Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-08-01
SAN FRANCISCO ITEMS.

The Custom House Inspector Thursday
seized $500 worth 0f opium on the steamer
Arabic.
The employees of the Mint have presented
Superintendent Edward +. Burton with q
handsome gold watch and chain, valued al
$3.50.
The losses by the fire in the lumber
yards on Main and Market streets, on the
night of the 18th inst, have all been set
tied, the amount paid being $74,50i
Ralph Emerson, who recently died in
this city, was a relative of Ralph Waldo
Emerson. He was graduate of Harvard,
which institution he attended with his
elder relative.
The Pneumatic Tube and Submarine
Mining Company has been incorporated,
for the purpose Of buying, bonding and
selling submerged mining claims and
working The same.
At a late hour Wednesday the Supreme
Court rendered its decision in the case of
Sharon vs.. Sharon for rehearing, which
was granted. The opinion was written by
Justice Ross, the fun Bench -concurring.
Philip De Bosson. the bartender at Hal
| linan's variety thcater, on Market street,
who was stabbed in the abdomen by John
Garrity, at l:30 o'clock Tuesday morning,
I = L :
large.
Peter 3. Grant cousin of General
Grant lives in this city. The gentleman.
though approaching 70 years of age, is
quite vigorous and holds q position in the
freight department of the Central Pacific
Railroad.
Further hearing Of the case Of Charles
Main ct al. VS.. the Central Pacific Railroad
Company, action Tor an accounting of trans
actions with the California Pacific Railroad
Company, has been continued by Judge
Hunt until August Sd.
A report Is current in Oakland that the
South Pacific Coast Narrow Gauge Railroad
Company has purchased the street railroads
on Telegraph avenue and San Pablo ave
nue., Oakland. The principal owner of the
property is J. J. Emery.
Colonel Stuart Al Taylor has appointed
Major J s. Ruggles of this city, Denuty
Naval Officer, and he win soon enter on his
duties. Mr.. Ruggles has for years been
Deputy in the County Clerks office. He
was Union soldier in the rebellion.
About $50 visitors called at the Mint
Thursday to see Judge Lawt0n, and every
available seat in the ante-room was ocrn-
pied, many men contenting themselves with
sitting on the window-sills Congressman
Barclay Henley was among the first TO call
The expenses of the Tax Collectors Of
fee for the month of July, according to the
Z report filed with the Supervisors. were
s., SO The salaries ofthe regular attaches
of the Office amounted to 81 ,253 33; the sal
aries of extra deputies put on to collect
personal property taxes $3.50,
The police blockade in Chinatown has
been reduced to one-half the number of
men previously stationed at the entrances
! to the alleys, and the searching OF China
men passing in and out is for the time sus-
pended. The duty of officers for the pres
ent is to prevent white men from entering
the alleys.
Applications for land at the Office of the
immigration Association have been more
numerous this summer than was expected,
ana probably exceed those for the same
perlod OF any preceding year. G. H. Street
! Is now organizing party of about forty to
go to Monterey county to take up Govern
| ment land. Most of the party are Ameri-
cans and married men, few being single or
of foreign birth
Chas. 7. Jones, J. NJ. Lesser, J. C. Palm
er, w. t. Gibbs and R. T. Devlin. Trustees
OF the Independent Order of Chosen
Friends, have brought suit against Max
Brooks, Louis Getz and George Lang to re-
cover 5000 from the latter as the sureties
on the bond of the defaulting Grand Secre-
tary, Isaac L. Lang. 1t is averred that be-
tween May 13, 1883, and April 80, 1884
Lang embezzled 5000 belonging to the
Order.