Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-07-30
BRIEF NOTES.

! All the trial jurors in the Superior Court
, have been discharged for the term.
The public schools of this city closed
Yesterday until the first Monday in Octo-
ber
The pay car, after settling with the rail-
road employees here yesterday, left for the
south.
The salmon run is improving a little in
the Sacramento, but scarcely enough to
speak of.
d. J. Long announces himself this morn
ing as a candidate for the office of Coroner,
subject to the Republican County Con-
vention
The highest and lowest Signal Service
temperature in Sacramento yesterday was
800 and 560, with gentle southerly winds
and clear weather.
The steamer D. E. knight arrived yes
terday from Marysville Ell route to San
Francisco, with barge load of grain, and
the Flora cleared for the upper Sacramento
with merchandise.
The train from Reno was about forty
minutes late in its arrival yesterday after
noon, having left Reno an hour late, and
being unable to make up much time be-
cause of heavy load.
The man at Clay Station supposed TO be
Milton Cox, who disappeared from this
city last Friday, turned out to be another
person. Cox is now said to have turned up
at Lincoln last Saturday.
I'd. Brown, railroad yardman in this
city, had his left hand badly hurt yesterday
morning while coupling two cabooses to-
gether. 1t is hoped, however, that he will
not lose any of the fingers.
foI a l..
above low-water mark. A big sand bar
on the Yolo side of the river, the only
place below the bridge where the bottom
has come to the top
R. D. Graham. who was severely burned
during the Mardi Gras celebration on the
evening of the 9TH inst, in consequence of
large quantity OF" red fire" being acct
dentally ignited, is convalescing at the
County Hospital.
On Wednesday 6-year-old son of w. o.
Howe, of Roseyille, fell about twenty feet
from the timbers of a stable that is being
erected there, and, alighting upon his head
and face, received such injury that yester-
day he was still unconscious.
The Chinaman most seriously injured
during the war of races at the Freeport
brck-yard few days ago, and who was
brought to this city, was last evening re-
ported 10 be improving in condition, with
the probabilities in favor of his soon being
out again.
The body Of man. far advanced in de-
composition, was found on Wednesday
hanging to limb of tree on the bank of
the MOkelumne river, near the Gait and
New Hope ferry. 1t is presumed to have
drifted there during the high water last
spring. There was nothing to indicate who
the deceased was.
Tom Delaney the well-known horseman,
returned yesterday from Chicago. His colt
Modesto from whom much was expected,
got sick soon after arriving there and has
not started in race, though before he got
" of he showed that he still possessed his
remarkable speed. Delaney getting tired
of waiting, put him in Matt Aliens care
and came home
Anita Para had Mrs Russell and Cad
walader Jones arrested yesterday by officer
Agnew for petit larceny They rent, or
rather Mrs. Russell does, and he rooms
there, a house belonging to complainant,
on Third street, between NJ and n. Re-
Gently she had it raised, and she accuses
the occupants Of using some of the pieces
of lumber lying about for fuel. 1t looks
more like case of wanting to get rid of
tenants than serious prosecution.
Yesterday afternoon citizen stepped
into the station-house and informed the
officers that some cne was blowing a
whistle vigorously on | street. Officers
Farren and wager, with visions of a shoot
ing or cutting scrape before their eyes. hast
ened out to preserve the peace. Going up
toward Second street they heard the whistle
blown several times, apparently at a dis
tauca or in soma buillipO Inst fhpx-
reached Second street the whistle was
blown again, right alongside of them, and
looking around they discovered a small
boy, with a toy whistle nearly as large as
himself, footing away. He had inserted
bean in the whistle, and thus made it sound
like policeman's call. The officers re-
moved the bean forthwith