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SAN FRANCISCO ITEMS. The death penalty has been passed upon the negro, Stepber Jones. Mexican dollars have been advanced 21 cents, owing to the quarantine regulations of Mexico. Mr. Chamberlain, of the Beresford House, has been paid the amount of his bill presented to the Raper Commandery, and for which he levied an attachment on the Rapers' prize sword. The matter is now settled. The British Consular Court, which was convened to inquire into the circumstances attending the loss of the British ship Windermere, on the Marin county coast, has suspended the Captain of the vessel for three months. The first case of sunstroke in this city occurred Thursday. The unfortunate victim was incautious enough to sit on the house-top, and met the fate of the feolish. He was a monkey belonging to Morris Sullivan, of the Street Department. The run on the Humboldt Savinga Bank Saturday was rather large, owing to the anxiety of the depositors, caused by cashier Hartmann's suicide. The bank lost a large number of depositors Saturday, who drew out in the neighborhood of $21,000. There has arrived in this city a detachment of twelve men and two orderlies of the United States army, who have come down from Vangogver for the purpose of