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Title: 1877 Collection Type: Directories and Documents Collection Name: Nevada County News & Advertisments # of Pages: 238 Download PDF: User Login Required Download OCR Text: User Login Required

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89 MAY 4-6, 1877 GRASS VALLEY UNION THE thief who lately stole some hose from Emmanuel Church Rectory garden is requested to call at Mr. Fisher’s store and pay $4 for the new hose. Citizens are cautioned against leaving their hose out at night; too many thieves around. PICNIC.—The Public Schools of Nevada [county] will give a picnic at Storms’ Ranch to-day. For the accommodation of all those at Grass Valley, who may wish to attend, a special train will leave here at 11:30 A.M., returning at 1:40 this afternoon. Tickets for the round trip $1; children half price. SATURDAY, MAY 5, 1877 CHILD DROWNED. At Eureka South, in this county, on Thursday last, a little three year old daughter of John Hogan, was drowned in the Milton Company’s ditch. The little girl was absent from the house not over half an hour when her lifeless body was found. The mother of the little one is a sister to Mrs. Thomas C. Moran of this place. QUICK TRANSIT. It ought to be a matter for some surprise that the Turks and Russians can fight a battle to-day and that full particulars of the affair will reach Grass Valley to-morrow, in time for the afternoon assemblage of our Generals to discuss the peculiar features and the strategy of the battle. The scene of the war is a long way off, but the news of an important event will come here from there sooner than it has ever been possible for election returns to reach Grass Valley from Mooney’s Flat, the distance between the two latter places being something like sixteen miles... . We do not know that the rapid way in which knowledge has of running up and down the earth, adds to the general happiness of mankind. To the philanthropist the slow arrival of the news of a tremendous slaughter would seem to be more satisfactory than the sudden information of bloodshed. However that may be, quick transit of news is the rule, and worse than that is the quick way in which armies slaughter each other (all in the name of God) in these modern times. . . . Still, the telegraph must not be abolished. Mining Items. We find the following [item] in the Nevada Transcript of yesterday: Capt. Moore & Co. have bought a quartz mill, at You Bet, of the Birdseye Creek Company, and will remove it to their claim, at Saw Mill Flat, head of Diamond Creek, just above the town of Omega. They expect to have the mill in operation by the 1st of July. The ledge is very extensive and pays by mill process $18 to the ton. They have over 80 tons of rock on the claim, and as the ledge is easily worked, they expect to make a big thing out of it. SCHOOL EXHIBITION.—There will be an exhibition to-night, at Hamilton Hall, given by the children of the public schools, assisted by more mature local talent. The object is to raise funds for the purchase of a bell for the use of the schools; a big bell which being placed on the High School building will ring in all the children of the district. The entertainment will consist of vocal and instrumental music, tableaux and literary exercises. Every body should buy a ticket. LEG BROKEN.—Some of the boys on Thursday last, at Boston Ravine got to exercising in wrestling in order to be practiced when the regular Fourth of July contests take place. During the exercise Thomas Richards received a fall which resulted in the breaking of his left leg a little below the knee. Dr. Coombs was called, the fracture was adjusted and the wounded man is doing well. SUNDAY, MAY 6, 1877 BORN. At Graniteville, May 1, 1877, to GEO. A. TYLER and Wife, a Daughter.