Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-04-28
BRIEF NOTES.


| Three carloads of Immigrants arrived this
! morning.
The Grismer- Davies theatrical troupe left
yesterday for Marysville.
| James c. Pierson has been added to the
! Committee on Machinery of the Floral
| Festival.
: Sunday night a thief appropriated re-
/ volver and pair of opera glasses at the
! Fulton Market.
! A. A. Van VOORHEES, chicken coop, at
Fifteenth and II streets, was robbed OF ten
fowls Sunday night.
Mohr d Yoerk's meat market was burg
larized Sunday night, and the till robbed
of five or six dollars.
NJ. Rhoads won the horsethat was RAT
fled for at the Eldred House Saturday even
ing. His throw was AZ.
The annual target-shooting and picnic of
the Sacramento Hussars will take place at
Richmond Grove on Sunday, May 9th.
Al Atkinson, who was stabbed during an
unpleasantness in Washington Friday
night, continues TO improve in condition.
Lucky Baldwin's stable of twenty-five
fine gallopers started for the East yester-
day, L. r. Martin having them i'll charge.
A social and literary entertainment for
the benefit of Capital Lodge, |. .. q. l.,
will be given at Firemen's Hall this evening.
II. J. w. Dam has been selected by the
Alumni of the State University to read &
poem on the afternoon of Commencement
day, Wednesday, May 9th.
The Amity Gun Club has been organized
in this city, with DR.. W. Wood as Presi
dent; L. A. Crouch, Vice-President, and H.
Kimbrough, Secretary and Treasurer.
All parties who have potted or boxed
plants, which they will lend to the Floral
Festival, are requested to inform w. H.
Hamilton, 627 j street, of the fact. The
plants will be called for and returned
safely.
All HUI, who was sent to the county Jail
about three weeks ago for petty larceny,
had to be taken to the County Hospital
yesterday. He is an opium fiend of the
worst class, and being deprived of the drug
at the jail, he fell into fearful condition of
illness.
1t was fortunate the German Red Men
did not go a-piCnicking to Cothrins Grove
last Sunday, as rain fell there very heavily
that day. There was also heavy fall at
Stockton and at Woodland but Sacramento,
as has been the case frequently this spring
only received a sprinkle.
At Fifth and X streets yesterday fore
noon J. B. Whites delivery horse fell. in
consequence of the street having Just been !
sprinkled at point where he turned out of
the street-car track, and broke one of his |
hind legs 1t was deemed best to put him
out of his pain at once, and Chief Jackson |
shot him.
S. II. Gerrish reports that the light Show
els on Sunday gave but OPS of an inch of
lii, of for -
of an inch and for the season II 347 inches. |
In 1884, for that season to this date we had |
16601 inches in 1883, 1920 inches; 1882, |
14742 inches; 1880, 22.S06 inches; 1879, |
16053 inches; 1873, 22S02 inches 1877, |
S160 inches; 1876, 25.76O inches.
In Department One of the Superior Court |
yesterday sentence in the case of J. Cum |
mings, previously convicted of robbery. was |
continued until 10 \. NJ. tomorrow, when a |
motion for a new trial will be made The |
sentencing of Edward Doheny, who pleaded |
guilty last Friday of being an accessory to |
burglary and buying and receiving stolen
goods, was also postponed until that time.
The Postoffice Commissioners announce |
that sealed proposals will be received until |
II NJ. Nay 1lth for the sale Of property suit
able as a site for the public building author
lied to be erected in this city. \ corner lot |
Is pIeIeIIet Ii Il COTEtT ltt, lile dimensions
should be not less than 140X120 feet If |
not corner lot, not less than 1S0x120, the
$50 feet to be street frontage. Buildings on
property selected TO be retained and re-
moved by the owner.
M-Street Resident" writes the RECORD
UNION inquiring: q" Is there 10 money in
the sprinkling fund of Sacramento city? If |
there is what has VI street done that the
dust should average three inches deep from
the river front to Tenth street," The
sprirkling fund was exhausted long ago
but the Trustees made arrangements for
sprinkling the business streets. The gen
eral street sprinkling will commence May
LIST, and be continued six months.
Officer Ash arrested Yesterday a deserter
from the United States army, young man
of good appearance and intelligent, who
enlisted at Denver, Col, and deserted at
Fort Lewis, in that Territory. He says he
has friends i'll Sacramento and vicinity
who would help him, and he has no doubt
he could get good employment; but he
does not want to be we'll established and
have the dread of arrest always hanging
over him, and prefers to go to Alcatraz,
take his punishment, and serve his time
out.