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Show j SAN FRANCISCO ITEtYIS. I San Francisco, 11. The jury, in 1 the case of Thos. Curtain, tried in i the fi I teen Ih district court for kill-i kill-i ing Win. Johnson, the seducer of Cm tin's young daughter- Hannah, a few months since, returned a ver: dLt of acquittal last night. The crowd loudly .cheered the result. Judge Dwindle told Curtin that he did not regret the verdict. Tiie shipment of freight lo Arizona, Ari-zona, via. Guaymas, has ended. The . Mexican Government annulled the order in November hist, and will hereafter require strict compliance with the law, which .makes--it obligatory obli-gatory on the -part of American shippers to procure a permit from the City of Mexico before free transits of freights can be made, it being fifteen hundred miles from Guayra.to the City of Mexico. Tiie poor means of communication, and the time and expense ex-pense of procuring permits, assuming assum-ing one would always be granted on application, will cilectually, close all freighting that way. - ' '" " SjO.O'JO have been set apart to continue con-tinue tho building of Camps Grant and Lowell. The United SUtes authorities will commence proceedings against the ship Jinfir, from New York, to recover re-cover penalties for having shipped a crew of kidnappeel men. They are tailors, shoemakers, carpenters, barbers, bar-bers, soldiers and firemen in the lot, men who knew nothing about sailing, who say they were forced on board tne ship in Xew York. ' The German corvette Xymph arrived ar-rived to-day; she made the voyage from Yokohama, under sail, in 27 days. |