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Post office - "Petrified woman" also on exhibition in a room across the street
from Douglass building- Purported to havebeen found on Jan 7, last in (Inolumne)
County, California. White woman good ordinary size & shape, naked - light stone

The "Petrified Woman" - Rain
Thatcher's Minstrels

color - entire - Found by 2 miner 5 or 6 ft beneath surface - Very interesting -
But I think she is artificial and made of some sort of stony composition - Very
neat fraud - Whole surface of body rough and seamy, like confluent small-pox -

Thursday May 7

Rained good for a couple of hours early this morning - Laid dust & made streets
muddy - Day principally cloudy - About as usual - Bed 11:30 -

Friday May 8

Cloudy & cold - About as usual - Bed 12 - clear & freezing -

Saturday May 9

Clear & very fine - Evening attended Thatcher's Minstrels at the Opera House -
Dickie Jose with them, crowded house - Splendid performance - Bed 1 1/2 -

Sunday May 10

Same - AM I walked out & visited Charley Ziegler, on the Divide, as member of
Visiting Comm of the Exempts - got his left leg broke a week ago last Wednesday

Exempts $12 more Big rain & worms
Comstock Millinaires*, and Nevada trade

by his horse falling with him - small shin bone - PM monthly meeting of Exempts -