Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-08-16
BRIEF NOTES.

| Memorial services were held at the Sixth.
| street NJ. Z. Church yesterday on account o
the recent death of three members of tn,
Sabbath-school.
The examination of the case of Milton
McWhorter, charged with the killing of I
G. Robinson, is set for 1880 this evening, il
the Police Court.
! The highest and lowest Signal Servict
| temperature in Sacramento Saturday anc
yesterday was 800 and 56o and $50 and $50
with southerly winds and clear weather
prevailing.
| County Auditor Schlieman has turned
| over to Assessor Beamer the assessment
roll of Yolo county, which shows the total
value of all property in the county to be
| Sic, 1888, 1S6
The East bound express train came up
from the Bay last evening in two sections
and was late in its arrival in consequence
of the West-bound express being so much
behind time.
Chief of Police Dillman returned yester-
day afternoon from Carson City, bringing
back Joseph Bleiman, for whom he went
over few days ago, with warrant charg-
ing embezzlement.
All persons having claims against the G.
Il. II. tUtlllulIlCCS UuSl Stllu LHtU Ill DIV
noon to-day. The Executive Committee
will meet at o'clock this evening to settle
business, and it is desirable that all mem
bers be present.
Keep out of this waiter million patche"
is on sign board nailed to farm fence a
little east of Brighton. Some wag turned
the board over and wrote thereon, Take
one" and the poor farmer has been almost
bankrupted in consequence.
The west bound express train arrived in
two sections yesterday, and the first section
did not reach the city until 1890 p. NJ, hay
ing been detained at Bronco, where the
engine Of another train got off the track in
consequence of the rails spreading
About twenty persons were received into
membership by the Sixth-street NJ. E.
Church at the forenoon service yesterday.
Most of them had sustained probationary
relations with the church since the services
of DR.. Munhall last winter, and others
were received by letter.
The fifty-yard footrace at Rocklin Satur-
day, between Lewis Robinson, of Sacra-
mento, and c. A. Bassett, alias NJ K Bro
ply, was won by the latter, apparently
with ease, III five seconds. Bassett seems
to be playing the sprinters. He is said
to have done remarkable work lately.
After lively footrace for several blocks,
and pursuit i'll w. II. Devine's wagon for
several blocks more, officers Mccormack
and Sullivan arrested, Saturday afternoon,
Henry Wolf, lately released from the chain
gang, who is charged with having stolen So
from the pockets Of Martin Louis Oh Fri
day evening.
Some sportsmen here and at the Bay are
talking of going to Sierra valley this and
next month for the purpose of shooting
ducks and snipe Large numbers of these
birds breed in that vicinity, and snipe
shooting is at its best there late in August
or early in September, and those who have
been there say the sport is first-class.
Saturday L. B. Adams, living near the
Whitcomb ranch, swore out 4 warrant in
Justice Posts Court accusing AL Harris of
battery, in striking him with the sickle of
a mower, few days previously, inlicting
severe cuts on his arm Constable Harvey
went down and arrested Harris yesterday,
and he will be arraigned before Justice Post
this morning. He claims that he acted in
self-defense.
The Sacramento river water of to-day
would not be recognized by one who had
been absent from here for one or two years.
Not only is that drawn from the hydrants
clear as crystal, but even the volume of
water in the river is so clear that, except in
the deeper places, the bed of the stream is
visible. 1t looks as if, by the cessation of
hydraulic mining, the fondest hopes of our
citizens are TO be realized, and that the
river will in the near future become what
it was in early days-a beautiful stream of
clear water.
Considerable excitement was created in
Willows, Thursday, by the appearance of
g. &. Moore, engineer in charge of party
of surveyors who propose TO run a line
from Willows westward to the mouth of
Grindstone and across the range TO the
coast. The work is under the direction of
the Pacific improvement Company, and if
the proposed line is constructed. as it I'M
doubleday viii be, it viii open up a country
OF immense tesOurees tributary to the town.
The Willows people are highly elated over
the anticipated enterprise.
Arrived Saturday and yesterday, steamer
San joaquin, No. 4, from San Francisco,
with merchandise and freight, and a barge
load of lumber to Richards & Knox and
the Friend IL Terry Lumber Company;
steamer D. f. knight, from San Francisco,
en- route to Marysville, with merchandise:
steamer Aurora, from San Francisco, light.
Cleared, steamer Varuna, for the upper
Sacramento, with merchandise; steamer
San Joaquin, No. 4, for San Francisco,
with barge load of grain; steamer Aurora,
for San Francisco, with barge light.