Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-06-26
BRIEF NOTES.

Thirty carloads of tea were forwarded to
the East from San Francisco yesterday.
The Governor yesterday appointed for
San Francisco w. F. Swasey and Frank
| Vernon as Notaries Public.
One solicitor with petition to locate the
Postoffice at Seventh and K streets has al
ready secured l .191 signatures.
The amount of money in the State Treas
ury, according to the statement published
| elsewhere in this issue. is 81, 259, 737 80.
Six carloads of fruit and vegetables were
shipped eastward from Sacramento yester-
day, and two car-lolds more were put on
| the train at Newcastle.
| c. F. Mast, driver of the Plaza meat mar
ket wagon, found a lady's purse last even
| ing at Eleventh and streets, containing
large sum of money.
AT the Central NJ. E. Church this evening
An evening with Longfellow," literary
and musical, will be given by the society
of Willing Workers" Admission, % and
| 10 cents.
On the complaint of w. A. Chittenden,
| officer Ash arrested yesterday man named
| Wallace, who is charged with embezzle-
ment in connection with large transaction
in poultry.
| j. ?. Melchoir will give a concert and
| dance at Richmond Grove Sunday afternoon
and evening, when music will be furnished
! by the Hussar Band. Admission, % cents
| ladies' free
The horse attached to the hospital wagon
| took fright and ran away on the grounds of
the county hospital last evening, knocking
down and running over an idiotic boy
| named Eddie Scott. fracturing his right
| thigh
The chairs and fixtures of the Tivoli
Theater, property of the late firm of
Alexander q Roraback, were yesterday
sold by D. j. Simmons d Co, auctioneers.
The chairs and benches were knocked
down to Isaac Simmons.
Richard Koening has just completed a
| fine awning, supplemented by neat little
northeast corner of Fourth and 0 streets
and made other improvements of perma-
nent character, adding greatly to the ap-
pearance of his premises.
The Treasurer of Fresno county yester-
| day settled with the Controller and paid
into the State Treasury Slabs 50. The
| Treasurer of Napa county also paid in
! 81, $50 OF. The latter also refunded S56, 600
of Napa county bonds, which have been
| drawing per cent. interest, for bonds that
will only draw per cent.
The jury in the case of r. a. Fiske, Jr.,
were oul seven or eight hours yesterday,
and finally came into Court and reported
| their inability to agree They stood most
of the time six for defendant and five for
! plaintiff - there being but eleven men,
bers of the jury one having been excused,
owing to the death of his child.
Yesterday afternoon some children set
| fire to the contents of two boxes setting one
inside the other, and containing waste
paper, etc, on the porch in front of DR..
Brune's office, on J street, and there were
good prospects OF big blaze. The fact
was discovered in season, however, and the
boxes thrown into the street.
Deputy Sheriff Wilson will bring up
from San Francisco this noon en- route to
! the State Prison at Folsom, Rev Dr. w. F.
| Morrison, ex-Grand Councillor of the Order
of Chosen Friends, who was convicted at
San Francisco recently of appropriating
large sum of money belonging to the Or
der, and sentenced to ten years imprison-
ment.
| The wholesale merchants of Sacramento
are doing better shipping business than
ever before at this season of the year.
Many merchants in Amador, Placer, FL
Dorado and Nevada counties, who formerly
traded exclusively with San Francisco,
have found they can do better here, and
have transferred their entire trade to Sacra-
mentO.
The following Signal Service reports
show the highest thermometer yesterday
Tatoosh Island 81; Olympia, "a; Spokane
Falls, 81; Dayton, So; Fort Candy, 81
Portland so; Roseburg 49, Cape Mendo-
cino 81; Red Bluff, 81; Sacramento, So
San Francisco, 81; Keller, 81; San Luis
Obispo, "A Los Angeles, 81, and San
Diego, 20.
Parties who have been out on the river
report that there are great many dead fish
perch and hardheads principally -lying
on the sand-bars. Whether they died in
the river or came out of the sloughs is I'M
known. 1t is certain, however, that fish
are dying in great numbers in all other
bodies of water near the city, as well as in
China slough.
OF the thirty-seven applicants for exam
ination for teachers certificates who APP
peared before the County Board of Educa
ton Wednesday, twenty-six failed TO obtain
the necessary credits on the first day, and
will have TO try again on another occasion.
The examination of those remaining will
not conclude until this evening, and the
result will not be known for day Or two
later.
new evening paper, the Dramatic News,
has been started in this city by the News
Publishing Company, and will be devoted
| to the theatrical profession, athletic sports
and amusemcnts, and the news of the day
1t is seven-day paper, and will be used as
a house programme for places of amuse-
ment, besides having general circulation
Its appearance is very creditable and the
indications are that it will be energetic and
readable.
thief was prowling through the halls
of the Colusa lodging house, on Fourth
street, between K and l.. about 2 o'clock
yesterday morning when the landlady,
Mrs. \. b. Vivian, heard him, and, step
ping out of her room, caught him by the
arm. He broke away however. and made
good his escape. A pair of Chinamans
shoes were left behind by the intruder, but
Mrs. Vivian says she saw him plainly, and
that he was not Chinaman.
Henry Schultz, aged about 50 years. was
found dead in his room Wednesday even
ing. The Coroner was notified, but, ascer-
tanning that deceased had been very i'll of
consumption, he concluded that death re-
suited from natural causes, and deemed an
| inquest unnecessary. Deceased has been
in destitute circumstances, but his family,
living i'll Cincinnati, had promised to send
him money TO return there. and registered
letter is now at the Postofiicc directed to
| him.
The Woodland Hail says that Dan. Fay,
OF Washington. who on Wednesday last
was tried in Woodland on a charge of
grand larceny and acquitted, celebrated
his release BY getting fighting drunk and
going to sleep i'll the entrance to Isham's
stable. When arrested he fought and
abused the officers most desperately, and
was subdued only by liberal use of the
club" Yesterday morning Judge Ruggles
sent him to Jail for ten days for having
been drunk and disorderly.
Edwin f. Smith, Secretary of the State
Agricultural Society, has issued a series of
entry blanks for the Society's races, having
them bound together neatly. Every race
has blank awarded it, and the pages are
perforated so as to be readily torn from the
book The blank provides space for the
name of the owner, name of horse, color
and sex, age, sire, dam, colors to be worn,
etc. The series will be found very conve-
nient by those DESTROYS of making entries,
and all the entries will be made in good
shape.
Sacramentans were much pleased yes
terday with the news of the victory of Mr.
Haggin's black colt Hidalgo, at Coney
Island. He is California-bred horse, by
Joe Daniels. Last year he was much
IN - Il Il