Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-08-01
FIRE COMMISSIONERS, MEEr1Ne.-The


FIRE COMMISSIONERS MEErING.-The
regular monthly meeting of the Board of
Fire Commissioners was held last evening,
all the members being. present. Minutes
of the previous meeting were approved.
On motion, the payroll for the month of
July for 81, 525, was duly allowed and
ordered paid. On motion, the following
bills were allowed and ordered paid: H
NJ Bernard $40 so, d. McCarty $3S 65,
Gutta Percha Rubber Company 81, James
McClatchy 81, Sacramento Lumber Com
pany 50 35 Continental Oil Company 80
cents, c. McCreary e. Co. SO %, Dale & Co.
$11, A. Dennery s., Charles Zeitler So 55,
Wiesel & Son 81 so, Nixon e. Wheeler S.
C. Sullivan 500, Myers & Barber $40 80,
Mint Brass Works $15 IS, C. E. Adams $11,
j. C. Chadderdon IS cents, California Wire
Works 81 %. Friend & Terry Lumber Com
pany 81 SO, X. A. Fisk $25, ID. O. Cook
81 TO- c. Nelson 81 25, Whittier, Fuller &
Co. So, Charles E. Berry 800. r. S. Jones
| S. 25 p j. Coffev & Son 81, NJ. McElaney
SIS, Capital Gas Company $11 20, Hunting
ton, Hopkins & Co. 81, J. P. McManus
So 10, C. A. Gillespie $40, L. B. Smart SIS.
Reports of the different foremen on fires
and alarms for the month of July were re-
ceived and placed on file No further bust
ness, the Board adjourned.
CHANGE IN SrUDIEs.-Sacramento is not
alone in revising the course of study in its
! high school and permitting less promi-
hence to be given to the study of the dead
| languages. Several such revisions have
recently in high schools and col
| leges been noticed, and among them
| Harvard College of which the Chicago
| Current says The faculty of Harvard Col
| lege have so modified the course for the
degree of Bachelor of Arts that the fresh
man class of next year will not be required
| to study in college either Greek, Latin or
mathematics, though all will be demanded
at the entrance examinations. Next year
the prescribed studies of the freshmen will
| be rhetoric and English composition, Ger
man and French, physics and chemistry
| They will also have the privilege of choice
| for the first time, and will be required to
choose three full courses. The effect of the
change is to relegate Latin and Greek, par
ticularly, to positions of secondary impor-
lance.
| WHERE ARE HIS RELATIVES John Tai
bot, Central Pacific ticket agent at Sacra-
mento, received the following dispatch
from T. H. Goodman, San Francisco, last
evening, which is self-explanatory Gen
| eral Ticket Agent Stebbens, U. p r. R..
wires us as follows: Bright boy, II years
of age, here, named Joseph Franklin, from
| Brooklyn, n. Y. Father and mother died
! there He is,trying to reach Sacramento.
| Had S25 to- vt with, which he paid con-
ductors as he came along; now out OF
funds. Please see if his brother, Frank
Franklin, Front street, Sacramento, or his
sister Mrs. 0'Brien, same city, will pay
I hi faro aud for !,
| you can find the parties named. and wire
us their wishes in the matter So far
Mr.. Talbot has been unable to find the
parties referred to.
0PENAIR CONCERT To-NIGHT-The Hus-
sar Band will give an open-air concert in
Capitol Park this evening, commencing al
8 O'clock. Music will be discoursed as fol.
| lows: Quick march, Hercules" Brown
overture, Tournament" Boyer Yankee
| Doodle Polka, J. Levy; overture, Babes
in the Wood, Boyer; waltz, "Ellenoren, "
Boyer; overture, az Peek Boo" Watson
Concert Galop Illusion, Roger; "Auld
Lang Syne."
! Found IN A BorTLE.-Two or three DAYS
ago son of local officer May found &
oorkai bottle floating in the river, and or
Opening it saw scrap of paper-portion O
the label of an oyster can. On this wa.
written in pencil: Il, William Jacob
drowned myself in A NJ. Riv. May the
18th, near 18th st. bridge act thus or
account of deseasen 1t may be that thi.
refers to the unknown man found in tn,
river below CORTLAND early this week
PRISONER EN- RoUTE.-Constable Benja
min Colburg, of Stockton, brought up from
San Francisco last evening prisoner
named VIM Lutte whom he is cOnyeyinf
to Nevada City, to answer for an assault t
murder. He is an escape from the jail a
that place.
ARREsTs.-The following arrests were
made yesterday; Lewis Wright, by officer
Rider, for disturbing the peace; Sam Low
by Chief Jackson and officer Rider, for bat
terry Jim Flanagan, by officer Ash, fol
disturbing the peace.