Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-11-17
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An attempt was made on Thursday night
to burglarizs St. Mary's Cathedral.
There are apparently no more assessments
to become delinquent in the Stock Board for
the next week Such hiatus is IS remark
able as it is refreshing.
1t is stated that the California Con-
gressional delegation has the assurance that
the next Congress will pass sn appropriation
for new Postofice in this city.
The sailors of the whaling bark Hunter tell
hard stories of Captain Sherman's treatment
of them in the Arctic. TIVE of the men have
been disabled by the cruelties practiced upon
them.
Willie Shubridge, young lad living on
Stockton street, between Pacific and Broad
way. accidentally shot himself in the side
Thursday night about IL o'clock. His in
juries, although dangerous, are not considered
fatal.
The value of the foreign merchandise i'm.
ported into San Francisco during the month
of October was s., 195, 100. Of this amount,
1929 800 came in bonded cars across the con-
tinent, and the remainder by steamers and
sail vessels.
The Immigration Association has received
squash weighing 167 pounds from Heads
burg, Sonoms county. They have also been
presented with a specimen of barley messur.
ing nine feet four inches in hight, grown in
Shasta county.
Thursday 10000 pounds of whaleboue was
landed from the four steam whalers now in
port. The value of that now in port in the
whalers recently arrived is $3.50, 900. Only q
few of the whsIers have made enough on
their trip to the Arctic to give share to the
| crews.
Thus far less than ten Of the I67 Chinese
bearers of Canton certificates of leadership
have been allowed to land by the Custom au-
thorities Evidence is being submitted daily
that the holders are entitled to come into this
country, but in many cases it is of such
| doubtful nature that the applicants have been
sent back to the Peking. and will, unless the
Federal Courts intsrcede, be compelled to re.
turn to China.
A dispatch received in this city Thursday
| announced the fact that Mrs. S. r. Miller,
| the woman whose story of restitution was
told in Wednesdays papers, had been discov.
| cred at Santa Rosa. After leaving her Glenn.
entina-street house she took lodgings on Sac.
| ramento street, and from there went to Santa
| Rosa. Three of her children were found
with her. The fourth is supposed to be some,
| where in Napa county. She was identified
by J. M. White, City Marshal of Sants
Rose, from the accounts he had read of her
| adventures in the newspapers. Detective
F, Bee, who has been searching for her, is salts.
| fed she is demented, probably over her hus.
bands losses in Kentucky.
Lest Sunday three Piute Indians, Chief
| Natchez, Jerry Natchez and Piute Charley,
| came to town to induce Wells, Fargo & Co,
i to give them free transportation for game
| killed. They had formerly had this priv.
ilege. and sold their goods along the line oil
| the road, but about two years ago the com.
pany learned that white man named Wads
worth had a number of Indians employed in
the business, and that he was receiving the
proceeds of the sale sub rosa. The company
would not allow the matter to go on, and re-
voked the privilege accorded to the Piutes
Hence the present visit. On Wednesday the
| Piutes visited j. j. Valentine, Superintend
emit of Wells, Fargo & Co.'s Express, and
obtained promise that they should again
enjoy the desired free transportation.
A MUSICAL ELECTRICAL WHEEL
experiment by Professor H. S. Carhart is
as follows: A disk of sheet iron was
pierced with two circles of quarterback
| holes concentric with the disk, the number
of holes in the two circles being thirty.two
and sixty-four respectively. On one side
| Of the disk was placed horseshoe magnet,
with it's poles very near the rows of holes
on the other side were arranged two CORE.
spending induction bobbins. The circuit
| was completed through telephone and
either bobbin at pleasure. Upon rotating
the disk rapidly, clear musical sound was
produced in the telephone, the pitch rising
with the rapidity of rotation. Moreover,
the bobbin opposite the circle of slxty-four
holes gave the octave above the other, and
each gave a note of the same pitch as was
produced by blowing astream of air through
the corresponding holes.