Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-10-19
BRIEF NOTES.

f, T. johnson has been appointed No
tary Public for Sacramento.
Twenty carloads of beef cattle passed
through from Nevada to San Francisco yes
terday.
Thomas Harris was on Saturday, in De-
partment Two of the Superior Court,
granted divorce from Annie Harris.
The people of Marysville are paying close
attention to their orange trees, to protect
them from the cottony cushion scale"
The Sacramento horses that had been
taking part in the Reno fair races returned
home yesterday. or ct least most of them
The remains of " Josh Billings" the hui
morist who died at Monterey recently, were
on Saturday evening forwarded to tae East
for interment.
Judge D. J. Murphy, of San Francisco,
will come up tomorrow evening, and hold
Court for Judge Van Fleet during the re-
mainder of the week.
Isaac Bryan, an old and well-known res
ident of Sacramento county died at his
ranch near Richland on Saturday, after an
illness of about two weeks.
The preliminaries for the demonstrating
match between the California and Utah
teams have been nearly all arranged, and
the shoot will take place the latter part of
next month.
Deputy Sheriff Kennedy of Placer coun-
ty, took 10 the asylum at Stockton yester-
day an insane colored man named George
Davis, whose mania leads him to believe
that an army of men are pursuing him.
AT Agricultural Park yesterday after
noon, prior TO the baseball game. while one
of the players was batting, in practice. the
bat slipped from his hand and hit two
small boys, hurting their heads severely.
a colored man and white woman an
piled for a marriage license Saturday, but
were refused by County Clerk Hamilton,
under the provisions of the Civil Code,
which pronounces against such marriages.
Late Saturday night pistol shot was
fired in the vicinity of Eleventh and K
streets, occasioning some excitement among
the residents of the neighborhood, but
nothing could be learned as to who fred ii.
or why.
Henry Kern, the engineer who was in
Jured on the occasion of the railroad acct
dent at Gold Run, Thursday, is seriously
Ill at the Railroad HOSP tal, his internal
injury having been more serious than was
at first supposed.
The Sacramento river has risen about an
inch, under the influence of the recent up
4
inches. The steamer Apache was able to
bring up considerable portion of her
freight yesterday.
Saturday evening two empty cars of
freight train jumped the track at Davisville
in consequence of the brakes being set up
too tight suddenly, and the overland ex-
press, due here at o'clock, was delayed as
also the o'clock local train from San
Francisco.
Yesterday afternoon Dan Sullivan, con-
vlct in the Folsom prison. sent from San
Francisco, attempted to escape. His alb
sence was noticed at locking-up time. and
search for him was Immediately made, re-
sulting in his being found in pile of dirt
in which he had covered himself up.
1t was reported yesterday that during the
previous night n man named Bennett, liv-
ing at Eighteenth and +, had attempted
suicide by taking poison. Subsequently it
was learned that the physician called to at
tend him could not detect any symptoms of
poison, and did not believe that any had
been taken.
The steamers Varuna and Flora arrived
from the upper Sacramento yesterday with
grain, and the steamer San Joaquin No. 4
from San Francisco, with merchandise;
steamer Sonoma, from San Francisco, with
barge load OF lumber for the Friend & Terry
Lumber Company and shakes for the Puget
Sound Lumber Company.
In the Superior Court, Saturday, NJ. L.
Wallace was tried by jury on charge of
embezzlement in appropriating to himself
certain turkeys raised on a ranch in which
another person was interested, the latter
claiming a half ownership in the fowls.
Wallace alleged that he alone owned them.
The jury found him not guilty.
Last Friday evening a gun club was or
ganized at Woodland, with the following
officers, and fifteen active members Jason
Watkins, President; VIM. Hamer, Vice
President; Carey Barney, Treasurer; C. l..
Browning, Secretary; Dave Wykoff, +. C.
Wyckoff, DR.. ]. Clark, BENZ. jackson and
D: j. Pfeiffer, Executive Committee; Dave
Wykoff, Captain.