Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-05-28
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Adjourned to 10 4. NJ. to-day.
Memorial-Day Notes.

The joint committee OF Sumner and
Warren Posts publish to-day their pro-
gramme complete for Memorial Day
Saturday, May Both. The Grand Army,
escorted by The Hussars and the First Ar
tillery Regiment, will march down X to
Second, ana tip J to Tenth, and out to the
City Cemetery where tie usual TitualiStic
services will bc performed and the graves
of Union veterans decorated. Business
men of the city are requested to close their
places of business during the day, and
all Union veterans-so soldiers and sailors
are invited TO unite with the Grand Army
in all the exercises of the day An APP
pointment had been made for rehearsal
of the chorus at the theater Saturday morn
ing, but as the theateris not to be occupied
Friday evening, the rehearsal will be held at
| that time. Sumner Post will have Especial
| muster of recruits at | o'clock SATURDAY.
| afternoon. and all members of the order in
the city are invited to be present. The
exercises in the evening will be held at the
Metropolitan Theater, and programme of
unusual interest will be presented As an
orator. Judge II. C. Dibble has few su-
periors upon this coast, and the Grand
Army of Sacramento were fortunate in Sc
| curing his services for this occasion. Miss
klttie Smith, of Sacramento is an elocu-
| zionist of good natural ability, and has
also devoted much time to study, and has
| had careful training under competent
instructors. Mrs. Nellie HolbrOoll Blnn
of San Francisco, Will be remembered as
having given readings at the recent Loan
| Exhibition at the Croker Art Gallery. and
all who were fortunate enough TO hear her
at that time will not miss this opportunity
to hear her again. In fact, she was then
| invited to remain over and give readings
/ one or two m re evenings, Mrs Cooley
I Smith and Mr. S.,ubO7n are Iay0rites in
I Sacramento and the opera singer, Signor
| Luigi Lencio1i. i a vocal artist of talent
more rare thau il Often heard here, as all
! vii; testify vino have heard him sing
during his short soiourn among us.
| War "reminiscences are always interesting
when well told, and Mr.. Ollie has
| the lmack Of spinning yarn in
such a way as to interest everybody.
| An orchestra of twelve pieces and a chorus
| of from seventy-tiye to 100 voices have been
in careful training, and among other cho-
rllses to be rendered is the famous anvil ChO-
rus, from Nerdi's popular opera of " II Tro-
vatore," with the full accompaniment OF
red-shirted blacksmiths with their anyi!s.
This chorus, when properly brought out
never fails to please the people. In short
!
ally presented on these occasions, and peO-
pie who go early will be sure of good seats.
| 4 Musical Treat.
There is something appetizing in store
for the music-loving portion of this COM
munity. 1t is announced that on Friday
evening June 5th, the Materna Grand
Concert Company will appear at the Con-
gregational Church, under the personal
management of Seymour Z. Locke, the
well-knOwn theater manager. The artists
composing this company are Madame
| Amelia Friedrich Materna, court singer of
the Imperial Opera, Vienna; Miss Neatly
Stevens, concert pianist; Signor NncenzO
| VILLAIN, primO-baritone, and Mr.. J. Ii.
Rosewald, solo violinist. OF Frau
| Materna it has been truthfully
said that " she needs no introduction to the
American people, as her name is known
| wherever the art of dramatic singing is
valued" She is recognized as among the
most illustriOus of the personators of Wag-
ner's greatest female characters She was
| born III one of the small towns OF Austria
in 1917, and received the foundation for her
| musical education at the hands Of her
father. At the age of II she had mastered
Haydn and Mozart's Masses, and appeared
a year later as Ortrud in " Lohengrin," one
of the roles on which her subsequent
reputation was based. In 1866, after
two years of distinguished success before
the public, she married Carl Friedrich, but
continued for some time as an oparetta
singer in Vienna. At the suggestion of
admiring friends She then began the study
OF grand opera under the tuition OF Proch,
and soon atterward made Il great success in
the leading grand operas But her greatest
| triumphs are said to have been achieved in
the Wagnerian roles OF Ortrud, Elizabeth,
Venus. Adriano, Kundry, Isolde and
others Wagner himself was entranced
| by her singing. IN Il biographical
sketch published of this emf
nent lady, it was said = Frau Ma
terna does not, and cannot sing
ford music; she does something much
nobler. She interprets the music of the
greatest masters precisely as they wish it
to be interpreted, merging her individuality
so completely in that of the art work that
one mistakes fiction for reality. Her voice
is uncommonly rich, full, sonorous and
powerful so that she is at her best in
purely dramatic situations, where u voice
| like PATHS is completely drowned in the
| ocean of orchestral sound 1t is not often
that Sacramentans have an opportunity of
| listening to an artistic of the recognized tai
ent of Madame Materna, and no doubt they
Will gladly avail themselves of the prom
ised pleasure
LoNG-LosT LETTERs.-While one Of the
mail cars was being repaired at the shops
in this city some days ago, large number
of letters were discovered hidden between
| the water tank and the letter case. The
letters were dated October q, 1884, August
| EoI
| 1885. 1t appears that the clerk on duty on
those dates was in the habit of placing let
tiers on the top of the case while asserting
! them and the motion OF the car caused
some of the missiYes to drop behind the
case without his noticing the accident. The
! letters have all been forwarded to their add
| dress. willi the following explanation in the
| form OF Il printed slip attached to each en-
velopc: san Francisco, May u, 1SS5.-ln
| repairing mail car this letter was discov-
| cred between the partitions, where it had
accidentally fallen. Jas. l.. Wilder, Supt.
! Il. N. :.
4 Lrc6T EscAPE.-Last night about 8
O'Clock, as Chief Engineer Sullivan was
passing the residence of \. Thielcn. he
heard the children screaming, and observed
that the inside Of one of the rooms was in
flames. He ran inside, and soon succeeded
in cXtinguShing the flames. The parents
| had gone out for few moments and left
the children alone. While playing, they
knocked roal-oil lamp over and it eX-
! pIodcd. The carpets, bedding and some of
| the furniture, was badly damaged. If the
Chief had not happened along so oppor-
| tunely, the house would have been de
| Stroycd, and perhaps some of the sleeping
children burned TO death
GRAssHoPrEEs.-E Every farmer who comes
in from the southern, eastern and some of
the northern portions of this county tell OF
the ravages Of the grasshoppers in their
ncighbOrhood. Yesterday about 2 P. NJ.
they attacked the fine fruit farms of r. d.
stephens and Weinstock q Lubin. near
Mathew Station, on the Sacramento Valley
Railway, some nine miles from the city.
So far no remedy has been discovered that
will enable the farmer to successfully battle
with them. They say the ground trees,
fences and highways are covered so thickly
with them that everything seems TO be one
black, living mass.
To-DAY's PIcNIc.-The Chosen Friends
of this city, Clarksburg, Walnut Grove and
Franklin will hold their annual Joint pic
mic to-day at Beach's Grove. At o'clock
the steamer Governor Dana will leave the
foot of \ street and take all who desire to