Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-04-21
BRIEF NOTES.

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Two carloads of immigrants arrived yes
terday morning, and three are coming this
morning.
Governor Stanfords private car Stanford
went East last evening attached to the
overland train.
A brakeman named Holbrook, suffering
from a sprained ankle, came TO the city on
train No. % yesterday.
Rev H J. Becker will lecture this even
ing at o'clock, at the y. NJ. c. A. rooms,
on The Legal Aspect of the Temperance
Question
At Agricultural Park yesterday the Eu-
reka, Jr., Baseball Club beat the Knicker
bockerS by a score of p to Z, with one in
ming 10 spare.
The only arrests made Saturday and yes
terday were those of NJ. Cronan, John Doe
and E. NJ Leitle, by officer Franks, for dis
turbing the peace.
Frank Richardson, late stage manager at
the Tiyoli, was presented on Saturday last,
by the employees of that institution, with an
elegant gold-headed cane.
A change in police arrangements went
| into effect last night officers who have been
on day watch for two weeks being put on
night duty for the next two weeks.
A fair and entertainment will be given
by the Phi-Alpha and Pi-Kappa Societies
in the parlors of the Congregational Church
ON Wednesday evening, the Both instant.
Rev. w A. Jarrel, of Oakland, will de-
liver a lecture at the First Baptist Church
tomorrow evening ON the subject, The
Bible Anticipating Scientific Discoveries
Thomas Richards who was shot by
Walker Mcdonald at Eagle City, C9ur
ia 81. IL
wife and two children residing in Sacra-
mento.
John Kueny, formerly proprietor of
Richmond Grove, while exercising young
horse last Friday, was run away with,
thrown from his cart, and suffered bad
fracture of the leg below the knee
A room at the Golden Eagle Hotel was
entered by Il thief Saturday night and
robbed of $65 in money, but jewelry that
was lying at hand was not touched. En-
trance was gained from the balcony through
a window.
A large number of citizens visited, Satur-
day evening, the works of the Sacramento
Electric Light Company, II street, between
Sixth and Seventh, to witness the workings
of the machinery and the illumination of
about forty lamps ON the premises.
Last Friday evening Geo. W. Hancock,
while riding i'll the vicinity of Twenty
seventh and NJ streets, met with an acci-
dent, his vehicle upsctting, ir consequence
of running into hole, and causing him to
sustain a bad sprain of the left wrist.
The introduction of evidence in the Char
ley Sing case was concluded Saturday after
noon Counsel for the defense intimated a
willingness TO submit the case without argu-
ment, but the prosecution objected, and
consequently the argument will be COM
menced this morning.
Two of Mackey's race horses came up
from San Francisco Saturday but could
not be taken over to their stable on the
Norris Grant because of the road north of
the American river bridge being so covered
with water in some places that it was not
considered safe for travel.
The alarm of fire at 3 P. NJ. yesterday from
box 43 was Occasioned by the discovery
being made that a quantity of hay in the
ward of the American Eagle Hotel ut
Twelfth and J streets, was blazing. The
Fire Department made rapid run to the
locality, but was not needed.
City Attorney Anderson, detectives Burke
and Hickey officer Frazee and r. W. Dun
levy returned Yesterday from Verdi, where
they had been in attendance upon the trial
of Sprout and White, accused of burning
the railroad bridge at that place last fall.
The jury found the defendants not guilty.
The hulk of the steamer Senator, which
ran on the Sacramento river in 1880, will 90
into the dry dock at San Francisco within
few days, preparatory to being turned into
Il temporary barkentine, so as to enable her
to sail to New Zealand, where she is to be
used as u barge by an Auckland corpora
ton.
At the Republican primary last Satur
day there was no opposition to the tickets
put in the field by the ward caucuses, eX-
cept in occasional instances as regarded in
diyiduals, and that was not sufficiently
strong to be of any effect in the result, all
those on the tickets being elected. Between
600 and 700 votes were polled.
As it appears probable that Migrants now
and again impose upon the Howard Beney
client Association by applying for clothing,
ETC. with pitiful tale of distress, and then
selling the articles they may receive to OBJ
tain money for the purchase of liquor,
Chief Jackson has determined to send an
officer to the Howard depot every Monday
morning, to keep these fellows at dis
lance.
Perry Smiley, the old man who was
knocked from the American river railroad
bridge last Wednesday evening by a pass
ing train. and suffered a fracture of his
right arm is getting along very well at the |
County Hospital. He says there was an |
other man walking across the trestlewOrk !
at the same time he was but by stepping
aside and clinging to Il water barrel he
escaped unhurt.
About half-past o'clock Saturday after
noon several pistol shots were fired in the
vicinity of Third and / streets, and people |
who heard them became little worried
over the idea that another Chinese shooting
scrape was i'll progress-not because they
cared how many were killed, but for the
reason that Il few more Chinese murder
trials will bankrupt the county. 1t trans
PRED, however, that the shots were fired
at a dog that had, bitten a white man pass
ing by.
Young ChinawOman was abducted from
| street Saturday afternoon, and great eX
element was OCcaSioned thereby in the Chi
neSe quarters. Application was made to
the police for assistance in finding her, and
a reward of 500 offered for her recovery.
The officers were unable to get track Of the
abductors, but about l o'clock yesterday
morning she was found by her friends or
owners at one of the Chinese vegetable gar
dens near y street.
A large number of sportSmen went up to
Chico by yesterday afternoons train to at
tend the tournament of the Sportsmen's
Club of that place, which commences to-
day. Among those who were en- route
were Henry Gerber and Henry Eckhardt,
of Sacramento: Crittenden Robinson. of
San Francisco; Frank and Henry Bassford
and Mr.. Raney, Of Solano county; Messrs
Burnett and Hopper of Petaluma Merrill,
Lastredo and others of Stockton.
At the annual election of officers for the
Guild of St Paul's Episcopal Church, held
last Thursday, the following were chosen
President, Mrs. s NJ. Davis; First Vice
President, Mrs. r. 0. Craven Second Vice
President, Mrs. w. P. Emery; Secretary,
Mrs j. r. Crum Treasurer, Mrs. II. Wach
horst At the semi-annual election of Off
GERS for the Guild of st. Thekla of st. Paul's
Episcopal Church, held Wednesday last,
the following young ladies were chosen
President Miss Emma Felter; VicePresi
dent, Miss Maggie b. Little; Secretary,
Miss Emma Wilder; Treasurer, Miss Fan
ME Thompson.