Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-01-09
BRIEF NOTES.

The Sacramento river marks 81 feet
inches.
Two carloads of immigrants arrived this
morning.
There was So. go OF in the treasury OF
Iolo county last Monday.
The railroad company has discontinued
the buffet cars on the overland trains.
?. E. Hume informed the police yester-
day that a thief had appropriated his over
coat
A Chinamaa visited Henry Eckhardt 5
gunsmith store yesterday, and stole re-
volver
The pay-car returned, attached to the
overland train, yesterday morning, from its
trip to Ogden.
The steamer Dover cleared for the upper
Sacramento yesterday with merchandise,
and the San Joaquin. No. ,, for san Fran
cisco with grain.
A large number of members of the Leg
islature, and others who have been looking
on at the proceedings, left for San Francisco
yesterday afternoon.
There was a heavy rain Wednesday night
in the vicinity of Redding, but ON =" the
hill" on the line of the Central Pacific
Railroad, the weather was clear.
| Martin Cobb native of Switzerland,
was yesterday in the Superior Court De-
partment Two admitted to citizenship, on
the testimony of August Simoni and r. P.
| Wyman,
The Peoples Savings Bank has declared
| q dividend for the term ending December
81, 1884, at the rate of four and eight-tenths
per cent. per annum, payable on and after
| tomorrow.
Captain A. Foster returned yesterday
from San Joaquin county, and reports that
on the west side" in the vicinity of
Tracy, there has so far this season been a
rainfall of 3.63 inches, which is remarkably
good for that locality, and the farmers feel
that their prospects were never better at
this season of the year.
Deputy Sheriff Wilson, of San Francisco,
brought down from the State Prison at Fol
som yesterday, to be transferred to the
prison at San Quentin, a man named David
Wait, who was at San Francisco, last Feb
ruary, sentenced to q term of seven years
for burglary. He is sick, and il is believed
that he will do better at San Quentin.
The Board of Supervisors yesterday d.
rected their Clerk to advertise for bids for
constructing the necessary trestlework on
the Tweltth-street road to insure the good
condition of that highway at all seasons of
the year. The plans and specifications are
to be filed with the County Clerk by Mon
day next, and the bids opened on Monday,
February I'd, at p. NJ.
AT the Bay District track, San Francisco,
tomorrow at > P. NJ, there will be a half
mile running race between Adams big
mare, unexcelled so far at short distance |
and Jones Blue Mountain Belle, the ami |
NAL that made such fine record at Santa |
Rosa last fall. 1t is match for S., 900, play |
or pay. If the weather and track should |
happen to be good, and the horses feeling
well, remarkably fast time will doubtless |
be made.
Last evening officers Farrell and Airing
ton were accosted on the street by man |
carrying his left arm in sling, who asked |
for small coin contribution. As a person |
answering the description of the beggar as
to lame arm and general appearance. has
been reported from Stockton and Oakland |
as being a dead beat" the officers ar.
rested him, and will communicate with the |
police CT those cities on the subject They
were rather amused, when questioning |
their prisoner at the Station-house, TO see
him, when he got excited and forgot him
self, gesticulating with his lame arm and,
when Arlington, as if by accident, gave the
injured limb squeeze, not the slightest
protest was made.