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44 FEBRUARY 26 & 27, 1866 NEVADA GAZETTE
he is about to engage, and fully aware of the fact that in order to procure the business for the Lincoln
road it will be necessary to make such a reduction in the price of freight as to make it an object for our
merchants to ship through his house. He assures us that the necessary reduction can and will be made,
and he further agrees that freight shall not be kept in his storehouse at Lincoln longer than one month
before it is shipped for its destination, which will be a decided improvement on some of the Colfax
shippers.
TEMPERANCE AND POLITICS.—George B. Taylor, who delivered a temperance lecture at the
Methodist Church on Saturday evening, took the occasion to retail a dirty slander of the Sacramento
Union against Andrew Johnson. He said in substance that the President’s late maudlin message was
evidently written under the influence of liquor. Judging the message from the short extract received, it is
a vigorous, well-written document, and will not suffer by comparison with the best that have been issued
by his predecessors. The sentiments of the message may not suit Taylor, but if he had wanted to make an
argument against it, it would have been in better taste to have called a meeting for the purpose.
ZACH. MONTGOMERY.—This gentleman delivered his lecture, in opposition to the public
school system of the State, at Grass Valley, on Saturday evening. The honorable gentleman has been
“hammering away” on the subject of public schools for several years, but has made no progress toward
changing the system. He lectures again this evening, on the reconstruction policy of the President, at
Hamilton Hall.
MORE ROBBERIES.—Quite a number of persons were robbed on the road before Rough & Ready,
on Friday and Saturday. They were perpetrated by the same individuals who robbed Captain Robbins,
near Nevada, on Thursday. Three men were robbed on Friday, that we have heard of, and another was
stopped Saturday morning, but after some parley they allowed him to proceed without searching him.
FIRE.—The Snow Tent House, situated about eighteen miles above Nevada, on the ridge road, was
totally destroyed by fire on Friday night, together with the furniture. The fire caught from the kitchen
chimney, and was accidental. The house was owned by W. B. Churchill, and kept by J. R. Robb. The loss
is stated at from $8,000 to $10,000.
JUSTICE’S OFFICE.—Justice J. C. Palmer took possession of his new office, in Kelsey’s building,
Pine street, yesterday. The office is provided with all the conveniences of a regular court room, and is
fitted up in a style decidedly neat and tasteful.
IN BLOOM.—We are informed that the peach trees are in bloom at French Corral, in this county.
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1866
LAND SLIDE.—We are informed by Mr. Fellows that an immense land slide occcurred a week
or two ago on the South Yuba river, about a mile and a-half this side of French Corral. It was the most
extensive slide that has occcurred in the county since its settlement by whites. It covered from seventyfive to a hundred acres of ground, and was occasioned by bringing a ditch around the hill, the water
soaking down to the bed rock and loosening the earth. The depth of soil and gravel was about a hundred
feet, a portion of it sliding rapidly into the river, backing up the water for a mile or more, and a portion
stopping after sliding one or two hundred feet, large trees being still standing upon the moved ground. A