Sacramento Daily Union, October 2, 1851 A young Cincinnati lawyer, Thomas A. Logan, had a narrow escape at Niagara Falls, recently. A young lady, a stranger to him, had ventured too far out on a projecting rock over the rapids above the cataract; she became giddy and screamed for help. Young Logan, who happened to … [Read more…]
Sacramento Daily Union, October 2 1851. The echoes of the midnight air were awakened on Tuesday evening last, by an instrumental performance by the Miners Band of Downieville. We do not remember ever having heard in California music equal to that with which they regaled the few who were fortunate enough to be in the … [Read more…]
CAPTAIN JACK`S GENEALOGY The Son of an Old Kentucky Filibuster. [From the Frankfort (Ky.) Yeoman.] It is at this time currently reported in this community, and by many believed, that Captain Jack, the celebrated Modoc chief, is the son of Captain Jack Chambers, a native and formerly well-known citizen of the western part of this … [Read more…]
Gone. — Alas ! for the instability of human hopes! the immense multitude gathered together on Wed- nesday evening, to witness the inimitable exploits of the renowned ” Peter Hontz,” were terribly morti- fied to find that incomparably sublime Dutchman of wax, paper and rags flown, vamosed, defunct ! The building remained as on the … [Read more…]
RECORDER’S COURT. — In the case of the people against James Huff, for an assault upon Quang, a Chinaman, two juries have disagreed and been dis- charged. In the trial which took place on Wednes- day, S. S. Goode, one of the counsel for the defence, moved to exclude Chinese testimony, on the ground that … [Read more…]
False Alarm. — Several cracks resembling the explosions of a pistol were heard to occur on Second street, between I and J, on Wednesday night, which started a number of people, and sent them inquiring- ly into the street. The cause of the explosions could not be ascertained, although facts were sufficiently apparent to show … [Read more…]
Daily Alta California, 20 November 1852 An Extract from the Lost Book of Gas, Ser. BEING A PORTION OF THE HAND-BOOK OF FLOUR MILLERISM. To my friend Blackstone. Esq. this tribute is inscribed by the author. ” Monumenturn ore perennius.”— ” Sua si bona novit.” 1. And it came to pass that in tbe city … [Read more…]
WHAT ENGLISH WORKMEN SING. “The Secularist Manual of Songs and Ceremonies ” has recently attracted some notoriety, from the allusion made to it by Gladstone in a recent speech. It is the creed and song-book, so to speak, of the revolutionary working classes in England, and a correspondent furnishes some specimens of the rhyme it … [Read more…]
From the Sacramento Daily Union, 18 April 1856 – some things never change: Must See the Race. — The Legislature, not much to its credit certainly, adjourned yesterday, not far from 12 o’clock, for the sole purpose of permitting the majority to attend at the Race Course, and witness the race. As per resolution, that body … [Read more…]
LOST— From the CAPITAL SALOON, on Second street, on Wednesday morning, 1st inst, a yellow French CANARY BIRD. Whoever may have the same in possession, and will return it to Madame JOSEPHINE, at the Capital Saloon, will be liberally rewarded. Sacramento Daily Union, 2 August 1855