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16 JANUARY 20, 1865 NEVADA GAZETTE
GRASS VALLEY, Jan. 18th, 1865.
WM. J. BEGGS—Sir: Understanding from the tenor of a paragraph in this morning’s issue of
your paper, that you acknowledged personal responsibility for what you have written respecting
me, I hereby demand of you the satisfaction which such responsibility requires. Weapons to be
within the code. I await your answer. JOHN R. RIDGE.
P.S.—I reserve the proviso of time enough for me to obtain seconds from below.
When we received the above we had definite and undoubted information that a fight was pending
between Ridge and H. C. Bennett, Esq., of the Grass Valley Union, and we had just been informed that
the difficulty between them would probably be settled, one way or another, within twenty-four hours.
We had sufficient knowledge of the “code” which Ridge holds in such reverence to know that we had no
right under it to make arrangements for a meeting with a party already involved in a difficulty of the same
character, until that difficulty had been settled, or dropped. We therefore sent Ridge the following reply:
NEVADA, Jan. 18th, 1865.
JOHN R. RIDGE.—Sir: I will cheerfully give you any satisfaction you desire. I am, however,
informed that you have another quarrel pending, with which I have no right nor desire to
interfere. When that is disposed of send your friend to me, and you shall be accommodated.
WM. J. BEGGS.
On Wednesday night we learned that Ridge had backed down from the quarrel with Bennett. We
expected, therefore, that on yesterday he would renew his demand upon us; and we were fully prepared
to accept his challenge and name the conditions of a meeting, with “weapons within the code.” Imagine
our disgust—not surprise—when we found the correspondence between Ridge and ourself paraded
in the columns of the moral pestilence, with comments in the characteristic style of the besotted and
demoralized half-breed, claiming that our note to him was a square back-down!
We now assert that the white-livered craven, John R. Ridge, is beneath the contempt of anything
wearing the outward semblance of a man; and, that after we have thoroughly ventilated this affair, as we
shall do to-morrow, we shall consign the loathsome wretch to the infamy of popular scorn and execration,
and never more defile our columns with reference to him, except in the same manner as we would
chronicle the misdeeds of any other infamous character.
MARRIED. At North San Juan, on the 19th inst., by Rev. P. L. Haynes, H. C. HUFFAKER, of
Nicolaus, California., and Miss FANNIE CHESNEY, of San Juan.
BORN. In this city, on the 19th inst., to Mrs. B. E. Hoagland, a son. [Mrs. Hoagland’s husband,
Basil, had died on November 18, 1864, at San Francisco. . ]
DEAD.—Mrs. Eliza W. Farnham, the well known authoress and gynephilist died in New York City
December 15th at the age of forty-seven years. [Eliza Woodson Burhans had been born in
Rensselaerville, New York, in 1815.]
CHINESE SUICIDE.—At about six o’clock yesterday morning Mr. Toll and another gentleman
discovered a Chinaman hanging by the neck from a board placed on two gate posts of an old
fence formerly inclosing the house of Mr. Morse, on the Selby Flat road, near the Sugar Loaf.
Mr. Toll notified Coroner Groves, who immediately summoned a jury and proceeded to hold
an inquest. An effort was made to induce some of the Chinese residents on Upper Commercial
street to attend for the purpose of identifying the body, but they all declined, saying that the
deceased did not belong to their Company. The Coroner’s jury returned a verdict of death by
suicide. The deceased was well-dressed, and near his remains lay a carpet bag and a roll of