Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-02-04
BRIEF NOTES.

|
Corporal Hopkins took down to Alcatraz
yesterday soldier named Allen Wilkins,
who is to be punished for desertion.
The steamer San joaquin, No. 3, arrived
| yesterday from Port Costa, and left for the
! upper Sacramento to obtain load of grain
Il is reported that there are now 521
| prisoners confined in the State Prison at
Folsom. Its present capacity is about $50.
| The public school at Knights Landing
has been closed temporarily, because of
| reported cases of scarlet fever III the neigh
| borhood
Governor Stoneman yesterday appointed
| ana commissioned Il. p. Clark Major and
Paymaster on the staff OF Brigadier-General
commanding the Second Brigade.
The only arrests made yesterday were
| those of Anton Fubon, by officer Ash, for
battery, and Quong Sing and Chung Wong
| by officer Franks for misdemeanor.
r. w. Lewis, who fractured both bones
of his leg last Sunday night in consequence
| of u fall, is reported to be resting comforta-
bly, and doing as well as could be expected
Harry Russell, of this city, has taken up
headquarters at Chicago, H.. in an agency
for the newlydiscovered eucalyptus prep
aration for prevention OF scale formation in
steam boilers.
The City Railway Company has restoclled
its routes with Il lot of new horses The
roads are very rough and in the present
condition of the streets a good horse does
not last long.
Last night and night before the frogs
quartered i'll various low lots gave Sacra-
mento a merry serenade, the warm weather
having evidently filled them with anticipa-
tons Of an early spring.
On the complaint of the Health Officer,
two Cinnamon were yesterday arrested for
misClemean0r, in consequence of the Qdors
emanating from their wash-houW on
| Twelfth street. between D and +.
Dick Reeves, who was on Monday SEN
fenced in Department One of the Superior
Court to l6 years Imprisonment for burglar
izing the premises OF J. r. Hodson, vii! be
taken to the State Prison at Folsom this
| morning.
One of the crossings at Second and \
streets is in q very dilapidated condition.
| and if not looked after by the Street Com
! missioner soon it may be the cause of some
| one getting seriously injured and the occa-
sion OF an action against the city.
y L. Frost, internal Revenue Collector
for the Fourth District, reports the collec-
tons tor the month to bc as follows On
| distilled spirits, $10,057 IS; on tobacco
snuff and cigars, S7S4 81; on fermented
liquors, $3,126 81. Total, SIS, 96S 80.
1t is understood that an effort will be
made to secure pardon for Cyrus b. Coop
er, the colored man recently convicted in
the Superior Court of this county on q
charge of bigamy, and sentenced TO two
months in the State Prison ut Folsom.
About third of the residents of the city
are complaining of colds which they de
clare they caught by. turning out Ell desha-
billie on the occasion of the general alarm
of fire Monday morning. 1t probably was
not 50 much the lack of clothing that
caused the colds as the action Of the parties
themselves in letting too much cold air
into their lungs while growing and swear
ing because there was no calamity 10 be
witnessed after all
Yesterday afternoon some young men on
X street, near Third, were amusing them
selves at the expense of an inebriate who
was passing, and one of them calculated;
Oh you tarrier. rats rats -" In an in
slant the party accosted had given the
young man a resounding back-handed slap
on the mouth. accompanying it with
- Tarrier, IS it? BE iabers, I'll make you
think I'm q bull dog. " The party didn't
seemed too impctuoUs.
Yesterday afternoon officer Franks OBJ
served a man going UP J street with Il coil
OF baling wire weighing about 100 pounds,
ON his shoulder, and saw him take it into
Junk store to sell. The officer surnised
Immediately that the wire had been stolen,
and, entering the store, told the clerk not to
| let the man out until he returned, as he
desired to overhaul another individual with
whom he had seen the one in the store con
versing. lie did not oyertalle The man until
he had Travelled about block and then he
found that he was respectable citizen and
that all he knew of the pOsseSs0r of the
wire was that the latter told him he had
found il in the street and inquired where
he could sell it. The officer returned to
the store only to find that his prisoner had
disappeared, the clerk not having been able
TO detain him. The wire is at the station
house awaiting an owner.
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CANE BACK TO SETTLE UP.-The funeral
of Hung Lung, a Chinese tailor, took place
from l street. between Third and Fourth,
yesterday afternoon, and as he had been a
member of the " Second-street Lodge
| there was large attendance and what was
intended to be imposing ceremonies. a
Chinaman, with whom Il reporter was con-
versing relative to the funeral, related the
| following incident concerning the deceased;
| About 8 o'clock last Friday morning the
| latter died-or at all events was believed 10
| be dead. His brother went to a store and
purchased new garments for him to be
| buried in, but, on returning home, found
the corpse altogether too lively for funeral
purposes. The dead man pulled along
pretty well until about l o clock Saturday
morning, when he announced 10 his wife
whom he bought about three years ago for
| 5000, and then marTicd-that he was about
TO die a. for keeps admitted that she had
| been a satisfactory spouse, and told her
she could 90 home to Chins after his death
! if She wished She intimated that She
would rather remain in the land of the
| free, etc. He then reminded her that
| women were very high just now and he
could sell her for 81, 800 if he liked; but
| he would give her the refusal Of herself for
$3.50. if she knew of any man who would
make her a good husband and take her at
that price, the money to he sent to his
mother in China. She evidently had a
modest opinion as TO her worth, and sUg-
gested that 500 was about the right figure
| Her husband knew her value better. how
| ever, and refused to take a cent less than
| his original price, and the matter was salts
| lactorily arranged ON that basis. Then, as
| the Chinese narrator of the incident stated
! it, he having - fix him all up what he came
| back for, he die pletty soon"
STATE SErTLEMENTs.-The Treasurer of
Sonoma county yesterday morning made
his settlement with the State Controller
and in the afternoon paid into the Treasury
the sum Of Sl0S.127 -. veyor-General
| Wiley paid into the Treasury as the fees Of
| his office for the month of January 1892 so
As eX otliciO Land Register he paid as the
fees of that Office during the same time
| 81 ,020 SO This is the largest sum col
| lectcd in any one month as fees since the
| establishment of the office, and is owing TO
| the increased business in land transactions
| Mendocino, Contra Costa, San Diego and
Sierra County Treasures have not rs yet
made their settlements with the State
Treasurer, owing to the fact that he will
not receive rs part payment the certificates
of special deposit issued by the late State
| Treasurer. The amount they withhold is
| SIlS.031 30. 1t is rumored that Sierra
| county Will settle to-day, paying in
/ j.. $50 - In that case the delinquency
Will be but SIP 1875 SO.
COMING CoNcERr.-0n Wednesday even
ing next Mamie Lyons will give her grand
concert at the Congregational Church, as
sisted by Sig. Miguel Espinosa, the eminent
Spanish pianist; Theodore Nogt, an
organist OF high renown, and Jacob Muller,