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Collection: Books and Periodicals > Nevada County Historical Society Bulletins

Volume 035-1 - January 1981 (6 pages)

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_ Nevada County Historical Society Bulletin Volume 35, No.1 January 1981 NEVADA COUNTY IN 1881 By Pat Jones In the year 1881 Nevada City almost got electric street lights, Nevada County Narrow Gauge stockholders received their first dividend ever, the -—, military invaded Ismert’s Grove and time continued to trickle out for hydraulic mining. The attempted assassination of President James Garfield at a Washington DC railroad station on July 2 shocked the nation. The senseless shooting by Charles J. Guiteau was the main subject on the streets of Nevada City and Grass Valley. Guiteau confessed to being angry with Garfield because he had been refused the position of US Consul to Paris. Daily bulletins of the president’s progress or decline, complete with temperature and pulse readings, were in local papers. In August a gala celebration, planned to celebrate Garfield's recovery, fizzled due to lack of proper leadership. The president died on September 19 and Guiteau was eventually convicted and hanged in 1882. A memorial service for Garfield was held at Hamilton Hall in Grass Valley. Flags were at half mast and /merchants draped their establishments In mourning. Bells tolled, cannons sounded and a long procession formed in Nevada City where A.A. Sargent delivered the funeral oration. Henry McCarty, alias William H. Bonney or Billy the Kid, was shot and ‘ killed at Fort Sumner by Lincoln s 4 “County, New Mexico, Sheriff Pat President James A. Garfield 1831-1881 Garrett in July. This event received but ~ brief notice here. In Russia terrorists assassinated