Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-01-24
LOCAL BREYITIES.
Mrs. George Perkins has purchased a fine
orange farm at Newcastle.

Mrs. George Perkins has purchased fine
| orange farm at Newcastle.
Yesterday the cbain-gang was engaged in
| cleaning The mud from the street crossings.
The excess of poll-tax collections for the
past year over the year previous was 1868.
The man who was killed by the train
near Websters station Sunday has not yet
been identified.
Yesterday the State Treasury received
from Santa Clara county as a settlement
for yearly taxes 1921, $40, and from Nevada
county $2S, $50.
While duck hunting on Saturday Ernest
| Schestag got in slough over his depth and
would have drowned but for the assistance
of companion.
w. T. Carman, former resident of this
city, died Saturday of consumption at Los
Angeles. His remains will be brought
here for interment.
The old warnings" in the Capitol
grounds, Keep off this terrace" printed
on paper, have been substituted by new
ones painted on wood.
An order is soon to be issued from the
| Adjutant- Generals office as to how the 500
new Springfield rifles will be distributed
among the National Guard.
At the Calvary Baptist Church this even
ing Rev. J. ". Henry will deliver free
illustrated lecture, subject Sixteen Years
among the South Sea Islands"
The pastoral union services are being
quite largely attended. f. Hammond
has been invited TO come to Sacramento,
and hold a series of revival meetings.
The train from Lathrop due here at P.
NJ. was six hours late last evening. The de-
tention was caused by failure of the South
ern overland to make proper connection.
Further hearing of the contest over the
will and estate of Elizabeth Bryte will be
resumed before Judge Van Fleet in De-
partmeut Two of the Superior Court to-day.
The grand ball which was to have been
given by p. r. Beckley, at the Beckley
House, Franklin. on Friday evening of this
week, has been indefinitely postponed on
account of the rain.
A grand book auction will be commenced
this evening, at the corner of Sixth and ]
streets. Five thousand volumes of stand
ard publications are to be sold, regardless
of cost. H. A. Reed, auctioneer.
The Auburn Herald says: lis time to
incorporate. Auburn is so large that when
an East Auburn real estate man comes
down town his brothers take him for a
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Ducks are reported to be plentiful all
over the grain fields in the surrounding
country. Hunters say the birds are very
grounds in great numbers in search of
food.
DR.. 0. Harvey, who has large landed
possessions near Gait, says he demonstrated
to his own satisfaction last season, that
there is more profit in two acres of choice
vineyard, than there is in 100 acres devoted
to wheat.
Yesterday Charles NJ. Troppr.an. of
San Francisco, Secretary of the State Phar-
maceutical Association, came to Sacra-
mento to make arrangements for their an
nual convention which will be held in this
city in May next.
The latest advices from New York are
that the old crop of hops is running short
and the market shows increased firmness.
Pacific coast hops have shared in the i'm
provement with other descriptions. Choice
Pacifcs bring from II to IS cents and
medium, 10 to II cents.
At midnight the police had made the fol-
lowing arrests P. H. Dodge, for battery
upon w. II. Rowls, by officer Franks John
Doe, drunk, by officer Able Tom Neelev,
drunk, by local officer Martin All Gee,
petit larceny, stealing pistol from John
Greenlaw, by local officer Martin.
The residence of Bishop Manogue was
entered Sunday night by some thief or
thieves, who were afterwards frightened
away by the awakening of some OF the
priests. The drawers III the writing desk
were ransacked, but it is not known
whether or not the thieves got away with
any booty.
The average Signal Service temperature
yesterday was so, being 30 warmer than
the normal temperature for that day. The
highest and lowest temperature was $50 and
49o, with weather varying from foggv to
cloudy and fair. The rainfall yesterday
was IL of an inch, making 27 inches for
January, and SO for the season, as against
400 inches to corresponding date last
year
A. Pendleton of Nicoaus writes to the
RECORD UNION under date of January 23d,
as follows: The rainfall at this place for
this storm has been l 10 inches, distributed
as follows; On the Goth, S. Dist, 81 :;
22d, .0S; 23d to IA. NJ, 10, and still raining
gently. This gives US 346 for the month,
including II melted snow, and makes total
for the season, 7.49. The river is rising
slowly.
Saturday night the house on the mound,
on the Mauldin ranch short distance
above the mouth of the American river,
was burglarized. The thief tried to break
in the door, and failing in that made an
entrance through window. After partak-
ing of lunch the thief left an old coat,
appropriated new one, and skedaddled.
A reward has been offered for the arrest of
the thief.