Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-05-12
san FRANCISCO ITEMS.

Hereafter the daily session of the Cali
fornia Produce Exchange will be held at
1870 4. NJ, instead of P. NJ, as previously
The receipts for duties al the Custom
House for the past week were $50, POI 33
making total since January 1st of 81
49, ,3S9 10.
Stockton steamers are not, as has been
reported, carrying passengers free. On
regular days the fare is 81, and on Oppo>i-
ton days the fare is % cents.
On Saturday afternoon a drunken man
attempted to climb a fence at the Seaside
Gardens with his child in his arms. Both
fell distance of ten feet to the ground,
and the child was killed in the fall.
The passenger baggage, which was left
over by the steamer Granada on her last
trip from the Isthmus, during the Aspin-
wall revolution, turned up all right at the
Mail COmpany's wharves and was brought
here by the San Bias, which arrived from
Panama Saturday,
The operations of the San Francisco
Clearing. house tor the past week compare
as follows with the corresponding week last
year:
Exchanges. ...............sl0 ,O6S,5 95 s9,slO7?2
Balances 1sS94,07I 2,236 223
Secretary Peter Mulloy, of the Board OF
Health, reports that 1lG deaths were re-
corded by him during the week ending
May Sth. The males numbered - and the
females 49, Caucasans, LOG; Mongolians,
10; natives of the Pacific coast, 10; of other
States, 81; of foreign countries, II; in two
cases the nativity was not ascertained.
George A. Davis, of George A Davis 4
Co., who made an assignment of their
- I,
short time ago has filed an individual pc
tition for a.discharge from insolvency. The
total liabilities are in the vicinity of $780,
600. The assets consist of household fur
niture and wearing apparel of the value OF
$500.
VI. L. Stangroom, NJ J. Donovan and
Maurice Casey, appraisers of the estate of
the late Charles Mclaughlin. the railroad
contractor and capitalist, whose tragic
death about one year ago at the hands of
Jerome B. Cox startled the community,
have filed their report in the Probate Court.
They report the value of the estate of de
ceased at s., 476, 162 y.
Dr. Dutch, dentist, has brought suit
against Seth Cook for $4,000 damages. On
April IS, 1883, Miss Hunsinger was eating
at the Nevada Restaurant with Seth Cook
She was taken suddenly i'll and expired in
Cook 5 rooms. At the inquest Cook swore
that the giIl had been to see the dentist,
DR.. Dutch, on that day, and had taken some
neuralgia pills containing strychnine, which
she found on the sideboard Dutch denies
that the girl was at his Office on that day,
and claims that the statement has injured
him in reputation and in business.
Just as the $50 train on the Southern
Pacific Railroad was about to reach the
OF l.
were suddenly put on and the cars backed
some hundred yards. 1t was then dis
covered that the train had run over the re-
mains of young man who had been killed
the night before by the last train. 1t APP
pears that two of the natives were left to
watch he body until such time as the
Coroner at Redwood should be notified
These men were SO impressed with the i'm
portance cf their duty that they did not
even move The already badly mangled re-
mains off the track