February 1, 1873 (4 pages)

[3] ~. ther confession witich solves one ~ he unwilling witness, which was s¢thoughtfal’ Mortimer and; it is ruNEVADA erry, cate With Supplement, : Saturday, Feb. 1, 1873. Nevada County Statistics. ~ The following statistics ‘of Nevada sounty, collected from various offi-gial sources, may be of interest to our. readers. ‘The census of 1870 gives the following as. the copes tion: Whites . Golored .. ¢o 4000 s00nrens +s Indians under giasdianship ot veo Chinese . Total. REELED ge OTF a number of regintored voters ted population a this. time is about: 20,000, The followingefigures ane’ ettalned from: records, of. the State Board. of} Sut ee ee CUT SSeS SSeS Equalization: Assessed value of réal’ ees WHOS cic cccsecses ees $3,768, O-t5 . , Improvements on real esfate EG hes ose Ui sssees 1,581,531 Money “asseeaed « Lua bu ows o pOe 004 Value of personal property excluding money..+-. 1,438,888 Total property valuation, 8,941,468 Total indebtedness, estimated at “$58,000, se Value of peo property; 90,000, Rate of taxation, $1 60 on each $100. Total amount of. texes to be collected, $129,088 38. The following are from the Surveyor Genéral’s offica: Miles of railrvad, 304. Acres of.land assegsed, 149,646. Acres of land enclosed, 60,000. , Aeres of land cultivated, 10,000. Another Confession. The Sacramento. Bee says: That very remarkable gentleman, Charles, Mortimer, has, it is said, made aumore mystery. It will be remembered-that one Miss Annie Lehry,_. + _an estimable and accomplished young . shocked by. the blasphemy_and_ob. lady, ofUniontown, E) Dorado county, published: in the Sacramento Union_of December. 20th. last, the particulars so far as.she knew them, of a fratricide of which she had been shocked: and mysterious: that the story was received. by many. with a limited credence.: Now comes the ae Daily pt . ais the Litaraty Club Paper. " }and (tuthfalness; froup: purity -and . from father’s earnest benediction and .nocent dreams. ruddy forelights cast the Shadows on at Are they-all there-around tue hearth: ‘and vit kneel to thank‘*Our Father’” rather, are they notdrifling? Father, . noise or-the elder’s gay converse,and Drift Wood. Drifting.” “Wheice? From truth prayer; from light and love; from Heaven and happiness. Deifting motLer’s tenderness; from home and holy joys; from young operand inWhither? ‘Toward corruption and criine;: toward hatred and’ strife; retribution and remorse, und ab last.to 1 darkness and despair. ~ Who? Mother. Father when the ‘evening shades are falling, aud the: the walls) are all the déar ones there?) ‘of heme, to cheer the parent *s hiearts:. with gay song and pleasant vonver-. “3 19,184 sation? Are they “with you at the} granted for five years te all miannevening prayer, with you at the lec~ for the mercies of the day? Or;. ‘mother, is it mot too often, that, when the evening meal is over, the house becomes silent, you are tired with: the day's labor and would rest, you-are annoyed. with. the pratless when they propose to go, you care not whither, you.too easily assent? All you-askas»rest,and you wateh not to keep them from drifting, from making bad asseciates, or falling in‘to other temptations, Ob, what.a haven of rest it is where love rules, where the father and mother set the example and’make a Heaven on earth for their children; who, whereyer they may wander in future yeaxs, will never forget the light of home, which ever shines to keep them from drifting. upon the rocks ef life. — Walk through our streets after nightfall, or even in the glare of noonday, hear from behind painted windows and gteen blinds, the sounds issuing forth., Are they such as you would have your innocent boy listen to? Would you be willing your Willie or Charlie-shouldhave—hislittle souk a3} ay vent. ‘may be held. during, the year. wire oF with you when-you make St . ert ee pe ee We “No-. aaa Visits to ‘relatives or rial “are ‘wholly insufiicient.’ sf to have been murdered ‘in Monroe. ree stem ea Tum nemes6f a, Chinamed’ whofail to pay” their., debts. before the beginning of the New Year aro ‘eolleeted in one list and distributed among the Chinese merchants. They are all marked with a black spot in the account Books and during’ the” whole. year refused credit,. although they. may be perfeytly ‘sol They are also-denied -permis‘ sion to call npon any. merchant or ereditors ‘during the holidays that df they pay off their debts within the year they dre reinstated in favor on the next New Year. —— — chew wa Governor Moses,” of. South . Cargliaa, recommends.-that a bonus of equal —te—the-State-tax on their ‘buildings land, and machinery tobe factories of cotten:and. woolen goods vember 1, WBT6. te” The President’s action in pardoning the loyal repeater, Mr.— or perhaps we. should say Hon— . ’ Brown, does not seem to be at all popular in Philadelphia, Even the Ledger, Mr. Child’s paper, audibly exclaims that the reasons assigned or Thos, G. Boye, of Sweetwater, Tenn,, against whom cases for defrauding the ‘Government in pensions are pending, who was reported county Tenn., last September, under tragical ciseumstances, has been discovered and arrested in Toronto, Onnada to The coloted men of Maryland will hold a conyention’ in Annapolis on Wednesday, Feb. 19th, % urge the passage of the supplementary Civil Rights-bill and of a National as far as ‘pialbie, recognition of the colored men in federal and State appointments, SE enetanteateee -Peren Pierson has commenced suit in the Sixth District Court les oe }is now carried-on-more-systematical-. Handertakings™ is more™ generally un. able animal ix the only bay’ to its . -velopment constantly _ progressing "+ . resisted all legislation looking. to the Education bill, and also to secure, f * “Mining. pee : The ‘Resources of @alifornia,’””. published by Wentworth ‘& Co., has the following: Accounts’ from all parts of the mining regions of this State during the past yest, have been favorable in their character and the miners have’ received fair returns for their labor and enterprise. Discoveries of new and valuable leads have been partictilarly numerous, even in the disiricts which have been longest and, itwas supposed, mest thoroughly explored. and worked: It is becoming less: difficult to. dbtain. the capital necessary to develop and . work both the new diseoveries' and old mines, the value of whieh i is definitely ascertained, fur the business ty.thanin' former years; machinery and all other appliances are more perfect and the necessary eost of such derstood. . The recent legislation by Congress, facilitating the obtaining of title to mineral lands, has render. . ied investments i in such property more ‘secure and &huts.out much of the litigation that was formerly apt to arise, when mere constructive pos‘session and a compliance with fluctuating and diverse local mining regulations was all the title obtainable. A. very few years will see the bulk of the mineral lands of this State now known to be valuable, : whether for quartz or placer working,, pass into pxivate ownership and ‘their dewith all the security attendant upon similar operations in older countries. For many years the miners sale of the mineral lands. One _obtaxation of the property they thus held. But such ideas have now become obsolete, and the rule prevails here as elsewhere, that whatever is valuable.and demands the protection of the law,<must be taxed<in the hands ofits owner and bear its share of the éxpense of protecting him in his rights; Experience has also shown tha the position of actual and scenity uttered there? Would you dare entertain. for a moment the thought that he could ever be the author of,such language? Never. And yet somebody's Willie is there;somebody’s little one, little now no longer, but once eradled upon: a loving mother’s breast, and lulled to slumber by her low lullaby. O, how her sweet baby boy has»gone out trom . mene eee eS 18 OVEF, LAG ext Confess: } “* 9,000 of-some huge ‘centrar boiler it _maary 19th,, 1869. of his brother ~Suguiry off Who-struek-Billy Pater. supply: heat, jpower.and protection ' “pany for the. -purpose, with a oa mored, confessions. tothe murder, aa set forth: by: Miss Lohbry;~on FebFrederick Augustus Mortimer, _be= oause Freddy was'nt sufficiently trae table in the matter of the divvy of $1,759,90: which. they had done up ina handkerchief. To confirm his confession he shows diagrams of the Spring.flowers Miss Lorhy set forth to pluck, ,of the Corliss ranch, of Johustons Stuekslager’s ditch, of.) Granite creek;-of. Uniontown grave~ yard aud of Miss Lohry. He says he put-a-naty revolvér to her head and. remarked; as he — stutes, _**Dead men: tell: no tales,” but he says he qualified it by adding “except Ghinamen and ladies.’’ Garrie Mortimer. is to goand show where the treasure and the poor,-departed: Freadys bones lie buried,:as soon asthe Santa: ion will clear up the bloody mystery of “Who killed Coek Robin?” and will forever set at rest the vexed son,” neat Tux experiment of running ice through a fume,;.for-a: distance of three miles, says the Truckee Republican of January: 23d;: was. yesterday tried here in Schaffer’s lumber flume. The ice, when started. was in. blocks eleven inches in thicknessw When. it arrived.at the mouthrof the flume.,,. it floated down, wears it out—not . the flume, but the ice.” Tar San Jose Mei of the 26th says: The workmen: engaged in the shaft of the Black Diamond Coal Mine,.one day lust-week, ‘came on 2 frog, Tinbedded inthe solid sandstene;. 175 fect below the-surface. He became quite-lively when first released, but afterward .drooped and} died within twelye hours, >_> A plan i is broached in-‘Boston: to . from ~fire* to all buildings within. be located in. Winthrop Square; and a bill’ has been introduced in the State Senatesto incorporate a com} Hear him to-night, as he joins inj, under the shadows of her love and . tenderness, and drifted off into the deeps of wretchedness and ruin! ‘bacchainalian songs and blasphemy. Whence ~is this? From. the foul. depths of thelow groggery, from scenes of corruption-where-the very air is pregnant with niisery and woe. With whom? Those who nightly Gather inthe saloon; they who fre‘quent the billiard tables and the gambling, zooms; those whose lips ‘are polluted with the low jest and hurried. otahs; those whose bloated features: and bleared eyes proclaim their freqnent revels, and whose _already wandering.steps betoken shattered nerves: and. disordered brain. ‘They are drifting, drifting downward.to-wretohedness and woe unutterable. At whose door lies tl the . ‘erime? Upon whose head will a just Godvisit ‘vengeance? Upon the miserable ~victinis who cower and tumble beneath:-the fierce goadings of conscience? Upon them, think ‘you? Nay,.verily. Father,.mother, did you du:your duty by your child? little bark, on’ life’s rough stream? Will it not.be first for you; and then’ upon hiny who: vends the cursed poison that maddens heart and brain? . . Upon him who with wily tongue and spider-like art; plays upon the weakness of his brother mun, and ‘too surely lures the poor victim of depraved. appetite, into his fated snare, In the bookof-God’s rememvenders of the cursed liqquor—the real authord: of most crimes. “And, government; and sanctioned by the highest authotities, Shame on such laws and law makets! 3, V. Be — PRES sa ee Show Flakes snow flakes:‘“«Qhit of the dosom of the aff,. Over the woodlands bro ‘Over the harvest fields pl Dy Silent, and soft, and slow. a Descelids the beantifal show,” af $500;000gards paetinesabah aema-t Did you not tod soon cut adrift thebrance is written the hamesof the]: these aré telerated by a christians’ “<Bonefellow thus describes the Outof thecloud folds of ee copay shaken Pe vintage ot the ‘a nadselse vine-* against the Sheriff, under-sheriff, eounty. clerk and county judge of Inyo couaty, for false imprisonment, laying his damage at $100,000, Tux owners of the Highland and Masoni¢ mines, Sierra county, have @ tunnel 4,000 feet long, through to the Wet Ravine side. The mine is paying well, More hands are wanted at $3 per day. They have run . through-nearly800 feet-of rich ground . which it will take years to. awork out, THe North Améfica cluims,at Newlarge force. of men, but there is yet room for more. Great improvenients have been made: about the mine ‘within the past few months. They have taken out the largest’ pile of. ‘dirt, probably ever seen inthe Sertliern Sierras, SpantsH and Mexican residénts of San Francisco desire that @astiliin be taught in our public schools. been taken off and put: on the Ama} dor. ~ <-~o a> tial atl Tur silk worm business is to be st . Hollister & Cooper.” are a Ar Snelling, ate a pas of stock in the Visalia and Stockton narrow gauge railroad were subsoribed in.one day. Ar Buckeye, Trinity county, lately, a miner, called Portuguese: Joe, found « nagget of gold which weighed threé anda half pounds avoirdupois. Tar Los Kean Board of ‘bhi tion has allowed Miss Stella Sheppardithe use of a room in the new school building, for the purpose of teaching telegraphy. Tae SamJoaquin Valley Argus is waging was against some of the officials of Mereed county for alleged illegal practices, . ; “Bexaton-Cous has introduced 4 bill ; mata 5% building in Sacramento, A SkCOND Sipaanitul Santa Craz sole-leather has just been sold in cents coin per pound. . ‘Galifornia election law. Tue Ghin-du-Wan's-ealliope has . : commenced at Santa Barbara, by . hi ‘appropriating $200,000 for the erec. + Bbudon at 4% pence, ‘equal “to. 20 -Nevapa will ‘eobably adorn the H Pancuo ake) will-bebung, at better and more secure than that of a mere Claimant, whose claims must be established by the testimony of -. witnesses who are liable to die or bet scattered beyond reach just when }_ wanted. Piscarortan Farturg.—-The California Acclimatization Society, who -are-vigorously pushing the work of . propagating fish in our ponds and Bignal says: A. G. Bseandon, of this ‘tribe 6 a large full-blooded fellow, “exceeds that of the sheep in juicy intends ‘a meeting with the Modocs, -for Dawes.” ject inso doing was to escape the . _ Cine Woot, —The ¥entura . place;-is the ownér of a fine flock of . . graded goats: © The patriarch of the with a fleece like a Summer cloud. A specimen of it mensures néarly seven jhnches in length, and in fineness of texture makes the work of the silkworm appear decidedly coarse. Mr. Eseanden says his flock is rapidly increasing, and thinks: the hills of Southern California and its climate perfectly adapted to the nature of the animal,. Beside the® profit of their fine fleeces, the muttomas much flavor as does: its wool in fineness of staple. This: stock requires” ‘much Jess care than sheep, and. -will_live . — and thrivewhere the latter would }starve. The expense and trouble of obtaining good bloods of this valu. eneral introduve tion. iy Durkin tind Yreka, say there are indications that the Government with a view tothe settlement of the war without feather bloodshed. _ A canvass of the members of the Massachtsetts Legislature stiows,. js it is reported, that Bontwell wilkhave 108 votes for the Senate. againsit 84 HOUSE AND LOT for sale, in the rey vicin ity of the Suspension Bridge. 1t! Will be sold cheap for cash on ap11} plication to W. H. DAVIDSON, fg 3 tice of the Peace. "Special Schowl Election. OTICE is hereby given to the qualified Electors of Willow Valley School District that'there will be an Election held at . the School House, in said District, on the 15th day of February, 1873, then and there to vote ‘*¥Yes,” or ‘‘No,” on a proposition to raise by a Tax on the property of the District the sum of $250 for the maintainance of the School in said Disrict. Also, for the election of an Assessor.to assess the property of the District and @ Collectorto collect the Taxon the same. The Polls will be} open from 10 to 12 o’clock. ~ W.C. BRADLEY, . G&G. W. JONES, oe. LUCKINGERS, Trustees Willow Valley District. FOR SALE, _ Good title given. jin31 Sagem FOR CASH. TWO TWO--HORSE TEAMS,. . ~ Qne-Yoke Work Oxen, Milch ‘Cows. P. SUTTON. Nevada, Jan. 28th, 1873. = ESTRAY. AKEN up on Friday night apt a Bay Herse streams, received, yesterday 12,000 trout ova from the Cold Spring trout) ponds, New Hampshire, 90 per cent, -.0£.which-weretost-during-the--trans-++ portation; and we are informed that the 30,000 trout ova, received last Monday, were not in a condition for the hatching house. This is rather unfortunate for the seciety, As a vule; the transportation of fh was effectedsuocessfully heretofore, and we presume the mishap in. these cases arose from from inefficient packing, or the extreme 061d weather East and consequent delay in travel. So says the Alia, * we A. Constable in Gilroy had a ‘hard time lately in making arrests for violatiom of the Sunday law. The first offender he tried to.arrest booted him out of, his saloom the next one . drew a "pistol on him, and reminded stable) was a horse thief and an inmate of: the State Prison, and finally, after he-had retired-for the night, He was called. outof his bed and received a tremendous thrashing from another of his vic tims, te It is at length announced, twenty-seven days after the new Codes have gone into, efiect, that the volumes on Civik Procedure is ready to go to the book-bindess. It ‘will be at least two weeks before it State. Ay. Hose to authOsize the Secretary of War to furnish. glass eyes for officers or soldiers who have Jost beth or éither of those useful members in the service. Tae House Gomtinitiee on Appropriations will report in favor of four new appropriations for light houses on the CalifoPnia coast, to the amount of $47,000, . Bev, Horatio Stebbens of San “Francisco, has had another call from a congregation in. Cambridge, Massachuse = = a+ wooden: -Tauins. ‘ him of the time when he (the con-. ~ ¢ ean be distributed througheut the }S A Brix has been: introdaced i in the Seong Tas ‘Salem “¢Qr.) gasworks use . ‘The owner can have-t by proving property “ey Athy Sees UIS SCHMID’. < Nevada Jam 26th. —NOTICE TO MINERS. O*X SATURDAY NEXT, the First of Febmary, the North Bloomfield Gravel Mining Compeny Will offemier-Contract the driving of: . Six Tunnel Headings, ‘Each requiring from Six to Nine Men, Miners upon applicution to the Foreman of the Gomipany, at North Bloomfield will be shown the tunnels-and given all particulars in regard to the work. th the course of a few. weeks there will be founother tunnel headings to be let ms contract. HAMILTON SMITH, Jx., ae Superintendent. _ January 24th, 1873. FRENCH: LANGUAGE, ESSONS GIVEN IN FRENCH at the residence of the Pupils, . Whefe several persons will : form-s.Class a reduction will be made in the price. Classes at the Public School at 2 sd at 4 o'clock, P. M. for the children there attending. For terms inquire of MR. GEO. W. WELCH). Bookseller, : Broad Street. Or J. C. ROBINSON. 28 NEW GROCERIES. ALEX GAULT AB added te the BAKERY a choice dot of — ‘Mieweates = Provisions, Which he effers for sale on the most liberal terms. advantage to — me. we FLOUR FOR SALE. _-Wsevanted to be the Ne best in the County. TB Broad Street, Nevada. HE. co-pa’ aakes phe pe fim name sepa & GRAF is forps: per ved Bn Aeeve$ myutual . the late fm to iS ie ns sees e dk co} deake se: aod the . [feet merce al with Chas, Gout, ered . : A. BHENNEMAN, p¥alléjo on-the-B1st, ORK ™ * b.cfeveda; Sam. teh, neat same }the above —i The people of'Nevada will find it to their. : Biates go eb gold coin, GRABS SEED, CLOVER sem, . Fresh Garden Seed, FLOWER SEED. PRESTON’S DRUG: sToRE: 3 MEDICAL. WONDER, POND’S.EXTRACy ABSOLUTE inbegss iat nk Bm PRESTON's. ee SHILLAC,: SAINFOIX, — —aT— Nevada Senirenaintes <5 = NEVADA BAKERY, 78 BROAD STREET, GLUE, ALEX, GAUL: Propriee, . Het ‘Bread and devcctinias Rolls: every morning, Sundays ; excepted, WwW eyery thing in our line. EXCELLENT BUTTER, E have always the best veriety, of . CRACKERS OF OUR’*OWN MAKUPAG_"TURE, A good simple of Conte from the best: Winery in the State: Try it. “Peppa oe Cake furnished on short » Ro-tice. alo ~NEW FIRM, KOTICE is hereby given that A, -H. Ban.sonand A. KR. Wadsworth have this» dvy formed a co-partnership. under the firm: name of HANSON & WADSWOR'HE ana will carry on: the Grocery and Provisioy; business at the old stand, No. 6% baal STREET, Av H. HANSON, ~ A. R. WADSWORTH. Nevada, Jani Ist 1873. « NOTICE A le hereby given that the undersigned wilt. apply to the Hon. Board of Supervisors: ot Nevada County, at its sessions in February, A. D. 1873, for a renewal of his license to keep and maintains Toll Bridge acrcas fore known as *“*Osgue’s Crossing,” on the Marysville and French Corral road, in the Township of Rough and Ready, County of” Nevada. HENRY FIENE, Rowgh and Ready, Jan. 11th. 1873. NOTICE. until the lst Tuesday on March by the: ~Board of ‘Trustees of the Town of Grass Valley for supplying the town with: water. Plans and Specifications can be seen'at the Town Clerk’s office, Exchange: Hotel 'build-ing with the specifications will also be considered by the Board. W. H, BENSON, President. ‘Grass Valley, Jan. 9th, 1873; ju Notice to Creditors. N.THE MATTER of the Estate of Néehelas S!ocovich deceased: Notice ‘is here by given by the grate saapel executor of tothe _cred-itoreof, and all persons “haying claims © aguinstseid deceased, to exhibit the same with the necessary vouchers within four’ monthé after.the publication.of this notice, . to the undersigned, gt his store, on Broad: Street, in the city of Nevada. Nevada Gity, January 16th, 1873. > “GOLDSMITH, Executor of the Estate of ‘Nicholas Sloeovich, deceased. Williams & Johnson, Attorneys: e Oe. : pn CLOSING “OUT SALE. JULIUS GREEN WALD, FERS his Entire Stools of Goods fr. ‘pale at San Francisco Cost. Price . The Stock consists of _ 100,000 Cigars. _ 10,000 lbs Tobacoo. . Pipes, Cutlery, Cass, £0. ‘Ag I shall positively. close Dusiness in this city L invite dealers-and all others wi ing anything inmylineto ~ Call and examine my Goods, and the Prices ! JULIUS GREENWALD. All’ pérgons indebted te me are hereby * quested to call and settle their account. Nevada, January. 15, 1873. Ease ‘Hamilton’s Restaurant. Removed to BROAD STREET, NzamLEY Orrosrrz THE THanscair? Ovres. MEALS served up in nae was Stid it te lowest rates. eslF sidan eae H, HAMILTON, Prog, Nevada, Jan. ake Sars. ed ASSESSMENT NOTICE. UBA. GRAVEL ‘MINING COMPAXT. ‘Location of works; North Bloomfield, Nevada County, @zlifornia——Notice is a by given pp at a meeting of the BoardTrastecs said company, held on the * day of January, 1873;an assessment ety : oy. ive (25) . eget pe Haye oo tom vied wu: ¢8 a aati yable eo reetistiy, in Lg to the Secretary st t) he 2 She Coney. No. 108 Battery st, ’ es id assessment which 63 e the sath deemed Geadvertised for anny ok Si and Will be aig pede pelvis. Fe ro ard trustees. ed R. ie wa RATH. Seeretart i be ord = abe 9 Offce-Ho. 168.2 torgdtreet, Sau LAMP: CHIMNEYS;, 5 for 50 Cente as Presten’s; Deer Creek, at a point on said creck hereto. ~~ VEALED PROPOSALS will be received __ ing, Grass Valley. Proposals not conform-: . = aK peerage and unless poy ~ re cust hia The D NEVA ————— 10¢ What Sha! The ques with the b *, discussed 1 We know 0 done withkept at hon ' mitted to si neatly mid: things will lums. At. from ten té strolling th ~jng'imto-th womes, &t China New the compa! “put traveli \ mentioned better off a — made as pl ~possible fo persons. in ‘time after to engage i the little o Prog ~The foll ercises: for eity, whicl ing: ist. Ins Mary Fini 2d. Rea by John J 3d. Sol 4th. Re “The Bos' Chapman, Prof>Mul Sth. De tion: Res of the Un ported by tive, J.I, D. Fe. GQ Clark, J, ling. ___ We hay and the Thursday deep at O ridge this day, the deep: Du the amou have bée Yesterda —fourineh hills on i a white have fall place to storm sti ting» mor It i is 8 ™by a sno most i is 1 joyment anticipa: -and the snow ba morning were sii erowds ¢ nen an along. 2 pr ~The : funds i be coun County Yesterd Judge C Gounty They fii ‘000, an: on the . We ii day, at linquen It woul carefull quent s sale wil Court 1 of Febt TQ In th for "vit which . and w Poe and 7 { sae Wei Writter Berger the L, a

[3] ~. ther confession witich solves one ~ he unwilling witness, which was s¢thoughtfal’ Mortimer and; it is ruNEVADA erry, cate With Supplement, : Saturday, Feb. 1, 1873. Nevada County Statistics. ~ The following statistics ‘of Nevada sounty, collected from various offi-gial sources, may be of interest to our. readers. ‘The census of 1870 gives the following as. the copes tion: Whites . Golored ... ¢o 4000 s00nrens +s Indians under giasdianship ot veo Chinese . Total. REELED ge OTF a number of regintored voters ted population a this. time is about: 20,000, The followingefigures ane’ ettalned from: records, of. the State Board. of} Sut ee ee CUT SSeS SSeS Equalization: Assessed value of réal’ ees WHOS cic cccsecses ees $3,768, O-t5 . , Improvements on real esfate EG hes ose Ui sssees 1,581,531 Money “asseeaed « Lua bu ows o pOe 004 Value of personal property excluding money...+-. 1,438,888 Total property valuation, 8,941,468 Total indebtedness, estimated at “$58,000, se Value of peo property; 90,000, Rate of taxation, $1 60 on each $100. Total amount of. texes to be collected, $129,088 38. The following are from the Surveyor Genéral’s offica: Miles of railrvad, 304. Acres of.land assegsed, 149,646. Acres of land enclosed, 60,000. , Aeres of land cultivated, 10,000. Another Confession. The Sacramento. Bee says: That very remarkable gentleman, Charles, Mortimer, has, it is said, made aumore mystery. It will be remembered-that one Miss Annie Lehry,_. + _an estimable and accomplished young . shocked by. the blasphemy_and_ob. lady, ofUniontown, E) Dorado county, published: in the Sacramento Union_of December. 20th. last, the particulars so far as.she knew them, of a fratricide of which she had been shocked: and mysterious: that the story was received. by many. with a limited credence.: Now comes the ae Daily pt . ais the Litaraty Club Paper. " }and (tuthfalness; froup: purity -and . from father’s earnest benediction and .nocent dreams. ruddy forelights cast the Shadows on at Are they-all there-around tue hearth: ‘and vit kneel to thank‘*Our Father’” rather, are they notdrifling? Father, . noise or-the elder’s gay converse,and Drift Wood. Drifting.” “Wheice? From truth prayer; from light and love; from Heaven and happiness. Deifting motLer’s tenderness; from home and holy joys; from young operand inWhither? ‘Toward corruption and criine;: toward hatred and’ strife; retribution and remorse, und ab last.to 1 darkness and despair. ~ Who? Mother. Father when the ‘evening shades are falling, aud the: the walls) are all the déar ones there?) ‘of heme, to cheer the parent *s hiearts:. with gay song and pleasant vonver-. “3 19,184 sation? Are they “with you at the} granted for five years te all miannevening prayer, with you at the lec~ for the mercies of the day? Or;. ‘mother, is it mot too often, that, when the evening meal is over, the house becomes silent, you are tired with: the day's labor and would rest, you-are annoyed. with. the pratless when they propose to go, you care not whither, you.too easily assent? All you-askas»rest,and you wateh not to keep them from drifting, from making bad asseciates, or falling in‘to other temptations, Ob, what.a haven of rest it is where love rules, where the father and mother set the example and’make a Heaven on earth for their children; who, whereyer they may wander in future yeaxs, will never forget the light of home, which ever shines to keep them from drifting. upon the rocks ef life. — Walk through our streets after nightfall, or even in the glare of noonday, hear from behind painted windows and gteen blinds, the sounds issuing forth., Are they such as you would have your innocent boy listen to? Would you be willing your Willie or Charlie-shouldhave—hislittle souk a3} ay vent. ‘may be held. during, the year. wire oF with you when-you make St . ert ee pe ee We “No-. aaa Visits to ‘relatives or rial “are ‘wholly insufiicient.’ sf to have been murdered ‘in Monroe. ree stem ea Tum nemes6f a, Chinamed’ whofail to pay” their., debts. before the beginning of the New Year aro ‘eolleeted in one list and distributed among the Chinese merchants. They are all marked with a black spot in the account Books and during’ the” whole. year refused credit,. although they. may be perfeytly ‘sol They are also-denied -permis‘ sion to call npon any. merchant or ereditors ‘during the holidays that df they pay off their debts within the year they dre reinstated in favor on the next New Year. —— — chew wa Governor Moses,” of. South . Cargliaa, recommends.-that a bonus of equal —te—the-State-tax on their ‘buildings land, and machinery tobe factories of cotten:and. woolen goods vember 1, WBT6. te” The President’s action in pardoning the loyal repeater, Mr.— or perhaps we. should say Hon— . ’ Brown, does not seem to be at all popular in Philadelphia, Even the Ledger, Mr. Child’s paper, audibly exclaims that the reasons assigned or Thos, G. Boye, of Sweetwater, Tenn,, against whom cases for defrauding the ‘Government in pensions are pending, who was reported county Tenn., last September, under tragical ciseumstances, has been discovered and arrested in Toronto, Onnada to The coloted men of Maryland will hold a conyention’ in Annapolis on Wednesday, Feb. 19th, % urge the passage of the supplementary Civil Rights-bill and of a National as far as ‘pialbie, recognition of the colored men in federal and State appointments, SE enetanteateee -Peren Pierson has commenced suit in the Sixth District Court les oe }is now carried-on-more-systematical-. Handertakings™ is more™ generally un. able animal ix the only bay’ to its . -velopment constantly _ progressing "+ . resisted all legislation looking. to the Education bill, and also to secure, f * “Mining. pee : The ‘Resources of @alifornia,’””. published by Wentworth ‘& Co., has the following: Accounts’ from all parts of the mining regions of this State during the past yest, have been favorable in their character and the miners have’ received fair returns for their labor and enterprise. Discoveries of new and valuable leads have been partictilarly numerous, even in the disiricts which have been longest and, itwas supposed, mest thoroughly explored. and worked: It is becoming less: difficult to. dbtain. the capital necessary to develop and . work both the new diseoveries' and old mines, the value of whieh i is definitely ascertained, fur the business ty.thanin' former years; machinery and all other appliances are more perfect and the necessary eost of such derstood. . The recent legislation by Congress, facilitating the obtaining of title to mineral lands, has render. . ied investments i in such property more ‘secure and &huts.out much of the litigation that was formerly apt to arise, when mere constructive pos‘session and a compliance with fluctuating and diverse local mining regulations was all the title obtainable. A. very few years will see the bulk of the mineral lands of this State now known to be valuable, : whether for quartz or placer working,, pass into pxivate ownership and ‘their dewith all the security attendant upon similar operations in older countries. For many years the miners sale of the mineral lands. One _obtaxation of the property they thus held. But such ideas have now become obsolete, and the rule prevails here as elsewhere, that whatever is valuable.and demands the protection of the law,<must be taxed<in the hands ofits owner and bear its share of the éxpense of protecting him in his rights; Experience has also shown tha the position of actual and scenity uttered there? Would you dare entertain. for a moment the thought that he could ever be the author of,such language? Never. And yet somebody's Willie is there;somebody’s little one, little now no longer, but once eradled upon: a loving mother’s breast, and lulled to slumber by her low lullaby. O, how her sweet baby boy has»gone out trom . mene eee eS 18 OVEF, LAG ext Confess: } “* 9,000 of-some huge ‘centrar boiler it _maary 19th,, 1869. of his brother ~Suguiry off Who-struek-Billy Pater. supply: heat, jpower.and protection ' “pany for the. -purpose, with a oa mored, confessions. tothe murder, aa set forth: by: Miss Lohbry;~on FebFrederick Augustus Mortimer, _be= oause Freddy was'nt sufficiently trae table in the matter of the divvy of $1,759,90: which. they had done up ina handkerchief. To confirm his confession he shows diagrams of the Spring.flowers Miss Lorhy set forth to pluck, ,of the Corliss ranch, of Johustons Stuekslager’s ditch, of.) Granite creek;-of. Uniontown grave~ yard aud of Miss Lohry. He says he put-a-naty revolvér to her head and. remarked; as he — stutes, _**Dead men: tell: no tales,” but he says he qualified it by adding “except Ghinamen and ladies.’’ Garrie Mortimer. is to goand show where the treasure and the poor,-departed: Freadys bones lie buried,:as soon asthe Santa: ion will clear up the bloody mystery of “Who killed Coek Robin?” and will forever set at rest the vexed son,” neat Tux experiment of running ice through a fume,;.for-a: distance of three miles, says the Truckee Republican of January: 23d;: was. yesterday tried here in Schaffer’s lumber flume. The ice, when started. was in. blocks eleven inches in thicknessw When. it arrived.at the mouthrof the flume.,,. it floated down, wears it out—not . the flume, but the ice.” Tar San Jose Mei of the 26th says: The workmen: engaged in the shaft of the Black Diamond Coal Mine,.one day lust-week, ‘came on 2 frog, Tinbedded inthe solid sandstene;. 175 fect below the-surface. He became quite-lively when first released, but afterward .drooped and} died within twelye hours, >_> A plan i is broached in-‘Boston: to . from ~fire* to all buildings within. be located in. Winthrop Square; and a bill’ has been introduced in the State Senatesto incorporate a com} Hear him to-night, as he joins inj, under the shadows of her love and . tenderness, and drifted off into the deeps of wretchedness and ruin! ‘bacchainalian songs and blasphemy. Whence ~is this? From. the foul. depths of thelow groggery, from scenes of corruption-where-the very air is pregnant with niisery and woe. With whom? Those who nightly Gather inthe saloon; they who fre‘quent the billiard tables and the gambling, zooms; those whose lips ‘are polluted with the low jest and hurried. otahs; those whose bloated features: and bleared eyes proclaim their freqnent revels, and whose _already wandering.steps betoken shattered nerves: and. disordered brain. ‘They are drifting, drifting downward.to-wretohedness and woe unutterable. At whose door lies tl the . ‘erime? Upon whose head will a just Godvisit ‘vengeance? Upon the miserable ~victinis who cower and tumble beneath:-the fierce goadings of conscience? Upon them, think ‘you? Nay,.verily. Father,.mother, did you du:your duty by your child? little bark, on’ life’s rough stream? Will it not.be first for you; and then’ upon hiny who: vends the cursed poison that maddens heart and brain? . . Upon him who with wily tongue and spider-like art; plays upon the weakness of his brother mun, and ‘too surely lures the poor victim of depraved. appetite, into his fated snare, In the bookof-God’s rememvenders of the cursed liqquor—the real authord: of most crimes. “And, government; and sanctioned by the highest authotities, Shame on such laws and law makets! 3, V. Be — PRES sa ee Show Flakes snow flakes:‘“«Qhit of the dosom of the aff,. Over the woodlands bro ‘Over the harvest fields pl Dy Silent, and soft, and slow. a Descelids the beantifal show,” af $500;000gards paetinesabah aema-t Did you not tod soon cut adrift thebrance is written the hamesof the]: these aré telerated by a christians’ “<Bonefellow thus describes the Outof thecloud folds of ee copay shaken Pe vintage ot the ‘a nadselse vine-* against the Sheriff, under-sheriff, eounty. clerk and county judge of Inyo couaty, for false imprisonment, laying his damage at $100,000, Tux owners of the Highland and Masoni¢ mines, Sierra county, have @ tunnel 4,000 feet long, through to the Wet Ravine side. The mine is paying well, More hands are wanted at $3 per day. They have run . through-nearly800 feet-of rich ground . which it will take years to. awork out, THe North Améfica cluims,at Newlarge force. of men, but there is yet room for more. Great improvenients have been made: about the mine ‘within the past few months.. They have taken out the largest’ pile of. ‘dirt, probably ever seen inthe Sertliern Sierras, SpantsH and Mexican residénts of San Francisco desire that @astiliin be taught in our public schools. been taken off and put: on the Ama} dor. ~ <-~o a> tial atl Tur silk worm business is to be st . Hollister & Cooper.” are a Ar Snelling, ate a pas of stock in the Visalia and Stockton narrow gauge railroad were subsoribed in.one day. Ar Buckeye, Trinity county, lately, a miner, called Portuguese: Joe, found « nagget of gold which weighed threé anda half pounds avoirdupois. Tar Los Kean Board of ‘bhi tion has allowed Miss Stella Sheppardithe use of a room in the new school building, for the purpose of teaching telegraphy. Tae SamJoaquin Valley Argus is waging was against some of the officials of Mereed county for alleged illegal practices, . ; “Bexaton-Cous has introduced 4 bill ; mata 5% building in Sacramento, A SkCOND Sipaanitul Santa Craz sole-leather has just been sold in cents coin per pound. . ‘Galifornia election law. Tue Ghin-du-Wan's-ealliope has . : commenced at Santa Barbara, by . hi ‘appropriating $200,000 for the erec. + Bbudon at 4% pence, ‘equal “to. 20 -Nevapa will ‘eobably adorn the H Pancuo ake) will-bebung, at better and more secure than that of a mere Claimant, whose claims must be established by the testimony of -. witnesses who are liable to die or bet scattered beyond reach just when }_ wanted. Piscarortan Farturg.—-The California Acclimatization Society, who -are-vigorously pushing the work of . propagating fish in our ponds and Bignal says: A. G. Bseandon, of this ‘tribe 6 a large full-blooded fellow, “exceeds that of the sheep in juicy intends ‘a meeting with the Modocs, -for Dawes.” ject inso doing was to escape the . _ Cine Woot, —The ¥entura . place;-is the ownér of a fine flock of . . graded goats: © The patriarch of the with a fleece like a Summer cloud. A specimen of it mensures néarly seven jhnches in length, and in fineness of texture makes the work of the silkworm appear decidedly coarse. Mr. Eseanden says his flock is rapidly increasing, and thinks: the hills of Southern California and its climate perfectly adapted to the nature of the animal,. Beside the® profit of their fine fleeces, the muttomas much flavor as does: its wool in fineness of staple. This: stock requires” ‘much Jess care than sheep, and. -will_live . — and thrivewhere the latter would }starve. The expense and trouble of

obtaining good bloods of this valu. eneral introduve tion. iy Durkin tind Yreka, say there are indications that the Government with a view tothe settlement of the war without feather bloodshed. _ A canvass of the members of the Massachtsetts Legislature stiows,. js it is reported, that Bontwell wilkhave 108 votes for the Senate. againsit 84 HOUSE AND LOT for sale, in the rey vicin ity of the Suspension Bridge. 1t! Will be sold cheap for cash on ap11} plication to W. H. DAVIDSON, fg 3 tice of the Peace. "Special Schowl Election. OTICE is hereby given to the qualified Electors of Willow Valley School District that'there will be an Election held at . the School House, in said District, on the 15th day of February, 1873, then and there to vote ‘*¥Yes,” or ‘‘No,” on a proposition to raise by a Tax on the property of the District the sum of $250 for the maintainance of the School in said Disrict. Also, for the election of an Assessor.to assess the property of the District and @ Collectorto collect the Taxon the same. The Polls will be} open from 10 to 12 o’clock. ~ W.C. BRADLEY, . G&G. W. JONES, oe. LUCKINGERS, Trustees Willow Valley District. FOR SALE, _ Good title given. jin31 Sagem FOR CASH. TWO TWO--HORSE TEAMS,. . ~ Qne-Yoke Work Oxen, Milch ‘Cows. P. SUTTON. Nevada, Jan. 28th, 1873. = ESTRAY. AKEN up on Friday night apt a Bay Herse streams, received, yesterday 12,000 trout ova from the Cold Spring trout) ponds, New Hampshire, 90 per cent, -.0£.which-weretost-during-the--trans-++ portation; and we are informed that the 30,000 trout ova, received last Monday, were not in a condition for the hatching house. This is rather unfortunate for the seciety, As a vule; the transportation of fh was effectedsuocessfully heretofore, and we presume the mishap in. these cases arose from from inefficient packing, or the extreme 061d weather East and consequent delay in travel. So says the Alia, * we A. Constable in Gilroy had a ‘hard time lately in making arrests for violatiom of the Sunday law. The first offender he tried to.arrest booted him out of, his saloom the next one . drew a "pistol on him, and reminded stable) was a horse thief and an inmate of: the State Prison, and finally, after he-had retired-for the night, He was called. outof his bed and received a tremendous thrashing from another of his vic tims, te It is at length announced, twenty-seven days after the new Codes have gone into, efiect, that the volumes on Civik Procedure is ready to go to the book-bindess. It ‘will be at least two weeks before it State. Ay. Hose to authOsize the Secretary of War to furnish. glass eyes for officers or soldiers who have Jost beth or éither of those useful members in the service. Tae House Gomtinitiee on Appropriations will report in favor of four new appropriations for light houses on the CalifoPnia coast, to the amount of $47,000, . Bev, Horatio Stebbens of San “Francisco, has had another call from a congregation in. Cambridge, Massachuse = = a+ wooden: -Tauins. ‘ him of the time when he (the con-. ~ ¢ ean be distributed througheut the }S A Brix has been: introdaced i in the Seong Tas ‘Salem “¢Qr.) gasworks use . ‘The owner can have-t by proving property “ey Athy Sees UIS SCHMID’. < Nevada Jam 26th. —NOTICE TO MINERS. O*X SATURDAY NEXT, the First of Febmary, the North Bloomfield Gravel Mining Compeny Will offemier-Contract the driving of: . Six Tunnel Headings, ‘Each requiring from Six to Nine Men, Miners upon applicution to the Foreman of the Gomipany, at North Bloomfield will be shown the tunnels-and given all particulars in regard to the work. th the course of a few. weeks there will be founother tunnel headings to be let ms contract. HAMILTON SMITH, Jx., ae Superintendent. _ January 24th, 1873. FRENCH: LANGUAGE, ESSONS GIVEN IN FRENCH at the residence of the Pupils, . Whefe several persons will : form-s.Class a reduction will be made in the price. Classes at the Public School at 2 sd at 4 o'clock, P. M. for the children there attending. For terms inquire of MR. GEO. W. WELCH). Bookseller, : Broad Street. Or J. C. ROBINSON. 28 NEW GROCERIES. ALEX GAULT AB added te the BAKERY a choice dot of — ‘Mieweates = Provisions, Which he effers for sale on the most liberal terms. advantage to — me. we FLOUR FOR SALE. _-Wsevanted to be the Ne best in the County. TB Broad Street, Nevada. HE. co-pa’ aakes phe pe fim name sepa & GRAF is forps: per ved Bn Aeeve$ myutual . the late fm to iS ie ns sees e dk co} deake se: aod the . [feet merce al with Chas, Gout, ered . : A. BHENNEMAN, p¥alléjo on-the-B1st, ORK ™ * b.cfeveda; Sam. teh, neat same }the above —i The people of'Nevada will find it to their. : Biates go eb gold coin, GRABS SEED, CLOVER sem, . Fresh Garden Seed, FLOWER SEED. PRESTON’S DRUG: sToRE: 3 MEDICAL. WONDER, POND’S.EXTRACy ABSOLUTE inbegss iat nk Bm PRESTON's. ee SHILLAC,: SAINFOIX, — —aT— Nevada Senirenaintes <5 = NEVADA BAKERY, 78 BROAD STREET, GLUE, ALEX, GAUL: Propriee, . Het ‘Bread and devcctinias Rolls: every morning, Sundays ; excepted, WwW eyery thing in our line. EXCELLENT BUTTER, E have always the best veriety, of . CRACKERS OF OUR’*OWN MAKUPAG_"TURE, A good simple of Conte from the best: Winery in the State: Try it. “Peppa oe Cake furnished on short » Ro-tice. alo ~NEW FIRM, KOTICE is hereby given that A, -H. Ban.sonand A. KR. Wadsworth have this» dvy formed a co-partnership. under the firm: name of HANSON & WADSWOR'HE ana will carry on: the Grocery and Provisioy; business at the old stand, No. 6% baal STREET, Av H. HANSON, ~ A. R. WADSWORTH. Nevada, Jani Ist 1873. « NOTICE A le hereby given that the undersigned wilt. apply to the Hon. Board of Supervisors: ot Nevada County, at its sessions in February, A. D. 1873, for a renewal of his license to keep and maintains Toll Bridge acrcas fore known as *“*Osgue’s Crossing,” on the Marysville and French Corral road, in the Township of Rough and Ready, County of” Nevada. HENRY FIENE, Rowgh and Ready, Jan. 11th. 1873. NOTICE. until the lst Tuesday on March by the: ~Board of ‘Trustees of the Town of Grass Valley for supplying the town with: water. Plans and Specifications can be seen'at the Town Clerk’s office, Exchange: Hotel 'build-ing with the specifications will also be considered by the Board. W. H, BENSON, President. ‘Grass Valley, Jan. 9th, 1873; ju Notice to Creditors. N.THE MATTER of the Estate of Néehelas S!ocovich deceased: Notice ‘is here by given by the grate saapel executor of tothe _cred-itoreof, and all persons “haying claims © aguinstseid deceased, to exhibit the same with the necessary vouchers within four’ monthé after.the publication.of this notice, . to the undersigned, gt his store, on Broad: Street, in the city of Nevada. Nevada Gity, January 16th, 1873. > “GOLDSMITH, Executor of the Estate of ‘Nicholas Sloeovich, deceased. Williams & Johnson, Attorneys: e Oe. : pn CLOSING “OUT SALE. JULIUS GREEN WALD, FERS his Entire Stools of Goods fr. ‘pale at San Francisco Cost. Price . The Stock consists of _ 100,000 Cigars. _ 10,000 lbs Tobacoo. .. Pipes, Cutlery, Cass, £0. ‘Ag I shall positively. close Dusiness in this city L invite dealers-and all others wi ing anything inmylineto ~ Call and examine my Goods, and the Prices ! JULIUS GREENWALD. All’ pérgons indebted te me are hereby * quested to call and settle their account. Nevada, January. 15, 1873. Ease ‘Hamilton’s Restaurant. Removed to BROAD STREET, NzamLEY Orrosrrz THE THanscair? Ovres. MEALS served up in nae was Stid it te lowest rates. eslF sidan eae H, HAMILTON, Prog, Nevada, Jan. ake Sars. ed ASSESSMENT NOTICE. UBA. GRAVEL ‘MINING COMPAXT. ‘Location of works; North Bloomfield, Nevada County, @zlifornia——Notice is a by given pp at a meeting of the BoardTrastecs said company, held on the * day of January, 1873;an assessment ety : oy. ive (25) . eget pe Haye oo tom vied wu: ¢8 a aati yable eo reetistiy, in Lg to the Secretary st t) he 2 She Coney. No. 108 Battery st, ’ es id assessment which 63 e the sath deemed Geadvertised for anny ok Si and Will be aig pede pelvis. Fe ro ard trustees. ed R. ie wa RATH. Seeretart i be ord = abe 9 Offce-Ho. 168.2 torgdtreet, Sau LAMP: CHIMNEYS;, 5 for 50 Cente as Presten’s; Deer Creek, at a point on said creck hereto. ~~ VEALED PROPOSALS will be received __ ing, Grass Valley. Proposals not conform-: . = aK peerage and unless poy ~ re cust hia The D NEVA ————— 10¢ What Sha! The ques with the b *, discussed 1 We know 0 done withkept at hon ' mitted to si neatly mid: things will lums. At. from ten té strolling th ~jng'imto-th womes, &t China New the compa! “put traveli \ mentioned better off a — made as pl ~possible fo persons. in ‘time after to engage i the little o Prog ~The foll ercises: for eity, whicl ing: ist. Ins Mary Fini 2d. Rea by John J 3d. Sol 4th. Re “The Bos' Chapman, Prof>Mul Sth. De tion: Res of the Un ported by tive, J.I, D. Fe. GQ Clark, J, ling. ___ We hay and the Thursday deep at O ridge this day, the deep: Du the amou have bée Yesterda —fourineh hills on i a white have fall place to storm sti ting» mor It i is 8 ™by a sno most i is 1 joyment anticipa: -and the snow ba morning were sii erowds ¢ nen an along. 2 pr ~The : funds i be coun County Yesterd Judge C Gounty They fii ‘000, an: on the . We ii day, at linquen It woul carefull quent s sale wil Court 1 of Febt TQ In th for "vit which . and w Poe and 7 { sae Wei Writter Berger the L, a