Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-11-16
SAN FRANCISCO ITEMS.

Two more Arctic whalers arrived on
Wednesday.
Frank Hart. the colored pedestrian, ar
rived from the East Wednesday evening.
The sailors arrested on charge OF mutiny
on board the whaler Lucretia have been held
to answer.
May d. beat Jim Renwick on Wednesday,
mile and 800. yards dash. Viola K. won
the mile and repeat race
+. A. Heineeke had a severe struggle in
his store, on Pacific street, Wednesday even
ing with couple of thieves, and in the
melee both the latter escaped.
The Estate Central Butler Democratic
Club" has been organized, With Patrick
Sarstield Dorney as President. A resolution
was passed indorsing Butler for President.
Judge Hoffman has decided that a China
man is not entitled to land if he returns to
this country without certificate after hav.
ing been able 20 obtain one before his de-
parture.
Witcher Jones has brought suit in the Su.
psrior Court for the recovery of 1874. 500
from Joseph Brsndsnstein, the tobacco mer-
chant, which, it is alleged, is due for q
breach of contract.
Stephen A. Richard, native Of England,
married, and residing with his wife and chill.
dreu at lilo Steiner street, left his home last
Saturday with about $500 in his possession,
and has not been heard Of since.
Judge Coffey Thursday morning heard the
concluding argument in the Nicholas Skier.
rett case, and denied the probate of the will,
by which Ann Skerrett was granted the Ell
lis.street property. Public Administrator
Roach was granted letters on the estate.
Testimony was taken on Wednesday be-
fore Notary Public in the case of M. Eel.
lerbsch against Charles Allenberg ct al,
suit brought in the Superior Court for an &C.
counting for s., 5000 damages and the re-
turn of mining stocks and other property.
The official survey of the new ferry.boat
Piedmont has been completed. Its gross
tonnage is fixed at l, S54 sc tons. By an Act
passed by Congress August 5, 1882, exempt
ing the engine boiler-rooms and crew space,
her net or registered tonnage is l, 169 SO tons.
r. J. Tiffany, who was adjudged insane
last February, was Tuesday restored to COM
potency by Judicial decree. This restoration
raises the question among MIR. Tiffany's
friends as to whether there were any grounds
for questioning his sanity in the first in
stance.
The graduates of the Medical Department
of the State University are Henry J. Borde,
jerome A. Hughes, Emile " Lonigo, VIM.
B. Lovett, Gustaf w. Lundborg, Emile g.
Merry, Charles J. Patton, Clarence E. Reed,
Sahiel S. Riley, Kurt Urban, William J.
Wickman.
John Harold. proprietor of the Empire
Brewery, on Chestnut street, has filed petit.
ton in insolvency. The liabilities amount to
S56, 304 SO; the assets are $50, 266 so. The
petitioner attributes hir failure to bad debts.
Endorsement of notes, losses in business and
depreciation in real estate.
A suit has been brought by the Order of
Chosen Friends in the Superior Court to re-
cover So, 555 in the Anglo Californian Bank
to the credit of Emf Kennedy. The latter,
it is charged. is indebted to the Order, of
which he was the Supreme Treasurer, and
holds the Orders funds, which he refuses to
turn over.
Sarah Althea Hill has served a notice ia
the Sharon case TO take the deposition of ex-
Governor John r. Reichart, by whom she
expects to preve that Mr. Sharon introduced
her as his wife. Mr.. Reichart, it was al.
legged, denied in Geographic dispatch that
she was introduced TO him By the ex-senator
as Mrs. Sharon. and it remains to be seen
whether his testimony will be to the same et-
feet.
The Postoffice authorities have on hand
above two thousand letters seized on the
City of Peking, which Cinnamon were trying
to smuggle in without paying postage. The
Cinnamon to whom they are addressed, how.
ever, fail to come forward for them. Of the
letters seized on the Toxic, the postage on
which amounts to 5000. only 800 worth have
been called for. When those to whom they
are addressed refuse to take them they are
sent to the Dead Letter Office.
1t is explained by the Health Officer that
the patient who was landed from the San
Bias. and who, after being sick for some days
at a Vallejostreet house, was removed to the
Twenty. six'h-street Hospital, has not the yell
low fever, but fever which often follows in
the wake of yellow fever. The San Bias was
qusrantined for three days only. She brought
three cases Of yellow fever Two of the pa
tients died, one after leaving the lighter, and
the other is now at Twenty-sixth street.
james Vance and wife have commenced
suit to recover $40 900 from Wells, Fargo l.
Co, and for cause of action allege that on
the 10Th of November, 1881. the Infant daugh.
ter of plaintiffs vas lying sick at Menlo
Park, and that on the afternoon of that day
a package of medicine was Entrusted TO de-
PENDANTS at Redwood City to be carried to
Menlo Park, and there delivered for the pur-
pose of saving the life of the Child. Defend
ants negligently omitted to deliver the medi-
cine, aud ss consequence the child died
plaintiffs row claim $4,000 dam
ages.