Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-01-18
LOCAL BREvITIES.
Help the orphans.

The J-street statues have been driven in
doors by the cold spell.
The Examiner has changed its local cor
respondents in this city.
The City Railway Company is planking
their track on Tenth street.
A good text for aSan Francisco minister:
Cast your bread upon the waters"
The five-cent beer saloons claim that this
cold snap is ruinous to their business.
Track-laying on the Placerville extension
Is progressing as rapidly as the weather will
permit.
Candidates for Chief of Police are as
thick in this city as are the geese on the
Yolo plains.
The alarm of fire yesterday morning was
caused by chimney burning out at 1924
Seventh street.
Bell & Co., have their regular auction
OF furniture, carpets, ETC., at 927 K street,
at 10 A. M. to-day.
Everyone in San Francisco is repeating
the Lords Prayer, especially that portion
which says, Give US this day our daily
bread
Judge Frost, of Woodland, says the most
sensitive plant he has discovered in the
citrus belt is the real estate dealer. With
us the most luxuriant is the plumber.
The-following amounts were brought to
this office yesterday in aid of the orphans:
Lindley q Co., $40; the employees of Lind
ley q Co., S. %, and Eddie Brown, 81.
John Brown yesterday swore to q COM
plant charging Gus johnson with grand
larceny. The plaintiff claims that Johnson
stole pistol and some money from him.
At midnight the police had made the fol-
lowing arrests: Gus Johnson and ]. B.
Morton, grand larceny; James Morrison,
petit larceny Frank Tillotson, embezzle-
ment.
A. Pendleton writes from Nicolaus
under date of the 18th inst "One-half
inch of snow fell here yesterday Mercury
this morning 240 above zero, with keen
north wind"
Two young men, who have no visible
means of support do nothing but stand on
the corners of J and K streets nights,
MASKING every lady and girl that passes
Their heads are aching for good stuffed
club.
Owing to the large accumulation of work
and the demands for school lands the Sur
veyor-Generaps Office will open to the pub
lie only from 10 A. NJ. to p. NJ. daily. This
will enable the clerks to catch I'D in their
work.
The stockholders of the Woodland street
railway met yesterday, elected the Board of
Directors, and the road will be built and be
IN operation in less than six weeks. They
don't chin all summer, and do nothing, in
Woodland.
The Chinese Six Companies and the Chi
nese merchants of Chico have together
offered a reward of $500 for the arrest and
corvlctlon of the party or parties that MUIR
dered fellow countryman, named All
Him, near st. Johns, Colusa county on
December IS 1887.
Mr.. Dopkings, who farms on Cache creek,
says that the cold snap has not injured
fruit trees in the least. and that the pros
poets for the fruit crop are as fiattering as
they have been for several years. He saws
that some of the vegetables on the creek
may be slightly injured, but the damage,
all told, will be slight.
The Governor made the following ap.
pointments yesterday Samuel Fales, Su-
pervisor of District No 5, Mono county, to
fill the vacancy caused by the Disqualified
ton of Lloyd Goodnow. He will hold Of
flee until his successor is legally elected and
qualified. J. P. Hight, Notary Public for
San Bernardino county
The Capital Gas Company has elected
the following Directors: W. Alvord. ].
Mckee, Oliver Eldridge, ]. +. Watson, G.
II. Cummings, Frank Miller and B. U.
Steinman. The Directors subsequently, re-
elected b. Q. Steinman as President. Oliver
Eldridge, Vice-Presdent, and C. H. Cum
mings, Secretary and Treasurer.
The Woodland Mail of yesterday SAYS
A number of our citizens went out to
some of the ponds east of here Sunday and
enjoyed an old-fashioned skate The ice
was thick enough to bear them up safely,
| and they enjoyed the fun so much that
some of them went out again yesterday.
Such sport is rare in California, especially
in the Sacramento valley. where ice forms
on ponds only once in forty years"
The Georgetown Gazette saws We have
| often stated that it would be hard to find
location at the altitude of Georgetown that
| is as much sheltered from frost and cold as
| Georgetown and vicinity is. During the
recent cold spell the lowest temperature
! indicated by the United States Signal Service
at this place was 40 above zero, that of
course being the lowest temperature dur
| ing the day or night. That is not bad for
200 feet altitude, and cold snap that
| formed ice in Los Angeles"
Many years ago there lived in this city
man who was known as Classy Alec"
| He was eternallv blowing and talking
about himself He claimed credit for
| o'cl 'hAhS mat was SoiHS- NJ Oit ever
| told story that he did not claim was
chestnut" for there was nothing new I'M
der the sun that did not originate with
him. He was forever putting and blowing
and posing before the public, and it was
not long before the public came to know
| him as the biggest liar on the top of earth
Classy Alec" is dead, but some of his
kind still live in Sacramento.
District Deputy Grand Dictator E. L.
Green has installed the following officers of
California Lodge, No. l, $50, K. of H: Past
Dictator, A. ]. Pommer; Dictator w. c.
| Oliver; Vice-Dictator, c. H. Stevenson !;
Assistant Dictator, L A. Kidder Reporter,
]. G. Medley; Financial Reporter, J. F.
Carter; Treasurer c. E. Adams Chaplain,
K. o. Mullane; Guide, J. P. Dalton !;
Guardian, Abe Schweitzer; Sentinel, Frank
Swift; Trustees-C. E. Atkinson. John
Menford and L. Bell Representative to
Grand Lodge. E. t. Aiken Alternate, l..
Bell; Ne 'icsl Examiner. DR.. w. A. Hugh