Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-05-23
SAN FRANCISCO ITEGs.

Two consignments of currants, first of
the season, arrived Tuesday.
Registered demands against the City
Treasury will be liquidated hp to No. 300.
The Land League branch met Monday
night. Speeches against the Pope's circu.
lar were made.
The clipper ship City of Brooklyn got
and called for assistance.
The Board of Supervisors has taken
steps to secure the payment of taxes due
the city from the gas and water compa-
MES.
Judge Hurt has decided that a suit may
be commenced by partnership before the
four weeks of publication of the partners
certificate expires.
The jury in the Ross inquest case re-
turned verdict generating the gas COM
pany and Palace Hotel from blame for the
Palace Hotel gas explosion.
William FL. Bauer blew out the gas in hia
room Monday night before going to sleep,
and never woke up. He was a native OF
Massachusetts, 90 years old, and unmarried.
Two Irish conventions will assemble in
this city June 5th. The National Council
will ratify the platform, and the Land
League Convention will audit the accounts.
Four vessels have been fixed for wheat
during the past week. Three of these are
wooden ships, and two of them get 40s and
the other 42s Cd to Cork for orders. The
other and last one reported is an iron
vessel, and she gets 45s direct to Liver
pool.
In view OF the 9act that Coroner Leving.
ston has asked the Grand Jury for an in.
vestigation of the affairs OF his office, a
rumor has been started that the Finance
Committee of the Board of Supervisors in.
tended to commence an inquiry on their
own account.
An experimental shipment of Roxburry
russell and Blue Pearmain apples from lew
Zealand has been received in this city. As
the seasons in the southern hemisphere are
opposite ours, the apple crop ripens there
during our spring months. At this season
apples in San Francisco bring the highest
prices of the year, and it is thought few
shipments to this market can be proftably
made.
The lot on the corner Of Suffer and Jones
streets, purchased come time ago By the
Union and Pacific Clubs for the purpose oil
erecting handsome building suitable fol-
both societies, was sold again Monday to a
Nevada capitalist, il having been decided
that it was too far out of town to be con-
venient. The price paid for the lot by the
clubs was $50. 500, but the terms of Mon.
DAYS sale are withheld.
James ]. Brooks, the Chief of the Sc.
cret Service Division of the United States
Treasury, has notified United States De-
tective Henry Finnegass that new coun-
terfeit five.aollsr gold coin has made it's
appearance. It purports to have been
struck st the New Orleans Mint in l843.
II is very heavily plated and is 4S1 grains
light. The impression is that it was coin
struck from original dies prepared for the
purpose. In many respects it differs from
the genuine piece enough to show that
whilst they followed the genuine die. it is
not an impression taken from genuine die
in any way.
The revenue cutter Thomas Corwin, that
since her return from her famous cruise.
the middle of last November, in which the
storming of the Killisnoo Indian village
was the most prominent and sensational
occurrence, has been lying off and on in
this port, is about to leave for the Arctic
on her regular xix months cruise. Stores
of various kinds, and coal sufficient to last
to steam to Nsnaimo, were taken aboard
last week. and yesterday the presents to
be given to tie Tchuck Indians, in con-
sideration Of the services rendered by the
tribe to tbs wrecked cre1.of the Rodgers,
were safely slowed away in the hold.
Tney consist of various articles calculated
80 make glad She hearts Of creatures in tho
frigid zone.