Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-11-30
THE METROPOLIS.
Items Of Interest from San
Francisco.

SAN FRANCISCO, November 29th.-lt is
learned on authority very near to General
Stoneman that ne will not be candidate for
Governor, but will seek reelection as Rail-
road Commissioner.
THE DANGERS OF THE DEEP-sHIPwREcKED
MARINERS PICKED UP.
| The Pacific Mail steamship South Carolina
arrived in port to-day from Panama. Her
\ passage up the coast is noteworthy, owing to
the large number of shipwrecked mariners
which she picked up at the various Mexican
ports at which she touched. At Acapulco
the South Carolina picked up Captain Neil
Currie, wife and two children and four
seamen, from the British bark Lara, of Hall
fax, which was burned in mid.ocean. These
| shipwrecked people were twenty-three days
in an open boatbefore they reached Acapulco.
| When9he South Carolina left Acapulco the
| Mexican gunboat Juarez (which vessel will
be remembered as the old steam yacht Sofa.
familiar to this port by reason of having
been moored for several years in Richardson's
Bay, opposite Saucelito. and sold during the
last summer to the Mexican Government, to
| be converted into her present form and
| service) was preparing TO go out on cruise
| in search Of the other boats of the Lara.
At Manzauillo the South Carolina found
| seventeen destitute seamen belonging to the
British ship Ainwick Castle, and fifteen sea-
men belonging to the American bark J. B.
Bell, both of which vessels were lost in a
~ kfo.zans11a 1f u.
wrecked mariners were taken on board
At San Bias four destitute mariners, be-
longing to the wrecked schooner Good Tenn
plar, were picked up, and at Iazatlan nine
destitute seamen belonging to the wrecked
American bark Antioch were taken on board.
These vessels were also lost in the recent
storms which visited the Mexican coast.
TERRIFIC HURRICANE.
Captain Weeks, of the bark Antioch, who
| arrived to-day on the steamer South Caro-
lima, reports that after riding out the hurri-
cane of October 26th at Manzanillo, he put
to sea. The ship had been SEINE what strained
at Manzanillo, and on gsle arising soon be-
gan to leak, shifted ballast and lay on her
beam-ends six days, and finally went ashore
November 10th at Chalama Bay, about
eighty miles north Ct Manzarillo. All hands
were saved. Captain Weeks describes the
| hurricane at Manzanillo as terrific. Every
| house of more than two stories was razed,
and many lower ones blown down. Frag.
ments of buildings went flying through the
air like feathers. In the surrounding country
every tree was torn away and the land swept
bare.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Subscriptions for the Veterans Home con-
tinue to pour in.
Judge Sullivan will resume his seat On the
Bench next Monday morning. His health is
| mending very rapidly.
James Welsh cut his throat in Lyons
brewery Monday morning. while laboring
under mild attack of mania brought on by
intemperance. He imagined that his life
was being sought by hidden enemies, and
| sooner than be murdered he resolved to kill
himself. He will probably recover.
A. II. Lighthall, manufacturer of sgri-
| cultural implements, has filed his petition,
assigning the attachment of his stock as the
cause liabilities, S., 30; assets, certain
mortgaged real estate and shares Of stock iu
the Lighthall Harvester Company, valued at
S24.000. and pledged as secuIity for loans OF
81. 800.
| n. 81. Strum, a commission merchant, has
| fled his petition in insolvency, giving as bis
reasons for failure dishonesty Of employees,
sickness and injudicious investments in min
ing property; liabilities, 81, 454 SO. Peti-
TONERS assets consist of interest, whole and
divided, in certain mining property in
| Arizona.
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who lives on First avenue, between Fifteenth
and Sixteenth Streets was waylaid Monday
! evening on Howard street, near the Hibernia
| Brewery, by three young garroters. One held
| his hand over Keyser's mouth. while the other
| two relieved his pockets of IS so. They re-
turned So so 60 him, after which they allowed
their victim to depart. As Keyser can give
no description Of the boys, no arrests have
yet been made.
Harris Lewis was taken into custody Mon.
day by ihs United States Marshal, by virtue
of wit of ne eccat issued by Judge Hoff-
man against Harris as defendant in the case
of Herman Schainwald VS.. Lewis cause
which is viewed by the officials of the Court
| in the light of second "Jarndyce va. Jarn-
dyce." Lewis has been placed under bonds
of $3.50, 600 as a judg ment debtor for $780, coo,
the bond nominating that he is not to go be-
yopd the jurisdiction Of the Court The de.
fendant has not yet given the bonds.
The horse disease popularity called pinkeye,
| which has made its appearance in this city. is
so termed from g peculiar reddish or pink
appearance of the eyes. caused by il hamma-
tion. The throat is much swollen. and in the
| latter stages lung fever sets in. The animal
becomes greatly emaciated, weak and utterly
helpless: The disorder appears to be epi-
demic, like the epiZooty, and to O certain
extent contagious. although just in what
manner contsgion is conveyed veterinary sur
geons are not agreed. Since the last wet spell
quite number Of cases of pinkeye have de-
veloped in this city, several proving fatal. one
stable near the corner of Natoma and Fifth
having ten sick horses, one stable at North
Beach six, and a stable on Folsom, between
Sixteenth and Seventeenth, four. Many
more are scattered about the city, it being
estimated that 200 horses are affected by the