Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-11-05
RRlEF NOTES.

The Sacramento river has receded to
eight feet above low-water mark.
Two carloads of Immigrants arrived
from the East yesterday morning.
Travel by rail yesterday was very light
everybody that could remaining at home 10
vote.
A special train of twenty-five carloads OF
beef cattle went through to San Francisco
from Nevada yesterday.
The box Office at the Metropolitan thea
ter will be open to-day for the sale OF re-
served seats for the opera,
The Government snagboat Seller and
her barge have gone to the Mokelumne
river to remove snags as far up as Benson S
Ferry.
The steamer San joaquin No. arrived
from Port Costa yesterday, light and the
steamer Neponset, from the upper Sacra-
mento with produce.
The steamer being built on the ways in
Washington for the San joaquin Company
has her planks in position, and will soon
be ready for her upper works.
Since the street-sprinkling contracts ex-
piref3 dust has accumulated in the streets in
a very disagreeable manner, and driving
about town is not us pleasant as it might
be.
The report of the Gait school for the last
month was as follows Number of boys,
u.s. girls, 81 total number of scholars, 105.
Average number belonging. 96; percentage
of attendance "a.
Charles Logan was arrested at Folsom on
Monday by Deputy Sheriff McComber on a
warrant sworn out by Charles More of this
city, who accuses him of embezZlement.
Logan was brought to the city Jail.
Garlic K Croly have all the material on
the ground, and this morning will COM
mence vigorously the work of constructing
a bridge at the old mouth of the American
river, for which they have q contract from
the Board of Supervisors.
The trading steamer which Mendis Il
Bemis have had constructed at San Fran
cisco, to take the place of the Neponset,
will be up here i'll about week. She is
said to be quite Il handsome craft, well
suited for the business required of her.
The steamers Flora, Dover and Harriet
arrived Yesterday from the upper Sacra-
mento with grain, and returned light: the
steamer SOnOma arrived from San Fran
cisco with a barge load of lumber for the
Friend IL Terry Lumber Company; the
steamer Clara Bell sailed for the upper
f>acfalhelllO WIFI produce.
Thomas McAlpine, mentioned in yester-
days dispatches rs having been knocked
out by John 5. Barnes at st. Paul, in a
| prize fight with hard gloves on the Missis-
sippi. is believed 10 be an individual who
| lived in Sacramento many years, and was
known by the sobriquet of Soap"
A few days since, while Thomas Jahant
of Woodbridge was returning home from
IL. 10
| driving across one of the Dry creek bridges.
As he was crossing the last bridge his horse
became frightened and unmanageable, and
| Iahant jumped from his buggy, causing Il
| fracture of the right leg below the knee.
The trotting meeting at the Bay District
Course San Francisco, announced to com
mencc to-day. and last through the week,
| will be cllrtailed in proportions, the purses
| for the 4~vear-uld class and the 2:2l class
having failed 10 fill, leaving only the OBJ
| and 2:27 classes with the requisite number
| of entries Wilbur +. Smith, of this city,
entered Tll;psin for the4 yc&r-old class and
Adair for the Dbl class, but ii does not APP
pear that they will have Il chance to show
their speed,
Cresco Lodge. No Dos. l. O. g. T., has
elected the following officers for the cnsu-
ing term: W. c. f., d. Nanderhu0f; W.
Y. T., Mrs l.. a. Brewster; W. s. z. II.
I.atourrc;te: W f. 5. L. D. Brown trc-
ed Treasurer, W. II. Meacham (re-clcct-
elected; ". NJ, Henry OXender; W. l.
g., Miss Viola Packard: ". O. G., A. N.
AubcrtuS. Hillsdale Lodge. No. 231, OF
Clay Station, has elected as follows: W.
c. r., John Brenton; W. V. T.. Miss Matte
Camady; ". S, T.. Sayles; ". +. s, Miss
Kitty Craig; w. T., Mrs. ID. Sayles; W.
NJ, Silas Canady; W. |. G., Robt. Craig.
Jr; w. 0. G., John Wilson.