Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-09-06
BRIEF NOTES.

The Gait House was burglarized ont
| night last week.
Large shipments of wheat are being
made by rail from the warehouses at Calf
The fare from Gait TO this city during the
holding of the State Fair will be 81 80 fol
the round trip.
! the sheep on Mr.. Whitney's ranch, neal
Rocklin, this season.
Brakeman Kent had the third finger Of
his right hand mashed while coupling cars
| at MarysYille Saturday night.
Judge Van Fleet has given notice that
he will hereafter hear probate matters only
during the morning hours of law day.
George w. Jackson, who was recently
mentioned as a probable candidate for the
office of Clerk of the Water Works, states
that he has no such aspirations.
Eighteen carloads of stock for exhibition
at the State Fair arrived yesterday by one
train, and carloads of race horses, agricult-
ural implements, ETC., came by other trains.
1t is said that II. NJ LaRue has sold his
grape crop, near Davisville, for $2S per ton,
and will realize net profit OF $50 per acre
from four-year-old vines without irriga-
ton.
A correspondent asks what's the popula-
ton of San Francisco? When the census
was taken in 1880 it was 233, 953. 1t is esti-
mated that it has increased so, 600 since
that date.
John Saxon Green Is Saxey W, porter at
G. W. Chesley's store for more than twenty
years, fell down flight of steps ut that
establishment, on Friday, and fractured
several ribs.
Edwin T. Earle, of this city, has pur-
chased 10000 pounds of pears at Grass
Valley this season for shipment to the
Eastern market and 5000 pounds for can
merry purposes.
Charles J. Hanson, who recently burglar
lied the premises of Peter Corson, at Sixth
and Y streets, and then set fire to the
house, was on Saturday sentenced by Judge
Van Fleet to five years imprisonment at
Folsom.
When the o'clock train was coming up
from the Bay last evening one of the
coaches jumped the rails at switch at Val
lejo Junction. AS it would take consider
able time 10 get it back upon the track
again, it was left behind, together with the
two coaches following it.
The store of Z. W. Brown, of Davisville,-
was broken into Thursday night and cutlery
to the value of $50 or $50 taken. An at
tempt to break open the safe failed, though
the locks were 50 deranged by the drill and
blasts that it was Il long time before the
safe could be opened legitimately.
The Gait Gazette says: The delegates
and representative Democrats of Gait who
were in attendance at the State Convention
in San Francisco returned home Thursday.
They feel disguised with the San Francisco
political manipulatorS, and condemn our
metropolis as corrupt city to hold Con-
vention.
The highest and lowest Signal Service
temperature in Sacramento Saturday and
yesterday was 500 and 90 and 500 and 600,
with light and fresh northerly winds on
Saturday and brisk to high northerly winds
on yesterday, attaining a maximum We
locity Of twenty-six miles per hour. The
weather on both days was clear and hazy
Early yesterday morning high north
westerly wind sprung up, and for several
hours the air was cool and decidedly like
fall weather. When the express train bound
west was in the neighborhood of Davis
vile it encountered such gale that the tin
was ripped from the roof of one of the
coaches as completely as though done by
hand, and the car had to be left there, TO be
to Sacramento for repairs.
There arrived in San Francisco on Sat
urday, by the seamer Mararoa, from Aus
tralia an addition to J. B. Haggins stables,
recently purchased, being the famous Aus
trahan racer and sire Darebin, horse that
has had brilliant career al the antipodes,
having won, among other events, the Mel
bourne cup, the greatest sporting event in
Australia. Darebin arrived in grand fettle,
and will be relegated entirely to stud duties
Judge Henry on Saturday heard the evil
dence in the cases Of the parties arrested
for violating the law relative to gaming, by
playing what has been designated as
- hockey pokey' '-studhorse poker with a
few changes introduced with the intent to
eyade the law. After hearing the evidence,
the Court took the matter under advise
ment. Chief Dillman has posted a notice
at the station-hGu calling upon the Off
GERS to enforce the law relative TO gaming
if any infraction Of it may appear during
the State Fair.
About o'clock Saturday evening Con-
ductor Gus Burnett was walking down ]
street, near Seventh, talking with a friend,
when he was astonished and alarmed to
find one of his feet and legs going through
the sidewalk in front of China Hall. 1t
seems that one of the plates of thick glass
let into the sidewalk to give light below
had during the day been cracked, and when
he stepped upon it his foot went through
causing his leg below the knee to be con-
hurt. To save others from q
similar accident, he placed a truck over the
opening.
Samuel NJ Hayes, through his attorneys,
w. A. Anderson and Isaac Joseph, has
suit in the Superior Court
against his brother II. G. Hayes, for dam
ages in the sum of SO, $50, alleged to have
been sustained in consequence of injuries
inflicted upon him by the latter on the Sth
of last June, when, during difficulty, de-
PENDANT hit him with a hoe, inticting a
wound on his left knee, which las made
the joint permanently stiff. Plaintiff has
a criminal case against the defendant also
and in the Police Court, recently. when it
was heard, the latter was held to answer
upon charge of assault with deadly