Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-07-11
SAN FRANCISCO NEWS.

Samuel Greenwood, grocer doing bust
ness in North oakland has not been seen
or heard of by his friends since last Friday.
He was engaged to be married, and the
ceremony vas TO have taken place on Sun
day, the Is h o. July. Ga the day Of his
disappearance ne visited San Francisco to
call upon 4 SICK friend. 1t is supposed by
SINE that nc was shangbaied.
1t is a remarkable circumstance that
while the fare from II n.kong to this city
Is $50, the iA:e from san Francisco TO
Hongkong Is much lower-uniy $50. The
British sailing vessel Rock Terrace, which
arrived in port en- Saturday, last, was
boarded by Dr. Llwlor, the Quarantine
Officer. He found that the manifest OF
the ship was accurate and correct, and by
an official count ascertained that there
were only twenty Chinese passengers on
board Later in the day D.. James Stanton
visited the ship and vaccinated all the
coolies The vessel vas IN clean coudI'
ton, but in was ordered by the Quarantine
Officer tina. she be whitewashed and fumi-
gated. The work was commenced Sun
day.
License Collector Mcneil has filed bis
7 Z
from licenses to have been S4l7 80 50. OF
this amount. 1913, S33 was pad into the
general fund, S23 SO into the specal-lee
fund, $40, S33 80 INTO the general fund
/ 'InunioiJail. Slg,06l 30 into the street
/ department. fund. The stock certificate
! tax amounted TO SO 944 50. OF the total
collections, $l07, 293 80 was paid into the
/ County Treasury and SO, 249 30 into the
| State Treasury. Tne following quarterly
/ licenses were Issued during the year
/ Merchandise licenses, II. 95l bankers,
/ 1872 E; brokers, 1873 billiards. 626 auction
GERS, rs; livery stables, ia; bowling al.
| legs, 81 pawnbrokers, l70; theaters and
/ exhibitions, 90 intelligence offices, O. re-
tail liquor dealers, &, 1873; grocery and re-
tail liquor dealers, 1890 There were
| 1850 vehicle licenses issued, 936 vehicle
| numbers, Il hack-drivers' cards, 20 drivers
cards and 80 street-railroad- licenses
There were :, 1913 exempt merchandise Ii
ceuses issued to persons whose business pei
quarter was less than 5000, and for which
no money was collected.
Captain Roper, of the hbeled steame
AMER Head, seems to have an extraordi
nary facility Of getting into difficulty
alltiuOoh, aoOuS wv StoSk1 ~
became involved in a wordy quarrel will
Captain Bacon, one of the United State
officials who had been detailed to guar
the, vessel. 1t seems that Bacon cam
into the cabin about hall. past two o'clock
after dinner was nearly over. Captain
Roper ordered that new courses be served
and told the official to help himself Cap
tain Bacon partook of his.hospitality, Blu
claimed that the Captain Of the ship ough
not to have served the dinner until he ap
peared. He had been detailed upon othe
vessels for similar purposes, and had plain
ly intimatsd to the Captain that he was i
fall charge of the ships, and had entir
control. The meals were to be served a
the time he ordered them. Captain Rope
said that he didn't care a continental wha
had been done on other steamers, but upo
his own vessel he proposed to be master
1t was only by courtesy that he had sui
sequently been supplied with his meals o
the steamer. He told him also that it wa
the last time that he should din on board
and thereafter he must take his meals o
shore. This order was complied with, a
Captain Roper seemed determined to Ell
force his orders, and the official dine
Sunday night somewhere in the city.