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144 MAY 27 & 28, 1886 GRASS VALLEY UNION
an acquaintance while at the same time the barkeeper, who was some distance away was examining
a pistol which accidentally discharged, the ball striking Mr. Perry in the right cheek and ranging
around lodged among the muscles of the neck. The wound did not prove a dangerous one, but the
surgeon decided not to remove the ball, owing to the difficulty of reaching it.
Superior Court.
The following business was transacted in Superior Court on Tuesday, Hon. J. M. Walling
presiding:
C. R. Ball vs. J. H. Nichols et al. Motion to strike out as to a certain spring and as to T. J.
Waggoner allowed. Motion otherwise denied.
P. Bryan vs Idaho Q. M. Co. On motion of F. Power, Messrs. Farley & Little are entered as
associate counsel for plaintiff. Messrs. Cross and Simmonds and C. W. Kitts appeared for defendant.
On trial.
FRIDAY, MAY 28, 1886
Persons and Things.
A heavy shower passed to the westward along the lower foothills on Wednesday evening,
but only sufficient fell in this vicinity to wet the surface of the ground. A beautiful rainbow
spanned the eastern sky as the shower was coming on.
No arrangements have been made in Grass Valley for observing Memorial Day. but it has been a
custom for some years to decorate the graves in the cemeteries on the last Sunday in May. It is
a beautiful observance and should not fall into disuse.
Memorial Day is to be observed at Truckee on next Monday with appropriate exercises.
A Fish Killer Arrested.
Aman named John Anderson was arrested at Truckee the other day and taken to Emigrant
Ga p for examination, for killing trout in Coldwater creek last season with giant powder. The
examination resulted in Anderson being sent to Auburn jail to await trial. He would have been
arrested long before but had been away from the State.
Grange Picnic.
Saturday last, Magnolia Grange, P. of H., held a picnic at their hall . . . about fifteen miles below
Grass Valley, which was largely attended by people from the surrounding country, and several from
Grass Valley, including the Grass Valley Brass Band, which discoursed music throughout the day,
and for dancing in the evening. Games of all kinds were indulged in, such as foot racing, greased
pole climbing, croquet, sack racing, egg racing, etc. A fine lunch was spread, and all were invited
to partake of the good things furnished. There was also a fine musical and literary programme, in
which a number participated.
The Old Time Minstrels.
The announcement that a troupe of minstrels with Billy Birch and Ben Cotton as the leading
representatives are to appear at Empire Hall on next Monday evening, revives pleasant recollections
in connection with those two veterans of the burnt-cork profession. There are none of the old-time
Californians who do not remember Birch, the Christys, Eph Horn, Sam Wells, Charley Backus,
Henry Wambold, and other minstrel favorites of the early days, when in every mining camp they
would draw big audiences for nights in succession, and whose popular songs and quirks and oddities
were as familiar as home-told words.