Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-07-23
BpIsr NOTES.

The Women's Christian Temperate,
Union will meet this afternoon at , o clock
Monday evening Dan. Hubbard killed ;
fine three-point buck out in the thicke
near Woodland.
George Borchers, heretofore pitcher for the
Alta Baseball Club, has resigned his posi-
!; ton in that club, and will hereafter pitch
for the Unions.
There is a nice quartet of youths quar-
tered at the station-house, awaiting an op-
portunity to relate in the Police Court what
they know about opium smoking.
A large number of young folks were
boating on the Sacramento last evening.
Quite number were on the little steamer
Hi-1ah, the balance in whitehalls.
A letter received at this office Yesterday
states that prominent gentleman who re-
sides at Balls Ferry, Shasta county, states
that wheat and barley in that vicinity, as
far as heard from, are not averaging over
eight bushels per acre.
The lady officers of the Salvation Army
corps went over to Stockton Yesterday, ac-
cOmpanied by few of their followers. 1t
is said that new delegation of exhorters
will be sens to take their places, and that
Sacramento will not be allowed to 90 di-
rect to the bad.
James P. Bullock has harvested his
swamp-land crop on the Sacramento river.
in Hoio county. From 105 acres he
thrashed 1905 sacks of wheat. This is an
average of about 90 bushels to the acre. 1t
is hardly possible that better yield can be
found III 4olO or COlusa counties this year.
A couple of boys named Fred. Schumacher
and Will Coburn We're detected by Health
,-,.o1,
plumber, and an inquiry developed the fact
that they had stolen several dozen pocket
knives and other articles from the store of
l.. Coleman on J street, between Seventh
and Eighth. The cutlery was restored to
its owner, but the boys were locked up.
Henry Sizzling, of Dayisyille, claims TO
have discovered a substitute for bluestone
to use for the prevention of smut and rust
in wheat. 1t will not only, he declares,
prevent rust and smut, but will also act as
a fertilizer, thus insuring an increased
yield and an improved quality of grain.
His statements are verified by some of his
who have tested his compound.
Newcastle is shipping an enormous guam
dty OF fruit East every week. Five straight
equal to fifty tons, says the Placer
argus, went from there last week, besides
forty or fifty tons more which did not 90 as
full carloads. On Monday orders came for
two carloads-One for Omaha, the other for
Kansas City. If there is a town in Amer
lea, OF its size, that beats Newcastle for
we should like to know it,
There came near being a serious fire at
the Salvation Army barracks last evening
Officers Rider and Sullivan went into the
place and found that the fire was beneath
the platform. This they tore up, and found
beneath lot Of women's cast-off clothing,
mems ancient socks, etc, which appeared
to have caught fire from spontaneous com-
bustion, or something of the kind. They
subdued the flames without the aid OF the
fire department.
Just before daylight yesterday morning
officer FraZee interviewed Chinaman at
Eleventh and j streets, who seemed to be
laboring under an unusually heavy load of
The officer found that the en-
yender of garden truck was get
ting away with a couple of bags Of sweet
potatoes, which he had nicely covered up
in his basket with a few layers of old
beets, turnips, etc. The vans were found
to have been stolen from a store near by.
Last evening at the hall of Court Suffer.
No. 1916, \. o. F., the thirty fifth degree
of Forestry was instituted, and the follow
herd, W J. FOote; Vice-Grand Shepherd,
W H. Greenlaw Grand High Priest, g.
c. NJ. Mitchell Grand Custodian of Funds,
William A. Mott Grand Recorder ". B.
Rogers; Grand Escort, Adolp Eckman
Guardian of Portal, F. S. Oliver. The meet
ing was very enthusiastic with a large
in attendance.
CooL SAcEAMENTo.-A gentleman came
down from Red Bluff last evening and put
up at the Capital Hotel. When asked by
the proprietor, Mr.. Blessing, why it was
that he had brought his overcoat along,
the gentleman took from his pocket several
items cut out of a Sacramento newspaper.
the headings of which ran as follows:
" Cold Sacramento sacramento Cooler
Than Los Angeles" Sacramento the
Coolest Place in the State" The Frigiditv
Of the Capital City ait is a Cold Day
when Sacramento Gets Left ON Weather"
etc, etc. He remarked that ii was strange
thing that so many Sacramentans We're
trouting in the mountains, bathing at the
seaside and camping in the foothills,
when, if what he read was true Sacra-
mento was the coolest place on earth. He
remarked as he handed his coat to the
clerk, telling him to check it, put it away,
and that it would be called for next winter,
L" would like to see the editor that could
write such cool articles. Why he said
" that fellow has the cool check of the
devil. When he goes hence, to the place
which is illuminated by the smiles Of
every newspaper Scribbler that has gone
before, he will write an article saying that
hell is a refrigerator, snowballing is good
at all seasons of the year, and that ice
cream grows on every tree in his Satanic
Majesty realm"
COLD DAY CoMPANY.-On Saturday after
noon and evening the great grotesque
Cold Day Company will appear at the Me-
tropolitan Theater, under the management
of Charles MacGeachey, in the uproarious
conglomeration of It's a Cold Day when
We Get Left 1t is said to be a remarkable
comedy, with an impenetrable plot, prolific
with artiSticmUsical features, novel scenery,
mechanical effects. etc 1t is claimed by
those who have bcheld it-and it has had
All unprecedented run in the East--that it
is even funner than the funniest of very
funny plays. The troupe is composed of
first-class artists. many of whom have APP
peared in Sacramento before. The troupe
Is direct from their New York success, and
the play will be presented on Saturday at
the Metropolitan for the first time in Cali
fpruia. The prices of admission have been
placed al ID and - cents. Reserved seats
can be procured by applying at Houghton' S
book store.
THEY Mrsr Go.-All the police have re,
ceivcd instructions from the Chief to send
every opium ficnd, e lover and common
vagrant ont of the city or arrest them.
Tho WALKING X l,rptty Good these DAYS and