Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-09-03
san FRANCISCO ITEMS.


Fire Commissioner Edward FIaherty died
Saturday evening.
Ex.Judge Halsey has sued William Hol.
lis for $50, coo damages for libel.
a waiter named Hurst is under arrest
for sending challenge to fight duel.
Two ex. convicts, named James Morgan
and James Greedy, are under arrest for
rape.
The stock of Mexican dollars in first
hands here is said to be $4OO, 600, and the
best bid is IS cents.
a lot of 95, 900 ounces of silver was sold
to the Mint last Thuradsy at 81 09f. The
market is quite bare.
A man calling himself Addison Seymour
has been arrested in New York State for
forgery committed in this city last month.
Imports of specie at this port Saturday
embraced 1922 449 from Mexico, mostly
Mexican dollars, and S29, ,045 from British
Columbia.
Charles Abbott. the murderer of James
DAILY, and Wong An Teak, Chinese mur.
derer, have been sentenced to the State
Prison for life.
The indicted Fire District Engineers
uaN6 ElONG& " sGb N6lOS indictments
againat them because of irregularities be-
fore the Grand Jury.
One of the shipearriving from Liverpool
Saturday took I75 days to make the trip,
while the other covered the same ground
or water-in I26 days.
During the month of August 1879 ar
rests were made by the police, and of this
number 9l6 were for drunkenness, for
murder, II for robbery and 10 for burglary.
Eighty. shree deaths were reported at the
Health Office during the week ending Au-
| gust 3lst. The males numbered 60 and the
females %. Natives of the Pacific coast,
%; of other parts of the Union, I6, and
"a were born in foreign countries.
Whsrfngers along the oity front are
to have the handling of no money. A
supernumerary collector will take the
wharfage charges for all vessels over 100
tons, snd the regular collectors for those
under. The collectors take the wharf tolls
and turn in the money to the Hsrbor Com.
mission Office.
The Arabic, from Yokohama, Ia bringing
the Japanese Embassy, consisting of MIN
Young, l. K, nephew Of the King Of Co
rea, and Hong Yang Shill. son of the Pfiue
y T.
Jourdan, citizen OF tae United Ssstea
who has been appointed Foreign Secretary.
Instructions have been given for fres entry
TO their personal effects.
The Finance Committee Of the Supsr-
visors held a conference Saturday morning
with Assessor Holtz upon The question Of
a reduction in his office. The resnlt was
that the committee refused to permit the
Assessor to retain the extra depatias kept
at work since the real estate roll was earned
over to the Supervisors. About % men
were therefore notified that their services
are no longer required.
At the Presidio the Division Commander
has recommended that mantiets for target
practice be filled in with sand instead Of
earth, which is liable to become honey
combed by gophers, and thereby endanger.
ing the lives of markers standing behind
them, as in the case of Private Charles
Hempstreet, Company X, Eighth Infantry,
reported killed at Fort McDermit, New,
while marking shots at target practice,
when standing behind a mantlet filled with
earth inclosed with two-inch planks.
The coinage of silver at the San Franz
cisco Mint last month was limited TO $500,
600 in standard dollars. against 5000 900
in July. The other coinage for August
embraced 81. 400 600 in double eagles and
S203, 500 in half eagles. The mint was re-.
opened on the 10th of July, and from that
time until the lst of September the coinage
was S3. 500 900 in double eagles, S203. 500
in half eagles, and 81, 500 900 in standard
dollars, or total of So, 203, 500, against
81, 40, 600 for the same time in 1882, of
which Sc l20, 900 was in double eagles and
81 $50, GOO in standard dollars.
Captain Braun, Of the German bark
Werra, l46 days from Hull, England, Sat-
urday, reports peculiar event that oc.
CURED about June lst, in the South At.
lantic, in So south latitude and as west
longitude, near the mouth Of the river La
Platte. After having had moderate and
fair weather, the southeast trades were lost
in latitude l5' south, southwest winds fol-
lowed and violent gales from the west to
southwest with thunder and lightning,
several sails being almost blown out. In
the position mentioned, after having had
violent winds and high seas, at daylight
the deck, sails and rigging were found to
be covered with ight.colored sshss, evil
IDENTIFY from some volcanic disturbance.
Some OF the ashes were preserved.