Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-02-23

| court costumes of the time OF the hrst Ma
poleon, q Boston paper took the trouble TO
| look ND the matter, and described the dress
as follows: st consisted of loose muslin
robe, drawn up and festooued at the right
knee so as to show most of the limb. The
robe passed rnder the left breast, which
was left uncovered, and fastened under the
left hip. Both arms were bare from the
shoulders and encountered only with brace
let's" The effect was said to be extremely
striking.
.........The Birch & Murphy minstrel
troupe opened season in Sacramento on
the 21st of February, 1850 1t was COM
posed of such old-time favorites as Billy
Birch, Joe Murphy, Sam Wells, Frank Me-
dina (the man who always insisted that
San Andreas is very nice place") w.
ii. Smith, Pete Sterling and II. Williams
Birch and Murphy are still on the stage,
the latter, however, having discarded the
burnt cork business.
.......Henry Blotler, Swiss, committed
suicideat Farmers Diggings, on the Ameri-
can river, on the 10Th of February, 1860. He
first asked a companion, named John
Heyer, to shoot him, but Heyer refused to
accommodate him and took shotgun
from Blotler, whereupon the latter went to
the cellar beneath their cabin and put some
poison in glass of wine and drank it.
Hugh Duly brought to town the news of
the suicide.
1.-THE work of transforming the
Courthouse, on the corner of Seventh and
K streets, into the Capital Hotel, then
owned by Mr.. Toll, had just been COM
menced. Large additions of late years
have been made to the building BY its
present owners, Messrs. Blessing G. Guth-
RE, who have laid out about $4,000 in i'm
provements thereon.
.........On the 10Th of February G. p.
Richardson Of Wisconsin Hill, Placer
county, was attacked by four men on the
Yankee Jim's road, about 9 O'Clock at
night, and robbed of S1,070. He made
desperate resistance and was shot through
the hand, but returned the fire. and
thought he shot one of the robbers, but, if
SO, the latter got away.
........G F. Brown and Richard Barnes,
OF Yolc, who were witnesses in case on
trial in this city, had an alteration in N.
J. McDonald's store. Brown fred a shot
at Barnes while they were struggling, but
missed him and nearly hit clerk in the
store Barnes then severely punished
Brown, after which they made up and
became friends again.
$4,000. Peter Lundberg was convicted on
the 18th of February of the murder of
Peter Ritz. The crime was cold blooded
case of assassination, and was committed
near the Pioneer Mill on the 10Th OF the
preceding month
....:....A petrified yellow jacket or hornet,
was dug from the earth near San Andreas,
Calaveras county, hundred feet below the
surface, and between the two rims or banks
of the ''old river" channel
.........On the night of February 21st, ].
Lyon, a produce dealer on street near
Sixth, was knocked down on Seventh
street, between o and P, by three men,
robbed and brutality beaten
.........An Act providing for the construc-
ton of State Capitol building, was intro
duceo in the Assembly on the Goth of Feb
ruary, 1860, by Mr.. CONFESS, of Ell Dorado.
.........It was the custom then in this city
to ring the fre-alsrm and all the church
bells at morning, noon and night on Wash
ington's Birthday.