Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-01-26
LOCAL RREYITIES.

! Help the orphans.
The steamer Dover went up the river fol
grain yesterday.
The city last night after 10 o'clock wa.
enveloped In fog.
The military warrants are ready at the
Controllers Office.
The ladies of Equity Lodge K. and L. OF
H., announce valentine party.
Bids for the making of uniforms for the
National Guard will be opened to-day.
Leap year party at Granger Hall to-
night given by the ladies of Sumner Corps.
The cold snap has no terrors for the
Scotch. They barred their knees and
wore their kits last night.
An Italian gardener, who had no funds to
spare, unloaded three sacks of potatoes at
the orphan asylum yesterday.
Ten per cent. of the proceeds of lemon
ade sales at the Caledonian party last even
ing was donated to the orphan fund.
Thomas Cassin, a man from Nevada,
claims to have been robbed on Saturday in
that notorious dive known as 90 the Gem"
In Department One of the Superior
Court yesterday, William o. Keefe, ma
tive of Ireland, was admitted 10 citizen.
ship, on the testimony of Edward Dolan
and r. Shay.
County Clerk VIM. B. Hamilton has
filed a new official bond with William
Mitchell as security, for $1,000. This was
necessitated on account of the death of
William Joseph, one of Mr.. Hamiltons
| bondsmen.
The new evening paper will be started
| inside of thirty days. An interested party
Yesterday remarked: ut will not COM
mence a baby but will jump into the
journalistic world full grown and will
be backed by plethoric sack. 1t comes to
stay"
Yesterday warrants were issued from the
Controllers Office for the salaries of the
State printers. From the State school
book fund S4lS 80 was drawn, from the
State printing fund.- $1,S70 80, and from the
text book fund, s., 2SS %, making total of
81 577 so.
The attention of the Street Commissioner
is respectfully called to the condition of the
crossings of ] street, near the Grammar
School. Hundreds of school children must
wade through slush ankle deep several
times day, to no small damage to their
apparel and temper.
The cave in the street at Fifth and k,
Tuesday, was caused by the rotting out of
an old wooden box sewer, placed there
many years ago. Street Commissioner
Ryan had gang of men at work yester-
day repairing the damage. An iron-stone
pipe was substituted.
Yesterday morning a man living near
the Washington Bakery accidentally dis
charged his doubled barreled shotgun
while examining it. The contents passed
through the window of his house and also
one of the White House across the street.
People in the ueighborhood were consider
ably excited.
There will be a meeting of the Executive
Committee of the Sacramento City and
County Improvement Association this
| evening at the rooms of the Association.
429 street, commencing at o'clock
sharp. Matters of importance will be con-
sidered, and all members of the committee
are expected to be present.
At the State Agricultural. Pavilion this
afternoon at 3 o'clock there will be con-
vention of delegates from all the District
Fair Associations in the State. They meet
| with the Directors of the State Agricultural
| Society to arrange dates for the various dis
| trict fairs. 1t is the intention to arrange
| the circuits one to precede the other, to fol-
low the State Fair.
J. +. Linthicum, Recording Clerk in the
Office of the Secretary of State, appears to
have been the successful candidate for the
| position of Receiver of Public Moneys IN
| this city. Mr.. Linthicum is journalist of
| long experience an uncompromising Dem
ocrat, man of high moral character, and
| who has scores of friends who congratu-
late him on his success.
The average Signal Service temperature
| yesterday was $50, being 50 warmer than
the normal temperature for that day. The
| highest and lowest temperature was $50 and
| 4So, with fresh southerly winds during the
| day and gentle northerly winds at night
clouds moving from the south. There was
| OF of an inch of rain fell during the shower
| yesterday between and 4 A. NJ. Weather
| yesterday, cloudy to fair and clear.
At the awarding of the contract for the
| building of the new addition to the Odd
| Fellows Temple, on Ninth street, between
J and X, Tuesday evening, George B. Dean,
| a Sacramento contractor, secured the prize.
His bid was for SIS, 1888 9S, and the work is
to be completed by June LIST. The new
addition joins the old hall on Ninth street.
| and will be twenty ieet wide by eighty
| feet long, and three stories high The
architecture, externally, will conform with
| the old building. The new part will be
used for banquet hall and Lodge rooms.
| The Young Peoples Union of the Sixth
| street NJ. E. Church gave musicale Tues
| day evening, at the residence of Miss Ella
| Barber. The following programme was
| pleasingly rendered: Instrumental duet,
| from IN Trovatore," Misses Barber and
| Jordan; vocal solo, THE Anchors
Weighed" Mr.. Desmond instrumental
| solo, The Banks of Allan Water" Miss
Gertie Gerrish; vocal solo, GOOD Night,
Farewell" Miss Alice Andrews; inslru-
mental solo, 1.-The Last Smile Mrs.
Walter Greer; vocal duet, Miss Needham
and Mr.. Desmond; recitation, Drifting"
Miss Warehouse piano accompaniment,
| from Moonlight Sonata" Miss Gerrish );
vocal solo, 9 Marguerite Miss Lillian
Smith.
Metropolitan Theater.