The Daily Record-Union Sacramento, Cal. Saturday, July 17, 1880 PACIFIC COAST DISPATCHES Special To The Record-Union A DARING HIGHWAY ROBBERY Operations of Two Undisguised Footpads near Oroville PASSENGERS FROM THE EASY BY RAIL A Miner Dashed to Pieces in the Yellow Jacket Shaft CALIFORNIA The Great Yacht Race - Lively Betting SAN FRANCISCO, July 16th - The race to come off to-morrow between the crack yachts Con O'CONNOR and Consuelo creates much interest in yachting and general betting circles. The two vessels had a race last summer, which was contested almost inch by inch, the O'Connor gradually drawing away from her antagonist on each course, and finally winning by a few minutes only. It was then claimed by the backers of the Consuelo that she labored under the disadvantage from having removed some of her ballast, and added one cloth to her mainsail, and that otherwise she would have won the race, as she had at that time won every other race in which she had entered. The contest is for $1,000 a side, and outside betting has been very heavy. To-night the O'Connor is ahead in the pools, which are very lively, and thousands of dollars will change hands on the results. Both yachts are in first- class condition, and will be handled by experts who will get out of them the best work of which they are capable. Pay or Quit - Removal of the "Rostrom of Liberty" SAN FRANCISCO, July 16th - The Working men were to-day advised by the owners of the sand lots that they would hereafter be charged $30 per month for the use of the lots for their meetings. In consequence the "rostrum of liberty" has been removed to a public avenue yet unopened in the immediate vicinity. San Joaquin County vs. the Central pacific Railroad Company. STOCKTON, July 16h - The Board of Supervisors to-day adopted the following resolution: Resolved, that D.S. TERRY is hereby authorized to employ A.A. COHEN of San Francisco as an attorney in the matters in litigation between the county of San Joaquin and the Central Pacific Railroad Company, at the price of $3,000, and the said sum to be in full for all services rendered by said COHEN; and sum to be paid on or before January 15, 1881. Crushed to Death - Merced Committee of Safety. MERCED, July 16th - A fatal accident occurred in the Washington mine, near Hornitas, Mariposa county, late yesterday afternoon. A man named Thomas CUFF, a native of Cornwall, England, ages about 42 years, was the victim. He got into the bucket at the mouth of the shaft to be lowered into the mine, and when the bucket reached the bottom his fellow workmen found him dead, he having been crushed to death in the descent by the bucket coming in contact with some projecting timbers. Deceased was a married man, and has worked in the deep mines of Tuolumne and Mariposa counties for the past sixteen or seventeen years. The Merced Committee of Safety had a meeting to-night, but the object of the gathering is not publicly known. The organization has made the town very quiet for the past week, having relieved it of the presence of numerous vagrants, idlers, gamblers and suspected persons. Suicide with Strychnine SAN JOSE, July 18th - This morning, between 9 and 10 o'clock, a laborer named John BROWN, who has resided in and near this city for several years past, was found neat the Southern Pacific track, about two and a half miles north of this city, dying from the effects of strychnine administered by himself, as shown by a memorandum book beside the body. Deceased gave as a reason for his act that he wanted to die, as he could not make a living any longer. An inquest was held this afternoon, and it was learned that deceased was an Irishman, aged 40 years. He was without family or relatives in this State. A verdict of suicide was rendered. Highway Robbery in Daylight by Undisguised Footpads. OROVILLE, July 16th - Charles WATKINS, a peddler of vegetables, etc., on the Quincy road, was stopped to-day , at about 1 P.M., by two footpads, about two miles above this place, and robbed of $169. Neither was disguised, and one was armed with a shotgun. One had a sandy beard of four or five weeksí growth, a dirty white shirt and red overalls. The other had a black mustache, dark shirt and blue overalls. The Sheriff and a posse are now in pursuit. MARRIED Sacramento, June 30 - By Rev. I.E. DWINELL, Samuel S. McEWING to Mary FITZELL, both of Saulsbury station. Crescent City, July 3 - L.S.F. ALKERN to Susan MOORHEAD. San Rafael, July 11 - John F. SPELMAN to Mary W. CAMPBELL. Napa, July 14 - J.H. MALLETT, Jr., to Harriet FOWLER. BORN Sacramento, July 18 - Wife of John WELCH, a son. Napa, July 13 - Wife of L. BROWN, a daughter. Healdsburg, July 7 - Wife of H.F. ALDERSON, a son. Red Bluff, July 15 - Wife of John W. CUDDEBACK, a daughter. DIED Red Bluff, July 11 - Catherine NEULER, 33 years. Santa Rosa, July 14 - Lida Marcella DARDIS, 1 year. Chico, July 15 - Jerald Belcher ORMSBY, 10 months and 1 day. Napa, July 14 - Emmaline L. DAVIS, 6 years and 8 months. Vallejo, July 13 - Katy NOONAN, 3 months and 15 days. San Rafael, July 11 - Edna G. HAYNES, 1 year, 5 months and 22 days. San Rafael, July 10 - William R. BYRNE, 8 weeks. San Rafael, July 7 - Frederick KRAEMER, 32 years. San Rafael, July 11 - Thomas GORDON, 48 years.