Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-10-13
BRIEF NOTES.

| Three carloads of immigrants arrive,
yesterday, and three this morning.
| Owing to the rain-storm last evening ser
! vices were not held in some OF the churches
! The rain-storm in this city last evenin.
was accompanied by thunder and light
ming.
Game, recently very scarce in the market
| is becoming plentiful, and the stalls wer
| well supplied Saturday.
The Republican county canvassers will
have meeting tonight at Michigan Bar
and the Democrats at Walnut Grove.
The case of Figg & Green VS.. Parvin i
still on trial in Department Two of tn,
Superior Court, and may not be finished
to-day.
W. R. Ellis was quite badly hurt day o.
two ago in consequence of drunken man
who was driving team, running into his
vehicle
The heavy rain of last night found tn,
cutters in some localities unprepared for it
and the consequence was that numerous
ponds of water accumulated.
Great numbers of wild geese flew over the
city last night, unusually low down, ano
making such a cackling as to indicate thai
they had lost their reckoning.
Two young men had difficulty al
Eighth and X streets early yesterday morn
ing, during which one cut the other ON the
wrist and shoulder with knife.
Mrs Ed c. Humphrey died in this city
Her remains will be taken for interment tc
Gait too ay ON the 11:40 A. NJ. train.
Chief Jackson, while fishing at the SECOND
De-,
measuring POI inches in length, Ii in cir
conference, 4 across the head, and weighed
five pounds.
The Eastern engineers who had been at
tending the session of the Brotherhood al
San Francisco, started on their return home
last Saturday, all expressing themselves
gratitied with their visit to California.
These arrests were made Saturday: Jim
Murphy, by officer Farrell, for being 4 COM
mon drunkard; E. Reed, by officer Franks
surrendered by his bondsmen; James
Kelly, by officers Ash and Arlington fol-
petit larceny.
Officers Ash and Arlington arrested James
Kelly on Saturday for stealing coat on the
day before from S. s. Nathan's store. The
coat was recovered from a secondhand
store, and Kelly has been identified as the
man who sold it there.
A musical and literary entertainment will
be given at Changers Hall this evening
under the auspices of Sacramento Division
Sons of Temperance. One of the features
of the evening will be cornet quartet by
Professor Spargo and his daughters,
Bendix Danielson was found dead in his
bed at half-past 4 Saturday afternoon in
San Francisco. Deceased was a native OF
Germany was 50 years old and has rela-
tives in Sacramento, according to 4 letter
found on his person. His death was the
result of strychnine, taken with deliberate
suicidal intent.
Charley Chapman, of White Rock, in
this county, says the Sunday Capital, is a
lucky fellow. Within three miles of his
place there is excellent quail shooting; a
drive of five miles takes him to where deer
are tolerably plentiful, and right in his own
fields he can anytime in the season make
excellent bags Of ducks, snipe and geese.
A man who had been imbibing freely, to
ward off the effect of the dampness in the
atmosphere, jumped upon the step of a car
on X street yesterday afternoon, and was
taking pull at his cigar when the jolting
of the car as it rounded the curve on Tenth
street caused him to fall off Clinging to
the rail with one hand, he was dragged
through the mud of the street several rods,
in manner that must have been very dis
couraging to his corns.
A large crowd assembled on Third street,
| between and X, about 1870 A. 81. yester-
day, to witness the endeavors of an express
man to make his horse, small, emaciated,
gray beast move along. The animal
baked and it was long time before he
| -. h 81, net
Officer Farrell directed his driver to take
| him to the stable, as his contrariness APP
peared to be occasioned by weakness as
much as natural perversity. The driver
responded, That where I'm trying to gel
him p