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4 JANUARY 11, 1860 NEVADA DEMOCRAT
lead for $12,000. The part of the lead which brought this price is a portion of that known as the Spanish
claim.
SINGING SCHOOL.—We learn that Mr. Clark has made arrangements to open a singing school in
this place—commencing this evening at the Methodist Church.
LETTER FROM OMEGA.
OMEGA, January 7th, 1859 [sic].
Editor Democrat.—A few lines from this section of the county, at the present time, may not
seem amiss. .. An unsuccessful attempt was made by the majority of the miners here, to
reduce the price of water to twelve and a half cents an inch, but it was no go; the water agents
told them it was twenty cents or no water. After standing out some week or ten days, they
concluded to go to work at the old prices again. . . . This Division of the Sons of Temperance is
in a flourishing condition. They gave a New Year’s Ball at this place on Monday evening, and
it was without exception the most pleasant and best conducted party that has ever been given in
this section. From twenty to thirty gentlemen, and ten or twelve ladies from Alpha were
present. Sixty-three five dollar tickets for the ball, and sixty-seven for the supper alone, were
sold, and the Division will make from $75 to $100 by the operation.
An excellent singing school is taught here by Mr. Clark, who is said to be a A No. . in his
profession, and much of a gentleman withal. He also has a school at Alpha two evenings in
each week. Speaking of Alpha, the inhabitants of that little burg are much given to fun,
amusement, and musical institutions. Besides the singing school of Mr. Clark’s, they have a
dancing school, taught by Mr. Hall, a fiddling school taught by Mr. S. D. Tanner, and last,
though perhaps not least, a whistling school one evening per week. The whistling school is
taught by Mr. Tanner, who is said to be proficient in the science. At this school there are
eighteen scholars who attend punctually one night in each week, and I should think that they
were making great progress, judging from their serenading trip around our town last Sunday
evening. Yours, &c. CARLISLE.
Report of Grand Jury—January Term 1860.
To the Hon. Court of Sessions: —We the undersigned Grand Jurors beg leave to submit the
following report: There has been seven presentments before us, which were disposed of as
follows: Grand larceny, two indictments; bills ignored, two; cases dismissed, three.
In the discharge of our duties as Grand Jurors, we submit the following facts, and
recommendations to the serious attention and consideration of the Board of Supervisors.
THE COURT HOUSE.
The Grand Jury would most urgently call their attention to the condition of the Court House.
The leakage of the roof is destroying the plastering of the court room, besides impairing the
security of the side walls of the building. In addition to this, the whole building requires
painting. Such is the effect of the mountain climate upon brick, that no prudent man permits
even a brick chimney to remain unpainted—and the longer the Court House is suffered to
remain unpainted and unprotected the greater will be the injury, and the more difficult this
remedy. We also suggest the impropriety of allowing the building to be used as a ball room.
The necessary removal of the furniture for this purpose is destructive of it, while the motion of
dancing is most injurious to the walls. We find the Jury room in a most shameful condition,