Sacramento daily record-union., 1888-12-10

expressed is directed against Sheriff Smith
and the posse who let go the fearful volley
To day and tonight the city is a vast
military encampment. The civil author
ltes have practically stepped down and
| out, and Colonel Jones, of Montgomery,
with thirteen military companies, is abso-
lutely in charge of affairs The iail is
guarded by troops, with picket lines ex-
tended several squares in every direction
| and at each approach there frowns the
countenance of Calling gun. Mounted
scouts are sent out of the city, and at regu-
lar intervals scquaint Colonel Jones with
| the condition OF the public mind and the
prospects of
AN ARMED UPRISING BY THE PEOPLE.
The fire-bells sound military alarms and
| soldiers armed with Winchester rifles have
| driven back the thousands who all day
have been looking toward the Jail. In the
| meantime the citizens have not kept within
doors. They have congIegated in the ho-
| tells or on the street corners, and in front of
the bulletin-boards. The streets have been
a living, maddened mass, and very little
oratorical pyrotechnics could readily or.
ganize mob, whose duty would be de-
clared to be to avenge the murder of pop
uiar Mr.. Throckmorton and those who fell
by him. All along the walls of the city
are posted petitions of various kinds signed
| by thousands of people. One of these re-
cites at length that Sheriff Smith had
BUToHERED IN COLD BLOOD
Some of the best citizens of Birmingham
| by an act as unproyoked as unnecessary,
| and asking the Governor to immediately =
| relieve him of his duties as Sheriff. An
! other petition, side by side, reads This
| is to hang him." and was signed by thou
| sands of passers- by.
Great excitement was caused bv the
funeral cortege, through the principal high.
| way, of one of the victims of last nights
affray. The long procession was headed
by brass band playing solemn dirges.
The postoffice building is draped in
mourning and makes mute appeal to
every passer-by.
THE CORONER HOLDS THE JAIL.
The military were to-day called upon 10
arrest Smith and others implicated, but
| this was refused. and finally, about 5
o'clock Citizens Committee went before q
| Justice of the Peace and swore to warrant
| for the anest Of Smith and his deputies on
| charges of murder. This was served by
the Coroner, who found Smith in the Jail,
and the Coroner himself took charge of the
| jail and in bis custody that institution is at
| present
DYNAMITE TALKED OF.
During the afternoon a rumor became
| widespread that 1500 miners from the
Pratt mines, about FIVE miles from Bir-
mingham, would after dark march to the
| city, armed with guns pistols and dyna-
| mite cartridges, and with such an increase
to their ranks that it was expected 10 as
sault the soldiers and with dynamite blow
tie jail to atoms. The military do not fear
the attempt There are already thirteen
companies here under command of Colonel
| Jones, and five others will arrive by special
| train at midnight.
This morning the Civil Council, in special
session, ordered that all saloons and drug
stores be closed until further notice. a
| meeting of prominent citizens was held
| this evening and issued an address urging
all citizens TO abstain from further riotous
! demonstrations, to refrain from congregat-
ing in the streets and to let the law
| take its course.
Colonel Jones issued a general order of
! the same tenor, and warned the people
that, under orders from the Governor, any
| further acts of violence-no matter in what
! direction-would be sternly suppressed.