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GRASS VALLEY UNION APRIL 22 & 24, 1866 119
Irishmen generally, and those who sympathise with Ireland, to be held at Hamilton Hall on Saturday
evening. This meeting is to be addressed by Col. P. F. Walsh, Inspector-General of the Fenian
Brotherhood, who is represented as a man of large information and great eloquence. This meeting
will doubtless be one of the largest ever held in Grass Valley. There can be but few in our midst who
do not sympathise with the down-trodden and oppressed people of Ireland in their efforts to obtain a
government in which they can have protection and confidence. Certainly every American, if he places the
proper estimate upon the freedom he enjoys, must be in sympathy with the Irish people. The “Green Isle”
may yet form one of these glorious and happy States.
FENIAN MEETINGS.—Col. P. F. Walsh has made the following appointments to address the
people of the several localities mentioned below, during the coming week:
Sacramento, on Tuesday, April 24th.
Marysville, on Wednesday, the 25th.
Smartsville, on Thursday, the 26th.
Grass Valley, on Saturday, the 28th.
Allison Ranch, on Sunday, the 29th.
TUESDAY, APRIL 24, 1866
Frank Morris, the twelfth victim of the nitro-glycerine explosion, died on Saturday evening... .
The nitro-glycerine of Bandmann, Neilsen & Co., lately stored at the powder house, has been
placed on a barge and anchored out in the Bay.
WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN.—It is enough to make the cold chills creep over one’s flesh to read
the following from the Sacramento Union of Friday:
“We are informed, that about a week ago three boxes of nitro-glycerine arrived in the city
from San Francisco, and remained ten hours at the shed of the Steam Navigation Company,
among other freight, without anybody being aware of its extremely dangerous character. These
boxes were eighteen inches long and twelve inches square. The fluid is supposed to have been
contained in tin packages. The quantity contained in these boxes was enough, of course—had
they been roughly handled—to have produced terrible destruction of life and property. They
were shipped at San Francisco as ordinary freight, without any word of caution being given to
the officers of the boat. It is true they were marked “nitro-glycerine,” but as nobody knew what
that meant, no special caution was observed. These packages were consigned to the Pacific
Railroad Company... .
HIGHWAY ROBBERY.—On Saturday night, between nine and ten o’clock, while Jas. Butler and
Tom Morrisey [sp?] were returning from Grass Valley to the Allison Ranch, and when about two hundred
yards below Boston Ravine, they were stopped by a masked highwayman who, pistol in hand, demanded
what money they had. Butler had very little change with him, and this being in the watchpocket of his
pants, the thief after a careful search, bid him, with an oath, march on. The other man was then gone
through, with no better success. He was then pretty well cursed for being so poor, and told to go on his
way. A short time after, T. L. Miller and Adam Holden were stopped on the same road and probably by
the same thief, about one hundred yards this side of Laramie’s Mill, and robbed of about thirty dollars
in gold and silver coin. Miller had a watch in his pocket, which the highwayman endeavored to take, but
Miller being a stout man and possessed of considerable grit, dropped some parcels he had in his hand,
and seizing the pistol by the barrel, succeeded in nearly wrenching it from the footpad. In the scuffle the
pistol went off, lodging the ball in the ground, the cap striking and injuring the middle one of Miller’s