Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-02-22
LOCAL BaEYITIEs.


To-day is legal holiday.
The north wind doth blow.
Police officer P. Rice is in very i'll health.
The river has receded to nineteen feet
one inch.
All of the trains are now arriving on the
regular schedule time.
The Trustees will have special meeting
next Thursday or Friday.
Through freight is coming from the East
at the rate of $50 carloads day.
The railroad officials say that no through
train will be run to Piaceryille within a
month.
Work was yesterday commenced on the
new Fire Department building, on Sixth
street, between K and L.
Richard Peacock, the young man who
went violently insane Sunday last, contin-
ues to improve, and in a few days will be
himself again.
Jesse Waddle, the would-be jury-fxer.
still languishes in the County Jail, being
unable to satisfy the Judgment of the Court
by the payment OF his fine.
II Superior Judge Armstrong was Police
Magistrate, Manuel Dubois and few
Others of that ilk would be languishing in
the bastile with Jesse Waddle.
One can almost judge now how the new
building for the cirrus fruit exhibit near
the depot will look when finished, the
frame having already been built.
A dispatch from Redding yesterday
stated that ]. 7. Day, a Sacramento man,
died at that place. and will be buried to-
day by the Masonic fraternity of that place.
There is young man in Sac,
Whom the bosses pat on the back,
He wants to be Chief
To capture the thief.
And keep the sports off of the rack.
Captain Hall, Superintendent OF the
Orangevale Colony, near Folsom, reports
that already eleven of the thirteen 10
acre tracts have been planted 10 vines and
trees.
The time for The holding of the city cleo
ton is fast approaching. Politicians are
working quietly, all kinds of rumors are
shoat, and an explosion is likely to occur
at any time.
Mollie Jones, the convicted petit-larceny
thief, was 10 have been sentenced by Judge
Armstrong yesterday, but on account of
the absence of her attorney the matter was
continued until Friday next.
The business houses of the city and the
freight offices of the Southern Pacific Rail
road, according to an agreement on file, are
requested by the Board of Directors of the
Sacramento Board of Trade to remain
closed to-day.
Captain 7. B. Hall, who has been super
intending the planting of trees and vines
at the new colony-Orangeval Fol-
som, struck his instep with the blade of an
ak and inflicted very severe cut. He is
able to be about, however.
A lady yesterday remarked that she
] Il L
with a smelling attachment, adding she
would like to inhale Whit of her hus-
bands breath when he calls her up from
down town and says he is too busy 10
come home to tea.
The average Signal Service temperature
yesterday was 600, being 90 warmer than
the normal for that day. The highest and
lowest temperature was 500 and 49o
Yesterday was the warmest day this year.
The wind was northerly, and blowing from
80 to 40 miles per hour: weather clear.
The Placerville Observer says: The
bridge across Weber creek is completed,
and the engine and train crossed it for the
first time last Saturday. Track laying is
now rapidly being pushed to the city, and
by the last of the week the toot of the en-
CINE, driving cows off the track, will be
heard in Placeryille.
a PIacervllle paper says; vi late many
inquiries from the Western States have
been received in this neighborhood asking
in regard to the prospect of obtaining
homes, the price of lands, facilities for
reaching market, etc. 1t is pretty certain
that there will be large additions to the
population of Ell Dorado county this year !
The citizens of Placerville made a raid
on the Chinese lottery games of that city
some time since. The proprietors were
fined $300-and if they violate the law again
the fine will be doubled A committee of
100 citizens visited Chinatown last week,
and have ordered the Celestials to clean
up and put their houses in order or vacate
the town inside of ten days. They mean
business.
T" If / am elected Chief of Police, shall
see to it that the laws are enforced No
faro bank. lottery scheme, tau game or dis
reputable den where men are made drunk
and then robbed will be permitted to exist
within the city limits during my term of
office" Such q speech was made to
number of business men on K street yester-
day by well-known citizen who has never
dabbled in politics.
The Committee on Manufacturing Inter-
ests and Business Enterprises met last
evening at the rooms of the Association,
429 street, ]. NJ. Avery Chairman. Messrs.
Tryon, Schaw, A. S. Hopkins, Shields,
Holland, Kestler and w. B. Maydwell were
present. Various matters bearing upon
Industries that could be established adj
vantageously in the city and. steps taken to
gather such information as may lead to
good results in the near future were dis
cussed.