Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-02-03
LOCAL BREYITTES.

The nurserymen are doing a thriving
business.
| The transactions in real estate are double
what they were year ago.
| The overland trains are now arriving on
| time nearly every morning.
The river marked sixteen feet six inches
at the 1olo bridge yesterday.
| The trading boat D. Z. Knight came
down the river yesterday, and the Dover
went up.
Templeton, the Missouri restaurateur
who so mysteriously disappeared, has not
yet " turned up"
The Rev. DR.. Taubner, who has had a
very severe attack of malarial fever, is able
to be around again.
Charles Valentine, of Oak Hall, on the
Riverside, fell into the river few days
ago while gathering drift-wood.
Robert Burdette will deliver his famous
lecture. The Rise and Fall of a Mus
tache, at Armory Hall tonight.
! D. ]. Simmons & Co.'S great auction sale
of buggies will be held on Fourth street to-
morrow commencing at 1870 A. NJ.
The Bee, in answer to Mr.. Boruck's two
suits for libel, files a demurrer on the
ground that the article referred to is not
libelous. Their attorney is c. I. Jones.
Robert Hector, who has one of the finest
| cherry orchards in the State, near New
castle, in Placer county, will set out l, 500
orange trees this spring. The cold snap
did not injure his citrus fruits in the least.
| VIM. Morrow is being tried for en-
bracery. A Sacramento damsel, who
knows whereof she speaks, says no such
complaints will ever be lodged against the
young men of this city. They are too
| timid.
| A San Francisco paper, in speaking of a
| former resident of this city, says: A. A.
! Bennett, the architect, is not expected to
| live more than q few DAYS. He has been
confined to his bed about five weeks, from
fourth paralytic stroke. He is SPECIFICS
and quite helpless, growing gradually
weaker each day"
The average Signal Service temperature
| yesterday was 450, being 50 cooler than
| the normal for that day. The highest and
| lowest temperature was $40 and $50. with
| gentle southerly winds during the morn
| ing and fresh to gentle northerly winds at
noon, afternoon and night; weather clear,
| with sky occasionally overcast with thin
| cirrus clouds.
The school children are interesting them
selves for the orphans. They procure
| tickets Tor the musical concert from their
teachers, and find no difficulty in disposing
of them where older people would fail.
| The orphans fund will be benefited a few
hundred dollars by their efforts, but still
| there are people who raise their voice
against il, and say g il should not be al
| lowed"
The Auburn Republican says j. a. Ban
| field has bought the place known as Orange
Hill of W. r. Strong d Co., between New
castle and Penryn, for $4,000. He intends
to build good house and make his home
there. Orange Hill is one of the finest fruit
| ranches in the county. Mr.. Bantied has
sold his Mount Vernon ranch of 100 acres
| to NJ. ]. Dillman, of Sacramento, for 81, 0O0
The place was bought about q year age for
| 81, 700, and it illustrates about as well as
any ranch in the county the natural rise of
real estate during the year.
A dispatch from Silver City, New Mex
| leo dated February I'd, says Yesterday
| Frank Lenoir, a merchant at Georgetown,
| was standing on a plank across mine
| shaft, when the plank broke, precipitating
| him rs feet breaking his neck. His two
girls were in school here" For a number
of years Mr.. Lenoif was a time keeper in
the railroad shops of this city, and was
prominent member of the Order of Odd
| Fellows and their librarian He was a
good citizen, and had many friends in this
city, who will regret to hear of his sad and
untimely death