Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-11-25
SAN FRANCISCO ITEMS.

Refined silver is dull here at l3a@l41
per cent. discount.
Mexican dollars are dull and nominal at
SSc bid and soc asked.
Since July l, 1882, we have cleared lSS
vessels with -four, wheat and barley.
Captain Cogan, of the bark Rainbow,
has been dismissed from the charge OF
abandoning a sailor in the Arctic seas.
United States Commissioner OBeirne
has been suspended on charges of miscon-
duct, growing out of the late opium
seizures.
There are now three ships on the way
here from Hongkong, one of which is over
due. Another was IN berth on the st inst.
to follow.
There are now twenty five wheat ships
in port. -Four OF these are loaded and in
the stream, and ten others are taking cargo
as fast as they can.
w. III. knight has taken his seat as
member of the State Board of Harbor
Commission. Captain Banding has given
notice of contest for the seat.
Thomas Mccormack, the pugilist ar.
rested some time since upon charge of
! vagrancy, was tried before jury in Judge
Rosenbaum's Court Wednesday and &C.
quilted.
Santa Clara county has entered suit in
the United States Circuit Court against the
Southern Pacific Railroad Company to re-
cover 81. 666 40 county, and 81, 9S4 81
State taxes, for the fiscal year 1880. The
case was originally brought in the Superior
Court of Santa Clara county.
Shipments of -four hence to Australia
were renewed last April, There was not a
barrel shipped in 1851 or for the first quar-
ter of 1882. and only us bbls in April and
May. In June, however, there were S,2l6
bbls sent, and in July ,426 bbls. In
August 1850 bbls were forwarded, but
none in September. The shipments for
| October were 963 bbls. None has been
sent thus far this month, but it is presumed
that the two sailing vessels now in berth
for Sydney will take soTe. The shipments
from April lst to date aggregate 800
bbls. All the flour sent hence to Australia
this year prior to October lst, amounting
to 1897 bbls, has arrived out, leaving
only the October shipments on the way.
Judge Rix has held F. w. Dearborn,
| the alleged drummer, who is charged with
abducting Carrie Vance, in 3. 00o on a
charge of burglary, for entering friends
room and taking his gold watch and chain.
| The defense was that the defendant
took the watch in joke and never thought
of such thing as keeping it, but the Judge
| held that it was poor joke that needed an
explanation. Carrie Vance is still in cell
| No. l at the City Prison awaiting her
father, who is expected to arrive from
Eureka. She protests that she did not run
away to meet Dearborn, but met him on
kesrny street by accident. As to going
back to her father, she will not do it, ="
as she is Is years of age and intends to
make her own living in San Francisco.
George S. Greyson, paymasterk's clerk
in the Navy Department, and now sta
toned at Mare Island, was handed over to
the custody of the United States Marshal
Thursday, to be dealt with according to
| law, as a civilian, for presenting a fraudu-
been granted furlough, and left Shanghai
for his home in Cairo, Ill. The specific
charge is made that on the 10Th of last
January he fraudulently caused to be pre-
sented for allowance to the Fourth Auditor
of the United States Treasury Department
claim for mileage between San Francisco
and Cairo, amounting to 5000, when as a
matter of fact no part of this travel had
been performed, Greyson never going any
nearer Cairo than Vallejo, where he has
since remained. The prosecution is based
upon the order of the Navy Department,
but the authorities here consider that the
otfense, if any, is at best technical one /;
and that such claims for mileage are fire.
quently presented, it being altogether at
the option of the claimant, when under a
| furlough or leave of absence, when to
travel the distance charged, if at all. The
accused also claims to have obtained the
approval of his superior officer to present
the claim in QUESTION, which, as before
stated, is not considered an unusual one.