Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-04-14
SAN FRANCISCO ITEMS.


The receipts at the Custom House for the
! past week were S131 ,672 50, making total
since January 1st Of Sl,762,5lS 10.
Arbitrator Miller states that under the
rules Of the Pacific Coast Passenger Associ-
alton the advertised teachers excursion TO
| the East cannot take place.
Custom House Inspector J. p Cooper
Sunday night seized thirty pounds of pre-
pared and ten pounds of crude opium on
the steamer Oceanic, which arrived last
week from China. The value of the opium
| is about $3.50
A new cable has been placed in position
on the California-street cable road. 1t is
| five miles i'll length and extends from Lar
kin street to Cemetery avenue and back.
| The new cable was made in Germany at 4
cost of 5000.
| Ninety-three deaths were recorded at the
| Health Office during the week ending April
10th. Males, 65; females, IS; Caucasians,
co. Mongolians, II natives of the Pacific
coast, 81; of other States, II of foreign
countries, 4S; unascertained, =.
The operations of the San Francisco
! Clearing house tor the past week compare
as follows with the corresponding week last
| year:
1851 1885
Balances ....................... 1,775,l7 1,9iSS7S
| The internal revenue collections in the
| San Francisco District for the week ending
| April 18th were as follows
Beer ..sl:2 63
Spirits i6
Miscellaneous. $50
Total .S66 $50
! An ingenious piece of mechanism has
| been invented by a San Francisco man, by
which the control of Il switch track can
| always be in the power of the engineer.
| The switch can be turned by pressing
! lever III the cab, without the train being
stopped, thereby preventing the possibility
| of running off an open switch. The device
is being tested on the Central Pacific in
| Alameda.
| On the Sth instant, not many days after
| the death of General Barrios his widow was
! forced by the menacing state Of affairs to
take passage on one of the Pacific Mail
steamships for San Francisco During his
| lifetime her husband had made liberal pro-
! vision for his family, depositing and invest
| ing in the United States, money, it is said,
amounting to from s., 100000 to S10,0GO,-
| 600. of which. under arrangements made
| by him. Mrs. BarrioS is now the sole pos
| SCISSOR.
Treasurer Hopkins of the Central Pacific
Railroad says, with relation to the state
mcnt that Russia has tried to buy the san
Pablo and San Pedro, that he does not
think there is anything in it, though there
might have beer offers made. The steam
ers were doing very satisfactory business,
and there was no special point in selling
them, Us the company would only have to
replace them. But the vessels were in
iirst-cIass order, and were doing their work
! very Well
| -Four atiiiaytS cn the motion Of William
Sharon for Il new trial on tic ground OF
newly undiscovered evidence were filed with
the County Clerk on Saturday, and few
additional ones were put in Monday In
all about fifty atfidavits have been so far
filed This number docs not by any means
! exhaust Sharon's ammunition in the ftlsi-
lade upon Sarah Aithea' character, as the
most important ailidavits will be kept back
until Sarah lawyers show their hand in
rebutting the statements contained III the
atfidavits, when they will be fired in as
clincher TO Sarah alleged damaged repu-
| taTiUn