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118 APRIL 27 & 28, 1867 GRASS VALLEY UNION
Glenbrook Park at two o’clock this afternoon. We have not heard of the stock entered for these races, but
presume good matches will be made and that a trip to Glenbrook will well repay visitors.
SUNDAY, APRIL 28, 1867
TO OUR FRIENDS.
A promise was made when the present proprietors took charge of the DAILY UNION, that such
improvements in the paper, from time to time, as were justified by business, would be made. It can
be said, we believe, and in no spirit of self-laudation, that the owners of this paper have demonstrated
the earnestness of the promise then given. Shortly after assuming control of the UNION the paper was
enlarged four columns, and was issued in new type, which was done in compliance with a general
demand of the people of this place for a larger paper than had at any former time been published in Grass
Valley. Perhaps the best assurance that can be given the friends of the UNION that the improvement
was appreciated by the citizens of Grass Valley, is to be found in the fact that the circulation and the
advertising patronage have both greatly increased, while the conductors have had no cause to regret the
expenditures made in enlarging the paper and otherwise improving it. To-day the readers of the UNION
are furnished with special telegraphic news, including Eastern intelligence and a telegraphic summary
of San Francisco news, both of which are given one day in advance of the Sacramento and San Francisco
dailies. No other paper in Nevada county furnishes special telegrams to its patrons. In making this
change and improvement, a heavy monthly expense is incurred, probably more than we are warranted in
assuming, but we are sufficiently hopeful to believe that our friends will duly appreciate the enterprise,
and that a greatly increased subscription list will reward the undertaking of publishing a newspaper
up with the times. Without whining or begging for business, and with an earnest desire to furnish our
supporters as good a paper as we possibly can for our subscription rates, we promise to fill our part of a
compact with the people, believing that they will fill theirs with us.
A PAIR OF COMPLAINTS.—John Gavin of Union Hill, yesterday came to this place to make a
complaint against John Wilcox for assault with intent to commit murder. The statement, as given us by
outsider [sic], is that Wilcox was driving through Gavin’s premises, when the latter remonstrated with
him, whereupon Wilcox fired twice at Gavin, with a five-shooter, both shots missing the man. Wilcox
will have an examination before a Nevada Magistrate. He had Gavin placed under bonds to keep the
peace. The parties, we believe, are disputing about some ranch property on Union Hill, a civil suit having
been commenced a short time since.
OUT ONCE MORE.—Tommy Edwards, whose departure for the County Hospital we noticed
several weeks ago, yesterday reappeared in Grass Valley, looking as rosy as the earliest blush of morn,
as bright as the earliest daisies and violets of Spring. Tommy is a useful man in his way; he canlasso
a vagrant cur as artisitically as a vaquero can throw a lariat over a mustang; he can dig deeper down a
well and come up dryer than any man we know of, and, in short, he can make himself more generally
useful than most men. We can poorly afford to part with Tommy, especially when the County Hospital is
destined for him.
IN EDINBURGH.—Dr. Millar, of this place, yesterday received a letter from Dr. J. P. Blanks, his
former partner, which letter was dated Edinburgh, Scotland, March 10th, 1867. Dr. Blanks, as most of
our readers are aware, has been “doing Europe” for the past few months. He spent six weeks in the Irish
Capital before going to Edinburgh; expected to be in London by the 10th of the present month, and in
Paris, for the “ecksposecshion,” as we French have it, by the Ist of June. Dr. Blanks’ many friends in
Grass Valley will be pleased to hear that his health has greatly improved on the trip.