Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-04-18
BRIEF NOTES.


terday morning, and three came this morn
ing.
All trains were running promptly in
accordance with the new time card yester-
day.
The Republicans of Yolo county appear
to be largely in favor of Blaine for the
Presidency.
A. S. Woods Will next Monday appoint
Maurice H. Sheehan as Deputy Clerk OF
the Water Works.
But one arrest was made yesterday-Jos.
Myers, by officers Farrell and Arlington, for
being a common drunk.
Quite a number of young ladies and gem
tlenen went up to Marysville yesterday
afternoon, to attend the ball of the Native
Sons of the Golden West.
The Sacramento river is reported to have
within the past few days reached high
water mark, and at Grimes Landing it was
higher than ever known.
The Nevada City Light Guard will give a
ball this evening, and it is expected that
several members of the Sacramento mill
tuy companies Will attend
The Sacramento river yesterday afternoon
rose to % feet , inches, the highest figure of
the season by four inches AT II o'clock
last night it had receded about an inch.
The young ladies of the Sixth-street NJ.
E. Church will give an Easter social this
evening. A fine programme will be rem
dered, and refreshments will be served.
Norton Bush gave a special exhibition of
several of his paintings at his studio, on
Post street, in San Francisco, during
Wednesday and Thursday of this week,
An electric light was Yesterday being
/ ,,1oa 1,ft, e 10
StatiOn-house and the Office of that eStab-
lishment is also to be illuminated by cleo
tricity.
The Tiyoli was crowded again last night
to witness the fourth presentation of The
Female Detective" From the frequent
and continued applause the audience evil
IDENTIFY was well pleased.
Perry Smiley, the old man who was
knocked from the American river bridge
by a passing train Wednesday night, as
mentioned in our last issue, was sent to the
County Hospital yesterday morning.
Yesterday in Department Two of the Su-
perior Court the jury in the case of Mary L.
Arts, who sued James T. Day for 5000
damages for an alleged battery, returned Il
verdict in favor of plaintiff for 81 ,266 sc.
\ number of Sacramento sportsmen have
received invitations to participate i'll the
| demonstrating tournament to be given by
the California Wing-ShoOting Club at San
Bruno May Sd and 4th. Entries close Fri
day, May ID.
Twenty-Five carloads of beef cattle from
Reno and Wadsworth passed through the
| city yesterday going to San Francisco and
five carloads for Oakland stockyards. There
also arrived four carloads from Reno for
Gerber Il Swanston, of Sacramento.
Roll of honor of Walnut Grove school,
NJ NJ. Sinclair teacher for the month of
March: Nellie Damn %, Willie Brown So,
Willie McCOrt 81 John Brown go Ella
Eastman 90 Lizzie McCort o. Louis Fall
man IS, Thomas McCOrt Sc, Sperry Dye 50,
George Fountain So.
The trading steamer Alvarado, which has
been tied up at the Sacramento levee for
several months, IN consequence of lawsuit
nNthe United States District Court was last
Wednesday sold at auction by the United
States Marshal, and purchased by NJ. NJ.
Odell, of this city, for $500.
The current of the Sacramento was so
strong yesterday that the steamer Dover EN-
route for the upper Sacramento with a
barge found it impossible to tow the latter
behind her, and had to return from the first
bend above the city, make landing at the
old gas works and take the barge alongside,
when she was able to make progress up
stream.
An individual, considerably under the in
fuence of liquor, appeared at the station
house last evening and complained to Chief
! Jackson that two fly cops had endeavOred
to rob him, but he succeeded by means of
his John L. Sullivan abilities as he eX-
pressed it, in saving his money. He COM
menccd to give a description of them, say
ing that one was 4 small, thin hat man
with a narrow, thin compleXioned face
when the laughter of the officers made him
indignant, and he went away in disgust.
A squad of thirty Cinnamon arrived
from Rcdding by the California and Oregon
train yesterday morning, on their way TO
San Francisco. They came down from
/ Oregon about two months ago, have been
working at the front of the California
! and Oregon road, but were discharged re-
/ Gently when work was discontinued. They
! expect to word on lanch pletty soon"
and say that nearly the entire force en-
/ ploycd in railroad building viii be down
! before long or scattered over the upper
/ country.
Bugologists can have considerable en-
| jOyment in Sacramento in making cOllec-
tons of the huge bugs or beetles that are
attracted by the electric lights every even
ing In some localities they fall upon the
sidewalk in such numbers that ladies find
it disagreeable to pass by, and men occa-
SiOnaIly discover them to be as slippery as
n piece of orange peel. As they are about
two inches long when one flies into a per
sons face, or endeaYors to 90 on an explor-
ing expedition down the back of his neck
the sensation Is not the most pleasant i'm
aginable.
h.t- 10 %, of
mails in this city because of the recent
change in the running of trains The mail
closes at the POStoffice at Ills \. NJ. to 90
BY Stockton, 80 P VI. via Bcnicia 6:45 p. NJ
via Benicia. and $40 \. e. via Benca. Let
tiers mailed after $50 P NJ until G:45 P NJ
20 by the overland at 800 next morning.
All mailed after 645 P " 90 by the 6 \. NJ.
train next day The mail for Oregon, via
Redding, closes at 2:10 P. NJ The other
mails close as usual. The carriers make
deliveries as usual and collections as indi-
Gated on street letter-boXes.
WARD MEETINGs-The Republicans of
the First Ward held meeting last evening
and selected the following list of delegates
to be voted for at the primary tomorrow :
VIM. Becbman. Geo. 4. Putnam, Claus
Anderson. WILDER F. George J. y. Young
VIM. FasSett. Geo X. Rider, A. J. Rhoads
W. \. Anderson, John Kelly. VIM. Cohn,
3. Brown, J. d. Tate, B. Cavanaugh. J. F.
brennan, ;. +. Harvey, H. Wachhorst
Vim. Gamble, ID. J. Simmons j. c. Tubbs
VIM. Mcharry. James H. Corbin X r.
/ Wiemeyer. W : Stafford Second Ward
Republicans viii meet this evening at the
international Hotel AT 7:30, to select a
ticket Those of the Third Ward will meet
AT the Courthouse at the same hour In
the Fourth Ward a caucus will be held at
s o'clock in the Directors room Of the new
Exposition building, Fifteenth and VI
streets.
Papers on APrEAL.-The transcript on
appeal in the case of Callahan vs.. Green