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GRASS VALLEY UNION APRIL 10, 11, 12, 1867 105
TO THE COUNTY HOSPITAL.—Walter McKenzie, one of the victims of the cannon accident in
this place on last New Year’s Day, yesterday went to the County Hospital at Nevada. Poor Walter has had
a terrible time. With proper care and good treatment, sucvh as he will undoubtedly receive at the County
Hospital, he will soon be able to take care of himself.
CALIFORNIA SILK WORM.—We were yesterday shown by George Melville, at Upoff’s saloon,
a full grown, beautiful California silk worm. Melville, while walking over Hayti Hill, about a month
since, found several cocoons on a shrub called, we believe, the ceanotha. He brought them home, tried
the forcing process, and on Sunday night out crawled from one of the cocoons a beautiful insect similar
in shape and size to a butterfly. The body is nearly an inch in length, striped, and the wings, which are of
a rich brownish color specked with white and grayish colored around the edges, are about two inches in
length. Mr. silk worm, or butterfly, or whatever he may be, sticks to the cocoon, never having ventured to
try his wings in flight. The cocoon is about the size of an ordinary hen egg.
THURSDAY, APRIL 11, 1867
THE BELT RACE.—The race between Protection and Eagle companies for a silver mounted belt,
furnished by Chief Engineer Leavitt, will take place on next Saturday afternoon at 3 o’clock, weather
pemitting. The preliminaries have all been arranged, the contest promises to be a very exciting one, and
our citizens generally are taking quite a lively interest in the matter. The companies are to be in readiness
between 2 and 3 o’clock on Saturday afternoon with their respective hose carriages, each manning twelve
men, the Protection boys standing in front of their house, on upper Main street, the Eagles to be stationed
immediately east of the Wisconsin Hotel, and each company is to carry two hundred feet of hose. At
3 o’clock the signal for running is to be given by a tap of the Congregational Church bell, when the
companies will start, the Eagles turning into Auburn street and running for the hydrant on Neal, a short
distance above Auburn, the Protection boys running down Main to Mill, and down Mill to the corner of
Neal, to the hydrant at Corbett’s corner. The first company turning on watrer takes the belt. The distances
have been carefully measured and they have been found equal. The companies on reaching the hydrant
will not be more than fifty feet apart, and it is understood that the streams arer to be thrown in opposite
directins. Arrangements will be made to have the streets cleared of vehicles when the run is made.
TOWN POLL LIST.—Mr. Funston, Town Clerk, has prepared a list of registered voters entitled
to vote at the coming town election in May. The list is neatly and conveniently arranged, contains five
hundred and twenty-eight names, and will be hung up at Spencer & Hobart’s store for public inspection,
from now until the election, in order that all may have a convenient opportunity to inspect it, and see that
their names have not been overlooked. Citizens who have not been able to register by reason of illness,
absence from home, or other unavoidable cause, may yet be enrolled and vote.
FRIDAY, APRIL 12, 1867
SNOW IN THE MOUNTAINS.—From a passenger who arrived from over the mountains
yesterday, we learn that on Wednesday night the snow fell to a depth of over three feet on the summit,
and two and a half feet at Cisco. And we judge the end is not yet, as at this writing the rain is planying the
same old tune in this loclity, which is a pretty sure indication of a fall of “beautiful snow” about the tops
of the Sierras.
DIED. At the Ione Mills, 10th inst., of putrid sore throat, JOSIAH, only child of Josiah and Ellen
Jenkins, aged three years and eleven months. The funeral will take place at the residence of the