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GRASS VALLEY UNION JANUARY 11 & 12, 1872 $s)
Wilhelm & Miller are proprietors of the old and popular Union Market, on Mill street, near
Main. The new proprietors will so conduct the business of the market that the popularity of
the institution will increase.
H. Darneal has resigned his position as Deputy County Clerk, and he goes to Sacramento to
enter the business of phonographic reporter, for which he is well qualified. John W. Clark has
been appointed Deputy in the place of Darneal.
The rainfall for the season, at Nevada city, was 51:65 inches, but then they pour a little moisture
into the rain gauge in order to get a chance to crow over Grass Valley.
FIRE AT THE SCHOOL HOUSE.—Yesterday morning at 15 minutes before one o'clock, the fire
alarm was sounded, and it was soon discovered that the fire was in the High School building, in the
upper story. The fire was soon extinguished by the firemen. The damage done is about $100, and
the building is insured in the People’s Insurance Company of San Francisco. The origin of the fire is
supposed to be this: At the close of school hours on Tuesday evening the fires in the building were
put out. About nine o’clock at night persons passing the school house saw a light in it, and heard
persons in the school room. It is supposed that some boys went into the room and kindled a fire so
as to make themselves comfortable while talking or reading. They carelessly left the stove door open
when they left and fire fell out and caught the planks on the floor. The floor was burned through for
a small space and the sleepers under the floor were charred for a length of ten or twelve feet. The
flooding prevented the school house being used yesterday.
BREAKING WINDOWS.—The windows of the Methodist Church South are being constantly
broken. Some little boys make it a sport to throw stones at the panes in those windows. The boys are
known and their parents ought to soundly spank them. Mr. Meltae who is the only trustee of that
church now in Grass Valley, says he will be obliged to have arrests made if the parents of those boys
will not control them. He has repaired the windows of the building twice this winter. The boys not
thoughtlessly, perhaps, but they ought to have some consideration driven into them by the spanking
process.
STAGES.—For the present the stages in Colfax will leave Grass Valley at 7 o’clock in the morning
and on the return will arrive at 1 o’clock in the afternoon. No other departures and arrivals will take
place until the condition of the roads and the weather warrant a change. This arrangement has some
inconveniences but it insures safety to passengers.
A. A. Sargent and family at last accounts were at Chicago.
FRIDAY, JANUARY 12, 1872
LOCAL INCIDENTS.—Yesterday Bob Scott informed us that the stages go over to Colfax by the
lower road. The bridge over Bear River has settled down so that it is not safe to drive across
it. People walk across with safety. A stage leaves Grass Valley and drives to Bear river, and
there it meets a stage from Colfax. Passengers walk across the disabled bridge and baggage is
transferred by men who are there for that purpose. By risking the bridge passengers save some
time in going to Grass Valley. After the transfer is made the stages come home with rapidity.
The lower road is a hard one, and the upper road, on which the bridge is safe, is a horrible
affair. The best thing to do is to go by the way in which roads are good and a bridge risky; it is
slow traveling to go by bad roads and a safe bridge.
Uncle Pat English informs us that there has been a very serious rain on Auburn street and that
Wolf creek was very high last evening at night fall.
The well opened mines are troubled with water. The Eureka had a stoppage day before
yesterday, on account of the breakage of a pinion. The delay was only for a few hours and