Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-05-04
LOCAL BREyITIEs.

! The fees of the County Recorder for the
month of April amounted to $473 %.
r. S. Carey has a number of laborers al
work on the K-street extension of the CITY
| railway.
Bell & Co. tomorrow, at 10 A. NJ, will
sell furniture, carpets, glassware, ETC., at
927 K street.
S. P Putnam will lecture Sunday even
ing in Pioneer Hall on The Bible and Its
Relation to Modern Thought
John Brenton, native of England, was
admitted to citizenship in Department Two
of the Superior Court yesterday.
Governor Waterman has had placed in
his office three elegant cases to hold State
papers. They were made in San Francisco
and cost 81, $50.
The Changers picnic, which was to have
taken place at Beach's Grove yesterday,
was, on account of the rain, postponed to
Tuesday, May 22d.
The Tribunes, of Oakland, and the Atlas.
of this city, will be pitted against each
other next Sunday. An interesting game
may be anticipated.
In Department One of the Superior Court
yesterday Judge Armstrong granted d.
vorce to Effie E. Wickes from Fred Wickes
vi Tue STOuuu Oh cruelty.
About year ago the bakers in this CITY
put the price up on bread to five cents a
loaf. 1t has taken tumble, and you now
can get three loaves for ten cents.
The shade. ornamental and fruit trees in
the town of Woodland are said to be affected
with the Santa Cruz scale. There should
be an inspection of trees in this city.
Deputy Sheriff Riley, of San Francisco,
yesterday passed through the city with
convict named B. Lowandowski, whom he
was taking from Folsom to San Francisco
as witness.
The work of track-laying commenced
Wednesday on the Madison and Lake Rail-
road. A force of seventy men is employed
in the work, and they calculate on laying a
mile and quarter of track per day.
John and Len. Siller were arrested yes
terday, on complaint of Street Commits
sioner Ryan, charged with misdemeanor,
in maintaining fence too far out towards
the street at Thirteenth and streets.
The ladies' lunch of the Central NJ. E.
Church, held in the basement of the NJ. E.
Church South, was generously patronized
yesterday. The dinner will be repeated
also to-day and tomorrow, from II to 2.
There is some talk of the Mcneil Club
attending the FL Dorado county excursion
on the oath instant and giving two con-
certs in Placerville. The club has been in
vited to attend the meeting of the National
Teachers Association in San Francisco in
July.
Yesterday afternoon a woman living on
Second street, between ] and K. startled
the whole neighborhood by her piercing
screams. She was taken to the station
house, where it was ascertained that she
was suffering from fit of Mysteries After
she became calm she was allowed to 60
home.
The Directors of the Stockton Insane Asv-
lum met at the State Capitol yesterday,
present Messrs. Watt, McDougal and Doak.
They met to consult with the Governor.
Secretary of State and State Treasurer re-
garding the putting in of new sewage
system at the Asylum. The matter was
taken under advisement for ten days.
Industrial Lodge, No. 157, I.O.O.F., will
receive, to morrow evening, Pleasant Grove,
Elk Grove Rocklin, Roseville, and River
Lodges and Rising Star Rebekah Degree
Lodge. The third degree will be conferred
in amplified form by Industrial Degree
staff in Fraternity Hall. The Rebekah
Degree Lodge will entertain the visiting
sisters with choice literary and musical
programme in Temple Hall.
The rainfall yesterday at Sacramento
according to the Signal Service reports, was
SO of an inch, making II A inches for the
season, as against Is 81 inches to an equal
date last year. The average temper
ature was $50 being 70 cooler than the
normal for that day. The highest and
lowest temperature was $50 and 400, with
fresh to gentle southerly winds and show
cry weather, and a slowly falling barom-
eter.
Mrs. Potter's audience at the Opera
House last night was small. As Juliet she
had opportunity to manifest greater drama
tic power, and to read text Of higher and
more difficult order. The lady certainly
read well, and as an elocutionist has un-
deniable ability. But the opinion ex-
pressed by this journal as to her incapacity
as an actress undergoes no change She
has not the dramatic quality that wins or
moves an audience, or compensates it for
the sacrifice of its time and money