The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1891-05-23

SACRA
fore to-day. Where did she formerly
live ?'' 81 understand" replied the new
made wife, ''that her home was near Sac
ramento, and that her parents have an
elegant.country home in that vicinity"
Sacramento ~ exclaimed the husband,
rather eXcitedly. mo, that can't be!
And yet musingly) 1 cannot be mis-
taken in those eyes-in that face-that
walk ~
"Then you have met our friend be-
fore ?" observed the bride Perhaps it
was at some ball, or other public event?
She is certainly person who would at
tract attention anywhere"
YES" replied the husband, ST think
that must have been the case. I remem-
Der having once attended ball in Sacra-
menton
To a friend he afterward said: ''My
boy, when you are preparing to get mar
rled, insist upon previously getting
look at the bridesmaid-she may prove to
be somebody whom you had met before
and whom you wouldn't care about
meeting again."
1t was only few months afterward that
social bombshell exploded in Napa, and
one rainy day queenly-looking woman
stood on a two-wheeled dray, with her
trunk beside her, and was driven to the
steamboat landing. A few months later
she created another sensation by horse
whipping rival Dupont-streetw woman in
San Francisco. She had taken up her old
life again, and few years ago died in q
dive in that city.
.........At a ball given to raise funds for
certain improvements to Agricultural
Hall, the tioor-managers were John Ar
mold, Jos. Klopenstein, J. II. Carroll, P.
j. Devine, James Coggins, John H.
Cooper, w. II. Blauvelt, E. B. Ryan, G.
j. Torbert, III. S. Beals, II. NJ. Bernard,
b. kimball, Robert Beck, G. S. Coover
| and a. K. Grim. Ofthese Messrs. Bern
ard and Beals are still living and active
citizens of the city, and E. B. Ryan resides
Napa, and probably is living there yet,
but all, or nearly all the others, have
passed over the dark river.
.........P. w. Cafferty nearly met his
| death one night in his room, on ST tn
street. Thomas Rooney had heard some
fellows in the alley, and ascertaining that
they were preparing to set fire to build
ing occupied by r. Biggs, and in which
Mr.. Cafferty was asleep, he got his shotgun
and blaZed away at the incendiaries. Al
though wounded, they escaped. Several
of the shot penetrated the window of the
room where Cafferty was sleeping, and
came near lodging in his body.
.T The 'bloody corner" at Second
and K streets, was the scene of a shooting
ARRAY on the night Of May II, 1861. Two
men, named d. Ryan and P. Ware, went
into the Champion Saloon, where w.
Callahan was employed as barkeeper,
and assaulted the latter. Callahan reached
! for his pistol, and both sides commenced
| firing. Their pistols were emptied, but
no blood was spilled.
....A great Union meeting was held
at Agricultural Hall on the night of May
| 10Th, at which speeches were made by
| Robert Robinson the Chairman), Rev.
| 0. G. Wheeler, II. 0. Beatty, NJ. NJ. Estee,
| Z. b. Croker, E. II. Heacock, D. w.
! Welty, r. G. Clark, Alexander Camp
bell, DR.. Powell, j. ii. Warwick, DR..
Duncomb, w. w. Upton, John CONFESS
and Charles E. belong.
1.-Two buildings on Front street.
between NJ and n, were burned ON the
night of May 10th, in which Joseph Soules
! lost his life The body was discovered
while the fire was in progress by w. B.
Hunt and others. The place was run as
a dive, and was a resort for thieves.
.......As far back as 1861 the Super
visors that was under the Consolidation
Act adopted the plan of raising the city
the river. The order to put the system
in operation contemplated the borrowing
of Holly pump from Huntington d Hop
kins.
.........Alexander Badlam one day saved
a boy named Miller from drowning in a
water-hole at Sixth and streets The
| boy was four years old. Badlam rolled
him about for an hour and got all the
water out Of him, and then carried him
home.
......... Company B, known then as the
City Guard, held a meeting on the 18th OF
May, 1861, and pledged its members to
uphold the Government and to offer their
services in defense of the Union when
ever the occasion might render it neces-
sary.
1.-THE subject of a branch State
Prison at Folsom was being discussed
thirty years ago, and Sacramento was, Of
course, in favor of the proposition. Now
there is one there, and the city is reaping
the reward ofits folly.
.........There was in one company that
joined the Fifth Massachusetts Regiment
four sons OF Colonel Buttrick, who gave
the word OF command at Concord Bridge
on the 10Th of April, 1775-"Fire! fellow
soldiers! For Gods sake, fireP'
.........A San Francisco paper charged
Rev. DR.. Scott of that city with having
made the remark that 1.-THE true way tC
whip the Yankees is to distribute five
cent pieces among Them"
.........Just thirty years ago the building
in which the RECoRD-UNIoN is now
printed was completed, and the flagstaff
that surmounted it was then placed il
position.
EVERYBODY'S COLUMN.