Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-04-26
BRIEF NOTES.


the East this morning.
| The May session of the Supreme Coul
will commence in this city May 18th.
The First Artillery band left yesterda
for Lodi, for service at the Odd Fellow.
picnic there.
The steamer Varuna came down froI
the upper Sacramento yesterday with
barge load of grain.
A number of Sacramentans have gon
below to attend the races that commence .
| Oakland Park to-day.
The Episcopal Convocation concluded it
labors at St. Pauls Church yesterday, afte
a very interesting session.
The Standard minstrel troupe passe,
through the city yesterday, en- route &
Stockton from Marysyille.
| Yesterday the Sacramento river recede(
the inch it had gained the previous day
and registered % feet inches.
All cases on appeal from San Joaquin
county will be placed on the Sacramento
calendar, to be heard about May 3lst.
Elizabeth Sweet was yesterday, in De
partment Two of the Superior Court
granted decree of divorce from Lyman
Sweet.
Fish Commissioner Buckingham yester
day had a number of carp planted il
China slough, between | street and the rail
road shops.
Rev. n. J. Becker will next Monday
evening repeat his lecture, in the Sixth,
street NJ. E. Church, on The Legal Aspect
of the Liquor Question
The Phi-Alpha and Pi-Kappa entertain
= no fNnasHov ir,p
will consist of vocal and instrumental mu-
sic, literary exercises and fair.
The cantata last evening, given for the
benefit of the choir of the Calvary Baptist
Church, was well attended by AN appreci-
alive audience, and proved to be a success
This morning the Odd Fellows and their
friends leave on their picnic excursion to
Folsom The first train Will start from the
depot at o'clock sharp, and the second at
$50.
The pay car finished its business here
yesterday, and, having provided the rail
road employees with funds in season for the
first of the picnics, returned to Oakland in
the afternoon.
Employees at the railroad shops are con-
Sidering whether they cannot, by unity of
action, arrange for obtaining meat for their
families at a lower rate than that now
charged by the butchers.
Sacramento Camp, Army and Navy Re-
publican League Boys in Blue, will meet
at DR. LANES office, J street, between Third
and Fourth, this evening at 7:30, for the
annual election of officers, etc.
The attendance at the Tivoli last evening
was quite large to witness the fifth present
alton of "a Kaleidoscope of Fun" The
same programme at matinee to-day and
this evening. The speciality acting is quite
good.
Yesterday, in Department One of the
Superior Court, the case of Martha Hebb,
charged with an assault to murder her hus-
band, Henry Hebb, was dismissed on pre-
sentation of the fact that defendant died
recently.
The Sabbath-school of the United Breth-
rem has Joined in the Union Sunday-school
picnic to be held at Cothrin's Grove Friday,
May ID. This makes a combination of ten
schools. They will take a band of music
along to play concert airs.
The remains of Mrs Catharine McDer-
mott, formerly of this city, who died in
San Francisco on the 23d instant were
brought to Sacramento yesterday for inter
ment Deceased was the mother of Mrs
=
p f. Mohun well known here.
A man named S. c. Carr while inebri-
ated was stood up on X street, between
Seventh and Eighth, about half-past eleven
Thursday night, and robbed of some
money, but how much he does not know
He thinks there were three or four of his
asSailantS.
Some mysterious thief on Thursday
evening stole S13 from the clothing of one
of the gentlemen of the troupe perform
ing at the Metropolitan Theater, while he
was rendering his part on the stage, the
garments rified being left in his dressing
room meanwhile.
An electric light of the Thompson &
Houston patent has been suspended across
the intersection of Fifth and J streets,
from the Sacramento Bank TO Gus Laven-
sons store, and will be lighted tonight, as
an example of what can be done in the
way of lighting streets.
There came down from the 'front.' of
the California and Oregon Railroad yester-
day ten carloads of Cinnamon, who had
been working on the extension of the road
but were thrown out of employment when
operations were recently suspended Seven
carloads of them went on to San Francisco
and vicinity, two south to Ravenna, and
one over to Truckee.
A man who gave his name as Joseph
Lynch came to the city n few days ago,
put up at the Phoenix Hotel, Fourth street,
between X and L. kept by Patrick Cahill,
and represented himself to be politician
and lobbyist working upon members ofthe
Legislature. He managed after a while to
get on such good terms with Mr.. Cahill as
to borrow $3.50 from him. since when he
has not been seen by that gentleman.
There arrived here yesterday for William
Land, of the Western Hotel, a very fine
omnibus, larger than that now in use by
the hotel, and put together in a very SUI
perior manner. 1t was shipped boxed up
in good shape, but, while en- route, tramps
who were stealing a ride managed to get
into the box and then into the omnibus,
and were thus enabled to enjoy palace-car
ride as far as they wished to go. When
they left they stole three of the fine cush-
ions from the omnibus, and Mr.. Land yes
terday telegraphed to the maker of the
vehicle, +. NJ. Miller, Quincy ILL.,, for some
to replace them.