December 13, 1872 (4 pages)

Pay —4 \ 1 Life. ; Sate 8 in the PifthMave ol ae pi se tg 5 Sa oti such reports wfRb thoi =a ) . . Eg kept cn wae Pt vo Te owtin b gg ob a Pestat Neidiindpt: +e. Monlepoly. ‘. who, when's by a female serOF ati ane Prove me Whe self styled independent press getiernlly denounce the proposed . postal telegraph, and sustain one of the worst monopolies in thé country, namely, the Western Daion ‘Telegraph Company, ‘The consideration upon which. these independentists defend this monopoly is the terms upon. which they receive the news, and hence when this monopoly increases its charges'to all exoeptthe associated: press, which ia nothing more than a part of the mo nepoly, not'a word’ of complafnt or el denunciation is hear@ from the socalled’ independent press. These papers having Heem, subsidized by favors shown them, are the slaves of the Western Union telegraph monopoly; and by the terms of the contract 6f sale must stand by the monopoly, ; Why is it that neither the-Union nor Bulledrvbave favored a postal telegray if they are not bound by their Yargain with this telegraph, monopoly? This can be demonstrated. That portion of the report of the Post’_. master General relative to 6 postal telegraph has everally been left out et the associated press, and when any accounts hare bheem mad they havé been unfavorable. The following cirewiarto. the Asseciated Press shows the contract: Private circular, not imtended for publication: Crcinnatt CoMMERCIAL Orricr, April 15th, 1867. To the members et the Western Associated Press: Your attention is imxited to the clause in our contract {with the telegraph company, which‘ forbids us to encourage Or) support any opposition or competing saph company. That clause awas to the telegraph company a val‘uable consideration for the favorabie terms upon which was based’ the euntract vith, us. ‘Sign M. Hatstep, Of hacen Committee of the Western Associated Press. Thus it ia the bargain ia made. The result is seen in the following statement of business done by this ‘Company: The total receipts for the year euding June 30, 1867, from _ the public, were $5,728, 627; from the press, $830,937, There were delivered to the public 8,000,700 messages, at an average of 25+ words each, er 290,119,250 words. Of the regu, ‘lar reports, there were delivered to qe press 294,503,680 words, The specials amounted to 75,359, 750—in ull 360.863,390, or for one-seventh of the money 175 per cent. more wordr, Thais is how the public are fleeeed, “and the assocciated press favored by this monopoly—all papers outside #he arsuciated press being treated as private individuals. The relief is in a Postal Telegraph, where the charges ghall be the’sume to all and as free as tlie mails, ‘There is just as much reason why the, Government should manage the transwission of telegraph mess ges, as that it should cairy writicn messages im the mails, and these movopolies which misquote the . prices of wheat, and asemanipulated for the benefit of the supsisized and ~mo-orlied independent press should te tioken down. Let us have the Postal Telegraph by all means, ~ Av a recent murder trial in Memphis, wherein an attempt to estabJish insanity was made on the part of the defence, D. K, Allen was called as an expert, and testified thus brictly and rationally: I have been a practiving. physician for pearly thirty years; I have, had some experience ih cases of insanity, having been for ten yours medical. superintendent of the Kentacky Lunatic Asylum, and during that time had over 2,000 crazy people under my charge ;-T have heard . the, hypothetical ease mead, by, Mr. Phelan; I arn here as an expert, and Before auswering the question weak ‘Tike to sry that the more I studied the question of insagity the less 3 unde pstand it; and, if you ask me whete it ‘begins and where it ends, neither I nor any phyaieian if’ the . . world could tell you; in fict,on oceadiotia like. this, lawyers make foobs of themselves in.trying to, make panes ef doctors. he Central Pacific Builroadi€ompany bite eontracted with the Natoma Water ati Mining Company,,of “Polsom for $,000'tons of cobbles to eave around their works in San Franrat ‘will ‘be the first. ale we qerer the wounds ‘ vant who w burned eut of her. dormitery and ranshrisking fire through the halle, were quieted-by the statement that it was only a small fire in a laundry, andit wast nearly’ #2 o'clock befose a. pessing: policeman discovered the fire and called out the engines: Thersthircase-apon which. the fire startedpwas at the back of undry ithe Umentent %' tHe servarite: Bt had! no opening except at the bottom and top, and the flames rushed up it as up a chimney, destroying the staircase, but doicg little damage till ft reached the open space at the top, into which the house leading from: the. roetme ia the attic: the rooms of the servants opened. woodwork, “The servants’ rived, were too late for assistance, 4s by this time the apartments of ip poor creatures were enveloped i flames. Shortly after, when it was found that a number of persons were missing, a police officer and Chief of the Fire Department effected am entrance: by means of an iron ladder to the rooms where the people were supposed tobe. They found. there the charred and burned bodies of The bodies of. the victims lay in different places, from sixteen persons. which they had tried to find egress. fallen at the head of the staircase. The Late Fire in New York~Criminal Indifference—Great Lossof Here the fire burst out at its fullest ‘strength rushing through the narrow passage-way and spreading over the entire extent of the west wing: of the reoms immediately caught, and soon the entire wing was a mass“‘of flames. ‘The servants asleep in the rooms at the top of the staircase were overtaken before assistance could reach them, and were completely shut off feom the main building. The firemen who had in the meantime arSome had’. endeavored to escape through the windows, othérs had The bodies. of two-women ware half concealed. under a bed in an outer room, where they had evidently tried to shalter themselves fromsuffvcatioa hence reccmmends methed of treating it. & New Yors ladies’ missionary society, sent out one of their sex As a female teacher to India last year, but svon after she reached that conntry she married a Missionary . there, and now the New York Society wants: the husband to pay back ‘the $1,000 they. spent, in getting his wife on Mission ground, claiming that her marriaye has ruined her value for the position of teacher, whieh they expected her to fil. One of the New ‘York courts has recently decided # question at the same time interesting and unusual. no particular from his wife, on the ground of her ernel treatment of him, but failed to obtain it, as the Court decided that limited divoree is the special prerogy ative of wives, and not available for husbands, nv matter how vigorously the broomstick may have éeen wielded. _2-—— A Cunrovs. deoxy Awout a Wade BOWL.—There isa little indefiniteness in the followi but if the Columbus, Ga., Sun, . whlseh tells it, means to imply that-the picture: described was not in the bettom of «the bowl before. Ball, ‘‘of unqnestionable veracity,’’ was in it preparatory to going to fast, them tose ‘spectre faces on the window panes”’ of numerous houses in Ohio and elsewhere may as well fade away immediately, as no longer ansurpassed phenomenon. The sto ry, as the Sun tells it, runs: thus: Amotig: the articles shown at the Opelika Fair ig a common wash-bowl that has been in use for ten yeurs. On the bottom is engraved the likeness oft a woman sitting in a chair, her face turned toward a dog, who is w stfully gazing at her. Around are trees, gsenael ete., andin the background are angels hovering—all. distinct. The story is this: Mr. Bail, of Coosa county, Alabama, on the morning of February 28th, 1868, came from fis blacksmith shop and washed his hands.in the bowl and A man applied for a limited divorce . . plac on Wednesday evening, and ". diamond felds are denounced bnt the fron smoke and scathing flames. Whem the firemen and police got inte the windows,the floors of this room were sound, but the roof and timbers were burned and had fallen mpon the flbor in’a confused mass upon bodies, severing their. limbs and mutilating their remains horribly. In another room six bodies were feund, making, up to 2:30 this morning, twenty-two, which is believed to be all the victims, There were about-five hundred. guests, who when finally awaze of their danger were greatly excited. “It is saidigross carelessness was apparent ia the condition of warming apparatns, and the attaches are selely blamed for their efforts o keep the fire: secret and making so little effort to save the unfortunate girls. The affair will doubtless be thoroughly investi gated. The loss is estimated at from one hundred and thirty to one hanr dred and fifty thousand dollars, about one-fourth of the furniture of the house being ruimed by water. ’.Just before the alarm a guest was invited to aroom which on reaching he discovered to be on fire. Returniug to the cler#, Ke was informed there was no other zoona vacant. . The fire was notknown in the office atthis time Whats the Matter, Has anybody heard any denuticiation of the outrageous swindling in the office of Haybor Commissioners, . in San Franeisesj.frem the indepenent press; so-called, in this State? We have watched antiously to see some independent go tmas the New York Times did after Tammany and unearth these swindles, butthese independents don't go after corruption worth'a‘cent. It is generally a party journal, likethe Times, thas mikes the hair fly. when. rogues © are found. The independent press: of California never expresses an opin1on until H becomes a settled pol+ iey, and they only go after rogues sh they are afar ff. © As for in staves, the poor devils w! 0 silted the meu who put up the job and reaped their harvest of inoney from stocks, are looked: upon as guiltless. — Tyb Wedulher ab Bau Pedto lately, along the coast . Of San. Diego, hye heen squally, varying wind from north east to north. The windstorm . on thé plains were one of the meet) cone . violent known for years.” Besos ti who was arrested for went to breakfast. His daughter went té-the bowl; saw the seenery, threw the water out, but the picture and scenery remained, and does now, as bright as when first seen in’ 1868. Mr. Bull is said to’ be of unquestionable veracity. . 4 Tus Suonr Curto FaME WITH A Carvinea Knuvg.—The womam Mary @wurder of her paramour, Henry Sanchez, has become quite@zultant over her bloody work, ahd declares that. she will yet earn a. ‘‘greater patae’? than Laura D. Fair. Some weeks previously she made-a:similay boast in the office of the prosecuting attorney, when applying; fon a warrant for some. ki ey vagabond whe had offende@ her, remarking that she his-aspiaing woman~ now looks: forward'to:ai series off interesting; trials, resulting.in. ultimate acqnitallen: the groundiof emotional insanity,. when she will: demand the return of her little dagger; enter the lecture field and edify adwiring audiences with the ex— of a wolf in the black sheep old. Meanwhile she has already called for writing materials, with the dtsign of entering upon her. literary laters, and-awaits the: sympathetic attepton ofthe ‘‘stron:-minded”’ of: her sex tw-give eclat to her touching drama of real life.—S._ F. Bulletin. <> Tue wine and brandy manufactdé ries of Sacramento, have used, this season, about T 200 tons of grapes. The price ‘pes ton will range from $15 t $17, which gives a return to “the-aeres Filly eighttenths of the grapes purchased were raised on the Sacramento side of the river; the remainder . coming fiom Yolo and Solano counties. ><> --On the night of the Boston fire a dealer. im boots and shoes, finding that the fire had reached his reat store, said’ toa few strangers who had assisted him: “¥oa might as well help yourself to boots,’ One fellow tuok a pair the merchant handed him and after glancing at them, said: “You haven't got a pair of slim sevdoor prevented a Tesponse. x ~—— -—-er Epware Ryan, how underarrest at the Bay. for, shooting policeman Brown, is the Captain Ryav of Ad jus tant General Casneau's office, and well » where on two occasi pestis na he manifested ® prompt _fadiness to esta Pepe. fell, dying. Hedied ina few minutes, ens, have you?” An eaplosion next}. a: Fe j ee i Geests Were préventfrom:every ‘part of the ridge, und a band of music was in attendance. Asplendid sapper) was provided and the time passed happily with music and dancing until a late hour, It is pronounced by all attended: a sarand affair. o> ry < ‘ Insane. A anki named Frank .H. Devois was bronghtdown from Truckee on Wetnesday night.and lodged i in ‘the county jail. Heiss d to be in-}. sane but the charge agninst bim is . " ‘threatening’ somebody's Jife,. for. which he was sent to jail fbr 250nye. On Tuesday be entered Babel’s saloon and accused the proprietor with trying to poison him. He had a six shooter which he threatened . to, use. San Jaan Wanté It. . Yesterday, ladies and gentlenen of San Juan, some of whom heard ‘the rendering of the Oratorio of Bwther in this city, were out canvassing that locality in order to secure r) Bg 'thase who appear in the piece to visit that town. San Juan is a live . town, and when the ladies of that locality take a matter in hand they always make a success of it. Masonic Election. ‘The annual election of officers of the Masenic Lodge in this eity, took resulted as follows: Chas. Marsh, Master; Thos. Mien, Senior Warden; Phillip Seldner, -Junior Warden; Martin L, Marsh, Treasurer; Thos. H. Caswell, Secretary. _A Nevapa Crry_ man is hunting an overcoat that some one borrowed the other night at the concert. That illustrates the morals of that tewn— Grass Valley Union. The editor of the Union was. in town on the night mentioned:. . ville, O.,. November 19th.—'Fhe wellknown Jessie Punk; of this. place, was killed by Mii mistress, Alice Moore, at Hew residences. alieut 7 o’clock last evening. Funlk was intoxicated im the afternoon, andhad expressed his design to: punish ' fas oung married: man;. who: had alse ome-enamored, and was supplanting him in. tHe girl’s. favor. Both mea met at the gizl’/s-house soon after darr, abit cle 9 ss 2 married “4 was quig out, and esca Funk themdemelished everything he could law bis hands on, including the windows, not sparing the frail Alice. He then attempted to stick the bedinto the fire, after which he went cut of the gate, followed by the girl. where he was heard to say elie, you have killed me!” andThe heart was found to be penetrated . to the depth of ‘half an inch. ‘The ‘Coroner's jary returned a verdict of "Tux report that b bogus gold notes: considered as merely a mean trick on: the part of enemies of the system, tofrighten people from using that kind: of money. iy Sax Francrsco’s death record. dur+ ing the past week shows that there were. 77 deaths, of which 30 were feinales. During the month of November the deaths i in the city numbered. 320, of which 123, ~were females. : BErEcuER says ; that more lies have been told about him, “every year of his-public life, than would shingle a cathedral. Angeles section. The weather conr tinues cool, with varying winds, and but few indizations of an early rain, Mason Wusor, a wealthy and bighly respectable citizen a Vacaville, has suddeniy taken his departure. going to Texas: "No cause is given for the exit. ; eer jt wicked to rob dis here ‘roost, dim?’ ‘Dat's a great moral question, Pompy ; we ain’t got time to argue it NOW haHE down anoder puillet,” “In’s forty Yeates, my old friend Jolin, since we were boys together.” there's Laomarenaneeras in the room!’’ ww f me ae ince tiles seinenlne TuE ladies ef: Wilkesbarre areecbug.elath for the Beeotah editors. the Soa in See pwartpert ‘tah Me Caine -l*vada Gounty, State of California, Kitten sy Hhks.Mistress.—@erele. post were to be circulated is generally . * Sr ee He laft a letter stating that he was] % a a f ? W ’ sit ell, don’t speak so os oa Healt “the « & Buchu man, is . ' & Great Spelling . Contest. °A grand spelling eontest will take te us from abroad this season have not thrown otrown as much in the shade as. would have been expected. By companion, they havetather raised. them in the home estimation. paregenns has;‘been shown to the unlucky mariners for the past month., From every direction, on lakes and osean,.come tales of phipyrecl. iy sifering: : — No: 426, Application for Patent ton 4 Gold Mining Claim. \gaited States ates Land Office, . Sacramento, California; Dec.9tb, 1972. ‘ORACE KILHAM having filed his ap tion in office di sc to a mining claim,and the law ” nstrnetions having been complied Here By ordered that theantiexed no i applicatiom be published for sixtydays in the Nevapa Day ja news rpublished nearest the location of saidcl , ie Nevada city, Nevada county, State of fornia. T. Br McFARLAND, Register. APPLICATION. 1 FOR PATFKNT TO MIN@ CLAIM. Notice is. hereby “given to whom it may concern that an application has been made Horace Kilkam,to the Governmentot the United States for a patent to the following described placer gold mining_claims, viz: Known as the Horace Kilham Mining Claim situated im Blue Tent Mining District, gue bounded by the mi ing claim-known as th Enterprise claim on the East on tHe south by the dividing ridge, between the South Yuba River and Rock Greek, and on the West ana North by vacant unoccupied land and.more particularly deseribed as follows: to-wit: on unsurveyed land. Said cation not being-on tecord and being in Township 17 North, Range 9 East, Mount Diablo Buse and Me ridian, in the district of lands subject to sale atthe United States Land Office sacramento, California, beginning at 8 stake Noi, starting at the south west cornerof said cate from which a post marked 4, S,,standi chaine north from ection stake Sapweth Sections 4and 5 ee north bowhdary line of Township 16 N R, 9 east south 45°west 21.26 chains and ruaning thence fromgaid take Nol, nD 9° went 78.50 chaina'tea Oak tree 1 ches-in diameter marked No 2 thence north 642% 30east 13:50 chains toa post marked No 3 standing in a rock mound in a field from which post the south east corner of a. crhin bears north 50° east 100 links dis tent, tiience north 14° 15 east 20 chains to No 4from which a B» Oak tree 12 inches in diameter bears south 45° east 38 links distant thence north 76° 30 e&st:42 chains to s post marked NoSfrom whieh a B Oak tree 30inchesin dinmeter bears south 10° east 53 li.ks distant, thence south 1¢° east 32 chains to post marked No 6, from which a B. Oak tree 30 inches in diameter bears north 40° west 100 linke distant and B Oak tree 6 inches in dismeter bears.south 85° east 30: links distant, thence suuth 41° west 6 chaitis to post ked No 7 standing in adeep cut, thence north 88° 45 west 21 chains to a sugar pine trve 60 inches ‘in diameter standing at the north-west corner of the Enterprise cluims-and marked No % E No 2, thence south 25.% west 80.50 chains to a post marked No 9 ih.rock mound at the south-west corner of the Enterprise claims, thence south A29 45’ west 17.75 chains to rs lace of beginning—containing three ndred fifty-six iene 47-100 47) acres PY pear be the smme. more or less. Said Sot cSmmencing at . . , at the} S invited} ‘Taenoted leet rigors Padinddes tiie ‘ta life on. the} LAST BUT NOT LEasr; natal _ GREAT BARGAINS: HOLIDAY GOOD; POTTER & SIGOURNEY, Opposite Union Meat Market, H'™ JUST RECEIVED THE ‘LARGEST AND BEST STOCK ¢ o GP x HOLIDAY GooDs ) — NEVADA county: en rie of articles: : Fins White Tea Lota 44 ven, $8 to $10.Fine Decorated.Tea Sets, 4 pieces, $14 to $24. Fancy Cups and Saucers, § . cents to S4. pa 006 China Mugs,, all. price’ COLOGNE. SETS 10. sum ~ ‘EWERYBODY. ~ WHITE CHINA CUPS & &il CERS, best, $3.adoz. GLASS FRUIT BOWLS, 50 to$l. — ss SILVER PLATED WARE, J KINDS. FANCY BASKETS. Vases of all kinds and qualitie wre t ’ Qne thousand Fancy Articles th we Have not time to enumerate, ~ Call andiprice our goods, and if we dar sell fem less than the cheapest, we will ask your patronage. POTTER & SIGOURNEY. 3 Nevada, December 5th, 1572. Jewelry for the Ho. day N. W. KNOWLTON G3 alse . claim bein still more ieularly described in the diagram aud filed H’s just received a magnificent ee Se eee ait of persons holding any adverse claim +} thereto are’hereb: to present the WAZCBES AND JEWELRY ‘game before the ster and: iver of the United States Land Office, for Sacramenspent at Sacramento, California, frem the date hereof. ‘ f Dated tN Dec. 4t was determined to be a. bigger wo+)} murder in the first degree — the asta. posted Ge'Chatin Deo ak. eth. min than Ranma D. Fair, iffshe /had. girl, ~) “HORAOE KILHAM, to kill every nigger in Sats Beamctado. r Applicant.be given by —on— “Friday Evening, Dec. 13th. A general invitation is extended. a5 L. P. FISHER, ADVERTISING AGENT Rooms 20 amd 21, —_ MERCHANTS’ EXCHANGE, SAN F RANCIBSCO. sckrpT, and for papers-published in CaliUtah, Idaho, M » Col and tljacen\ Perettones: cen hina: NN Colonies; Atlantic hie. Rates-ana Ruruge. . Adventiai ‘Has created many a new business: . Has enlarged many an old business; Has reyive@ many a dull bunimess; Miles Searls, Atterney for Applicant, 413 A GRAND BOCIAL PARTY will THEODORE SCHWARTZ,aT HIS HOUSE, AT PLEASANT VALLEY, OoLieMs. advertise:nente and rubserty. tions. for the Newea Dairy Taam fornia, Oregon and. Nevada; Washington, 0, Srizona, Sendwich Islands eee British Peete So Méiican Ports and < Zealand. aad, fie Australian . Nevads. Dsor Math, 187m" Suitable for Holiday 1 resents, whit will.se)lt0 per cent. cheaper than aD cisco prices. He has beautiful GOLD AND SILVER WATCBES, BRYASTPINS, STUDS, LADIES’ & RINGS, CARD CASES, LOCKBT, THIMBLES, ETC. ETC. A complete stock of Spectacles. All kt and ene Anda thousand other which:must beseen to be appreciated. and see the beautiful Holidcy Goods. Nevads, December 34, 1872. THE OLDEST AND THE BE DR. HUFRLAND’S , CELEBRATED SWISS STOMAG F BITTERS. rYVHE first.and the most healthful 7 ever. intpduced . in the United 6 These Bitt ers have been n Frantiaco seacoast for twenty — -_ nd standing t lates for public favor, gt ave constantly increases. TAYLOR, & BENDE oh ‘ole Agents, 4@2and 411 Gay jan Francisce. FOR S/ SALE. BOUT 700 FEET eT OR ELEVES : HYDRAULIC PIPE, with Fiity of Canvass Hose and Distributor, we cheap. Apply to A,B, BRADY. wil NEVADA BAKERY. #8 BROAD STREET, GAULT. w+ ugePropniet : excépted. Ww have always the best varie) every thing in our lime. : _ EXCELLENT BUTTER, GRACKERS OF OUR OWN the great, medium of succtse im busin ad the prelude to wealth. And I have » TURE. , ruade i¥ ap, invariable rule to advertise in. 4 good sample of Oui.d the the dullest times as well as the busiest, . ¢.ctory im the State. T! ,ong experience havine taught me that money ‘spent is wel) laid out, as by facings Cake Aegis Lost. a oT a. bps the Nevada on Herne, Biktahs: — f Pep Overcoat. dressing , suitably rewarded op turn of the coat to this office. fo J 2» gy rp Bereriwade a a ie a: a —e er a ae a ae a ae a ee ee ee —-t sesh tee chee £50 Am

Pay —4 \ 1 Life. ; Sate 8 in the PifthMave ol ae pi se tg 5 Sa oti such reports wfRb thoi =a ) . . Eg kept cn wae Pt vo Te owtin b gg ob a Pestat Neidiindpt: +e. Monlepoly. ‘. who, when's by a female serOF ati ane Prove me Whe self styled independent press getiernlly denounce the proposed . postal telegraph, and sustain one of the worst monopolies in thé country, namely, the Western Daion ‘Telegraph Company, ‘The consideration upon which. these independentists defend this monopoly is the terms upon. which they receive the news, and hence when this monopoly increases its charges'to all exoeptthe associated: press, which ia nothing more than a part of the mo nepoly, not'a word’ of complafnt or el denunciation is hear@ from the socalled’ independent press. These papers having Heem, subsidized by favors shown them, are the slaves of the Western Union telegraph monopoly; and by the terms of the contract 6f sale must stand by the monopoly, ; Why is it that neither the-Union nor Bulledrvbave favored a postal telegray if they are not bound by their Yargain with this telegraph, monopoly? This can be demonstrated. That portion of the report of the Post’_. master General relative to 6 postal telegraph has everally been left out et the associated press, and when any accounts hare bheem mad they havé been unfavorable. The following cirewiarto. the Asseciated Press shows the contract: Private circular, not imtended for publication: Crcinnatt CoMMERCIAL Orricr, April 15th, 1867. To the members et the Western Associated Press: Your attention is imxited to the clause in our contract {with the telegraph company, which‘ forbids us to encourage Or) support any opposition or competing saph company. That clause awas to the telegraph company a val‘uable consideration for the favorabie terms upon which was based’ the euntract vith, us. ‘Sign M. Hatstep, Of hacen Committee of the Western Associated Press. Thus it ia the bargain ia made. The result is seen in the following statement of business done by this ‘Company: The total receipts for the year euding June 30, 1867, from _ the public, were $5,728, 627; from the press, $830,937, There were delivered to the public 8,000,700 messages, at an average of 25+ words each, er 290,119,250 words. Of the regu, ‘lar reports, there were delivered to qe press 294,503,680 words, The specials amounted to 75,359, 750—in ull 360.863,390, or for one-seventh of the money 175 per cent. more wordr, Thais is how the public are fleeeed, “and the assocciated press favored by this monopoly—all papers outside #he arsuciated press being treated as private individuals. The relief is in a Postal Telegraph, where the charges ghall be the’sume to all and as free as tlie mails, ‘There is just as much reason why the, Government should manage the transwission of telegraph mess ges, as that it should cairy writicn messages im the mails, and these movopolies which misquote the . prices of wheat, and asemanipulated for the benefit of the supsisized and ~mo-orlied independent press should te tioken down. Let us have the Postal Telegraph by all means, ~ Av a recent murder trial in Memphis, wherein an attempt to estabJish insanity was made on the part of the defence, D. K, Allen was called as an expert, and testified thus brictly and rationally: I have been a practiving. physician for pearly thirty years; I have, had some experience ih cases of insanity, having been for ten yours medical. superintendent of the Kentacky Lunatic Asylum, and during that time had over 2,000 crazy people under my charge ;-T have heard . the, hypothetical ease mead, by, Mr. Phelan; I arn here as an expert, and Before auswering the question weak ‘Tike to sry that the more I studied the question of insagity the less 3 unde pstand it; and, if you ask me whete it ‘begins and where it ends, neither I nor any phyaieian if’ the . . world could tell you; in fict,on oceadiotia like. this, lawyers make foobs of themselves in.trying to, make panes ef doctors. he Central Pacific Builroadi€ompany bite eontracted with the Natoma Water ati Mining Company,,of “Polsom for $,000'tons of cobbles to eave around their works in San Franrat ‘will ‘be the first. ale we qerer the wounds ‘ vant who w burned eut of her. dormitery and ranshrisking fire through the halle, were quieted-by the statement that it was only a small fire in a laundry, andit wast nearly’ #2 o'clock befose a. pessing: policeman discovered the fire and called out the engines: Thersthircase-apon which. the fire startedpwas at the back of undry ithe Umentent %' tHe servarite: Bt had! no opening except at the bottom and top, and the flames rushed up it as up a chimney, destroying the staircase, but doicg little damage till ft reached the open space at the top, into which the house leading from: the. roetme ia the attic: the rooms of the servants opened. woodwork, “The servants’ rived, were too late for assistance, 4s by this time the apartments of ip poor creatures were enveloped i flames. Shortly after, when it was found that a number of persons were missing, a police officer and Chief of the Fire Department effected am entrance: by means of an iron ladder to the rooms where the people were supposed tobe. They found. there the charred and burned bodies of The bodies of. the victims lay in different places, from sixteen persons. which they had tried to find egress. fallen at the head of the staircase. The Late Fire in New York~Criminal Indifference—Great Lossof Here the fire burst out at its fullest ‘strength rushing through the narrow passage-way and spreading over the entire extent of the west wing: of the reoms immediately caught, and soon the entire wing was a mass“‘of flames. ‘The servants asleep in the rooms at the top of the staircase were overtaken before assistance could reach them, and were completely shut off feom the main building. The firemen who had in the meantime arSome had’. endeavored to escape through the windows, othérs had The bodies. of two-women ware half concealed. under a bed in an outer room, where they had evidently tried to shalter themselves fromsuffvcatioa hence reccmmends methed of treating it. & New Yors ladies’ missionary society, sent out one of their sex As a female teacher to India last year, but svon after she reached that conntry she married a Missionary . there, and now the New York Society wants: the husband to pay back ‘the $1,000 they. spent, in getting his wife on Mission ground, claiming that her marriaye has ruined her value for the position of teacher, whieh they expected her to fil. One of the New ‘York courts has recently decided # question at the same time interesting and unusual. no particular from his wife, on the ground of her ernel treatment of him, but failed to obtain it, as the Court decided that limited divoree is the special prerogy ative of wives, and not available for husbands, nv matter how vigorously the broomstick may have éeen wielded. _2-—— A Cunrovs. deoxy Awout a Wade BOWL.—There isa little indefiniteness in the followi but if the Columbus, Ga., Sun, . whlseh tells it, means to imply that-the picture: described was not in the bettom of «the bowl before. Ball, ‘‘of unqnestionable veracity,’’ was in it preparatory to going to fast, them tose ‘spectre faces on the window panes”’ of numerous houses in Ohio and elsewhere may as well fade away immediately, as no longer ansurpassed phenomenon. The sto ry, as the Sun tells it, runs: thus: Amotig: the articles shown at the Opelika Fair ig a common wash-bowl that has been in use for ten yeurs. On the bottom is engraved the likeness oft a woman sitting in a chair, her face turned toward a dog, who is w stfully gazing at her. Around are trees, gsenael ete., andin the background are angels hovering—all. distinct. The story is this: Mr. Bail, of Coosa county, Alabama, on the morning of February 28th, 1868, came from fis blacksmith shop and washed his hands.in the bowl and A man applied for a limited divorce . . plac on Wednesday evening, and ". diamond felds are denounced bnt the fron smoke and scathing flames. Whem the firemen and police got inte the windows,the floors of this room were sound, but the roof and timbers were burned and had fallen mpon the flbor in’a confused mass upon bodies, severing their. limbs and mutilating their remains horribly. In another room six bodies were feund, making, up to 2:30 this morning, twenty-two, which is believed to be all the victims, There were about-five hundred. guests, who when finally awaze of their danger were greatly excited. “It is saidigross carelessness was apparent ia the condition of warming apparatns, and the attaches are selely blamed for their efforts o keep the fire: secret and making so little effort to save the unfortunate girls. The affair will doubtless be thoroughly investi gated. The loss is estimated at from one hundred and thirty to one hanr dred and fifty thousand dollars, about one-fourth of the furniture of the house being ruimed by water. ’.Just before the alarm a guest was invited to aroom which on reaching he discovered to be on fire. Returniug to the cler#, Ke was informed there was no other zoona vacant. . The fire was notknown in the office atthis time Whats the Matter, Has anybody heard any denuticiation of the outrageous swindling in the office of Haybor Commissioners, . in San Franeisesj.frem the indepenent press; so-called, in this State? We have watched antiously to see some independent go tmas the New York Times did after Tammany and unearth these swindles, butthese independents don't go after corruption worth'a‘cent. It is generally a party journal, likethe Times, thas mikes the hair fly. when. rogues © are found. The independent press: of California never expresses an opin1on until H becomes a settled pol+ iey, and they only go after rogues sh they are afar ff. © As for in staves, the poor devils w! 0 silted the meu who put up the job and reaped their harvest of inoney from stocks, are looked: upon as guiltless. — Tyb Wedulher ab Bau Pedto lately, along the coast . Of San. Diego, hye heen squally, varying wind from north east to north. The windstorm . on thé plains were one of the meet) cone . violent known for years.” Besos ti who was arrested for went to breakfast. His daughter went té-the bowl; saw the seenery, threw the water out, but the picture and scenery remained, and does now, as bright as when first seen in’ 1868. Mr. Bull is said to’ be of unquestionable veracity. . 4 Tus Suonr Curto FaME WITH A Carvinea Knuvg.—The womam Mary @wurder of her paramour, Henry Sanchez, has become quite@zultant over her bloody work, ahd declares that. she will yet earn a. ‘‘greater patae’? than Laura D. Fair. Some weeks previously she made-a:similay boast in the office of the prosecuting attorney, when applying; fon a warrant for some. ki ey vagabond whe had offende@ her, remarking that she his-aspiaing woman~ now looks: forward'to:ai series off interesting; trials, resulting.in. ultimate acqnitallen: the groundiof emotional insanity,. when she will: demand the return of her little dagger; enter the lecture field and edify adwiring audiences with the ex— of a wolf in the black sheep old. Meanwhile she has already called for writing materials, with the dtsign of entering upon her. literary laters, and-awaits the: sympathetic attepton ofthe ‘‘stron:-minded”’ of: her sex tw-give eclat to her touching drama of real life.—S._ F. Bulletin. <> Tue wine and brandy manufactdé ries of Sacramento, have used, this season, about T 200 tons of grapes. The price ‘pes ton will range from $15 t $17, which gives a return to “the-aeres Filly eighttenths of the grapes purchased were raised on the Sacramento side of the river; the remainder . coming fiom Yolo and Solano counties. ><> --On the night of the Boston fire a dealer. im boots and shoes, finding that the fire had reached his reat store, said’ toa few strangers who had assisted him: “¥oa might as well help yourself to boots,’ One fellow tuok a pair the merchant handed him and after glancing at them, said: “You haven't got a pair of slim sevdoor prevented a Tesponse. x ~—— -—-er Epware Ryan, how underarrest at the Bay. for, shooting policeman Brown, is the Captain Ryav of Ad jus tant General Casneau's office, and well » where on two occasi pestis na he manifested ® prompt _fadiness to esta Pepe.. fell, dying. Hedied ina few minutes, ens, have you?” An eaplosion next}. a: Fe j ee i Geests Were préventfrom:every ‘part of the ridge, und a band of music was in attendance. Asplendid sapper) was provided and the time passed happily with music and dancing until a late hour, It is pronounced by all attended: a sarand affair. o> ry < ‘ Insane. A anki named Frank .H. Devois was bronghtdown from Truckee on

Wetnesday night.and lodged i in ‘the county jail.. Heiss d to be in-}. sane but the charge agninst bim is . " ‘threatening’ somebody's Jife,. for. which he was sent to jail fbr 250nye. On Tuesday be entered Babel’s saloon and accused the proprietor with trying to poison him. He had a six shooter which he threatened . to, use. San Jaan Wanté It. . Yesterday, ladies and gentlenen of San Juan, some of whom heard ‘the rendering of the Oratorio of Bwther in this city, were out canvassing that locality in order to secure r) Bg 'thase who appear in the piece to visit that town. San Juan is a live . town, and when the ladies of that locality take a matter in hand they always make a success of it. Masonic Election. ‘The annual election of officers of the Masenic Lodge in this eity, took resulted as follows: Chas. Marsh, Master; Thos. Mien, Senior Warden; Phillip Seldner, -Junior Warden; Martin L, Marsh, Treasurer; Thos. H. Caswell, Secretary. _A Nevapa Crry_ man is hunting an overcoat that some one borrowed the other night at the concert. That illustrates the morals of that tewn— Grass Valley Union. The editor of the Union was. in town on the night mentioned:. . ville, O.,. November 19th.—'Fhe wellknown Jessie Punk; of this. place, was killed by Mii mistress, Alice Moore, at Hew residences. alieut 7 o’clock last evening. Funlk was intoxicated im the afternoon, andhad expressed his design to: punish ' fas oung married: man;. who: had alse ome-enamored, and was supplanting him in. tHe girl’s. favor. Both mea met at the gizl’/s-house soon after darr, abit cle 9 ss 2 married “4 was quig out, and esca Funk themdemelished everything he could law bis hands on, including the windows, not sparing the frail Alice. He then attempted to stick the bedinto the fire, after which he went cut of the gate, followed by the girl. where he was heard to say elie, you have killed me!” andThe heart was found to be penetrated . to the depth of ‘half an inch. ‘The ‘Coroner's jary returned a verdict of "Tux report that b bogus gold notes: considered as merely a mean trick on: the part of enemies of the system, tofrighten people from using that kind: of money. iy Sax Francrsco’s death record. dur+ ing the past week shows that there were. 77 deaths, of which 30 were feinales. During the month of November the deaths i in the city numbered. 320, of which 123, ~were females. : BErEcuER says ; that more lies have been told about him, “every year of his-public life, than would shingle a cathedral. Angeles section. The weather conr tinues cool, with varying winds, and but few indizations of an early rain, Mason Wusor, a wealthy and bighly respectable citizen a Vacaville, has suddeniy taken his departure. going to Texas: "No cause is given for the exit. ; eer jt wicked to rob dis here ‘roost, dim?’ ‘Dat's a great moral question, Pompy ; we ain’t got time to argue it NOW haHE down anoder puillet,” “In’s forty Yeates, my old friend Jolin, since we were boys together.” there's Laomarenaneeras in the room!’’ ww f me ae ince tiles seinenlne TuE ladies ef: Wilkesbarre areecbug.elath for the Beeotah editors. the Soa in See pwartpert ‘tah Me Caine -l*vada Gounty, State of California, Kitten sy Hhks.Mistress.—@erele. post were to be circulated is generally . * Sr ee He laft a letter stating that he was] % a a f ? W ’ sit ell, don’t speak so os oa Healt “the « & Buchu man, is . ' & Great Spelling . Contest. °A grand spelling eontest will take te us from abroad this season have not thrown otrown as much in the shade as. would have been expected. By companion, they havetather raised. them in the home estimation. paregenns has;‘been shown to the unlucky mariners for the past month., From every direction, on lakes and osean,.come tales of phipyrecl. iy sifering: : — No: 426, Application for Patent ton 4 Gold Mining Claim. \gaited States ates Land Office, . Sacramento, California; Dec.9tb, 1972. ‘ORACE KILHAM having filed his ap tion in office di sc to a mining claim,and the law ” nstrnetions having been complied Here By ordered that theantiexed no i applicatiom be published for sixtydays in the Nevapa Day ja news rpublished nearest the location of saidcl , ie Nevada city, Nevada county, State of fornia. T. Br McFARLAND, Register. APPLICATION. 1 FOR PATFKNT TO MIN@ CLAIM. Notice is. hereby “given to whom it may concern that an application has been made Horace Kilkam,to the Governmentot the United States for a patent to the following described placer gold mining_claims, viz: Known as the Horace Kilham Mining Claim situated im Blue Tent Mining District, gue bounded by the mi ing claim-known as th Enterprise claim on the East on tHe south by the dividing ridge, between the South Yuba River and Rock Greek, and on the West ana North by vacant unoccupied land and.more particularly deseribed as follows: to-wit: on unsurveyed land. Said cation not being-on tecord and being in Township 17 North, Range 9 East, Mount Diablo Buse and Me ridian, in the district of lands subject to sale atthe United States Land Office sacramento, California, beginning at 8 stake Noi, starting at the south west cornerof said cate from which a post marked 4, S,,standi chaine north from ection stake Sapweth Sections 4and 5 ee north bowhdary line of Township 16 N R, 9 east south 45°west 21.26 chains and ruaning thence fromgaid take Nol, nD 9° went 78.50 chaina'tea Oak tree 1 ches-in diameter marked No 2 thence north 642% 30east 13:50 chains toa post marked No 3 standing in a rock mound in a field from which post the south east corner of a. crhin bears north 50° east 100 links dis tent, tiience north 14° 15 east 20 chains to No 4from which a B» Oak tree 12 inches in diameter bears south 45° east 38 links distant thence north 76° 30 e&st:42 chains to s post marked NoSfrom whieh a B Oak tree 30inchesin dinmeter bears south 10° east 53 li.ks distant, thence south 1¢° east 32 chains to post marked No 6, from which a B. Oak tree 30 inches in diameter bears north 40° west 100 linke distant and B Oak tree 6 inches in dismeter bears.south 85° east 30: links distant, thence suuth 41° west 6 chaitis to post ked No 7 standing in adeep cut, thence north 88° 45 west 21 chains to a sugar pine trve 60 inches ‘in diameter standing at the north-west corner of the Enterprise cluims-and marked No % E No 2, thence south 25.% west 80.50 chains to a post marked No 9 ih.rock mound at the south-west corner of the Enterprise claims, thence south A29 45’ west 17.75 chains to rs lace of beginning—containing three ndred fifty-six iene 47-100 47) acres PY pear be the smme. more or less. Said Sot cSmmencing at . . , at the} S invited} ‘Taenoted leet rigors Padinddes tiie ‘ta life on. the} LAST BUT NOT LEasr; natal _ GREAT BARGAINS: HOLIDAY GOOD; POTTER & SIGOURNEY, Opposite Union Meat Market, H'™ JUST RECEIVED THE ‘LARGEST AND BEST STOCK ¢ o GP x HOLIDAY GooDs ) — NEVADA county: en rie of articles: : Fins White Tea Lota 44 ven, $8 to $10.Fine Decorated.Tea Sets, 4 pieces, $14 to $24. Fancy Cups and Saucers, § . cents to S4. pa 006 China Mugs,, all. price’ COLOGNE. SETS 10. sum ~ ‘EWERYBODY. ~ WHITE CHINA CUPS & &il CERS, best, $3.adoz. GLASS FRUIT BOWLS, 50 to$l. — ss SILVER PLATED WARE, J KINDS. FANCY BASKETS. Vases of all kinds and qualitie wre t ’ Qne thousand Fancy Articles th we Have not time to enumerate, ~ Call andiprice our goods, and if we dar sell fem less than the cheapest, we will ask your patronage. POTTER & SIGOURNEY. 3 Nevada, December 5th, 1572. Jewelry for the Ho. day N. W. KNOWLTON G3 alse . claim bein still more ieularly described in the diagram aud filed H’s just received a magnificent ee Se eee ait of persons holding any adverse claim +} thereto are’hereb: to present the WAZCBES AND JEWELRY ‘game before the ster and: iver of the United States Land Office, for Sacramenspent at Sacramento, California, frem the date hereof. ‘ f Dated tN Dec. 4t was determined to be a. bigger wo+)} murder in the first degree — the asta. posted Ge'Chatin Deo ak. eth. min than Ranma D. Fair, iffshe /had. girl, ~) “HORAOE KILHAM, to kill every nigger in Sats Beamctado. r Applicant.be given by —on— “Friday Evening, Dec. 13th. A general invitation is extended. a5 L. P. FISHER, ADVERTISING AGENT Rooms 20 amd 21, —_ MERCHANTS’ EXCHANGE, SAN F RANCIBSCO. sckrpT, and for papers-published in CaliUtah, Idaho, M » Col and tljacen\ Perettones: cen hina: NN Colonies; Atlantic hie. Rates-ana Ruruge. . Adventiai ‘Has created many a new business: . Has enlarged many an old business; Has reyive@ many a dull bunimess; Miles Searls, Atterney for Applicant, 413 A GRAND BOCIAL PARTY will THEODORE SCHWARTZ,aT HIS HOUSE, AT PLEASANT VALLEY, OoLieMs. advertise:nente and rubserty. tions. for the Newea Dairy Taam fornia, Oregon and. Nevada; Washington, 0, Srizona, Sendwich Islands eee British Peete So Méiican Ports and < Zealand. aad, fie Australian . Nevads. Dsor Math, 187m" Suitable for Holiday 1 resents, whit will.se)lt0 per cent. cheaper than aD cisco prices. He has beautiful GOLD AND SILVER WATCBES, BRYASTPINS, STUDS, LADIES’ & RINGS, CARD CASES, LOCKBT, THIMBLES, ETC. ETC. A complete stock of Spectacles. All kt and ene Anda thousand other which:must beseen to be appreciated. and see the beautiful Holidcy Goods. Nevads, December 34, 1872. THE OLDEST AND THE BE DR. HUFRLAND’S , CELEBRATED SWISS STOMAG F BITTERS. rYVHE first.and the most healthful 7 ever. intpduced . in the United 6 These Bitt ers have been n Frantiaco seacoast for twenty — -_ nd standing t lates for public favor, gt ave constantly increases. TAYLOR, & BENDE oh ‘ole Agents, 4@2and 411 Gay jan Francisce. FOR S/ SALE. BOUT 700 FEET eT OR ELEVES : HYDRAULIC PIPE, with Fiity of Canvass Hose and Distributor, we cheap. Apply to A,B, BRADY. wil NEVADA BAKERY. #8 BROAD STREET, GAULT. w+ ugePropniet : excépted. Ww have always the best varie) every thing in our lime. : _ EXCELLENT BUTTER, GRACKERS OF OUR OWN the great, medium of succtse im busin ad the prelude to wealth. And I have » TURE. , ruade i¥ ap, invariable rule to advertise in. 4 good sample of Oui.d the the dullest times as well as the busiest, . ¢.ctory im the State. T! ,ong experience havine taught me that money ‘spent is wel) laid out, as by facings Cake Aegis Lost. a oT a. bps the Nevada on Herne, Biktahs: — f Pep Overcoat. dressing , suitably rewarded op turn of the coat to this office. fo J 2» gy rp Bereriwade a a ie a: a —e er a ae a ae a ae a ee ee ee —-t sesh tee chee £50 Am