Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-11-21
BAY CITY RREEZES.
Sh oais Formed by Sundays Earth
quake-Other Items.

Jan rlANSloSV, INONcmU mU6T ZU.-OaD-
tain Edmonson, of the British ship
Drumlaurig, reported at the United States
branch photographic Office to-day, the
discovery on Sunday last of shoal
thirty-five miles southwest of the Fsral.
lone Islands, and which has been hitherto
unmarked on any chart. 1t is surmised
by shipmasters that this shoal may have
been caused by the upheaval during the
earthquake shock of Sunday. The
United States cruiser Ranger, which puts
to sea in few days, will probably take
soundings where indicated by Captain
Edmonson.
AN OPIUM CAPTURE.
The steamer Umatilla arrived from
Victoria to-day. This is her first trip
since her conversion into passenger
boat and she starts in with good record
United States Customs Inspectors Atkin.
son and Reale went through the ship and
in the shaft alley stumbled across forty
six boxes of smuggled opium, worth
$500. 1t was seized, and eleven officers
set to work looking for more.
PROPOSED WINE EXCHANGE.
Secretary Wetmore, Of the Viticultural
Commission, is sending out circulars to
every known wiDe-maker in the State,
asking for assistance in the project of es-
tablishing wine exchange in Platt's
Hall. The plan arranged is described in
detail. The samples of wine sent in
will be catalogued, 80 that every person
may know who made the. wine be
is testing. A light lunch will
be served to those who desire, at
a reasonable rate, at cafe to be kept
open from II A. N. to P. M. daily. I'm
fermented grape juice will also be sold
All wines sent in must be guaranteed to
be pure. No wines will be sold except
by the glass or sample, but customers
will be directed to 60 to where the wine
pay all the exhibitors for their wines al
the prices fixed by them.
THE CHRONICLES" FIGURES.
Official returns, received by the Chron
tcle from all but two counties, San Fran
cisco and Trinity, give Harrison 124 ,S11
Cleveland 116,5O4. In the vote for JUS
tices of the Supreme Court, Mari
posa and Merced counties are still
unreported, and San Francisco but semi.
officially. The count as it stands gives
Beatty 122, ,253; Searles, 118, ,253; Works,
122, ,083; Sullivan, 120, 1853. The official
returns make no change in the vote fol
Congressman as already reported
De Haven in the First, Briggs in the
Second. McKenna in the Third, Morrow
in the Fourth, and Vandever in the Sixth
District are elected, while the official re-
turns in the Fifth District are not complete
In the Legislature the Republicans have
sixteen in the Senate, Democrats twenty
two, with a vacancy to be filled in the
Twelfth District, caused by the death OF
Chandler Republican,. In the Assem-
bly, the Republicans have thirty-nine
Democrats forty-one, Democratic
maj ,rity on joint ballot of eight.
LOCAL BREvITIEs.
The complete official results in tn
Fourth Congressional district gives Nor
row, Rep, 14,217; Robert Ferral, Dem.
1924; Frank, Pixley, American, 173
Morrow's plurality is 593.
Captain Cook, of the whaling bark Lu
cretia, charged with cruelty to a sailor
named Caesar Burle, on the high seas
had a hearing before United State
Commissioner Sawyer to-day, and wa
held in 81 900 bail.
A motion for new trial in the case G
c. E. Beach was made in the Unite
States District Court to-day. Beach
charged with subornation of perjury il
certain land cases that were tried befor
the court. The ground upon which tn
motion was based is newly discovere
evidence.