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NEVADA TRANSCRIPT JULY 20-22, 24, 1866 209
FRIDAY, JULY 20, 1866
NATURALIZED.—Louis Henri Pellatier, a native of Switzerland, was yesterday admitted to
citizenship by the District Court.
SATURDAY, JULY 21, 1866
DEATH OF MRS. SKELTON. The wife of John P. Skelton [Mary L. Bell Skelton], of the National
[newspaper], died at Grass Valley, on last Thursday afternoon, of that flattering, but fatal
disease, consumption, aged 22 years. ... Young, beautiful and amiable, she was called away
from earth to Heaven ....
The Main street bridge will be thrown open to travel today.
SUNDAY, JULY 22, 1866
ARMORY PURCHASED.—The Nevada Light Guard has purchased the Hook & Ladder house, and
will soon have it fitted up in excellent style for an Armory.
DIED. In this city, on the 21st inst., Mary Virginia, daughter of [Alonzo] D. and Helen Virginia
[Smith] Tower, aged 11 months.
SURGICAL OPERATION.—A large rose cancer was extracted from the left breast of Calvin
McDonald, yesterday, by Dr. R. M. Hunt, at the County Hospital. McDonald came to this city several
days since, having walked from Austin, Nevada. He is doing well and will recover.
TUESDAY, JULY 24, 1866
MARRIED. In San Francisco, July 19th, Geo. A. Church, of this city, to Stella D. Cobb.
In this city, at the residence of John Cashin, July 22d, 1866, by Rev. Father Dalton, John Belden to
Miss E. Dagen, all of Nevada City.
A TRIP ON THE PACIFIC RAILROAD.—Your correspondent had an invitation to take a trip to
the present terminal town of Alta, on Saturday last, and availed himself of the opportunity to see the
great work so long talked of by politicians, and now in process of execution. It was an excursion of the
stockholders and their families, gotten up by the managers of the road, and a pleasant excursion it was,
with nothing to mar the pleasure that belonged to the occasion.
Nine car loads of men, women and children, mostly residents of Sacramento, went up the sierra,
away from the heat and dust of the valley, to get a sniff of fresh air, among the pines of the mountains,
and to enjoy the feast of good things prepared with lavish hand by the Railroad Company. Of chickens
where was an incredible quantity, and of rum punch, galore, not to mention the long list of nice things
that serve to decorate a table as well as delight the palate of the gastronome.
But, your correspondent does not propose to puff the Railroad Company for a deadhead ride and a
dinner. His object, in writing these lines, is to call attention to the labors of a powerful organization that
is very soon to be possessed of one-half of your county—an organization whose arrangements are such
that the assaults of the press or of individuals can no longer either help or harm. The Railroad Company
has, in the face of mighty opposition put an effective force in the field, negotiated its securities, purchased