Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-02-11
The METROPOLIS.
Items Of Interest from San
Francisco.

DAN FRANCISCO, FeDrCary lUt1.-Simon
Hingheimer, drummer for Kane, OLeary
& Co., has been found guilty of embezzlement
ic collecting from customers without making
returns to the firm, and sent to San Quentin
for one year.
GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC.
The Grand Army of the Republic, Depart
ment of California, which includes Arizona,
Oregon and Nevada, will hold its annual en-
campmsnt at San jose on the 18th and 18th
instants, and very large attendance is ex-
pected. New officers are to bs elected, and
| very important matters attended to. Many
G. A. Il. Posts of the State are passing reso-
buttons commendatory Of Senator Miller,
General Rosecrans ard Senator ingalls,, of
Kansas, for their Jealous action concerning
the Pensions Arrears Act.
LAND LEAGUE.
TIE Wolfe Tone and Martha Washington
Branch of the Irish National Land League
held special meeting this evening, for the
purpose of considering the matter of having
an entertainment in aid of the fund for the
relief of the evicted tenants and the promo
ton of anti-landlordisn in Ireland. The
President. Mrs. Sheerin, occupied the chair.
The meeting decided to have party on the
evening of the 21st inst, and committees were
appointed.
CITY REPUBLICANS.
A meeting was held this evening by the
Eighth Ward Republican Club in Washing
ton Hall. which was we'll attended. Com
mittees were appointed, and among other
business transacted resolution was adopted
heartily indorsing the action of Senator Mil
Ter and the entire Pacific coast delegation in
relation to the pending bill in regard to
Chinese immigration.
THE VETERANS HOME.
The Executive Committee of the Vet.
erans' Home Association will issue an appeal
to the people of the whole coast, asking them
TO celebrate Washingtons Birthday with
balls festivals re- flies, shooting matches, etc.,
and give the proceeds to the Veterans Home
The fetal subscriptions to the Veterans
Home fund amount to 100000, of which
about $40, COO has been paid in and deposited
in the Bank of California
BOARD OF TRADE
The Board of Directors of the Board of
Trade met to-day and elected the following
officers: President, Jacob s. 1aber First
Vice. President, Jules Cert; Second Vice.
President, w. L. Merry; Treasurer. Moses
Heller; Attorney. j. II. Shankland; Secre.
tary II. L. Smith.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The steamer Gaelic will sail for Hongkong
ON the 18th.
The Mussel Slough cases have been referred
to Judge Sawyer,
The Belvidere Mining Company levies an
assessment of % cents per share.
The mortuary report for the week shows
the total deaths to be 1873; male 80. female 49,
The investigation of the County Hospital
by committee of Supervisors has ended in
smoke.
The steamer Boutwell, Castle will sail for
Hongkong direct on Tuesday, February 14th
at 2P. NJ.
The Bank Commissioners have examined
the condition of the Pacific Bank, and found
it solvent.
The steamer Australia will sail for Sidney
on the 10Th, or upon the arrival of the Eng
lish mails.
The Colina sailed for Panama Thursday.
carrying in transit to New York goods valued
at $4,000
On Monday next Judge Hunt exchanges
benches for couple OF weeks with Judge
Sepulveda, OF Los Angeles.
The business of selling futures in wheat
will be immediately commenced by the San
Francisco Produce Exchange.
The steamer City of Rio de Janeiro has
been Withdrawn from the Hopgkopg route,
and will sail for Panama on the 18th.
The British bark Isabel arrived in port
Thursday from Ardrossan, Scotland, and re-
ports that on October ID John Ting berg.
seaman, aud native Of Norway, was lost
overheard.
rived Thursday from Rio dc Janeiro, reports
that on the 7Lh instant, James Taylor, sea-
man, died, aud was buried at sea- He was
a native OF the West Indies, aged 80.
William Fl. Parker, first officer of the
American ship Valparaiso, was examined
Thursday before United States Commissioner
0Beirne on a charge of Inaltreating one of
the crew Of said vessel on the high seas, and
held to answer in the sum of $500.
Only one casa OF smallpox has been veri-
fed by the Health Officer within the past two
weeks. There are ten smallpox patients
In the Twenty sixth-street Hospital, all of
whom are convalescent, and will probably
he discharged from the hospital within few
days
United States Circuit Judge Sawyer has
sustail ed the demurrer AID dismissed the
bills in equity filed by G. z. Huntington in
behslf of tie Southern Pacific Railroad
against the Tex Collectors OF San Francisco,
San Mateo, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, San
Benito, Monterey, FreE o. Tulare, Kern, Los
Angeles, San Bernardiho, San Diego and
other counties. These are the remaining
suits wherein the question OF rights OF the
State Board Of Equalization were tested. The
case upon which the matter was decided YVES
that against &. II. Palmer, lax Collector oi
Alameda county.
The case of Newton Morgan VS.. Stewart
Merz:es ct al. has BEEN heard in the Supreme
Court, en- appeal from Judge Wilson's Court,
where n Judgment was rendered in plaintiffs |
favor for Sis 000, on az attachment bond,
sigaed on behalf Of the city by ex-Supervisor
Me, zies. OF the First Ward, and ex-Au1itor
Ashbury, IL the proceedings instituted against |
certain mining stock purchased by Newton
Morgan, which, it was claimed, was bought
with the money obtained GU forged poll tax
receipts. The case was submitted on purely |
legal points, the special counsel engaged to
represent the city having discovered that the
ex- CITY and County Attorney, who appeared |
for the city in the lower Conrt had failed to
secure the benefit of exceptions to the Courts
rulings during the trial.
1t appears that the present Board of Trus-
tees of the Vet, rams Home Association have
decided to disincorporate, with view Of i'm
mediate Incorporation on more extended
and liberal basis Of operation. After mature |
elaboration it was concluded to have the In,
corpo, ators number twenty 6ve, apportioned
between the Grand Army of the Republic |
ard the Veterans of the Mexican War in the
ratio of twenty of the former to five Of the
later. From among the twenty-five are to
be elected the officers of the Home, which it |
will be endeavored to have formed on self
supporting plan, by having the Inmates. or
such az are capable ef doing so, apply them
selves to some light and beneficial employ
mept. directly connected with the Home. In
conformity to this idea new series of by.
laws and constitution have been adopted end
priated, the idea being to vest the control OF
the management of the affairs of the Home
in the delegates FRI m San Francisco. the ap-.
portioument requiring that the minority OF