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NEVADA TRANSCRIPT OCTOBER 1 & 3, 1865 511
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1865
PREACHING.—Rev. Green, A.M.E., will preach at the Methodist Church on Pine street, this
morning at 11 o’clock and in the afternoon at 3 o’clock.
MEADOW LAKE CITY.—Notwithstanding the near approach of Winter, the people of Meadow
Lake city, Excelsior District, continue to build and prospect. The city now contains about one hundred and
seventy buildings and six or seven are now going up. An excellent road has been opened from the town to
the Henness Pass road, every day new ledges are being located and prospectors will continue work until
the winter snows compel them to stop. Many of the companies already at work are erecting substantial
buildings over their works, and will continue operation without interruption during the winter. As soon as
the snow melts next spring there will be a tremendous rush for the new mines and the population by the
1st of June will be in the neighborhood of two or three thousand.
A HAND GRENADE.—We saw at Beckman & Carley’s yesterday, a hand grenade, which was
brought from the East by B. H. Collier, of this city, who has been assistant engineer upon one of the
Mississippi gunboats. It is a dangerous looking missle [sic], and is a Yankee invention since the beginning
of the war. These weapons used to be made round and were discharged by means of a fuse. In 1812 the
United States introduced the oval grenade which was discharged from cannon. The English soon after
imitated them. The hand grenade is thrown by hand. The one shown us consists of an oval shell of cast
iron about two inches by four. The old style of using fuse, which rendered the use of the missle almost
as dangerous to the assailant as to the assailed, is dispensed with, and in its stead a cap is used which is
exploded as soon as the grenade strikes an object. It is an effective weapon and can be used with great
effect in annoying an enemy in trenches and other lodgements.
DISTRICT COURT, Sept. 30th —A. Allen vs D. Allen. Referred to W. C. Holt to take testimony.
G. Sanguinti, a native of Sardinia, naturalized.
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1865
APPOINTMENT.—Rev. David Deal, late Presiding Elder of this District, has been appointed to the
Stockton M.E. church.
A SCOUNDREL PUNISHED.—If there is an incarnate fiend more infamous than another, it is the
man who attempts to bring ruin upon a woman. A case has been recently brought to our notice in which
one J. S. Danford attempted to bring worse than death upon a girl about fifteen years of age in this city.
An obscene picture, upon the back of which was written an invitation for a meeting, was placed in the
Post Office, directed to the girl, but it happened to get into the hands of her father. It was signed “More
manners than brains,” and contained a most disgustingly obscene picture.
The parent determined, if possible, to find the author, and for this purpose wrote a note, stating that
the family would be out on Sunday from 11 to 3 o’clock, and inviting the fellow to come to the house
at that time. The letter was so worded that the recipient could never tell where to go, unless he was the
author of the note to the girl, and was signed, “From you know who.” On Sunday last, the father of the
girl, after telling his daughter of the conduct of the rascal cut a good sized club and remained at home
with his daughter.
His strategy won, and the fiend came promptly at 11 o’clock, a rather unusual hour for callers. He
was invited in by the girl, and as soon as he had seated himself, the father appeared with a double barreled