Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-08-13
PURCHASE OF COAL MINES.
ARRIVAL FROM CHINA AND JAPAN

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS c..................Et Etc.
SAN Francisco, August 12th.-It is re-
ported that the Central Pacific Railroad
Company have bought the Carbon Hill coal
mines, near New Tacoma, W. r., and win
put on line of steam golfers.
ARIzoNANs ORGANIZED.
The Arizonans at present ia this city met
tonight at the Palace Hotel and formed an
organization for the convenience Of Arizon-
ans visiting the city, including a system for
Q ;istratian and for diffusiug information re-
gardiDg Arizona matters.
DECISION IN THE WATER COMPANY CASE.
Judge Hsyne, of the Superior Court, to-
day decided that the Board of Supervisors,
sitting as Board Of Equalization, was JUS
tilted in increasing the assessment ON the
franchise of the Water Company from 81, 900
to Sc, 600, 600.
CITY neutrality-suspicious. MOVEMENT.
In consequence of the quarrel between tie
Yosemite and Manhattan wings of the city
Democracy, The State Central Committee on
Wednesday night last ordered both Conven-
lions to adjourn, They partially complied.
To-day the State Central and County Gem
mittees met and passed resolution TO meet
again tomorrow, for the purpose of appoint
ing new nominating Convention, from
which all members of the State and County
Committees, and of both the present Con-
ventions, are to be excluded. This resolution
was sent into the Yosemite and Manhattan
Conventions, which met this evening, and by
both it was promptly tabled The Yosemites
then sent a compromise proposition TO the
Manhattans offering to give them half the
members of the new Convention, and recog-
nning the bargain Of the Yossmites with the
Workingmea, viz, 20 give the latter the
Sheriff, Auditor, Tax Collector, two Super
yisors and two School Directors. The propo-
sion was accepted by large majority. In
view of this compromise, it is expected Shat
the move Of the State and County Commit
tees viii come to grief.
ARRIVED FROM CHINA AND JAPAN.
SAN Francisco, August 12th-The steam
er Belgic arrived to-day from China and
Japan, bringing the following advices:
HeNGKoEG. July 1Ssh.-A severe typho
has ragged in the mid China Sea, and touched
Shanghai Much damage was done to ship
ping and some havoc occurred ashore
Captain Scott, Royal Navy Commander of
the man-of-war Lapwing, shot himself in
consequence OF the adverse finding of the
Court of Inquiry, held at Shanghai, into the
circumstances of tie collision between his
ship and a Chinese merchant steamer.
The Notifications at the foot of the great
wall in the Liausong Gulf are being rapidly
constructed under the supervision of two for
eigneEs in the employ OF Vieeroy Ii.
Minister Angel returns home in the fall
The relations between China and Japan
continue strained on the Loo Choo question.
Japan maintains her sovereign rights over
the islands, and the Japanese Consul at
Shanghai has ostentatiously taken charge of
the crew of Loo Ch0o sailors brought there
In distress. The natural course would have
been for the Chinese authorities to assume
protection of the sailors, but they were FORE
stalled.
The head Office of the Pacific Mail Com
pany in the East will be removed from Y ko-
hama to Honskong, preliminary to probable
more important changes.
YOKOHAMA, July 2Ssh.-The Mikado starts
on a northern tour ON the 90th instant, all
preparations being completed. He will be
absent from the capital about eighty DAYS.
The British detached squadron. formida-
BILE fleet, has put into Nagasaki, and is cruis-
ing round these islands previous to rendez-
Eous with the flying squadron accompanying
4he English Princes, expected TO arrive here
IN September. In cons. duence of the ab-
sence of the Mikado and the death of the
Queen Of Denmark, the festivities in their
honor will be curtailed.
At the beginning of next year q new code
of criminal laws will come into force. The
most important changes are the concession to
prisoners of counsel for defense, and an in
crease, in cases Of weight. of the number Of
Judges to FIVE. Trial by jury is not granted
Mr.. Van Derpat, the newly appointed
Minister Resident for The Netherlands, has
arrived, and presented his credentials to the
Afiksdo.
The United States steamer Alert has Just
returned from trip TO the BONN Islands,
after correcting the site of sundry dangers
i'll defined on the admiralty charts.
MISCELLANEOUS.
There was large attendance yesterday at
the reopsning of the Hastings College of the
Law, the prospective junior class alone num-
beriBg some seventy-6ye students.
The Humboldt Hall Workingmen have
nominated for Superintendent Of Streets j.
j. Guilfoyle; Tax Collector, j. ID. Condor !;
Public Administrator, 7. j. Herman; Coro-
ner DIR. J. i. Gibbo3.
The police are still keeping up the crusade
against those retail dealers of liquors who
have failed to obtain the municipal license
required by law, and every day from three to
hive delinquents are arrested.
4 young man, about q years of age, and
evidently weltdeyelOpsd case of smallpox,
applied Thurs lay evening for admittsnce to
fhe city receiving hospital. Information re.
garding the lscality Of the Health Office was
never given with greater alacrity.
Tie Meagher Guard. Company d, Third
Regiment, has organized % an independent
military and civic organization. This COM
pany was mustered ont OF the State service
with membership Of II. and at their last in
epe eilon had a per cent. Of the number re-
quired by law.
y gentleman who was known few yeaIs
ago as one of the mi.lionsi7es Of this ctr,
owl & to his large mining interests, was this
afternoon found on Kesny street. in q coudi-
tiou which iBduced poiice officer Rainsbury
60 take him TO the city prison aad lock him
up on charge Of drunkenness.
The charge against Henry Murphy. boat
swain q the ship Jabez 1t5wes, accused Of
mausiaughter in having been the cause OF the
drowning of William Nortoa, a ssaman, in
the river MerseY, in Mach last, has been dis.
missed in the United States District Coyrt
Nobody could swear that Norton was dead.
and as the corpus @elieti, the most essential
thing to be proven, was wanting, the dismissal
was a foregone conclusion.
A hard-glove fight for The championship Of
the coast and Sl,C00, is bsing arranged be.
tween a celebrated Eastern boxer named Jas.
keenan, aud Pete LAWYER OF San Francisco
The only obstacle to the fight is the fact that
Lsw!er does not desire TO reduce down to Us
pounds, the heaviest weight at which Keenan,
san fight. If Lawlsr backs out of the match
Keenan, says that he win be pleased 10 ac-
commodate any Of the many champions and
sx-champions of Californis. lie has come
here to fight, and would rather be beaten than
be disappointed OF an enc 1unter.
The Supreme Court las, on technical
poiut, reversed the Judgment Of the lover
Court in the matter Of a. 4. Hotchkiss, for
merlg District Attorney Of San Diego coun-
sy. Proceedings were commenced against
HotcAkiss to remove hin from ofice on the
afhdayits of n. II. Conkliu, nov District
Attorney of San Diego county. and Edwin
Parker, a member Of the bar of San DIEGO
county. In their Information they alleged