Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-01-02
BRIEF NOTES.
The County Board of Education meets

DktEE NOEES.
The County Board of Education meets
this morning.
Sacramento Commandery, K T., will in
stall its officers this evening
! The Eastern cigar-makers en- route for
San Francisco will arrive this morning.
The State Board of Education will meet
at Superintendent Welcker's office to-day.
A carload of -infantry-arrived
from Camp Halleck yesterday, en- route to
Arizona
The Citrus Fair Committee will hold an
other meeting at C. r. Parsons office at 3
P. NJ. to-day.
The steamer Dover arrived from the up
per Sacramento with grain Thursday, and
returned yesterday with merchandise
The alarm of fire at $50 A. NJ. Yesterday
was caused by the burning out of CHM
ney on Seventh street, between G and H.
The road leading across the old mouth of
the American river has been impossible
on account of high water since the recent
big rise of the Sacramento.
Deputy Sheriff Crandall, of San joaquin
county, passed through yesterday. taking
10 the FOLSOM prison man named Weiss,
who is to serve one year for burglary.
There was very large attendance yes
. terday upon the funeral of Alexander
Hite, who died near the Six-mile House.
! on the lower Stockton road, last Wednes-
day.
If the Marysville boatmen have not
backed out, this is the day tor the race from
that place TO the Sacramento bridge. 1t
has been announced that they would leave
Marysville at 6 \. NJ.
The contract between the city and the
Sacramento Electric Light Company for
street-hghting expired at II o'clock on
Thursday night, and the lamps on the
masts have not been lighted since.
The Companions of the Forest will give
a social dance and entertainment at Red
Mems Hall this evening to the Foresters
and their wives, and have made arrange
ments for very pleasant evening.
There was report in circulation Thurs
day night and yesterday that a boat con-
tanning four Cinnamon had upset on Sew
enth-sueet slough, and the occupants
| drowned, but there was no truth in it.
The entertainment and dance given at
Enterprise Hall New Years eve, under the
| auspices of the Brighton Social. Club, for
the benefit of the funds of Washington
School District, was a gratifying success.
The little steamer Hi Yah was hauled
out on the Yolo side of the river about a
week ago for repairs, and the rise in the
river has submerged her. such a rise not
having been in the calculations of those
working upon her.
Thursday evening, during the time
dance was IN progress at Elk Grove, some
thief stole mare and cart belonging to
Frank Graham. 1t was a large, sorrel,
bald-face mare, and the vehicle what is
known as Petaluma cart
A black horse, about four years old.
which had got estray, followed officer
Franks, who was doing duty as mounted
police, Tor several hours on Thursday, and
he finally took the animal to Servers sta
BILE, where the owner can find him.
General n. p. Chapman, of Red Bluff. has
accepted the invitation of the officers of the
Northern California Citrus Fair to deliver
an address during the fair on the resources
OF the upper Sacramento valley for citrus
fruit growing. The address will be delivered
| on the evening of the 18th of January, the
same night that Senator Filcher speaks.
ID. J. Simmons, manager of the Metro
politan Theater, while in the lobby of that
establishment last evening talking with
! friends, turned quickly to speak to one of
them, when his foot struck against the
stove, causing him to stumble, spraining
| his ankle so severely as to necessitate his
being conveyed to his residence in a carri-
age.
The man Mitchell, who was brought
here from Stockton, on suspicion of being
the person who stole watch from ii.
| Wachhorsts has been discharged from
custody, not being the man wanted The
thief had upon his hand, in indelible ink,
a skull and cross-bones and a star Mitch
| ellis hand is ornamented with star and
anchor.
| Sergeant Barwick reports that between
six and seven hundred miles of wind
passed over this city during the twenty
four hours ending at o clock last night
The highest velocity was 80, and a steady
velocity of from "a to IS miles was constant
yesterday. There does not appear to be
wind of any marked velocity at any other
Signal Service station but Sacramento.
, Early yesterday afternoon, las a young
man living near the city was driving down
X street in top buggy, the forward spring
bar of the vehicle broke when he was near
the corner of Fourth street, and let the
body drop down, throwing him out, but
not injuring him. The horse ran off with
the front wheels, and wrecked them at the
| corner OF Third street, knocking them and
the shafts into kindling wood He took to
the sidewalk, but was driven out into the
street and soon stopped. One of his legs
was cut and slightly famed.
| Walter Wentworth, who was arrested in
Sacramento last State Fair time by officers
Sullivan and Ash when he was following a
| drunken man whom it was suspected he
intended to rob, and who was found, when
searched at the lookup. to have pair of
heavy steel knuckles in his possession, in
consequence of which he was given fifty
days in the county Jail for carrying a con-
cealed weapon, is said by the police to be
the Harry Brooks who was examined and
held to answer in San Francisco on Thurs
day for felony. He was accused of having
enticed Lizzie Davis, prepossessing girl II
years of age, away from her home and
placed her in a house of prostitution for
the purpose of living off the wages of her
! shame. The evidence showed that the girl
was first led TO an opium den, WHARF she
was taught to smoke the seductive drug
| After being thus initiated, she was installed
in bagnio, where she proceeded to earn
money for the support of the disreputable
| wretch who became her lover.