Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-05-18
BRIEF NOTES.
Ten carloads of oranges went East from
Los Angeles yesterday.

Albert Ogg, the boy who fell from tn
/ second story of the Orleans building las
9 Thursday night, Is rapidly improving ant
, will soon be out.
Horsemen should bear in mind that the
entries for the Capital Turf Clubs race
close to-day. There is a good prospect o
; their filling well.
J The Ladies' Aid Society of Gait will give
| another Mite at the residence of Mrs. +
| Ritter, Oak avenue, on Monday night, the
! 18th inst, from to II P. NJ.
} The police on Saturday gathered in sever
} tramps, who had walked to this city from
Stockton, but let them go yesterday on
their promise TO leave town and look fol
work
The evening train for Single Springs
Saturday evening was delayed nearly one
) hour and a half, between Cothrin's and La
trobe, by the large number Of grasshoppers
on the rails
Many members OfSacramentoC Command
cry, Knights Templar, went over to Wood
land yesterday, mainly by private convey
ance, TO attend the funeral of the late
German J. Cole.
About o'clock yesterday morning there
was public baptism of thirteen new men,
bers of the colored church of this CITY, the
exercises taking place near the western end
OF the Sacramento and 1olo bridge.
A festival will be given on Thursday
evening next May DIST, in Brewster's Hall,
Gait, by the children of the Congregational
Sunday-schOol. Refreshments will be
served Children grand march at O'Clock
PM
There was to have been a special election
in the town of Washington Saturday, to
vote upon the proposition to raise 5000 by
special tax for school purposes, but for
some reason the polls were not opened, so
far as we could learn.
The services at the Congregational church
yesterday in observance of Children Day
were largely attended. At the evening SER
vice Rev. J. NJ. Spangler gave an interest
ing address concerning the people, customs
and religions in Chile.
William Norman, aged a, whose right
arm was amputated above the elbow at the
County Hospital about three weeks ago
made such rapid recovery, Notwithstanding
his advanced age, that he was able to leave
the hospital last Friday.
\ fine colt. about a month old. belong
ing to 7. II. Russell, was brought in from
a ranch with its mother Saturday night
Yesterday morning it followed a milk
wagon from Mr.. Russells premises, and
has not been heard from since.
5. Gersen & Co. had peaches for sale at
their market last Saturday, from the or
chard OF f. VI. WERNER Winters The Pa
citic Fruit Company shipped peaches to
Salt Lake on the same day. They were
from the ranch Of ]. Reuter- of Reuters
Sergeant Barwick has received a letter of
thanks from II. \. Hazen, Jr., Professor at
the chief Signal office, Washington, D. c.,
and brother Of the chief Signal officer,
General Hazen, for the pamphlet on the
climate Of Sacramento, etc, recently issued
by the Sergeant.
w. K. Martin, who was arrested few
days ago by officers Farrell and Kent for
burglary, applied TO Judge Mcfarland on
Saturday for release from custody on habeas
corpus but, on the City Attorneys showing
that the proceedings were all regular, the
! prisoner was remanded.
A fellow who was begging on the street
Saturday evening was inquired of: - Why
don you 90 into the country and look for
work You are strong and healthy"
What good would that do" was the re-
Spouse. The farmers haint got nothin'
for teIler to work at. The grasshoppers
| have dOue the haryestin -
At Third and I streets about 2:2O p. NJ.
yesterday, two or three Cinnamon were
having an angry dispute, when one of
them drew a pistol and showed strong
determination to use it, but others inter
fered. The frequency with which the
Ceestials have appealed TO their pistols
recently indicates that there will be serious
trouble before long.
\ Chinaman named All Toy, on the
ranch of L. Casselman, 4 few miles below
the city, created an unpleasantness last
evening, and expressed a willingness to go
-.+I l.. Il
Casseman and others arrested him and
brought him to the station-house. The
Celestial was armed with revolver as well
as hatchet.
The ladies of the Congregational Church
Of Gait have organized IA society to be
called The Cheerful Workers, with the
following officers President Mrs DR. Har-
vey; Yice-PresidentS, Mrs j. A Sampson
and Mrs. A. B. Bryant; Secretary, Miss
| Lou Peer; Treasurer, Miss Alice McIu-
tyre. The Society has for its objects mu-
tual benefit and advancement Of church
| interests. It's meetings will be held every
two weeks, on Wednesday afternoons, at ,
o'clock.
| Il. York, who was arrested for cruelty to
animals last Friday, on the complaint of
| W. \. Shower, one of whose horses.
which he had hired to make d trip down
| ) L.,
charged when the case came up in the
| Police Court Saturday, on motion Of Mr.
! Shower, who had learned that the animal
was not oyer-driyen, but probably iniudi
| ciously fed Mr. York did all he could for
| the horse after he saw it was sick.
Officers Rider and Kent arrested yester-
| day man named J. VI. Durham on a
| charge of assault to murder committed
! upon John Nergard. The parties had a
difficulty said to be on account OF a female
! known as Indian Rose, and it is charged
that Durham struck his opponent with a
| hatchet. He, admitting that he hurt his
opponent, says he did not use a weapon,
but kicked him. The injured man was de-
| lirious last night, and the case may become
a serious one.
Patrick Campbell, the hydraulic miner
| who was arrested some weeks since for yiO-
lating an injunction of Court relative to
mining and fined $500, and who has en-
| deavored TO cyadc the fine by habeas
corpus, being before the Courts seven or
eight times on that device, last Saturday, by
advice of his attorneys, paid the fine at
| Marysville. 1t is doubtful. therefore,
whether his case on habeas corpus before
Judge Mcfarland, set for > =. N. to-day,
will be heard
n alarm of fire occurred about half-past
! ten Saturday night, owing to the discovery
| of blaze in room in the third story OF
! the Orleans building, the apartment being
a portion of Whittier. Fuller & Co.'S estab
| lishment. The fire extended very Slowly,
| and gave opportunity To send for a mem
! Der OF the firm, who was at the theater, on
who arrival the fire department were
| enabled to gain admission without doing
damage, and eXtingUished the fire without
calling the engines into service.
\ horse, supposed to belong to some
| Chinaman, mired down on a sand bar in
the American river about q quarter of
mile below the Twelfth street bridge day
| or two ago, and died there. Just whose
! business it is to remove the carcass is
uncertain, but certainly in the interest of
water-users. it should be removed immedi-
atelv About $50 feet of rope ahd team
will be required to do the work from the
shore, and that will be better than setting
the defunct equine atioat.
The Central and Southern Pacific Rail
road employees have mutual benefit asso-
ciation which appears to be in flourish
| ing condition. 1t was organized in 1880,
and ten deaths of members have since oc-
CURED, the benefits paid being s., 1913. The
members pay 81 per month each. At first,
tie sum of $3.50 was paid on the death of a