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90 MAY 6 & 8, 1877 GRASS VALLEY UNION
FATAL MINING ACCIDENT. The Nevada Transcript of May 5th says: “W. H. Davy, son-in-law
of ex Sheriff George W. Smith, was caved on while drifting in the mine owned by those
parties, at the Half Mile House, yesterday afternoon. He was completely buried up by
the cave for nearly an hour, and when at last taken out, life was extinct. He was a hard
working man, and universally respected by all who knew him. It is a sad blow to his family
and friends, and his sudden taken off is universally regretted by the whole community. He
leaves a wife and one child.
DIED. At Grass Valley, May 5, 1877, LEWIS T. DELAVAN, aged about 60 years, a native of New
York.
SUDDEN DEATH OF AN OLD CITIZEN.—Yesterday morning, about 10 o'clock, Lewis T.
Delavan departed this life. Deceased had been a resident of this town for almost twenty-five years,
and was well known as an upright and honorable man. His gentle and blameless way of life endeared
him to a large circle of friends, and his family have the sympathies of them all. Mr. Delevan has
suffered greatly in the past five or six years with rheumatism, and to alleviate the excruciating pains
caused by that disease he has been in the habit of taking sedative doses of narcotics, by the advice
of his physicians. His sudden death is attributed to the fact that he mistakenly took an overdose of
a regularly prescribed remedy yesterday morning. An inquest was held yesterday afternoon, and a
verdict was rendered in accordance with the facts above stated.
FOR TOWN TRUSTEES.
The following gentlemen, well known residents and property holders in Grass Valley, will be voted for for
TOWN TRUSTEES.at the election on Monday the 7th day of May 1877: S. D. AVERY, W. H. BENSON and GEO.
W. WHITESIDES. MANY VOTERS.
TOWN ELECTION.—Three Trustees, one Assessor one Marshal and one Treasurer, for the town
of Grass Valley are to be elected to-morrow. This is an important election. We have frequently urged
its importance. It has been a difficult matter to get business men to stand for the office of Trustee.
We learn, however, from the Tidings of yesterday that a “meeting of citizens was held on Thursday,”
and Alexander Sims, Jr., John P. Rodda and William Bee were nominated for Trustees. Where that
meeting of citizens was held is not stated and it is pretty certain that no public notice of the meeting
was give. It was sort of a “three-cornered” affair, and it ought to have been otherwise. We have no
personal objection to either of the gentlemen named, but it looks as if a meal tub, with a cat in it, is
around the matter somewhere. Of course a “meeting of citizens” is not a “citizens’ meeting” but a
great many do not take the time to consider the difference. . . .
OFF FOR EUROPE.—M. Chavanne and wife and Mrs. McCormick will leave Grass Valley tomorrow for Paris. Mrs. McCormick will be absent in Europe some six months and on her return will
see her friends and relatives in the eastern States. Our best wishes for a safe and pleasant journey go
with them.
TUESDAY, MAY 8, 1877
BORN. At Grass Valley, May 6, 1877, to E. F. MORSE and Wife, a Daughter.
Personal.
[Bradley] J. Watson editor of the Nevada Gazette, informs us that he is not going to make his
new weekly paper an exclusively religious journal, but a proper kind of piety will be one of the main
features of it. The most of the piety will be found on the patent backside of the paper, the Mustard
Club having a good deal of influence on the inside arrangement.
SCHOOL EXHIBITION.—The carrying capacity of Hamilton Hall was thoroughly tested last