Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-11-03
THIRTY YEARS AGO.
PIGEON SHOOTING EXTRAORDINARY IN
THE EARLY DAYS.
Billy Mulligan's Duel that Didn't Come
OLA Troop of Pike County Girls
Create a Sensation.

Secretary of State and his clerks authority
to shoot all pigeons that had the audacity
to alight upon the Capitol Building 1.-THE
present County Courthouse) The vicinity
of Seventh and l streets, therefore, became
grand shooting ground. The UNION,
which vigorously denounced the order,
next day contained the following account
of the first days onslaught;
Grand PIGEON Tournament at the Secretary Of States
Grounds october n, lS59-Three Clerks IN the
FIeIi-D Double bdrTeted Sh0tgtuGs - Mustard Seed
Shot-Tb shoot at Pigeons In VesttbuLe Of State
House. or Wherever in Range.
First shot BY Bennett, Dorr and Birge........0 0
Second ssOt by Bennett, Dorr and Birge.....0 l
Thi-d shot by Bennett, Dorr and Birge..1
Fourth shot by Bennett, Dorr and Birge,...0 0
Fifth shot by above Gov Smith included)-0
The UNION added "We suggest that the
community subscribe the means wherewith
to provide and adorn each shooter with a
leather medal; that the commander be pre-
scented with leather sword. and that Presi-
dent Shattuck and Supervisor Granger and
his coadjutors, who voted for the ordinance,
also be presented with fools caps, profusely
adorned with tinsel-to be worn, however,
only on great occasions, as when sitting as
members Of the Board of Supervisors" 1t
was suggested that the shooters also turn
loose ON the stool pigeons.
1.-THE committees announced to man
age ball to be given by the Independent
City Guard contain some names that will
recall strange and Interesting memories to
some of our pres ent citizens. Hons. John B.
Weller (Governor), Milton s. Latham,
Thomas Findley, n Greene Curtis, General
A Redington. Colonel Ferris Forman, Cap
tain e. E. Eyre, Captain A. Windau, Lee
land Stanford, Thomas S. Fiske, George II.
BrickmaD, A. K. P. Harmon. G. P.
Huntington, ]. H. Carroll, John Ar
mold, D. u Moore, R. w. Wilcox,
George W. Stewart, E. n. Miller, Jr.,
G. S.Cofin, John NJ. Duncan, NJ. F. But
Ter, A. G. Richardson, ]. S. Friend, Captain
]. Howell, Lieutenant 9. II. Cum
mings, ]. A. Slocum, G. L. Bird, H. A.
Chase, ] P. Carolan, Jacob Shew, A. Searls,
G. G. Warner, NJ. ]. Mcdonald, Lieutenant
1. Lehman, H. w. Bragg, Samuel Moore,
L. B. Vandenberg G. N. Baker, w. @.
Budd, Lieutenant c. ]. Torbert, Frank
Denver. g. T. Witham, Benjamin Peart,
William NJ. Siddons snd William Eaves
49,. The New York Herald gave a graphic
account of an affair of honor" that oc-
CURED in that city on the ID of October be-
tween the handsome William Mulligan,
formerly of California, and the gallant Cap
tain Riviere, of the Zouaves. 1t seems
that Mulligan and the Frenchman had
been on bad terms, and meeting on Broad
way, had some hot words. The Captain sent
a challenge to Mulligan, which the latter
accepted (he vas never known to back out
of any kind of a fight, and the principals
and their friends went to Hoboken to settle
their trouble. They returned, however,
without firing shot. Mulligan said the
Captain showed the white feather, but the
latter insisted that the reason he refused to
fight was that bis second could not talk
English. The Herald remarked: How
deeply thankful We ought TO be. The valu-
able lives of two of our most worthy Citi-
zeas are yet spared to u.s."
THE announcement having been
made that 100 manageable young women
had Just arrived from across the plains at
Honey Lake Valley, Humboldt county
editor thus addressed them through his
paper: proposals for the odd fifty have
been received at this office. There is land
beyond the mountains, o, ye fair daughters
of the plains, where the young men
abound in wisdom and are exceedingly
comedy. Virtue is theirs, and the cedars of
Lebanon excel them not in vigor. Skill
and cunning abideth with them; they put
teth "eir hands 10 the keerds, and 10 !! the
JACK turneth To them the mysteries of
poker have long been revealed. They
knoweth the horse by his speed. and pay
little attention to the brand when they
want to ride. Fair are the valleys Of
Honey Lake 0, We daughters of Pike but
the valleys of Humboldt are fairer."
......A New York banking house wrote
to the San Francisco Times as fol-
lows: California bonds have fallen off
about one-half per cent. within day or
two, and we now quote them at SO, with
sales yesterday at those figures. Sacra-
mento bonds stand, and will continue to
stand, at the foot of the list of California
securities, being merely nominal at 371@
40, and the mism anagement of her fnan-
cial affairs has done more to depress your
State and city bonds than anything else.
Whenever your really good securities are
brought to capitalists notice they quote the
action of the Sacramento people against
them. The fact is, the Sacramentans have
acted as if their city would never want to
borrow another dollar, and doubt if they
would be able to do so in this market or in
Europe"
ut was not a stirring week in theat-
ricals. Julia Dean Hayne was playing in
Chicago, the Gougenheim Sisters had just
concluded an engagement at Louisville;
Edwin Booth was in Buffalo, n. Y: J. B..
Roberts was preparing to open in st. Louis;
the Ravels were in Philadelphia, and j.
E. Murdoch was on ranch near Memphis,
Tenn, studying the character of Falstaff.
AFTER giving an account of the trot-
ting race between Flora Temple. Ike Cook
and Princess at the fair of 1859 in that
city, in which Flora Temple made the best
time (2:254), the st. Louis Democrat re-
marked: Everybody was pleased with the
driving of McMann, whose wonderful lit
lie mare made 2:25l and 2:25t-time that
had never been made here before, and
probably never will be again."
lit was published as a remarkable fact
that one Bill Morrison had refused $4,000
for one-s sixth of the Comstock silver claim.
Subsequent developments showed that Bill
Morrison's head was level that is. if he
was shrewd enough not to allow himself to
be frozen out by the sharpers who after
ward got hold of the mines there.
...... Lamountain, the aeronaut, made an
ascension from New York, and was swept
northward. All trace of him was lost for
several days. and he was supposed to have
persisted. But he landed in a Canadian
wilderness, where he was four days with.
out food, and was finally rescued by In.
dams.
Among the birth notices in the
UNION of October 9th was one that oc'
Cured in Secret Ravine, Placer county, and
in which "Dany Perkins" figured as a
parent The said "Dany" is doubtless
the same person who is to be State Libra
rian next year.
..Dennis Dunn, Sheriff of Tehama
county, while laboring under fit of tenn
porary insanity, jumped from the steamer
Sam Soule into the river, below Red Bluff
on the 26th of October (lS59). He wa:
rescued, ard at Colusa a physician was
sent for, but Damn was dead before he ar
rived.
AS a reminder of the old slavery
DAYS, it may be mentioned that a colored
woman, Mrs Tompkins. who had lately
purchased her freedom from servitude IN
Missouri, was announced to hold levee IN
this city for the purpose of enabling her to
purchase her child. still in slavery there.
The presence in Chicago of "A. Lin
coin of Springfield and some other prom.
ineut politicians was chronicled among
other items taken from the Eastern press
"a. Lincoln of Springfield subsequently
cut something of figure IN the current
political history of the world.
"A UNION correspondent, writing
from the new town of Virginia City, New
stated that the real discoyerer OF the Com
stock lode was dissolute old prospector
named James Finny. who sold out to Com