Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-07-20

| Produce Exchange annual MeefIng-The
"Cair' system.
SAN Francisco July 19th.-At the annual
meeting of the Produce Exchange this morn
| ing the retiring President read his report.
Il shows that the "call feature of the bust
| ness has been more successful than antici-
pated. From February 9th to June Both
there was sold on call Wheat, "a, 600 cent.
ais barley, ,172, $40 centsls oats, III, 400
centals; bran, 349. $50 centals; rye, 5S, 900
| centals corn, 020 centals and 2,589, O6O
bags, beside other miscellaneous produce, the
whole amounting to money value of So, 235,-
| $50. Regarding the negotiations with the
Merchants Exchange but one trivial differ
ence now exists in the way of lease of the
property with the right of purchase, and it is
expected that this will be shortly removed
The question regarding the expulsion or sus.
pension of members Of the Exchange who
have Joined other similar organizations, nota-
bly, the Grain Exchange, is still pending.
The Laundry Ordinance YioIators.
SAN Francisco, July 19th.-The police
have been engaged for several days in obtain
ing testimony against and arrestiDg laundry
men who are carrying on business without
license On Tuesday thirty-six Chinese
laundrymen were taken into custody for this
violation of the municipal ordinance, and to-
day the defendants were called In the Police
Court, when, on motion of the attorney en-
ployed by the Chinese Consul to represent
them, postponement was granted Counsel
has given notice that he will surrender one Of
his clients, and that he will then apply to the
United States Circuit Court for writ of
habess corpus, setting forth that the prisoner
ia unlawfully held by the Chief of Police,
under authority OF an ordinance which the
attorney claims is invalid and unconstitu.
tional Ore of the points to be raised in the
Circuit Court is that the ordinance is uncon.
stitutional, because it is class legislation.
shipping Mendicants 10 China.
SAN Francisco, July 19th.-The steam.
ship Scraps, which sails for Honskong to-
morrow, will convey away 600 Chinese pas.
sengers. Only IS of these could obtain GER
tifcates enabling them to return to this coun.
try. The remaining 525 are composed of
ragged and diseased offscouripgs of the
slums, hospitals and poor.houses of China
town. For some time past well-to-do Chinese
merchants who contribute most to the chart
table funds of the Six Companies, have been
grooming under the burden of assessments
made necessary to support the fast increasing
army of old, WORKOUT and diseased Chinese.
1t finally occurred to these merchants
that to keep this penniless ard sick
army, to feed, clothe and house it. and
finally to send the bones to China, would be
much more expensive charity than to bun.
die the whole lot eff at once. and thereby end
that source of expense altogether. The over.
crowded condition OF Chinatown since the
present great rush assumed such proportions,
and the resulting dire distress for room, made
it doubly expedient that the clearing out Of
the drones should begin at once. Agents of
the Six Companies were sent throughout Chi
natown to look up members Of the miserable
army. and notify them that they were to be
shipped off by the Scraps. The Six Compa-
mics defray tho expenses of shipping these
diseased paupers. The appearance of this
army of mendicants. as they were marshaled
on the dock to-day, beggared description.
Allowed TO Land Her Coolies.
SAN Francisco, July 19.h.-The British
ocean-tramp Mslabar, having undergone all
necessary precautionary cleansing and fumi-
eating, will be allowed to land her 795 Chi.
nese tomorrow morning.
Club Meetings-yiOlent Deaths.
SAN FRANCISCO, July 10Th. - Meetings
were held tonight by several Democratic
local clubs and by several branches of the
League of Deliverance.
From July LIST up to o'clock this evening,
thirty cases of violent death had been re-
ported at the Morgue.