Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-02-20
BRIEF NOTES,

HlOiIlliS
Samuel Mckee announces himself as a
candidate for the office of Third Trustee.
VIM Mclaughlin. patient at the Coun-
ty Hospital, escaped from that institution
yesterday while insane.
The Sheridan Dramatic Company passed
through the city yesterday, Ell route from
Woodland to Marysville
Yesterday, in Department Two of the Su-
perior Court, Libbie Fitch was granted a
divorce from John b. Fitch.
Frank NJ. Ward, of Pasadena, Los An
geles county, was yesterday appointed and
commissioned Notary Public.
Officer Hoods yasterday.recovered a grey
hound which some boys had enticed away
from the County Hospital, where the ami
mails owner is employed.
The Improved Order of Red Men of this
city will celebrate Washingtons Birthday
on the sd, with complimentary social
entertainment at Armory Hall.
The only arrests made yesterday were
those of Fred. Hughes, by officer Woods,
for disturbing the peace Frank Miller and
John Denman, by Chief jackson and Off
Ger Farrell, for misdemeanor.
J. w Mccarthy. Clerk of the Supreme
troller yesterday, and paid into the State
treasury 1899 05, the amount of fees col
lected for the month of January
The steamer D. Z. Knight arrived yester-
day from Marysville with grain and mer-
chandise. Sailed, steamer Dover, for the
upper Sacramento, with merchandise
steamers San Joaquin, No. 3, and D. L.
Knight, for San Francisco, with grain.
Al.
on the Western Pacific at noon yesterday, Il
horse that was feeding on the track at Thir-
tenth and K streets did not lookout for
the engine when the whistle blew" and in
consequence was picked up by the cow
catcher and tossed over the cmbankment.
A young gentlemen, at present in the
Governors office, and well known in social
circles as being the handsomest youth in
town, is addicted to the vile habit of max
ing punS. His latest effort in that direc-
ton was concerning the evil habit Of
smoking and chewing tobacco. He says
smoking is the worst because of two evils
(cheTs( the least.
The tools mentioned in the REcoRD-U MON
yesterday as having been found III posses
sion Of a Chinaman who was arrested by
officers Rider and Farren ON suspicion of
having stolen them, have been identified
by d. IL. Vandercook as his property, they
having been stolen from his premises.
The Celestial is likely to have charge of
burglary entered against him
The city bond case of Daniel Never VS.. ].
\. Porter was submitted to Judge McFar-
land in Department Two of the Superior
Court yesterday, with leave to file briefs
within month. There is n case relative to
the city bonds before the Supreme Court
and it is not probable that Judge McFar-
land will render his decision until that
Court has made an expression in the prem
Uses.
4 gentleman who had business at dye
ing establishment a few days ago found
there a number of black hats undergoing
the process of drying. etc He inquired
how It happened that the establishment
was doing such business, and learned that
the hats were owned by gentlemen who
were of the Blaine persuasion last fall, and
for fifty cents each they were being put
out Of politics"
S. Ii. Gerrish reports that the rainfall of
Wednesday night and yesterday morning
in this city, according to his gauge, was
.0S4 of an inch, making total for the
month of 800, and for the season 1851
inches. In 1884, for that season to this
inches; in 1882, 1887 inches 1881, - go
inches: 1880, 1854 inches; 1879 S.S1S
inches; 1873, 1895 inches; 1877, 633S
inches.
The Three and a Half Ward Republican
Club met at Siebenthaler's, Twentieth and
II streets, Wednesday evening The meet
ing was quite well attended. Fifty addi-
tional copies Of the bylaws were ordered
printed. The motto OF the club seems to
be " Death TO all rings. The coming city
election was the subject of discussion, and
II was agreed that the organization should
be we'll represented at all Republican meet
ings held in the Third Ward, and at the
primaries.
CELEBRATION AND BALL.-A joint celebra-
bration and ball was given last evening at
Armory Hall by Sacramento Division. No.
I, Uniformed Rank, and Sacramento, Co
lumba and Confidence Lodges, Knights of
Pythias, in honor of the twenty-lirst
Pythian Period. The Order is comparative
~ young, having been founded in the city
Of Washington, d. c., in 1864. 1t has had
a wonderful growth, until to-day lodges of
the Order are to be found in every town of
any considerable size in the Union,
and its membership is several hun
dred thousand The membership in
this city number over five hundred The
hall was deliberately and beautifully deco
rated for the occasion, and flags banners,
and other devices emblematical of the
Order were tastefully arranged on the
walls A platform was placed at the north
end Of the hall, on which the literary ex-
ercises took place, as follows: Reading,
" The liners" by Mrs Risdon song, -" Flv
Fast, Fair Dove by Mrs S. Katzenstein-
encored; Grafton, by George b. Katzen-
stein. He delivered a lengthy address on
the rise and progress of the Order, its OBJ
jectS and aims; gave an interesting account
OF It's origin and statement of its present
standing. The uniformed rank looked
well in their handsome uniform, and their
exhibition drill was loudly applaud
ed. Asocial dance followed The COM
mittees in charge were as TO-
ows Arrangements J. T. Keepers, Presi-
dent; G. w. King. Secretary; \. IIamm,
f. H. Mckee, T. p. Smith, W. II. Hamil-
ton, J. f. Carroll f. Owen, James A.
Davis; Reception, Lieutenant A. B. Cheney,
\. Wulf, G. w. Lorenz, j. Domingos, H.
Winters, S. katzenstein, Lieutenant A. J.
Plant, A. b. Smith, Major Theodore Schu-
macher; Floor Director, Colonel ]. w.
Floor Managers, c. L. Leonard.
f. Is. Olser, II. Decker, ". Oldlield, c. c.
Carroll J. Laflerty.
PEDIGREE OF JAMES H.-The rotting
gelding James H., credited with record of
2:2l, made in Sacramento at the last State
Fair, has been quartered at Agricultural
Park during the winter, and is now being
gradually got ready for work He
was last year entered rs pedigree
unknown James H. Brown, his owner
has been looking up his history, and
finds that he was sired by Gladiator, he
by George NJ. Patchen, and the dam was "A
Caller mare owned by William Imery, who
resides a short distance from Napa City,
and who recollects the foaling of the colt
now known as James H very well. The
colt when of sufficient age was broken and
trained for six weeks, but did not give the
satisfaction expected, and was worked at
plowing and doing other work about Mr.
lmeryS place. The animal was afterwards
sold to a gentleman at st. Helena, who in
turn sold him TO one of the Cluff Brothers,
grocers, At San Francisco. The horse after
wards killed one of the brothers while ont
riding behind him. James H. then passed
through different parties hands, no one
caring to own him. rs he was considered
unsafe. He ut last became the property of
James II. Brown, the present owner A
few weeks before the commencement of
last wears circuit the horse was relieved of
a snake, about foot long and soon after
wards changed his disposition, becoming