Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-08-19
BRIEF NOTES.

The public schools Of Woodland reopened
yesterday.
The Leon & Cushman minstrel troupe
left yesterday for Chico.
Two carloads of immigrants arrived from
the East yesterday morning.
The new opera house at Woodland will
be ready for the roof by the end of this
week.
The price of good hay is advancing
rapidly, and owners of horses are feeling
worried.
Barber Joe prisoner in the jail at
Woodland, escaped from that institution
yesterday.
The Elk Grove Free Press, which sus-
pended publication recently, will. it is said,
soon resume business again.
Property owners will save much profani-
ty on the part of pedestrians by having the
spikes in their sidewalks driven down.
The recent cool weather has to a great
extent checked the migration of Sacra-
mentans to the springs and the seashore.
The Democratic County Central Commit
tee of Yolo has called a primary for Sep
TENDER 9th, and County Convention for
the following Monday
Large quantities of wheat are being
brought to the mills in this city daily on
farm wagons The price ranges according
to quality from 81 III to 81 80.
The proprietors cf concert saloons
were conducting their business quite mildly
last night consequent upon the complaint
made to the City Trustees yesterday
Chief Jackson has directed the officers to
arrest or drive out of town the class of in
dividuals known as lovers who obtain
their living from disreputable women.
Mrs. Tomlinson, wife Of Colonel J. H.
TomlinSon, the confidence operator recent
ly sentenced to the State Prison from Stock
ton and well known here, is taking steps to
secure divorce.
TheState Board of Equalization are busily
engaged i'll comparing the assessments of
the various counties. They will be en-
gagged in that capacity until the third Mon
day i'll September.
james g. Jeffress, .Tr., is under arrest at
San Francisco, for an attempt to obtain
money under false pretenses by represent
ing himself as a banker. He is reported to
have formerly lived i'll Sacramento.
If Investigator" will read the commu-
ncation of +. G. Atkinson, published in
yesterdays REcoRD-UYIoY, and examine
the work referred to, he will find complete
| answer to the letter received from him.
a Sacramento lady recently fitted up
little room at her residence as headquarters
for her birds, of which she had a large
number. a rat managed to gnaw his way
into the apartment one night, and killed
eight canaries and a mocking bird.
The Board of Underwriters of this city
gave banquet to some of their friends at
the French restaurant last evening. Sew
William 7. Coleman, President of the
Board, presided. The banquet lasted from
7:3O to II P. NJ.
Dr. Cutler says he has discovered truck
team that is badly glandered. To use his
expression, They are almost rotten with
it They are doing service on X and other
streets every day their owner trucking for
two or three of the principal wholesale
houses in the city.
The Tolo Mail says that Black Jack, the
stage robber and burglar, has completed his
term in the State Prison, and is said to be
in the vicinity of Davisville. His visit to
that place has revived an old story that
-, 900, the result of one of his many rob
berries was buried in that vicinity prior to
his arrest and conviction.
The steamers San Joaquin. No 3, and
| Dover arrived from the upper Sacramento
yesterday with grain; the steamers ID. f.
Knight and c. NJ Small came up from San
Francisco for Marysville with merchan-
disc. Sailed. steamer San Joaquin, No. 3,
! for Port Costa, with barge-load of grain;
steamer Dover, for the upper Sacramento,
| with merchandise; steamer Constance, for
San Francisco, with grain and merchandise.
DR.. r. B. Tibbitts, who was brought
back from Peavine, New, by Chief Jackson,
Sunday, on warrants sworn out by II. G.
| Megerle, accusing him Of embezzlement
and defrauding creditors, in connection
with the Pacific Coast Building and Provi-
dent Association trouble, only had about
SIS in his possession when arrested, and
| the prospects of the stockholders getting
| anything out of him are not promising.
| H. {. Howett, his partner is believed to
have gone East
! Officers Farrell, Sullivan and Arlington
arrested yesterday girl, not quite Is years
| of age and young man who had been in
her company, both having come TO Sacra-
mento within few days from San Fran
| cisco. 1t was supposed that he brought her
here to place her in house of prostitu-
| ton, but she claims that her parents told
her she might go with whoever she pleased,
and it is her intention to marry the young
man when she is Is years of age. His
| friends say that he is a Woodworking man
when he has a situation, and not a vagrant
of the " lover" class.
| A correspondent writes that the account
first received concerning the death, a few
days since, of Mrs. X. r. Bullock at Ply
mouth Anador county, was incorrect. She
was not found dead, the writer states. but
while passing along the road going to her
son-in- laws residence was seen to start
suddenly forward and fall She was i'm
mediatelyc onveyed TO her son-in-law's, and
n physician summoned, but died few
hours afterwards, and as the physician
stated, of heart disease She was the mother
of Mrs. J. a. King, of Sacramento, and A.
] T. Renwick, of San Francisco.
| THE largest and most varied assortment
of medium priced dress suitings can be
! found at the Red House than any other
store on the coast, 5 to so cents per yard.