Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-02-23
METROPOLITAN THEATER.


A large audience last evening welcomed
the first appearance on the coast Of NJ. B.
Leavitt's European Specially Combination.
It is thoroughly good company, and gives
ve-y amusing entertainment, rapid, varied,
some of it thrilling and nearly all of it
humorous. It is Of light character. of
course, but is full of the lsughter.making
element. The entertainment opened with q
character farce. in which Frank Bermer and
Ida Gardner assume several characters.
Fred. Mathews followed in grotesque dancing
and facial contortion, such as has never been
equslled. His features he molds at will into
many and totally dissimilar and thoroughly
amusing forms. The Selbinis are bicycle
riders of great skill and admirable sleight-
of.hand performers. One little "tot" of the
family, q mere iafant, rides dimiuutive
wheel with remarkable skill and causes great
merriment. Miss Lottie Elliott gives skip
ping-rope and double-fsce dance that is very
good. Her powers Of endurance in the rope ex-
ercise are especially noticeable. -Four Sham
rocks" is farcisl sketch by Conroy, Daily,
Thompson and Flynn. Frank and Sallie st.
Clair gave variety of clog dances and ststu-
esque poses in armor. Andy and Annie
Hughes il Irish character acts are especially
good, and the lady introduces also the
" champion sand dance" j. b. Harrington
and Arthur johnson gave laughable min
strel sketch. DAILY, dialect acter, appeared
in an original and very laughable German
sketch, and was repeatedly recalled for his
skiliful concsrtina solos and limitations.
Wanirstta, slack-wire walker, gave q per-
Torrance on q wire running the whole length
of the thester, that is probably the best ever
seen in this Seate-at least nothing to COM
pare with It is now recalled. In closing
farce by several members OF the company, d.
Mason took the leading role in dialect part,
and with entire SUCCESS. The company met
with favor from an audience, and will
" draw for the remainder of its engagement.
A matinee this afternoon, performance to-
night and final entertainment tomorrow
evening.
ENGINE DITcHED The Western Pacific
passenger train, due here at 2:10 yesterday,
did not reach the city until about an hour
and half later, having found at Niles a
landslide which buried the track to depth
of several feet for distarce of about one
hundred yards. The train returned to West
Oakland, and came up by the Martinez
route. The California and Oregon train vas
held to swat its arrival. As the Western
Pacific train, entering Sacramento, was round.
ing the turn at the foot of @ street., the en-
CINE suddenly jumped the rails, ran on the
ties about forty feet, and then tumbled down
the bank, landing upon its side. The tender
also went down the bank, and the forward
truck of the express car left the track. The
fireman threw himself from the cab just in
time to avoid being caught between it aud
the tender, and Harry Stevenson, the en-
gineer, after putting on the air-brakes,
crawled out of the cab window and gained
an erect attitude as the engine landed on her
side. Neither OF them, nor any one else, re-
ceived injury. The passengers walked up
town, and the railroad authorities immedi-
ately commenced clearing the track, aud
it is now open. The Sacramento VAL
ley train took It's departure early
in the evening, going around on the
levee by way of the Beet Sugar Factory. 1t
is supposed that the accident grew cut Of the
fact that some of the gravel recently put
upon the track near where il occurred had
collected against the rail, being held there by
the soft earth, and raised the wheels so that
they jumped the track.
A SCARE.-For some reason best known to
themselves two pigeons took possession of a
bedroom window in residence on NJ street
Sunday evening. and were so annoying with
their cooling that the proprietor of tie prem
ises about 10 o'clock drove them away. They
few into neighboring yard, and took up
quarters in a closet. It was very dark,
and when the lady CT the house went
to the closet the birds flew against
her. With shrieks and yells she made
for the house and locked the door, call
ing out, "Robber +" "Thief" and anything
else that was handy. Her cutlery alarmed
the neighborhood, and two young men hast
ened to her assistance. Procuring a lamp,
they marched boldly to the closet, peeped in,
and felt easier when they were able to an
nounce, There's no one here" "0f course
not; he wouldn't stay thers after the alarm
gave him." declared the lady. Then the
young men showed thsir detective ability
examined the woodsbed and every other
place, and searched for tracks on the soft
ground. They found some, traced them up,
and Get the neighborhood at rest by an.
nouncing that the robter had jumped the
fence and escaped.
TEMPERANCE MEETING Emily Pitt
Stevens delivered lecture last night at the
First Baptist Church on Ninth street. The
house was very well filed, and the audience
was interested from the beginning to the
close. She recounted most pathetically some
incidents of the fleets of drink which have
come under her observation, and appealed to
her hearers to know what they intended to
do aud if this crying evil should be allowed
to exist longer. She appealed to sbem, by
their manhood, to maintain the principles Of
right and extirpate this fearful cursa Show.
ing them the pledge, which lay on the table,
against all collusicn with the liquor crime,
she appealed to them to come forward, men
and women, and sign their declaration of in
dependence. Ons young man declared him
self ss resolved henceforth to oppose liquor,
and placed his naIhe on record with fifty
eight others. TIE audience wsa most en-
thusiastic and frequently applauded the
speaker. She announced that she would
speak again in the same place tomorrow
evening. The meeting closed with prayer by
Rev. j. q A. Henry.
SENATOR LANGFORD SUED.-Last Monday
Bernard Pope commenced suit in San
Josquin county against Senator B. F. Lang
ford to regain possession of the southwest
quarter Of section II, township north, range
6 east, and for 81, 900 DAMAGES end $4,000
rents and profits of the land from March,
1879, when defendant obtained possession of
the land, up to the present time. The com.
plaint recites that the plaintiff and L;satta
Pope were married in 1885 and lived TO-
ge; her until 1882; that they entered into
possession Of the land in dispute in 1868, and
fled homestead ON it in 1864; that they
were in possession of it until dispossessed by
the defendant, in 1879. and that it was never
sold or incnmbered in any way and that the
rents and profits are worth g 600 year. j.
G. Campbell, of Stockton, and Hon & Buck
ley of this city, are attorneys for the plaintiff.
They Cor LEFr.-Some time since old
Deacon Robinson died at Ophir, Placer
county. The old man lived alone in cabin,
and the night after his death four of the
neighbors volunteered to sit up with the
corpse. While they were thus engaged, the
old mans history, his eccentricities, and the
rumor that he had wealth buried, were the
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