OPENING OF THE FAIR. - Several thousand people blocked the streets near the Pavilion yesterday evening, to witness the display of fireworks promised by Messrs. Church & Clark. The show came off considerably earlier than it was advertised, but the audience was plenty large enough anyhow. The first piece fired was an inscription "Mechanics' Institute, 1864" surmounted by a large wreath, inclosing an artisan's arm wielding a sledge. The second piece was a representation of a colossal beehive, with the motto, "By Industry we Thrive." The balance of the display consisted of rockets, serpents, and all that sort of thing, and was very pretty. By half-past eight o'clock the vast Pavilion was crowded almost as full as it could hold with men, women and children, and among them all we heard not a remark which was not exceedingly complimentary to the Fair and the management. In the glare of the countless gaslights the place looked like a palace last night. The Fair is going to prove a great success.
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CRIMINAL CALENDAR. - Andrew Benson, Wm. Silk and John Connors, were arrested yesterday on charges of assaults to kill, with deadly weapons; and another man was locked up, charged with having mashed a Chinaman's face into a jelly in a slaughterhouse in Brannan street.
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AN OLD PACIFIC STREET GAME. - On Thursday a man went into a place on Pacific street, where some Mexicans and negroes were playing at cards. One of the players exhibited to the man his hand, consisting of four aces, and asked him to loan him twenty dollars to bet on it. The man no sooner laid the money on the table than it was seized by a Mexican, one of the players, who cleared himself. The fool who lent the money undertook to pursue the fleeing thief, when he was set upon, knocked down and beaten by two or three of them, one of whom, a Mexican negro man named Martin Bloomfield, was arrested and examined on Friday, in the Police Court, on a charge of assault and battery. He was yesterday convicted, and ordered to appear for sentence.
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BRUTAL. - Night before last a poor devil of a horse committed the unpardonable sin of nibbling at a bale of hay which he found unguarded upon the city front and while thus engaged, a human monstrosity named J. W. Chapman, enveloped the animal's head in a bag, and beat the creature to death. To-day this last and meanest species of the Chapman pirate was arrested by one of our officers, from whom we obtained the facts in the case. Judge Shepheard will find small room for mercy in providing for this horse assassin.
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