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828 PARTY CHANGES.
Casserly, 16 an Irish lawyer of prominence, to succeed
Conness, Thomas A. Brown of Contra Costa being
the next most popular candidate. Casserly, like
Haight, was a man of pure private character, and also
of varied talents and accomplishments, superior to Conness
as a man, but inferior to him as a manager of party
Sutter; William A. Conn, San Diego and San Bernardino; N. Greene Curtis,
Sac.; John Conly, Butte, Plunias, and Laasen; J. N. Chapelle, Shasta and
Trinity; Janson J. Green, Contra Costa and Marin; George W. Hunter, El
Dorado; H. Kincaid, S. F. and San Mateo; James Lawrence, Mariposa,
Merced, and Stanislaus; £. J. Lewis, Colusa and Tehania; F. A. McDougall,
Monterey and Santa Cruz; J. W. Mandeville, Inyo, Mono, and Tuolumne;
D. L. Morrill, Calaveras; L. H. Murch, Del Norte, Huinboldt, and Klamath;
J. E. Perley, San Joaquin; William Pendergast, Lake, Napa, and Mendocino;
E. W. Rol>erts, Nevada; A. H. Rose, Amador and Alpine; John H.
Saunders, S. F.; Charles Tweed, Plac.r. Republican majority of two.
Officers of the senate: L. Mizner (hold-o.-er), president; John White, sec;
Wilbur F. Heustis, asst sec. C. E. Barney John E. Dent, W. H. Frink, W.
L. Hawkins, A. W. Perley, B. S. Marston, George W. Dixon, clerks; F. S.
Tarduer, T. Mahoney, sergts-at-arms.
The assembly was composed of W. C. Agney, C. T. Ryland, John H.
Moore, Sta Clara; Thomas J. Abies, Marin; Isaac Ayer, L. S. Beaver, Otto
Mentzell, Calaveras; Thomas A. Brown, Contra Costa; E. B. Bird, Charles
Gildea, Hugh Newell, Stephen Willetts, El Dorado; J. R. Buckbee, Plumas
and Lassen; Marion Biggs, Paschal Coggins, A. Comte jr, Bruce Lee, Charles
Walleb, Sac; T. S. Battelle, J. W. Downer, Sierra; B. J. Broderson, Matthew
Canavan, David W. Connely, Thomas E. Farrish, Samuel Lupton,
John Middleton, Frank Mahone, J. J. O'Malley, Jasper S. Papy, A. G.Kuss,
Frank Scudder, Thomas Wand, S. F.; J. C. Brown, Tulare and Kern; A. J.
Batchelder, L. B. Clark, J. K. Smith, Yuba; A. M. Church, John W. Dwinelle,
Alameda; John C. Crigler, Napa and Lake; R. M. Cochrane, W. M.
Ord, Butte; William H. Cureton, Mendocino; William Caldwell, 8. M. Martin,
J. B. Warfield, Sonoma; J. M. Days, G. D. Dornin, H. G. Rollins, John
D. White, Nevada; Perry Dyer, Sierra; W. A. Davies, M. Meagher, B. A.
Mardis, Tuolumne, Mono, and Inyo; Asa Ellis, A. J. Watson, Los Angeles;
John B. Frisbie, Solano; J. A Fairchild, Elijah Steele, Siskiyou; J. B.
Gregory, George Payne, Amador and Alpine; W. S. Green, Colusa and Tehama;
Francis Giltner, Mariposa; Benjamin Hayes, San Diego; John M.
James, San Bernardino; T. E. Jones, Trinity; John M. Kelly, Yolo; R. P.
Mace, Fresno; L. J. Morrow. Warner Oliver, San Joaquin; R. L. Mattingly,
San Mateo; W. T. McElhany, Sta Barbara and San Luis Obispo; J. W.
Newsom, Merced and Stanislaus; George Pardee, Sta Cruz: Thomas H. Rector,
Klamath and Del Norte; C. G. Spencer, C. A. Tuttle, M. Waldron,
Placer; B. R. Spillman, Sutter, E. C. Tully, Monterey; Charles Westmoreland,
Humboldt. Democratic majority 22. Officers of assembly, C. T. Ryland,
speaker; J. J. O'Malley, speaker pro tem.; John A. Eagan, Newton
Benedict, D. F. Beveridge, R. M. Clarkian. H. G. Siebert, W. S Croper, J.
de la Guerra. clerks; John K. Luttrell, William H. Peterson, sergts-at-arms;
T. H. B. Anderson, chaplain.
16 Eugene Casserly was born at MulliVar, county Westmeath, Ireland, in
1822, his family being a branch of the O'Conners. His father was a man of
culture, and on arriving in New York was engaged as a teacher of the
classics. The talents and superior training of Eugene recommended him to
the attention of prominent men. especially as editor of a democratic newspaper,
the Freeman's Journal He abandoned editorial life for the study of