Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-05-23
BRIEF NOTES.

But one carload of immigrants arrived
this morning.
Carloads of cabbage and caulifower ar,
being daily shipped East from this city,
The steamer Dover left for the uppel
Sacramento yesterday, with barge, light
! The Exempt Fireman's Hall has beer
reprinted white and presents a neat appear
ance.
The barge Butte City has been launched
! from the marine ways in Washington IL
| fine order
A. J. Senate is building a second story on
the Merchants Exchange building, 102;
Third street.
Last evening sorrel mare, four years
old, was stolen from the premises of James
Seadler, Seventeenth and l streets.
The case of Mock Soon will come up fo1
the sentence of the defendant in Depart
ment One of the Superior Court to-day.
There will be a battalion drill at the
armory this evening" with Companies Z
and G. Captain Cook will be III command
! The American river is very high, and the
| Twelfth-sTeet road is slightly under water
in two or three places this side of the bridge.
11tMlS IL. ddlIlI Ncll-hIlONIl dIlol3
patrons of the turf in California. was con-
victed in New York on the Goth of forgery
Three coaches conveyed the colored peo-
pie of the city yesterday to picnic at Ma
toma Grove, Folsom, where they had fine
time.
The overland express did not reach the
city until 6:35 A. NJ. yesterday, owing TO de-
lay on the part of connecting trains at
Ogden.
The meeting of the -Brac Club,
which was to have been held this evening.
has been postponed until next Thursday
evening.
John P. Dickson, an old and well known
resident of the city, died yesterday He
was native of Salem, Mass, aged about
GA years.
The Knights Templars of Woodland at
tended service yesterday evening in the
Baptist Church of that place, in honor of
Ascension Day
The weeds in the southern and eastern
portion of the city have become an intoler-
able nuisance. Some of the cross-streets
are impossible.
J. B. Haggin's colt Mark DAILY won the
Tobacco stakes, mile heats, at Louisville,
Ky. on Wednesday, in straight heats.
Time, 1:464-1:46.
Services appropriate to Ascension Day
were held yesterday in st. Paul and st.
Rose Churches, which We're handsomely
decorated for the occasion.
The commencement exercises of the
University of California will take place at
Berkeley next Wednesday, at 1915 A. NJ,
in the Harmon Gymnasium.
C. T. Jones, of Sacramento, has been
elected by the Grand Council at San Fran
cisco as one Of the Grand Trustees of the
Independent Order of Chosen Friends.
Robinson and Barry, sentenced in the
Superior Court Wednesday for grand lar
ceny, will be taken to the Folsom prison
by Deputy Sheriff Newbert this morning.
The Democratic County Central Com
mittee will meet at the Capital Hotel at l
P. NJ. tomorrow, to consider whether a
Convention shall be held, and other mat
tiers.
Now that there is a good prospect for the
appropriation by Congress of 100000 for a
Government building at Sacramento, there
is much discussion as to where it ought to
be located.
The Western Hotel is receiving thor
ough painting externally, the color being
white, with trimmings of gold. The ex-
ueme whiteneSs is almost painful to the
eyes OF those looking at it.
The w VS. will give their first public
entertainment at Kingsley Chapel this
evening, introducing in their programme
music, recitations, the browning of the May
Queen, etc. Refreshments will be served
The case of George D. Gardner for VIC
lating sepulture, was yesterday, in Depart
ment One of the Superior Court, on motion
of defendant, who claimed that several of
his witnesses were absent, continued until
June 18th.
The horse attached to Brytes milk wagon
ran away ON Twelfth and f streets yester-
day morning. The horse was not hurt but
the street sprinklerS thought they had an
opposition, as the tactical fluid laid the dust
for several blocks.
A private dispatch received here yester-
day from Fresno stated that at the pacing
race there on the previous day Prince beat
Johnny Weigle and Terry. 1t was not ex-
pected here that the race would come off
until the close of the week.
The new officers of the town of Wood
land-A. MosSmayer, President; L. Char
max Treasurer; w. S. Huston, Clerk H.
NJ Hoyt, Marshal, and w Coulter Night
Watch-have filed their official bonds, anc
the same have been approved by the Board
of Town Trustees.
The grand picnic and ball to be given at
Colfax in honor of the opening of the For
est Hill stage-road, take place to-day and
this evening, and will be free to residents
of Forest Hill, but not, as has been pub
Eshed, to the public generally. The ball
will be held in Curly 4 Mahon's Hall.
There was received at this office yester-
day sample of fine raspberries-the first
of the season-raised by Silva IL Co., New
castle. Also, a sample of exceedingly large
of the Sharpless variety, some
of them measuring p by |! inches, from
The last man for the Stockton train
yesterday morning was a hack load of of
ficers including Deputy Sheriff Lee, of
and officials from Stockton.
They arrived at the depot as the train was
rounding the turn near the end of the
bridge and drove rapidly in pursuit, but
their efforts to arrest the train were futile.
A little son of Henry Megerle, while
passing Huntington, Hopkins Il Co.'S store
yesterday afternoon, stopped to examine a
piece of machinery, and got the forefnger
of his left hand caught in it in such a man
ner that the finger was crushed and may
have to be amputated at the upper joint
though the physician in attendance has
hope of saving it.
Encampment No. III, l. O. 0. F., was in
stituted at Woodland Tuesday evening
The following are the officers and charter
members r. H. Beamer, c. p; c. B. Gull
yer, II. p; John Jacobs, S. W; L. Char
max, T.; r. b. Mosby, J. W; n. Wyckoff,
S. L. p. Everett, James Simpson, E. Peter
son, p. G. Everett, w. III. Heaton, H. T.
Barnes, Joseph Comfort, Joseph Craig,
George Furguson, +. F. Ready, L. b. Isham,
Elias Snavely, T. d. Petch, j. j. Bowman,
r. Day, H. Hoyt.
He WAS LET Co Wednesday night
officer Kent arrested for drunkenness a
man whom he found tangled up among
wagon wheels on ] street, near Fourth
The prisoners eyes were nearly closed from
blows he had received, his head swollen
and sore, his body badly bruised, and his
clothing torn and dirty. He said he had
fallen through some joists, and the officer
concluded that it must have been from near