Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-01-19
LOCAL BREVITIES.


The river marked feet 10 inches yes
terday.
The Dover came down the river Tuesday
with grain.
The west-bound overland train yesterday
was several hours late.
Some men whistle while going through
a churchyard, to keep their courage up.
A large number of COAL water and box
cars are being constructed in the yard near
the carpenter-shop at the railroad works.
If Calls champion liar claims to have
killed 158 geese one day last week, what
will he claim after the geese begin to arrive
in that section?
One of the yard engines was derailed last
evening at the foot of l street. 1t took the
efforts of gang of men and a locomotive
for an hour to replace it.
Some adventurous spirits INDUCED in
skating on the slough beyond the shops
yesterday. The ice is becoming very thin
and dangerous in places.
A meeting of the Committee of the I'M
provement Association on Roads and
Drives will be held Friday evening at the
rooms of the Association.
Two large locomotives for the Southern
Pacific Company are nearly completed at
the shops. They are fitted with the small
stack and smoke-burning appal etus.
The Fourth Ward Improvement Associa-
ton will meet to night at Leitchardt's Hall,
at Eighteenth and NJ streets Robert T.
Devlin and other will address the meeting.
at midnight the police had made but
two arrests-Charles McCarty, for vagrancy,
by officer Franks, and John Brown, for
assault with a deadly weapon, by officer
Farrell.
Locomotives numbers 10, Sc and 17S,
which were injured in the smash-up at
Lathrop recently, have been received at the
repair-shops. They presented very d.
lapidated appearance.
Last evening. after the close of the thea
ter, the James O'Neill combination hired g
locomotive and special car and started to
overhaul the east-bound overland. They
expected to catch up at Truckee.
Harry Luft, the tinsmith who some days
ago was taken to the hospital wandered
away few nights ago and barely escaped
freezing to death. Why is not this unfor-
tuDate individual taken either to Stockton
or Napa?
A well-known local Democratic poll
tician, who first saw the light of day in
Erin, yesterday made the following asser-
ton: Every Irishman that votes for free
trade casts ballot for England and against
the liberation of his native land"
This evening y. Nj. l. No. IL will hold
their annual ball at Armory Hall, which
has been tastefully decorated with flags,
streamers, shrubbely and flowers. The
Committee of Arrangements has secured
the best music in the city, and has left
nothing undone to please their guests.
the State Treasury yesterday from San
francisco, as a part payment Of the State
taxes. The amount is apportioned to the
following funds: General fund, $299 933 ST;
school fund, 1854, $50 80; interest and sink
ing fund, SIT ,9S7 SO; State University fund,
$7,775 SO.
Yesterday while William Cummings.
an employee of the rolling mills, was skat-
ing on the ice back of the round-house, he
was thrown violently down, in conse-
quence of one of his skates becoming I'M
fastened. An ugly cash was inflicted Just
aboze the right temple. He was taken to
the Railroad Hospital where the wound
was stitched and dressed.
The Signal Service reports last night at
Sacramento show rapidly falling ba.
rometer, warmer temperature, southerly
winds and cloudy weather. The average
temperature was $50, being 100 colder than
the normal. The highest and lowest tenn
perature was 40 and 25o This is the first
day since Saturday that the average daily
mean temperature was above the freezing
point.
William Lambert, OF Woodland, who
recently returned from a trip through the
East, tells how California fruit sold in
many places. In Idaho apples retail at 10
cents apiece; peaches, three for quarter.
Watermelons of very ordinary size sell for
81 50 apiece. A melon that would not be
worth more than 25 cents here would be
divided into quarters there and each quar-
ter sold for 80 cents.
Yesterday Sergeant Bsrwick went to the
postoffice for his mail. Among other mat
ter he received a large document from the
State Board of Horticulture On his way
to the office he lost it. He Immediately re-
traced his steps and found the wrapper
lying on the sidewalk in front of the Cali
fOrnia State Bank building. The party ap-
propriating this document is requested to
return it. AS it was an addressed unbroken
package, bearing ID cents in United States
postage, the individual who opened it is
liable to prosecution.
District Grand Dictator +. L. Green has
installed the following officers of Unity
Lodge, No. 2,0SS, X. OF H. Past Dictator,
W. W. Mott; Dictator, Carsten Tietjen ;
Vice-Dictator, A. Phelps; Assistant Die
tator E. S. Rego; Reporter w. D. Grove :;
Financial Reporter, T. A. Atwood Trea-
surer, L. B. Sutletf; Chaplain, J. L. Orr ;
Guide, w. ]. Renfro Guardian, P. Bran
non; Sentinel, W. Woods; Trustees
George o. Bates, w. J. Renfro, c. Tietien ;
Representative to Grand Lodge, j. L. Orr ;
Alternate, George o. Bates; Medical Ex-
aminer, DIR. C. Mealand.
The electric light in front of the station
house went out last evening shortly after
II o'clock. When it is not burning the
streets in that vicinity are quite dark, on
account of the tall buildings shutting off
the light from the other streets. This lamp
rarely burns after midnight, at which hour
the jailer lights the gas lamp attached TO
the wall, and which lights only the en-
trance to the Jail. As it costs no more to
burn the gas lamp in one place than an
other, it would prove great convenience
to persons who have business at the station
house late at night to have the gashght
placed where it would be of the most serv-
ice in lighting up the street.
JUDGES TO CHANGE PLAcEs.--Judge Hunt,
of San Francisco will come to this city
to-day, and try a case in the Superior
Court which involves the legality of the
Sacramento city bonds. Judge Armstrong
went below yesterday, and will occupy
Judge Hunts bench while the latter re-
mains in this city. The change becomes
necessary for the reason that both Judge
Armstrong and Judge Van Vleet, of the
Sacramento Courts, are disqualified from
| trying the case.
IEsTALLATIoN. = Tuesday evening the
CALIFORNIAN Club installed the following
officers for the ensuing year: Chief, ANDY
Logan; First Chief, John Carlaw Second
Chief, James Stewart; Third Chief Will
lam Wardlaw; Fourth Chief, W. W. Woods.
A statue to Sle Car is to be erected in