Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-07-12
BRIEF NOTES.

,, son in Gait
: Officer Matt Coffey will be day officer a
the station house during Charley Farren.
absence on q two weeks vacation.
The new Catholic Church at Gait is near
; ing completion. The cornice work on the
: roof is about finished and the stained glass
windows are all about in.
Owners Of dogs who have not procured
new tags for them had better do SO at once,
as the Poundmaster will commence gather
ing the animals in to-day
A large number of Sacramentans are rus
ticating on the different trout streams and
at the various mineral springs in the noun
tains of Ell Dorado county.
The approaches to the new bridges about
to be built between Gait and New Hope are
being filled in, and the hauling of lumber
to do the woodwork is going on.
Rev. C. S. Vale of Martinez, delivered
an interesting address to young men only
at Young Mems Christian Association Hall
yesterday afternoon to good audience
The store of Sullivan & Ravekes had
Grape on the door again yesterday, owing to
the death in San Francisco on Saturday of
J. Ii. Mccain, a former member of the
firm.
Officer Wager took in charge Saturday
afternoon two boys, giving the names of
G. Kelly and f. Murphy, who had stolen a
ride in freight car from San Francisco to
this city.
The Public Decoration Committee, G. A.
| r., will meet in the Golden Eagle Hotel
reading-room this evening, and a full at
tendance is requested, to consider business
of importance.
The cases of John and Thomas Stephen
| OF ON Wit hoff
were on Saturday, in Justice Posts Court,
| continued for one week. owing to the illness
of the attorney for the defense.
The Plaza was crowded last evening to
listen &c the excellent concert music rem
dered by the Hussar band. The evening
was quite warm, several officers were pres
ent and the best of order maintained.
Business has been so slack in Chinese
amusement places lately that their pool
room on Third street has been closed. The
population of Chinatown is small just now.
as all who wish can obtain work in the
country.
Fred Checks social dance at Swiss Sta
E, ton, upon the upper Stockton road, Satur-
day evening, is reported to have been well
attended and to have been much enjoyed
| by those present. The Florin Band fur
nished the music.
Late yesterday afternoon two men who
| had been engaged in a game of cards at
Louis Montgaillards grocery, corner of
| Third and NJ streets. got into fight, which
resulted in one of them being beaten and
cut, but not dangerously.
Deputy Sheriff Newly, of Solano county,
arrested in this city yesterday a man
named Henry Robertson. for a robbery of
| jewelry committed in Suisun Saturday
night, and left for that place with his pris-
oner by the $50 P. NJ. train.
A dead horse decorates the alley between
H and l, Second and Third streets, in the
rear of the Puget Sound undergrad.
Having worked the life out of the animal,
a Chinese vegetable vender now presents
him to the Health Officer.
| w. A. Anderson announces this morn
ing that he will be a candidate for the
office of District Attorney before the next
| Republican County Convention. He an
nounces himself thus early, as he does not
intend to solicit citizens or delegates to vote
for him.
Mrs. Gibbons, of Gait, met with quite a
painful accident last Thursday. The lady
was carrying bucket of water in the door
| yard of her residence when she lost her
| footing and fell heavily to the ground, re
ceiving severe injuries in the side, breaking
some ribs.
The employees of a gas company at Oak
land came up Saturday going to Alabaster
Cave, Ell Dorado county, seven or eight
miles from Newcastle, their business being
10 put in gas machine, for the ilumina-
ton of the cave. Heretofore it has been
lighted by torches, which gave the visitor
but an imperfect idea of its many beauties.
The railroad company is pushing with
characteristic energy the construction of a
fine $4,000 hotel at Iathrop, to take the
place of the structure destroyed by fire
some time ago, and it will be completed
within few weeks. The residents of the
town are much pleased with the prospect
of such a fine building ornamenting the
place.
Dan Raglan, the brakeman who was in
iured few weeks ago by the jumping of
the locomotive and several cars of freight
train into the Humboldt river, has recov
cred sufficiently to return to Carlin to report
for duty Fireman Dorsey, who had an
arm broken and was otherwise hurt on the
same occasion, is doing well at the Railroad
Hospital.
Persons of foreign birth, who are entitled
to naturalization, III time to vote at the
coming election, are reminded that they
must be naturalized ninety days before the
election As the election falls this year on
the second of November, those only will be
entitled to vote who take ont their last pa
pers between this time and the second of
next month.
The steamer San Joaquin No. arrived
Yesterday from San Francisco with lumber
and merchandise. Cleared-Steamers Va
runa and Neponset, for the upper Sacra-
mento, with merchandise; steamer San
| joaquin No. 4, for San Francisco, with
wood The steamer ID. Z. knight passed
through. en- route from San Francisco for
Marysville, with merchandise.
About 4. NJ Saturday an alarm of fire
was heard by the residents living in the
vicinity of Seventh and L streets, caused by
the burning of the roof of n
Shed in the rear of the Pacific Water
Cure building. The flames extended
high in the air, but a barelooted, shirt
tailed, hatless brigade, with the aid of
garden hose and a few wooden buckets,
doused the glim - without ringing in
for the Department. 1t was close call
for an extensive conflagration.
THE WEATHER.-The Signal Service tenn
perature on Saturday was AT a. NJ. 620
A. NJ, 73';; ~ NJ, So; P. NJ, ole; P. NJ,
$50; and T. NJ, 7So, the highest being $50
and the lowest go, with light southerly
winds and clear weather. The temperature
Yesterday at A. NJ. was 61o: s a. NJ, 10o; II
NJ. $50: Ar. NJ, so; p. NJ, $50, and ?. NJ,
| 76o, the highest and lowest being so and
| $50, with light and gentle southerly winds
and clear weather. Thermometrically
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