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The Daily Dispatch: January 22, 1861., [Electronic resource], Later from California. (search)
lated to seven feet in depth on the Sierra Nevada, but the obstruction was so rapidly removed that teams to and from the Washoe mines crossed the summits daily. Throughout the Washoe mining region the snow is now from one to two and a half feet deep. Gilbert A. Grant, a Republican of some prominence, died here suddenly on the 31st ult. San Francisco was thrown into unusual excitement on New Year's day by the killing of Samuel L. Newell, editor of the late Democratic Signal, of Placer county, by Horace Smith, a lawyer of considerable position in the same county. Newell is charged with having slandered Smith's wife, which so incensed him that he followed his intended victim to San Francisco, in company with his wife's brother, who is the somewhat noted Judge Hardy. Newell was stabbed several times by Smith, so that he died in a few minutes without making resistance. Smith was formerly Mayor of Sacramento. He has given himself up to the authorities and is now in jail.