Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-05-16
BRIEF NOTES.

! Yolo county has the sum of SO, 75l 90 in
her treasury.
| The Postoffice Commissioners will not, it
! is reported. meet until next Monday.
A special train of ten car loads of oranges
came up from Los Angeles last evening,
going East.
! The cost of caring for indIgents in folo
county, outside of the County Hospital, was
S4l1 90 last month.
The running horses Philip S. and Porter
Ashe, recently purchased by Eastern par
! ties, will start for the East to morrow.
! Announcement is made of the observa-
ton OF Children Day tomorrow morning
and evening at the Congregational Church.
The steamer Varuna, which had been
= receiving repairs on the marine ways on
! the Yolo side of the river, was launched yes
terday.
! Justice Henley yesterday had the first
business in his Court that he has had since
he moved into his new quarters in the old
City Hall.
Deputy Sheriff Dunn brought up from
San Francisco last evening Wong All Foo,
who is Ell route to Folsom, to serve life
term for murder in the first degree.
These arrests were made Yesterday
GERS Rider and Arlington, for vagrancy
Mrs. lawson by citizen Smith, for dis
turbing the peace.
Mrs. ". 0. Browns residence at Folsom
was entered by thief last Wednesday
night, and robbed Of jewelry and other
property. The same house was burglar
ized few weeks ago.
There is to be an election in Washington
School District, Yolo county to-day. rela-
tive 10 the raising Of 5000 the money to be
appropriated for the rent of sChool-hpuse
and the payment Of teachers salary.
a gentleman who came down from Rose-
vile yesterday morning says that the depot
platform Ut that place was at one time Slip
perry to walk upon because Of the large
numbers of grasShOppers collected upon it.
The State Sunday-school Convention OF
the Christian Church assemblies in this city
next Tuesday, and will continue three days.
Prominent ministers OF the denomination
will be present and address the Cunven-
ton.
The report, published yesterday after
noon, that the Sunday CrUitai had been
attached and probably would not ap-
pear tomorrow, is incorrect. The propri
etors of the paper say IL was not attached,
and Will appear as usual
United States Inspectors Freeman and
Rlllman, who came up from San Francisco
on Thursday to inspect the hullS and boil
er5 of the steamers Flora and Governor
Dana, found them in satisfactory condi-
ton, and returned to the Bay yesterday.
The advertisement for proposals for a
lease TO the Government of u Postotfice To-
cation for four years has been made because
of the present lease having expired. The
ptC Of 10 Cd
has raised the rent 500 per year, and 1t is
thought the proposals will offer a location
for less figure.
c. W Clarke. after a visit yesterday to
his rancho q few miles from the city, re-
ported the grasshOppers IS having attacked
a field OF LOO or 800 acres of his grain,
! which they showed disposition to eat
from the ground up. Mr.. Clarke SAYS that
in some places they have polished off
the fence boards
! Some enterprising lottery agent in Ham
burg Germany, has possessed himself of
; Sacramento directory, and in consequence
q large number Of the residents of this city
have received circulars from him, printed
in German ana English, explaining what
splendid investment the lottery he is con
nected with affords
Albert Ogg the boy who fell from the
second story Of the Orleans building into
! the alley--a fall Of thirty-fve feet-ThUrs-
| day evening, remained unconscious until
about midnight, when lie regained his
senses, and has been improving IN cOndi-
| ton since 1t does not appear that any of
his bones were broken
a ranch team ran away yesterday after
noon from the rear of Huntington, Hop
kins e Co.'S store, in the alley between
Second and Third, K and / streets passed
down the alley to Second, to L, to Fourth,
where the horses broke away from the
wagon and were finally caught i'll the east
ern portion of the city. The pole of the
! wagon was broken.
The steamer Alyarado. lying near the
, foot of N street, has been getting in a dan.
gerou5 position lately, owing to the falling
Of the water in the river, she having
grounded on one side and commenced to
! list over. If her seams have opened dur
! ing the warm weather there Is danger of
| her filing and sinking, causing not only
! loss to her owner. but danger to navigation.
It has been decided to inter the remains
| of The late German J. Cole, who died at
| Woodland last Thursday. in the cemetery
! at that place, instead of taking them to Ma
! rysyille, as at first proposed. Members of
! Sacramento Commandery K. T.. and other
| friends VIII go over by the 1880 \. N. train
| to attend the funeral. returning in the after
noon.
! Emmet Wells New York Hep Circ1llcr.
| OF the Sth instant, speaking Of the growing
! crop prospects in the East, says The
great-grandfathers Of the Oldest hop men
living don't remember the time when there
! was less complaint Of damage to roots by
frost than there is this spring and if these
| early reports of good or bad prospects are
Of any value. we should say that every
! thing gives hope for good yield
! It is not often that San Franciscan
| worries himself much over the troubles of
the people Of the interior: but yesterday,
! when q gentleman from that city had
! heard at Tenth and K streets the converse
ton Of farmers relative TO the damage the
grasshOppers were doing, and subsequently
had one of the large black water beetles
that come TO the city at night, attracted by
the electric lights, pointed out to him as q
specimen Of the " hOppers,n he was forced
to eXclaim, Blessed II it amt a little
tough on the ranchers!'
The blowing of police whistle L num-
Der of times about $50 last evening in
front of the Salvation Army barracks
attracted to the locality crowd Of citizens
and number of police officers, who found
that the sensation was created because
members OF the army wanted some boys
driven away from The premises. The
Police Judge who was among those that
assembled, advised the doorkeeper to not
create an excitement over matter so
trilling but to have any one who was
creating disturbance arrested quietly.
a valuable horse was hired by q. York
from ". !. Shoulders livery stable yester-
day morning, the hrer saying that he
wished to so to Babels slough. Last even
ing he returned with another horse hitched
to the buggy, and reported that the one he
hired had dropped dead about two miles
from town, on the Stockton road and be
obtained another TO come to the city with.
Mr.. Shower, feeling satisfied that there was
something wrong, as York should not have
been in the locality where the horse died if
returning from the slough swore out a
warrant for his arrest for cruelty to ami
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