(Signed) C. GRUBEMOUT, Pres’t.
E. Uptosnuff, Sec’ry.
The cleverness and explicitness of the whole transaction showed that it had been done neatly; and the Directors with singular unanimity felt themselves included in the operation.
There can be no doubt that Grubemout and Uptosnuff are among the “placers” in California. The one being undeniably the man who sold the two barrels of brandy, by installments of a thimblefull at a time, for $14,000—the other, with positive certainty, we aver to have been the man who “confidentially” communicated the following item to the newspaper press, and he must have been there to have seen it:
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The Biggest Lump Yet?—The following is about the latest news from the gold diggins that we have seen recorded in the ‘papers:’ A runaway soldier is said to have discovered a lump or a rock of gold that weighed 889 pounds and 11½ ounces; he was afraid to leave it, and mounted guard upon it, and at the latest dates he had sat there 17 days; had offered $27,000 for a plate of pork and beans, but had been indignantly refused, and laughed at for the niggardliness of his offer, by parties going further on, where this article was said to be more abundant!”