Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-04-23
BRIEF NOTES.

pairing the highway near the Five Mile
House.
The Sacramento river continues TO rise
slowly, and yesterday afternoon registered
% feet inches.
! The highest and lowest temperature in
this city yesterday, according to the Signal
Service thermometer. was 100 and 51o.
The Treasurer of Solano county yester-
day paid into the State Treasury So 0S0 OS.
The Treasurer of Nevada county, 81, 7S9 95.
Fourteen carloads of oranges went East
yesterday, making the total number of
carloads forwarded since the 1st of March
All.
Mary Larcener was arrested yesterday bv
officer Wendt for disturbing the peace. and
Dan Kelly, by officer Sullivan, for being
drunk
An ice cream social will be given this
evening by the young people of Westmin-
ster Church in the church parlor. Young
people are especially invited.
The work Of repairing the cornice fire.
| wall, porch, etc, of the City Library build
ing, which was damaged by the high wind
one day last winter, is in progress.
George H. Harvey, of this city, has
| bunch of blue grass, raised upon his prem
Ises, some of the blades of which attained
|
| season.
The residence of Llewellyn Williams, at
| Tenth and III streets, was entered by burg
lars Wednesday night and the lower rooms
ransacked, but n0Dooty obtained as far as
| is known.
A frame one-story addition, in size 70 by
100 feet, is being made to the Capital Pack
| ing Company's establishment at Eleventh
and ID streets. 1t is to be used as shipping
and storage room.
The remains Of julius Wetzlar, who died
in this city April 2S, 1873, have been taken
from the family vault at the City Cemetery
and sent to Oakland TO be buried by the
| side of his late wife.
| The train from the south was two hours
| behind time in its arrival yesterday after
noon, owing to delays on connecting roads.
The California and Oregon passenger train
was held to await its arrival.
! Workmen are engaged in bracing I'D the
| floor hmbers of the old Sacramento and
Placerville Railroad freight shed, on Front
street. between and l., and putting in
new flooring where Il is needed
Deputy Sheriff John McComber took TO
the State Prison at Folsom yesterday C. f.
Acher, who on Wednesday was sentenced
! by Judge Van Fleet to serve term of five
years in the State Prison for burglary.
Thomas H. Reynolds went to Redding
yesterday to make arrangements for the
organization Of a gas company, in which
| General w. IL. Brown and Alex. Badlam,
OF San Francisco will be prominent stock
| holders.
A meeting of Ward Three and q Half
Republican Club was held on Wednesday
night, but as the attendance was light an
adjournment was ordered until some time
next MONTH without the transaction of any
| business.
The ladies of the NJ. E. Church South,
Seventh street, between J and X, will give
a literary and musical entertainment this
| evening at o'clock, in which some of the
best local talent will take part. Admission,
including refreshments, % cents.
Yesterday beat the record for kissing
| good-by at the depot, owing to the fact that
| the ladies from abroad who had been in
attendance upon the Women's Christian
| Temperance Unions State session in this
| city We're leaving for their homes.
The " Diamond Runners" have organ
lied a baseball club with The following
! officers: r. Nash Captain; o. Hebron,
Treasurer J. Patterson, Secretary; H. De
vine, Propertyman. The other members
are: o. Kinllel w. Lynch, c. Fouse, J.
Muller, c. Strobel.
All Lin was tried in Department One of
the Superior Court yesterday on a charge
of burglary in entering the store-room of
! the fremont Hotel several weeks ago and
stealing beef and lard. The jury returned
a verdict of guilty. The defendant will be
| sentenced next Monday
The steamer San Joaquin, No. A, cleared
! yesterday for San Francisco with barge
| load of grain, and the Dover for the upper
Sacramento, with barge load of merchan-
disc The Knight, No. 2 passed up the
river EN- route for Marysville from San
Francisco with merchandise.
In Justice Posts Court yesterday morn
ing the case of Hugh Agan, charged with
the murder of James Sharkey, in Center
| township two weeks ago, was taken up,
| but, owing to the absence of two important
witnesses for the prosecution, the case
was continued until next Tuesday, at 10
A. NJ.
The charter roll for another Branch of
the Young Mems Institute of California
has been opened in this city and is receiv-
| to organize will be held next week, and
| District Deputy Grand President, R. E.
| Murray, and other grand officers, will take
part III the initiatory ceremonies.
In Department One of the Superior Court
yesterday the jury in the case of A A.
Nethercott, charged with embezzlement,
| IN selling certain horse belonging to a
resident of Elk Grove J. Gebert, and APP
propriating the money received to his own
use, returned a verdict of guilty. He will
receive sentence next Monday at 10 A. NJ.
The Governor has appointed the follow
| ing as members of the Yosemite Valley
Commission William II. Mills, Dr. VIM
b. May |. w. Raymond, Thomas p Mad
lf Erar, ctc II
of Stockton. The hold-overs are J. w.
| Griffith, of Los Angeles Jonathan Mentzer,
of Mariposa, and L. w. Chapman, of
Fresno. This Commission also manages
the Mariposa Big Tree Grove.
| About l o'clock yesterday morning two
| females met two of the opposite sex at the
| southwest corner of Eighth and X streets.
One Of the men applied vile epithet to
one OF the women, and slapped her in the
face. The woman ran up the street, say
| ing she was going for a pistol, while the
two men hurried off in the opposite direc-
ton. The vile language used by all four
was so loud that it could be heard dis
! lance of two blocks.
The Mapleson opera company passed
| through the city early yesterday morning
| on its way East from San Francisco Mem
| bers OF the chorus occupied a second-cass
| sleeping car, in which there were also some
English tourists, and on the way up there
was considerable of an unpleasantness be-
| tween the representatives of the two ma
| tionalities, caused mainly by some of the
chorus being intoxicated and noisy, but no
one was seriously hurt.
The Nevada Transcript says !" Dr. George
| L. Simmons, of Sacramento, has purchased
tract of land about mile from Colfax,
on which he proposes to plant olives and
other fruits. Several other persons from
| the lower country and two or three more
| who lately arrived from the East have
| bought land in that same section. and are
| going to engage in the same business, and
1t is only a matter of a very short time
when all the land in and around Colfax
and the adjoining places will be under
cultivation"
In the notice of the etching exhibit yes
terday, the line referring to public taste
should have read that the effort is being
made to educate the public taste to appre-
citation of the etching art: The exhibit
was spoken of as containing several etch-
lngs, it should have read several "hun-
| dred;" and in speaking of the printing art,
1t should have read that the fine effects by
| application of the ink are secured that
the heavy lines are by repeated applica-
uons OF acid bitten deeper in" and that