Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-06-11
MISCELLANEOUS.
SAN FRANCISCO ITEMS.

Richard Gray, of the Southern Pacific
Company, has gone to st. Louis as repre-
sentative of that company at the meeting
to be held there, to settle the local freight
war i'll Arizona and New Mexico.
Elsie Reynolds, of this city, the old dame
who has been travelling through the State
giving seances,' has been exposed again,
the attaches of the San Jose Republic hav-
ing caught her in the act of appearing as a
spirit at San Jose Tuesday night.
The parties at work raising the Earl OF
! Dalhousie have made no further progress
since Saturday in raising the vessel. An
other attempt will not be made under a
week. In the meantime all her openings
will be closed. She is still imbedded in the
mud, with the exception of her stern.
The cross examination of DR.. Morrison,
! ex-Grand Councillor of the Chosen Friends,
under trial for ENLIGHTENMENT, was intended
to show that he could be influenced by
threats and easily moved by fear. The
prosecution objected, claiming that Il man
could not plead cowardice as defense for
| the crime.
| The estate of the late John Wieland has
been appraised at $637, 800. The real es-
tate is valued at S479, 2G4 70, and the other
assets consist Of promissory notes, $45,-
| 100 IL DOOh ttCbuItS. Ti4ftJO II SlOCh
! in trade, household furniture. library etc,
| $69,9S good will of the Philadelphia
Brewery, $50 600.
J Hall McAlIistcr of counsel for defense in
| the De Goung-Spreckels. case, announced
{ Wednesday morning that the defense rested
their case on the testimony already in.
Mr.. Lloyd, of counsel for the prosecution,
stated that some time would be required to
procure witnesses in rebuttal. Court adj
| journed till O'Clock Thursday.
Charles NJ Plum, a Trustee of the James
! Lick estate brings the intelligence from
the East that Il successful cast Of the So
inch crown glass lens has been made by
| Fell, at Paris. Ii will soon be shipped to
! Clark works, at Boston, where it will re-
ceiye its confguration. II will cost $50
| 900. The object lens is intended for the
! Lick Observatory. at Mount Hamilton.
The San Francisco Bridge Company has
brought suit against NJ. II. De Young for
| $4,000 damages for libel, alleging that
plaintiff under a certain contract with the
| Harbor Commissioners, was 10 remove old
wharves to permit an extension Of the sea-
| wall for the sum Of 1857, and that the
defendant, in an article under the heading
of Bogus Bids charged plaintiff with
attempting to % loot the city
A rumor has been in circulation for the
past day or two to the effect that the Union
| Iron Works had been attached for 81 .000,-
0O0 Areportcr yesterday interviewed one
| of the gentlemen connected with the firm,
| and was informed by that party that there
! was no truth whatever in the rumor. The
company, he said, had recently paid of
every cent of their Indebtedness, and at the
present time have 100000 in bank.
At the semi-annual meeting OF the State
Viticultural Commission Monday after
noon the Executive Committee reported
that examinations of experiments made
with DR.. Bauer's mercurial remedy were
now in progress. The committee stated
that so far as they had received reports OF
tests made with the mercurial mixture by
subjecting live phylloxera to the influence
of soils impregnated with it, they proved
very discouraging.
George Curran arrived in this city Tues
| day from MERGED, and started out in the
evening to see the sights. On Leidesdorff
street he encountered an unknown tramp,
who asked the counTyman if he carried a
| revolver. The latter answered by drawing
| the weapon from his hip pocket and the
| tramp grabbed it to protect himself from
being moleSted. The two scutfled for a
| moment, and the weapon was discharged.
| The police arrived 100 late TO arrest the
tramp. but brought in Curran, who was
| locked up as a drunk.