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NEVADA TRANSCRIPT JANUARY 11, 12, 13, 1865 25
aged 2 years and 11 months. The funeral will take place from the residence of the parents on
Sacramento street, this morning at 11 o’clock.
[DEATH] A shocking murder was committed at Allison’s Ranch on Sunday night upon Mark P.
Hammock by some unknown person, by shooting through the window of Ahern’s saloon, at
the bar of which Hammock was standing. The weapon was a shot gun. The cowardly assassin
escaped for the present.
CATHOLIC CHURCH.—The Catholic Church is drawing to a completion. Workmen are now
engaged in building the steeple.
THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, 1865
PHOTOGRAPHS of Senator Nye have recently been published in San Francisco. The attempt to
photograph Stewart failed, as no plate could be found large enough to display his teeth.
It is said the Merrimac Company, whose claims are situated on the Grass Valley road, near
McCarty’s ranch, made a big clean up a few days ago. These claims are owned by Thos. Findley, Geo. D.
Roberts, A. E. Head, Jos. Woodworth and others.
We are told that Buckman & [Valentine] Curran are not able to make the [Faucherie] turbine wheel
they have attached to their new mill at Little York, work. The stamps are put up in fours in batteries, and
the motion is too swift, while not sufficient for eight. The journals heat in and melt the boxes, and the grit
in the water cuts badly. They will probably discard it for an overshot wheel.
NEW STORE.—We understand A. H. Hanson has leased the store belonging to Dr. R. M. Hunt,
adjoining the National Exchange Hotel, on Broad street, and will open shortly with a new stock of
groceries.
FRIDAY, JANUARY 13, 1865
PERSONAL.—Bro. [H. C.] Bennett, of the Grass Valley Union, called on us yesterday afternoon.
We had been led to believe that he was a very homely and “savagerous” man. On the contrary, we found
him to be pretty good looking, affable and as sociable a gentleman as we would wish to meet with. Bro.
Bennett, may you live long enough to change the political atmosphere of Grass Valley.
DUEL.—We learn that while H. C. Bennett, of the Union was in this city yesterday afternoon, John
R. Ridge, of the National, went to his office to assault him. Not finding Bennett there he left and soon
after met him on the street. Ridge drew his pistol and told Bennett to do the same. Bennett refused to fight
him on the street but told him he would meet him, whereupon a challenge was passed and accepted. This
is all we could learn up to the hour of our going to press.
THERE JS a striking similarity between the murder of Hammock, recently at Allison Ranch, and
that of Dr. [William] Lennox, assassinated in this place early [January 19] in 1851. Lennox was in his
house near where the Court House now stands, in the evening, when a rifle shot through the window
gave him a mortal wound of which he soon expired. A Mr. [Lewis] Best, a neighbor, between whom
and Lennox unfriendly feelings had existed, was arrested, but discharged after examination, no legal
testimony being found against him, although there was little doubt in the public mind that he was the