Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-12-22
SAN FRANCISCO ITEMs.

From San Francisco exchanges of December 20th.l
There is now larger amount of disen-
gagged tonnage in port than at any time in
six months.
The receipts of the Custom. house for
duties for the past week were $l37, l24 81,
making total since January LIST of S., $685..
$40 o..
The ship ]. B. Walker, which arrived in
port on Friday last, i2l days from Liver.
pool, touched at Valparaiso, and was only
thirty.six days on the passage from the
run, beating the mail steamers.
The next annual meeting of the State
Teachers Association will be held in Lin
coin Hail. in this city, on Tuesday, Wednes-
day and Thursday, the 2Sth, Doth and 3Oth
of this month. An interesting programme
has been arranged by the officers of the
Society. The Central Pacific and Southern
Pacific Railroad Companies make the same
arrangements for return tickets as were
made last year.
The matter of the proceedings instituted
by j. V. Coffey, contesting the election of
Judge NJ. A. Edmonds at the general cleo
ton held in September last, as a Judge of
the Superior Court, came up for hearing
to-day before Judge Evans ia Department
No. 7. The entire day was taken up in
arguing the question whether there was a
judicial election or not. Judge Evans de-
cided that there had been, and ordered the
recount of votes to begin at half-past
o'clock tomorrow merning.
The arrest yesterday for drunkenness of
Thomas Grant, residing at l6l Tehama
street, Brought to light a wretched story
of almost total depravity Lying in a
small unfinished room at his house was
the body of Grants wife. She about Is
days ago gave birth to child, which soon
expired Thursday last Mrs. Grant died,
and an undertaken laid her out on Satur-
day. Grant told neighbor that he had
raised SIS. for funeral expenses, but this
he .GsCSt haze spout fer Eqaor, s.3 when ar
rested he had but SO upon him. His two
little children had been playing in and
about the house while the dead woman lay
nude upon rough boards placed on two
horses.
lFrcm San Francisco exchanges Of December 21st
Three new cases of small-po were veri.
| fed to-day before 2 P. NJ, and sent to the
twenty -Si&tu-stIeeb 1osp
The tax collections yesterday amounted
to 1888, 900, being the largest collections
for any one day of this season.
The shipments for treasure to Hongkong
by the steamer to-day embraced S53, 600 in
Mexican dollars, and about $50, 600 in gold
coin and dust.
The Internal Revenue collections in the
San Francisco district last week amounted
to 57,075, making total since January
lst of 81, SAG, 375, as against $2,OSl, 745 in
the same time last year.
The Occidental and Oriental Company's
steamship Belgic, which sailed for China at
2 o'clock this afternoon, is carrying four
teen Chinese lepers back to their native
land Everything connected with the
shipment was managed with the utmost
secrecy.
Another brutal murder was committed
at No. 1852 Dupont street, near California
last night. Thevictim was woman named
Fredericka Drell, about IS years old, who
kept clearinghouse at the place named
above. The murder was discovered al
about o'clock this morning, the indica
tions being that the woman had beer
choked to death.