Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-12-14
SAN FRANCISCO ITEMS.

Daily sessions are now being held by the
United States Grand Jury, who are inves.
tigating effenses against Internal Revenue
Laws.
The British bark Nokomis, Captain
Murphy, arrived in port Tuesday, I64 days
from Arcdrossan, Scotland, with cargo
of coal She was boarded by DIR. LawIor,
Quarantine Officer, who found six of the
eeamen down with the scurvy.
Up to o'clock Wednesday fifty.eight
Chinese had registered at the Custom.
house. Most Of these will go to China on
the Gaelic, but five will 90 to Honolulu
and four to sydney, n. S. W., on the
steamer City of Sydney, which viii sail
next Monday.
The export trade in quicksilver at this
port IN NSvernbe: czilod for 2 500 TASKS,
valued .. $50 GO Tsis is rather more
than for either 0steher OF September, but
Is less than for the fre months immedi-
ately preceding, and little under the av-
erage for the year.
a ca lead of twenty-five ostriches ar
rived fnesday over tne Central Pacific
Railroad. They came in a car attached to
the regular passenger train, consigned 20
G.. G. Briggs, Borden station, Fresno
county. Ga the trip the birds were fed On
tusnips and corn, and arrived in good con-
dision.
Frank ". Dearborn, the drummer, who
was arrested last month on q charge Of
enticing Cazsie Vance from her home In
Eureka 70 this city, has entered suit against
the girls father and uncles, Thomas, John
and George Vance, for S25, 900 damages for
malicious prosecution. After reciting that
the arrest was without probable cause !:
that he was Imprisoned for twenty hours,
etc., the plaintiff alleges that the charge
and arrest were made public in several
newspapers by the procurement of the de.
PENDANTS.
The charge of assault to rob agains. John
Olsen and Cornelius Coleman was dismissed
IN Police Court Number Two yesterday,
and the prisoners immediately rearrested
on charge of battery, on which charge
Coleman was found guilty. Previous to the
exam;n alton Of Olsen he had an attack OF
delirinm tremeas ia the dock, and spring.
ing over the railing attacked officer Rains
bury, but was quickly ovsrpowered and
carried down stairs into the prison, where
Il was found necessary to co3fue him in
strait. jacket. His cries while in the prison
could be heard all over the City Hall, and
he was taken to the Home OF the Inebriates.
his trial being postponed until the l6.h
/ stazt.
Judge Hunt, il the case of A. F. Craven
vs. Central Pacific Railroad Company, has
denied the motion for new trial. The
action was brought 20 recover damages for
an injury sustained by Plaintiffs wife, 10
alighting from defendants cars, The prin-
cipal question of fact in the case was
whether the plaintiff e vile sustained the
injuries in consequence of an attempt to
leave the cars while they were in motion,
as claimed by the defendant, or whether
the injuries resulted from the servants OF
defendant starting up the train as she was
alighting. In the first trial, in which
judgment was recovered by defendant, tes-
timoay was introduced TO show that Mrs.
Craven, upon several occasions, got off the
train when in motion that she had been
spoken TO about it, and had been cautioned
against doing SO. The plaintiff moved for
new trial, on the ground that the admis.
sion OF this testimony, which was objected
to, was an error. Judge Hunt, in denying
the motion for a new trial, held that proofs
of former and kindred acts of negligence
are admissible in cases of this character.