Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-09-18
BRIEF NOTES.

last evening with another man IN saloon,
and received a slight knife wound IN the
side.
Governor Stoneman has appointed Pat
rick Brown as Supervisor of District No.
of Contra Costa county, vice John Bowen,
deceased.
Sacramento was unusually quiet yester-
day afternoon, owing to the closing OF the
principal places of business to give their
employees an opportunity to do the far. d.
These arrests were made yesterday
Jack, by officer Armstrong, for being
drunk; Lou. Morris, by officer Ash, Tor
battery; \. Sybetic, by officers Ash and
Garrison for battery.
1t may not be out of place to warn citi-
zens that toward the close of the fair the
tough element are apt to commit depreda-
tons, and it will be well to see that resi-
dences are properly secured.
The tolling of the fire bells early yester-
day afternoon was in consequence OF the
death of Patrick Clark, an exempt fireman,
and proprietor OF grocery at Sixth and NJ
streets. He had been sick for some time.
At o'clock this morning there viii be
test. by one of the fire engines, of the well
recently bored in the Capitol grounds, near
the Pavilion. As the well was sunk for lire
.
efficiency.
Arrived yesterday, steamer San joaquin,
No. g. from Port Costa, light Cleared
steamer San joaquin, No 4, for San Francis.
co, with grain steamers Ceres Dover and
San joaquin, No. 3, for the upper Sacra-
mento, light.
An advertisement in yesterdays RECORD
UNION announced the loss of a cluster da-
mond earring, and reward of $40 for its
recovery. The finder turned up yesterday
in the person of q little girl, years old,
and the $40 made her the happiest child in
California.
Assistant Chief Engineer O'Meara is in
charge Of the Fire Department at present.
Chief Engineer Sullivan, who has been i'll
Of malarial fever for about q week. having
gone to Byron Springs yesterday. Fire
Commissioner Jackson also went to the
same springs.
The police have had many calls from
abroad during the fair for the arrest of run
away boys and girls and several have been
gathered in and returned to their homes.
The runaway boy appears to be usually
aboring under the impression that to be a
boo;black is free pass to liberty and fun
galore.
The police nightwatch gathered in early
yesterday morning six tramps who were
found sleeping in a barn in the upper por-
ton of the city. They were produced in
the Police Court to respond to charge of
vagrancy, but Judge Henry discharged
them on their promising to leave town in
three hours.
At the track, q few days ago. a Sacrament
tan purchased pool tickets on Estill, pay
ing about $500 for them. He put the tickets
in pocket of his linen buster, from which
some thief distracted them. Estill did not
win, and the tickets were worthless: but.
if he had won, they would have called tor
about 81 900.
The Board of Directors of the Northern
California Immigration Association held
its adjourned meeting yesterday at the of
flee of the Secretary, in this city. Several
bills were audited, after which the general
work for the coming year was discussed.
The counties represented at the meeting
We're Solano, Siskiyou, Placer Yolo, Butte
and Sacramento.
Coroner Clark held an inquest last even
ing in the case of Carrie Kaufman, the jury
finding that she came to her death from an
overdose of laudanum, taken with suicidal
intent. The druggist from whom the drug
was obtained testified that she had been
dealing at his store for years had frequent
ly purchased laudanum, and that on this
occasion there was nothing to indicate that
she contemplated self-dcstruction.
The United States snag. boat Seller went,
yesterday morning, to the bar at the foot of
\ street to see what could be done there to
improve the channel at the sand-bar, and
will probably. use her scraper for the pur-
pose. While the steamer San Joaquin, No
/, was going down stream with bargeload
of grain, she grounded on the bar, and,
after being fast about an hour, was pulled
off with the assistance of the Seller
DR.. J. r. Crandall, who died at Auburn
Tuesday, a gentleman known in Sacra-
mentO, was one of the first TO plant fruit
trees and grape vines in the foothill land at
Auburn, and to demonstrate the adapta-
bility of the soil in that section for such
production. In 1857 he ran on the Ameri-
can ticket for State Treasurer against Lee
land Stanford Republican,, and Thomas
Findlev Democrat, but was defeated the
latter being elected.
At the race-track, yesterday afternoon.
while gentleman was leaning against the
fence on the quarter stretch. watching a
race, the man next 10 him was run against
by person hurrying by and pushed against
No. /, whose face was forced against the
barbed wire surrounding the top of the
fence, and he received pretty severe cut
below the eye. Many visitors to the fair
have little souvenir cuts on their hands
caused by that wire guard, and there is a
general belief that q plain wire would do
just as well. and not be dangerous
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Amusements.
METROPOLITAN THEATER-A fine house
witnessed the second performance of For