Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-05-09
BRIEF NOTES.

f lent in Sacramento at present.
. The Forester Gun Club will have its
monthly pigeon shoot at the Park to-mor-
row morning.
Five carloads of blooded cattle went up
to Senator Stanford's ranch at Vina from
Sunol last evening
Twelve carloads of oysters for planting
, came through from the East last night, go
ing to San Francisco.
! Messrs. Richie, Duncan & Callman, of
Winters, shipped ripe tomatoes to San
Francisco last Thursday
A mare on the ranch of H. NJ LaRue, in
Iolo county, recently gave birth to twin
fOals-a mule colt and horse colt.
The Capital Turf Club will meet this
| evening at o'clock to hear the report of
the special committee on speed programme.
Deputy Sheriff Armstrong, of Placer
county, took to the asylum at Stockton yes
terday an insane man named Nathan
! Hawkins.
A little child was knocked down by a
passing team in the vicinity of Tenth and
J streets yesterday afternoon, but was not
| much hurt
Supervisor McMullen lost fine three
| year-old mare Thursday night in conse-
| quence of its being struck by train in
Brighton township.
A large number of floral pieces exhibited
! at the Festival were yesterday removed to
| Mrs. Crocker's residence, arranged with fine
effect about the buildings and grounds, and
a photograph taken.
The police have been directed by the
Chief to serve notice, in accordance with
city ordinance, on persons upon whose
premises cottonwood trees and weeds are
becoming nuisance.
A train of five coaches and a baggage car
conveyed the st. Pauls Church picnic party
10 Natoma Grove yesterday. They returned
| home shortly after 6 P. NJ, tired and happy,
having had a fine time.
On the little peninsula near the northern
end Of the Third-strect bridge some one is
fitting up a gang of four pumps, to be
! worked by horsepower, and proposes to
soon give an exhibition Of their effective
| ness
The Pacific Sportsman Club has moved
| into spacious and comfortable quarters on
the east side of Fifth street, between | and
| J. where they will fit up reading-room
and make other arrangements for the pleas
IRE and comfort of members.
| Deputy Sheriff Dunn brought up from
San Francisco last evening, en- route to the
| State Prison at Folsom, All Hing, alias
| Chun Hing, who is to serve six years for
| grand larceny, and James G. Johnson
| under sentence of twelve years for burg
larry.
Rev. H. J. Becker delivered an interest
ing address at the Seventh-street NJ. f.
| Church last evening upon the - Compass
and Cultivation of the Human Voice
| illustrating it with Rotations and singing
| The audience was not large, but those pres
ent were well entertained.
f. s. Grant, the well-known musician, is
very seriously i'll. He played in the or
chestra at the Metropolitan Theater last
Saturday night, but on Sunday morning
was attacked with paralysis, and his condi-
ton has been growing worse since. He
has been almost an invalid for about
year.
A great number of dead fish, nearly all of
large size, are floating in the wafer of China
| slough, or lodged against the banks. and
will soon create stencil. 1t is singular
that the fish Of the slough should die now
when there is so much water, which is still
cold Possibly the fish spoiled on some
dealers hands and were thrown in.
By some accident-the dropping of a
| burning match or lighted cigar-the grass
on the outskirts of Natoma Grove caught
fire while the St. Rose Church picnic party
was there Thursday and the blaze spread
with such rapidity that the grove was soon
in serious danger. A large force of men
and boys procured branches of trees and
fought the fire, and after hard fight were
| successful in oonquering it.
The only business transacted in the Su-
perlor Court yesterday was the hearing of
the case of Guam Wo Chan VS.. Julia A.
Henley ct al, in Department Two a iurv
| WIS ,Dlr,a,,aIa6 tba plaiptiH -, 4roJr,.a1
evidence and rested, and the defendant
then moved for a nonsuit, which was
granted. The case was brought by plaintiff
to recover a large number of brick, alleged
10 belong to him, and was on appeal from
| a Justices Court.
Mrs. John r. Cardwell was driving on X
| street yesterday afternoon, when her horse
| became frightened and ran away when in
the vicinity of Second, dashing down the
latter street at a high rate of speed. Mrs
| Cardwell was thrown out at NJ street, where
the horse turned, and she received severe
| bruises, especially about the face, and g cut
over the left eye, but was fortunate in es-
Gaping without more serious injury The
horse went up NJ street to Fourth, where he
got freed from the buggy, in consequence
of collision with 4 tree, which damaged
the vehicle considerably, and was finally
caught at Fourth and X streets At Fourth
and NJ streets the runaway animal was
| barely prevented from running into fune-
raj procession.
A well-known citizen recently inquired
at a popular restaurant what demand there
was for frogs, stating that a friend of his
lad tirst-ciass frog ranch, the crop being
something remarkable for size. An agree
ment was made by which the citizen and
his ranch friend appeared at the restaurant
I N'pStprIaN- r,lp~Dinar end hot
they had brought four dozen nice fat fell
lows. The proprietor of the hotel inspected
the lot, but Immediately exclaimed WHY
these are not frogs they're tOads :" The
sellers laughed at the idea that they were
so much mistaken, but, when some of the
genuine frog article was produced from the
restaurant stock and compared, the Sacra-
mentan put his hands to his nose ard
moved away, while his friend calculated ::
Ply shininy ] sees der difference! Who'd
dink dot, onyhow -
The dark young PAGER which Charley
Schutius appeared behind at the Park last
!, Saturday, attracting the attention of horse
men, who wondered where the animal,
which paced in 2:35, and probably could
have done q few seconds better, came from.
1t appears that the PAGER was owned by q
young man named VIII Utter, who was
willing to sell him for 500, and let Schlu-
thus take him to train, on the agreement
) that il the trainer could sell him he was to
pay Utter the amount mentioned. Outside
parties who saw the horse pace hunted Ut
ter up and offered him, it is said, three or
four hundred dollars. Naturally lie de-
sired, under the circumstances. to get the
animal back from Schlutius and take the
. higher price hut meanwhile Schlutius had
sold to w r. Todhuntcr and offered Utter
the 5000 agreed upon, which he refused to
take, he claiming to have given notice re-
scinling the bargain made with Schluiius.
As Utter is Il minor, his mother, Mrs.
Amanda Moore, has brought suit in the
Superior Court Of Yolo county, to rcplcvin
the animal
SOCIAL AND Personal.
Mrs. L, P. Martin left yesterday on visit
to MarySyiile