Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-07-24
SAN FRANCISCO ITEMS.


From our San Francisco exchanges of July Esd
The City of Picking is now taking freight
for Yokohama and Hongkong, and will
sail on the 3lst.
The steamer City of New York will be
due from Honolulu, Auckland and Sydney
on August 10th.
Duties paid at the Custom house yester.
day were 1884 Al making total OF
1851, 70l 81 for the month.
There are now no ships on the way here
from Boston, rare occurrence, though one
is expected to sail in few days.
The United States steamer Lackawanna
was at Panama on June 18th, but no com.
munication with the shore was allowed on
account of yellow fever. She was to sail
for Callao The U. s. ship Adams had
sailed previously for Callao.
John IL. Morton, the new Surveyor OF
the Port, to day took possession of his
office. Since the death of Paul Morrill,,
late Surveyor, the office has been filled by
w. II. Dinsmore, acting temporarily. Mr.
Dinsmore will, for the present, remain as
Deputy.
Mayor Kalloch yesterday fled with the
Auditor a supplemental bond. with the
name of Maurice Herbert as a surety in the
sum of S., 600, vice John A. Miller. He
also fled a supplemental bond as member
of the City Hall Commission, with the name
of William Casey substituted for that OF
William B. Larzelere, withdrawn, in the
sum of $4,000.
A water-snake, about 24 inches in length,
stuck its head out of a crevice between the
sidewalk and the building, No. 6l2 Wash
ington street, at noon to-day, and, while
watched by q curious crowd, drew itself
out of its hiding place and travelled to the
curbstone, where it disportsd itself for
some minutes. 1t was captured in box by
some reptile sharp, and carried off. How
it came there ia mystery to the occupants
of the building, as neither they nor their
neighbors had lost any snakes.
In the silt of Bergman VS.. George c..
Perkins, Governor, the Supreme Court has
dismissed the writ and proceedings. The
plaintiff wanted writ of mandamus to
compel the Governor to issue his certificate
approving the valuation of property sought
to be condemned for supply of water for
the University and the Deaf and Dumb
Asylum. 1t is held that the power to de-
termine whether the appraisal is correct is
the Governors, and he cannot be deprived
of his discretion or the value adjudicated
for him. In matters resting in the sound
discretion of person to whom duty is
confded by law, mandamus viii not be to
control the discretion or determine the de-
cision which is to be made.
The steamship Newbern arrived in port
this morning from Mazatlan and other
Mexican ports with a part of the ship
wrecked crew of the ship Mathilde on
board The Mathiide, which was com
manded by Captain r. H. Jones, was
bound from Esquimalt, Vancouver Island,
to Callao, Peru, with a cargo of lumber.
She sailed from Esquimslt on the third of
June, and ON the 2lot of the same month
encountered a hurricane which broke up
the ship and compelled her abandonment
in mid-ocean. The officers and crew took
to the boats Only one of the two boats
laden with living freight has yet been
heard from, that commanded by the first
mate of the Inflated ship having reached
Mazatlan after a long and perilous voyage,
during which the unfortunate mariners
suffered all manner of privations.