Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-10-27
BRIEF NOTES.

BRIEF NOTES.
Tonight the Republican county canvass
ers will hold meeting at Folsom.
Z. G.. Morton publishes his card this
morning as the Citizens Independent can
, didate for Senator.
The fall crop of street beggars is noticea-
bly, large in the city, and promises to eclipse
any previous year.
]. H. Harlan, of Woodland, has been
suffering lately from a serious attack of
congestion of the brain, and is still in a
critical condition.
Porter Ashes stable of running horses
returned from the East yesterday morning.
It is rumored that Mr.. Ashe intends to re-
tire from the turf.
1t is reported that the Chinaman who
was shot at Davisville short time ago has
died from the effects of the bullet wound.
His murderer has not been foand
d. II. Murdoch. who was arrested few
| days ago for insanity, was yesterday very
violent again, and there is little doubt but
that he will have to be committed to the
| asylum
a rainbow social will be given in
| Calvary Baptist Church vestry this even
ing. The programme will include tableaux,
charades, etc Admission % cents. Re
freshments free.
City Trustee Jones, who went to st. Louis
10 attend the Conclave, and subsequently
visited old friends in other localities, re-
turned home yesterday morning, in excel
lent health and spirits.
About II o'clock Monday night burglars
attempted to enter the residence of Mr.
Brown, on Q street, between Twelfth and
Thirteenth, but he heard them and got up.
Becoming aware that such was the case,
the rascals left.
The highest and lowest Signal Service
temperature yesterday was 75o and 45o,
with light northerly winds during the dav
and fair to cloudy weather prevailing. At
night, fresh southerly winds and clear
weather prevailed.
The following arrests were made yester-
day: John Doe, by officers Mccormack
and Coffey, for being drunk; All Jim, by
Constable Harvey, for misdemeanor; Louis
! Myer hotter by officer Fauen, for being a
common drunkard.
The Treasurer of San Francisco county
yesterday settled with the Controller, and
paid into the State Treasury $11424 81.
The Treasurer of Alameda county paid in
$12,6S6 SO, and the Treasurer of Santa
TIARA county 9to,U9o 81.
Garlic & Croly, of this city, have entered
into a contract with Mr.. Stovall, of the
firm of Stovall & Wilcoxson, to erect
$4,000 residence in the town OF Williams.
J. S. Nicholas, of this city, was the sue
cessful bidder for the painting of the build
ing.
Tule fires have been making a vast
amount of smoke on the Yolo side of the
river for few days past. The tules are
not as dry as usual at this season of the
year, and consequently they furnish more
smoke and less blaze than is generally the
case.
| Yesterday in the Superior Court nom
suit was granted in the case of Herzog vs.
Caulfeld, on the ground that plaintiff was
not in possession of the. property of which
Calfield took forcible possession, but had
leased it to others, and they were the par
ties damaged, if any.
| A Spaniard has been operating in the
city for some time past who offers for sale
as silver pieces of metal which look some
thing like silver, roughly cast in mold
about as large as ones finger, but which in
reality are tin or composition. He repre-
sents that he has just come from a quick
silver mine, and pretends that he cannot
speak English. He has succeeded in
swindling number of people.
Captain Siddons has had considerable
curiosity to ascertain the identity of Mr..
Avery, who found the Captains diamond
pin, lost in this city, and sent it up from San
Francisco by Wells, Fargo & Co. He had
an idea that some of his friends might
have played a joke upon him, but yester-
day the finder was in the city and called
upon him. He proved to- be an Eastern
man, who found the pin in street-car.
A much-worried individual, somewhat
under the influence of liquor, informed
Chief Dilfman yesterday that he and q
friend named "Scotty' came down from
Chico on the previous day, and each drew
money from bank for work performed in
the upper country. The worried man con-
Guided to have little spree, and gave his
friend 500 to keep for him that night.
| Yesterday he could not find Scotty," and
was puzzling his brains to determine
whether the latter had run off with the
coin, or was only hard to connect with.
Frank Clevenger, who has been working
in Jackson Brothers fruit dryer near Wood
land, on the night shift, on last Friday
night stepped into q tub of scalding hot
water which had been sunk into the ground
and used as a receptacle for escaped steam
Being all alone, be had 10 bandage his foot
himself and make his way to the house
where the men were asleep, when he was
conveyed to the house of his parents in
| Woodland. 1t was a very serious accident,
and it will be quite a long time before he
will have the use of his foot again.
At Woodland last Sunday a meeting of
Germans was held to take steps toward the
organization of Stamm of the Independ-
ent Order of Red Men at that place The
| u-as rNrasi1aI ovor Nv, Vic LNaiSal
Grand Chief of the State of California, and
there were also present and assisting in the
proceedings Charles Smid, Grand Chief OF
| Sacramento Stamm, No. 1874 Chas Schepp
and - Roeder, Past Grand Chiefs, and
Charles Kunch and Charles Everett, also of
Sacramento Stamm. Twenty-four sigma
lures were appended to the roll, and the
new organization promises to start with a
large charter list.
When the pirate Alabama was commit
ting depredations on American commerce,
parties shipping goods to and from Califor-
MIA not only secured an ordinary insurance
against the perils of navigation, but an adj
ditional one against loss by piracy, and
rates for the latter were very high. The
organ for the Congregational Church in
this city was shipped out about that time,
and a premium of $3.50 was paid to insure
il against pirates. Since the war the Gov
eminent has been settling up the Alabama
claims, paving in full for property proved
TO have been lost, and about 35 per cent. on
the special insurance paid. The Congrega-
tional Societys claim was presented and
recently allowed at about that rate on prin-
cipal and interest, but the expenses of col
Letting it were so great that only SIS re-
NAMED to be turned into the church treas
ury.
Hearst's Money Arrives.
The SACK in the interest of Democratic