Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-03-31
THE METROPOLIS.
WOMAN,S POCKET PICKED WHILE
KNEELING IN CHURCH.
Anniversary of Spiritualism-Coro-
ner O'Donnell on the Sand Lot
New Baptist Church.

Some half dozen schooners have recent
ly left this port in the hunt for seals and
other game of the deep.
The McComb-Kittleman race was post
poned Sunday. 1t will be run on Wednes-
day afternoon al the Bay District.
The receipts for duties at the Custom
house for the past week were $100,521 GA,
making total since January 1st OF 81, 532,-
761 ~.
Twenty-Five of the new switches of the
pneumatic interlocking system recently
adopted by the Central Pacific were put in
operation Friday.
At Trinity Church, Sunday evening,
Bishop Kip performed the rite of confirm
alton for a class of twenty-five candidates,
prepared by DR.. Beers.
1t is thought that the Central Pacific will
soon begin work on the Oregon and Cali
! fornia extension. There remains only $50
miles between the terminus in California
and that in Oregon.
! Tom Cannon has deposited 800 to cover
McAlillan's forfeit for match in five styles
of wrestling. Cannon and Mcmillan Will
meet the stakeholder at the Baldwin Hotel
and draw up articles of agreement to bind
| the match.
| The real estate market presented few
| features of interest during the past week.
There was so little business done in the
{ general circles of trade as to naturally
affect the dealers in the real estate branch,
but while there was lull, there was no
sign of weakness.
Coroner O'Donnell got off a good thing
| unconsCiously this morning, when asked
with reference to the chances of Mrs. Cain,
| shot last evening by her husband. " She
can't live, tell you" urged the Coroner;
there's no use SAYING she can, because |
probed the wounds myself"
The different Spiritualistic societies held
services Sunday at their various meeting
places to commemorate the 37th anniver-
sary of modern Spiritualism. The services
consisted of essays, reading of poems and
| discourses. The attendance was good and
great interest appeared to prevail.
During the first twenty-nine days in
March the clearances from this port en-
| braced two full cargoes of flour, three mixed
cargoes of -four and wheat, seventeen full
cargoes of wheat and cargo of rye. The
last named went to Belgium, and the flour
and wheat cargoes to Great Britain.
A verdict of accidental death has been
rendered in the case of the young painter,
Hiram A. Patterson, who dropped dead
suddenly on last Friday evening, while
| sparring in fun with Arnold Fuller in
the saloon at the corner of Pacific and Polk
streets, and after the latter had given him
| a sudden blow in the side. Fuller is I'M
der arrest on a charge on nahslaughter.
The usual array of Sand-lot oratorical
talent was present on that historic ground
Sunday, Coroner O'Donnell, as usual being
the most conspicuous. The leprous Mon
golian and the thievish Supervisors, as
he several times called them, were berated
in wild and incoherent way. He called
| for 100000 laboring men to parade the
streets on Easter Sunday and show their
power.
The last rites were on Sunday said over
| the remains of ex-Colector of the Port
| Eugene L. Sullivan at the Masonic Temple
| in King Solomon's Hall. Mr.. Sullivan be-
| longed to the California Commandery of
| Knights Templars, Chapter 5, Royal Arch
Masons, and Lodge No l, +. and A. NJ.
and the California Pioneers. each of which
societies had representatives, among the
pall-bearers.
| Sunday afternoon the dedicatory exercises
of the Union Square Free Baptist Church
wee held at the new edifice erected on
Bush street. The congregation formerly
occupied small building on Post street.
| They recently sold the lot on Post street
|
much improved. The sermon was preached
by Rev. II. E. Whipple, of Mendocino
After the services the Church Trustees
made a report.
The Western Union Telegraph Company
will soon lay cable from this city to Val
| leio, bv which the correct time can be
obtained each day from the Mare Island
! Observatory. As soon as this is done the
| Merchants Exchange will have time-ball
placed on the flagstaff of their building,
which will be dropped at the same time as
the one at Vallejo. As the tower of the
Exchange is visible from the whole water
front, this new arrangement will prove OF
much benefit to shipmasters in correcting
their thermometers.
Mrs. Catherine Fleming was at her
devotions Sunday evening, in st. Patrick ;
Church, and on her Bonded knees, when
she felt something Juggling at her pocket,
and, turning around, saw man take away
his hand The fellow dropped a s. piece at
the same time, and was caught hold of by
two citizens, with whom he struggled man
fully, but was tightly held until the street
was reached, when he was given over to
officer Wollweber. He gave the name of
John Schwartz, and fought all the way
down to the Folsom-street Station, where
he was charged with pocket picking.