Sacramento daily record-union., 1889-09-08
thirty YEARS AGO.
JOHN MITCHELL, THE IRISH PATRIOT.
AND THE KNow-NoTHINGs.
Montgomery Street Picture-Desperate
Firemen's Fight at the Bay
Minor Local Incidents.


the great thoroughfare of the metropolis
Pass up Montgomery street, from Jack
son to Sacramento, and you will see
strings of politicians on the left hand side.
There are Tracy, Stanford and Henry
Watrous, in due triangle points, stationed
in front of the Bulletin ofice-all regret
ting that Baker has to be slaughtered by
the Lecomptonites. This is one company.
Another group is composed of Myers,
Powell and General Redington, and they
believe yet that opposition Congress
men are to be elected. but the
first two look neither like school
masters nor clerks. Group third
is made up by Captain Tommy Gray, Mr..
Lovely and an unknown. Coming down
through the lines l see Sam Soule-the
veritable Sam Soule-cane in hand, and
wrath in his countsnance. Then there is
Washburn of the Times Better off than
Bolts Is he, for not one, but many brethren
has he in the East. He announces himself
as candidate for the United States SEN
ate. Hold Here cometh the shuffiing
philosopher and the renowned ciceronei
1t is Greeley and Taylor-Horace and Bay
ard. Horace has not lost one lot or little of
that lnimitable habit so familiar to me
when we once logged elbows on a reporters
desk in the House of Representatives
That trowser-l leg is poised at its bottom, in
delightful negligence, and the hat pokes its
rim TO the zenith in the ancient. approved
and right honorable fashion,"
......John Mitchell, the Irish patriot then
editing the Washington Citizen, in one of
his editorials begged pardon of the Know
Nothings, against whom he had bitterly
lnVelghed, he said: ut is no great tri-
umph for US to be compelled to acknowl.
edge that the know-Nothings were right
all the time, and to retract what we have
heretofore said against that philosophical
body of men. Nothing can he
palmer than that if foreign immigrant,
Notwithstanding his naturalization con-
tinues TO owe allegiance, or military sery-
Ice, or civil service, or any other service.
duty or obligation to any sovereign, he is
not ut to be an American citizen ought
not to be trusted with a vote, still less
with an office, and cannot become-eyen
In fourteen years or twenty-one years-a
full and true American. We request the
American party, then-the only rational
and consistent Americans we are aware of
Ito accept our respectful apologies" This
change of heart was brought about by
the position assumed by President Buchan-
an and Attorney General Black, in holding
that the Government was not bound to
protect naturalized citizens when claimed
by their former countries.
ION the 2i of September, the PEOPLES
Nominating Committee put up the follow
ing independent ticket: Senator. r. C.
Clark; Assembly, r. B. Ellis, Francis
Clark, Henry Starr, d. w. Welty; Presi-
dent Board of Supervisors, George Row
land Sheriff, j. B. Taylor; Clerk,
Jerome Madden; Treasurer, Charles L.
Bird; District Attorney, Cornelius Cole;
yisors, Thomas Letson; Superintendent
Public instruction. F. w. Hatch; Coroner,
u. Murray; Surveyor, ]. w. Mitchell;
Superyisors-First District L. Hamilton:
Second District S. NJ. Bailey; Third Dis
trict, Moses Stout; Fourth District, A. Hen
A ley; Justices-J. c. Barr, L. H. Foote,
James Coggins; Constables-W. W. Burke,
P.W. Taylor, Porter Hayden; School Com
nlissioners-J. L. Cochran, B. Saunders, ].
NJ. Frey, D. Meeker, w. P. McCreary, NJ.
Simmons, G. l. N. Mcneil, L. G. Cabanis.
On the strength of this action, DR.. A. B.
Nixon, Republican nominee for Senator,
withdrew.
......At a fire in San Francisco ON the
night of August 30th the firemen got into
terrible row. James E. Nuttman (now
resident of New York;, of Knickerbocker
y,
hand against the Howard Companv's men.
and the melee became general. Pick.
handles, spanners and whatever other
weapons could be sieZed were used, and
many OF the combatants were severely in
Jured. huffman was hurt about the ewes
and Charles E. Buckingham was badly
done-up. After the battle huffman went
about with bloody face and clenched fists.
daring any body to fight
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three feet in the river opposite this city,
but now does not come within several
miles OF 1t, owing to the river bed having
been raised by debris from the hydraulic
mines. In September 1859. one and a half
feet of water above low water mark afforded
vessels plenty of draft. OF late years only
fst-bottomed steamers have been able to
navigate The river at the low water stage.
......A pathetic incident occurred at a fire
at Murphys, Calaveras county. Funeral
services were being held in the village
church over the body Of widows child,
when ire broke out near by. There was
great excitement, and the attendants at the
funeral all rushed off to the FIRE. leaving
the afflicted mother alone in the church
with her dead child. Then she took the
little coffin in her arms, and, alone and un-
noticed, carried it back to her home.
THE San Francisco Typographical
A. u
Jones, President; w. G. Taylor, First Vice
President; Michael McCarty, Second Vice.
President; George II. Pettis, Recording Sec
retary; H. Havelock, Financial Secretary:
z. J. Thomas, Treasurer; w. NJ. Thorr.
Doorkeeper; c. T. Wilson, John L. Will
Jams, Alex. Crabb, William II. Miller and
A. J. Graham, Directors.
......On the 9th day of September, a man
named Hetferman was found dead in the
no RT,A1
been murdered by a companion who had
been seen with him some miles farther out
on the road. The cause of the crime was
not ascertained.
......At the annual meeting of the Sacra-
mento Pioneers the following officers were
elected: President, James Queen; First
ce-President, John II. Carroll; Second
Vice President, T. NJ. Lindley; Recording
Secretary, S. B. Robbins; Corresponding
Secretary, n. A. H. Ball; Treasurer, L. A.
Booth; Directors; ]. r, Hardenburgh, G. J.
Phelan, DIR. Stillman, G. H. Swift, r. A.
Pearls and James McClatchy.
...... Horace Greeley attended the fair at
Msrysyille and delivered an address. in
which he told the people great deal (that
he did not know about farming.
......A cheese was being made at Lards
dairy, at PuntA Arenas, tor the State Fair
1t was 10 weigh $50 pounds, was ten feet in
X.
1t wss to be the product of one days milk
ing.
.... The Lecompton candidate for Presi-
dent of the Sacramento Supervisors was
presented with note for payment the
back of which he Endorsed as follows ''i
Hear Bye Wave notis of protes"
.,..,Just prior to the departure of the
stage for Marysville one morning woman
handed TO J. C. Baker an infant nine
months old 10 hold for her for a few mo-
ments, when she disappeared, and that was
the last Baker saw of her. In the child's
stocking was S53 80, which Baker offered
as reward TO any person who would re-
Heve him of the youDgster.
...... Frank Hereford, while reaching for
his hat from q cupboard, on September
9th, pulled of a revolver which fell to the
floor and exploded, the bullet striking him
in the leg below the knee and going clear
through the bone without shatteripgit il.
49,. The Agricultural Pavilion at Sixth
and NJ streets was completed on September
g. 1859, and the occasion was celebrated
by banquet, speeches, etc, the principal
speakers being Ghss. Crocker, NJ +. Butler,
A. Redington, c. 1. Hutchinson and o. c.