Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-05-31

BRIEF NOTES.

BRIEF NOTES.
The City Board of Education will meet
this evening.
The Sacramento river has fallen to the
21-foot mark.
Fourteen carloads of oranges were ship
ped East Saturday night.
The Sacramento School of Design and
Art Gallery will be closed to-day.
A heavy rain-storm occurred at Delta last
night, making things very moist at the
station.
Seven hundred boxes of fruit were ship
ped from Newcastle by express Saturday
evening.
Officers Farren. Farrell, Kent, Sullivan
and Woods will represent the Police De-
partment in the procession this morning.
The steamer Varuna cleared yesterday
for the upper Sacramento with merchan-
disc, and the San joaquin, No. 4, for San
Francisco with grain.
This being a legal holiday, all the Courts
and public offices VIII be closed, and there
will be pretty general cessation of bust
ness by wholesale dealers.
The Eureka Social Club and their lady
| friends, filling four large wagons, went
down the Riverside road last evening to
enjoy ride and dance at Oak Hall.
S. w. Austin, who is charged by Maggie
J. Hill with perjury, came up from Berke-
ley Saturday evening, aud gave bonds fer
his appearance when wanted in Court.
Tom Scott, of the Sacramento Caledoni-
ans, Won the first prize at the Caledonian
| picnic at Shell Mound Park Saturday for
! the best dressed Highlander in plain cos
| tune.
The maximum and minimum Signal
| Service temperature in Sacramento for
Saturday and yesterday was 75o and SO,
and 760 and 500 respectively, with south
| erly winds and clear weather.
Capitol Lodge, No 81, l. 0. Q. F.. has
elected the following officers for the ensu-
ing term: W. S. Oke, n. g.; James Seadler.
| V. e.; Charles Cooley, Sec; John L. Slater,
Treas; Richmond Davis, Trustee.
Governor Stoneman has appointed J. s.
| Bradford, of Plumas county, an Agricult-
ural Director for District No IL, vice r. S.
Flournoy, and A. T.. Boles a Director for
District No. 8, vice j. B. Sturges. resigned
The remains Of John B. Baker, who COM
mitted suicide in Golden Gate Park. San
Francisco May Goth, were brought here on
the noon train Saturday for interment, the
deceased having formerly resided in Sacra-
mento.
P. ]. Williams has gone to Oregon to
bring back w. b. Todhunter's horses, re-
Gently taken up there by w. B. Murray.
Mr.. Todhunter, it seems. did not give
Murray authority to take the horses out of
! the State.
Mrs. NJ. H. Davis, of Elk Grove, fell
from the door of a hop-house at that place
Friday and broke both her arms The ac-
ciGent is the more unfortunate because of
the lady's advanced age, she being over 60
years old.
Phil. Siebenthaler received dispatch
yesterday from James Garland, at Denver,
stating that he had sold the celebrated run
ming horse Beaconsfield to parties there,
but would still act as his trainer and 90 on
10 Chicago with him.
The police would do the public a service
by compelling street fakirs' to take posi-
| tons that will not cause the highway to be
blockaded. One vendor of something or
other had his wagon located Saturday
night nearly in the center of Fourth street,
south OF X, and it was almost impossible
for buggies to pass the crowd.
A very large assemblage of ladies and
/ gentlemen was present at the first open air
concert of the season, which was given last
| evening in Capitol Park, and appeared de-
! lighted with the music which the Hussar
Band furnished. Several policemen were
present to suppress misconduct, but their
services were not called into requisition.
The Sacramento Association of Califor-
MIA Pioneers, at their meeting Saturday
evening, voted to Albert Leonard the life
membership in the California Museum As
sociatiOn presented to Pioneers by Miss
Mary Anderson. The Association also ac-
cepted the invitation of the Caledonians to
attend the picnic next Saturday as their
| guests, and will go to the grounds in a body
Governor Stoneman has commissioned
| Notaries Public as follows: A Koenig
! Oakland, Alameda county; II. D. Tutte
| Salinas, Monterey county Owen Wade
| St Helena, Napa county; John C. Reid,
/ stockton: Charles H. Hubbs, Vallejo; Jas
/ II. Dillar, San Diego; Charles C. Huxley,
/ Mission San Jose, Alameda county; J. O.
! Heritage, San Juan, San Benito county A.
Burrows, Grass Valley.
! Some careless person caused fire at the
| Norris Grant last Friday, and the grass was
/ burned over many acres before the large
| force of men that had rallied could beat it
| out. In consequence of this all the tenants
on the Grant have signed a card warning
! hunters, picnickeTs, etc. that the must
not seek amusement of that character over
! there, for If they do they will lay them
| selves liable to prosecution.
The third of the great festivals of the
| Christian year-Ascension Day-falls on
| Thursday of this week. The three days
| preceding are called rogation days, or days
of prayer, and are intended as days of pre-
paration for the celebration of the Ascen-
sion feast. In st. Pauls Church, these days
will be observed by appropriate services on
| Monday and Tuesday al P. NJ, on Wednes
| day at 10 A. NJ, and on Thursday at 10 A. NJ
and 7:30 P. NJ.
! The State Board of Examiners have
authorized the State Board of Prison Di-
rectors to make an expenditure for the sup
port of the State Prison at Folsom, for the
thirty-seventh fiscal year, in excess of the
appropriation made by law, of $12, 100.
This authorization is made upon state
ment by the Directors that there will be a
deficiency for the thirty seventh fiscal year
amounting to SIS, Coolies the estimated
earnings of the prison, which is placed at
| $l9, 400-caused by the increase of the num-
Der of prisoners confined in the institution.
FATAL ACCIDENT NEAR BATAvIA.-Last
evening as the S-oclock passenger train
was coming up from San Francisco the
I engineer noticed man lying alongside the
| track and at right angles with it, his head
resting upon the end of tie. The train