Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-06-21
SAN FRANCISCO ITEMS.

The Oceanic Steamship Company
steamer Zealandia will sail for Honolulu
July LIST,
Charles Croker and family arrived in
this city from the East on Friday. He Is
still suffering from lameness, the result Of
his accident at New York.
A private dispatch has been received an.
nouncing the death, in London, on Thurs
day, of Sir Alexander Stewart, ex-Premiel
of New South Wales, who was recently IN
this city.
| The sales of railroad lands OF the South
ern Pacific Railroad grant have averaged
10000 acres per month since February
Land III Fresno and Kern counties Is
mostly in demand.
A statement of receipts and expenditures
of the California Anti-C Chinese Non-Partl-
san Association shows that on June lst
there was cash on hand SOL 50, swelling
the total receipts Of the month up 10
| S6S2 40. The expenditures amounted 10
| $500 40.
The Union boilermakers at work on the
| Mararoa quit work Saturday morning III
| obedience to the order from the Union.
| The steamer Zealandia, one Of the Spreek-
| els vessels, will arrive mere ON Tuesday,
when the entire crew of sixty men VIII be
ordered out.
Information has been received by Chas.
Sonnfao that Harry McCabe, a little fellow
who was taken from the ring of Montgom-
cry Queen circus while performing here
! ten wears ago. has fallen heir TO a large for
time bv the death OF Edward c. D. Kit
tredge, of New YORK.
The local passenger agents are making
AN effort to encourage travel by little
squirt in rates. From $40 to So has been
cilt Off from the through first-clasS rate to
New York. There is little spirit in the
fight. however. and not much probability
of extensive reductions.
The July term of the Supreme Court will
commence in this CITY on the I'd OF Augus,
when all cases filed on appeal prior to jan
uarv. 1885. will be heard. The calendar
will be printed early in July, and copies
sent to the County Clerks of the counties
embraced within the San Francisco dis
trict.
The scenery and. costumes, which were
attached at the close Of the last season of
the Mapleson Opera Company in this city,
on Judgment in favor of D. w. Hitch
cock against Colonel MaplesOn for $3.50,
due for transportation to the Union Pacific
Railroad Company, have been sold at
Sherif7s sale. The sale netted S2,342.
An insane Chinaman, known variously
as All Kee. Chez Mum and Yin You,
Jumped from the roof of Franks building
on Brennan place, west of the plaza, about
noon Saturday The building is high
four story brick, and the body struck with
frightful force on the cobbles i'll the street
below The skull was dashed topieces and
brains and blood were distributed over the
pavement.
A general order has been issued by Com
mander Smedberg of the g. 4. K. request
ing the officers of the various posts to
transmit their reports to headquarters at
once. On the 10th of July all delinquent
posts will be publicly announced and their
officials censured. There were at the COM
mencement of the year 4, 233s comrades in
good standing in the Department of Cali
fornia.
In Department Twelve, Superior Court,
Saturday morning, Ignatius Pierce, con-
victed Of the murder of John Peterson, said
he had nothing to say when Judge Murphy
asked him Cor any reasons why the iudg-
ment of the Court should not be pro-
nounced. A motion for a new trial had
previously been denied. The Court sem
fenced him TO twenty-five years imprison-
ment at San Quentin.
Work on the Southern Pacific Company's
new branch line to Sal.ta Barbara and San
Buenaventura is progressing steadily. The
Geographical difficulties OF the first section
of the line below Soledad have interfered
with rapid construction, but the track has
been laid eight miles south Of that point,
and from the present terminus to San Lo-
renzo (the next town ofimportance, twenty
miles SOUTH the country is comparatively
smooth and grading will be easier.