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242 AUGUST 15, 16, 18, 1867 GRASS VALLEY UNION
By a strict attention to the business and allowing none but first class work to leave the Gallery, they hope to
merit the valued patronage which they hereby solicit... .
FRIDAY, AUGUST 16, 1867
BLASTING.—The Meadow Lake Sun says:
We can hear constantly the blasts on the Central Pacific Railroad, though they are probably
not less than fifteen miles away. The blasts go off at nine o’clock in the morning, than at noon
and again at six o’clock in the evening. Some of these blasts are terrific. A few days ago we were
on the lake in a boat when one was let off and we were rocked like an infant in a cradle. Strange
as this may seem it is a fact to which others than ourselves can testify. Rocks weighing several
tons have been blown for hundreds of feet from the place of blasting and driven into the ground
with tremendous force.
UNION MEETING—The Gorham party held a meeting here on last Wednesday evening, which
was well attended. It was decidedly the most successful meeting of the party during the present
campaign. The crowd must have numbered at one time five hundred persons, adjoining towns and
the rural districts about Grass Valley for a distance of many miles contributing to the numbers at the
meeting. Of course of the five hundred—and we consider this a liberal estimate—there was the usual
attendance of Democrats. John P. Jones, candidate for Lieutenant Governor, who talked for considerably
more than an hour. Jones is a jolly fellow, is as companionable as any one we know, tells an anecdote
with good effect, but he can not make a speech, at least he did not make one on last Wednesday night.
Jones appeared, like a second Rip Van Winkle, to have awakened from a long, deep sleep, and seemed
to imagine himself back in 1861 or 1862, with a gigantic rebellion shaking our Government from center
to circumference. He told several anecdotes, and told them well, and his hearers were apparently well
pleased with Jones. Governor Woods, of Oregon, was the next speaker, and we unhesitatingly pronounce
him the ablest stumper we have yet heard on his side of the question. He is a fluent speaker, uses forcible
and correct English to express his ideas, and makes all his points with the ease of a professional political
speaker. He is undoubtedly the best card the Radicals have, and we are not surprised that Gorham should
have imported him to this State even at an expense as has been alleged, of $5,000. Many of Governor
Woods’ statements were mere assertions, designed to catch the approbation of the ready claquers and
were so considered by the more intelligent members of his own party who were present. . . .
SUNDAY, AUGUST 18, 1867
LARGE FIRE AT WASHINGTON.
NEVADA, Aug. 17
A fire last night at eleven o’clock destroyed all the business portion of the town of Washington,
twenty miles from this place. Loss about $50,000—no insurance. It is not known how the fire originated.
FIRE AT WASHINGTON.—As will be seen by a telegram from Nevada [city[, a fire occurred at
Washington, in this county, on last Friday night, which destroyed property to the amount of $50,000.
Beyond the telegraphic item we have learned no particulars. The main portion of the town of Washington
lies near the South Yuba, the buildings, which are principally wooden, being close together, and from the
fact that the destroyed property is estimated at $50,000, we infer that the principal part of the town has
been destroyed.
ACCIDENT.— Our young friend Frank Cook, who is on a visit here with John R. Ridge, sustained a