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NEVADA GAZETTE SEPTEMBER 2 & 4, 1865 441
blowing at the time, and had the flames got fairly under way another destructive conflagration would
doubtless have been the result. This is almost the precise spot in which the last terrible fire originated.
A FINE SIGHT.—A beautiful spectacle was presented to our citizens on Thursday night. The woods
about a mile to the northwest of this city were on fire, the trees and shrubbery on a space of several acres
in extent being in a blaze at the same moment. One tall old monarch of the forest was on fire from foot
to topmost bough, and the flames licking and leaping from branch to branch, enveloping him completely
in a winding-sheet of fire and casting a lurid light on all surrounding objects, afforded a spectacle beside
which all manufactured pyrotechnics fade into insignificance.
STAGES FOR COLFAX.—Mr. Davidson, stage agent of this city, has received instructions to run
the stages, on and after Tuesday next, to Colfax, to connect with the cars at that place. Colfax is sixteen
miles from this city. It is the nearest point on the Central Pacific Railroad to this section of country. The
proprietors of the railroad deserve great credit for completing the road so speedily to Colfax. They are
pushing on over the mountains with the same vigor.
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1865
Won’t Do.
Deal undertakes to insinuate a denial of our charge that he told Mr. [W. C.] Bradley he was going
over to the Union party because he could make more money by so doing. Mr. Bradley himself is our
informant. Where the two men are known, Deal’s denial will not weigh a feather against Mr. Bradley’s
positive declaration.
BORN. In this city, September Ist, to the wife of William Harding of Bear River, two sons—one
weighing 8’ and the other 9 pounds.
In Grass Valley, September 2d, to the wife of [James] S. McCue, a son.
RECOVERING.—Postmaster Norton of Grass Valley, who was smitten with paralysis a few days
since, is slowly recovering.
CONCERT.—Hall & Hayward’s grand promenade concert and ball will take place at Temperance
Hall on Friday evening next. Of course everybody and his wife will be there.
THEATRICAL.—Mr. Maguire’s dramatic troupe will appear at Hamilton Hall, Grass Valley, on
Wednesday evening next, and will retain the boards for the remainder of the week. We understand they
will open the Nevada Theater on Monday evening next.
PERSONAL.—Under the head of “Retrospect,” the fugleman of the Grass Valley Union is giving
his personal experiences, and proceeds to tell of the “blissful sensations a Celestial enjoys after his
favorite indulgence in opium.” Come, now, don’t intrude your family matters upon the public.
SOME APPLES.—At Beckman & Carley’s saloon we yesterday saw a couple of apples which in
some countries would be considered large. They were from Henry Arnold’s orchard, at Lake City, and
each weighed twenty ounces and measured sixteen inches in circumference. Mr. Arnold says he sent his
large apples to the Marysville Fair; there were from a young tree, but he thinks when it gets a few more
years it will produce fruit of a respectable size.