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12 JANUARY 9, 1857 NEVADA JOURNAL
COURT HOUSE BELL.—The Democrat suggests that a bell be purchased and placed on the court
house, and that the sheriff ring it, ten minutes before the hour for court. We chime in with that
recommendation. Delinquents can hardly give good excuses, when they are fo/d every time of the opening
of the court.
DR. KANE.—This deservedly eminent man is now on a visit to England, to tender to Lady Franklin
his services to take charge of another expedition to the Northern Ocean in search of her missing husband.
Though still suffering from the effects of his last perilous voyage, with a generous self-forgetfulness
worthy of himself, he now offers to undergo the same dangers again, in the service of humanity and
science, and in the almost hopeless search for his lost companion in fame.
There is no man living, whom we as Americans may be more justly proud to call countryman than
Dr. [Elisha Kent] Kane. We have men whose names are oftener upon the lips of the world, but we cannot
recall one so worthy of regard for the noblest qualities of manhood—courage, endurance, unselfishness;
and united with these, a high order of intellect, and high attainments in science. The Grinell expedition to
the Arctic, in the fruitless search of Franklin and his comrades is a lasting monument to the fame of Dr.
Kane....
BENEFIT.—By reference to an advertisement it will be seen that Mr. J. M. LANGDON, the Nevada
favorite, will take a benefit on to-morrow (Saturday) evening, at the Theatre, on which occasion several
gentlemen well known in Nevada will make their first appearance on any stage. We also learn that Mr.
Langdon will be presented with a magnificent watch, by the noble B.N.C.H. As there will be a fine bill,
and as Mr. Langdon has been ever ready to volunteer on every occasion for the benefit of others, it would
be a matter of justice that he should have a full house, on the occasion of his benefit; and we would say,
go one, go all.
We understand that one of the proprietors of the quartz lead on Allison’s ranch two and a half miles
below Grass Valley has been offered $100,000 for a one-fifth interest.
DEPTH OF SNOW.—We learn that some gentleman measured the snow on the ridge opposite
Omega, on Monday last, and found it to be fifteen feet deep. At Skillman’s mill, two miles this side of
Alpha, it is eight feet. At the mouth of Kidd & Whartenby’s tunnel, on the Yuba ditch, the snow is 12 feet
deep.
Monday Evening, 7 0’clock.
Miss Demming:
Respect for our sex induces me to address this note of warning to you and associates. I
believe you enjoy some self respect and to appear on the boards to morrow night in
answer to an invitation of that obscene society would degrade our sex and reflect great
discredit on you. Believe me you will be disgraced and imposed upon. No matter, they
may say what they will, it is true what I say to you. Yours Truly, Julia.
The above bijou reached the lady to whom it was addressed, and as such a contemptible
missive deserved, was disregarded. Dean Swift says, “a nice man is a man of nasty ideas.” I
think the rule holds good of the lady-like author of the above missive. Her nose must be
continually upturned for fear of disagreeable smells. If the society is a good one, she absurdly
and grossly slanders it. If it is a bad one, she has no business to know it. If her idle and