The steamships Yankee Blade and John L. Stephens sailed for Panama
with mail and bullion valued over two and one half million dollars.
Miss Anna Quinn appeared as Little Pickle at the Union Theater.
Squatters ejected from a corner lot at Third and Mission
rioted, wounding George Dillon Smith of the owner's party mortally.
The Rincon Point Schoolhouse was dedicated with imposing ceremonies.
A broker named McKinley was arrested swindling in purchases of gold dust.
J. Gorham Bond, of Boston, drowned while sailing on The Bay.
The people of Drytown strung up a Spaniard for the murder of a Chinaman.
A huge new bell was hoisted to the belfry of the Congregational Church.
The steamer Brother Jonathan departed for San Juan del Sud
with seven hundred thousand dollars worth of treasure stowed aboard.
The ballet pantomime Red Monster and White Warrior was brought out at the Metropolitan.
A plague of grasshoppers is damaging the crops on the Mokelumne.
The Stevedores and Riggers fête the anniversary of their Association.
347 buildings of 1025 erected for commercial ends
are presently unoccupied due to high rents throughout The City.
The Sons of Temperance and the Cadets paraded Market Street.
Miss Mary J. St. Clair, a necromancer, made her first appearance here.
The celebrated felon known as “Six-Toed Pete” was seized at Saucelito.
The Golden Gate docked, thirteen days from Panama with news
of Europe through May 26th and till June 7th for the States.
“General Childs” was jailed for vagrancy and the Recorder
consigned him to reside at the Insane Asylum. The Pilgrim Sunday School
assembled at Lone Mountain Cemetery for a children's picnic.
Hughes, the pedestrian, accomplished the extraordinary feat
of walking eighty hours without a stop; the wager was $1,000.
Two men named Frost and Paine resolved a difficulty near the Mission,
the distance forty paces and the weapons Mississippi rifles,
the former shot the latter in the head, causing his instant death.
The dogs infesting Kearny Street were poisoned by an unknown hand,
their dying agonies attracting numerous spectators.
Saloon proprietors met to discuss the abolition of free lunches.
The Uncle Sam cleared harbor laden with twelve hundred thousand dollars in gold coin.
Lee & Marshall's Circus commenced performing near the International Hotel.