Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-10-09

Is cabin passengers and 269 Chinese in the
steerage. OF the Chinese 212 were for this
city, 80 for Honolulu and q for Panama.
The General Committee of Management
of the G.. A. r. has decided to give 81 800
to the Veterans Home at Yountville and
s 1000 to the Veteran Guard of Thomas
Post for their services during the encamp-
ment. General w. II. Dimond has sup
plemented the latter gift by a donation of
s., 1000.
Representatives OF fifteen Kansas families
are looking for homes in Inyo county. q
number OF families of Bohemiaus nave
written to The immigration association
from Kansas inquiring or Government
land. A number G. Pehnsylvania families
also want an opportunity to settle near
each other.
The new Baptist College at Highland
Park, East Oakland, was dedicated Thurs
day in the presence of the Central Baptist
Association. The college is named Mary
Stuart Hail, after a deceased young lady,
whose father, DR.. A. b. Stuart, OF SAINT
Rosa. donated $1,000 toward the building
of the college.
The Anti-Boss party has nominated Alb
neT Doble as q candidate for Mayor. The
final meetings of the Democratic Munich
pal and Judicial Conventions were held
Thursday evening. Twelve School Direct
ors were nominated, and the list of candi-
dates was completed. The Labor party has
finished its ticket.
The effects of the firm of ]. Baum & Co.,
the wholesale clotliers who recently failed,
are now in the hands of the Sheritfs keep
ers. -Four more attachments have been
served against the firm. They were as fol-
lows; G. Howard Thompson, $l49,635 95;
Isaac Kahn, $45, COO; H. W. Hyman, $95,
600 and Cecilia Leawald, S., 500.
The United States man-of-war Shenan-
doah, Captain Byron Wilson. arrived on
Thursday from the South Pacific squadron,
via Monterey. and goes up to the Mare
Island Navy Yard to go out of commission
The Shenandoah is a wooden screw steam
er, built in Philadelphia in 1868, and carries
nine guns. She is 929 tons register.
A new society called the Temperance
League of the Cross has been organized by
Rev. George Montgomery, Chancellor Of
the Catholic Archdiocese. The society is
intended to reach all kinds of people. II
is divided into three classes. The first is
for minors between the ages OF 10 and q,
who are required to pledge themselves to
abstain from all intoxicating drink until
tney TedCn lHe ldller age the second CLASS
is for adults who take the total pledge, and
the third is for adults who take the partial
pledge.
On Thursday seventeen employees of the
California Cracker Company left the factory,
They claim that the company has been
sending East for men to supplant them,
and rather thar be discharged they struck.
Superintendent Weske says that there was
not the slightest cause for a strike, and
that the only men who have been brought
from the East are two expert hands en-
ployed to improve the work of the factory.
II is not thought that the strike will last
any considerable time, as both sides seem
willing to compromise.
A number of cocker s~paniels and settlers
were disposed Of by auction OF Thursday
by E. Leavesley. Sport, a liver and white
black dog, went for $40; Jack Sport, his
brother, q white and black dog, brought
50. Bonita. a white and black sister to
Spot, was sold for S23 80. Cute, a jet black
slut Is months old, went for $23 80. Ros-
coe, an unbroken q year setter, was with
drawn, as there were no bids. Orc, is
mo this old, brought IS. Caesar, an s.
months Iup, and Dan, his brother, brought
SI3 each. Daisy, the first prize winner at
the late bench show, was withdrawn, as
the bids did not reach 500.
WASHINGTON IRvING's AccoUYr-In a
recent statement of old balances due the
| G-ovaru the late WASHINGTON Trying