Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-04-19
BRIEF NOTES.

yesterday.
st. Rose Church picnic will be held on
Thursday, May 9th
The Police Commissioners will meet at 8
A. NJ. to-day to elect special officers.
The City Trustees will not meet this
morning; will at 10 A. M. tomorrow.
1t is estimated that 5000 immigrants to
the State arrived by the various routes last
week.
Twenty carloads of beef cattle passed
through to San Francisco yesterday from
| Nevada.
Miss Mary Anderson and her dramatic
company went East from the Bay last
evening.
| Yesterday being Palm Sunday, appro-
pirate services were held in St. Paul and
st. Rose churches.
Yesterday at the Recreation Grounds the
| Young Atlas defeated the johnson ORR
ginals' by score of Z TO 5.
The editor of the Gait Gazette says
Bull butter is a cow-ardly counterfeit,
and ought to be suppressed by law"
l A man fell in the slough back of the
round-house yesterday about noon, but
some men procured a boat and rescued
him.
Three carloads of race horses came up
| from San Francisco last evening, most of
them to take part in the Capital Turf Clubs
races this week.
The Street Commissioner will have the
Y-street pump started up to-day, to get rid
OF the drainage water that has accumulated
near street.
The cold northwest wind prevailing yes
terday and last night was very desirable,
drying up the mud. Hot weather just now
would do the fruit trees much damage.
The time for receiving bids for the Odd
Fellows picnic on the 26th has been ex-
tendel until 6 o'clock next Wednesday
evening, at W. H. Sherburn's, No. 323 X
| street.
| The Sacramento river rose to % feet II
inches yesterday. The American river was
also high, and the Marysville road had
about eighteen inches of water over ii in
some places.
In Justice Posts Court, Saturday morn
ing, John Mclaughlin, charged with mali
cious mischief, in having dug up private
road on the property of Joseph Bauquier,
was fined 81 and costs.
Thomas Norton, of this city, has put up
a forfeit of $50 to bind a match for $500 q
side between the pugilistic heavy weights
co, who recently defeated Brady, Norton
backing Slade.
George w. Jackson has opened a real
estate Office on Second street, of which an.
nouncement is made in another column
to-day. He is also the agent for the Anglo
Nevada Insurance Company, recently
organized at San Francisco.
The Turner Rifles gave a concert and
dance last evening at Turner Hall. The
committees were as follows: Arrange
ments-A. Alderman, Gus Haglestein, l..
Schwoerer Floor Director, Colonel j. w
Guthrie; Reception, Captain f. Ruhstaller.
A valuable thoroughbred colt, about S
days old, belonging to r. ]. Merkley, which
was running with its dam in the orchard
in front of that gentleman's house, Satur-
day, somehow ran against sharp stake
which penetrated its body, and it had to be
killed.
The recent freshets along the Costumes
drowned many cotton-tail rabbits and
squirrels. This slaughter of the innocents
was looked upon by the farmers with much
satisfaction, but when the angry waters
scooped in a few of their swine they did
not smile so complacently.
Arrived yesterday: Steamer San Joaquin
No. 4, from San Francisco, with merchan-
disc and barge load of freight for the upper
Sacramento. Cleared: Steamers Varuua
and Neponset, for the upper Sacramento,
with merchandise; steamer San Joaquin
No. 4, for San Francisco, with barge load
of grain.
The anti-Chinese meeting to be held al
the Court tomorrow fight will de-
eide whether this people will adopt or re-
Ject the boycott, as proposed by the Anti
Chinese State Executive Committee A
number of prominent and distinguished
speakers will be present, and boycott will
be discussed from every conceivable stand
point No doubt the Courtroom will be
crowded.
The following scores were made at the
| Twelfth street 200-yard range yesterday:
| Company e.
| Captain Hall ............4 4o5a45 40
Lieutenant Flaherty .............5 54444445 $40
PRIVATE Klein ......;.-.-.......53 3 5 A 3-S6
| The ColonePs staff
/ Colonel Sheehan 49,. ............3 44f44344L3S
| Lieutenant Plant ............... .3554545444-t3
| sergeant hughes. D 3 44-i2
| One Of the arrivals from the East yester-
day went into the saloon at the depot. and
seeing there a large bowl full of lines,
some of which Were still green in color, in
quired of the barkeeper how he sold those
pears. Receiving answer, Three for 10
cents" he invested dime. A short time
afterwards he was heard remarking to a
! friend that he had thought they were
ripe" but on the contrary, they were
green and tough, and sour as swillm
DR.. N. w. Lane, of Lodi, will deliver the
next lecture of the Young Mems Christian
Association course, at their hall. Sixth
street, between K and l., to young men
only, at o'clock this evening, on the sub
ject A Young Mans Strength, and How
to Maintain It." The doctor has recently
delivered lectures to large audiences in San
| Francisco. There will not be any charge
for admission this evening, but it will be
| by ticket, obtainabe at the hall.
Lieutenant Fred Birdsall, of Company
| A, while boating on the overflow at the
Twelfth-street range yesterday, upset his
skiff and spoiled his new uniform. The
militiamen present say the Lieutenant
would have drowned had it not been for
his adipose condition. which made him
| float on the bosom of the sliekens-laden
water like decoy duck. His floating on
| his back would put to shame the best eff
forts of Richard Dale, and his company
propose matching him against Captain
Boyton.
| Officer Sullivan last evening arrested at
one of the hotels man named Owen
! Mitchell, who was en- route to the East. but
| had evidently been stricken with insanity.
apparently caused by sofening of the brain,
as his memory fails him. He had ticket
! for the East, S45 So in coin, and a check
for $l,170. Learning that he had friend
named Joseph Mcmahon at the Potrero.
San Francisco. Chief Dillman telegraphed
request to come and take care of him.
Mitchell has a brother, Patrick Mitchell
! living at Shackelford, Mo.
| 4 resident of Los Angeles, who has come
to Sacramento to invest in real estate, hay
ing sold his fourteen acres of climate"
that he owned in southern California to a
one-lunged colony" at fabulous price
says he is much amused at the efforts of
the people of this section of the State to
change its name-that of northern Califor-
mia. He says he agrees with Shakespeare
there's nothing in name; rose by anv
other name would smell as sweet and if
this people must have change in name,
then by all means adopt that of ''Ex-
celsior"
| Model Colony.