Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-07-22
LOCAL INPIELLTGENCn.


Police Court.
Judge Henry's Court yesterday morning
was graced with but one criminal, and the
seats in the auditorium were nearly all va
cant. Jim Martin, a middle-aged, rather
good-looking man, stood up in the
dock ane pleaded guilty 10 the charge of
drunk He told sorrowful tale as to how
he had been enticed into q disreputable
dive, drugged and robbed of all his earthly
wealth, some $50 in coin. He showed up
The hand of laborer, and the Judge told
him lie could go, but advised him TO steer
clear O. S2cramentos deadfalls in the fu
ture. The other cases on the calendar were
continued
City Attorney Anderson said he would
move that the Court adjourn out of respect
to the memory of VIM. Randolph Cant
well In many respects, he said, deceased
was a remarkable man, and ever generous
to a fault. lie was native OF GAINESVILLE,
o.; where he enlisted as q soldier ana
fought Tor the defense of American princi-
pies during the Mexican War. He came
to California in 1850 and located that wear
il Sacramento, where he engaged in mer-
camille pursuits He was successful and
at one time aitluent, and it was often
his boast that he was worth his thousands
while such men as Carroll, Mills, Cadwala-
der Stanford, Croker, and Others since
wealthy, were struggling with poverty In
the early days OF California he was bright
ornament to the bar, u man of great liter
ary taste and learning, and good authority
upon o.. historical subjects. 1t is said Of
many men, when they pass from this
mundane sphere, that all their good deeds
are recorded while their faults are shad-
owed. We cast the mantle OF charity over
his tagits, remembering well that he him
self. was his worst enemy. He lived to
good old age-nearly three score years and
ten. il IS a sad thing TO contemplate, but
the pioneers, the Argonauts of the Golden
West are one by one, and rapidly, too,
passing away. During the past few
months Swift. Hardenburg, Cadwalader
Van HaSen, and many others. whose
names are as familiar as household words
and whose history IS part OF that Of Cali
furnia itself, have entered that unknown
beyond. Their places cannot be relied.
Once Eone-gone forever.
l. 5. Brown, in Il few euiogisiic remarks,
seconded the motion.
Judge Henry also paid tribute to his
departed predecessor, and the Court ad-
journed.
WHO owns THE CoIS Jacob Nagele, the
good-natared proprietor of liquid refresh
ments. Is passing through a trying and most
peculiar ordeal One day last week a man
whom he knows By sight but not by name,
left 4 SUM Of money with him. The 5 ran
ger was under the influence of liquor at
she time, and has failed since to call for
his coin Nagele advertised for the missing
man, but 50 far the advertisement has not
had the desired effect, and consequently
Jacob i still the custodian Of more funds
than he knows what to do with. Eoweyeri
a score or more of individuals have called,
LAID claim to the funds. stating they don't
know how much it is exactly, You
know for l was full of booze that
night Nagele is not to be imposed
upon he knows his man when
he sees him, and every impostor that calls
IS gwen the grand bounce One indi-
vidua. is persistent in his demand for the
deposit. He was expelled from the build
ing and denounced as a fraud and impos-
tor. He went to a certain lawyer. gave
him tie case and the barriSter said he
would bring Jacob to terms. The limb Of
the law made Il legal demand for the
money, Sand threatened a lawsuit. This
was TOO much Tor Jacob, and he hustled the
disciple of Blackstone out of the building
and upon the sidewalk twice as quick as he
had entered, with the solemn injunction.
backed up with suggestive shake OF
fist II You, or your client either, come
fooling around here threatening me with
lawsuits. III break your d-n necks, and
don you forget it. either.
The HoME-SEEKER-T third number
OF the 0ne-Seeker, published by the Immi-
grafton association Of Northern California,
and edited by its Secretary, Dr. H Latham,
has lust been issued. II shows careful
preparation, contains a large amount Of in
terestiag and valuable information for in
tended Immigrants and others. and cannot
fail To 10 effective work. The publication
OF the Home Seeker has already become an
entire success, and the original plans con-
corning il are being much enlarged upon.
II Is one of the most successful methods OF
work employed by the Association. In adj
ditlon 20 its distribution at the East q copy
of 1t Is placed in the hands of every emf
grant at Ogden, coming this way, and be-
lore reaching California it has been read
carefully, and many of the advantages of
the northern part Of the State are made 70
mliIar to them. In order to afford the same
information To German-speaking immi
grants, the future numbers of the pamph
let vii! be published in both German and
English. The August number will con-
tain several cuts of public buildings. resi-
dences. exc, of Sacramento.
DESIRE LONGER NorIcE-A letter dated
Monday q; Elk Grove, and addressed to the
RECORD UNION. says i see by to-iay's
RECORD UNION that the Sacramento County
Sunday-school Convention convenes to-
night. Can you tell me why no notice is
sent to the county of such Convention until
J. tel. nv no oil L - 10.
cause Sacramento SundaySchool workers
DO not want the country folks? Or is it
because the Convention is too crowded
We would ike 10 attend. but can't upon a
moments notice. Some information upon
this subject will oblige several county Sun
day-sehool workers
4 NEW MANAGEMENT.-0n the 1st of
January next the Metropolitan Theater
will change management. D. J. Simmons
retiring, and II. S. Beals succeeding to that
position Mr.. Beals is no novice at the
business, having been more or less con-
nected with theatrical management for the
past thirty years, and at present the lessee
OF the Woodland Opera House.
He MEANT BUsINEss.--it Verdi, on Mon
day night, brakeman on train No. ., com
ing west. had occasion 10 eject a tramp.
The latter was vicious brute, tor he at
once pulled pistol and blazed away at the
brakeman, sending bullet through one of
the sleeves of his coat The would-be as
sassin escaped in the darkness.
CARPETS a, our twentieth semi-annual
sale, at 4 reduction OF from % to 10 per
cent. Three-ply, all-wOol yard-wide, for
81, 50 cents; half-wool carpet for 30 cents
per yard; Dutch carpet, in three styles, all
wool, t0r 80 cents per yard, at Red House. :
ONE THOUSAND ladies' collars to-day, at
Red House, 5 cents each Fifty lots of
ans clothing marked down to szagger all
Competition. The sledge-hammer and the
new mark is what tells See our advertise