Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-01-15
BRIEF NOTES.

yesterday.
thief stole A. C. Fre.man's oyercoat
from his Office Wednesday.
An ambitious peach tree at Fourteenth
and u streets is in full bloom
Postmaster Stephens has appointed John
King as substitute letter carrier
Theriver is now falling at the rate of five
or SIX inches daily, and is down to 10 feet
6 inches.
The Woodland Democrat has been desig-
mated by the Supervisors as the official
paper of Yolo county.
The West End Theater, Woodland, has
been supplied with first-class opera chairs,
and is now fully equipped for business.
Three days eastern mail arrived here
yesterday-the mail due that day and that
which should have come Tuesday and
Wednesday.
The steamer Dover arrived from the up
per Sacramento yesterday with a barge
load of wood and the steamer Thomas
Dwyeri from the upper Sacramento, with
hay.
In Department Two of the Supelior
Court yesterday, Rasmus F. n Dreyer,
native OF Denmark, was admitted to citi-
zenship, on the testimony of ]. E. Sullivan
and j. I. Crun.
Deputy Sheriff Dunn brought up from
! san FRANCISCO last evening, en- route to the
State Prison at Folsom, John Morrissev.
who IS to serve one year for an assault with
a deadly weapon.
The Caledoniau Club will celebrate their
anniversary by giving ball at Armorv
HAL on the 18th instant. Notice is given
IN another column as to where members of
the Club can obtain tickets
The ladies of the NJ. E. Church South
viii give first-class turkey lunch in the
basement of the church, Seventh street.
between J and K, from IL A. NJ. to 6 P. NJ.
to-day. Admission, % cents.
j. F. Shaeffer, of Gridley, has sold to
Marion Biggs, Jr., of Biggs. his G-year-old
Brigadier stallion Happy Jim, which was
/ chartered IN Sacramento for long time.
The price paid has not been made public
Deputy Sheriff Gilmer, of Tuare coun-
| ~, passed through yesterday, en- route TO
The State Prison at Folsom with Richard
quentin who is to serve one year for Jail
breaking; and Al. Cornwell, two years, for
grand larceny.
The regular course of lectures of the
Medical Department, University of Cali
fornia, will commence March 1st. Partic-
ulars can be obtained by addressing K. A.
Mclean, NJ D., Dean, Cos Merchant street,
| San Francisco.
There arrived here yesterday from Penryn
consigned TO Carlaw Bros.-an immense
| block OF granite about feet square and %
feet IN hight, which is to be used as the
base Tor monument to be erect ed in the
CITY Cemetery to the late Il. Kerchival. 1t
weighs seven tons, and eight truck horses
were required to haul 1t from the depot.
| James McCOurt, of Campo, San JOAQUIN
| county, had rose cancer successfully re- |
moved from the back of his neck, by Sac
ramento practitioner, the present week. 1t |
was done by external application of medi- |
clnes and without cutting. The excrescent
growth was about the size of a quarter of a |
dollar and extended one fourth of an inch |
in depth.
d fisherman named Pancoast, whose
scow Is located on the Yolo side of the |
river, opposite the foot of X street, caught |
IN net few days ago pike weighing I9I |
pounds, which he subsequently sold to a |
Chlnaman for cents per pound. This is |
the largest fish of the kind that has been |
caught III these waters, SO far as there is any |
record. On the st. Lawrence it wo1ld |
probably be called a muskallonge.
This is the day fixed by the residents of |
Iruckee tor the Chinese to leave that town. |
and by ODonnell for them to leave San
francisco. L. 5. Marshal Drew has not
yet returned from Truckee, to which place
he went a few days ago to look into the
SITUATION. Sacramento Cinnamon say
that those OF Truckee are all armed with
Winchester rifles and revolvers, and intend
to hight II force is used against them.
About 10 o'clock last night as two China
men, employed in the upper portion of the
city, were walking up ii street, between
Thirteenth and Fourteenth. thev We're
stopped by two white men, who threw one
OF them to the sidewalk violently He
drew bis pistol and fired at his assailants.
who took to their heels. Officer Franks |
heard OF the occurrence soon afterwards
and hurried to the scene, but could not get
any trace of the fugitives.
The Board of Supervisors of Yolo county
had Republican majority until the death |
OF Supervisor Hodgdon. The appointment |
OF Mr.. Snyder, to fill the vacancy, has |
changed the political complexion of the |
Board and as g result change has been
made in the incumbency of certain posi- |
tons, Democrats being substituted for Re !
publicans. DR.. w. w McFarlane has been
chosen Hospital Physician, and Frank
O'Connell Hospital Warden.
Among the deeds filed in the office of the
County Recorder yesterday was one from
z. III. Eldred to C. A. Jenkins and C. w.
Pierce, conveying the State House Hotel
| property, at Tenth and X streets, the con-
!
sumes the propretorship of the hotel this
morning. Mr.. Eldred will leave with his
! wife on the 2Sth for few months visit to
| relatives in the East and on his return will
occupy his handsome residence at Fifteenth
and . streets.
A resident of the interior who had never
seen locomotive and cars before, but had
read about EN-" was an interested spec
tator of proceedings at the depot yesterday
morning. He saw trains come into the
depot and leave it, but when train was
backed in he was surprised. Going up to
one of the yardmen, who looked good
natured, he remarked Say stranger. |
understand this locomotive business pretty
WELL but how in blazes did these cars pull
that ingine in here?"
| The following officers of the British
Mutual Benefit and Social Society have
| been installed by John SHELTON, p. P, as
sisted by George Muddox, 2. p: Edmund
Ellis, President; J. Ii. Merrill Vice-Pres-
dent; Rupert Meller, Secretary ~ J. Ma
than, Treasurer; w. H. Chinn, Guardian
James Parsons, Thomas Bromley and John
| Cox, Trustees; Physician, DIR. Pvburn
Representative to the Supreme Lodge.
Samuel Wild. At the conclusion of the
! Lodge business the members enioyed a
banquet at Fishers.
| John Conrad, Of Washington, has been
arrested on charge of battery, committed
upon some Cinnamon last Monday. and he
has had the Cinnamon arrested on SINH
lar charge. The cases will be heard by
| Justice Scully tomorrow. The trouble
appears to have grown out of disagree
ment as to the tenancy of piece of land
owned by the Conrad family, and which
the Cinnamon are now occupying Fred
| kripp, who owns a ranch near the property
in dispute, is reported to have been assaulted
| by Conrad with a club on the occasion of
the difficulty, although he had not taken
an active part in it, and was knocked in
sensible by blow on the head, receiving
other blows after he fell
About 1870 last night people on Fourth
street, between and X, noticed that an
unusual amount of smoke was in the air.
| They endeavored to ascertain the cause, but
| failing, sent to the hook and ladder house
for experts. The result was that the smoke
| indicated that there was trouble in the rear
portion of A. Leonards insurance and real
| estate office. The back door was forced
open, and almost Immediately a blaze
| sprang up, but was soon eXtinguished. 1t
| was aScertaiOp1 that soma ashes had heen