Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-11-08
SAN FRANCISCO 1rEnIs.

| Archbishop Riordan arrived Tuesday night.
Louis Cohn has been freed of all conspiracy
charges.
The next steamer from Panama will be due
on the 18Th.
Cad Bryant's accomplice has been exiled
from the State.
There are upwards of twenty ships now
fully due at this port
The steamer City of Peking is expected in
from Hongkong next Friday.
| Judge Finn has ordered Miss Hill to ex.
hibit her alleged marriage contract to Mr..
| Sharon's counsel.
| The Palache Board Of Vestrymen has
been ousted from the control of st. Marks
Church, Berkeley.
The Tax Collector Tuesday turned over to
the Treasurer S42. 290 40, the amount collect
ed during October.
The Supreme Court hes dismissed the APP
psal in the case of Collins, the convicted muir.
derer and stage robber os Nevada equity.
The shipment of treasure Wednesday for
| Hongkong amounted TO upwards of half
million, including 100000 in Mexican dol
| ars.
The whaling bark Reindeer, arrived from
the Ochotsk Sea, reports that the catch in
that region this season has been extremely
Light as the whales are scarce and shy.
The shipments of -four from San Francisco
| by water in October were nearly los, 900 bar
| rels. The largest quantity of -four shipped
this year was los. zoo barrels, last March.
| A meeting was to be held Tuesday by
American shipmssters at the Chamber of
! Commerce to prepare memorial TO Congress
| advocating the passage of laws favoring
| American shipping interests
Contrary TO expectations and to established
usages the wheat exports from California in
| October were less than for September. The
total was l, 500 600 centsls, or 800, 600 centals
short Of September. The total for October.
1882, was l. 762 600 centals against 2, 047. 600
centaIs in October. 1881.
| Greek fishermen contradict the statement
of Fish Commissioner Buckingham, reported
in the Sacramento papers, that " in Marin
county alone fully six hundred Greeks and
| Chinese earn a living by this kind of unlaw-
full fishing" referring to the spreading of fine
nets across sloughs and the catching of small
| fish. They say that not one Greek is engaged
in that kind of fishing. They fish for sal
mon, and do not seek to denude the streams
Of small fish and they think that the Fish
| Commissioner has done them a serious inius.
tice
The nineteenth annual report of Fire Mar
shall John l.. Durkee to the Board of Fire
| Underwriters for the last fiscal year gives the
following interesting statistics There were
| 1913 sexual fires, " chimney fires false
alarms, l rskindling, 8 bonfirss, second
alarms, and 6 incendiary fires, making total
Of S79. OF the sos buildings burned and
damaged by fire, IS were oue-story, 162 two
story, SO tbree-story, II fve.story frame; 2
one-story, Is twe-story, So three-story, 10
four story, 2 five-story, and l six-sorY brick
Buildings totally destroyed, AZ; considerably
damaged. y; slightly damaged, 249 Fires
confined to one building, 217. and at 81 fires
no damage was done TO buildings.
A circular has been issued by Grand Com
mandsr George G. Perkins to the subordinate
| Communicates Of Knights Templars Of Cali.
fornia, in which the showing made by the
committees and officers who were connected
with the TrienLial Conclave demonstration ia
pronounced to be truly gratifying and all
| Tsmplars Of California as well as the men,
bers of the committee are to be congrstu-
lated upon go successful, termination of one
of the grandest events in the history of our
Order on this continent" The vote placing
the 81, GOO surplus above all the Conelave ex-
pensss in the Knights Templars Drill Fund is
| amour ced, and the accommodation that all
subordinate Communicates meet on April 10,
| 1884, with the Grand Commandery of the
State, is approved.
Felix A. Wahl, of this city, sailed on the
ship st. Clair, of Thomaston, Me-, ss stew
ard of crew of sixteen. December 49, 1882,
| bound for Nagasaki, Japan. May LIST the
vessel ran on the shoalipg shores of one Of
the Sunda Islands. and became total wreck.
The officers and crew took to the boats. and
first landed at desolate and uninhsbited
island, where VAIL, suspicious Of the trusti-
ness of the boats, which had long been un-
used, decided to remain. There he subsisted,
like another Robinson Crusoe," until
Japanese fishermen came to the island, after
an interval of nearly three weeks, and he
was by them rescued. All this time he lived
on fish and oysters, and found shelter under
sheds which these fishermen had built on
former occasions. From the leland he was
taken to Teobe and thence to Yokohama,
where the American Consul interested him
self to have Wahl returned to this country,
and be arrived here few days ago, and now
tells his story modestly, but freely, to other
sailors who have brsved the perils Of the sea
like himself