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50 MARCH 1 & 2, 1872 GRASS VALLEY UNION
THE
GRASS VALLEY MINSTRELS
Will give one of their first-class entertainments
AT HAMILTON HALL
ON
Saturday Evening March 2d, 1872
CONSISTING OF
SONGS, BURLESQUES and DANCES
The Entertainment will be of the most chaste description, and can not fail to please all.
For particulars, see small bills.
Doors open at 7, Troubles begin at 8 o'clock
Admission 50 cts. Gallery 25 cts.
Private Boxes $2 50.
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN.
THE UNDERSIGNED HAVING been notified by the Honorable Board of Supervisors of Nevada County
to attend a meeting of said Board at the Court House in Nevada city, on Tuesday, the 5th day of March, 1872,
at 10 o'clock, A.M., for the purpose of fixing the rates of toll on the Union turnpike. All persons who have any
complaints to make are respectfully invited to be present at the time and place above specified.
GEORGE GEPHARD, Superintendent Union Turnpike.
SATURDAY, MARCH 2, 1872
Orphan Asylum.
The following petition from the Orphan Asylum was reported to the Senate on the 28th of
February from the Committee on Petitions, and was refereed to the Finance Committee:
ORPHAN ASYLUM, GRASS VALLEY, February 22, 1872.
To the Honorable, the Senate and Assembly of the State of California,
Gentlemen: We beg to present to your attention this institution which, although little
known, has been and is the source of many benefits to the poor of this district, yet owing
probably to its remote situation, or the want of interested friends, it was entirely forgotten at
your last sitting; we are therefore encouraged that this time our petition will be responded
to with more than ordinary benevolence.
The Orphan Asylum of Grass Valley, Nevada county, was established in the spring of
1866, has ever since had its doors open to all without regard to denomination, creed,
or class; the only test to participate in its hospitality being parental bereavement or
destitution. Many of the children of the asylum constitute this latter class, and are even a
greater burden than the orphans, as there is no provision made for such by the State, and
those whom Providence had destined to maintain them being either unable or unwilling
to do so leave them entirely on it for support, and without the means, except voluntary
contributions, which, although sometimes ample, still fall far short of the necessary
amount.
The following cases will give an idea of some of the objects protected by the asylum: In
February, 1867, an entire family of orphans were sent from Shasta, the youngest 2 years was
the only sound one among them, and has since been given to a good family, but the others
are and will of course remain, as two are terribly deformed, and the other a simpleton.
About a year after, five children were left orphans by their unhappy mother putting an end
to her life, being driven to it by the misery they were in. Each year many similar cases have
been sheltered in it.
During the last year no less than 35 of this sort of children have been admitted,
sometimes two, three, four and six of one family. One case in particular being very sad, it
may be well to mention it: Four children, of from 3 to 8 years of age, were found wandering,