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Collection: Books and Periodicals > Nevada County Historical Society Bulletins

Volume 036-1 - January 1982 (8 pages)

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Nevada County Historical Society Bulletin Volume 36, No. 1 January 1982 NEVADA COUNTY IN 1882 If the Nevada Daily Transcript and the Grass Valley Daily Union presented a true picture of the times, 1882 was not a very good year for Nevada County. Even some good news, like the appointment of Aaron Augustus Sargent as US Minister to Germany, had its disappointing aspects. In March the Union editor observed gloomily, “Between the deep snows and injunction suits, hydraulic mining companies are having a sick time of it this winter.” Anti-Chinese meetings continued to be held throughout the year. Congress passed a bill barring immigration of Chinese, but joy over that victory was short-lived. Grass Valley was still without a decent theatre or hall at the end of the year. Codling moths and scale insects were creating the same havoc in California’s growing fruit industry 100 years ago that the medfly is causing now. Crime was on the increase and to make matters worse, criminals were escaping from the county jail. On the national scene the deaths of famous American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and infamous train robber Jesse James! created little interest locally, compared to the trial and hanging of Charles J. Guiteau. Longfellow died on March 24 in his Cambridge, Massachusetts home near Harvard College. James had moved to St. Joseph, Missouri in 1881 and assumed the alias of Tom Howard. On April 3 he was shot and killed by anew member of his gang, Robert Ford. Guiteau, President James A. Garfield’s assassin, was found guilty of murder in January. A Philadelphia chemist wanted the condemned man’s By Pat Jones Willis Blanche, Nevada County Pioneer (For story see Page 6)