Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-11-21
san FRANCISCO ITEMS.

Postmaster Backus complains that his car
riers are overworked.
Sixteen slicenses were issued Mon
day by County Clerk Sesnon.
The Blythe estate, over which there is such
! quarrel, amounts to 81, 500. O0O,
The Sisters of Mercy report sixty.seven In
dustrial School girls inmates of the Magdalen
Asylum.
The Supervisors have suspended further
action in the removal of signs from the pub
lie sidewalks.
The graduating exercises of the California
College of Pharmacy were held Monday
evening at Metropolitan Hall.
In correction with the Sharon i'm
broglio, William M. Nelson brings serious
charges against members Of the Grand Jury.
There is a prospect that the exodus of Chi
namen upon the Pekirg will be as large as
that of the last steamer to China. About 500
Mongolisns have already applied for return
certificates.
John Clancy has sued the Geary Street,
Park and Ocean Railroad Company to recover
$50, 600 for injurie, alleged to have been sus-
tanned while In the employ of the defendant,
in coupling cars at the corner Of Geary and
Kearny streets.
The British steamship Bell Rock, from the
Sandwich Islands, reports that the American
bark Colome, from Portland o., for Hong
kong, had arrived at Honolulu on the oh
instant short a first ard second mate and two
seamen, all Of whom were lost at sea.
Clifford A. Davis, son of A. e. Davis,
President of the South Pacific Coast Rail
road, died suddenly on Monday of typhoid
fever Deceased was at the time of his death
Captain of the Cadet Company, Second Ar.
tillery Regiment, and young ulan of great
promise.
An autopsy made by Police Surgeon Den
mis- Monday upon the remains of the jour
nalist, Paschal Ceggins, showed that death
resulted from an abacess of the brain, the re-
suit Of self-iuf;cted pistol-shot wound.
The ball entered the skull over the right
temple, passing through the superior por.
ton of the right hemisphere of the cerebrum.
The abscess was in the track of the ball from
its point CT entrance to the point OF lodg-
mert.
Twenty-Five Chinese passengers were landed
Monday from the Peking, exclusive of in
transit passengers, and only two came cut
through the agency OF the Court. Twenty
were released by the Custom-house on sffi.
davis. There was come white testimony for
the consideration of the Custom.house The
most of it was Chinese testimony. OF 167
China on the Picking, only about so re-
manned on board Monday night.
Deputy Superintendent of Schools O'Con-
nor has fled his annual report, which he
gives the result of his inspection of the
schools. Mr.. O'Connor also submits his re-
port ss Inspector of the evening schools, the
matters considered being attendance, order,
suspension and readmission, Spanish classes.
bookkeeping and the teachers. The number
Of pupils enrolled during the fiscal year in the
evening schools was 1853; males 2.406,
females 253-decrease for the year 430-aver.
age number belonging, 1.054; increase, $50;
average daily attendance, 924; increase. 146.
A young Euglishman residing in this city
proposes to start on bicycle in the spring
for tour around the world. From this city
he proceeds eastward by way of Ogden,
Omaha and Chicsgo, and crossing the ATTAIN
tic fir, m New York will ride from Liverpool
to Dover. He will cross the English Chan.
mel to France, and ride through Europe into
Asiatic Turkey, thence through Persia and
Turkistan into the Chinese Empire, and
make his way down the valley Of the
Yanetse- Kiang to Shanghai, and thence by
vessel to San Francisco, consuming year in
the travelling.