Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-11-27
BRIEF NOTES.

Jack Burke, the pugilist, went East by
Wednesday evenings train.
The steamer San Joaquin No cleared
for San Francisco yesterday with grain AID
merchandise.
The Skating Rink theatrical combination
passed through from the east side of the
Sierra to Stockton yesterday.
The pay car arrived here Wednesday
evening, and yesterday paid off the railroad
employees, after which it left on trip to
the south.
Many of the freight ears arriving from
the hill yesterday morning were covered
with snow, and the boys had much fun
snowballing.
The November reception of the Bric-a-
Brac Club is TO be held tonight at the
residence of George B. Katzenstein, Twelfth
and streets.
But one arrest was made yesterday-John
Brown, by officer Frazee, for an assault
with deadly weapon, on the complaint of
Thomas Burns.
Business was generally suspended in this
city yesterday and, the weather being
pleasant, everybody passed a pleasant
Thanksgiving Day.
Flags were displayed at half-mast on the
public buildings, and many others, in the
city yesterday, out of respect to the memory
of Vice-President Hendricks
The sluices of H. NJ. Crawford. at Mich
igan Bar. were robbed last Tuesday night
Mr.. Crawford is a poor miner, with large
family. He thinks it was the work of Chi
namen,
The Sacramento river has been rising
slowly during the past twenty-four hours,
and at II o'clock last night was up to 10
feet inches-a rise of 4 inches. 1t still
has slight upward tendency.
Under the direction of the Street Com
missioner pipe has been passed through
the little inside levee between r and S
streets, to drain off the water that had ac-
cumulated near the Clunie warehouse.
A few days ago the following scores were
made at the 200 yard target, over the
Twelfth-street range: Ed Sheehan 40
Hughes ~, VIM. Sheehan 81, Dolan SO.
Five hundred yards-Hughes 46, Ed. Shee-
han IL.
The Western passenger train, due here at
30 P. NJ, was about three hours behind
time in lis arrival yesterday, having waited
at Lathrop to connect with the Southern
Pacific train Among the passengers brought
we've Emma Nevada and her company,
from Los Angeles.
The prisoners at the county Jail had a
Thanksgiving tone impaired to their bill of
fare yesterday through the liberal contribu-
tons of pies and apples from the New York
Bakery. DeBernardi & Co. remembered
the unfortunate inmates of the city Jail,
and sent them ducks for their dinner.
A man visited the city recently as agent
for certain publications. and engaged
NUMBER of lady canvassers, agreeing to pay
| them 81 40 per day and 90 per cent. com
| mission on their sales, but requiring each
canvasser to pay him 50 so for the pros
pectus furnished. Some of these lady can
| yassers, after endeavoring to secure sub
scriptions to the publications, and failing,
called for their pay of 81 40 per day, but
were then told that they were not on
| salary, but must yet their pay out of the
percentage upon books sold. They felt that
they had been imposed upon, and reported
the matter to the police, in order that the
agent might be restrained from following
up that line of business.
AT the station-house, three or four DAYS
ago, there was a general cleaning up and
| repairing of desks and other furniture, and
1t was decided that coat of varnish would
| be an improvement. And now the officers
are all at outs with the dyspeptic-looking
cook OF the city prison. He announced,
with the gravity of a master of the bust
| ness, that 1t was unnecessary to go to anV
expense to procure the varnish, as material
for the manufacture of an excellent article
was already at hand-turpentine and mo-
lasses. The guileless officer of the night
watch allowed this mixture to be applied
to the furniture one evening, expecting it
| to be dry next morning, and congratulated
himself upon the fine appearance the arti-
cles presented after the application. Next
morning the turpentine part was dry
enough, but the molasses asserted itself,
and ever since, when an officer seats him
self upon a desk, or leans YEARLY against
something else, it requires one or two more
to remove him, and sometimes he has to
| borrow an overcoat to go out and skirmish
| for pair of unmentionabes. This may,
in part, account for the few arrests made
| recently.