Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-07-30
SAN FRANCISCO ITsMs.


A sun fish weighing seventy.fve pounds
is on exhibition at the Center Market.
Chief Justice Morrison, of the Supreme
Court, is reported to be convalescing at
Monterey.
OF the l04 deaths recorded at the Health
Office during the week ending July 9th,
50 were males and 40 females. Natives of
the Pacific coast, AZ !; other States, Ii
foreign countries, A unascertained, 2;
Mongolians, 7; whites, 96; blacks, L.
The steamer Hankow reports that the
japanese man. of.war Rinjio Kavan had ar
rived at Honololu harbor lately, with beri.
beri, an Asiatic disease, raging on board.
Twenty-six of the crew were confined to
their hammocks, and the greater majority
were suffering from languor and weakness.
The Custom House officials have issued
1917 return certificates for Chinese, fifty
two being issued Saturday for Chinese GO
ing to Australia and fifteen going by
steamer to Panama. Only about two
thousand of the ChiReze having certificates
have returned
The war raging on the "strets connis-
sion question, relating to third-class over
land tickets, still continues, and the draw
backs given are constantly rising They
are now as high as 800 so on S72 ticket,
and it is thought that soon they will be
much higher.
Among the passengers who arrived by
the steamer Newbern on Thursday last
were newly-married couple, the groom
Chinaman and the bride Mexican girl.
After satisfying the curiosity of the loung-
ers about Washington. street wharf the
1 txuo ruora driven t0 Chinatown
The quantity of through freight shipped
overland from California in June was the
| largest for any month this year. The in
crease was entirely on the Central Pacific
road. At the usual weight given TO car,
there must have been l., ,347 cars sent off in
/ that month, OF which S57 cars took the
northern and 400 the southern route.
The failure of Frank G. Edwards & Co.,
carpet dealers, is reported. They have as
signed their property to David Hunter and
f. E. Edwards (son of F. G. Eiwardsl for
the benefit OF their creditors. The hsbil-
ities of the firm approximate SO GOO, but
Mr. Edwards claims to have sufficient as
sets to pay large dividend, if not hum
dred Der cent, If sufficient time is granted.
The Central Pacific Railroad has leased
the corner Of the Grand Hotel occupied
by Thayers drug store, and on september
lss there will be opened there general
ticket and tourists office. The new Office
will be handsomely fitted up, and the
sraveling public will be much better served
than it has hitherto been. Those purchag-
ing tickets will appreciate the advantage
! of not having to go to the foot of Market
street for them.
The third and last 500 points OF the bill.
lard game between ]. F. b. McCleery and
w. B. F. Lowry was played Friday night,
the score opening with McCleery 1000 to
Lowry's s97 points. At the close of the
fortieth inning the score stood: Lowry,
$3.50 McCleery, 1,4S9. The game was
won by McCleery with run of in the
forty-third inning, Lowry standing 1897
at the close. McCleery's average was IL
2T43; Lowry's, 9 l3 43. Lowry's best
runs were 81, 80 and As; McCleery's, 33.
81, IA and T6.