Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-05-25
BRIEF NOTES.

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inches.
The City Board of Education will meet
, this evening.
Nine carloads of oranges were forwarded
to the East yesterday.
! Three carloads of immigrants arrived yes
terday. and four this morning
The Aimee Comedy Company will arrive
| from the East this morning, en- route for
| San Francisco.
The commencement exercises of Napa
| Ladies' Seminary will take place next
Wednesday evening.
a great number of turkeys have died in
the foothills from an overindulgence in
grasshopper banquets.
| Judge Henry made an order Saturday
| looking to the suppression OF the business
| of professional bondsmen.
The sentencing of c. r. Clarke convicted
a few weeks ago of murder, is set for 10 A.
NJ. to-day in the Superior Court.
The commencement exercises OF the
State University will take place next
Wednesday, commencing at 1890 A. NJ.
Friday night a quantity of tools were
stolen from the building in process of cree.
ton on II street, between Twentieth and
Twenty-first.
H. Lagos grocery, Second and o streets,
was visited by burglar Saturday night,
and robbed of the contents of the till
about 10 cents.
Sherburn & Smith will conduct the auc-
ton sale.of Uncle Billy Hicks ranch, on
behalf of the executors, at the court house
door at u NJ. to-day.
These arrests were made Yesterday
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by officers Kent and Farrell, for vagrancv;
D. D. Swift, by citizen Carroll, for battery
Constable Harvey on Saturday arrested,
on the complaint of Road Overseer A. 5.
Lindley, of American township, three
Cinnamon who had resisted the payment of
road tax.
Work has been commenced on the brick
foundation of the new Catholic Church at
Gait, and the structure will be completed
at an early date. DR.. Harvey donated the
lots for the purpose.
Sheriff Mccoy, of Yuba county, took to
Wheatland Saturday the two men, Henry
Harris and William Martin, who were ar
rested on Friday by officers Sullivan and
Cotfey for burglary committed at that
place.
The new Central NJ. f. Church was well
filled yesterday morning, on the occasion of
the dedlcatory exercises, and again in the
evening. Bishop Fowler officiated in the
morning, and Rev. Dr. Stratton in the
evening.
The following is the report of the Gait
school for the past month: Number of
boys enrolled, 45; girls, 81; total, 106
average number belonging, 81; average
number attending, 80; per cent of at
tendance, SO.
AT regular summoned meeting of Court
Star of Woodland, No 6,S54, A. 0. F., Past
Chief George w. Myrick was elected the
delegate to represent the Court at the Exec
utiye Council for the United States, to be
held at Detroit, Mich, August 11th.
The Amity Clay Pigeon Club held its
first shoot for the club gold medal yester-
day, near the Two-mile House, Yolo coun
ty. They shot at twenty-five pigeons each,
and Mr.. Sims won with a score of twenty
one, over nearly dozen competitors.
Some boys who were blackberrying near
the American-river railroad bridge Satur-
day report that horse went down to the
river just below the bridge in the after
noon, mired down in the quicksand, and
was drowned. His carcass should be re-
moved.
The attendance at the British picnic at
East Park Saturday afternoon was very
much smaller than had been anticipated.
a joke got started that q party of Russians
were reported to be in the neighborhood of
the Park, and the British did not wish to
go out for fear of trouble.
The residents of Chinatown have post
poned the opening of the tan game, which
they had intended to put in operation yes
terday, owing to the attention of the police
being called to their proceedings by an
item in the RECoRD-U MON. They are very
anxious to know who gave it aWay,'
as Mclean slang would express it. 10 the
reporter.
a buggy in which two young men were
riding upset on K street yesterday after
noon, throwing the occupants out The |
horse ran down X street to Fourth and |
was stopped. Midway between Fourth |
and Fifth streets the vehicle to which he |
was attached caTomed against another
which was standing by the sidewalk. but |
did not do much damage.
The case of J. X. Smith, County Treas |
urer, against the Controller of State, ask |
ing for peremptory writ of mandate COM
pelling the Controller to allow the Treasurer |
commissions on his settlement with the |
State, was argued last Friday morning in |
the Superior Court of Yolo county, District |
Attorney SpTague appearing for Smith and |
Joseph Craig for the Attorney General. |
After hearing the arguments. Judge Ga |
rOuette ordered that peremptory writ be |
granted.
The Stevens Company closed its engage
ment at the Metropolitan last night. |
presenting the drama Unknown" a very |
touching picture, and full of passages in |
which Mr.. Stevens is given the opportunity |
to do some effective work, and which he !
we'll improves. Miss Emily Lytton had !
the leading female character, and proved |
her claim to native ability. For one so
young, she is remarkably proficient in her
art, and gives promise Of excellent work in
the future.
At DR.. Manlove's ranch, Brighton, the
grasshoppers have appeared in great num-
Der. All of the eXpedients reported as
having been successfully used in getting
rid of them in other places have been tried,
but were of no avail. 1t was found, how
ever, that the choppers could not stand
buhach, but folded their arms and legs and
went to rest forever when il was applied TO
them. Accordingly a wash of soft soap
and water and buhach will be used on the
vines, etc, that are threatened.
A Sacramentan, who wears a little
Ratchet as a charm on his watch chain. re-
ports that there is a cherry tree at Dr.
AHllers ranch, Rattlesnake Bar, which is
three feet in diameter at the butt, seventy
feet in hight, and thirty-five feet across the
thickest foliage. From this tree the doctor
has for several Years averaged from the sale
OF its frdit about 500. The narrator of
this note" could not tell the average
price per pound received for the cherries,
else the number Of tons of fruit gathered
might be arrived at
SMYRNA \. Y, March 90, 1SS3-Gents:
The New Home Sewing Machine received
i'll December last works like n charm, and
to the best of my knowledge it is the very
best sewing machine before the public. l
wouldn't sell mine, if I could not get an
other, for an hundred dollar bill. Yours
Publisher Tribune W. A.
SOC J street, Sacramento, Cal,
agent for New Home and White Sewing
Machines.
THE largest stock of hand painted and
satin fans in the city. either
light or dark shades, at Hale Bros. & Co. 3
MARRIED.
May 23-By Rev Carroll VI. Davis,