Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-12-19
BRIEF NOTES.
The river has fallen to IL feet 9 inches.

The river has fallen to IL feet 9 inches
Next week will be the last for the pay
nent of State and county taxes without
the penalty for delinquency.
An anti-Chinese meeting will be held on
Fourth street, between and K, at 3 P. II.
tomorrow, under the auspices of the
Knights of Labor.
The ladies of the Baptist Church closed
their successful fair last evening with a
good attendance and an enjoyable literary
and musical entertainment
The only arrest recorded on the station
house slate last night was that of NJ. Graf,
by officer Farrell, for misdemeanor in yio-
lating the health ordinance.
Deputy Sheriff Wilson brought up from
! San Francisco last evening, en- route TO the
State Prison at Folsom a Chinaman named
Max Ng Goyey, who is to serve five years
| for burglary.
A Christmas tree festival will be held on
the evening of the Oath instant, at Capital
District school-houSe, near Swiss Station.
A short literary entertainment will precede
social dance.
The ladies of Sumner Relief Corps, No
! II, will give an entertainment and dance
! Thursday evening, the 31st instant, at
Changers Hall. Tickets Including re-
| freshmentS), % cents.
! 1t was learned yesterday that C. Nc
| Creary IL Co.. proprietors of the Sacramento
Mills, have engaged three white men to
take the place on Monday next of the Chi
nese now in their employ
| In the Police Court yesterday morning
( the cases of c. l. Foss, for misdemeanor in
violating the health ordinance, and A. D.
IL G. l.. Christensen, for obstructing the
cir aua Il ~.
The Western train brought up from San
Jose yesterday afternoon a large number of
young ladies residing in the upper portion
of the State, who have been attending the
State Normal School, and were en- route for
their homes to spend the holiday vacation
Pacific Encampment, No. 9, %. 0. F..
has elected the following officers for the
ensuing term Chief Patriarch, H. f.
Dillman; High Priest, S. B. Morris; Senior
Warden, 2. B. Fountain Junior Warden,
J. c. Moore; Scribe, E. Glover; Treasurer,
S. B. Smith.
Constable Carroll took to Stockton yes
terday Charles Brooks, who was arrested
near Folsom on Thursday for stealing a
horse from Stockton. The officer also took
with him as far as Lodi Dan Fay, who was
arrested here recently for a burglary com
mitted at that place.
Last evening between and o'clock, as
Mrs. Weidmann- Holden was passing
through Fifth street, from K to J. a man
stepped up behind her, snatched her purse
from her hand and ran down the alley,
making good his escape. The purse CON
tanned two or three dollars in change.
Judge Murphy, of San Francisco, has
added new question to his list of interrog-
atories to parties VINO make application for
naturalization. He inquiries whether in
case something connected with the admin
lstration of the Government did not please
the would-be citizen, he would consider
dynamite fit remedy to work change.
Officers Strader and Rider arrested yes
terday afternoon a young man named
Harry Payne, q resident of Washington,
who is accused of having stolen q horse
from that place Thursday evening, rode the
animal into this city and left it at SANKEY'S
stable. He denies any knowledge of the
theft, but it is claimed that he can be
identified
A special meeting of the Board of Edu-
cation was held last evening to consider
the ACCESSIBILITY of declaring a school holi-
day from date until the first Monday in
January but when the motion 10 rescind
the action of the last meeting, fixing the
23d as the day Of closing, was put. it was
lost. The Board then adjourned until next
Monday evening, when it will meet to
allow salaries.
The following officers have been elected
by Sacramento Parlor, No. 8, N. S. G. W.
Theo. G. Eilers, Jr., P. p James Riley,
President; Milton s. Halsey, First Vice
President; William NJ Campbell, Second
Vice President H. o. Tubbs, Third Vice
President George d. Irvine, Recording
Secretary l.. G. Dickman, Financial Sec
rotary; James Woods, Marshall DR.. G. L.
Simmons, Jr, Surgeon.
NJ ]. King, an old resident of the CITY
was found dead upon lounge in a room
connected with his grocery at Second and
J streets, yesterday forenoon. He had
b en- around earlier in the morning, but,
not feeling well, concluded to lie down for
a while. His health had been poor for
some time, and the Coroner deemed it I'M
necessary to hold an inquest, believing
death TO have resulted from natural causes.
Deceased was native of Azores, aged 81
years.
Charles E. Jacksonville was arrested at
Oakland few days since for a forgery
committed in this city last March, when he
forged check in the sum of $3.50, and got
S. B. Slight, a Sacramentan whose ac-
quaintance he had made after q brief resi-
dence here, to secure in good faith the in
dorsements of two business men upon it, so
that it might be paid at the bank at which
it was presented the result being that
Slight had TO make the money good subse-
quently-confessed his guilt yesterday, and
expressed a desire to have the case hurried
through, so that he might commence re-
| ceiying his term of Imprisonment as soon
rs possible. In the Police Court he waived
examination as far as the law allows, and
was held to answer before the Superior
Court. He is respectfully connected in the
East, but has committed several State
Prison offenses heretofore.
About S:45 last evening a woman ran
screaming through the alley between and
X streets, from Sixth street eastwardly She
| was followed by hack, which overlook
her near Eighth street Two or three men
jumped out of the vehicle, put her in it
| and drove away The affair created con-
siderable excitement in the vicinity, as no
one appeared to know whether the pro-
cedure was correct or an outrage. re-
porter subsequently found the hackman,
who explained that the female was a re-
spectacle woman, who appeared to have
been drinking. He was sent for by lady
living on X street to take her No. y home,
but she appeared suspicious of every one,
would not get in the hack, but ran wildly
! through Sixth street to the alley az re-
ported. He got some bystanders to assist
him. and they took her home She had
considerable money with her, and he took
pains to go into the house and inquire
whether she had brought it all home safe
| ly, and found that she had