Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-05-07
SAN FRANCISCO ITEMS.

TIE rate for third-claas overland tickets
has been raised, the average increase be-
ing g %.
The Finance Committee of the Board of
Education reports that at the end of the
fiscal year there will be in the school fund
balance of Sl7,66 90.
a man named q. E. Jacobs, apparently
about 40 years Of age, was found dead in
bath.tub at the Sanitarium Baths at the
foot of Powell street, at late hour Satur.
day night.
The total number of cert fcates thus far
issued to Cinnamon is 6, 695. The steamer
Coptic sailed Saturday with 103 China
men aboard, all having secured return
certificates.
S. O. Gregory, the Postal Clerk, who is
charged with removing stamps from regis
tered letters, waived an examination be-
fore the United States Commissioner, as
the Grand Jury is now investigating the
charge.
Two additional libels were fled in the
District Court against the Mexican gun
boat Democratic, one by J. B. Jardine, for
81, 500, for work done upon the vessel, and
the other by Goss & Dow, for S2l7 90, for
articles Of machinery furnished.
Paul Vandervoort, Commander.in. Chief
of the Grand Army of the Republic, has
issued circular to the order, relative to
the observance Of Decoration Day. Assist
ant Adjutant- General McCarty of the De-
partment of California has also sent direc-
tions to the various Pcsts. All civil and
military organizations in sympathy with
the occasion are requested to join in the
service of the day.
Auditor Edgar's statement OF final &C.
count with the Tax Collector of the per-
sonal property tax collections for lSS2-S3
has Just been made out. 1t shows that the
59l "a, of which $3.50. 42S 90 was actually
paid in. There remains due $50, ,S04 81.
The levy for city and county purposes was
S606.372 OF, and of this amount $685.
0Sl 80 was collected, leaving $50, $50 46
outstanding.
The collections at the Internal Revenue
office this month have been unusually
heavy, owing to the large amounts received
on account of the new law reducing tax on
manufactured tobacco. From May lst to
May 9TH, inclusive, the collections were as
follows Lists, Sl42 90; beer, 81, ,649 81
spirits. S29 6S5 60; cigars and cigarettes,
S37, ,942 5S; tobacco, $1,000 A ; specials
liquors and cigars, $50, 3l4 20; total,
Sl34, 7S4 II.
The reception rendered to Paul Wander
WORT, Commander-in-C Chief of the Grand
Army of the Republic, and his staff, by the
Department of California, Grand Army of
the Republic, at the Grand Opera House,
on Mission street, Saturday night, was,
considering the inclemancy of the weather,
a success, the attendance numbering about
twelve hundred people, mainly composed
of members of the Order and their female
relatives and acquaintances.
Coroner Leviugston, who made Micro
scopical examination of portion of the
stomach of Lutte Hunsinger, the young
woman who died last Saturday night at %
Montgomery street, in the rooms of Seth
Cook, wealthy gentleman said tc be In
terested in Sunday. schools, has ascertained
the minute crystals found on Thursday
were strychnine. He also experimental on
some of Fowler's neuralgia pills, of which
Miss Hunsinger took nearly dozen, and
ascertained that strychnine was amongst
the ingredients.
The number of immigrants who arrived
during the week ending Saturday, by the
overland routes, was l, $40, as reported by
the Immigration Association. d. w. Honn,
the agent Of the Association at Council
Bluffs, writes under date of April 26th that
during the past three weeks he has classi-
fed l,036 persons in separate cars whose
final destination was California. Advices
were also received by the Association that
the Harrison steamship line Of Liverpool
has decided to put on steamers to run reg
ularly between that port and New Orleans,
and that the first steamer would leave on
the Sd instant. Immigration tickets can
now be purchased from Liverpool to San
francisco, via New Orleans, by this route,
for S72 80, and it is reported that this viii
eause large immigration from Great Brit
ain to Californis. Il is thought that the
French and German immigrants will gen.
erally use the French steamship line from
Havre to this city, via New Orleans. The
rate OF fare is S65.