Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-03-16
THIRTY YEARS AGO.
HOW AN EARTHQUAKE BROKE IN ON
UNCLE zACH's" SPEECH.
MendOcino-A Jealous Husband
Cowhides Clerk.

The recent widely-printed argument c
Zach, Montgomery before the United State
Supreme Court in the Neagle case recalls
little incident that occurred thirty year
ago in the District Court in Yuba City
Montgomery was arguing the swamp Ian,
case of Vim VS.. Gilman. and was in tn
midst CT E flaming speech for the defens
OF his right to certain lands of this cha-ac
ter, when 81 earthquake shock occurred
Pausing = moment, with his gssticulatin:
hand still high in the air, Uncle Zach gazel
ont upon vacancy for moment, and ther
solemniy turning to the plaintiff. said
General, the swamp and overlooked lane
has gone in"
......... Referring to the awful butchery o.
detense!sss Indians by white settlers il
Mendocino county, the Northern California
said: Neither age nor sex hao beer
spared. Little children and old womer
were mercilessly stabbed and their skull.
crushed with axes When the bodies were
landed al Union more shocking and re
voting spectacle was never exhibited tC
the eyes OF Christian and civilized PEG
pie. Old women, wrinkled and decrepit
lay welte!iug 10 blood, their brains dashed
out and dabbled with their long gray hair
Infants, scarce spau long, lay with theil
faces clo7sn with hatchets, and their bodies
CHASTITY With wounds"
.........One day sensational affair oc
Cured IN the store of Charles Croker. on J
street lear Eighth. II appears that Fred
erick Revere, clerk in the store, had er
nr1 he. 4 H., e
n. Horne and the latter went to the store
ana publicly cowhidei Revere. Horne
had in his posses sion letter writ en- by
Revere 10 Mrs. Horne, then in San Fran
clscn and Revere had to acknowle 'ge its
authorship.
......... LIS Angeles, the metropolis of the
southern citrus belt, was then dead. and.
alive Old Spanish adobe village II was
overrun by haif-bTeed vequeros and Next
can desperad0es whose favorite amuse-
ment vas iassoing people at night and
robbing them. Another of their pastinles
was to tastan lariats across the street and
trip up the watchmen as the latter made
their nocturnal ROUNDS.
......... Z. n. Snowdeu, a lobbyist, whom
the USIoy described as "a burly. thick. set.
able-bellied' man lit was doubtless able
bodied cefore the composiior got hold of
the copy one day committed brutal as
sault with a cane on Mr.. Harte the Bulletin
legislative correspondent in front of the
Courthouse, for having written him up.
However, the little newspaper man was
all sTit, and finally put his burly assailant
to flight.
.........Qaite lively earthquake was ex-
perienced N this city on the morning Of
March 10, 1860. The shake Yves severe
enough 10 frigh:en the people, many of
whom rushed 10 the street for safety. The
bells in the fire engine-hous were rupg
by the oscillation of the buildings, clocks
stopped, Crockery smashed, etc. The
shock extended throughout the coast and
as far east as Utah.
-........Ihe Eastern papers were poking
fun at 4 Rhode Island girl who left her
home in North Kingston with the avowed
intention of seeking dentist to get relief
for the ;oolhache. Nothing more was
heard OF her for several days, and her
family were nearly distracted, when they
learned that she hsd eloped and got mar.
ried. L was referred 10 as novel remedy
for the too;hache.
:. .....John C. Heenan, 'lhe Benicia
Boy, ha1 arrived IN England TO prepare
for his great fight with Tom Sas ers. the
British champion. The Englishmen-
knowing full well that Heenan would not
be allowed to whip their man-were bet
ting $40 70 Sc that the American would not
win the fight. The result demonstrated
their "sagaCitgh
.........An item in the San Francisco
Herald OF March 10, 1860, explained how
Goat island, in the bay of San Francisco,
got its name. 1t appears that one Nathan
Spear occupied the island as long ago as
LEI -gheFs be Kept large herd OF goats,
and after the Americans came into posses
sion of the State they changed the island
name from Yerba Buena to Goat island.
.........Colonel H. |. Starr, one of Sacra.
mentos Asseablymen, made long ard
able speech in the House on the 18th of
March, 1880, against the passage of the
bill purporiing to be for the settlement oil
land titles. Mr.. Starts speech occupied
two clcssiy. printed columns of the UNION
The Dill was defeated.
......... Within less than two weeks after
Henry a. Garfield had been so seriously
stabbed by Nolan he was able to be on the
street. Oae citizen was heard to remark
that when the final day should come i,
would be found necessary 10 cut Caulfeld'
throat il order 10 made him fit subecI
for redemption"
.........A man named Moorhead while
under the i; flaence OF liquor. fell headfore.
most into mortar heo one night on ]
street. Whsn found in the morning be
was attended by Dir. Simmons, but the
mortar had got into his eyes and nearly
destroyed thsir sight.
.....-.. PSiiip Lsgsett got into a disputs
with married woman in Santa Cruz auG
chiva!rousiy drew his pistol and shot a
her, but missed. The citizens then waited
upon NJ. Leggett and made him leg !: GU
of town.
.........G alssone vas then in the full vigo,
Is = ~
mons 10 make speech was cheered TO tbs
echo. He was the grand central figure
among English statesmen then, and is Sc
yet.
.........Charles Skinner aud William
Hamil,o. ls:t Sacramento en- March Is
1862, with drove Of horses, TO establish {
saddie-irsil between Placeryil!e and Viz.
ginia City, New.
......... archey, the negro whom Judges
Burnett aud Terry gave TO the South, whi,t
they gave Tue iaw 10 the North, was then 6
knight Of the razor at Victoria.
.........0n the Sih of March 1860, Jacot
Elyea was executed in Stockton for The
murder OF u man named MoQuaGs. H,
maintained his innocence TO the last
........0a the 9Th of March S. G.. Nc
MahsH Of Putsh Creek was married il
Piacerville TO Mrs. L. Z. Youn, of Sacra
mento.
.........Miss Harriet Gordan and Mis-
Marian Lse appeared at the metropolitan
Tbeater On the oh Of March, 1860 in "a
Wonderful Woman
.........T. W. Hinchman, now of Sai
Francisco. succeeded E. 2. Figs as proprie
tor of the City Mills on Front street.
........T hir;y FIVE lives were lost by til,
wreck OF the steamship Hungarian OF
Cape Race or February 25i.
.........A great Union meeting was HEX
IN New York. at which General Winfie!,
Scott and other prominent men delivere,
addresses.
POLICE COURT.
Eleven Barn-sieepcrs Receive Warming