Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-03-31
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.

Ell DORADO COUNTY TEACHERS INsTI-
TUTE.-A correspondent writing from Placer
vile under date of March 29sh says: The
Teachers Institute closed here yesterday af.
ter a most profitable and pleasant session of
three days. Professor E. Knowlton, of San
Francisco, presided in the Institute as con-
ductor, and to his happy originality and fer
tility of resource was due in great measure
the successful session. State Superintendent
of Public instruction W. 7. Wecker was
present, and won the good opinion of all by
his atfable, dignihed and courteous address
and manner. He particularly urged upon
the profession the necessity of a course of in.
struction in morals and manners, demonstrat-
ing that morality was of the first Importance
in education Some forty teachers were pres
emit, and at the afternoon and evening
sessions the audience of citizens com
pletely filed the building. The Insti-
tute was in every sense a success,
creditable to the county OF Ell Dorado and
its able Superintendent, Chas L. Markham.
Many of tine teachers avsiled Themselves of
the opportunity of witnessing the execution
of Francisco Peres for the murder of the
Wirges brothers, permits being kindly handed
county. Addresses and essays were given by
the following: Evil Literature for the
Young" Superintendent Markham 90 Com
mon Schools" John 2. Nlunson /; Method
of Teaching History" James Hodge; Phys
iology,' II. II. Richmond; The Mutual
Relation of Geography and History" A. G.
Brown; "a Talk with Beginners" Mrs. l..
NJ. Worth; Physical Geography" illus
trated with q tellurian, Prof. G. P. TiDdau /;
" Chemistry, with experiments. Professor
E. L. Cole; q" Interest, ETC., Vernon Ar
rasmith.
MIRACULOUS EsCAPE-The most mirscu.
lous escape ever experienced by E. c. Spen-
Ger, CT this vicinity, says the Gait Gazette,
was on last Monday evening while returning
home from Stockton with two-horse team
and wagon loaded with 1000 pounds of feed
and fifteen hogs. He returned by way Of
Woodbridge, and when he reached the lane
turning down to the Odd Fellows cemetery
south of Calf, it was about y o'clock at night
and pitch dsrk. He succeeded in travelling
over this road safely until he came to a high
grade near the old slRugh house. when be-
fore Spence knew what was up he found
himself, team, wagon, hogs and feed capsizad
and wallowing in the deep ditch at the bot
tom Of the grade some fifteen feet below.
Dark and raining as it was, however, Spencer
managed to extricate his team, break the end.
board out of the wagon and turn the hogs
loose, and what seems extraordinary Is that
neither himself nor the animals sustained the
slightest il jury. Mr.. Spencer led his team
into town and took quarters here that night.
The next morning ne hunted up his hogs and
found them on the grade smelling about the
feed in the bottom of the ditch, but the grade
was so stesp that they did not dare venture
down to where the wagon was.
JOSEPH HURTADo.-A reporter called at
tie county jail yesterday to see Joseph Hur
tade. For the past two or three months he
has bean rapidly failing in health. He has
frequent hemorrhsges of the lungs, has bat
little strength, and is reduced in flesh until
he has become nothing but a mere skeleton.
Yesterday he could not leave his bed, and
passed greater portion of the day in con-
versation with his spiritual advisers. He
tries to be cheerful, is pleased to converse
with his friends, has no hope that he will es-
cape the gsllows, and having made his peace
with his God, has no fears for the future.
His greatest anxiety is for the future welfare
of his aged mother and his little daughter.
When speaking of them, and the disgrace
that will fall to their lot upon his execution,
statement Of the case. in which he reviews
the history Of the homicide and relates the
great wrongs done hinself and family by
Estuado. 1t will in all probability not be
printed until after his execution. When the
reporter was taking leave of him he said ::
60 They can take my life, they are welcome to
that. but my honor they cannot take
Police CoURr-In the Police Court, Sat
Al. 7 G.
misdemeanor, was continued until this morn
ing. The cases Of Butch and All
Q-ong, for misdemeanor, were ordered strick-
en- from the calendar Pat AIcDonohue
pleaded guilty Of disturbing the peace, and
will receive sentence to-day. john Britton
also pleaded guilty Of disturbing the peace,
and was fined SIS John Dolsn and Frank
Riley were found guilty Of disturbing the
peace. The former was fined 500 and the
latter 500 . George Collins, Frank Walsh,
Joseph Barber and Charles Gordon were
adjudVed guilty OF vsgrsncy, and sentenced
10 ter days in the County Jsil. Joseph
Smith, charged with child-siealing, wss dis
charged. and the child ordered returned to
the Protestant Orphan Asylum Thomas
Gibbons, for disturbing the peace, was fined
So.
arrived at Sacramento during the past week
San Joaquin, No. g. from the upper Sacra.
mento, with barge of grain Clara Bell,
from the upper Sacramento. with general
produce; San joaquin, No. ,, from San
Francisco, general merchandise and 3 barge
of freight. Departed Dover, with barge,
light; San Joaquin, No, . for San Francisco,
with barge OF grain San Joaquin, No. 3, for
,,s,v,ar Sacramento With ha-ra % 2.
Neponset, for the upper Sacramento, with
general merchandise.
CoScgRxIvG THE TRAcK-We have re.
oe1ved another communication from NJ. D..
S. relative to the width of the galloping
track az Agricultural Park. He renews his
assertion that it is narrower than before, IN
stead Of wider snd claims that 1t will be diff
hcult for the runniug.hOrse men TO do their
exercising upon it, when there are many sta
bles at the Park, and they are preparing tor
any large event, such Is the State FAR races.
He thinks the matter could be remedied by
the construction Of some cooling-out PAD
docks.
CITY FINANCES. The City Auditor reports
the receipts for the week ending Saturday,
March %. 1884, as follows: By William
Lauikotter, cemetery dues, S74 Il. d.
SERVER. water rates, S72S 70; \. A.
Kidier, harbor daes, $50 80; f. II. Nc
Kse, broken lamp, SO; W. a. Henry,
Police Court fines, s. 30; George a.
Putnam, city Licenses, SIP 81; II. b. Mel
sen, street assessment, 1924. Total, Sl,7S2 OF f;
disbursements for the week. S14l 20. Amount
in city treasury, S2l5, 520 50.
RAINFALL AT GALT.-The rainfall at Gait
10 b..
TENDER, 90 Of an inch October. So ; Novsm-
Der. rs; December. IS. 1854, January
l 10; February, 4.09; March 5.46; total.
i4.02. Last year they had in January, go
inches February, ~ March, 8 Sc April
81 May, 50. giving total Of Ia, when
the dry season continued till September.