Sacramento daily record-union., 1884-06-17
BRIEF NOTES.

| The ProhibitionistStateC Convention meets
at San Francisco to-day.
The rainfall at Madison, Yolo county, for
the late storm amounted to 2.93 inches.
The first open-air concert of the season
will be given at the Plaza this evening.
The weather in this city was quite warm
Yesterday, the thermometer getting up to
So.
A social and literary entertainment will
be given at Kingsley NJ. E. Church to-
morrow evening.
E. W. Cole, of Woodland, had one of his
thumbs cut off by a circular saw at Cald-
wells planning mill last Saturday.
The latest request for description of
Tom Lawton, the fugitive Tullis murderer,
was received in this city yesterday from
Chico.
The meeting of the Alumni of the High
School, which was TO have been held this
evening, has been postponed until further
notice.
The Sacramento County Board of Educa-
ton will hold an examination of applicants
for teachers certificates on Wednesday, the
25th inst
The steamer Sonoma arrived from San
L
lumber for the Friend & Terry Lumber
Company and w. f. Frazer.
Laborers are in demand in the country
just now to handle hay, and scores left the
city yesterday with their blankets, on foot
and by various means of conveyance
AT their meeting last Saturday the Board
of Education of Yolo county granted rec
concentrations for life diplomas to the State
Board TO c. E. Dingle and W. H. Baker.
Miss Minnie McNasser, granddaughter
of Colonel James McNasser, of the Golden
Eagle Hotel, is dangerously i'll.
The Woodland Postoffice has been re-
moved into new quarters at the Craft
House, and is there located so conveniently
that the residents of the town are greatly
pleased.
Information from various sections of
Sacramento county is to the effect that the
grain crop will come out with but slight
damage, but the hay crop has suffered
severely.
J. W. Watt City Taper, has finished
laying the six-inch main in the alley from
Seventh to Ninth streets, between J and X.
This gives a six-inch main in that alley
from Second to Ninth streets.
Deputy Sheriff Short, of San Luis Obispo
county, passed through the city yesterday,
taking 10 the State Prison at Folsom
prisoner named Thomas Nannetti, who is
to serve three years for burglary.
Lars Peter Anderson and Samuel Ander-
son, natives of Sweden. were yesterday, in
Department One of the Superior Court adj
mitted to citizenship on the testimony of
Edward Paddison and Niles Bearnsen.
Street Commissioner Nielsen intends
having all the principal streets and alleys
of the city cleaned up between now and
the Fourth of July by the chain-gang.
They commenced work yesterday ON J
street at Second.
In Justice Tubbs' Court Yesterday Ben.
Brown pleaded guilty of battery upon a
man at the Grangers' picnic at Beachs
Grove few weeks ago, and was fined $50
He recently was fined $50 in the same Court
for disturbance of the peace ON the same
occasion.
John J. Carberry, a native of Brown
Ohio aged 56 years, died yesterday
in the town of Washington, of cOnsump-
tion. He was an old resident of this State.
and for many Years pilot on the river
The funeral will take place from his late
residence in Washington at P. NJ. to-day.
The recent heavy rain did not prove in
furious to the graSshopper crop at White
Rock and vicinity. They came out yester-
day as fresh as daisies and were so numer-
Gus on the railroad track that the train |
after stopping at White Rock, had diff |
Guilty in starting up again, because of the |
wheels slipping.
Hebron Bros, as a means of bringing |
the city ordinance under which they have |
been arrested for misdemeanor before the |
Superior Court for 4 decision as to its legal |
itv. sued out a writ of habeaS corpus last |!
Saturday, and were taken before Judge |
Armstrong. who heard the argument of |
counsel and took the matter under advise |
ment.
Word was left at the station-hoUse last |
night that a 7-year-oid son of J. II. Quat- |
man attended the tight-rope performance !
last evening with his mother and about |
o'clock got permission to leave her and 20 |
up nearer the rope. At II o'clock he had |
not returned home. and his parents were |
very much alarmed. as inquiry had been |
made at every place where it was thought |
he might have gone, but nothing could be |
heard of him.
The Australian Blondin gave his last |
tieht-rope performance at Ninth and J |
streets last evening 1t was attended by at |
last twenty-five hundred people. Immedi-
ately after the performance some boys took |
the basket of burning pine-knots and scat
tered them in the crowd. \ horse attached |
to a buggy became frightened and backing |
into another vehicle, tipped the latter over |
The occupants We're thrown 10 the ground |
but luckily escaped injury The buggy |
however, was badly wrecked.