Newspaper Notes - 1850s (NN-1850)(1850) (313 pages)

ee HE : _ As Sketched by the Pen of TALLMAN HATHAWAY ROLFE EDITED BY BELLE (Mmstallment Number Thirteen) NEVADA, CALIFORNIA, June 17, 1857. To H. C, Rolfe, ; 1 San Bernardino, California. Dear Horace: . Well, it’s all over! ‘Crowds stood around on the corners all day Saturday waiting foy the comet. Venus was visible and many thought it was the real thing. By sunset, the timid he gan to breathe easy and by Sunday morning the excitement had abated. T'he valuable stock of millinery at Miss ROLFE DOUGLASS mercial street and was instantly killed. Webster, after his second arrest, told the officers who ‘examined the Shaft, but a large lot of rubbish had been thrown in it, evidently by accomplices, and so. the matter rests, Alex and Jenny Again Alex Hunt has been repulsed by Jenny Rowe. ~Fear we will have to dismiss him for too frequent indulgence in “lightnin’ juice." He alWays has a signal for a spree. When the public see him wih one shoe white. Tackney’s store is being auctioned and the ladies are celebrating their escape} from the astronomical visitation ‘by appearing in new bonnets. A project is on foot to bring water into town in iron pipes to protect us from fire. It is thought that fifteen hundred or two thousand dollars will accomplish he object and no doubt the money will be forthcoming. Brick Chimneys Ordcred I did not go to the Odd )rellows Ball at the Court House last night because IT was busy with the report of the town’s finances and preparing the new ordinances for publication. Our accounts show receipts for May to be $694 and our expenditures $673. A new ordinance requires a brick chimney for every stove pipe in any building where a stove is used, and every property holder must maintain a ladder that will reach to the roof of the several important streets. Two Sets of Delegates . San Juan is in for more trouble. A day was set for election of delegates to. the County Convention and called for 2 o’clock. The miners of the section were all busy cleaning up their sluices and couldn't leave till evening. Finding the polls closed they had another election two days later and selected another set, Now the convention will have to decide who are eligible as delegates, A definite movement is under way to survey &@ wagon road across the plains{ to California by way of the South Pass. The surveying party is already made up and numbers 100 men, 88 wagons, 3 carts and a traveling forge. Bandit Trapped in Shaft You will be interested in the fact that Rattlesnake Dick who was with Jim Webster In the escape from our jail never left town. Evidently, i tion, he sitting in it, erect, with whiteas 1 washed the other blackened, they look . PAAR “ Seer sa leeara to an exciting news column. Yesterday he decided it was cheaper {to move than pay rent so hired some . boys to carry his coffin to a new loca. washed face and glassy eyes. Jenny ‘has taken up with Frank Moore and has refused to return to Rowe’s circus, . declaring that Rowe has no jurisdiclion over her, The sister will be allowed to remain here longer, Rowe believing that as long as the little one is here Jenny will stay and he wants to keep a line on her. Unprotected igirls, in the excitement of California mining camps are apt to go astray but Jenny appears to have courage enough! to carry her through any situation, Frank Moore, the fayored admirer, seems a quiet sort but is ranked with the gamblers, a profession that has many devotees in this new country you are interested in anything pertaining to the town and somchow I seem to notice the peculiarities and: {foibles of my neighbors but my comments are sympathetic and devoid of malice. The antics of the young folks amuse me in my loneliness, though I seldom mingle with them. } With affectionate regard to you and ‘yours, as well as to Sam and family, I am, , Your brother, ni TALUMAN, In the next installment of the ‘Letters’ Mr. Rolfe grows reminiscent and tells of the manner of celebrating the Fourth of July which prevailed at Nevada in 1 851. ORO ee el \ ' building. There is plenty of brick where gold is plentiful and weaklings Bi Coe nsOn Way We SROML NOE MEVE! cre to. talker k chance with any) ' 8009 chimneys, : Also sidewalks must je ot. ; a . be laid to conform to the grade of the; Torgive my little gossips. I know soon as he got out of jail he ran back . of tho houses on Pine street anq fell . into a shaft near the corner of ComIS].

ee HE : _ As Sketched by the Pen of TALLMAN HATHAWAY ROLFE EDITED BY BELLE (Mmstallment Number Thirteen) NEVADA, CALIFORNIA, June 17, 1857. To H. C, Rolfe, ; 1 San Bernardino, California. Dear Horace: . Well, it’s all over! ‘Crowds stood around on the corners all day Saturday waiting foy the comet. Venus was visible and many thought it was the real thing. By sunset, the timid he gan to breathe easy and by Sunday morning the excitement had abated. T'he valuable stock of millinery at Miss ROLFE DOUGLASS mercial street and was instantly killed. Webster, after his second arrest, told the officers who ‘examined the Shaft, but a large lot of rubbish had been thrown in it, evidently by accomplices, and so. the matter rests, Alex and Jenny Again Alex Hunt has been repulsed by Jenny Rowe. ~Fear we will have to dismiss him for too frequent indulgence in “lightnin’ juice." He alWays has a signal for a spree. When the public see him wih one shoe white. Tackney’s store is being auctioned and the ladies are celebrating their escape} from the astronomical visitation ‘by appearing in new bonnets. A project is on foot to bring water into town in iron pipes to protect us from fire. It is thought that fifteen hundred or two thousand dollars will accomplish he object and no doubt the money will be forthcoming. Brick Chimneys Ordcred I did not go to the Odd )rellows Ball at the Court House last night because IT was busy with the report of the town’s finances and preparing the new ordinances for publication. Our accounts show receipts for May to be $694 and our expenditures $673. A new ordinance requires a brick chimney for every stove pipe in any building where a stove is used, and every property holder must maintain a ladder that will reach to the roof of the several important streets. Two Sets of Delegates . San Juan is in for more trouble. A day was set for election of delegates to. the County Convention and called for 2 o’clock. The miners of the section were all busy cleaning up their sluices and couldn't leave till evening. Finding the polls closed they had another election two days later and selected another set, Now the convention will have to decide who are eligible as delegates, A definite movement is under way to survey &@ wagon road across the plains{

to California by way of the South Pass. The surveying party is already made up and numbers 100 men, 88 wagons, 3 carts and a traveling forge. Bandit Trapped in Shaft You will be interested in the fact that Rattlesnake Dick who was with Jim Webster In the escape from our jail never left town. Evidently, i tion, he sitting in it, erect, with whiteas 1 washed the other blackened, they look . PAAR “ Seer sa leeara to an exciting news column. Yesterday he decided it was cheaper {to move than pay rent so hired some . boys to carry his coffin to a new loca. washed face and glassy eyes. Jenny ‘has taken up with Frank Moore and has refused to return to Rowe’s circus, . declaring that Rowe has no jurisdiclion over her, The sister will be allowed to remain here longer, Rowe believing that as long as the little one is here Jenny will stay and he wants to keep a line on her. Unprotected igirls, in the excitement of California mining camps are apt to go astray but Jenny appears to have courage enough! to carry her through any situation, Frank Moore, the fayored admirer, seems a quiet sort but is ranked with the gamblers, a profession that has many devotees in this new country you are interested in anything pertaining to the town and somchow I seem to notice the peculiarities and: {foibles of my neighbors but my comments are sympathetic and devoid of malice. The antics of the young folks amuse me in my loneliness, though I seldom mingle with them. } With affectionate regard to you and ‘yours, as well as to Sam and family, I am, , Your brother, ni TALUMAN, In the next installment of the ‘Letters’ Mr. Rolfe grows reminiscent and tells of the manner of celebrating the Fourth of July which prevailed at Nevada in 1 851. ORO ee el \ ' building. There is plenty of brick where gold is plentiful and weaklings Bi Coe nsOn Way We SROML NOE MEVE! cre to. talker k chance with any) ' 8009 chimneys, : Also sidewalks must je ot. ; a . be laid to conform to the grade of the; Torgive my little gossips. I know soon as he got out of jail he ran back . of tho houses on Pine street anq fell . into a shaft near the corner of ComIS].