Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-02-11
NOTES OF THE DAY.

The preliminary examination of Harlan.
at woodland, for the killing of Craft, was
TO have been commenced to-day, but dis.
patch received last evening states that ow-
ing TO the arrest of f. J Barnes. who is
also charged with the murder, the exam
lnation of Harlan has been postponed until
next Monday.
There seems to be little danger that the
successor OF J. w. Mccarthy, as Clerk of
the Supreme Court, will be disturbed bv
the return and demands of the Sandwich
Island sojourner. Instead of returning to
claim the office, he is using every legal de-
vice to prevent detective Bee from securing
his extradition. He likes the climate of
the islands,
The Honolulu Press in a local set-to with
Its contemporary, the Adrertiser, denomi-
mates the latter the Soap Bubble. This is
mud. The Press man should come over
from the island Kingdom to the battle
ground of American newspaperdom, and
take few lessons in vigorous journalistic
slang. Soap-bubble will then appear to
him as weak as the flimsy sphere it Names
Duncan Mcpherson, editor of the Santa
Cruz Sentinel, is being taken warmly to
task by journals in the southern part of
the State for the praise he bestowed upon
northern California, as compared with the
southern section, in his recent address in
this city. The speech was made on the
occasion OF his official visit as Grand Master
Workman of the A. 0. L. w. to the Lodges
in Sacramento, and a synopsis of which
was published in the RECORD { MON.
Telephone communication has been es-
tabilshed between Paris and Rheims, dis
tanpp nf ahnnt ,,,;toC ha
mission of sound is said to be perfect Five
minutes conversation costs one franc, and
IN five minutes each party can say some
three hundred words. The value of the
telegraph pales beside this, and there can
be no doubt that within few years the
present successful use of the telephone will
be entirely eclipsed by further improve
ments ana later inventions. Congress will
need to hurry up in establishing the postal
telegraph, or there will be no use for it.
A party who is wintering on the top of
Mount Washington, n. H., at the United
States Signal Station, says: A popularity
of Mount Washington, due to its rarefied
atmosphere, is the fact that it takes longer
time, and of course more fuel, to do the
cooking. You order hard-boiled egg at
the Summit House, and ii must cook Just
twice as long as at the Crawford. Meat
keeps here long time without spelling.
Putrefaction is so slow that yonder lies the
body of a lamented dog who died months
ago, but is as we'll preserved as if stuffed
with sugar of lead. The successor of this
dead dog is a splendid animal, Great
Saint Bernard, weighing $50 pounds AT
the Signal Station water will freeze hard
by ared-hot stove. The highest wind re-
corded on the summit is 1S4 miles an hour,
and the lowest temperature is $50 below
zero-e70 below freezing
\ meeting of the Board of Trustees of
the California Fruit Union has been called
by the President, H. P. Livermore, to be
held at the Golden Eagle Hotel, in this
city, next Tuesday, February 10Th, at 8 A.
NJ The purpose is to consider measures
for the increase of membership and to
adopt rules and regulations concerning
shipments through the Union. The result
of the meeting will be satisfying to the
fruit-growers. The Union has adopted by
laws, and elected permanent Trustees and
officers under them. The vigorous opening
OF the work by the Board, and the publica-
ton of its plans in the interest of fruit
growers, which will be formulated at the
forthcoming meeting, will no doubt remove
all question as to the advantages to be de-
rived from membership in the Union, and
the amount of subscriptions of stock will
naturally thereby be greatly increased.