Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-01-06
SAN FRANCISCO ITEMS

Real estate sales to the value of SIS. l27.
720 were made IN 1882.
The sailing of the steamer City of Peking
has been deferred until the 10th.
Since July l, 1882, there have been 232
vessels cleared from this port with Hour
and wheat.
Suicide by stryehnine, is the verdict in
the csse of Charles A. Michel, found dead
at Fort Point.
The Clerk of Police Court No. Oae has
naid over to the Home for the Care OF the
Inebriste $500.
There were eighty.ssven boys and
| seventy-two girls in the Industrial School
on December 3lst.
A verdict Of accidental death has been
rendered in the case of Claus Petersen.
| found on the wharf with a fractured skull.
The annual election of the Chamber of
Commerce will be held on the 9Th. The
regular ticket is headed by the name of
Horace Davis for President.
Thomas L. Cazneau, Deputy Supervisor
of Elections, has been arrested for perjury,
in swearing that he lost his commission. 1t
is claimed he sold it for thirty dollars.
1t has been decided by the French resi-.
dents to hold funeral services to the
memory Of Gambetta, the dead statesman,
on Sunday afternoon, in the Grand Opera
House,
The first shipment of the new gold GER
tificates was received Friday, being 81, l60.
900, in denominations OF 81 600 and $40.
Some $l3, 900. 900 more are to follow. OF
various denominations.
Upwards of 500, 600 in coin, bullion and
currency, was shipped from San Francisco,
through regular mercantile channels, in
December, 1882. This is the largest
amount since last August.
G. II. Warner has filed with the Board
of Supervisors a statement concerning an
artesian well built by him at cost of 81
own use and that of his tenants.
Times are now better in nearly every
portion of California than they are in San
Francisco, and they are now better here
than they have been for years. Business
men are nearly all making money, and a
large part of their surplus has gone into
real estate within the past year.
John Center has, it is reported, con-
trscted to supply with artesiau water the
Southern Pacific rolling stock for $500 per
month. About 500, 600 gallons per day
will be required. A brick cistern, 25 feet
in diameter and 80 feet deep, has been
built within block of the railroad repair
shops. A water tower with two tanks,
holding l40,0 gallons, will be erected.
On the steamer City of Rio Janeiro, that
came into port few days ago from Pan.
anna, were six Chinese passengers. Five OF
these are merchants from Peru, with their
wives and families, on their way to China.
Two only wanted to land, and they were
allowed to come ashore on furnishing suffi-
cient evidence of their identity. The
other one of them was laborer, and pre-.
sented a passport that allowed him to land.
Tuesday evening four cattle-drivers were
riding in pairs along Railroad avenue,
South San Francisco. 1t seems that TO
each party was suggested at the same mo.
ment the idea of race ; so they spurred
their horses along, being unable to see any
obstacle on account of the fog, which was
very thick. Finally the two parties dashed
into each other, the riders being thrown
from their saddles and fearfully bruised,
while two of their horses were killed out.
, right and lay on the railroad bridge for
some time, impeding travel.