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April 19, 1871 (4 pages)

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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. —