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178 AUGUST 7 & 8, 1872 GRASS VALLEY UNION
many paper and pasteboard gods. The Chinamen are to have a regular camp meeting, which will
continue through several noisy days. While the meeting is going on a religious (Chinaman’s religion)
din will be kept up so that the devil will be frightened away from Chinatown for a whole year. The
Chinamen are very much in earnest this year, and they say that on Melican man’s leap year the devil
is more active than any other time.
LOCAL BREVITIES.—Hon. A. A. Sargent is up at the lakes resting himself.
Supervisors are holding a short session—only three or four days.
The Digger Indians are about to have a fandango near Nevada city, and the Transcript has
already commenced giving the items of the gathering.
A wheel ran off from the 12 o’clock Colfax stage yesterday, but no one was hurt. The line is in
good running order this morning.
DR. E. J. FRASER, of San Francisco, will be in Grass Valley a few days on private business. Persons
suffering from tumors of any kind, either cancerous or benign, hernia which they desire cured without
material interference with business, diseases of the eyes, or any kind of disease or deformity requiring surgical
interference, can consult him if they so desire, on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday of this week, between 12
and 1 o'clock, at the parlors of the Exchange Hotel.
PIANO TUNING.—Mr. Henry Stone, of Sacramento, is in town and will receive orders for piano tuning
for a few days only, at the store of Mr. R. Johnson, 92 Main street, and warrants perfect satisfaction in all
cases.
THURSDAY, AUGUST 8, 1872
BORN. At Grass Valley, August 3, 1872, to MARTIN SAMPSON and Wife, a Sun.
MAN DROWNED. The Transcript of yesterday says: “On Sunday evening last three men left
Bear Valley for the purpose of swimming in the Yuba river. Among them was Albert
Henderson, a teamster of Sam Porter. Two of the men went into one part of the river and
Henderson went into another, a short distance away. After swimming about an hour the
two who were together came out. After dressing they looked around for Henderson but
could not see him. They immediately went to the point where he had entered the river and
searched for him. The bed of the river contains several holes. In one of these they found
his body, lying in about two feet of water. He evidently got into the hole, and being unable
to swim, sunk there. His body was taken to Omega and buried.
DIED. At Virginia City, August 6th, MICHAEL McAULIFFE aged 42 years, a native of Ireland.
DEATH OF MICHAEL McAULIFFE.—The telegram which announced the death of Michael
McAuliffe, received here Tuesday evening, both surprised and pained a large circle of friends and
acquaintances. Deceased was greatly esteemed in Grass Valley for his many excellent qualities as a
neighbor and a citizen. The remains will be brought to Grass Valley to-day, and the funeral services
will be held at St. Patrick’s Church, at 3 o’clock this afternoon. His family have the sympathies of all
in their great bereavement.
AN OFFICER MISSING—EXTRAORDINARY DISAPPEARANCE.—We are called upon to
chronicle a very unpleasant affair. This is no less than the unaccountable disappearance, from Grass
Valley, of one who holds important official positions in this place. We allude to William Smith. He
left here on Tuesday morning, July 30th, and on the table in his office he left a card, saying that
he was going to the Sacramento Land Office, and would return Wednesday night. Since that date
he has been heard of as being in Sacramento on Thursday, the ist of August. Since Thursday his
whereabouts can not be traced, though every effort has been made to discover him.