Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-02-10
SAN FRANCISCO.
Items Of Interest from the Me-
tropolis.

| dental Hotel and was the owner of the
land which was purchased for the site of the
| Palace Hotel. McFaddin's Block, on Mont
| gomery street, was also his.
ATTEMPT At KIDNAPPING.
| A bold but unsuccessful attempt was made
tonight to kidnap German girl, aged 10
years, who is employed as domestic in the
family of Joseph A Becsey, residing on Post
| street. between Fillmore and Webster. There
is no clue to the would be kidnapers.
WRIT OF MANDAMus ORDERED.
In the case of the San Francisco Gsslight
Company va. Dunn, the Auditor, Henry
Briekwedei has been substituted as respond
ant. and the Supreme Court to-day ordered
| writ of mandamus to issue against the Au-
ditor, Brickwedel.
GRAY's APPEAL.
The appeal of Clarence Gray from convic.
ton in the lower Court of murder in the sec
ond degree. for the killing of Clancy, was
partially argued to-day before the Supreme
Court and continued till tomorrow for fur.
ther hearing.
HEARING CONTINUED.
The Supreme Court has continued the
hearing in the case cf G.. A. Wheeler, the
stranger, to Monday. March 18th.
ARGUED AND SUBMITTED.
The appeal of Nancy A. Hamilton, con-
! victed OF manslaughter. for having caused the
death of George Hamilton at Sacramento, in
October, 1880, and sentenced to San Quentin
for seven years, was argued to-day before the
Supreme Court in bank and submitted.
REPUBLICAN, CLUB MEETING.
One of the Eighth Ward Republican Clubs
| held u meeting this evening, at which various
committees were appointed by the Chair.
The meeting was lively and interesting one.
CHINESE DISTURBED BY FIRE.
A FIRE occurred this evening in the old
Portsmouth House. at the corner of Brennan
Place and Clay streets. The building was
occupied exclusively by Chinese, and con-
| taired restaurant and number of Chinese
| stores. The upper story and attic was use d
as lodging-house. The occupants, to the
number of several hundred, made pell. nell
| rush from the building, blocking up the
| doors, windows and stairways in the ir fight.
All escaped, however. unipjured. LOSE,
s., 600.
OAKLAND DEMOCRATS.
The Democratic County Committee of
Oakland have resolved to run straight DEM
ocratic ticket at the coming municipal elec.
| ton, and appointed a committee to organize
! Ward Clubs, from which seventy delegates
! will be chosen to Convention.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Judge Rosenbaum intimates that be will
hold that bakers are exempt from the opera
tions of the Sunday law.
A fire in room of the Baldwin Hotel, di-
rectly over the stage of the theater, resulted
| in damage Thursday morning to the amount
| of $500.
| An order was made in the Supreme Court
| Wednesday postponing ths business of the
| Departments for one week, in order that the
business in bank might be dispatched.
The steamer Gaelic made the run from
Yokohama to this port in 10 days, 20 hours
and minutes. or l hour and IL minutes less
than any previous trip has been made.
Measles is alarmingly prevalent among
children in this city, and to an unusual ex-
tent among adults. Oae physician has over
| forty of the former and seventeen OF the lat
ter down with the malady.
The January receipts of the Harbor Com
missioners from wharyes. leases, etc, amount
ed to $780, 24O, of which S21 205 was paid over
| to the State Treasurer, and the remainder
was used up in the expense account.
A mail for the United States steamer
| Rodgers, now in the Arctic, will close at the
United States Naval Pay Office, ID the Ap-
| prsisers' building, at noon on Saturday. This
mail will be taken by the steam whaler North
| Star.
| The United States Grand Jury has re-
turned nine indictments against violstors OF
! the Internal Revenue laws-persons selling
against William I. Douglass, formerly mail
clerk, charged with stealing a S5-gold piece
from the United States mail.
The new Central Gas Company, of this
city, is in receipt of information from the
Tucson Gas Company, of Tucson, A. T..
! with whom they are interested, that in sink
| ing a well to supply their works with water a
stream was struck which furnishes 200 900
gallons of pure drinking water daily. They
will now erect water works for the supply of
| that portion of the city of Tucson.
At 1:20 A. N. Thursday an alarm of FIRE was
sounded from box 10 for fire in the cooper
| shop of A. Lawson, No. SOC Front street
Owing to the inf anmable character of the
building and It's contents, the flames spread
! to the djniniog cooper shop of John Colum
| bart, No. sos, and the saloon of George Van
| Staden, on the corner of Oregon street, which
were damaged to the extent Of S400 before
| the FIRE was extiuguished. The total loss
i amounted to about 81 500.
H. j. Mohan and Ernest A. Girvin have
| filed caveat for an invention in the form OF
| q folding chair, especially suited for concert
| halls and theaters. The chair is provided
| with arms, which, with the seat, ara furnished
| with joints, which enables the whole thing
| to fold against the back as soon as the chair
| is vacated, leaving clear and unobstructed
| path between the rows of seats. One pecu-
liar feature about the invention is that one
of the joint inven tors is an actor and the other
a shorthand reporter.
! Charlie Joseelyn, an amateur fisherman of
this city, is the recipient of news from Pesca-
dero to the effect that the number of grilse
| tyoung salmon) appearing at the mouth of the
| Pescadero creek this season is very large.
There is plenty of water in the creek for
| anglers, and salmon enough to furnish food
constantly for town. One gentleman went
| to Pescadero for few hours visit, and
caught upward Of fifty grilse salmon, weigh
ing from two and a half pounds to FIVE pounds
each. Another caught large sack.full in
one day.
The remains Of an unknown man about 80
years of age, and evidently but few mo.
ments dead. were found Wednesday in o
SdCtut iob Cu lOWuscud 5LEteC, NEAR the TALL
road depot. The body was wretchedly clad
in light pair of pantaloons. brogans, coat
of tweed and overcoat of mixed cashmere,
and wore neither shirt, undershirt, drawers
nor socks. The body awaits identification at
the Morgue. An autopsy made by the
Police Surgeon showed death to have resulted
from an aneurism of the innomenata artery,
near the heart.
In the case Of Thomas Devine, sentenced
to imprisonment at Folsom for one year for
an assault with a deadly weapon upon one
Annie Gelen, committed in Sierra county on
the ID of june last, the Supreme Court has
reversed the judgment and remanded the
cause for a new trial The information
charged him with having committed an as
sault with intent to commit murder, and the
Court instructed the jury inter ala as fol.
lows An assault to commit murder is an
unlawful intent, coupled with present abil-
ity, to kill human being with malice afore-
thought" This was manifestly erroneous,
for it omits an essential element of the offense,
viz: An attempt on the part of the accused,
which attempt must itself be unlawful.
A couple of highbiuders knocked at the
door of . Celestial domicile on Spofford alley,
about half past Ii Wednesday night, and de-
| eired tn ha admitted After anr,a y,.rlay an.