Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-11-28
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.

THANKSGIVING FEsTIvAL.-A thanksgiv
ing festival was held last evening by St
Pauls Sunday School in the Episcopal
Church, on Eighth street. The building wa:
well filed at an early hour, and the follow.
iBg programme of exercises rendered: Pro-
cessional, Brightly Cleans Our Banner
opening service; hymn, "Come, Ye Thank.
full People, Come; lesson, Deut. x, II %
and Rom. xii; hymn, :" Ia the Vineyard OF
Our Father" address by the Superintend.
emit anthem, Glory to God in the High.
est presentation of offerings; hymn,
ST God Bless Our Native Lane" closing SER
vice; occasional, Onward, Christian
Soldiers" The church was tastefuIly deco
rated for the occasion. The altar was COW
cred with sheaves of wheat cereals, flowers
and useful articles. The scholars, repre-
senting fifteen classes, were called up in reg
ular order. Each class would deposit its Of
ferings for the poor on the altar, repeat few
scriptural words appropriate to the occasion,
and then pass on, giving room for the next
class. The amount of articles thus left by
children's hands to make light the hearts of
many destitute family on Thanksgiving
Day would easily Fill two market wagons and
beautifully supply fifty families with an ele-
CANT Thanksgiving dinner. Among the Of
feriDgs were noticed boxes Of sugar, losyes Of
bread crates of vegetables, packages of tea,
coffee, turkeys, chickens and all the good fix
iugs requisite for the makeup of good old
fashioned dinner. The little ones evidently
enjoyed being permitted thus ito do good
and to distribute and forget not, for with
such sacrifices God is well pleased"
INSURED LIKE MEXICAN MAN.-It may not
be generally known that life insurance com.
psnies uniformly refuse to take risks upon
Cinnamon, and the reason given is, the diff
Guilty of proving identity to prevent impos!-
ton. If different course were pursued, and
insurance was granted indiscriminately among
the Celeslisls, the mortality among them
(according to the evidence that would be pro-
duced to get cash upon pOlicies) would be so
great that there soon would be no live China
men in the State. An exception to the rule
of exclusion has, however, been granted by
the New Englsnd Mutual Insurance Com
pany, in favor of Fong Soon. well-known
merchant at the corner of Fourth and
streets in this city, and with the inhabitants
of Chinatown arranged into two secretly
armed and belli2erentlY opposing Tartar
bands, liable at any moment to break out into
general not and massacre. FOng Soon is the
luckiest piece OF insured property on record.
SHOULD BE SEVERELY PUNIsHED.-One of
the prettiest lights in Sacramento during the
winter months are the orange trees in the
front yards Of residences, heavily laden with
beautiful golden fruit. The owners of these
trees find a great deal of trouble in pro-
tecting them from the nightly raids of boys
and evilly-disposed persons. As fast as the
fruit begins to ripen and show itself by the
striking contrast of the golden color of the
fruit with the dark-green foliage, making
them plain to be seen by passeIsby, they are
subject to the nocturnal raids above spoken
of. Not satisfied with the stealing Of the
fruit, they often break off large branches of
the treeg, and il come csses entirely running
them. 1t seems pity that the parties
who thus steal fruit and destroy valuable
trees cannot be detected and punished. It ia
species Of the worst kind of vandalism.
DEATH OF Mr.. HAMMER.-About A. N.
yesterday, L. X. Hammer, after protracted
illness, died at his residence on Eleventh and
1 streets. BE was native of Maryland, and
to California, settling in Amador county. In
1854 he removed to this CITY, where he since
resided. He was well known in business cir.
cles, having been the proprietor of music
store on J street for upwards Of a quarter Of
a century. He was a member of the Society
of California Pioneers, Exempt Firemen,
Knights Templars, the Thirty second Degree
of Masonry, and of Sacramento Lodge Of ODD
Fellow He was also a member of the City
Board Of Education until a week ago, when
his resignation was received. Deceased wa;
highly respected, snd a man of family. The
funeral will take place at o'clock Thursday
from his late residence.
TEMPERANCE MEETING.-Capitsl Lodge
No. 81, l. o. C. T., held an "open lodge ,
last evening, which WAS well attended. Quite
number of speakers addressed the audience,
among whom were Superintendent Bishop,
j. d. Moynahan, President of the CalifornIs
Temperance and Benevolent Society, and B
II. Hoag, OF DAvisville. The sentiment was
strong IN favor of the prohibition of the liquor
traffic and the withdrawal of patronage from
those who sanction and uphold it. The liquor
men boycott the temperance people, and re-
tsliation has become necessary. The speakers
also urged the Templars TO consistent action
in voting and working for +. II. l.. Weber
the Prohibition candidate in the Fourth
Ward. Music was plenty, and the whole
meeting very pleasant.
COMEDY Yesterday the Governor par
doned Manuel SAbsza, convicted at the Sep
TENDER term (1SS1l of the Superior Court oil
San Diego of grand larceny, and sentenced
to the State Prison for FIVE years, on the re-
port Of the resident physician st San Quen
tin, that the prisoner is in the last stages Of
consumption. snd on the unanimous recon-
mendation of toe Board of State Prison Di
rectors Also L NJ Lipsks, convicted at the
May term QSS2) of the Superior Court Of
San Francisco Of forgery, and sentenced Il
three years in the San Quentin Prison, on
like recommendation of the physician and Of
the State Prison Directors.
SEsr TO NAPA-The Sheriff will take [,
the Nspa Insane Asylum to-day Kate Swee
ney and Jas. Nethercott. The former, who hs
figured in the Police Court several times, i
an elderly woman and has been addicted 4
drink. a short time since she was sent TO tn
County Jail flr thirty days for Drunkenness
While in prison she was taken quite sick
and was sent to the County Hospital. Meth
ercott ia q man n years Of age, native 0
England and well known in this city, wher
he has resided for the past thirty years. Fo
several years past he has been on the verge @
insanity and is now hopeless'y insane.
POLICE CouRT.-But little business wa
transacted in the Police Court yesterday
John Simpson was convicted on q charge o
drunk, and sentenced TO pay hne OF SlU o
go up to the County Jail for as many days
John Brady pleaded guilty to having bee
drunk when arrested and taken to the station
house, but, it being his first offense, he wa
discharged after having bsen given the usua
JUDICIAL admonitions and promising to sin u
more. The sentence OF Lee Lo and LIE
Tong, two Cinnamon convicted OF csrryin
concealed weapons, was postponed until De
cember lst.
"ToMNI, where are you going tonight
"I am going 10 the Jumbo Saloon, No. l02
Fifth street, to rattle for those corn-fed tuI
keys Try and be there, snd don't yo
forget is"
THERE will be a grand rattle tonight q
Harry Post's, The Tontine.n Everybod
should secare Thanksgiving Turkey.
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