Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-06-05
BRIEF NOTES.

A light sprinkle of rain fell about Il
o'clock last night.
Four inches of snow fell at the summit
| Wednesday night.
The Hussars will have {. drill on horse
back on the Norris grant Sunday.
James Coffee has been appointed by
, Sheriff Wilson as a Deputy Sheriff
The steamer Dover was yesterday hauled
out on the marine ways in Washington.
Three car loads of Immigrants arrived
from the East yesterday afternoon on train
| No. 6.
The Sacramento river fell three inches in
| the lie t twenty-tour hours and is now
! down } ten feet eight inches.
James Teal, the insane traveller who was
arrested at the depot Tuesday evening, has
been sent to the County Hospital.
The Western Pacific passenger train was
about two hours behind time in its arrival
yesterday afternoon, having been detained
by hot box.
We are requested to state that the Ed.
Lynn arrested for smoking opium Wednes-
day night was not Eddy NJ. Lynn, son of
Mrs. E. B. Jennings.
a swarm of bees made themselves at
home ON the southeast corner of Seventh
and J streets yesterday and caused people
passing by to feel uneasy.
The Yolo County Board of Education
has before it i class of twentY-one appli-
cants for teachers certificates eighteen of
them being ladies, and three gentlemen.
In Department One of the Superior Court
yesterday James Thomas Black, a native of
Ireland, was admitted to citizenship on the
testimony of Frank Kirkland and d. r.
Hunt.
Sergeant Barwick says that the highest
water in the river for May, 1884. was -. o
feet; for May. 1885, 1879 feet; the lowest
water for May, 1884, was - feet; for May,
1885, II feet.
These arrests were made Yesterday ::
Joe Taccini by officer Kent, for battery :;
Jack Mckenna, by officers Farrell and Sui
Ivan, for vagrancy; John Walters, by Of
ticers Kent and Frazee, for embezzlement.
Articles of incorporation have been filed
in the office of the Secretary of State of the
First Congregational Church of Vacaville.
DirectorS-Ge0rge w. Allen, Albert J. Lyon,
w. c. Fairchild, John J. Hagerty and J.
w. Still
The Postoffice Commissioners met YES
terday afternoon, but, as Mr. Baileys prop
oSltlon was not quite ready to be submitted,
they postponed action upon the selection
of a site for the new public building until
P. NJ. to-day.
bod McCEntock, who was sentenced in
the Police Court May 22d to 40 DAYS in the
county jail, and has been working in the
chain gang, made his escape from the gang
yesterday from the alley back of the Jail,
and has not been heard of by the officers
since.
I. S. Floten a recent arrival here from
Nebraska. was met yesterday by an indi-
yidual who represented that he was a loco
motive engineer, and offered to get Floten
a situation as fireman. The I" old game "
was played upon the newcomer. and he
was swindled out of $50.
The only business transacted in the Po-
lice Court yesterday morning was the en-
tering of an order by Judge Post that the
deposits of s. each made by Ed. Wallace,
Ed. Lynn, Henry Page and W Wilson,
forfeited, they having failed to put in an
appearance,
Considerable curiosity was manifested
by people at the depot yesterday who had
an opportunity to see some Indians cur
ing" grasshoppers. A party of the native
sons had brought to the city sixteen grain
sacks filled with the dead insects from the
neighborhood of Folsom, and as one sack
full was not quite dry, the hoppers were
given an additional drying on some pieces
of canvas in field near the depot In
addition to the large quantity of this
chemuck brought here, several sacks,
well filled, were taken by other Indians
from Folsom up to Shingle Springs.
Henry Bennett, whose escape from the
county Jail at Marysville Wednesday morn
ing was referred to in the telegraphic dis
patches to the RECoRD-U MON Yesterday. is
the man who was recently arrested by off |
GERS Sullivan and Goffey, after a determined
resistance, on suspicion of his having par
ticipated in the burglarizing of Landes Il
Co.'S store at Wheatland, May 18th, the
suspicion being made almost certainty by
the finding of the greater portion of the
stolen property upon him. Bennett is also
known as Henry Davis, and by the sOubri-
quet of Finger" the first finger of his
right hand having been cut off close to the
hand. Sheriff Mccoy, of Yuba county. has
offered a reward of so for his capture