Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-10-21
BRIEF NOTES.

The Board of Supervisors met yesterday
but no business came up for consideration
The Republican county canvassers vii
hold meeting this evening at Folsom, ane
the Democrats AT Pattersons.
Jacob Cantrell was yesterday appointed
by the Police Commissioners q special Off
Ger for the Salvation Army barracks OF
Third street, near X.
| ]. II. Sullivan commenced work yester
day upon his contract for constructing
sewer through the alley between J and X
from Fourth to Third.
Arrived yesterday, steamer Governor
Dana, from the upper Sacramento, will
| grain. Sailed, steamers San joaquin, No
3, and Governor Dana, for the upper Sacra-
mento, light.
A large banana plant in the yard of c.
| H. Cummings, at Ninth and \ streets, is ir
! full bloom, and has on it twelve blossoms
and promise of early fruit. The plant is
| twelve feet in hight
| About P. NJ. yesterday a Chinawoman
was stolen by some of her nationality from
her home at Third and streets, and heI
friends were making very lively search
for her last evening.
J. ]. Brown, Of Australia, will lecture on
Phrenology at the Y. NJ. C. A. rooms this
evening at s O'Clock, with more especial ref
| erence to g Heads and Faces" \ collec-
| ton will be taken for the benefit of the
| Association
Officer Frazee arrested Horace Stevens
yesterday on two warrants sworn out by
Surveyor General Wiley, charging felony
| in connection with the enlightenment OF
| State funds while he was an employe in
the Surveyor Generals office.
The time of the colt race at Woodland
last Saturday, won by C. r. Hoppins bay
FLY Hattie, was 30i3 and 3:07. She Won
both heats easily, without a skip, and prob
ably could have made considerably better
time if pressed. 1t was good showing for
a half-mile track.
These arrests were made yesterday
Horace Stevens, by officer Frazee, on two
charges of felony; Mary Clark, Lottie Ash
ley, Carrie Williams and Lottie Adams, by
officers Wood and Ash, for exhibiting !;
Larry Sullivan, by officers Arlington and
Ash, for petit larceny.
Yesterday the Commissioners in Lunacy
examined L. B. Reed, an elderly man re
Gently sentenced to the County Jail from
| the Police Court for battery, and adjudged
him insane. He Will accordingly be sent
to the Asylum. He imagines that he has
regained his youth, got rich and desires TO
marry.
Thomas Harvey, young man who has
been employed at D. j. Longs meat market,
on X street, became seriously i'll last
Sunday, and had to be taken home. About
) o'clock yesterday morning his condition
was so much worse that a physician was
sent for, but death ensued before he arrived.
Deceased had been complaining some for
about week. but not seriously.
While number of section hands were
| working ON the railroad track between the
city and Brighton yesterday, party of four
tramps passed by. One of the latter appro-
priated coat from the hand-car used by
the railroad men, but was not observed in
the act. Last night the owner of the coat
Z. c. Smell, and some of the other men
were in town, and saw the coat on a mans
back. They Immediately took him into
custody, turned him over to officers Ash
and Arlington, and he will have to respond
to charge of petit larceny in the Police
Court to-day