Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-03-07
BRIEF NOTES.

Alex. Montgomery. Of Woodland. is re-
ported to be on the decline, and little hopes
are entertained for his recovery.
The ladies of Kingsley Chapel will give a
literary and social entertainment at the
church this evening. Refreshments free.
Hunters are complaining that ducks, geese
and snipe are becoming unusually scarce for
this season Of the year in the vicinity OF Sac
ramento.
Sheriff Mcclellan, of Butte county, passed
through the city yesterday. en- route for San
Quentin with Chinaman, who is to serve
one year for larceny.
There came up from San Francisco yester-
day new stationary engine, pulleys, ETC..
for 2. Scheld's Sacramento Brewery, Twenty
eighth and M streets.
The break in the Yolo levee above the
town of Washington allowed vast quantity
of water to run in upon the tule land yester-
day from the Sacramento.
The Governors Guard are talking of hav-
ing an excursion from Sacramento to Wood.
land about the 10Th instant, and to give
ball in Armory Hall at that place.
In Department One of the Superior Court
yesterday the evidence for the prosecution in
the Mock Soon case was all completed. The
The steamer Dover went up the river yes
terdsy with barge. The steamer d. E.
Knight came down stream, en- route for San
Francisco, with merchandise from Marys.
vile.
The Register of the State Land Office yes
terdsy paid into the State Treasury $685. and
lected in their offices for the month of Feb
rusry.
A. NJ. Anderson, aged 10 years, deckhand
on the stesmer San Joaquin, fell overheard
near New York Landing lsst Monday night
and was drowned. The body has not yet
been recovered.
Charles Griffin was tried before Justice
Sturges. in Folsom, yesterday, on charge of
smuggling contraband articles into the State
Prison, found guilty and sentenced TO six
months in the county jail.
The trunk and contents, supposed to be-
long TO Thomas Swift, of this city, and which
were found by officer Frederieks at Richmond
Grove Wednesday morning, are still at the
station-house awaiting an owner.
Depsty Sheriff Wilson came down from
the State Prison at Folsom yesterday with
prisoner named Tom Cromwell, under sem
tence OF ten years, who was being taken to
the Bay as witness against q party under
arrest.
Weather on the bill last night was stormy,
though the barometer indicated a favorable
change. There was rain st Blue Canyon.
snow ct Cisco snd the Summit, and cloudy
weather at Truckee. Very little snow re-
mains at Blue Canyon.
Some Sacramento people are considering
whether it would be good idea to request
the Trustees to pass an ordinance prohibiting
boys under 10 years of age from smoking
cigarettes. La some towns of the State such
an ordinance is working successfully.
Brigadier-G Carey returned yester.
day from the State Prison at Folsom, TO
which he had been summoned on a dispatch
the previous day. He found the convicts
quiet, and no occasion existing for belief
that they intended the revolt that was fore.
Swallowed by the dispatch he had received.
Residents of Sacramento and other coun-
ties in this end of the State are delighted
with the present storm. Parties in Yolo and
Colusa counties, who were willing about six
weeks ago to sell their crops for the cost of
planting, are now hugging themselves when
they remember that their offer was not
thought worthy Of acceptance.
g [ tell you," said railroad man yester-
day, if you had been at Emigrant Gap on
Wednesday and saw the warm rain pouring
down on the snow, you'd have been willing to
vote amp amount of tax to keep your Sscra-
mento levees ready for any emergency. They
say there was q rainfall of 81 inches there in
"a hours, and L believe it,"
There were so many Sacrsmentans leaving
for the Bay yesterday with intention of drop.
ping in to see the Sullivan Robinson boxing
match that the air at the depot was as full
of muscular" language as though there
was an excursion to q prize-ring dispute.
Every one seemed TO have a positive opin-
is, "if everything was all right.
They probably know more sbcut the matter
to-day, but they will nevertheless assert,
'' Just as I said,'