Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-02-02
SAN FRANCISCO ITEMS.

Clerk Steppacher of Judge Rix's Court
! reports that during the last month he col
lected S5,07l in fines and forfeitures.
The delinquent poll taxes for 1854 amount
TO S66, 436. The amount now recorded in
| the Auditors books rs delinquent is 81 ,253,-
775.
| The safe in the Recorders office at the
new City Hall was cracked by burglars
Saturday night, and several hundred dol
| lars taken.
The effects of Wright Leroy, the muir
derer. were sent Saturday by Mrs. Richter
| TO his relatives East. These were docu-
] mentS of but little value.
| Chief Scapnell has been elected an hon
orary member of the Old New York Vol
unteer Fire Association, unanimously He
| is the first to receive such an honor.
The new arrangement or time schedule
| governing billiard games went into effect
Sunday, the rate on and after this date be-
| ing 60 cents an hour, insteadSf % cents a
| game.
| Archbishop Riordan arrived from the
| East Saturday afternoon. Arrangements
will be Immediately commenced for the
| transfer of the archbishopric from Arch
| bishop Alemany To the coadjutor 1t is
probable that Archbishop Alemany will
| leave for Spain within three months.
Three English gentlemen of means Fri
! day started for San Luis Obispo county TO
examine Government land lying between
San Miguel and Cholame colonies, and it
is probable that they will bring out an
| English colony of fifteen families TO occupy
that locality. They received description
of the land from the immigration Asso-
citation.
There was good deal of activity in the
real estate market last month, both by
auction and private sale. There was 4 very
material increase therefore in both the
number and value of the sales made. There
were 267 real estate sales in December, of
the value of S952, 6SS. while 326 sales,
amounting TO Sl097 ,63l, were made in
January.
Saturday the police found three more
white babies in the Chinese quarter and
conveyed them to the office of the Society
for the Prevention Of Cruelty to Children
Mr.. Hunter the Secretary, sent the little
ones, two boys and a girl to the asylum
where the other nine previously taken
from the Chinese women are being cared
for. Two of those found yesterday We're
very sicllly.
The operations of the San Francisco
Clearing house tor the past week compare
as follows with the corresponding week last
year:
1884. 1885.
Exchanges. .............slO52 $50 81, $50 ,OlS
Balances l,6i5SSS 2O7S,5 800
The totals for the month of January are "a
| follows: Exchanges, S52,6S2, III balances,
$s,411, 903. The exchanges for January,
1884, were SOL, Sos, 500, against SO. SCI GOO
in 1888 and sol, III, 700 in 1882.
The largest body of instrumental musi-
clans in San Francisco is the orchestra of
| the San Francisco Philharmonic Society.
1t consists, to use the musical form of ex-
preston, of eight first and seven second
yiolins, six violas, three violoncellos, four
double BASES, two flutes, two oboes, two
clarionets. two bassoonS, four horns, two
comets, three trombones and two tympani,
| triangles, etc. There are twenty eight
stringed and seventeen wind instruments.
which with tympani makes up an orchestra
of forty-seven, led by Gustave HinrichS,
conductor, and Henry Heyman, principal