Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-04-09

BUGs AND THINGs-The air last evening
was very warm, and in consequence the
electric lights attracted vast number of
| bugs, beetles, crickets, etc. There were many
more down town than in the upper portion
| of the city, though at almost any place
| where there was an electric light the side
walk or street beneath it became completely
| covered with the creatures, 50 that after a
while it was impossible to walk by without
| stepping upon and crushing them. The
| Second street lamps attracted more than
| those Of any other locality. That at the
| junction of | street was completely eXtin-
| guished before IL o'clock by the number
| accumulated in the globes, and the others
were in nearly as bad fix. Would
| it not be well for the electric
| light companies to cover the globes
! with a wire screen of some kind?
| The Second-street bugs showed some new
| styles, but they were mostly Of the issue of
! 1SS4-big fellows, two or three inches long.
| At Second and | streets Cinnamon were
engaged in gathering them up in pans,
probably to be used in the manufacture of
- medicine, though one of the Celestials,
! when inquired of, said they were To be
made into soup. The lamp in front of the
station-hoIlse had line of business of its
own, being patronizcd almost exclusively
| by crickets, and the little fellows accumu
lated by the thousand around the police
Office door, crowded into the office when
ever they got chance, and kept up
merry chirping. When the REcoRD-C MON
I reporter visited the station-house, at a late
hour, officer Coffcy was found armed with
a broom, endeavoring to keep the place
| from being completely overrun by the lit
! tie ntruders
SUIcrDE.-About halfpast > yesterday
afternoon, Walter Mansfield, aged about 81
years, committed suicide in a little
carriage way, near the residence of his wife,
| on = street, between Second and Third by
! shooting himself in the right temple, the
| bullet passing through his head and COM
| ing out above the left ear. Deceased and
! his wife, having been unable to agree, they
have not lived together for some months,
| and she has been to q great extent sup
ported by her children by a former
| husband. He has frequently importuned
| her to make up and live with him
again. but this she positively declined TO
| DO. Yesterday morning he called upon
her with the same request, but she again
refused, and finally told him to wait until
one of her children, now in the East,
should return, when she would consult
with them all upon the matter. As they
were not favorable to him, he probably
concluded what the result of the conference
would be, and in fit of desperation ended
his life Mrs. Mansfield states that She
thinks he has not been in his right mind
for a long time. He was quarrelSome and
disagreeable while they lived together, and
more than once has threatened to kill her
He has gained a livelihood by working as
a porter and cleaner of stores and offices.
/ Coroner Clark will hold an inquest on the
case this evening.
ARREsTs-The following arrests were
made yesterday Robert Brock, by officer
Frazee, for battery Mrs. Newell, by officer
Farrell, for disturbing the peace; F. f
Dolan, by officer Sullivan, for carrying a
concealed weapon; +. McGan, by officer
Rider, for battery Pat. Hayes, alias Linn
erick, by Chief jackson and officers Sulli-
van, Kent and Ash for burglary, with priol
conviction.
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