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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 23-25, 1872 19 editor will keep the columns alive with local events and with local interests. The paper should have a large circulation in the county. PRIZE FIGHT.—We learn that several well grown boys had a prize fight on the lot of the Church Hill School, on Sunday afternoon. There was a referee and a time keeper and the whole affair was conducted according to the rules of the Prize Ring. If any one thinks there are no Hoodlums in or around Grass Valley he makes a grand mistake. We could not learn the names of the Sunday fighters. We would give them if they were known to us. EASTERN STAR DEGREE. —The members of the Masonic Fraternity will meet at the hall on Wednesday evening, for the purpose of introducing the Eastern Star degree. This is termed a side degree, and one which the wives and daughters of Masons are entitled to receive. The degree will be introduced by Miss Fanny Leggett. After the ceremony there will be a social gathering and collation spread at the Exchange Hotel. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 24, 1872 BORN. At Grass Valley, January 23d 1872 to A. A. MULLOY and Wife, a Daughter. LOCAL BREVITIES.—B. J. Watson will teach the Grammar School at Nevada city and M. B. B. Potter will teach the Forest Springs school. Good men both, as the boys say at a wrestle. CHURCH ITEM.—The Nevada Transcript says: “The brick building on Nevada street, erected in 1855, and last occupied as a public school house, has been torn down. The building was purchased of the Ladies Episcopal Society by Harrison Gove, for the brick. The house is being removed and the lot cleared for an Episcopal church. For building purposes the Episcopal ladies already have a good fund on hand, and they will have a church erected and paid for. THE JAPANESE.—Some of the Japanese will arrive in Grass Valley today. They come to visit the mines of Grass Valley, and as we understand their visit is not one of mere curiosity. They should have the proper attention an all facilities for going through the mines. The mining men will see to this no doubt. The Japanese have had speeches enough made to them at San Francisco, and we hope they will hear no prepared talks in this place. HAIR DRESSING.—The ladies of Grass Valley will please take notice that Mrs. Cotanche will attend to their calls, at Jack Harrison’s barber shop, on Main street. Hairdressing in the best style, will be done by Mrs. Cotanche. THURSDAY, JANUARY 25, 1872 SAN QUENTIN.—Deputy Sheriff Leavitt has been down to San Quentin, whither he went to take Ben. Reed. We hear from several Nevada county representatives in that institution. Nick Jennings, alias Dick Turpin, is pegging shoes, and doing very poor work at that. He is irrepressible in mischief making, and will not obey. He gets shower baths, confinement in dungeons and possibly an occasional stripe, and yet he is the same Dick he used to be when he delighted to steal horses. That boy does not get a lick amiss when he is striped. Lannigan, who went from Grass Valley because he stopped two or three boys on the street and wanted money, is as fat as a bear, and is a worker in the furniture department. Ben. Reed was put to work in furniture building. NORTH WIND.—Tuesday night a violent north-east wind came up and made things lively. Doors were blown open and houses were shaken, while the air was filled with dust. The wind dried the earth and then made dust thereof. Plowed fields were damaged by much of their soil being taken