HITTELL'S DIGEST. - We understand that Mr. Theodore H. Hittell, of this city, has been for a number of months at work on, and has just about completed, a Digest of the Statutes of California from 1850 up to the present time. A well executed book of the kind is much needed. The Statutes are in such a condition that the lawyers themselves can hardly make head or tail out of them. A compilation, therefore, dividing the laws into convenient heads, embracing all the provisions now in force, and lopping off such as are repealed, arranged so that the heads will be exhaustive of the subjects properly coming under them, with full references, and a complete index; such a work is certainly a desideratum. Our knowledge of Mr. Hittell's working qualities leads us to expect a well arranged and carefully prepared work.
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A NUISANCE. - For the last week a dead horse has been lying in a vacant lot on the north side of Filbert street, between Stockton and Powell, yet we are informed by the District Attorney that this is in the midst of the city and county of San Francisco. The residents of the neighborhood are very much exercised upon the subject, and say the constantly augmenting fragrance of the corpse is becoming unbearable. They wish to know whose duty it is to remove the nuisance. It is the duty of the public street scavenger. A book is kept on a desk at the office of the Superintendent of Public Streets, (on the first floor of the City Hall, adjoining the Police Court Room,) which is free to all; write your complaint in that -- a dozen words will be sufficient -- and the nuisance will be abated at once.
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DISPOSED OF. - George Wright and George Sibley, two of the men engaged in the burglary the other night, and the latter of whom was shot in the arm at that time, by Officer Colter, came before Judge Shepheard yesterday morning, and were ordered to appear in the County Court to answer to a charge of burglary. Their bail was fixed at two thousand dollars each.
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BOUND OVER TO KEEP THE PEACE. - Mat. Durning, William Connelly and G. W. Whalen, charged with assaulting Michael Killalea in his house at midnight, and with making threats against him at sundry times, were tried before Judge Shepheard yesterday, and compelled to give bonds to keep the peace.
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LANIGAN SENTENCED. - Charles Lanigan, convicted of robbing the till of O. T. Flynn's grocery, corner of Eighth and Howard streets, has been sentenced to pay a fine of fifty dollars, or go to jail for twenty-five days -- the choice of the two penalties being left to his own taste and judgment.
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SERVED HIM RIGHT. - James Collins, for maknig obscene language, and for wantonly insulting Policement on duty, was sentenced yesterday, in the Police Court, to sixty days' imprisonment. He said he was an educated gentleman.
[Not in Branch's list. Transcribed from microfilm, p. 3.]
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