Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-08-14
BRIEF NOTES.


! East from Sacramento yesterday
! The steamer Varuna arrived from the
! upper Sacramen to yesterday, With barge
( load of grain.
! The Bella Moore Mountain Pink the
atrica company passed through yes: erday,
en- route from Chico 10 Napa.
| The only arrests made Yesterday were
those Of John Murphy and Tom Duffy, by
/ officer Agner, for being drunk.
The highest anu lowest Signal Service
temperature yesterday 99o AM 299,, with
fresh southerly winds ald clear weather.
That blessed baby" left
dence of A. N. Thomas few days ago,
will probably be adopted by a lady Of Elk
Grove,
Tie case Of Milton NeWh?rter, who sh.s,.
T. G. Robinson, viii probably be taken mp
for preliminary examination in the Police
Court next Monday.
Governor Stoneman has appointed No
: taries Public as follows W. f. Huntoon,
Sacramento; George c. Lake Corning; L.
6 Carpenter, Ukiah.
All persons having bills against the G.
! a. +. Committee are requested TO present
them before y o'clock next Monday 10 j.
! o. Coleman, Secretary.
! The Capital Gas Company are having
their main running up Q street raised
several feet, 50 that it will not be SO diff
| cult TO get at when occasion requires.
The Trustees OF the 4. NJ. E. Church, Oh
Seventh street, have awarded the contract
/ for reseating the church building TO Bragg
! Bros, they having been the lowest bidders
! e. Cook has been appointed by the Yolo
, County School Superintendent as Trustee
! and Clerk of Plainfieid District, to fill the
vacancy occasioned by the death Of Chas
Z. Green.
/ \ portion OF the decorations that orna-
mented the city on Sacramento Day
! have been removed, and probably by this
evening the larger portion viii nave dis
appeared.
The Chinese laborers have about made
I up their minds TO accept the 20 cents per
! 100 pounds which the hop-growers offer
+ for picking the crop their strike Tor 30
cents being failure.
! The great number of people who have
! left the city the past two days, crowding
| every train, gives evidence OF the immense
crowd in the city on the occasion Of the
Grand Army reception.
Constable Beven, of Wheadand, passed
through yesterday en- route to that place
with a prisoner named H. Davis, whom he
arrested at MERGED, for arson committed at
! Wheatland last February.
Deputy Sheriff Karcher took TO the
asylum at Napa yesterday afternoon
young woman named Susie Fssell, who
had been examined by the Commissioners
as 10 her sanity, and committed.
The funeral of Thomas G. Robinson
will take place from his late residence, No.
17l2 street, at 3 p. NJ. tomorrow, under
the auspices of Sumner Post, No. 8, G. \
z. Of which be was member.
james Forbes, Sr., father Of James
Forbes, IT.. railroad freight agent in this
city, and Thomas Forbes, employed in the
baggage department, died at Newcastle on
| Thursday, having reached the age of SO
years and months. He was q pioneer Of
Placer county, and an excellent citizen.
The funeral took place at Newcastle yester
! day afternoon.
Officers Rider, Agner, wager and Ferral
| at an early hour yesterday morning made
/ a raid upon some of the Chinese habita-
! tons on I street, and arrested fifteen Ceies
! tials for violating The cubic-air law They
| all, 8 few hours later, pleaded guilty in the
! Police Court and were fined $ each. One
Of them paid his fine at once, and some Of
the others may pay. In the present
crowded condition Of the Chinese quarters,
the residents who do rot violate the law
are probably in small minority.
don't want to buy your team you
are mistaken in your man. don't think
it worth It's freight back East. anyhow.
Horses look spawned. ! only wanted to
ride to the depot Can ride for a nickel on
the hJrse-car, but was willing 10 give you
, dollar 10 take rs four down. Four bits q
head is too much. Don't charge that way
. IN L-olo
four G. 4. r. excursionists wended their
way to the depot, leaving the hack-man
Standing in front Of the Capital Hotel
LEARNING EvERyrHISG.-The ease with
which a Chinaman picks up the habits,
occupations, vices, etc, of people of other
nationalites has been frequently COM
mented upon, and il was believed that
there was nothing John had seen his white
brother do but that he himself soon sue
ceeded in accomplishing it, alice same
Mclean man" There was something
however, which he had not mastered. so
far rs known, up to yesterday morning. but
no one knew what it was until the Califor-
MIA and Oregon passenger train rolled into
the depot, and he was found riding on q
brake beam Fortunately for the railroad
company, John almost always has q little
cult for him to steal ride q Ia tramp with
such impedimenta.
/ RECOVERED HER MoNEY-It was men
toned in the RECORD UNION few days
| ago that a lady who arrived here from San
Francisco on the East-bound express train
discovered alter arriving in Sacramento
that she lett her purse, containing Sl45,
betT cen the mattresses of the bed at the
hotel in San Francisco where she had been
stopping. She telegraphed to the hotel,
and then went to Rocklin to overtake her
baggage, which had gone by the first sec
ton OF the train. Meanwhile, the cham
bermaid at the hotel had found the money
reported it at the Office and when it was
inquired for arrangements were made for
sending it TO its owner by telegraph.
OAKLAND vs.. SAcRAMEEro.-To-morr
afternoon the GREENWOOD & Moran Base
ball Club of Oakland will again meet the
Atlas at Agricultural Park. The former
club seems to have waxed extremely conf
dent again, and their newspaper friends talk
about the handy manner in which they
will do up" the Sacramento nine. Per-
haps they will, and perhaps they won't. 1t
depends upon the Atlas pitcher mainly il
he does well the game is more likely to be
lost than won by the PETS"
AUCTION SALE.-Bell & Co. will sell at
auction at 10 A. N. to-day, at Tenth and J
streets, by order Of Mr.. Irvine, o matched
span of pinto mares, FIVE and six years old
, weighing 1000 pounds each Also sew
eral buggies, furniture, two counters, etc
ExcELLEST.-G. W. Harlow. of Brighton
has some OF the finest muscat grapes that
have been sampled in this city this year
The bunohes are very large and fruit per.
) feet.
SMITH & You've have lately introduced
into the California market a waterproof
paper for sheathing purposes It is cheaper
, than common tarred paper, and for the
purpose intended the best in the market
Send for sample.