Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-03-02
BRIEF NOTES.
Two carloads of immigrants arrived from
the East this morning.

: Susan Moore has been arrested on a
charge of threats against the life of w. II.
Jackson. The parties are both colored.
W. o. Davis is circulating petition ask
ing for his appointment as postmaster of
Folsom City, as successor to J. II. Smith.
Two Juvenile baseball clubs-the Mon
itors and Railroad Flats-payed game
Saturday, the former winning by score of
Sto1.
At the masquerade ball given at the
American River Grange Hall a few even
ings since, Lou Holze took the prize offered
for the best sustained character
Hon. D. N Hershey of Blacks, Yolo |
county, was thrown from his vehicle last
Thursday night, while he was returning !
home from Woodland, and fractured one
of his arms.
Last week Peter Wager, of Folsom, |
shipped lot of fruit trees to his brother |
in-law, n. White, who is in Pinal county, |
Arizona, where he recently purchased a |
ranch of 5000 acres.
Garlic & Croly, contractors and builders |
of this city, have just completed the cree
ton of 100000 Courthouse in the city of |
Santa Rosa 1t Will be turned over to-mor-
row by the contractors to the Board of Su
pervisors of Sonoma county.
About 3 P NJ Saturday a little excitement
was occasioned at Fourth and X streets by |
the accidental discharge of pistol i'll Jerry |
Payne's saloon, on that corner. The owner
of the weapon was handing 1t to Mr.. Payne,
to be placed behind the bar, when it was
through some mishap discharged, the ball
entering the ceiling.
The Mapleson Opera Company, includ-
ing Miss Emma Nevada passed. through ON
Yesterday mornings express hsriD from
Ogden to San Francisco. I've extra bag
gage cars were required to transport their
baggage, and two or three extra cars for the
company. The train, being unusually
heavy, was nearly two hours behind time.
The Sergeant-at-Arms of the Assembly
endeayored Saturday afternoon to arrest
some of the members of that body who
were about to leave for San Francisco on
the go train he having been ordered to
hunt up absentees under call of the
House. Those whom he found refused to
go back with him, and they will probably
be called upon to rise and explain at the
session to-day
y man giving his. name as w. C. Afford
was arrested for drunkenness in this city a
few weeks since. The notice of the arrest
published in the REcoRD-UNIoN at the
time, led to unappreciated queries and
Jokes directed at ". c. Afford, of Pilot
Hill, and he rises to explain that he was
not drunk nor in Sacramento at the time
referred to- and he desires to have these
facts made 4 matter of record,
There will be an annular eclipse of the
sun on Monday, March 18th. In New
England the apparent observation of the
sun will be more than One-half; at ST.
Paul, fve-siXths; at San Francisco, Sacra-
mento, Winnipeg and Manitoba. fifteen
sixteenths. The eclipse will be visible
| throughout North America and the ada
cent Pacific and Atlantic oceans, and as far
east as Ireland. The central line will
strike Cape Mendocino, Cal, about sun
rise.
| DECIDES IN FAVOR OF THE BANK.-The
San Francesca Examiner of Saturday had
the following concerning case of interest,
doubtless, to many: The judgment OF
the lower Court was affirmed by the SUI
preme Court yesterday in the case of Cross
VS.. the Sacramento Savings Bank ct al
! The action was begun by 81. \. Cross, as
assignee Of Samuel Cross to compel the
Sacramento Savings Bank to account with
! her for certain deposits made by her
assignor with the bank and to set aside
certain alleged fraudulent transfers of prop
| erty by the Sacramento Savings Bank to
! the co-defendant, the Sacramento Bank
| Samuel Cross had two accounts with the
| former bank one in his own name and one in
/ -, 1880, the savings bank went into iquida-
| ton, and notified the depositors that it had
| declared dividends of its earnings, request
ing the closing of account or the with
| drawal Of their deposits. Cross transferred ,
| his deposits to the Sacramento Bank. :
| Later on he transferred his pass-book
which had been balanced and closed with
the savings bank ii the time Of the liquida- t
| ton, to this plaintiff, who claimed that the
savings bank hal not settled in full with
her assignor. The lower Court held other
wise. and rendered judgment accordingly, !
which judgment 'as affirmed by the Su-
preme Court
MILITARY PERCEYrAGE.-From the Adj {
iutart-Generals report, dated February 7
2Sth, the following items are taken. Per !
centage and company strength of the First !
Artillery Regiment Company \ 66-67 Il
69-70 G 1868, L 67-73, 62-64, G 1862.
Total for the regiment, 66-399. The per
5centage of the National Guard of Califor-
MIA, for January 1850, was 63, and total
company strength 1854. Company of
the Second Artillery had the best average I
attendance at drill-60 men-of the COM !
panies composing the Second Brigade, and
Company Il Of the First Infantry Regiment
the IOwest-25 men. Company G Of the
First Artillery Regiment had the lowest of ,
the y. G. C.-22 men, and the Eagle Corps
of LgS Angeles the higLest-S4. Two of
the companies reported, as having paraded
with less than - men, rank and file, are !
again delinquent. Company commanders /.
are directed to forward oaths of re enlist l
ment Of all members Of their companies !
whose terms of service have expired, or
ask for their discharge at once. j
CAYTATA OF ESTHER This evening at
the Metropolitan Theater the season of $
three nights, during which the cantata of Y
" Esther is to be produced viii com
mence. Much interest is felt in the enter
prise by the general public, owing not only y
to the anticipated excellence OF the enter !
tainment, but also because Of the large .
number Of amateurs ladies gentlemen and II
juveniles, who are to take part one way or 2
another The cast includes 5trs. DR.. Pink l
ham, Mrs. Godley-Smith, MIS-. George y
Hausbr0w, Miss Cleo Cooper and Mcssrs \
Sanborn, Beardsley, Fritz and Plant The !,
rehearsais have been very successful. and | =
the manager Is -anguine that the public '
Will be thoroughly pleased and the ins.itu- !.
lions 70 be benciited-the Towards, the
Protestant Orphan Asylum a1d Kingsley
CAapeL-encouraged by a notable improve
meut of their finances V
METROPOLITAN Tn iTER 49, 1t is an ,
nounced that Oliver Doud Byron, who is ;,
now entering upon his fifteenth year before n
the public, will renew his acquaintance Ii
with Sacramento theater-goers this week. o
commencing Thursday evening and CON Il
timing until the close of the week, sup il
ported by the pleasing actress Miss Kate
Byron, and the Byron Combination u
across the Continent with its variety of u
incident from thrilingly sensational to d
highly amusing, viii constitute the attrac- c
ton until Saturday evening when Ten fir
Thousand Miles Away" said TO be a sequel
to Across the Continent viii be pre-
sented Seats can be secured at the box Al
Office without extra charge. f
DEATH OF VS.. JoHysroN.-Friday night, I
about 10 o'clock, death relieved W. s. .,
Johnston Of his sufferings, and the funeral W
took place yesterday afternoon. Deceased, h
though .ajtcrly residing in san Francisco, e
Will be remembered as an old Sacramentan, =
connected at different times with the press al
of the city, and also well-known as a ma 5!
chiniSt and inventor. The illness. which &c
r,rsVn1 fl4ai .sffa1kp1 him some mont his | oi