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150 MAY 29 & 30, 1867 GRASS VALLEY UNION
ANOTHER FATAL MINING ACCIDENT. George W. Hilton, a miner, was killed by a cave, on
Monday last, in the Williams claims at Brown’s Hill near You Bet. Hilton and another man
wee piping at the time the cave occurred, the other party succeeding in making his escape,
while Hilton was crushed to death. Hilton was aged about twenty-six years, and came to this
State in 1873 with John P. Skelton, of the National, who represents him as a worthy young
man. Hilton has relatives living in Fayette, Mo., and a brother in Oregon. The funeral will take
place at one o’clock P.M., to-day, at Red Dog.
“MARCHING THROUGH GEORGIA.”—The “bus,” on one of the down trips from Nevada
yesterday, brought a load of colored people, principally children, who sang the popular chorus,
“Marching through Georgia,” while passing up Main street. Somebody suggested that it was intended as
a political home-thrust, but then “Somebody” might have been prejudiced.
THURSDAY, MAY 30, 1867
“SHORT-HAIR” TICKET IN SACRAMENTO.—The “Short-Hairs” (we use the Sacramento
Union’s term,) met in convention under a call from the regular Union Central Committee of Sacramento
county, on Wednesday last, passed resolutions indorsing Congressional reconstruction, favoring the eighthour labor system, and taking an opposition stand to the Coolie supporters. . . . The ticket is opposed
of course by the Union and the Bee, which augurs well for its success before the people of Sacramento
county.
A DISAGREEABLE DAY.—Yesterday was what Lady Don would pronounce “a nasty day.”
The wind was howling from morning until night, playing dirges on the trees, rattling stove-pipes,
jeopardizing awnings, obtrusively playing with signs, filling street pedestrians’ eyes with dust and their
minds with disgust, and generally acting as meanly as we have ever known Eolus in his meanest mood to
deport himself. . . .
LADD ACQUITTED.—The trial of P. M. Ladd, charged with grand larceny, resulted in a verdict of
“not guilty” at the hands of a jury, on last Tuesday night. The case consumed the greater part of Monday
and Tuesday last in the County Court, nearly two days having been consumed in the examination of
witnesses and the arguments of the attorneys in the case. The case was submitted to the jury . . . who
were absent less than a quarter of an hour, bringing in a verdict of not guilty. The testimony against Ladd
was of a circumstantial character, and the action of the jury surprised no one. This case has perhaps been
more generally discussed among outsiders than any criminal prosecution ever known in this county. Ladd
and his family, accompanied by a number of Rough and Ready friends, passed through Grass Valley
yesterday in a wagon, the team and vehicle presenting a strong case of American flag.
FOR SHERIFF OF SUTTER.— Jesse Shultz, an old Grass Valleyan, will probably be the
Democratic nominee for Sheriff of Sutter county. We know of no man in Sutter, where we have a number
of friends, who would make a better Sheriff than Jesse Shultz, and we hope to hear of his nomination,
that being about equivalent to an election in Sutter.
NEVADA COUNTY ITEMS.—We condense the annexed items from yesterday’s Nevada
Transcript:
...R. Schneider, a native of Germany, and Hugh McCauley, John McLaughlin, Patrick Connor and
Dermot Fitzsimmons, natives of Ireland, and M. B. Dumler, a native of Bavaria, have been naturalized in
the County Court during the week... .