Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-05-19
BRIEF SAN FRANCISCO ITEMS.

The body of the late DR.. II. II. Hubbard
will be sent to Essex county, N. Y, fol
final interment.
The steamer Rio de Janeiro has arrived
from Panama and is reported to have
smallpox on board.
Wheat charters direct to Liverpool are
squarely down to SOS. Three ships have
been chartered at the equivalent of that
figure in the last forty. eight hours.
|. No jurors have yet been secured in the
case OF John Moroney for assault to muir.
der D. ]. Murphy, ex-District Attorney,
during the trial of the celebrated Deliver
indecency case. The difficulty is owing to
Moroney's plea of temporary insanity.
The examination of Daniel Keefe,
Michael Garrick and John Barr upon a
charge of murder, for having, it was al
legged, cansed the death of Matthew Neary.
was concluded before Judge Rix yesterday,
and it resulted in the dismissal of the com
plant as to Keefe and Garrick, and the
holding of Barr for trial before the Su.
preme Court for murder.
There was a lively discussion all day
Wednesday at the Merchants ExchaL ge
concerning the action of the Board of
Health prohibiting the removal of any
more Cinnamon on board the Altonower
to the Twenty sixth.street Hospital. 1t
seems that the owners and masters of Brit
ish vessels are extremely dissatisfied with
their actions, and make many complaints
of unjust dealing on the part of the munich
pal authorities.
OF the Bank Commissioners whose terms
have expired, and whose places have been
filled by Governor Perkins, Messrs Evan
j. Coleman and Robert Watt will relinquish
the office when their successors qualify.
Commissioner w. +. White, however, will
contest the appointment, on the ground that
he has only served two and half years.
Mr.. White was appointed to fill the va
cancy caused by the resignation of Com.
missioner Murphy.
The following is copy of petition
which has been issued by the League of
Deliverance addressed to the Board of
Health of San Francisco Gentlemen-In
view of the alarming development of small
pox on board the steamship Altonower,
lately arrived from Hongkong, by which
the health of this community is seriously
threatened, we, the undersigned residents
of the city and county of San Francisco,
would respectfully request your body to
declare Hongkong to be port infected
with smallpox, and compel all ships COM
ing from said port of Hongkong to go into
quarantine for period of at least 60 days.
F. o. Lsyman, who was recently granted
a franchise to run a cable road over Tele-
graph Hill, and the order for which was
vetoed by Mayor Blake, on the ground
that it did not, as required by the Code,
make it obligatory on the grantees to keep
the roadway between and for two feet on
either side of the tracks paved and re.
paired and, again, because the franchise
granted the right of way on the sea-wall,
which was not within the Jurisdiction of
the Supervisors, has fled communication
with the Supervisors, in which he states
that he and his associates understand that
the terms of the franchise require them to
comply with the strict letter of the law.
and that they are willing to accept the
franchise with that understanding and
further, that the road will extend onlv ~
the sea. wall. w
The trial of A. G. Maude, proprietor of
the Kern County Caljfornianr on a cbaroe
of having libelled Il. E. Houg hton and eS.
Senator Charles A. Bayly, was resumed