Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-08-06
SAN FRANCISCO ITEMS.

The steamer City of Toxic will sail for
! Ho' 1gkong on the 18Th August.
The pronouncing of the sentences of
Josh Hamblin and Charles Abbott have
been again deferred.
Three footpads- William Clements, John
Cseely and John Kearny-have been sen.
tenset 80 San Qlentin for three years
each.
The fall races o{ the Pacific Coast Blood
Horse Association begin August IIth.
Eleven 5orses have been entered for the
first Gay.
Auditor Edgar has refused to sign bills
OF the County Clerks office in excess of
the monthly allowances under the One
Twelfth Act.
! The ship Tillis E. Ssarsuek, now on the
way from Philadelphia, has cargo vaIued
at 5000, 009 1t includes twenty-five loco.
motives for the Northern Pacific Railroad.
The total number of city lamps before
the general s}iscontinuauce was ordered
was 5,43S. OF these 333 wers not reIight-
ed, leaving total number lighted Of s. los.
a verdict was reached in the Bryant
Court-martial Saturday, and the Court ad.
Journed sine die. The verdict Will be sub
mitted to General Schofeld and afserward
to Secretary Lincoln.
a fire Saturday morning destroyed the
Winter Garden Theater, Dsuids' Hall. Red
Mems Hall, Nsrein Einsrscht Hall and a
large number of other buildings, causing
losa of $l5O,000. 0ne life was lost.
The Golden State and Miners Iron
Worka of this city has completed loco
motive Tor the Aroata and Mad River Rail-
road. It's weight is twelve tons. It ia
entirely the work OF San Francisco me-
chanics.
Vessels have been coming in quite freeIv
of late At least twenty ships and barks
have arrived from distant ports within a
week or ten days. Some Of these were
chartered for wheat prior TO arrival, but
most of them are frse.
The base for the Garfield monument has
been completed. with the exception of the
cornerstone, which will be laid August
24sh by Clay w, Taylor, Grand Master of
the Grand Lodge Of MssOns Of California.
The cost OF construction has been $780,
Eghty-pine deaths were recorded at the
Health Office during the week ending Au-
gust Sd. Males, 5S females, 81 Whites,
IS; Mongolians, II. Natives Of the Pa
citic coast, %; of other psrta of the Union,
Is; and 46 were born in foreign countries.
In accordance with the rules recently
adopted by the Board Of Health, the Su-
perintending Physician of the CITY and
County Hospital gives notification that
persons registered by tie names of Alex
ander P Gross and John W. Smith died in
the institution on Friday last
The best efforts of the officers of the law
and of private citizena who have mani.
tested the deepest interest in the case have
failed TO unravel the mystery that sur
rounds Annie Mooney, the four-and. .a-half.
year-old girl who, on the 18th of last
month, disappeared from Belmont Park, in
San Mateo county, where the Carpenters
Union was holding picnic.
Friday was one of Tax Collector Grady's
heaviest days in personal property tax col.
lections. The sum of $46 25l 68 was col.
lected from the banks, and $40, 900 taken
in at the office, where long lines of people
waited all day to pay up. The heaviest
payments were made by the Central Pa
cifc Railroad. S27, ,532 OF; the Southern
Pacific, $40, ,3l4 S5; j. B. Haggin, 81. $50.
and ?. B. Cornwall, S9O5 10. Columbus
Bartlett, special attorney, has made his re-
port of the collection OF delinquent taxes
for 1881 50, showing that SI42' 3S4 Is has
been reoeipted for during the month of
July. Upon this sum Mr. Barslett's com.
mission was Sl5. $50 46.
A gentleman called at the General Land
Office Friday to file certain papers, and
had occasion to sign his name. Hi7 tirst
initial is so, and it being .equired u
have his name in full, ne was aed wtzt
bis name was. He replied sat it was
=" Usual This vas theassi to be Joke
by the Register, but the gentleman insisted
that it was his true name, asd gave his ex.
plantation of how he happened 20 receive
it, His father was greatly dssirous of
having daughter, but as child sfser child
was born to him he was as often disap-
pointed. When the gentleman in question,
who is the seventh child, was born, his
father had great hopes that the desire of
his heart would be gratifed; but'when he
saw the youngster he was compelled to ex-
claim: ga boy, as usual. guess he will
have to go through life as Usual" Such
has proved to be the case.