Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-07-14
SAN FRANCISCO ITEMS.

Miss Jeffries-L Lewis, the favorite actress,
has returned here from Australia.
The receipts for duties at the Custom
House for the past week were $157, 243 TO-
making total since January LIST of S.
264 ,975 IS.
Israel Lawton, the recently appointed
Superintendent of the. Mint in this city, has
forwarded his bond to Washington, and
preparations are being made to turn the
management of affairs over to him in few
days
John Mullen. an ex-police officer, was
brought to the Receiving Hospital Sunday
suffering from a deep knife-w wound in the
abdomen. The whole affair seems to be
surrounded with mystery. Mullen says he
does not know who cut him.
The United States Court on Monday set
the time for hearing argument in the
Sharon-Hill suit for September Sth. This
is the suit brought by ex-senator Sharon
to have the marriage contract and the
g Dear Wife letters declared forgeries.
The operations of the San Francisco
Clearing House for the past week compare
as follows with the corresponding week last
year:
Exchanges. .slO,3 0i,7 25 s1O,69l, 95S
Balances. .................... 1,T44,676 2l5S,40l
The capsized British ship Earl of Dali
housie has not yet been raised, notwith-
standing the efforts which have been made
for so long time. She persists in coming
to the surface with a tendency to throw the
keel uppermost instead of the deck. and in
consequence it is found very difficult to
right her.
The internal revenue collections in the
San Francisco District for the first eleven
days of July were as follows:
SD ~
spirits 220
observation-disclosures. 'ooS
Total 553
Ex-Mayor A. J. Bryant, for whom war
rant had been sworn ont by Coroner O'DOn-
nell, for threatening the latter's life, sur
rendered himself at the Police headquarters
Monday morning, furnishing bonds with
+. \. Gibbs and Charles Kohler as sureties.
Owing to the inability of the prosecution to
proceed, and to the absence of the COM
plainant, the case was continued until next
Thursday afternoon.
The following changes are announced in
the railroad mail service c. i. Slower. of
this city. has been promoted to the vacancy
occasioned by the death of William Knapp,
late head clerk on the Ogden and San
Francisco Railroad. John T. Young, Of
this city, has been appointed postal clerk
on the same line, vice Slower. Wilson
Stone, of Portland, has been appointed a
clerk on the Portland and Ashland Rail
road.
Thtspli in the Pacific Coast Passenger
Association has resulted in rumors of q cut
in passenger rates 1t is stated that 81 30
was allowed Saturday on a third-c class
ticket. Several of the agents of the lines
west of Chicago have resorted to another
way to cut the rates. There is a firm of
scalpers in Chicago and St. Louis that sells
tirst-class tickets from the former point to
New York for So The regular rate is so
a number of the agents in this city sell
passenger tickets to Chicago and give them
a card OF the firm of scalpers, from whom
they can get a ticket to New York for S12
this is equivalent to a cut of So from this
city to New York.
A vein of coal was discovered al the Pre-
sidio some weeks ago, samples of which
have just been examined by Prof. Hanks,
who finds that they contain 54.S5 per cent.
of combustible matter and 1915 of non
cOmbustible. The analysis is as follows
Fixed carbon 1875 per cent. volatile COM
bustible matter, 80 per cent; water, 40
per cent; ash, 1915 per cent. Prof. Hanks
says this will make very good coke, and
thinks it quite probable that parallel veins
of good-quality coal may be found. He
will in a short time visit the Preside and
personally examine the vein, which ranges
where exposed, from II to 3 inches in
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