Daily Alta California, Volume 27, Number 6931, 21 October 1875 — BREVITIES. [ARTICLE]

BREVITIES.

_ Chief Engineer Scannell la on duty again. — Ths Secretary of the State, Drury Melonc, ii In the city. — Be* new advertisement of the Bay District Fair races. —Colonel Ton Schmidt testified before the Natal Court of Inquiry yesterday. —The Democrats are not feeling so well as thf y did a little while ago. — Richard Oarrey, a well known citizen of Los Angeles, is at the Lick Boose. —General Charles Cadwtllader, of Red Bluff, Tehama County, Is at the Grand. — Commander Samuel Long, of U. B. M. steamer Fantome, Is registered at the Grand. —V. 8. Senator Jan. K. Kelly, of Oregon, leaves for Washington on this morning's train. —Hon. O. W. Whitman, of Sonoma, State Contrailer from 1855 to 185 i, is at the Brooklyn. —Francis E. Spencer, a leading member of the Ban TotiS Bar, is sojourning at the Cosmopolitan. It is «aid that when a girl is bora in Indiana, the unhappy father begins to save money to buy a piano. The counting of funds at the Sub Treasury showed do difference between the books aud the bum in the viiultH Messrs. Sherman & Hyde have published "Sweet Dreams of My Mother ," word! by A. Hill, hiubic by Chat. D. Blake. —Philadelphia has 130,000 dwelling houses, the majority belonging to mechanics and laborers, who occupy them. Thirty-eight recruits for the artillery service on this Coast arrived from the East yesterday, under the charge of Captain H. O. tunning. —Chief Justice William T. Wallace has been appointed by Governor Pacheco a member of the Hoard of Regents of the University of California, vice Sachs, resigned. The Fair given by the ladles of the First Baptist Church op« Led auspioiously at Pacific Hall ji 1 -relay. An excellent lunch is served Irom IS to i o'clock each day. - , — Six miles of the route for the Narrow-g»ug« Hiilroad between Alviso and Dumbarton Point have 'teen graded, and the remaining distance will 101 0 ready for rails by November Ist. The contributions at the polls yesterday for the San Francicco Benevolent Association amounted to 1466 15, for which the Trustees desire to express their sincere thanks to the voters. Parson Fitzgerald will now have time to prosecute in the Courts his inquiries into the Payot-Klo*e-Kolander statements about him. The public will 1 -ike great interest in the trial.

"""parson Fitzgerald, in hi! speech the other night, <itid Prof. Oitrr •< iB an old man, much nuurer the .'rave than the Hcbool Buperintendency." Fitz^orald is not a prophet. Figaro reports that the latest "mot" in Paris is the remark of the wife of an Euibaßsador there, who a impared the statesmen of the present time to iiclons, which grow old, bat do not ripen. —A little girl fell from the Patent Brick Company's Wharf, Berry street yesterday, and would have neen drowned bat for the exertions of a workman >f the company, who jumped Into tho water and rescued her. —The Austrian Benevolent Society, headed by a 'irass band, marched to the city frout, l.tct nlxlu. md curort. <i the officers and crew of the Anstrian corvette Fritdrkh to Platt'a Hall, where a ball was -iiven in their honor. —A Westerly, X X., clerKyuian married a couple, received his fee and sent them away, apparently rfatislled ; bnt, a day or two after, the bridegroom returned and said ho had cuoih to pay more, a<< the woman had turned out much better than he expected. There was a young girl in Martinez Who said, "How disgustingly mean is This old Bpaiiiiih town. I wlab it were down In the depths of the Straits of Oarquinez !" — The managers of the San Francisco Protestant Orphan Asylum acknowledge with their siucvrc thanks the receipt of a large supply of fresh fruit trow the State Qiange of (lulifornla, whloh was much i ojoyed by the orphan children. —Mr. A. O. Blerue, the original Town Crier of the Newt Letter, yesterday "dropped up" at the Bobemlin Club, and wki met with op«u arms by a crowd of iih old friends. Mr. Bieroe has tin. distinction of nuviiig paid the first cash for initiation fees into tho Hub, aud though absent so loug in KnKlaud, is quite U home again, lie la at the Cosmopolitan with lux wtfo. They expect to make quite a loug visit auiout: us.

— Notwithstanding the stringent election laws in force yesterday, Barry & Patten had their door open (or business, reminding their guests, however, by a hags notice, with the Inscription, ■• Die* Mm Liq'i .Via," that they intended to keep on th« right bide of hit law The Excellent, for which they have a United States Patent, being exempt from the opera* tiou of the Btate laws, was dispeused to their guesttt in Urge quantities, in lieu of the accustomed buy. .-rages, _ Governor Pacbeoo has named J. li UrrlDg«r, of Ban Francisco, and Wallace Leach and David hi* held, of Ban Diego, as members of the delegation from California to the National Ballroad Convention that Is to be held in Hi. Louis on tTie 36th of next month, for the purpose of considering the construction of a Paolflo railroad through the States and Ter. rltorles of the Boutbwest, As this Btate Is entitled to sis delegates, to be appointed by the Governor, it is probable lie will shortly name the other three gen> tlemen who are to look after our Interests in that body Sacramento Btt. —Secretary of State Maione has received from Oliver Warner, Secretary of th» Oommouwealth of Mas. «achu*etts, a certificate stating that the followiug persous bad b««n selected to act as Commissioners of ii. i, in for that Btate, to trauMiet business in California : Bauiuel Uertuauu, Frank V. Bcii.id«r, li'< (trick J. Thibaull, Mathlts O. Upton, Hauuel L Murfuy, .illittii I', biultii. John 11. U. Wilklus, 1 ilwani Übattiu, Krastus V, Joioe, and Edward J. Btetsou, of 3ln Vrlfa'ciscoY Joseph It. £r'anian t of Lbs Angblea, and William Ilusklnf, of Oakland.