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3 JANUARY 3 & 4, 1879 GRASS VALLEY UNION
Persons and Things.
On New Years day a mischievous boy, living a short distance from town, who was celebrating
here, took a saddle horse, belonging to Wm. H. Totten, that was hitched in front of the Empire
stable road home and then turned the horse loose. The animal with saddle and bridle, had not
been found at last accounts.
The funeral of Patrick Murphy was largely attended on Wednesday, by neighbors and friends,
by whom the deceased was held in much respect.
Andrew Fryer sustained a number of cuts and bruises by falling over the dump with a car, at
the Smith mine, on Monday last.
Calling was not so generally indulged in on New Year’s day in Grass Valley as has been
customary, as family affliction and illness conspired to prevent a number of ladies receiving
who had usually made such a custom. Mrs. A. B Dibble, who has for many years kept open
house on that day received many callers at her hospitable mansion, assisted by her daughter
Mrs. Wm. Johnston, Mrs. Bessie Briggs, Miss Lily Johnston, Miss Lucy Myers and Miss Lou
Dorsey.
Coming.
“Eliza Weathersby’s Froliques,” a very popular Comedy Troupe, is now on its way to California,
and will appear in Grass Valley on the 14th inst. Their specialty is “Hobbies,” which is described by
the Eastern press as the most irresistible and humorous comicality of the day, that keeps an audience
in a laughing mood throughout the entire performance, The entertainment is vouched for as being
entirely free from anything offensive to good taste.
The Nevada Dance.
The ball at Nevada, on New Year evening, by the Young Men’s Social Club, was a grand success
in every particular. The costumes of the ladies rich and elegant, and the management by the
committees conducted with judgment and all due courtesy. In fact it is pronounced, in all respects,
as one of the finest social events ever given in the county. Grass Valley was well represented by
handsome ladies and fine looking gentlemen.
SATURDAY, JANUARY 4, 1879
A CHANCE FOR THE LOBBY.
The Convention has exhausted its money, and the popular idea seems to be that the members
are now giving their services gratuitously—doing their labor in a spirit of unselfish devotion to public
interests. But from the fact that brokers have offered to take per diem certificates of members for 65
cents on the dollar, it looks as if there had been some kind of negotiation going on by which members
could receive a per diem for the remainder of the time the Convention may continue in session.
If such certificates are issued then the next Legislature will be lobbied to pass an appropriation
to meet them, and the gentlemen now acting as delegates, many of whom are pronounced against
such modes of influencing legislation, will be expected to render all necessary service in the passing
of such appropriation. And they can not well avoid doing so, as it would be ungrateful in them to
take the money of the brokers, by which their daily expenses will be met, and then refuse their moral
support in obtaining the necessary appropriation to reimburse them.
The brokers will take a large risk in buying such certificates at even a much less rate than 65
cents, as it is generally considered that the original appropriation of $150,000 was sufficient, and 100
days long enough, in which to do the work of remodeling the Constitution; and as the time has been
frittered away without much being accomplished that is satisfactory, and the instrument that will be
framed is almost certainly doomed to rejection at the polls, it is not at all probable that there will be
much disposition to have the next Legislature make any further appropriation in payment of a “dead