Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-10-14
BRIEF NOTES.

DhlLE NViESs
The habeas corpus case of John Love,
was yesterday, in Department Two of til,
day. - y
The Kline Readers are in hand at tn,
State Printing Office and are the first O
the State series of textbooks that will bt
issued.
The steamer D. E. Knight, which has
Deen lying here for few days receiving re-
pairs to her boilers, left for Feather river
yesterday.
The clergymen and laymen who had
been attending the Conference of the NJ. E,
Church South in this city left for their
homes yesterday
A large number of members of the Ma
sonic fraternity from this city and the
upper country went down to San Francisco
yesterday to attend the Grand Lodge
! The only arrests made yesterday were
| those of All Sing, for keeping an opium
den, and Lilly Murray and Charles john
son, for visiting it, all by officer Sullivan.
Yesterday Governor Stoneman signed
| patents to University lands as follows .
Charles Decker of Yolo county, $50 acres :
Carl g. Munich, Alameda county, so acres.
A free lecture will be delivered at Cal
vary Church, | street, between Twelfth and
Thirteenth, at o'clock this evening, by A.
Z. Herrick, upon " Venice, the City of the
Sea-
Elk Grove Parlor, No. Al, N. S. G. W.
celebrated its first anniversary with ban
quet and ball Monday evening. Quite a
number of Sacramento ladies and gentle
men were present.
Yesterday the State bought $4,000 of
the last issue of Santa Clara county bonds
Tor the State school fund, paving for them
81 Oh. They are per cent. bonds, pay
able in twenty years.
Secretary of State Thompson is having
Capitol Park improved to the extent of the
limited means placed at his disposal The
walks and the driveway east of the Capitol
building are all being graveled
A gentleman who visited the cemetery
yesterday found that some person out of
pure cussedness had with chisel Clipped
away the upper portion of the letters from
tombstone erected TO the memory of the
gentleman mother.
Last Monday the six-year-old son of
f. NJ. Jones, of Walshs station, fell from a
wagon and was run over. 1t was feared
that he was badly hurt, but a physician
who went out from the city to attend him
found thatno bones were broken.
A resident of Willows, who was in the
city yesterday, stated that the owners of the
property III that town destroyed by fire last
sunday morning have already commenced
to clear away the debris, and a finer block
OF buildings than that DESTROYED will be
erected Immediately.
The Ariel Baseball Club has arranged for
game in the near future with the Green
hood d Moran Club, of Oakland The
Ariels have been reinforced by w. S. Ora
ham, OF Auburn, who is credited with
being phenomenal first-base man and
good man at the bat.
Scoggin & Tompkins have brought to
this city from Oregon the brown gelding
jim Merritt, six years, by Langford, dam
Sweetwater, by Volcian. He was raised
here by James Merritt, shipped to Oregon
when two years old, and has been very sue
cessful there. He will compete at the
Blood Horse races at San Francisco next
month.
An organization to be known as the
Onion Club was formed in this city last
evening, with C. Z. Weinrich as President.
Its design is " mutual benefit and improve
ment,' but sociability and fun cut large
figure in the programme. The ceremony
of initiation is rather startling at the out
set j. A, Falkenstein has been elected
caterer for the club
James Franks, of Roseville, shot by f.
S. George, and w. S. Schaefer who at
tempted suicide Sunday night in this city,
are improving in condition Henry Harris
shot by NJ. Zeller Sunday morning, was
yesterday apparently neither better nor
worse than on the previous day. Ordin-
arily wound of the character of that he
is suffering from would prove fatal, but he
has very strong constitution and may
pull through.
Sergeant Barwick reports that the only
rainfall along the Pacific slope at any Sig
nal Service station yesterday was at Fort
Candy and San Frapcisco-.13 of an inch
at the former and 50 of an inch at the lat
ter place. The barometer at o'clock last
night was below 30 inches. and rising in
Washington Territory and Oregon below
30 inches and falling in California, with
westerly winds and cloudy weather gen
orally prevailing along the entire coast.
The steamer Modoc has been unable to
come up to the city lately, but the Apache,
which probably draws a little less water.
has made the trip, light, every other day
since the rise in the river two or three
weeks ago. She took down a pretty large
load of freight last Monday, and. to test the
condition of the Y-street bar, and to see
whether the wingdam recently built has
improved the channel, she will try to bring
up her full load of freight this morning.