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242 NOVEMBER 24, 1858 NEVADA DEMOCRAT
THE Ladies Party, at Grass Valley, held last Thursday evening, for the benefit of the Episcopal
Church, we learn was largely attended, and went off in fine style. A large number of the guests were from
Nevada, and the dancing was kept up until near daylight.
ESCAPE OF RATTLESNAKE DICK.—Dick Woods, better known as “Rattlesnake Dick,” made his
escape from the Auburn jail last Friday, as we learn from the Press. It seems that a lawyer had gone into
the jail to see a prisoner whom he was employed to defend, when the Deputy Sheriff leaving the door
slightly ajar, left the place. On returning, Dick, who had a few minutes before been brought down from
the Court room, his irons not having been replaced, had escaped. Pursuit was immediately made, but Dick
having had some ten minutes start, and the choice of tracks, his re-capture is very problematical. Dick is
the same fellow who escaped from the Nevada jail, about two years ago, with Jim Webster. He has been
confined for some time in the Auburn jail, on a charge, we believe, of resisting and shooting at officers.
S. P. STORMS.—The Tehama Gazette learns that S. P. Storms, lately injured by being thrown from
his horse near Neal’s ranch, is recovering slowly from the effects of his fall. No clue has yet been found to
the robbers who so cowardly took advantage of his helplessness on the night in question.
SAN JUAN ITEMS.—In the Press, of the 20th, we find the following items:
The cabin of Andrew Smith was entered by thieves on Thursday night, the window torn
down, and the hearth-stones lifted up in search of treasure. Mr. Smith has recently sold his
diggings, but was too sensible to put his money, if he received it, where thieves could break
through and steal.
H. J. McKinley, Esq., the “Henry Jacob” of the newspapers, visited San Juan last Saturday
and gave a Shaksperian [sic] rehearsal to a small audience.
The Middle Yuba Canal Company have lately constructed a substantial flume which leads
from their ditch to Manzanita Hill. It is 2,400 feet in length, greatest height from the ground 53
feet, and the box is two feet eight inches wide, by two feet deep.
Feldspar is found in considerable quantities in the vicinity of San Juan. It is a mineral much
used in porcelain and pottery manufactures, and is also used in the manufacture of artificial
teeth. .. The cabin of Mr. J. G. Alexander, a miner on this hill, was visited some time last
week by thieves who overhauled a trunk for valuables—found none, and helped themselves to
what blankets they needed. As Mr. Alexander had just been paid several thousand dollars for
his diggings, the thieves no doubt expected a good haul, but were disappointed.
DYING—A gentleman who left Sweetland yesterday afternoon, informs us that Charles G.
Sweetland, at the time he left, was lying at the point of death, and was expected to live but a few minutes.
He has been sick about a week with the typhoid fever. [See Dec. . issue of Democrat for obituary. ]
Horace Bell, who forcibly released a father and brother, charged with running off Negroes, from
Brandenburg jail in Kentucky and escaped to New Albany, Indiana, was captured in the latter place by
Kentucky policemen and taken across the river by intimidation of the ferrymen. When the people of New
Albany, who had been attending a fair, heard it, they rung the city bells, had the ferrymen arrested as
kidnappers, seized the ferry boat, proposed rescuing them from Brandenburg, and at last accounts had
broken into the arsenal to procure arms for that purpose.