Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-01-04
sAs FRANCISCO ITEMS.

Fa.rs are entertained for the safety Of
The ship ST. John Smith. now lS2 days out
from Liverpool for this port.
The receipts for duties at the Custom
house for the past week were Sl6l, 202 Is,
making total for the year of 50. 2S7, S32.
During December the receipts for mu-
nicipal licenses amounted to S37, l5S IS, as
against $50, $50 45 for the game month in
1881.
The new charter has been referred to the
Revisionary Committee. to report Friday.
The Freeholders will adjourn sine die this
week.
The French Consul has declined to half
mast the flag for Gambetta, as ne had not
received official notice from his Govern
ment of his death.
The police made 2.l70 arrests during the
past month, of which l,07l were for drunk
enness. There were 236 indigents granted
lodgings at the city prison.
The man found dead on the wharf Tues
day was identified as Otto Peterson,
sailor and Swede, aged IS, and single. He
died of hemorrhage of the lungs.
Prince Arisugawa and five attaches from
Japan arrived from the East yesterday.
They are making tour OF the world, and
will sail for Japan on the next steamer.
The snow that fell last Sunday did con.
siderable damage to the acacias IN the
Golden Gate Park, breaking branches from
thousands of shrubs and breaking few of
near the ground.
The public schools re-opened Tuesday,
when the regular semi-annual examinations
were held. Examinations for promotion
for pupils who have been absent portion
of the year are being held.
John Juriens, sailor on the schooner
Rebecca, fell into the bay Monday morn
ing while making line fast, and was
drowned. He was Russian, aged 80, and
single. The body was recovered.
The steamer Dakota came into port
Tuesday from Victoria. She had aboard
fourteen Chinese, all of whom claimed to
be merchants, and produced letters or Gre
dentials from Allen Francis, the United
States Consul at Victoria. They were
allowed to land.
One of the new Golfers lately contracted
for by the Central Pacific Railroad Com
pany arrived here on Saturday last alter
run from Hampton Roads in AZ days II
hours and 80 minutes-the fastest time on
record. The Tacoma, the name OF the
craft is an iron propeller of 3, 10 tons reg
lister, $50 feat in length, 43 feet breadth OF
beam, and 20 feet depth of hold.
It was generally expected. both by the
public and the projectors, that track-lay-
ing on the Southern Pacific Railroad,
through Texas. would be finished aoout the
Ist instant. But kilograms received at the
office Of the company in this city state that
there is still gap of about 3, 800 feet be-
tween the two construction trains. The
work at this point is extremely difficult,
and progress IS necessarily slow.
Last Saturday night supper of condo
lence was given to Hon. Charles A. Hughes,
a journalist of this city, who on November
7Eh was sentenced by large majority of
the voters of the Thirteenth District to
sixty days in the State Assembly Chamber.
About fifty of Mr.. Hughes friends, most
of them being newspaper men of this city
and Oakland, sat down to supper at mid
night, and for two or three hours addresses
OF sympathy and arrack punch flowed IN
interruptedly.
On Tuesday Emma Perry, the young
girl who some months ago fell from the top
Oh IlcSefVOlE htll III the luaihSb-EbISSb CuV,
left her home for the first time since she
returned there from the Receiving Hos
pital. In the afternoon she visited the
Hospital with her mother, being DESTROYS
of seeing the place where she long lowered
between life and death. She has fully re-
covered her faculties, and her mind has be-
come clear as to what occurred the night
of the accident. She says she recollects
having run away at the time some hood
lums attacked the young man in whose
company she was, and that in running she
stepped off the bank, but before reaching
the bottom she became insensible.
Coinage operations at the Mint in this
city for the year 1882 were confined to gold
coin ard standard dollars as follows;
Double Eagles .S34, lie, 0eO
Eagles Observation-Disclosures. 2,S20,000
Half Eagles 1870, 900
Standard Dollars Observation-Disclosures. 9,250,000