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NEVADA GAZETTE AUGUST 18 & 19, 1865 403
enough, in fact, to supply the demand. This is a good “indication,” notwithstanding people complain of
dull times.
PROBABLY ALL RIGHT.—We learn that it has been ascertained that a pair of blankets and other
articles are missing from the cabin of Mr. Fred. Carpenter—the man who was yesterday reported as
having “mysteriously disappeared”—and the supposition now is that he has quietly packed up his traps
and gone off prospecting. [For more about Carpenter’s mysterious activities, see the August 18 Union and
the September Ist Gazette. ]
ORPHAN ASYLUM.—The workmen engaged on this building, says the National, are getting along
quite well, considering the number engaged. The basement, which is of rock, has been put up and the first
story is built of brick, and the work is well done. Dunnicliffe & Co., the contractors for the brick work,
are rushing it through, although they have some difficulty in getting men, owing to the fact that there is so
much building going on. Mr. Kent, who has the contract to do the wood work on the Asylum, is a superior
workman, and is doing his work in a skillful manner. . . .
MISS KING’S READINGS.—To-night our citizens will have an opportunity of listening to the
finest lady reader that has ever visited this coast. The fame of Miss Angela Starr King is National, and
since her arrival in this State she has met with a success hitherto unparalleled. . . .
MEADOW LAKE.—Onr friend Gerry Morgan, who arrived on Wednesday from the new mines,
is enthusiastic in praise of that section, and confident of a prosperous future in store for those who locate
there. Three weeks ago, he says, “not a board stood on end in Summit City;” yet on Monday evening last
he attended a party in a two-story hotel, which was graced by the presence of as many ladies as could be
accommodated. He estimates that close around Summit City there are as many as twelve hundred people,
and more going in as fast as they can get there. Two daily stage lines from Virginia City are running
crowded to the mines and empty from them. Nevada and Grass Valley are but slimly represented, while
large delegations are there from Moore’s Flat, Eureka, and other points in the north end of the county.
Two mills are being erected at Summit City, and materials for three more are on their way—one of which
is a twenty-stamp mill, owned by parties in San Francisco. Some of the ledges are of decomposed quartz,
and in the absence of mills the owners are working it with an old fashioned “rocker,” and are said to be
realizing twenty dollars per day to the man. A heavy business is done in town lots—some which sold
three weeks ago for twenty-five to fifty dollars being now worth from five hundred to one thousand.
SATURDAY, AUGUST 19, 1865
THE Sacramento Valley Railroad has been sold and transferred to the Central Pacific Railroad
Company.
DIED. In this city, August 18th, G. A. VOLLHABER, aged 63 years. The funeral will take place from
his late residence on Spring street, at ten o’clock A.M. to-day.
AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL.—The mackerel-dealer who grinds out his daily grist of trash, filth and
falsehood for the Grass Valley Union, has commenced writing his autobiography. The first chapter was
published yesterday, and commences at that early age when the writer of it was nothing but a snapping,
snarling, ill-natured, mangy “bull pup.” The next chapter will probably bring his history down to the time