Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-04-03
LOCAL BREVITIES.

| The street-scrapers are at work leveling
! off the streets in the southeastern portion
of the city.
The street-lamp near the Y olo bridge has
been kept lighted day and night since last
Sunday evening.
Chief Lee went to Woodland Yesterday
morning as a witness in the Strauss broth
ers burglary case.
Vivid flashes of lightning Lit up the
heavily.clouded southern sky about 5
| O'Clock last evening.
Sumner Relief Corps will give bonbon
party on the oath for the benefit of the
| Sons of Veterans No. IL.
Sells Bros circus advertising car was in
the railroad repair shops yesterday having
new pair of trucks put in.
DR.. NJ. F. Clayton received a fall at his
house on Monday, and his bruises will
keep him indoors for several days.
Louis Schwartz, the young man who was
| seriously injured by kick from a horse
some weeks ago, is slowly recovering.
Sacramento Lodge, No. IL, Herman's
Sons, will give its third annual picnic at
Richmond Grove on Sunday, the Goth.
The steamer Flora is being refitted with
new boilers, and all of the machinery is
undergoing repairs, so as to fit her for work
this summer.
The sidewalk milk shakes" that sprang
INTO existence so suddenly on Monday,
looked last evening as if they had been
prematurely Matched.
Officer Stafford made his first capture
last evening. He detected man trying to
steal some shoes at an uptown shoe store,
ana safely lodged his prisoner in jail.
On Monday evening next the young
ladies' OF the Unitarian Society will give
wlldtiower party at Turner Hall. The hall
will be decorated with flowers fresh from
the fields.
Engine No. 166 was turned out of the re-
par shop yesterday morning, having IN
dergone thorough overhauling and paint
ing. She went to Oakland and will be used
on the Martinez road.
Constable ]. Ammons of Woodland
passed through this city yesterday from
Clarksburg, having in custody Charles
McGowan, charged with threat to take the
life OF Frank Lemontague.
1t is reported that W. J. Simmons. the
colored man who held place in Governor
Stonemans Office, has deserted his sick
wife and family, who are in downright
want. They live in the alley between Sixth
and Seventh L and NJ Streets
Rosiuquest, the elderly stranger who on
Monday evening attempted suicide by
shooting. was alive and conscious at the
County Hospital last evening, but DR..
White thought there was little hope of his
recovery. The bullet, instead of passing
into the mouth, as was previously stated,
was found to have ranged downward into
the neck, and has not been found.
Passer-by to boy in an alley, fumbling
ball: Say, Bub, what are you doing?"
Boy-"Waitin' ter play ball"
We'll, why don't you play ?'
Boy with a commissioning look =
"How'm l er-goin' ter play ball alone ?
I'm waitin ter pick up eight other fellers.
Dye take me fur Cap'n n hull nine ?"
An excursion train to the East will be
run under the auspices of the Young Mems
Christian Association, to leave Sacramento
on the 23d. 1t will be under the personal
supervision of Henry ]. Mccoy, General
Secretary. This party is arranged for the
express purpose to enable the delegates
who will attend the Twenty-eighth Ma
tional Convention, their friends and others
wishing to join select party, to make the
trip East at considerably less than first
class rates. c. NJ. Campbell, 400 X street,
can give all further information.