Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-03-16
THIRTY YEARS AGO.
HOW AN EARTHQUAKE BROKE IN ON
JUNGLE zAcHsr SPEECH.
More About the Massacre of Indians In
Mendocino-A Jealous Husband
Cowhides a Clerk.

The recent widely-printed argument o.
Zach. Montgomery before the United States
Supreme Court in the Neagle case recalls 8
little inciden. that occurred thirty years
ago in the District Court in Yuba City
Montgomery was arguing the swamp land
case of VIM VS.. Gilman, and was in the
midst Of flaming speech for the defense
or his right to certain lands of this cha-ac.
ter, when ST earthquake shock occurred
Pausing moment, with his gesticulating
hand still high in theair, Uncle Zach gazed
ont upon vacancy for moment, and then
solemnly turning to the plaintiff. said:
General, the swamp and ovelfiowed land
has gone in"
......... Referring to the awful butchery of
deienselsss Indians by white settlers in
Mendocino county, the Northern Californian
said: Neither age nor sex hao been
spared. Little children and old women
were mercilessly stabbed and their skulls
crushed With axes. When the bodies were
landed at Union a more shocking and re-
voitlng spectacle was never exhibited to
the eyes OF Christian and civilized peo-
pie. Old women, wrinkled and decrepit,
lay welts!lug ip blood, their brains dashed
out and dabbled with their long gray hair
Infants, scarce span long, lay with their
faces cio7sn with hatchets, and their bodies
CHASTITY with wounds"
.........0ne day a sensational affair &C.
Cured n the store of Charles Crocker. on
street lear Eighth. Il appears that Fred
erick Revere, clerk in the store, had en-
croached upon the domestic rela ions Of J.
n. Horne, and the latter went to the store
anu publicly cowhidei Revere Horne
had IN MS posses sion a letter writ en- BIZ
Revere 70 Mrs. Horne, then in San Fran
cisc' and Revere had to acknowle ge its
authorship.
......... Les Angeles, the metropolis of the
southern citrus belt, was then dead and
alive Old Spanish adobe village. II was
oyerrun ny haif-breed vequeros and Next
can desperad0es whose favoriie amuse-
ment was lassoing people at night and
roDoing them. Another of their psstimes
was to fastsn lafiats across the street and
trip up the Watchmen as the latter made
their nocturnal rounCs.
4. n. Snowdeu, lobbyist, whom
the UNIoy described as "a burly, thick. set.
able-bellied" man Qt was doubtless able.
bodied before the compositor got hold OF
the copy one day committed brutal as
sault with q cane on Mr.. Harte, the Bulletin
correspondent, III 'front.' OF the
Courthouse, for having written him up.
However, the little newspaper man was
all git, and finally put his burly assailant
to flight
.........Q1ite lively earthquake was ex-
perienced n this city on the morning of
March -, 1860. The shake YVES severe
enough 10 brighten the people, many Of
whom rushed 10 the street for safety. The
bells IN the lire engine-houses were rung
by the oscillation of the buildings, clocks
stopped, crockery smashed, etc The
shock extended throughout the coast and
as far east IS Utah.
-........The Eastern papers were poking
fun at Rhode Island girl who left her
home in North Kingston with the avowed
intention Of seeking q dentist to get relief
for the toothache. 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 to as novel remedy
for the too;hache.
:. ......John c. Heenan, "lhe Benicia
Boy had arrived II England to prepare
for his great fight with Tom Sa, ers the
British champion. The Englishmen-
knowing full well that Heenan would not
be allowed to whip their man-were bet
ting $40 TO So that the American would not
win the fight. The result demonstrated
their Sag Citv."
.......-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
-slS121- Where be kept large herd OF goats,
and after he Americans came into posses
sion of the State they changed toe islands
name from Yeroa Buena to Goat island.
......... Colonel H. |. Starr, one of Sacra-
mento's Assenblymen, made q long ard
able speech lie the House on the 18th of
March, 1850, against the passage OF the
bill purpcr.ing 10 be for the settlement of
land titles. Mr.. Starts speech occupied
two clossiy printed columns of the UNION.
The oil! 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. U2e citizen was heard to remark
that when the final day should come il
would be found necessary 10 cut Caultield's
throat IL order 10 made him fit subject
for REDEEM 5;ion."
.......-A man named Moorhead, while
under the i fllence OF liquor, fell headfore-
most into g mortar beo one night on
street. When found in the morning he
was attended by DIR. Simmons, but the
mortar bad got into his eyes and nearly
destroyed their sight.
......... Philip Legsett got into a dispute
with married woman in Santa Cruz and
chivalroa-iy drew his pistol and shot at
her, but missed. The citizens then waited
upon M-. Leggett and made him leg i! out
of town.
.........G ads!one was then in the full vigor
OF youth. a2d when he arlse in the Com
mons 10 make a speech was cheered 10 the
echo. He was the grand central figure
o. Gh +arE hon, =.
yet.
Charles Skinner aud William
Hamilton len Sacramento en- March lG.
1869, With droye OF horse., to establish a
saddle.trail between Placeryil!e and Viz
ginia City, Nsv.
......... :rchey. the negro whom Judges
Burnet; and Terry gave 10 the South, while
they gave tue Law 10 the North, was then a
knight OF the rszor at Victoria.
.........0n the S;h of March, 1860. Jacob
Elyea was executed in Stockton for the
murder Of a man named McQuaGe. He
maintained his Innocence TO the last.
.........Oa the 18th of March S. G. Nc
Mahaa OF putsh Creek was married in
Piacervil.e TO Mrs. l.. Z. Eount of Sacra.
mento.
..... Miss Harriet Gordan and Miss
Marian Lss appeared AZ the Metropolitan
Thester On the oh Of March, 1850, in a
Wonderful Woman"
.......T. w. Hinchman, now of San
Francisco, succeeded Z. 7. Figg as prop,ie-
tor of the City Mills on Front street.
.........T a;r;y five lives were lost by the
wreck Of the steamship Hungarian of
Cape Race on February 23l
.........A great Union meeting was held
in New York. at which General Winfield
Scott and other prominent men delivered
addresses.
POLICE COURT.
Eleven Barn-Sleepers Receive Warming