Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-11-12
BRIEF NOTES,

DhILI NU1IJs
The ladies of Calvary Baptist Church are
| making preparations for fair and festival
to be held some time in December.
Car No. II, of the O-street route, broke {
wheel at Tenth and o streets yesterday
| morning, and was temporarily laid up.
| Treasurer Parsons, of Tuolumne county
father of Charles K. Parsons, of this city
who has been dangerously i'll, is improving
in health
Rising Star Rebekah Degree Lodge No
| s, l. Q. o. F., will pay fraternal visit tc
Capitol Lodge No. 81 tonight, to confer
the degree.
Rev. A. W. Griffin made four out o.
I eight in this city Wednesday. Surely
Hymen has been getting in his work " in
this locality.
People from the other side of "the hilI'
say that they have already had good ice
skating there this season, principally in the
vicinity of Boca.
Porter Ashes stable of thoroughbreds
was yesterday shipped to San Francisco
to take part in the Blood Horse meeting,
which commences tomorrow.
A cyclorama of Mormon life will be ex-
hibited at Calvary Baptist Church tonight,
commencing at 7:45. Over $50 scenes will
be presented. Admission, 25 cents; chill
dren, Is cents.
Look out for bogus silver coin. The
town is full of it. Free coinage" is
going on somewhere, and spurious dollars,
halves, quarters and dimes are found al
most everywhere.
James Hewes, arrested few days ago on
suspicion of insanity, was committed by
the Commissioners of Lunacy to the Asy-
lum at Napa, and Deputy Sheriff McManus
took him to that institution yesterday.
The Occidental Building and Loan Asso-
citation has elected the following officers for
the ensuing year President, L. L. Lewis;
Vice-P President, ]. L. Huntoon; Secretary,
E. K. Alsip; Directors-J. L. Huntoon, P
E. Plat and E. K. Alsip.
The highest and lowest Signal Service
temperature yesterday was $50 and 500, with
northerly winds and weather cloudy to
clear, with light sprinkle of rain during
the day. There was also sprinkle at Red
Bluff and .05 of an inch at San Francisco.
Sheriff Wilson willto-day be at Humans,
Michigan Bar, from to 10 A. NJ; Buffers
Halfway House, from u NJ. to P. NJ; and
at the railroad depot, Folsom, from 3 till
P. NJ, and also from to "A. NJ. tomorrow,
for the collection of State and county taxes.
Professor w. T. Welcker, Superintendent
of Public instruction, was yesterday ad-
mitted by the Supreme Court to practice
law in all the Courts of this State, on mo-
ton of G. A. Stonesifer and production of
license from the Supreme Court of Oregon.
These arrests were made yesterday !;
William Tanner, by officer wager, for dis
turbing the peace; Pat Gallagher, by officer
Rider, for being drunk; John Nash, by
officer wager, for being drunk; James
Cousins, by officer wager, for disturbing
the peace.
The band that was hired by the jeff Club
several days since to celebrate the Demo-
cratic victory, has been kept back every
night, and it is not at all improbable that
their jubilee will be abandoned. "Curfew
must not ring tonight" at least not until
further returns are obtained.
The Superior Court of Yolo county is
still having q preliminary wrestle with the
case of the People VS.. McAllister, charged
with the murder of William Leman in
Woodland last spring. Great difficulty is
will not be completed before the close of
the week.
The steamer Neponset arrived yesterday
from the upper Sacramento with grain and
produce, and the D. E. Knight from Marys-
vile, en- route to San Francisco, with grain
and merchandise. Cleared, steamer San
Joaquin No. 4, for San Francisco, with
grain, and the Dover. for the upper Sacra-
mento, with merchandise.
Sacramento markets are now being sup
piled with salmon from the upper Saora-
mento, where they are reported to be quite
plentiful. There are very few in the lower
waters. Sacramento fishermen have done
very poorly in salmon-catching this year,
and complain that the wing-dams put in
the river about opposite the foot of R street
and below have spoiled their best drift.
In the Police Court yesterday morning,
during the trial of an old case, a certain
young woman, who had been subpenaed,
was wanted as a witness, and the attorney
for the defense and the Court Bailiff exer-
cised their lungs calling for her in the
usual manner Their efforts were fruit
less, and party interested in the case re-
marked, ~ didn't think you could make
her hear. She's deadp'
The Sacramento Chinaman who was
mentioned a few days ago as being anxious
about the election because he had bet $40
on Swift-and had lost $50 on Blaine two
years ago-was making inquiry yesterday
as to the result of the election for State
officers. He was told that Bartlett was
elected, to which he responded: "Ob,
that's old; l knew that good many days
ago. Swift he come up too short. He get
what you call him-soup Who elected
Judge?"
Sacramento shotgunists are enjoying
themselves hugely now in hunting wild
ducks and geese, Fundamentally big bags
are occasionally reported. About o'clock
Wednesday morning Billy Arlington, Tom
Gleason, Arthur Bulger and Billy Rock
started for Fifteen-mile Lake to try their
luck, the last-named gentleman undertake
ing to act as pilot, declaring that he could
90 to the shooting grounds blindfold. They
drove out to the Six-mile House and there
turned down upon the low land, and kept
on driving In the course of a couple of
hours his companions began inquiring if
they were not most there, and received an
affirmative response. But they didn't ar
rive worth a cent, and finally the driver
paralyzed the party by exclaiming, BLESSED
if know where we are! we're lost % To-
ward noon man was found who told
them where the lake was. They went there
and found thousands of-mudhens and
mud Arlington thought they had done
hunting enough, and they turned the heads
of their horses homeward, three of them
declaring that if Rock could find a lake
blindfold that was the way he had better
travel another time, for he couldn't do any
thing with his eyes open.