Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-07-31
BRIEF NOTES.

Three carloads of immigrants arrived thi:
morning.
The Sacramento river is down TO Ii feet
8 inches.
The young Democrats will have a meet
ing in Superior Court Room No. this
evening at s o'clock.
In another column is published q state
1nent of the Peoples Savings Bank, which
shows the institution to be prosperous.
There was paid into the State treasury yes
terday, by the Treasurer of Amador county
for the quarter ending June 30th, 81 ,915 So
The musical and literary entertainment
given at Calvary Baptist Church last even,
ing drew good attendance, and was greatly
enjoyed.
In the Superior Court yesterday Ed F
Won Boden, Il native of Australia, was adj
mitted to citizenship, on the testimony OF
George and Benjamin Wentworth
Studies at the Christian Brothers Col
lege, Twelfth and X streets, will be re-
sumed August 4th. Particulars can be
learned by applying to Brother Genebern,
Director.
The many friends of Charles r. Chess
man will regret to learn of his recent de-
mise in Los Angeles, where he has been
living for the past year. Typhoid fever was
the cause of his death.
1t was reported here yesterday that JOS
Harris for many years resident of Sacra-
mento, and at one time proprietor of the
Railroad Exchange, at Third and X streets
died at San Francisco day or two ago.
R. n Johnston, while shoeing a horse al
his shop on Fourth street, between X and
l., yesterday afternoon, was kicked by the
animal under the chin, the blow cutting
the flesh to the bone and causing great
pain.
The steamer Alvarado, lying on the Yolo
side of the river, nearly opposite the foot OF
X street, got aground in consequence of the
falling OF the river, and q force of men
was engaged yesterday trying to get her
afloat.
Huntington, Hopkins d Co. have levied
an attachment in the sum of $500 against
the steam yacht Azalea, to secure payment
for material furnished in her construction,
and the little craft is now in the hands OF
the Sheriff.
The steamer San joaquin No. arrived
from San Francisco yesterday with mer-
chandise and lumber steamer Neponset,
from the upper Sacramento, with produce
steamer D. L. Knight, from MarySville for
San Francisco, with barge load of grain.
c. 2. Nathan is having second story
put on, and q new front put in, his brick
building on the south side of j, between
Sixth and Seventh streets. P. A Miller
does the brick and Carrie Il Croley the car
penter work. The improvement will cost
about s., 600
The team attach Vi to milk wagon ran
away on X street between Fifth and Sixth,
about noon yesterday, turned into Sixth
street, upsetting the wagon and spilling its
contents promiscuously. Keeping on to J
street, they turned westwardly, and were
caught between Third and Fourth.
The residence of Dana Perkins, at Rock
lin, which was destroyed by fire Tuesday
evening, as mentioned in yesterday s
RECORD UNION, was insured for 81 $50. The
fire was doubtless an incendiarism, as the
family We're absent from home when it oc-
Cured, and there had not been fire for
several days in the part of the building
where the flames first appeared.
Twenty-Five or thirty years ago tree was
planted in front Of the Station-house,
which subsequently attracted much atten-
ton, being the only one of its kind in the
city and its name being unknown. 1t has
always received good treatment at the
hands of the Station-houSe people, but the
filling in of the plat in front of the build
ing, and the laying of pavement over its
roots is supposed to have smothered it, and
yesterday its dead trunk was removed.
The San Juan Times says: Sacramento
proposes TO cure the poisonous waters in
China slough by running Slickens into it,
thus forcing the bad water back into the
Sacramento river, from which the city
pumps its water for drinking purposes
As sanitary measure this takes the bun. y
As specimen of an individuals passing
an opinion upon something that he knows
nothing of, and thus making himself ri
diculous, the above is better than an aver
age sample.