February 23, 1876 (4 pages)

gs : -ation—they show-they have very __ ed one, and: party lines. will no dowbs > animosity, and men of opposing parGransevipt “nana z Wednesday, Feb. 23, 1876. Poetics. ; While political parties are necesgary in a Republican forme of government, it is. ry that mrem-. . Bers “ere tees each othé7 as personal enemies, oy think that all intelligent and honest citizens belong to their particular organization. The policy of a party may suit one téan, audi entirely dissatisfy another, ave’ entizely cousciencious. When be satisfied if they are. “their minds, and-to prejudice them against their neighbors because they ete Local Brevitiex™ laying until there is a sufficient number of ties delivered to finish up the road to the depot. Yesterday a gang . of men were at work ballasting near near Grass Walley. Considerable valuable-property in this county has been sold by Gollector Sanford to satisfy taxes and. costs on tthe. same. It is very strange that people will permit their property to be sold: at auction for taxes, well knowing thutin order to and still both may be and doubtiess+zedeen it again they must pay 50 per cent. above the purchase price. Pte their triers TBs Htign belong to a different political organ. ‘small mind. The coming Presidential campaign promises to be a heatbe drawn very closely. Issues will probably be discussed that will of themselyes tend to arouse sectional remainder of the properly ad vertised will be disposed of to the —best--bid-_ der. = There was uo sessions of the Stock Boards in-SanFrancisco yesterday or the day before; but-the curb-stone brokers are having their usual sessions, and the street quotations were as follows: Opbir,. 6434; Mexican; ries. : : The preacher hae receives’: the ighest salary in this country (excenting possibly Cardinal Moles. key, the Archbishop of Bultiwore, the Bishop of Quebec,.and some other dignitaries of the Catholic Charck, whose_expenses ‘are paid . from ‘the eommon: revenues of the church) ig.Henry Ward Beecher, pastor of Plymouth Church, Brooklyn. For several years past his salary has been $20,000 per annem. In addition to this it issafe to:say that he receives $5,000 per annum forvarious lectures delivered: by him during the Winter season in the principal cities in the Union.” His salary as editor of the Christian Union as $20,000 per annum, and from the Christian Union Publishing Co. he one year received $10,000 for a . Life of Christ, which, by the way, 0 , beenAinished. Besides . all this, he is in receipt of an uunual ‘facome, varying from year to yeur, as author’s percentage: e sale of his published works, “Star Papezs,’” Lete. So that here i#™%preacher whose income for several years past $40,000 per: annum, and sometimes considerably more, What he has. done with itis a mystery. He tea= tified duving the trial that he had mortgaged hishouse in Brooklyn for $5,000 to: provide Theodore Tilton with means to-start the Golden Age, + Distinguished Clergymen’s Sule-. ‘No work was done at this end of . , . the railroad yesterday. It is ubderstood that there will no more’ track jean give me the advice I should has been in. the neighborhood, of . ~ Jim McCue, the editor-of the San Francisco Free Press, publishes the following correspondence: _. February 14, 1876. Editor Freez Press: -. I write to you, knowing that you have. I have been married a Jong . time. My wife is-nearly as old as myself, We. were very poor when we got murried; but through the economy.of.the old woman we got along as well as poor folks generally do thut start out poor. Bat I have been very licky for the last few years: I am now very rich, and the old woman is just the seme as she was when poor. I can not stand it. Sheis forty-six years old and_not very good looking, which mortifies me. Sheis very healtby,.and will very likely live twenty years, longer. have a young. wife, to pet me. . What shall I do? I an» a Catholic; and the priest won’t let me get an-other wife if I had a divorce fromr thoold woman. Yours, 2S _ =~ --Racm Man. Repry.--Yours of the 14th received. “You have my. -sympathy. ‘The idea of -a man worth a. million hving with an old woman that is not good looking, even: ifshe did mend yourstockings and sew buttons oa your shirts foryears, The old ____._______ hound volumes_of ngwspapers—and___ thing: av itis, and remember when “their opponents have béew good . be after-it, and prebably are during ~__sciensious in their viewsas”they-are themselves?-If-a little time were al—prineipled, — notwithstanding — they ~~“jnen wonld engage in personal wran-. ~ gles on politics} qucmions. “Such el~ > weading. The room iv which the ti~ to the fullowing rules: ~~ fly except upon the -payment-of—fifty ~ and the book ie lost or not return_ pi# constituents, ties will no doubt come to look wpon heir opponents as anything but honorable_men._The members of “ene party willHiook upon those of the: _other as dishonest, disloyal and unmay have known them for years to be hovest;-npright-and-—reliable citi‘gets. Gannot people look at this they get iv the hént of the fight that} neighbors before the campaign, will its continuance, as honest and: conlowed for thought, we do not believe allowed to control. Oda Fellows” Library. _‘There are 2,662 volumes inthe Odd Fellows’ Library of this city, consisting of 1856-volumes of scientific, literary and romance, the balance being public reports. _ term 1,167 books were taken out and vead, of which 1,023 were of light brary is kept is neatly furmished and earpeted, and it is open each day. H.C. McKelvey is the librarian, and is always ready to. wait upon those who patronize-the library. The following are the rules regulating the use of books: Section lst. The members of Ountomah Ledge, No, 16, I. 0. O.F., whose names are furnished to the hibrarian shall constitute the nrembership. ee Sec. 2d. All persons not members shall be entitled to the ase of books “wpon the payment of fifty cents per 20%; Gould & Curry, 2114; Savage, 2014; Chollar-Potosi,98; Alpha, 28%; Belcher, 2744; Con’ Virginia, 446; Overman, 67; Justice, 25; CaledoThere are several good quartz . mines on Gold Flat that would pay well if proper worl was done on them. We don’t-lnow-why the owns ers aliow.them to remain idle,. Two fof them, the Potosi and Orleans have fine ledges, and yet no work isbeing done on them. __ The Grass Valley Union. says:— Richard Penhall, who was hurt in the New York Hill mine last Saturday, died Monday afternoon, The . mass of rock that fell wpox him in. . jured him so that there was no hope vf saving his life fvom the time he } was hurt. ‘The Champions of Red Cross have instituted a lodge at Grass Valley. It is not trne that the editor of the Union has attached himself to it. ‘The Marysville Appeal says: Au Distriet Court for the sale of the Blue Gravel mine and appurtenances, at Smartsville.— This sale isthe result of u suit growing out of a sort of . Contract -and Finance Company— the majority of owners leasing the miné to themselves at a low price. The mine has been idle, and under injunction for about a year, thereby failing to give employment to a large nuitiber of laborers,and adding to the general dullness of the times. At the sale, which will probably take place as soon as the legal notice can -be given, the mine will fall into the hands ef one party-or the other, and mining beresumed. Either party is willing to buy or gell, we understand, andthe question is who will give the most dollurs? California,8874; Sierra Nevada, 21%; . ~The Rev, Dr. Hall, pastor of the Fifta Avenue Presbyterian Church,. came several years ago from Belfast, Ireland, on the call of the church of which he is sow pastor. His salary was then fixed ut $10,000-gold per. annum and sii yeMaing the same. . He also adds to: his income by writing and lecturing. : ~The Rev. Dr. Hepworth, of the Church of the Disciples, was in the Aeceipt of a salary of $10,000 per auuum until recently, but it bas been reduced, it is understood, of late. = The Rev, Dr. Storrs,of the Church of the Pilgrims, Brooklyn, receives . a salary of $10,000 per annum. He was offered an advanced salary by -one of the New York Congregational churches, some time ago;but—was‘induced to remain with his old charge, ___ one Flyn pastors, receives $10,000: per annum.Vhe Rev. Dr. Morgan Dix, the rector of Trinity,. receives $15,000 }peraunum. He has two or more assistants, who receive from $4,000 to $6,000 each. ‘The senior nitnis-. -ter—at—St. Paul’s receives $10;000, salary, and bas an assisiant at $4,000. The pastor who officiates at order _wasmade Saturday in the Trinity chapel, in West Belg eighth street, also receives $10,0 and has one or more assistants, The Rev. Dr, Chapin, pastor of the Church of the Divine Paternity . (Universalist), at Fifth avenue and Forty-fifth street, also receives $10,000 per annum, The Rev. Dr. Noah Hunt Schenck, rector of St. Aun’s, on the Heights, the iashionable Episcopal church of Brooklyn; receives $10,000-sulary.— Poetieal. He threw himself bump at her fairy-like feet, while her dainty white fingers he press’d, and his tones were quite low and expressively sweet, us the maiden he gently address’d. Give ear, Omy charnaingest, now unto me, and yaze not around thee unheeding; of thy heart let’ thy lover’s fond words :be the key—oh, Hist to his eloquent -pleading. Amd look! he has plucked thee a,bonny red rose, the dew on its month, invariably in advance, subject Rule Ist,.A member will not be allowed to take books for the use of himself or seme members of his fam-. cents per month, imvariably in -adFance. pai Rule 2d. The librarian must eharge all persons taking books from the library with the value thereof, ed, shall collect the amount so-charged from the persoa taking it. Rule 3d. The ‘librarian shall not permit any person to take more than ene book or two volufiés of the same series at the same time or to detain “books longer than two weeks without #0}0: ting to him. <_< => Nevada County Reunion. We find the following notice in-the Ban Francisco Chronicle: ‘Nevadans! All former residents ef Nevada County, California, are tequested to meet at the Cosmopoltun Hotel, at 4 o'clock, ¥.-m., on Saturday, the 26th of Febraary, to fake steps to organize u society for antual revuiens, A prompt and} generul attendunee ie desired.” By the-above it will be seen that. the old settlers have not forgotten their eld home, and that they are moving in the matter of organiZition, as we asserted @ short time since, After this mectingsomething . definite willbe known of the plans and then the home organization can be completed, so as to work in 4yni-son, and thereby guaraniee the success of the fivet sednion. = =>_ Govranpn Bice approved thé bill ¢° Introduce Sewing inio the pnblic gebouls et Massuyn asetts "to please ~Teave itself. __ The Los Angeles Herald has the following concerning a former residept of this city: ‘Professor Havel, who had the grand-sale_ of. pianes and organs.a short time ago, seems. to be a fraud, as the owners of the’ instrument never received a’ cent. An agent of the owners is desirous of an_interview, but it seems he will have to go to New Zealand to get it. Arrangements are being made by the Episcopalians at Grass Valley, to have services. once a week in that town. Rev. Mr. Davis, of this city, will probably officiate. Hon. Wm. Watt, who has been seriously ill daring the past week, is How convalescent, His hosts of friends hereabouts will rejoice when they learn that he is able to be, around again enjoying his usual good health. ANoTHER Mamoru Cave.—Aboat & week ago, says a correspondent of the Louisville Journal, twe young men named White, while idly wandering iu a large tract of wild, dense forest near Columbia, Kentucky, di eovered what they pect wiee. sinkhole or fox den, and with that idea proceeded to explore it, After a littletroublé in making their way throngh the entrance, the cave, (for }Sach it proved to he) begame lurge enough to admit of their walking upright. ‘They bad proceeded: thus fn this passage probubly oue bundred }aud fifty yards, when they emerged into a large and p.cturesqué galle? the béauty and saaudaee ob which will rival that of ‘the old Mammoib The room, secording to their calculations, is about cone utuured aud fifty by one hundred: teet. and abounds in all the varietics of the stalactites aud stulagmiles, . in its bosom thy tip-tilted nose, and breathe of its perfume entrancing. The damsel she sniffed, and she turned her about, and she turned ter about and shé signed; and at . length, with a pretty petulant pout, ‘she thus to her lover replied: ‘Bad, ray, dud’t you, my darlig, be huff’d, or I've taked the frightfulléest cold tod woo} stuff’d, . Mss, Atick Vane (Mrs. John Templeton )uf the Templeton Trotipe” Sang. recentiy at Denison, a picture vender’s suug in which were introduced the names of Lee, Stonewall Jacksom and other Confederate generals. The song was highly eulogistic, and ¢omprised also the name of Washington. It had been well re ceived elsewhere, but at the above lace a Col. Strang hissed it. Miss une stopped, much disturbed. The audience—cried ‘Gro on,’’: but the colonel called out, ‘Stop, we don't want to heas-it.’’ The audience redoubled its. eries to “Go on," but the colonel eulled out, “Stop, we don’t want to bear it.” The andience redoubled its eries to continue, aud John Templeton called out from the win he shall continue,”’ She did-#o, and finished the song Sithcas further Colonel. A younc husband in Little Falls, N. ¥., plunned to scare his wife, wich whom he hid quarreled. He went into the woodated, fired of a gun, arranged himself on the ground us a bogus corpse, and waited tor her to /cowe out; and faint atsightof him. 4 She didn’t come, however,and he was cumpelied to sneak into the hodse and hear her say, “I dida’t scare worth w cent, did I?” — fn molestation from the , Taw reason why Anterican stuéuis are unpopular at the European woiversities Ae a y e happy faculty of thrashing every “furrimer’’ who iusulis them. ‘EPbis the European youth do not relish, of "ee eraue cota ‘Of the best known of thie Brook-}~ ‘id “by head, and by ears are with cot. tuse they have al If she did she would die,. that you could geta young wife. It is the fashion for men to shake off. the old wife whea they get rich. If our wife was not guod looking we would give-her-at—least half the -propesty-ifrich, and allif poor, = = Don’t be ashamed toget a divofce+ itis fashionable nowadays, but be liberal to the ‘told womun,’’ as. you callher. It will give-the young one you want confidends,._Youshould} not get one over twenty. Give tle Bishop a set of chimes for St. Mary’s . Cutbedral, and .he will give youa dispensation to marry. Be sure that her father confessor is a good looking, bealthy man, and. that your nian of all work, and particularly . your eoachman is healthy and geod . ooking. ‘Then yon and youn new wife will be happy,\and especially Tur Deisxinc Warr or -Lonpox. —A correspondent of the Springfield (Mass.) Republican denounces the drinking water of London. Says he: ‘Fancy-baving to drink liquid ‘which is the washing and draining of five counties, consisting of 2,352,640. acres. Upon thie land live 200,000 people, 60,000horses, 160, 000 eattle, 900,000-sheep, and 120;hogs. The water which passes through all this “populstion, their . towns villages, farms, manure fields and yards, through drains, with waste matter from tan-pits, paper mills, gas works, and so on,. comes down the Thames, and when said to finds its way to the tablesandi homes of nearly all aristocrat as well as valgar London. Indéed, the West End of London, containing the residences of royalty and nobility, has the worst water there is in the metropolis. Whatis suppliedin the fashionable quarter is not fit to drink, nor can avy filtering meke it. so.”’ ‘Now, gentlemen,” said Sheridan. te his guests, as-the-iadies teft-the iroom, ‘‘let ug understand sack other. Are we to drink like men or beasts?’”” Somewhat indignant, the; guests—exclaimed, ‘‘Like men, of wourse."“~ Then,” he replied, “ws brutes never drink more than they want.” aoe Wues the Prince of Wales arrived at Bombay somebody gave him a boquet in which was’a card, on which Wag,.written: ‘Phy days ure numbered.””__ Alfred Edward, not scaring. worth a cent, laughed, aad called for brandy and soda. > Tarx have an unsuccessful Ameriean soda fowatain at one of the Liyerpvol bars, but the man on daty dves not know how to workit, and the wonsequence: is everbody gets spattered whed he turns. the wheel. Besides, the hair oil they use, for flavor hus dn everpowering smell. ~~ ‘Tag world is fall of men who cheerfully *‘boss a job’’ for a dolilar and » haif a day, wuer five dollars a day for actual work would not be the slighest consideration for them. beside: the beehive be taken Pn acannon ; is to be seen all the Winter long, while the cockroach is up at five o'clock im the morning and never goes to bed till midnight. Let’s Aman in New Hampshire had the misfortane recentiy to lose his wife. Over the grave he caused a stone to be placed, on which, in the depth of his grief, be bad ordered to be in~ scribed: **I'ears can not restore her —therefore I weep.” Tux man who leaves the door open’ in Winter is the same pened 2 The invariably closes itin Summer. ArTangemeuts are now being perfected ! par Portland Board of yoted/to request. the Senators and . . . propriatien of /$25,000, or 90 mnch be ‘filtered well, clear and bright,’. are going to get jolly drunk, for. : * 18. “Happy Little Darkies.” change this thing.—[Buoston Tran-. Representatives of the State in Congress*to endeavor: to secure.an ap{ thereof aw may‘be necessary to build a signal ard telegraph libe from the forts at the mouth of’ the Colombia rriver, via Astoria to Pértiand,Ore. gov, to the end ‘hati shipping im distress may be -relieved, and lives thereby endangered may; be saved; and also that the massing of troops in the department of the Columbia may be greatly facilitated in case ofneed. This will require five or six: tailes of cable to lay from—Fort Canby across to Point Adams, which. would cost on an averale $1,000 per: “would be in the vicinity of 100 miles land line to build and equip. — Bruew unn Pornrep.-—Edwin, a of the briefest and most effective _was, “‘Man js born to trouble, as the sparks are to fiy upward:’’ and this was: his sermon: “LZ shall consider} }this discourse unden three heads: first, man’s ingress into the world; secondly, man’s progress though the ‘world; thirdly-mun's egress out of the world; and:. : Firstly Man's ingress Secondly—Man’s progresethrough the . wor!d is trouble sad care, : Lastly—His egress ont of. the world.is. no. body knows where. If we do well here we shall do well there— Ican tell you no moreif If preach a year.” ee into. the world is TE jumping match between Joh “Wesley aud a man named Lucas, came off on the Agricultural Park atLos Angeles, last Monday, and ¢was .wou by Wesley, who }wou-—the match and the — $1,000 by jumping nineteen fest nine inch= ‘THE Sacramento Valley Railroad Company are having several hare ‘about their buildings andpremises at Folsom, not only to-serve as shade trees, but also to test their abilities to protect against fever and ague. ber of Congress from California, and . now a resident of Versailles, Ky., fell end broke bis bip, a-fewdays ago, and will be a cripple for life. ~Visatta is bragging over the enviable possession of a double headed lamb. A Srocgron Nimrod ¥ecently_ killed 624 matiard ducks in four days. BORN. aoe “At Marysvilly, February 19th, 1876, to Samuel Shockan and wife, a son. GRAND CONCEPT F= THE BENEFIT OF THE. CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, The following is the Programme of Exexcises for the evening: = = 1, Instrumental Music. : 2. Mistress J inks,” Miss Lizzie Ciasson 3. “Grecian Bend,” Miss Lizzie Cornell. 4. Select Reading, Mrs. Wm. Holmes. 5. Vocal Duett, Mrs. George Smith and Miss Deblia Bachtal. 6. Song, “Prettiest Girl I know,” Miss Emma Glasson. ~ T, Farce, “Fun in the Kitchen.” Jenkins. _ 9, Song, Master Johnny Canfield. 10. Select Reading, Mrs. A. Chapman. 11, Atistrumental Music. 12. Solo, Mrs. Barton. 13. Comic Duett, Misses Ida and Lizzie Glasson. 14, Solo, Mrs. Gao. Smith. 15. Comic Soug, Miss Susie Shearer; 16. Select Reading, Mrs. Goodwin. “ 11, Song, “Coming from the Matinee,” Mrs. Barton. é Harrigan. 19. Drawing of Silver Tea Set. Concert commences at 8 o’clock. Nevada City, Feb. th, 1976, = TALBOIT’S SALOON. GRASS VALLEY ROAD, OPPOSITE THE TOLL HoUBK. Ss. TALBO?PT on hand as can be found at any Bar in the county. Give him a call—everybody. £22-lm NOTICE. LL CITY TAXES for the fiscal year} tore the first day of March next, will be te delinquent and advertised. tor H.W. VALAN RESIDENT PHY FFICE, COMMERCIAL STREBT, 4 posite Potter & sigourney’s 14 Kesidence at Mr W. J. IAN, ‘Ss, Piet Mimile, and besides the cable there}. [sermons ever. delivered.-—_His -text+ dred Euealyptus trees planted all}Nep Manswaxt, formerly a mem-{; Phursday Eve’g; Feb. 24. . 8._Duett, Mrs. Wm. Barternand Jos, } W eeps e@ good LIQUORS and CIGARs as} of 1875-6, that are not paid on or he. _ GREATEST EXCITEMENT OF THE SEASON! LET THE WORLD KNOW. IT: L, JACOBS & BRO. in order to make room for immense importations from Eastern markets. They offer fur the : NEXT THIRTY ‘DAYS, : The foliewing 3 2 : i GREAT BARGAINS IN THE. =DRY GOODS LINE. __ Guarantee what. we sell. ~~ BRICES. First Clearing Sale!’ a, RE OFFERING THE GREATEST ~ BARGAINS ever g'ven iu this City ~~ _ We will sell-what we advertise and; . LOOK AT THE FOLLOWING once popular English actor, is~cred-. \ Aa =" ited with the authorship of one ‘Merrimack Prints, $1. . 10 yards: Muslin, $1. (Muslin, $1. lin, $1. —% yards. Fruit of Loom. Muslin, $1: ee te . 9 yards Pequot Brown 4-4 Muslin, $1. 40 cents per yard. + 9-4 Pequot bost Shooting, 35 cents per yard. re 30 cents per yard. Delaines, the best, per yard, 174 cents. nme per yard, 22} cents. ~ All wool Poplin” Plaids, per yard, 50 cents. $1. 9 yards Lonsdale ‘44 Mos 7 yards New York Mills 8-4 Pequot Best Sheeting, << 6 ounces. Zephyr Wool,_13 yards Sprague and: 9 yards White Rock 4-4 . 4 NEY a y Dy. Z.% _ Prackee, has his o tice Peel, law firt Truckee, men nam -Garder on ata li vada Cit: get-out a — racing, at Same thre yet we wii eould affo: four mile Dr. Wa been appe TE0 To hy with a Wardswer Mr. He elass in b \ 104 Pequot Best Sheeting, . ; \ Repps for Wrappers, best, g vrs Spool Cotton, ‘the best, perdozen, 75 cents. 3-plyCaxpets, per yard, Brussels, per yard, $1 20.— . And our entire stock will be. sold in the same proportion. In order to make room for our next Spring stock, we: will sell goods as advertised for the next. ees J 30 DAYS, And give the Ladies of Nevada City and’ County the benefit of this Great Clearing Sale. — ‘Orders kindly soligited and prompt ly filled. Everybody invited to call and con-vince themselves, at : EL. JACOBS & BRO., _ Broad Street, Nevada. _ February ist, 1876, CONCERT AND FESTIVAL! Monday, April 8d, 1876, ¥ THE FRIENDS OF THE METEODisf CHURCH. __ . The proceeds to be appled-in_liquidating the Debt on the new Church. THE CONCERT; —— talent of the City, whe have prom~ ised their assistance, and will be TABLEAU. A FINE SUPPEB * wuereby @ bounty will be paid for his seaip. E Hill. . Orders leit at ‘Bell & Bel og = o. tat &‘ Will be prepared for the oscasionAT THE NEVADA THEATRE, — eourse, . “ gentleman Trees a ~ It-will not be filled “Ripping ‘there will “year, 2 Os Fie -——entertainy ed. The find somet. think the . _ good hous. which the. en, onght t ~~ “gttendanee They are ter up at tl imiue Will r --@wpers the hard to see County menced the ‘was deling last, and co day up till adjourned,t as M. ‘ _ May weat latitude. I in any Beast now. The Gras: not be long will make 2: _ Schoel boy, ers and pr No family w boy. ~— John W, 1 ~toriety, was mined with . The cabin t there, and is feet of our B The Gold: “ty well now. San Francisc is $200,000 f a The " The one h anniversary « . ton was celet manner in th _farled from houses, and _ buildings; th parade, the Post Office, Court House ning the, Ri: eame off at Ty ~ day was not striking event antly and in ¢ ‘Tin, Copper s E. W. Aver shop on Main Holmes’ Harn ~ to do all kinds ~ the best mann He also has th mpairing and City Water Wi —

gs : -ation—they show-they have very __ ed one, and: party lines. will no dowbs > animosity, and men of opposing parGransevipt “nana z Wednesday, Feb. 23, 1876. Poetics. ; While political parties are necesgary in a Republican forme of government, it is. ry that mrem-. . Bers “ere tees each othé7 as personal enemies, oy think that all intelligent and honest citizens belong to their particular organization. The policy of a party may suit one téan, audi entirely dissatisfy another, ave’ entizely cousciencious. When be satisfied if they are. “their minds, and-to prejudice them against their neighbors because they ete Local Brevitiex™ laying until there is a sufficient number of ties delivered to finish up the road to the depot. Yesterday a gang . of men were at work ballasting near near Grass Walley. Considerable valuable-property in this county has been sold by Gollector Sanford to satisfy taxes and. costs on tthe. same. It is very strange that people will permit their property to be sold: at auction for taxes, well knowing thutin order to and still both may be and doubtiess+zedeen it again they must pay 50 per cent. above the purchase price. Pte their triers TBs Htign belong to a different political organ. ‘small mind. The coming Presidential campaign promises to be a heatbe drawn very closely. Issues will probably be discussed that will of themselyes tend to arouse sectional remainder of the properly ad vertised will be disposed of to the —best--bid-_ der. = There was uo sessions of the Stock Boards in-SanFrancisco yesterday or the day before; but-the curb-stone brokers are having their usual sessions, and the street quotations were as follows: Opbir,. 6434; Mexican; ries. : : The preacher hae receives’: the ighest salary in this country (excenting possibly Cardinal Moles. key, the Archbishop of Bultiwore, the Bishop of Quebec,.and some other dignitaries of the Catholic Charck, whose_expenses ‘are paid . from ‘the eommon: revenues of the church) ig.Henry Ward Beecher, pastor of Plymouth Church, Brooklyn. For several years past his salary has been $20,000 per annem. In addition to this it issafe to:say that he receives $5,000 per annum forvarious lectures delivered: by him during the Winter season in the principal cities in the Union.” His salary as editor of the Christian Union as $20,000 per annum, and from the Christian Union Publishing Co. he one year received $10,000 for a . Life of Christ, which, by the way, 0 , beenAinished. Besides . all this, he is in receipt of an uunual ‘facome, varying from year to yeur, as author’s percentage: e sale of his published works, “Star Papezs,’” Lete. So that here i#™%preacher whose income for several years past $40,000 per: annum, and sometimes considerably more, What he has. done with itis a mystery. He tea= tified duving the trial that he had mortgaged hishouse in Brooklyn for $5,000 to: provide Theodore Tilton with means to-start the Golden Age, + Distinguished Clergymen’s Sule-. ‘No work was done at this end of . , . the railroad yesterday. It is ubderstood that there will no more’ track jean give me the advice I should has been in. the neighborhood, of . ~ Jim McCue, the editor-of the San Francisco Free Press, publishes the following correspondence: _. February 14, 1876. Editor Freez Press: -. I write to you, knowing that you have. I have been married a Jong . time. My wife is-nearly as old as myself, We. were very poor when we got murried; but through the economy.of.the old woman we got along as well as poor folks generally do thut start out poor. Bat I have been very licky for the last few years: I am now very rich, and the old woman is just the seme as she was when poor. I can not stand it. Sheis forty-six years old and_not very good looking, which mortifies me. Sheis very healtby,.and will very likely live twenty years, longer. have a young. wife, to pet me. . What shall I do? I an» a Catholic; and the priest won’t let me get an-other wife if I had a divorce fromr thoold woman. Yours, 2S _ =~ --Racm Man. Repry.--Yours of the 14th received. “You have my. -sympathy. ‘The idea of -a man worth a. million hving with an old woman that is not good looking, even: ifshe did mend yourstockings and sew buttons oa your shirts foryears, The old ____._______ hound volumes_of ngwspapers—and___ thing: av itis, and remember when “their opponents have béew good . be after-it, and prebably are during ~__sciensious in their viewsas”they-are themselves?-If-a little time were al—prineipled, — notwithstanding — they ~~“jnen wonld engage in personal wran-. ~ gles on politics} qucmions. “Such el~ > weading. The room iv which the ti~ to the fullowing rules: ~~ fly except upon the -payment-of—fifty ~ and the book ie lost or not return_ pi# constituents, ties will no doubt come to look wpon heir opponents as anything but honorable_men._The members of “ene party willHiook upon those of the: _other as dishonest, disloyal and unmay have known them for years to be hovest;-npright-and-—reliable citi‘gets. Gannot people look at this they get iv the hént of the fight that} neighbors before the campaign, will its continuance, as honest and: conlowed for thought, we do not believe allowed to control. Oda Fellows” Library. _‘There are 2,662 volumes inthe Odd Fellows’ Library of this city, consisting of 1856-volumes of scientific, literary and romance, the balance being public reports. _ term 1,167 books were taken out and vead, of which 1,023 were of light brary is kept is neatly furmished and earpeted, and it is open each day. H.C. McKelvey is the librarian, and is always ready to. wait upon those who patronize-the library. The following are the rules regulating the use of books: Section lst. The members of Ountomah Ledge, No, 16, I. 0. O.F., whose names are furnished to the hibrarian shall constitute the nrembership. ee Sec. 2d. All persons not members shall be entitled to the ase of books “wpon the payment of fifty cents per 20%; Gould & Curry, 2114; Savage, 2014; Chollar-Potosi,98; Alpha, 28%; Belcher, 2744; Con’ Virginia, 446; Overman, 67; Justice, 25; CaledoThere are several good quartz . mines on Gold Flat that would pay well if proper worl was done on them. We don’t-lnow-why the owns ers aliow.them to remain idle,. Two fof them, the Potosi and Orleans have fine ledges, and yet no work isbeing done on them. __ The Grass Valley Union. says:— Richard Penhall, who was hurt in the New York Hill mine last Saturday, died Monday afternoon, The . mass of rock that fell wpox him in. . jured him so that there was no hope vf saving his life fvom the time he } was hurt. ‘The Champions of Red Cross have instituted a lodge at Grass Valley. It is not trne that the editor of the Union has attached himself to it. ‘The Marysville Appeal says: Au Distriet Court for the sale of the Blue Gravel mine and appurtenances, at Smartsville.— This sale isthe result of u suit growing out of a sort of . Contract -and Finance Company— the majority of owners leasing the miné to themselves at a low price. The mine has been idle, and under injunction for about a year, thereby failing to give employment to a large nuitiber of laborers,and adding to the general dullness of the times. At the sale, which will probably take place as soon as the legal notice can -be given, the mine will fall into the hands ef one party-or the other, and mining beresumed. Either party is willing to buy or gell, we understand, andthe question is who will give the most dollurs? California,8874; Sierra Nevada, 21%; . ~The Rev, Dr. Hall, pastor of the Fifta Avenue Presbyterian Church,. came several years ago from Belfast, Ireland, on the call of the church of which he is sow pastor. His salary was then fixed ut $10,000-gold per. annum and sii yeMaing the same. . He also adds to: his income by writing and lecturing. : ~The Rev. Dr. Hepworth, of the Church of the Disciples, was in the Aeceipt of a salary of $10,000 per auuum until recently, but it bas been reduced, it is understood, of late. = The Rev, Dr. Storrs,of the Church of the Pilgrims, Brooklyn, receives . a salary of $10,000 per annum. He was offered an advanced salary by -one of the New York Congregational churches, some time ago;but—was‘induced to remain with his old charge, ___ one Flyn pastors, receives $10,000: per annum.Vhe Rev. Dr. Morgan Dix, the rector of Trinity,. receives $15,000 }peraunum. He has two or more assistants, who receive from $4,000 to $6,000 each. ‘The senior nitnis-. -ter—at—St. Paul’s receives $10;000, salary, and bas an assisiant at $4,000. The pastor who officiates at order _wasmade Saturday in the Trinity chapel, in West Belg eighth street, also receives $10,0 and has one or more assistants, The Rev. Dr, Chapin, pastor of the Church of the Divine Paternity . (Universalist), at Fifth avenue and Forty-fifth street, also receives $10,000 per annum, The Rev. Dr. Noah Hunt Schenck, rector of St. Aun’s, on the Heights, the iashionable Episcopal church of Brooklyn; receives $10,000-sulary.— Poetieal. He threw himself bump at her fairy-like feet, while her dainty white fingers he press’d, and his tones were quite low and expressively sweet, us the maiden he gently address’d. Give ear, Omy charnaingest, now unto me, and yaze not around thee unheeding; of thy heart let’ thy lover’s fond words :be the key—oh, Hist to his eloquent -pleading. Amd look! he has plucked thee a,bonny red rose, the dew on its month, invariably in advance, subject Rule Ist,.A member will not be allowed to take books for the use of himself or seme members of his fam-. cents per month, imvariably in -adFance. pai Rule 2d. The librarian must eharge all persons taking books from the library with the value thereof, ed, shall collect the amount so-charged from the persoa taking it. Rule 3d. The ‘librarian shall not permit any person to take more than ene book or two volufiés of the same series at the same time or to detain “books longer than two weeks without #0}0: ting to him. <_< => Nevada County Reunion. We find the following notice in-the Ban Francisco Chronicle: ‘Nevadans! All former residents ef Nevada County, California, are tequested to meet at the Cosmopoltun Hotel, at 4 o'clock, ¥.-m., on Saturday, the 26th of Febraary, to fake steps to organize u society for antual revuiens, A prompt and} generul attendunee ie desired.” By the-above it will be seen that. the old settlers have not forgotten their eld home, and that they are moving in the matter of organiZition, as we asserted @ short time since, After this mectingsomething . definite willbe known of the plans and then the home organization can be completed, so as to work in 4yni-son, and thereby guaraniee the success of the fivet sednion. = =>_ Govranpn Bice approved thé bill ¢° Introduce Sewing inio the pnblic gebouls et Massuyn asetts "to please ~Teave itself. __ The Los Angeles Herald has the following concerning a former residept of this city: ‘Professor Havel, who had the grand-sale_ of. pianes and organs.a short time ago, seems. to be a fraud, as the owners of the’ instrument never received a’ cent. An agent of the owners is desirous of an_interview, but it seems he will have to go to New Zealand to get it. Arrangements are being made by the Episcopalians at Grass Valley, to have services. once a week in that town. Rev. Mr. Davis, of this city, will probably officiate. Hon. Wm. Watt, who has been seriously ill daring the past week, is How convalescent, His hosts of friends hereabouts will rejoice when they learn that he is able to be, around again enjoying his usual good health. ANoTHER Mamoru Cave.—Aboat & week ago, says a correspondent of the Louisville Journal, twe young men named White, while idly wandering iu a large tract of wild, dense forest near Columbia, Kentucky, di eovered what they pect wiee. sinkhole or fox den, and with that idea proceeded to explore it, After a littletroublé in making their way throngh the entrance, the cave, (for }Sach it proved to he) begame lurge enough to admit of their walking upright. ‘They bad proceeded: thus fn this passage probubly oue bundred }aud fifty yards, when they emerged into a large and p.cturesqué galle? the béauty and saaudaee ob which will rival that of ‘the old Mammoib The room, secording to their calculations, is about cone utuured aud fifty by one hundred: teet. and abounds in all the varietics of the stalactites aud stulagmiles, . in its bosom thy tip-tilted nose, and breathe of its perfume entrancing. The damsel she sniffed, and she turned her about, and she turned ter about and shé signed; and at . length, with a pretty petulant pout, ‘she thus to her lover replied: ‘Bad, ray, dud’t you, my darlig, be huff’d, or I've taked the frightfulléest cold tod woo} stuff’d, . Mss, Atick Vane (Mrs. John Templeton )uf the Templeton Trotipe” Sang. recentiy at Denison, a picture vender’s suug in which were introduced the names of Lee, Stonewall Jacksom and other Confederate generals. The song was highly eulogistic, and ¢omprised also the name of Washington. It had been well re ceived elsewhere, but at the above lace a Col. Strang hissed it. Miss une stopped, much disturbed. The audience—cried ‘Gro on,’’: but the colonel called out, ‘Stop, we don't want to heas-it.’’ The audience redoubled its. eries to “Go on," but the colonel eulled out, “Stop, we don’t want to bear it.” The andience redoubled its eries to continue, aud John Templeton called out from the win he shall continue,”’ She did-#o, and finished the song Sithcas further Colonel. A younc husband in Little Falls, N. ¥., plunned to scare his wife, wich whom he hid quarreled. He went into the woodated, fired of a gun, arranged himself on the ground us a bogus corpse, and waited tor her to /cowe out; and faint atsightof him. 4 She didn’t come, however,and he was cumpelied to sneak into the hodse and hear her say, “I dida’t scare worth w cent, did I?” — fn molestation from the , Taw reason why Anterican stuéuis are unpopular at the European woiversities Ae a y e happy faculty of thrashing every “furrimer’’ who iusulis them. ‘EPbis the European youth do not relish, of "ee eraue cota ‘Of the best known of thie Brook-}~ ‘id “by head, and by ears are with cot. tuse they have al If she did she would die,. that you could geta young wife. It is the fashion for men to shake off. the old wife whea they get rich. If our wife was not guod looking we would give-her-at—least half the -propesty-ifrich, and allif poor, = =

Don’t be ashamed toget a divofce+ itis fashionable nowadays, but be liberal to the ‘told womun,’’ as. you callher. It will give-the young one you want confidends,._Youshould} not get one over twenty. Give tle Bishop a set of chimes for St. Mary’s . Cutbedral, and .he will give youa dispensation to marry. Be sure that her father confessor is a good looking, bealthy man, and. that your nian of all work, and particularly . your eoachman is healthy and geod . ooking. ‘Then yon and youn new wife will be happy,\and especially Tur Deisxinc Warr or -Lonpox. —A correspondent of the Springfield (Mass.) Republican denounces the drinking water of London. Says he: ‘Fancy-baving to drink liquid ‘which is the washing and draining of five counties, consisting of 2,352,640. acres. Upon thie land live 200,000 people, 60,000horses, 160, 000 eattle, 900,000-sheep, and 120;hogs.. The water which passes through all this “populstion, their . towns villages, farms, manure fields and yards, through drains, with waste matter from tan-pits, paper mills, gas works, and so on,. comes down the Thames, and when said to finds its way to the tablesandi homes of nearly all aristocrat as well as valgar London. Indéed, the West End of London, containing the residences of royalty and nobility, has the worst water there is in the metropolis. Whatis suppliedin the fashionable quarter is not fit to drink, nor can avy filtering meke it. so.”’ ‘Now, gentlemen,” said Sheridan. te his guests, as-the-iadies teft-the iroom, ‘‘let ug understand sack other. Are we to drink like men or beasts?’”” Somewhat indignant, the; guests—exclaimed, ‘‘Like men, of wourse."“~ Then,” he replied, “ws brutes never drink more than they want.” aoe Wues the Prince of Wales arrived at Bombay somebody gave him a boquet in which was’a card, on which Wag,.written: ‘Phy days ure numbered.””__ Alfred Edward, not scaring. worth a cent, laughed, aad called for brandy and soda. > Tarx have an unsuccessful Ameriean soda fowatain at one of the Liyerpvol bars, but the man on daty dves not know how to workit, and the wonsequence: is everbody gets spattered whed he turns. the wheel. Besides, the hair oil they use, for flavor hus dn everpowering smell. ~~ ‘Tag world is fall of men who cheerfully *‘boss a job’’ for a dolilar and » haif a day, wuer five dollars a day for actual work would not be the slighest consideration for them. beside: the beehive be taken Pn acannon ; is to be seen all the Winter long, while the cockroach is up at five o'clock im the morning and never goes to bed till midnight. Let’s Aman in New Hampshire had the misfortane recentiy to lose his wife. Over the grave he caused a stone to be placed, on which, in the depth of his grief, be bad ordered to be in~ scribed: **I'ears can not restore her —therefore I weep.” Tux man who leaves the door open’ in Winter is the same pened 2 The invariably closes itin Summer. ArTangemeuts are now being perfected ! par Portland Board of yoted/to request. the Senators and . . . propriatien of /$25,000, or 90 mnch be ‘filtered well, clear and bright,’. are going to get jolly drunk, for. : * 18. “Happy Little Darkies.” change this thing.—[Buoston Tran-. Representatives of the State in Congress*to endeavor: to secure.an ap{ thereof aw may‘be necessary to build a signal ard telegraph libe from the forts at the mouth of’ the Colombia rriver, via Astoria to Pértiand,Ore. gov, to the end ‘hati shipping im distress may be -relieved, and lives thereby endangered may; be saved; and also that the massing of troops in the department of the Columbia may be greatly facilitated in case ofneed. This will require five or six: tailes of cable to lay from—Fort Canby across to Point Adams, which. would cost on an averale $1,000 per: “would be in the vicinity of 100 miles land line to build and equip. — Bruew unn Pornrep.-—Edwin, a of the briefest and most effective _was, “‘Man js born to trouble, as the sparks are to fiy upward:’’ and this was: his sermon: “LZ shall consider} }this discourse unden three heads: first, man’s ingress into the world; secondly, man’s progress though the ‘world; thirdly-mun's egress out of the world; and:. : Firstly Man's ingress Secondly—Man’s progresethrough the . wor!d is trouble sad care, : Lastly—His egress ont of. the world.is. no. body knows where. If we do well here we shall do well there— Ican tell you no moreif If preach a year.” ee into. the world is TE jumping match between Joh “Wesley aud a man named Lucas, came off on the Agricultural Park atLos Angeles, last Monday, and ¢was .wou by Wesley, who }wou-—the match and the — $1,000 by jumping nineteen fest nine inch= ‘THE Sacramento Valley Railroad Company are having several hare ‘about their buildings andpremises at Folsom, not only to-serve as shade trees, but also to test their abilities to protect against fever and ague. ber of Congress from California, and . now a resident of Versailles, Ky., fell end broke bis bip, a-fewdays ago, and will be a cripple for life.. ~Visatta is bragging over the enviable possession of a double headed lamb. A Srocgron Nimrod ¥ecently_ killed 624 matiard ducks in four days. BORN. aoe “At Marysvilly, February 19th, 1876, to Samuel Shockan and wife, a son. GRAND CONCEPT F= THE BENEFIT OF THE. CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, The following is the Programme of Exexcises for the evening: = = 1, Instrumental Music. : 2. Mistress J inks,” Miss Lizzie Ciasson 3. “Grecian Bend,” Miss Lizzie Cornell. 4. Select Reading, Mrs. Wm. Holmes. 5. Vocal Duett, Mrs. George Smith and Miss Deblia Bachtal. 6. Song, “Prettiest Girl I know,” Miss Emma Glasson. ~ T, Farce, “Fun in the Kitchen.” Jenkins. _ 9, Song, Master Johnny Canfield. 10. Select Reading, Mrs. A. Chapman. 11, Atistrumental Music. 12. Solo, Mrs. Barton. 13. Comic Duett, Misses Ida and Lizzie Glasson. 14, Solo, Mrs. Gao. Smith. 15. Comic Soug, Miss Susie Shearer; 16. Select Reading, Mrs. Goodwin. “ 11, Song, “Coming from the Matinee,” Mrs. Barton. é Harrigan. 19. Drawing of Silver Tea Set. Concert commences at 8 o’clock. Nevada City, Feb. th, 1976, = TALBOIT’S SALOON. GRASS VALLEY ROAD, OPPOSITE THE TOLL HoUBK. Ss. TALBO?PT on hand as can be found at any Bar in the county. Give him a call—everybody. £22-lm NOTICE. LL CITY TAXES for the fiscal year} tore the first day of March next, will be te delinquent and advertised. tor H.W. VALAN RESIDENT PHY FFICE, COMMERCIAL STREBT, 4 posite Potter & sigourney’s 14 Kesidence at Mr W. J. IAN, ‘Ss, Piet Mimile, and besides the cable there}. [sermons ever. delivered.-—_His -text+ dred Euealyptus trees planted all}Nep Manswaxt, formerly a mem-{; Phursday Eve’g; Feb. 24. . 8._Duett, Mrs. Wm. Barternand Jos, } W eeps e@ good LIQUORS and CIGARs as} of 1875-6, that are not paid on or he. _ GREATEST EXCITEMENT OF THE SEASON! LET THE WORLD KNOW. IT: L, JACOBS & BRO. in order to make room for immense importations from Eastern markets. They offer fur the : NEXT THIRTY ‘DAYS, : The foliewing 3 2 : i GREAT BARGAINS IN THE. =DRY GOODS LINE. __ Guarantee what. we sell. ~~ BRICES. First Clearing Sale!’ a, RE OFFERING THE GREATEST ~ BARGAINS ever g'ven iu this City ~~ _ We will sell-what we advertise and; . LOOK AT THE FOLLOWING once popular English actor, is~cred-. \ Aa =" ited with the authorship of one ‘Merrimack Prints, $1. . 10 yards: Muslin, $1. (Muslin, $1. lin, $1. —% yards. Fruit of Loom. Muslin, $1: ee te . 9 yards Pequot Brown 4-4 Muslin, $1.. 40 cents per yard. + 9-4 Pequot bost Shooting, 35 cents per yard. re 30 cents per yard. Delaines, the best, per yard, 174 cents. nme per yard, 22} cents. ~ All wool Poplin” Plaids, per yard, 50 cents. $1. 9 yards Lonsdale ‘44 Mos 7 yards New York Mills 8-4 Pequot Best Sheeting, << 6 ounces. Zephyr Wool,_13 yards Sprague and: 9 yards White Rock 4-4 . 4 NEY a y Dy. Z.% _ Prackee, has his o tice Peel, law firt Truckee, men nam -Garder on ata li vada Cit: get-out a — racing, at Same thre yet we wii eould affo: four mile Dr. Wa been appe TE0 To hy with a Wardswer Mr. He elass in b \ 104 Pequot Best Sheeting, . ; \ Repps for Wrappers, best, g vrs Spool Cotton, ‘the best, perdozen, 75 cents. 3-plyCaxpets, per yard, Brussels, per yard, $1 20.— . And our entire stock will be. sold in the same proportion. In order to make room for our next Spring stock, we: will sell goods as advertised for the next. ees J 30 DAYS, And give the Ladies of Nevada City and’ County the benefit of this Great Clearing Sale. — ‘Orders kindly soligited and prompt ly filled. Everybody invited to call and con-vince themselves, at : EL. JACOBS & BRO., _ Broad Street, Nevada. _ February ist, 1876, CONCERT AND FESTIVAL! Monday, April 8d, 1876, ¥ THE FRIENDS OF THE METEODisf CHURCH. __ . The proceeds to be appled-in_liquidating the Debt on the new Church. THE CONCERT; —— talent of the City, whe have prom~ ised their assistance, and will be TABLEAU. A FINE SUPPEB * wuereby @ bounty will be paid for his seaip. E Hill. . Orders leit at ‘Bell & Bel og = o. tat &‘ Will be prepared for the oscasionAT THE NEVADA THEATRE, — eourse, . “ gentleman Trees a ~ It-will not be filled “Ripping ‘there will “year, 2 Os Fie -——entertainy ed. The find somet. think the . _ good hous. which the. en, onght t ~~ “gttendanee They are ter up at tl imiue Will r --@wpers the hard to see County menced the ‘was deling last, and co day up till adjourned,t as M. ‘ _ May weat latitude. I in any Beast now. The Gras: not be long will make 2: _ Schoel boy, ers and pr No family w boy. ~— John W, 1 ~toriety, was mined with . The cabin t there, and is feet of our B The Gold: “ty well now. San Francisc is $200,000 f a The " The one h anniversary « . ton was celet manner in th _farled from houses, and _ buildings; th parade, the Post Office, Court House ning the, Ri: eame off at Ty ~ day was not striking event antly and in ¢ ‘Tin, Copper s E. W. Aver shop on Main Holmes’ Harn ~ to do all kinds ~ the best mann He also has th mpairing and City Water Wi —