Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-01-11
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.
sAcRAMKrro LONG AGO.

.. 1852. The sheet is OF four pages, by Il
inches, and its columns read strangely enough
nowadays. Among the many announce
ments in the paper, nearly all the advertisers,
with remarkable similarity of expression.
stated that they had "risen, Phoenix like,
from the ashes. and with undaunted courage
had resumed business in tents, on boats in
the river, under rough sheds, in hastily-built
new houses, in stables, etc. Among these,
all advertisers, but one or two Of the firms or
houses now exist as then entitled. Israel
Luce was a maTble-worker G. w. Chesley
was Constable and in the auction business :
Read & Co. advertised to resume business as
bankers; the proprietors of the United
States Hotel announced that they had
opened oRt on the steamer Hartford, and
fitted it up for public accommoda-
ton. J. B. Starr NOW dead) was
an auctioneer; Adams & Co.'s express
known here no more) advertised largely
ID. y. Mills advertised as q banker, as also B.
+. Hastings & Co; Hitler 4 Andrews (Col.
Andrews, of San Francisco were jewelers.
james Bailey wss jsweler (now in Schen-
ectady, n. W Barr & Griggs, merchants
George d. Maggie, contractor (now in San
Francisco; William NJ Harron (now in San
Francisco William A. Pfeiffer. banker
William p Henry, CITY Baths; Winans H..
W., Of San Francisco) & Hyer, attorneys
Bensley l. Co. shippers; Grim "a. K, of
San Francisco & Rumler, bankers; Rhodes,
Purdv & McNulty. merchants; W. r. Nc
Call & Co.. grocers, were among the adver-
tisers. Mills, Townsend & Co. announced
that they could be found at the banking
house of Page, Bacon & Co.; Barton &
Grimm were suctioneers; Drs. Logan IT.
NJ. and Morse ~. W.. both dead, were at
the Hotel de France A. 3. Youmans, the
first undertaken in Sacramento, resumed bust
ness; Robert M. Folger (now journnlist) L
Bro. were hardware merchants; Frost & Co..
livery; Sheath r. G., of San Francisco
Arnold & Co. grocers; Beckett & Sharkey,
druggists Rhodes & Lusk ran the Shasta
express. L. w. Hastings offered the
people lots free at Sutterville, and advised no
one to rebuild in Sacramento. Felch & Clout-
man were painters. wv. c. Feleh is now a
real estate agent here, aud Mr.. Cloutman is q
farmer in Yolo county.] A boarding house
in San Francisco was advertised for removal
bodily to Sacramento, as lumber was worth
$500 thousand. Billiard, Figg (E. p &
Co.. merchants had opened out again. b.
o. Beatty and Robert Robinson announced a
dissolution as law partners. G. |. Hutchin-
son (uow of San Francisco as Mayor, re-
quested people, Ia clearing up the debris OF
the fire, to deposit the rubbish in the slough
between Front and Second, j and K strests,
as it was impossible by reason of the bridges
being burned. Thomas Hunt, owner of the
Union line Of steamers, is credited with car
rying destitute persons to San Francisco free
of charge. Drs. Ellis & Montgomery 81. F.,
republished their business card w. I. Girls
sim announced as a wholesale grocer. Cap.
tain Prendergast advertised to rent the bark
Agnes, at the foot of VI street, to those want
ing house room he also had the store. ship
Crescent here, that arrived some years before
direct from New Orleans. The steamers
Senator and New World advertised for
freight. The paper urged that the
State issue bonds and lend them to
the city, to enable the town to
be built, and the same column elori6ed over
the destruction of the rats By the fire, as be-
fore they impeied the progress of pedestrians
on the streets. One week after the fire, said
the local reporter, 176 wooden and 81 brick
bui dings had been rebuilt. The papers figures
showed that l $50 buildings wers totally
swept away by the confllgration. The paper
announced that six buildings had been shipI 9 !
on RATS from Colusa to Sacramento, and that
numerous resdy.made houses were being
hauled from thirty to fifty miles and shipped
from distant points to the city that the line
at the postoffice on delivery day was so long
that from early morning till nightfall it was
full, and then not all the people got to the
delivery-window. The citizens on J, between
Ninth and Tenth streets, met and organized
themselves into a body to maintain private
watch to prevent inceEdisrism and thieving,
and the paper said band of scluudrels in
tested the city, and, If caught in evil deeds,
the people would have no mercy on them.
On the 10Th 200 tons of freight arrived by
San Francisco steamers. The State Hospital
was reopened on the store-ship Antares,
Flour WAS quoted at S45 per barrel. Mr.. and
Mrs James Stark, the actors, gave $500 for
the relief of sufferers by the fire, and MIR,
VIM. of San Francisco, Gent up sos. These
are but a very few of the items cleaned from
the old paper. They will serve to revive
recollections of the notable winter of 1928
and to the new generation will give some idea
of Sacramento thirty years ago.
INCORPORATED Articles of incorporation
have been fled with the Secretary of State
as follows: Pasadena Lodge, No. 17S, 1. O.
G. T., at Pasadena, Cal. The Directors ars
H. G.. Bennett, P. G. Wooster and Eugene
w. Giddings The Providence CONSOLE
dated Gold and Silver Mining Company, tc
operate in Amador county, Cal. Principal
place of business. San Francisco. Director:
M. Mcdonnell, Jas. White, Jas. Reynolds
p. Flanders and Jas. J. Mcdonnell. CAPT
tai stock, 81, 900, eco, in 100 600 shares.
The Oakdals Union Church Building and
Managing Association, of the town of Oak
dale, Cal. Directors-A. j. Patterson, G. 5
S. Hill, A. w. Moulton, II. L. Howe and
f. NJ Cottle. The Hermosa Lard anc
Water Company. Principal place of bust
ness. Pasa3eea. Los Angeles county. Direct
ors-A. o. Porter, Adolph Petsch, b. S
Eaton. ?. NJ. Green and Kildorf Allmiud
Capital stock, $40 900, in 100 shares. The
Harrisburg Consolidated Mill and Mining
Company, TO operate in the Territory Of
Alaska. Principal place of business. Sar
Francisco nirectors-H. A. Charles +. a
McGee, J. A. Rudkin, D. Gorham and :
Taglierbus. Capital stock, $1,000, 900, in
10000 shares.
CoNsoLIDArIoN.-There have been filed IL
the Office of the Secretary of State articles o.
association and consolidation of the Califor
mia Southern Railroad Company and the
California Southern Extension Railroad Com
pany. The object and purposes of the new
corporation Is stated TO be to construct, own
maintain and operate each and both of tn,
said railroad lines, The Directors are Thos
Nickerson, Thomas L. Rogers. Moses A
Ince. Jos. O. Osgood, Jas. l. Gordon. Th,
amount of capital stock is 81 400 600, divided
into "A 900 shares. The principal place o
business is 20 be San Diego.
A New BUSINESS HoUsE.-The American
Tea Store, just opened at 6l7 j street, is
branch of the house by that name at 40 suc
142 Sixth street, San Francisco. 1t will dea
exclusively in tess and coffee, carrying full
lines and all grades. The house here has beef
fitted up very handsomely, in Eastern style
for houses in this ike, and presents an st
tractive appearance.
Police CoURr.-John Waters, found guilt,
of visiting sn opium den, was yesterday tine'
SO by Judge Henry Edward Baker, VIII
was arrested as drunk, failed to appear il
Court, and thus forfeited a So deposit. TIL
battery case of G. S. FeTgu'on was continued
until the 18th, and that of Chin Why, to
kidnapping, until the 10Th instant.
"SEIzE then the occasion; by the forelocl
take that subtle power, the never haltinl
Time !'-To.morrow, the assortment of size
may be broken; to-day. the line is full o
those unapproachable kid-foxed Bslmoralq. q
70 cents, shown only at the Red House.
EXTRAORDINARY reductions in Marseillei
bedspreads former price, IS 60-now only
IS so. at the great reiuction sale Of Hale
Bros. l. Co., corner Ninth and Z streets.
CARTWRIGHT & WARMERS celebrated Eng
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