Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-05-13

0PEN-AIR CoNCERTs-A large and enthu-
siastic meeting was held last evening at the
office of James \. Porter for the purpose
of conducting the open-air concerts during
the summer, and organized by elccting W
r. Ormsby. President; Brainard f. Smith,
Vice-President; L. J. Lithauer, Secretary,
and Charles F. Dillman, Treasurer The
following We're appointed a committee to
confer with bands to obtain bids for fur
nishing music: o. II. =. Sheets, w. r.
Felter and \. Andrew. MesSrS Charles Il.
Parsons, 6. W. Jackson, +. T. Johnson, b.
W. Cavanaugh and G. W. Watson were
appointed u Committee ON Parks and
Illumination. Chief of Police O. C..
Jackson was present, and was
given entire charge of police service on the
grounds He assured the committee that
he would do all in his power to see that
order was maintained, and expressed him
self in full accord with the movement, and
the committee is to be congratulated upon
having obtained the cooperation of the
Chief. The public is now assured that these
concerts will be free from all unpleasant
incidents, and be still more pleasurablc
resort than they ever have been in the past
! summers. The only remaining duty is the
soliciting of subscriptions, and no doubt
the public will respond literally and
unhestitatinely to the solicitations of
the committee The following are
the gentlemen appointed to receive
subscriptions in the districts named A.:
/ First District First street to west side of
1 ter, w r. Carman. H. J. kilgariff, g. f.
I Smith, C. F. Dillman Second District
East side Third To east side Sixth, inclu-
sive-F T. Johnson, Il. w. Cayanaugh, Is.
! Leonard, 4. C.. Jelly, J. \. Coleman, l.. p.
/ Markin. Third District-East side Sixth
/ Ia west side Ninth, incluSiye-George w.
! Watson, O. II. Z. Sheets, Frank Hickman,
/ L. j. Lithauer, W l.. Benning. f. NJ.
/ Thomas Fourth DiStrict-East side Ninth
[ TO city limits-W. K. Chenoweth Robert
/ Ash, w. +. Jackson, c. X, Parsons, g. W.
! Jackson, DR.. Parkinson.
New BooEs-Thc Trustees of the City
/ Free Library have purchased the following
new books: How to Build, Furnish and
Decorate; Choice Literature Is vols.)
Obers Travels in Mexico Bancroft'>
History of California (vol. y; Dor
/ Quixote illustrated by Dore); Paradis,
Lost and "Dante's Inferno" ILLUSTRATED
by Dore, vols.) Thurlow Weeds Auto
biography and Memoir The Breat
4 Winners Welsh's English Literature ;
Janet's Theory of Morals" ." Uncle
Toms Cabin Portraits of Places, b.
James; Social Problems" by George
Work of the Wits :" For Summer After
noOns,' by Coolidge: Intellectual Life.
by Hamerton; AN Entailed Hat b!
Townsend; Darwinism, etc" by Fiske
4 Wife Had Won" by Wright; Beatri2
Randolph by Hawthorne; Gates Ajar,
and " Beyond the Gates" by Phelps
Women of Honor" by Bunner; " Bel
and Ringers, by Smith Her Washing
ton Season, by Lincoln; Indian Idylls,
by Arnold; Emerson's Essays q vols. J
Recollections of Naval Officer b,
{ Parker; Bethesda" a Transplante,
Rose. by Sherwood; Up From the Cape
June, by Forester; Chinese Gordon
by Forbes.
CoRPoRATED.-Articles of incorporation
of the North Star Mining Company hav
been filed in the office of the Secretary c
State. The company will operate in Gras
. Valley Mining District. The Directors ar
William B. Bourn, NJ. c. Taylor, J. /
Fargo, David Mckay, Jr., Chas. r. Clincl
John GlaSson and A. W, Thompson. Tn
capital stock is 81 eco, coo. Principal plaC
of business, San Francisco.
LECTURE LAST EvENING.-Rcy. John Coyl
delivered very instructive and interestin
lecture at the First Baptist Church la>
evening, on the subject of: The Del
Which Science and Art Owe the Bible.
The lecture was the second of the ten-ceT
series under the auspices of the Christia
Science Association.