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GRASS VALLEY UNION JULY 26 & 27, 1866 229
HAMILTON HALL.—The Metropolitan troupe will open the theatre at this place this evening. We
bespeak them a good house.
FRIDAY, JULY 27, 1866
THE DAUBING NUISANCE.—To such an extent has the nuisance grown of daubing
advertisements on fences, trees and buildings with marking brush and stencil plate, that the authorities
of San Francisco, in order to abate the nuisance, have been compelled to pass a stringent ordinance
against this quack manner of advertising. Go where you will in Grass Valley, or in fact in any of our
towns, or along any of our thoroughfares, and your eye rests on some quack advertisement daubed on the
fences or corner buildings. You are urged in characters of the deepest lamp-black to get you clothing of
Haston, Heustings & Co., to buy your hats of Mushdoffer, to patronize some general establishment in San
Francisco, to try S. F. 1860’s world-renowned Swamp and Overflowed Land Bitters, or, if not satisfied
with all these, you are urged so strongly and so frequently to sample some of Hostetters Bitters, that you
feel almost tempted to try some kind of poison to relieve you from this advertising bore. On the fence
in the vicinity of the Orphan Asylum in this place, where little girls cannot fail to see the disgusting
advertisement, standing out as it does, obtrusively before their eyes, is a legend informing them that
anatomical wonders can be seen at Dr. Somebody’s establishment in San Francisco. The nuisance should
be abated, and we hope the Trustees of Grass Valley will act in the matter as soon as they conveniently
can. [Inasmuch as the UNION solicited and regularly filled its columns with exactly such notices, “quack
advertisements” seem to have been any that failed to support newspapers. ]
HOW MANY WHITE MEN?—A correspondent of the Nevada Transcript, who was among the
excursionists on the late stockholder’s train from Sacramento to Alta, says that ten thousand men are now
employed by the Pacific Central Railroad Co. between Alta and the summit, and the company is anxious
to hire three thousand more. Will this correspondent, if the task be not too irksome, give us the number of
white men employed by Crocker & Co., on the portion of the road between Alta and the Summit?
EVIDENTLY INSANE.—Lucius Gardener, a colored barber of this place, has been giving
evidences of insanity for the past two or three days. One of his vagaries is, that a number of persons
have entered into a conspiracy to murder him, and to protect himself from the imaginary foes, he has
been of late carrying a Colt’s revolver and a Derringer. Marshal Snow yesterday discovered him. Should
Gardener continue to act of [sic] insanely as he has acted for the past few days, we think he should be
arrested and have his case investigated.
ACCEPTED THE CALL.—Rev. W. F. Snow, formerly pastor in charge of the Congregational
church of this place, has recently accepted a call to the Elliott Congregational church in Lawrence,
Massachusetts.
CONTINUES WARM.—The weather continues warm even to the uncomfortable point. Shady
spots are in demand, and people seem inclined to keep as cool as the rather heated atmosphere will
permit.
DANCE AT UNION HILL.—Remember the dance to be given at Montgomery’s Hall, Union Hill,
this evening. Great preparations have been made, and a good time is anticipated.