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240 NOVEMBER 11 & 18, 1857 NEVADA DEMOCRAT
MARRIED. At the residence of the Bride’s father, near Minden La., Mr. GEORGE VENTRESS, late of
Nevada, California, to Miss CARRIE LEARY.
DIED.—At [Moore’s] Flat, Nov. 8th, R. Wyman Butterfield, formerly of Watertown, New York,
aged twenty-eight years. The deceased was a member of Quitman Lodge, F. & A. Masons, and
delivered one of the addresses on the 24th of June last.
Among the fated hundreds who found a grave in the depths of the Atlantic ocean by the sinking of
the Central America, Mr. Samuel P. Swan was numbered. Mr. Swan resided some years in
Rough and Ready township, and was formerly from Canonsburg, Penn. In the Washington
(Pa.) Review, edited by his brother, we find the following notice of the deceased: He emigrated
to California in 1850, crossing the plains with that wonderous tide of hardy adventurers who
braved the trackless wilds, the parched desert and the mountain gorge, to seek their fortune in a
land of gold. The deceased married in that country and settled near Nevada City—then a gold
hunter’s claim, now a thriving city—and prospered in his worldly affairs. He and his wife and
infant daughter were on the lost ship, on a visit to his friends in this county, and to seek a home
in some of the Atlantic States. . . the wife and child of the deceased are now at the home of
his mother in Canonsburg. . . .
CASE OF BUTLER.—The Supreme Court have sustained the judgment in the case of David Butler,
convicted of murder in this county, and fixed the 11th of December for his execution.
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1857 .
Apologetic.
In consequence of having to put up an unusual number of advertisements, together with the
delinquent tax last, we were unable to get our paper out this morning in time for the mails. As this is the
first time we have ever disappointed our subscribers in this respect, we trust they will excuse us.
PEDDLER ROBBED.—Mr. J. Jacobson, a peddler, was robbed last Friday morning, of $300 in
cash, and his pack of goods valued at several hundred dollars. He left Grass Valley a little before five
o’clock in the morning, and started on foot for Nevada. When he got to the chapparal, about a mile this
side of Grass Valley, four or five men suddenly sprang out of the brush, threw a handkerchief over his
face, and took his money and pack from him. They then took him about a hundred yards from the road,
tied him to a tree, and left. He was fastened with his back to the tree, a rope around his neck, and his
hands and legs tied so close that he could scarcely move. His boots and a portion of his clothing had been
taken off while they were searching for his money, and as the morning was very cold he must have
suffered severely. He remained in this condition about three hours, when he heard the Grass Valley stage
passing along the road, and sung out as loud as he could. Frank Cleveland, the driver, heard him, but
thinking nothing of it at the time, he drove on several hundred yards. It then struck him that the voice
sounded like a person in distress, and he left the stage and went to the spot, where he found Jacobson as
above described, and nearly dead with cold and fright. The poor fellow was at once released and brought
to Nevada. The robbers had doubtless passed the night in the chapparal, near the place where the outrage
was committed. They were all masked, and no clue has been obtained to identify them.
LUCKY ESCAPE.—Two men escaped almost miraculously from being crushed under a falling