Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-04-09
BRIEF NOTES.

night.
Street Commissioner Nielsen has fore
of men engaged in repairing the streets.
The Bric-a-Brac Club is called 10 NEE
tonight AT its art rooms on important bust
ness.
The Sacramento river during the pas
three days has been standing at 10 feet
inches.
VIM. Rudolph, of San Francisco, has flee
with the Secretary of State q trademark o
olive oil.
The City Board of Examination will com
mence Its session at the High School build
ing this morning
Chas. A Gardner has been given unit
next Monday TO plead on Il charge OF felony
IN violating sculpture.
1t is believed that the prosecution in the
Charley Sing murder case will have al
their evidence in to-day.
The horses for the Blood-horse races got
off from this city in good shape yesterday
morning by the passenger train.
Court Sacramento, No. 6S61, Ancient Or
der of Foresters, will give an invitation so
cial to their friends at Armory Hall this
evening.
A barge-load of hop-poles for A. Mouton
was brought down from Gray's Bend yes
terday, and forwarded to his hop ranch
near Brighton.
The Tivoli was well attended last even
| ing, and the play much better presented
than on the evening before. Same pro-
/ granme tonight.
Chez Sing, Police Court interpreter,
leaves for China to-day, TO see his father
and have good time generally, expecting
| to be back in about ten months
Six carloads of beef cattle from WadS-
worth for San Francisco passed through the
| city yesterday; also, fourteen carloads from
! Reno for the stock yards, Oakland.
Arrangements are being made by ladies
in this city to give an entertainment in
about two weeks for the benefit of the Good
| Templar Orphan Asylum at Vallejo
! The Governor Saturday issued the follow
ing patents 10 University College lands {:
}urgen Christensen, Contra Costa county.
70 acres l.. J. Hall, Sonoma county, 10
acres
The ladies of the city have been seized
with the housekeeping fever, and their
husbands 81 aculate Man united to
woman has but little time at home and it's
full of trouble.
\ large number of Knights of Pythias
and their friends, including many ladies,
left yesterday morning for Stockton to at
tend the competitive drill and note the pro-
ccedings Of the Grand Lodge.
1t is understood that at the meeting of
the Fish Commissioners next Monday the
complaints relative to the necessity for ac-
ton to protect the trout at Big Meadows
Plumas county, will be considered.
About \. NJ yesterday, at Seventh and
+ streets, the locomotive of a passing
freight train struck the last two of a num-
Der of freight cars that Il yard engine was
switching, and knocked them from the
track.
There will be a union meeting this even
ing 1T the First Baptist Church, under the
auspices OF the Good Templars and Band
of Hope when Mrs. Kate Homer ClaXton.
the eloquent lecturer. will deliver an adj
dress.
The Christian Science Association will
meet this evening at the residence of Mrs
| +. p. Figg formerly the Langham), at 7:30.
The subject of discussion will be " EclipscS
of the Sun and Moon, presented by Rev
n Slater.
There was quite a heavy fall of rain in
this city about 9:4j last evening and the
cloudy sky and low barometer indicated
that more was mt hand. On the mountain
the weather was cloudy. but the barometer
was not down to storm figures.
The case of Curtis d Clunie vs. the city
of Sacramento was argued before Judge
Mcfarland yesterday by A. c. Freeman for
the plaintiffs. and \. p. Catlin and City At
ncy Anderson for the defendants, after
which the Court took it under adviSement
The Republican Committee of Yolo
| county last Saturday issued Il call for
primaries to be held on the 10Th, to elect
delegates to a County Convention to be held
on the 10Th. to select delegates to the State
Convention, which meets at Oakland June
10Th
The body of man was seen floating
! down stream, on the Holo side of the
river, about opposite the foot of Il street,
yesterday afternoon, and word was sent to
Justice Buckingham, who Immediately
made an effort to secure it. but by that time
the body had disappeared, and could not
be found, though the search was extended
to SuttcrviIle
II is quite probable that there will in
few days be a change in the Central Pacific
time card, to accommodate the fast mail
train from the East, which will. under that
arrangement reach Sacramento about 800
\. NJ Passengers by it for the Bay from
Sacramento can get a sleeping car berth,
and make the "trip very comfortably if they
so desire, arriving with good appetites for
breakfast.
BARwIcKs REPoRr.-The rainfall during
April of last year amounted to but 81 of an
inch, and was precipitated on the following
dates 90 of an inch on the ID, II of an
inch on the Sd. 05 of an inch on the Sth.
% Of an inch on the 18th, - of an inch
on the 10Th. and % of an inch on the 3lst,
making total of 81 of an inch for that
month. There was rain Il slight sprinkle
at SIS \. NJ. yesterday, and there had been
sprinklc> of rain at Red Bluff and San
Francisco also At the noon reports yeSter-
day the barometer was falling rapidly in
Washington Territory and Oregon, and fall
ing slowly in California. with the wind ut
| that hour tending towards the south. At :