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April 28, 1878 (4 pages)

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* The Daily Transcript. _NEVADA CITY. CAIs — 28, 1878. “Sunday, “Apel GEO. M, MOTT Cae only author1zed Agent in Sucramento. ‘He will re‘eeive. Advertiserients and Subseriptions for the Transcarpr, and eat ea us in our lame, Bae 2h Senaeoplfont GREENBACKS AT PAR, The Alta, in. taking a cursory elunce at the past and present history of our national curreucy, says that the fact that only one silver dol+ lurchas as*yet been paid into the -Gastom House for duties, and that _oe silver dollar was paid only beSRN. “TE aa aes s) " , ; BREVITIES, «The roads aréin good condition, Business of all kinds continues to improve steadily. Notwithstanding their name, quail “lalways die game, There will -be no-services at. the Episcopal church to-day. There isn’t & vegetable that can ketchup with the tomato. ( Work in the Watv and Derbec shafts is progressing finely. “The Choral Society has a -regular rehéarsal at the Theatre to-morrow night. The Charleton murder qase will come up before the District Court on ‘Tuesday. A concert. for the_benefit_of the PERSONAL . = ¢ A pleasant surprise party was held at the residence of Mrs, Dr. R. M: Haunt, on the occasion of that lady’s return from San Francisco, Friday evening. H, ©. Mills, who has heen seriotis-" ly ill for some weeks past, was 80° fanrecovered yesterday as to be able ‘to sit up. 2; Samuel. -Rohinson, — representing Miller & RitWatd’s Fype Foundry, San Francisco, was in town yesterday. successful on his present trip, having taken orders from several offices in this county for large quantities of material, : The following persons were Lamang . Mr, Robinson bas been very cause a’one dollar in gold’ was not readily obtainable, is & curious. sub—— jeer for thought. : thought tat its passage would cause silver dollars to lose value in the matket relat'vely to gold, But the contrary has resulted, at least in this market, where silver is held at spar with gold, at the present time, But it is with: currency at par that causes more particulary the memory to recallits history of a few years ago, As the war progressed, or rather continued without mach proyress, apparently, toward ending, the neue kept depreciating, “antil in 1pGda dollar~in greenbacks was “worth in tbe’ market only ateifte Over thirty-five” conts, gold being av} When the bit was+ /has our permission to go'a great deal M. E, 2 eansiny aoe took place at The Grass Se =paUnE sehool} ex chibition~ on Thursday evening last, was & marked success. Nearly every mine in the county is being: worked vigorously. The smaller ones will have au abundant supply—ofwater —for ~several-woeks yet. ; A house skeeper writes us that “scalded milk will go as faras fresh milk.” If it. will only stay there, it further. ¥osterday’s™ etection ~passed-—-off very quietly. Most of the candidates appeared rather indiffurent as to Lwhether they earried — a day ‘Couts, one year ago that morning. ‘those registered at-our hotels yesterSauis Robinson, J. -G, Holts: aud DW -Fitzgerald, “San—Fraa-} John Kelly, “Bodie; 5. H. Dikeman, Rough andReady; J. Cummings, Bioomfetd= John Johnson, Sacramento; W. Thomas, Blue Tent. ES Cisco; England Has Said Her Last Word. A London, special of Friday” says : A Vienna correspondent telegraphs that all negotiationg have failed, and that it is a question only of days for an outbreak of war. between EngJand and Russia. The formidablePattack of the Tarkishi i insurgents and irregular troops upon the . Russians in the Rhodope mountains has called forth a communication from the Grand Duke Nicholas to the Porte, requiring the ‘Turkish Government: to suppress it, and. that insurrection undoubtedly has. had much to flo. with the failure of the negotiatiens for the simultaneous withdrasval ef: the Russian ana English forces from the vicinity of ( Jonstantinople, The Porte has sent: peremptory “orders for] thre evacuation of Batoum, in defer‘Commander-in-Chief, but it willbe difficult, if not impossible, to induce the-Turks to. fight—against other ‘Turks at Russian dictation. This demand, coupled with the . Tequest for the admission into ConSohn Hank Choked to ‘Deuth bya a Bangling Hangsman, _ Joba Runk was’ banged at_ San Francisés, on . Friday afternoon} for the _murder.of police officer At-d-o%leck his -motier“and-sister were admitted t> ‘his cell and took final leave of the. condemned son and—brether,_On_—their all peesos waa J Hs -BCCeS stantinopie— of Russian soldiers, fur the purpose of. religious séyrvice next! Sunday, is regarded as foreshadowing _ the Ras-. sian occupation of that city, unless nejro tiacions shall have reached a more satisfactory. stage-than. ean now be hoped for. TF have it on good-authority that the English: Government has said its last word, and that its policy now-is-to—continue to . ee Then was the “Wibtor of our discontent.” Lut time werks —its Bi venges, and now it is mado’ glo-: OTs Ht That wasa scrupulous young lady who refused to meet her lover—JusUE Ret: Fious Summer by bringiupjupcurren= cy.to par with gold. Then, it was —aoubttat whether we had-a-country;] at any rate its chances-were shown. by the price of-its currency in mar°A history of our -enrreney during sixteen years last passed w ould nec—gasurity be a-histery of the—eountry;+ ef its warand its battles, its _ bones! aud its fears, it chances of suceéss and defeat, in fine, of all the sad und miserable record ‘of those ‘days when brave men of the same race stood np face to face, and-toe to toe, ready tu kill each other upon what they considered rincip Ne in the defence == et, Vic: thirty-five per eet, — tus,his name was-—at home, “because her niinister said’ “that — should . Falways-be-meted: “tthe — Yesterday's weather: was variable, . cloudy and clear by turns. ‘Tbe air Wasa little.clilly=-just. enough 80 . to be bracing, and, taken-all in all, it} was the sort of a day that breeds Cocaine oneeude have been the latter being in —" atte cat Hthroughoat . which those holding permits to wit. 2 =o 4 VACEHE SE advisers, <3 4 S-Wis-eenied-te-ba, by officers and spiritual prisoter—mmtnainer ‘nia fortitucta , aud-seemed tesigicd to his fate. Before noon people throng toward the pil tie hour of “execution the began t6 and—before treet was blocked witi a dense crowd, through hhess.the executicn could scarcely made for giyinyg a splendid entertainment at.the Theatre on: Tuesday evening next, for the benefit of the public schools. We will publish the programme in full in our next Issue. The Pioneer Keduction W. orks, wnder the able management of Prof, force their wiy. The jail was also crowded with visitors, amony them Sheriffs Green and Mitchell, frum San Mateo and Los Angeles.’ At 2 o'clock Runk was brought from hig céll, his arms pinioned, and took his plagoon the drop,. The priest. ; agreed to report favorably ~aresolu-[ Chinese Hauivretion,strengthew its forces and prepare for war, 2 ae BEL News tems, _William Evaits, som “Sf tlie Soares tary of State, died Friday “morning at the residence of bis father. The House Committee have tion authorizing-a conference between the Uuited States, Great Britain and China, on the “question of} Aman, aged 50 years, leaped from the Niagara suspension bridge Friday mording, Au accident on the Danville and Richmond Railroad at Clover, by the qmail train, , Friday morning, resulted -enee—to—the—wish—ofthe Russian . a large nitiber of, A.givenfor any_mminer-or~agriculturist “. ing claim, or preparing his land for ‘4 . ions-of this bill. The speedy passage Sargent’s Timber Bill, © Sargent’s bill authorizing the sale of timber lands in California, Oregon and Washington Territory,passed the Senate on Thursday, after a short explanation by its author, and him, in regard to parties now under prosecution for allegédétimber depredations, The bill, as passed, -pro‘vides that any survey ed lands in California,.Oregon, or Washington Territory,-uot reserved, and valuable chiefly for timber, but unfit for cultivation, and which have not been offered for sale, may be sold in quantities nut exceeding 160 acres to any one person or association at a mini}Maum price of $2 50. per acre, and [that lands chiefly valuable-for-stone/ may be sold on the same terms.— Nothing in this Act isto “impair any . . bone fide claim under any United States law, or authorize the sale of interfere with the rights of ditch owners. Any, person desiring to. buy such lands is to make very much such an application, and procf as:to} the character of land and its being vacant, etc., asin cases of mining land_purchases. He is required to + subseribe-to-a-etringent oath: thgt be “buys for his owa use and nct for any other person. A provision -is mad: for hearing all advérsé claimants. Other “sections of. the bill: make it} unlawful to cut or destroy any timber of “public lands with intent to Lexportor dispose of -it,” under-peral= ty of a-fine not less than $100 nor more than $1000: but permission is to_take-such timber as —is-necessary in the ordinary working of bis mintillage, or in suppat of improve-menig. — Phe parties now. beiig-pres— ecuted:. in~ California, Oregon ~aud W. ashington, ‘except such ashave cut . timber for-exportitien; are to be released on payment of $250 per acre for all lands from which they have taken timber. payment of the penalty,: but will. sons to purchase under the provisof which lifc was secondary consideration. But fourteen years have made great changes. From thirty-five vents on the dollar, currency has advanced preity regularly, uptit now, in this city if one needs currency instead of gold, he mist putdown dollar for dollar. In some cases, a premium of one-half of one per cent. in gold has been paid for currency. ‘The present price of currepey, compared, or rather contrasted with that of fourteen years ago, would furnish a vast field for discussion, were one disposed to a consideration of the subject. At present the general talk iz of hard times; ‘put, judging by the condition of our mouéy market our three kinds of money, gold, currency and silver, ove should say that our hard times and doubtfal fature was reached fourteen years ago, and that, pot “withstanding depreciation of -real estute from inflation prices, and reductio# 6f wages,the country is,year by yeur, progressing in prosperity, A Card from Kearney, xs Kearney is out in a card declining “, . >to accept a nomination as delegate to “the Constitutional Convention,claiming that he ean do better service by criticizing the candidates and seeing that gocd\men are elected to office. ‘His card closes asfollows: ‘“Ifthese met when cl the people, ~ then I will not decline a nomination to be an humble soldie?. to fall, if .-peedsba,.in. the font sink inthe grand uprising of Outraged j Psgple, . ” determined on purifying by” bidad RSS a ‘what could not be accomplished by) ballot. The Chinese “must go.” aw The Fusion of Parties,The Republican aud Democratic State Central Committees convened at San Francisco, ow Thursday ap—_———-pointed-# Committee of Conference to decide upon the manner of nominating delegates at large to the Constitutional Convention, The Conference Committee reported in favor of calling a convention, irrespective of all political _purties, to meet at Sacramento and nominate. delegates at large, t-@ Elizabeth says, with. charm. ing cheek, that one of Mr Beecher’s sermons, inculcating the duty of eonfessing sins, had led Her to confess both ber sin and that of her pastor. pa Ropsrr Benygee is put down at -< "10,000,000. . _) of Committees, {been rumored that Jacob was dead, A. B, Crosby, are kept constantly busy by the product of the surrounding mines. Prof, Crosby’s process of reducing ore is most satisfactory in its results; There were four candidates for the School Directorship, yesterday, as follows: J. 8. Dann; Jno. I. Caldwell, Geo. M. Hughes and M. L. Marsh,. As we goto press previous to the counting of the ballots. it is impossible to name the successful ones. The Teachers’ Institute. eachs ers’ the Washincton school building; at1:30 o'clock P. M., to-morrow, and remain in session five days. len, Mrs. Dr. Carr, and other prominent educators will attend and deliver le¢tures, A cordial invitation is‘extended to those who féel an interest in our schools to. attend. Teachers who absent themselves Without sufficient cause are liable to have their certificates revoked. The following is the order of exercises for the first day : Monpbay, 1:30 P. M. Opening. Choosing officers and appointment Remarks by ChairThe annual meeting of the T Tnstitute will convene in man, _ 2:00 Tiistruction in Mental Arithmetic—Miss Potter. 2:20 Discussion on same. 2:40 Recess. 3: 00 Instrumental or Vocal Music, 3:05 «Reading—The bést method in Primary scliools—Miss Preston. 825 The best method of teaching Morality. Prof, Carmichael, 3:40 Discussion on same, S805 Report of Critics. he Workingmen of Gilroy have adopted resolutions opposing the formation ‘ef military companies or vigilance comthittees for— political purposes, and condemning the use of incendiary or communiswc language. » A rich ore discovery is aoe:Hey: to have been made at Yan Blade, three miles from Austin, No> vada, saniediin [> Bain dnd hail fell at Austin, Nevada, on Friday, accompanied by thunder and lightning. ead pe of the edie Russian officers signs his name With his oiark. A soldier of the Gross. te Atraveler in the Holy Land
has discovered Jacob’s Weil, It has Professor Al. }: sponding in a low, steady voice, His demeanor was quiet and firm, and ne signs of trepidation showed themselves. The delay was brief. The rope” was quickly adjusted, }the drop fell, andthe condemned murderer dangled ‘for a moment motionless, The noose slipped under his chin, and in a moment it] was evident-fhat he was ly choking to. death, His struggles were violent, though reudered abortive by tbe bands With which his limbs were-vonfined, but the labored and convulsive attempts to breathe, short gasps and tbe opening and: clench=. ing of his hands were horrible toview. His struggles were prolonged some three —or four when Vreathing ceased physicians — soon after hit-dead, = slowminutes, and the pronounced ee The Florida Sensation, The much talked of “confessions” of McLin and Dennis, with regard to the “doctoring”’ of -the Florida returns in the Presidential election of 1876, are now before the people, . to. [be judged-of according tothe die= . e tates of common sense. The confessions, whether true or false, can have no bearing whatever upon the title of President. Ifayes;-since be holds his office entirely upon the authority of the Electoral Commission, which is the creature of his political enemies. Nevertheléss,. called “confessions,” these s0if true, will be very likely to be used with some effect in. the coming campaign, and iadeed that is the sole object of their production at this time, If the Returning Board of Florida counted in Hayes, when the State really gave its.vote for Tilden, then the Board was guilty of a great crime, and wliile the consequences of that crime» so far as Tilden is concerned, cannot be overturned, Republicans will join heartily with Democrats in condemnthe outrage, and demanding that the erpetrators be punished, ms £ al oe tw The American section of the Paris Exhibitiods. filling rapidly, and it is thought it Will be little, if any, behind the others ing day, May Ist. . Tar Montrea) Orangemen hav decided to have a procession on the gt July, with fligs vad banners, in the injary of five persans, one fatally. The accident was the result of carelessness.. _ The sensution of the day at Washington is the -—publication of the -alleged confessious of Mclin and Denuis in regard to toe election frauds in Florida, ‘rhe difficulty between. the cotton operatives and wasters in England i is still unsettled. Chas. VY. Crolins night foreman of feet in the shaft Thursday morning and was dashed to fragments. The Syndicate has taken $15,000,contract of the 11th instant. Joseph Haas, a livery stable keeper of Chicago, claims-to have a contract to furnish the British Government with 40,000 horses. The Senate bill repealing the bankruptlaw was passed by the House Thursday by a vote of 206 to 39. Pope Leo bas issued an Encyclical, At a fire ‘in Coburg, Ontario, Thursday, a wall fellin, burying a of whom were killed. It has been definitely decided that the Duke of Edinburg is to re main with his Kind in the Mediterranean, O’Leary has accomplished a walk at Dublin of 220 miles in 60 hours. A. D. Buck was assassinated near Red Bluff Tharsday by some unknown person. Charles Cockde shot’ and_ killed George Squires at Stony creek, Colusa county, on the 22d inst., eight balls taking effect. ©Dr, Carver broke 292 glass balls with a rifle at Onraha Thursday, out of 300. Inthe second hundred he broke 99. . ‘ illness, Citizens of Chicago are uneasy. at the outgrowth of Kearneyism in that City. There are 8,000 of the Communists, who are armed and drill weekly, An Italian named. Plainey shot and killed his partner, Negrassy, near Eureka, Nevada Thursday. Le Breton’s wounds, inflicted at San FranciscovWednesday by Gamge, prove more serious than af first thodght, and he new lies in a critical theAlta, in.Virgimia City, fell 300} 000 of four percents. under their . ° number of-firemen in the ruins, four Bismarck and-Gortchakoff are both . recovering from their recent serious) of this bill, and espeeially of this last section, without opposition, was surprising, bat is accounted for by the fullness of Sargent’s explanations of the need fur it, when presenting the California memorial on the subject recently, ke Ben Holliday’s estate in Wes. ehester county, New York, .was sold nesday. The claims against it oggregated $212,000, > oo {The recent stormin Ohio and adjuining States is reported as gen‘eral and very severe, déstroying a large amount of property. aa eee {9° Hickersun, one of the principal witnesses in the Mcre murder case, died at San Buenaveutura on ‘Thoreday y. te Of the 968 Chinamen who arrived at San Francisco on Wednesday, 400 are to be sent to Peru, as the first installment of 10,000 contracted for by the Peruvian Govern ment, CHICKERING & SONS PIANOS, {* everything that pertains to 4 really first class PIANU, material, workmanenip and tone, the CHICKERING PIANO Stands.pre-eminently in advance of all fothers. In them every demand of the cultivated musician is tully met, and the public may rest assured that ‘the deserved reputation of the CHICKERING PIANO Will be honestly maintained, Persons who contemplate purchasing a Piany should exercise great cure in its selection, as in no line of merchandise is there 60 mucn deception practiced, ora greater risk incurred than in the Pianstrade. The best is the cheapest, and in this connection we will state most emphatically that we DO NOT OR CANNOT Compete with dealers in cheap Pianos, The musical public is invited to call and examine our ELEGANT ek ages of GRAND, SQUARE, AND UPRIGH , with an amendment, also“ offered by . . aby mining elaim-or mineraliode;-er}— They are not howWey. } . er to acquire title to the land by the have the same rights as other per. ’ under foreclosure proceedings Weid. '_ UNION HOTEL, NEVADA CITY, ~ CALIFORNIA. JACOB NAFFZIGER,Prop'r: ets: WEL! KNOWN . Popular Hotel, Situated ge Main Street, in the Cit ve of m Sevada, has been thorouzh. tly overhauled, re fitted, ay. ~ turnished in first spared Lz and is now-bpen-tor the reception of guést The Siee ping Apartments, Are Large, Airy and Ple pasaut, % bed ino-the house hus a spring mat tare. i. a desirable, quiet place for the Weary, i) UNION offers superior inducements.” The Tables of the, mien, and «very Will compare fayorab ly With any Hotes 5, the state, and are tiled with thé best th market affords. Choice Wines, Liquors and Cigars, Will be found at the Bar,-and the Bill PRoort-has ths BEST BILLIALD TALL iy to be found in the State» ‘The C NTON enjoys the reputatig rH or “ing-the bESE-NOTEL IN THE aioL ‘PAINS, and the proprietse is leterminal to keep it so.” OPEN ALL NIG Bg ee JACOB NaPEziG a = mp26_ GRAND , CON CERF FO R.THE BENEFIT OF THE--_ “PUBLIC” SCHOOLS” ee ~—OF— . NEVADA CITY, AT THE THEATRE, Tuesday Even’g, April 30,1873. . : UNDER THE DIRECTION’ oF . PROFS. DAVIS AND. scores _T which time will, be—pre ped tl tap ivating Ope retta, entitic ar. ae GRANDFATHER’S BIRTHDAY —"Popet her: owvith Solcs, Buetts, oes ete "PRICES Of ADMISSION: Gallery, Seventy-five Cents. = Phrquette, Fifty Cents, ,_ “Children Halt Price. Doors open. at 7 mences at 3 P.M.. o'clock, Concert « ap2 —F ee © ~ . ae COLOSSAL ORGAN, : MAY 28th, 29th, and AT 2:30 P.M. AT MECHANICS’ PAVILION, : SAN FRANCISCO. SUMNER W, BUGBEE, Manager. (tores OF 2000 VOICES, IMMENSE ORCHESTRA, Electricity, Aitillery and Telephone. CONDUCTORS. Carl Zerrahan, Boston, John P. “Morgan & R.-Herold, San Francisco. : M.W. Whitney, the Greatest Living Basso. Helen AmesBillings. Miss Abbie Clark. W. H. Fessenden, cf Boston, And many other celebrated Soloists. ?Sale of Tickets begins at SHERMAN HYDE & Co., San Francisco, April 2Utb. SEASON TICKETS FOR 3 DAYS, 25" Single Tickets from $1 (0 to $2 00, accord ing to location.No extra charge for Reserved Seats. a Orders by mui! will receive preimp.* tention. CHAS, SCHUTZ, Ticket agent Transcript Job. Printing Office COMMERCIALSTREET, Nevada city. te We are prepared to do Job_ Printing ina styie second to2n0 . office in tP is State. os Nevada Daily Transcript is the cond.ti te eee ALL THE SCENIC BEELCL ee FREE — LIERAPY d 30th, best in the Northern part cf the . “Phe. As work . wood mine, of its develoy and the peru no ton ger as —Jedged “averh three feet inwe saw @ pit “which measu three-fourths was a superb salchurets, a wine, which years With. that plug an part-of mine “out of ten, Ww. specimen ab geen at Alex . woo should Mak The electic Gons itu ion: piace op. Jul wall Tor those didates to an _fore many di ers desire to tions and pr ants. Services at ing and eveni1 Pastor. All « ~~ attend, ,and ==kindly-weleon day School at — ogres ~ Preaching “Chureh to-da: i the moruing: came Darkn kind of Minis City;* All a gi es Tot Specification buildings can at W. H. Smit Pucn Fraak Gaik == for the next tw freizht, ~previo & new stook. Srinp ams, for sale cheap 7 Mrs. Belle . tare atthe Hi: gan’s Block, o Sunday aftern inission free, taken up. Card Having beer for three weel tack of fever rheumatism, s: body were sx ‘batural size, I "-retarning my Buelow for his in completely didin four da; NEVADA CY New . J.F, Rudolp street, above P ‘Hotel, Nevada v Situation as co Tan's, Bargai Three 7 O and one Uprigt Bale at very lov 425.3t Br Hyman Bros the largest, bes “mplete stock Boys’ Clothing Boots, Shoes, E in the market, Sold at greatly CORVinced call ; _ ©orner Broad a Vada City, S pec ts. Belle . turned to N Suxions to see Patrons at the where she will yant sitt cles Tuesda ‘iy y miti Pge daily,