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2 - are the clerk's office, a fruitstand, and a table where piesand cakes are sold. Here I sawripe strawberries and grapes, andgreen peas and cucumbers. Asyou enter this saloon fromthe west side, it is interestingto see the people gatheredthere, at any time of the day,but chiefly in the afternoon andevening. Mr. Hunt, one of theclerks, said that about 6000people were accomodated hereon a single Sabbath evening.This certainly does not speakwell for the religious characterof the New York people. Do theyremember the Sabbath to keep2 - it holy even unto the end,when they visit these fashionablesaloons, to sip ice creamsand other dainties? Our chamberaccomodations are very nice.Here again, we found marbletopped tables and stands a veryeasy lounge and bed. Wroteletters home, and retired to restfeeling happy to be safe on land,June 3. Sabbath. Attended service at TrinityChurch (Episcopal). Heard asermon on the Union of the Three. Father,Son and Holy Ghost inme. The ceremony of baptism wasperformed upon a child. This isthe second of such ceremonies, thatI have had the pleasure of seeing,
Date Original
1855
Dates Covered
1855 (May-July)
Source
Original diary dimensions: 9.5 x 14 cm.
Resource Identifier
Locke_Diary_1855_Image_020.tif
Publisher
Holt-Atherton Special Collections, University of the Pacific Library
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Keywords
Delia Locke, diaries, women, diarist, California, Locke-Hammond Family Papers, Lockeford, CA, Dean Jewett Locke, rural life, rural California, 19th Century, church, temperance organizations, Mokelumne River Ladies' Sewing Circle, temperature recordings, journal
