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Title: 1865 Collection Type: Directories and Documents Collection Name: Nevada County News & Advertisments # of Pages: 627 Download PDF: User Login Required Download OCR Text: User Login Required

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NEVADA GAZETTE DECEMBER 25, 1865 603 article in defense of the Trustees, and by direct falsehoods endeavors to screen them from all blame. The Transcript says: “The children which the Gazette has been making so much ado about, were ordered to be dismissed from the school before the matter was ever alluded to by that paper, but through some misunderstanding, the order was not enforced until one of the Trustees, who was absent from town, returned.” This statement is utterly false. On the 12th of December, after having had the matter under consideration for more than a month, the Trustees did “‘resolve” to dismiss the scholars, but no order to that effect was given to the teacher, nor did the Trustees themselves, as was their duty, take any steps to enforce this resolution. To show how prompt and efficient the Trustees have been in the discharge of their duties, we will state a few facts in connection with this matter. In the early part of November complaint was made to one of the Trustees, and there the matter rested, as far as we know, until the 22d of the same month, when, after being repeatedly urged to refer to the subject in our columns, “one of the attaches of the Gazette” called on Mr. Spence to ascertain what action the Trustees intended to take. Mr. Spence stated that the Trustees were in doubt as to their authority, and requested that a petition be got up, in order to give them some ground for dismissing the scholars. The aforesaid “attache“ wrote out a petition, and presented it to a gentleman sending children to the school for his signature, who refused to sign it on the ground that he had been insulted for remonstrating with the Trustees on a former occasion, and he would not take the chances of being treated in like manner a second time. These facts were communicated to Mr. Spence, and he was again urged to act in this matter, without any further authority than that conferred by his official position, stating at the same time that we did not desire to refer to the subject in the Gazette. On the 14th of December the Trustees “resolved” to dismiss the scholars, but as no attempt was made to carry it into effect, the matter was referred to in the Gazette of the 15th, for the first time, and the children were in daily attendance at the school until the very last day of the term, and it is probably they would not have been dismissed then had not the Trustees repeatedly informed the patrons of the school, whom they knew would visit it on that day, that it had been done long before. As the objectionable pupils have at length been dismissed, we should not have alluded to the matter further than to have announced the fact, had it not been for the misrepresentations of the Transcript, for we are as anxious as any one can be that the public schools shall enjoy a good reputation at home and abroad. In regard to incompetency of teachers, though it had no direct connection with this matter, and did not allude to the Intermediate School, we merely expressed our own opinion, and that of a number of others who are qualified and have the means of judging. CHRISTMAS PRESENTS.—The distribution of Christmas presents took place at the Methodist Church on Saturday evening. The building was crowded, many being compelled to leave for want of standing room. The services were opened by singing, recitations, dialogues, etc., by the pupils of the Sunday School, after which the presents were taken from the tree and distributed one by one. A Christmas Tree was also erected in the Catholic Church, where a large number of children assembled to receive their presents. ROBBED.—John Fitter, of the firm of Koch & Fitter, North San Juan, was stopped by highwaymen on Friday evening, near Sebastopol, and robbed of three dollars, all the money he had with him at the time. ARRIVED.—John Pattison, of the Assembly, arrived in town yesterday afternoon. Belden, Dornin, and other members [who] were expected up, from some cause did not come.