Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-05-30
BRIEF SAN FRANCISCO ITEMS,

Imports of specie from Mexico on the
18th were 81, 279.
The receipts for duties at the Custom
House the past week were Sl59. 500 IS,
making total since January LIST of s., 264, :
4S3 Is.
The Police Department is doing good
work at the rifle range, and there is some
talk OF organizing police rifle team.
Superior Court, Department Six Judge
Edmonds), has adjourned for six weeks.
Other Departments will soon follow the ex.
ample. Attorneys are preparing to flee the
country and give their clients vacation.
The business of the San Francisco Clear
ing House thus far this year compares as
follows
January to May q, 1882 s244 547, 557
January to May q, 1851. 20S Csc, $40
Increase for 1882 SIS. $50 9Os
To-day the Grand Council Of the Ameri
can Legion of Honor will hold its second
annual session in Shells building, No. 80
OFarrell street. In the evening Metrep-
oils Council will give the Grand Council
reception at Saratoga Hall, on Geary street,
near Larkin. Great preparations have been
made for the occasion.
Virgil carp, ono of the carp boys of
Tombstone, A. T., who have recently come
prominently before the public by reason of
their contests with the cowboys, arrived in
San Francisco last Thursday to receive
surgical treatment for his left arm, in which
he was shot in his last encounter with the
cowboys, about six inches of bone having
been carried away.
The internal revenue receipts in this dis.
trict last week were as follows
Tax paid for spirit stamps .............. s30,e1I
Cigars and tobacco. Observation-Disclosures. 81 343
Beer NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. $685.
Miscellaneous. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 20,497
Total. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. s79,046
Previously since July lst............. $780,, $50
Total July l, 1881, to May 81, 1892 . SO, All 1892
At the First Congregational Church,
Rev. c. D. Barrows pastor, Sunday night,
the oratorio 90 Daniel, or the Captivity and
Restoration, sacred cantata in three
parts, was rendered by the choir, assisted
by Miss Rice and Mrs. A. E. Westwater,
under the direction OF the church organist,
Samuel D. Mayer, and the Choral Society,
under the direction of Rev. G. D. Barrows.
The latter gentleman acted as musical di.
rector, and j. c. Coggin was cornetist. At
an early hour great mass of people had
assembled at the church entrance, and
when the doors were opened, at 7 o'clock,
the crowd rushed in, and inside of FIVE
minutes every seat in the house was filed
Within ten minutes more the standing
room was all taken up, and fully 1900
people had been turned away in less than
an hour, while inside it was estimated there
were nearly 5000.
On Saturday evening, at about o'clock,
an accident occurred on Pine street that
resulted in sad fatality, the victim being
Philip s.. the l-year-o son of Scott It'd.
ball, who resides at No. l406 Pine street.
Philip, with a young companion named
Charles Burgess, went to coal and wood
yard, about two blocks distant from the
house, and ordered some wood, which,
without the knowledge of the proprietor OF
the yard, they placed in a wagon and drove
off. They delivered the wood at Burgess
house without accident, but on attempting
to drive back to the yard, the horse became
unmanageable. and, running down the
steep grade, dashed the wagon against a
telegraph pole at the corner of Polk and
Pine streets, throwing the two boys to the
pavement. The Burgess boy escaped un.
hurt, while young Tidball sustained in
juries from which he died shortly after l l
o'clock on Saturday night.