Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-07-25
BRIEF NOTES.

The Sacramento was down 10 II feet 5
| inches last evening.
| Twelfth street, from II to ], is being
graded and cobbled.
! Two carloads of immigrants arrived from
the East this morning.
A hav-wagon team enjoyed runaway
on Tenth street yesterday, from l. TO },
but did no damage.
Three companies of the Fourteenth {. 5.
Infantry arrived from the East yesterday,
and went to the Bay.
A. A. Redington commenced yesterday
| the construction of a neat residence at the
corner of Fifteenth and II streets.
The steamer Dover arrived from the up
per Sacramento yesterday with barge load
of grain and returned with merchandise
Flint d Leeman shipped to San Fran
cisco yesterday two bales of hops, said to
be the first shipment OF ripe hops of the
| season.
The ladies of the NJ E. Church South
will give an ice-cream social in the base
ment of the church. Seventh street, be-
tween J and K, this evening.
The Company B Boat Club were out
Wednesday evening in their new boat, the
Vesatri, accompanied by several lady
| friends, and all had a pleasant time.
The only arrests made yesterday were
those of g. w. Kicker, by officer Coffey, for
misdemeanor, and Frank Saunders, by
officer Coffey, for disturbing the peace.
Sheriff Mcclellan, of Butte county, passed
| through the city yesterday, conveying to
| the Stockton Asylum an insane man named
Smith, who is an escape from that inStitu-
| ton
One of the Sacramento street-car drivers
was figuring up yesterday the number of
| miles he has driven since he has been Oh
the road, and found the aggregate to be
about 1913, 900.
A new SiX-inch irOnstOne sewer is being
| laid on the north side Of II street, from
| Twelfth to Thirteenth. 1t is to connect the
| City Brewery with the main sewer. j. G.
Plummer is the contractor.
Hart & White, attorneys, submitted to
the Board of Supervisors yesterday prop
osition to conduct the hydraulic mining
suits for the county for $1,000. The Board
will consider the matter shortly.
Judge Armstrong yesterday granted
motion to reduce the bail cf Cyrus B.
| Cooper, charged with bigamy, to $500, and,
as the prisoner succeeded in giving bonds
to that amount, he is now at liberty.
In Department One of the Superior
Court, Yesterday, Walter Teller Carman,
native of Canada, was admitted to citizen
ship on the testimony of A. S. Carman,
George z. Bates and C. A. Hooper
Supervisors Smith and Bailey, acting as
a committee from the Sacramento Super
visors, went to Fairfield yesterday to con
fer with the Supervisors of Solano relative
to action against the hydraulic miners.
F. e. Elliott is having four handsome
cottages bay-window fronts, erected on the
south side of / street, between Sixteenth
and Seventeenth. The fronts are all alike,
and the houses are finished with all the
modern improvements.
A Young man named Stearns attempted
suicide at Winters last Tuesday by cutting
his throat while insane. He was taken to
the County Hospital at Woodland and died
on Wednesday. He was a native of Wood
land, and a stranger on this coast.
AT Big MEADows-A Sacramentan who
recently returned from Prattville says that
the fishing at Big Meadows this season is
better than it has been for years About
ten days ago Il San Franciscan caught
trout there with fly and found it to weigh
nine pounds.
At Westminster Presbyterian Church
this evening there will be an entertainment
for the benefit of Bethany Mission Sabbath
school, whose building was damaged by
| the Front-strect fire last week. There will
be an interesting programme of exercises,
| and refreshments will be served.
According TO the Alta, J. Wardin, an
escaped Russian exile from Siberia. has
written deter from Sacramento to the
Russian Consul here, asking him to pro-
vide a passage to his native country He
has been in this free land year, but he
prefers to live among his own people
The express train from the East did not
reach this city Yesterday until | P NJ. hay
ing been delayed in its departure from Og-
den, and being unable 10 make up any
time, owing to the large number Of cars
composing ii. The noon train from the
Bay yesterday was forty minutes behind
time in its arrival here.
Raphael Vasquez, frequent occupant of
the prisoners box in the Police Court, was
taken TO the station-house by Health Off
Ger Ferral yesterday, bleeding freely from
a bad cut on the forehead, which he said he
received in consequence of a fall. The
police are of the impression that some one
made him fall.
Complaint has been made to the police
that boys have been in the habit lately of
climbing over the fence into the st. Joseph's
Convent grounds and robbing the fruit
trees. 1t is not the loss of the fruit that is
complained of particularly, but the ruthless
manner in which the trees are broken, the
garden injured, etc.