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NEVADA DEMOCRAT JANUARY 11, 1860 5
and earnestly recommend that it be properly furnished and put in a proper condition for the
accommodation of trial jury.
THE JAIL.
We also suggest the propriety of enclosing the east and west sides of the Court House, as a
measure protective of the Jail, and humanity to the prisoners. The subterranean nature of the
Jail renders a proper ventilation very difficult—but still necessary for the health of the persons
in custody. The windows through which this is effected, open directly upon the public streets,
and the jailor has no means of preventing direct communication between those in the jail, and
whoever may see fit to come to these windows. The health of the prisoners require that these
windows should be kept open, and their safe keeping, that the means of improper
communication with outsiders should not be permitted.
We also suggest and advise that those person who are imprisoned in the County Jail for
petty thefts and misdemeanors, be employed in such a way as is consistent with their
safe-keeping, upon some public or private works; several reasons may be given in favor of
such employment of the county prisoners. In the first place, it lightens the burden of their
support, now, a very serious drain upon the finances of the county; it also makes of
imprisonment, (when connected with labor) a punishment, whereas the greater number of those
sentenced to the county Jail regard their confinement as merely a respite from rascality, and
return to their criminal practices unawed by the past and undeterred by the fear of future
punishment. ...
COUNTY HOSPITAL.
We find the “Indigent Sick Fund” in a depleted condition, the present indebtedness is
$13,000, the interest thereon per annum, amounts to $1,300. The total income for the year
1859, amounted to $7,783,32, and the total expenditures for the same year was $11,296,16,
leaving a deficit for the year of $3,512,84, thus swelling the amount of the debt yearly, to the
sum of $3,500. ...
S. W. BORING, Foreman. I. Williamson, M. H. Funston, J. E. Hamlin, A. H. Hagadorn, W. P.
Harrington, A. W. Potter, I. J. Rolfe, C. W. Young, S. Mayers, L. Samuel, H. H. Flagg, John
Webber, G. R. Lancaster, T. W. Sigourney, Ed. Muller.
BIRTH. In this City, January 9th, the wife of Geo. S. Hupp, Esq., of a daughter.
THE RAILROAD SURVEY.—Mr. [S. G.] Elliott commenced the preliminary survey for a railroad
to Auburn on Thursday last, but was compelled to suspend operations on Friday and Saturday, in
consequence of the severe storms. On Monday the line was run about two miles, through Peck’s Ravine,
to the top of the ridge between Nevada and Grass Valley. The survey was commenced about half a mile
from the corner of Pine and Broad streets, about two hundred feet above the bed of Deer creek, and in two
miles the grade will rise some eighty feet, after which it will commence descending at the rate of about
eighty feet to the mile, which is adopted as the regular grade. It is thought that the only points where the
grade will have to be reversed, are between Nevada and Grass Valley, and at the crossings of Wolf creek
and Bear river. .. .
BLASTING ACCIDENT.—A Frenchman named Alphonse Baptist, who was working in a tunnel
near Bloomfield, was shockingly injured last Wednesday morning by the discharge of a blast. The blast
had been charged and fuse lighted, when the workmen left the tunnel to await the explosion. After waiting