Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-01-21
BRIEF NOTES.

Two carloads of immigrants arrived this
morning.
The Sacramento river has receded to q
i feet inches.
/ The only arrest made yesterday was thai
! OF Louis Tripes, by officer Farrell, fol-
/ vagrancy.
Sheriff Beamer, of Yolo county, passed
through yesterday, conveying to the asylum
at Stockton an insane man named Frank
Clifford
Rebekah Degree Lodge, l. o. o. F., paid
fraternal visit last evening to Germans
Lodge and very pleasant gathering wa:
! the result.
| While Sacramento and vicinity are en-
veloped in fog, the weather below Benicis
and above Rocklin is reported to be cleal
and pleasant
Yesterdays express train from the Eas
was about half an hour behind time in it
arrival here, having been seven hours late
in leaving Ogden.
Stella de Four, the young girl arrested by
the police some days ago for safe keeping
was yesterday sent down to San Francisco
where her parents are residing.
Deputy Sheriff Kennedy, of Placer
county, passed through yesterday, con-
yeying TO the asylum at Stockton an insane
woman named Mrs. Mary Halsey
Chester Vane Tempest, while coming VI
from San Francisco last evening, lost Is
English sovereigns-about $365-some one
having gained possession of portion OF
his baggage.
Chief Jackson has started a mushroom
garden at the station-house, planting in ii
large number of old mushrooms gathered
near the city, and expects from their spawn
to have fine crop i'll the sweet by-and-by.
Owing to the continued damp weather.
farmers on the low land in Sacramento
county have been unable to pillow as vet,
and the prospect is that there will be a
greatly diminished acreage in grain this
season.
The wall and archway separating Wells.
Fargo d Co s main office from the rear por-
ton having given signs of weakness. it has
been removed, and force of men are en-
gagged III putting in a more substantial
brick partition.
Charles ]. Burgel, who was so shockingly
injured last Saturday on the Grant, in con-
sequence of his falling from his wagon and
being kicked by his horses, while returning
home from the city, died yesterday from
the effect of his injuries.
The State Prison Directors, at their re-
cent meeting at Folsom, resolved to recon-
mend to the Governor for pardon, on the
showing made by Judge Buck, of Hum
boldt county, c. c. Fitzgerald convicted in
that county of an assault with a deadly
weapon, and sentenced to two years i'm
prisonment.
The steamer Dover arrived from the up
per Sacramento river yesterday with a
barge load Of grain and another of hop
poles. The steamer Daisy passed through
from San Francisco for the upper Sacra-
mento with barge to obtain a load of
grain: She has scarcely been seen in this
vicinity since she was Withdrawn from the
American river route to Folsom.
K street, from Eleventh to Twenty
fourth is full of mud-holes and standing
water, and has almost been abandoned by
vehicles. The Street Commissioner is try
ing to get the property-owners to have the
street graded and graveled from Eleventh
to Sixteenth, and rounded up as far out as
Twenty-tourth. Such action would en-
nance the value of their property.
The Folsom Telegraph of Saturday says :
The town is infested with thieves. On
Tuesday night between II and l o'clock,
the residence of q widow residing in
the upper part of town was broken into
and robbed of a number of small articles
Several chicken houses have also been Wis
tied recently. and poultry raising has been
unusually active for this season of the year
Yesterday morning b. v Hoover. of Elk
Grove, was sitting i'll the waiting-room at
the depot, to take the train for home
Shortly before train time, he went out of
the room for few minutes, and. on his
return, discovered that some one had dur
ing his absence appropriated q 6t-pound
key Of gunpowder which he had left among
his effects on the seat. He took his loss
philosophically, saying that he knew it had
been a hard winter forsomc of the hunters.
ard he would not object to making a little
contribution toward assisting somebody
but he did wish the powder had been taken
sooner, 50 that he would have had time to
get another supply before the train left
Footracing appears to have received a
fresh impetus on the coast since the arrival
of kittleman from the East and among
the challenges being aired is the following
sent to San Francisco paper from Sacra-
mento by party signing himself Harry
Taylor: Having just arrived from the
South, and learning of the arrival in YOUR
city of several of the Eastern sprinters. |
wish 10 state that ! am open for a run of
fifty or sixty yards-bar none-for from
$1,000 to $1,000, either run here or in San
Francisco. | mean biz, as | have never
been beaten in tifty-yard race, and the
man who can do it can win lots of money
from my hacker. If there are any fifty or
sixty yard runners in your city now is their
chance. | wish to 90 to New Orleans about
the 10th or 18th Of March, and want TO run
here before leaving
Conjugal affection is great thing to en-
joy to think and dream about, to observe
ldlers at the depot have an opportunity of
witnessing its exhibition in great variety
but pay little attention except to that
shown by the newly married, which some
times is a little obtrusive Yesterday
morning lady was noticed passing
through the depot on the arm of gentle
man, to whom she was showing every
mark of endearment Spectators smiled
the old married men Struggling their
shoulders and remarking something about
taffy," while the younger ones manifested
symptoms of jealousy. I'D bet nay life, "
one individual asserted, that they are
newly-married couple" Amy one can
see that, responded another You are
mistaken, said a third. " that is an insane
woman who is being taken to the asylum. d"
And it was