Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-10-07
BRIEF NOTES.

BRlEF NOTES.
County Clerk Hamilton collected fees to
the amount of $3.50 30 last month.
But one arrest was made Yesterday
Charles Graft, by officer Franks, for bat
terry.
Twenty-Five carloads of beef cattle went
through TO San Francisco from Nevada
yesterday
A valuable yearling Prompter colt be-
longing to ]. w. Wilson died on Monday
OF distemper.
ii. a Weaver purchased from Dr. Hicks,
lew days ago, handsome Prompter FLY,
TWO years old next spring, paying 800.
The office of the City Superintendent of
Schools and of the Board of Education has
been removed to No. 913 X street, north
side -
Sheriff Hale, of Alameda county, brought
up last night en- route to the State Prison
at folsomi Thomas Quigley, who goes for
TWO years Tor burglary in the first degree.
The alarm sounded from box No. 50 last
night. about o'clock, was for the burning
out OF chimney in the butcher shop on
the south side of II street, few doors east
of Twentieth.
Under Sheriff Moore, of Inyo county,
passed through yesterday, conveying to
san Quentin Frank Broder, under Sentence
OF ten years imprisonment for murder in
the second degree.
The steamers Ceres and Harriet arrived
from the upper Sacramento yesterday with
gram, en- route to San Francisco: steamer
San joaquin, No. 2, from Port Costa, light,
en- route to the upper Sacramento.
The Pacific Annual Conference of the NJ.
Il. Church South viii meet at the Seventh
street church to-day. A large number of
ministers and delegates have already ar
rived In the city to take part in the pro-
ceedings.
The Folsom Sportsman's Club left yes
terday for its annual camp-out, Benefits
ranch, on the Sacramento and Placeryille
railroad, being again selected as the camp
ing ground. 1t is reported that ten deer
were seen near the ranch on Sunday last
E. W. Claresse, who was acting tempo
rarlly as brakeman on the Sacramento
and Placerville Railroad, and making his
first trip, had one of his fingers cut off
while coupling cars at the Homestead last
County Hospital, near by, for treatment.
The Supervisors of Yolo county have
fixed the rate of taxation for State and
NpbaA4bf Pun BNSSS at 81 ~ On euCl SlUD OF
taxable property. No provision is made in
this for the proposed removal Of the Conn
ty Hospital and Temodeling of the Court
house, SO those enterprises will be aband-
oned for the present.
At Woodland last Monday in the case of
Glascock VS.. The Central Pacific Railroad
Company, which had been on trial two or
three days, the Court granted nonsuit.
The action was brought to recover $50, 600
damages, because of the death of George
Glascock, near Blacks station, last Novem-
Der, IN consequence of his being run over
by train.
Deputy Sheriff Macomber took to the
State Prison at Folsom, yesterday, NJ.
Stadtler, who was recently sentenced to
one years imprisonment for grand larceny.
He also took up man named Antonio
ARA, who was brought here from San Ber-
nardino county yesterday by Deputy Sheriff
Mcguire, en- route to the prison to serve
three years for burglary.
The barge Lizzie Washington, loaded
with grain and towed by the steamer Ceres.
got aground on the sand bar Just below the
draw OF the Sacramento and Yolo bridge
Yesterday morning, and remained fast
about two hours and half. 4 wood barge.
drifting down stream, grounded opposite
N'AN L AO1ANSA -Aiil III tilt ana CIQ
not get Off until afternoon.
At an inquest held yesterday morning
by Justice Sturges, of Folsom, upon the
pody OF the man found hangingin the barn
of W. II. Williams near that place. il was
found that the deceased was Hugh Coell, a
native OF Scotland, about 80 years of age.
and that he hanged himself about October
I'd. de had been employed as laborer
upon the ranch.
A remarkable change of weather was ex.
perienced in this vicinity yesterday In the
forenoon 1t was unpleasantly warm, and the
heat continued until about the middle of
the afternoon, when a cooling breeze came
from the south. Early in the evening the
sky became overcast, accompanied BY fire.
quent flashes of lightning, the air grew
chilly, and few drops of rain fell about II
o'clock.
The Carson Appeal has this to say about
well-known Sacramentan: The Dem
ocrats are working up a new boom for
Theodore Winters, of Washoe, for Gov
ernor. Winters has very extensive fol-
lowing in the Democratic party as well as
a long sack. All in all, if the Democrats
elect anybody as live a man as Winters,
living in Carson, would not be objected to,
provided Democrat has to have it,
Trustee Nielsen has had many needed
improvements made in the plaza, not the
least among which was the painting of the
two fountains. NJ. J. Keegan, the artist,
who handled the brush, painted the two
iron frogs on the large fountain beautiful
emerald. He said that was the color he
most admired, and thought no one had
finer appreciation of the shades of green
than did he. As to the frog, he said. it
was an animal not found in the q old
country" But he thought they now
looked so fine that Frenchmen would have
to be kept out of the plaza at night.