Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-12-08
BRIEF NOTES.


The steamer Dover arrived from the up.
per Sacramento yesterday with barge
load of grain.
County Clerk Hamilton collected fees
during the month of November to the
amount of 1869 10.
1t was raining very heavily on "the hill''
last night, and also at points on the Cali
fornia and Oregon Railroad.
lyman & OMalley will give their weekly
social at Jacobs Hall this evening, instead
of Thursday e7ening as heretofore.
Patsy Duffy, the well-kAown jockey, who
ranked among the best in the business, is
reported to be dangerously ill in this city
of dropsy.
J.R. Wilkins, the able scenic artist, has
gone to Marysville to prepare new scenery
for the theater at that place, which is re-
ceiving extensive improvements.
A. Pendleton writes the RECORD UNION
| from Nicolaus that the rainfall at that
place up to A. NJ. yesterday amounted to
IA of an inch, and rain was still falling.
| Agricultural Society Directors were ap-
pointed by the Governor yesterday as fol-
lows: For District No. 6-J C. Newton,
San GABRIEL ]. w. Robinson, Los Angeles.
Notaries Public were appointed yesterday
as follows: B. G. Mickle, danford, Tulare
county; Henry Stoddard, Santa Barbara
w. o. Meroney, Bishop Creek, Inyo
county.
Deputy Sheriff Wilson brought up from
San Francisco last evening, en- route to the
State Prison at Folsom, Chas. Miller, who
is to serve five years for burglary, and Geo.
Hayes five years for grand larceny.
These arrests were made yesterday All
<flso A A l.
Fat, by officers Agner and Ferral, both for
carrying concealed weapons; Richard
Reed, by officer Farrell, for battery.
T. j. Duncan, who was the Democratic
candidate for School Director from the First
Ward at the election on Monday, had
Richard Reed arrested yesterday, on a
charge of battery, committed upon him at
the polls.
The State Harbor Commission yesterday |
settled with the Controller and paid into |
the State Treasury, $22,53S o.. Warden |
Shirley, of the State Prison at San Quentin, |
paid into the Treasury $1,000, profits of the
jute factory.
George Shoemaker, bartender for H. D. |
Gamble, was going home about o'clock |
yesterday morning, when at Sixth and X
streets he was stopped by three men. He |
produced pistol, and they concluded that |
he was not the person they wanted to see.
Silas earle, of the firm of earle & Croly, |
who have the contract for the building of
the hotel in Yosemite, has just returned
from the valley. He reports that the ex-
terror of the building is almost completed
and the roof on. One carpenter was left
in charge, who will remain through the
winter.
The Superior Court Clerks have recently
changed off Mr.. Register going into De-
partment Two and Mr.. Rhoads into De-
partment One. 1t may be that about New
Year Judges Mcfarland and Van Fleet will |
change Departments, prior to the formers !
resigning to enter upon his duties on the |
Supreme Bench.
The fire alarm from box 81 at 100 P NJ
yesterday was occasioned by slight blaze |
on E street, between Tenth and Eleventh |
the roof of house occupied by Mr.. Rose |
having become ignited from a defective
fiue. The trouble was all over before the |
department arrived, and there was but |
little damage done.
A gentleman who was in the city yester-
day stated that movement was on foot |
looking to the dividing up of the county of |
Colusa and the proposition would be much |
discussed prior to the session of the Legis- |
lature. 1t is claimed by some that the |
county is too large for the convenience of |
many of its residents.
A German family of ten persons-all |
fne-looking and healthy -appearing-ar- |
rived among the immigrants from the East |
yesterday morning, and will take up their |
residence on a ranch on the Costumes. |
Several other immigrants who arrived by |
the same train stated that they were going |
to settle in the vicinity of Gait and Lodi. !
The rain Monday night and yesterday |
morning caused a landslide of about 200 !
yards as Castle Creek, on the line of the |
California and Oregon Railroad, above |
Delta, blockading the road for several |
hours, and causing the passenger train |
from McCloud to be two or three hours !
behind time in its arrival here last even |
ing.
The rainfall at Sacramento yesterday, !
according to the Signal Service reports, was |
rs of an inch, making 1.64 inches for the |
season. as against IL As inches to an equal |
date last year. The highest and lowest
temperature yesterday was $50 and 4So,
with gentle to fresh southeasterly winds
and light rain during the forenoon and
cloudy in the afternoon and at night.
Porter Ashe forwarded yesterday to Mer-
ced county, to be placed on ranch, the
eight horses he reserved from the sale of
his racing stable, among the numcer being
Alta, Ed. Corrigan and others. The car
Palo Alto brought up from Senator STAN
fords Palo Alto ranch yesterday load of
colts and brood mares, en- route for his
ranch at Vina. Two brood mares that
have been at Rancho del Paso for a while
were placed on board the car at that place.