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Title: 1866 Collection Type: Directories and Documents Collection Name: Nevada County News & Advertisments # of Pages: 374 Download PDF: User Login Required Download OCR Text: User Login Required

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GRASS VALLEY UNION OCTOBER 18 & 20, 1866 321 HAMILTON HALL. Saturday Evening Oct. 20. LECTURE BY MARK TWAIN, ON THE SANDWICH ISLANDS. After the lecture is over, the Lecturer will perform the following Feats of SLEIGHT OF HAND, if desired to do so. At a given signal, we will go out with any gentleman and take a drink. If desired, he will repeat this unique and interesting feat—repeat it until the audience are satisfied that there is no deception about it. At a moment’s warning he will depart out of town and leave his hotel bill unsettled. He has performed this ludicrous trick many hundreds of times, in San Francisco and elsewhere, and it has always elicited the most enthusiastic comments. At any hour of the night, after 10, the Lecturer will go through any house in the city; no matter how dark it may be, and take an inventory of its contents, and not miss as many of the articles as the owner will in the morning. The Lecturer declines to specify any more of his miraculous feats at present, for fear of getting the police too much interested in his circus. Doors open at 7 o’clock, trouble begins at 8. Admission * * * * $100. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1866 MARK TWAIN’S LECTURE TO-NIGHT—As has already been announced in these columns, Mark Twain, one of the greatest of American humorists, will lecture to-night, at Hamilton Hall, for the benefit of the Grass Valleyans, his subject being the Sandwich Islands. Those who have read Mark Twain’s letters from the Islands, which were recently published in the Sacramento Union, need not be informed that he posted himself thoroughly on the resources of that portion of the world, as well as the peculiarities of the Sandwich Islanders. His letters to the Union were full of valuable statistical matter, and the dryest subject he made interesting by dressing it in his quaint humor. The roughness of hurriedlywritten newspaper correspondence—and haste should always be an excuse for this—is not to be found in Mark’s lecture, which has been pronounced by San Francisco critics a faultless composition. His lecture will, of course, be well patronized in Grass Valley, and those who bear it cannot fail to be both instructed and amused. He possesses more humor than Artemus Ward; and, besides, his lecture is not, like Ward’s “Babes in the Wood,” a mere stringing together of purposeless nonsense. CONTEMPTIBLE.—Some miserable wretch or wretches recently effected an entrance into the Hebrew Cemetery, and stole a lot of tools and other articles belonging to the graveyard. This cemetery is under the management of the Shaar Zedak Society, and any information leading to the detection of the party perpetrating this most contemptible theft, will be handsomely rewarded. The man or set of men who could be mean enough to rob the sacred abode of the dead, occupies a most contemptible position, and, if caught, should be made to suffer the severest penalty known to the law. MORE OF THE FESTIVAL.—So well pleased were the patrons of the ladies’ festival with the exhibition last Wednesday night, that a continuance, or, as a friend facetiously calls it, an extension, was taken up for Thursday night. The representation of tableaux was better than on the first night; the hall was comfortably filled, and the affair passed off pleasantly to the audience, and, we hope, profitably for the purpose for which the festival was held.