley Coursing Club will en-
gage in sport with hares and hounds az Whit
combs ranch, on the lower Stockton road.
The dogs drawn have already been announced
IN ths RECORD UNION. The matches EN-.
brace some of the swiftest hounds in the
State. There will be dramatic performances
at the theater by the Milton Mobiles
company at 2 and at SP. NJ In the evening
at Armory Hall there will be had Thanks
giving festival and ball for the benefit of s..
Roses Church.
= At Agricultural Park, beginning at 8 A. NJ.
the Forester Gun Club will hold wing
shooting-m match. There will be ten birds al.
lowed each contestant, and the rise will be
the usual twenty one yards The club medal
will slso be shot for at rise Of twenty-six
yards.
Large numbers Of people came up on the
overland ira n last evening to spend Thanks.
giving day with friends in Sacramento the
train was. in fec, loaded down with passen.
gers, and 10 consequence was so heavy that
it lost forty minutes time between San Fran
cisco and Sacramento.
THE WEATHER.-There have been several
light fogs in the mornings of this week.
These fogs have been a great protection to
plant growth, and in that respect have been
of immense value to farmers and gardeners
for clear sky would have resulted in yery
heavy frosts. There has been deposited in
the rain gauge kept by S. Il. Gerrish .0O7 of
an inch. Tae iec0rd kept BIZ the ssme iadi-
vidual places the rainfall for the month at
33l5 inches; for the season, 6.152 inches,
The rainfall for 1881 to corresponding date
was l 1886 inches; for 1880 .075 of an iLch
for 1879, 2166 inches; for 1873, l. 220 inches
1877, L.Sl0 inches; 1876. $3.50 inches; 1873,
6 646 inches. a slight sprinkling of rain fell
early last evening, and a. midnight the
heavens were threatening.
Nor ARREsTED.-The statement has been
published that NJ. P. sprague, L. Hildebrand
and P. MEG. Newcastle were arrested at
Isleton last week for robbery of Wells, Fargo &
Co.'s box. Newcastle yesterday made explicit
denial of the story. so far as he was concerned.
as he was not in Isleton st the time, Both
The others now send word that the statement
has no foundation in il, 50 far as they are
concerned Evidently some one has been
tritiing with serious matter, in thus imput-
ing criminal acts to ciiizsus who are able to
establish the grourdles9ness of the CHARGE.
METROPOLITAN THEATER Milton Mobiles,
with complete dramatic company, will open
at the Metropolitan Theater this afternoon,
The play is an American comedy.drams.
written by Mr.. Mobiles himself and entitled
Interviews" In the evening will be pre-
seuted The Phe1ix," by tie same author.
The company will occupy the thester until
Saturday evening, and including matinee
Saturday. The box office will be open this
forenoon, when seats can be secured without
extra charge.
FREIGHT TO ARRIVE The following freight
for Sacramento passed Ogden on the &c h
instant: For Continental Oil Company, 900
cases oil; ]. c. Ayers & Co., cases alma.
macs Holman, Stanton & Co., 200 reels barb
wire; Z. G. Parsons, l bundle wrapping
paper; ball, Luhrs & Co.. 40 cases syrup +;
Huntingdon, hopkins & Co., cases files
Kirk. Geary & Co., cases drugs; Lindley &
Co., 10 package tobacco; Hale Bros. & Co,
case dry goods, ? boxes boots and shoes
William Boleib box and chest household
goods