Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-08-06
BRIEF NOTES.

a SuoSs AnaiP 10 w 10 pun az 1Wcuteti
and 0 streets.
Ariel Lathrop came up from the Bay
yesterday morning, and returned in the a.
ternoeD.
Somebody has discovered that there are 12s
women aud girls employed in dressmakina
establishments in Sacramento.
To-day the canvass of the city will be com.
neneed to obtain Signatures TO petition to
Congress to establish postal telegraph.
Viola R., running mare. the property Of
Mr.. Sweeney, of Eureka, Nevada, made re
markabls fast time at Agricultural Park yes
terday.
According to the way the telegraphic
weather report was received By Sergeant Bar
wick Saturday night, it was showing at San
Diego.
c. Fl. Cummings and wife, j. C. Tubbg,
Judge Swift, Joseph Hahn, w. A. Briggs
and E. Lyon came up from the Bay last
evening.
The annual meeting of the Sacramento
County District Lodge OF Good Templars
will take place in Gait one week from to-
morrow.
Arthur Brown and J. Strowbridge came
down from Redding yesterday ia the special
car Sacramento. They left for San Francisco
in the afternoon.
Governor Stoneman has appointed Mat f.
johnson, of Sacramento. to the position of
Trustee of the State Library, TO fill the va
csDcy caused by the death of w. W. Crane.
John Speaker, of Lincoln, died yesterday
at the Western Hotel. He was native of
Pennsylvania, aged So years. His remains
will be sent to Lincoln to-day for intermsnt.
Thomas Fowler, q leading citizen Of Gait,
dropped dead Saturday morning while feed
ing his horse. He was buried yesterday,
under the auspices of the Odd Fellows and
Chosen Friends.
While on his way from Mormon Island to
Folsom on Tuesday, VIM. Guy was stopped
by kighwaymen and robbed of S51 90 all the
money he had with him. The robbers made
good their escape.
The temporary bridge across the Trucllee
river, where the one was burned few days
since, has been completed. and trains are sgain
running on time. The west-bound overland
was two hours late yesterday.
It is requested that the statement BIS made
concerning what has been published, that
Miss May Cummings has not received a di-
pioma from Sacramento Seminary, and is not
a graduate from that institution.
In the preamble TO resolution offered in
ths Board Of Health. through Topographic
GAL-HEE tLD NOLU AGutf&tlay GDH6AI6u
stead of mortality The same error has
appeared twics in public print since.
The grounds around the Protestant Orphsn
Asylum have been cleaned up and put in ex.
cellen5 condition, the 0uthouses oveEhauled
and repaired, and the fences neatly white
washed. The chaia-gang did the work.
The case of L. G. Chandler, charged with
violating the health ordinance, viii be heard
before jury in the Police Court this morn
ing The people will be represented by
Judge S. @. Dsnson and the City Attorney.
a match gsme of baseball was played az
Agricultural Park yesterday between the
Woonsockets, of San Francisco, and the
Eurekas, of this city. The Sacramento club
did some excellent playing, and won By a
score OF TO 4.
A Chinese thief broke into the residence of
W. B. jackson yesterday afternoon, on the
alley between X aud l., Ninth and Tenth,
sud stole from a bureau drawer So 30 in
coin. Mr.. Jackson caught the thief in Chi
natown and took him to the lock up.
Webster's Dictionary, in the supplement
in It's latest edition, gives the word "tele-
grapher," while Worcester's Dictionary sticks
to telegrsphist." The words are pronounced
with the seceRb on the second syllable, te-leg-
rs.phsr Tor phisf), and not tel-e-grapher, OF
Norton Bush, Superintendent Of the Art
Department OF the State Fair, returned from
San Francisco last evening. lie states that
he visited the various art galleries at the Bay,
and finds that the Art Department Of the
State Fair will be complete success,
Eminent CommandagsLyon cams up from
the Bay last evening. He says that Ixora
Hall has bsen secured for Sacramento Com
mandeTy Knigats TennplaTs during the Con-
clave. Ixora Hall is on Mission street, be-
tween Third and Fourth streets, opposite the
Grand Opera House. +
Saturday Governor StoneSan pardoned
VIM. H. Dunning. who was s5nt from MARI
posa county last February 60 serve ten years
for murder in the second degree. The Board
Of State Prison Directors recommended the
pardon, owing TO evidence showing the muir
der to have been committed in self-defeuse.
A subscriber asks: Having read an
article in your paper, q few weeks ago, con-
corning modern Spiritualism, by DR.. n. B.
Wolfe, of Ohio. temptsSne TO inquire why
this esntiemsn (being one of the founders of
modern Spiritualism) does not favor US with
some more of his views ca the subjsca?"
Answer: DR.. Wolfe has recently republished
former extended work OF hia, entitled,
" Startling Facts" which is devoted so this
subjsct His address, ia Cincinnati, Ohio.
I. S. Brown, Wills fishing near the mouth
Of the American river, managed 60 run
large hook into the back of his hand beyond
the barb. He cut the line snd came over 20
J strset, and stepped at L. @. CbsndleF's Of.
fics. A surgeon was called, and after an ex-
animation Of the wouud pair Of wire cutters
were sent for, and the ganging of ths hook
cut eff. 4 small incision was nsds IL the
hand just over the poiat Of the hook, and tho
hook then drawn out barb cad FIRST
Mail advices from the East up to date Of
July 30sh, snd received in this city by the
striking operators, represent the situation
upon the whole as very favorable 20 the oute.
They sre still firmly united, enthusiastic, and
but few deser;ions are reported, notwith-
standing the heavy premium paid by the
Western Union TO effect such results. At
Baltimore 4he eompany's officials have gone
so far, as ssy the correspondents, TO visit the
wives of striking operators, and endeavored
to so work upon their fears IS to iadues them
TO urge their husbands to return TO work, but
Is proved TO be without success.