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Show WESTERN. Jnii Fruueiseo Items. San Francisco, 1-. A man in the city hospital by the name of George Mould, has been very sick for some time. To-day when he was told that his case was hopeless and that he must die, he told the resident physician physi-cian that he had a certificate of deposit de-posit ou a London bank for twenty-three twenty-three hundred pounds sterling, also a valuable gold watch and chain. He has been supposed to be in a condition condi-tion of most abject poverty. John Dunn met with sudden death, to-day, in a singular ' manner. He was employed by J. M. Eckfeldtfe Co. dealers in wire goals, at 412 Clay street, and was descending a stair-I stair-I ease with a roll of wire upon his ehoul-I ehoul-I der, when he slipped anu fell. In the descent one end of the wire pierced his lorehead, in about the centre, and enteral his brain between five and six inches. He was taken up in an insensible condition and placed in 1 a wagon to be conveyed to, the reni- dence of his aunt, but he expired , before reaching that locality, i Private sales of San Francisco gaslight-stock were made at fC8 per share and Spring Valley water at $S1.50 per share, to-day. The Chief of the Hill mining company com-pany have levied an assessment of fifty cents per share, amounting to lo.000 delinquaut October 16th. The San Francisco gna light company com-pany have declared a monthly dividend divi-dend of one and a half of one per cent., amounting to $-30,000 payable Monday. At a meeting of the Produce Exchange Ex-change to-day, one of the members was unanimously expelled for declining de-clining to abide by a verdict of an arbitration ar-bitration committee. The cause ol arbitration was the refusal to deliver a lot of wheat, allgal to have been sold to arrive, the difference between the selling price and the price at the time of delivery, being almost $11,-000 $11,-000 against the seller.' A dispatch from Sail Diego savs word has just reached thereof the death of awplexy on Saturday night, at Fort Yuma, of Lieutenant Lafayette Lafay-ette Hammond, of the 23d l S. infantry, in-fantry, detailed as recruiting officer. Ho was buried at the fort on Sunday Sun-day evening. In the Ainyteenth District Court today, to-day, Judge Wheeler decided the motion mo-tion for alimony in the divorce case of Jane W. Bruncr against W. H Bruner. The judge said Dr. Brunei was In receipt of at least $500 per month iijr his professional services t and he w;w inclined to behove tha 100 per month would be ample to support Mrs. Bruner anp the court so ordcral it. |