Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-07-31

us ~ dNiII WHICH arrived / illaN r,
brought lS2 Chinese.
Martin Joost, a once well.to. do merchant,
is under arrest for forging Endorsements on
two notes.
The agent OF fifteen or twenty families
OF immigrants has arrived. They all come
from Posen, in Prussia.
The tea brought by the Arabic on her
late voyage was the largest shipment that
has ever arrived here at any time on any
one vessel.
Charles and Mary Gillen, man and wife,
are under arrest for neglect of their four
year-old daughter. They are in the habit
Of getting drunk and laying in a miserable
stupor for days. Their habitation was the
most filthy and squalid imaginable. All
the man earns goes for beer.
Suit has been brought in the United
States Circuit Court by the New York,
Lake Erie and Western Railroad Company
against Charles Z. Locke, Manager of the
Bush.street Theater, to recover S753 80 on
two promissory notes given in transport
alton contracts, to-wIt, one for 1893 20 for
carrying certain men and women from New
York to Council Bluffs, and the other for
I-uO toI ing Llcu dLu "Ontu
from Council Bluffs to New York.
On the 23d Of March last the Oregon
Railroad aud Navigation steamship Colum
bia was stranded upon the rocks near Fort
Point, and certain tugboats, owned by Mil
len Griffith ard Charles and Edwin Good
all, rescued her from her perilous situation
thereby earning salvage. A controversy
arose between the Oregon Railroad and
Navigation Company and the owners OF
the tugboats as to what compensation was
due, and being unable to agree upon terms,
the parties on Friday filed in the County
Clerks office a stipulation by which the
settlement of their differences is left TO the
/ arbitration OF Oliver Eldridge, Captain
Robert II. Waterman and Southland Hoff.
man, the award to be filed on or before
August 18th.
The Supreme Court has granted a new
trial to Clarence Gray, convicted of murder
in the second degree for killing Clancy, a
newspaper man, on the ground that the
jury drank so much during the trial as to
unit them for proper and serious delibera.
ton OF the evidence. During the eight
days of the trial, four five gallon kegs of
beer, five gallons of wine, ten bottles of
claret, and considerable whisky, were pur-
chased by the jury at their own expense,
and consumed by them, without the kuowl-
edge of the Court. In many States, the
Court says, it is held that drinking of in
toxicating liquors by the jury is sufficient
to set aside verdict, but they hold that
as long as there is not sufficient drank to
incapacitate the jurors the verdict should
stand
In accordance with the resolution adopted
by the meeting of stockholders Of the Mer-
chants Exchange Bank, Irving NJ. Scott,
the Chairman, appointed the following COM
mittee to examine the books and accounts
CT the bank: DIR. James Simpson, Chair
man ; 7. V. 0'Brien, /. Blair and T. G.
Stetson. On Friday morning the commit
tee visited the bank and requested per.
mission to examine the books. It is repre-.
sented that r. G. Sheath, the President OF
the bank, refused to allow the committee
to examine the books. A formal protest
to the action of the President was made.
but it avsiled nothing, and the committee
was forced to depart without obtaining an
opportunity TO examine the books. Mr..
Sheath based his refusal upon the fact that
Mr.. Scott had not chosen the committee
from the names suggested by him.
Joseph Miller has commenced suit in the
Superior Court against the Hibernia Saw.
ings and Loan Society for the recovery of
81, 100, the complaint reciting that on the
24th of June, 1882, the plaintiff was the
owner OF 81, 100, the denomination of the
same being double eagles and eagle pieces.
Plaintiff alleges that this money was hid.
den in the earth, and that Michael Hutch.
inson and his wife found and took posses.
sion OF it without the owners knowledge
or consent; that they afterward, on the
:" Both day Of June deposited of the identi.
cal moneys and gold coin pieces before
mentioned, 81, 100, with the defendant, for
which they received no consideration. "
Miller having no faith in banking institu-
tons, hid his money in an old hollow tree
IN the Laurel Hill Cemetery, where some
one found it, and considering that find.
ings are havings," carried it away. much to
Mr.. Miller's CONSERVATION and dismay.
John Sullivan, pioneer resident of San
Francisco, died at his residence, No. 525
Oak street, from the effects of an operation
reformed upon tumor in the neck. Mr..
Sullivan was born at Askeatin. County
Limerick, Ireland, in 1924. At the age OF
he went to Canada with his parents, who
settled near Quebec. While yet youth,
ne went to st. 10, Mo-, and there pre-.
empted quarter section of land. In the
spring of 1874 he traded off his land for
oxen and an outfit and started across the
plains to California. On the oath of De-
cember, 1874, he entered the State through
the Truckee Pass. He went to Suffers
Fort, and while there the rebellion gainst
Micheltorena arose, and he took sides with
General Suffer against the rebels. In 1916
MIR. Sullivan came to San Francisco, and
engaged in the commission business with
Zachary Leidesdo,ff At that time he be.
gan to make inves TIM snts in San Francisco
real estate. He was one of the founders
and the first President of the Hibernia
Bank.