Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-12-16
BRIEF NOTES.

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The Sacramento river has already receded
| to nine feet two inches.
The fog changed into a light rain last
night, and there was quite shower shortly
after IL o'clock.
| There was good attendance at Calvary
Baptist Church last evening, to hear A. G.
J Herrick's very interesting lecture upon
Venice, the City of the Sea-"
The steamer Dover arrived from the up
per Sacramento yesterday with grain, and
the steamer San Joaquin No. from San
Francisco, with merchandise and lumber
There is a good run of salmon in the
river lust now, and the Sacramento mar
kets are being daily supplied with fish in
fine condition from the neighborhood of
Clarksburg.
Probably fearing that rainy weather may
soon set in, the ladies appear to be doing
their Christmas shopping now, and the
stores and business streets are !" full of
them" daily.
These arrests were made yesterday Miss
All Sue, Miss Wan You and Miss Wan
Toy, by officer Farrell, for exhibiting An
tone Gregory, by officer Cofey, for disturb
ing the peace.
Ira G. Hoitt, State Superintendent of
Public Instruction elect, filed his bond in
the office of the Secretary of State, in the
sum of $4,000, with James Britton and
John T. English as sureties.
If the Yolo County Agricultural Associa-
tion is successfully organized and has a
good fair next fall, it is proposed to invite
Colusa and Napa counties to join with Yolo
in the enterprise for the future.
Joseph Wiles, of Marquette, Michigan,
has written to the police for information as
to the whereabouts of his father-in-law,
William Mills, whom he has not heard
from for two years. He was then living in
Sacramento.
Captain Rodgers, of the snagboat Seizer
reports that when that craft ceased work on
the Mokelumne river recently the south
fork of that stream was in good navigable
condition to Newhope, the narrow gauge
railroad station.
A man named Sullivan complained to
the police Tuesday night that some one
had stolen his watch from him in K
street saloon. He was under the influence
of liquor, and could give no clue to
the perpetrator of the theft.
Property-owners who are not calling
upon the Tax Collector very promptly,
should bear in mind that next week is the
last for making payments OF taxes, and
those who wait till the last few days will
be delayed by the rush that may then be
expected.
In Department Two of the Superior
Court, yesterday, Alb Yung who was held
to answer in the Police Court for burglary,
in entering DIR. w. A. Briggs residence
last Friday and stealing watch and chain
and other property, was arraigned, pleaded
guilty and was sentenced to one years i'm
prisonment in the State Prison at Folsom.
A small boy who gave the name of Dan
DAVIS, but who is recognized by the police
as precocious specimen of the genus
tough" accosted Judge Henry Tuesday
night with a request for the price of a
bed" The Judge turned him over 10 Con-
stable. Harvey, by whom he was taken to
the station-house for safe-keeping until he
en- be sent to his home, or in some other
manner kept from the street.
The highest and lowest Signal Service
temperature yesterday was 510 and $50
with variable winds and foggy to cloudy
weather. During the nights of the 18th
and 18th the fog was so heavy and wet that
.03 of an inch was deposited in the rain
gauge; something never before recorded at
the Signal Office in this city since July,
1877. There was .01 of an inch deposited
in December, 1888, when eleven foggy days
were recorded