Sacramento daily record-union., 1889-06-13
BRIEF NOTES.

The river marked only IA feet last even
ing.
The box office for the Bostonian Opera
Company opens this morning.
The steamer Herald came down the
river yesterday with barge load of grain.
A young horse belonging to Charles
Sellinger took sick yesterday noon and died
in short time.
A few nights ago burglars entered the
residence of 7. NJ. Tracy, at 1716 P street,
but secured no plunder.
On Wednesday evening next, the 10TH
the new Fruit House at Loomis will be
dedicated by the giving OF grand ball.
A man named W. L. Miller has been
charged with the recent burglary of F. A.
Jones stable at Sixteenth and NJ streets
Will. H. Hanlon has filed his notarial
bond, in the sum of $1,000, with Mary
Hanlon and George F. Parker as sureties.
The Yosemite Valley Commission paid
$40 80 into the State Treasury yesterday.
The Home for Adult Blind paid in ST.
0S3 so.
Justice Anderson, of Folsom. yesterday
dismissed the charge against Frank Myers
of assaulting David Blowers with a deadly
weapon.
Secretary Boruck is credited by the Bee
with the statement that the Governor has
not promised the vacant Supreme Justice
ship to Oregon Sanders, of Visalia.
Willis Sansel, convicted of murder in the
second degree, in Santa Barbara county, in
1888, and sentenced to twenty years has
been pardoned by Governor Waterman.
Work on the new building of the State
De-, l. Er,, I
more rapidly hencetorth, the workmen
having commenced the laying of the brick.
Governor Waterman has informed SEN
ator Goucher, one of the Yosemite Com
missioners, that the latter's resignation had
been accepted. Mr.. Goucher's successor is
Joseph G. Eastland.
The Scanlan divorce case has been de-
| clared off, the defendant, policeman Scan
| Ian, having formally wed the complainant,
between whom and himself a marriage "by
contract had existed.
1t is said that the proprietor of saloon
in the Scroggs building, at Tenth and X
| streets, had desperate rough-and-tumble
tight last night with negro, and that both
were severely punished.
Frank Meak is somewhat meeker to-day
than when he brutally assaulted Mrs.
ElltDlt SOIne udyS ago. he Will pay CHECK
ers with his nose on the prison bars for
seventeen long and weary days.
The subcommittee appointed by the A
| J. Stevens Statue Citizens Committee to re.
port upon the statue to be erected in the City
| Plaza, have examined the plaster cast Thereof
and express their satisfaction Herewith.
In the item yesterday relating to the
| sending East of four orphan children tC
| their grandfather, the name was incorrectly
printed. 1t should have read Chambers .
instead of Chamberlain" Ida Chambers
one of the family, is the one over whose
custody there has been so much litigation
Grove l.. Johnson undoubtedly leads the
bar of California in criminal Court prsc.
| tice. To all who read or heard the evidence
in the case of L. n. Billings, charged with
the murder of +. d. Lighthall, the acquittal
last Wednesday was surprise. Nor does
Johnson depend on developing the sympa.
thetic side of human nature IN the Jury
he knows the law and grasps instantly
every situation as it is developed, and is
prepared to take advantage of it.-ColuSO
Slt1l, June lst.