Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-05-28
BRIEF NOTES.

There was short meeting of the Grand
Jury yesterday.
At Hangtown Crossing on Sunday the
baseball club of that locality defeated the
Our Tastes of this city, II to s.
The pay-ear arrived last night and will
to-day make happy the hearts of several
| thousand people in this vicinity.
Tomorrow night ball will be given at
| Freeport. to which all are invited. Fical,
Walrath & Atkins of this city will furnish
the music.
| The subject for tonight at the Seventh
| Day Adventists' tent at Fifteenth and NJ
| streets will be: when will the Judgment
| ben
To-morning morning at O'Clock there
will be memorial services at the Sacramento
Grammar School, which Grand Army men
are invited to attend in uniform.
At Antelope on Saturday jeff McAdams
defeated o. S. Day in a pigeon shooting
match. killing Twelve birds to eleven for
his adversary.
| Nicholas B. Berry, who formerly worked
at type-setting in this city, will be buried
| In San Francisco to-day. His death re-
suited from consumption.
| John Widows, the man arrested at Marys-
vile for having burglarized the Howard
House in this city, was brought TO the city
| yesterday by officer Arlington. He admits
! the deed.
| The Directors of the Central Street Rail
way are having plans drawn for pavilion
to be erected in Oak Park to accommodate
the immense crowds that ride out upon
their cars of evenings.
| The Open-Air Concert Committee will
meet this evening at C. W. Bakers Office at
| 7:30 O'Clock. Among the contributors to
the fund are Rev. Father Grace (S25) and
| Otto Witt, of Los Angeles, former Sacra-
mentan, who sends SIS.
| There was to have been special meeting
last evening of the Executive Committee of
the improvement Association, but up to 8
o'clock a quorum had not shown IN, sew
eral of the members having been detained
| by important business.
The gang of young toughs that inhict the
| neighborhood of Tenth and O streets need
| looking after. Yesterday they took gun
away from an lnoffensive German who was
minding his own business and caused his
| arrest on an alleged suspicion OF insanity.
The man was of course promptly released.
A discussion occurred in an Italian sa-
| loon on X street, between Third and
Fourth, yesterday afternoon, over a game
of cards. 1t resulted in one of the dis
putants receiving terrific blow on the
| forehead, inflicting an ugly wound. Before
the police reached the place the other fell
| low had fled.
| The Capitol Commissioners held meet
! ing yesterday, Governor nFaterman being
absent. jeremiah Carroll, Jr., was ap-
| pointed foreman of the stone-cutters who
| are to construct the granite steps that will
replace the wooden ones in the Capitol
grounds. Bids for the paving Of that por-
ton of the grounds to be improved by fill
ing in with earth on the east side of the
building were opened, but the awarding of
the contract was deferred until to day.
Bids were opened yesterday at the State
Printing Office for the contract to construct
the addition to the building provided for
by the last Legislature. The bidders and
their amounts were: Garlic & Croly, IS .956;
| Thomas McCaifrey, 1887; George Bell,
| $10,500; @. Ruggles, 50. $780, Siller Brothers,
7,S45; Sprague & Elliott. $l0449: Z. A.
Bower, IS 600; J. f. Harris, IS, $50. The
contract was awarded TO Siller Brothers,
and the work will be begun shortly. under
the supervision of architect Goodell.
On Friday last, J. P. Callendine, painter
of this city, bought of B. C. Holly of
| Vallejo, three-months-old chestnut filly,
sired by Woodruff, the horse that was re-
Gently sold to Mr.. Steele of Philadelphia
fer $50, 600. The filly's dam is Phyllis by
imported Admirable, and was bred on the
Haggin farm, near this city, by John Mack
ey. Mr.. Callendine paid for the FLY the
sum of 81 600 in cash and the trade of a
black mare by Tilton's Altmont, brought
out from Kentucky by DR.. Bolton of Colusa.
The mares dam was by John Nelson. 1t
is considered very large price for a three
| months-old filly.