Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-01-12
LOCAL BREVITIES,

Frank II. Slack has been very i'll, but is
| improving slowly.
Louis Strauss, better known as dutch
Louis" died yesterday morning.
The Fourth Ward Improvement Asso-
| cation will meet at Lichthardt Hall at s
| o'clock tonight.
The annual catalogue for 1883 has been
issued by the cambridge Business College
and Normal School of this city.
M-street citizens held a meeting at
Scheld's Brewery Tuesday evening, al
winch street-car matters were discussed.
The west-bound overland trains continue
to arrive far behind time. One of them
dld not arrive yesterday until late in the
afternoon.
Last evening the stockholders of the
street-car lines met in Woodland and in
corporated. Work upon the road will be
commenced at once.
\ meeting of the Executive Committee
of the Sacramento City and County I'm
provement Association will be held this
evening at o'clock, at the usual place
429 street.
The Town Trustees of Woodland in con-
junction with the Board of Health, passed
a resolution yesterday excluding all chill
dren from the public schools who have not
been yaccinated.
At midnight the police had made the
following arrests: James Martin, drunk
George Berger, bettery; Henry A Caul-
field, disturbing the peace; Thomas Nc
Carly, attempted robbery.
Last evening about o'clock an alarm O
fire was sounded from box 80 1t was &C.
casioned by lamp explosion in residence
on X street, between Thirteenth and Four
tenth. Damages tritling.
Edward Gowan, the unfortunate iudiyid
ual who was taken to the County Hospital
on the supposition that he had the small
pox, has entirely recovered from the m cas-.
les, and has been discharged.
The average Signal Service temperature
yesterday was $50, being 60 colder than
the normal for that day. The highest and
lowest temperature was 4So and $50: with
gentle southerly winds, clear and pleasant
weather.
The circular of the College of Letters and
the College of Sciences, for 1883, has been
issued by the State University at Berkeley
1t gives the course of instruction, the re-
quirements for admission, suggestions re-
garding preparation, expenses, specimen
examination papers, assembling of students
for beginning work, etc.
A synopsis of the proceedings of the
eighth Fruit Growers Convention of Cali
fornia, held under the auspices of the State
Board of Horticulture at Santa Rosa in No
vember last, has been published at the State
Printing Office, and copies may be had
from the Office of the Board, go Suffer
street, San Francisco.
1t has been reported in this city that a
large number Of persons living in the vicin-
ity of CORTLAND and Walnut Grove were
attacked with small pox. An iuquisitive
individual, however, telegraphed down and
ascertained that the stir was caused by
case of measle, which caught onto - Fred
Houston, of CORTLAND.
Yesterday as boy was distributing San
Francisco papers in the upper part of the
city, lady upon whose porch one had
been thrown was seen to sprinkle it with
some liquid and then unfolding it, hang it
on the clothes-line to dry. No San Fran
cisco sheet will carry smallpox into her
house If there is any virtue in disinfectants.
a Stockton paper of Tuesday says: This
evenings train from Sacramento, due here
at o'clock, was one hour late on account
OF the delay occasioned by running over an
unknown man about five miles this side of
Gait. One of the train hands reported here
that the man was cut to pieces. but the re-
mains could not be found. The engine
wheels were examined here tonight, and
had considerable blood on them.
D. d. G. S. James McCaw installed the
following officers of Red Cloud Tribe, No.
Al, for the term, on Tuesday evening C.
B. Clark, Sachem; S. A. Phelps s. s.; J.
B: Burdg, J. s.; j. Bauquier, Jr. Prop;
Thomas J. Eames, c. of R.: j. s. Watson,
X. of w; F. ]. Bidwell, First Sanap; L. W
Grothen, Second Sanap; w. Adams, F. F.
Franson, J. B. Rodgers, B. F. Johnson,
Warriors; T. ?. Smith, James Fletcher,
raves.