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44 FEBRUARY 23 & 24, 1872 GRASS VALLEY UNION MUSIC TEACHER.—Miss Rachel Novitzky of this place, proposes to give lessons in music. She has been studying and practicing for some months in San Francisco, under the tuition of some of the best teachers in the State. She has shown the most wonderful capacity as a musician. She will give lessons to beginners as well as to those who have made some advancement. Miss Notitzky has the finest piano in the mountains. She can be seen for terms and other particulars at the residence of her parents, on Main street, next door east of the Benson House. A class will be organized on Monday morning next. RAINFALL.—The rainfall of Wednesday night was a heavy night. Was what Charley Smith would call a “Snougher” Dr. Kibbe’s gauge showed that 2:29 inches of water fell during the 24 hours ending yesterday morning at 9 o’clock. This makes the rainfall for the season 55:25 inches. KITE FLYING.—The youngsters of Grass Valley had a good time yesterday evening in flying kites. The wind was just right for the amusement. We noticed many grown up boys watching the kites and taking great interest in the amusement. WASHINGTON.—A number of flags were thrown to the breeze yesterday and some of the soldier boys put on their war harness and walked around town. There was no parade of the soldiers, however. In Nevada city the day was celebrated by a grand ball, by the Fire Department. Those salamanders of our sister city are always patriotic. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1872 LABOR EXCHANGE. A few days ago, in the Assembly, some documents were read which reflected very seriously on the character of the Labor Exchange of San Francisco. One of these documents, and the most damaging one, was written by H. C. Bennett, a man who was once in the newspaper business in Grass Valley [1864 at the Daily Union]. He had been discharged from the position of Secretary of the Labor Exchange, and he was left in a position to vilify some of the best people in the State who are connected with that institution. We notice that the Trustees of the Labor Exchange have held a meeting, and that they have determined to ask an investigation at the hands of the Legislature. .. . [See Feb. 28, 1872 editorial about Bennett, published in the Grass Valley Republican.] More Trade Outrages. From the Sacramento Record of the 22nd we clip the following: Grass Valley has recently been the scene of one of those dastardly outrages which spring from the tyranny of trade-unions, and which always tend to injure the cause they are meant to aid. It will be remembered that some two years ago [May 1869] there was considerable excitement among a certain class of miners over the introduction of a new and cheaper blasting agent, called giant powder. The Cornish miners made common cause against it, the ostensible ground of objection being that its vapors produced deleterious effects upon the men who worked it, though it was demonstrated at the time to the satisfaction of most disinterested observers that the real cause of complaint was the facility of working which the new agent introduced, it being shown that one drill hand could do the work of two using the black powder. So strong, however, was the combination against it that mine owners were compelled to give it up for the time, and resume the old powder. . .. We hope and believe that the day of trade outrages is nearly at an end, and that in a few years those who have connived at our sanctioning such crimes will regard their own conduct with detestation equal to that experienced by the public at large. But so long as the ignorance or prejudice of a class render such infamies possible, repression must be resorted to, and when argument fails to convince, other measures must be adopted.