Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-11-24
san Francisco Society and Boiled onions

san FrancscO society ana BOtie0 onions.
new YORK, November 23i.-The Telegram
thinks San Francisco society is getting par
ticular. 1t says: In the chsste purlieus of
Mob Hill it is usual TO flavor the menu of ele.
CANT light dinners peculiar to the aristocratic
neighborhood with more than a suspicion of
French. San Francisco society has accord
ingly been moved TO its center by the an
nouncsment that one high-toned authority
has ventured to print on a menu the name of
boiled onions. That the blue blood of de-
scendants OF Forty.piners should curdle in its
veins at this offense is not surprising. but
what stsggers the ordinary mind is that such
paryenu vegetable as the onion should be
admitted at all to the tables of select San
Francisco society.
Fremonts Life Insurance.
New YORK, November 23d-A subscrip-
tion paper has been started, with probably
81 600 from General Grsnt, to purchase S50,.
coo annuity for General Fremont in the
Equitable Life Insurance Company, which
would yield him 81 600 annual income.
About S13 coo so tar has been subscribed,
principally by New Yorkers The fund is
designed as a recognition of Fremont's early
and splendid services in the opening of Ore
Ron and California to American pioneers
Californians will be asked to contribute.
Colonel Porter. of the American Bank Note
v,
engineering the movement.
Hicks Pasha's Defeat.
New York, November 23d.-General C.
P. Stone formerly Of California. now known
ss Stone Pashs, Gays, respecting Hicks
Pasha's defeat THE Soudau is as important
to Egypt as the upper Mississippi is to the
lower. Hicks Pasha's disaster must not there
fore be regarded as the conclusion of the holy
war for the False Prophet. but the latter can
not be crushed with Egyptian and Arabian
soldiers, for they are paralyzsd by supersti-
tion and awe whenever they confront him in
battle. and his victory will increase the terror
with which they regard him." Doubts are ex-
pressed here of the reliableness of the report
that Hicks Pasha's army is wholly annihi.
lated.
An ArtzOnan Arrested.
CHICAGO, November 23d.-Captain Antoine
Pellitier, of Prescott, A. T., stopping at the
fremont House, has been arrested on war.
rant charging him with obtaining by false
pretenses $500 and divers other large sums of
money, sggregstipg several Thousand dollars
from Warren E. Pitney. of this city re-
porter saw Captain Peilitier and Delegate
Lune at the fremont last night. They were
of the opinion that nothing should be pub.
lished regarding the arrest of Captain Pelli.
tier, and that the whole scheme was one of
extortion. They did not believe he ever re-
ceived any money at all frNm Pitney. Pelli-
tier decliued. however, unlike Pitney, to give
the details of their transactions. Pitney says
that altogether Pellitier has obtained many
thousands of dollars from him. Pellitier is
noted character. He is the inventor of the
pavement which bears his name. He has
been all over the world, has commanded ar
mics and navies Of greatsr or less force, has
been concerned in an attempt to capture a
South American State, has been condemned to
death three times but escaped by an unusual
conIbination of circumstances, and had q
claim for 81 500, 900 damages, backed by the
United States, against Hsyti, when the re-
volt there put an cad to his hopes. In short,
he is a most versatile and brilliant soldier of
fortune. A couple Of years ago he interested
Pitney, so the latter says, in his pavement,
and on the strength of that and various ex-
trsordinary representations he succeeded in
borrowing. in all, about Sl2. 600, which be
has since failed to pay. One of PellitieI's
representations 10 the letter from Prescott,
A. T., cf September 24th last, is to the effect
that he had secured contract for the pave
ment of the entire City of Mexico with his
patent. al he gross sum of SOC, 600, 000 Of
which 81 100000 were to be paid at once to
enable him to begin the work of preparation,
and S5,000,000 had been deposited with
United States Consul Navarro at New York
to secure machinery and men. Pellitier ar
rived here day or two AGO, and, as he made
no signs of paying Pitney's claim, the latter
had him arrested.
Barbarity at Sea.