Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-10-31
SAN FRANCISCO ITEMS.

1t was reported at a meeting of the Up-
holsterers' Union Thursday night that the
effort to advance prices of labor IS per
cent. had succeeded.
p. G. Graves, ON trial in the United States
District Court for extracting money from n
letter in the Tehama Postoffice. while act
ing there as clerk, has been found guilty by
the jury, with q recommendation to mercy.
In the suit of the People against Louis
Cohn and bondsmen, charged with having
embezzled $4,000 belonging to the Board Of
Harbor Commissioners, Judge Reardon on
Friday morning gave judgment for defend
ants
Reports received at the Merchants Ex
| change state that the bark Henriette Bebn
is total loss at Mazatlan. small por-
ton OF the cargo was saved. The schooners
| Cameta and AZteCa went ashore on the
beach at Altata, losing anchors and chains.
The schooner Occidental was total loss.
Senator Miller is at Howell Mountain
| Napa county. His health is in q decidedly
unfayorable state. The real nature of the
malady puzzles the physicians Senator
| John p. Jones has recovered from an attack
| Of pneumonia. Senator Sharon is still
confined 10 his room, and al cause for
anxiety is not yet passed.
| Secretary Bonte Of the State University
is in receipt of letter from the President,
elect, Professor L. S. Holden, Of the Uni
versity of Wisconsin, in which he an
nOunces his acceptance of the honor CON
| ferred upon him, and states his intention
to reach Berkeley as soon as possible
! probably about the first part of December.
A Chinaman offers this explanation ot
the Chinese cigar-makers' strike: Chi.
neseman, he ma6ee a ciglar and white man
he makee face. say Chineseman's ciglar
no good-heap stinkee- Chineseman. him
say clglar muchee glood, then white man
klckee Chineseman, and he no likee fooiea
llkee that. Too muchee O'DonnelIn and
John gave grunt Of disgust at the innate
depravity Of the white man.
The case Of May Jackson. accused of
throwing vitriol in the face of Martin FnlI-
er on September oath last, was called Fri
day in Judge Rix's Court The yictiln was
present, and had a linen bandage over bis
left eye and forehead. The original com.
plants on Tile being considered defective
substitutes were filed, and the bondsmen
resworn and qualified. Judge Rix held the
defendant to answer in the sum of SIC. 600.
In the case of Mrs. NJ. J. Taylor VS.. The
Central Pacific and Charles B. Davis tha
| supreme Court has Affirmed the preyioDs
! judgment for defendants. The railroad
company had contracted to sell Davis GER
tam lands, twenty acres of which had al
ready, been inclosed by plaintiff together
with her Government land Her claim
was that, according to the companv's land
circular, persons having actually settled
upon land should have the preference over
other would-be purchasers when the Land
should be offered for sale, and she there
fore sued TO compel the transferring of the
contract of purchase to her. 1t Is held
however, by the Court that there is notbine
positively binding upon the railroad coTp9
pany in the terms of the circular, it beine
also suggested that Mrs. Taylors occupancy
of the land was accidental