Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-06-03
SAN FRANCISCO ITEMS.

The steamer City of Toxic sailed for
China and Japan Tuesday.
The initiation fee for membership at the
| California Produce Exchange has been es-
| tab!lShed at $50 until further notice
The custom searching force Monday
made a seizure of forty pounds OF opium
on the City of New York, valued at 5000
| The business men ofthis city rendered ex-
| Governor Hubbard, the pewly-appointed
| Minister to Japan, brilliant reception at
Platts Hall Monday evening
The merchandise exports from San Fran
| cisco by sea during the month of May were
| valued at $2,9S3,4 ,4S3, against 81 400 ,052 dur
| ing a corresponding month III 1854
Tuesday morning cighty-fye sailors of
! the flag ship Hartford left by the Coima
in charge Of two officers. for New York
city, where they will be discharged
1t is rumored that Dion Boucicanlt will
| in few days be married to Miss Louise
| Thorndyke. When asked about the matter
! the actor declined to either deny or affirm
| the rumor
Among the discharged employees from
the Branch Mint in this city is John Con-
! ness, Jr., son of the once United States SEN
| atOr from this State, who for many wears
welded great political influence. \ nephew
of ex-Congressman IL. f. Page is also one
of the doomed.
\ NUMBER of citizens of Portland, or.
have signed a remonstrance, which has
been forwarded to Superintendent Wilder.
of the railway mail service, complaining OF
the order preventing the sending Of the
mail by steamer. The petition viii be for
warded TO Washington.
United States District Attorney Hilbor
says that the recent decision of the Unit
States Supreme Court has been misund
stood. The decision holds that patents for
land, excepting Spanish grants, may be
made subject OF inquiry, to ascertain if
they have been fraudulently obtained.
Professor J H. Whiteside, the aeronaut,
has canary which shows remarkable
tenacity of life. The bird has now reached
the age of - years, and, though ,sightless
and sOnglesS gives ample evidence Of being
able TO attain greater span of life than is
generally allotted to our feathered friends
Senator Stanford, who recently inspected
his big vineyard at Nina, SAYS that the
grasshoppers have done very little damage
there. They have eaten the foliage of a
few nOn-bearing young vines, but none of
the bearing vines have been touched He
regards the danger as passed but has not
relaxed precaution
Louis Raume, the crank who caused the
death Of two persons and terrorized whole
train on the Wabash Railroad last Sunday,
turns out TO oe an old resident of this city.
1t was about six Years ago that Raune
lived here. II worked for a fresco painter
named A. Shrader, in company with man
named Tom O'Neil, now resident of Sac
ramento.
The proceedings i'll the Martha Wilson
perjury trial were fairly begun Monday,
but the commencement of the trial
was of such character that it bids
fair to last two months or more. The
prosecution opened by introducing the tes-
timony OF Mrs. Wilson given in the Sharon
case, and started in to read il by question
and answer. To every question the defense
objected, over one hundred obie, tons be-
ing interpoSed within fifteen minutes.
The Rev Aaron Williams is going for
the Young Mems Christian Association
again. AT meeting of the Congregational
Club on Monday he circulated printed
document headed, : To the Ministers to the
Churches, and to the Public of California
In this appeal he charges that the action of
the Board of Managers with regard TO him
has been stepped in hypocrisy" and
claims that he has has been most cruelty
prosecuted, most unrighteously accused,
most maliciously arrested and imprisoned,
most diShonorably dismissed without trial,
and most insnltngly refused public ex-
oneration from the crime so unjustly and
wickediy laid on him