Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-12-15
san FRANCISCO ITEMS.

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avenue is TO cost 100000.
The will OF the late William Sharon was
filed in the Probate Court at late hour on
Saturday afternoon.
The receipts for duties for the past week
were si19,95l ii, making total since jan
uary Isl Of SG0l9, 800 Il.
NJ. r. Kttleman, the fast-running ath-
lete, is endeavoring TO arrange a match Of
125 yards with Lewis Of Oregon
The Postoffice people are busy now with
the holiday rush. An extra force of five
clerks has been set to work to keen pace
with the business.
The first game Of the winter schedule,
between the Pioneers and Star baseball
clubs, attracted large audience at Central
Park Sunday, and resulted in victory for
the Pioneers by a score Of / to 1.
The Coroner's jury in the case of C. w.
Brown, who attem pied to kill John A. Ben
son and then committed suicide on Friday
last, returned verdict Of suicide while la
boring under impulsive insanity.
Monday was the date for the regular semi
annual meeting Of the State Viticultural
Commission. George West, of Stockton.
was the only Commissioner in the CITY,
and for want Of quorum 10 meeting was
held.
The Rev. William H Hillery, ex-Bishop
Of the African u. E. Church, from which
he was expelled last year for gross immo-
ralities has brought a suit lor SANDER
against Bishops Thompson and Hood, ask
ing for damages OF $4,000.
Frank NJ Pixley, Commissioner Of Gold
en- Gate Park. stated on Saturday that the
trustees Of the estate Of the late William
Sharon had definitely decided to use the
$4,000 left by the deceased 10 the Park for
the erection Of a music pavilion.
Luke &. Sresovich, the fruit merchant,
who has Just returned from the southern
counties of the State, reports that the
orange crop of Riverside, Los Angeles, San
Gabriel, Santa Ana ana other localities will
be between SOC, 900 and 600,000 boxes.
For several weeks there has been strong
feeling brewing in the organization known
as the Anti-Coolie League AGAINST Coroner
0'Donnell, the President Of the body. This
feeling found vent, and 0'Donnell was
public denounced, at meeting Of the
League on Sunday. The members are dis
gusted with his lies and broken promises.
Laura Brotherton has brought suit in the
Superior Court against George Bernhard
for $4,000 damages for breach of promise
of marriage, alleging that in January last
VIC NCASAANuit p4iltSStl " IldfTN nST. Dull
has since refused TO carry out his contract
to her damage in the sum of $50 O00.
Bernhard is a Geary street saloon keeper.
The internal revenue collections in the
San Francisco district for the week ending
December 18th were
Beer 81 133
SptrIts Il 90
lODacco ana cigars 49,. 92i0
dlsce!Ialeous-... ...........-............. 1,l21
iotAi 50 269
The whaling bark Amethyst, which went
north during the past season, has not yet
returned TO this port, although the other
vessels of the fleet have been in some tina.
There is much speculation concerning her
among shipping men. She was last sighted
off Cape Lisbon by the Atlantic on October
18th or 18th, being then off the whaling
ground and supposedly on her way TO this
port.
The funeral services of the late Maier
Steppacher, twenty-five years sexton of the
Temple Emanu I'll, on Suffer street, took
place Sunday afternoon at the Synagogue.
The altar was handsomely draped with
black and white, and a proGlsion of flow
ers Rabbi COhn delivered the funeral
Grafton. The remains were followed to
the Jewish Cemetery by large number of
people.