Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-01-17
LOCAL DASHES.

The City Board of Equalization will hold
its concluding session this morning.
! Sarah NJ. Hapemsn was yesterday in the
| Superior Court granted divorce from A. II.
Hspemsn.
Red Jacket Tribe, No. rs, Imp. o. R. NJ,
paid fraternsl visit to Owesso Tribe, No.
80, last evening.
Burt Merkendoller has been appointed
Porter Of the State Library, vice J. F.
! Brown, resigned.
Officers Dillman and Farrell made raid
on the opium. smokers of l street last night,
and arrested thirteen Chinamen.
The Folsom Telegraph has changed hands.
1t will not appear again until che LIST of Feb
rusry. The new proprietor is W. Il. Crowel.
| Sumner Post, No. 3, g. A. R., will have a
grand muster and banquet tomorrow even
ing. National and Department officers will
| be present.
The State Library rooms are being reno
waited throughout. The private Office has
been recsrpeted, the walls frescoed and many
other improvements made.
The chain-gang. under the excellent man
agement of Deputy Sheriffs Garrett and Nell
son, is doing good work. They are taking
ali the mud and loose dirt from the cobbled
streets.
Carlton Richards, young American, came
up from San Francisco yesterday, in response
to dispatch from Superior Judge Armstrong,
! to act as Chinese interpreter in cases before
| the Grand Jury.
The property known as Arnolds Saddle
| Rock Oyster House, Second street, between
and K, comprising lot 20 by 20 feet, was
sold at auction yesterday. and purchased by
Thomas Dryer for So, 275.
The Rochester Store, Ninth and streets,
was attached yesterday. The principal cred
itor is the Board of Trade, San Francisco, in
the sum of So, 900 but there are other isbil-
tiles, making total of about s., 900.
In the window of L. L. Lewis & Co., on J
street, is the life.sized portrait of the little
daughter of officer o. G. Jackson, which was
painted by her uncle, w. F. Jackson. It is
true to life, and one of the best efforts of Mr..
jackson.
The Raymond Holmes Comedy Company
arrived here yesterday from the upper por
ton of the State and will take rest until
tomorrow night. when they will open at the
Metropolitan. They have been on the road
about three months.
There came down from Folsom yesterday
carload of granite blocks for the dry dock at
Mare Island. From their appearance it is
easy to see that the States quarry at the Fol.
som prison, from whence they came, is val
liable piece of property.
John Buck, an employee of Scott & Muir
met with an accident at the masquerade
Tuesday evening. One of the maskers, while
turning a somersault, accidentally struck him
in the face with the heel of his boot, inhict.
ing severe cash over the left eye.
In Department One of the Superior Court
Yesterday, Carl Emil Scheunert was admit
ted to citizenship on the testimony of J. M.
Gattman and Charles L. Baron. Gregorio
Cifuentes Yves also admitted, on the testimony
of James T. Barron and Joseph E. Leiva.
Charles Croker ard J. B. Wright, accom-
panying Government Railroad Commission
ers Edgar Mills, J. w. Neff and Christopher
Green, leave this moring to inspect and. If
satisfied, accept the last twenty miles COM
pleted of the California and Oregon Railroad.
Workmen are engaged putting in condition
tor use the large frame building on Second
street, near l. adjoining the old Lambard
mill, with which it was formerly connected.
1t is about 120 feet long By 10 wide, and will
be used by the owners Of the Pioneer mill as
a storehouse.
Last Tuesday some thief stole from r. J.
Merkley's premises, just below the city, a
bear.skin buggy robe. and also wooden robe.
Mr.. Merkley prizes the bear skin very highly,
because Of the desperate encounter the hun
ter who gave it to him had to secure it from
its original owner.
The oficarg-elect of Sacramento Command
cry, X. T., will be installed at Masonic Tenn
pie this evening. After the installation there
will be banquet and ball. The Command
cry will meet at l P. NJ, to act as escort to
Stockton Commandery, which will arrive by
the Western Pacific train.
Thomas Abel, while drunk, amused him.
self breaking windows in Chinese houses on
Third street, between 1 and j, a5out II
o'clock last night. The Celestials made
great cutlery and blew police whistle, at
tracing several officers to the scene. Abel
was arrested after footrace and charged
with malicious mischief.
II. S. Lockwood, an old resident of Sacra.
mento, has purchased a piece of property,
known as the Foster place, in Amador county,
60 miles from Sacramento, 10 above Fiddle
town and above Volcano, on the main trsv-
eled road to Silver Lake. He says that game
of all kinds abounds in the vicinity, and
there is excellent trout fishing not far dis
tsnt. He will make all his sporting friends
welcome who travel that way next season,
and show them the good places.
w. NJ. Kimber, who has had more peculiar
experiences than any other hunter, the fur
cap and bucksbin-leggl0gs heroes OF Cooper
ct al. not barred, related the other evening
that while shooting in the tules recently he
was much annoyed by another man, who had
q stand sixty yards distant. Finally Kimber
got mad, put some heavy shot in his gun,
and fired point blank at the other sportsman,
but at that second flock of white geese few
between them, and the charge killed six,
while the man escaped unhurt.
FRUIT FROM NEwCAsTLE.-The following
shows the amount of fruit shipped by freight
from Newcastle last season: May, 1852
boxes, $3.50 pounds; June. 9,337 boxes,
195, $50 pounds; July, 12,041 boxes, 3S1. $50
pounds; August. 20,2l4 boxes, 693 400
pounds; September, 1884 boxes, 34S, 800
pounds; October, 1853 boxes, 1850
pounds. There were also about 30, 900 boxes
shipped by express. The number is much
more than that of last season.
LITERARY SocIETY.-The Sacramento Lit
erary and Dramatic Society held their regu
lar meeting Wednesday evening. After the
routine business, the following programme
was rendered Recitation, Mr.. Hunter
band solo, Miss johnson; vocal solo, Miss
Galligan recitation, Mrs. Seadler,
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