Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-08-03
BRIEF NOTES.


Several carloads of fruit are shipped daily
| from this city to the Eastern States and Ter.
tories.
There will be no session of the Superior
Court until the first Monday in September.
The Court and ba- will have a months Vaca.
ton.
Company B, of the First Artillery Regi.
ment, will hold an election at Armory Hall
on Thursday evening, August OH. for the
purpose of eleeting a senior Second-Lieu-
tsnant.
After fighting one another for three years,
the ice companies have come to an under
standing, and have raised the price from
three-qusrters of cant to cent and half
pound.
Judge Mcfarland was engaged all day yes.
terdsy in Department. Two Of the Superior
Court in hearing the settlement Of the &C.
count of L. n. Billings, ex administrator Of
the estate of the late E. L. Billings.
There will be special meeting of the
Board of Education this evening, TO hear the
report OF the committee to which was referred
the question of building an addition Of two
rooms to the Sixteenth and N street school,
Manager Besrdslee discharged two of the
operatives from the Western Union Office
! Yesterday. They were of the number who
came from Sacramento TO supply the places
vscated by the strikers They could not do
the work.
An enterprisiRg but dishonest wood "ped-
der" mss been doing thriving business in
upper town. he imposes upon transporting
| housewives by selling them hickory wood "
for IS per cord. sThe same cottonwood can
be bought in any of the yards for 81 80.
/ Two Of the cars on the late Woodland train
on Wednesday evening ran off the track at
the Y switch as Davisville. a locomotive
the cars back upon the track. This train was
delayed couple of hours. No damage done.
Yesterday an rgan.grinder appeared on
tambourine girl. Some complain of him as
being a nuisance, others seem to appreciate
his music and say it is much preferable TO
the local harmonicon, ACCORDION, and singing
dude.
Tie barge Staten Island, formerly used
with the United States snsg boat Seller, will
be cold by auction next Thursday at noon, by
Sherhurn 4 Smith, at their place of business.
| No. 1923 K street. The barge was recently
brought down from the upper Sacramento
and now lies at the foot of i street.
Frank Steinmier purchased the old frame
building on the corner Of Tenth and K
streets, formerly occupied by the Grangers'
| Business Association, and yesterday the hslf
Of it was put on trucks and started for Q
street. Some of the brick and mortar for the
new building is on the ground. and the Gran
gers Association expect TO occupy their new
quarters in sixty days.
The counsel in ths Troai case-N. Greene
Curtis, H L Buckley and s. Scion HolI-
viii appear before the Supreme Court in San
FraBcisco to-day. and make application for .
writ of habeas corpus in Trosi's case. The
committing magistrate refused the prisoner
bail and counsel contend that inssmuch as
the Grand Jury has indicted another for the
crime, ind unless proof of guilt is evident,
the prisoner must be admitted to bail.
The Postmaster. General advises the public,
that in sending their newspapers. books,
pamphlets and other articles by mail to for.
| eign countries or to points within the United
States, thu address should always bs placed
on the articles enclosed, as well as on the
wrappers, so that should the wrappers become
detached. through friction and movement in
cident to mail transportation, il will be PCS
sible to deliver the articles.