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202 JUNE 28 & 29, 1866 GRASS VALLEY UNION
public to be the most wonderful Son of Momus [?] since the days of the famed Wallet.
The PAVILLION is entirely new, fitted up with all the modern improvements of a
First Class Circus.
<#The Company can remain only two days.
ce Admission, $1. Children half price. Doors open at 7 o’clock; performance to commence at 8.
J. ALEXANDER, Agent.
FRIDAY, JUNE 29, 1866
J. Ross Browne, acting as the agent of the California fruit growers, has induced the Finance
Committee of the Senate to strike from the Tax bill the tax on native wines and to impose a tax of fifty
cents per gallon on foreign wines of inferior grades. If this amendment is approved by Congress the
wine-growing interest of California will be stimulated.
HAMILTON HALL.—J. H. Ruby and Co., will open Hamilton Hall this evening with a talented
dramatic troupe. The piece selected for the opening is Shakspeare’s beautiful tragedy of Hamlet. Miss
Charlotte Crampton, an actress of some celebrity as a tragedienne, appears in the role of Hamlet, Prince
of Denmark. The San Francisco Dramatic Chronicle, speaking of this lady, says that her Hamlet is a
beautiful and finished piece of acting. We have seen Hamlet murdered at least fifty times. The only
parties who ever played the character up to our idea of what it should be, were Edwin Booth and Jas.
Murdoch. McKean Buchanan attempted it and failed. Bandman did the same thing. It is one of the
prettiest and most intricate of Shaksperian characters, and when well attained amply repays an audience
the expense of visiting a theatre. In the hands of Miss Crampton we feel satisfied the “Prince” will be
well taken care of. She has voice, and all the physique required for the successful impersonation of the
character. To us the idea of a six-footer or a man weighing two hundred essaying to represent the slender
and almost effeminate Prince, seems simply absurd. Not even Forrest, with his world wide reputation,
could LOOK to us the Hamlet we think Shakspeare intended. The Company embrace some old favorites,
among whom are Mrs. Sam. Wells, Mr. L. F. Beatty and others who have made their mark on the stage.
The Compan is a powerful one.
[DIED] We are called upon to announce this morning the death of O. P. McCalmont, a late resident
of Grass Valley, and a gentleman who had won for himself the respect and esteem of all with
whom he became acquainted during his brief residence here. A victim to consumption, he has
suffered from its ravages for many, many years. Mr. McCalmont was an excellent mechanic,
and he it was who put up the splendid machinery for the Spring Hill Company. He endeavored
to baffle the disease that he knew was fast dragging him down to the grave; sought changes
of climate innumerable; but all to no purpose. From Grass Valley he went to San Francisco,
where he had been confined to bed for several months. He at last concluded to remove to
Sacramento, his former home, and did so a short time ago. Here he continued to sink until last
Tuesday evening, when death put an end to his sufferings. He breathed his last at the Golden
Eagle Hotel, surrounded by his wife and friends. Poor Mac; noble-hearted, kind and generous
to a fault, may you at last find rest and peace in the world where disease and death can never
enter. Mr. McCalmont leaves a large circle of friends in this county, who, while they have for
sometime past been prepared to hear of his demise, will, nevertheless, now that the blow has
fallen, feel deep regrets at his transit from this to another world.
THE FOURTH IN NEVADA.—The Committee of Arrangements for the Fourth of July celebration
are providing unparalleled attractions for that day. Besides the military, firemen and civic societies, we
understand that the log-haulers, with their large teams of oxen gaily decorated, the quartz miners and the