Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-08-21
BRIEF NOTES.

1HeIe were no arrests maze by the ponce
yesterday.
The Sacramento river now registers bu
eight feet two inches above low-watel
mark
The chaingang is at work at Agricultural
Park, giving it good cleaning-up prior to
the State Fair
The Fruit-growers' Association sent a
! special fruit train East on Thursday, and
/ the California Fruit Union sent one yester-
! day.
The G. A. R. Executive Committee met
last evening and settled the financial mat
| tiers connected with the reception in this
city.
The highest and lowest temperature yes
terday, according to the Signal Service, was
| $50 and $40, with fresh southerly winds
and clear weather.
A man giving the name of A. B. Albee,
and claiming 70 be a resident of Sacra-
mento, is under arrest at Santa Rosa on
charge of horse-stealing.
A large number of members of the As
sembly left for San Francisco yesterday af-
ternoon, many of them intending to 90
from there to Los Angeles.
Constable Harvey has arrested Chin Tung
for battery upon another Celestial, and the
case will come up for trial next Tuesday
the defendant being out on bond mean
while.
The case of young Weber, suspected of
having started the late disastrous fire at
Folsom, will come up for examination be-
fore Justice Anderson in that town at 10
A. NJ. to-day.
The railroad company will sell excursion
tickets to Los Angeles and return to those
DESTROYS of attending the Republican State
Convention, for about the usual fare one
way. The tickets are now for sale.
Thursday evening, while the East-bound
express train was at Roseville, q boy entered
sleeping car, snatched q lady'S satchel,
which contained twenty dollars in money,
ticket to Denver, checks for baggage. etc,
and quickly left the car, making good his
escape with the booty.
About II o'clock Thursday night loud
explosion in the vicinity of Second and |
streets created considerable excitement in
that neighborhood. 1t was ascertained that
some one had put an alarm torpedo on the
street railroad track, and when car passed
over it the explosion followed.
The Sacramento delegation to the Re-
publican State Convention have engaged a
special sleepng-car, and will leave for Los
There Will be q meeting of the delegation,
to consult upon various matters, at E. X.
Alsip's Office at'S o'clock this evening.
4 band of about twenty Indians, bucks,
squaws and children, were in town from
the foothills yesterday, having come to
work at hop-picking They camped near
the depot, and during the day their camp
was au object of interest to the Chinese,
who did not appear to regard their advent
with much favor.
Tommy Shower, while driving cattle on
Thursday near the Showler slaughter
house, east of the city, had his left instep
badly hurt in consequence of his horse, on
being turned quickly. stepping on rock
and falling upon his rider. The foot is so
swollen that it is impossible to tell whether
any bones are broken.
The band Of fiftv-four head of Holstein
cattle, which was reported as having come
up from Santa Barbara on Thursday to the
Rancho del Paso was not intended for that
ranch. The band was brought for exhibi-
ton at the State Fair. is now at the park,
and is the property of f. T. Underhill, of
Santa Barbara.
The Marysville Daily Democrat mentions
the fact that Seymour Marcuse, agent for
the RECORD UNION in that place, is taking
time by the forelock BY using fast-timed
bicycle for delivering the papers to his
customers, and that the City Council has
granted him a special permit to ride his
two wheeled vehicle upon the sidewalk for
that purpose.
Quite an improvement has recently been
made in the Changers Cooperative estab-
lishment at Tenth and X streets. The in
terror has been entirely remodeled and
neatly finished to agree with the prosperity
of the institution. mo tick here has re-
Gently been ordained as the rule of the es-
adjustment, and strictly cash sales are now
maintained.
In order that the necessary cleaning NAV
be done, the Free Library will be closed
for two weeks beginning Monday next. No
books will be issued during this time, but
anyone wishing to do SO may return their
books any day between the hours of 7 A. NJ.
and p. NJ. No fines will accrue on books
becoming due while the library is closed.
but all such books must be returned on or
before September 7th-three days after
reopening. Fines will be charged after
that date.
The parties having charge of the ditch
which is being dug on Seventeenth street
for sewer purposes neglected TO hang up
lights Thursday night to warn people of
danger, and in consequence man who was
driving at a pretty rapid rate at the juno
ton of P street with Seventeenth, nearly
drove into the excavation, which is about
nine feet deep. As it was, his horse struck
against the barricade that had been erected
as protection and was knocked down by
the shock of the collision, and the driver
had a narrow escape from serious injury.
The neighbors had quite a time Fighting
matters.
Yesterday morning a tramp of disagree
able appearance called at a residence, asked
for food, and requested the lady of the
house to get him cup of coffee. As there
had been another individual Of the same
genus there a short time before, the lady
thought they were becoming too frequent,
aud declined the second mans request.
He thereupon read her lecture upon the
duty of citizens to the poor, 10 which she
responded that the poor would do well TO
show willingness to work, and that there
was just now demand for men in the hop
fields. That broke bis heart To think,
said he, as he moved toward the gate,
that yed have ne put meself on level
wild a Chinamlu ~