San Mateo County Gazette Redwood City, San Mateo County, California Saturday Morning, June 23, 1860, Vol. 2 No. 12 BIRTH In Redwood City, June 15th, the wife of W.C. Crook, Esq., of a daughter. COURT OF SESSIONS. - This Court will convene on Thursday, July 5th. The following is a list of the jurors drawn for the term: Grand Jury - Wm. H. Lyon, B. Kennerson, John W. Locker, Oliver McAvoy, H. Pullen, Col. Jakes, Wm. Lasswell, Alex. Stott, T. Finger, W.C.R. Smith, D. Little, C. Baird, W. Buckland, D.S. Cook, E.F. Beal, Wm. Denham Trial Jurors - J. Rand, C. Huflaker, J.E. Selleck, Wm. Quarterman, A. McCormick, S.F. Ahe, Robert Patton, W.A. Clark, Sam'l White, F. O'Brien, Thos. Wheaton, R.S. Eaton, M.H. Colby, H.S. Loveland, J.C. McLeod, R.H. Hatch, William Rayner, R. Murphy, L. O'Neil, J.G. Moore, F.J. Pierce, G. Kendall, W. Squires, Jas. Wood MAN MORTALLY WOUNDED. - A warrant was issued on Thursday last, by Justice Teague, for the arrest of one Garville, who was accused of an attempt to kill a Mexican on the ranch of Nicolas Martinez, three miles from Searsville. Garville has fled. We have been unable to learn particulars. LOOK AT OUR ADVERTISEMENTS. - Our friends will no doubt be pleased to see that our advertising patronage is rapidly increasing. This is the best possible indication of the prosperity of a newspaper. Should the press of advertisements continue, we must soon enlarge. Quincy Hall, San Francisco, is the largest clothing establishment on the Pacific coast, and the house has become justly celebrated as a place to buy goods cheaply. Hixson's Carpet store can furnish the best articles to be found in San Francisco. We have tried it, and know. O.F. Giffen & Bro. Have a fine assortment of pyrotechnic goods for celebrating Independence Day. Our friends Blackman & Morrison have established themselves in the wholesale liquor business, 41 Commercial street. If long experience and good judgment in a business are a criterion, a good article is always obtainable at this place. Mills & Franklin have recovered from their misfortunes by fire, and are again at work, manufacturing lumber. Their indomitable spirit deserves success. BENEFITS OF ADVERTISING. - The immediate benefit derived from advertising is only conceded by those who have proven the efficacy of thus applying directly to the public eye and ear through the great medium, the press. Here is an instance of its great effects. Thousands such, are daily occurring, which we make no not of, and we allude to this only because of its peculiarity. It may have been noticed that an advertisement appeared in out paper, last week, asking information as to Zenas Nash, jr., formerly of Ann Arbor, Michigan. The same was inserted in a San Francisco paper, and within three days information was forwarded to the advertiser, advising him of Nash's abode in Mexico. For more than a year past, the friends of Mr. Nash were endeavoring by every other means to find him, but without success. Friends in California were written to, search made in all direction by individuals and through letters, but without success. He was long thought to be dead. Thousands of dollars were depending upon learning of his fate, and of course the search was thorough, yet after all this expense and time lost, a little advertisement finds him in three days. NEW POSTOFFICES. - Now that Congress has passed the Postoffice Appropriation bill, we hope that the people of the more remote portions of this county will be furnished with the postoffices for which they petitioned two years since, and which were not allowed on account of the omission of last Congress to vote postoffice appropriations. The citizens of the Halfmoon Bay country, the entire western and other portions of San Mateo county, are totally without postoffices, and are of necessity obliged to pay from their private purses for the conveyance of mail matter. This has been a heavy tax to then, and when the fact is considered that a numerous class of the very life of our country, namely, farmers, are thus compelled to employ privately what should be furnished at public expense, and for which they pay a tax into the public treasury, it exhibits to say the least, a shameful neglect of the wants of the people. LEND HIM YOUR ASSISTANCE. - If persons business at a distance from their dwelling houses will leave with their families a statement giving the information required by law, as published by us two weeks since, it will greatly facilitate the work of the Census-Marshal, and save that officer much trouble. THE OUTGOING PASSENGERS. - Every seat was taken by through passengers for the East, in the next four stages after the one which left on the 15th. No seats can therefore be engaged, for through passage, prior to the 29th inst. FINE GRAIN. - A very large crop of grain will be harvested in San Mateo county the present season, even greater both in quantity and quality than was produced last year. THE DASHAWAY PICNIC. - The picnic "came off" Wednesday last, as arranged, and a large number of persons enjoyed themselves on the occasion in the woods near Ravenswood. Bur for the sad accident which happened on the ground, nothing would have marred the pleasure of the party. In kicking about the grounds a huge foot-ball, it was urged against or over a horse on which Miss Fanny Bradford (a girl aged about thirteen, daughter of T. Bradford of San Francisco) had just been mounted. The horse was startled, and threw the young lady from her seat, the pommel catching her dress in the descent. This started him into a run, and the poor girl was dragged head downwards, for nearly a hundred yards, fracturing her skull and horribly disfiguring her face. As soon as possible she was released, and attended by those in the neighborhood, and a messenger sent for Dr. McClure at Redwood City, who attended her until her removal to the boat. She is since reported dead. THE MARIN COUNTY AFFRAY. - A correspondent of the Telegram, writing from San Rafael, rectified a statement that has been circulated relative to the late shooting affair between Benjamin Miller and Wm. E. Randell. He says: "The first witnesses stated that Randell and Miller shot at the same instant. Three witnesses stated that they saw the smoke rise from Randell's pistol twice, before Miller shot, and one witness states that he heard two reports of a pistol then the report of a rifle. Another witness states that Mr. Randell told him, when on his death-bed, that he shot at Miller first, and that he shot three times, and the reason he did not hit him he was to far off, and was sorry for it. I would further state, which was in evidence also, that Miller and Randell both bought the land on which they live from Garcia, and that the land on which the difficulty occurred was common between then, as there is at this time a suit pending in the District Court concerning this same piece of land." To see other old newspapers, visit http://www.newspaperabstracts.com