Weekly Trinity journal., 1877-12-22
TOWN AND COUNTY.

" Wv Az raw ~ ~ an
A MIsER TO SOME PURPosE.-Cap-
tain Guilford, who left Weaverville some
time daring the year lSGS, going from
here TO Yolo county has by his mode o
life and the circumstances attending hi,
death, acquired considerable newspaper
notoriety. After leaving here Guilford
was seen by several Trinity people, al
one time being the proprietor Of Il cigar
stand IN San Francisco. At other times
he was engaged in the business of sail
making and repairing and during the
time he was engaged in the latter occupa-
ton he lived in apparently the most ab-
ject poverty, dressed meanly, slept in a
garnet and lived on food almost unfit for
the human stomach. Lately he died,
and received the burial of pauper. The
Public Administrator Of Alameda coun-
ty took charge of his effects which were
supposed to be Of only nominal value
But upon examining the effects it was
found to the surprise Of everybody ex-
cept a man named Woods, that he owned
real estate to the value of $l3, ,222, and
had IN addition to tn is wealth fifty shares
of Consolidated Virginia and fifty shares
of California. 1t would seem as if he
had boarded to some purpose. At the
time he went away from Weaverville he
was heavily in debt, and the debts re
main unpaid until this day. Whether
the old man really was so poor as he
claimed to be when here, or whether he
was even then acting out the character
which now shows so conspicuous, and re-
tained the money which righttully be
ionged to those who had helped and
trusted him will never be known. 1t is
hardly probable that the habit which had
SO strong hold upon his nature, that he
accepted the charitable attentions of 9th
ors and died without offering to recon-
pense those who cared for him in his last
sickness, or even intimating his ability to
do so, was one which wholly developed
after leaving here. 1t would seem from
the circumstances Of his death that he
had no associations with his children of
whom he was known to have two, son
and daughter. The circumstances of the
property being found was made the sub
lect Of newspaper comment, and met the
eye of n Mrs. RGddock, of Woodland,
(said to be Guillords S divorced wife, and
bo cf. bot fl,,ro III, -
heirs the property would eschoat to the
State, called forth note from Mrs. Rud-
dock to the Public Administrator of AL
ameds, telling him who the heirs were.
The son is John II. Guilford, for many
years stage driver on local lines here,
now under medical treatment in San
Francisco for poison, contracted from
working in the ores of Esmeralda county,
Nevada, and the daughter is the some
what noted Fannie Vinton, whose name
was brought into disgraceful notoriety
anew, from circumstances mentioned at
the time of the death of William G..
Ralston. Guilford was about G5 years OF
age at the time of his death.
SOLD AGAIN.-It was amusing to see
the wry faces of some of our Simon-pura
Democrats on receipt of the papers cor
tanning the last vote of the Democratic
caucus in which it was confirmed that
Senator Ream was vigorously supporting
James 7. Farley.
During the political canvass before the
election, the Democratic leaders here-all
of whom were opposed to the Farley
clique-worlled with great vim and en-
ergy for Ream, and we learn that it was
done under the impression that they were
supporting a Senator who was without
any doubt sound in his opposition to
Farley. But the sequel proves otherwise,
and on this score many loose remarks
have been INDUCED in, the general tenor
OF which are anything but complmenta-
ry to the Democracy of our neighboring
county. Trinity Democrats soliloquize
something after this style:
Oh Siskiyou ,Siskiyou how false,
now perverse, how wicked is thy Dem
ocracy Thou hast given unto US Lut-
trell, who never fails to sell his party
when it suits his personal interests who
introduces hundreds Of Bills on economy
IN Congress and never brings them to
light again {; who writes many letters
and makes thousands of promises that
he never fulfills. Thou has given unto
us an Irwin, who would have been n
sound Republican had he not lived in
democratic Siskiyou who in the distri-
pution of his Gubernatorial patronage
mas turned his back on his friends and
those who elected him and who has
game body and soul into the camp of the
u I. X. r.; and lastly, Oh, Sislliyou ;
thou hast given unto us Ream-a Doc
TOR who has sold US out on the Senatorial
question:"
we cannot but sympathize with our
Democratic friends and neighbors from
whose weepings and wailngs ard
ghashing of teethes" we have condensed
The above lines.