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209 NOVEMBER 13 & 14, 1877 GRASS VALLEY UNION
the “Artists Life” waltz, by Strauss, which was given in a way which did them great credit, and was
heartily applauded by the audience. H. Wohler Sr. made a short speech, regarding the band, but the
applause was so frequent and so loud that our reporter failed to note his words. The concert was
followed by a dance, and the music was furnished by the Orchestral band, and it is seldom that our
people have an opportunity to dance to such music, as a lady remarked to us that one could not help
dancing when such music was furnished. We hope soon to attend another just such entertainment.
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1877
BORN. At Reno, Nevada, November 12, 1877, to JOHN W. MADDRILL and Wife, a Son, an
X-pounder.
WHEN WOMEN VOTE.
The Nevada Transcript asserts that when women vote in this country, they will have political
matters their own way, and that the old politicians of the male gender will have nothing to do but act
as directed.
It grieves us not to be able to agree with our contemporary on that subject. The reason given is
that when the women take a petition around which asks for “women’s suffrage,” almost all the men
sign the document; therefore, as the Transcript argues, the men will do, in election times, as the
women direct.
The brute sex (by which we mean the male animal of the genus homo) would do nothing of the
kind. He would get the women voters to quarrelling on some street corner, on election day, and he
would go and vote. Of course the female voters would never get done with their own wrangle until
after sundown, when the polls would be closed and the babies would be crying at home for their
suppers. They would not vote at all; no woman would yield the last word in a controversy for the sake
of putting a piece of paper in the ballot box.
If the women, when they come to be allowed to vote, could all agree on political questions, the
result might be as our Nevada City contemporary imagines but never, since the world began, could
any two of the dear sex agree on any one question that has ever been broached. Then again, when
women get to peddling tickets around and hurrahing for candidates she will lose that smile and
sweetness that now accompanies any request she may make. When the women vote they will not
control the elections.
Persons and Things.
The Rev. J. W. Brier Jr., lectured in Nevada City Monday night on the “Unproductive Labor
of Bummerism.” The editor of the Transcript was present and took it all in, and thought the
reverend gentleman was a confounded sight too personal in his remarks.
This town will be well stocked with holiday goods, and everything looks now as if Grass Valley
were to have a jolly good time during the coming festive season. It will enable one to have the
right sort of feeling and conscience to enjoy the good time, if he or she will remember the poor,
and assist the Ladies’ Relief Society to help the poor, by patronizing the entertainment which
is to given by that Society on the evening of the 28th of this month at Hamilton Hall.
All should lend a helping hand on that occasion, and not only buy tickets, but attend.
We mentioned the other day that H. L. Knight, one of the San Francisco agitators, used to
live in Grass Valley and we then said that he was fonder of talk than work. We gave that
statement on the information of an old and substantial citizen of this town. Another old
citizen informs us that the statement thus made is incorrect, and that Mr. Knight was a
very industrious worker. Our second informant says that Knight would work all day at mining
and then at night would make up flour sacks, mattrasses and other such things. We do not