Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-04-02
SAN FRANCISCO ITEMS.

most esteemed merchants OF TINS Guy, Is
dead. /
Three gambling houses were raided by
the police on Tuesday night, and ten men
found playing faro were arrested.
The Catholic Cemetery at Lone Mountain
is nearly filled up. Interments at Lone
Mountain must of necessity stop shortly.
The five-year-old daughter of Mrs. Cain,
the woman who was shot last Sunday night
by her husband, has since died of diph
iberia.
One hundred and ninety-seven marriage
licenses were issued by County Clerk Flynn
during last month, for which the happy
parties paid 1894.
During the month of March 40 new salts
and proceedings were begun in the Supreme
Court for which privilege the litigants paid
$40 for the benefit of the Law Library.
A dozen Chinese habeas corpus cases,
tried in the United States District Court
Tuesday, were all dismissed and the defend
ants discharged, except one, who was re-
manded, and two held in 81 800 bail.
Atameeting of the Committee on School
houses and sites of the Board of Education
Tuesday evening it was decided TO dismiss
all the employees in the carpenter shop,
except five mechanics and two laborers.
In Police Court Number One, during
March. S4071 was received i'll fines and for
| FIXTURES: in Police Court Number Two,
3, 0S3. OF these amounts 81, 265 was due to
| the efforts of Sergeant Birdsalfs Chinatown
posse.
The United States District Attorney has
| filed libel of information against the
steamship Colima for having on board lis
boxes of prepared opium, each containing
| ! IL I'll .lE \,
instant, for non-payment of duties.
DR.. John W. Foye resident physician at
the county hospital. died Wednesday morn
| ing from tAe effects of a stroke OF apoplexy
and paralysis that he suffered Tuesday
afternoon DR.. Foye was about 90 years Of
age, and leaves wife and children
| The members Of the Seamen's Union still
maintain threatening attitude, and re-
newal Of hostilitieS was apprehended Tues
day over the shipment of crew on the
codtshing schooner Dashing Wave, but, be-
yond making threats, nothing was done
Mrs II. r. Sorenson, nee Murch, the
teacher who was recently dismissed by the
Board Of Education for getting married,
does not intend to contest the legality of
the Boards rule, as she meant to tender
her resignation at the next regular meeting
Of the School Directors.
A dispatch was received in this city Tues
day stating that the National Commander
Of the Grand Army of the Republic Kountz
will arrive in San Francisco on the 10th
inst. He will remain here only three days,
returning East by way of Oregon. \ ban
quet will be given at the Occidental Hotel.
The deputies in the Assessors office are
exercised over the fact that their March
salaries have been made out for 500 60, in
stead of 800, as the first day of the month
was Sunday. Auditor Srother advised the
deputies to petition the Board Of Super
visors for full pay and said he would ad-
yocate the measure.
Crowds visited PATHS palace car last
week, but no one threw in cent for the
porters although they had fixed plate
with a placard over it to attract attention.
One of the porters placed Il piece OF silver
on the plate as a sort of nest egg, when he
| become tired of waiting for n jingle One
of the visitors took it along with him to
buy beer with.
During the month of March the coinage
at the san Francisco Mint consisted of 81
GOO double eagles 100000 standard dollars,
and 80 $50 dimes. These are the first
dimes coined since last October. The coin
age of dollars is the smallest in three
months. The value Of the coins made last
month is $1,442, 203 against S16i5O00 for
the same month last year.
| The Bradstreet Mercantile Agency re-
! ports 2S6 failures in the Pacific coast States
and Territories for the first quarter of 1855,
just closed, with assets 81 ,229, 551 and liabil-
tiles s., ass 752, as compared with 22S for
the previous quarter. with assets 1919, 2S4
and liabilities 81 SIS, SCI, and 1919 for the
| corresponding quarter of 1881, with assets
s. 326, $40 and liabilities s., 9S4,7S4.
Mrs. May Cain, who was shot Sunday
night by her now dead husband, suffered
terribly all night and will die soon. Peri
tonitis has unquestionably set i'll. The
| Winchester rife bullet piercing the corset
and meeting with some obstruction, was
! tiattened out so that the edges were very
sharp. In passing through the body the
edges lacerated the peritoneum. But for
this fact the poor woman might have
lived.
Superintendent Burton, of the United
States Mint in this city, is in receipt of an
order from Washington to coin not more
than 100000 silver dollars per month, and
to cut down expenses accordingly. This
reduction is owing to the impossibility of
disposing of a greater portion of the coin
| age, there being now 4 Surplus of $G3, COO
600 in this Mint. To avoid discharging
any Of the employees, the men have not
been worked on full time. the result being
saving Of about $20,000 monthly.
An audience of about POO people, includ-
ing a number Of ladies, occupied Platt's
Hall Tuesday evening, on the occasion of a
lecture by the " Chinese Reformer," GUY
Min. His subject was what Shall We
Do With the Chinese The speaker
showed how il was that the Chinese could
live cheaper than the white laborer, but
claimed that il this country, instead of
stoning, kicking and soIating the China
men on their arrival would civilize them,
no competition in the way Of wages would
exist