Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-06-13
BRIEF NOTES.


Services in honor of Corpus Christi were
held in st. Rose Church yesterday
Gait Postoffice, in this county, will BIZ
made money-order office next month.
The rain had the effect of raising the
Sacramento river to 20 feet II inches yes.
terday.
The Board of Officers of the First Ar
tillery Regiment meets at headquarters this
evening.
The only arrest made yesterday was that
of Pat Lynch, by officer Farrell, for dis
turbing the peace.
The Sacramento Band of Hope will give
a literary entertainment at Westminster
Church this evening
Joshua H. Smith, Jr., a young man well
known in Folsom, died there ON Wednes-
day, after very brief Hines.
Last night rain was falling at all points
on the line of the California and Oregon
Railroad, and also on {" the hill
A disguised sportsman calculated yester-
day: Talk about dove-shooting We're
going to have duck-shooting firstr'
Aaron Carbury, of Spring Valley, Shasta
county, who had been visiting the city for
about two weeks, returned home yester-
day.
To-day's freight train from the East will
| bring to Sacramento, en- route for Red
| Bluff, the instruments for brass band at
that place.
1t is expected that the yacht which the
Azalea Steam Yacht Club is having built
in this city will be ready for launching in
about ten days.
w. w. Morrow, J. r. Finlayson, W. H.
Parks and Oregon Sanders, of the Republi-
! can delegates to Chicago, returned this
morning from the East.
Joseph Guth, deputy in the office of
County Clerk Coglan, has gone to Blue
Canyon for the benefit of his health, which
has been very poor recently.
| So far but about 1000 salmon have been
received at the cannery of the Capitol Pack
| ing Company in this city, and half of those
came from the lower Sacramento.
Sentence in the case of John NJ. Porter,
for murder of the second degree was yes
| terday in Department One of the Superior
Court postponed until 10 \. NJ. to-day.
The Young Peoples Guild of Calvary
Baptist Church. and the Young Ladies'
Missionary Society, will give a literary and
musical entertainment at the church this
evening.
A number of horsemen who had visited
San Francisco to attend the races returned
home yesterday, saying that the Bay Dis
trict track was too muddy to be raced over
for some days.
Frank A. Schuler has leased the Fifth
street Hotel formerly the Helvetia House,.
which has been recently reconstructed in
the interior, and has fifty newly-ftlrnished
rooms. The opening will take place to-
morrow evening.
Union Degree Lodge No. ), 10. OF.
has elected the following officers for the
ensuing term; Degree Master, H. f. &.
Wulff; Deputy Degree Master, \. S. Hop
kins; Recording Secretary, Alex. Smith;
Treasurer H. 2. Jensen.
Yesterdays passenger train via Stockton
was fifty minutes behind time in It's arrival
here, having been detained at Lathrop TO
connect with the Southern Pacific train.
The California and Oregon train was held
here to await its arrival.
The wrecking train from this city yester-
day morning picked up the locomotive and
five ears of the pile-drivcr train which got
off the track few miles this side of Sui
sun Wednesday night. The locomotive
was brought to Sacramento.
L. j. Rose, of Sunny Slope. Los Angeles
county, shipped to Chicago by the express
train Wednesday evening nine young trot-
tiers from his establishment, including Cen
ter. phenomenal four-year-Old. They all
have engagements in the colt stakes in the
East.
DR.. W f. Cutler, V. s.. SAYS that the
valuable thoroughbred stallion Jim Doug
las, spoken of in Yesterdays RECORD UNION
as being dangerously afflicted with pink
eye, is not suffering from that disease, but
from spinal meningitis. The doctor re-
ports him to be doing well.
General John McComb, Warden of the
State Prison at Folsom, and State Prison
Director W. c. Van Fleet left for San Fran
cisco Yesterday to attend the funeral of the
late Charles f. Robbins, which takes place
at Oakland to-day. John Simpson, of this
city, also went down for the same purpose.
Colonel J. H. Tomlinson, who was ar
rested recently u Woodland for an alleged
embeZZlement, on a dispatch from San
Francisco has been taken to the latter
place He is accused by NJ Warde, liquor
dealer, for whom he was canvassing, and
who charges him with having appropriated
about $3.50.
a number of deaf and dumb young
ladies from the Institute at Berkeley came
up to the city yesterday, en- route for their
homes in this s'icinity and the northern
portion of the State. The ease with which
they carried on a conversation with their
fingers and by the use of signs was some
thing marvellous.
The artificial stone sidewalk recently
laid in front of the county buildings on /
street, near Seventh, has been taken posses
sion of by the little children of the neigh
borhood as a skating rink, and the wee
people have great fun there every afternoon
and evening. Yesterdays rain was not
heavy enough to drive them all away.
A Granger stepped out Of the Golden
Eagle yesterday morning, remarking that
the rain was a great disaster. At the same
moment gentleman stepped across from
the Capital Hotel, all aglOw with smiles
asked everybody in to take drink and led
the Granger in by the arm. When all were
fixed, the man who treated held his glass
aoft and said Here, boys, is to Jupiter
Pluvius.' He was a street-sprinkler,
The rain of Wednesday, although small
affair, sent down Il quantity of drainage
water to the vicinity of Fourth and Fifth
and K streets, which boiled up through the
manholes at the intersections of those
streets, and also ran out through holes in
the R-strcet sewer between Fourth and
Fifth, overlooking the land near by, and
causing people residing in the vicinity to
fear an unpleasant smell and unhealthy
effect as soon as the hot sun affects it.
There certainly appears to be some error in
the system of sewerage III that locality.
SENSIBLE CoNCLUsIoN.-Men very often
during election times, especially Presiden-
tial, make some very reckless wagers, and
do some exceedingly foolish things. On