Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-02-13
LOCAL BREVITIES.

Tomorrow will be st. Valentines Day
The 18th of this month will be Ash We'd
nesday.
Auburn had small blaze Friday night.
Loss $i,700.
The steamer knight No. 3 went up the
river Saturday afternoon.
DR.. w. E. Briggs will address young men
only at Y. NJ. c. A. Hall tonight.
Officers Farrell and Lowell on Saturday
took to the County Jail a crazy man from
downtown hotel.
Louise Monin, who has figured in the
Police Court quite frequently of late, was
taken to the County Hospital Saturday.
There will be no meeting of the Trustees
to-day out of respect to the memory of the
late A. J. Stevens. they will meet to-
morrow.
A man named John Kelley was arrested
on Saturday on a charge of petit larceny,
i'll the stealing of some harness from Cur
tbs Brothers.
The river had fallen several inches yes
terday afternoon, marking then Is feet l
inch. 1t will nc doubt be booming for the
next few days.
About twenty-five hunters went over to
Swingle's Yesterday morning, and returned
home in the evening loaded with ducks
and white geese.
The entertainment of the Western Star
Frauen Ferein at Turn Verein Hall Satur-
day evening, for the benefit of the orphans
fund, was largely attended and financial
success.
The Board of Trade publishes a card this
morning requesting the merchants and
others to close their places of business dur
ing the funeral ceremonies to-day of the
late A. ]. Stevens.
There were only two cases on the calen-
dar Saturday in the Police Court Ed.
Rand and Prince Albert were the victims
of drink. The former was sent to the
County Jail for 10 days, and the latter was
given As hours.
The remains of little child Ida L.
Edgington, were brought from Elk Grove
yesterday and inferred in the cemetery
here. The parents and relatives of the de-
ceased accompanied the remains to its last
resting-pl
There will be a meeting of the Business
and Manufacturing Committee of the I'm
provement Association this evening at 7:30,
at The Association rooms, 429 J street, at
which all the members of the committee
are expected to be present.
Silas Garlic, who has been spending several
days at home in Sacramento, leaves again
to-day for San Francisco, Fresno and San
Diego. He says that, while they are con-
struetlng an enormous conduit from the
mountains to SAP Diego, there is not the
least danger of that place "going up the
flume."
John M. Belcher, who was injured at
Perkins Station by falling against truck
handle, which tore hole in his side, on
Monday last, died of his injuries Saturday
afternoon. Hey a resident of Costumes,
quite popular citizen, and 81 years of age
He will be buried from Odd Fellows
Temple, corner Ninth and X streets at II
A. NJ. to-day.
Saturday Governor Waterman and Har-
Dor Commissioners English, Wise and
Paulsell boarded the tug Sea Lion and took
a careful tour of inspection around the
San Francisco water front to note the work
at the seawall. Lieutenant-C Colonel Mendell,
Engineers Manson and Compton, Captain
Corcoran and M. D. Boruck " ere also with
the party.
The Birdsall water system, at Auburn.
was given partial test Saturday. Large
crowds were in attendance When the
system is completed it will be perfect sue
cess. At the public school, with a pressure
OF 225 feet, stream through an inch nozzle
was thrown 206 feet. In the lower portion
OF the town, with pressure of $50 feet, a
stream was thrown 230 feet. With full
reservoir and propersized nozzle, it is
estimated that stream can be thrown 300
feet with the water as tested Saturday. The
pressure is computed at $50 pounds to the
square inch in the lower part of town. An
Immediate lowering of insurance rates is
anticipated