Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-04-29
LOCAL BREvIrIEs.

The river now marks Il feet inches.
The AMIGO Club holds its closing party
at Turner Hall tonight.
The steamer Flora is to be hauled upor
The Washington ways for repairs.
The steamers Herald, Varuna and Nepon
set went up the river yesterday, the former
two towing barges.
The hull of the new steamer San JOAQUIN
No. has been taken down the river to the
foot of street, where her machinery viii
be put in.
The derrick used at the new bank build.
ing at Fourth and J streets fell into the
| street on Saturday, but fortunately no one
| was in the way.
The fire on Saturday afternoon was in
| the basement of STEMS variety store on K
street, near Eighth. There was much
| smoke, but little fire, and no serious dam.
age was done.
The funeral of John Sarti took place un.
der the auspices of the Italian military
company from the Y. NJ. l. Hall yesterday
| at 2:30 o'clock P. NJ, sharp; thence to the
Catholic Church.
Ed. CUTIE, who was fighting with Ton
Avery in San Francisco on Friday night
when the latter fell dead, is the same indi.
vidual who was arrested here recently for
vagrancy, but discharged.
This evening Rev. A c. Herrick will de-
liver an illustrated lecture on the Yosemite
Valley at the A. NJ. Z. Church, on Seventh
street, for the benefit of the pastors salary
Refreshments will be served also.
Time, Saturday; scene, L street; actors,
two countrymen stage properties, a ranch
wagon, key of powder and lighted pipe
S-s-s-s! bang! The curtain falls on badly
wrecked wagon and singed granger.
A weekly contemporary asks: What
is home without night-key?" 1t is a
place where love and contentment and all
the blessings of domestic life are usually
found. The other places are merely lodg.
ng-houses.
The many friends here of F. N. Camp.
bell, ex-Siaie Superintendent of Public In.
struction, will regret to learn of his defeat
al the hands of the Oakland City Council
for reelection as Superintendent Of Schools
in that city.
1t is said that a number of confiding citi.
zens of Washington on-the-Sacramentc
have been victimized by young man who
said he had house painting contract, and
who worked it for all it was worth and
about 500 additional.
MISS JOSIE kegan, Miss MOllie Brown and
Mrs. NJ. Nagle, with Miss Lizzie G O'Brien
Mrs. J. William ard Miss Nellie Boylon as
alternates, are delegates from this city to
the Grand Council of the Young Ladies
Institute, at San Francisco.
Tom Avery, the prize. fighter who fell
dead during boxing match in San Fran.
cisco on Friday, was well known in this
city, where he had appeared in a number
of sparring exhibitions. For a person fol.
lowing such a disreputable calling he is
said to have had good reputation.
Two accidents are reported caused by
holes in sidewalks. The sufferers in each
instance were ladies. Accidents of this kind
do not happen in Chicago, where the
women are better supplied in the matter Of
pedal extreinities. Nothing short of an
open coal-hole can take il Chicago
woman's foot.
People in many parts of the city who are
literally taxed for street sprinklipg-and
willing to be for that matter-are praying
for the 1st of May to come that they may
get some relief from the clouds of dust that
are choking them and rendering futile all
efoVs at keeping clean and bright Their
houses and shrubbery.
These arrests were recorded at the City
prison last night: Mary Roberts, drunk, by
officer Morelli; Al Haven, drunk, and John
Reagan, carrying concealed weapon, by
officers Ash and Campbell; William West