Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-02-01
BRIEF NOTES.

George Schrotn q 20. shipped yesterday 10
Liverpool, England, 1,290 half sacks of -four.
The steamer Neponset arrived from the
upper Sacramento yesterday with cargo OF
general produce to master.
Al. Hall & Co., Of San Francisco, yester.
dag fled with the Secretary of State their
claim to q trademark for patent roller -four.
Two County Treasurers settled with the
State yesterday. That Of Santa Barbara
paying $40, 222 50 and Shasta s15.657 16.
A decree of divorce was entered in the Su-
perior Court yesterday in favor of the plain
tiff in the case of Martha A. Myers vs.. John
Myers.
A Chinamap, charged with battery, and
Peter Murphy, drunk, were the only two
arrests made by the police up to II o'clock
last night.
TIE officers and members Of Company G
(Sarsfeld Guard and of the Governors Guard
Cadets will assemble at their respective ar.
mories this evening for review.
A paper very rumerously signed by the
business men and others of this city, protes: :
ing against the enactment of any law by
which license shall be required for traders
and other business, will be presented to the
Legislature this week.
The fog of Tuesday deposited in the rain
gauge kept by s. II. Gerrish 006 of an inch
of water that of Wednesday, .004 of an inch,
making the total Of fog and rain for the
month 2.15S inches, and for the season, 9.591
inches. The records of rainfall for other re-
cent seasons to corresponding date. as KEEP!
by Mr.. Gerrish, are as follows: 1889, 6 9sG
inches; 1881, 1906 inches; 1880, 740S
inches; 1879, 5.047 inches; 1878, Il Asa
inches 1877, 6.240 inches 1876. 17.205
inches.
THE WALDEN TRIAL ENDED.-The argu-
ment in the Walden perjury case was brought
to sudden close yesterday morning by the
announcement IN Court that Charles T. Jones,
associate counsel for the prosecution, was
sick and unable to attend. The prosecution
asked for a continuance until noon, but Mr.
Turner. whose argument was but half con-
Guided the day before, offered to submit the
case without any further argument, which
YVES agreed TO by the District Attorney. The
Court then instructed the jury, and they re.
tired. In sixteen minutes they returned, and
the foreman announced they had agreed on a
verdict. Amid breathless silence in the
crowded Courtroom, the Clerk recorded il,
and announced verdict Of not guilty. a
motion wos then mads by defendants coun-
sci to dismiss the other Indictment for perjury
agait S. WALDEN. Judge Mcfarland said that
i5 apr e1ring to the Court that the evidences
a3duced IN the trial just closed Is the same
substantially that would be used and
developed in trial under the other. incict-
ment; that the former casa had consumed
fourteen days in its trial, end was fully tried
thar the sams results would follow, to wit
an acQuittsl of tina defendant; that great in
convenience to the witnesses and an eror.
nous expense 70 the county would follow,
and that il is accordiuPly ordered thst said
indictment be dismissed and the defendant be
discharged from custody. The same order
was made in the case of the People VS.. Oscar
Lyon, indicted for perjury alleged to have
been committed in the same trial. The witness
fees alone 10 the trial Of Walden, for perjury,
which was commenced in September,
amounted to 81 COG 40. without the fees
paid at the preliminary examination. Judge
Mcfarland refused TO allow fees to many
witnesses in the trial just closed, claiming
that they were willing UitnesseT, could afford
to lose the time and the expense incurred,
and that many of them appeared to be in
terestsd in the result. However, the wit
two allowed yesterday, amount to 81 BOG,
which makes q total for the two trials Of
81, 992 40. This does not include the ex-
psnses Of the officers of the Court, or those
Incurred by the Grand Jury 10 finding the
Indictments. The Stanislaus county people
interested in the trial nearly all returned tc
thtir homes on Saturday, and the remaindei
will depart this morning.