Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-09-07
SAN FRANCISCO ITEMS.

It has been ascertained that the loss by fire,
smoke, water and bIeakage in Aekerman
Bros store, week ago last Monday, foots
up to So, 800 to the stock and $50 to the
building.
There are 500 miles of streets in San Fran.
cisco, % miles of which are paved with cob
bles 20. stone blocks; 5, asphalt 81, broken
stone; y. wood plank; and with wooden
blocks. The cost of each, relatively, per
square foot is: Cobbles. 20 cents basalt
blocks, % cents composite, q cents mac
adam, u cents; wood block, % cents plank
ing, 10 cents.
The body of Calvin W Golf, the sailor
whom Cyrus B. Nichols is charged with 1nnr-
dering. by knocking him from the deck load
of the bark e. o. Whitmore to the deck, a
distance of some four or fvefeet, was yesterday
exhumed from its grave, where it has been
inferred since the 18th of June last, for the
purpose of holding an autopsy and determin-
ing the cause of death. The result of the
examination showed that the left temporal
bone and two of the ribs had been fractured.
a counterfeit ten-dollar piece was paid to
the Receiving Teller of the German Savings
and Loan Society yesterday, and it was not
until after a careful microscopical examina-
tion of the coin that its spuriOusuess was dis
covered. The formation of the letters on the
reverse side is not perfect, some of them be-
ing without the true line, and no one of them
is formed as clearly and distinctly as those on
the genuine coin. It is also light in weight,
and when tested by the delicate instrument
in use at the principal banks was found to
weigh hardly more than the s. gold piece
Upon scraping off some of the gold plating,
the body of the coin was found to consist Of
some kind of white metal, supposed to be
silver The coin is also not perfectly round,
hut otherwise is SO well executed that none
but an expert could at first sight know that
it was counterfeit.
The San Francisco Presbytery held the
first session of the annual nesting in Howard
street Presbyterian Church Monday evening.
There was q full attendance. Rev. j. T.
Wills was chosen Chairman for the ensuing
year, ard Rev. I. BeaizsIy temporary Clerk
Rev. DIR. Williams, the retiring Moderator,
delivered the annual sermon. Rev DR..
Hemphill, before adjournment asked that
the complaint made against him and his Ses-
sion might be brought up at the evening ses.
sion to-day, as his Elders could not be pres
ent. Objection was made, and the point was
not decided when the Presbytery adjourned
to meet in the same place this morning at 9
o'clock. 1t is understood that strenuous
effort will be made to prevent the trouble
some matter of the charges against Calvary
Church Session from being considered, but as
both parties are ready and anxious for hear
ing it is thought no avoidance is possible.
Money is more active at steady rates. Mer.
camille paper is discounted at Gas per cant,
for &c. 60 and 80 day notes; call loans on
prime securities, 4(G6 per cent. !; real estate
loans, 7(a9 per cent, and the taxes paid by
the lender. The bank exchanges for the
week ending on the 81 were the largest in at
laacf tvuO and 14y
cent. in excess of the corresponding week last
year. The increase is greatly due to the
augmented movement in the wheat export
trade and mercantile business generally.
There is more doing in nearly all lines of
trade than there was a year ago. This, of
course, stimulates the circulation of money.
and adds to the veal of the community.
Drafts on New York are selling at
l0@l5c premium on the 500; kilograms on
do. 10(G25c per 500; London exchange, 1850
500 for bank bills, and SOLO 03d for com
mercial; refined silver, 124@13 per cent dis
count; Mexican dollars, 905c apiece
Some tine since Solomon Cohen died in
this city, leaving an estate valued at SIC. 600
to his son, Isadore Cohen, then in Germany.
A brother of the deceased, named Isadore
Cohen, became executor of the estate, and
invested the property in general store at
Los Angeles, but soon lost il, and became in
solvent. Young Isadore came to this coun-
try and brought action to recover his prop
erty. Isador, the executor, was locked up
in the County Jail for some time for con-
tempt for having failed to obey an order of
Judge Finn to pay the money to the heir
After confinement of twenty days be was
released by process of law. and again brought
before Judge Finn. He pleaded inability to
obey the order, and in consideration of his
previous standing in the community, the
Judge gave him until yesterday to sither
make a settlement or to be returned to the
County Jail. The parties came into Court
yesterday, and Isadore, the heir, signed re-
lease of his claim against his uucle, the exc
cutor, on receipt of 81, 500, said to have been
paid by the friends of the latter to prevent
his return TO jail. The unfortunate heir
stated to the Court that he had been waiting
for sufficient money to take him back to
Germany, and he would return as soon as
possible to that country.