Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-03-23
BRIEF NOTES.

| from tue southern country last night
The permanent electric works at Wood.
land have been put in operation, and work
very satisfactorily.
bartholomew Roche, who was shot by
| William Griggs last Thursday, was yester-
day reported 10 be feeling worse than ON
| the previous day
The Sacramento Fruit-Growers' Associa-
ton will hold meeting at Changers Hall
| at | P. NJ to-day, to take further action rela-
tive to fruit shipments.
The only arrests made Yesterday were
| those of Pat Martin, by officer Coifev. for
| battery and Tom Connors, by ]. C. Nc
Ginniss. for petty larceny.
Hattie Woodmus was yesterday, in De-
| partment Two of the Superior Court
granted Divorce from John Woodmus
and the right to resume her maiden name.
| Frank Butler, who lives at No. us O
street, desires it stated that he is not the
frank Butler who appeared in the Police
| drunk.
The Frauen-Verein of the German In
theran Church will give a concert at the
church, Twelfth and X streets, next Friday
evening. The admission will be % cents
Refreshments free.
pOfIlilOl DtOHtlDdil returned from the
bay last evening. In conversation with a
reporter, he said he had not yet made a
United States Senator" but he expected tc
do so before many days.
The steamer d. E. Knight arrived here
from Feather river yesterday morning with
ZOO sacks of wheat for the Pioneer Mill,
the remainder of her barge load being on
its way to San Francisco
A gentleman down from Placerville YES
terday says the Chinese vegetable-peddlers
OF that place refuse to sell their produce To
white people. If there is any boycotting
done, John don't propose to be outdone
even in that line.
Yesterday mornings express train from
the East arrived here in two sections one
OF which was composed of eight carloads
OF Immigrant passengers. Among these
was full carload of Cinnamon, on their
way from New York TO China
G. r. Buchanan will leave for the East
tonight with the thoroughbred horses
which he purchased a few weeks ago at
Palo Alto for 4. +. Walcott, of New York,
and which have been quartered at Agri-
cultural Park since the purchase.
The fine painting of Sacramento in
July, $780, presented to the Sacramento
Association of California Pioneers bv B. T.
-A'NAeAi' u OiiCicCa. 1dSS., Is Ou tADlDlllOll
in one of the windows of the store of
l.. L. Lewis & Co., and attracts much at
tention.
The Chinese at Single Springs are boy
cotting DR.. Hunter and family, of the indie
pendent mine. One day last week Mrs
Hunter endeayored to purchase a raising of
yeast from Chinaman, but the Mongol
said: Me no selle least; go buy least of
Ilishman."
Isaac Murphy, the great jockey, known
in the East as the colored Archer of
America" is coming to California, to ride
for Lucky Baldwin in the Blood Horse
races. James Sheridan, the crack starter of
the East, will also be in attendance at the
same meeting.
Locomotive No. 10, mate to the 123, both
having been built at the railroad shops in
this city, and finished within the past few
days, took out the local San Francisco pas
senger train yesterday afternoon, it being
her first trip i'll service. The No 123 has
made two or three trips successfully.
Governor Stoneman has issued pardon
TO Thomas Core, who was convicted of rob
berry in San Francisco in August, 1880. and
sentenced to seven ard half years impris-
onment. The pardon was granted at the
request of the Board of State Prison Di-
rectors, who express q belief in his entire
innocence
Paul Boyton, the rubber suit voyager,
will come up from San Francisco on the
steamer tonight, on his way 10 Red Bluff,
going to that place from here on the cars.
and will make the trip from there to San
francisco by water, using his paddle and
sail for propelling power. He expects to
be about ten days on t1e way.
Deputy Sheriff Wilson of San Francisco,
brought up last evening en- route TO the
State Prison al Folsom, J, W. Brown, who
is to serve two years for petty larceny, sec
ond ottense. Sheriff Hatch, of San Mateo
county, also came up last evening. having
III charge 7. J. Smith, who is under sem
tence of ten years for robbery.
A gentleman who arrived from the East
on Sunday was speaking yesterday of the
beautiful weather prevailing here and
calculated This beats all the equinoctial
weather ] ever knew. Good Lord, how my
friends in Buffalo, who are probably to day
shivering under the influence of our usual
equinoctial gales, would envy me if they
knew | was enjoying this delightful sun
shinep'
Many building improvements are going
on throughout the city. The brick build
ing on the southeast corner of Eighth and
J is having a story added and the Phila-
delphia Hotel and Clunie building, in the
same block, are being remodeled inside, so
as to be better able to accommodate their
rapidly-increasing business. A large num-
Der of handsome dwellings are being erected
in the residence portions of the city.
The Signal Service reports at : o'clock
last night showed a falling barometer. ris-
ing temperature, variable winds (mostly
southerly and westerly, with light rain.
from Olympia to Cape Mendocino, the
wind at the latter place being As miles per
hour. The weather for California is gen
orally cloudy. A foul-weather sunset was
reported from the Straits of Juan de Fuca
on the north TO Sacramento and San Fran
| cisco on the south.
Yesterday afternoon Add C. Hinkson's
horse. while standing at the corner of Sew
enth and J streets, became frightened in
consequence of a passing vehicle striking
him, and ran away. In front of Water
house e Testers, Seventh street, between !
and j, the vehicle to which he was at
tached collided with something, causing
the breaking of its shaft and spring, and
the harness also was broken in such a man
ner that the horse got free and ran across
into | street, where he was caught between
Sixth and Seventh streets.
"Bony" Sewell, an old colored resi-
dent, who has become one of the characters
of the city, informed the police yesterday
that on Sunday night man took his cane
from him and struck him over the head
with it. inficting a severe scalp wound.
g Bony allowed portion of his mouth
to smile as he remarked that if he had got
the blow on the shins it would have killed
him. As it was, when the irresistible
force " met the immovable obstacle" so
to speak the cane broke. Officer Coffey
went out with Bony " and found and ar
rested the assailant.
A combination from this city, consisting
of Tom and Johnny Norton, Herbert
Slade, Prof. Simcns, Jack McAuley and
the - Buffalo," expected TO give a sparring
exhibition at Woodland Saturday evening,
but on arriving there and making applica-
ton for license to exhibit they Were
firmly refused by the Town Marshal and
Trustees. Late in the evening they deter
mined to go on, give their exhibition with
| out license, and -" take the chances" of
a prosecution but even then they failed,
for only about half dozen tickets were
sold, and the exhibition was indefinitely
postponed.
Henry A. Caulfield got on the Warmth