Sacramento daily record-union., 1882-12-18
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.


effect Immediately. In his letter of resigna.
tion he says: 81 entered upon the discharge
Of the duties devolving upon the Office with a
firm resolve TO make our prisons reformatcry
in their character. and, if possible to make
them sslf-sgpporting and have great satis.
faction in noticing the marked progress which
las been made in these directions during the
past fourteen months. During that period
there has been put into successful operation
Tor account of the State at San Oleptin
Prison {: The jute mandatory, the chair
factory, IN addition to the other industries
heretofore carried on By the contractors with
convict labor for their private account. viz
the manufacture of furniture, sash. doors and
blinds, tubs and pals, tanning and harness.
the foundry and other Industries, avoiding as
far as possible those channels which would
autagonizs or compete with free labor. so
that hereafter the labor of the convicts will
be utilized 70: the benefit of the State. The
provisions OF the Constitution prohibiting
after January l, 1882, the Prison Directors
from contracting the labor of the convicts, has
materially increased and imposed additional
duties upon the Office, so that find it re-
qalre5 mora OF my time than l can afford to
donate TO the State"
FREIGHT TO ARRIVE. - The following
freight for Sacramento passed Ogden on the
18Th instant For Billings & &C., 3 dozen
:rsys; Huntington, Hopkins & Co., case
brass, l bundle pipe tongs, box machinery,
l box pplleys, % plates steal, 1S3 bundles
sheet iron, 10 bundles, IA packages wrapping
paper, l box tool chests, l box hatchets. s
boxes hardware, l box augers, l box and |
crate traps, boxes sledges, bale rubber
springs James G.. Davis, boxes chairs. 7
bags hair ; q. b. Corwin, l case cigars: ]
keber, barrll whisky; Liudley &; Co., 60
boxes canned clans; l.. Eikus & Co., 10 bales
comforters g. 2. r. R.. 3 cases and barrel
iron pips fittings, crate and l case sinks !;
boots and sho5s; Mebius & Co., boxes bak.
ing soda; II. s. Crocker & Co., los bundles
newspaper; Pike & Young, "a bundles car.
risge springs; Xix, Geary & Co., 3 boxes
ginger, boxes drugs Hail. Luhrs & Co., %
barrels hams; Adams, McNeill & Co., 10
barrels currants; A. Dsnpery & Co, barrels
glassware; Sc9feid & Tsvis, l keg paint ::
Joseph Hahn i Co., 10 cases rubber boxes. .
boxes brushes: G. Heinrich. l box sausage !:
Standard Oh Company. 279 ksgs white lead |;
y. w. Hotfan, l box clothing a. A. Van
VOORHEES, Co.. box saddlery hardware, 4
boxes names.
The WOODRUFF DEBRIs CAsE.-The Board
of City Trustees will lass a resolution at
their meeting this morning requesting citi
zsDs OF Sacramento city to go to San Fran.
cisco and attend the Woodruff debris case,
now on trial in the United States Circuit
Court. Also, that the members of the Board
will attend themselves. There were about
seve-c cSre preventative men present last week
from SacrsSrsnto, Yolo, Sutter, Butte Yuba.
San Joaquin and Tehama counties. A large
number or representative mining men were
also present. The miners are represented by
Wilson & Wilson, W. C. Belcher and Byrne,
of San Francisco, and the farmers by T. s,
Belohsr, of Marysville; Cadwalader, of Sac.
ramento, and Pomroy, of San Francisco.
The case has Seen ON trial for the past six
days, and much testimony has been intro
duced by both sides. It will probably take
until Friday of this week TO con plete the
trial Ponroy, for plaintiff. has already
made the law argument, and Wilson, for de-
fendant, begsn the law argument on Friday,
and will probably conclude to-day. This will
be followed by l. S. Belcher for plaintiff, and
w. G. Belcher aud Byrce fer defendant
The closing argument viii be by Cadwal-
ader,
THE WEATHER.-Of the reports received
at the Signal Szrvics Station last night Ser
geans Barviek says: "The barometer is
falling along the Pacific coEss from Rcseburg
to San Diego. it being for the frat time in
several weeks below so inches, ranging froro
% rs at Olympia to % SO Mt VisaliA The
wind Is as yet Is P NJ still in the west and
northwest, except at Portland, where it is
south, and southeast at Sacramento and San
Diego with cloudy and threatening weather
all along the coast except at Visalia and Los
Angeles, where the weather is clear, with
westerly wild" He also says that the pre-.
cpitation from the fog, which lasted from 6
NJ Sat- V To 4 A NJ terIa
of an inch, making total for the month of
Is of an inch, and for the season 60 incSes,
which is 10 inches in excess of the average
for the past six years.
LAND AUCTION To DAY-E,ston & Ell.
drige, real estate auctioneers, will sell to.
morrow, at their salesroom, No. % Mont
gomery stree, San Francisco, by catalogue,
lots for homestead purposes and property for
investment, also a piece of improved fruit
land. The latter mentioned property is To-
Gated near Winters station, Vaca Valley.
and is the south portion of the Briggs Bros
vineyard and contains eighty acres 1t lies
along the banks of Putah creek, and the i'm.
provements are as follows: Forty-six acres
in raisin-grsp vines, three years old thirty
acres of Bartlett pear trees; and about four
acres OF peach trees, seven years old.
Police CoURT-The following business was
transacted 10 the Police Court on Saturday: !:
Jose Dolores, drunk, pleaded guilty. fined
S.; George Dresser, grand larceny, continued
to December 22i; E. Hammond, maintain
ing public nuisance, continued to December
22i; Mrs Mary Farr, disturbing the peace.
found guilty. sentenced to pay a fue of $40
or be confined forty days in the County Jail !;
John Mathews, smoking opium, found guilty,
ten days in the City Prison A. Boynton,
same as preceding Ah Kee, keeping an
opium den. found guilty, fined SO.
CoMMERcIAb-Since las. report river
steamers have arrived at this place IS follows:
San Joaquin Ne. 2, from San Francisco, with
general merchandise and barge of freight;
Varuna, from upper Sacramento, with barge
of grain. Departed-San Joaquin No. z,
with barge of grsin to order; Varuns, with
barge of freight for upper Sacramento.
CRY REoEIPTs.-The following are the re-
ceiLts of tie city treasury for the week end
ing Saturday, December 16ih: S. r. Cald-
well, Cemetery dues, Sl6S 70 X. d. SERVER,
water rates, S724; n. a. kidder, harbor
dues, So so; w. A. Henry, Police Court
fines, 81 so; George A. Putnam, city licenses.
S252. Total, 81. 157 75.
AUCTION To.MoRBow.-Bell & Co., auc-
tioneers, will sell tomorrow at their sales.
room, on J street, near Tenth, large lot OF
furniture and housekeeping goods CT all
kiuds both new and secondhand. Tne sale
of jswelry, gold and silver watches, etc.,
will continue this evening, commencing at
7:30 o'clock.
AN OPPORTUNITY THAT SHOULD Nor BE
LosT.-Tbis will be an important week at
the Blue House. In order to close out some
lines and reduce stock preparatory to annual
stock. taking, they have gone over their en-
tire stock and made sweeping reductions on
almost all goo6s. Many kinds Cf shoes and
furnishing goods have been reduced TO cost.
Don's delay.
DoN'r PRoCRA AsTINAIE.-You viii save
moucS and obtain the choicest presents by
buyih once. Remember, goods never s:sy.
on thesselves long st Hale Bros, Ninth aud
K streets.
BEAUTIFULLY chased triple plated casters
only IS, So %, So 80 ard 81. at Aekerman's
-closing-out sale, 629 j street.