Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-12-23
BRIEF NOTES.

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The public schools close this evening, to
reopen January Sd.
Warrants for school teachers salaries
will be ready for delivery by the CITY Al
ditor to-day.
The steamer San Joaquin No. arrived
from San Francisco yesterday with mer-
chandise and lumber.
The Carson and Colorado Railroad paid
into the State Treasury yesterday the
| amount of their tax, Sc, $50.
Members of the Sacramento legislative
| delegation left yesterday for San Francisco
to visit Berkeley, and to attend to some
business at the Bay City.
Messrs. Comet and Mouthou, who were
injured by runaway accident few days
ago, are doing so well that they are con-
sidered to be out of danger.
The highest and lowest Signal Service
temperature yesterday was 60o and 44o,
with light to fresh southerly winds and
cloudy to fair weather prevailing.
United States Commissioners Robinson has
received money for the pay of United States
Marshals employed at the recent general
election. The Supervisors pay has not yet
arrived.
The Board of Trade has decided to OBJ
serve tomorrow as collection day." as
Saturday will be Christmas, and the mer-
camille Community are requested to do
likewise
Next Monday is the last day upon which
State and county taxes can be paid without
extra cost. A great many taxpayers have
not yet settled, and there is sure to be a
rush on the last day.
Many Sacramento members of the Re-
bekah Degree of Odd Fellows attended last
night the institution of Sylvan Rebekah
Degree Lodge of Woodland, which started
with between forty and fifty members.
AT the Sacramento Grammar School this
afternoon Whittier Day. exercises will
be held, and also exercises appropriate to
Christmas. Parents of pupils and friends
OF the school generally are invited to be
present.
Under the Communication of sentence re-
Gently granted by Governor Stoneman, the
sentence of Marc 2. Kay, a Deputy Clerk
OF Alameda county, who in May, 1888, was
sentenced TO fourteen years in State Prison
for forgery, expires to-day.
E. H. Miller, Jr.'s, trotter Thapsin, for
some time in Dick Havey's charge at Oak
land, came up from the Bay yesterday to
Wilbur f. Smiths stable Mr.. Miller's
Adair is lame and under veterinary's
care, and Al Borak is being used for road
purposes.
Ralph Wright, arrested a few days ago
for insanity and committed to the asylum
at Stockton, but detained at the county Jail
that it might be determined whether his
mental miXedness was occasioned by too
free indulgence in liquor, is improving fast,
and probably will be all right soon.
Yesterday morning Chinaman, who was
doing duty with work train on the hill,
fell from the train and was run over near
woodshed No. 81, above Blue Canyon, and
both of his legs were so badly hurt that it !
was feared he could not recover He was
taken to Towles Station for surgical treat
ment.
As the California Baseball League will |
play the games hereafter at the new grounds |
in San Francisco, instead of Alameda, |
Andy Percy, lessee of the latter grounds, |
is making arrangements toward organizing |
a league to play there and elsewhere, and |
it is intimated that the Brightons, now |
coming to the front as formidable club, |
will be invited to join the organization.
The District Attorneys office at the |
Courthouse has been fitted up nicely for |
by Mr., Bruner, the new incum- |
bent. As the front room heretofore used by |
the District Attorney mas been very dark |
not having window-all business having |
to be transacted in the small |
apartment in the rear, the room adjoining, |
heretofore set apart for the use of witnesses
awaiting their turn in Court, will hereafter
be occupied by that official, while the |
former front room of the Attorneys Office |
will be used as waiting room for wit
nesses.
Sports who furnish amusement for those |
who delight to " gamble upon the green "
have now, it is said, three faro games in
operation in this city, and the hoky-poky
games are suffering in consequence. The
faro men have arranged entrances to their
so ingeniously that any one
to gain admission can be scru-
tinted before the door is opened, and if be
is not wanted inside, the doors are so sub
stantial that before they can be forced, the
of the gaming room will have
time to conceal their apparatus by means of
trap doors, and be quietly seated playing |
some innocent game when an unwelcome
visitor enters. The members of the police
force are so well known to the sports that |
there is little chance of their raiding game |
without resort to clever strategy. The Chi
nese, profiting by the hoky-poky decision,
are playing game that more closely resem
bles tan" than hoky-poky does stud-horse
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