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r MBalle. .cccaccocesseceses he +4
f pers .2. ce eee eeecete
UoKOG..o-.caphinsicesxe 17
Jvint fastenings.. . 400
Laying track..... eee 250
Embankment, 6,062 yards, 1,513
“Cuttings, 5,620 yards. 7 2,480+}—
Reck cutting, 1,611 yards, 1,611
Ballast eee 68 Seeeveeerses 1,000
Sidiogs ee eee + Fee eeeeevee 200
Masonry aad b sie bi 1,140
Bs ry ears, 25, 4,000 ,
__ difference exists in the Batter of the .
‘WEDNESAY, APRIL 19, 1871.
Cost of Narrow Gauge Roads,
The tailway Committee of Massaeatin
‘thusetts, after thorough investigation .
and careful estimates of the relative advantages of troad and narrow gauges
tor railroads, have advised the authors .
ization of the constraction ef roads
with a three foot gauge. Over ordinary
roads @ two foot nine inch gauge is en~
tirely adequate to the transaction of.
all. business. An estimate is made of
the cost of building and equiping one
mile of such a road, 25 miles in length,
whére the average depth of cuttings
and embankments is four feet. The
figures are taken from a surveyed line,
‘and made on the recommendations of
the India Committee. They are as
follows:
ridges
Rolling stock tor whole read, say :
Engines, 3....-.$18,000
Passenger cars,5 .. 5,500
Mail& 1 a e cars, 2, ace
25
$34,825 divided by 25.. 1,393
Total cost per mile... $13,757.
For a four foot eight and a half inch
“gauge, a similar road would cost $23,974 per mile according to estimates,the
difference being nearly two te une in
favor of the narrow gauge. The same
cost of operating.
Estimates for narrow gauge roads i in
Calitornia have been made as low as
the equipment. We understand the
Marysville survey has been made, and
_the estimates will be based on a three
foot gauge. The report it is expected
will soon be submitted, and we shall
then be enabled to compuge the estimates of Mr. Harris with those of other
engineers.
_ at the end of the pile.
aii nenmal
CHEEK .—The true definition of this
word was illustrated a few nights siace,
says the Grass Valley Union, thusly :
A kind hearted old gentleman, residing
on the edgé of town, has his wood
piled in his yard, cluse beside the
fenew. Noticing the pile growing
“small by degrees and beuutifully less,”
he bethought him to lay out one night,
and accordingly wrapping biwself in a
blanket (he isa ’49-er) dumped down
"Twas a calm,
still night, and a little after midnight
be heard a noise proceeding trom the
pile, and cautiousiy rising, observed a
neat neighbor helping himself. He
had thrown down half a dozen sticks,
among them, unintentionally, a very
large one. “It wont do to leave this
behind,” muttered he, “it would cause
suspicion—ite blasted heavy, though,”
After attempting in vaio to raise it to
the top of the pile, he concluded to
carry it off, and after tugging ior some
time, failing to raise it to the shoulder,
muttered he, “I’d yet the. wheelbarrow,
if I wasn’t afraid the noise would wake
Old Skinffint, and then there'll bea
row.” Just at this moment “Old Skin. 4
flint” interfered . with —“You've a
mighty -hatd job with that stick,
ne‘ghbor.” Forgetting for a moment
in his worry, the sharp reply was, “Yes,
and there are some peuple in the world
mean enough to let a tellow sweat
himeelf to death belore they'd put a
hand to help hin.” “Oid Skinfint”
eouldn’t stand that insiguation, aod
rapidly nearing the insinuator, dealt
him a blow’ between the eyes, which
caused him to quickly get up and get.
The next day a man was seen on. the
ase. Saks Sty Bel <P SHG he
said, by « splinter flying up and striking him. “Old Skinflint” enjdys the
joke, and thinks it worth the printing . 4
as a forcible illustratiom of the true
. meaning of “cheek,”
{District Court, April 18th.
. ing about the 10th of July.
Piere Mausiré, a native of
and Chas. Graf, a native of Seal
Were admitted to citizenship. ,
Foley vs Sheridan—Jadgment for
Plaintiff for $149 50 against Sheridan,
each party tu pay his own costs. Judgment against McNellis by default as
prayed for in complaint.
Nesmith vs Griffin €t ais—Continued
until Wednesday morsing at ten
o'clock.
o’clock, A. M.
The Bain Fail.
The gauge at the office of the South
Yuba Canal Co's. office, indicated a fall
of 123 inches for the last storm, mak~<
ing. a total for the season of 41.76
inches, against 53.15 for the entire sea~
son last year. ‘The rain fall for April
has been an inch more this season than
last. The snow on Monday was 16
inches deep on the Washington ridge,
and 6 inches at Bloomfield. It was
about a foot deep at Eurcka.
For Washington Territery.
Geo. W. Tomer, who has been a resident of this locality for nearly twenty
years, will leave in a few days for
Washington Territory. for the purpose
of enguging in the stock business. We
hope he may be able at no distant day
to count his cattle upon a thousand
hills. He deserves to prosper.
A Lottery at San Juan. .
A Lol enterprise has been decid
pe PG Ere fand aa alia ‘sahil obs
jects. The managers propose te issue
50,000 tickets at $1 50 each, and give
away $43,000, the prizes numbering
1,318. It is proposed to hold the drawPlowers at Auction. —
A choice selection of flowers, plants,
bulbous roots, shrubbery, etc., from .
the celebrated Euspive Berens; Bacradiy: at the auction room of W.H.
Davidson, Broad street, on Saturday
Crushing.
Stiles’ quartz mill is at work upon
rock of the second grade from the Ors
leans mine. The rock looks first rate.
The best rock being filled with sulphurets is selected and worked by the
chlorine process.at Maltmun’s works on
the Grass Valley road.
The Attorneys.
In our item relative to the mortgage
tax suit, yesterday, we omitted to mention as attorneys, Dibble & Byrne of
Grass Valley, who are associated with
Judge Niles for the defendant,
Late.
The Sacramento Union of April 8d,
after a trip Eust, arrived in this city
with the Eastern mail yesterday. As
the mailing clerk of that paper writes
a legible hand, somebody else is to
blame.
New Dress.
The Spirit of the Times appears in a
new dress, very becoming, and in. good
taste. The Spirit evinces prosperity io
its make up and vigor in its manage~
ment. We wish it success.
Mining Location.
on Grizzly Canyon, Bloomfield towns
ship, commencing at Cherokee ravine
and extending down the canyon,
Soctaple,
The Congregational Sosiable will
meet at the residence of L. O. Palmer,
Nevada street, this, Wednesday eves
ning, at 7} o’cluck.
Declaration of Intention,
Jos, Griffiths, a native of Wales, yes.
terday declared his intention of becom~
bee citizen of the United States.
8. D. Bosworth has been appoiated
by J:1, Sykes, Deputy Postmaster at
Grass ‘Valley.
‘most despised by his subjects, is now
Met the extrem
itane party
decidedly on the wane, even in the
darkest districts of Oid Bavaria.
Court adjourned to Wednesday at 10!
moorning, at 10 o’clock.
Driscoll & Co. have located 1,500 feet :
Youne King Leuis the Second of
Pavaria, who, during the first years of
his reign, was greatly disliked and als
in the sunshine of great
ules e erlieme Vike Bp
hate him bitterly ;
but its oe Ge once so powertul, is
. the King of Pain.
[Pa newspaper published in Indiana,
gives the following account of the death
ance in this city, as the “King of P:
some months ago, excited the curiosity
of the public. The People, published
at Indianapolis, says his relatives are
unknown, but is informed that the Dr
had @ wife residing in Baltimore, who
was considyred wealthy, and who. frequently supplied the pecuniary means
with which her eccentric, wayward
husband extracted himself from many
a difficulty.
The death of this man who was well
known from Maine to the Pacific coast,
will be read with some surprise, andnot unlikely, by some with regret. No
human creature dies without leaving
something good behind him, either in
act or character.
We feel at lib@ty to mention a circumstance which occarred while this
strange creature was in the flush of his
prosperity in Indianapolis. Reckless,
immoral, improvident, an empyric,
. gambler, ¢°togue—whatever the public may consider him—it demonstrated.
@ strange apd worthy trait. In the
course of his dissipation, Dr. McBride
became acquainted with an abandoned
girl, who was only fvurteen years of
age and exceeding!y ignorant. In a
freak of generosity heis said to have
-. placed in the hands of the abandoned
7
child, in the presence of a witness, the
©@. sum of $3,700 on condition that she
. would Jeave the city and “go-to sone
small place, or another city, and there
educate herself and fit herself for some
honorable pursuit. He gave her six
years to accomplish this retormation,
and showed her into the street. The
i gentleman who witnessed this strange.
act remonstrated with the doctor, who
replied with a laugh : ,
__“I won it in tour nights at faro, and
ifI can doa worthy deed with the ing. fernal~money;-why shouldia’t I? FH
make up for itin deviltry before anoths
er week passes.”
The girl, with her fortune €
‘ed, no one knows 1 whither, perhaps ‘to
honestly carry out the instructions of
her benefactor.
The Peoplé says he died one day last
week, after a brief illness of some species of lung affection,” and adds: “His
relatives are unknows, although we
hear that he has a sister living, who
has been notified of his death. Meanwhile the body, late so iull of life, lies
in the vault of an undertaker, subject
‘to the demand of relatives or triends.’’
ANOTHER REVOLUTION.—The Stock.
ton Independent says: A sudden change
has taken place in the managenient of
the Sacrainento Reporter. E. A. Rozkwell, who stepped into the shoes of
Harry George, a few months. age, has
been unceremoniously deposed and Oscar L. Shack, of San Francisco, has
taken his place, Fenwick Fisher, the
news editor, has also been removed,and
his chair is occapled+by Richard Clarks
en, of Folsom. Mr. Shuck has occupied
the position of Justice of the Peace in
San Francisco, and is the author ot one
or two literary works of considerable
merit. He has recently been connected
with the Examiner. The significance
fof this revolution at the State Capital
is not understood by the public, but ag
the Reporter was bitterly opposed to
aight under its late management, we
conclade that the friends of the Governor have captured a majority of the
stock and have made a determined @f<
fort to tack ship.
rian papers a long denial of the assertion of M. Gambe.ta that he was, in
1869 and 1870, a secret a, of Na
poleon.
Fritz REUTER, the famous German
novelist, has lately lost a good deal of
his popularity in Germany, by violently attacking the Jews in some ot kgs
pyhiie addresses.
. Iris said that Toul Kossath, who
has nearly finished his autobiography
unable to fiod in Italy or: Germany a
publisher willing to pay him ‘an adequate copyright.
of Dr. McBride, whose fantastie apreat:
a. walking match Sunday night last.
Viwnd
Gen. ‘TURR publishes in the Hunga.
. tethering
in several volumns, has hitherto been. .
Grass Valiey Items.
ley, on Sunday morning !ast. Cel.
Young, or Col. Van, as Mr. Young was
called, was well known toall the citi~
zens of Grass Valley. He came to this
State in 1850, from Hopkins county,
Kentneky, and since 1852 has resided
continuously on his little farm on the
old Auburn roa: Mr.
Young was a man of many eccentrici—
ties and was therefore a noted man,
His qualities of character, however,
were all on the side of good heartedness and of genuine good feelings. He
leaves many friends in this vicinity.
His age was about sixty-one years.
The remains of Col Van Sullivan
Young were taken in charge by # tumber of his old friends and were buried
ig Greenwood Cemetery.
1 prec and Jacoby concluded their
They-commenced on Wednesday afternoon at 2} u’clock, and Sheppard quit
walking at 5 minutes past 10 o’clock
Sanday night. Jacoby continued to
‘walk Until 15 Minutes past ii o'clock.
The match was a well contested one,
and there are mapy here who thihk
that Sheppard can walk a longer time
than Jacoby. The money taken in at
the door Jid not amvuunt1o.a very large.
ley.) He was an “Heathen Chinee.”
We suppose that our Ah Sin was
Bret Harte’s hero, as Dr. Wau Kee
tells us that the deceased is thé only
Chinaman of that name on this coast.
The funeral will be to-day, and Bill.
Nye should be in the procession. The
fellow who stopped George Williams
and Henry Seudden the other day,
shoyld be on hand.
ctudat last, and it resulted pretty
well. Forthe twelve days up to and
. including: last Saturday, the yield is
pharets, . but not more than $800 comes
Irom that source as we ‘understand it.
Old Ajax will do these big clean ups.
THE Louisville Courier-Journal is
the ablest and most widely
Van Sallivan . —y-Ah-Sin-died-in-GraseVal}.
he Eureka mise had a -clean up on}
The Grass Valley Union of yesterday jIMPO BR a! iad AW'T ff
costains the following fee 4
Van Sullivan Young, a well known
citizen of Grass Valley township, died
at his farm five miles below Grass ValTo THE
PEOPLE OF NEVADA COUNTY !
TREMENDOUS SALE
{
—OFr—
CLOTHING :
—AT— .
Banner Bros.
EMPORIUM !
Selling Out.
‘ Selling Out.
‘TO CLOSE BUSINESS! —
YN ENTIRE STOCK OB
GENTLEMEN'S Spe
FINE AND MEDIUM.
«
FURNISHING GOODS,
Sr eene en
BOOTS, SHOES, HATS.
RUBBER CLOTHING
of the Democratic newspapers in’ the .
South. It is the Democratic organ in
Kentucky. That paper not only admits the existence of the Ku Klux
Klan, bat also that it is a Democratic
organization, . It says, further: ‘Denials are childish, and it is Worse than
childish te ‘charge the Radicals with
getting up disturbances. ”
A MILEMAN in Banger, Maine, boasts
of his horse and his dog. He procures
part of his milk about halfa mile from
his house, and every evening he says
that he harnesses his horse into the
milk wagon,puts in the cans and throws
the reins over the dashboard: His large
Newloundland dog then gravely steps
in, and the horse, ander the direction
of the canine driver alone, proceeds to
the place where the milk is procured
and stops. The dog announces their
arrival, the cans are filled, the doy re‘sumes his seat in the vehicle and the
horse carefully turns and trots home.
At Fall River, Mass., the: other day
in one of the public’ schools, a little
girl came to the teacher aad complain~
ed that'a boy had been ‘pointing a pis‘tol at her feet. The teaclier then requested all boys having pistols to come
forward, and five boys came to the
. desk with pistols in their pockets, cap. ped and loaded with shot.
THREE more objectionable tate
ters have been notified to leave Virginia City by the Vigilance Committee.
Since the hanging of Perkins by the
Vigilantes, and the: hegira which followed, not even a fist fight or an alarm
of fire has occurred,
Ereary thousand tons of granite
were recently quarried at one blast, in}
BOYs’ CLOTHING,
. &e. &e. &e.
Will be Closed out at First Cost
AND LESS.
Respectfally inform the people of Nevada
Coanty that they have made arrangements to
¢lose’out their entire busitiess in this city,
and in order to dispose of their immense
stock as rapidly as. possible, they now offer
their splendid stock of
SPRINC CLOTHING,
LATEST STYLES,
At Prices Lower than ever before
known on . this Coast.
t"To Country Merchants in particular‘ Take Notice. 21
We would say that this is an extraordinary
time for you to call and look at our Stock and
Prices as the Goods must aud will be
closed out this Season, and you had better
take advantage of the Gres Bargains
now offered.
E#-The good will of business toa ene = .
“BANNER SROTHERS.
Cor. Broad & Pine Streets,
: Nevada Gity.
~ CLOTHING,
. PPS RPM Sc Se ee ee ————
——
She Bai
ee
LOC.
The Kokljux
A correspon:
reka township
outrages perp
and family, on
A short time
of the derrick
and Mr. Sher:
next morning,
engaged in .
gravel and cla
hold of the ru
' box, the guys
was thrown wi
the heavy mas
inches of his }
“vious to this, s
used to watch
Atanother ti
be the same .
arms around
night, and on
into the build
wall,a few incl
-Sherweod._O
“The perpetra
sert it Was On
their guns, an
the family, to
to Chinamen.
mistake about
ee
koewn they
been under a
charge. It wi
us that such o
trated and the
__-vy the guilty.
steps being ta
~+to bring them
_& Bich suit
Va short tim:
contract to we
were te be al
labor, and aft
mine. They
take out 120 .
which yielded
renewing the
the specimens
and when it «
specimens afo
and one of the
Hence a suit 1
of the spoils.
two it seems ¢
to divide, and
force a divisio
bP aes Strik
tranahan,
Hill, have ms
hydraulic clai
Aitted up witl
last Fall at he
ic mining, anc
several weeks
modern appli
plished more .
by the.expenc
Opening of th
good face on .
pans of dirt, +
prospecting tl
ten dellars, .
of ground an¢
geet kind of p
The Skatin;
The Aurors
Perance Hall
dition, and j
enough for al
has made eve
ant for those
reduced the p
ervating exer
The rink is o
Roon and ev:
» filled with la
Plimpton sk,
Unequaled, ag
Various skat
Those who »
cise should 1
Tora Rink. —