The union Democrat., 1869-01-09
Pacific Coast News.

/ The sales of real estate in San Francisco
during the month of December. amounted to
/ 81 GOO, 80. The number of sales was 4s4.
There are now on the way to SSH Francisco
from Eastern domestic and foreign ports, loo
vessels, Of which fifty are due.
/ The Cosmopolitan Hotel, San Francisco,
was sold at auction on Thursday Dec. 81,
Tor S375, 900.
Two wagon loads of silver and lead bars.
| weighing 5 ZOO pounds, lately arrived at Los
Angeles from the Owens River silver mines.
The S. F. Cali SAYS c. Lanetoure has
brought suit against William Walkerly, to
recover $500, due for personal services.
The Odd Fellows Savings Bank San Fran
cisco have declared u dividend for the six
months just ended of one per cent, per month.
| This year for the first time, so far as
known, the basket willow grown in Califor-
mia has been put to use.
There will be partial eclipse of the moon
on the 9th of January visible in Cali
tornia, and beginning about hait-past ii
O'Clock p. NJ.
| The Board of Supervisors of San Diego
county have passed an order requiring oil
persons not vaccinated to have the operation
performed forthwith.
The duties collected on imports at San
Francisco during the month of December,
amounted to S6Sl .022 The receipts for the
year 1865 were IS, ,560, 40.
The Tuolumne City Meas, of the lst inst,
announces the arrival of the steamer Mum
ford, at ,that place the Saturday previous.
The Tuelumne river is now navisable TO
Tuolumne City.
ALMOST A MILLION. the last six
months, from July last, says the IadePeJalent
the San Joaquin Valley Bank has Gisbursed
the large sum of 5000, ,2l1. .3S, in payments
for wheat.
Niger LucK.--Frederick Lux, an old
Tuolumneite and former Assemblymau, has
been appointed Assessor Of Internal Revenue
for the San Francisco District, rice Gum re-
signed.
OBsERvAroRY.--Mayor MsCeppin has
granted Professor Davidson, of the Z. S.
Coast Survey, says the Bulletin, permission
to erect an observatory in Washington
Square, for the purposes of the Department.
A Mexican named Andreas Molinos was
arrested last week at Bear Valley, Mariposa
county, suspected of being one of the robbers
and murderers of man named Said in Gala
yeras county, some months ago.
A correspondent of the Mariposa Gazette
says that, notwithstanding the prevailing
opinion of " hite men that this will be dry
winter, the Mono Indians predict TIE most
severe winter we have had for many years.
By decision of Judge Pratt Of the Twelfth
District Court. San Francisco, rendered on the
4th, instant, the incorporation of the Bull
ders' Insurance Company was dissolved, n
Receiver appointed and u distribution of its
effects decreed.
The steam fire department was inaugurated
in Oakland on Christmas day, on the arrival
of third-class Amoskeag engine. A large
number of tiremen from San Francisco parti-
cipated in the ceremonies.
An agent of the Government is about to
institute suits against the Central Pacific
Company and others for tresspassing and
committing waste on the timber lands of the
United States. r-
Insurance Commissioner Move has refused
to give the Mechanics Insurance Company
the necessary certificate to do business under
the law, on the ground that it proposes to as
sumo risks and start on essentially the same
basis as the old Builders Insurance Com
pany.
THE BAuDIN MoNUMENT.-The French Re-
publican Committee of San Francisco have
issued an address on the occasion of the open
ing of subscription for the erection Of a
monument to the memory of Alphonse Bau-
din, killed on the barricades in the streets of
Paris after the eoupd' etat of Napoleon l.
Examiner.
STATE TREAsURY.-The State Board of Ex- |
amners have filed in the Office of the Secre-
taIy of State their report of moneys in the
State Treasury, showing that of gold and |
silver coin there was on hand, December 3lst. !
81, OIL ,740 Is; legal tender notes, Sl22, ,593 |
so. Total, 81, no. 1888 6S.
The demurrer of George w. Move, Insur-
ance Commissioner in the case brought
against him by the Builders Insurance Com
pany, has been oyerrued by Judge Dwinele,
en- the ground that an individual may be
guilty OF libel against q corporation.
Michael Malone, member of the Emmet
Guards, was shot dead on the evening of
January lst, in San Francisco, 10y James
Hayden. No cause assigned except dis
puie about twenty dollars a few days pres
yious. Hayden was arrested the same even
ing.
The Builders Insurance Co. advertise that
they have re-insured six million dollars of fire
risks in the Liverpool, London & Globe In
surance company, and have re-insured all
their Marine risks in the Home Mutual
Such scattering risks as were objected to by
the above companies have been cancelled and
rebate of premium returned to the policy
holders.
On the night of December 3lst terrible
tragady occurred about fourteen miles from
jackson, near Lancha Plana. A man by the
name of jeremiah r. Walker attempted to kill
both of his children with a Ratchet and to
commit suicide afterwards. The children are
said to be in dangerous condition. The
father, it is thought, will recover. Great ex-
citement prevails in the nelghborhood where
the tragedy occurred.