Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-12-26
LOCAL BREVITIES.


Music tonight at the skating rink, cor
ner OF Sixth and NJ streets.
A young German, slightly the worse for
liquor, was rolled in the mud near Third
and K streets last night about II o'clock
by three footpads, and robbed of his hat
and ten dollars in money.
The Sacramento Business Club effected
temporary organization Monday evening
by the election of the following officers /:
z. ID. Hubbard, President; W. r. Ormsby,
Secretary, and ]. o. Coleman, Treasurer.
The annual meeting of the California
Fruit Union has been called to be held at
San francisco on the 10th of January. The
Board OF Directors will hold preliminary
meeting on the day previous at the same
place.
DR.. Makiells Electric Radiant will be ex-
hibited this evening for the benefit of the
pastor of the A. NJ. Z. Church. He has
over $50 scenes of the Old and New Testa-
ments. There will be free lunch in con-
nection with the exhibition.
Modjeska, on her forthcoming tour.
under the direction of Manager Hayman,
will give Shakespeare's "Cymbeline
| here for the first time. She will have
strong company, including Z. H Wander
felt, well-known English actor, as lead
\ ing man.
Arthur G.. Smith, accompanied by his
manager, George D. Charles, arrived here
last evening from San Francisco, and is to
give reading at the Seventh Meth
odist Church on Saturday evening. Mr..
Smith comes highly recommended by the
Eastern press.
Notice has been received that the next
regular meeting of the State Horticultural
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18th, at clock P. NJ, at the Office of the
State Board of Horticulture, 800 Suffer
| street, San Francisco. The subject for dis
cussion will be Sub-Irriga,ion and Tile
| Drainage"
A meeting, to include the Board of
Trade, the City and County Improvement
Association, and all citizens interested in
the proposed exhibition of California pro-
ducts and resources at London, has been
| called, and will be held in the Board of
Trade rooms, corner of Second and ]
streets, over the Wells-Fargo office, to-
morrow afternoon at 2:30. 1t is proposed,
among other things, to appoint commit
| tee of one hundred from Sacramento city
and county, to aid in the work of creating
and establishing the exhibition referred to-
The annual Christmas exercises and fes-
| tval of the Congregational Chinese Mis-
sion was held last evening at the Mission
| rooms on | street, opposite the Court house.
The rooms were crowded, about one-h half
the audience being American friends of the
| school. A programme consisting of sing
| ing, Rotations, readings, etc., occupied
about three-quarters of an hour, and was of
character strongly commendatory of the
| Mission work and gratifying to its friends.
The ability of the students to speak English
was unexpectedly good, and even in sing
| ing the words were generally well articu-
| lated and easily understood. After the
programme was concluded the members of
| the Mission served the entire audience with
refreshments, consisting of sandwiches, ice
| cream, cake, coffee, cand es, etc., and ex-
| tending as hearty welcome and Christmas
| cheer as could be met with in any of the
| city church socials.