August 12, 1880 (4 pages)

_ sscribed. Resting partly upon the ~~ butte formting the the lower face of . , _ be done in sections of not less than NEVADA CITY, CALIFORNIA, The Debris Dams. The Commissioners of Drainage _ District No. 1, consisting of Messrs. Parks, Searls and Knox, met Tuesday at their office in the Capitol to consider matters in connection with the constraction ofthe proposed damq anX wba and'Bear rivers. 'C, Rhodes wascelected Resident “Engimneer, with’ a @alary fixed at $200 per month. ‘Director: Kadx: having. ‘Treported thatlevee-work was necessary on-the banks of the river-nearSacra— merto, and the State ‘Engineer tions for the'construction of the work, _it was ordered that bids be advertised for the.construction of brush and earthworks between the towns of -Tremont and Washington on the ‘Sacramento river and also on Feather river near Nicolaus, : “The bids for the construction. of . . dams on the Yuba and Bear rivers were opened and contracts awarded. It is understood that the parties to -whom the above’ contracts were » awarded intend going to work at “once, aud will probably have the dams nearly or,quite . completed in. sixty days. As it is a matter of in‘terest }o our miners who aresgnding large quantities of debris. down Yu.ba and Bear rivers, wwe “give the following manner in which the dams. are to be constructed in accordance with the specifications: ‘The upper dam on the Yubs is nine and one-quarter miles abeve Marysville: The distance across the river-bed is about 4800 feet.«. The dam is to be erected eight feet high{— «above the general plane of the bed, and from four to twelve feet above the bed, according to its elevation. At each etd the dam’ is to slope upwards until it reaches an elevation of six feet above tlie level top of the . ’ center. On the north side the end will be set in a bench cut ‘into the rocky point, and both ende will. be covered and protected by. masses. of. rock. The dam will consist of ‘a down-stream apron and’ the dam proper. The apron ia placed in an excavation-of from four to ten feet.in: depth, ahd consists first of horizon tal layers-of trees from four to éight juches in diameter and twenty-five to:thirty feet im length, with the: brush etill on the trunks, placed: with the butts down ‘the «stream. ‘ The layers are separated . by: poles and the:spaeces ‘filled solidly with’ emall.brush and with gravel, to-the extent of thirty per cent. of the bulle of the strecture. The .poles jand layers of trees ate to be fastened > firmly together with iron’ épikes’ or wooden pins. The surface is slight~" ly below the level of ‘the channel. ‘Resting: upon. its i apper edge» gre:. ’ trees with thé buttsdown * ‘stream; but edch layer retreating up stream and separated and fastened’ as. de— upper edge of thig, ‘and partly upon thelevel of the sand, isthe dam proper. It consists first of of trees from 14 to 18 feet in sleng with the butts down stream, incliniag~at an angle of forty-five “deyrées ‘to the . up-stream bed, and built up to) the . ), full hight of eight feet, the exposed the dam and sloping down = at an angle of forty-five degrees. Upon the rear face of ‘this lie trees from 30 to 33 feet'im. length, whose expese butts form the top of. the, dam, and whose brushy ‘tepe are sunken in an excavation ferming the heel of the'dam, Fina ly, apon this s paced either amass of gravel or of stone fragments.” The work is to 100 feet, or more than 200 feet, the excavation iu half of each section’ at east to be complete before any drusb slaid. The treees are to be ent below th¥ dam, but at every 500 feet a relt muat be left wonpes the stream as ar as it goes, “Fascines or bundles {brush boan@d with wires may be sed whore sufficient trees cannot be ~ und within 9,000 feet of the dams. ids will be received: for excavation, aah and timber ballasting, gravel icking, stone backing, stone weigh. sand protecting, and earthwork bankmenk The second dam upon » Yuba is two miles below. the first d about 9,600 feet in length. The rk is about thesameas ou the first, sme: %. Be Dally Geanscrpt, . ¥v~} -~-—~ing submitted plans. and-’spscifica~ t ‘the world was made to humbug the -Finchley deposited-his toadonthe Six engaged ta marry an. Anjerigan of % SN MN AN = the levee at Johnson’s'crossing. I . the result-ef spiritualistic manifestations of-departed friends through his agency, concluded he would try and dape thevesidents of “Prackee ~ the’ same way, and accordingly engaged the parlors of the Truckee Hotel, and invited some twenty-five or thirty,of the.prominent citizens of that burg to attend hig seances; which they did. Brother Watson of the Truckeo -Republican was one of the select who ‘attended, and . the: ‘way he goes after ‘Walter Price in the next issud. of hat paper is a caution. He gives an expose of ‘the Whole'thing, and goes after the pretender, denouncing the manifestationsasa ‘‘fraudand ahumbug,” as also does everyone else Who was present, who iave published a card and signed their names to. that effect. A. “stranger” present—mae‘ aged to get a communication from the “‘spirit land,” but as each’ oné4 present had taken an oath before~a Notary that therewas 6 writing on the slates before they were bolted -to-, gether, and that the slates -had-never} left his possession, and furthermore that the slate aa‘ podsession “Of the “stranger”. was purchased by Price himself, who-said he wanted it for a young lady, the fraud was too apparent, The people talked freely of having-the ‘‘stranger” arreated for perjury; and so he and Walter Price . teemed it advisable to take the next train for San Francisco. © However the adage holds.good that ‘‘one half . , other half.” _gnntt Accident on me Yuba Grade. On Tursday last, as Walter Finchley and another teamster were descending the Purdoy’ Grave. on this side of the South Wuba, the brake of the wagon behind Finchley gave way, and the wagon and horses were prébipitated with great -violence upon 'Finchléy’s Wagon, which. was loaded with giant . powder. for the Sierra Buttesmine. He saw the wagon coming rapidly upon him, and endeavored to get out of the ‘road, but wes notintime. ‘Dhe col: lision broké.one of the wheels of Finchley’s . wagon, and: skinned: geveral of the horses of the wagon behind. Finchley says that when he aw the wagon coming, he’ made up his mind there would be an. explosion of giant powder, and: they . would all gote h—eaven together. roadside, and brought back his wagon'to Nevada City to haveanew wheel, pation) )) 7 1o? xii ood Appointment, Mr. Dave Hutchinson, has received the appoi ’ of. underground ‘foréman of. the Murchie mine, vied Me Eva, who has actepted 3, supérintendency. ofa mine .ineAriaona, Mr, Hutchinson i is, well oversecrs of a mie(GG this or any’ other county, aud ‘his ong experience as a quartz’ miner,’ will add materially in forwarding stecessfully the interests of the Marchie, which, « predecessor inaugurated: “Al-} ‘ready: ing at the, anill, mak, ing new fourteen, add “the iméreare of ore will spon. make it necessary. to bring another battery i requ’ gi: cae tion, a _ i> aati . W LL wonders DEVED*© Lage? Domogratic patty Withia Unidad Gen— eral as its candida’. for President, the Baroness Brrdett Couts at ‘aixtytwentysnriue/old dnderéapitired alld amar living forty days without food. Pre, _discevery of. Charley Rowe is now in order. ts ee ‘Iris estimated that the heat erop of the United States this year . will aggregate nearly five hundred — million bashels, The European stock of wheat-is low, and, even with good cops, . the’ Will be a defidieney which it—will” take “many ~miltion Gushels of American grain to supply, Se point some 200 feet above the end of en a t a Eprron. ‘iegiscnsrt:—When on will be about 6,000 feet in length. sane tat exenittul day; the, fifth d gars the = 2g Yuba@. =f Janef this. year, the Guinean obttage s people believe ¢hat slate writing was one were called and held, commitgreed of a féw’'mén, a handful of property holders, ‘wha, 4t seems, calle. fo or the igake of OBtainiaghs foe! doltomining men ds ‘one of the . tees is_ concerned, I beliexe. t' aati ". of the “aajority Gfifhie! people. Thef § might be another -dispute over the “ aneral f Chinatown. 2 of gat emmy te 1 Sup ly . Ss i ment ; and the demi-monde residen= spiritualtetic hie! = kee. ". ces on "Pine-street werg swept out by Ww, iter: Price, toa veh at fire, the Board of, "Traistees saw at a: a) i+) some <0 4 the Nevada City: and Grass Valley glamee whata splendi opportunity j great nuisance called:Chinatown, and make the gay meretrices. take their abode ton less objectionable quarter. At the same time, taking advantage of the clean sweep made by the fire, the Trustees nadertook to improve altogether, the appearance of this 80 long neglected. portion of the town; they, thefefare, ordered. the . sidewalks on Commercial, Broad and Pine streets to be laid to a uniform. grade with the street; laid outa hew street, cutting in two those two: long blocks on each side of Com-. mercial street and passed ordinanges: establishing fire-limits and ¢ompel-’ substantial buildings, not only in the burnt district, but also in the entire business part of the town. ‘Now, how much were the. Trustees! aided-or encouraged by the property” holders on Commercial street intheir efforts of rédoemiog that whole quarter fromthe hands \of Chinese andy -harlotay ip what” it “is timel forthe people of tHe city. to know. Mass meetings for the prevertti of Chinese settling back on.their old ite and for their removal toa new 2. tees appointed, resolutions passed, even money raised to’ buy dut the land and solve peaceably and legally and to the satisfaction of all, thig knotty problem, the removal of the Chinese to.a more suitable site, But tthe city had to contend against the not get algpg . ewithout: that dirty; Jeprous race around them, and who lars more rent for the dand they own have been éver since” the ‘fire doing their bést/ ia preventing a settlement, fooling the Celestials themselves and deterring them from removing to a site of their own, Such are the plain facts, and those who hav@ thus. been defying. . the} whole’ town aré” certainty résponsi‘ble for the present state of afiairs, anu they show very bad ‘taste, indeed, when. treating the acts of the Board as tyratiniéal, and eoemplai [ing about too much red tape, dull . times and the like; for they themselves and nobody else are to blame if Commercial street from ‘Pine to be. More than twehty times ¢ince the fire, have the Chinese made up their minds ‘to move to.a new site,. but a@ ‘many’ tithes were they dé. tered by their ‘‘Melican” allies not: togo but stay; and df to-day, the Chinese are yet undecided what tol do, it isentirely,due to. the selfish advice of their whitefriends of Commercial street. How long will fie ea ee ee they had to rid at once and forever, this fine portion of our city of the ling people 'to erect, safer ‘and moré'}a -its past reeord, thenew conipany inPdevelopment, The ‘management. is ped and its value demonstrated), Broad. ig not rebuilt as it ought to], Temckee: Jottings. day we collate the following: rusticate there a while, . E. Burekhalter on High street i arrangement, size iia “of architecture, The fire engine company gine. Thereare twenty Stas persons stopValley. eee r A aité ccantity of lumbat is beingabipped east this season as well as west, * ous on theoutskirts of ‘Sierra’ Valley. The railroad company“hiive determined to ‘constrict several thonsand féet of snowsheds this season ‘the expérience @f last winter having . having ‘taught the company that the most. serious.obstructions. suow on the line ofthe road lies between these two pointes) 5) nite The Scbastopol Mine. ‘ The-Grass¥alley Union of Wednesday has a lengthy account of the new hoisting works just started at ‘the Sebastopol mine near that piace, and also an account of. the ‘mine, The hoisting works were erected by Mansaw and Slack, and ‘the miachinery works with perfect smoothness, showing that they.have done an excellent job. The ‘Sebastopol ‘mine was shut down over twenty years ago, at the time of the ¥razer:River excitement. The ‘prospects «were were considered good, but the own— ers, Wm. Watt, Joln Judd and others, wereengaged in working the just then-began +to,open out, and there being a scarcity of miners the Sebastopol was shut down, ahd_ has so remained untjl.this“time. With to whose hands the property has reoently passed, feel corifident that a . waluable mine is to be opened, and , they propose now to proceed with its m competent hands, David Watt, #sq., late Superintendent of the Empire mine, -being President and Su, pg pone of the Company, and ames Bennalleck, ope of the most experienced miners in the District, ‘foreman. Under the direction of these gentlémen the Sebastopol will ‘be intelligently and carefully workee on Westerday 8 Arrivals at THE UNION HO% RZ, a “REVADA CITY, ai Jacob Namuger, 7 » “croprtetor. aughn city W Walton Grase Vall sf Taylor Grass , vant J Weisbeln do J Selfridge Hunts T P Blue You Beg FB Velre San Frevci, a ian ee Sloorfield L Dulac elty Cascades J y Pelton city C Bre wn ¢; R Eaton Oroville MrP. Ase‘ae San Franc 0 OD Woodman V Flu last? ig? que sput by any one, All I will say is this, ‘that as far as the. Board of Tru: = express the séntiment of the other members of the Board by 4 agptifing. © the people of the town that should it take alf*thé’ynin-;, yet, the Trustees will not gir ¢° “up .66. tach, “bat . 5 . compel the ( “aingse and their white . ¥ allies to aide by the wish ahd“ “will City Truster, Nevapa Orry; ‘AugtistTth, 1880, The “Solid” South Getiing in its Work, : ones Ys that wnisual” Activity is all over. the Seuth in organizing the militia under the State laws. ‘The, Adjutant General of } South Carolina is trav over'the. State engaged jin: this’ work, few days ago, ata public meeting, ~he gay e reason why these.,.coinpanies: @hyuld be organized that thete Presidential election su¢h as occurred in 1876, when they sould be used’ to good advantage. These companies are, as a rule, taking the names and offivers which they had when :dam pn Bear river startsfrom 3 a} Oidnoes $ flouring millsat Healds—. LO rue _—seared f= mai We obtained thea pete veffection in taining} a * asia fire; arms fromthe Government, which It is @ Cheste and ine, Babi] Bh nae they are doing. The ex-Confedertion in trery" articular, Cuauncey MOOR®, 16 years ptage,:. 98 are thus heing put on good warChilds was drowned in Lino ogy, { footing again, such aa they have not iin Cz webs Oregom,.on the 7tp, “foiered since Lee’s surren jer, f Performance commences at 8 o’cllk, eatibn that may { b aEe A press . inveheh from W ashing. they existed as town companies be } fore the war, and under whieh » F As’ burn Scotts Fl L Pratt San .Franeiwés aartung do § Hethington Scotts F Berryman Scott Fl_J Barber Bloomfield J Hartman Bloomfield Yesterday's Arrivals at THE NATIONAL HOTEL, NEVADA CITY, CAL Chas. E. Pearson, on, Proprictor. = Rolie San Franci E H Rhodes San Fran eR ee oy Mrs Edwards 3c Camp W Brock Bloonhen, D W Spear Auburn JLS Polo Mrs Spencevill Fre ra “Walley Yn'this city, at the réaldénce of the bride's . father, August Nth, 1880, by, Rev, J. L. Mann, Mr. Charles N. Novagand Miss Minnie ee Proupe of Educated nay These performances have been the sensaFrom the Republican ot sister: Dex Ridley of Nevada City came up yesterday on his. way t Campbell’s Hot Springs, Sterna Yerer. ‘tof The family residence of Mrs: M. one of the largest and-thost costly-im Truckee, and«we know-ofnone.in the: : county that equals it.in convenience, ros a penis 8 ated Truckee has disbanded, and: there . iso one now to look after the enping at the Sade hot it: Deer are said to be very numer-} between Emigant Gap ‘aia Truckee, ort Massachusetts Hill property which. } F Bamber, Grass V ti Yous Min P Speker San Francis NOVEL ENTERTAINMENT . i; 2 sages ina Pesteaction of Property--., + pale Si @ There i is"no ‘computing the loss that the great Cyclone has caused which of the elements some times precedes similar-storms in the:mercantile+ and such a storm we propose to 0 inkugurate at the: Ht BRAN CE or— Now we thean by this that we ‘will soll you ‘il classes. of Gentlemens’ Boy’ s, Youths’ and Children’s Clothing, ‘Boots ‘arid Shoes, Fur. }nishing Goods, Hats, Notions, &c, AT ASMALLER PROFIT than they have ever been offéred it this or in. any other town in the State,— This may seem like bragging, but we intend to give -you prices to substan: tiate what we say. We were going to publish a fall and eumplete price list, but. for the want of a Sphoe ‘we will have to Postpone it until a future time, tem as ve are-starting here, the ONE PRICE SYSTEM. T he residents fover there took to us so kindly and patronized us so liberally that we fee] ‘very much encotraged. A great many-of sur Nevada City friends are ‘ayell aware that we were on the look-out for a Store over here before we ever thought of opening at Grass Valley, but no suitable location cowld-be ffound, At last we have found a Store in which we will catry on the same. rline of business as we are carrying on in Grass V alley, “dt AUCTION IN THE EVENING. ‘A full and complete Price list will be sent to any address in the—coun‘try, on application, Country orders promptly attended to and carefully executed, BROAD STREET, A few doors below the Nevada Theatre, merase! — 1863 18so0., 1h Annual. Gharanti Sale . at. the— eG : ”’ kopis woRTxG, ‘JULY 26th, 1880, $40,000 WORTH (OF DRY QOois MUST BE SOLD WITHIN 20 Days: New York. ie will sell for the next 20 days— 000 A Salico, § n Yards for One, Dollar. 1 ooo Yate sand Lonsdale, at I0 cents. 300 sped Summer Silk, pei and Stripe, at 40 cents, bd yards Bunting at 221.2 cents, worth 50 cents. dé ‘ nts worth 25 cents. — Goo yards Gee nadhee te be Worth 50-cents, 1 "oe pales Debage at ss came worth 30 cents. , WH & 10,000 yards’ Gods 4£18 cents, worth 25 cents. , 500 yards Wash Poplin, at 9 cents, 1,500 pair Ladies and Childrens Hose‘at.8 cents; : "500 Balbriggan. Hose at 25 cents. Ladies’ new style Heops, at t0cents, — ee eee Rae _Ladies Underwear r SQie¢dhts on the dine.” Regular brands of of Goede Chad ed 25 cente on the dollar, } It is not our intention to GIVE BAI’ BAITS i in oné thin with the .ntention of makin up in another. As this is a Gators wal Cleatrance Sale, the MUST BE SOLD. REGARDLESS OF COST. The FRiexzmmant Counter Will contain remaants of all kinds of useful oo which will be almost given away ia order to clear them. out. RULES AND REGU! REGULATIONS. Our Store will be open : from 7 O’éléck a. a. till 9:20 o’cloek P. mu. oves. Goods Marked in Plain Figures, ~ One Price to All. No Deduction under any shoeeeteot” és ring.our long business meats cote ieee See he stock for the. Falk rk tereys we ire io ea spacious bu tomers a chance to el here we have never” before offered such Ustomers, bas! wasnt yee euch: a r there» will not sufficient storage therefore concluded to give our cus$ bargains. . . Every oud knows we sett es for Cash and directly from the marTrain ufacturers; 80 We are saving that much pad the he pablie. ic. a no aunt can compete with the well-kno wn and Broad Street, Nev ‘Garpaait Street; owt Battery Street, San 4 t Nassau Street, New York. P. 8.—We are wei pl te the publie for the liberal patronage ex". tended i: us, and alao c the a we ee aie rom them ev‘ROSEN Everything Carried Before thé Gale a short time ago swept over a portion of the Western States, These — THE GREAT WESTERN We started busiress in Grass Valley a few weeks ago-on—the-sanie—% sys. ‘Goods will ‘be disposed of at Private Sale during the Ne day a and DRT GOops STORE. for our immense Stash oo Fall If Sad Wy aia cote ee bei OOM . our tesident partner in Black Se bays 85 wo Lof Goods for cash, oer THE DAGL yEVADA‘OH Z Brief “The purchase weet, recenthy inches, In OF ned by him 1 gatemount “% Jeelling houses qpANeCRIPT the s commencing’ residences feontracts n0' ompleted._ ¥ « wed by & nu L whom wante: s soon as they There is talix Jes of anew R ing paper bein Valley. It is an be putchas figure it” woul ting & new . nmot. Pretty printing offices s the saloons. Itis now fash eevening a Every-evening : thei?’ prancing yied by the . through the st ding habits ar Many of them % graceful riders. Michael Spel Gravel Mining past ten years dangerously il st Stumpf’s hot little hopés’ aie recovery. Fred. Searls Fraticiseo on with his prof Judge Searls, . ‘go, the officerts Hon. A. C. Nil ready to dispei whe desire it, . Vinton’s fly attractive thi seen for a long ly harmless, by etties of the co esive, that wh it, that’s the er Miss Minnie City’s fairest.d: day'united in Novay, of Plea: ut for another wsday, and e during the rem Wi oP County Survey Emigrant Gap, where he is’ en, lary survey of the South Yub Company. About forty terday with M the new locati ton road, an staking off lots erection of buil The Roun Mining Compa the other day, factory to the force are now . out preparatos About. $5,00 teeeived yeste Bank, and mel came from the vada City, Read the Roberts on the Paper. Severs nade in the Bp A grand bal i the 1; church “at Moe ith, Jerry Payne Mento to perm GexeraL Ox 4 close eye @ Spiced B it, Pickled

_ sscribed. Resting partly upon the ~~ butte formting the the lower face of . , _ be done in sections of not less than NEVADA CITY, CALIFORNIA, The Debris Dams. The Commissioners of Drainage _ District No. 1, consisting of Messrs. Parks, Searls and Knox, met Tuesday at their office in the Capitol to consider matters in connection with the constraction ofthe proposed damq anX wba and'Bear rivers. 'C, Rhodes wascelected Resident “Engimneer, with’ a @alary fixed at $200 per month. ‘Director: Kadx: having. ‘Treported thatlevee-work was necessary on-the banks of the river-nearSacra— merto, and the State ‘Engineer tions for the'construction of the work, _it was ordered that bids be advertised for the.construction of brush and earthworks between the towns of -Tremont and Washington on the ‘Sacramento river and also on Feather river near Nicolaus, : “The bids for the construction. of . . dams on the Yuba and Bear rivers were opened and contracts awarded. It is understood that the parties to -whom the above’ contracts were » awarded intend going to work at “once, aud will probably have the dams nearly or,quite . completed in. sixty days. As it is a matter of in‘terest }o our miners who aresgnding large quantities of debris. down Yu.ba and Bear rivers, wwe “give the following manner in which the dams. are to be constructed in accordance with the specifications: ‘The upper dam on the Yubs is nine and one-quarter miles abeve Marysville: The distance across the river-bed is about 4800 feet.«. The dam is to be erected eight feet high{— «above the general plane of the bed, and from four to twelve feet above the bed, according to its elevation. At each etd the dam’ is to slope upwards until it reaches an elevation of six feet above tlie level top of the . ’ center. On the north side the end will be set in a bench cut ‘into the rocky point, and both ende will. be covered and protected by. masses. of. rock. The dam will consist of ‘a down-stream apron and’ the dam proper. The apron ia placed in an excavation-of from four to ten feet.in: depth, ahd consists first of horizon tal layers-of trees from four to éight juches in diameter and twenty-five to:thirty feet im length, with the: brush etill on the trunks, placed: with the butts down ‘the «stream. ‘ The layers are separated . by: poles and the:spaeces ‘filled solidly with’ emall.brush and with gravel, to-the extent of thirty per cent. of the bulle of the strecture. The .poles jand layers of trees ate to be fastened > firmly together with iron’ épikes’ or wooden pins. The surface is slight~" ly below the level of ‘the channel. ‘Resting: upon. its i apper edge» gre:. ’ trees with thé buttsdown * ‘stream; but edch layer retreating up stream and separated and fastened’ as. de— upper edge of thig, ‘and partly upon thelevel of the sand, isthe dam proper. It consists first of of trees from 14 to 18 feet in sleng with the butts down stream, incliniag~at an angle of forty-five “deyrées ‘to the . up-stream bed, and built up to) the . ), full hight of eight feet, the exposed the dam and sloping down = at an angle of forty-five degrees.. Upon the rear face of ‘this lie trees from 30 to 33 feet'im. length, whose expese butts form the top of. the, dam, and whose brushy ‘tepe are sunken in an excavation ferming the heel of the'dam, Fina ly, apon this s paced either amass of gravel or of stone fragments.” The work is to 100 feet, or more than 200 feet, the excavation iu half of each section’ at east to be complete before any drusb slaid. The treees are to be ent below th¥ dam, but at every 500 feet a relt muat be left wonpes the stream as ar as it goes, “Fascines or bundles {brush boan@d with wires may be sed whore sufficient trees cannot be ~ und within 9,000 feet of the dams. ids will be received: for excavation, aah and timber ballasting, gravel icking, stone backing, stone weigh. sand protecting, and earthwork bankmenk The second dam upon » Yuba is two miles below. the first d about 9,600 feet in length. The rk is about thesameas ou the first, sme: %. Be Dally Geanscrpt, . ¥v~} -~-—~ing submitted plans. and-’spscifica~ t ‘the world was made to humbug the -Finchley deposited-his toadonthe Six engaged ta marry an. Anjerigan of % SN MN AN = the levee at Johnson’s'crossing. I . the result-ef spiritualistic manifestations of-departed friends through his agency, concluded he would try and dape thevesidents of “Prackee ~ the’ same way, and accordingly engaged the parlors of the Truckee Hotel, and invited some twenty-five or thirty,of the.prominent citizens of that burg to attend hig seances; which they did. Brother Watson of the Truckeo -Republican was one of the select who ‘attended, and . the: ‘way he goes after ‘Walter Price in the next issud. of hat paper is a caution. He gives an expose of ‘the Whole'thing, and goes after the pretender, denouncing the manifestationsasa ‘‘fraudand ahumbug,” as also does everyone else Who was present, who iave published a card and signed their names to. that effect.. A. “stranger” present—mae‘ aged to get a communication from the “‘spirit land,” but as each’ oné4 present had taken an oath before~a Notary that therewas 6 writing on the slates before they were bolted -to-, gether, and that the slates -had-never} left his possession, and furthermore that the slate aa‘ podsession “Of the “stranger”. was purchased by Price himself, who-said he wanted it for a young lady, the fraud was too apparent, The people talked freely of having-the ‘‘stranger” arreated for perjury; and so he and Walter Price . teemed it advisable to take the next train for San Francisco. © However the adage holds.good that ‘‘one half . , other half.” _gnntt Accident on me Yuba Grade. On Tursday last, as Walter Finchley and another teamster were descending the Purdoy’ Grave. on this side of the South Wuba, the brake of the wagon behind Finchley gave way, and the wagon and horses were prébipitated with great -violence upon 'Finchléy’s Wagon, which. was loaded with giant . powder. for the Sierra Buttesmine. He saw the wagon coming rapidly upon him, and endeavored to get out of the ‘road, but wes notintime. ‘Dhe col: lision broké.one of the wheels of Finchley’s . wagon, and: skinned: geveral of the horses of the wagon behind. Finchley says that when he aw the wagon coming, he’ made up his mind there would be an. explosion of giant powder, and: they . would all gote h—eaven together. roadside, and brought back his wagon'to Nevada City to haveanew wheel, pation) )) 7 1o? xii ood Appointment, Mr. Dave Hutchinson, has received the appoi ’ of. underground ‘foréman of. the Murchie mine, vied Me Eva, who has actepted 3, supérintendency. ofa mine .ineAriaona, Mr, Hutchinson i is, well oversecrs of a mie(GG this or any’ other county, aud ‘his ong experience as a quartz’ miner,’ will add materially in forwarding stecessfully the interests of the Marchie, which, « predecessor inaugurated: “Al-} ‘ready: ing at the, anill, mak, ing new fourteen, add “the iméreare of ore will spon. make it necessary. to bring another battery i requ’ gi: cae tion, a _ i> aati . W LL wonders DEVED*© Lage? Domogratic patty Withia Unidad Gen— eral as its candida’. for President, the Baroness Brrdett Couts at ‘aixtytwentysnriue/old dnderéapitired alld amar living forty days without food. Pre, _discevery of. Charley Rowe is now in order. ts ee ‘Iris estimated that the heat erop of the United States this year . will aggregate nearly five hundred — million bashels, The European stock of wheat-is low, and, even with good cops, . the’ Will be a defidieney which it—will” take “many ~miltion Gushels of American grain to supply, Se point some 200 feet above the end of en a t a Eprron. ‘iegiscnsrt:—When on will be about 6,000 feet in length. sane tat exenittul day; the, fifth d gars the = 2g Yuba@. =f Janef this. year, the Guinean obttage s people believe ¢hat slate writing was one were called and held, commitgreed of a féw’'mén, a handful of property holders, ‘wha, 4t seems, calle. fo or the igake of OBtainiaghs foe! doltomining men ds ‘one of the . tees is_ concerned, I beliexe. t' aati ". of the “aajority Gfifhie! people. Thef § might be another -dispute over the “ aneral f Chinatown. 2 of gat emmy te 1 Sup ly . Ss i ment ; and the demi-monde residen= spiritualtetic hie! = kee. ". ces on "Pine-street werg swept out by Ww, iter: Price, toa veh at fire, the Board of, "Traistees saw at a: a) i+) some <0 4 the Nevada City: and Grass Valley glamee whata splendi opportunity j great nuisance called:Chinatown, and make the gay meretrices. take their abode ton less objectionable quarter. At the same time, taking advantage of the clean sweep made by the fire, the Trustees nadertook to improve altogether, the appearance of this 80 long neglected. portion of the town; they, thefefare, ordered. the . sidewalks on Commercial, Broad and Pine streets to be laid to a uniform. grade with the street; laid outa hew street, cutting in two those two: long blocks on each side of Com-. mercial street and passed ordinanges: establishing fire-limits and ¢ompel-’ substantial buildings, not only in the burnt district, but also in the entire business part of the town. ‘Now, how much were the. Trustees! aided-or encouraged by the property” holders on Commercial street intheir efforts of rédoemiog that whole quarter fromthe hands \of Chinese andy -harlotay ip what” it “is timel forthe people of tHe city. to know. Mass meetings for the prevertti of Chinese settling back on.their old ite and for their removal toa new 2. tees appointed, resolutions passed, even money raised to’ buy dut the land and solve peaceably and legally and to the satisfaction of all, thig knotty problem, the removal of the Chinese to.a more suitable site, But tthe city had to contend against the not get algpg . ewithout: that dirty; Jeprous race around them, and who lars more rent for the dand they own have been éver since” the ‘fire doing their bést/ ia preventing a settlement, fooling the Celestials themselves and deterring them from removing to a site of their own, Such are the plain facts, and those who hav@ thus. been defying. . the} whole’ town aré” certainty résponsi‘ble for the present state of afiairs, anu they show very bad ‘taste, indeed, when. treating the acts of the Board as tyratiniéal, and eoemplai [ing about too much red tape, dull . times and the like; for they themselves and nobody else are to blame if Commercial street from ‘Pine to be. More than twehty times ¢ince the fire, have the Chinese made up their minds ‘to move to.a new site,. but a@ ‘many’ tithes were they dé. tered by their ‘‘Melican” allies not: togo but stay; and df to-day, the Chinese are yet undecided what tol do, it isentirely,due to. the selfish advice of their whitefriends of Commercial street. How long will fie ea ee ee they had to rid at once and forever, this fine portion of our city of the ling people 'to erect, safer ‘and moré'}a -its past reeord, thenew conipany inPdevelopment, The ‘management. is ped and its value demonstrated), Broad. ig not rebuilt as it ought to], Temckee: Jottings. day we collate the following: rusticate there a while, . E. Burekhalter on High street i arrangement, size iia “of architecture, The fire engine company gine. Thereare twenty Stas persons stopValley. eee r A aité ccantity of lumbat is beingabipped east this season as well as west, * ous on theoutskirts of ‘Sierra’ Valley. The railroad company“hiive determined to ‘constrict several thonsand féet of snowsheds this season ‘the expérience @f last winter having . having ‘taught the company that the most. serious.obstructions. suow on the line ofthe road lies between these two pointes) 5) nite The Scbastopol Mine. ‘ The-Grass¥alley Union of Wednesday has a lengthy account of the new hoisting works just started at ‘the Sebastopol mine near that piace,

and also an account of. the ‘mine, The hoisting works were erected by Mansaw and Slack, and ‘the miachinery works with perfect smoothness, showing that they.have done an excellent job. The ‘Sebastopol ‘mine was shut down over twenty years ago, at the time of the ¥razer:River excitement. The ‘prospects «were were considered good, but the own— ers, Wm. Watt, Joln Judd and others, wereengaged in working the just then-began +to,open out, and there being a scarcity of miners the Sebastopol was shut down, ahd_ has so remained untjl.this“time. With to whose hands the property has reoently passed, feel corifident that a . waluable mine is to be opened, and , they propose now to proceed with its m competent hands, David Watt, #sq., late Superintendent of the Empire mine, -being President and Su, pg pone of the Company, and ames Bennalleck, ope of the most experienced miners in the District, ‘foreman. Under the direction of these gentlémen the Sebastopol will ‘be intelligently and carefully workee on Westerday 8 Arrivals at THE UNION HO% RZ, a “REVADA CITY, ai Jacob Namuger, 7 » “croprtetor. aughn city W Walton Grase Vall sf Taylor Grass , vant J Weisbeln do J Selfridge Hunts T P Blue You Beg FB Velre San Frevci, a ian ee Sloorfield L Dulac elty Cascades J y Pelton city C Bre wn ¢; R Eaton Oroville MrP. Ase‘ae San Franc 0 OD Woodman V Flu last? ig? que sput by any one, All I will say is this, ‘that as far as the. Board of Tru: = express the séntiment of the other members of the Board by 4 agptifing. © the people of the town that should it take alf*thé’ynin-;, yet, the Trustees will not gir ¢° “up .66. tach, “bat . 5 . compel the ( “aingse and their white . ¥ allies to aide by the wish ahd“ “will City Truster, Nevapa Orry; ‘AugtistTth, 1880, The “Solid” South Getiing in its Work, : ones Ys that wnisual” Activity is all over. the Seuth in organizing the militia under the State laws. ‘The, Adjutant General of } South Carolina is trav over'the. State engaged jin: this’ work, few days ago, ata public meeting, ~he gay e reason why these.,.coinpanies: @hyuld be organized that thete Presidential election su¢h as occurred in 1876, when they sould be used’ to good advantage. These companies are, as a rule, taking the names and offivers which they had when :dam pn Bear river startsfrom 3 a} Oidnoes $ flouring millsat Healds—. LO rue _—seared f= mai We obtained thea pete veffection in taining} a * asia fire; arms fromthe Government, which It is @ Cheste and ine, Babi] Bh nae they are doing. The ex-Confedertion in trery" articular, Cuauncey MOOR®, 16 years ptage,:. 98 are thus heing put on good warChilds was drowned in Lino ogy, { footing again, such aa they have not iin Cz webs Oregom,.on the 7tp, “foiered since Lee’s surren jer, f Performance commences at 8 o’cllk, eatibn that may { b aEe A press . inveheh from W ashing. they existed as town companies be } fore the war, and under whieh » F As’ burn Scotts Fl L Pratt San .Franeiwés aartung do § Hethington Scotts F Berryman Scott Fl_J Barber Bloomfield J Hartman Bloomfield Yesterday's Arrivals at THE NATIONAL HOTEL, NEVADA CITY, CAL Chas. E. Pearson, on, Proprictor. = Rolie San Franci E H Rhodes San Fran eR ee oy Mrs Edwards 3c Camp W Brock Bloonhen, D W Spear Auburn JLS Polo Mrs Spencevill Fre ra “Walley Yn'this city, at the réaldénce of the bride's . father, August Nth, 1880, by, Rev, J. L. Mann, Mr. Charles N. Novagand Miss Minnie ee Proupe of Educated nay These performances have been the sensaFrom the Republican ot sister: Dex Ridley of Nevada City came up yesterday on his. way t Campbell’s Hot Springs, Sterna Yerer. ‘tof The family residence of Mrs: M. one of the largest and-thost costly-im Truckee, and«we know-ofnone.in the: : county that equals it.in convenience, ros a penis 8 ated Truckee has disbanded, and: there . iso one now to look after the enping at the Sade hot it: Deer are said to be very numer-} between Emigant Gap ‘aia Truckee, ort Massachusetts Hill property which. } F Bamber, Grass V ti Yous Min P Speker San Francis NOVEL ENTERTAINMENT . i; 2 sages ina Pesteaction of Property--., + pale Si @ There i is"no ‘computing the loss that the great Cyclone has caused which of the elements some times precedes similar-storms in the:mercantile+ and such a storm we propose to 0 inkugurate at the: Ht BRAN CE or— Now we thean by this that we ‘will soll you ‘il classes. of Gentlemens’ Boy’ s, Youths’ and Children’s Clothing, ‘Boots ‘arid Shoes, Fur. }nishing Goods, Hats, Notions, &c, AT ASMALLER PROFIT than they have ever been offéred it this or in. any other town in the State,— This may seem like bragging, but we intend to give -you prices to substan: tiate what we say. We were going to publish a fall and eumplete price list, but. for the want of a Sphoe ‘we will have to Postpone it until a future time, tem as ve are-starting here, the ONE PRICE SYSTEM. T he residents fover there took to us so kindly and patronized us so liberally that we fee] ‘very much encotraged. A great many-of sur Nevada City friends are ‘ayell aware that we were on the look-out for a Store over here before we ever thought of opening at Grass Valley, but no suitable location cowld-be ffound, At last we have found a Store in which we will catry on the same. rline of business as we are carrying on in Grass V alley, “dt AUCTION IN THE EVENING. ‘A full and complete Price list will be sent to any address in the—coun‘try, on application, Country orders promptly attended to and carefully executed, BROAD STREET, A few doors below the Nevada Theatre, merase! — 1863 18so0., 1h Annual. Gharanti Sale . at. the— eG : ”’ kopis woRTxG, ‘JULY 26th, 1880, $40,000 WORTH (OF DRY QOois MUST BE SOLD WITHIN 20 Days: New York. ie will sell for the next 20 days— 000 A Salico, § n Yards for One, Dollar.. 1 ooo Yate sand Lonsdale, at I0 cents. 300 sped Summer Silk, pei and Stripe, at 40 cents, bd yards Bunting at 221.2 cents, worth 50 cents. dé ‘ nts worth 25 cents. — Goo yards Gee nadhee te be Worth 50-cents, 1 "oe pales Debage at ss came worth 30 cents. , WH & 10,000 yards’ Gods 4£18 cents, worth 25 cents.. , 500 yards Wash Poplin, at 9 cents, 1,500 pair Ladies and Childrens Hose‘at.8 cents; : "500 Balbriggan. Hose at 25 cents. Ladies’ new style Heops, at t0cents, — ee eee Rae _Ladies Underwear r SQie¢dhts on the dine.” Regular brands of of Goede Chad ed 25 cente on the dollar, } It is not our intention to GIVE BAI’ BAITS i in oné thin with the .ntention of makin up in another. As this is a Gators wal Cleatrance Sale, the MUST BE SOLD. REGARDLESS OF COST. The FRiexzmmant Counter Will contain remaants of all kinds of useful oo which will be almost given away ia order to clear them. out. RULES AND REGU! REGULATIONS. Our Store will be open : from 7 O’éléck a. a. till 9:20 o’cloek P. mu. oves. Goods Marked in Plain Figures, ~ One Price to All. No Deduction under any shoeeeteot” és ring.our long business meats cote ieee See he stock for the. Falk rk tereys we ire io ea spacious bu tomers a chance to el here we have never” before offered such Ustomers, bas! wasnt yee euch: a r there» will not sufficient storage therefore concluded to give our cus$ bargains. . . Every oud knows we sett es for Cash and directly from the marTrain ufacturers; 80 We are saving that much pad the he pablie. ic. a no aunt can compete with the well-kno wn and Broad Street, Nev ‘Garpaait Street; owt Battery Street, San 4 t Nassau Street, New York. P. 8.—We are wei pl te the publie for the liberal patronage ex". tended i: us, and alao c the a we ee aie rom them ev‘ROSEN Everything Carried Before thé Gale a short time ago swept over a portion of the Western States, These — THE GREAT WESTERN We started busiress in Grass Valley a few weeks ago-on—the-sanie—% sys. ‘Goods will ‘be disposed of at Private Sale during the Ne day a and DRT GOops STORE. for our immense Stash oo Fall If Sad Wy aia cote ee bei OOM . our tesident partner in Black Se bays 85 wo Lof Goods for cash, oer THE DAGL yEVADA‘OH Z Brief “The purchase weet, recenthy inches, In OF ned by him 1 gatemount “% Jeelling houses qpANeCRIPT the s commencing’ residences feontracts n0' ompleted._ ¥ « wed by & nu L whom wante: s soon as they There is talix Jes of anew R ing paper bein Valley. It is an be putchas figure it” woul ting & new . nmot. Pretty printing offices s the saloons. Itis now fash eevening a Every-evening : thei?’ prancing yied by the . through the st ding habits ar Many of them % graceful riders. Michael Spel Gravel Mining past ten years dangerously il st Stumpf’s hot little hopés’ aie recovery. Fred. Searls Fraticiseo on with his prof Judge Searls, . ‘go, the officerts Hon. A. C. Nil ready to dispei whe desire it, . Vinton’s fly attractive thi seen for a long ly harmless, by etties of the co esive, that wh it, that’s the er Miss Minnie City’s fairest.d: day'united in Novay, of Plea: ut for another wsday, and e during the rem Wi oP County Survey Emigrant Gap, where he is’ en, lary survey of the South Yub Company. About forty terday with M the new locati ton road, an staking off lots erection of buil The Roun Mining Compa the other day, factory to the force are now . out preparatos About. $5,00 teeeived yeste Bank, and mel came from the vada City, Read the Roberts on the Paper. Severs nade in the Bp A grand bal i the 1; church “at Moe ith, Jerry Payne Mento to perm GexeraL Ox 4 close eye @ Spiced B it, Pickled