Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-12-29
BRIEF NOTES.
One carload of immigrants arrived thi

One carload of immigrants arrived this
morning.
| The officers elected of the various Ma
sonic Lodges were installed Saturday night
The City Board of Education will hold
its regular monthly meeting this evening
The Emma Abbott opera company ar
rived from the East yesterday, en- route foI
San Francisco.
Five carloads of hop poles left this city
Saturday afternoon on the Sacramento Val
! ley road for hop yards near Folsom.
The family of the late Thomas Bryte,
| who was drowned few days ago, offer a
reward for the recovery of his body.
The weather having given the railroad
men chance to work, they have got all
| the routes in good order again, and trains
are running as before the storm.
A little daughter of Chas. r. Parsons fell
| from second-story window to the ground
Saturday but the fall was to some extent
broken by tree and she only received
bruises.
The crossing at the alley on the east side
of Fifth street, between X and L, is in q
very dilapidated condition, and at times
during the late severe storm was almost I'M
passable.
The County Board of Education's exam-
nation of applicants for teachers certif-
Gates will be held in the High School
building, and will commence this morning
al 8 o'clock.
Judge Mcfarland ON Saturday, in the
case of Bright VS.. Hodgdon, in which the
former contested the election of the latter
as a Supervisor of Yolo county, rendered a
decision in favor of Hodgdon.
One of the mail carriers thus discourses
on women: y married woman is letter
delivered at home. A young lady is an
unmailed letter. An old maid is an epistle
uncalled for at the Postotfice."
The remains of the late Benz Billiard,
ST., were brought to the city from Davis
vile yesterday, and large number of
friends attended the funeral, which took
place from the residence of H. G. Smith.
Nearly the entire population of Sacra-
mento was ''out for walk" yesterday, and
the flooded section near Washington being
an object of interest. the bridge was con-
stantly filled with people going over or
returning.
The Sacramento river did not get above
"A feet inches Saturday, and yesterday
morning il fell Il few inches. A rise subse-
quently occurred, and at II o'clock last
night the gauge showed "a feet 5! inches.
The river had ceased to rise.
A report prevailed Saturday that the
levee surrounding the Pierson district, on
the lower Sacramento, had broken, but, in
reply to dispatch making inquiry,
answer was returned that such was not the
ease. The Stanton Island levee was said
to have given way, however.
VIM. Morse, who was so shockingly
wounded III the face near Vina week or
ten days ago, in consequence of the acct
dental discharge of his gun while he was
hunting, and was brought to Sacramento,
is doing as well as could be expected at the
County Hospital, and there is good reason
to believe that he will recover.
Sergeant Barwick reports the rainfall
since Saturday at this point as being .O6 of
an inch making 1915 for the month and
1906 inches for the season, as against 2.92
inches to January LIST of last season. The
total rainfall for this month is: for Red
Bluff, 40 inches; Sacramento, 1915
inches; San Francisco, 7GS inches Los
Angeles, 4.G5 inches, and San Diego, 4.S3
inches.
A large band of sheep, belonging to
Heilbron Bros. were brought to the city
from the lower Sacramento by yesterday S
steamer, the land where they have been
grazing having become covered with water,
in consequence of the late storm. The
same firm had several carloads of beef
cattle come down on Saturday from Delta,
where they had been storm-bound, on their
way to san Francisco.
| About o'clock last evening two men en-
gagged in an Jmpleasantness on the south
side Oi street between Second and Third,
and in a few minutes Il crowd of over one
hundred spectators had assembled The
contestants dried up the moisture on the
sidewalk with one another for Il short time
but were separated before either had suf-
fered seriously. One of them subsequently
explained, If | hadn't been h'isting in
SO much beer to-day I'd a parlyzed him -
Two running horses, one owned at Dutch
Flat and the other at Lincoln, are quartered
at the Park, and, so far as the weather will
permit, being made ready for match race
for $3.50 a side, half-mile heats, which is to
take place if possible on New Years Day or
next Sunday. The track has been closed to
horsemcn since the storm commenced, and
consequently will be in pretty good condi-
ton as soon as it dries which it will not
take many days to do if the weather holds
good.
The San Francisco BreedeY and .Spo,tsndt
says MI btiICllltu W III SlOIll lCSiN (
the city under engagement to the Turn
Vercin, of Sacramento. For seventeen
years past Mr. Gerichten has been teacher
of gymnastics in this city. During that
period many thousands of our citizens have
been pupils of Mr.. Gerichten. He was in
structor of the Olympic Club for fourteen
years, besides which he has also taught the
Turn Verein and Verein Eintracht Societies
for number of years. Prior to his depart
IRE it is intended to give him gigantic
benefit, at which all the leading lights OF
the many athletic clubs of this city will
take part"