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


The trial of ]. H. Harlan for shooting E.
L. Craft will be commenced at Woodland
on the 18th inst
The steamer Dover arrived from the up
per Sacramento yesterday with barge load
OF wood and grain.
Deputy Sheriff McComber arrested a man
named Joe French at Folsom on Monday
for assaulting Chinaman with bottle
The railroad works in this city are NOV
ing more briskly than for long time. Be
tween eleven and twelve hundred men are
employed.
The highest and lowest Signal Service
thermometer in this city yesterday was go
and 90, with southerly winds and cloudy
to 1alr weather.
The Western train, due here at 8 AN
was over three hours late in its arrival yes
terday, having been detained to make the
southern connection.
The Secretary of State has paid into the
State treasury fees for April, 81 $50 90. ].
ID. Spencer, Clerk of the Supreme Court.
ices for the same time, ,172 80.
The only arrests made yesterday We're
those OF Louis Kavanaugh, by officer Rider.
Tor being common drunkard and Ed.
Rand, by officer Farran, for being drunk.
Sheriff Lord, of Nevada county. passed
through to the State Prison yesterday with
prisoner named Peter Brunson, who is to
serve one year for an assault with deadly
weapon.
Immigrant travel from the East has be-
come very light, only two carloads of such
passengers having arrived yesterday and
the day before. First-class travel holds ND
well, however.
Emma V. Knight was yesterday, in De-
partment Two of the Superior Court, grant
ed decree of divorce from Joseph Knight
and the right to resume her maiden name
OF Emma V. Thompson.
little child about 3 years of age, was
knocked down by passing vehicle at
Fourth and streets yesterday about p. NJ.
and received bruises and cuts and scratches
about the face and hands.
Bell & Co. will sell at 10 \. NJ. Friday. at
1910 Third street, between J and X, the
stock OF plumbing goods, consisting of gas
fixtures, globes, chandeliers, bath-tubs,
brass fittings, benches, etc.
Mrs Wilsenhaussen went over to Wood
land yesterday to see the Coroner of Yolo
county, with the intention of ascertaining
positively whether it was her husband who
committed suicide at DaYisville last Satur-
day morning.
Inc railroad company is considering the
advlsaolllty OF running passenger train to
ana from Iruckee by daylight during the
summer season, giving passengers an OPP
portunity to fully enjoy the magnificent
scenery of the Sierras.
Money is being raised in Woodland for
the improvement of the race track at that
place, including the throwing up of the
outer portion of the turns, and the doing
OF other work necessary to putting the
course in tirst-class condition.
Conductor Dan West and Isidore Towns
end will take possession OF the Union Ho-
tel June LIST, at the expiration of w. O.
Bowers lease. Mr.. Frat the owner of the
property, is considering the desirabilitv of
enlarging the hotel by building upon his
adjoining property, and if he does, forty or
nifty line apartments will thus be added
Word has been passed around among the
knights of the shotgun that the doves will
be very numerous this season, and that
good sport may be anticipated. As the
spring Is somewhat backward, however, il
is doubted whether the birds will have
completed their first Matching when the
open season commences, which will be
June LIST.
The twelfth annual Convocation of the
Missionary Jurisdiction of Northern Cali
iornla will open in st. Paul's Church this
morning at IL o'clock. The Rt Rev Bishop
Wlngheld will deliver a charge, and all
Will be. welcome to attend, not only the
services, but also the business sessions.
The Convocation will open for business at
$50 P. NJ.
Night before last a family in this city was
greatly exercised over the disappearance of
their little boy, and an energetic search was
entered upon in every direction, including
the notifying of the police About or 10
O'Clock the little fellow reported himself
from beneath the lounge in one of the
rooms at his home, where he had been
comfortably sleeping during the excite
ment.
English sparrows were imported into
San Francisco and other places in the State
many years ago by parties who enormously
believed that they would be serviceable as
insect destroyers. In San Francisco. espe-
cially, they multiplied so rapidly that they
became nuisance. Yesterday two of the
little fellows We're observed in this city-a
male and temale-the first that we have
seen here. They were enjoying them
selves IN the railroad yard on Front street,
and seemed as happy as pair of human
lovers on wedding excursion.
The annual report OF the transactions of
the California State Agricultural Society
for 1885, prepared by its Secretary, Edwin
f. Smith, has been issued from The State
Printing Office. 1t is a volume of 600
pages, and is a credit to the Society. 1t
gives the State laws under which the Soci-
ETY. is conducted, the Constitution of the
Society, the Acts establishing District Agr-
cultural Associations, financial state
ment showing in full detail all receipts
and items of expenditures during the past
fiscal year, an extended report upon, mete-
orology and climatology of California (by
Sergeant Barwick, State Meteorological,
transactions of the various District Associ-
atoms, agricultural addresses, articles upon
resources of the State, ETC.