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=35824 Submitted by: California Contributors Article Title: Sacramento Daily Union Article Date: January 2 1871 Article Description: Statistics of California - 1870 - Part I Article Text: Sacramento Daily Union Monday Morning, January 2, 1871 Page 1 STATISTICS OF CALIFORNIA - 1870 THE STATE Record Of Notable Events For 1870 Another year has passed away, with its lessons, hopes, prospects and depressions. In the old world there have been wars and fightings, the conflict of mighty nations for supremacy and immense loss of human life. Out of this great contention there is hope that there will be a compensating gain to the liberties and rights of humanity. In the United States there have been peace and quietness, and a general effort has been in progress to reconstruct what has been found impaired or insufficient, and restore the era of good feeling. In the main there have been prosperity and a desire to cultivate the arts of peace and good neighborhood. The nation has been on terms of amity with other powers, and is likely to remain so until forced out of her position by injustice and insult. In California for the past year the harvest has been abundant, and great advance made in domestic manufactures, though the State has suffered somewhat in its commercial relations from the competition of the! East, through the speedy construction of the railroad. A more healthy state of affairs, however, is being established, and California is learning very rapidly the art of reliance upon her own resources. Her domestic manufactures are increasing, both in quantity and quality, and have attracted the attention of the commercial world. In the matter of railroads, woolen goods, sugars, smelting of ores, production of wines, brandies, wheat crops and fruits, we have made great progress and are becoming a power in the industrial world. We have yet to learn a few lessons in the way of economy and temperance, and then the condition of the State will be one of unexampled prosperity and influence. We subjoin a record of the more prominent events and industries of the State and county for the past year: JANUARY 1 - A. McGIMSEY and John ORNBAUM quarreled near Cloverdale. McGIMSEY was killed....Colored people celebrated emancipation in various parts of the State....The steamship companies and Wells, Fargo & Co. cut the wages of all their employes; several manufacturing companies did the same thing. 4th - James McGOWAN, a tinsmith, fell from a scaffolding in San Francisco and was killed....Judge SANDERSON of the Supreme Court resigned....Earthquake at Bakersfield, Kern county. 5th - A child of Mrs. McQUICKEN had its foot cut off by the street cars in San Francisco....The Bulletin commenced, using its Eight Cylinder Roe press....John CAVANAUGH fell from the yard-arm of the Royal Edward and was killed. 7th - The Independent Pullman train ceased running. 8th - Bradley HALL, District Attorney for Marin county, died. 9th - Charles F. KNOLL fell dead in San Francisco, while dressing....M.C. SEARING had his spine fractured in San Francisco by being thrown from his buggy. 10th - Jackson TEMPLE appointed Justice Supreme Court, vice SANDERSON, resigned.....Margaret SCANNELL committed suicide with strychnine, in San Francisco....Mrs. MEEHAN, aged 60, was fined $200 in San Francisco, for horsewhipping Colonel MURPHY, who had insulted her....The Grand Jury of Los Angeles county indicted the Mayor and Common Council of Los Angeles for leasing fraudulent bonds. They each gave $5,000 bail. 11th - David HARRIS (colored) was stabbed and killed by Samuel CARPENTER near Placerville in a drunken spree....A fire destroyed $3,000 worth of property in Stockton. 12th - James HOFFERMAN took an ounce of laudanum in San Francisco, spoke of it and was at once pumped out. 13th - Sam RATCLIFFE had his leg broken by the upsetting of his wagon in Washington. 14th - Clement B. ELLIS was found dead in San Francisco from an over-dose of laudanum. 15th - Dilon beat Deery 181 points in 1,000 on a carom table....W.C. STRATTON resigned as State Librarian, and Wm. Neely JOHNSON was appointed in his place. 15th - Mrs. Sophia SAND committed suicide with arsenic in San Francisco - temporary insanity the cause....David S. DAVIS was caved on and killed at North San Juan...Earthquake at Los Angeles 19th - Charles HALEY had his leg broken by being thrown from a wagon in San Francisco....John SCHMIDT wad drowned at Oakland. 21st - Zabriskie IRWIN was thrown from his horse and had his leg broken in San Francisco....An organ-grinding armless soldier was married in San Francisco to a girl of eighteen....Wm. WITTE hung himself at Sonoma. 23d - A man named GOODHOPE, while fishing from Greenwich dock, fell into the Bay and was drowned....A fire in Vallejo destroyed $15,000 worth of property. 24th - Francis BURKE was killed in a mine in Grass Valley by a rock falling on him....Maggie RYAN, aged six and a half years, was found dead under a building corner of Drumm and Pacific streets, San Francisco. The condition of her body showed plainly that she had been outraged before her death, and probably murdered in the struggle. A pair of new shoes that she had on when she left home on Saturday, had been stolen from her feet. 25th - M. QUINN, who committed the outrage on Maggie RYAN, was arrested. The officers had a hard time to keep the crowd from hanging him. He confessed to the outrage but denies the murder....Captain Edward CORDELL, of the Coast Survey, died in an apoplectic fit in the streets of San Francisco. 28th - A fire in Los Angeles destroyed $70,000 worth of property. 29th - Charles T. CARVALHO, for years Chinese interpreter in San Francisco, died after a lingering illness. FEBRUARY 1st - Minister F.F. LOW and family sailed for China. 3d - The schooner Emma Adelia, loaded with hay, was burned near Benicia. 5th - The foundry of Palmer, Knox & Co., San Francisco, was destroyed by fire. 6th - Thomas STEVENSON was crushed to death in Butte county, by being run over by a wagon. 7th - Richard POPE was killed at the dairy of the Insane Asylum by a patient named John BARNETT....John HARTZ, an insane man, jumped off a precipice at San Francisco, and was fatally injured....A. SLAHNE fell on a circular saw in San Francisco and was killed. 8th - A fire in San Francisco burned up the tobacco factories of Ruhle & Co. and Holl & Co. Loss $5,000. 9th - Thos. LLOYD shot and killed a man named BERRY in San Francisco. 12th - The Garrison House at Benicia destroyed by fire. Loss, $2,000....Captain LASSEN, of the Crimea, was washed overboard and drowned while crossing Humboldt bar. 15th - Mrs. General D.D. COLTON's arm was broken by being thrown from her carriage in San Francisco....Henry LAKEMAN had two ounces of laudanum pumped out of him in San Francisco. 16th - As John RICE, Miss RICE and Miss HOLCOMB were crossing the Honcut near Timbuctoo, their buggy tipped over and Miss RICE was drowned. 17th - Earthquake in San Francisco at 12:12 P.M. Also felt at Tuolumne City. 22d - The Grand Musical Festival opened at the Pavilion, San Francisco. 23d - George CURRIER had his arm fractured, another man had his thumb blown off, and a boy named Moses FRANKLIN was dangerously wounded in the abdomen, by a premature discharge of a gun at the Music Festival....A little son of Conrad HEPPEL was drowned in the Los Gatos, near Alameda, while obtaining driftwood. 28th - Charles M. ARMSTRONG blew his brains out in San Francisco with a shotgun. MARCH 1ST - Particulars of the loss of the United States steamer Oneida, by being run into by the British steamer Bombay, near Yokohama, received by the arrival of the bark Benefactress. 2d - Earthquake of Calistoga and Healdsburg. 3d - James SMILLE fired four shots at a Mexican woman he had been living with, named Cascila RODRIGUEZ, in San Francisco, wounding her severely, and then blew his brains out. 4th - Jury in the case of Harry LOGAN vs. Augustus GUERRERO awarded plaintiff $18,000 damages for being shot by defendant. 6th - John Lloyd BUNNER (colored), cut his throat at the dinner table of Adolphe HAGENCAMP....George W. LEE and ____ STEVENS were thrown from a buggy, near Vallejo. STEVENS had a leg broken; LEE was badly hurt. 9th - Herman JOELEKE, a jealous German, blew his brains out in San Francisco. 10th - The body of Horace M. WHITMORE, a pioneer merchant, found floating in the bay; supposed suicide...J.K. ALLEN killed and O.W. SMITH and Frank SAYER injured severely by an accident on the Western Pacific Railroad. 11th - Corner-stone of a new synagogue for Congregation of Spirits of Israel laid in San Francisco....J.C. BREWER stabbed and killed by Frank SMITH in San Francisco....The house of A. TAYLOR, at Mud Springs, destroyed by fire; his wife and two children, a girl aged thirteen and an infant, perished in the flames. TAYLOR was badly burned, as were a boy of eight and a girl of four years of age....A man named FRANKLIN was shot dead by his step-son in Los Angeles. 12th - Peter DONAHUE presented St. Patrick's Church a chime of bells....Nicholas JONES stabbed and killed George MILLER in a fight in San Francisco. 13th - Brickell's Hotel, at Illinoistown, destroyed by fire. 14th - Eddy RICHEL, aged ten years, was declared insane and sent to the Insane Asylum from San Francisco. 15th - Jack STRATMAN was arrested for libel published in the Tribune on J.C. DUNCAN. 16th - Joseph LEACH and Thomas LEACH (no relation) had a shooting bout at Amador, in which Thomas was killed and Joseph severely wounded. 17th - St. Patrick's Day was celebrated in grand style in San Francisco and elsewhere in the State. 18th - The Sacramento Union entered upon its thirty-ninth volume. 19th - Geo. MAYER made an unsuccessful attempt to kill his wife and himself, near Julian, Santa Clara county. 20th - Richard WILLIAMS found a Chinaman in his chicken house at Forest Hill. The Chinaman, resisting arrest, was shot and killed. 21st - The body of a man named Austin CREHOVE was found in a reservoir near Dutch Flat....Archibald NEVINS was fatally injured at Nevada, by a piece of granite falling on him. 22d - The work of clearing Yerba Buena Park, San Francisco, commenced; 500 persons applied for work, 100 found employment....Emma EDISON, while getting breakfast for the children of S.L. PEREIN, suddenly threw up her arms, gave a scream and fell dead....Norwegian Pete and Dutch John hacked each other to death with knives at Hayfork. 25th - A Chinaman was arrested while swimming from the steamer China, with $5,000 worth of opium. 26th - Thomas JOHNSON suicided by hanging to a tree limb on Mark West Creek, Sonoma county. 27th - The funeral of Colonel Thomas HAYES was attended, in San Francisco, by between 4,000 and 5,000 people. 28th - General George H. THOMAS, Commander of Military Division of the Pacific, died of apoplexy in his office at San Francisco....Francis MURRAY, a small child, died in San Francisco from eating castor beans....Armory Hall, San Jose, burned. 29th - Grand Sire Farnsworth, of the Odd Fellows, arrived in San Francisco last night....The body of General THOMAS was embalmed; the flags of the city were at half-mast in respect to his memory. 30th - Fire at Grizzly Flat last night; $12,000 worth of property destroyed....About 2,000 workmen assembled at Yerba Buena Park and discussed the labor question; the meeting adjourned to the City Hall, where they were quieted by promises of work....Nine prisoners broke out of the calaboose at Oakland and escaped....Funeral services of General THOMAS were performed by Bishop KIP at the Lick House....Effigies of Senators HAGER and SAUNDERS were hung on the corner of Twenty-second and Folsom streets, San Francisco, last night....Alexander H. McEWEN, Assistant Engineer of the steamship Pacific, fell into the bay and was drowned. 31st - The labor trouble increased to such an extent that the police force were retained at headquarters; a guard kept at the armories and the militia instructed to turn out at three taps on the bell. Mayor SELBY promised to put as many at work on Monday as possibly....A fire in San Jose destroyed several thousand dollars worth of property. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ CA-Old-News ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ NewspaperAbstracts.com - Finding our ancestors in the news! TM http://www.NewspaperAbstracts.com