Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-06-23

QeaC neat IN Z:24t, the second ana tnlfu
were won by Ethan Allen and mate in
2:274 and 240; the fourth was dead heat
in 2:35, and Ethan Allen and mate won
| that accompanied the trotters were COM
| pletely done out, and Jagged so that the
latter could not make their best time.
| Lanterns mate, in fact, had to be pulled
along by him toward the last.
......Collins, the old-time favorite Irish
| comedian was playing an engagement at
the Metropolitan Theater in this city.
THE Sonora, Tuolumne county, Her.
aid published letter received from Major
Collins, then in Toronto, in which he
said: You will naturally ask what l am
doing here. 1t is for the purpose of OBJ
tanning a charter for the TIansmundane
Telegraph Company, TO connect the Pacific
with Asia, via Behring's Straits or the
Aleutian Islands, and thus, via the Amoor
river, to Moscow. The bill passed the As
sembly yesterday. We shall pro-
coed, after organizing here and in New
York, to London, Paris and st. Peters
burg" If the scheme was deemed feasible
thirty years ago, it is wonder that some
enterprising capitalists do not undertake it
IN this day of enterprise and progress.
......Our present staid and dignifed
wholesale merchant, 7. NJ. Lindley, was
then an active member of Hook and Lad
der Company No. 2. The "masheen"
never turned out in answer to an alarm
that fireman Lindley was not among the
boys"
THE number of children then attend
ing the public schools in Sacramento was
769, as follows: Primary No. l, 80; No ,,
III; No. 3, II; No. A, 112 intermediate No.
], ~; Grammar No. l, 49, No. 2, los: No. 8,
56; No. 4, 81; High School, "a.
......A large meeting of citizens of Sacra-
mento was held at the Court house to ar
range for the reception of Horace Greeley
on his arrival in this city. David Meeker
was Chairman and James McClatchy, Sec
rotary. Addresses were made by B. Z.
Nickerson, S. S. Holl and others. 1t was
resolved to tender Mr.. Greeley warm and
cordial reception, and committee of ar
engagements was appointed as follows ::
Lauren Epson, Charles T. Bolts, James
McClatchy, J. c. Zabriskie, Mark Hopkins,
|. B. Marshall, DR.. ]. F. Morse, S. S. Holl,
E. McCarty, L. A. Booth, J. H. Nevett, H
L. Nichols, Charles Croker and David
Meeker.
There was grasshopper plague in
Yolo county, and the pests were stripping
everything green, leaving only dry twigs
and stalks in their path.
ION June 18th there was a lively
fight at Fifth and streets, arising out of
some trouble over the pumping out of
basement. Jacob and Lewis Korn. F. Tu-
key and J. n. Culver were the chief dis
putants. Crowbars, brickbats and fists
were freely used and the parties were all
placed under arrest
ION the afternoon of June 18th officer
Graves had an exciting encounter with a
Chinese desperate. The latter had beaten
a Chinese woman in most brutal manner,
and Graves sought to arrest him. The
Chinaman jumped into his skiff on the
slough at the foot of Third street and put
off. Graves threw brick and hit him on
the neck, but failed to knock him out, and
then jumped into another skiff and with
piece of board for paddle sought to over
take him, but the Chinaman reached his
cabin first. Graves kicked in the door.
when the Chinaman went for him with a
knife. The officer defended himself so
well with a stick that the desperate
grabbed a gun, and Graves retreated. The
Chinamen escaped in the brush, after
which it was found that he had regular
arsenal in his cabin-three guns, loaded
and cock ed, drawing knives, razors, siedges,
ETC., and large quantity of stolen plum
der, all Of which was confscated.
THE press was full of biographical
sketches of Professor Alexander Won
Humboldt, who closed his career of great
usefulness at Berlin about the 1st of June,
1859.
War news from Europe was stirring.
The Emperor Napoleon had quilted Paris
for the scene of operations on Italian soil,
| accompanied by the Prince Imperial, and
the Empress had been proclaimed Regent
during his absence. The Austrians were
| expected soon to have three quarters of a
million of men under arms, and had de-
clared Ancona (the principal seaport of the
Papal Dominions on the Adriatic), in a
state of seige. The Pope had protested
against this action, and Austria was to re-.
consider it.
...... An old man named Griffith. at
Weavervllle, Trinity county, who was up
ward of sixty years of age, walked one
hundred consecutive hours Just to show
the young men of that day that the old
fellows of the preceding century had more
physical stamina than they. He was not
visibly fatigued by the feat.
The steamer Swan, so familiar to the
eyes OF Sacramentans while plying up and
down the river, was launched on the 10th
of June, 1859.
IN. Greene Curtis was appointed
Grand Marshal of the approaching Fourth
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