Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-07-17
SAN FRANCISCO NEWS.

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a counterfeit five-dollar piece is in circu-
lation. 1t is recognizable by depression
toward the center.
TWENTY five clerks have been discharged
from the Office of the United States Sur
veyor, owing to no provision for the Offices
July expenses having yet been made.
Walter Young, the elderly man arrested
last Thursday on complaint of Lucy Bell
and Louisa Alden for embezzlement, was
tried before Judge Rosenbaum yesterday,
but as the evidence did not sustain the
charge the complaint was dismissed.
The Nevada Bank has paid to the Tax
Collector g go Sc personal property
taxes, the German Savings and Loan So
ciety l,247 IA, the Union Pacific Salt
Company $3.50 %, and the San Francisco
Gaslight Company Sc, 900 The total col
lections for the day were So, 900.
John Hoffman, an old man working for
the California Wool Company, on Town
send street, Saturday afternoon was caught
in some machinery, resulting in his receiv-
ing a compound fracture of the left
shoulder joint, and internal injuries. The
wounded man was taken to st. Mary's
Hospital, where he lies in precarlons con-
dition.
The familiar earthquake announced itself
again, with a considerable degree of en-
phasis, at quarter before o'clock Satur-
day evening. The shock lasted apparently
seven or eight seconds, and was one OF
those lively sort, which makes every
BODY run around and ask everybody else,
did you feel the earthquake" No dam
age is reported.
At the Boot and Shoemakers' League
meeting Friday committee reported that
the anti. Chinese crusade was bearing glori-
Gus fruit, and the prospects were very en-
couraging. Some thirty dealers had signed
the pledge, while the canvass had just
barely commenced. Many dealers were
ready to sign just as soon as they saw that
the movement was becoming general.
1t is reported that bonds are being pre-
pared for the release of the British tramp
steamer Scraps from the custody of the
United States Marshal, who has had a
keeper on board for the past ten days.
The vessel, as previously published, is
under libel proceedings to recover over
81 900 for irregular construction of passen-
ger berths on her recent voyage from
Hopgkong.
A writ of prohibition has been issued by
the Supreme Court against Attorney Gen.
eral Hart and E J. Edwards, District At
torney Of Tulare county, to restrain them
from taking any further action in the case
| of the People against the Central Pacific
Railroad Company, and that respondents
show cause before the Supreme Court in
bank, on July oath, why they should not
be restrained from any further proceedings
therein.
Saturday morning, at o'clock, a newly.
appointed officer noticing that the lamps Of
hack were not ill., called to the driver to
stop. The driver not hearing the order,
continued on his way, whereupon the newly
| fedged guardian of the peace fred five
shots after him, which brought the hack.
man to stop. On inquiry it was found
that the driver had been out all night, and
that the oil had burned out, and he could
not replace it until he got home.
The man who was found by officer Ran
kin Thursday night on Clay street, in an
unconscious condition, died in the Receiv-
| ing Hospital Friday morning at 6 o'clock.
His remains were removed to the Morgue,
where they were identified as those Of
Thomas Metcalf, native of England, by
occupation cook, 40 years of age. The
deceased has been very dissipated for some
time past, and the cause of his death can
not be ascertained untilthe contents of his
stomach are analysed. ..s~- r- .-E
Henry Gloer, German, aged 81 years,
| single and brewer by occupation, died in
the City Receiving Hospital Saturday night
about 7:45 o'clock, from injuries sustained
in jumping from a third story window of
| the Capitol House, on Sacramento street,
on Friday, the 7th inst. Gloer came to this
city from Vallejo, where he had been
working at his trade, some five weeks ago,
and at the time of making the fatal leap he
was suffering from delirium tremens. His
| injuries were compound comminuted
fracture of the right leg, and a comminuted
fracture of the left leg.
The little schooner Pearl, Captain c. B.
| Kustel, lying at Harrison street wharf, her
weather-worn appearance, her bleached
sails, her queer black rigging OF twisted
grass, with her Malay crew, is an object
exciting more or less curiosity along the
water front. The little vessel, with crew
of the Captain and one man, sailed from
this port April %, 1880, on trading voy-
age to the Marshall islands in the South
Pacific, nearly 1000 miles distant from this
port. At the Gilbert group the white man
left, and the Captain took in his place
native. After trading in and about the
Navigator islands and the Caroline arohi-
pelago sail was made toward the coast of
China, and finally on the island of San
gri, about midway between the Philip
pine and the Malacca groups, the Captain
made his central station, while he traded
for year along the coast of New Guinea,
Celebes and Borneo for gold, spices,
pearls, shells, tortoise shelly, etc.,
giving in return trinkets, cloth, and
other merchandise. While trading for
rubber along the coast of Borneo the
Pearl had narrow escape from Malay
pirates, three of which chased him through
the Soo-loo group of islands, After So
journ of nearly year and half in the
East India islands, a crew of four Malays
were shipped, and the Pearl sailed for
home, "a distance Of 10000 miles, with
cargo of dried cocoanuts as ballast, and
after voyage of ITO days from the Cele-
bes, sailed safely into the Golden Gate.
The Captain says nothing but breadfruit
grows in the shape of timber on the Mar
shall islands. Still, the natives have
canoes thirty or forty feet long, made of
California redwood, while he saw redwood
logs drifted on the shores, and in one place
railroad ties had driftei in-on one of
which was branded 81. E. White, No.
yarro River"