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Collection: Directories and Documents > Nevada County News & Advertisments

1872 (281 pages)

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20 JANUARY 25 & 26, 1872 GRASS VALLEY UNION away. The thermometer stood at 44 degrees during the “connboberation” the wind was cutting up. Towards night something of calmness prevailed and freezing rain came on. A farmer from Rough and Ready township informs us that the fierce north wind damaged grass and grain very greatly. He says a dry wind of that kind is like a fire on a grain field. DRAWING A GRAND JURY.—Tuesday County Judge Caldwell, in compliance with a petition, ordered the drawing of the Grand Jury which is to meet next month. In the afternoon the County Judge, Sheriff and County Clerk met and selected fifty names from the assessment Roll, and from these twenty-four will be drawn on next Wednesday to constitute the Grand Jury. The law provides that when twenty citizens shall petition for the drawing of a jury it shall be done in the manner described above. BOND FILED.—The bond of T. C. Plankett, in the sum of $5,000, as County Clerk, and $2,500 to the State and $2,500 to the county as auditor, has been filed. The sureties on the Clerk’s bond are F. Burkhalter and S. B. Weller. On the County Auditor’s bond are John F. Moody and M. E. Doane, and on the State Auditor’s bond are James Sweeney and George Schaffer. All the sureties are residents of Meadow Lake township. The bonds are approved by County Judge John Caldwell. TOWN SURVEY.—We learn from Mr. Samuel Bethell, who has the contract for the survey of the town, that it will require about a week to complete the field work of the survey. The town has been surveyed with the exception of that portion which is south of Main street and east of Auburn street. When the field work is completed and the maps are made out the owners of the lots can get their patents. FRIDAY, JANUARY 26, 1872 COLOR. The Elevator is the organ of the colored people in this State, and the Elevator is not pleased with the way things are going. The Assembly has appointed only one colored man to a position, and he is in the very menial capacity. He is a “rearporter,” we believe, and a rear porter to an Assembly is not a high toned place. The Elevator is also not pleased that at balls and receptions colored people are not present excepting as bootblacks and table waiters. In short, color wants social equality and wants itself recognized, and it wants the recognition to come from high places. Who says that color is wrong? In this county the petition for the drawing of a Grand Jury was a move in the same direction. Color wants a chance on juries, as it is duly entitled to have under the amendments of the Constitution. In the Grand Jury business here, the present movement is a failure, since the officers put no colored man’s name into the box from which jurors are to be drawn. But the good time must be close by, when balls and receptions and jury boxes will be open to the color that is other than white. GRAND JURY.—We can not give the names of the next Grand Jury, but twenty-four out of the following fifty will be drawn. ... Grass Valley, 18—S. D. Avery, W. H. Benson, P. Brunstetter, Wm. Bettis, Frank Beckett, James Buckland, David Binkleman, S. J. Blundell, Wm. Biggs, Charles Barker, A. B. Brady, J. H. Brackett, M. Byrne, Jr., Wm. M. Brant, George Carson, Stephen Cowin, F. E. Carter, Wm. Campbell. Nevada, 18—E. O. Tompkins, A. R. Gregory, J. A. Lancaster, John Cashin, A. Sloan, Geo. W. Smith, Jonathan Clark, O. Maltman, J. H. Helm, E. P. Marselus, E. W. Bigelow, Julius Dreyfus, Geo. E. Turner, T. W. Sigourney, Isaac Loyd, W. H. Crawford, John W. Hinds, W. J. Tisdale. Bridgeport, 9—David Alexander, Jacob Smith, Wm. M. Eddy, V. G. Bell, P. Graham, Joseph G. Dickson, A. J. Putnam, John A. Seeley, B. Derrickson.