Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-01-27
LOCAL BREyITIES.
River, IA feet 7 inches.

River, IA feet Z inches.
Bossism is not what it used to be.
The pay car is expected this forenoon.
An individual who boasts of well-doing
is small potatoes and few in hill.
The Portland express due here at 40 A
! NJ. yesterday was sixteen hours late.
The McNeill Club will give concert il
| the Metropolitan Theater on the evening o
February 18th.
The n. NJ T. Club will give an entertain
ment at the Seventh-street NJ. L. Church
South tonight.
| City politics are in muddle. Some Of
the jobs have already collapsed " and
| others will never mature.
P. F. Dolan wishes it stated that he was
not candidate for President of the Elk
| empts at Wednesdays election.
The returns of the National Guard for the
annual target practice held September and
| October have Just reached the Adjutant-
Generals Office.
The ice harvest is now completed and the
various companies have their houses filled.
1t is said to be the biggest crop ever cut ON
the Truckee river.
The following counties settled with the
State Treasurer yesterday: Suffer, $43,-
III Al; Alameda, $299,j674 81, and Ell
Dorado, $20996 q.
A dispatch from Truckee yesterday says
the blockade on the Salt Lake Division has
been broken, and one hundred freight cars
passed there to-day.
The Fire Department managers are nego-
tiating for team of horses for the steam
| fire engine to be located at Nineteenth and
l. streets next month.
Frank Mckenna and Charles Mason
were convicted of petit larceny in Washing
ton yesterday and sent up to the bastile at
Woodland for thirty days.
The city prison afforded accommodations
last night for four drunks-the results of
| the vigilance of the thirteen men employed
to preserve the peace and dignity of this
commonwealth.
The Governor appointed the following
Notaries yesterday: w. A. Gray, Visalia,
vice D. HI. Herbert, term expired also
Herbert Bass, Montgomery Creek, vice self,
failed to qualify.
The Sacramento Turn Verein will give a
gymnastic exhibition and ball at Turner
Hall tomorrow night, for the benefit of
their teacher, David Besser. Fifty pupils
Will participate in the exercises.
A contribution box has been placed in
the Bank of Yolo, Woodland, in charge of
Z. w. Bush, where those who are inclined
may give to the benefit of the orphans of
the Protestant Asylum of this city.
Yesterday Lewis e. Alsip received bv
boat from the Pacific Rolling Mills, at San
Francisco, 1854 pounds of iron for the
street electric railway. They now have
sufficient rail ON hand for one mile of
track.
B. Isaac, of lone City, man who has
done more for western Amador than any
other, is in town. He says that all the
tender feet P" who get as far as lone locate.
why shouldn't they? 1t is one of the gar
den spots of the coast.
The average Signal Service temperature
yesterday was 520 being 60 warmer than
the normal for that day. The highest and
lowest temperature was $50 and 41o, with
variable winds and cloudy weather, and
barometer falling; wind at night moving
from the southwest, as also was the clouds.
Warrants were drawn Yesterday at the
Controllers office for the following
amounts: Yosemite Valley Commission
Sl,2lS %; Mining Bureau, 1908 SO; San
Francisco Hospital forAbandoned Children,
No. 8, $500; Sheriff of San Francisco,
1854 10; San Quentin Prison, $40, $50 Al.
The yellow flag is out at Twenty-fifth
and II streets. A young man by the name
OF VIM. J. Parker Is reported to have the
Varlolold. Another and a similar case is
reported at Twenty-second and J streets.
While many claim that both cases are only
measles, it would be well to get vaccinated
and take no chances.
A. I. Leachman, of Ell Dorado county.
came to the city yesterday to attend the
District Fair Convention. Mr. Leachman
is one of the Supervisors of the old EN-
pre- county" and says everything in his
section Is prospering Low taxes, fine
lands, abundance of water and timber. an
incompatible cllmate-what more does
mortal desire?
A gentleman who was down the River
side road this week found upon apple trees,
standing in fully-exposed positions, good,
sound fruit that had not been injured by
the cold weather. He thinks this is evil
dence of the fact that even our unusually
cold winters, which occur but once in
thlrty-hye or forty years, are not so very
severe, after all.
More socials are being held this winter
than in any previous season in the history
of the city. Nearly all the respectable
young men have joined societies or circles
| of acquaintance, whereby their evenings
are spent in good company. The saloon,
| once the rendezvous for old and young, is
| fast coming to be looked upon as the last
place that young man of responsibility
should be seen in.
Timothy Hopkins, Treasurer of the
| Southern Pacific Company, says that "the
payroll of its Sacramento employees this
winter is between $350,0O0 and $500, 600 a
month. Two thousand skilled workmen
are now at work in the shops at that place,
| and thau 20 l..
The present monthly payroll for the road
west of Ell Paso and Ogden is about 81.
| 100000, and for the past twelve months the
company has disbursed about So, 900 600 in
wages.
A hunter yesterday was asked how much
he received for ducks. We'll" he replied
IF sell sell them before l get to town l
get twenty-five cents apiece. If l sell them
in town, | do well to get twenty cents a
pair" How's that" was the inquiry.
| We'll, you see, the State and city officials,
clerks, BARRIERS and dudes, go out hunting.
If they find me in the field they buy me
out az my own price. | sold seven to q
man connected with State office last week
for fifty cents apiece"
| A gentleman called at the RRCoRD-UNIoN
| office last evening and asked that the fact
be published that twenty Chinese lottery
| StuicS were III lull DlaSI III CHINATOWN,
and score or more tan games were also
in operation. The reporter refused to take
his item for several reasons, chief among
which was the fact that the police fund was
exhausted, and the cops should not have
all of their sources of revenue cut off
Until the police fund is replenished, such
items will not be published in this paper.
The gentleman's manuscript was returned
| to him without comment
| The Yolo Nail of yesterday says: "A
wealthy hop-raiser who resides Just below
town, we learn, has driven from home his
| daughter. She is about 16 years of age.
and is the youngest of four children. The
mother having died when this daughter
was but an infant, and not knowing q
mothers affection, it seems hard to be dis
carded by an unaffectionate and hard
hearted father. But she must have known
| that this state of affairs must come to pass.
as it was only few years ago that her only
| sister was similarly treated, and her two
brothers were SO badly treated by that in
human parent that one, the youngest,
served term of one year at Folsom before
he was IS years old. What ordinary men
| live for, affection and protection of their
children seems to be dead-letter with
them" The individual referred to is said
! to be a man by the name of Harry Payne
| United States Marshal Franks has al