December 29, 1875 (4 pages)

Pe NR MTD ONNEEA SS MR a aN ~ L *<qake table lands of the foothills. Pd a The Daily Transcript le Wednesday, Dec.» 29, 1875. Mintug Debris, The idea of daming the rivers in. fhe moihtains and forming reser: voirs for the settling of sediment. gent down stream from bydzaalic. mines, does not appear practical to . the editor of the Bezritorial Knter. _ prise, as will be seen by the following from that paper of the 26th: Reservoirs in small eanyons will . answer thé purpose. ‘There is not s small canyon in the foothills that o the Yuba or Bear River would not ith a day with sediment. “We saw a dam built omeeacross 4 raviie in the foothills. Jt was twenty-four feet long on top and twelye feet high ' above the centre of the ravine. Six inches ef water from Bear River ditch were ‘turmed into itand in fortysix hours the dam was full to the’ top with sediment. If six inches of water produce such a result, what. would the Yuba do? It must be remembered that whole mountains are being washed away, and a space eommensurate must be prepared to receive the debris, If the system is earried out it will. pretty nearly The soil thus made might, after a great while, become “fit for cultivation, but not for a good many years; _ for tailings do net make a good foun“dation for a crop. The proper plan is not to dam the rivers too high up. The upper plain lands furmish the place on which to make these deposits. “Between Sacramento and the Marysville junction any passenger cam see from the car windows miles and miles of land where the bed rock is only from six inches to a foot from the surface. It is wicked for farmers to settle on such land, forno ‘man could make am honest living from a thousand acres of it. These are the lands that ought to re. eeive the river deposits, aud from them the clear water could be tusned to the deep soil wurther down the valley, without difficulty, to insure the crops there. But, at all ‘events, the narrow ‘canyons in. the foothills must not be depended upon to furnish a place of deposit, A very . glars, everything being in confusion. Local Brevities. The house of Dennis McCarty, in Colfax, was burglarized on Tuesday night. Mra, McCarty was absent in San Francised, and Dennis, was’ attending a patty that night, When he returned he found tint somebody . had been there before him. . “Tinks . and dzawers were broken open, and . things scattered around promiscnously. McCarty is unable to tell . how much was carried off by the berNew Year’s gifts are said to be as asetigilule as Christmas presents. We should ndtvbject to receiving either, if the giver was good looking. That, however, was not exactly what we started out to'day. We only desired to mention the fact that. dealers in-every line of goods in town have good assortments, and will sell at very lowrates. So there will.-be no excuse for not giving your friends something that will vemind them of } your esteem. We are glad to give a to’ the following from pe Grass Valley Union: Mr. Riparintaediun Snyder, of the New York Hill mine, has been bringing to town, for the Iast fewdays, a quantity of very rich ore. These last dads of specimens, and the dabs are each very large, are richer than any we have heretofore seen from the mine. The late rich find is in the lowest level of the mine, The general ore coming out of the New York Hill mine is of fine quality and ig paying well by mill process, The ladies having charge ot the dinner at the children’ '# party on Saturday next, respectfully invite all interested in’ providing for the same, to send in their provisions by 3 o’clock, Saturday afternoon. They design setting the table‘for over 300 cbildren, and this requires an abundance of good things, Our, Nevada house-mothers are always ready to respond to such calls. We predict for the little ones a fine dinner. The hoisting works on the Gold Tunnel mine are completed, and the machinery was putin operation on Monday night. The whistle is now so close in town that it serves the place of a time-piece, and will injure, the trade of dealers in time-pieces, . we fear. At sunset to-day thé Jewish fesdarge per centage of either the Yuba , or Bear River currents is sediment, and when one considers what the © volume of those streams is, and how. much of a lake their waters would make in a single moath if confined within shores, it will be readily perecived that bundreds of square miles niust be cownted wpon for room, instead of the spaces bounded by Barrow canyons. : The Masquerade, . We hope it will not be thought we allude too often to the grand party, . which is to be given on Friday eve. « ning, for a masquerade whem en-’ tered into with a hearty good will by all our citizens, always proves “pn . ” affair of importance in soeial ciseles, The party last year was a very large and successful one, and made everyone enthusiastic abowt . . such, entertainments. The one whieh eonies off on Friday night at the Rink, we are informed, will eclipse the one last year. The hall will accommodate a mueb erger nunsber, atid will be beantifnlly decorated. There will be a splendid supper, and wo suppose a brilliant array of maskers, The affair coming off on a holiday occasion, and the fact that it has been known that it would come off for a long time,’ will doubtless’ draw out a large crowd, so that the party ought to bethe largest . and most. brilliant ever given here, > > New Year's Day Dinner~ As-the holiday duties prevent the members of the Aid Society from calling on and soliciting from the ladies of the city, ‘provisions for the children’s party on Saturday, we * take this method of asking “those. who feel friendly to the enterprise to assist us in preparing for the same. Articles will be’ reeeived after 3 -o'dtock, on Saturday, at the Rink. Sanam Hort, Pres, Stormy. since last Fciday night, Rain sufficient has fallen to lay the dust, to start the grass to growing, and to as—-sure people flat all the Winter will not bo dry. It will probably delay work on the railyoad, but it will do * the country more good thap the completion’ of any such enterprise. So “we say, let it come, . for eight days, will be commenced. . BBsuspecting girl, is well developed. tival of Hanucksh, which will last . The festival is to commemorate the . restoration of the Jews under Judas Maccabeus, and the recovery from the Syrians and other idolators of the Temple a Jerusalem, and its rededication. The events occurred in the second ceatury before the comimg of Jesus Christ. There will be no services at the Syhagogue, but the festival will be commemorated becomingly by the believers in the: . faith at their homes. The German Social Club of Grass Valley.are making extensive preparation for their annwal ball on Ftiday night. It snowed up above Willow Valley yesterduy morning. The ’temperature here indicated snow a short distanee above, tt o New Novel. “A New Way to Win a Fortune,” is the name of a new novel written by Miss Eliza A. Dupuy, and just published by T. B, Peterson & Bros., Philadelphia. Miss Dupuy is well known asa writer of great power, and one who has a host of readers.in this country, who. find great euter-. tainment in her literary efforts. She gives carefully constructed plots,and draws her ebaracters with a prac-. . ticed hand. The present story is one plot, laid against an innocent and The character painting is good; the household at Riverdale is vividly depicted; and the Brooke family is unique; three originals in one house —~father, son, and-daughter. This volume is hey latest and best work. Miss Dupuy has excellent taste in the arrangement of plote, and her dialogues are easy and well sustained;-for she knows how to elicit interest in her story, and to continue it to box, bovnd in eloth, full gilt rig &e., price $24.50 a set. Cupigs “A New Way to*Win a Fortune,” a a full set of “Miss Dupuy’s complete } works,’’ or any of them, will be sent to any one, at once, to any place, free of freight or postage, or remitting price to the publishers, T. B. Peterson & Brothers, No. 306 Chest. tions d '. East he weighed the quicksilver, to “. see how much was lost, Public interest in‘the Fryer pro. cess continues tmabated, and has perhaps been more excited the past week, by some Blight imklings as to the rationale of the process. Several gentlemen of Grass Valley, including the editors of ‘thé local papers, have been allowed to examine the works and see the details df. the process, . and thay pronounce it a success, but . do®not explain the arrangements. The Nevada Trawscrrrr man describes the ‘‘chemicals’’ used im a facetious scientific manner, calling charcoal and air such names as not to: be recognized by the uninitiated, and such other descriptions’ as have appeared throw no-more light on the subject. 6 As Mr. Fryer hasbeen iar town this see we called: npon him and were shown drawingsof the furnace used alld bad the preliminary. operaibed. to us, together with the wozking of the furnace. The furnace is peculiar in several points, and Mr. Fryer assures us that it will roast four tons of oré with one cord }: of wood, taking a charge every four hours;larger or smaller furnaces can of course be used. The_principal points of the process are dependent upon the novel treatment of the rock after leaving the furnace; but this part is kept secret until the foreign patents aré secured, ~ “ Mr./Fryer informs us that he can reduce the ore at Grass Valley for $3 per ton; and that it makes no difference to him what class of ore it is, refractory or free. He makes no pretense to metallurgical knowledge outside of his peculiar process, and says: he did not know anything about quartz or quartz machinery before he eame here. All the men about his works were green hands, no metallurgieal expert beingemployed. He says that afiy one can try the tailings from his works to see whether he works close or not. With regard to use and lose of quicksilver he informs us that ea his arrival at Grass Valley he bought ten, pounds of quicksilver to experiment with: When the large works were up he bought a flask. Since then several worked and on his return from the He had the whole flask left and ¢ight anda half poumds of the original ten. that the pulverizer, amalgamating new, as is the furnace. No water is used until in the last stages. Further than this we are ignorant, as} Mr, Fryer does not wish to make his. sdcrets public until his patents arefully secured,scription of the furnace and part of the proeess without the whole thing. . ; We have Mr, Fryer’s authority, however, for saying that within a few weeks at most the whole process will be described in the Mining and Scientific Press, with detailed engravings of the maebinery and farnace, We shall give a full account of the whole thing with Mr. Fryer's .explanations. aad until then any comments on the process, of the details superfimous., whole expense of an outfit'for twenty tons per day willbe about $15,000. made in this city, althongh the headquarters of the compan the present in Grass: Valley. . Street, Nevada City. hundred toms of rock have been} In the process we are informed and concentrating machinery aré all }) It would be useless to give any deof which we age ignorant, would be}. We are told that the ‘The machinery will all be will befor As obtaimed permissior to exhibit at the Centennial Exhibition a faval group which he has just finishedfor the soldiers’ moment “at a SMussachysetts. . ll Tue, hotel scalpers at Sacramento, on Monday, expended half an hour A Sacramento lawyer named J.S. Brown paid $10 for the satisfaction of telling the Police Fudge he rendered his decision half-cocked. Ir js said that Longfellow has declined the position of Centennial poet. Bee Dssappgarep.—Charles Anderson, an employe at’Crocker’s storehouse, Front and L streets, Sacramento, has mysteriously disappeared, Tuexzz are forty-two prisoners in the County Jail at Denver, Col., thirteen of whom are charged with murder. Tx: one of the recent terrible thunder storms-in France, 596 sheep were _killed ont ef a flock of 1,800 by one flash of lightning. “Ta total number of teachers in all the States and Territories is 247,300, being nearly one to every nine ef the teachers about one-half are women, (2 _ Eg A little deaf and dumb girl in Jersy City was beaten toa jelly by her parents who have been arrested. ¥or HoMday Jewelry. ' Go to. Luetje & Brand’s, Broad d12 Chromos, Beavrircvt Chromos at Welch’s, * Don’t.—Don’t insult a poor man, fis muscles may have been developed. Peen't fret. The world will move on as usual after you are gone, Don’t color meerschaums for a living. It’s simply deying by inches. Don't say, “Ftold you so?’’: to one you never said a word about ‘Don’t throw dust in your teacher’s eyes. It may injure the pupil: Don't buy a coach for your wife. Better make her a little sulky. Don’t write long obituaries. Save some of your kind words for the living. Don’t publish your acts of'charity. ‘The leuk will keep the acount. + Don’t mourn over fan¢ied grievances. Bide your time, and real sor‘row will come. Don’t linger where: “your love tell her to get steal “ka I was goin” over the bridge the othar day,’’ said a native of Erin, “I met Pat Howins. ‘Hewins,’ says I, ‘how are you?” ‘Prett well, thenk you, Donnolly,” says he. ‘Donnolly?’ says I; ‘that’s not my name,’ ‘Faith, then nomore is mine Hewins,’ 'So with that we’ looked at aich other again, an’ sure anengs it was naythur of us. “ups body: healthy appetite, healthy feelings,t ou h accompanied: with mediocrity of talent, unadorned with wit and imaginatidn, and unpolished by learning and science, will outstripin the race for happi‘ness. the splendid irregularities, of genius, and the most dazzling success of ambition.""—Greville’s Memoins of George IV. A Dernorr woman could think of but twenty-nine different inggedients to put into a mince pie, and she wept at the idea of — hes powers of memory. . Pe Ma. L. G-Man, the sculptor, has] of yelling-aad persunsion on, a trav~. eler who was finally found to be beth . . deaf and dunab. , BORN. oe a In North Bloomfield, Dee. 21st 1875," to -¥. H. McAllister and wifé, a daughter. DAN CING ACADEM Y. HE UND@RSIGNED ANnounce to their. patrons and friends that they have leased ih TEMPERANCE HALL, Por daucing purposes. viel ep Glasses will meet as follows: ladies’ @lass on Wednesdays, at 2 o’clock, P. M. Geatlemen and Ladies’ Class at 7's o'clock Wednesday evenings. Children’s Glass on Saturday, at 2 o’clock, P. M. SOCIAL overy Saturday evening. Music and Hall furnished for all occasions. RUDO + NEVADA CITY: children in constant attendance, arid . — Two} lies dreaming.’” Wake hex‘tp,. and} BREAKFAST 6A,M. toll A.M. DINNER + 19M. toSP. M. FAMILY DINNER 2.30 P. M to 5 P. M. SRA. = + — ~ <= BPM, to OP. i. SUPPER OP. ,M.to midnight. SCOTT & PARKS: Nevada City January let, 1876. , PHOTO-GALLERY. BROAD ST, ABOVE PINE, \ BA. DESMON D—-Arti,t ane ICTURES taken * the highest style of the art. a Ow, > : ‘vf PIANO LESSONS. MISS LUCY. BOBO, y HO HAS HAD A LARGE EXPE] RIENCE IN TEACHING INSTRUMENTAL MBSIC, Will receive 8 limited number of pupils. The highest references as to ability.can be given, among whom are! Hon: Py O, Hundley, Oroyille. P. Van Glief, Marysville. Rev. C, E. Rich, Nevada City, Rev. Geo. K. Davis, “¢ 8 ne Residence Broad Street, nearly Opposite the Theatre. Wovada City, Dec, 29th, 1875.” x ESTRAY NOTICE.” “YAMBE to the.ranch of the undersigned, on Rock Creek, during. the month of November, 1875, a. Cow and Calf” The cowis red and whate, with two slits inthe left ear, and a blaze across the face: The owner is requeéted to call, pay charges ann take the animals away. JOHN NELSON. Dec. 28, 1875, STOCKS! STUCKS! A, NIVENS, JR., IN MASONIC BUILDING, PINE ST., ILL do s Commission Stock Business, and. is now prepared to buy and sell Stock at Brokers’ rates, in the San Francisco Stock and Exchange Board. ' Neyada, Dec. 24, 1875. ARCADE DINING ROOMS. COMMERCIAL STREET, NEVADA, CAL., Chas. E. White, Proprietor. * MEAL HOURS. EASTERN OYSTERS IN’ EVERY STYLE. _ Shrimps, Crabs, Tem apins. ‘Crab Salad with Oysters. Having hadi fifteen years expezience as Chief Cook in: leading hotels, the public may rest assured that my personal atten-. tion will be paid toe all cooking at the Arcade. Suppers for Ballsana Parties at reasonable rates. ) Ashare of the public patron is re eoannany solicitedCHAS, E. WHITE, Nevada, Dec, 3. TO WHOM IT . MAY CONCERN. HR copartnership 2 heretofore existing between . White and HE. J. West, iothis da: ic teak by mutual consent, Chas. E, White assuming all liabilia ‘and collecting all debts due the late of deep domestic treachery, and the . . the end. All of Miss Dupuy’s books . ’ E fourteen i in all, are put up-in a neat The weather has continued stormy soon.as the engravings are prepared and the pending patents igwued, the Fryer proeess will be fully deseribed in this paper, due notice of which will be given. —Svientific Press, Musical Instrwetion Miss Lucy Bobo gives. notiee in another column that she is prepared to give lessons on the piano, at her opponite the estos : A neporr is oxtinatthat W. M. Tweed arrived at Havanna last Tuesday on a achooner, Several New Yorkers who know him by sight say they saw him in aiBicons parts of. the city. Lrrrix Lorra is dena. Little Lotta was a splendid _Durham, raised by Charles: Lux at the Twelve-mile ranch, and was sold td'-and slaughtered by John Robl of the California market, SanFrancisco, Little Lotta weighed fifteen. ‘hundred pound, and was four years old, ; at * Tyg leading enterprise of South Vallejo at present is clam desing, . to supply the holitay demand. nut street, Philadelphia, Pa, A sER¥AxT gird eve seven feet in W clerks 't wink a wink. chamber trustees’s happy. ny and foun is ill. # 5 Sear hagh is. Nevada, Cal., Dee. 234, 1875. paige we Panam avound for s family ‘ ington, ami when she goes to the Tt store after seap the NotHING more exercises the oak control of an ambitious writer than the convalescenee of a distinguished man whose death he has anticipated in a powerful .obitaary.— Brooklyn residence on Broad street, nearly Arg’ we. EA ig tg apd of . of was accorfab dingly heniad That be hereafter no member shall come into the barefooted, nor eat. his bread aud cheese on the steps of the Capitol."’ .Now men take their bread . sai Pceele prove their debts, ana bo and butter in the Legislature. rosy held at’ » Gi phoney vg ra “He was one of our most. energetic trastees,’’ says a village paper in an obituary notice, “and _we Tarr tell of a ‘Kentucky schoolmaster who had bis wife for s pupil, d it necessary to chastise her one day, Next daya notice appeared on the door, saying, Scho +] the “hereby given that the undersigned closed for one week—schoolmuster rerThe army ot the United States } consists of about sixteen men to . every officer, Red tape’ ispheap. CHAS. E. WRETE, E. J. WEST. Vhanxing the wabtie for thete liberal pain I hope my successoz will have the same, EL J. WEST. N THE DISTRICT COURT OF. THE UNITED STATES, for the District of California, In the matter of Martin Quick voluntary bankrupt. This. is to give notice, that on the 29th day of December, 1878, a Warrant in Bankruptcy was issued against the estate of Martin Quick,of Grass alley, in the County of Nevada and State California, who been on his own--petition; that the peyment of any debts, and delivery of x! Bins o belonging to such a yp im or bays a net, and the transfer of any i forbidden. by lawpa Te the creditors of the be holden at rooms Nos, 25 and 26,-in the building. situated.on N. B, corner of Washington and Battery streets, of: the City and County of San Francisco, before Samuel J. Clarke, Jun,, Register, on the 4th, day of mee D. 1876, eR eg oe U, 8. Marshal. As Farce pena of Califoznia. Ni OTICE will ap to the Board of Supervisors’ of the of Nevada, at their next session, for a license to keep and maint.in a Toll Bridge across’ Deer Creek, at a point onthe Marysviile, road, io the county of Nevada, known as Fiene’ ’s Crossing. . HENRY FIENE. A. GAVARD. WATCHMAKER AND JEWarEn, 62 Broad St.,’ Nevada City, HAS just received one of the finest as-. Bes sortmients of First ‘Oless San Francisco Made JEWELRY, Ever imported to ‘Nevada County, such as FINE. GOLD & SILVER WATCHES, ~7 ‘DIFFERENT MAKERS. re FINE QUARTZ. J EWELRY, ALL KENDS. ‘DIAMONDS, CHAINS, RINGS, LADIES’ SETS, And in fact everything to be found in’a first class Jewely Establishment. . Every article guaranteed to be as represented, and of the latest — MR. GAVARD, Is determined to give satisfaction in all cases, and not to be undersold, by anybody. Call. and yourselves. 62 Broad Street, Nevada City, De@ember 10th, 1875. LUETJE & BRAND, WATCHMAKERS AND JEWELERS, BROAD STREET, NEVADA CITY, SELL. CHEAPER AND OF BETexamine {for / ASIPS. TER QUALITY ° ‘THAN ANY 4 HOUSE IN THE MOUNTAINS, i CLOCKS, SPECTACLES, HOME MADE JEWELRY, Fine 18 carat Gold and Precious Stone Rings. Sets of the Finest Patterns. and Quality, Fine Gold — Studs. ett. Watches and “locks Repaired. d2 LUETJE & BRAND. DR, FRANK H. THOMAS, [Practitioner of Homeeopathy,] PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Biteuse ott ‘Resident Physician N. tian House of Industry, Resident E Weoenetal Hospital, Member of the omoepathic Medical Society, Memeh of the American Institute of Homeopathy, Member of the Halnemann Academy of Medicine, Member ‘of. the Pacifi ¢ Homoeopathic Medical Seciety. . Office--Broad St., cor. of Pine, NEVADA CITY, CAL. Refers to Al Bull, Eeq., Rev. Dr. B. bs oe to Alpheus Dus, Albertson, Eckel snd Pease, San Frencisco. a7 HAIR WORK. i MRS, Cc. HAYES, MAIN STREET, Nearly Opposite the. School House, S. now prepared to do all hinds of HALE . FRIZETTES, ETC. Work constantly on hand, aud is prepared te do ores in the hair line entrusted to her care, in the latest. style and with dispatch, Sole ions in Nevada City for Butterick’ ‘ Celebrated Pattérns. ¥ -Also Local som for Remington’s Se ing Machin rr: * wine” Cc. M. BAYES. > December 23d, 1875 inal Nevada, Dec} 8, 1875. NEVE Goons, b FOR = . . CHRISTMas : AND .' NEW YEAR + PRESENTS! I Jewelry Made to Order and She keeps a fine assortment of Bairama 2 To CO & er se ke e& be er > be 63 — ee «© het on ol lO ~ 1 fe et et

Pe NR MTD ONNEEA SS MR a aN ~ L *<qake table lands of the foothills. Pd a The Daily Transcript le Wednesday, Dec.» 29, 1875. Mintug Debris, The idea of daming the rivers in. fhe moihtains and forming reser: voirs for the settling of sediment. gent down stream from bydzaalic. mines, does not appear practical to . the editor of the Bezritorial Knter. _ prise, as will be seen by the following from that paper of the 26th: Reservoirs in small eanyons will . answer thé purpose. ‘There is not s small canyon in the foothills that o the Yuba or Bear River would not ith a day with sediment. “We saw a dam built omeeacross 4 raviie in the foothills. Jt was twenty-four feet long on top and twelye feet high ' above the centre of the ravine. Six inches ef water from Bear River ditch were ‘turmed into itand in fortysix hours the dam was full to the’ top with sediment. If six inches of water produce such a result, what. would the Yuba do? It must be remembered that whole mountains are being washed away, and a space eommensurate must be prepared to receive the debris, If the system is earried out it will. pretty nearly The soil thus made might, after a great while, become “fit for cultivation, but not for a good many years; _ for tailings do net make a good foun“dation for a crop. The proper plan is not to dam the rivers too high up. The upper plain lands furmish the place on which to make these deposits. “Between Sacramento and the Marysville junction any passenger cam see from the car windows miles and miles of land where the bed rock is only from six inches to a foot from the surface. It is wicked for farmers to settle on such land, forno ‘man could make am honest living from a thousand acres of it. These are the lands that ought to re. eeive the river deposits, aud from them the clear water could be tusned to the deep soil wurther down the valley, without difficulty, to insure the crops there. But, at all ‘events, the narrow ‘canyons in. the foothills must not be depended upon to furnish a place of deposit, A very . glars, everything being in confusion. Local Brevities. The house of Dennis McCarty, in Colfax, was burglarized on Tuesday night. Mra, McCarty was absent in San Francised, and Dennis, was’ attending a patty that night, When he returned he found tint somebody . had been there before him. . “Tinks . and dzawers were broken open, and . things scattered around promiscnously. McCarty is unable to tell . how much was carried off by the berNew Year’s gifts are said to be as asetigilule as Christmas presents. We should ndtvbject to receiving either, if the giver was good looking. That, however, was not exactly what we started out to'day. We only desired to mention the fact that. dealers in-every line of goods in town have good assortments, and will sell at very lowrates. So there will.-be no excuse for not giving your friends something that will vemind them of } your esteem. We are glad to give a to’ the following from pe Grass Valley Union: Mr. Riparintaediun Snyder, of the New York Hill mine, has been bringing to town, for the Iast fewdays, a quantity of very rich ore. These last dads of specimens, and the dabs are each very large, are richer than any we have heretofore seen from the mine. The late rich find is in the lowest level of the mine, The general ore coming out of the New York Hill mine is of fine quality and ig paying well by mill process, The ladies having charge ot the dinner at the children’ '# party on Saturday next, respectfully invite all interested in’ providing for the same, to send in their provisions by 3 o’clock, Saturday afternoon. They design setting the table‘for over 300 cbildren, and this requires an abundance of good things, Our, Nevada house-mothers are always ready to respond to such calls. We predict for the little ones a fine dinner. The hoisting works on the Gold Tunnel mine are completed, and the machinery was putin operation on Monday night. The whistle is now so close in town that it serves the place of a time-piece, and will injure, the trade of dealers in time-pieces, . we fear. At sunset to-day thé Jewish fesdarge per centage of either the Yuba , or Bear River currents is sediment, and when one considers what the © volume of those streams is, and how. much of a lake their waters would make in a single moath if confined within shores, it will be readily perecived that bundreds of square miles niust be cownted wpon for room, instead of the spaces bounded by Barrow canyons. : The Masquerade, . We hope it will not be thought we allude too often to the grand party, . which is to be given on Friday eve. « ning, for a masquerade whem en-’ tered into with a hearty good will by all our citizens, always proves “pn . ” affair of importance in soeial ciseles, The party last year was a very large and successful one, and made everyone enthusiastic abowt . . such, entertainments. The one whieh eonies off on Friday night at the Rink, we are informed, will eclipse the one last year. The hall will accommodate a mueb erger nunsber, atid will be beantifnlly decorated. There will be a splendid supper, and wo suppose a brilliant array of maskers, The affair coming off on a holiday occasion, and the fact that it has been known that it would come off for a long time,’ will doubtless’ draw out a large crowd, so that the party ought to bethe largest . and most. brilliant ever given here, > > New Year's Day Dinner~ As-the holiday duties prevent the members of the Aid Society from calling on and soliciting from the ladies of the city, ‘provisions for the children’s party on Saturday, we * take this method of asking “those. who feel friendly to the enterprise to assist us in preparing for the same. Articles will be’ reeeived after 3 -o'dtock, on Saturday, at the Rink. Sanam Hort, Pres, Stormy. since last Fciday night, Rain sufficient has fallen to lay the dust, to start the grass to growing, and to as—-sure people flat all the Winter will not bo dry. It will probably delay work on the railyoad, but it will do * the country more good thap the completion’ of any such enterprise. So “we say, let it come, . for eight days, will be commenced. . BBsuspecting girl, is well developed. tival of Hanucksh, which will last . The festival is to commemorate the . restoration of the Jews under Judas Maccabeus, and the recovery from the Syrians and other idolators of the Temple a Jerusalem, and its rededication. The events occurred in the second ceatury before the comimg of Jesus Christ. There will be no services at the Syhagogue, but the festival will be commemorated becomingly by the believers in the: . faith at their homes. The German Social Club of Grass Valley.are making extensive preparation for their annwal ball on Ftiday night. It snowed up above Willow Valley yesterduy morning. The ’temperature here indicated snow a short distanee above, tt o New Novel. “A New Way to Win a Fortune,” is the name of a new novel written by Miss Eliza A. Dupuy, and just published by T. B, Peterson & Bros., Philadelphia. Miss Dupuy is well known asa writer of great power, and one who has a host of readers.in this country, who. find great euter-. tainment in her literary efforts. She gives carefully constructed plots,and draws her ebaracters with a prac-. . ticed hand. The present story is one plot, laid against an innocent and The character painting is good; the household at Riverdale is vividly depicted; and the Brooke family is unique; three originals in one house —~father, son, and-daughter. This volume is hey latest and best work. Miss Dupuy has excellent taste in the arrangement of plote, and her dialogues are easy and well sustained;-for she knows how to elicit interest in her story, and to continue it to box, bovnd in eloth, full gilt rig &e., price $24.50 a set. Cupigs “A New Way to*Win a Fortune,” a a full set of “Miss Dupuy’s complete } works,’’ or any of them, will be sent to any one, at once, to any place, free of freight or postage, or remitting price to the publishers, T. B. Peterson & Brothers, No. 306 Chest. tions d '. East he weighed the quicksilver, to “. see how much was lost, Public interest in‘the Fryer pro. cess continues tmabated, and has perhaps been more excited the past week, by some Blight imklings as to the rationale of the process. Several gentlemen of Grass Valley, including the editors of ‘thé local papers, have been allowed to examine the works and see the details df. the process, . and thay pronounce it a success, but . do®not explain the arrangements. The Nevada Trawscrrrr man describes the ‘‘chemicals’’ used im a facetious scientific manner, calling charcoal and air such names as not to: be recognized by the uninitiated, and such other descriptions’ as have appeared throw no-more light on the subject. 6 As Mr. Fryer hasbeen iar town this see we called: npon him and were shown drawingsof the furnace used alld bad the preliminary. operaibed. to us, together with the wozking of the furnace. The furnace is peculiar in several points, and Mr. Fryer assures us that it will roast four tons of oré with one cord }: of wood, taking a charge every four hours;larger or smaller furnaces can of course be used. The_principal points of the process are dependent upon the novel treatment of the rock after leaving the furnace; but this part is kept secret until the foreign patents aré secured, ~ “ Mr./Fryer informs us that he can reduce the ore at Grass Valley for $3 per ton; and that it makes no difference to him what class of ore it is, refractory or free. He makes no pretense to metallurgical knowledge outside of his peculiar process, and says: he did not know anything about quartz or quartz machinery before he eame here. All the men about his works were green hands, no metallurgieal expert beingemployed. He says that afiy one can try the tailings from his works to see whether he works close or not. With regard to use and lose of quicksilver he informs us that ea his arrival at Grass Valley he bought ten, pounds of quicksilver to experiment with: When the large works were up he bought a flask. Since then several worked and on his return from the He had the whole flask left and ¢ight anda half poumds of the original ten. that the pulverizer, amalgamating new, as is the furnace. No water is used until in the last stages. Further than this we are ignorant, as} Mr, Fryer does not wish to make his. sdcrets public until his patents arefully secured,scription of the furnace and part of the proeess without the whole thing. . ; We have Mr, Fryer’s authority, however, for saying that within a few weeks at most the whole process will be described in the Mining and Scientific Press, with detailed engravings of the maebinery and farnace, We shall give a full account of the whole thing with Mr. Fryer's .explanations. aad until then any comments on the process, of the details superfimous., whole expense of an outfit'for twenty tons per day willbe about $15,000. made in this city, althongh the headquarters of the compan the present in Grass: Valley. . Street, Nevada City. hundred toms of rock have been} In the process we are informed and concentrating machinery aré all }) It would be useless to give any deof which we age ignorant, would be}. We are told that the ‘The machinery will all be will befor As obtaimed permissior to exhibit at the Centennial Exhibition a faval group which he has just finishedfor the soldiers’ moment “at a SMussachysetts. . ll Tue, hotel scalpers at Sacramento, on Monday, expended half an hour A Sacramento lawyer named J.S. Brown paid $10 for the satisfaction of telling the Police Fudge he rendered his decision half-cocked. Ir js said that Longfellow has declined the position of Centennial poet. Bee Dssappgarep.—Charles Anderson, an employe at’Crocker’s storehouse, Front and L streets, Sacramento, has mysteriously disappeared, Tuexzz are forty-two prisoners in the County Jail at Denver, Col., thirteen of whom are charged with murder. Tx: one of the recent terrible thunder storms-in France, 596 sheep were _killed ont ef a flock of 1,800 by one flash of lightning. “Ta total number of teachers in all the States and Territories is 247,300, being nearly one to every nine ef the teachers about one-half are women, (2 _ Eg A little deaf and dumb girl in Jersy City was beaten toa jelly by her parents who have been arrested. ¥or HoMday Jewelry. ' Go to. Luetje & Brand’s, Broad d12 Chromos, Beavrircvt Chromos at Welch’s, * Don’t.—Don’t insult a poor man, fis muscles may have been developed.

Peen't fret. The world will move on as usual after you are gone, Don’t color meerschaums for a living. It’s simply deying by inches. Don't say, “Ftold you so?’’: to one you never said a word about ‘Don’t throw dust in your teacher’s eyes. It may injure the pupil: Don't buy a coach for your wife. Better make her a little sulky. Don’t write long obituaries. Save some of your kind words for the living. Don’t publish your acts of'charity. ‘The leuk will keep the acount. + Don’t mourn over fan¢ied grievances. Bide your time, and real sor‘row will come. Don’t linger where: “your love tell her to get steal “ka I was goin” over the bridge the othar day,’’ said a native of Erin, “I met Pat Howins. ‘Hewins,’ says I, ‘how are you?” ‘Prett well, thenk you, Donnolly,” says he. ‘Donnolly?’ says I; ‘that’s not my name,’ ‘Faith, then nomore is mine Hewins,’ 'So with that we’ looked at aich other again, an’ sure anengs it was naythur of us. “ups body: healthy appetite, healthy feelings,t ou h accompanied: with mediocrity of talent, unadorned with wit and imaginatidn, and unpolished by learning and science, will outstripin the race for happi‘ness. the splendid irregularities, of genius, and the most dazzling success of ambition.""—Greville’s Memoins of George IV. A Dernorr woman could think of but twenty-nine different inggedients to put into a mince pie, and she wept at the idea of — hes powers of memory. . Pe Ma. L. G-Man, the sculptor, has] of yelling-aad persunsion on, a trav~. eler who was finally found to be beth . . deaf and dunab. , BORN. oe a In North Bloomfield, Dee. 21st 1875," to -¥. H. McAllister and wifé, a daughter. DAN CING ACADEM Y. HE UND@RSIGNED ANnounce to their. patrons and friends that they have leased ih TEMPERANCE HALL, Por daucing purposes. viel ep Glasses will meet as follows: ladies’ @lass on Wednesdays, at 2 o’clock, P. M. Geatlemen and Ladies’ Class at 7's o'clock Wednesday evenings. Children’s Glass on Saturday, at 2 o’clock, P. M. SOCIAL overy Saturday evening. Music and Hall furnished for all occasions. RUDO + NEVADA CITY: children in constant attendance, arid . — Two} lies dreaming.’” Wake hex‘tp,. and} BREAKFAST 6A,M. toll A.M. DINNER + 19M. toSP. M. FAMILY DINNER 2.30 P. M to 5 P. M. SRA. = + — ~ <= BPM, to OP. i. SUPPER OP. ,M.to midnight. SCOTT & PARKS: Nevada City January let, 1876. , PHOTO-GALLERY. BROAD ST, ABOVE PINE, \ BA. DESMON D—-Arti,t ane ICTURES taken * the highest style of the art. a Ow, > : ‘vf PIANO LESSONS. MISS LUCY. BOBO, y HO HAS HAD A LARGE EXPE] RIENCE IN TEACHING INSTRUMENTAL MBSIC, Will receive 8 limited number of pupils. The highest references as to ability.can be given, among whom are! Hon: Py O, Hundley, Oroyille. P. Van Glief, Marysville. Rev. C, E. Rich, Nevada City, Rev. Geo. K. Davis, “¢ 8 ne Residence Broad Street, nearly Opposite the Theatre. Wovada City, Dec, 29th, 1875.” x ESTRAY NOTICE.” “YAMBE to the.ranch of the undersigned, on Rock Creek, during. the month of November, 1875, a. Cow and Calf” The cowis red and whate, with two slits inthe left ear, and a blaze across the face: The owner is requeéted to call, pay charges ann take the animals away. JOHN NELSON. Dec. 28, 1875, STOCKS! STUCKS! A, NIVENS, JR., IN MASONIC BUILDING, PINE ST., ILL do s Commission Stock Business, and. is now prepared to buy and sell Stock at Brokers’ rates, in the San Francisco Stock and Exchange Board. ' Neyada, Dec. 24, 1875. ARCADE DINING ROOMS. COMMERCIAL STREET, NEVADA, CAL., Chas. E. White, Proprietor. * MEAL HOURS. EASTERN OYSTERS IN’ EVERY STYLE. _ Shrimps, Crabs, Tem apins. ‘Crab Salad with Oysters. Having hadi fifteen years expezience as Chief Cook in: leading hotels, the public may rest assured that my personal atten-. tion will be paid toe all cooking at the Arcade. Suppers for Ballsana Parties at reasonable rates. ) Ashare of the public patron is re eoannany solicitedCHAS, E. WHITE, Nevada, Dec, 3. TO WHOM IT . MAY CONCERN. HR copartnership 2 heretofore existing between . White and HE. J. West, iothis da: ic teak by mutual consent, Chas. E, White assuming all liabilia ‘and collecting all debts due the late of deep domestic treachery, and the . . the end. All of Miss Dupuy’s books . ’ E fourteen i in all, are put up-in a neat The weather has continued stormy soon.as the engravings are prepared and the pending patents igwued, the Fryer proeess will be fully deseribed in this paper, due notice of which will be given. —Svientific Press, Musical Instrwetion Miss Lucy Bobo gives. notiee in another column that she is prepared to give lessons on the piano, at her opponite the estos : A neporr is oxtinatthat W. M. Tweed arrived at Havanna last Tuesday on a achooner, Several New Yorkers who know him by sight say they saw him in aiBicons parts of. the city. Lrrrix Lorra is dena. Little Lotta was a splendid _Durham, raised by Charles: Lux at the Twelve-mile ranch, and was sold td'-and slaughtered by John Robl of the California market, SanFrancisco, Little Lotta weighed fifteen. ‘hundred pound, and was four years old, ; at * Tyg leading enterprise of South Vallejo at present is clam desing, . to supply the holitay demand. nut street, Philadelphia, Pa, A sER¥AxT gird eve seven feet in W clerks 't wink a wink. chamber trustees’s happy. ny and foun is ill. # 5 Sear hagh is. Nevada, Cal., Dee. 234, 1875. paige we Panam avound for s family ‘ ington, ami when she goes to the Tt store after seap the NotHING more exercises the oak control of an ambitious writer than the convalescenee of a distinguished man whose death he has anticipated in a powerful .obitaary.— Brooklyn residence on Broad street, nearly Arg’ we. EA ig tg apd of . of was accorfab dingly heniad That be hereafter no member shall come into the barefooted, nor eat. his bread aud cheese on the steps of the Capitol."’ .Now men take their bread . sai Pceele prove their debts, ana bo and butter in the Legislature. rosy held at’ » Gi phoney vg ra “He was one of our most. energetic trastees,’’ says a village paper in an obituary notice, “and _we Tarr tell of a ‘Kentucky schoolmaster who had bis wife for s pupil, d it necessary to chastise her one day, Next daya notice appeared on the door, saying, Scho +] the “hereby given that the undersigned closed for one week—schoolmuster rerThe army ot the United States } consists of about sixteen men to . every officer, Red tape’ ispheap. CHAS. E. WRETE, E. J. WEST. Vhanxing the wabtie for thete liberal pain I hope my successoz will have the same, EL J. WEST. N THE DISTRICT COURT OF. THE UNITED STATES, for the District of California, In the matter of Martin Quick voluntary bankrupt. This. is to give notice, that on the 29th day of December, 1878, a Warrant in Bankruptcy was issued against the estate of Martin Quick,of Grass alley, in the County of Nevada and State California, who been on his own--petition; that the peyment of any debts, and delivery of x! Bins o belonging to such a yp im or bays a net, and the transfer of any i forbidden. by lawpa Te the creditors of the be holden at rooms Nos, 25 and 26,-in the building. situated.on N. B, corner of Washington and Battery streets, of: the City and County of San Francisco, before Samuel J. Clarke, Jun,, Register, on the 4th, day of mee D. 1876, eR eg oe U, 8. Marshal. As Farce pena of Califoznia. Ni OTICE will ap to the Board of Supervisors’ of the of Nevada, at their next session, for a license to keep and maint.in a Toll Bridge across’ Deer Creek, at a point onthe Marysviile, road, io the county of Nevada, known as Fiene’ ’s Crossing. . HENRY FIENE. A. GAVARD. WATCHMAKER AND JEWarEn, 62 Broad St.,’ Nevada City, HAS just received one of the finest as-. Bes sortmients of First ‘Oless San Francisco Made JEWELRY, Ever imported to ‘Nevada County, such as FINE. GOLD & SILVER WATCHES, ~7 ‘DIFFERENT MAKERS. re FINE QUARTZ. J EWELRY, ALL KENDS. ‘DIAMONDS, CHAINS, RINGS, LADIES’ SETS, And in fact everything to be found in’a first class Jewely Establishment. . Every article guaranteed to be as represented, and of the latest — MR. GAVARD, Is determined to give satisfaction in all cases, and not to be undersold, by anybody. Call. and yourselves. 62 Broad Street, Nevada City, De@ember 10th, 1875. LUETJE & BRAND, WATCHMAKERS AND JEWELERS, BROAD STREET, NEVADA CITY, SELL. CHEAPER AND OF BETexamine {for / ASIPS. TER QUALITY ° ‘THAN ANY 4 HOUSE IN THE MOUNTAINS, i CLOCKS, SPECTACLES, HOME MADE JEWELRY, Fine 18 carat Gold and Precious Stone Rings. Sets of the Finest Patterns. and Quality, Fine Gold — Studs. ett. Watches and “locks Repaired. d2 LUETJE & BRAND. DR, FRANK H. THOMAS, [Practitioner of Homeeopathy,] PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Biteuse ott ‘Resident Physician N. tian House of Industry, Resident E Weoenetal Hospital, Member of the omoepathic Medical Society, Memeh of the American Institute of Homeopathy, Member of the Halnemann Academy of Medicine, Member ‘of. the Pacifi ¢ Homoeopathic Medical Seciety. . Office--Broad St., cor. of Pine, NEVADA CITY, CAL. Refers to Al Bull, Eeq., Rev. Dr. B. bs oe to Alpheus Dus, Albertson, Eckel snd Pease, San Frencisco. a7 HAIR WORK. i MRS, Cc. HAYES, MAIN STREET, Nearly Opposite the. School House, S. now prepared to do all hinds of HALE . FRIZETTES, ETC. Work constantly on hand, aud is prepared te do ores in the hair line entrusted to her care, in the latest. style and with dispatch, Sole ions in Nevada City for Butterick’ ‘ Celebrated Pattérns. ¥ -Also Local som for Remington’s Se ing Machin rr: * wine” Cc. M. BAYES. > December 23d, 1875 inal Nevada, Dec} 8, 1875. NEVE Goons, b FOR = . . CHRISTMas : AND .' NEW YEAR + PRESENTS! I Jewelry Made to Order and She keeps a fine assortment of Bairama 2 To CO & er se ke e& be er > be 63 — ee «© het on ol lO ~ 1 fe et et