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=35817 Submitted by: California Contributors Article Title: Sacramento Daily Union Article Date: January 1 1869 Article Description: Statistics of California - 1868 - Part III Article Text: Sacramento Daily Union Friday Morning, January 1, 1869 Page 1 STATISTICS OF CALIFORNIA - 1868 STATE RECORD Noticeable Events During the Year JULY 1st - General McDOWELL relieved of the command of the Fourth Military District by General GILLEM. McDOWELL was ordered to report to Washington....Balance in the State Treasury, $700.589.03. 3d - W.G. COLLINS killed at Chee Chee, Calaveras county, by the caving in of the mine in which he was working....J. Ross BROWNE, Minister to China, arrived at San Francisco from Washington. 4th - Ground broken at the initiatory point of the Petaluma and Healdsburg Railroad, near Petaluma....The celebration of the anniversary of the Declaration of Independence in San Francisco, though somewhat marred by wind and fog, went off in good style and without disturbance....A terrible accident happened at Oakland. As the boat was preparing to put out from the wharf, the apron or drawbridge leading from the boat to the shore suddenly gave way, letting down into deep water about sixty persons. Thirteen lives were lost....Dr. John B. GRAY, one of the oldest citizens of Marysville, shot and killed by one Rufus SWETT. The murderer was arrested on the following day, though badly wounded himself by the officer who captured him, a charge of buckshot having passed through his arm, shattering the bone. 6th - The Pacific Mail steamship Montana left San Francisco for Panama, carrying 230 passengers and $475,530.59 in treasure. 8th - T. NORWOOD, the defaulting Treasurer of Tuolomne county, sentenced to one year in the Penitentiary. 9th - News published in the Union of the death of James E. PERLEY, a member of the State Senate, from San Joaquin county, at Woodstock, New Brunswick, June 17th. 10th - The Union published the fact of the nomination of Horatio SEYMOUR and Francis P. BLAIR, Jr., for President and Vice President, by the Democratic National Convention at New York....Captain Robert H. PEARSON, of the Pacific Mail steamship Company, died suddenly in San Francisco. He was a pioneer steamship commander, having brought the steamship Oregon around the Horn in 1848. Captain PEARSON was a native of Maine, aged forty-six. 13th - B.S. BLITZ, a pioneer of 1849, and for sixteen years a member of the San Francisco Police Department, died at Warm Springs. 14th - A man named FREEMAN killed in a quarrel at Lincoln, Placer county, by SMITH, a sheep-herder....The Pacific Mail steamship Constitution sailed for Panama with $814,983.64 in treasure. 16th - D.O. McCARTHY sent to jail by Judge SAWYER, of the Fourth District Court, San Francisco, for refusing to obey an injunction of the Court. 20th - The Opposition steamship Nebraska sailed from San Francisco for panama, carrying first cabin passengers at the low rate of $52.50....Heber OTERBRIDGE, convicted of murder on the high seas, sentenced by Judge HOFFMAN, of the United States District Court, San Francisco, to be hanged on the 23d of October. 22d - Augustus EASTMAN instantly killed near Tehama by the discharge of a gun in his own hands, but whether accidental or intentional was not ascertained....The Pacific Mail steamship Golden City left San Francisco for Panama with a large number of passengers and $401,865.35 in treasure. 23d - James MURDOCK, proprietor of the Union Hotel in Woodbridge, San Joaquin county, while in the act of changing some money behind the counter, was shot and killed by a man named John HAWKINS. 24th - Dominguez ABADLE shot and killed by Javier BONILLA near Buenaventura, Santa Barbara county. 25th - Mrs. Mary HEIDINGER, living at the Tremont House, San Francisco, while laboring under a fit of insanity, killed her little son, aged two years, cutting his throat with a razor, and immediately afterward cut her own throat, inflicting wounds from which she died on the 2d of September. 29th - John F. JORDAN, Sub-Master of the Washington Grammar School, San Francisco, assaulted by a number of his pupils in the most outrageous manner. They assaulted him with a shower of stones, knocked him down, kicked and beat him. 30th - A Chinaman set upon and wantonly stoned and left for dead by some vicious boys in San Francisco....The Pacific mail steamship Golden Age left San Francisco for Panama with $847,624 in treasure. AUGUST 1st - Balance in the State Treasury, $831,600.53. 2d - Henry EDGERTON arrived in San Francisco from Panama. 4th - News of the death (on the 3d) of Charles G. HALPINE (Miles O'REILLY), published in the Union. 5th - W. SNYDER of Salem, Oregon, was robbed by two highwaymen, near Yreka, and relieved of $700. 6th - The Republican State Convention met in this city and nominated John S. FELTON, O.H. LA GRANGE, Alfred REDINGTON, D.B. HOFFMAN and Charles WESTMORELAND for Presidential Electors....The Pacific Mail Steamship Sacramento left San Francisco for Panama with 271 passengers and $514,374. 7th - Captain Roland GELSTON, who arrived in Sacramento from New York with the bark WHITTON in April, 1849, and was afterward in business here and at San Francisco, died of paralysis in San Francisco. 8th - Richard HEADLSEY was killed by an accident in the Eureka mine at Grass Valley....The Mechanics' Institue Fair opened at San Francisco. The day's receipts aggregated over $7,000. 9th - A little daughter of CHASE, of Berryessa, Napa county, was thrown form a wagon and instantly killed. 10th - The town of Laporte, Sierra county, was destroyed by fire, only a few of the houses being saved. 13th - An old resident of Upper Lake, Lake county, familiarly known as "Pap" WAY, was shot and killed by his own son, John WAY. 14th - News published in the Union of the demise of Thaddeus STEVENS on the 12th at Washington. Almost his last act was to receive the Sacrament administered by the Catholic Church. STEVENS was in his seventy-sixth years. The funeral ceremonies were conducted in the rotunda of the Capitol....The Pacific Mail steamship Montana sailed for Panama, carrying 823 passengers, $363,211 in treasure and $172,000 worth of furs from Alaska....The shipment of flour from San Francisco to New York per steamer via the Isthmus was resumed....The jury in the case of Edward EWALD, tried for the murder of Peter BRADLEY, during the Mission land riots at San Francisco in the Fall of 1867, after an absence of nineteen hours, returned a verdict of not guilty. 15th - Well executed counterfeit half dollars bearing the San Francisco Branch Mint stamp made their appearance at the Bay. 17th - The body of August ROCHART, a San Francisco jeweler, was found hanging to the screw of the steamer Oriflamme, at the Folsom-street wharf. The manner of his death was not ascertained. 18th - John P. LOVELAND, of Santa Cruz, made an attempt to murder his wife and daughter, and failing, shot himself. He died from the wounds two days afterward. 19th - The Second District Democratic Convention met in this city pursuant to adjournment and nominated James W. COFFROTH as their candidate for Congress. 20th - The first through trip of mail and express matter from this city to San Francisco, via Vallejo, was made to-day. Wells, Fargo & Co.'s messenger left Sacramento at 3:15 A.M., connecting with the cars twenty-one miles from here, and arrived in San Francisco at 10:30 A.M. 22d - The Pacific Mail steamship Constitution sailed from San Francisco, carrying 324 passengers and $318,747.93 in treasure. 23d - A.J. DOAK, a boy about nine years old, while playing on the banks of the Salinas river, was caved on and killed. 24th - Severe shocks of earthquake were experienced at Santa Cruz. 26th - Sallie HINCKLEY was granted a divorce from her husband at San Francisco, on the ground of wilful desertion. 27th - The bark General Cobb went ashore on Blossom Rock....The largest part of the town of Hornitos, Mariposa county, was destroyed by fire. Loss, over $60,000. 27th - The Pacific Mail steamship Colorado sailed for panama with 237 passengers and $349,904.52 in treasure....A man named CUNNINGHAM was killed at Knight's Landing by his runaway team. 31st - Judge McKINSTRY, of the San Francisco County Court, discharged six of the Chinese girls imported to replenish houses of prostitution, who had been brought before him on a writ of habeas corpus - deciding that no person had the right to interfere with their liberty. SEPTEMBER 1st - The San Joaquin District Agricultural Fair opened at Stockton and continued four days. 3d - The woolen mills at Merced Falls were completed and set in operation. 4th - The Italian bark Brignardello, from Valparaiso, laden with coal and fruits, went ashore on the rocks below the Cliff House, San Francisco....Henry H. HERTZER, a German, committed suicide by poisoning himself. 5th - The Pacific Mail steamship Golden City left San Francisco for Panama, carrying 332 passengers and $430,285.16 in treasure. 6th - "A young and fine looking couple" were married in Maguire's Opera House, San Francisco, by Laura COPPY, who "being a teacher in a religious organization, was clothed legally and legitimately with the right to carry out the rite." 9th - The eighteenth anniversary of the admission of California into the Union was celebrated in an appropriate manner at San Francisco....David McCARTHY, a member of STEVENSON's Regiment and a resident of San Francisco since 1848, died at that city of small pox. He was about forty-three years of age. 10th - A E. WARNER of Hornitos, Mariposa county, committed suicide by shooting himself with a double-barreled shotgun. 16th - George EBBINGHAUSEN, a San Francisco merchant, committed suicide by cutting his throat with a common clasp-knife....A squatter land riot occurred near the Ocean House, San Francisco. 17th - The steamer Antelope, which connected with the cars of the California Pacific Railroad, went ashore at Mare Island in a fog, but was not seriously damaged....Two very heavy shocks of earthquake occurred in Alpine county. 19th - The Sacramento Union entered upon its thirty-sixth volume....A Chinese theatrical troupe, numbering eighty persons, with magnificent outfit, costumes, etc., arrived in San Francisco by the steamer Great Republic. 20th - A German named Henry MARTIN, in San Francisco, committed suicide by swallowing two ounces of chloroform. 23d - The Lumberman's Association Floating Dry Dock, located at Hunter's Point, San Francisco, was got in complete working order. The ship Elizabeth Kimball, of 1,000 tons, was taken on ....The dwelling-house of Daniel BIDWELL, near Chico, Butte county, was totally destroyed by fire. George SCHMIDT, in attempting to save some furniture, was so badly burned that he survived but a short time. 26th - The town of San Andreas, the county seat of Calaveras, was nearly destroyed by fire. Over sixty houses were consumed, and the loss was estimated at over $90,000. 27th - An Irishman named James DUFFY, residing at San Mateo, was struck by the cow-catcher of the incoming San Jose train, thrown under the locomotive and cars, and instantly killed....John FERGUSON, formerly Deputy Postmaster of San Francisco, and the accredited Postal Agent for this coast, died very suddenly at the Cosmopolitan Hotel, San Francisco. 29th - A grand carnival and dress ball took place at the Mechanics' Fair Pavilion, San Francisco. 30th - The Pacific Mail steamship Constitution sailed for Panama, with 325 passengers and $240,492.50 in treasure....E. SAID, Superintendent of the Petticoat mine, at Railroad Flat, Calaveras county, was shot and killed by a band of four masked robbers, while on his way to Mokelumne Hill. 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