ANOTHER HEATHEN. -- Another of those brave fellows whose courage is exercised in fighting women, is held for sentence on a charge of assault and battery, for whipping his wife His name is George Carter. Wonder if he couldn't be made into a General. Such heroism should never be lost.
[Not in Branch's list. Transcribed from microfilm, p. 2.]
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ON A RECONNOISSANCE. -- Leland, of the Occidental, has gone on a scouting expedition among the Springs, and down to Santa Cruz, to see if any of those watering places stand in need of any more extensive hotel accommodations than they have at present. A fine hotel at Santa Cruz, and a small steamer to carry invalids and pleasure-seekers between that point and San Francisco, would be duly appreciated by the community.
[Not in Branch's list. Transcribed from microfilm, p. 2.]
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POLICE JUDGE'S BUDGET. -- Judicial labor was light. The record grows dull. Dog days [illegible] to be unpropitious days for [The remainder of this article is damaged in the microfilm edition.]
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METEORIC. -- An extraordinary shower of meteors fell night before last, or rather [illegible] morning, between twelve and one o'clock. The display was gorgeous, and was the finest spectacle which has been witnessed on the coast since the confidential fireworks the committee gave us in the [illegible] on the Fourth of July. A gentleman of our acquaintance counted thirty two of these meteors in half as many minutes. One more exhibition to night, and positively the last, owing to engagements in the country.
[transcribed from microfilm, p. 2.]
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NEW MUSIC. -- We are indebted to A. [illegible] of 622 Washington street, for several very pretty ballads just received from the States. The first is entitled "Give this to Mother" -- message from a dying drummer boy to his maternal relative, accompanied by a locket which he calculated he was done with. The chief interest attaching to this ballad is derived from the fact that its music was the last ever created by the gifted Stephen C. Foster. The other songs in the package are called "Slumber, My Darling," "When Dear Friends are Gone," "Golden Dreams and Fairy Castles," all by Foster, and "Kindly Words and Smiling Faces, " by George Cooper.
[Not in Branch's list. Transcribed from microfilm, p. 2.]
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NATIONAL GUARD. -- This Company have purchased a large piece of ground on Post street, between Stockton and Powell, opposite Union Square, for three thousand five hundred dollars, and paid for it, and in the coarse of two or three weeks they will commence the erection there of a two-story fire-proof building, suitable for the safe keeping of arms and ammunition, and commodious enough to furnish armories for four military Companies at any rate, and perhaps six. The building, in both stories, will be devoted to military purposes. The National Guard is one of our oldest militia organizations, and it is said that is has furnished from its ranks more fighting men for the war than any two Companies in the State. About forty of its members have served, or are now serving, on the battle-fields of the Union.
[Not in Branch's list. Transcribed from microfilm, p. 2.]
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SMALL BUSINESS. -- Yesterday, a man named Charles Marx, who keeps a fruit store on Washington street, near the Opera House, got an officer and had a poor widow, named Mary Hays, arrested for keeping an apple stand near his place, and obstructing the sidewalk. It distressed his small soul to see her sell six bits' worth of apples daily, and take away that much revenue that might otherwise chance to come to him. The woman has two small children at home, whom she is trying to support by taking desperate chances on the law and the jealousy of the fruit merchants. An indignant crowd followed the man and his prey to the City Hall, and indulged in a good deal of growling against him. A gentleman stepped forward and volunteered the ten dollars bail necessary to save the woman a trip to the station-house and a night's absence from her children, but, on second thought, Judge Shepheard released her on her own recognizance.
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YOUNG CELESTIAL DERELICTS. -- Foo and Yem, respectively prefixed with Ah, committed grand larceny, at least so it is charged, and for thus early exhibiting this national proclivity, the cued youngsters are under penal restraint.
[transcribed from microfilm, p. 3.]
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FINED. -- John Kennedy was yesterday fined thirty-dollars for having committed an assault and battery. He paid and went.
[Not in Branch's list. Transcribed from microfilm, p. 3.]
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