Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-09-24
BPlEF NOTES.

Shipments are being made of Nevada
county apples to Australia.
The eclipse of the moon came off lasr
night according TO programme.
The body of the little boy George Wise
drowned Tuesday afternoon, has not We,
been recovered.
After the 9th the Sunday passenger
train on the Sacramento and Placeryille
Railroad will be discontinued.
The panorama of the Battle of Waterloo,
on exhibition here during the fair, was
yesterday shipped to San Francisco.
P. J. Kelley, of Oakland, yesterday filed
q claim for a trademark with the Secretary
of State. s. Excelsior, or MacAlpin's Mango
Killer.
Frank Jackson, who is rusticating at
Soda Springs, seat to his brother, the Chief
Of Police, yesterday large deer which he
had killed.
About fifty laborers, principally China
men, were sent up from here yesterday to
work upon the extension of the California
and Oregon Railroad.
City Physician Parkinson viii deliver
| his second lecture before the police force
| tomorrow evening at o'clock taking for
his subject " Insensibility.'
Coroner Clark, after learning the facts
connected with the death of Mrs. !. s.
| Wheeler Tuesday evening decided that it
was unnecessary to hold an inquest in the
case
The list of awards made by the Me-
chanics' Fair, San Francisco, shows that
McCreary & Co., of this city, took the " sill
yer medal, first premium" for their patent
roller flour.
These arrests Were made Yesterday All
Cheong and All Ching, by Deputy Consfa-
bic Shelters for battery; VI. D. Reed ty
officer Woods, for obtaining money bv
false pretenses.
Deputy Sheriff Max Wassman, of Mer-
ced county, took up to the State Prison at
Folsom yesterday a prisoner named Owen
Mctarty, who IS 10 serve a term of two
years for an assault with deadly weapon
The question shat is now troubling the
public mind, in connection with the new
Postmaster and his appointees, is, " WHO'S
to have the booibiacl stand privilege"
There are score Of applicants, and many
more are within
The Placerville O5serccr says: "A gentle
man from Sacramento, while out hunting
near Union Town, shot at a deer. the
bullet striking rock and glancing back, !
killed valuable horse for which he was
Obliged to pay $l75."
A party of three or four Young men
amused themselves late Tuesday night by
knocking into the street all boxes, beer
kegs, signs etc, they found on the side
walks of and X streets. They also broke
the globe OF the lamp in front of Con-
gress Hall saloon, causing the proprietor
OF the establishment about $40 damage.
buggy in which Mrs. Cox. who lives
on the Riverside road, was riding was col |
iided with and upset at Eleventh and
streets yesterday morning by another
vehicle containing two men, said to have
been under the influence of liquor. Mrs. |
Cox and a little child she had with her
were thrown out, but escaped serious in
jury.
Arrived yesterday Steamer San Joa-
quin, No. 8 from Port Costa, light; steam
ers Ceres and Harriet, from the upper Sac
ramento, with grain; steamer San Joaquin, |
No. 4, from San Francisco, with merchan-
disc, and barge of lumber for the Friend
q Terry Lumber Company. Cleared:
Steamer San Joaquin, No 3, for the upper
Sacramento, light.
The proposition to fit up one or two
rooms at the station-house for the tempo
rary reception of strangers who may be
dangerously injured, appears TO have died
natural death before the Board of CITY
Trustees. A report was made by Trustee
Jones that the cost would be only 5000 for
furnishing the apartments. After that there
Will not be any expense, as the City Physi- |
clan will attend the cases, the officers and
TRUSTEES" at the Jail waiting upon the suf-
ferers. The city can certainly afford the
sum of money mentioned, in the cause of
humanity.
About ) o'clock last evening horse
which +. F. Aiken was driving to a cart
became frightened at a locomotive at
Fourth and | streets, and sprang Off on a
run. \ Chinaman who was walking over
the street crossing was knocked down and
completely doubled up, one of the wheels
passing over him. Officer Coffev and 9TH
ers picked him up, expecting to find him
badly hurt, but he was only cut on the
forehead and bruised and after resting
himself in a chair for while he walked
away. Mr.. Aiken did not return to see
what damage was done.
Some gentlemen in Ogden recently init
mated that a match at pigeon-shooting
could be made between shooters of Utah
and California, if the Californians desired.
In response II. A. Bassford and Crittenden
Robinson have written: We beg leave to
say we will be pleased to meet you and
your party (either four or five, as you pre-
fer at San Bruno, within six weeks for a
purse of 81 800 a side, fifty birds to each
HILL. NdllO1ldl 1TdD TuiSS ~
maximum gauge of gum. Our team will
be John Burnett, Edward Fay, Crittenden
Robinson, all of San Francisco Henry A.
Bassford and Frank j. Bassford, both of
Vacaville, Cal, with the privilege of one
alternate to each side, said alternate to be a
| bona fide resident of California upon our
side and of Utah upon yours.
CLGNIE OPERA HoUsE.-A full house
characterized the third presentation Of the
beautiful play May Blossom " last night.
1t was such an audience as Sacramento
| sends out when it is specially DESTROYS of
malffesting its approval of dramatic eff
! fort. The management was happy in Sc
curing Mr. Morrison and Miss Boyle for the
| leading parts. As well balanced as was the
| stock company, there were no two persons
in it who were adapted to these parts, and
| especially true is this III the case of the
heroine. But in other parts the stock COM
| pany has held in reserve some of its people
| who would have much strengthened the
cast. But it is excellent as it is does good
work, pleases the public and the returns to
| the treasury testify TO it. So well mounted
I is the play and so handsomely presented
| that ii is allowable TO 90 to the extent of
| advising the public to recognize the effort
| by liberal patronage since future efforts
| may htJtINA upon IL &AlilOiiS lilC lllllC
people in the woodland scene who win APP
plause and excite merriment is Master Will
| ton, good support to the clever little
| Lillian Brown. Miss Boyle received floral
favors last night, and was frequently re-
called The play will be repeated tonight.
COLLAPSE OF AN AwNING.-Ye sterGay af-
ternoon the awning in front of the cigar
store on the north side of X street, west of
the Golden Eagle Hotel, fell with crash,
and two carpenters who were working be-
meath ii narrowly escaped serious injury.
As it was, they were knocked down and
bruised, but both resumed work afterwards.
The cause of the fall was the exceedingly
rotten condition Of the wooden support
next to the wall of the building, which, in
its punk-like condition, did not hold at all
when the workmen, after showing up the
outer edge of the awning, commenced
operations toward the cutting off of small
portion of the outer posts, the new side
walk, which they had just finished laying,
being two inches higher than the old one,
and necessitating a corresponding reduction
in the hight of the awning posts. The
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