Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-07-15
SAN FRANCISCO ITEMS.

Very few proprietors of retail stores are
holding out against the early-closing move
ment.
Jack Dempsey has gone to Portland to
be married. 1t is his intention to proceed
to the Australian colonies if his bride Will
consent to accompany him.
For some time past the Texas Pacific and
Missouri Pacific have been selling tickets to
New York for So, when the only rate per-
mitted to the other companies was $62 80.
A rumor is atloat that the American
Ticket-Brokers' Association intend pur-
chasing the South Pacific Coast Railroad
from Senator Fair, with the intention of
making it a transcontinental line.
Miss Eleanor d. Broderick, Young lady
OF Sausalito, a member of the Normal
class, and who was to have graduated at
the last term, died last Saturday from
disease occasioned by too close application
to her studies.
The French residents of San Francisco
were busy yesterday celebrating the ninety
seventh anniyersy of the taking of the
Bastile. Many of the stores and offices of
French firms were tastef1lly, though not
lavishly decorated.
Mayor Bartlett has approved the order
granting a franchise to W. H. Martin and
others to run cable railway from the in
tersection of First avenue and Jackson
street to the water front by Jackson, Wash
ington and other streets.
The Bohemian Club proposes to establish
an art gallery in connection with the club,
for the use of members, 81, 600 being an
nually set aside by the directorate for the
purchase of one of the pictures exhibited
each year in the Paris Salon.
A Chinese boy, II years of age, recently
arrived in the city after journey to Eng
land as the body-guard of Earl Russell, a
young nobleman. The Earl's family had
a prejudice against the young Mongol, al
though he is well educated and intelligent.
The G. A. r. Committee on Streets and
Police propose to organize themselves into
patrol, and, with the aid of two hacks
and couple of policemen, look ont for
any of the old veterans who might fall
into evil company during the encamp-
ment.
There is scarcity of nickels among bus
mess men. The last consignment received
from the Philadelphia Mint was $1,000,
which was soon paid out in lots of $50.
The demand for them is constantly coming
in from the interior of the State, which the
banks and Mint cannot supply.
Commissioner Enos, just returned from
the East, saws: Il have returned to the
home of my adoption supremacy glad to
get back, contented to remain forever, and
thoroughly convinced that California is
Gods own country-that the sun don't
shine on another piece of country quite
her equal"
There is sharp competition between the
two lines leading into the Yosemite valley.
oil tba Of ha
duction in fare to $40 for round trips via
Berenda comes another reduction to $50 via
Stockton and Milton. The Milton and
Yosemite Stage Company has made this
rate for the accommodation OF Grand
Army visitors who wish to see the valley
The first wife of Louis Hansworth, alias
Mayer the Red Bluff bigamist, tells a
frightful story of his desertion, after rob-
bling her of what money she had. / could
have forgiven his leaving me and robbing
me, but | never could forgive him for mar
rying and deceiving another woman" The
| amount of money given to him by her, she
said, was overstated at 81 900 in the papers.
She gave him only $500 and considerable
portion of the furnishing of their home in
Red Bluff.
On Tuesday David Coleman, aged :
years, was playing on the drawbridge at the
foot of Fourth street. While there truck
heavily laden with barley, driven by ]. f.
Stevenson, passed over the bridge. Young
Coleman essayed to jump on the truck in
front of the hind wheel. He slipped and
fell, and the wheel passed over his legs,
crushing them into shapeless mass. The
unfortunate boy died soon afterwaId. The
Coleman family consists of seven other
children, and as the father has been out of
work for long time, they are in desti-
tute condition.