Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-07-01
BRIEF NOTES.


After settling with the railroad employee
in this city yesterday, the pay car left 70
Ogden.
Four pistol shots were fred in China
? town about 1880 last night, bnt no one i
: reported to have been hurt.
Deputy Constable George Harvey wa
laid up yesterday with very sore hand
the result of mosquito bite.
The steamer Apache did not get up from
San Francisco yesterday until $3.50 A. NJ.
because of the business at way ports.
The steamer San joaquin, No. 4, arrived
from San Francisco yesterday with mer
chandise and lumber, and returned with
wood.
f. D'Hondt and wife were thrown from
a wagon in which they had been riding
last Saturday, and badly bruised and other,
wise injured.
Robert White has had built, and is fitting
up, on the Yolo side of the river, scow
yacht, which he has entered for the sailing
race on the Fourth.
Another special fruit train of fifteen cars
was sent East last evening, having been
made up by W. r. Strong & Co., E. t.
Earl and Lyon & Curtis.
The highest and lowest Signal Service
temperature in Sacramento yesterday was
SIC and $50, with fresh southerly wind and
clear weather prevailing.
The Snowflake Baseball Club has chal-
lenged the Brighton Club to play a match
game for 800 side at Agricultural Park
on the afternoon of July 18th.
Eighteen carloads Ct tea went East bv
special train Tuesday night and eighteen
last night. There are altogether ninety
&c to lNr.f o,.1a al . l.
It's reported that c. A. Stevens, railroad
freight agent at this point, has resigned the
position. 1t is said that James Forbes, OF
Ogden, has been appointed to the vacancy.
Miss Letitia Youmans, President of the
W. c. T. U. of Canada. delivered an inter-
esting lecture in the Seventh-street Meth
odlst Church South last evening to a large
audience.
The only arrests made yesterday were
those of c. Wallace, by officers Kent and
Sullivan, for disturbing the peace and
Harry Carroll (colored), by officer Wager,
for misdemeanor
An apron and necktie party will be given
at Jacobs Hall this evening by lyman &
O'Malleys orchestra, under the manage
ment of D. McRae. Admission gents, 80
cents; ladies free.
Washington, yesterday ran away with the
scraper to which they we're hitched, and
one OF the horses cut his leg so badly that
he had to be killed.
The name of B. Quinn was through a
clerical error omitted from the list of pu-
pills of ST. Joseph's Academy published in
yesterdays RECORD UNION as entitled to
honorable mention.
In the game between the Atlas and
Haverlys in this city next Sunday Peter
Meegan, of the Knickerbockers, will play
in the Alta nine. On Monday the Atlas
and Knckerbockers will play.
Governor Stoneman has authorized Judge
T. K. Wilson, of San Francisco, to hold
Court in Martinez, Contra Costa county, in
place of Judge Brown, who is disqualified
on account of illness. He will open Court
in Martinez tomorrow.
A private telegram received in this city
Yesterday announced the death of Hon A .
B. Beauvais at his home in Columbia, Tu-
olumne county. He was the Republican
lSenator from the Seventeenth Senatorial
District. His death was unexpected, hay
ing been i'll but a few days.
AT the first production of the spectacular
piece Under the Polar Star" at the Cali
fornia Theater, San Francisco, Tuesday
evening, the audience were so delighted
with the scenery painted by j. R. Wilkins,
manager of the Clunie Opera House in
this city, that he received an enthusiastic
call before the curtain.
The case of Margaret A. Jackson VS..
VIM. jackson, an action for divorce, oc-
cupied the attention of Department Two of
the Superior Court yesterday, and will
probably all of to-day. Plaintiff alleges
cruelty, inebriety, etc. Defendant in his
| answer charges plaintiff with misconduct
inebriety and infdelity.
Two boys created considerable amuse-
ment on the streets last evening, giving
| burlesque of the Italian and his perform
ing bear, recently in the city. One of the
youths was dressed as bear, and the other
led him about, made him dance, walk on
his hind legs" catcha da pola," etc,
while his master between actg played the
prominent part of solicitor, ahd requested
his audience 10 'giva me ia 10-centa,
laaka him performa-cath2(da pola.''
A letter received in this city yesterday
announces that Frank Smith, at one time
q member of the Sacramento police force
and who, it will be remembered, brought
suit to determine whether members of the
force could be dropped without charges
being made and substantiaied against
them, the case being decided contrary to
his views, was burned to death during a
fire in British Columbia on the 18th of
June. He had 5000 upon his person at the
time, which is presumed to have been re-
covered. and insurance upon his life. He
was unmarried.
Deputy Sheriff Wilson brought up from
San Francisco last evening, en- route to the
Prison at Folsom, Harry Huff, convicted in
Judge Toohey's court a few days since of
murder in the second degree, in killing
Matthew l. Eddy, proprietor of the ANA
dor House, and sentenced to Imprisonment
for life, the Judge expressing the opinion
that the jury should have returned a YER
diet of murder in the first degree The
prisoner was feeling very respondent last
evening, not having got over the shock oc-
casioned by the severity of his sentence.
lie expected to get about fifteen years-not
more than twenty at most. He is now 20
years of age. In joking remark he said
he thought he would get out in about 1901
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