Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-08-02
BRIEF NOTES.

There is en- undslivered telegram at the
Western Union office for George X. briggs.
Mayor Brown wss called TO Monterey yes.
tsTday By telegram announcing the illness
of Mrs. Brown.
Governor Stoneman has commissioned S.
W. Boring, of 81 Paso, Tex, Uomuis.
sioner of Deeds for California.
Capssin Mat Caravans stable Of thorough
bre1s have arrived from Virginia City and
| are stabbed at Agricultural Park.
Arthur Brown of the Central Pacific Rail.
road Company came up from the Bay yester-
day 10 the special CIR Sacramento.
The hours Of labor in tie car department
of tie railroad shops was cut down yesterday
from ten hours to nine. Several Of the
laborers quit in consequence.
Tuesday evening 5.year-old daughter OF
Jacob Hoehn was run over by an express
wagon near the corner of K and Tenth
streets, and severely injured.
An Informal musicale was given by Mrs.
Pinkbam at her residence, on Eighth street,
Tuesday evening, at which programme in
Guiding parts By each of her pupils was rem
derad.
The hearing of the account of l.. N. Bill
liogs, ex-administrator of the estate of E. l..
Billings, occupied the attention of Judge
Mcfarland yesterday il Department Two of
the Superior Court.
Dispatches from Portland, Or, this morn
ing give tbs particulars of shooting affray,
in which VIM. Acock killed James Mercy.
Aeock is we'll known ia Sacramento, having
bean brought up in this city.
A postal car will in a few days be put on
the early morning train tor San Francisco.
As soon as thet is done mail will be dis
trihuted sI0ug the route the sams as it is
done or all other regular mail trains.
Yesterday afternoon, according 20 Signal
Service reports, there was IA OF an inch of
rain st Portland, and .03 at Roseburg, which
is an evidence of the close Of the drought or
dry season in Oregon, which may prove to
bring Us rain earlier than usual.
Wm. Williams, who was convicted Of steal.
ing cattle from Marion Biggs, Jr., and was
tAe principal witness fer the prosecution in
the recen5 Miner Walden perjury trial. was
pardoned some time ago by Governor Stone
mpu. The matter was kept from the public
st the time. Williams had beel in the County
Jail nearly two years.
Yesterday Health Officer Ferral served q
notice on Mrs. w ii. Hobby, Secretary of
the Protestant Orphan Asylum, requiring
that the nuisance in the shaps of an over
flowing cesspool must be abated. The mat.
ter will be temporarily remedisd, and in the
near future an attempt will be made to have
a sewer constructed from the nearest street
sewer to the building.
Governor SLOVENIAN yesterday spsrdoGed
from the San Francisco City Prison Nelsis
Brown. who was serving thirty days SEN
tence for being visitor to an opium den.
Among others who asked for her release was
the Police Judge who sentenced her. The
young lady is well connected in San Fran
cisco, and her friends sre going to endeavor
10 have her lead reputable life.
There is some defect in the mail facilities
between this city and San Jose, Santa Cruz,
Monterey, etc., which should be corrected.
Frequent complaint is made that the
RECORD. UNION, mailed here early in the
morning, does not reach the places named un
til the next day. There certainly is no ex-
cuse for this under the present tine sea edule
of the mails. provided proper transfers sre
made st Niles and other points.