Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-05-17
BRIEF NOTES.

Fourteen carloads of oranges were sent
| East yesterday
| Saturday night the premises Of Dewitt
Renfro, at 1920 i street. was visited by a
thief, who stole eight chickens.
Officers Kent Farrell, Sullivan and Ne
Cormack made raid yesterday morning in
Chinatown. and captured sixteen Celestials
for violating the cubic-air law.
Specimens of finely-headed wheat-stalks
from the farm of L. Clark, on the Norris
Grant were on exhibition in this city Sat
urday that were 6 feet inches in length.
A sample of fine barley was left at this
Office on Saturday from the ranch of c. H
and w. Harlow, at Brighton, which stands
almost six feet in hight and is very heavily
headed
The old steamer Enterprise having had
her machinery taken out, has been towed
to the Yolo side of the river where she will
be left high and dry when the river falls.
and will then be broken up.
p E. Plat will this evening deliver the
next lecture of the Y. NJ. C. A. course, to
young men only, at the Associations hall.
Sixth street, near X, at o'clock, on the
subject, - How Young Men May Succeed"
The highest and lowest Signal Service
thermometer in this city for Friday, Satur-
day and yesterday was 74o and 4So; $50 and
$40 F.; and so and $50 respectively, with
southerly winds and clear weather for the
three days.
Edward James infant boy, who was
burned SO severely Friday morning by fall
ing upon a stove, was yesterday reported to
be doing as well as could be expected,
with strong hopes of its recovery, though
it had high fever.
A ftt.
found horse, saddled and bridled, hitched
at Fifth and O streets. As there was no
one in sight who might be the owner of
the animal, he took the horse to Wilson's
stable for safe-keeping. No one has vet
called for him.
The Adm Argts of May 18th, in speak
ing of the death of B. NJ. Richmond, of
this city, on the 2Sth ultimo. on his ranch
near Bieber, says: THE opinion of the
public is still much divided as to whether
the poison was taken with suicidal intent
or whether murder was committed"
The case of Hugh Agan, charged with
numbering James Sharkey in Center town
ship several weeks ago, was examined in
Justice Posts Court Saturday. and, as the
two most important witnesses for the pros
ecution had disappeared, he was discharged.
A large number of friends accepted yes
terday Jacob Gebert's invitation to Join
with him in celebrating the fifth anniyer-
sary of the establishing of the Union
Brewery, at Twentieth and O streets. He
kept open house all day, and entertained
his friends with great liberahty.
Arrived Saturday steamer San joaquin
No 4, from San Francisco, with merc.ian-
disc and barge load of freight for the upper
Sacramento. Cleared, steamers Varuna
and NannnSat ln
with merchandise; steamer San Joaquin
No /, for San Francisco, with grain.
Last evening, Capt Weinstock left n
hitched in front of his residence, and tele-
phoned to Wilson's stable for it to be sent
for. a boy went up promptly, but when
he arrived the property had disappeared
and had not been heard from up to mid
night.
Mrs. belong, teacher in the primary de-
partment, and Mrs. Kennedy, music in
structor of Hespcrian College, Woodland,
sent IN their designations last Friday. The
designations were accepted, and Mrs. j. 3.
Comfort and Miss Josie Watkins elected TO
the vacancies. There will be no further
changes in the faculty. The endowment
fund now aggregates about S2l GOO.
Coroner Clark received dispatch from
Justice Sturges, of Folsom, Saturday, stat
ing that dead Chinaman had been found
in the road between that place and Alder
creek. The Coroner responded with
request for the Justice to hold an inquest,
but has not heard anything from the case
since. A press dispatch states that the de-
ceased had bullet wound in the neck.
Kelly & Lynch shipped their horses Jou
Jou and Moonlight to Denver last evening.
and they will be run IN the Colorado and
Utah circuit, commencing at Denver on the
22d inst, and then going to Pueblo and Salt
Lake. Garland q Goldsmith shipped their
horse Beaconsfield East in the same car.
w. NJ. Murray has taken his stable, consist
ing of Billy Ayres, Del Norte, Leap Year
and Nolugeur to Oregon, to race during the
summer.
Yesterday morning, as the Red Men were
marching to the depot to leave on their ex-
cursion to Folsom, a horse attached to a
buggy in which lady and boy were sit
ting in front of the depot became fright
ened at the band and began acting badly.
A gentleman VINO was standing by caught
the animal by the bride, but could not
keep him from plunging, and finally turn
ing around Seeing the trouble, Joseph
Beebe left the band, and also caught the
horses head, and the two men finally sue
ceeded in suppressing him. Tho lady had
pluckily retained her seat in The vehicle.
and did all she could with the lines.