Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-10-31
SAN FRANCISCO.
Items Of Interest from the Me-
tropolis.

GAN 4 FRANCISCO, OctoDer 5Usn.-Ihe mar
Dor has been very lively during the day.
Twenty deep-water ships were aided to the
unusual number already in port. Among
the arrivals was the American ship Caron-
delet from Yokohama, in the unprecedented
time of twenty-five days. This beats the
average passages of the side.wheei steamers
formerly run on that route by the Pacific
Mail Company. There are now las ships in
port suitable for wheat, with carrying capac-
ity of about go, 600 tons. AS consequence,
freights are disposed to sag, and, with the
great number of ships on the way, are likely
to reach figures more in accordance with the
views OF wheat-growers than those Of few
months past.
THE PROPOSED VETERANS HOME
AT Oakland to-day preparations were made
to solicit subscriptions in Alameda county for
the proposed Veterans Home. The county
was districted and canvassers appointed.
CHASTITY SIGHT AT SEA.
The ship County of Aberdeen arrived to-
day from Rio, and reports that on August
9th, in 81 sc south. 81 80 west. between 3
and IL A. NJ, she passed ten corpses. Some
of them from the clothing appeared to be sea.
men. The others were nude.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The Nevada Banks Few officers have taken
their desks.
The tax collections for the past week
amounted to about $4,000.
The Baldwin Petroleum Gas Works Satur-
day suffered $1,000 damages from an explo-
sion of the gasometer.
Deaths in San Francisco for the week end
ing on the 2Sth, Sc; male, 50; female, II.
Corresponding week last year, 81.
1t is charged that tainted meat is served to
prisoners in some cases at the House of Cor
rection. The charge is to be investigated.
Jimmy Hope, the burglar, has been sem
fenced to State Prison for seven years and
half. An appeal will be taken in his case.
The White Cigarmakers' Association of the
Pacific coast has voted $50 toward defraying
the expense of sending delegate to the In
ternational Trades Congress, to be held at
Pittsburg, Pa, November 10Th.
Henry Villard's railroad excursion party
returned Saturday from Oregon and Wash
irgton, and took rooms at the Palace. Mr..
Willard and one or two others in the party
appeared to be not only tired, but utterly
worn out by their campaign in the web
foot country.
A cricket match was played at tine Recre.
alton Grounds Saturday afternoon between
eleven Captains of the British ships now in
the port OF San Francisco and an eleven OF
the Occident Cricket Club. There was quite
large number of persons on the grounds to
EA-~ al
played and interesting throughout.
At the meeting of the State Horticultural
Society, Friday, NJ. T. Brewer, CT Sacra-
mento, made lengthy address on fruit ship,
ping interests. E. W. Hilgard was elected
President; Z. J. Wicksop, Secretary; r. j.
Trumbull, Treasurer; J. V. Webster, Vice
President, Directors-A. V. Hatch, j.
Shouted, G. II. Dwinelle, Matthew Cooke,
and E. H. Rixford.
A new Post of the Grand Army of the
Republic has been organized, to be known as
Garfield Post. The following officers were
elected and installed with due ceremonies
Post Commander, Valentine Zahn S.V. o.,
James Z. Hughes J. V. c., Albert Brown
Quartermaster, Edward Naughton /; Chap
lain, O. A. Thompson Officer of the Day,
Harry G.. Rice; officer of the Guard, Ed
ward Quinn.
John w. Eckstrom, patient in the United
States Marine Hospital, went in small skitf
on Mountain Lake, on the United States
reservation, near the hospital, to shoot ducks,
aad after having killed one rowed to the spot
where it had fallen to recover it. In doing
this he lost his balance, upset the skiff and
fell into the lake. He chung to the boat for
few minutes and then struck out for the
bank, but before he reached it he suddenly
threw up his hands, sank and did not rise
again.
Herman Syobolom, a Russian sailor on
board the barkentine North Bend, who was
stopping at Fraser's sailor boarding house, cut
his throat with razor, partially severirP the
windpipe. He was taken to the City Re-
ceiving Hospital, where the wound was
stitched up by Surgeon Stambaugh. The
wounded man states that he was shaving, and
that the cut was accidental while his ac-
quaintances assert that he has been drinking
heavily of late, and that the cut was made
with suicidal intent.
Rubie Buckley Saturday morning stabbed
Robert Gordon with a dagger in dive at
California and Kearpy streets. Gordon is a
very Young man; was drunk and noisy.
Under taunt of Gordon's, Buckley, who is
50 years old, plunged his dagger in the boy 3
side to the hit. Previously the boys friends
had asked Buckley and others to pay no at
tention to the youth, who did not know
what he was about. Gordon, it is feared,
will die. Buckley is under arrest
a firm market for real estate, with good
central property in constant demand, is what
all the dealers said during the past week
but when pressed as to the actual transfers
they had made, they were forced to confess
that buyers and sellers entertained widely
different views as to the value of the central
property that was in such great demand. The
| fact is that about a dozen men with more or
less money to invest are going round seeking
for first-class property. That makes the &C.
tive demand The frmness of the market
comes in when the holders of the aforesaid
frstclass property refuse to sell for the small
amount offered by the spectators.
Attic late meeting Of the Health Committee
it was shown that the city sewers are in a
very bad condition, and need to be imme-
diaiely cleaned out and flushed. Street
officers say that 800 men could not clean the
sewers south of Market street in three
months. DIR. Meares has called attention to
the epidemic of diphtheria in 1867. in which
about l, 400 children were carried off. Ii the
sewers were not cleaned now, an equal, if not
| q more terrible, epidemic would result. That
the gas from the sewers entered the houses,
whether they were trapped or not, was shown
by the fact that the gas in the refuse from
the Baldwin gas works. which was run into
the sewers, created an offensive odor in houses
six blocks away.
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