Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-02-01
The METROPOLIS.
Items of Interest from San
Francisco.

Francisco.
SAN Francisco, January 31st.-There is
rumor about town, which carries with it
many evidsnces Of authority, to the effect
that Blanche Douglas, the woman implicated
with the Malley boys in the Jennie Cramer
case st New Haven, is the widow of a promi-
nent United States official who died suddenly
in this city several years ago.
BOARD OF HEALTH.
AT the regular meeting Of the Board OF
Health tonight the investigation of the
charges preferred against DR.. Lawlor was
continued. Dr.. Lawlor was summoned be-
fore tie Board and required to testify under
oath to the number Of persons he had
vsccinated. After hearing additional testi-
mony in the case the Board adjourned.
KEARNEY AGAIN IN THE POLITICAL TRACES.
Tits evening Denis Kearney, at Pixley
Hall, organized the first branch of the Work
ingmen's Club of the Twelfth Ward. Sixty
members signed the roll, and the following
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President; Isaac Fish, Secretary; P. Ryder,
Treasurer. Kearney addressed the meeting
at length, and urged those present to organ
ize and agisate the Chinese question, so that
Congress may be forced into passing bill to
give the people of the Pacific coast some re-
lief, and check the tide of Chinese immigra-
ton. He announced that he would hold a
meeting tomorrow night.at Curry's Hall.
GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY.
The Geographical Society held very in
teresting and profitable meeting this evening.
The subjects discussed were the effects of
counter electrical currents, Wrangell Land
and the interoceanic canal.
MISCELLANEOUS.
TIE horse-cars of the Clay.street Railway
have been permanently Withdrawn from the
line.
The trip of the Three Brothers to Antwerp
in los days from San Francisco shows that
she speeds as well under the British as under
the American flag.
There are now less than so, coo tons of ton
mage in this port under engagement for wheat.
| This is the smallest quantity thus engaged in
upwards of a year.
The Hastings Law College has selected Miss
| Mary McHenry, Joseph Hutchinson aud Ed
ward Harrison to represent it in the Univer-
| sity Commencement exercises.
The passage of the Ericsson from Shanghai
to Victoria in 2S days is said to have been
beaten by the schooner Excelsior, which made
the trip in 26 days in February, 1873.
The Health Officer states that no case of
smallpox has been reported since Friday.
The last person who was reported as suffering
| from the disease contracted is still in quarau-
tine near the State line. The fact that small
pox is thus abating may be traced to the pre-
cautions taken by vaccination.
Michael Fitzpatrick Tuesday morning YVES
wounded in the neck by pistol shot fred in
Sullivan's alley by some one unknown. He
says he had no trouble with any one. ard
thinks highlander shot him by mistake.
Fitzpatrick is not seriously injured. He
came from the Eagle Salt Works, Nevada,
on Monday, is "a years old, and is a boiler
maker by trade.
ALERT T. Rich, first officer of the Ameri.
can ship William G. Davis, was arrested
Monday by the Marshal for beating and
wounding Frederick Sens, seaman, on the
4th instant, while Oh voyage frem Cardiff,
Wales, to this port. The grievance is the old
story of the seaman not obeying an order
with the alacrity desired by the officer. The
examination is set for tomorrow.
The italian Consul has notified the police
authorities that he believes Gincamo Cor.
fuglia and Guiseppi Costa are illegally re.
strained of their liberty on hoard Of the
whaling bark Coral, lying eff Beale-street
wharf. The ConsuPs information ia that one
of the men, who boarded at S14 Pacific street.
was visited on Saturday by man in buggy,
who offered him employment in q garden in
Alameda. The Italian accepted the offer,
and in some manner was iadueed to enter the
buggy, which was then driven off. Two
hours later the performance was repeated
with the second italian, who resided in the
Helvetia Hotel. Neither took his baggage
with him, and neither has since returned to
his lodgings. The Consul subsequently learned
of their presence on board the Coral, and also
received information leading to the belief
| that they had been shanghaed." An officer
was detailed to investigate the matter.
William McMann, formerly President of
the Coal Dealers Protective Union, was
fined $50 Monday by the Executive Commit
tee of the Union for selling coal below sched-
ule rates. Some months ago Mr.. MoMann,
having, as he claimed, found that the Union
was not protective body, but that it merely
allowed some INSCRIPTIONS persons to enrich
themselves at the expense of the conscien-
| tious, withdrew from the Union and reduced
his prices. The contract between the whole
sale coal dealers and the retail coal dealers
provides that the wholesale man shall not
sell coal to any dealer who has been reported
against by the retailers Union. AS Nc
Mann was openly selling coal much below
the schedule of the Union, complaint was
lodged against him, and yesterday his case
was tried, with the result stated. He refused
to pay the fine, and cited instances to prove
that the Union had not enforced It's author
| ity, but that in some cases firms had kept
aloof from the Union and profited immensely
thereby. AS McMann's case is VIGOROUSLY a
test one, the sequel will BE- of great interest
to the trade.
The main question in the appeal case Of
| Wedel vs.. Herman to the Supreme Court was
whether defective certificate of acknowledge
ment to the deed of married woman, puI
porting to transfer her separate real prop
erty, can be reformed in a Court of equity.
The Court vouchsafes to answer that heI
deed thus executed and acknowledged may
be valid, though effectively certified. The
embodiment of the fact of acknowledgment
in the form Of the certificate, prescribed by
law, devolves upon the officer who has taken
the proof of it and not upon the party making
it. In taking the acknowledgment the off
Ger acts judicially; and, if he blunders il
| cerGuylnS TO an ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Inaue, OF
makes defective or false certificate, he can
not alter or amend it, because, after taking
the acknowledgment and delivering the re
turn, his functions cease and he is discharged
from all further authority. But what he
cannot do may now be done by Court Of
equity, for, by Section 1902 of the Civil Code
Jurisdiction to correct defective certificate
of acknowledgement properly made has been
conferred upon the Superior Court. The
decision also affirms ths principle that wher
defendant answers the complaint and goes
TO trial upon the issues made by the plead
ings in the case, and judgment is rendered
against him, he cannot, on appeal from the
judgment, avail himself of defects in the com.
plant which might have been reached by
special demurrer and corrected in the Court
below.
Six weeks ago the Southern Pacific express
brought to this city from Arizona Major r
G. Mccoy. a gentleman about 30 years of age
and an ex-officer in the Confederate army.
While in Arizona the Major became inter
ested in some mining property, and came tc
this city to sell it. This be found impossible
to do, and day after day his funds grew less,
until his last dollar was spent. Having nc
friends nor acquaintance in this city, and be.
ing too proud to ask assistance of strangers
he walked the streets by night subsisting of
of scanty meals of bread and water obtained
o. LONG, intervaJa This rreaoer diet with