January 10 Saturday – In the evening, Sam and Cable gave a second performance in Mercantile Library Hall , St. Louis. The Post Dispatch, and the Daily Globe-Democrat gave the pair positive reviews [Railton]. Cardwell says the crowd was not good, and according to Ozias Pond, Saturday night was “not popular in St. Louis ‘with the better element’.” [Cardwell 37].

Alexander & Green wrote about the threatened suit of Estes & Lauriat, who were not repentant [MTP].

Charles Webster wrote various business matters, including the bed clamp invention [MTP].