Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-01-17
BRIEF NOTES.

But one carload of immigrants arrived
| this morning.
The State Prison Directors went up to
| Folsom yesterday afternoon.
The Sacramento river is down to u feet
2 inches above lowwater mark.
The Assembly Committee on Public
| Buildings GO down to Berkeley this morn
ing
The California Fruit Company, of this
city, shipped yesterday to Colorado car
| load of cabbage.
| Late yesterday afternoon gentleman had
his pocket picked at Fourth and X streets,
of a fine silver watch.
The Board of City Trustees of Wheatland
have just passed a sweeping law for the
suppression of gambling
In Department Two of the Superior Court
yesterday Mary y. Mead was granted a di-
vorce from w. Ii. Mead, with alimonv and
! attorneys fees.
Constable Carroll came over from Stock
| ton yesterday to get Luther Williams. who
was arrested here Thursday afternoon for
stealing horse in that city.
In the list of officers of Sacramento
Grange, recently installed, the name of
George w Hack, Overseer, was nispriuted
| Hook in the RECORD UNION.
The Pullman palace car sonoma. which
, has been receiving an oyerhauling and
| touching up at the shops, was sent down to
Oakland yesterday TO go into service.
The only arrests made Yesterday We're
those Of Catharine Donovan. bv officer Far
rell, for battery, and John Doe, bv officers
Sullivan and Arlington, for being drunk
An Eastern visitor was examining the
game and fish at one of the markets yes
terday, and allowed wag to persuade him
that a large crab at which he was looking
was a hare
II. W Msacham, Justice of the Peace for
Dry Creek township filed his official bond
with the County Recorder yesterday given
in the sum Of $, 900, with 4. Whitaker and
John Mcfarland as sureties.
Kent Blessing, while passing trouble
somely inebrated individual out of the
Capital Hotel Thursday evening, accident
ally struck MS left arm against q pane Of
glass, and cut it very severely.
China slough is nearly as full as it ever
gets, manly IN consequence of sipage from
the river If ii had been allowed to fill
through the drainge pipe it would have re-
ceiyed good deposit Of sediment.
AT Pioneer Hall there will be held this
evening meeting of citizens, adjourned
from the meeting of week ago, to discuss
the proposed new charter. 1t is not an
open meeting, bur one called by formal in
yltation.
In the advertising columns is published
this morning q statement of the assets and
liabilities of the California State Bank at
the opening Of business January !. 1885,
showing the institution TO be in q prosper
Gus condition.
The wholesale merchants on Front street
are doing al excellent business. They say
they are shipping more goods to the inte-
nor the present season than usual, and that
the outlook Tor the year 1885 in a business
point 0t 'eY is very encouraging.
Just as the residents of this vicinity were
congratulating themselves that the bad
weather was over for the present, Sergeant
Barwlck announced that a storm was ap-
preaching rom TatOosh, and last evening
its approach was signalIed by sprinkle OF
rain.
Early last evening hack team. titched
in front OF the Union Hotel, became fright
ened, broke loose and started to run toward
J street. On their way they struck and
upset buggy standing in front Of Whittier,
Fuller q Co.'S, and then continued on,
being caught at } street. The hack was
not damaged, but the buggy was badly
broken.
Some one started a report yesterday that
q woman had been found in the forenoon
by the roadside, east Of the city, suffering
from bullet wounds and that She was taken
to the County Hospital, where she died
soon afterwards There was no foundation
in fact Tor the rumor. 1t probably grew out
OF the circumstance that woman died at
that institution on Thursday, but from nat
ural causes.
James Slattery, the pugiIist, was an in
mate of the city prison last evening, being
Ell route to Nevada county in the custody
OF Deputy Sheriff Townsend Slattery
was over in Grass Valley recently, and got
into a row with some Of the miners of the
vicinity, when, as he states ii, several of
them took part against him, and pistols
were drawn. He drew his, and presenting
it, managed to get out of the saloon where
the trouble took place. The charges against
him are two Of battery and one of drawing
n deadly yyraDOn