RELIEVED. -- Persons from the interior visiting this city with "purse and scrip," may conclude their visit and leave with the scrip, if the discount is too heavy to make an "operation" profitable, but the purse is very apt to stay behind. This fact should not reflect too generally on the citizens of San Francisco, for they won't all steal. There is now and then one who is afraid to risk personal lliberty. But bad habits are epidemic, notwithstanding Judge Shepheard. The most recently afflicted subject is one John Mahoney, from "up country." He was relieved yesteray afternoon of eighty dollars. Philip Kearney fell in with him on Pacific street, and became his chaperon. North Beach had attractions, and thither they went. A saloon for rest and refreshment, and a game of cards for pastime, were matters of course, while Kearney, who was heavy on the suaviter in modo, soon made himself the possessor of Mahoney's money. This sudden depletion of his exchequer didn't agree with Mahoney's ideas of disinterestedness, and the services of a Policeman were invoked. Officer Rose arrested Kearney on Pacific street last evening.
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FALL OF A FLAG-STAFF. -- The wind was too much for Jerry Sullivan's fifty feet of flag-staff yesterday. After wrestling with it for some time it gave it a heavy fall. It came down with a crash on the fence just above "Brownie," the candy-vender's stand, who, thinking life was much sweeter than his wares, left them to their fate, and made the tallest kind of time to the opposite side of the street. No damage was done, however, except a contusion to the Post Office fencing and a compound fracture of the pole.
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ASSAULT TO KILL. -- Last evening G. Hopper was arrested for shooting twice at a man name Daggett, with intent to kill him. He failed to hit him, however. Our information concerning the affair is that Daggett, who is an old friend of Hopper's entered the latter's saloon, on the corner of Pacific and Davis streets, at six o'clock yesterday afternoon, drunk, or thereabouts, and swore he could whip any Yankee hound in the place. Hopper said he would have no such language n his house, and started out from behind the counter after the challenger, who commenced throwing tumblers and dodging bullets. He dodged two of them, and then went away. Some time after Hooper's arrest, Daggett was informed of the fact, when he expressed surprise and pain that their bit of diversion had terminated so seriously, and went at once to bail out his vivacious friend. He was too late, though; somebody had already performed that service.
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BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
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POUND STATISTICS.
The Poundkeeper reported the capture of ninety-seven dogs during the month of July, five of which were redeemed at five dollars a head, and the other ninety two slaughtered without benefit of clergy.
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