Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-04-08
BRIEF NOTES.

Two car loads of immigrants arrived last
night.
A. s. Woods yesterday entered upon his
duties as Clerk of the Water Works.
| A Union Sunday-school picnic viii be
held at Cothrin's Grove on Thursday,
May Sth.
But one arrest was made yesterday-John
Traw, by Deputy Constable Wallace, for
vagrancy.
Mary W. Symmetrical was yesterday in
| Department Two of the Superior Court
granted a divorce from Charles F. Sum-
mertield
Hon. w. c. Van Fleet, of this city, has
| formed a copartnership for the practice of
! law with W B. Treadwell, a well-known
attorney of Woodland
Companies \ and G, of the First Artil-
! lery Regiment, and the Governors Guard
were out for battalion drill ON the street
! last night. under command of Major +. H.
Mckee.
Sentence in the case of Mock Soon, con-
victed in Department One of the Superior
! Court about three weeks ago of murder in
/ the first degree, was yesterday continued
until the 2lst inst.
The attendance at the Tiyoi last evening
was not up TO the usual number, although
the play is good one and well presented
| Frank Roraback sang " Way Down the
Suwance River and was loudly encored.
Announcement is made that a Union
Meeting will be held in the First Baptist
Church tomorrow evening, under auspices
of the Good TemplarS and Bands of Hope,
when Mrs. Kate II. Clayton will deliver a
lecture.
\ card is published in another column
from Mrs. Hannah Easton, of Clarksburg,
returning thanks to the Pacific Mutual
Life Insurance Company for the prompt
payment of a 900 insurance on the life
of her husband.
A special train will leave for Stockton at
6:1j A. NJ to-day to take over the Knights
Of Pythias and their friends who desire to
attend the Grand Lodge and the COMPETE
tive drill for a prize of $500. The train re-
turns this evening.
Suvcyor-General Wiley paid the follow
ing amounts into the State Treasury on ac
count of the business of his office for the
month of March: Fees United States Land
Office, SOP So fees Surveyor-General,
Sl,695. Total, 81 ,S97 80
The case of Coglan vs.. Beard. involving
the possession of the office of County Clerk
of Sacramento viii be heard before Judge
Spencer of san Jose, on the lst of May. that
gentleman having consented to come here
and preside during the trial.
Deputy Sheriff Wilson came up from San
Francisco last night with two prisoners, en-
route to the State Prison at FOlSon-PatriclS
Burke, who IS to serve seven years for rob
berry and John Donovan, who is under sen
tence Of ten years for burglary.
The Lightning Hay Press, manufactured
at the Pacific Carriage Works ]. f, Hill,
proprietor will he put in operation and
tested next Saturday afternoon, April 18th,
at that establishment, Nos. 1907 to 1923 J
street, for the benefit of all interested.
Charles McAsse, held to answer ON u
charge of grand larceny, in DEMONSTRATING,
by Justice Gilmer recently, was yesterday
either insane or was assuming TO be, and
his arraignment in the Superior Court was
postponed until it could be ascertaincd
whether or not he was "shamming.'
Judge Mcfarland yesterday afternoon in
Department Two of the Superior Court
heard the application of John Harris for
release from the State Prison at Folsom on
habcas corpus, TO which matter we have
heretofore referred Holl Il Buckley APP
peared for the petitioner, and District At
tomey Carey for the people. After hearing
the argument, Judge Mcfarland rcmanded
the prisoner to the custody of Warden Nc
Comb temporarily, and took the case under
adyiSemCnt.