Sacramento Daily Record Monday, May 22, 1876 CITY INTELLIGENCE Public School Examination On Saturday the First Grade of the Grammar School was examined in grammar; twenty-two questions were propounded. The Third Grade classes were examined in spelling and composition. We give herewith the names of scholars promoted, as reported by the teachers and examiners of the Fourth Grade. Ella HARRISON's class: Miss RAY, Examiner - Alice BOWERS, Amelia LEIZA, Jennie CONSTINE, Carrie HAMBURGER, Esther JACOBS, Mary JONES, Lucretia KERR, Ida KAIBEL, Hattie LEWALD, Lizzie PARSONS, Ravie GINSBURG, Bettie REEBER, Martha SULLIVAN, Carrie SCHROTH, Sophie STEVENSON, Annie WEIZEL, Lizzie WEIZEL, Henry ALEXANDER, Joe CONSTINE, Fred. HOCKEL, Albert ISER, Ase MOOSE, Augusta MOOSE, Richard MIER, Fred MIER, Allie PARSONS, George ROTH, Louis SCHINDLER, Reuben WOLFE, Henry ZOLLER. Jennie BURKE's class; Miss RAY, Examiner - Addie WILSON, Belle RICHARDSON, Ada VAN HEUSEN, Ella TURTON, Nellie TODD, Mary SCHWARTZ, May TERRY, Lottie STEVENS, Ella STONE, Emma WOICLCEHOWSKI, Mary TAYLOR, George CLARK, Frank BRAZIL, Charlie DUNLEVY, Charlie ROOT, Willie TOOLE, David STRICKLAND, Willie UHL, Emil HEINRICH, Adolph SCHEID, Leonore TAYLOR, Jay MILLER, George WILSON, Nellie APPO, Wilmer VON BODEN, Paul VON BODEN, Frank JOHNSTON, Laura McCLELLAN, John BRENDEL, Eva BROGAN. Nora M.S. BUTTERFIELD's class; Miss WEEKS, Examiner - Warren ACKLEV, Illa CHISHOLM, John CRONE, Warren DOAN, Maggie FAY, Joseph LATHAM, Thomas LATHAM, Laura MILLER, Henry MILLER, Belle McMITCHELL, Charlie McCLEERY, John McCABE, Louie NIXON, Edith O'CONNELL, Joseph O'NEIL, Robert PLATTE, Lillie PARKER, Amanda SCHUCH, Ada TEMBROOK, Eddie TADE, Albert TIETJENS, Theresa TIETJENS, Mary WELCH, Maggie WELCH, De Witt WHITE, Jennie WISE, Thomas WISEMAN, Fred WHEELER, Belle WILKINSON, Millard WITHINGTON. Miss LEONARD's class; Mrs. FOLGER, Examiner - Charlie BUCHANAN, Willie BORCHERS, Mary BORCHERS, Arzella BAYLESS, Callie BANDY, George BAUER, Nellie BROWN, Emma ELLIOTT, Ida FRAZIER, Rosa FRAZIER, Annie GRUHLER, Albert GRUHLER, Bertie GROTH, Maria HUMRICH, Katie HUGHES, Mary JOHNSON, Annie JURGENS, Charlie KLEINSORGE, Charlie KINZ, Frank LONGABAUGH, Louisa LEHMAN, Jessie LEONARD, Eda MOHR, Martha McCLEERY, Samuel MAY, Eliza McCABE, Minnie PAINE, Bennie PLANT, Mellie ROBIN, Mary STRACHAN, Alta SCOTT, Louis SIMMERMACHER, Rollie TILDEN, Katie TRICSH, Laura WING, Emma WITTENBROCK, Lillie WATSON, Charlie LEONARD. Miss Ida LYNCH's class; Miss WEEKS, Examiner - Carrie SCOTT, Carrie DAREY, Alice DODSWORTH, Emma FRITSCH, Bella GOLDMAN, Emma JURGENS, Hattie JULIAN, Susie JOHNSON, Florence JOHNSON, Katie LYNCH, Minnie MIESTER, Pauline MIESTER, Celia MEASURE, Mollie MURRAY, Gertie MEAD, Julia NICOLAUS, Emma NICOLAUS, Laura PHILIPS, Virla PATRICK, Nellie PARMETER, Mary SPAULDING, Clara GRUBS, Charles COOLEY, Joshua FREIDMAN, George HORSETRENYER, Frank JURGENS, Willie KEENEN, Calvin LEWIS, George MILLIKEN, John McCASLIN, Bennie PRESTON. Jennie DUMPHY's class; Carrie KAY, Examiner - Mary ASH, Manuel BRAZIL, Mary COOKE, Katie CRONIN, Virginia CRUMP, Andrew CLUNIE, Willie CARRAGHER, Katie DENNIE, Mamie FOSTER, Charlie FEHL, Emma GARFIELD, Frank GARRETT, Elias GOVAN, Bertha HITCHRICK, Rena MATIDUX. Carrie MORRISON, Willie KELLY, Ida MYERS, Walter MEYERS, Robert MUIR, Henry NELLSON, Levi NUTTALL, Frank O'NEIL, Marcia SCANLAN, Harry SMITH, Minnie STOBER, Lillie TODHUNTER, Hallie WELLS, Lutie WELLS, Katie YOUNG, Joe TERRY, Nellie O'NEIL, Rosa BRAZIL. Mrs. STARLING's class; Miss MILLER and Mr. JACKMAN Examiners - Rosa BORIES, Henry BURTON, Lizzie BENNETT, Joseph COFFEY, Edward COATES, Elkan CONEY, Price DAVIS, Annie ELLIOTT, Agusta FEYHL, Walter GREER, Eddie GLATZ, Amelia GLATZ, Edwin HOLMES, Walter HART, Mary HEANY, Mattie HENDON, Emma HARTWELL, Josie HUMMEL, Minnie KEIFER, Mary KELLY, Annie KIMNEY, Fred KOENING, Julian LEWIS, Albert LAVENSON, David LEVY, Lettia SMITH, Etta SISENVEIN, May TALBOT, HENRY WELCH, John WEST, John ZWICKER, Etta LAVENSON. Miss J.M. ANDERSON's class; Mrs. FOLGER, Examiner - Virginia BULLARD, Mamie BELLMER, Katie BRIER, Alice EGL, Alice COX, Douglass ALLMOND, Bennie BOCKRATH, Mike BRYTE, Frank CHAPMAN, Fred CASS, Eddie DWYER, Herman DOERMER, Oscar BERGMAN, Sarah CURL, Lucy GETT, Addie GILLIS, Carrie DRAY, Mary DRAY, Cora GRIFFITH, May BURGESS, Jessie DRYMAN, Mary DAVID, Rebecca HENNESSY, Laura TOLL, Lucy HUBBS, George FORD, Frank ALEXANDER, Eddie DEVINE, Henry GRAF, Alfred BURGESS, Will PURNELL, Wiillie READY, A. BLACK, George PURNELL, Henry DRISCOLL, Charles HUBBS, Stella NELSON. FUNERAL OF H.O. SEYMOUR - The funeral of the late H.O. SEYMOUR, President of the Board of Supervisors, which took place yesterday afternoon, was one of the largest that has taken place in the city for several years. The exercises at the house were conducted by Rev. M.C. BRIGGS, and at their conclusion very many of the friends present availed themselves of the opportunity to take a last look upon the features of the deceased. The procession, which was under the Marshalship of Albert HART, consisted of the Odd Fellows' Battalion, in full regalia, under the command of A.E. POWERS; Capitol Lodge No. 87, and Occidental Encampment No. 42, I.O.O.F., and such a large number of friends in carriages that the latter portion of the line had not crossed the R street levee when the advance reached the City Cemetery. The pall bearers were S.W. BUTLER, William ROBINSON, S.M. JACKSON and R.W. LEWIS, of Capitol Lodge; S.S. NIXON and A. HENLEY, of the Encampment; and P.R. BECKLEY and L. ELKUS, of the Board of Supervisors. At the cemetery religious exercises were conducted by Rev. Mr. BRIGGS, and the burial service of the Odd Fellows was read by George B. KATZENSTEIN, Noble Grand, and Ezra PEARSON, Chaplain, of Capitol Lodge, while the funeral ode was sung by the many members of the Order who surrounded the grave. SUICIDE A Prominent Citizen of Oakland Plunges into the Sacramento About 5 o'clock Saturday morning, when the steamer Amador was within a few miles of Sacramento, one of the passengers, who had registered his name as H.A. JOHNSON when he procured a stateroom on the previous evening, jumped overboard. It is stated by a hotel runner, who saw him sitting on the guard rail and solicited his patronage for a Sacramento hotel, that at that time he had his ankles tied with a handkerchief. He did not show any uneasiness or singularities of conduct, and the two men had a conversation of a few minutes. When the runner came back, after having been away a very short time, Johnson had disappeared, but his hat and cane were lying where he had been last seen. The alarm was immediately given, and a number of persons looked anxiously in the wake of the boat to see if the unfortunate man was visible, but nothing could be seen of him. An examination of his room was made, and there was found on his bed three vials, each of which had contained laudanum, a purse containing $8.80 in coin, a pair of spectacles and a pencil case. The hat had pasted inside a piece of paper bearing the name "H.A. JOHNSON, Oakland." There were also found two unsealed notes, one of which, directed "My Dear Wife and Daughter in Oakland," read as follows: STEAMER AMADOR, Room No. 24 SACRAMENTO RIVER, May 19th. To my Dear Wife and Daughter, in Oakland: The time is now arrived for me to take my awful plunge into the river. My brain is on fire. I am now losing my senses fast. I shall commence in a few moments to take the poison, after which I shall jump overboard and hope and trust that my body may never be found. Adieu! adieu! for you have been a good wife to me, and may God bless and protect you both. H.A. JOHNSON, alias B.F.F. P.S. - I wrote to you and some others just before I left San Francisco. Very fortunately for me there is not a single person on board that I have ever seen before. The other note was without address or signature, and read: I wrote to you just before I left the city of San Francisco, also to M.G. and T.M., and my daughter A., and put all those letters in the iron box on the corner of Market street and some other street - the first box you come to on the right side after leaving the Oakland boat, up Market street. On the arrival of the steamer at Sacramento Coroner WICK was notified by Captain FOURATT of the facts, and the effects of the deceased were turned over to him, including a letter addressed, "Mrs. B.F. FERRIS, Oakland," which the suicide had written on the previous evening and handed to the purser of the steamer with a request to him to mail it. This letter the Coroner forwarded to its address. It was subsequently ascertained that the unfortunate man was Judge B.F. FERRIS, of Oakland, one of the founders of the First National Gold Bank of that place, and that he assumed the name of Johnson in order that he might take passage by the steamer and make away with himself without being recognized. He appears to have become embarrassed financially recently, and before leaving San Francisco addressed notes to one or two intimate friends intimating what he intended to do. Friday morning he left his home as usual, remarking that he believed he would remain in San Francisco and attend the theater in the evening, and return home by the last boat. He did not return, however, and as he had not been away from home over night for ten years, his family passed the hours in sleepless anxiety. Early Saturday morning they found in his room his watch, diamond ring and safe key, from which he was never before known to be separated, and the forebodings they entertained were most painful. When Saturday morning's San Francisco mail arrived in Oakland a letter was found from the Judge to his wife and only child, a young lady, containing the sad, crushing words that he would leave on the evening boat for Sacramento, and that he intended to take four ounces of laudanum and throw himself into the river; that he could not survive the losses he had met in stocks, and that his hat could be found on the steamer in the state room of H.A. Johnson. The letter was dated San Francisco, May 19th, 3 o'clock P.M. Judge Ferris came to California in 1850. In 1865 he was elected Mayor of Oakland and has been quite a prominent man there ever since. STORY OF A HEAD-BOARD - Away out on the plains, beyond the "Rockies," on the river Platte, there was a solitary sandy grave, its location marked by a single, simple wooden slab. Through rain and sunshine, summer and winter, the pine board remained pointing out the spot where a stranger's bones lay moldering. That out on the desert, remote from the habitations of men, in a lonely spot, on a desolate plain, some kind heart was moved with the humane impulse to set up a head-board for the fallen unknown, should have been enough to have protected the leveled grave from desecration. Perhaps the same generous impulse secured the dead the honor of a grave, though only scooped out in the sand, with the hands it may have been, and shallow as the soul that would rob the poor sepulcher of its identity. Be that as it may, an emigrant train was delayed a brief time near the spot the other day, and some incoming vandal seized upon the weather-beaten head-board, undeterred by its ghastly inscription, and its ghostly associations, and transferred it to a car, where, laid from one seat to another it served as a bed until the train arrived at Ogden, where he still clung to his prize, transferred it to the Central Pacific cars, and slept on it till the train reached Sacramento, where it was left to the mercy of the car-sweepers. It is some four feet high by fourteen inches wide, and is made of Minnesota pine. One of the upper corners has been knocked off and part of the inscription with it. It was carved by some kind and patient hand, evidently with a common blade, but was cut with much neatness and care, and reads: ___NOWN MAN, ___LED BY INDIANS. Sept. 12, 1874. Whether this unknown man was killed by Indians September 12, 1874, or whether that was the date on which humanity remembered that though unknown, the dead was once a loving man, it is impossible to tell; but certain it is that a few days ago only was the date on which this poor head-board was wrenched from above the bones of the unfortunate by sacrilegious hands. It is full of bullet holes, some being very fresh and some of the leaden messengers yet sticking in them. The pointed end bears the earth stains where it was held beside the fleshless skull of the unknown man. INTERESTING POINTS - M. DIXHEIMER and James CODY, hotel runners, imprisoned for violation of a city ordinance relative to their vocation, were before Judge CLARK on Saturday on a writ of habeas corpus. The writ was issued by the District Court Commissioner, and to this the District Attorney objected, but judge Clark held that the Code authorized such issuance and overruled the objection. The attorney for the prisoners then presented the point that the Board of Trustees - nor any municipal board anywhere - has the right to enact an ordinance to punish for the violation of ordinances by imprisonment for more than ten days. To give the District Attorney time to look into that question the cases were adjourned over until this morning at 9 o'clock. ARRESTS - The following arrests were made Saturday and yesterday: Samuel MAY, by officer TRYON, for disturbing the peace; Ed. DEVINE and Ellen DEVINE, by officer GREEN, for disturbing the peace; Cal. I. FOSS, by officer TRYON, for battery; Maggie MORGAN, by officer DOLAN, for disturbing the peace; Lizzie JENKS, by Deputy Sheriff HARRISON, for being drunk; Joe KELLER, by officer MARTZ, for being drunk; Perry COON, by officer MARTZ and Deputy Sheriff COON, as an escape from the insane asylum; E. STREHLE, by Deputy Sheriff DUBOIS, for disturbing the peace; Barney KIERNAN, alias Dan COFFEE, by officers DOLAN and COFFEE, for battery; John RENO, by officers DOLAN and SHELLARS, for petit larceny.