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8 JANUARY 16 & 18, 1870 GRASS VALLEY UNION
that the Public High Schools of the State be placed upon such a footing that candidates for a
classical course can there be fitted to pass the examination to enter the Freshman class. We
can conceive of no objections to this plan. Every county certainly, and every town as large as
Grass Valley, has now, or should have and can have, its high school. Let the school law be so
amended as to include Latin and Greek in the curriculum of high schools, and to provide for the
employment of only such teachers in those schools as are able to teach those languages. (The
high schools of Grass Valley and Nevada City are already provided with such teachers.)
By pursuing this course, the University will speedily attract the very large number of
students which the Regents so confidently expect; by pursuing any other, the able corps of
Professors and instructors constituting the Faculty will lecture to bare walls and expend their
wisdom on empty benches. M.
CONCERT.—Madame Camilla Urso proposes to give a great concert on the 22nd, 23d and 24th of
February, for the benefit of the Mercantile Library Association of San Francisco. The concert will be in
that city. Musicians from all parts of the State will join, and the result will be the greatest musical festival
ever held perhaps in the world, not excepting the Boston Peace Jubilee. The musicians of Grass Valley
are invited to be present, and we hope that any who can sing, or play upon any instrument will accept the
invitation. We . . . ask all who wish to take part in the concert to leave their names [with] Mr. John Wolfe,
[at Bell & Wolfe’s] Mill street Music Store or at the UNION office.
PRACTICING.—Friday evening we heard a noble band of choristers practising for the Camilla
Urso Concert. Some of the voices were truly magnificent, though there were unsteady legs in the
assemblage.
KILLED.—Yesterday morning, as the Gregory troupe was going to Nevada [City], one of the
trained dogs, “Neptune” by name, jumped from the wagon, was run over by the wheel and killed. The
dog was one of the best of the trained band.
TUESDAY, JANUARY 18, 1870
LOCAL BREVITIES.—The Brignoli Opera Troupe pay the Grass Valley printers for work done
here, on the occasion of its not performing as it had advertised... .
EDITORIAL CHANGE.—The National came to us yesterday evening with the valedictory of Jas.
L. Rice, who has been editor of that paper since July last. The successor to Mr. Rice is not announced in
the National, and we forgo making a complimentary notice of the elegant writer and estimable person
who, according to rumor, succeeds to the chair editorial, and who honors the profession of journalism
by being of it. It is sufficient to say that our neighbor’s Democracy will remain of the most unequivocal
character.
FATAL ACCIDENT.—Sunday night, at about ten o’clock, David S. Davis was caved on and killed
in North San Juan, in this county. He was working in the Bowers claim at the time. Chinamen,
who were also at work in the tunnel, escaped with their lives, though they were shut in some
time by the cave.
FAILURE.—The Amateures [sic] at Truckee gave the firemen a benefit on Wednesday night. There
was not quite money enough taken in to defray expenses, and the firemen have to be assessed to get