Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-08-17
BRIEF NOTES.

The steamer Dover is being got ready for
| service in the grain trade.
| -Four carloads of fruit from Vacaville
went East by express last evening.
! The Executive Committee of the G. A.
Z. reception met last evening and settled
| up its affairs.
The travel eastward continues TO be
large Last evenings train had to be for
warded in two sections.
| The highest and lowest temperature in
Sacramento yesterday was $50 and 54o,
with southerly winds and clear weather.
Somebody is constructing small scow,
either for sailboat or fishing purposes. on
the side of the river, above the station
house.
There came up fom San Francisco by
steamer yesterday morning a large boiler,
furnace and smokestack complete for
Scheld's Sacramento Brewery.
The Alta Baseball Club has engaged
Charley Sweeney, the famous pitcher, for
the remainder of the season, and great
games are anticipated hereafter.
Deputy Sheriff James Dunn, of San
Francisco, brought up last evening, en- route
to the State Prison at Folsom, William Gle
ments, who is to serve ten years for burg
larry.
Yesterday morning the engine of freight
train got off the rails of side-track at
Woodland, and the wrecking train had to
be sent from this city to get her back on
the iron again. There was no blockade of
the main track.
AT St. Joseph's Academy (boarding and
day school for young ladies in this city,
studies will be resumed ON the Both inst.
Regular attendance during the entire year
is necessary to entitle pupils to honors of
the Academy at the close.
Quite number OF horsemen went I'D TO
Chico yesterday to attend the fair of the
Third District Agricultural Association, in
Guiding the counties of Butte, Colusa and
Tehama, which commences to-day and
continues through the week.
The combined harvester" contest, post
poned from last Thursday and Friday, on
account of the G. A R. reception in this
city, will take place to-day in the vicinity
of Stockton. A committee from the State
Agricultural Soci ty viii be among the
spectators present.
1t is said that the 20 ger in use on the
dredger has been four 1 insufficient for the
work of pumping NJ id and water from the
old bed of the American river into China
slough in the desired quantity, and an i'm
provement will be made to her machinery
at once to remedy the difficulty.
In Department One of the Superior
Court, yesterday, James Woolf, who was
recently held to answer in the Police Court
on a charge of grand larceny, in robbing a
man of $25, which he stole from his pockets
while in saloon, pleaded guilty and was
| sentenced to one year in the State Prison
at Folsom.
! The Cinnamon who were wounded by
Lee Yee on Sunday, in consequence of
trouble about hop-picking, were yesterday
resting as comfortably as could be expected
at the station-h house, and both may yet re-
! cover. Their friends pay them much at
tention and give them excellent care.
| A. Mex Slorrie, one of the Grand Army
| delegates from the Department of Penn
| sylvania, writing to gentleman said: /
, have attended the national encampments
of the G. A. r. held at Philadelphia, Provi-
| dence Albany, Indianapolis, Baltimore,
Denver, Minneapolis, Portland and San
| Francisco, and have attended hundreds of
camp-fres and reunions, but the entertain
ment at the Pavilion, Sacramento, was the
grandest thing in this line ever saw"
The Chief Engineer of the Fire Depart
ment yesterday made complaint at police
! headquarters relative to the misconduct of
people who drive over the fire hose while
it is stretched and full of water at fires.
During the fire at TWenty-second and o
| streets a few days ago, three lengths of
| hose were ruined by heavy vehicles passing
| over il. There is an ordinance in force re-
| lative TO this matter, and the poice will see
that its provisions are hereafter obeyed.
T. ]. Wilson, alias Maloney, was ar
rested last evening by officer Coffey, on the
arrival of the San Francisco train, on a
| charge of obtaining goods by false pretenses
from r. H. Singleton. There are other
charges of a similar character pending
against him, growing out of his having OBJ
tanned money and goods on his promising
| to pay when he got his money for work
perfermed at the railroad shops. He drew
the money, failed to pay, and left town.
Last Wednesday evening, while the G..
A. K. procession was going up street. q
horse attached to buggy in which two
young men were riding became unmanage-
able and ran away with them. At Seventh
and streets their vehicle either collided
with one occupied by Mr.. and Mrs Fritz,
residing at Tenth and streets, causing her
to be thrown out, or went so near to it that
she jumped out but, however it happened,
it is reported that one of her ankles was
| fractured
The Chinese hop-pickers employed by R.
]. Merkley quit work yesterday, fearing
that they might be assassinated by their
fellow-countrymen who demand higher
pay than the hop-growers are willing to
give. He secured another gang of pickers
for so cents per 100 pounds. Third street,
between K and L, was the locality where
bargains between whites and Celestials
were made yesterday, 1 street not being
considered quite safe The Cinnamon seem
to have the best of the growers, as the hops
must be picked Immediately, and the pick
ers have evidently been studying the MEL
certain improvements of their own.