The Daily state register. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1870-1872, 1871-01-27
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FROM SAN ERAyCNSGQ.
SAN FRANcIsco. Jan. %.

John +. Johnson. furniture deal
er. l35 Fifth street. left home yes
terdav and was found dead in Hamil-
ton Square. in the western part Of
the city, with a deep incision in both
arms, from which he had bled to
death. He had evidently attempted
to stop the flow of blood as he grew
weaker. but failed. He leaves a wild
ow and three children.
Hereafter the California Steam
Navigation Company's steamer will
carry freight from San Francisco to
Red Bluffs for Sl2, and to Tehama
for - per ton.
The fog has not lifted for II hours.
1t is almost like a rain.
Last night Il colored porter, mem
Der of one OF the African churches.
caught the pastor of his church in
close proximity. rs he affirms, to his
wife. The porter and his wife have
separated, and a divorce suit. with
its attendant scandal. will follow.
The new cells for insane people, in
the calaboose. talked of some time
since. have never been built, and the
! practice of putting them into cells
with DRINKS and misdemeanors is
! continued. There have been two
cases within a few days of savage as
saults ON prisoners by lunatics and
one on the officer on duty, and it is
propable that some definite action 10
provide separate cells for lunatics
Will be taken as soon as a few inno-
cent parties have been killed.
The South Eureka Mining Com
pany was Incorporated to-day. to
mine on the X Y Il lode, Eureka dis
trict, Lander county. Nevada. Cap
ital stock, $4,000. 600; Trustees. J.
W. Mather, c.. ". Ramage and l..
j. Lewis.
Stocks firm. Crown Point, S27a
Yellow jacket, S41i Savage, S495.
Gould a Curry, SiT; Chollar, S66.
Hale a Norcross, Sl02i ;Ophir, St54.
The Women's Suffrage Convention
adjourned without having apparent
" furthered the cause at this session.
About forty persons of various gen
ders were in attendance.
The billiard match between Dior
and Deery, this evening-Frencl
carom-Dion TO make 600 to Deery's
500. push and crotch shots barred,
for 81 900 n side. called ont a very
large audience. Little betting. In
dications all in favor of Dion win
ming. 1t will be after midnight be
fore the game is decided.
This evening Captain Silverthorn
of the San Francisco Police Depart
ment, addressed his watch, Stain;
that the report of a beastly affair wa
said to have occurred on the Sacra
mento boat a few nights since, and il
which he was said to have been i'm
plicated and had gained such cur
rency that he was compelled To TAX
some action in the matter. He sol
EMMY declared that he was innocen
of the charge. but said that the cir
/, cumstances of the case were of tina
character that he could not in homo
make an explanation, and he wa
therefore compelled to resign. III
then bid goodbye to the force an
left. He was so affected that II
: could hardly speak, andnearly ever
man on the watch was in tears.
few of his acquaintance credit tn
! worst details of the case. The VIC
man, who is mixed up in the scan
dial, is the wife of a clerk in the Git
a Hall, who knows of the reports. br
/, continues to live with her as if NJ
q thing of the kind had ever been r,
) ported.
J. Several cases of Matchmaking, c
downright robbery of Chinese mel
70 chants by parties connected with Il
r Internal Revenue Department, /
T. which sums of $500 and upward
d have been realized, have recent
been reported.