Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-09-24
BRIEF NOTES.

Tvn,sn & O'Malley's band gave an enioy
able social at Jacobs Hall last evening.
AT the Elite Theater Wednesday nigh
Dell Murphy hat a sparring match 70
points with Ed. O'Sara, the latter win
ming.
The highest and lowest Signal Servic
temperature yesterday was NJ and 52o
with variable winds and clear weather pre-
Yailing.
Hon. Chas. T. Jones, who was though
to be seriously i'll of erysipelas on Wedhes
day, was yesterday much better, and in she
course of a few days will be able to be abos'
again.
At a meeting of Westminster (Presbyte-
| RAM Church and congregation last evening
it was unanimously resolved to extend q
call to Rev. ]. E. Wheeler, d. D., late OF
st. Louis.
The colt G. II. Todd, the record breaker
for two-year-olds at Stockton, is owned by
]. D. McCarty, of Santa Clara, son of Dan.
McCarty, of San Francisco. The owner
rode him in the race, the weight carried
being 81 pounds.
The steamer Dover arrived from the
upper Sacramento yesterday with grain.
Cleared, steamer San Joaquin, No. 4, for
San Francisco, with grain steamer Dover,
for the upper Sacramento, with merchan-
disc and lumber.
A force of men was employed yesterday
in cleaning out the Sixth-street sewer,
when, through some misunderstanding,
the water that had been shut off was let on.
Dam(n)s of more than one variety were
used Immediately.
Mrs. Harriet NJ. Walker, a boarding
house proprietress, has commenced pro-
ceedings in insolvency in the Superior
Couri-the first action of the kind taken in
Sacramento county by a woman, so far as
recollected by attorneys.
All voters whose names are not on the
Great Register should bear in mind that
they have only until the I'd of next month
to have them enrolled, as on that day regis
tration will cease and the Great Register be
sent to the printer for publication.
J. %. Hopkins, who came through from
the East yesterday. is agent for about fifty
French families who desire to establish a
colony in California. He went on to San
Francisco, but before returning will pay a
visit to various portions of the State, north
and south, looking for the most desirable
location.
Mrs. Mary johnson. the terror from
0ChNS wiz dLotlliSuioDCu ACtoCLl 5CNtldl
months ago by getting drunk and being
arrested oftener in the same length of time
than any other woman ever in Sacramento,
has returned to the city, and last evening
officer Leavy put her in the calaboose on
the same old charge,
G. w. Carey swore OIL a warrant in the
Police Court yesterday for the arrest of Ed.
Jacobs on a charge of malicious mischief.
1t is alleged that about the close of the fair,
while driving a hack, he drove across the
street railroad track so close to a car that
one of the horses drawing the latter was
struck on the shoulder and received a cut
several inches in length.
The barge of the steamer Dover, coming
down the river yesterday, stuck for about
an hour at Salmon Bend, and an equal
length Of time on the bar at the English
break, above Bryte's. 1t is reported that
the snagboat Seller will in a few days
come down from the upper river, where
she is working, and scrape both Of these
bars until there is a good channel.
The other day in Rocklin Jake Piose was
exhibiting his skill in throwing up a coin
and catching it in his mouth. He made a
number of good catches, and then. to his
own establishment, he felt the coin slip
down his throat. 1t was a $40 piece, and
too much to lose, so Jake went over to DR..
Schonemann and had himself panned out
with salt, mustard and hot water.
John Rooney, of Brighton, hired white
men exclusively to pick his hop crop this
year. Some of the men were worthless
tramps, but forty-two remained until the
end of the job, their earnings averaging
81 80 per day. Mr.. Rooney is well salts
fled by the experiment that Chinese are not
a nonaccitu Hon I nnntiar hoe q fnroa nj
thirty-five white men picking grapes, and
they are doing the work well.
Yesterday afternoon a gentleman left his
horse and buggy, with a little child sitting
in the vehicle, on ] street, between Eighth
and Ninth, while he went into a store to
attend to some business. While he was
gone the horse became FESTIVE and
started to run away, the child crying Justify.
NJ. L.. Hammer, seeing the mishap, pursued
the horse at such a lively gait that he soon
caught and stopped him, probably prevent
ing a serious accident.
Early last spring two English sparrows
were noticed on the levee neal the station
house, apparently newcomers, and posi-
bly, brakebeam tourists. Since then the
number of these birds has increased rapidly
and they are not only to be seen on the
levee, but in other portions of the city.
Yesterday there was noticed in a little flock
near the station-house one that was almost
white-perhaps it might be called a cream
color-and he was as noticeable as a white
blackbird.
1t would be n great convenience to the
public if some one would invent a process
whereby hens could be prevailed upon TO
do the fair thing, and keep the market sup
piled with fresh eggs at reasonable rates at
all seasons of the year. Just o the fowls
appear to be on a strike, and hen fruit is
rapidly advancing in price. Eggs will be
eggs mighty soon,' said a dealer yesterday.
~ hope they WILL" replied a customer.
Some that l got yesterday seemed to me
very much like decayed chicken !" Soon
Eastern eggs will be the main supply of the
market for the benefit of people with light
purses, who cannot pay the weight in sill
yer for the fresh home article. but many
dyspeptic will find hat they do not fill the
bill, except as material for omelets and
scrambles, and the cry of the poultry-raiser
will be heard in the land, What shall we
do with our hens? '