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GRASS VALLEY UNION AUGUST 1 & 2, 1866 247
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 1, 1866
[List of unclaimed letters at Grass Valley Post Office as of August 1, 1866.]
TRAVELING “BILKS.”—No portion of California, we venture to say, is more humbugged by
unprincipled, itinerant showmen than the part of Nevada county embracing the towns of Grass Valley
and Nevada. We have two large, prosperous towns, only four miles apart, and a better field for theatrical
“bilks” can nowhere be found. If they humbug the people of Nevada, the can easily have their rascality
glossed over, and come right down to our town and “play” our people in a double sense. Three companies
have performed in this place within the past three months, and they have all incurred bills which they
have failed to pay—such failures, as we have the best of reason for believing, being the result, not of
misfortune, but of a deliberately formed determination to swindle those who trusted such dirty loafers.
We have no private grievance to place before the public, we are not silly enough for the present at least,
to admit that a lot of third-rate, whisky-guzzling, melodeon sharps ever swindled us. We write in order
that unsuspecting people may guard against a class who can no longer impose upon the people of San
Francisco, but seek as a field of operations this excellent field in Nevada county. We suggest that hotel
keepers, hall proprietors, printing office people, and livery men, in future secure their bills in advance
from strolling theatrical companies, especially if such companies are labeled “Metropolitan.”
NOT GUILT Y.—The greater portion of yesterday was consumed in trying the case of the People vs.
Richard Acosta, charged with stealing a horse from John Colligan, valued at thirty-five dollars, the case
being tried by jury in Judge Byrne’s court. E. W. Roberts appeared for the prosecution, and G. L. Waters
for the defence, both of whom argued the case at considerable length. The jury, after short deliberation,
returned a verdict of “Not Guilty.”
MORE OF THEIR DOINGS.—A couple of teamsters were robbed, early on Monday morning last,
down on the Marysville and Grass Valley road; and the teamsters have good reason to believe that they
were robbed by the same parties who overhauled Roberts and Bell on Sunday night last. Efforts were
made, on Monday last, to capture the highwaymen, but at the present writing they have not been taken.
BITTEN BY A DOG.—James Pearce, while returning from work early yesterday morning, was
attacked by Davis & Co., dog, when in front of the butcher shop of this firm down on Main street, and
was severely bitten three or four times about the legs and once about the face.
THURSDAY, AUGUST 2, 1866
MINING ACCIDENT—MAN KILLED.—An accident occurred at the Ione mine, near this place,
on last Wednesday night, by which a man named James Monaghan was instantaneously killed,
and another man named Arthur Malloy was slightly hurt. The accident occurred about 11
o’clock, when the shifts were changing. A number of the miners who had just finished their
shift, made a rush to get on the “skip,” or cage, to be hoisted to the surface, Monaghan being
among the number. The cage being full, Monaghan very imprudently jumped on the side of
it, and up started the load to the mouth of the perpendicular shaft. When up some distance
Monaghan’s body came in contact with the side of the shaft, by which he was literally mashed
to pieces, his body falling to the bottom of the shaft. We did not learn how Malloy was hurt,
but it is evident that his injuries are only slight, as he walked to his home after the accident.