Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-04-15
BRIEF NOTES.

| The Sacramento river i Il Ieel apoNe iOn-
water mark.
Two carloads of immigrants arrived last
night from the East.
The annual picnic of the Imp. Q. R. NJ.
! viii take place ut Natoma Grove May 18th.
Up 10 April 18th the rainfall at Wood
! land for the season amounted 10 1919
inches.
Steel rails are being laid on the Califor-
mia and Oregon road between Roseyille and
Marysyille
There came out from the East yesterday,
| consigned 10 parties in Woodland, safe
weighing II, 500 pounds.
The Jail at Woodland is so empty that
they are asking loan of prisoner from
other counties for starter.
St. Paul's Church picnic will take place
at Natoma Grove Tuesday, the 18th inst.
Jones, Beebe & Grant will furnish music.
A party of sixty-five excursionists, who
came out from the East by the southern
| route few weeks since, will return home
ward by the overland tomorrow night
The Y-street pump has rid the city of the
drainage water concerning which COM
plant was recently made by citizens re-
siding in the southwestern portion of the
town.
Wong Fun Kun, under sentence of i'm
/ prisonment at Folsom for four years, for
/ an attempt 10 kidnap, was brought up from
| san Francisco by Deputy Sheriff Farrell
last evening.
| The lecture that was to have been given
! by Rev. DIR. Sprecher of San Francisco, at
| the First Baptist Church last evening, was
! postponed, as the lecturer for some reason
| failed to come.
! Among the names of the successful cam
didates who received tirSt-grade State GER
! titicateS the other day the name of Miss
Laura Kim appeared. 1t should have been
Miss Laura Kim.
| An order was made by Judge Armstrong,
in Department One of the Superior Court
yesterday, directing that a special session of
the Court be held, commencing May LIST, to
try the cause of Coglan vs. Beard.
The infant child of Frank McLain, of
| Franklin township, that received injury at
the hands of Il cOlored nurse girl recently,
as mentioned i'll the RECoRD-U MON, is SO
i'll that it is feared it cannot recover.
\ correspondent inquiries whether Sacra-
mento and vicinity have not already had
forty days and forty nights of rain, and if
Ii does not appear that the clerk of the
weather is endeavoring to beat the record.
The work of paving X street, from Front
to Second, which was interfeTed with ST.
much by the bad weather, has been nearly
completed, all that remains To be done
being at the intersection OF Second and X
streets
DR.. s. f. Chaplin, Inspector of Pests, who
is now visiting the orchards of the Sacra-
mento valley, states that he intends to be at
/ Chico on Wednesday, Vina on Thursday,
Red Bluff on Friday. and Orland ON Satur-
day next.
1t is said that the recent rise in the Sac
ramento compelled G.. F. Reed to abandon
the work of closing the break in the levee
on his premises at Knights Landing, and
his land and that of Sir John Kaye will be
badly flooded.
Martin Buckley, well known in this Vi
cinity rs conductor on the Sacramento
Division of the Central Pacific Railroad,
died on the ID instant, at Walla Walla, of
| typhoid fever. He had been living in that
section about year.
The arrests made yesterday were those of
! John Hunter and John Williams, by officer
/ Frazce, for vagrancy; Thomas Knable, by
officers Frazee and Kent, for disturbing the
| peace and Lizzie Valentine, by the same
officers, for being drunk.
The prize won by the Sacramento
/ Knights Of Pythias at Stockton in the conf
I pctitive drill last week is on exhibition in
/ the window of Jcllys jewclry store, j
street. between Fourth and Fifth. 1t is CEN
ter fruit piece of silver, and very hand
| some.
| There was no session of the Police Court
| yesterday, owing to the illness of Judge
! Henry, vino, in addition to having been i'll
! himself, is worn out sitting up with little
child which he and his wife adopted, it be
/ ing virtually without a home, and which is
50 sick that it is not expected to recover.
/ Yesterday, in Department One of the Su-
/ perior Court, in the case of the People vs.
Angelo Corvello, charged with burglary in
entering the premises of q. Paladini, on |.
street between Second and Third, with in
tent to steal, about month ago, the prison
or withdrew his former plea of not guilty,
pleaded guilty. and was sentenced to a term
of two wears in the State Prison at Folsom.
Judge Mcfarland yesterday, in the case
OF the Sacramento Lumber Company VS.
Helena Wagner ct al, decided that 4 mar
ried woman can make valid contract for
the payment of money, or in fact any con-
tract any person can make, excepting one
of a matrimonial character. OF course it
would not be binding upon the community
I property of herself and husband but only
as regards her individual property.
The venire for sixty jurors, to serve dur
ing the April session Of the Superior Court,
| is retuuablc at 10 4. NJ. to-day. There is
/ plenty for the jurors to attend TO- as there
are about thirty prisoners in the County
Jail awaiting trial including one Chinaman
! for murder and one or two for riot, in con
ncction with the trouble on street for
/ which Mock Soon has been convicted of
murder in the first degree and Charley Sing
/ is on trial.