Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-04-06
LOCAL BREvITIEs.

| The Robert Emmett Club will hold its an
nual picnic at East Park on May 9th.
Ell Dorado Lodge No. s. 1. o. o. F., will
| this evening pay fraternal visit to Capito
Lodge No. 81.
Four young ladies will take the white
veil at ST. Joseph's Convent at O'Clock
this afternoon.
A social dance will be given at Turner
Hall on Wednesday evening, April 18th
by Y. NJ. I. No. %.
Charles T. Jones. counsel for defendants
yesterday filed demurrers in two actions oil
Boruck VS.. McClatchy.
William ]. Thomasson has been granted a
divorce in the Superior Court from Isa-
bella Thomasson, on the ground of deser-
ton.
Richmond Davis yesterday filed his bond
as Notary Public in the sum of s. 900, with
]. P. Counts and William Cummings as
sureties.
David Shay will be confirmed at the
Synagogue tomorrow. Friends are in
vited to a reception at his parents resi-
dence, Fifth and L streets, from IL A. NJ. to
6P.M.
Charles F. Gardner has turned over the
Office of United States Receiver of Public
Moneys for the Sacramento Land District
to his successor, ]. F. Linthicum, and re-
tired to private life, after creditable public
career of three years.
According to the Signal Service reports
the average temperature for this city YES
terday was $50, being 80 cooler than the
normal. The highest and lowest tenn
perature was GO and 430. The weather
was clear throughout the day, with light
northerly winds.
~. Simmons, the theatrical manager
OF this city, intends leaving for the East
Sunday evening on business connected
with the vast estate left to his wife and
family. Mr.. Simmons will also book
many Eastern attractions for this city
During his absence Mr.. Crouch will attend
to the booking and management of the
theaters. Simmons will return about the
latter part of June or the beginning of July.
A Disgraceful and Inhuman Assault.
The cause of the absence the present
week of Vice-Principal Pond, from his
position at the High School, was not pub
licly known until yesterday morning,
when the fact that he had been brutally
assaulted and beaten on Sunday last, and
was so much injured as to be confined to
his room, was stated The facts appear
briefly TO be, that Mr.. Pond was sitting on
Sunday afternoon upon the porch at his
place of boarding when a Young man
named Marcellus Meehan, who was
boarding at the same place, came upon the
porch and without any word or warning
walked up to Mr.. Pond and struck him a
violent blow in the face, knocking him
down. This was followed by other rapid
md 90 ,tAtA L.
which Mr.. Ponds face was numerically
beaten and badly disfgured. Meehan
stoutly denies that he kicked his victim,
and that he only struck two or three blows
but the injury inflicted does not in any
manner indicate that this statement is cor
rect.
Meehan's own explanation of the affair
shows the attack to have been vicious, and
cowardly in the extreme He states that
he had reason to believe, was almost GER
tain, that false representations as to what
Meehan had said about a young lady, and
also concerning the probability of two
young men up country not succeed
ing IN business had come from
Mr.. Pond, and he was SO angered he
could not control himself In speaking
of the cowardly assault last night, he said
he had not yet regretted what he did. Mr..
Pond, who claims he had nothing to do
with the reports referred to- is a quiet
young man, of very slight build and deli
cate health, while Meehan is of strong
build and of such greater strength as to
make his attack and terrible beating thor
oughly cowardly and inhuman. 1t is
stated that Mr.. Pond is so seriously injured
that he will be confined to his room for
some days. Meehan has gone to another
boarding place, but has not otherwise been
thus far molested.