Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-04-16
BRIEF NOTES.

the East this morning.
Rev. Father Buholzer is holding mis-
sion in German at St. Rose Church.
The Yolo County Sunday School Con-
vention convened at Woodland yesterday,
and will be in session to-day.
A literary entertainment and dance will
be given at Changers Hall this evening, for
the benefit of the Woman's Relief Corps.
The telephone line to the County Hos
pital was completed yesterday, and that in
stitution can now be communicated with
by any of the city telephones.
The steamer D. f. Knight arrived here
yesterday from Marysville, en- route to San
Francisco, with grain. The San Joaquin,
No. 2, arrived from San Francisco with
merchandise.
The residence of S. X. Trefry, Twenty
third and l streets, was entered by a thief
yesterday, and robbed of a lady's gold
Templar's emblem.
Eight of the thoroughbred horses that
recently participated in the races of the
Blood Horse Associations meeting were
brought up from San Francisco by steamer
yesterday morning.
g A Subscriber" writes the RECORD UNION
from Nicolaus Z" Please answer in the
daily paper where l can procure Chinese
silver dollar" You will not be apt to pro-
cure one; the Chinese do not make them.
There arrived last evening from San
Francisco three carloads of Raymond ex-
cursionistS, numbering about SO, who went
on by the express train TO Auburn, and
will there take freight train No Is this
morning and go over the hill by daylight
These arrests were made yesterday Po-
tato Brooks, by officers Frazee and Rider
for being drunk; Stephen Lowery and Han
Jim, by officers Kent and Rider for misde-
meanor; Richard Roe and John Doe, by
officers Farrell and Rider, for being drunk.
A San Francisco paper says 1.-The river
steamer c. NJ Small struck snag and sunk
up river some months ago. The local in
spectors have investigated the case, and
rendered their decision, revoking the license
OF Captain Rideout, her master at the time
Of the accident"
The Tolo Supervisors have ordered, in
the matter of lumber washed away from
the dam at Washington, which had been
gathered by parties in the vicinity, who
now refuse to give it up, that the District
Attorney begin suit at once against said
parties for the recovery of said lumber.
The Superior Baseball Club has organ
lied and elected the following officers c..
Woodwork, Captain L. Sheehan, Secre-
tary; J. Mitchell, Treasurer; II. Boyne
Propertyman b. Hopf, President; j. Do
herty Vice President. The other members
are J. Norton. c. O'Brien and J. OConnell.
Auditor Strother of San francisco, holds
that the Act of the last Legislature relative
to the salaries of Court reporters is uncon-
stitutiOnal, and refuses to pay bills con-
tracted under it. Consequently George w.
Smith, reporter of Department Twelve of
the Superior Court of that city and county,
has sued out writ of mandate to test the
matter.
The midday train from San Francisco
was about forty minutes late in its arrival
yesterday, owing to another train getting off
| the track at switch at Oakland Point. The
train from San Francisco, via Stock
ton, was detained at the same switch,
and did not reach Sacramento until $40
P. ". The California and Oregon train was
held here until it arrived.
The body found floating in the river near
Richland on Tuesday was yesterday thor
oughly identified, from the clothing and
articles found upon it, as that of Thomas
W. Bryte. The funeral will take place at .
p. NJ. to-day from J. +. Clark undertaking
rooms, it being considered better, owing to
the critical condition of the health of the
deceased mother, to have the funeral from
there instead of from the family residence.
In Justice Scully's Court, Washington,
| the cases Of the six Portuguese charged
with disturbing the peace Of John LAVAL by
conducting a charivari at his residence.
| near Clarksburg, on the occasion of his
marriage last Sunday evening We're tried
| by jury. That body failed to agree, one of
its members failing to persuade the others
| to unite with him in verdict of not guilty
Subsequently the parties to the suit fixed
| matters up and the ease was dismissed.
VIM. Frederick Witzemann, q promi-
| nent and popular business man on the San
| Francisco water front, who died a few days
| ago, was well known i'll Sacramento He
| amasSed quite fortune as butcher in San
! Francisco, and was largely interested in
| vessels sailing from that port. One of the
| Bay papers speaks of him as =" one of the
| biggest-hearted men on the front, whc
never turned his back upon a worthy APP
| plicant.'
MUSEUM As7ocArIoN.-The Museum As
ISOLATION held its regular meeting last even
ing, President Lubin in the chair
1t proved long and interesting
session. The Executive Committee of the
Loan Exhibition submitted financial
showing. with vouchers, and took further
| time to make a final report. The matter o.
the Croker Art Gallery received some at
| tention in the way of getting into cleal
form the understanding relative to The
| work of the Society under It's new auspices
| \ committee on bylaws reported a new
code, drafted to meet the requirements O
the law and the new conditions under
which the Association is TO operate
| These laws were considered III detail
amended and adopted. One of the bylaws
provides that 50 long as the Association
bears the new relation 10 the +. +
Croker Art Gallery building and its con.
| tents, privileges, benefits and grounds, il
shall, and hereby pledges itself, in electine
Directors, to elect Mrs Margaret +. Crockel
as one of them So soon as the bylaw:
| were finally adopted the Association unan
imously elected Mrs. Crocker as the tent
| Director of the Association thus filling the
| Board of Directors. Several applications
for active membership were received anC
referred, as required by the bylaws. TIT
Association then adjourned, and the Di
rectors' meeting at once elected as lif,
members Mrs. L. B. Crocker, Albert Gala
tin. Hugh c. Trainor, Chris. Green, VIII
lam Johnston .Richland), Charles ". Rec
(Yoio), Joseph Stetfens A. c. Sweetser, +
p. Figg, c Z, Grunsky
BARwlcK's BULLETIN The Signal Sery
ice reports at O'Clock last night showed
falling barometer which everywhere wa
below 80 inch es, accompanied by a falling
temperature which was from 10 to 6
cooler al o'clock last night than the sam
time the preceding twenty four hours, will
southerly and westerly winds prevailing
The weather was clear in California ant
southern Oregon. and cloudy 10 fair il
northern Oregon and Washington Terri
tory. There was during the past twenty
four hours II of an inch of rain at Olym
pia .06 Of an inch at Fort Candy; .05 of al
inch at Portland ,QS Of an inch at Rose
burg, and ,Q2 Of All inch at San Diego, u
to II Nj. yesterday, since which time no re
port has been received from that point.
Social EYTERT AGNMENT.-One of tn
most pleasing and interesting social enter
tainments of the season was given las
evening at the Seventh-street NJ. f. Church
The following programme was well rem
dered instrumental duet, Mrs. Renfro an
Mr. Martyr; reading Mr. Ripley; voca
solo, G. Wait; recitation, J. T. Lucey
, vocal duet, Miss Genevive Henry an
Robert Martyr; dialogue, George Lavenso
and VIII Ripley; vocal solo, Miss Mar