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The San Francisco Daily Morning Call, August 7, 1864

 

LOST CHILDREN. -- Four lost children were found night before last, by the Police, and restored to their parents. The stationhouse is the best place to go in search of a missing infant -- let interested parties bear the fact in mind.

[This item was not identified in Edgar Branch's list. Transcribed from microfilm, p. 2.]

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TO BE MENDED. -- The drowned and poor old fished-up, mud-ridden, worm-eaten, barnacled, bescrawled-by-newspaper-reporters, Aquila, is to make a pilgrimage to Mare Island, where she will be cobbled up and made fit for sea again. She has survived many afflictions. Long may she wave.

[transcribed from microfilm, p. 2.]

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THE MAKEE MOLASSES. -- The second contribution of Captain Makee, of the Hawaiian Islands, to the Sanitary Fund, consisting of one hundred barrels of molasses, was sold yesterday by McRuer & Merrill. The first twenty barrels sold for seventy-five cents a gallon, and the remaining eighty at thirty cents. The total sum realized was eleven hundred and seventy dollars. Good for Makee.

[transcribed from microfilm, p. 2.]

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THE PEOPLE'S EXCURSION. -- Recollect that you can reach the Ocean Beach by the Central street-railroad cars and the omnibuses from Lone Mountain, for thirty-five cents. It is a delightful ride, now that the road from the Cemetery out has been widened and repaired, and a sensible man ceases to envy, in the pleasantness of his feelings and the economy of his cash, the fast young bloods who flash by him in more ostentatious but more expensive vehicles than a humble omnibus. You may not feel like taking a two-bit drink with Foster, when you arrive at the Cliff House; but as you go for fresh air and a quiet stroll, you can saunter along the sandy beach, gratis, and feel, with Byron,

"There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music in its roar."

If the sea don't roar to please you, you can give ear to the seals on the neighboring rocks. They may impress you more favorably.

[transcribed from microfilm, p. 2.]

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A DEAD DOG CASE. -- One Creegan appeared in Court yesterday morning, with a bad-looking eye and an uncertain impression about cause, manner and effect, etc. On Thursday morning last, he was aroused from his siesta by a pistol-shot in the room where he was indulging in h is nap, and found stretched on the floor in his gore, the "pallid corpse" of a little pet black dog that nestled on his bosom while he slept. One of John's optics had been nearly extinguished by the wad or spent ball from the pistol, and with the other eye he saw John Crugar mizzle out of the door and down stairs. Crugar had undoubtedly done the shooting, and the injured man instituted proceedings against him for committing an assault with a deadly weapon. The death of the dog touched Creegan's feelings; it was a good dog; a black and tan colored dog; a little dog, and attended only to its business. He apostrophized its virtues, and suggested to the Court that the dog be brought in that he might enact Mark Antony over the dead body of seize her. The assault with a deadly weapon case was dismissed, but the Court intimated that a complaint for shooting within the city limits would be sustained if entered.

[transcribed from microfilm, p. 3.]

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AFTER THE HACKMEN. -- Up to ten o'clock last night, four hackmen -- Charles Hamilton, James Jackson, G. H. Hodges and Daniel McCarty -- had been arrested for violating the order to travel with a badge denoting their occupation attached to their hats.

[This item was not identified in Edgar Branch's list. Transcribed from microfilm, p. 3.]

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FORFEITED BAIL. -- The following persons were earnestly expected to attend Judge Shepheard's levee yesterday morning; but failing to appear their bails were confiscated, to wit: Ambrose Kelly, the enterprising hackman, who put his foot into it yesterday, while trying to make himself useful as a witness "for the defence," forfeited bail in the sum of $20. So Tow, charged with a misdemeanor, forfeited $10. Sarah Roundz, malicious mischief, $35. Fred. Kantz, assault and battery, $25. M. J. Mauhnetz, misdemeanor, forfeited his bond, and Michael Cowell, $20.

[transcribed from microfilm, p. 3.]

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LOCKED UP. -- A large pile of boys, ranging from ten to fifteen years of age, were locked up in a cell in the city prison, yesterday, to give them a modified conception of what they may expect if they continue to throw stones at Chinamen and engage in other evil pursuits.

[transcribed from microfilm, p. 3.]

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