Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-04-20
san FRANCISCO ITEMS.

There were l26 deaths in this city last
week.
About $3.50 was obtained for the Young
Women's Christian Association by their
! recent concert.
There were 1,13S arrivals in California
during the past week, 359 OF whom stopped
| off i'll interior towns
) Hereafter, up to July 1st, dogs will be ex-
cluded from Golden Gate Park, that the
quail may not be disturbed.
Examiner in Chancery Houghton is en-
gagged every day III taking testimony in the
! ShaTon-HiIl case. The examination is CON
Quoted with closed doors.
On Friday an eel nearly five feet long
was exhibited at the San Francisco Market.
| 1t was captured near the Heads, and is
| claimed 10 be the largest ever seen in this
market.
| At the meeting of the State Medical So
ciety it was stated that 60 per cent of cases
of blindness are due to the improper man
ner in which newly-born babies are treated
by mdwiyeS.
4 Chinese junk discharged 100 sacks of
dried shrimps at section of the sea wall
| Friday. They came from across the bay.
The steamer Euphrates, which went there
| Saturday toload for England, Will take the
! shrimps as part of her cargo.
The operations of the San francisco
Clearing house tor the past week compare
| as follows with the corresponding week last
| year:
Exchanges .S62 791 81. .S5l .O55
Balances l@699J3 1857 S7S
The report that overtures have bsen made
to Spreckels Brothers for the purchase OF
the steamers Mariposa and Alan, da is con-
firmed by John ID. SpreckelS, who adds
further that British rs well as Russian
agents have approached him on the sub
iect. Negotiations are now pending.
The subscriptions for the proposed
Thomas Concerts in this city are coming in
so well that the date at first announced,
| from May 25th to June 9th, will not be
| changed. With Materna, the great Ger
man singer, Mr. Thomas will bring other
singers of note. The orchestra will be
| larger than that OF two years ago
| Census Marshal Falk has asked the State
| Superintendent of Pubic Instruction
whether he should proceed TO enumerate
all the Chinese children of school age.
Heretofore they have been ignored in
making the school census. 1t is presumed
| that they will have 70 be included, and it
| is believed that the apportionment, abOut
| $S per capita, will be sufficient to maintain
| the Chinese school.
Il is possible that Maxwell, the supposed
| st. Louis murderer, will not turn up at
Australia, for if he takes it into his head
| there is nothing to stop him from leaving
the City of Sydney Oh the Samoan Islards.
! There is but one way to prevent It, and
that is to cable to Auckland, and if there
is vessel then about to start for the
Samoan Islands, the facts of Maxyells
crime will be known there before his az
rival.
BY the 18th of June William Patterson,
of this city, expects to have an airship,
! which he has invented, completed and
ready for use. 1t is cigar-shaped arrange
ment, 1S0x45 feet in size, the lower half
car and the upper balloon, the latter's lif ing
capacity being almost, but not quite, sutfi-
cient to raise the car Three propelers,
run by as many engines, are expected to
overcome the extra weight and urge the
ship forward.