Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-06-02
SAN FRANCISCO ITEMS.

Daring the ronth of May the police
made ., ,030 arrests.
Charles Crocker will arrive from the
East in a few daYs.
The counsel of Charles H. Abbott, the
murderer, has deserted him.
Private advices state that Senator J. G..
Fair sailed for Europe Friday morning.
The Harkins opium smuggling conspiracy
esse was before the United States Grand
Jury Thursday.
The Alumni Association of the Boys
High School held its annual meeting on
Thursday night.
The commencement exercises OF st.
! Mary's College took place Thursday night
at the Grand Opera House.
The Master of the ship Berlin, which
arrived Thursdav from Philadelphia, re-
ports that on February 18th James Somers,
second officer of the vessel, died and was
buried at sea.
No less than 966 boxes of opium arrived
by the steamship City of Peking Thurs
day-the largest lot of the drug yet
brought at one time. The duty is $246
per box, or S237, CSC for the lot.
A complaint was filed in the Superior
Court Friday by Barrows & Dare, as attor-
neys for Miss! Nellie Barrett, to recover
$40 900 damages from Timothy Barratt for
an alleged breach of promise of marriage.
The love drama of Maurice Hageman
and Evangeline Ballou, late of the Tivoli
Opera House, is published. A missing
bride, determined mother,in.law, and a
despondent bridegroom are the principal
characters.
The United States Mint in this city took
in 3l0 766 ounces fins silver in May at
about 81 091 per ounce This was coined
into standard dollars. The unsold stock
of fine silver in this market to-day is es.i-
mated at 500. 600 ounces
The exchanges at the San Francisco
Clearing house for the month of May were
$47, $40, SOS, against $50 GAS, IA for the
same month last year. The falling off of
S4 sos 600 is largely due to the diminished
volume of the wheat trade.
The closing exercises of the Lincoln
Grammar School were held at the Lincoln
School building at 1890 P. M. Friday.
The hall was handsomely decorated, and
was crowded by an interested audience Of
parents and friends of the pupils.
Exports from this port for May en-
braced over 100. 900 barrels flour, about
500 600 centals wheat. l 400 TASKS quick
silver, and other products, the whole val
ued at about 81, 500, OO0 This is ex-
elusive of large line of freight shipped
overland. Upward of 81, $50, 900 in specie
was also shipped.
The Julian Rix art sale was not finan-
cial success, but it served its purpose of
working off about l25 pictures, large and
small, broad and narrow. The successful
bids ranged from So to $3.50, the latter
figure capturing for Porter Ashe large
decorative screen, subject, SADDLE River
in Autumn" A majority of the pictures
sold for prices ranging about $50 Paint
ings of local scenes did not go off as we'll
as the Eastern sketches.
The Supreme Court has remaDded the
case of Mary ]. McDougall VS.. the Central
Pacific Railroad Company for a new trial.
The case was tried in the San Francisco
Superior Court, and verdict was rendered
in favor of the defendant. The action is to
recover S25. 900 damages for personal in
iuries sustained by fall while alighting
from one of the defendants cars in Febru-
ary, 1880, and the ground of the reversal
of the judgment is that the Court below
erred in instructions given to the jury.