Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-06-06
SAN F84NCIsCO ITEMS.

Al Central Park, Thursday, Duncan c. !
Ross tossed a seven-pound hat-lron eiGhty-
seven yards.
A benevolent old lady from across the |
bay has donated 500 to the Golden Gate
kindergarten.
At a meeting OF the Directors Of the
| Mechanics institute, it was decided to
open the fair OH August 18th, to last
month,
An unknown man jumped overheard on
| Tuesday from the ferryboat Oakland,
| when abreast of Goat island. The boat
was stopped, but nothing was seen OF the
suicide.
Owing 10 the washout or the Robideau
| bridge, on the Denver and Rio Grande, the
party of school teachers which LETT here
last week had to return TO Ogden and so
East by the Union Pacific.
| In the Martha Wilson perjury case, one
of the many anneXes to the Sharon Hlil
diverse case, Friday, Miss Nellie Bracket
again swore that the suit Tor divorce was
conspiracy, in which she assisted.
An order has been sent to each Depart
ment Commander OF California by GENERA
poDe to the effect that good marhSmen be
sent to the Preside for practice, that they
may compete in the Department Rlt1e
Team in August.
The Supreme Court, in the case of John
: T Tennox. sentenced to be hanged for murder
in Los Angeles, has affirmed the judgment
J of the lower Court, which refused to allow
/ him 10 withdraw his plea of guilty after
sentence had been passed.
e The police, at the request of persons
J living in the vicinity, dispersed meeting
e held on the steps of the Mint for the pur-
= pose of discussing the propriety of the
: Government owning the railroads The
. Mint authorities viii prevent any meeting.
= in the future.
! A Chinaman named All How, employed
q as domestic, while walking along "ash
i inqtOn street, near Stockton, Thursday
= ni9bt. was stoned by q white boy. One 0
- the stones struck him in the right eye
- tearing it from its socket, and completed,
II destroying the sight.
Ie The Ladies Silk Culture Society has beer
If given fourteen acres Of land at Piedmont
st 10 be used exclusively for silk culture
charles Walcott Brooks states that it is tn
W nurpose of the United States Governmen
st to supply silk-worms TO those who desir
II to make first effort in sericulture. Thi
q will be for the season OF 1856.
! The recent order of the Prison Director
le consolidating the Offices of turnkey an
id captain of the yard took effect on the Is
is instant. WDtD a. -. 4uCAlIISlCA iStI4Sb s'44
CAPTAIN Aull assumed the duties of th
consolidated Office. Three guards, Messr
~ Campbell, Belmont and Wingate, tW
~ ~ Democrats and one Republican, were ais
or retired.
Harriet Mccarthy. who owns a fifty val
lot on Turk and LeaVenworth streets, h>
re- brought suit against Porter Ashe ct al.
es recover 81 200 for three months rent
on her lot, alleging that defendants leased
es for twenty years at 500 month, for sa
ar water bathing establishment. Another Il
a was secured by the company at Eighth an
&C. Howard streets.
1S. There arrived in this city Thursds
res James Tracy and G. W. Badger, membe
tie of the police force of st. Louis, who ha'
Sc, been detailed by the State and the gener
le- Government to proceed to Auckland, Ne
81. Zealand, for the extradition of Walter
ng Lennox Maxwell, whose murder Of Arth
uf- Preller in the Southern Hotel at st. Lou
ial is vet well remembered.
IN The authorities of the Southern PaciI
)u- Company have decided 10 send the Califc
he mia exhibit at the New Orleans Fair to L
lot fair at Louisville, which will open
TO August The railroad company has be-
ne ct large expense to ship the exhibit, but
od acts upon the principle that it will be
>m great benefit TO the State to have so cred
bat able an exhibit displayed, and ultimate
zen benefit the company.
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hat Real estate is rapidly appreciating
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