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Title: 1872 Collection Type: Directories and Documents Collection Name: Nevada County News & Advertisments # of Pages: 281 Download PDF: User Login Required Download OCR Text: User Login Required

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GRASS VALLEY UNION JANUARY 3, 1872 1 WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 3, 1872 Honors to Mr. Sargent in Utah. The annexed is from an Ogden date of December 27th: The Mormon citizens gave Mr. Sargent, United States Senator elect, a reception yesterday at the Ogden Junction. The Mormon paper gives the following as the substance of the conversation between Mr. Sargent and the Church officers. Mr. Sargent’s policy is to let the Mormons alone to work out the problem they are attempting to solve. He believes polygamy a doomed institution, and that it will fall if left alone, because false in principle and incompatible with the civilization of the age. For this reason he is opposed to further legislation on the subject, and also in the unfair measures adopted by the Federal officers who have inaugurated the present crusade. So far as the alleged members are concerned, Mr. Sargent would have them investigated and the perpetrators punished, whatever or whoever they may be, but he would give them a fair trial, and not resign them to the tender mercies of a packed jury or a Court inspired with religious bigotry or partisan animosities. He is willing to acknowledge the sincerity of the Mormon people in their religious belief, but does not think Congress can be led to view our marriage relations in a religious light. If we will not relinquish polygamy, he doesn’t think it possible for the [Territory] to gain admission into the Union as a State. NEW THINGS. We start the new year with new type, with renewed hopes and with a determination to make the UNION a good local paper. Our readers will perceive that we print a paper this morning which can be read. We are not making such plain print in any spirit of opposition to the men who deal in eye glasses, but simply because we want the paper to look well. The type with which we print the paper this morning is from the foundry of Painter & Co., of San Francisco. That firm not only makes the best of type, but their enterprise is a credit to the State, in every way. The UNION of this morning commences the eleventh volume. We don’t believe that we have any more to say on this subject. GRASS VALLEY POST OFFICE.—The money order business of the Grass Valley Post Office for the quarter ending on and including December 31st, 1871, was as follows: Amount of domestic money orders sold $5,169 65. Amount of money orders paid at the Grass Valley Post Office, $2,317 52. The orders paid here were all domestic. British International orders sold during the quarter, $617 19, The business generally of the Post Office here has increased and its affairs are administered to the entire satisfaction of the public. I.0.B.B.—Garizim Lodge, No. 43, of B’nai Brith, held an election on the 31st of December, of last year. The following officers were chosen: J. Levy, President; W. Stein, Vice President; J. Herschfield, Recording Secretary; L. Sanders, A.M.; and B. Wood, Guardian. Representatives to the Grand Lodge are L. Zacharias, D. Nathan and B. Nathan. MILITIA.—From the report of the Adjutant-General it appears that Nevada county has the largest number of enrolled militia of any in the State, except San Francisco. THE SHOOTING YESTERDAY.—A shooting affair occurred yesterday at the saloon of Mr. Stokes on Main street, of which we learn the following particulars: Mr. Stokes and Mr. N. Jacobs, of Nevada [city], were sitting in the saloon conversing, when a man named John Pride, baker for Campbell & Stoddard, of Boston Ravine, came in and shortly after him John Sale. Mr. Stokes invited them up to the bar to take a drink. On approaching the bar Pride said to Sale that he couldn’t drink at his expense, and called Sale a thief-taker and said he had arrested him once. He then hustled Sale