Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-01-14
LOCAL BREYITrIES.

The steamers Varuna and d. E. Knight
came down the river Thursday with barge
loads of grain.
The third annual ball of the Y NJ. l.,
No. II, will be given at Armony Hall on
Thursday evening next.
a settlement of S161, 4S0 OF was paid INTO
the State Treasury yesterday by Sacramento
county for taxes during tie past year.
At midnight the police had made the
following arrests: d. C. Kaymeyer and a
j. DAMS, disturbing the peace; Pat. Duffy,
drunk, and Henry Mccoy, burglary.
Two carloads of United States soldiers
came through on the west-bound overland
yesterday from the East They are in COM
mand of Captain Aberts, and are going to
the Presidio.
w. A. Barnes. of the San Francisco En-
0mainer, will address the Young Mems
Christian Association on Monday evening
next. Admission free to members; all
others % cents.
Rev. w. C. Merrill will tomorrow even
ing deliver another OF his series Unpopular
Bible lectures at the Congregational Church
Subject: The Covenant of the Kings;
the Power of Good Life"
A correspondent writing from Capay
valley says; Scarlet fever, measles,
chicken-pox and whooping cough have
about run their course here, but now we
hear the mumps are bringing up the rear"
The alarm of fire at P NJ. yesterday was
occasioued by the burning out of a chimney
at the Ninth-street Baptist Church. No
damage, except to the fire department.
which had hard run through the stiff
mud.
DIR. Tebbets, Chairman of the Board of
Supervisors, was informed last evening that
the small pox had broken out in the Chinese
camp at CORTLAND. DR.. G.. A. White, the
county physician, will go down to-day to
investigate.
The charge against Harry ]. W. Dam of
having secured pardons for convicts from
General Stoneman has been referred by the
San Francisco Grand Jury to the Sacra-
mento Grand Jury, as the alleged o4fense
was committed in this county.
poor man in Woodland lost a $50 gold
piece. a Yolo capitalist found the double
eagle. and plying the losers distress, re-
turned the latter 50. The meanest man in
California can no longer be said to live in
Los Angeles, because ne is Yoloite
Milton McWhorter has severed his con-
nection with the Marysville Democrat and
will start daily paper in the new town of
Suffer City. w. H. Phillips has secured
the controlling interest in the Democrat,
and it is said he will have George Ohleyer
as editor.
Thomas G. Pockman, who was selected
by the improvement Association to can
vass for products of Sacramento county to
be exhibited at San Jose during the con-
vention of Eastern horticulturists there,
has accepted the situation and entered upon
the work
A large number of freight cars that have
been delayed on the Central Pacific came
over the hill yesterday. Bot little freight
traffic is now being done over the Oregon
line owing to its present rough condition
A new road and heavy storms give railroad
men plenty of work.
The Young Mems Christian Association
held their monthly business meeting last
evening. A large number were present.
From the reports presented by the various
committees, it was noticed that The Asso-
citation is actively at work. Eighteen new
members were elected.
The Sacramento Caledonian Club will
celebrate the 10th anniversary of the birth
of Bobbie Burns, at Armory Hall. on
Wednesday evening, January 25th, by a
grand promenade concert and ball when
the best local talent of San Francisco and
Sacramento will take part.
Arrangements have been made for two
lectures, on Friday and Saturday of next
week, at the Sixth-street NJ. Z. Church, bv
the noted Kentucky orator Colonel J. I.
Hickman. The lectures will be on the
subject of temperance, and it is understood
there will be no charge for admission
AS an evidence of the dispatch in which
business is being conducted in the Adjutant-
Generals office under General Orton's ad-
ministration, it may be stated that six
hundred copies of the new roster and the
same number of orders were mailed and
on the way to their destination in an hour
after they were received.
Some time last November n. w. Ran
dali, of Orland, Colusa county, disappeared
from home and nothing has been heard of
him since. He is about five feet ten inches
in hight, aged about so years, grey hair
and full beard, weight $50 pounds; wore
when last seen, checkered sack suit, brown
overcoat and black Derby hat.
While down in Los Angeles recently, J.
+. Madden, of Placer picked up pointer on
orange growing from Wad- Ell Ward, the
celebrated lecturer, who says that in Pal
estine they first bud the orange On lime
stock, and then bud back on orange stock.
In that way they escape all pests, as no
one ever saw the scale on lime trees
In speaking of cold winters, General Bid
well, of Chico, says in the past 40 years
there has been five in which there were
snowstorms covering the greater portion
of the Sacramento valley with a mantle of
white. The most severe snow-storm was
in the month of January, 1S49, which in
some localities laid on the ground for sew
eral days.
The average signal service temperature
yesterday was 390, being 50 colder than
the normal for that day. The highest and
lowest temperature was 49, and 800, with
fresh southerly winds and clear weather
during the early morning and forenoon
fresh to brisk westerly and northerly winds
during the afternoon and night with a
sprinkle of rain between and P. M;
weather clear at night.
At a recent meeting of the Board of Agri-
culture of FL Dorado county A T. Leach
man was elected delegate to attend con-
vention of delegates from the various
agricultural associations for the purpose of
consultation in the arrangement of dates
that will result in the formation of two cir
cults, one to preceGe and the other 10 follow
the State Fair. The convention will meet
in this city the Goth day of this month
Fully one-third of every boom is due to
judicious advertising. The Placer County
Board of Supervisors are aware of that
fact, and unlike the short-sighted Boards
of adjoining counties, invest in it. They
have voted another 81, 500 to the boom fund,
and everyone who knows anything about
Northern and Central California to day,
knows that Placer is the center of attrac
ton. They deserve their prosperity, and
the bread they now are casting upon the
waters will return in few days a hundred
fold
A slight error crept into the re-
port of the names of the officers
of Sacramento Commandery No. 2,
Knights Templar, who were installed at
Masonic Temple Thursday evening by
Right Eminent Grand Commander r.
Lloyd, of San Francisco. The following is
a correct list; Sir John W. Boyd, Emil
nent Commander Sir w. B. Davis, General
isimo; Sir w. D. Knights. Captain General;
Sir John W. Rock, Prelate Sir J. E. T.
Pike, Senior Warden; Sir Joseph Davey,
Junior Warden; Sir A. A. Van Voorhees,,
Treasurer; Sir A. A. Redington, Recorder;
Sir w. r. Jones, Standard Bearer; Sir John
Guthrie. Sword Bearer Sir Richard P.
Burr, Ward; Sir George F. Brorner, Sen
tinel.
Installation and Presentation