Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-02-28
BREVITIES.
River 16 feet . inches.

BREVITIES.
River 16 feet inches.
No session of the Police Court was held
yesterday.
The pay.car leaves this city this morning
for Ogden.
When, if ever, will that Hall of Records
be completed?
The slickens case will be resumed in the
Supreme Courtroom this morning at half
past o'clock.
Seventy eight immigrants passed CarIin
yesterday, and will arrive by the overland
train this afternoon.
Governor Perkins has reappointed W. D.
Harris as a Notary Public for Nevada coun.
ty. to reside at Grass Valley.
The Governor has offered a reward of $3.50
for the apprehension of John Lentini, who
murdered Mrs. Troia near Gait on the 22d
instant.
The room next south of the Supreme
Courtroom at the Capitol is being fitted up
as courtroom for Department Two of the
Supreme Court.
The Bosrd of School Examiners will meet
to examine applicants for teachers positions
on Wednesday, the Sth of March. The
place Of meeting has not yet been fixed upon,
but it will be in oneof the city school-houses
A party of thirteen persons from Wheat
land passed through this city yesterday on
their way to Abilene, Texas. They have To-
located seventeen sections of land in that
State, and have gone there TO permanently
reside.
The Capital Gymnasium Club is to meet
at the Capitol this evening to arrange for the
disposal of the funds on hand. Give them to
the Orphans" ye athletes, that they may
/ INV q naI tha
Asylum.
Articles of incorporation have been filed
with the Secretary of State of the Turn Yer.
| Elm Vorwaerts of San francisco. Directors
John Furst, Gustave Liebold, f. G. Kaul-
fuss, Frederick Riehl, M. D.. Nicholas
Schlicht, Georgia.. Reich, M. D., Ludwig
Thenges.
WEATHER acknowledgement Barwick, Of
the Signal Service, reports as follows: The
storm that set in at the morning report yee-
terday at Olympia, reaching Portland and
Roseburg, and giving sprinkle of rain at
Red Bluff yesterday (27thl afternoon, is one
of the heaviest storms Of the season. In
that vicinity the advancing clouds (cirrus)
| could be seen in the north and northeast last
night moving from the northwest, while the
| wind at the surface was southeast. The
storm is having some effect on the
! barometer IS far south as San Diego.
! The barometer began to rise at Olympia
| slightly-an indication that the storms
center is passing near that place, as
also is indicated by those best of storm
Indicators, cirrus clouds, which are always
seen far III advance of the storm, as much as
q thousand land sometimes more) miles in
advance of the storm centers, making them
one of the surest indicators of an approaching
storm, even better at times than the barome.
ter. These clouds coming from the north
west last night shows the storms tendency
IS the southeast, and If that be true it may
yet reach us and give us even half IS much
rain as it did olympia and Portland. Itwould
/ add many dollars to this years wheat crop.
! There being go many natural causes to make
our storms go directly eastward or northwest
ward, that it is an exception rather than the
rule for storms tn move to the southeast on the
/ Pacific slope. The rainfall and melted snow
| for the approaching storm IL for last p hours
as follows, viz Olympia, 3 80 inches Port
land .0S inches Roseburg, .93 Of an inch.
! CASE DEcIDED.-The case of the city of
Sacramento against William Sharp, an action
to recover money paid on Water Works Ger
tifcates by mistake, came up yesterday bafore
Judge Clark in Department One of the Su-
perior Court. City Attorney W. A. Ander-
son end Dan Z. Alexander, in briefs, On
behalf Of the city, took the ground that Sec.
| ton 106 of the Code of Civil Procedure
which in terms limited tina jurisdiction to the
county, must be construed in connection with
Sections S4S and $40 OF the same Code. Judge
Clark reviewed the question and sustained
the position Of Messrs. Anderson and Alex
ander, holding that the service of summons
from Justices Court out of his county gives
him jurisdiction in such cases as this. Judg-
mert was therefore rendered in favor of the
| city. MIR. Anderson argued the case origin
ally before the Court, and Mr.. Alexander
| fled brief in response to an invitation by
the Court for members of the bar to do so.
| It was an important question and one the
Court desired the bar TO express itself upon.
PARDoNED.-March, 1881, VIM Gale, col
! ored, was convicted in the Superior Court of
this county of rape committed upon little
colored girl living in his family He was
sentenced to State Prison for nine years.
| The Governor has now psrdoned him,
The Judge, District Attorney, all the Jurors
and all the Prison Directors recommended his
pardon. 1t appears that the little girl being
recently questioned by the Judge before
whom Gale was tried, and alone and apart
! from her friends, stated that all she had
testified TO against Gale was false, aud that
he did not commit the crime for which be
was convicted. She was the one witness,
have been convicted. The officers of the
Court became convinced that the girl had
sworn falsely and that Gale was innocent,
and hence his pardon.
LATE ARRESTS. Ed. Fellows, arrested for
burglary by officer Frazee, in entering George
Cooper's store, on X street, between Fifth
and Sixth and stealing bacon, chickens and
crabs Albert Simmons, by Lee and Airing
ton, disturbing the peace ; John O'Neal, alias
Buck, vagrant, by Lee, Arlington and
Karcher, local.
CoMMENDABLE.-The group of ladies who
were awarded special prize of $40 by the
Turner'S Society for personating the gypsy
group at the masquerade, have presented
their prize to the Protestant Orphan. Asylum
of this city.
New CHURcH.-Carpeuters and builders
are requested to call on A. A. Cook, the
architect, to figure on the plan for erecting
church ediice on Tenth street, between o
and P, for the German Evangelical Associa-
| ton.
BAsCoM's CORNER has gone up, but the
Red House still continues to offer the bess of
bargains, and keeps to the head, and intends
TO take no back seat and why Because
she buys always from first hands. OF carefully
seeks such bargains as has lately eensaffered
over their counters from the stock OF l..
Bein at quarter of their real value. Such
inducements are eagerly sought, as the crowds
that were leaving there last night could tes-
tifY to. The boot and shoe department is
very complete siuce the late arriS ais from the
East. Boots from 81 to S. shoes from %
cents 80 So. Clothing at greatly reduced rates,
furnishing goods department. Are ceiling
immense bargains No one should lose an
opportunity like the one now offered.
MERRILL BRos. open this morning their
first invoice of Spring Suitings. These goods
are largely from tee celebrated Globe Mills,
embrace all the new patterns, and ara in
every respect the equal of imported goods.
AS inferior fabrics have been sold under the
brand of these manufacturers, they now en-
ploy detective ia San Francisco, with power
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