Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-12-24
BRIEF NOTES.
The pay-car is expected to arrive her
about noon to-day.

| The pay-car is expected to arrive here
about noon to-day.
There will be services in the German
Lutheran Church, Twelfth and K streets.
at 80 and 1870 P. NJ. tomorrow.
The Sacramento river rose slowly yester-
day, and at IL o'clock last night marked 20
| feet inches-a rise of five inches in twenty
| four hours.
The Grocers' and Produce Dealers Pro
tective Union have donated $50 each TO the
Sisters of Charity, Howards and Protestant
Orphan Asylum.
The only arrests made yesterday were
those of u. G. Dandrid, for misdemeanor
and John Doe, for being drunk, both by
local officer Martin.
The Sheriffs office will be open on
Christmas until u NJ, in order that those
VINO desire TO pay their taxes on that day
| may be accommodated.
The annual address of Joseph Steffens.
President of the Sacramento Board of
Trade, has been published at Croker &
Co.'S IN pamphlet form.
The steamer San Joaquin, No. f. arrived
from San Francisco yesterday with lumber
| and merchandise; and the steamer Ellen
from the Mokelumne river with l 500 sacks
of potatoes
W
! at 3 A. NJ, yesterday, was an hour and a
| quarter behind time in its arrival. having
been detained waiting for Southern Pacific
connections.
| Sweet girl graduates, little maids from
| school and uniformed cadets, all returning
| TO their homes from educational institu-
tons to pass the holidays, form large
portion of the L" travelling public Just now.
Deputy Sheriff Wilson brought up from
San Francisco yesterday morning, en- route
| to the State Prison at Folsom, Chinaman
| named Woo All Fook, who is to serve
hYe years for petit larceny, second offense.
| Tonight the markets of the city will be
well worth a visit, as all the dealers will
| have arranged their usual Christmas dis
play. Owing to the damp weather, there
may not be as large q supply of meat on
hand as has sometimes been exhibited, but
the quality will be very fine.
There is general movement of the grand
army OF San Francisco drummers toward
home Just now, owing to the holidays
being at hand. Yesterday afternoons train
for the bay had fully half a carload of
| them on board, most of whom bad given
Sacramento dealers parting 'rustling up
earlier in the day.
About II o'clock last night Grant Pit
man met a friend on X street whom he
had not seen for some time and their
rather jovial greeting ended in a wrestle,
during which Pitman fell and his right leg
doubled up beneath him, causing the dis
location OF bone at the knee. He was
conveyed to q surgeons office where, after
no little trouble, the bone was got back in
place.
An immense quantity of freight came
to the city yesterday and last evening by
Wells, Fargo & Co.'S express, consisting
mainly Of Christmas gifts, sent to Sacra-
mento by their friends in other places. and
several extra men had TO be employed to
handle the packages. The postoffice was
also rushed yesterday, on account of the
great number of gifts sent from or brought
to the city by mail.
The San Francisco and North Pacific
Railroad Company yesterday paid its taxes
to the State Treasurer. The amount was
ST. ,065 %, divided as follows State, 81, 7O2:
Marin county, S2,00S 95 Sonoma county, |
1854 IS The San Joaquin and Sierra |
Nevada Railroad also settled, paying |
$1SS2 Sc, of which the State receives |
S788 50; Calaveras county, S42O 50; San |
Joaquin county, 1872 SO.
Residents in the neighborhood of Sew
enth and f streets complain that a rough !
crowd OF young men congregate there fire. |
quently to play ball upon large vacant lot. /
such occasions is loud, vulgar and so indie |
cent thN the respectable people for block !
either way have to shut out the obscenity |
that comes waited on every breeze by clos |
ing their windows and doors.
Sheriff Gard, of Los Angeles came up |
yesterday, en- route to OrOville to get a |
man whom he had caused to be arrested /
there for embezzlement, committed short |
time ago. The embezzler disappeared from |
Los Angeles and was not heard of for sew
eral days after committing the offense. but |
his wife was Swallowed y and his location
ascertained. If he hadn't been married. |
But then he might have had somebody |
else's wife!
The leaves upon the sidewalk on the |
north and west sides of the plaza have |
made the walk very slippery since the last |
storm, and there is danger that persons |
passing will be thereby made to fall, and |
receive serious injuries. The walks should |
be Immediately cleaned by whoever the i
duty devolves upon. This is all the more |
important now as the Plaza is closed, and |
persons have to go around while the new
concrete walk is being laid.
Sergeant Barwick reports that the rain
fall up to o'clock last night by the Signal |
Service record was 80 of an inch, making |
3.31 inches for the month and IA rs for the /
season, as against 9.29 inches to an equal |
date last year. A foul-weather sunset was |
reported from TatOosh Island to Sacramento |
and San Francisco. A falling barometer,
southerly winds and cloudy weather pre- |
vail along the Pacific slope from Olympia |
to San Francisco, and clear weather from |
Keller to San Diego.
There came through from the East by |
the overland express yesterday morning a |
party of sixty excursionists, under the |
management of c. L. Hanna, Travelling |
Passenger Agent of the Union Pacific Rail !
road, which company got up the excursion. |
and under whose auspices a larger party |
will arrive here about the middle of next |
month. Yesterdays party virtually broke |
up here, several of its members remaining |
for a few days in Sacramento, while the |
others scattered to different portions of the |
State, their tickets emitting them to go as
far as Los Angeles. They return East |
when they get ready.
A gentleman who came down from El |
Dorado county yesterday stated that the |
recent storm had killed the young grass
hoppers in the vicinity he had been visit
ing. This is contrary to the report from |
the Costumes river in this county, on the !
day before-that the rain had not affected !
them-but both accounts may be correct |
according TO the locality. A few miles !
above Folsom large number of small in
! y,
were thought to be young grasshoppers, but |
a gentleman who examined them under a |
powerful magnifying glass concluded that
they were species of moth.
The ladies took advantage of the pleas
ant weather yesterday afternoon, and en-
tered upon their Christmas shopping with
great vigor. They filled the stores, crowded |
the sidewalks, were merry and happy, and
thus did much to dispel the idea that it
wasn't going to be much of a Christmas
this year" which the grumblers and hard
times" lamenters had originated. There is
no reason why the residents of this vicinity
should not feel strong-hearted, as there will
doubtless be big crops next season, which
will start money circulating freely. and if
the anti-Coolie movement is prosecuted |
spiritedly the Chinese must go, and there
will be plenty of work for the laboring
classes.