Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-01-22
BRiEF NOTES.

Mrs. Geo. E. Harder has commenced suit
for divorce in the Superior Court
Another rain-storm set in at Sacramento
and vicinity shortly before 10 o'clock last
night.
! Eighteen carloads of beef cattle went
| through to San Francisco from Nevada
yesterday.
A fruit stand at Seventh and X streets
| belonging to Joe PERRIN. was broken open
Wednesday night, and robbed of a quantity
of candy.
The Sacramento river, at II o'clock last
night was up to the 21-foot mark, and
slowly rising doubtless under the influence
of the American.
The steamer Neponset, No. ., came down
from the upper Sacramento yesterday with
produce; and the steamer Dover went I'D
with merchandise.
! In Department Two of the Superior
| Court yesterday, on motion of J. W Arm
| strong, Isaac c. Van Dyke, practitioner
Of the Supreme Court of illinois. was ad-
mitted to practice.
The officers of the steamer Modoc, which
arrived from San Francisco yesterday morn
ing, reported that the steamer Daisy and
barge were ashore in San Pablo bay, in
consequence of Wednesdays gale.
A large party of shotgunists are arrang-
ing for a trip on the steamer Thomas Dwv-
er, Saturday night, to the mouth of Feather
river, IN which vicinity ducks are reported
to have gathered in great numbers.
Coroner Clark, after investigating into
the case OF Mrs. C. Mernaugh, who was
| found dead in her room a few DAYS since
concluded that death resulted from natural
causes, and that it was unnecessary to hold
al inquest.
/ There was a general cleaning up'
around town yesterday of the debris occa-
stoned by Wednesdays Storm and there
was scarcely residence in the city that
did not have to have some work done
about their premises.
The County Recorders office suffered no
| little annoyance in consequence of the late
storm. A chimney cap was blown off, the
stove fllled the Office with smoke, a vast
quantity of SCOT was blown in from the
chimney, and considerable water beat in
At the annual election of officers of the
Masonic Board of Relief the following
were elected: Alexander j. Gardiner,
| William Gerber, Treasurer; Henry C.
Carroll, Secretary; Charles Denton, Execu-
tive Committee.
| day whether he did any shooting during
the storm Wednesday. NO; what's the
use?'' he replied; the shot couldn't catch
up with the ducks. Why, the cussed things
flew so fast with the wind that they set
| their feathers on fire ~
Canton Sacramento, No. 1, Patriarchs
Militant, |. o. o. F., last evening voted to
merge into a " Grand Canton of Patriarchs
Militants," and elected second set of line
officers, as follows Captain, o. w. Err
| levine; Lieutenant, Charles Cooley; En-
! sign, Charles I. Noyes.
1.-The following are the officers of the
| Germania Building and Loan Association
elected last evening for the ensuing year
| President, A. Hebron; ice-President, L.
| Neubourg; Secretary, II. J. Goethe; Attor-
ney, Matt. F. Johnson; Treasurer, National
| Bank of d. o. Mills & Co.
! Root, Nelson IL Co., foundrymen on
| Front street, yesterday shipped to w. A
| Chapman, Willows, four large iron col
umns They are also constructing man.
moth pump, to be used in freeing of water
| the lower levels of deep quartz mine, the
San Joaquin, at Pine Grove. in Amador
| county.
A number of juveniles have organized a
society in this city for improving them
selves in elocution and literature. They
have called the society the Young Mystics,
| electing the following as officers: George
c. Battelle, President; Edward L. Gerrsh,
| Vice-President; Louise X. Strachauer..
Treasurer; Myra Shields, Secretary.
A gentleman who came up on the West
ern train yesterday reported that fire oc-
CURED at Carbondale, Wednesday night,
which burned building occupied is a ho-
tel, store and postoffice. The property was
owned by W. H. Bradley, and the loss is
about $4,000. Many of the occupants of
the hotel lost all their personal effects, the
women and children escaping in their
night-clothes.
Albert Sherman and Joe Behole had a
! disagreement at their boarding house yes
terday morning, because of the latter APP
| propriating some eggs which the former
had ordered for his own breakfast, and as
a result there was an unpleasantness,
during which Sherman hit his opponent on
the nose and eye-in fact, hit him gener-
ally. Behole got even by having him ar
rested for battery.
! The old water oak that has stood for such
a length OF time that the memory of man
runneth not to the contrary on what used
to be an island in China slough, but is now
a peninsula, at the northern end of the
Ihird-street bridge, succumbed to the force
OF the gale Wednesday, and is now lying
in the water. Visiting redmen and women
genuine article) will miss its shade when
they camp in the locality next summer.
The evidence in the case of George 6.
Putney VS.. H. S. Puiney and George O.
Bates, which occupied two or three davs'
time of Department Two of the Superior
Court, was all in when the Court adjourned
Wednesday, but the argument was post
poned until the evidence in the case OF
George S. Putney VS.. H. S. Putney. the
hearing of which was commenced yester.
day, should be taken, when the cases will
be argued together.
According to the Signal Service reports
the barometer at o'clock last might
was again falling from Tatoosh Island
10 San Francisco, with southeastern
winds in California and northerly
and westerly winds north of this State
The highest velocity of the wind at Rec
Bluff, on the Goth, was 90 miles per houl
IN the forenoon and so miles per hour in
the afternoon, while at Sacramento it wa:
40 miles per hour in the forenoon and A.
miles in the afternoon. A foul-weathel
sunset was reported from San Francisco
and Sacramento last night.
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