Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-12-21

| THE PRESTON MURDER TRIAL-The trial
of Fred A Preston, says the Yolo Mail of
yesterday, for the murder of Feeney, at
Washington, was resumed in the Superior
/ Court, before Judge Bush, at l o'clock yester-
| day afternoon. The prosecution examined
| four witnesses-the physician who attended
upon the wounded man, two Carberries aad
| r. II. Buckingham, Justice of the Peace of
| Washington township. Some of the most
! important testimony was very conflicting,
one of the eye witnesses testifyin that
| Feeny struck the first blow, and that the two
men were clinched and striking each other
when Preston fred the fatal shot. Another,
! MIR. Carberry, Of San Francisco, who states
that he SAW the shooting from the dining
room of the Preston House, testifes that the
man were four or five feet apart at the time
the shot was fired, aud Feeny was making no
! demonstrations. Quite an interest is taken
in the proceedings, and the seats of the
| Courtroom are pretty well filed. As here
tofore stated, b. A. Hudson, of this city, and
! c. T. Jones. of Sacramento, represent the de-
/ Tense, and District Attorney Craig and Add
| G.. Hiukson III 2 prosecution. Ths jury is com
posed of w. Y Gordon, S. H. Glazjor, !. G.
| Burnett. J. Henry, w. H. Eckles, Henry
! Aronson. Peter Hansen, T. B Wilson,
] James Ruggles, w. w. Gammill, George
! Oliver, Hiram Hubbard.
EASTERN FRUIT TREEs.-Jamss T. Bogue,
proprietor of the Genesee Nurseries, of Bs-
tavis, New York, travelling through Califor-
mia, is at present in this city. He is largely
| engaged in filing orders for fruit seedlings,
mostly pear, plum and cherry, having de.
| Eyered in this State $50. 600 young trees from
! ~ fstv AIr hall hat
! California. with her uniform mild climate,
with her freedom from elemental disorders, is
| fitted by nature to be one great orchard,
where fruit must ever reach its greatest ma
| turity, growing, as it does, u1der circum'
stances the most favorable. While California
peaches are the peers of the genealogical
| kingdom, he thinks our apples are inferior to
those of the Eastern States that our many
! mild months make the fruit coIky or
| spongy, while the biting cold Of the East
makes the apple hard and more compact, and
gives the fruit that tsrtness so pleasant to the
taste, and that solidness so necessary to
| long freight trip. He intends to collect and
send back to New York from this State
number of young trees of the Up. Barry
variety of pears, dseming this fruit TO be of o
superior quality.
THEY ARE GONE Last Sunday the
telegraph operator at Colfsx was bothered by
tramp who persisted in making himself fire.
quent about the office, and turning the Sab
bath qdie. of the electricity mans soul into q
mad maelstrom of fierce Indignation. He
hurled the iuopportune begzar from the
building until he was in lsther OF peTspira-
ton, and to cool off be she'd his coat, vest and
hat, placing those garments on chair near
the open window. While he was telegraph
ing Sabbathschool lesson to the young lady
who works the wire in an adjoining station,
the tramp reached through the window for
the clothing, then he and they faded quite
away. When the electricity man had licked
the end OF the chapter to his gil, he looked
around and discovered the vacant chair. Then
he chartered special and travelled down the
road after his dry goods like a streak of blue
lightning. When he -eturne1 in the evening
he shook his weary head. and between osths
he said, They are gone.
ROUGH ON COUNTY CLERKS j. P. Elan
ninghsm, County Clerk of Storey county,
Nevada, was united in marriage at the Csp;.
tai Hotel in this city yesterday to Miss Lizzie
Costello, also Of Storey county. Mr.. Flsn-
piugham says that County Clerks are not
allowed to get married in the State of Ne.
yada. hence he had to come to California to
get hvmen's knot tied, or else remain single
until the expiration of his term OF Office
The laws of Nevada provide that marriage
license shall be issued by the County Clerk.
and cannot be issued except to persons resid'
ing in the county, ard of course the County
Clerk cannot issue license to himself. Hin.
ellie lacriue.