Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-12-28
BRlEF NOTES.

| hN my i)D3lu OA l-QllCdLlOn VIII meet
this evening.
The Grisnier-Davies theatrical company
left yesterday for Los Angeles.
Officer Rider took L. D. Wicks to the
insane asylum at Stockton Saturday.
A correspondent asks, Where are the
mounted police that the Board of Trustees
promised us some weeks ago?'
Sheriff Huntley, of Placer county. took
to the asylum at Stockton Saturday an in
sane man named Andrew Klinglan.
Warrants on the general fund for the
! thlrty-sixth fiscal year, up to and including
No. $3.50, are payable al the State Treasury.
James Connell, living on C street be-
tween Twelfth and Thirteenth. was kicked
by colt on Friday, and had his right arm
brok n
The local passenger train from San Fran
cisco was thirty minutes behind time in
It's arrival yesterday noon, owing ID fog on
the bay.
Frank Ritter of Gait reports a prodigious
growth of tomato vine in his garden dur
ing the season. The vine reached a hight
OF thirteen feet, and produced $50 to-
matoes.
The Sacramento river has risen to % feet
III inches, the highest figure attained this
season. At 10 o'clock last night it had
risen but very little in five or six hours, and
seemed to be about at a standstill.
M. d. Reeds bail bond came I'D from
San Francisco Friday night, duly approved
b1y Judge Murphy and Saturday morning
the prisoner was released from custody
pending appeal to the Supreme Court.
>, Railroad taxes were paid into the State
L treasury Saturday as follows Pacific Coast
Railroad Company, $5,0S1 So; Nevada and
California Railroad Company, 1924 The
latter Is a new road in Lassen and Sierra
counties.
Thos. L. Acock, WHO'S visiting in south
ern Missouri, expressed to BLESSING &
Guthrie, of the Capital Hotel, eight dressed
possums. They came through in good
shape, and will be cooked III regular " ole
Virginia style.
The trotting race at Agricultural Park
postponed from the 10Th, will be finished
this afternoon, commencing at 9 O'Clock.
The pools heretofore sold on this race are
OIL and the money has been refunded. m
der the tive-day rule
a horse belonging to c.. p. Massey and
attached to the Grove Dairy milk-wagon
dropped dead on Thirteenth street. between
z and X, about o'clock yesterday, while
en- route homeward. The animal appeared
to be all right UP to the moment he fell
Officer Ash and Detective Shuev, of Oak
land, arrested last night a boy ab0ut 16
years OF age, named George Fraser. who
ran away from his home in that CITY n few
days ago, following petticoat and came
TO Sacramento. Shuey will take him be-
low this morning.
Land patents have been issued from the
State Department as follows NJ. J. Mccoy
ern, Stanislaus county, 204O9 acres; Henry
baron Won Schroeder, San Luis Obispo,
632O Abraham L. Atkins, Butte, so; Elias
Jacob and others, Tulare, 2636.8S; Dora w.
stevens, Alpine, $50; Clark & Cox. Kern,
$500.
The steamer San Joaquin No. towed I'D
from Steamboat slough Friday night the
barge that was snagged in the slough a few
days before. Her cargo of brick had previ-
ously been transferred to another barge
which the steamer San Joaquin No. . towed
to San Francisco. The damage done by the
snag was not serious.
Saturday evening, as Dave Lawson and
ms wife were riding up street in a cart,
one OF the springs of the vehicle broke with
report that sounded like a pistol shot
frightening the horse so badly that the ami
mai went up the street on express train
time and could not be stopped until about
two blocks had been traversed.
w. E. Curry found yesterday, at a place
near the head OF the middle slough. on the
overflow, nearly-new duckboat about 20
feet long, with outriggers. The craft was
right side up, but full of water and minus
oars and oarlocks. tits possible that there
may have been an accident, resulting in
the drowning of the boats owner.
The steamer San Joaquin No. 9 has ar
rived from San Francisco with mercbaD
disc steamer San Joaquin No. 3, from the
upper Sacramento, with grain. Cleared
steamer San joaquin No /, for San Fran
cisco, with grain steamers Neponset No.
z, Dover and San joaquin No. 8, for the
upper Sacramento, with merchandise
The Placer county Directors of the Cali
iornla Grant memorial fund, says the Placer
Argus, are DESTROYS Of knowing what has
become of George Adams, the Sacramento
young man who came up here with Gre
dentlals from Governor Stoneman, DR..
Latham and others, and who, having been
Endorsed by our local Directors, went forth
to collect funds for the object named.
Messrs. Steele & Ralphs, of Clay. on
Monday last, shipped over fifteen tons
(39,449 pounds) of dressed turkeys to the
San Francisco market. This is the largest
shipment of dressed turkeys ever made
from that point. Last year Clay made a
turkey record that was hard to beat but
the shipment mentioned caps the climax.
Clay is as famous for turkeys as Lodi is for
watermelons.
A young Chinaman known as Butch"
who speaks good English and is a very
ready talker, was guyed by some white
men at the Postotfice corner last evening,
until finally he made quite a little speech
on the Chinese question, declaring that the
Cinnamon would not go" because the
white people wouldn't let them-couldnt
get along without them. He mentioned
some instances in which Chinese employees
had recently been discharged, and white
men put in their places, g but China boys
all back now-'tother men no good" A
crowd began to collect, and Judge Henry,
fearing that the Celestial might get into
trouble with his free talk, made him de-
slst, and had the assemblage disperse.
THE SCHOOT OF DFSTGN Tho Californ;,