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Show vmm iuvst sews. FIRST DISPATCH. CALIFOKSIA. San Francisco, 2ti. Major Geo. U. ; Ensign, partner with colonel Von j Schmidt in many enterprises for years past, who attempted to kill himself while slightly insane ten days since, became pike violent in the hospital and this morning attempted to jump ! from a third story window, lie was '. sent lo the insane assylum at Stockton ! at the request of his friends. Joseph E. Hernandez, .sentenced j yesterday to the State prison tor house I breaking iu Monterey county, arrived I here at route for San Ouenti'n. In the case of the Montgomery bovs, i for whom Alcado liartlett issued" a grant for lots in this citv in 1S4S but cancelled it upon learning that they ! j had probably beeu drowned in the j I Sacramento river before tho grant was issued, judge Bartlett decides that they i : were dead before the grant was made out, that it was never delivered, that no title ever vested in them, and con- ; sequently the claim of their father, ' who brought suit for the property, is void, lie accordingly dismissed the suit and this celebrated land case is ' ended. ; Huck's tannery, on Braunan street, i near Sixth, caught tire from a boiler this evening and the fire department' was turned out. Tfie loss is slight. Stock sales this afternoon include ' 2.j-:, Eureka Con., E!v, f.iy, ' A alley, Si.hj Pioche, 710 Overman, 0:j.3 Chollar, -I, -'Jo Phi-nix, and ,"h " i BeWher. ' i' 'llie lirM auu'.ia! election of otlicers of the San FrancUco art association is going on this evening quietly, with a light vote. There arc live tickets in the field. The pro.-pect i-, that S. M. Brooks, of the opposiiiyii. will bo elected vice-president, and tho regular ticket will carrv the remainder of the nflice-. The Maxim gas company opened its businc.-s ofiice on Montgomery street thi:i evening, with a brilliant display of its new light. seaua. Carson, 2d. Up to S p. hi. nothing further had been received at Aurora from the .sheriff and party who had the light with the five convicts at the head of Long valley, on Sunday afternoon. after-noon. This afternoon, at o o clock, the wind at Carson valley was blowing a hurricane. Three Canadian Frenchmen, French-men, Nayer Dandrin, Kamuel Tradeau and Raphel Tradeau, were swinging logs on McGarahan's wood ranche, five miles west of town, when a dead tree Jell on and instantly killed Nayer Dandrin and Ramuel Tradeau, and dislocated the shoulder and seriously injured Raphel. The bodies of the two killed were brought to town this ovenine. Eureka, 2d. A woman named Nellie Nel-lie Jacobs committed suicide yesterday by taking morphine. This morning a man named White, while at work in the Eureka company's mine, had a leg broken by a boulder falling upon it." SKCUlNB DISPATCH. CAMFOIINIA. San Francisco, 27. The weather continues warm and cloudy. E. Per-tinsel, Per-tinsel, the inventor of the explosive bullets for muskets and pistols, which . both tho Communists and the Ver-i Ver-i saillists charged the other with using iu the late "siege of Paris, will give an i exhibition of the effect of his inven- lion in presence of a committee of i military men at the Bay district agri-i agri-i cultural park, at '.I p. m. to-morrow, lie recently arrived here from Paris. ! It is claimed that his invention has i been adopted by the Austrian govern ment for army and navy use. i The drawing of the Grass Valley lottery has been postponed to Nov. ' 1:3 lb, tho managers having determined to give the full list of prizes without S abatement. ' The slock excitement continues and ; promises to run high for some time to come. Last evening, after the board, Ely fell back on the street to 85, but this morning it appears to be stiff again. Quite n number of the Germans are moving lo secure Ihc appointment of i major Peter Sossor, of this city, to the adjutant-generalship. Riley, who was shot by Jordan night before last, and was reported dying last night, is easier this morning, and threatens to recover in spite of the bullet supposed to have gone directly through his heart. The Pacific firo extinguisher com-pany,to com-pany,to manufacture fire extinguishers ibr California, Oregon and Nevada, with a capital of 200,000, R. B. Swain, James Otis, J. W. Stow, U. G-. Kittle and John Bensloy trustees, was incorporated to-day. It is rumored on the street to-day that one of the European insurance companies, which lost over one hundred thousand dollars in the late fire here and fifty thousand dollars in Airginia, have suspended. It Is certain they have suspended their agency here. The cargo of the ship Blade JIawk, from Liverpool, consisting of 1,300 tons of West Hartley coal, was sold at auction at 1 p.m by the U. S. marshal, to satisfy a bottomry bond given in Rio, where she was repaired. It brought nine dollars and fifty cents per ton, duty paid and deliverable on the wharf. San Francisco, 27. Andrew Doyle, an employe of the Bayview distillery, was found dead, apparently from heart disease, this morning. Francisco Turco was sent "to the eonnty ennvt i'nr trial to day, ou obargc of assault to murder Pic to JUassato, a fellow Italian, in whoru he lodged a bullet from a revolver by way of settling set-tling an old account. Alexander Thompson, a boardinc- bouse runner, is under arrest on the charge of making a murderous assault on Edward Holland, a sailor, on the ship Faatha', for whom he is alleged to have laid in wait with a heavy club to punish him for refusing to be entertained enter-tained at his hotel. The Meadow Valley extension mining min-ing co. has elected, as trustees, L. A. Booth, president; Charles F. Hamilton Hamil-ton and N. C. Paddock; M. F. Game was elected secretary; the Bank of California treasurer, and Wm. II. Clark superintendent, Ohoice selccted apples and pears, wrapped in paper and carefully packed, are being shipped from here lo Montana. Mon-tana. The price paid being $2 to $2.2o per 100 pounds in this market. The San Francisco art association election did not show a great tendency toward the enfranchisement of woman, the female candidate being ignored by the tyrant male voters and the lady members alike. The whole regular ticket was elected. The merchants here have been notified noti-fied that the rates in shipments from San hrancisco to Chicago, St. Louis and Cincinnati, by R. R,, have been advanced from 31 to ai cents per pound, but thatlhe tariff to New York remains at as at first Used. |