Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-10-26

DAN Il RAECiSCUs OctODer <otu.-On VIC
sailing of the China steamer City of Toxic
TO day, a squad of police was in attendance
to prevent the collection of head-money from
Cinnamon by the agents OF the Six Cornpa-
MES. About $50 Chinese took passage.
MISCELLANEOUS.
There are 575 inmates of the Almshouse.
The Garfield monument fund collections
now amount TO 81, 9S5 90.
Edgar Mills has added $1,000 to the fund
for the Home for Aged Women.
Judge Wayrnire took his seat for the first
time on the Superior Bench on Monday.
Deposits at the United States Mint in this
city to-day were 8, 77697 ounces fine gold and
!, 792 SO ounces crude gold.
The Fire Department has been called out
to thirty actual fires this month, besides re-
spending to chimney fires and false alarms.
Patrick AfcQuade has been arrested for
selling liquor to minors. An effort is TO be
made to enforce the law hereafter prohibiting
such sales.
Silver certificates are occasionally seen in
circulation here. Two $50 notes issued at
Washington were passed into one OF the
banks to-day.
The Trades Assembly has elected Mr..
Burgman to represent it in the Workingmen's
International Congress, to be held in Pitts
burg November 18th.
The work of demolishing the Mechanics
Pavilion is progressing, and yesterday it was
huge skeleton. the shingles and outer boards
having been removed.
On the person of Kate McQuade, arrested
for Drunkenness was found ten shares Of
l.,t<s laoI- 49,. oe l. O. ,ar
Cottonwood, ten of Yellow Jacket 100 of
Poorman. and a handbook showing deposit
of S., $50.
Yesterday afternoon the doors of the new
rooms OF the State Mining Bureau, at No.
212 Suffer, were thrown open to the public.
The museum has been designed especially for
the display of the mineral products of the
Pacific coast
Nathaniel Hunter has petitioned for letters
of guardianship of Margaret and Michael
Mella, aged respectfully eleven and seven
years. The petition sets forth that the
parents OF said minors are Incorporate and
cruel to them.
Yesterday Theodore E. Bsugh, formerly
OF the firm of Sweeny & Baugh, the founders
OF the old Merchants Exchange on Battery
street, opposite tie Custom House, died in
this city of paralysis. The deceased was a
native of Pennsylvania and aged fifty years.
He was a member OF the Masonic Fraternity.
It is reported that the export duty on coin
from Mexico is to be Increased from to s
per cent. Should this be the case there
would be more Mexican dollars smuggled into
America than now. These coins are now
taken by Arizona merchants at 90 cents.
They bave sold in this market this week for
81 cents for export to Hongkong.
Pierre Pidoux, native of Switzerland, sc
years of age, a guest at the What Cheer
House, at halfpast 2 O'Clock Monday after
noon summoned the chambermaid to bring
him towel, which was done. Half an honr
later, Pidoux was discovered dead on the
floor Of his room. The body was taken to
the Morgue to ascertain the cause of death.
A Chinese lottery agency, on Brannan
street, near First, has hean raided by the
police, who discovered about sixty white men,
who were engaged in purchasing tickets.
They arrested the Chiaanlao who was selling
the tickets, but IRere unable to touch the
white men. IS the law does not prohibit any
one from visiting such places or purchasing
tickets.
The loss at the Spear-street fire on the 18th
instant, as shown by the books Of Fife Mar
shall Durkee, was Sl13, 449 6S, which was GOV.
cred by an insurance amounting to $685.
9l2 80. Many of the property owners were
uninsured, some ohly partially, willis the in
| surauce upon o portion OF the property was
many times greater than the amount OF The
damage done.
John Kelly, q pugnacious Third-street
tailor has again been arrested, this time fcl
robbery. It ia charged that OF Tuesday
! morning be told Lawrence Lsfferiy to ''stanc
and deliver" and the latter refusing, o tusslt
ensued, in which Lafferty held Kelly fast till
the arrest was made. Kelly denies the
charge. and says he was going with Lsfferty
to his room to receive money for clothing
sold.
The overdue fleet has burst upon US like
| tidai wave during the past week. About
| forty deep water vessels have come into por
since the 18th. Such an array Of arrivals il
unusual, if not unprecedented. There hayt
| been twenty-sight wheat engagements re
ported for the week ending On the 24sh. L
is worthy of note that twenty-five of thes:
were made prior TO the arrival If the ships
| Five of the spot charters we're iron vessels
Four out of the six were chartered at 75s anC
the other two at us Cd, all for immediate
! loading. The last two charters vera made
on the 9th, both at 75s, with short lay days
| One of these two vessels is small iron bark
and the other large wooden ship. But fol
the fact that they were wanted TO save ST
order, better terms could have been made
Only thirteen vessels cleared out during the
week.
The English bark Madeira, that left here
on August 10Th with cargo of -four fol
Liverpool, returned to this port yesterday il
distress. Captain Methleng ststes that or
the tenth day out, in latitude II so north
longitude 100 go west. the vessel encountered
ed terrific hurricane, when it struck it
threw the ship on her beam ends, carrying
away the mainnast, the fore and mizzen top
mssts. jib-boon and ell the gear attached
| The main rigging was cut away to right her,
| but before this could be dore the vessel filed
up rapidly with water, flooding the cabin and
galley. The hurricane lasted ten days, during
the whole of which time great fears were enter
teined for the safety of the ship and the crew
Distress signals were heisted and blue light;
burned at night. The Captain says thai
while in that situation they sighted several
vessel, but all of them continued theil
course without paying any attention to theil
| signals of distress.
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