Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-02-09
BRIEF NOTES.

Two carloads of Immigrants arrived this
morning.
The annual meeting of the State Board
of Agriculture will be held to-day.
The Capital Wooden Mills, after being
shut down for some time, have resumed
operations.
The remains of F. B. Holmes, who died
last Wednesday, have been sent to New
York for interment.
The Oliver Doud Byron theatrical COM
pany will arrive from the East to-day, en-
route for San Francisco.
The Governor has appointed William H.
Snow and Frederick Arnold as Agricultural
Directors for the San Joaquin District.
Governor Stoneman has commissioned
James n. Porter as Notary Public for
Sacramento, vice himself term expired.
lie Gazette Club will give grand party in
honor of the Governor and members of the
Legislature at Armory Hall next Wednes-
day evening.
A strong northerly breeze. and cold as
well, prevailed Saturday and yesterday, and
did excellent service i'll drying up the mud
in the streets.
A German from the country was COM
planning yesterday of having been robbed
of S25 at house of ill-repute on L street,
Saturday evening.
There will be meeting of the Capital
Turf Club this evening at the Golden Eagle
Hotel, at o'clock sharp, when full at
tendance of members is requested.
The Government Railroad Commissioners
returned yesterday morning from their in
spection of the last section Of road between
al DaII N +,DC CO,
Francisco.
The City Board of Health did not hold
its regular monthly meeting Saturday
evening, owing to the absence of DIR. Clu-
ness from the city, but will meet next Sat
urday evening.
Deputy Sheriff Kennedy, of Placer coun-
ty, took to the Insane Asylum Saturday
from Auburn a man who had been re-
spected resident of that county for thirty
years, and recently became demented.
The steamer San Joaquin, No ., arrived
from San Francisco yesterday with mer-
chandise, and returned with grain. The
steamers D. E. Knight and Varuna cleared
for the upper Sacramento with merchan-
disc
w. D.O'Sullivan of the firm of Sullivan &,
Ravekes, San Francisco and Sacramento,
died at his residence in San Francisco early
yesterday morning of typhoid fever, the
same disease that proved fatal to Mr..
Holmes, travelling salesman of the firm,
last week
Entries for the spring meeting of the Pa
citic Coast Blood Horse Association will
close tomorrow. The horses in training at
the Park are all doing well, and reports
from the other stables indicate that the
work of preparation is advancing finely,
and there will doubtless be an unusually
large number of entries
Local officer Strader took TO the station
house yesterday afternoon on suspicion of
insanity Chinaman whom he found en-
gagged apparently in trying to tear down the
brick wall of a building. On being inter
rogated at the lookup he produced small
quantity of pigeon-English, and used it in
an endeavor to convince the officers that
he was innocent of any offense-" Me no
takee, me no do" He was very good
natured, and it was concluded that, even if
he was little off, he was harmless.
Nothing new has been developed in the
matter of the murder of James w. Duffy
at Arcade Station, though the police and
Sheritf7s deputies have paid the matter
much attention. Various theories are held
concerning the affair, but none of them
seem to have much backing. Men who
answer to some extent the description of
the supposed murderer have been heard
from in various localities, but on investiga-
ton it was shown that they were not in the
vicinity where the murder was committed
that evening.
About dusk Saturday evening an unhar.
messed horse broke away from where he
was hitched, on X street, between Sixth
and Seventh, and ran down on the side.
walk to Sixth street, where he took to the
street, but at the corner of Third and X he
again went upon the sidewalk and dashed
down on the Western Hotel side to Second
street. The sidewalk was well filled with
pedestrians, and very lively scampering
resulted. Three ladies, who were walking
toward the Second-street corner, were so
busily engaged in conversation that they
did not realize that there was any trouble
until, when the horse was twenty or thirty
feet from them, some men shouted a warn
ing and they succeeded in getting out of
the WAY