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Poured all night at Reno -- Millie & baby still at home -- Bed 10 -- Jeff Davis died in New Orleans Friday morning last -- 81 yrs of age --

Bessie 116, Millie 107 lbs -- Snow
Lew Johnson's Minstrels

Monday Dec 9

Cloudy with occasional light snow squalls -- Morning train to Gold Hill -- Was there during PM -- Walked to Va at dark -- Evening about town -- Bed at 1 -- Bessie weighs 116 lbs and Millie 107 lbs, so they told me this morning --

Tuesday Dec 10

Very strong wind blew furiously most of day, from the SW with occasional snow squalls -- thawy & very sloppy -- PM at Gold Hill -- Evening at Opera House -- "Lew Johnson's Refined minstrels" -- all colored men -- 14 in all -- arrived this day -- They paraded street on arrival with their fine band -- evening had about 1/2 a house -- Pretty good entertainment, of the minstrel variety order -- But real negro minstrels are not as good as white imitators -- Don't come up to the Old SF Minstrels by a long chalk -- Bed 1 -- Snow 3 inches -- I was at the Crown Point office awhile this

Senator Jones Passes East -- Snow
Reno letter from wife in paper -- J P Jones

PM and Harry Gorham told me that Senator J P Jones passed east last night over the Central Pacific railroad, for Washington --

Wednesday Dec 11

Thawy -- light snow squalls most of the day -- About 3 inches of snow on the ground