Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-11-07
SAN FRANCISCO ITEMS.

The receipts for duties at the Custom
House for the past week were Sl29, 935 GA,
making total since January lst of ST..
957, All IS.
II Four wheat ships went to sea from this
port on Saturday. This leaves one cleared,
and not sailed. There is large number
ready to clear.
A friendly rifle match between teams of
fifty men each from the First and Second
Regiments was shot at Shell Mound Park
Sunday. The shooting was at 200 yards,
five shots each. Mr.. Perkins, of Company
q of the First Regiment, scored "a out Of
a possible %, making the top score of the
day. MIR. Taylor, of the same regiment,
and Mr.. Mangels, of the Second, following,
each with score of %. Out of a possible
y, $50 the First Regiment scored 94S, win.
ynlDg the day by 26 points.
Early Sunday evening James McElroy,
"a local baseball player, became involved In
a row with some unknown critic in saloon
near the corner of Twenty.fifth and Va.
lenoia streets, and on coming to blows was
assailed with billiard cue. In endeavor.
Ling to dodge the weapon McElroy ran out
into the street and directly into the horses
5of north. bound car. The conclusion
Knocked him down, and before he was ex.
tricated the animals kicked him several
times, inficting several facial injuries.
No arrests.
/ The Authors Carnival closed Saturday
might with the largest attendance of the
season. The returns of receipts and ex,
Ipenses are not yet complete, but the fol
lowing figures will probably closely approx.
innate the result Gate money, $40, 72S
remunerative booths, 1854; outside sales
by lady managers, So, 800 Carnival Record
SlS7 so total, S3l ,029 so. The expenses.
say Sl2, 600, leaves profit of SIS, 02a 80,
L. is safe to say that the six charities will
be enriched SO, 900 each when the settle.
ment is made.
The whalers that went out from San
Francisco six, nine and twelve months
ago, are now coming home. Several have
already arrived, and all the others are
bowling along in the direction of this port
them. All have done measurably we'll, and
there will be considerable money to divide
up among those engaged in the business.
San Francisco merchants and capitalists
have more interest in the catch this season
than IN any previous year, and they will
have still more next year.
AT 10 o'clock Sunday morning an officer
front the south harbor station found wet,
shivsring, bedraggled Chinaman sitting
disc snsolately on the edge of the Pacific
Mai Steamship Company's wharf, and evil
denay meditating plunge into the muddy
wat srs from which he had but recently
enetged. On inquiry he learned that the
unf ,rtunate had been gambling with an
9th sr pagan named All Lean, who was 80
mu ii his superior in strength that he was
ens bled to rob him of $50 and then throw
hins evorboard. All Chung, the victim,
fiot;ndered about in the water tor nearly
tift sen minutes before his cries were heard,
and a rescue was effected by the officers of
the steamer Belgic.
frank Ryan, watchman on board OF the
American bark Richard Ill, lying along.
side of Vallejo. street wharf, was aroused
fro a his meditations about $50 O'Clock on
Sa turday night by hearing suspicious
sounds on deck. He rose in time to per.
ceve two strange figures drop over the
hold, and slide down by the chains on to
the wharf, to disappear in the gloom. Ryan
pr ocured lantern and Ratchet, and, sus.
pc citing that the after store room, contain.
in the ships supplies, YVES the sea. of op-
erations, proceeded thither, and cautiously
pc ering in, detected man concealed among
SC me of the merchandise. The watchman
81 osed and barred the store-room door &c.
c,aely and FASTENED to summon officer
Gennon to rout out the intruder at the
pAnt of revolver. The interloper turned
oft to be Joseph Fennell, stowaway,
who came out on the Richard III. on her
recent trip, on September l4th, from Liv-
erpooi. Fenneil was taken to the lookup
on charge of burglary.