Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-10-26
BRIEF NOTES.

The PAGER Nevada returned from Reno
and Carson City Saturday
The City Board of Education will hold
Its regular meeting this evening.
| Seventeen carloads of beef cattle passed
through from Nevada to San Francisco yes.
terdaY.
Department Inspector Emma A. Rice
Will at go this afternoon inspect Warren
Relief Corps.
Past Chancellor d. Falconer will deliver
an address before Sacramento Lodge No. IL
X. ofP., this evening.
An excursion train, bringing $50 passen-
gers from Boston and vicinity, will arrive
next Wednesday.
! The First Artillery Regiment will drill
and holda dress parade at the armory this
evening. The public will be admitted to
the galleries
Many of the larger at-growers in the
vicinity of Gait are subetting by lease
| their broad acres, and retiring from bust
ness themselves.
Officers Frazee and Nash arrested at the
| Capitol Park early last evening an indi-
Yldual named A. 2. Warren, who was ex-
| posing his person to children.
On the ranch of Isaac Krull. near Clarks-
| burg, Tolo county, J. G. Hite. of Freeport.
on the l1th and 18th instants, thrashed and
| cleaned eight tons of alfalfa seed.
| The Sunday-school entertainment which
was given at Hicksville last Wednesday
evening is said to have been very credit
able affair, and very largely attended
John F. Stephenson's residence, about a
mile below Franklin, was destroyed by fire
last Friday night. Loss, 81, 900; insurance,
| 81, 200. Mr.. Stephenson got badly burned
| while IRVING IN Soya his r,rororfv-
! The mandamus case of Charles Sutro
against Controller Dunn, brought to com
! pei the payment of certain Indian war
bonds held by Sutro, is set for hearing be-
fore Judge Mcfarland at 1:30 P. NJ to-day.
Matt NJ. Allen arrived yesterday morn
ing from the East, bringing R. p. Ashes
! stable of running horses. The favorite
horse Patsy Duffy, which was returning
IN the same car, died on Saturday at Green
River.
The Commissioners of Lunacy examined
on Saturday the cOlored woman Hannah
Groesbeck, who was brought here from Fol
som by Deputy Sheriff McComber last Fri
day on suspicious of insanity and decided
to commit her to the Stockton Asylum.
The residents of the Chinese quarter are
! preparing for the annual devil-driving, and
building on the north side of l street be-
tween Third and Fourth, was receiving
| yesterday the finishing touches, transform
ing it into temple full of representations
OF gods, good people and devils.
AT Onisbo last Saturday number of the
large fruit raisers of that section held Il
meeting and formed temporary organiZa-
ton to protect their interests in the matter
OF shipping fruit etc. They will elect per-
manent officers at the next meeting, which
will probably be held next Saturday.
Coroner Clark received on Saturday. from
| Justice Anderson of Folsom, the evidence
taken at the inquest held upon the body of
a Chlnaman who was caved upon in a min
ing claim III the suburbs of Folsom Thurs
day afternoon. The jury found that it was
a case OF accidental death, with no one to
blame.
Officer Farrell ON Saturday arrested
man named Martin V. Waters for stealing
an oyercoat from room at the Telegraph
! Hotel which had been assigned to Waters
| Friday night. The proprietors of the hotel
| found the coat at q secOnd-claSs establish
ment, where it had been sold by the thief
! for 80 cents.
The examination of Captain Spencer, of
| Woodland, terminated Friday afternoon in
| the accused being held to answer before
| the supreme Court on a charge of embez-
! Element. He was released on giving bonds
| in the sum of $1,000, with L. Dietz. John
| W. Powers, G. c. St Louis and w. II. Win
| ME as securities.
Mrs. Hartford, of Sumner Relief
! Corps, will deliver a free lecture at the
| SlXth-street NJ. +. Church this evening, on
the subject Bleeding Kansas" beng
! "reminiscences of border troubles and the
Quantrell raid, of which she was an eve
witness. A special invitation is extended
to members of the G.. a. II. and the Relief
Corps.
Last night man named a. Now visited
a house of prostitution on ] street While
! there he was invited to drink some tea,
and accepted. Soon afterwards lie became
| sick at the stomach, and the Celestials
threw him OUT He reached the station
| house with very little wardrobe and minus
| $50, but so sick that those matters seemed
of slight Importance.
Samuel Mathews, the champion light
| weight wrestler, who recently defeated
| Matsada Sorikechi in San Francisco, will
| take the position of teacher of wrestling at
| the Olympic Club, San Francisco, Novem
| Der LIST. Mr. Mathews was at one time a
resident Of Sacramento, and learned his
| first lessons in wrestling as a member of
the Sacramento Turn Verein.
The case Of T. Fairchild, charged with
| grand larceny in selling bogus" opium to
| Gilman en-representin that il was the
| genuine article, and purchased at a low
price because it had been smuggled.re-
suited on Saturday, in the Police Court, in
| the acquittal of the defendant, the evidence
not being sufficiently positive to warrant
his being held. He has been locked up
| several weeks as it is the case having been
continued often.
Much complaint is made by citizens rel
| otiyra tha nlya =
made in the streets to burn the weeds,
leaves and brush gathered together by
| people who have been trimming their
trees and cleaning up their premises. In
the day time these fires are not so much
| noticed, but in the evening, when the air
is heavy the smoke is like that from
smudge, and is very annoying to people
living in the neighborhood.
Deputy Sheriff Kennedy, of Placer
county, came to the city Saturday in search
of Theodore Brown, who is wanted at
Auburn on a charge of burglary. 1t is
alleged that he put ladder against the
Courthouse in that town, managed to gain
entrance to the building and stole pair
of boots and other property from the
Sheritf's office. Kennedy and Deputy
| Sheriff Brissell found and arrested Brown
| Saturday evening, and yesterday he was
taken back to Auburn.
The ranch newly purchased by Hon H.
NJ. LaRue in Napa county is what is known
as the 7, B. Hopper place, at Yountville.
| adjoining the noted vineyard of G. Gro
Finger. Mr.. EaRue has in this place about
| 100 acres of bearing vines. which produced
in 1884 over 600 tons of grapes, and the
| Oldest vines were only five years planted.
There are 40 acres in the tract, and the
| balance is to be put also out to vines. Mr..
| Hopper exchanged this ranch for one
formerly owned by Mr. LaRue in Lake
| county. C. /. LaRue will occupy the
newly acquired place.
Dan Fay-who was recently on trial in
| the Superior Court of Sacramento county
on a charge of grand larceny, in stealing r.
J. Iryine's horse and cart, but was acquitted
| by the jury, Mr.. Irvine not wishing to
| prosecute and it being urged that Fay was
! so drunk at the time he took the property
that he did not know what he was doing
| is again in trouble. Yesterday he was
drunk and created a disturbance of the
peace in Washington, and slapped his sis
ter for interfering with him. Constable
Todhunter went to arrest him. but, being
unaided, could not secure him without
seriously hurting him. Fay finally got
away and ran into the brush, but was
| aFrnsfol Of