Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-07-29
BRIEF NOTES.

Large quantities Of hay are changing
hands these days at the Plaza.
The exercises at the High School will be
held to-day, commencing at 10 A NJ.
Yesterday the Treasurer of San joaquin
paid 99,471 q into the State treasury.
A plan is on foot to secure a number of
hares and turn them loose in Agricultural
Park for coursing purposes.
Granite blocks for the completion of the
State Capitol fence are arriving daily from
the State Prison at Folsom.
An open-air concert was given in Capitol
Park last night, the music being provided
by the First Artillery Band. 1t was largely
attended.
The closing exercises of the Twenty
fourth and N-street school will take place
Thursday at l P. NJ. Friends and patrons
are invited.
1t was Willie and not Mollie Perry
whose name should have appeared in yes
terday's list of graduates from Miss Sue v.
Heard's class.
The Trustees have determined to consult
the railroad company in relation to the fill
ing of China slough, which is daily increas-
ing in rOttenneSS.
From all directions come accounts of
cool and delightful weather. Campers in
the hills are actually complaining Of the
cold in the higher attitudes.
Five carloads of immigrants arrived from
the East yesterday, quite a number of
whom stopped over in this city. Two cars
were filled with Portuguese.
D. DeBernardi e Co. have erected some
exceedingly neat and appropriate emblems
of mourning in front of their K-street mar
ket, typical of the national sorrow.
4 fine animal attached to one of the
street cars was so badly injured yesterday
by Kicking through the sheet-iron dash
board Of the car that it is thought she will
have TO be killed.
The Pioneers and their families viii
meet at Pioneer Hall this evening at 8
O'Clock, TO hear the report Of the Commit
zee on Resolutions on the death of their
ia-e brother. General [. S. Grant.
B. r. Croker sent a number of horses to
San Francisco Yesterday and received from
the Valensin stables at Arno eight mag
nificent broOdmares of Clydesdale and
Norman stock, recently purchased by him.
The wholesale dealers. liquor merchants
and brewerymen of this city will tender
banquet, Saturday evening, to the retiring
Revenue Collector, A. L. Frost, who has
been doing business with them for the past
thirteen years.
Some errors were made in yesterdays
reference TO the Sacramento Grammar
School. 1t was stated that the enrolment
was Dos, when it should have been 39S and
the average attendance is 3S4, instead of
2S4, as published.
A few evenings since Warren Relief
Corps, No 49, was presented with a beau
tiful gavel by Warren Post, G. A. Il. The
gayel is q beautiful piece of workmanship,
made of pine wood from the stockade OF
Andersonville prison.
The Directors of the Museum Associa-
ton hold their regular monthly meeting
at the art gallery this evening. d. +. Al
exander, of this city, has presented to the
Association a very ancient copy of the law
dictionary of Richard Burn, LID, pub
lished in 1892.
The police officers who arrested the ped
| lers at Third and streets, few days ago,
| for taking up q small portion of the side
walk, had better take in the proprietor of a
carriage shop near Turner Hall. He is not
satisfied with a small portion of the walk,
but he takes il all.
The steamers are having great difficulty
these days in crossing the sand-bar at Y
street. There is very little water in the
river, and there will be less in years to
come if the destruction of timber above the
snow-belt be not checked and the deposi S
of slickens stopped.
| Officer Frazee was credited yesterday
with the arrest of All jim, for INSIDE
meanor Miss Birdio and Mrs Merner,
for petit larceny, and E. Fredani for bat
terry Officer Rider landed Fred. Greer for
battery and Franks scooped in Tom An
| derson, peace-disturber.
Judge Van Fleet has under consideration
proposition requiring the State Prison
Directors to shorten the term of imprison-
ment of one John Sansome, a convict, by
giving him certain credits. District Attor-
nev Buckley holds that the prisoner has
forfeited all his credits by making an at
tempt to escape.
The drainage canal at Thirty first and NJ
streets has become so foul that the people
in that immediate vicinity are sick from
the uubearable stencil arising therefrom.
The trouble is caused by the overflow from
| the brewery at Twenty eighth and NJ
streets. The Health Officer and Street
Commissioner will have the chain-gang
! clean it out.