December 21, 1869 (4 pages)

pial anna eat ' earnestly hope that steps may be speedily taken+o express in due form the _ erable to Colfax no one who has been * on the ground will question. In order Valley. The inhabitants ot the county _ Spertinacity, We glory in the way it DEC, 21, 1869. . , WORSDAY, A AL RarLkoaD.—The Gazetie ‘gud Grass’ Valley Union have spoken in favor of a 16@@1 railroad. We give our hearty approval of the project, and sentiments of the people of the county in favor of the project. Let this be done, and the co-operation of the Cali fornia Pacific Road and the. people along the Jine of the proposed route can be secured for the project. A gentleman who has traveled extensively in the British Empire, informs us that in Wales, they have a system of narrow guage roads, with light run ning stock, which are run at less than half the expense of ordinary roads, and that these have been found profitable: property in districts where the freightage and travel is not near so large as between Nevada county and the lines of railroads. es Marysville and the surrounding country now supplies us with mach of the grain consumed in this county, and if in addition to this carrying trade, all the freight and passenger trade could be secured, a result which would wndoubtedly follow the building of such aroad as suggested, a profitable business would be done from the outset. This branch road should either connect with the California Central at Wheatland, or the California Pacific at or néar Marysville. The point of connection of course would dépend on two things: First, the relative cost, and second the aid which could be secured from the Company, whose business would be benefited by the branch. “That either of these points are preftovreach Colfax much heavy grading and expense of bridging is necessary, while either of the other points may be reached without crossing a ridge. A road from Colfax would only secure ‘the trade of Nevada, Grass Valley and the points for which those places would he depositories, while by the other route, Smartsyille, Timbuctoo and the flourishing mining towns about Sucker Flat would be tapped, while all the trade of Bridgeport township would be secured, i eo ENERGY IN NEVADA.—The editor of the Grass Valley Union, wlio recently visited Nevada, discourseth thusly in reference toour energy: The inhabitants of the city of Nevada, county of Nevada and State of California, differ somewhat from the inhabitants of Grass seat of the county are more energetic than those of the chief town of the county, which is Grass Valley. This energy we have seen in the past, displayed in various. ways. Last Winter an inch and a half thick floor; made of the best spruce plank was worn out in devotion of Terpsichore, and this Winter debates have sprung up among the Nevada Cityites which would have been run‘into the ground had not the new game of “devil among the tuilors” come along to divert the county seat mind from debating. This county seat ‘mind follows out its notions with great does that thing, and we believe that if Nevada city had started ter years ago on quartz, it would have had, to-day, the deepest mines in the world, and the best machinery in the World upon them, It isa misfortune that she has indulged in the social and the pleasant ways of life, to the neglect of hard and earnest work. G. F. Tran is the occasion of a large amount of characteristic eloquence from the Western press. One’ Wisconsin paper, after alluding to him as -a “netorious addle-pated wind-bag,” and to his hearers as “a meagre audi. ence of dead-hedds and unsophistocated,” thus playfully and politely perorates: ‘Good bye, old windy ; good bye, old gas-pipe ; go home and soak your head with whisky, so as to give somestrength to your. aplogy for brains. Good bye, old George Francis ‘Train. Don’t come this way again—the poople face mas fygy Home Mnovole vidual, observing the great distanee beOPULATION.—The edito: me Benevolent indiDRINKING — ome twéen dtinking places in Reno, has rented Barnett’s. new store, and is fitting the same .as a saloon, for the ac commodation of a suffering. public. Only sixteen drinks between the bridge, and the depot hotel; nearly a quarter of a mile. These establishments pay $2,000 per year license ; $10,000 per year rent; $2,000 per year for firewood; $5,000 per year for lights ; $10,000 per year for attendance; $1,000 per year for breakage. Making a total of $30,000 per year expenditure; to clear which we suppose $60,000 must be taken in for drinks. At 124 cents a drink this sum would call for 480,000 drinks. Estimating our drinking population at 480, each man is allowed 1,000 tods per year—less than three a day—cortainly very moderate considering the dryness of the climate and the habitual thirst of the people. We have compiled these statistics simply toshow what an opening Reno offers to afew more enterprising liquor déalers. <>UnvusuaL ReQqQuest.—P. B. Forster, who died in San Francisco on the 11th, requested that a port mortem éexamination’*might be made. The Cail says: The reason for his desiring this to be dohe was that, when only. about twelve years of age, he had laid in a trance for sixty hours. He had been ill for some time, and finally fell into a trance, which was pronounced. by all those in atteudance upon him, with the exception of his mother, to be death. She, with a mother’s hope and love refused to believe that he was dead, and resisted all suggestions as to the necessity of interment. é by the side of her child for a period of sixty. hours, and then had the great joy of discovering signs of returning life. Proper means having been applied, he recovered his health. During the tim@ he was in the trance he knew everything that took piace in the room where he lay, could hear and understand all that was said, but could not move a muscle or makea sign. This caused im to express a wish that he be not buried until his death was certain. Accordingly the physicians made an autopsy of the remains, after becoming fully satisfied that death had really taken place. The physicians decided the disease to be apoplexy of the heart. MIRAGE IN THE SACRAMENTO VALLEY.—A lady correspondent of the Sac ramento Record, writing from Elk Grove, November 24th, gives the following destription of a mirage as seen from her house in that place: . This morning we had the pleasure of seeing one of these strangely beautitul optical illusions. Ordinarily, we can but just see the tops of the trees along the banks of the Sacramento from where we live, but now they loomed up like so many armed viants, andthe whole tree was visible to the roots. Houses, wind punips; and every object of any size, were distinctly seen. {was not aware that the country was 80 thickly sevtled as this mirage revealed. ‘he Capitol and many ather buildings of your city were plainly seen. In many places there was an appearance of water, which to me looked like small lakes scattered about. Some thought it wasthe river thus brought into view, bat 1 think that impossible at its present low stage. It is not unusual thing foru mirage to assume such an appearance, : GoaT IsLaND as A’ KALLROAD TERMINUS.—The Oakland 7ranscript says : The,Washington dispatches report the introduction of a bill by Senator Cole, designed to grant the Westeru Pacific Railroad Company the right to occupy Goat Island as a railroad terminus. Judging from the expressions of members of Congress, who visited us last Fall, the bill will probably become a law, and we may rejoice: in the pros pect. The nearer San Francisco and Oakland are brought together, the better it will-be for the people of both places. Every enterprise that promises to promote the economy of trade. should receive the cordial support of the pabjic, THE yearly mortality of the globe is $3,333,333 persons. This is it the rate of 91,554 per, day, 3,830. per hour, 62 per minute. Pere Hyacinthe on his arrival, and dis appreciate you too’ well.” proach Paris, aba EE ee She watched tenderly T Senate. If is reported the Empress Eugene has instrected her chamberlain to meet . suad im j tte i suade him from attempting to apMACHINE.—The Stockton rformed by a knitting maghine now innpe in that city, the invention of Thomas Crane of Wisconsin ¢ It knits plain or ribbed, single or double, striped or checked, and its variety of patterns is limited only by the skill of the operator, and knits with equal facility from fine cotton, linen or silk to coarse wool. Twenty-five minutes is all the time required to complete a pair of socks. It will knit a pertectly round web, from one inch ia diameter to twice the width of the machine, or a square web of any desired size to twice the width ef the machine.’ It will make nearly two score styles of stitches, and will do anything that can be done by hand. Heavy, durable socks, wraprs, drawere,stockings, shirts,and caps, oods, fringes, breakfast shawls, mittens, scarfs, gloves, tidies, cushion covers, etc. of the finest worsteds, are manufactured with equal ease. The machine is a mechanical curiosity. Kwitrixe No MARRIAGE THAT WAS A MarRIAGE.—A case ‘has just been decided by Judge Barnard, touching the legality of a marriage that was not performed by a clergyman or a Justice of the Peace. The suit is brought for alimony against John Bissell by his wife, Beatrice. She claims that Bissell proposed that she should marry him, and engaged board fer himself and wife at a boarding house in Waverly Place. Before going there he took her to a ride in Central Park, and while in the carriage put a ring upon her finger, and ‘toid her she was legally married. He said: as much in the presence of her sister,and introduced the woman as his-wife at the boarding house. Judge Barnard held that the marriage was legal, and that Bissell, who had deserted his wife, must pay her alimony, and submit to proceedings for a divorce. Brick PoMERoY rejoices in the defeat of Andrew Johnson for the U. §. He puts the case this way: He tried to be a Democrat, and dare not. He tried to be a Republican and could not. He tried to be a President, and wculd not. When he could, he would not; when he would, he couid not. Much that he did he should. not. He was everything by turns, and nothing long; and the sooner such men are sealed up and packed away, the better for the nation. ® “My competitor,” exclaimed a political orator, “has to}d you of the service he has rendered his country in the late war. Let me tell you that I, too, acted test. When the tocsin of War summoned the loyal masses to rally to the defense of the national flag, I, fellow citizens, animated by that patriotic spirit which glows in every American bosom, hired a substitute, and the bones of the Rappahannock.” Snooks says there is a marked difference between birds and women. As an illustration of this, he cites the fact thata bit of looking-glass on a fruit tree will frighten away every bird that approaches it, while the same article would attract more fair ones than a load of cherries. THE death of Vincent Geiger, at Valparaiso, is reported. Geiger was an early resident, of Sacramento ; was,with B. F. Washington, one of the founders and editors of the State Journal; was afterwards Indian Agent at the Nome Lackee reservation, where, in 1860 or thereabouts, he killed aman and fled the country, and he is only heard of now at his death. THE first shipment of Los Angeles oranges has been made to San Francisco. Fivé vessels from Bordeaux to this coast, laden with wine and liquors,have met with casualities. Too much here now. j NoRTHER® Michigan had twenty-one inches of snow in the first storm of the season. JAMES MONRO, Dealer Beef, Pork, Mutton, Corned Beef, CORNED PORK, VEAL, &c, 2 Meats sold at reasonable rates for Cash Shop on Broad Street, opposite t¢ Theatre— at . —. JOHN CALDWELL, Attorney and Counselor at Law. _ Notary Public, NEVADA €ITY. : Nevada Aug. 17>. CH. FERRAND, PHOTOGRAPHIC ; —AND— ~ DAGUERREAN ARTIST, 2 Every kind-of Photographs anu A mbro ypes taken in the best style of the Art, ON PINE STREET, . @he Vital Statistics of California w that periodical fevers and acute and . >. an humble part in that memorable conf of that man lie bleaching on the banks ee 2 ateamong the most prominent and fatal diseases in this State. Disobedience to the lawe of health, as regards diet; the use of pernicious stimulants; and the wear and tear of business excitement, and_of ‘fast life’’ generally, have much te do with the prevalence-of. these maladies in our cities; while in the interior, and especially in the gold yielding-districts, they are chiefly due to malaria, unwholesome water, and the exposure and prinsc disorders of the stomagh and bowels, ‘yation incident to life in new settlements “and mining camps. Now, 17 is A Fact that it isas possible to protect the human system “against these maladies, as to guard life and property against the incursions of assassins andthe thieves. Strengthen the vital organization with HOSTETTER’S STOMACH BITTERS, and it becomes as capable of resisting the active principle of epidemic or endemic disease, as a fire proof safe is of resisting the action ofcombustion. This is the experience ofthousands whe have remained nnscathed by malarions disorders in the sickliest seasons, while their neighbors, who neglected. to tone and regulate their systems with this unequalled medicinial stimulant, have fallen thick and fust around them, Weakness invites disease. Vigor repels it. Help nature to fight the good fight with infection, whether itbe in the air, the water, or the sil, with this: matchless preparation—a compound of the rarest vegetable extracts with th e pures of all diffusive stimulants. — SPENCER & PATTISON, Have the Largest, the Best, and THE CHEAPEST ' STOCK OF HOLIDAY GOODS, IN THIS CITY! Before making your purchases call on Spencer & Pattison! LOBNER & IRVING, FOR WAKRDING MERCHANTS, COLFAX, CAL, ARK GOODS PLAINLY “CARE OF L. & I. Colfax. Send shipping receipts with each consignment of geods. yer Mark all goods care of U. P. R. R. Co. L. & I. Colfax. dil Gag HERIFF'S SALE.—Whereas, John Tim1869, reeovered. a judgment in the District Court of the Fourteenth Juficial District of the State of California, in and for the county of Nevada against P. S, Goodspeed, J. H. Failer, Allen Tucker and « D. Carney for the sum of T'wo Thousand Seven Hundred and Sixtynine dollars, ($2,769 00) with interest thereon fromAhe date of said judgment at the rate of7 per cent per annum till paid, said sum gold coin, together with costs of suit taxed at $30 50 and counsel fees allowed herein amounting to the sum of $276 90, which judgement is recorded in the Judgment Book 5 uf the said District Court,on pages 44 & 45 and whereas it is ordered that'the Mortgage set forth in plaintiff's complaint be foreciosed, and the property therein described, to-wit: All that certain mining gees and claima loca'ed and being in the Township of Little York, County of Nevada, State of Cali‘ornia, and bounded and described as follows: located upon the west side of Greenborn Creek, and fronting ‘upon said Creek five hundred feet, and boun ded tipon the south by the claims of the ‘Gouge the “Camden Company” and extending hack to the centre of the ridge upon which the same are located, said claims being’ well known as the Alpha claims, be levied upon and sold to tatisfy said judgment, principal, interest, counsel fee and costs. ; public ealeall thea in front of the Court House door in Nevada, on » Tuesday, Jan. 18, 1870; between the hours of 90’clock, a. mw. and 5 p.m A. D. 1869, R. B. GENTRY, Sheriff. Niles Searls, Atty. d2i mons on the 18th day of December, A. D. . principal and interest payable in United States . Eye’ Company, on the north by the claims of Notice is hereby given that I will expose to ve described. property to the highest bidder, for cash, in U. 2 gold cule. t e city of Given under my hand this 20th day of Dec. R. M. HUNT, M. D., ATTENDING PHYSICIAN NEVADA CITY, é BY THE SAVINGS BANK, Strcet, SAN FRANCISCO: Over the United States Bakery THOMAS BOONEY, President. 825-3m. = r \HEY are superior té all others in their ONE PER CENT. PER MONTH T greater eninens and Pipe Urgan tone, volAare ON SIX MONTHS’ DEPOs. CALIFORNIA BUILDING, LOAN AND California Street, ones@oor from Sansome Eiearuss SALOON, = PHILIP BUCA. .-Proprictor, soci BROAD STREET, NEVADA CITY. A 1 Mair Cutting---r66.:.25 Cents, 4 SIRAVIME 0. ccccee. cesses dh “ THE Shampooinpg --.---... 25 * . Sunday BathsHot er Cold..25 + } VA by Pat . Hair Dre-sing Koomfor Ladiesand children . 7 ‘TEETH kXTEKACTED. Leeches appliediory% @ ‘ pears to cents, Cupping <5 cents. ea yt) ( Eat tion bet: and the CONGRESS BOOKSTORE piper gt W. K. SPENCER. JOHN PATTigON, parties f “SPENCER & PATTISON, ree Successors to G. R. Crawford. Moore ‘ ‘Broad street... -Nevada City.) 6 ed = [FAVING ADDED LARGELY TO THE” gold coll stock of Goods, we shall keep comstaut would 8} ly on hand an assortment of 46 Mise. I Handsome Gilt Books, sewing t School Books, esi kettle a Initial Paper,Legal. Letter and Senegal Farcy Note Paper. mtven, BLANK BOOKS, LEGAL BLANKS, GOLD ~ wife, accc PENS, PAPERS, PERIODICALS ahd MaQo P : AZINES, and a general aseortment o1 STA. ont spenc TIONERY GOODS and FANCY ARTICLES, found “he © flice of the Western Union Teling to thi egraph Co. ’ diately re Nevada, Dec. 6th, 1869. was stole For Christmas and New Year's yetted, 9) Pret 5 te! evidence ee ed anlage held. It Buy Something That Will Be afer the ; ely : about Do Durabie! peers TS: shot gun. : a ‘ with his CREAT BARCAINS! Sioorw i. ey ee fer a sho GOLDSMITH bas on hand a Mag4ke hificent Stock of Goods suitable for the York 1 cad coming olidsys. ‘hey consist of shooting Fine Shawls, . McNichol: Elegant Dress Goods, Sunday w Cloaks . the purpo sae what we i . Fancy Articles ‘that he w etc. etc, etc. . ling 1 Which he offers for sale at LOW ER RATES fluenced . than ever before offeredin this city. DON’T soon as th BUY YOUR HOLIDAY PRESENTS UNTIL inflicted YOU HAVE SEEN THESE GOODS AND . ae ASCERTAINED THEIR PRICES. after the « Callen =A. GOLDSmuTH, wife and f C f Pine and Broad § Fiat. Hie a5 Corner 0 Pine and Broad Streets. yeste rday 1 Dealer InF Millinery and Fancy Goods, © naggt EMBROIDERIES, wages TRIMMINGS, street owne » VELVET RIBBONS, by Mr. Jen FLOWERS, in the upps Braids, Sewing Silks, Laces, V. tls, chimney, ai Hosiery,Gloves,Combs : through th (Brushes, Ete. Mra dennis CORSETS OF THE BEST MAKE. Bik See No. 226 Kearny Street. hier farait Between Bush & Sutter.SAN FRANCISCO. gale {Wo Latest Style of Goods Received hy O86 com ot she es yle of Goods Rec Every Steamer. ee Jose in a da Straw Bonnets Clea-ed and Pressed—Boni net Frames of the Latest Shape. portion of t ‘Milliners supplied with Cut Lengths at the house, . Wholesale Prices, 828-51 were taken A. AITKEN. s "ISRAEL LUCE, after the al: PREMIUM rapidly, ani PIONEER MARBLE WORKS. nig The Iv K Street, between Sitxh & Seventh, = rough SACRAMEN'TO. and the Ney one in front. Was turned . MONUMENTS, TOMBS, idly, and ne: \GRAVE STONES, MANTLES, house and . TABLE TOPS, WASH STANDS: : above was . iS &c, &e, reach about All kinds o¢ work done in Indian ance ; Diegings: ei & het osm or mn S ble. 68 Sctilpture an rnamen work cone in superior style. Tux Over W. Cc. high Agent, Grane Valley, where cellent maga can be seen de s of everythin the r ble line. et ae bet of the N Volume, Th sa contai S. D. & H. W. SMITH’S ana 0 le cles of local ; AMERICAN. ORCANS! a8 it is a Cali ees be in every h “4 riodical to se EDWARD F. PEIRCE; je he No 228 Sutter street, Canal,” “On § SAN FRANCISCO. candidate tro : aie os Home the most int The American Organ makes Hom may be obtai Attractive ! in this city, Gone BEL ume on6 power, Soe7 are wee oe Worth, who h pression, quickness of aciion, and ¢ of towen, rendering them perfect in rapid Pag of Co movements, > e@ The American Orgense are by far the Co orth B most beautiful in exterior finish, tormine& mMpany left handsome piece of Furniture ior the Parlor or ciseo Sitting Koom and occupying but little space. Yesterds The American Grgans are pronounce one of the be by more than one-hntidred of the best Orgel: pe 5 ists of the ouemtry to be superior to any ome ; push things, yet produced, and have receive is 1 Premium wherever exhibited. nthe constru San Francisco, Dee, 12t. quartz mills i

pial anna eat ' earnestly hope that steps may be speedily taken+o express in due form the _ erable to Colfax no one who has been * on the ground will question. In order Valley. The inhabitants ot the county _ Spertinacity, We glory in the way it DEC, 21, 1869. . , WORSDAY, A AL RarLkoaD.—The Gazetie ‘gud Grass’ Valley Union have spoken in favor of a 16@@1 railroad. We give our hearty approval of the project, and sentiments of the people of the county in favor of the project. Let this be done, and the co-operation of the Cali fornia Pacific Road and the. people along the Jine of the proposed route can be secured for the project. A gentleman who has traveled extensively in the British Empire, informs us that in Wales, they have a system of narrow guage roads, with light run ning stock, which are run at less than half the expense of ordinary roads, and that these have been found profitable: property in districts where the freightage and travel is not near so large as between Nevada county and the lines of railroads. es Marysville and the surrounding country now supplies us with mach of the grain consumed in this county, and if in addition to this carrying trade, all the freight and passenger trade could be secured, a result which would wndoubtedly follow the building of such aroad as suggested, a profitable business would be done from the outset. This branch road should either connect with the California Central at Wheatland, or the California Pacific at or néar Marysville. The point of connection of course would dépend on two things: First, the relative cost, and second the aid which could be secured from the Company, whose business would be benefited by the branch. “That either of these points are preftovreach Colfax much heavy grading and expense of bridging is necessary, while either of the other points may be reached without crossing a ridge. A road from Colfax would only secure ‘the trade of Nevada, Grass Valley and the points for which those places would he depositories, while by the other route, Smartsyille, Timbuctoo and the flourishing mining towns about Sucker Flat would be tapped, while all the trade of Bridgeport township would be secured, i eo ENERGY IN NEVADA.—The editor of the Grass Valley Union, wlio recently visited Nevada, discourseth thusly in reference toour energy: The inhabitants of the city of Nevada, county of Nevada and State of California, differ somewhat from the inhabitants of Grass seat of the county are more energetic than those of the chief town of the county, which is Grass Valley. This energy we have seen in the past, displayed in various. ways. Last Winter an inch and a half thick floor; made of the best spruce plank was worn out in devotion of Terpsichore, and this Winter debates have sprung up among the Nevada Cityites which would have been run‘into the ground had not the new game of “devil among the tuilors” come along to divert the county seat mind from debating. This county seat ‘mind follows out its notions with great does that thing, and we believe that if Nevada city had started ter years ago on quartz, it would have had, to-day, the deepest mines in the world, and the best machinery in the World upon them, It isa misfortune that she has indulged in the social and the pleasant ways of life, to the neglect of hard and earnest work. G. F. Tran is the occasion of a large amount of characteristic eloquence from the Western press. One’ Wisconsin paper, after alluding to him as -a “netorious addle-pated wind-bag,” and to his hearers as “a meagre audi. ence of dead-hedds and unsophistocated,” thus playfully and politely perorates: ‘Good bye, old windy ; good bye, old gas-pipe ; go home and soak your head with whisky, so as to give somestrength to your. aplogy for brains. Good bye, old George Francis ‘Train. Don’t come this way again—the poople face mas fygy Home Mnovole vidual, observing the great distanee beOPULATION.—The edito: me Benevolent indiDRINKING — ome twéen dtinking places in Reno, has rented Barnett’s. new store, and is fitting the same .as a saloon, for the ac commodation of a suffering. public. Only sixteen drinks between the bridge, and the depot hotel; nearly a quarter of a mile. These establishments pay $2,000 per year license ; $10,000 per year rent; $2,000 per year for firewood; $5,000 per year for lights ; $10,000 per year for attendance; $1,000 per year for breakage. Making a total of $30,000 per year expenditure; to clear which we suppose $60,000 must be taken in for drinks. At 124 cents a drink this sum would call for 480,000 drinks. Estimating our drinking population at 480, each man is allowed 1,000 tods per year—less than three a day—cortainly very moderate considering the dryness of the climate and the habitual thirst of the people. We have compiled these statistics simply toshow what an opening Reno offers to afew more enterprising liquor déalers. <>UnvusuaL ReQqQuest.—P. B. Forster, who died in San Francisco on the 11th, requested that a port mortem éexamination’*might be made. The Cail says: The reason for his desiring this to be dohe was that, when only. about twelve years of age, he had laid in a trance for sixty hours. He had been ill for some time, and finally fell into a trance, which was pronounced. by all those in atteudance upon him, with the exception of his mother, to be death. She, with a mother’s hope and love refused to believe that he was dead, and resisted all suggestions as to the necessity of interment. é by the side of her child for a period of sixty. hours, and then had the great joy of discovering signs of returning life. Proper means having been applied, he recovered his health. During the tim@ he was in the trance he knew everything that took piace in the room where he lay, could hear and understand all that was said, but could not move a muscle or makea sign. This caused im to express a wish that he be not buried until his death was certain. Accordingly the physicians made an autopsy of the remains, after becoming fully satisfied that death had really taken place. The physicians decided the disease to be apoplexy of the heart. MIRAGE IN THE SACRAMENTO VALLEY.—A lady correspondent of the Sac ramento Record, writing from Elk Grove, November 24th, gives the following destription of a mirage as seen from her house in that place: . This morning we had the pleasure of seeing one of these strangely beautitul optical illusions. Ordinarily, we can but just see the tops of the trees along the banks of the Sacramento from where we live, but now they loomed up like so many armed viants, andthe whole tree was visible to the roots. Houses, wind punips; and every object of any size, were distinctly seen. {was not aware that the country was 80 thickly sevtled as this mirage revealed. ‘he Capitol and many ather buildings of your city were plainly seen. In many places there was an appearance of water, which to me looked like small lakes scattered about. Some thought it wasthe river thus brought into view, bat 1 think that impossible at its present low stage. It is not unusual thing foru mirage to assume such an appearance, : GoaT IsLaND as A’ KALLROAD TERMINUS.—The Oakland 7ranscript says : The,Washington dispatches report the introduction of a bill by Senator Cole, designed to grant the Westeru Pacific Railroad Company the right to occupy Goat Island as a railroad terminus. Judging from the expressions of members of Congress, who visited us last Fall, the bill will probably become a law, and we may rejoice: in the pros pect. The nearer San Francisco and Oakland are brought together, the better it will-be for the people of both places. Every enterprise that promises to promote the economy of trade. should receive the cordial support of the pabjic, THE yearly mortality of the globe is $3,333,333 persons. This is it the rate of 91,554 per, day, 3,830. per hour, 62 per minute. Pere Hyacinthe on his arrival, and dis appreciate you too’ well.” proach Paris, aba EE ee She watched tenderly T Senate. If is reported the Empress Eugene has instrected her chamberlain to meet . suad im j tte i suade him from attempting to apMACHINE.—The Stockton rformed by a knitting maghine now innpe in that city, the invention of Thomas Crane of Wisconsin ¢ It knits plain or ribbed, single or double, striped or checked, and its variety of patterns is limited only by the skill of the operator, and knits with equal facility from fine cotton, linen or silk to coarse wool. Twenty-five minutes is all the time required to complete a pair of socks. It will knit a pertectly round web, from one inch ia diameter to twice the width of the machine, or a square web of any desired size to twice the width ef the machine.’ It will make nearly two score styles of stitches, and will do anything that can be done by hand. Heavy, durable socks, wraprs, drawere,stockings, shirts,and caps, oods, fringes, breakfast shawls, mittens, scarfs, gloves, tidies, cushion covers, etc. of the finest worsteds, are manufactured with equal ease. The machine is a mechanical curiosity. Kwitrixe No MARRIAGE THAT WAS A MarRIAGE.—A case ‘has just been decided by Judge Barnard, touching the legality of a marriage that was not performed by a clergyman or a Justice of the Peace. The suit is brought for alimony against John Bissell by his wife, Beatrice. She claims that Bissell proposed that she should marry him, and engaged board fer himself and wife at a boarding house in Waverly Place. Before going there he took her to a ride in Central Park, and while in the carriage put a ring upon her finger, and ‘toid her she was legally married. He said: as much in the presence of her sister,and introduced the woman as his-wife at the boarding house. Judge Barnard held that the marriage was legal, and that Bissell, who had deserted his wife, must pay her alimony, and submit to proceedings for a divorce. Brick PoMERoY rejoices in the defeat of Andrew Johnson for the U. §. He puts the case this way: He tried to be a Democrat, and dare not. He tried to be a Republican and could not. He tried to be a President, and wculd not. When he could, he would not; when he would, he couid not. Much that he did he should. not. He was everything by turns, and nothing long; and the sooner such men are sealed up and packed away, the better for the nation. ® “My competitor,” exclaimed a political orator, “has to}d you of the service he has rendered his country in the late war. Let me tell you that I, too, acted test. When the tocsin of War summoned the loyal masses to rally to the defense of the national flag, I, fellow citizens, animated by that patriotic spirit which glows in every American bosom, hired a substitute, and the bones of the Rappahannock.” Snooks says there is a marked difference between birds and women. As an illustration of this, he cites the fact thata bit of looking-glass on a fruit tree will frighten away every bird that approaches it, while the same article

would attract more fair ones than a load of cherries. THE death of Vincent Geiger, at Valparaiso, is reported. Geiger was an early resident, of Sacramento ; was,with B. F. Washington, one of the founders and editors of the State Journal; was afterwards Indian Agent at the Nome Lackee reservation, where, in 1860 or thereabouts, he killed aman and fled the country, and he is only heard of now at his death. THE first shipment of Los Angeles oranges has been made to San Francisco. Fivé vessels from Bordeaux to this coast, laden with wine and liquors,have met with casualities. Too much here now. j NoRTHER® Michigan had twenty-one inches of snow in the first storm of the season. JAMES MONRO, Dealer Beef, Pork, Mutton, Corned Beef, CORNED PORK, VEAL, &c, 2 Meats sold at reasonable rates for Cash Shop on Broad Street, opposite t¢ Theatre— at . —. JOHN CALDWELL, Attorney and Counselor at Law. _ Notary Public, NEVADA €ITY. : Nevada Aug. 17>. CH. FERRAND, PHOTOGRAPHIC ; —AND— ~ DAGUERREAN ARTIST, 2 Every kind-of Photographs anu A mbro ypes taken in the best style of the Art, ON PINE STREET, . @he Vital Statistics of California w that periodical fevers and acute and . >. an humble part in that memorable conf of that man lie bleaching on the banks ee 2 ateamong the most prominent and fatal diseases in this State. Disobedience to the lawe of health, as regards diet; the use of pernicious stimulants; and the wear and tear of business excitement, and_of ‘fast life’’ generally, have much te do with the prevalence-of. these maladies in our cities; while in the interior, and especially in the gold yielding-districts, they are chiefly due to malaria, unwholesome water, and the exposure and prinsc disorders of the stomagh and bowels, ‘yation incident to life in new settlements “and mining camps. Now, 17 is A Fact that it isas possible to protect the human system “against these maladies, as to guard life and property against the incursions of assassins andthe thieves. Strengthen the vital organization with HOSTETTER’S STOMACH BITTERS, and it becomes as capable of resisting the active principle of epidemic or endemic disease, as a fire proof safe is of resisting the action ofcombustion. This is the experience ofthousands whe have remained nnscathed by malarions disorders in the sickliest seasons, while their neighbors, who neglected. to tone and regulate their systems with this unequalled medicinial stimulant, have fallen thick and fust around them, Weakness invites disease. Vigor repels it. Help nature to fight the good fight with infection, whether itbe in the air, the water, or the sil, with this: matchless preparation—a compound of the rarest vegetable extracts with th e pures of all diffusive stimulants. — SPENCER & PATTISON, Have the Largest, the Best, and THE CHEAPEST ' STOCK OF HOLIDAY GOODS, IN THIS CITY! Before making your purchases call on Spencer & Pattison! LOBNER & IRVING, FOR WAKRDING MERCHANTS, COLFAX, CAL, ARK GOODS PLAINLY “CARE OF L. & I. Colfax. Send shipping receipts with each consignment of geods. yer Mark all goods care of U. P. R. R. Co. L. & I. Colfax. dil Gag HERIFF'S SALE.—Whereas, John Tim1869, reeovered. a judgment in the District Court of the Fourteenth Juficial District of the State of California, in and for the county of Nevada against P. S, Goodspeed, J. H. Failer, Allen Tucker and « D. Carney for the sum of T'wo Thousand Seven Hundred and Sixtynine dollars, ($2,769 00) with interest thereon fromAhe date of said judgment at the rate of7 per cent per annum till paid, said sum gold coin, together with costs of suit taxed at $30 50 and counsel fees allowed herein amounting to the sum of $276 90, which judgement is recorded in the Judgment Book 5 uf the said District Court,on pages 44 & 45 and whereas it is ordered that'the Mortgage set forth in plaintiff's complaint be foreciosed, and the property therein described, to-wit: All that certain mining gees and claima loca'ed and being in the Township of Little York, County of Nevada, State of Cali‘ornia, and bounded and described as follows: located upon the west side of Greenborn Creek, and fronting ‘upon said Creek five hundred feet, and boun ded tipon the south by the claims of the ‘Gouge the “Camden Company” and extending hack to the centre of the ridge upon which the same are located, said claims being’ well known as the Alpha claims, be levied upon and sold to tatisfy said judgment, principal, interest, counsel fee and costs. ; public ealeall thea in front of the Court House door in Nevada, on » Tuesday, Jan. 18, 1870; between the hours of 90’clock, a. mw. and 5 p.m A. D. 1869, R. B. GENTRY, Sheriff. Niles Searls, Atty. d2i mons on the 18th day of December, A. D. . principal and interest payable in United States . Eye’ Company, on the north by the claims of Notice is hereby given that I will expose to ve described. property to the highest bidder, for cash, in U. 2 gold cule. t e city of Given under my hand this 20th day of Dec. R. M. HUNT, M. D., ATTENDING PHYSICIAN NEVADA CITY, é BY THE SAVINGS BANK, Strcet, SAN FRANCISCO: Over the United States Bakery THOMAS BOONEY, President. 825-3m. = r \HEY are superior té all others in their ONE PER CENT. PER MONTH T greater eninens and Pipe Urgan tone, volAare ON SIX MONTHS’ DEPOs. CALIFORNIA BUILDING, LOAN AND California Street, ones@oor from Sansome Eiearuss SALOON, = PHILIP BUCA.. ..-Proprictor, soci BROAD STREET, NEVADA CITY. A 1 Mair Cutting---r66..:..25 Cents, 4 SIRAVIME 0.. ccccee.. cesses dh “ THE Shampooinpg --.---..... 25 * . Sunday BathsHot er Cold....25 + } VA by Pat . Hair Dre-sing Koomfor Ladiesand children . 7 ‘TEETH kXTEKACTED. Leeches appliediory% @ ‘ pears to cents, Cupping <5 cents. ea yt) ( Eat tion bet: and the CONGRESS BOOKSTORE piper gt W. K. SPENCER. JOHN PATTigON, parties f “SPENCER & PATTISON, ree Successors to G. R. Crawford. Moore ‘ ‘Broad street...... -Nevada City.) 6 ed = [FAVING ADDED LARGELY TO THE” gold coll stock of Goods, we shall keep comstaut would 8} ly on hand an assortment of 46 Mise. I Handsome Gilt Books, sewing t School Books, esi kettle a Initial Paper,Legal. Letter and Senegal Farcy Note Paper. mtven, BLANK BOOKS, LEGAL BLANKS, GOLD ~ wife, accc PENS, PAPERS, PERIODICALS ahd MaQo P : AZINES, and a general aseortment o1 STA. ont spenc TIONERY GOODS and FANCY ARTICLES, found “he © flice of the Western Union Teling to thi egraph Co. ’ diately re Nevada, Dec. 6th, 1869. was stole For Christmas and New Year's yetted, 9) Pret 5 te! evidence ee ed anlage held. It Buy Something That Will Be afer the ; ely : about Do Durabie! peers TS: shot gun. : a ‘ with his CREAT BARCAINS! Sioorw i. ey ee fer a sho GOLDSMITH bas on hand a Mag4ke hificent Stock of Goods suitable for the York 1 cad coming olidsys. ‘hey consist of shooting Fine Shawls, . McNichol: Elegant Dress Goods, Sunday w Cloaks . the purpo sae what we i . Fancy Articles ‘that he w etc. etc, etc. . ling 1 Which he offers for sale at LOW ER RATES fluenced . than ever before offeredin this city. DON’T soon as th BUY YOUR HOLIDAY PRESENTS UNTIL inflicted YOU HAVE SEEN THESE GOODS AND . ae ASCERTAINED THEIR PRICES. after the « Callen =A. GOLDSmuTH, wife and f C f Pine and Broad § Fiat. Hie a5 Corner 0 Pine and Broad Streets. yeste rday 1 Dealer InF Millinery and Fancy Goods, © naggt EMBROIDERIES, wages TRIMMINGS, street owne » VELVET RIBBONS, by Mr. Jen FLOWERS, in the upps Braids, Sewing Silks, Laces, V. tls, chimney, ai Hosiery,Gloves,Combs : through th (Brushes, Ete. Mra dennis CORSETS OF THE BEST MAKE. Bik See No. 226 Kearny Street. hier farait Between Bush & Sutter..SAN FRANCISCO.. gale {Wo Latest Style of Goods Received hy O86 com ot she es yle of Goods Rec Every Steamer. ee Jose in a da Straw Bonnets Clea-ed and Pressed—Boni net Frames of the Latest Shape. portion of t ‘Milliners supplied with Cut Lengths at the house, . Wholesale Prices, 828-51 were taken A. AITKEN. s "ISRAEL LUCE, after the al: PREMIUM rapidly, ani PIONEER MARBLE WORKS. nig The Iv K Street, between Sitxh & Seventh, = rough SACRAMEN'TO. and the Ney one in front. Was turned . MONUMENTS, TOMBS, idly, and ne: \GRAVE STONES, MANTLES, house and . TABLE TOPS, WASH STANDS: : above was . iS &c, &e, reach about All kinds o¢ work done in Indian ance ; Diegings: ei & het osm or mn S ble. 68 Sctilpture an rnamen work cone in superior style. Tux Over W. Cc. high Agent, Grane Valley, where cellent maga can be seen de s of everythin the r ble line. et ae bet of the N Volume, Th sa contai S. D. & H. W. SMITH’S ana 0 le cles of local ; AMERICAN. ORCANS! a8 it is a Cali ees be in every h “4 riodical to se EDWARD F. PEIRCE; je he No 228 Sutter street, Canal,” “On § SAN FRANCISCO. candidate tro : aie os Home the most int The American Organ makes Hom may be obtai Attractive ! in this city, Gone BEL ume on6 power, Soe7 are wee oe Worth, who h pression, quickness of aciion, and ¢ of towen, rendering them perfect in rapid Pag of Co movements, > e@ The American Orgense are by far the Co orth B most beautiful in exterior finish, tormine& mMpany left handsome piece of Furniture ior the Parlor or ciseo Sitting Koom and occupying but little space. Yesterds The American Grgans are pronounce one of the be by more than one-hntidred of the best Orgel: pe 5 ists of the ouemtry to be superior to any ome ; push things, yet produced, and have receive is 1 Premium wherever exhibited. nthe constru San Francisco, Dee, 12t. quartz mills i