Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-12-26
BRIEF NOTES.

next week.
A meeting of those having in charge the
arrangements torthe citrus fair will be held
at P. N. to-day.
To-day and next Monday are the last
upon Whlch state and county taxes can be
paid without additional costs.
The Woodland papers are urging the VIC
orous enforcement of the ordinance against
opium dens and opium-smoking in that
place '--'''
The Sacramento river at II O'Clock last
night was up to the 20-foot mark. and ris-
ing. This was an increase of 10 inches in
iorty-eight hours
The steamer Neponset, No. .. arrived
from the upper Sacramento Thursday with
hogs, poultry and produce, and the Dover
yesterday with grain
The beautiful Christmas cantata Of -. 81
Nicholas viii be given at the Sixth-strest
NJ. h. Church next Tuesday evening. with
a chorus of 300 voices.
The Sacramento and Placerville passen-
ger train was half an hour late in its ARR
val mere yesterday, owing to the breaking
OF spring-hanger of the engine.
John A. Wilson, proprietor of coffee.
mouse on street, between Fifth and Sixth.
made misstep on the sidewalk few DAYS
ago, and fell and fractured his leg.
Conductors of trains were exceedingly
lonesome yesterday, travel being so light
that they had little company. Everybody
renamed at home to enjoy Christmas.
Notwithstanding the stormy weather the
annual ball of the Sacramento Turn Verein
at Turner Hall last night was well attend
cd, ana proved source Of much pleasure.
An ordinance will be prepared and sub
united to the Board of Trustees next Mon
/ Gay Dy the Ordinance Committee, providing
| l3f the removal OF Chinatown from within
| the city limits
The case of Norris Us. Haggin & Tevis,
| involving the title TO the Rancho del Paso
which was on argument in the United
| states Circuit Court last week, was finally
submitted on briefs
George Hunt, the fireman at the Lake
MERGED Water Works near San Francisco
| who was killed by the boiler explosion
| there Thursday night, was formerly a resi-
dent Of Sacramento
A small electric light plant will he es-
! tabllshed at Woodland at once to give the
citizens an opportunity to Judge of the
merits of the light If, after the trial. the
citizens are dissatisfied, the plant will be
removed.
The Chinese residents of the city are hay
ing their annual exhumation of the dead.
| preparatory to the remains being forwarded
to China. An investigation by Health Off
| Ger terral showed that they were conform
ing to the law in the matter.
These arrests We're made Thursday and
| yesterday John Council, by officer Franks.
for being drunk; Mary Roberts by the
same officer, for being a common drunk
ard; Patrick Flynn, by officer Kent and
Deputy Sheriff Rider, for disturbing the
| peace.
The following railroad companies. in adj
| dlhon to those already mentioned in the
RECORD MON, have paid their taxes into
the State Treasury: Nevada COMPANY
Narrow Gauge Railroad, S2,74S As; Cali
fornla Southern Railroad, s., SIS Is North
ern California Railroad, 81, 1858 10.
The rain was so heavy for a while Thurs
day night that little ditch leading across
front street. north of the water works
building, became lively stream, and
caused deep cut in the levee, extending
from the river eastward about twenty feet,
which will require about fifty leads of
earth to fill in.
Judge Van Fleet fixed the appeal bond
OF NJ. ID. Reed, recently convicted in the
Superior Court of obtaining money by false
| pretenses, at $4,000. His friends at San
francesca obtained the necessary sureties
ana the bond came up day before yester-
| day, but as 1t did not have the signature of
The Judge who approved it, had to be re-
turned. Reed will probably be set at lib
| erty to-day.
Pat Flynn, who says he recently deserted
from the British navy and was going to
San francisco to enlist in the American
! navy. got upon spree and yesterday
morning appeared on | street, and visited a
| ttnlneSP hIltnhnr
the Celestials, he demanded five cents. and
| iaiilng to get 1t, knocked the Chinaman
| down. Deputy Sheriff Rider and officer
Kent took him to the calaboose
| earle, Croly Abernethy, of this CITY.
VINO recently received the contract for
building the State hotel in Yosemite val
ley. nave gwen bond, in accordance with
their bid, in the sum of $50, 900, with Chris
TOPPER Green, Jesse Warren Wilson, Fred
erick Cox and Daniel Flint, all of Sacra-
mento, as sureties for the fulfllment of the
contract. The hotel will be three stories
| and furnished attic, and in addition to
every usual modern hotel convenience will
contain seventy-five sleeping rooms.
| Yesterday forenoon an Italian deliber-
ately kicked into fragments one of the
large panes of gla in the show window of
John J. Trarbach's store, Third and X
streets. Deputy Sheriff O'Meara and Off
GERS Rider and Kent took him in cbarre
| He seemed TO be demented, and desired TO
be given an opportunity to kill himself.
Alter arriving at the station-house he be-
came so violent that his limbs were con-
| hned with straps to prevent him from
doing Injury to himself or others.
The advance agent of a Mkado company
that appeared in Woodland last week gave
several persons, because of assistance rem
| nprpN r. II,
Nj. Coward, who had received some of these
passes, went to the theater with his wife
ana presented them, but they were ignored
} Dy the manager in a manner that made Mr.
| Cow ard feel unpleasant, and he proceeded
to attach the box office. The matter was
subsequently compromised by the mana
gers paying 81 90 for the passes and the
costs of the suit.
| The Christmas Bee, in its general fea-
lures, IS creditable number, but its merits
are sadly detracted from by the uniournal-
lstlc methods of its managers in using
special annual edition as vehicle for at
| tacklng contemporary, by republishing
with double-leaded venom scurritous ar
| tlcle found in another sore-headed and
| jealous sheet. No unfavorable result could
| follow, however, to the paper attacked
| where both are known, and since the
would-be venomous insect in its greatest
| lights, only reaches the home portion of
the RECORD UNIONS area of circulation,
the matter is more amusing than other
wise.
CLUNIE OPERA HoUsE.-Mr. Bishop, the
accomplished comedian, has met with
great success in the farcical comedy, "The
Widow Bedott" Despite the storm the
house was crowded last night upstairs and
down. Widow Bedott will be PLAYED
again for the matinee performance this
afternoon. and again tonight and to-mor-
row night. Next week Mr.. Bishop will
present the comedy. "Strictly Business"
The public will regret to learn of the retire
ment from the management of Messrs.
Chenoweth & Wilkins. They have been
uniformly courteous, painstaking and pa
tiently laborious in making the Opera House
an inviting place of chaste public enter
tainment, and have not spared expense in
the production of dramas. The reputation
the house now enjoys is due to their efforts,
and that they have not reaped reward is a
matter of regret 7. J. Clunie, the owner
of the property, now takes charge Of it,
with n. L. Drew as manager. 1t is prom