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GRASS VALLEY UNION OCTOBER 7 & 8, 1871 201
assistance from any sources; they defied all their enemies, the Government of the United
States included; the Government officials now persecuting them were the tools of the
devil. He prayed God to cherish them all forever, and said he, with violent gesticulation,
“trust in God, keep your powder dry, and don’t fail to have on hand a good supply of fixed
ammunition.” The latter remarks were received with an universal amen and a loud clapping
of hands. The regular semi-annual conference begins tomorrow, and will last three days; an
address is expected from Brigham.
HOISTING WORKS BURNED.—Thursday night the hoisting works at the Manhattan mine
were destroyed by fire. The fire caught in the roof of the building from sparks which came out of the
smoke stack. The building over the machinery was entirely destroyed, but how much the machinery
was damaged we have not learned. We have not heard the loss which the Manhattan Company
sustained by the fire, but there is no insurance on any of the property.
FEAST OF TABERNACLES.—The Hebrew Feast of Tabernacles commenced Saturday evening
and continues for eight days, the last day being known as “Rejoicing in the Law.” The festival is
in commemoration of the dwelling of the Israelites in tents, in the wilderness, during their forty
years’ journey from Egypt; The custom is kept up in many families, and in nearly all the orthodox
congregation [sic] in the world. It is one of the great festivals of the Church, and is rigidly observed.
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1871
BORN. At Grass Valley, Oct. 7th, 1871, to GEO. W. DIXON and Wife [Mary H. Bennett], a Son.
DEATH OF MRS. TWEED. The Transcript says: “A dispatch has been received from Arizona
announcing the death of the wife of Charles A. Tweed, United States Territorial Judge,
who expired after a long and painful sickness, on the 2nd inst. Mrs. Tweed was a pioneer
woman of our State, having arrived here early in 1852, and until her departure for Arizona
[in 1870] resided in this city and [Dutch Flat and Auburn in] Placer county. As a Christian,
wife and mother, she had but few equals, and leaves a host of friends to mourn her loss.”
The St. Patrick Mining Company has elected Milton S. Latham, D. D. Colton and W. B. Bourne
[sic] to act with J. W. Gashwiller, Lafayette Maynard and H. Cronise as trustees of the company.
THE EARTH ON FIRE.
We can easily believe the statement in a dispatch from Green Bay, Wisconsin, that the fires
which are now prevailing in the north-eastern part of that State, and in Minnesota, have never had
a parallel since the settlement of the country and we doubt if a parallel is recorded in history. Even
those who have been taught to believe, says the Reporter, that at the appointed time, “the earth, the
sun, the sky, and all that in them is,” will melt with fervent heat, can not fail to be startled by the
spectacle of the earth being consumed by fire, which now presents itself. Trees undermined by fire!
It is hardly creditable, yet we are assured that “the drouth which has prevailed since early in August
has dried up springs and streams and all vegetation, and has parched the ground to such a depth
below the surface that the soil itself acts as a conductor, and living trees are falling from the action of
the fire which undermines them.”
Can the indefatigable student point to a page of history illuminated by so terrible a
conflagration? There are extensive fires now raging in this State, which have been raging for about
a month. One in Tulare county is expected to continue its devastating work until subdued by the
snows and rains of Winter. The falling columns of valuable timber are leaving broad, ugly gaps in
the forests, but the trees are not being undermined. And a drouth has prevailed over the greater part
of California also, so blighting in some places that the dreadful story from Wisconsin suggests the