Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-01-25
SAN FRANCISCO ITEMS,

Hanlan and Lee left for Victoria, B. c.,
Wednesday, the former to give an exhibi.
ton and the latter to race with Cotsford
for $500 a side. On Lees return he will
accept Peterson's challenge.
The final details of the lease of the Lick
House to Charles Clafey for a term of two
years, beginning March lst, at the rate of
s., 900 month, payable in advance, have
at las1 been arranged by the trustees of
the estate.
The preliminary examination OF Piercy
Jacobus, the extravagant young ex Secre-
tary of the Eureka Consolidated Mining
Company, upon one of the sixteen charges
of ENLIGHTENMENT booked against him, was
concluded in the Police Court Wednesday,
and Judge Webb took the matter under
advisement.
1t appeared Wednesday that several more
steamers may arrive before the present
batch of Chinese TRADERS in the United
States District Court shall be disposed Of
The Court heard ten cases Wednesday.
Six Chinese were landed. There are in the
vicinity of one hundred and seventy cases
yet on the docket
a counterfeit 500 treasury note was pre-.
sented at one of the banks Tuesday by a
retail dealer in clothing, who asked for the
opinion of the cashier rs to its genuine
ness. When it was handed back to him
with the word counterfeit cut out by a
stamp in the center OF the bill, he threat.
ened to sue the bank, and departed in great
Indignation. The law requires that coun.
terfeit bills shall be SO marked
By the time the body of George A,
Wheeler reached the Morgue Wednesday
afternoon a dense crowd of people had
assembled, nearly filling Mission street
from Third to Fourth, all anxious to view
the remains. a large number of women
were among the number. As soon as t6e
body had been properly arranged the pub.
lie were admitted and the stream Of visit
ors was kept up until 10 o'clock in the
night.
A large number of the members of the
bar of San Joaquin county have Joined in
petition to Chief Justice Morrison, OF the
Supreme Court, requesting that the cases
from that county on appeal to the Supreme
Court may be hereafter placed upon the
Sacramento calendar, and heard in that
city, for the reason that it will greatly ac-
commodste the attorneys, and prove TO
the advantage of litigants from that
county.
The number of savings banks in San
Francisco is the same as for several years.
No new banks have been organized here
since March, 1877, when the Franco
American was incorporated. This bank
retired voluntarily and in good order in
January, 1881. The four savings banks of
the city which suspended in the latter part
OF 1878 and spring of 1879 are still hqui-
dating their assets, and there are some liv-
ing VINO may see the end Of that business.
At meeting of the Lincoln Association,
held Wednesday evening, DR.. James L.
Cogswell, President, it was resolved to ac-
cept the invitation of the LincolG Guard
OF Honor, Edwin \. Sherman commanding,
to unite in the celebration OF the seventy
fifth anniversary of the birthday of Abra-
ham Lincoln, on Tuesday, February 18Th,
and that the Lincoln Guard of Honor be
requested to take the management and d.
rection of the same. The celebration will
he held in the First Unitarian Church, on
Geary street, between Dupont and Stock.
ton, in the evening.
An INDIAN CUSToM.-The Carson New
Tribune says :
Washoe Indians, male or female, never
retire at night without divesting them
selves OF every thread Of clothing. Even |
during this very cold weather they lie
stark naked upon a half blanket spread |
upon the frozen ground, near a sagebrush |
fire, which is fed from time to time during |
the night by the female members of the fam
lily, the males being too tired from playing |