Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-04-16
SAN FRANCISCO ITEMS.

A baby-show and a cIazy-quilt fair will
be held at the Pavilion at the end of the
present month.
The British ship Milwall, discharging at
Harrison street wharf, brought over three
Berkshire pigs, for w. Smith, of Redwood
City. They cost $500 each in England
when four months old.
A new oath, that is said 10 be regarded
by Chinese witnesses as hopelessly bind
ing, has been discovered. If is called the
yellow oath" and was employed for the
first time ia one of our Courts Thursday.
Frederick s. Stratton has been appointed
Assistant United States counsel in the Court
| of Alabama Claims, to represent the Pacific
| coast. There are on this coast about 600
| claims, representing in all about s., 100000.
| On Tuesday evening the San Francisco
! Turn NeTein commemorated the twentieth
anniversary of the death of Abraham Lin
coin with appropriate exercises. The hall
was prettily decorated with flowers and
| festoons, surmounted with emblems of
! mourning.
Wednesday morning three new pupils
! appeared at the public school for the in
struction of Chinese, and were received
into the class by Miss Rose Thayer. She
now has nine children under her care and
weeks, every desk will be occupied.
Captain Jennings, who was wounded
with a saber on Sunday last at the Central
Park by Duncan c. Ross, is not yet ont of
danger He is conscious, but visitors are
not permitted TO hold conversation with
him. The attending physician says the
patients skull is fractured, but the antisep-
tic treatment succeeds SO well that no i'm
mediate change for the worse is antici
pated.
1t is reported on Change that the adj
vance in wheat, owing to the anticipated
Anglo Russian war, will benefit the Nevada
Bank to the extent of 5000 COO or more, as
it has been a steady buyer of that cereal
when prices were low. The returns of the
Department of Agriculture at Washington
show that - per cent. less area was placed
in winter wheat in California last year than
III 1883.
The parties to the annulment OF the mar
riage suit Of Alexander Montgomery VS..
Elizabeth Montgomery met quietly by
agreement on Monday afternoon in Judge
Hamitons Court room chambers, and had
a decree entered up in favor OF Montgom.
cry, by consent of the defendant, which
nullifieS the marriage. This suit will be
remembered as the famous marriage at
the point of q pistol
Another heir has been heard from as
claimant to the vast estate of Thomas II.
Blythe the eccentric millionaire. 1t was
supposed that there but forty-seyen sole
heirs TO the property. but dispatch has
been received by Vice Consul Mason, OF her
British Majesty's service, to the effect that
will had been found in England, executed
by Blythe in 1S4S, in which Caroline Glover
Robson is named as universal legatee.
Railroad men are anXiously waiting to
see if the Atlantic and Pacific will open an
independent Office in this city for The sale
of tickets over its line. Should this be
done, the Central Pacific people threaten to
allow the overland competitors OF the At
lantic and Pacific to have the same priv
ilege, which they do not now enjoy. Such
Il result would bring about fight for pat
ronage that would be very runous to some
Of the minor roads in the rrnscontinental
Association.
The General Eastern agent of the South
ern Pacific Company, in New York, has
sent the following dispatch relating to the
reduction in freight rates over its lines:
= Taking effect from April 18th, We reduce
California through rates to the extent Of 20
per cent. off the trunk line rates from
New York to Chicago making the basis:
First class 10 cents hundred pounds, sec
ond class - cents, third class n cents,
fourth class 20 cents, special ID cents.
Goods will be billed in accordance with
these rates, and merchants need not fear
the necessity of having to make claims for
drawbacks or rebate"