----- Original Message ----- From: "Betty Loose" <betty@unisette.com> To: <NORCAL-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 12:47 PM Subject: Sac Bee May 12, 1863 > Daily Bee, Sacramento > Tuesday Evening, May 12, 1863 > > SQUALIDNESS - Towards the close of last week the Chief of Police and officer > Cody visited the premises of Joseph BROWN, on I street, between Eleventh and > Twelfth. Their attention had been called to the fact that at the place above > mentioned, a man either sick or crazy, or both, was lying in a hogshead and > appeared to be suffering terribly. The officers went there and found BROWN > coiled up in a hogshead, and exhibiting every appearance of being in great > suffering. It seemed to them that he was in the last stages of consumption. > It is described to us that everything in and around the premises was filthy > in the extreme. Foul odors filled the air and dirt was to be seen and felt > in all directions. Chief CLARK says that he would not have believed that so > disgusting a place existed in the city. BROWN seemed to have a great > objection to going into the house where his family was. So far as > attractiveness and cleanliness were concerned, the house and the hogshead > were about "six and half a dozen." The officers viewed the premises and the > accommodations, and as BROWN appeared to be quiet and tractable, they did > not think it necessary to remove him, but left him in a fix a good deal like > that Diogones was proud of. Since then, the Board of Physicians have, we > understand, examined BROWN, and found him a fit subject for the lunatic > asylum. We have not visited Brown's place, but from all we can learn, it is > a splendid ground for the exhibition of philanthropy, and the sowing of good > seed in general. > > A RIFLE - This forenoon, a man quite young in years, went to the store of J. > DAVIS, on Fourth street between J and K ,and offered to leave on deposit a > valuable rifle, if he could by such operation raise the sum of twenty-five > dollars. Mr. DAVIS told him that he could not, on the article, advance that > sum of money. He then asked how much could be advanced. He received no > encouragement. Just at this time, N. LAWSON, who was passing, was shown the > rifle, and he at once said that the weapon was property of Mr. ---- > SAUNDERS, who lives in the country, somewhere near the city. The young man > was put under arrest, and on being searched there were found on him a pistol > and a gold watch. Other circumstances attending the arrest go to show that > the person who offered to sell the rifle has been guilty of either a grand > or petit larceny. > > INSANITY - An insane man named James CAPE arrived here yesterday from > Tehama, and at two o'clock took passage for Benicia, there to be transferred > to the Stockton beat for conveyance to the Lunatic Asylum. Joseph BROWN, on > I street, between Eleventh and Twelfth, is as crazy as ever, and will > probably be removed to Stockton to-morrow, or else taken to the station > house. G.C. HOPKINS, the insane man who was taken to the city jail last > week, became so debilitated by his disease and confinement, that although an > order had been issued for his removal to the Asylum, it was thought that he > could not stand the journey; so this morning he was sent to the City and > County Hospital. C.A. SWIFT, at one time teacher of the Sacramento High > School, is still at the station house, he having been arrested as insane. > Dr. SIMMONS made a pro...ional examination of him this morning, but we have > not heard his opinion of the case. > > THE SUTTER GRANT - We find the following in the Union's San Francisco > dispatch: > "The survey of the Sutter grant, embracing the city of Sacramento and > surrounding lands, and also a strip of land containing about 6,000 acres, > lying between the mouth of the American and Feather rivers, was finally > confirmed by the District Court of the United States this morning. A motion > made in the same cause by CADWALADER, in behalf of claimants, to reopen and > prove the validity of the Sobrante grant or twenty-two league was denied." > > THE FIRST LAND - Professor AGASSIS, in his scientific articles in the > Atlantic Monthly, under the title, "America the Old World," maintains that > the American continent has been falsely denominated the New World. "Here was > the first dry land lifted out of the waters, here was the first shore that > was washed by the ocean that enveloped all the world besides, and while > Europe was represented only by islands rising here and there above the sea, > America already stretched an unbroken line of land from Nova Scotia to the > Far West." > > MARRIAGES > In this city, May 12th, by Rev. J.A. BENTON of San Francisco, William A. > GROVER, M.D., of San Francisco, to Marietta F., daughter of H.P. OSBORN, of > Sacramento > In this city, May 9th, at the residence of S.C. FOGUS, by Rev. Father > GALLAGHER, William T. ATWOOD, of San Francisco, to Mary A. McCARTHY, of > Sacramento. > In this city, May 11th ,by Rev. Fred'k CHARLTON ,Wm. N. KERRICK to Marion > L. HOWARD, both of Sacramento. > In this city, May 4th, by Rev. Father GALLAGHER, William SHARKEY to Alice > WOODS, both of Sacramento. > In Sacramento county, May 10th, at the residence of C. MUNGER, by Rev. Mr. > WILLIAMS, R.J. REAMS, of Lake county, to Mrs. Ruth WELTY, of Yolo county. > At Sheep Rock, Siskiyou county, May 6th, Nelson CASH to Almira GATES. > At Virginia City, N.T., May 6th, M.W. BAILEY to Fanny HUMPHREYVILLE, both > of Gold Hill. > BIRTHS > In San Francisco, May 9th, the wife of Charles HARLEY, of a son. > In San Francisco, May 7th, the wife of Albert T. DARK, of a son. > In San Francisco, May 9th, the wife of John C. DOHERTY, of a son. > DEATHS > In San Francisco, May 10th, J.W. SALMON, a native of London, aged 44 > years. > In San Francisco, May 10th, Wake Bryarly, youngest son of Joseph > CRACKBORN, aged 14 months. > In San Francisco, May 10th, Charles Henry, son of Benj. F. CUSHING, aged 5 > months and 18 days. > At Buckeye, Yolo county, May 7th, Edward, son of Aaron WILGUS, aged 17 > years and 4 months. > At Hamilton Ranch, San Joaquin county, May 6th, Nellie, youngest daughter > of I.D. HAMILTON, aged 9 years and 1 month. > At Weaverville, May 4th, Emmet, son of Elizabeth MITCHELL, aged 5 years. > At sea, on the steamship Orizaba, April 29th, Maria Theresa, daughter of > John M. FITZGIBBON, aged 1 year, 6 months and 22 days. > > ______________________________