A new article has been added at Newspaper Abstracts > United States > California > Sacramento http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=587 Direct link to article: http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/link.php?id=31031 Submitted by: California Contributors Article Title: Sacramento Daily Union Article Date: January 1 1867 Article Description: STATISTICS OF CALIFORNIA - 1866 Article Text: Sacramento Daily Union Tuesday Morning January 1, 1867 Page 1 STATISTICS OF CALIFORNIA - 1866 THE STATE Chronological Record of Notable Events For The Year The year 1866 has closed, leaving many reasons for thankfulness in California, on account of blessings conferred and visitations averted, but chiefly for accumulating proofs of a steadily increasing prosperity. The record of the year in this State includes no conspicuous or general calamity, unless the damage done by a destructive flood toward the close of December should deserve that designation. The Asiatic cholera, which excited a panic in the Atlantic States, and claimed many victims in the principal cities, did not reach the Pacific coast. The harvest, especially the wheat crop, of which a large surplus remained for export, bountifully rewarded the toll of the farmer and gave fresh life to the agricultural interest. The discovery of new mines, the development of well known ledges, the large increase of capital in the chief mining counties, enlarging the demand for labor and offering a better home market to the husbandman, and the introduction of a more businesslike an! d trustworthy management of mining enterprises, have combined to give prosperity to the mining districts and highten confidence in the future of mining industry in this State. The Montana fever carried off a considerable number of our adventurous gold-seekers, but this affected our aggregate population less than was generally expected, and many of the wanderers have already returned. Manufacturing industry has made a steady progress; the extension of railroad enterprises has improved the facility of communication, and the combination of the new line of steamers between San Francisco and Shanghae with the continental railroad promises to bring within our borders an enriching share of trade of Oriental lands. In relation to national politics, when the breach occurred between the President and Congress on the question of reconstruction, California, as was to be expected from her antecedents, promptly signified, through her Legislature, the press and public meetings, her preference for that policy which would secure the rights of loyal men in the South. We append a record of noteworthy events that occurred in the State during the year: JANUARY 1st - Amount of money in State Treasury, $1,699,419.32. 2d - Steamer Golden City arrived at San Francisco from Panama with 286 passengers....A middle-aged man named McCLELLAN was found dead in his cabin, his body partly devoured by hogs, at the Warm Springs, San Luis Obispo county, whither he had gone to obtain relief from a painful disease. He had discharged an attendant on the plea of poverty. The sum of $120 was found on his person. 3d - The Legislature reassembled, pursuant to adjournment previous to the holidays....The President's first annual message, delivered December 4th, received by steamer and telegraphed from San Francisco to Sacramento. It would have been telegraphed to the Union across the continent at the time of its delivery to Congress but for the exorbitant price demanded by the telegraph company....John HIFENBACH, an old and wealthy citizen of Siskiyou county, residing near Yreka, killed his wife by shooting her through the head and then blew his brains out. 4th - Jim SIMMONS and A.B. STEVENS, in custody on a charge of grand larceny, escaped from the county jail in San Mateo. 6th - Robert ZIELE, proprietor of the Pacific street flour mills, San Francisco, discovered a man leaving the premises with a bundle of rags, about 3 o'clock in the morning. ZIELE followed, and during the chase struck him on the head with a cane. The burglar was arrested, but died soon after reaching the station-house. His name was unknown; the letters "U.S.A.," in India ink, were marked on the left hand....Announcement of the defalcation of William MACY, Cashier in the Sub-Treasury department, San Francisco, in the sum of $30,000. The defaulter had left the State....G.A. BROWN, a Volunteer, found frozen to death in Surprise Valley. 8th - Samuel J. HENSLEY, a Pioneer of 1848, died at Warm Springs, Alameda county. 10th - Steamer Golden City left San Francisco with 317 passengers and $958,926 in treasure. 11th - Snow four inches deep at Nevada (Cal.) 12th - Steamer Colorado arrived at San Francisco from Panama, with about 270 passengers, and New York mails of December 21st....Snow ten inches deep at Colfax, two feet at Dutch Flat, and four feet at Strawberry....Preliminary steps taken in San Francisco for the organization of a Freedmen's Aid Society for the Pacific States. 13th - About 3 P.M. an attempt was made by three or four of the convicts at San Quentin to break out; they sprang upon the Captain of the Guard with drawn knives and threatened him with death unless released; one of the cooks of the Prison came to his assistance with a butcher knife and the prisoners were secured. Three other prisoners escaped during the night, by digging under the wall of the new addition. 15th - Steamer Moses Taylor arrived at San Francisco from San Juan del Sur, with 230 passengers....Counterfeit half dollars, dated San Francisco, 1858, in circulation in the Bay city....Michael CANNON was killed at Amador City by falling down a deep shaft....While Julian AMES and Dr. McKINSTRY were riding near San Diego, the wagon became mired. After attempting to extricate it, AMES sat down on the ground and instantly expired. 17th - State Miners' Convention met in Sacramento. J.A. SARGENT elected President. Organization and appointment of Committees occupied the time of the sessions....A resolution was adopted by the Legislature requesting the President to invite a citizen of the Pacific coast to a seat in his Cabinet. In the Assembly a Committee was appointed to confer with the Miners' Convention with regard to the establishment of a Mining and Assaying Department in the proposed Agricultural College....The store of the Franco-American Commercial Company, in San Francisco, entered by burglars in the night and several thousand dollars worth of watches and diamonds stolen....Brutal prize fight at Lakeville, Sonoma county, between CHANDLER and MAGUIRE, in which the former won the stakes....James COLBY fatally injured in a mining claim at Sawpit Flat. 18th - The Miners' Convention adopted a series of resolutions expressing the sentiments of the miners in relation to the sale and taxation of the mines, indorsing the action of the Legislature upon the subject of the land grants to the Pacific Railroad Company [a resolution instructing the California Congressional delegation to oppose the further issuance of patents to land supposed to be mineral had passed through various stages], and providing for the appointment of a Committee of five to prepare a memorial to Congress expressive of their sentiments. A substitute looking to the future sale of the mineral lands was indefinitely postponed. At the evening session a series of resolutions in relation to the debasing of quicksilver, and other matters of interest to miners, was adopted. After the creation of a State Central Committee, the Convention adjourned sine die....A snow and land slide occurred near Trinity Center, by which Michael DOWLING was killed and Simon McINTOSH sev! erely injured....Snow slide on pacific Railroad near the Summit, demolishing a house and killing J.P. BELKNAP....Chas. NELSON fatally injured by a cave in a mining claim at Sawpit Flat. 19th - Steamer Colorado left San Francisco with 600 passengers and $1,000,000 in treasure....Delegates to the Miners' Convention interested in petroleum held a meeting in Sacramento and passed resolutions favoring the sale of petroleum lands by the General Government. 20th - W.T. HIGGINS shot and fatally wounded Patrick KELLY, in San Francisco, in a fracas occasioned by a dispute concerning the stakes in the late prize fight. [HIGGINS was subsequently tried and acquitted on the ground of justifiable homicide]....Severe storm prevailing, the heaviest since ë61-2. 21st - Joseph R. BEARD, formerly Clerk of Supreme Court, cut his throat in a shocking manner on the Stockton steamer, Paul Pry, on the way to San Francisco, in a fit of mental aberration. [The wound did not prove fatal.] 22d - Barney OLWELL hung for murder in San Francisco....Steamer Sacramento arrived from Panama, with 860 passengers and New York mails of December 30th....City of Stockton partially overflowed. 23d - News received of an attempt to assassinate Judge FIELD, of the United States Supreme Court, at Washington, January 16th, by a torpedo sent through the mail from San Francisco.....James KEMPTON, of Jacksonville, Tuolumne county, drowned in the river at that place. 25th - Slight earthquake shock noticed at San Francisco and Sonoma. 27th - William HANNAH fatally crushed, and Samuel WILKINSON and Matthew DOUGHTY severely injured while running to a fire in San Francisco. 28th - Nicholas HORWOOD drowned in the Mattole river, Humboldt county. 29th - Affray in San Francisco between Gordon BACKUS, Assistant Revenue Assessor, and Samuel NEAL, clerk for Judge FIELD. NEAL was shot and badly wounded, and BACKUS severely beaten....Roads badly blocked up with snow in many parts of the State. No mails have reached Yreka for twelve days. 30th - Mass meeting in San Francisco to in inaugurate the Freedmen's Aid Society....Steamer Colorado sailed for Panama, with 400 passengers and $749,081 in treasure....Annual meeting of the State Agricultural Society commenced at Sacramento....Five cases of sudden death reported to the Coroner of San Francisco....Charles LAWRENCE commits suicide by hanging in Mendocino....At Little river, Mendocino county, Daniel HALL was killed by a log rolling upon him. 31st - State Agricultural Society elected officers for the ensuing year and appointed a Committee with reference to the proposed Agricultural, Mining and Mechanic Arts College. FEBRUARY 1st - Levi W. DODGE was killed in his mining claim at CO__S Bar, Trinity county....A party of robbers attacked a Chinese mining camp near Upper Rancheria, Amador county, robbed the inmates and killed two Chinamen who resisted. Dan MYERS, who went to the camp to see what was the matter, was fired upon by the robbers and seriously wounded. 2d - Steamer Golden Age arrived at San Francisco in 21 days and 12 hours from New York...Eight-hour bill passed the Assembly by a vote of 64 to 6. 3d - Steamer Visalia collided with a schooner near Rio Vista. She was run ashore to prevent sinking. 5th - Captain Solomon J. COLLINS, who had sailed out of that port for fifteen years, died at San Francisco....A.J. HOAN, discharged Volunteer, drowned in Deep creek, near Tehama. 6th - Michael HYNES, acquitted of the murder of Thomas HAYES, in the Fifteenth District Court at San Francisco, on the strength of his wife's testimony - the first case under the new law admitting the evidence of husband or wife in favor of the other, in criminal cases....Edward LUNT, insane from Spiritualism, sent to Insane Asylum from San Francisco - the third case of the kind in that city withing a fortnight. 8th - The Collector of Internal Revenue "presented" 150 attorneys, brokers and others, of San Francisco, to the Grand Jury, for doing business without Federal license. 9th - Dominique FRICK. LL.D., aged 78 years, and Rev. Dr. Isaac OWEN, a pioneer Methodist clergyman, died in San Francisco....Edward MULLINS fatally stabbed Patrick KELLY, in San Francisco, in a dispute over the Eight-hour law. 10th - Steamer Golden Age sailed from San Francisco with 388 passengers and $290,603.02. 11th - Steamer Golden City arrived at San Francisco with about 300 passengers and New York mails of January 20th. 12th - Anniversary of the birth of President LINCOLN observed to some extent in different parts of the State. 15th - Two shocks of earthquake were felt at San Francisco and San Jose at 9 o'clock A.M..... While Wm. HENDRICKS, and county jailer at San Jose, Santa Clara county, was pursuing two Indians who had escaped from the jail, one of them, who had obtained one of the jailer's revolvers, shot HENDRICKS through the head, killing him instantly. The murderers were arrested....Indian fight in Surprise Valley. Eighty-six soldiers and citizens, under Captain STARR and Major MULLEN attacked an Indian camp, and after a fight of six hours the Indians were routed with a loss of eighty killed. The loss of the whites was one killed and seven wounded. 17th - A strange occurrence took place near Killebue's ranch, on the Klamath river. R. WHITTLE and other tied their canoe at the bank of the river, when soon afterwards the bed of the river rose up, and a hill near the bank sunk down, making level ground. The water was turned into a new channel about fifty feet distant, leaving the canoe high and dry. The bank of the river and large trees where the men stood were not apparently disturbed. 20th - A beautiful display of aurora borealis noticed in the central and northern parts of the State....the Barbacoas mining fever raging in San Francisco. 21st - D.O. McCARTHY, proprietor of the Flag newspaper in San Francisco, was brought before the bar of the State Senate, and refusing to answer certain questions relative to a charge of bribery against a number of Senators who voted against the Specific Contract law, was committed to the Sacramento County Jail for contempt....A divorce suit commenced in the Fourth District Court in San Francisco, for a white girl, fourteen years of age, from a negro aged sixty. The mother of the girl had procured the marriage, though she had previously been married to him herself. 23d - Union Central Committee meet in San Francisco and adopt radical resolutions, though expressing faith in President JOHNSON. 24th - Enthusiastic meeting held at the Assembly Chamber, Sacramento, and resolutions adopted denouncing the President's veto of the Freedman's Bureau bill. C. CROCKER presided, and addresses were made by Cornelius COLE and others....Judge Fletcher M. HAIGHT died in San Francisco....A shooting affair occurred at a horse race in Geyserville, Sonoma county, between P. SWITSER and others, in which John MORGAN was killed, Thomas WHITE had his arm broken, and a wine peddler, named unknown, was dangerously wounded. 25th - Colonel H.C. WHARTON, U.S.A., accidentally shot and severely wounded his friend, Lieutenant B.J. WARD, of the First United States Cavalry, on Bush street, San Francisco....Don Rafael GARCIA died near Olema, Marin county, aged 75 years. He superintended the erection of the Mission buildings at San Rafael in 1827. 27th - Democratic meetings held in San Francisco and Sacramento to indorse the President and denounce "Abolitionists;" J.B. WELLER, F. HEREFORD and J.H. HARDY were the principal speakers at the former place, and J.W. COFFROTH, J.C. GOODS, M. WHALLON and J.C. BROWN of Tulare at the latter. 28th - Exhibition of proficiency in reading, performance on musical instruments, etc., at the Assembly Chamber, Sacramento, by the pupils of the Deaf, Dumb and Blind Asylum....Dwelling and school-house of L.M. FERNANDEZ, at Santa Clara, destroyed by fire. One of his sons burned to death, his wife burned fatally and three of his children severely. MARCH 1ST - The citizens of Yuba county vote to appropriate $45,000 to complete the railroad from Lincoln to Marysville....United States frigate Lancaster returned to San Francisco, having sailed some days previous for Chile, on account of damage to machinery....Harvey KERTCHERSIDES shot and killed James MAY, near the town of Colusa. 2d - Jeffries WILSON killed by the caving of a bank of earth, on Canyon creek, Trinity county. 5th - Large Union meeting held at Nevada City. 6th - Michael SHAY was shot and killed at his room, in the hotel at Knight's Ferry, by George PIERSON. 7th - Steam-tug Lookout, 265 tons burden, arrived at San Francisco, 231 days from Bath (Me.)....The engine and two freight cars thrown off the track of the San Jose Railroad, by running into a drove of cattle....Flag of the California Battalion who served in the East presented to the State, inscribed with the names of twenty-five victorious battles in which the battalion participated as part of the Second Massachusetts Cavalry. 8th - The $2,000 trot, best 3 in 5, at Bay View Course, between Lowry, Matthews and Rosa Livingston, was won by the former. Best time, 2:38 1/4. 9th - Henry McFARLAND broke open a clothing store in San Francisco, threw down a lot of goods from the shelves, and then lay down on the floor and fell asleep where he was found in the morning. 10th - Hail shower in Stockton, lasting fifteen minutes. The hailstones as large as marrowfat peas....Steamer Colorado sailed for Panama with about 120 passengers and $867,066.21. 11th - BUTSLAY made a balloon ascension at San Francisco. At the hight of about 100 feet the balloon collapsed. The aeronaut was caught by two of his brothers, who managed to break his fall and he escaped serious injury. 12th - Work commenced on the Stockton and Copperopolis Railroad, at Wilson's slough....the Barbacoas (New Granada) mines have been ascertained to be a humbug. Miners returning to California....Carlo LUCRONI, a miner, was found lying in his cabin in a dying condition from apoplexy near Railroad Flat, Calaveras county. 14th - S.H. PARKER, formerly Postmaster of San Francisco, fell dead at the Lick House in that city....John McCRACKEN, of Brooklyn, Alameda county, takes five sacks of green peas to San Francisco, receiving one dollar per pound for them - $500. 16th - Dispatch received from Washington at San Francisco, from the Commissioner of Internal Revenue ordering Assessors in California to assess all incomes on a currency basis....Billy WILBURN and three others hanged by a mob near Visalia, for stealing cattle. 17th - St. Patrick's Day celebrated by Irishmen in different parts of the State....Frank WEGNER, while chopping wood at Curtis' ranch, near Stockton, split his left foot completely open between the second and third toes to the ankle. 18th - Safe of steamer Capital opened by false keys while the boat was lying at Broadway wharf, San Francisco, and robbed of $1,800 in gold coin, several hundred dollars in silver being left in the safe....Charles E. BYRNES, at San Francisco, fell dead in his house immediately on his return from church....Opening services of the new St. James Church held at Dashaway Hall, San Francisco. Choral service performed by a large choir of boys clad in surplices, supported by a choir of adults - the first service of the kind on this coast....At Pekin, El Dorado county, a Spaniard named Pedro Pablo CAVARA horribly mutilated and killed two Chilenos named VELASQUES and LACO in a drunken quarrel. 19th - The Sacramento Union enters upon its sixteenth year....Charter election in Marysville, all the Union candidates being successful....Registry Law signed by the Governor....D.O. McCARTHY discharged from custody by the State Senate. 20th - The Eight-hour law was killed in the Senate by that body refusing to recede from an amendment providing that the law should go into operation when New York and Massachusetts adopt a similar law - 18 ayes, 19 noes. 21st - Meeting held in San Francisco to protest against the passage of a bill by Congress for the sale of mineral lands....A wagon for hauling was finished in Stockton - calculated to carry eleven tons - the largest ever built in that city....Oliver GATES, a native of Maine, killed at Rock Creek, Nevada county, by the caving of earth. 23d - Michael RYAN hanged at Santa Rosa for the murder of his wife. 26th - Two severe shocks of earthquake at San Francisco, opening old cracks in shaken walls. It was much rougher to the southward in the interior....Steamer Oregon arrived at San Francisco from the Colorado with 820 men of the Second and Seventh California Volunteer, and Juan CHEREVIA, head Chief of the Maricopas and Senior Captain of First Arizona Regiment....Wife of Captain H.H. BUHNE lost overboard and drowned from bark Naumkeag in Humboldt harbor. 27th - N. Willis COLES instantly killed at San Francisco in endeavoring to get on the San Jose cars while in motion....Squatters fenced off five hundred acres of the Government reserve at the presidio, San Francisco, but were afterwards driven off by the troops and their shanty demolished....Ecclesiastical Council of Churches convened at the new Green Street Church, San Francisco, and Rev. E.C. BISSELL installed pastor. 28th - Schooner William Nolan sailed for the Colorado river with 2,000 packages of merchandise for the Salt Lake market - the first shipment by that route....A sailor named EDMONDSON, while intoxicated, walked off the precipice on Broadway street, San Francisco, falling one hundred feet, and was picked up insensible. In half an hour he was able to walk, not a bone being broken. 30th - Ex-Governor John McDOUGAL died suddenly of apoplexy at San Francisco....Michael REESE purchased the first pew in the Synagogue Emanu El at San Francisco, for $700. APRIL 2d - The Legislature adjourned. 3d - In a squatter fight, near Saratoga Springs, Santa Clara county, Wm. HAUN was killed by one CALDWELL, and another man badly wounded....Oscar HINSDALE and Orson HINSDALE drowned in Elk slough, Yolo county, while driving cattle. 4th - Great floods prevailing in different portions of the State. 5th - Journeyman plumbers in San Francisco resolve to work but nine hours a day hereafter. 7th - Brilliant meteor seen at San Francisco....A man named STOKELY was drowned in attempting to ford Pleasant Grove creek, Placer county....Land slide in Siskiyou county, damming up Deadwood creek sufficiently to create a reservoir sixty feet deep. 8th - Warmest day in San Francisco for years....thermometer 74† to 80†....Lewis BASSELL, a German, found dead near Bowman's ranch, Nevada county, Gold nugget worth $4,440 found at Jimisal, Mariposa county, by some Mexicans. 9th - Workmen's strike at the New Almaden mines; quicksilver advanced ten cents per pound in consequence....City election at San Jose; union ticket elected entire. 10th - Gardell CARLO robbed of $125 by highwaymen near Stockton and badly beaten for concealing his money in his boots - the fifth robbery within a week in that vicinity....Officers visit a den in San Francisco in which were three drunken women, two drunken men and six children, all lying on the floor....Bee tree cut down at canyon House bottom which yielded 700 pounds of honey. 11th - Shooting scrape between Sam Yup and Hong Wo Chinamen on Mormon slough, near Stockton - three killed....Edward COHEN, merchant, chloroformed in San Francisco at 10 P.M.; thrust into a carriage, conveyed to the wharf and thrown overboard. His bath aroused him and he swam ashore....Two hundred guns fired in San Francisco in honor of the Union victory in Connecticut and the passage of the Civil Rights bill by Congress....A man named WILSON was killed in Dutch Bill canyon, Sonoma county, by a log rolling over him. 12th - Andrew McELROY, alias William ANDREWS, arrested in San Francisco for being concerned in the robbery of Collector ADAMS of Astoria on the steamer Oregon in February last, of $20,500. McELROY owned up and restored his share of the plunder, $5,600.....Mrs. BROWNELL, residing at the mouth of Old river, near Stockton, left her infant to the house and went into the field. Upon her return in an hour she found the child had wrapped a mosquito bar around her face in such a manner as to produce suffocation and death. 13th - Steamer Sacramento, from Panama, brought news of the defeat of the Spanish Pacific squadron by the combined Chilean and Peruvian fleets; Knox, of the New York Herald, among her passengers, on his way to the mouth of the Ambor and home via Siberia, Moscow and Liverpool. 14th - Sheriff Alexander HUNTER of Storey county, Nevada, died in San Francisco from wounds received at an outbreak of prisoners at the former place last year. ...Charles FLOWERS, engineer of the steamer Alameda, was crushed to death in San Francisco while in the air drum of the steamer, by the wheels suddenly revolving....Steamer Labouchere, belonging to the Hudson Bay Company, bound for Victoria (V.I.), ran on the rocks at Point Reyes, Marin county, and totally wrecked. She had one hundred passengers. A passenger named WILCOX and a mulatto steward lost; the rest saved. 16th - Terrific explosion of nitro-glycerin in the rear of the office of Wells, Fargo & Co., at San Francisco, causing great destruction of property and killing and wounding twenty-five to thirty persons. Among the killed were Samuel KNIGHT, Superintendent of the Express banking department; William H. HAVENS, bookkeeper of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, and Garrett B. BELL, Supervisor from the Eighth Ward....Immense land slide on the line of the Pacific Railroad, near Dutch Flat. Nearly a quarter of section along a heavy hill of the railroad suddenly gave way, carrying with it ditches, flumes, and everything else that obstructed its course. 17th - City election in Placerville. Union ticket successful by 75 majority....Three white men and three Chinamen killed by the premature explosion of a blast at Camp Nine, near Gold Run, Placer county, on the Pacific Railroad....Harvey LEE, of Alpine county, commissioned by the Governor as Judge of the Sixteenth Judicial District....Business generally suspended and Courts closed in San Francisco, on the occasion of the funerals of the victims of the late explosion. 19th - Police Captain LEES and detectives ELLIS and WATKINS, of San Francisco, recovered $11,487.45 out of $12,500 stolen from the Russ House safe some months since....COLLINS' washing-machine factory destroyed by fire at San Leandro. 20th - J.D. HOPPER was killed by James P. ADAMS at Payne's creek toll-gate, Tehama county, in a dispute about a horse trade. 21st - Frank MORRIS died in San Francisco, of wounds received in the late nitro-glycerine explosion....A highwayman stationed himself on the road leading from You Bet to Neece's, Nevada county, about nine o'clock P.M., and commenced robbing travelers. No. 1 was a Chinaman, from whom he got four bits; No. 2 was a German, No. 3 a Chinaman, No. 4 an American, No. 5 a Swede - all of whom he "went through" and compelled to sit side by side in the road. No. 6, George HILTON, yielded up $60, thinking the five men sitting quietly together were all robbers. Another man appearing, the robber told them to get up and dust, when they dusted one way while he went the other. 24th - Steamer Continental arrived at San Francisco with Mercer's female emigrants for Washington Territory. 25th - R.T. JOHNSON has in his garden at Stockton over one hundred pounds of ripe cherries....Most of the barley in San Mateo county is headed out, and stands on a level with the tops of the fences...During last week, snowing almost continuously in the mountains....Sixth annual celebration by the California Volunteers Union, Colonel G.W. BOWIE elected President and J.C. INNES, Secretary. 26th - Destructive fire in San Francisco, between Third and Fourth streets. Loss, $20,000. 28th - Antonio SASSOVICH hung in San Francisco for the murder of Edward WALTER....Marcos and Francisco VACA and a man named MARTINEZ were found murdered near the New Idria mine, Monterey county. Soon afterwards, George CASTRO met a desperado named DUARDE a few miles from the scene of the murders and killed him. 29th - While Albert KINGSBURY and A.N. BELL were repairing the ceiling of the Metropolitan Theater, San Francisco, the scaffolding gave way and both fell. BELL was severely and KINGSBURY fatally injured. 30th - Samuel DAVIS fell overboard from the steamer Vaquero, at San Francisco, and was drowned....R.J. WALSH, a noted stock-raiser, died at Bellevue, Colusa county. MAY 1st - From 5,000 to 10,000 persons at the public school picnic at San Mateo, 2,000 at the Temperance Legion picnic at Alameda, and a large number at the colored picnic at Oakland....At San Francisco, Benjamin DONNELLY was caught in the act of highway robbery....Ministers VAN VALKENBURG and BURLINGAME, and KNOX of the New York Herald, returned from the Yosemite Valley, and report wading for miles through five feet of snow....Thomas BURKE was stopped by a robber on the Dutch Flat road, near Nevada (Cal.), who demanded his money. BURKE threw his purse, containing $60, on the snow. The robber stooped to pick it up, when BURKE dealt him several blows with a pick-handle, rendering him insensible, and took from him a couple of gold rings and a breastpin worth $40, besides his own sixty dollars. 3d - Constitution arrived, with New York mails of April 11th and about 500 passengers, among them Edwin FORREST....Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows elect officers in San Francisco....William W. AKE found dead near Princeton, Mariposa county, with a load of buckshot in his body. 4th - Episcopal Diocesan Convention in San Francisco....Cold weather in Trinity county. Ice an inch thick was formed. 6th - German Evangelical Society dedicated their new house of worship on Jessie street, San Francisco. 7th - Charter election at Stockton. No opposition to the Union ticket....John McCONN fatally injured at the hoisting works of the Union ledge, Nevada city. 8th - Stage stopped by highwaymen near Nevada; $400 taken from a Chinaman, but the robbers were unable to open the treasure box. The robbers said the expressmen were getting "dñd smart" and regretted not bringing better tools....Boy of James BACHMAN, four years old, drowned in the slough at Stockton....Eureka Company, at Grass Valley, after a run of two weeks, cleaned up 2,300 ounces of gold, worth about $36,800....Mrs. David MURPHY, mother of seven children, shot with a pistol and killed a man named John WILSON, who came to her house and made an indecent assault upon her, in the absence of her husband. The occurrence took place in Tehama county, on the middle fork of the Cottonwood. 10th - O.S. DOEBLER, a policeman, was attacked and fatally wounded by two assassins, at Marysville, at 12 ‡ A.M. 11th - William ALLEN and Thomas WINN, shoemakers, had a fight at San Jose, in which the former was fatally stabbed by the latter....A woman, named GONSAGA, about 100 years old, fell from her bed and broke both bones of her arm above the wrist, at Monterey. 13th - Eight or ten robberies on the highway between Rough and Ready and Empire Ranch, Nevada county, all committed by one man....Pleasant Oak Cottage, near Stockton, destroyed by fire. 14th - Forrest makes his first appearance upon the California stage at San Francisco....Miranda Jane WEBBER died suddenly on the steamer Chrysopolis on the trip from Sacramento to San Francisco....Theodore BAYER, a German, was murdered by one ROGERS, near George's creek, Inyo county....B. SITCH committed suicide by shooting, at Island Bar gulch, Butte county. 15th - The San Juan stage was stopped at about 4 ‡ A.M., within six miles of Nevada, by three robbers, masked. They blew open Wells, Fargo & Co.'s treasure-box and took therefrom $7,000. The passengers were not robbed. On the arrival of the stage at Nevada, Sheriff GENTRY started with a posse in pursuit, who separated three miles from town. Not long after separating Steve VENARD got on their track and followed them to Myers' ravine. Just as he crossed the ravine he looked up on the side of the hill and about twenty-five feet from him saw one of the robbers who was ready to fire. Steve leveled his Henry rifle and fired, striking him in the left side near the nipple and killing him instantly. The second robber then raised his pistol, but VENARD, being too quick for him, fired, striking him under the left eye and killing him instantly. Robber No. 3 then started to run, when Steve brought him down on the second fire, shooting him through the heart. GENTRY and his posse secured all the treasure and brought it to Nevada. An inquest was held at Nevada over the bodies of the highwaymen, and they were identified as George SHANKS, alias Jack WILLIAMS; Bob FINN, alias, CATON; and G.W. MOORE. A verdict of justifiable homicide was rendered....Charles SPENCER died of sunstroke at Healdsburg, Sonoma county....U.S. steamer Saranac arrived at San Francisco, eleven days from Guaymas....Steamer America sailed for Nicaragua with about 600 passengers....Wm. H. BLOOD was drowned in Indian creek, Plumas county....A man named BEAER fell into a ground sluice, at Boyce's Diggings, Sierra county, and was carried down 500 feet, killing him instantly....William LEE was killed at Fisk's sawmill, near Petaluma. 16th - Tom COLEMAN drove his horse into a well in San Francisco. The rider was taken out insensible, the horse was killed....Yank McGUIRE shot Charles CURRAN through the head, producing instant death, at Havliah, Tulare county. 17th - Joseph BLAKE, convicted of burglary in San Francisco, turns out to be Jack RILEY, a desperado who was arrested for robberies during the Copperhead riots in New York in 1863, and escaped by shooting officer O'BRIEN, who had him in custody....A sailor named Bar CONNOLLY was drowned by falling from the ship Cremorne into the bay at San Francisco. 19th - Captain KNIGHT, of Company D, Second Cavalry, shoots private Charles MILLER, who had attacked him with a knife, at Strawberry Valley. MILLER expired in a few minutes after being shot....John SKILLING was killed at Copperopolis by being carried around the flywheel of an engine at the Empire mill, and crushed between the floor and the wheel....Tom MOORE was crushed to death in a mining claim at Butte creek. 20th - Fenlan picnic at San Mateo; estimated attendance, 15,600. The wife of Samuel T. PAYNE was instantly killed by falling from the high bluff near Fort Point, San Francisco, on to the rocks thirty feet below....Mary Jane CARRIGAN, aged about four years, fell into a mining shaft, at Smartsville, and was killed. 21st - Board of Supervisors of San Francisco appropriate $71,166 to pay Peter DONAHUE for putting the iron-clad Comanche into serviceable condition. 23d - C.P. DUANE shot and mortally wounded Wm. G. ROSS of Merchant street, San Francisco....Steve VENARD appointed Aid to the Governor, with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. 24th - Krofman STRAUSS and another man were drowned while ferrying sheep across a slough about eighteen miles below Stockton....James KEARNEY was killed near the Eighteen-mile House, Monterey road, by being caught in the wheels or harness, and dragged along the road by unruly colts. 25th - Wm. STROTHER found stabbed to the heart in a ravine near Dutch Flat. 26th - Six inches of snow fell at Eureka, Nevada county....Mammoth strawberries from Long Bar, Yuba county, twenty-four weighing a pound, exhibited for sale in Sacramento. 27th - Genesee Steam Flouring mills burnt in San Francisco; loss, $30,000.....Bolivar HAIGHT, an engineer on the steamer Arrow, committed suicide in Stockton, by cutting his throat. 29th - Charles HUBBARD, a prisoner in the County jail, San Francisco, suddenly fell dead from heart disease while talking to a companion....Green corn in San Francisco selling at 62 ‡ cents per dozen. 30th - Severe shock of earthquake at San Francisco and vicinity....Philip SMITH, a stage-driver, shot a woman named Anna McMAHON through the head. He was pursued by a policeman and overtaken, when he put a pistol to his own head and fired into his temple producing a mortal wound. 31st - Snow ten feet deep near Meadow Lake City...Trotting race between Latham and Rosa Livingston at San Francisco for $5,000; won by the former; best time, 2:36 1/4....Chinese banquet at San Francisco given to Van VALKENBURG and BURLINGAME, Japanese and Chinese Ministers....Strawberries at the Tower House, Shasta county, weighing two ounces each....E. WESTLAKE died suddenly at Woodbridge, San Joaquin county. JUNE 2d - Bloody affray on board ship Seminole in San Francisco harbor, in which first mate BUSH was seriously injured, second mate GARDNER had his abdomen cut open, and third mate NICHOLS was badly cut, by mutinous sailors....Destructive fire, corner of Pacific and Sansome streets, San Francisco; loss, $20,000 to $30,000....Child of William BLAKELY torn by a California lion at the menagerie on Long Wharf, San Francisco, and fatally injured. 3d - Julius H. WAEL was drowned at South Beach, San Francisco....News received of the death of General SCOTT at West Point, May 29th. 4th - David MURPHY, a brakeman, fell from the cars, was run over by the train, near Clipper Gap, and died soon afterwards from his injuries. 5th - Three distinct shocks of earthquake at San Francisco and Sonoma....Congregational Church organized at Benicia. 7th - Patrick RYAN was killed by a cave of earth in a claim near Douglas City, Trinity county. 8th - Army worms committing great destruction on the crops in Nevada county....News received of the slaughter of fifty Chinamen by Indians on the Humboldt road, on their way from California to Idaho....Michael MADIGAN fell from his wagon under the horses' feet, near Napa, and was fatally injured. 9th - Golden Age left San Francisco for Panama. 10th - Great enthusiasm among the Fenians throughout the State in consequence of the invasion of Canada....Italians celebrate the anniversary of the adoption of the literal Constitution of Italy by a grand picnic at Alameda....George LANCE shot and killed J.F. COPELAND on Brown's creek, Trinity county....Medora SANDERS, a girl 13 years old, committed suicide by taking cobalt, at the sink of the Putah, Yolo county. 11th - S.W. RAWSON, aged 64, was found dead at the Washington Lodging House, San Francisco. He was formerly Collector of the port of Portland (Me.)....Child of Wm. HETTICH, at San Francisco, died from eating poisonous drugs left within its reach....Nugget of pure gold, worth $900 to $1,000, found on hydraulic claim near Moore's Flat, Nevada county....Michael REEDY was murdered and robbed of about $200 near Fort Jones, Siskiyou county....In a quarrel over a game of cards at Buchanan Hollow, Fresno county, Wm. ROGERS was killed and Frank M. BOLINGER severely wounded. 13th - Rye growing on Nelson's ranch, near Rocklyn, Placer county, measuring 8 feet 4 1/2 inches high....Anson PERRY shot and mortally wounded by a Chinaman whom he had caught in the act of robbing his henhouse, at Bridgeport, Amador county....Anniversary exhibition of the Deaf, Dumb and Blind Institute, held at Music Hall, San Francisco....George GOODNOUGH committed suicide, by hanging, at Binghamton, Solano county. 14th - Rev. Dr. STONE installed as pastor of the First Congregational Church, San Francisco. 15th - Child of N.L. DERRICK, aged 4 years, died in San Francisco from eating lucifer matches....Child of one KELLY, aged 15 months, died at Honcut, Yuba county, from eating fly poison. 17th - News received of a disastrous fire at Virginia (Nev.), destroying over 100 buildings. Loss, about $200,000....Charles DADE, alias "Duck-hunter," a noted robber and murderer, was captured at East Petaluma. 18th - Fire on Hunter street, Stockton, destroying several buildings, and badly damaging Masonic Hall. Loss, about $15,000....Harvesting commenced in Tehama county....Edward A. HILLS killed by a cave in his claim at Spanish Dry Diggings, El Dorado county. 20th - Two prize fights near the Twelve-Mile House, San Francisco; FAYLOR and BLACKEY fought 119 rounds in 1 hour and 58 minutes - won by BLACKEY; "Soap" and "Chicken", 116 rounds in 1 hour and 55 minutes, resulting in favor of "Soap"....New steamer Sarah M. Whipple launched at San Francisco. 22d - United States steamer Vanderbilt and Monitor Monadock arrive at San Francisco from New York, via Cape Horn....Lower Agua Fria, Mariposa county, destroyed by fire, with the exception of one house; about 75 buildings burned....earthquake shock felt at Monterey. 24th - The George S. WRIGHT, flagship of the Russian Telegraph Expedition, sailed from San Francisco for Petropaulowski....Madame Celeste walked a rope from the Cliff House to Seal Rock, San Francisco....Thermometer at St. Helena, Napa county, 114 † in the shade. 25th - Orrin M. PERKINS, aged fifty years, committed suicide in San Francisco, by shooting himself through the head....Rails on the San Jose Railroad, near San Mateo, were found sprung some seven inches off the track, from expansion caused by the extreme heat of the sun. 26th - Annual examination and exhibition of Santa Clara College....Mrs. GREEN left her husband and child, at Mariposa, and eloped with James BORDEN. 27th - Thermometer at Marysville 95† in the shade....San Joaquin river unusually high from the melting of snow in the mountains....George W. NEWMAN, aged 50, laid down on the bank of a ditch near the French mill, Nevada, fell asleep, rolled into the water and was drowned. 28th - Napa City flouring-mill destroyed by fire. Loss, $12,000....Louis NATHAN robbed by highwaymen on the San Juan and Marysville road, losing $70 in money and $6,000 worth of jewelry. 29th - Town of Montezuma, Tuolumne county, entirely destroyed by fire...BROWN Brothers cleaned up $7,000 for five days work, at a cost of $500, in their cement claims at You Bet, Nevada county. 30th - Peter JOHNSON died at Marysville from injuries received by being caught in a threshing-machine....August HILDEBRAND, of Napa Valley, committed suicide in San Francisco, by taking strychnine....Golden City sailed, with $2,445,768. JULY 1st - Miss Emily TREADWAY died at Santa Rosa, from injuries received in Wells, Fargo & Co.'s office at the time of the nitro-glycerine explosion - the list of dead now numbering thirteen. 2d - The mill of Jasper CLEVELAND, Cahto Valley, Mendocino county, destroyed by fire. 3d - D. KAISER committed suicide at Red Bluff, by poison. 4th - The National Anniversary celebrated with unusual enthusiasm throughout the State....Reuben CLARK, Architect of the State Capital, died at Stockton Insane Asylum....About 11 P.M., SEXTON's Hotel at the Cosumnes mine, Amador county, was destroyed by fire. John BARNHAM and Robert FALKNER perished in the flames, and John FITZGERALD was so badly burned that he died soon after....At Forest City, Sierra county, Ambrose WILLIAMS stabbed Captain S.R. EDDY in the side, from which he died in an hour after....Wm. ELLIS, 16 years old, fell from the main yard of the bark Heddo and was instantly killed....Rain, accompanied with thunder and lightning, in different parts of the State....A man named DEAN fatally injured while firing a salute at Grass Valley, and ____ SMITH severely injured....At Jackson, Jose DEARMAN killed Pablo MUNOS and ____ ROBINSON killed a Chilean....J. KIPP fell overboard at San Francisco, while intoxicated, and was drowned....A fire in Columbia, Tuolumne county,! destroyed $4,650 worth of property....Wm. FIFE, an old otter hunter, murdered at Santa Barbara. 5th - John HOGAN killed by the falling of a derrick in San Francisco....David PHELPS was caved on at Columbia Hill, Nevada county, and fatally injured. 6th - Chung Wong hung in San Francisco for the murder of his mistress....Captain George B. BARCLAY died suddenly in San Francisco. 7th - Officer KNOWER, while making an arrest at San Francisco, was stabbed in the breast; he carried his prisoner several blocks with the knife in the wound, until he met another officer, and then fell exhausted. The knife having grazed his ribs, the wound was not fatal....Schooner Porpoise arrived at San Francisco with 30,000 codfish - first cargo of the season - reports having discovered new fishing grounds on the American coast, near the Fox Islands, in the North Pacific. 8th - Captain J.B. URMY and 148 men sailed from San Francisco to join the Mexican Liberals....St. Helena Hotel, Napa county, destroyed by fire. 9th - A party of seven, at Hope Valley, caught 769 trout, weighing 144 pounds. 10th - Boiler explosion at Mare Island, mortally wounding engineer WELLES, and slightly injuring several others. 11th- Joseph P. PULSIFER drowned in Lake Tahoe....Luke CULLOUGHTON fell down the shaft of the Union mine at Copperopolis and was killed. 12th - Store of S. WAUGENHEIM, at Markleeville, destroyed by fire. Loss, $20,000. 13th - Captain William L. CAZNEAU, an old shipmaster, died at San Francisco, aged 97; he came around Cape Horn in 1850 - the oldest American known to have emigrated to California....Six Chinamen killed by a cave in the railroad tunnel above Dutch Flat. 14th - Slight shock of earthquake felt at San Francisco, Marysville and Stockton. 15th - Heavy hail storm near Yreka. 16th - Another earthquake shock at Stockton. 18th - Destructive fire in San Francisco, commencing in the store of BARCLAY & GRAVES, on Merchant street, and burning through to Washington street; loss, about $35,000. 20th - William K. ABBOTT, after discharging a blast in a well at Rocklyn, Placer county, went down in a bucket, when the foul air induced him to return, and when near the surface he fell 26 feet and was instantly killed. 21st - Joseph W. SCOBEY died suddenly at Gila City, near Fort Yuma, of apoplexy. 27th - A stolen coat was found pawned in a Pacific street deadfall, San Francisco, in which were $30,000 in notes, United States bonds, etc., which the thief had overlooked. 28th - James ALEXANDER committed suicide at Rio Vista by cutting his throat....J.K. LUTTRELL was attacked in the rear by a grizzly bear at Lower Soda Springs, Siskiyou county, but managed to escape with the loss of a portion of his clothing. 29th - Christopher GOETZ was drowned while bathing in a pond near San Andreas. 30th - Announcement in California of the successful laying of the Atlantic Cable....William MANAHAN arrested at Santa Rosa for rape on the person of his step-daughter, eleven years old....James DAVIS had his leg caught in a threshing machine at Woodland, and was torn so badly that he died soon after. 31st - The Union published the first news dispatch by the Atlantic Cable - the announcement of the conclusion of a treaty of peace between Austria and Prussia....United States Court building burned in San Francisco. Loss, $35,000. AUGUST 1st - The Grass Valley National reports a female ghost at Con. REILLY's old mill and other places in the vicinity of Allison Ranch. Spirits in the forms of male bipeds had infested that Democratic locality for a long time previous....Union State Central Committee met at San Francisco, and adopted resolutions in favor of Congress securing equal rights to the whole people of the United States, without regard to color. 2d - Turner COWING, arrested in San Francisco for keeping the corpse of his wife in his house, inclosed in a metallic coffin, though she had been dead for twenty-eight months....A Newfoundland dog attacked a boy three years old, son of Alexander CAMPBELL, in San Francisco, tearing his scalp over his eyes, shaking and otherwise injuring him. A laborer passing killed the dog with a pick to compel him to release his hold....Mrs. ROBERTS shot Mrs. STEWART with a six-shooter at San Antonio, Alameda county, the ball entering the back and passing out through the breast. 3d - Fire in San Francisco, corner of Battery and Pine streets. Loss, $20,000....Store of MOORE & WHITE, Todd's Valley, broken open and robbed of money and valuables amounting to $11,000. 5th - A youth aged eighteen, took Rev. Dr. CHEENEY's horse and carriage from in front of the church where the Doctor was preaching, in San Francisco, and in company with a woman of the town drove to Cliff House and other places. He was arrested on his return. 6th - Adolph ZHRAMM, engineer, was caught in the machinery of the Jackson street foundry, San Francisco, and crushed to death....Journeymen plasterers strike and the eight hour system is conceded to them at San Francisco....American Hotel and City Hotel at Benicia burned....Three families near Tomales, Marin county, poisoned by eating mussels. A child of TURNER, sixteen months old, died from this cause. The family of YOUNG had been poisoned a week previous, with a fatal result in one case. 9th - George GRINNELL committed suicide at Honcut by shooting himself with a rifle....Frederick E.W. SHORNBERG died suddenly of hemorrhage of the lungs at the Dashaway saloon, San Francisco. George CONLEY, eight years old, was run over by a loaded team and died in half an hour. 10th - Twenty thousand ounces of gold, valued at $400,000, deposited at the Mint in San Francisco for coinage....Felix HOLITA caved on in his claim at Jenny Lind Hill, Calaveras county, and instantly killed....One MURPHY and wife were found in their house, in San Francisco, in a beastly state of intoxication; they both died from the effects of their debauch, which had lasted for weeks. 11th - J.T. REYNOLDS accidentally shot himself at Old Diggings, Shasta county, and died soon after....Fire destroyed San Antonio Camp, Calaveras county, except one building. Loss, $5,000....Stephen GASTER, Treasurer of Fresno county, absconded, leaving a deficiency in his funds of $6,613.26. 12th - Daniel MURPHY was run over by a street car on Howard street, San Francisco, and fatally injured....Two men named SNYDER and WHITE were drowned by the upsetting of a boat in the Sacramento, near Cottonwood creek. 13th - A boy of Mrs. O'ROURKE, 15 months old, was badly torn in the face by a dog at Humbug, Siskiyou county. 14th - John McQUADE died suddenly in San Francisco from hemorrhage of the lungs....Three hundred thousand trout eggs from Lake Tahoe arrive at Oakland to be placed in the ponds at Taylor & Co., in that vicinity, for propagation. 15th - The Fete Napoleon was celebrated by French residents of San Francisco....Town of Red Dog destroyed by fire....James M. HALEY shot and killed by George W. HANNA, at Princeton, Mariposa county. 16th - C.R. SIMONS was sunstruck at Marysville and died about three hours after. 17th - The Summer Street House, San Francisco, occupied by thirty or forty persons, fell down at about 2 A.M., in consequence of an excavation for a new building on an adjoining lot, burying the inmates in the ruins. While the firemen and others were rescuing the injured, a wall fell, crushing a large number. Eight persons were instantly killed and about twenty wounded....While a party of seven persons were sailing on Meadow Lake, the boat upset, by which Mrs. MANCOT and her child were drowned; the others were rescued. 18th - A bull bucked an engine off the track of the Alameda Railroad, near Hayward's. The bull was damaged most....A Chinaman shot and killed while attempting to break into the residence of C.T. MEADER in Stockton....John C. NAVE found a nugget of gold in his claim at Portuguese Point, Butte county, which weighed fourteen ounces, six dollars and twenty-five cents. 19th - Two shocks of earthquake at San Francisco. 20th - In a melee in San Francisco between members of Washington Hose Company and a party of Italians, James MILLER was fatally stabbed and Matt BRADY and others badly cut. 21st - Coleman MENASCO was fatally injured by being caught in the horse-power of a threshing-machine at Watsonville. 22d - James SHORE died at San Francisco from an overdose of laudanum, administered for dysentery....Fight on Montgomery street, San Francisco, between D.W. PERLEY and M. HEVERIN, in which the former was severely punished....Central House, on the road between Marysville and Oroville, destroyed by fire. 23d - New steamer Cora, 175 tons, launched at Stockton....Prince S. HART was drowned at San Francisco, by falling from Pier No. 1, Steuart street wharf, into the bay....A shake at San Francisco....A party of Indians came to the house of George DORSCH, on Bear creek, thirty-two miles from Red Bluff, and fired a volley of buckshot at his wife and children, who were standing near. Mrs. DORSCH was wounded in the region of the heart and died ten hours after. A party of citizens went in pursuit and killed four of the Indians and wounded three. 24th - A man named McWHORTER drove off the grade with a six-mule team, near the Mountain House, between Downieville and Marysville, falling fifty feet, fracturing his skull in two places. The wagon and animals were not injured. 25th - The town of Mariposa was destroyed by fire, excepting five or six buildings; the Free Press office, Masonic and Odd Fellows' Halls, etc., were burned. Loss, over $200,000....E.W.F. SLOAN died suddenly in San Francisco of pneumonia....A burr stone burst in HUMPHREY's barley mill at Stockton, fatally injuring William METZGAR and seriously wounding D.. HUMPHREY and James CHARTERS....Andrew SHORT was caved on and killed in his claim in Jaynesville, Shasta county....During an affray at Mills' ranch, Sierra county, MILLS fired at a man named HUNTER and killed his friend FLAKE instead. 26th - In an affray at Fall River valley, Shasta county, one REGAN struck William KINSTON on the head with an iron weight, inflicting a mortal wound. 27th - A locomotive exploded at the railroad depot in Petaluma, by which J.H. LEWIS, S.B. DODGE, Arthur THOMPSON and Joseph W. LEVITT were instantly killed and a large number wounded....The Susanville and Chico stage was robbed by highwaymen and $1,200 taken...The boiler of a threshing-machine exploded near Martinez, killing the engineer and severely injuring Charles L. LOHSE. 28th - Stanislaus County Agricultural Fair opened at Knight's Ferry. 29th - Severe shock of earthquake at San Francisco. 30th - Julius HANSON was knocked overboard from the schooner William and Albert, in the Sacramento river, near Horseshoe Bend, and drowned....W. WENTWORTH was killed near the Illinois Ranch, Plumas county, by the falling of a tree upon him. 31st - H.M. GALLAGER was drowned by a rush of water into his claim on McAdams creek, Siskiyou county. SEPTEMBER 2d - Northern District Fair at Marysville commenced. 3d - W.R. FINLAY was murdered while in his store alone, at Comptonville, by robbers. They secured but little money, not being able to break open the safe....Great trotting race at Shell Park, San Mater county, of California bred colts, for a purse of $8,000. About 3,000 spectators present; $30,000 changed hands in pools alone. Thirty colts were entered, but only eight ran. The four entitled to run the second day, making the best time, were Billy Vernon, Venture, Algerine and Eastonia; and their total time for the two-mile heats was, respectively - 5:29, 5:52 1/2, 5:50 1/2 and 6:01 1/2....Thomas BYRNES was executed at San Francisco for the murder of Charles T. HILL on the Cliff House road in February, 1865....William ROACH lost his life by falling into a well sixty feet deep, at Watsonville. 4th - The race at Shell Park was won by Eastonia - time, 2:58 3/4; Algernine second, Billy Vernon third and Venture, the favorite, distanced. About $65,000 changed hands....Martin MAGUIRE was murdered at his drinking-house near Suisun, on the Sacramento road, and the building burned....John MOORE committed suicide at Magnolia, Butte county, by shooting himself with a pistol....Warren H. ELDRIDGE, forwarding clerk, arrested in San Francisco for embezzling $4,800 belonging to his employes, Wells, Fargo & Co. The money was lost in stock speculations. [The friends of ELDRIDGE subsequently made good the deficit, and criminal proceedings against him were stopped.] 5th - The election in San Francisco resulted in the success of the Union city and county ticket by an average majority of 1,700, and four out of the seven Union candidates for Supervisors. Vote polled, 13,355. 6th - Two shakes in San Francisco awoke persons from their slumbers....Artemus ROGERS fell from his wagon, near Marsh Canyon, Contra Costa county, and died suddenly of heart disease. 7th - B.B. BARKER was shot and killed by W.V. McGARVEY at San Juan, Monterey county....C.H.H. MANUEL struck Patrick GOODWIN on the head with a shovel, with a fatal result, at the American stable, Napa city. 9th - At four A.M., George JONES and John ANDERSON were discovered in the act of kindling a fire in a store in San Francisco, after having bundled up goods to carry off and robbed the till. They were arrested. 10th - Thirteenth annual meeting of the State Agricultural Society was commenced at Sacramento....Anniversary celebration of the Pioneers at San Francisco. 11th - Peter D. HEADLEY was arrested in San Francisco for embezzling $62,000, while agent for Wells, Fargo & Co., at Gold Hill (Nev.). He admitted having used the money while speculating in mining stocks. 12th - Octavian HOOGS died suddenly of heart disease in San Francisco....Mrs. Sarah DONNELSON, living near Hay Fork, Trinity county, in the absence of her husband and father, was intercepted from her house by five Indians. She knocked down three of them, gained the inside of her residence and barred the door. The Indians commenced firing through the windows, when she took down her father's rifle and returned their shots so lively, though her thumb was shot off, that the Indians retreated, whether wounded or not was not ascertained. 13th - At Ukiah, Mendocino county, William FORCE, eight years old, tied a rope to the neck of a pet mule and then around his own body, and mounted the animal, but was thrown off and dragged on the ground, death resulting from his injuries....Jacob COUNTRYMAN, 67 years old, killed a wildcat four feet long with a club, near Wild Horse Valley, Napa county. 15th - Spanish-American residents of San Francisco celebrated the anniversary of Chilean Independence....A fire in Weaverville destroyed the Catholic chapel, parsonage house, Court-house and another building. Loss, $4,000....L.J. KELLOGG shot and killed Stephen A. SAMUELS, a desperate character, at the Hayfork Hotel, Trinity county. 16th - Thomas P. MANNING, a Massachusetts sailor who voluntarily piloted the Shenandoah in her raid on the whaling fleet, was obliged to disguise and secrete himself to prevent the sailors of San Francisco from giving him the rough usage he deserved....One ABRAMS was caught in the water-wheel of a mining claim at Chile Gulch, and crushed to death....At Hornitos, Mariposa county, R.G. HALL finding a Chinaman stealing chickens from his hen-house, seized him by his queue and twisted it around his neck, while the Chinaman got HALL's other hand in his mouth. Soon after, Mrs. HALL went to the hen-house and found that her husband had fainted and the Chinaman choked to death. 17th - A fire at the Mission Woolen Mills, San Francisco, destroyed property valued at $50,000....Methodist Centenary and Conference Camp Meeting at Santa Clara....Edward NORTHRUP was instantly killed by the upsetting of his wagon, near Woodbridge, San Joaquin county....Excelsior Dramatic Association organized in San Francisco. 18th - Contra Costa County Agricultural Fair opened....Francis BURDICK threw a stranger into the street from a cheap lodging-house on Pacific street, San Francisco, and then broke his skull with a club....San Joaquin District Agricultural Fair commenced....A man named HENDERSON was shot and killed by John JONES near Spanishtown, San Mateo county. 19th - The Sacramento Daily Union enters upon its thirty-second volume....John McFARLAND, aged twelve years, was drowned by falling from Folsom street wharf, San Francisco, while fishing....Frank JOHNSON found murdered in his store at Natividad Station, Monterey county....Sheriff MORSE, of Alameda county, shot and mortally wounded Narciso BOFORQUES, a noted highwayman, who had resisted the officer when attempting to arrest him. 20th - Meeting of wine-growers of Napa, Sonoma, Yolo and Solano counties at Napa City. Resolutions adopted representing to the Secretary of the Treasury and to Congress the injurious effect of Internal Revenues law on distillation of brandy from grapes. 21st - State Harbor Commissioners adopted the plan of W.J. LEWIS for the construction of a seawall at San Francisco, at a cost of $2,462,470....Ship Davie Crockett sailed for Philadelphia with the first cargo of California wheat ever shipped to that post....Pacific Insurance Company commenced suit in San Francisco to recover back excess of Internal revenue tax, their coin estimate of income having been changed to a greenback valuation by the Assessor....Patrick SULLIVAN was killed by a cave of the Ohio claims at Moore's Flat, Nevada county. 23d - Two Frenchmen named SUCHET and PICARD fought a duel at North Bloomfield, Nevada county. One fired five shots and the other six without result, when SUCHET advanced and beat PICARD over the head with his pistol, severely injuring him. 24th - Queen Emma, of the Sandwich Islands, arrived at San Francisco from New York on the steamer Constitution....At San Juan a child of George CREAMER fell into a washtub of water and was drowned....William HENDERSON was killed by the caving of a bank in the American claims at Sebastopol, Bridgeport township. 25th - P. CALLAGHAN was found dead in a room at the What Cheer House, San Francisco. 26th - In the double-team trot at San Mateo, four teams competing, Sorrel Charley and Eugene Casserly won in three straight heats - time, 2:50, 2:49 and 2:52....George M. LILLIE was injured in a mining claim near Mokelumne Hill, and died in a few hours. 27th - B.C. JOHNSON was found dead in his store at Jenny Line, Calaveras county, with three bullet wounds in his body and his throat cut....Five whites were ambuscaded by Indians in Surprise Valley, and James TOWNSEND killed and two others severely wounded. 28th - William CARROLL, aged six years, was run over by a team and killed at the corner of Jessie and First streets, San Francisco....An Austrian and a Prussian fought a duel in the dark on Pacific wharf, San Francisco, and the former got a bullet through his arm....John LOCKWOOD and Charles ROSENSTINGER were killed in the Pennsylvania mine at Brown's Valley, Yuba county, by a loaded car running down an incline, the break-pin having dropped out. 29th - The steam-drum of the Stockton steamer Julia burst while the boat was near Alcatraz Island, killing four of the hands - John DOHERTY, John RIERSON, Frank SILVA and Andrew LYON - and scalding ten others....Board of Commissioners of the Paid Fire Department of San Francisco met and organized. 30th - Michael CURTIN, Joseph FRAZER, Josiah GRAVES and Charles CONLEY died in San Francisco from the effects of the explosion on the steamer Julia...Jesus AMAZA was fatally stabbed by Miguel KARMUS, at Marysville....At Greenville, Plumas county, H.B. McCOLM accidentally exploded a shotgun and mortally wounded F.B. HOPKINS. OCTOBER 1st - John D. RIVER died suddenly in San Francisco....Rev. Dr. R. HAPPERSETT, a Presbyterian clergyman, died suddenly at Stockton....Thomas A. RUSSELL shot and killed his brother-in-law, A. CURRY, at a relative's house near Fremont, Yolo county. 2d - The first section of twenty miles on the Western Pacific Railroad, from San Jose to Vallejo canyon, opened for travel....California Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument Association organized at San Francisco....Catholic church at San Bernardino destroyed by fire. 4th - A lady's dress exhibited in San Francisco which had been manufactured by NUEMANN & MEYERS from silk raised in California....C.K. SMITH died at Sonoma from lockjaw, resulting from a wound received while shooting....A "long, lingering" earthquake at Monterey between 5 and 6 A.M. The people of that place seemed to like the sensation. 5th - J. REID was run over by a lumber team at Strawberry Valley, Siskiyou county, and instantly killed....Orderly Sergeant OWENS, of General HALLECK's staff, thrown from his horse on the Presidio road, San Francisco, and instantly killed....Bob BURNS won the ten mile race at Bay View Park in 29:44....Henry RHOADES, Bob HOWLAND and ____ BRAGG were robbed by highway men, near Donner Lake, of three watches and $420. The robbers were pursued, one killed, and the watches and money recovered...Francis SKIFFINGTON, aged 60, was horribly mutilated by his third wife, aged 28, in a dispute about property, at San Francisco....James ANDERSON suddenly fell from a chair in the office of the Auburn Herald, and expired. 6th - Jacob COON died suddenly of heart disease in San Francisco; Andrew A. AKSTROM died from injuries received on steamer Julia....Steamer Golden Age sunk a schooner loaded with hay off Angel Island. Crew saved. 7th - A bunch of grapes brought to the Sacramento Union office by Lazarus SEFFER, of Beals Bar, weighing 8 ‡ pounds.....Charles R. HUNT, of the sloop Sycamore, lying at anchor near the foot of Third street, San Francisco, st