Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-10-12
BRIEF NOTES.

hoiu q inetlluS at fldilkllu tuLc evening.
II. C. McPlke and H. s. Fitch addresse
a Democratic meeting at Folsom last even
ing.
The steamer San Joaquin, No. 8, arrive
from the upper Sacramento yesterday wit
grain.
The west-bound express train was an hou
and a quarter behind time in its arriya
yesterday morning.
Deputy Sheriff Karcher yesterday morn
ing took All Sing to Folsom Prison to serv
his term of three and a half years for burg
larry.
There was a good attendance at the A. NJ
+. Church last evening to listen to an in
teresting lecture by Rev. B. A. Arnett, O
Ohio.
A new roof is being given the steame
freight shed at the foot of X street. 1t wa
much needed, the old boards and Single
having been in use % years.
1t is said that the turkey crop in the vi
cinity of Clay Station is quite promising
and that these toothsome birds will b.
quite plentiful during the holidays.
AT the Republican meeting next Satur
day evening in this city Hon. Joseph Nc
Kenna, Republican nominee for Congress
will speak, as well as Hon. NJ. NJ. Estee.
In Department Two of the Superior
Court yesterday Frederick Seiser, a native
of Germany, was admitted to citizenship or
the testimony of Ben. Steinauer and jacob
Hamler.
The Democracy of Gait do not appear tc
be enthusing much this season. Two
saloons closed their doors in that prosper.
GUS little town last week for want o.
patronage.
At the Chinese theater last evening Nun
Sing created a disturbance because be was
not recognized as a dead head and was
arrested by officer Mccormack and Deputy
Constable Swift.
A. J.. Stevens has a bunch of bananas
o ripeniug on one of the banana trees
near his office at the railroad works in this
city. The trees have not had any protec-
ton during winter.
The Southern Pacific Company's rolling
mills in this city are now manufacturing
thirty ons of iron every day, in all shapes
for railroad work. The roads now being
built are causing a great demand for it.
Judge Van Fleet went to Colusa yester.
day, to preside for a few days in place Of
Judge Bridgeford, who will occupy the
bench in Department One of the Sacra-
mento county Superior Court meanwhile.
The Sacramento river has stood for two
or three weeks about I feet 6 inches above
low-water mark, occasionally varying an
inch one way or the other. Ii is not proba-
bic that 1t will reach a lower stage this
season.
The highest and lowest Signal Service
temperature yesterday was 500 and 400,
with light northerly winds and cleal
weather prevailing. The first frost of the
season occurred at Los Angeles yesterday
morning.
There is an acacia tree in the lot on the
northwest corner of + and Ninth streets
that should be Immediately burned, as it is
covered from top to bottom with the white
cottony cushion scale insect, which will
spread everywhere.
Chief Dillman and City Attorney Hart
left for Marysviile yesterday afternoon to
see Mrs. Warner relative to the prosecution
of her husband, George w. Warner, for
adultery, which case is set for examination
in the Police Court Thursday.
Ten of the Sacramento horses that were
entered in the races at Reno last week re-
turned home yesterday. The horse men
say that the meeting was well attended,
though he latter part of the week was
stormy, and it " was a good betting crowd"
Two young alligators. about eighteen
inches in length, which Master Mechanic
Stevens, of the Southern Pacific Company,
received a few days ago by express from a
friend in the South, have been turned loose
in China slough, Mr.. Stevens not having
any use for them.
There arrived from the East yesterday q
narrow-gauge locomotive manufactured by
the Baldwin Locomotive Works, Philadel-
phia, for the Colusa and Lake Railroad
Company. 1t is named the Harrington,
and is an unusually heavy engine for mar
row-gauge service.
The Gait Gazette says "Vote for O'Don-
nell for Governor" in massive letters on a
large board, is being exhibited by a pusil-
Misunderstanding cuss mounted on a man.
moth gray horse, and who is travelling
through this part of the State at present.
The sign is strapped to the riders back.
These arrests were made yesterday
ION Durkin, by officer Agner, for being
drunk Otto Witt, by officers Agner and
Rider, for threats against life John Dunn,
by officer Ferral, for being drunk; Nun
Sing, by officer Mccormack and Deputy
Constable Swift, for disturbing the peace.
The report of a Democratic Convention
held recently at HALEY, Idaho, reads like
old times in Sacramento, especially a SEN
tence which states that a wordy wal en-
sued, in the course of which George w.
Taylor Ia former -Sacramentan) declared
himself as good a man as Mr.. Regain p"
A certain employee at the railroad works
demonstrated on Sunday the fact that carp
are very numerous in the river by catching
SO of them with a throw line," besides a
number Of catfish, etc. He baited with
la,rh n,ola aAhn-ira hu Eneoiinn cotton
| batting through it, as is practiced by those
who fish for club in the East.
Three celebrated trotting horses are on
their way to the coast, and will arrive about
the close of the week, to winter in Califor-
| MIA. During the winter they will probably
meet some of the flyers now in the State,
some of which are able to make them think
they are in q race if they come together.
The trotters on the way out, and their GUS
todians, are Arab, Orrin Hickok; Harry
Wilkes, J. Splann Oliver r., Budd Doble'
In cleaning up The cellar of the premises
at Third and J streets recently occupied by
John Senich as a restaurant the workmen
found in a dark corner a yalise, in which
was a copper mold for the manufacture OF
bogus f~ive-dollar pieces, which looked as il
ii had been used within a shorttime. Senich
is said to have left the city, en- route for Eu-
rope, and it is left to be ~conjectCred who
the owner of the mold was, and how ii
came to be where it was found.
Officers Rider and Agner yesterday ar
rested Otto Witt on a warrant sworn out by
his wife, Ida Witt, accusing him of threats
against life. He gave bond Immediately
for his appearance when the case comes ur
in Court. His statement is that he never
made such threats; that he and his wife
have lived separately for about three
months, and that the last time he saw hel
was in Marysville about a week ago, upon
which occasion he would not notice her.
LARGE SALE IF HORSES y CATTLE
Killip & Co. will sell on Wednesday, the
10Th inst, st 10 A. NJ, at Bay ranch, three
miles from Chico, j. T. Mcintosh standard
bred trotting stations, brood mares, colts
FLIES and geldings; also, graded Jersey
cattle, farming implements, ETC., all Of
which must be disposed of because of the
expiration of his lease of the farm. As j;
well known to horsemen, Mr.. Mcintosh
has taken great pains to raise q superior
class of stock, and some very fine animals
will be disposed of at the sale, while the
poorest are of more than average excel
ience. Catalogues can be obtained by ap-
plicatfon to him (P. o. box go, Chico, OIL
to Killip & Co. The terms of the sale are
all sums of 500 or less, cash over thai
amount, ten months on approved paper, a
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