The record-union., 1892-07-23
STOCKTON SENSATIONS.
Unusual Events That Have Occurred
Lately,
The Opening of the Electric Railway
and the Elegant New
Opera-House.

Especial Correspondence REcoRD-UNIoE.1
had intended to write series Of Sarn'l-
and-his-dad adventures in this glorious
city ofStockton, and probably would have
done so had not most unlooked-for
thing happened, which same shattered
my rosy plans more expeditiously and
completely than our Lillian does glass
bubbles, had just gotten well started
on the subject of street-car mules, which,
as everyone knows, is a subject interest
ing to people in all conditions of life. At
least everyone with a Hutton mot NUT
tom head on him knows it. L had laid
IN a large supply of fine writing paper,
several boxes of best assorted pens and
:. fine, iyory-handled, gold-mounted,
hand-engraved penholder, which latter /
was fortunate enough to procure very
cheaply for six-bits, owing, as the dealer
told me confidentially, to its having been
smuggled up the channel in mud
scow. / had ,as l remarked before, just got
Ten well started ON this profound subject
when that most unprecedented, unlocked
Tor, incOngruous and utterly annihilating
thing happened. II was ali so contrary to
The laws of nature and street-car COM
panles that 1t seemed absolutely impossi-
down and run over twice by the dad
Basted things my stubborn mind would
addmit that the eletric cars were running!
When l had regained an honorable, up
right position, after being detected the
second time, / retired to the rear of the
enthusiastic throng, and from there gazed
after the taSt-disappe2ring car which
with its load of prominent Stoctonians
was howllng toward Jackson's gas we'll
at the rate OF twelve miles an hour.
For some time thereafter hung around
the corner of Main and San Joaquin
streets, and watched the rockaway flight
of the dad-gasted things. noting with a
good deal OF honest amusement the
childish glee with which staid and stately
men and maidenS boarded the cars for q
ride. / have no time to tell of the differ
ent unique ways in which our prominent
men got aboard. But I must remark the
easy grace with which our reyered Jus-
tice Of the Peace did the thing. The firm.
not TO say death-like, grasp with which
he fastened upon the extreme hindermost
part OF fleeing car, the gentle, oscillating
sweep ofhis of hind leg, and the airy wave
ofhis cOat-tailS sent thrill of envy into the
hearts Of all beholders. Even 1 felt the
thrill strike me, and wriggle it's way pain
fully down my trousers-leg until it
dropped out at the bottom, turning
ragged newsboy who stood at my Teet
almost green.
1t was a very weary and sad-thoughted
head that pressed the little pillow in nv
trundle-bed that night. But bright and
early in the morning L made discovery
that infused new life into me, and in
spired me all over again. 1t was very
queer that had overlooked it before, but
] suppose it was due to the fact that | was
very much confused on the day previous.
Great mental and physical shocks some
times affect people in that way.
The discovery of which I speak, how
ever, was simply that only a part of the
electric system was in running order, the
other and greater part being in what you
might term crawling order, or, more ex-
plicitly, being conducted by the. bob
tailed fraternity, which of course you
viii understand means the mules and
not the drivers: At this joyful turn of
affairs l seized my new ivory-handled.
gold-mounted, hand engraved pen