Sacramento daily record-union., 1889-06-09
THIRTY YEARS AGO.
HORACE GREELEY PREPARING TO
COME WEST.
Europe Under Observation-Disclosures of
National, State and Local
Interest.

armies, and Austria had nearly 100000 ac-
The Austrians and French had both en-
tered Sardinian territory, and the fact of
the former having crossed the Ticino with
so large an army was looked upon as tan
tamount to the opening OF the campaign
on their part. The announcement of an
alliance between France and Russia had
astounded the British Government, and had
a disastrous effect in financial circles.
France had not accepted the final proffer
of England's mediation, but Emperor Ma
poleon was then considering it.
THE White Sulpher Springs, near st.
Helena, Napa county, was the chief sum-
mer resort on the coast for inyalids and
arlstocrats. twas there that the upper
tendon of San Francisco were wont to flee
to escape the cold winds and fogs of the
coast summers and to hold society re-
unions. 1t was there that Lille Hitchcock
NOW Mrs. Howard Coitt) used to create
such sensations. Some years later, after
the railroad from Napa to st. Helena was
built, this dashing young woman-who
was then noted for her eccentricities-
mounted the pilot of the locomotive and
rode through the length of the valley
perched thereon. The staid country ma
rons, who witnessed the girls freak, shook
their heads and remarked that girls didn't
do such things in their mothers days."
Speaking of Lille Hitchcock, calls
to mind an incident connected with her
then eccentricities. She, it is well known,
seemed to be privileged to do all sorts of
queer things-things that no other girl of
the period could do without drawing upon
l,n !, h ENf
the pet of the San Francisco volunteer fire.
men OF those days, and was often seen
perched upon an engine as il dashed through
the streets OF the metropolis drawn by a
long double-line OF red-shirted fire laddies.
Several other young ladies of the first fami-
lies tried to follow in her footsteps, but
soon had to give it up. One beld out longer
than the others, being Il personal friend
and companion of the fair and dashing
Lille. She spent season at the White
Sulphur Springs in company with the lat
ter, and was frequent habitue of the bill
iard-room. She played a fair game, but
was no match for her more experienced tu-
tor, who could successfully cope with the
best of the male players. This would-be
imitator OF the eccentric Lille was the
daughter of an aristocratic lawyer, who had
formerly lived in Sacramento, and occu-
pied one of the then imposing mansions on
Poverty" Ridge. Whatever Lille Hitch
cock did this boon companion-who was re-
ally a brilliant young lady-tried to do. And
in her attempts thereat she mortified her
friends, who endeavored to dissuade her
from her reckless undertaking, but to no
purpose. All through one summer season
at the Springs she sought in vain to outdu
her companions. From there they went
to the Geysers, and stories of the strange
doings of the pair came at intervals Fin
ally the season ended and the girls re-
turned to the metropolis. The society
friends of the young lady had already dis.
cussed her case thoroughly, and she was
voted failure. At first she was received
somewhat coldly, but gradually won back
her place among her former friends. She
had, however, learned a lesson from her
experiences. She discovered that she had
made an ignominious failure as society
freak, and also that there was but one
Lille Hitchcock in the State, if indeed
there was her counterpart in the Union.
And Lille had the field to herself for many
succeeding years, until she wed the hand
some Howard Coitt, caller in the Stock
Exchange, and abandoned her eccentrici.
ties. Throughout all her career there was
not one bold enough to assert that her
oddities were ever of a nature serious
enough to ipjure her standing in society.
...... Horace Greeley was at that time con-
templating a trip across the continent to
California, and the Pacific coasters were on
tptoe with anxiety to gaze upon the white
haired journalistic philosopher and poll
Gcian, who afterward made Hank Monks
name immortal by that wonderful ride
across the sleeps of the Sierra Nevada. In
the announcement of his trip be wrote
q shall write as frequently as practicable
to the Tribune, and shall try to add some
thing to the popular knowledge of the now
wild and lonely regions over which the
iron horse is soon to trace the pathway of
empire"
I'm Placer county Rev. J. W. Kicks
had been convicted and fined $500 for
marrying couple, the bride being under
age. She is now a resident of Sacramento.
......I In the UNION of June Sd appeared
notice from Samuel Norris, through Messrs.
Robinson, Beatty IL Heacock, his attor-
neys, that he would apply to the District
Court to inspect the patent to the Rancho
del Paso issued to him by the Government,
and to indorse the same as genuine.
Even in those DAYS Sacramento had
at least one handsome man on her police
force, and he was usually assigned TO the
class of duty that is nowadays performed
by officer Rowland the Adonis of the pres
ent force-such as accompanying ladies re-
quiring police protection, etc. The identity
of the handsome officer is not, however,
made known by the chronicler of events
in those davs, for like his prototype of to-
dav, he was simply known as 1.-The hand
some man of the force"
Three trains of cars ran daily be-
tween Sacramento and Folsom. except on
Sunday, when two were run. Round-trip
excursion tickets for Sunday were sold for
81, and the trains were crowded. It is be-
IL. l. A,A Z
Sunday train each way were run over that
road
......On the night of June Sd a French
man named Eugene Emile Pauchet, fol-
lowed his wife to a house on Eighth street,
between o and 2. where he seized her and
throwing her head back, slashed her
throat with a razor and then fed. The
wound was not fatal, however. Pauchet
was afterward arrested.
THE Marysville Democrat mentions
8 novel sight witnessed from the banks of
the Yuba. 1t was nothing more or less
than a wild. looking Digger Indian, in q
pure state of nature, astride of fiat pine
log, with a little Digger boy in front of
him, and guiding his primitive craft down
the river with long pole. He kept the
middle of the stream, paid no heed to the
shouts and jeers of those on the shore, but
sat there like a sphinx and passed on
oceanward.
Mrs. C. A. Chamberlain, whose
charming verses have of recent years
graced the columns OF the RECORD MON,
was then contributor Of poetry TO the
UNION.
The San Diego Republican Conven-
ton indorsed the nomination of Edward
d. Baker for Governor.
AT MONEYS Flat man gave his
tough and lazy jack a halfpint of Msrys-
willie whisky to see if it would not put
a little life into him. In just twenty min
utes the poor animal gave up the ghost and
went to the happy pasture.
"A man named McCumber killed a
snow-white deer IN Sierra county, and re-
ceived $40 for the hide in Red Bluff.
The Shss.a Courier published the fol-
lowing brief item, which, without some ex-
planation, would indicate that the Fourth
of July was lively day in the place
named: The Fourth of July will be cele-
braled at Whiskytown in the customary
vigorous manner"
ON the I'd day Of June (1S59) Stephen
7 Field was married in Grace Church, San
Francisco by Bishop Kip, to Sue Virginia
Syearinger Of st. Louis, Mo.
"A number of citizens OF Sacramento
called on Rev. John A. Benton on the even
inc of June 5th, and presented him with
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