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150 AUGUST 9, 1874 GRASS VALLEY UNION
flames extending to adjoining property. The house was an ordinary frame dwelling and unoccupied.
It is believed that it was fired by an incendiary.
FIREMAN INJURED.—On Friday night, as Eagle Hose Company were running to the fire,
Spence Hobby, one of the members was considerably bruised by falling into a prospect hole, near
the Boys’ Orphan Asylum. The pole of the carriage was also broken at the same time. Hobby is not
dangerously hurt.
TOWN IN JEOPARDY.—The town of Columbia Hill is nearly mined away. There is
nothing left but a narrow strip of land, not more than 250 yards wide, on which the houses
are situated. Were the houses removed, not a foot of the ground on which the town now
stands, would be visible in a month afterwards. Great efforts, we learn, are being made to
induce the house owners there to remove their houses, so that the owners of the mines can
wash away the gravel on which the town is built. The house owners are stubborn and won’t
yield.—San Juan Times.
REASON DETHRONED.—A WOMAN'S FOLLY.—The San Juan Times tells the following sad
story:
J. F. L. Eichel, an old and respected citizen of this place, has gone to Stockton, to live in
the lunatic asylum. He was taken to Nevada last week, for examination before the County
Judge, and he was adjudged to be insane. His is a sad fate, and ought to be a warning to
young girls not to trifle with the affections of a weak-minded man. The story of Eichel’s
insanity, or the cause of it, can be soon told. Eichel, by the dint of honesty and hard labor,
managed to obtain a good name and some fine property at this place and neighborhood.
He fitted himself up a charming residence, and was surrounded with every luxury known
to our climate. He had a farm connected with his residence, and also kept a dairy. He was
a hard working, inoffensive man, and until one of the daughters of Eve whispered into his
ear, he appeared to be content to live a bachelor’s life. He was a hospitable man as well as a
worker. One day, about a year ago, when blackberries were abundant in his garden and ripe,
he invited some ladies to visit him at his residence and partake of some blackberries and
cream. They did so. The invitation was repeated and accepted again and again. One of these
young ladies thought it would be great fun to captivate this bachelor, and suiting the action
to the word, she set herself about it. She was a charming girl, and well suited for the part
she undertook to play. Mr. Eichel became attached to her and sought her hand in marriage.
She promised to marry him, and afterwards, when she saw she had gone too far, she
retracted. This so preyed upon his mind that he became deranged. The girl left for another
section of the State, but that did not help matters. Eichel worshipped her, worshipped
the very ground she walked on. He mourned her absence. He mourned his unlucky fate.
He suffered his mind to dwell upon the girl and his melancholy fate, until reason became
dethroned. His insanity was at first of a mild type, but as time progressed he became
dangerous. He imagined that God had revealed himself to him, and gave him a mission to
perform. That mission was to preach and make known to all that Christ would soon come to
set up his New Jerusalem on earth. He was crazed. Eichel is a man of about 40 years of age,
and a native of Prussia.
MOORE’S FLAT ITEMS.—A correspondent of the Nevada Transcript, writing from Moore’s
Flat, under date of August 6th, gives the following summary of news from that locality:
The miners are all running full handed. The Blue Bank Company have got about ready
to clean up, and will, in all probability, do so this week. The Boston Company are running
1,600 inches of water, and are trying to clear out the diggings which were filled up by a slide
last Winter. The new tunnel, under the superintendence of D. Kiskees, is being driven ahead