A new article has been added at Newspaper Abstracts > United States > California > San Mateo http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=595 Direct link to article: http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/link.php?id=31277 Submitted by: Chris Havnar Article Title: San Mateo County Gazette Article Date: September 14 1861 Article Description: General Transcription Article Text: San Mateo County Gazette Redwood City, San Mateo County, California Saturday Morning, September 14, 1861, Vol. 3 No. 24 FIRE COMPANY MEETING A meeting of the citizens of Redwood City was held at the Court House on Wednesday evening Sept. 11th, 1861, at 7 ½ o’clock P.M. to take some action in relation to the organization of a Fire company. On motion John W. ACKERSON was appointed chairman and John AMES Secretary of the meeting. On motion, Messrs – J.W. ACKERSON, W.C. GRAY, J.W. TURNER, J.V. DILLER and John AMES were appointed a Committee, to draft suitable Constitution and By Laws for such an organization. On motion the meeting adjourned to Wednesday evening Sept. 18th, 1861, at the same hour and place to hear report of committee and for the transaction of any other business. JOHN AMES. Secretary Hon. Edmund Randolph died at his residence in this city yesterday morning. Mr. Randolph was a native of Virginia and related to the celebrated John Randolph of Roanoke. He was about forty-two years of age. Mr. Randolph was a highly respected citizen, a lawyer of fine abilities, an eloquent orator and an estimable man. His funeral will take place at noon to-day from Trinity Church, which will be attended by the Society of California Pioneers, of which he was a member. – S.F. Herald, 9th. COMPLETED. – The elegant mansion of F.D. ATHERTON, is just completed, and we believe the family have taken possession. This dwelling is situate about two miles south of Redwood City, in a beautiful grove, and we believe we are safe in saying that it is the finest finished, and the most perfectly arranged house in the State. FOUND DEAD. – A telegram from Placerville says, that John NESBITT, formerly of Sacramento, was found dead yesterday morning near Sportsman’s Hall, 12 miles from Placerville. He left the Carson City state at the point on Friday morning last. FRIGHTFUL MURDER. – Mrs. KELLY, residing near Guadalupe, Santa Clara county, was lately found dead in her house with thirteen stabs upon her body, and her babe covered with blook, asleep at her side. A Spaniard convicted of grand larceny upon her testimony, and just discharged from the State Prison, was seen in the neighborhood, and was doubtless the murderer. MYSTERIOUS – Two men who were at work in a saw mill at Moorsville, Butte county, near Strawberry Valley, died recently – a few days apart – and several others in that neighborhood are sick at the present time, the symptoms being similar to those with which the deceased men were afflicted. The decease is attributed to the water in the locality. Sheriff’s Sale By virtue of an execution, issued out of the District Court of the 12th Judicial District of the State of California in and for the County of San Mateo, in the suit of W.F. STAMBAUGH against F.C. GILBERT, to me duly directed and delivered by which I am commanded to make the sum of Two thousand one hundred and seventy-three dollars, and forty cents ($2173 40-100) with the interest and accruing costs at the date of the judgment amounting to the sum of Forty-six dollar ($46) I have levied on the following described property, to wit: All the right title and interest of the defendant F.C. GILBERT in and to 747 7-10 acres of land lying, being and situated in the County of San Mateo, State of California and being part of the San Gregorio Rancho and in the northeast corner thereof, with Saw and Shingle Mill thereon and all machinery and mill tools at the mill. Notice is hereby given that on Monday the 7th day of October A.D. 1861, at 2 o’clock P.M. I will sell the interest of! the above defendant in and to the above described tract of land at Public Auction for cash to the highest bidder at the door of the Court House of San Mateo County at Redwood City to satisfy said execution and all costs. SILAS HOVIOUS Sheriff of San Mateo County By JOHN AMES Under Sheriff Redwood City, San Mateo County Sept. 14, 1861 Notice Is hereby given, that I, the undersigned will, on the fifteenth day of October next, apply to his Excellency, the Governor of the State of California, for a Patent for the following described lands, to wit: Lots one, two, three, four and five, in section seventeen, and the south half of the south-ease quarter, and the east half of the north east quarter of section eight, located as Seminary lands, under, and in pursuance of the Laws of the State of California. Also Fractional Section sixteen, purchased of the Board of Supervisors, of the County of San Mateo, under and in pursuance of “an act to provide for the sale of the six-tenth and thirty-sixth sections of land donated to the State for school purposes by Act of Congress, passed March third, A.D., one thousand eight hundred and fifty three.” Approved April 2, 1858, all in township six, South of Range Five West Mount Diablo Meridian. D.W. CONNELLY San Mateo County, Sept. 12, 1861 ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ NewspaperAbstracts.com - Finding our ancestors in the news! TM http://www.NewspaperAbstracts.com