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118 APRIL 22, 1866 GRASS VALLEY UNION
ship, were killed. About four hundred feet of the wharf, belonging to the Panama Railroad Company
was destroyed. The total loss of property is estimated at $1,000,000. These terrific explosions induced
Mayor Hoffman of New York to instruct the Fire Marshal to seize all of the nitro glycerine that could be
found in the city or on the shipping in the harbor. Colonel Birstenbinder, formerly commander of an Ohio
regiment, has been arrested for shipping the blasting oil to California. . . .
The Coroner’s jury, in the case of the nitro-glycerine explosion at San Francisco, rendered a verdict
on Friday. It is severe on the individual who shipped the explosive compound without indicating its
nature, but exonerates the Pacific Mail Steamship Company and Wells, Fargo & Co., from all blame.
THE Topographical party of the Central Pacific Railroad consisting of Batler Ives and twenty-one
men, have reached as far as Stone’s crossing on the Truckee River, and will start from there on Monday,
(23d.) towards Salt Lake City, which place they will, in all probability, reach in two months, completing
the railroad survey in the meantime.
ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE.—Robert Dodge, who was convicted of murder in the first degree, in the
District Court, on Thursday last, made an attempt to take his life. The Sheriff and his deputies anticipated
something of the kind, and have used every precaution to foil him in the attempt. On Friday morning, as
the jailor was going from cell to cell, as is his custom, he was informed by one of the other prisoners that
something was the matter with Dodge. Thinking Dodge was playing possum and would make an attempt
to escape, the jailor procured the assistance of the other deputies, and they all went into the cell together,
where they found Dodge, as they believed, in a dying condition. They sent for a physician, and then on
looking around, found an empty bottle. On the table were several pages of manuscript written by the
prisoner, addressed “To the People of Nevada county,” and another slip of paper contained these words:
“T have taken poison.” Dodge was then taken from his cell to the Sheriff’s office. Dr. Bates arrived and
commenced operations by inserting the tube of a stomach pump into his mouth. That aroused him, and
he exclaimed, “What are your about, boys, don’t for God’s sake stick a bar down my throat.” Upon his
promising to take some medicine the pump was withdrawn and the medicine reluctantly taken. As soon
as he had taken the medicine, he said, “Where arm I, is it morning?” Upon being interrogated he stated
that he did not eat any supper the previous evening, because he wanted the poison to do its work well. He
says: “Late in the evening I wrote what you will find on my table in the cell, and then I took the contents
of that bottle, which was about half full of opium. You have got me, boys. I tried to kill myself, but you
would not let me. I want to die. Give me some prussic acid. A Chinaman gave me the opium. . told him
I wanted it to make me sleep. There are too many traitors in this world and I don’t want to live in it. I
took the opium at about 11 o’clock last night, but did not take enough of it. Oh! I was having such a nice
sleep when you woke me, and I thought it would be a long sleep. Why didn’t you let me die, boys?” He is
now under the care of the County Physician, R. M. Hunt, and has nearly recovered from the effects of the
opium. He will be sentenced on Monday next at 10 o’clock.
UNION HILL.—A large amount of improvement is going on on this hill. The Union Hill Company,
owned by Thomas Findley and others, are about putting up a twenty-stamp mill. The Cambridge
Company, under the superintendence of Con. Riley, one of the owners, is now engaged in putting up
hoisting works, and as soon as these are completed, the latter company will also commence the erection
of a mill. The ledges upon Union Hill are among the most valuable in the country, and when work is
started in earnest, which will be in a very short time, the results will be some of the most extraordinary
discoveries yet made in this section. These claims are both owned by men of capital, and will have all the
machinery necessary for a thorough working of the ledges.
PUBLIC MEETING.—A call has been issued for a public meeting of the Fenian Brotherhood,