February 26, 1878 (4 pages)

$s-our only authoreeive Advertisements -and Subscriptions ‘for tho — and receipt for.us in “our name, ‘. Bliéaaf, of of the oldest residonth! e tie eg hg ‘Me, Bt asaut,. Tro . . was born at +-the = oii ized Mpont in Sacramento, He will re-71”: er Blasauf, We have the unpleasant daty to . este the death.of Mr. Jobp of Nevada City, which occurred on’ + Basel, Switzerland, in , He —emigrated-to4 the Inited Stutes, settling in Philadelphia, and trom there came to California in 1851, arriving in this city GIV THE WYDRAULIC MINERS In the face of scientific and practical testimony to the contrary, the press. of that section of the State “whieh has, during the great storing of the past several winters, been devast ited by the waters of t over-flowing rivers, stil) persist in giving vent: to sophistical reasonings to . the effect that the gre-t hydranlio min-. ing interest is solely responsible gor the calamities which have been “entailed upon the: lower lands. The . authority of: skilled engineeis ix j ing. wu b-ewer by teade, he commenced the manufacture uf luger beer, which evocation be followed to the present time. By diligence and frugality he aequired quite’ a competency, and at the time of his death was in good 480 small—there being bat a corpor" Cheap(?) Advertising. The sale of property for Aelinquent frase and COMDLY ‘from day to day; untit: ty is disposed of. Ther Hremarkable features mio ee! the sale this year, which are eclie the people of Nevada county : Never @ house and carefully Watch: d. of being called to the attention of {Phe funeral finally took place, the remains were buried at Malden. /at any preceding time has the attendance on the part, ot bidders been al’s guard on hand ; the biddtte en" sequently had enmexilint igir. own way, and tefused to bid on small portions, but. took ail_or none, thas -circumetimces: At times d during the past three years, be has been severely afflicted with rheumatism, and. about a year ago, while going to. Wheatland for barley, he was thrown vere bruise-onu the leg, which’ was never cured, but cansed him consid. erable annoyauce by its continual . suppnration, Thatterly the wound treated With: the utmost contempt, the experience of observation is ' altogether ignored, and long winded imprecations are hurled against thé 4 ‘vory industry that alopeof.all other agenciés was the means -of placing California where it now stands — with . the very first of the great States of the Union. It was the miner who “first sought Out the land which is today the center of the universe so fur as civilized bumanity is concerned; it was the miner who sttived against all natural powers,persevering in his ~~ eforts watil t86 earth yielded up it treasures, which in torn attracted” __ the — in” “this direction of a) was allowed to heal over, and this is. believed to have been the cause of tbe paralytic stroke. He was stricken down on Saturday morning at 7 o'clock, and died at.about 6 o'clock on Sunday evening. He leaves u wife and five children, besides a large circle of friends to mourn. his loss. Mr. Blasauf was an affble, oud cour. and correct in all his business’ relatious, and was well and favorably, known throughout the county. He will be buried from Odd Fellows” Hull ts-day, at 2 o'slock, by Owstomah Lodge, of which he was & met‘ber: . peopled ars ‘Wastes of the Pacifio Coast with re-inforcements which represent the sinew and misthe -gold -hanters built cities-and towns, churches and school houses, . wad fostered them until to-day we the Republic in point of edneation and learning. From the ground was taken the wealth which cansed the metropolis at the Golden Gate ty rise from a village to a_city; that A Horrible Dream. A Nevada City lady had an awful dream. The door bell rang, but be‘feous gentleman, kind t> his family,. —y . selves off on the spectators-as the :nflicting aa unreasonable penalty on . the unfortunate victims ; the limited which the list was published 1 has re_. salted. in patting the property of a} large number of persons ia limbo an” beknown tp the owners, who would ‘have readily taken precautions against such an event, The only . Leireulation of the obscure sheet-in. caesed and her daughter, who reside in different houses, on a certain wight bad dreanis to'the effect that the.deceased was trying to release i [iiieasert from the grave. The mother Lone another, and the mother was so . mach affected that she visited ‘After the fuveral the‘ wid-wof de] and daughter told their dreams t»-} . clergyman and told. him. -her_siory. Wi He tried to dissuade her from be-. . : Advertised 5. oe at Newada reoige Ne p week endi Call pp, Annie Miss Cheney, Frank -Dupee, Elmer 2 Davilla, Manuel eiveria.” JOHN ‘JACK Has just received an. immense siicincen The'ch -on Sunde There Valley Ta Graham, dobn—— Hile, Miss Susie Hitebcock, Mrs. MattiePraguer, Monsieur ‘canes Le “Mats ball, Heeter 6°” rtbur John ur? B. will ‘ak. eee Heat ada ee . He has all the opuiar brands, CIGARS AND TOBACCo, HE vue AND ‘Tir’ Sp ae a “ry ed ana than an estabiishment in the city. Beever 5 His ‘stock of Tobacco cimnét be Leas. “Bape, Blanche Taylor; Miss Annie Care of H. ae i. Jor i % STc bacco aor. $1, ace ns Bee ar tial Cal SS tegen cma price Fiom 5 to Plugs of Cable Coil Four » wear.the One of state, . The G this even benefit which we -can—percelve—has resulted from the penny-wise-andpound-foolish policy which gave the county advertising to a Chicago (II1.) pablishing concern, has resulted in favor of a few buyers who have strack a big bonanza at the” expense of br tax~payers. me A Few Corrections, We: are pleased to make the following corrections concerning some . of the characters assumed at the Allemannia bal masque on last Friday evening: Miss Lillie McBrown as. Red Riding Hood, made a most favorable impression ; four six-footérs in One.cannot walk three blooks there al. pink dominoes tried _topalm. themFour Graces, but. their boots gave the boys away; and owing to the) fact that no one had ever heard. of . * night without meting at least one, aud often several ra patabieook: ing white people, who ask for a penBy, as wey say, . fore opening the door, she peeked. through the side-lights, and lo! there stood her mother-in-law, with a plethoric traveling bag in her hand and & large bundle under her arm. pand an orphan taken in, was consid but three Graces, the assertion that thé number bad been “raised one,” ered “2 thin”; Miss Kate Madigan Most ladies would have fainted under . the circumstances; but this one thought better of it, and fled to a neightoring house, where she gath-. ered up such articles of wearing apassumed the character « of f Winter ih & becoming mariner. A Baxesable Repert, Assemblymen Dr. Murphy, of San Francisco, and Dr. Wilson, of Placer _ Capital buildings, reared: tne noble. structures inch by ineh, uncomplainingly bearing the Lardea of the mighty expense that monuments might be built to the glory of hon-. est toil, of which no nation need be ashamed, It is these same causes. that the present prosperity and advancement. of California may be asctibed. Let them be smothered out in the interest of agridaltare, and retrogression would ba the ogder of the times “Movufactuting ‘and commercial enterprises would ‘pine away by degrees, und financial rain would result on every hand. The foundation of our present success _ would be sapped, and a deplorable résult would be ivevitabdle, But we do not consider there is yet, or ever will be reason for anticipating such an event, if the degislators at the Capital retain their present ideas of justice and equity: “The question has been thoroughly and squarely dealt with by the ‘legisla tive committee, which was appoiuted to seek forthe true cause of the ‘trouble which. has hitherto been stmining district. They ‘have heard the convincing evidence ofthe friends of mining, and the protesta of the agricultural advocates which were & series of impuissant assertions, unsustained by argument or practical illustration, ‘There is no upriglit and. unprejudiced construction to place upon the array of testimony which was adduced, by which a decision adverse to the mining interésts can -be arrived at. Tne buttle was fought fairly and squarely between the miners and the farmers, aud it was couclasively demonstrated that the latter were at fault in every issue which they sought to raise iu opposition ‘to tne further operation of _hydraulie mines) Now thé farm. ers have been argued out of. taeir case, let them manfally avcept the} situation, and not insist ix inflicting fuctionjut the odds which huve been . arrayed aguinst them.) es A young lady ia Wisconsin ‘re-, fused.an offer of marriage on the ground that her father was not ab le th support’ a See pay 6 luid the foundation for the Stite -parel as she could find lying aroand ‘into the dark depths, when she tributed to thé “slickens” from the!. upoR a neutral public their dissutis. ; . Py coupl@ (the bride was a widow) . lange, and-then-started-for Grase-Vale. ley. Why Grass Valley should have saggested itself in the dream; she cannot imagine. The journey. seemed long and tiresome,—bat she arrived at last, and was about to congratulate herself, when, “horror— . there stood her mother-in-law, bundie, satchel and all, waiting to receive her at the depot. This was too wach. She spoke not a word, but rushed by the old lady, and after Tunning a long ways came to a precipice over one thousand miles high, (probably Cape Horn, on the C. P. : railroad.) over which she leaped}: headlong, She*counted the mileposts in making the descent, and finally plunged inte a cold and dis. mal river. She was still going down awoke and found her husband dashing water into her face, and endeav« oring to bring her out of what ap= peared tobe a terrible fit. The ladyis undoubtedly fond of her husband’ 8 mamma. A Cheeky ‘Tramp. ‘The impudence ef some ‘tramps is sublime._For instance the one whe waltzed up to the front door of a Broad street residence the other ‘ev. ening, and said to the lady of the house when she answered his ring: “I want to sleep here to-night!” “Every room in the house “is occapied, and besides, we do not take iodgers,” the lady replied, scared half to death at the ugly appearance of the beggar. “But;” said he brant dishing a big club which he held in his hund, and scowling . fiercely, “you havd gotto either give me a bed, or the money to hire one with!” Just then her husband appeared upon the scent, and the tramp, cons cluding that discretion was the better part of valor, did not stop to ens . force bis demands. Hapet Anrava!—As, at siwedattag! in Hoyne avenue the other evening, they. were gathered-around the hap_ congratulating them, an oversensi: tive friend burst into tears and eob-. bed: “How glad I am'th it poor dead’ Arthar is not alive tu see this day! ‘Tt would have broken his heart to, mee Si: wife married to some one Da. te Diteet or 4 Pe ‘the . cise. Unived op t, eae sai om the * ‘Then she went into bysteries tavain Conti, who assumed the name rr was removed, having cast al; } county, Committee-on Hospitals and Asylums, whose duty it is to inquire into the condition and management of the charitable institutions receivaffairs of the Nevada ‘City Benevélent Society during their visit here last week, and expressed themselves as much pleased with the manner in which this noble charity for the poor and friendless is conducted, and we have no doubt they will report in favor of the continuance of appropriations by the Legislature. a ae Rich Rock, _ The north drift of the bottom or 300+ foot level of the Alaska mine, located near Grass Valley, is producing some of the richest rock ever taken out in Nevada county, according to the opinion of the Union’s mining sharp. The vein runs from eight to twenty inches in size, If it holds its quality, of which there'is every indication, it will catry intothe Bullion ground adjoining, and the stockholdeis in that mine have every reason to jook forward hopefully for’a good strike . in their ground, Habsius a nie pS haters, ‘Why Popes Change Their Names. . It is a fact Generally known that monks and nuss on assuming their vows, and Popes on ascen ling the pontifical. threne, usually change . change in the case of the Popes is & superstitious belief that uniese' this ie done the Pontiff will not live long. The custom has prevailed ; since it was inaugurated 956 by Ocand title of John XII. Julius Moe. dici would have madea breach had he been permitted, bat his friends. prevailed upon him to take the. ‘pame ef Clement, be being tre seventa Pope to bear that name. Thirty-two years later, in 1755, Marcellus ervies Was eleeted, and insisted upen retaining his owa name. As Marfellas II, therefore, he ascended the throne on the 9th of Apiil.” . days after his elevation. Since that . ' time no Pope has ventured to offend against the tradition. . It is. ® tittle} singdlar thi while ‘the name of ply Se Jobn has been a ‘ing aid-from the State, oxamined tle . ‘He was @young man and ia robust healt ¢ Sokger ‘belived: but t je] Ton't you bay mes new monkey to th when _ go. back town?” and good-looking, the have been driven to this pitiable condition by loss of employment. see @ white person onthe street begging in the day time; bet-colored bepgars are numerous, and Washbington is fast approaching Rome in the numbers of its lazzaroni, The . beggars that go fromm kouse to house are even more numercus than the Gir dh — = atey : You seldom . ‘The faneral will take place from at 2 g'elock, p. M._ Friends and ac. quaintances are invited. to attend. 1 Odd. Fellows’ Hall, to-day, Tuesday, . . te BY CLOSE ATTENTION TO BUSINESS, Low Prices and. honorable . treat. Mining . Claim. Uniren States Laxp OFFtcE, ? mento, Cal., Feb. 27, 1878. § OTICEishereby given, 3 Moore’ 8 Flat Blue Gravel Mining Compaay, a corporation, whose Post Office is San Francisco, California, has made applic#tion for Patent for the Moore’s Fiat pies mine,bearing gold, situate in Moore’s Frist fa tehege . District, Neyada county, Caldesctibed in the piat . field cae on file in this office as follows, vig: _Barvey of Exterior hey gee age Beginning at a pest and rock street beggars and ace a belier cluse ‘of people. _A petition is’ being cireajated through Los Angeles county asking . Congress to so attend the postal laws as to allow the transmission of live bees through the mails, when properly encased in very minute boxes covered with wire cloth. A recent Act of Congress prevent2d the transmission life of animals,jand insects, The bee-keepers hold that the business is constintiy increasimg and that such prohibition is a detriment to necessary traffic, a A wise mandown in New Jersey has devised a way to prevent conflict over his will, He has apportioned his property us he wishes, and then perfected the title to the several taining the papers in his own possession tobe deliveyed at his death. In this way he leaves no wil), and makes clear his design relative to each ef his heirs. “ARE you really wowlan't you lixe to be a bachelor again?” asked a Newark bachelor the other day of a friend who espoused a beautiful girl onlya year ago. “ Happy!” echoed the bene. their names. The reason of this . diet; “happy, why of course I'm happy, and I woulda’t change back. forthe world. But I say, Fred, Jet’ me give you another word of advice: Don’t bea blasted fool and get martied. You heer m me.’*. “1b now, Mire. ‘Sullivan, ¥ errs the counsel, ‘will you bekind enough to tell the Jury whether your. busband was in the habit of ‘striking . ™ you with impunity ?”’ “Wid what?” now and thin; but he sthrack me ofthener ae ats be sande tol a Snir etna to Heb his wite « ot 9 new bat, amd soon after ‘her ‘ttle fade came in and ‘said: “Mamma, parts for the respective heirs, e. “With impunity.” “He waz; Can ar > 10Fr NE corner of Shanghai . os erg standing in Bath House ravine on south side of road trom Moore’s Orleans’ Flat, from. which an alder tree 6 4uches in diameter bears » 56> E 22 links dist, and running thence along eastern east, south 121.20 chains, set port for sw coruer marked s No 3, from which.a cedaf tree 12 inches in diameter. bears 8 62°. 5-22 links dist; thence east 7.57 chains, post in Tuck mound for sm corner marked’ M F No 4; thence north 121.20 chains, post in rock mound marked M F No 8 for ne corner; thence west 7,57 chains to pluce of beginning, and containing 91.74 acres, and desighated as lot No. 58 in sections 15; 22 and 29, Township 18 north, Kange 16 east, Mt; Diahio base and meridian. Said location Was made Angust 9, 1875, by F. P. Morrew et aljand is recorded in the mining records of Nevada county at Nevada City. <The eet clainis by purchase, Adjoining claimants are the Shanghai Co, claims on the west, east by the American Coksolida‘ted Mining Co’s claims. .AlL persons holding any adverse cleime thereto are hereby required to present the same before this fice within riety days from the = of publishing hereof. £26 cFARLAND, Register. No. 936, : Application for Paten‘ to a Mining Cla Chait. esas erie Lanp Orricx, Sacramente,.Cal., Feb. 21, 1875, Ns is hereby given that George 8. 8. Getehell, whosepost office address is Nevada City, ‘Calitornia, has this day filed his application for a patent for ten i acres of er mining groued, situated in Nev bass & California, wr dhcery Peed of the. — oo! of th pina e northwest section . 18, Township 16 “north, Range 9 cast, Mt. Diablo base and meridian, knowa as the Goodman, Head & Co. claims, the same being bounded , an the north by the south boundary liné of Nevada City, on the east by land claimed by Wifliam Clemo, on the south by claim of Thomas Brock, and on the west by tands for which John Cashin has lied fora patent, said claims & little west of the old powder house residence of Wiitiam Clemo. This mine is of reeord in book 7 of m locations, . peas 1 eae ee, and in bork 40 of. 7 of deeds, . ear pd and 150° of the Gflicial re evada claiming ad verseby Any and 4 persons ay portion of bad placer mine ate requis . ed %e file adverse clhims with the po Monee bred United States Lend Office, inthe State of Celi‘ornia, deg "126 ~ ASSESSMENT ‘NOTICE.happlieation for a ac oe al That the }Flat to. line of Shanghai claim; thence var 18° . — Mining District, Nevada . sessment thereon pos . described ag fol. : é * liberal patronage. _Beveda City, Sept. 16, 1877, -NOTICETo -GREDITORS,STATE of N. W. Knowlton, deceased, Notice is hereby given by ‘the undersigned, admizistratrix of the estate of_N. Ww. Knowlton, deveased , to the creditors of_ and all persons: having claime against decedent, to exhibit them with the neces“+t gary vouchers, within four months after the first publication of this notice, to tho gate achatuistretrnd xf-the law office of 7. M. Walling, Pine areas Wevada City, in the county of Nevada 4 7 LOUISA W: KNOWLTON, Admizistratrix of N. W. Knowltcn, Dec. Heveds Uity, Feb. li, 1878. DELIN QUENT NOTICE. EVADA GRAVEL L MINING COMPAXY, Location of principal place of ‘business, San Francisco, Catifornia. Location of works, Nevada Co., Cal. Notice: Phere is delinquent upon the following described Stock, on account of Assestment No. 1, levied ‘on the 17th Gay of Jan., 1878, the several amounts set op) * the names of the respective Shareholders, as follows: No. No. i) Names Certificate Sharer Amt, Barrett, F C, notissued 3000 $150 00 Bobo C D, no¢issued 260 10 00 Hanson AH, notissued 3500 17500 Hanern, F, not isstiéd 3200 ~ 160 00 Laird b T motissued 5000 25000 Laird A T notissued 4000 20000 Messenger H W wot issued 9875 49375 McClelland HH not issued_1500 7590 ‘+ Phillips Geo K, ~not issacd 450 22:50 Shorkey James, not issued 4750 7 30 Smith WA, rotissned 1300 6506 Twist Ira T, not issued 3126 156 %5 Varmey L H, _ notissued 6000 25000 Wood H H notissued 5000 2500 And in accordonce with law, and an or: “der of the Board of Directors, ma¢e.on the 17th day of Jan, 1478, s0 many shares of each parcel. of such Stock as may be necessary, will be sold at public Auctien, at the Office of the Compaty, Room. No. 12, 51 Cal.fornia St., San Francisce>, on FRIDAY, THE EIGHTH DAY OF MARCH, A. D: 1878, at the hour. ofone o'clock, P > M., of seid day, to pay said Delinquent As. tegether with costs Of ges oO. vue Sale, ‘EEOST, sear ve Office, Room Koi 12, 612 Californi:, San Franisco, Cal. £2 ‘' “LOT FOR SALE. TQNeE lot formerly occupied by a planing mill, s?tuated in the rear of the Court ouse, Nevada City, is offered for sale on feet equare,and ete Oe on Pine, Washington end Winter streets. particniars-cal au Nevada City, Feb. 20 gro a Why do se Many Tobacco » Corsumers Trade with — ECAGSE since the First Day = gg ; ed into business in Nevad» City he. the Pelee of Tobacco, as follows :, . . Cable Coil from to ANZANIT ane COMIN Loman ira . Seu re $1. per, pound , oh ke fram. . Fine Unt. Boker Tobacco from coy . $1 25. to $i eee . paxcmeta sees ren + 12-inch and +. from 60 cts. ‘reasonable terms. The. lot is abont 10° _ es “wien, be hopes to Yeceive said Durham Smoking ‘Febaeco to 80 cents per pound. ay fone pret oe 1 eee ent oS a3 Feb, 9ths prone ‘ == at Grass _ Test lieving that her husband was buri-} 4 weap fplbperly ‘eonstituted can . He bas slsoon hand ane stock o¢ . = ia hel ed alive, but she would not listen to accommodate itself to whatever ‘CANDIES, ‘NUTS, FRUIT, , COTLERT, et ete, mn s sr. him, and be. finally enused ‘the Grave . pillows the vicissitudes of aes “New is ye ur chance, eae ip sodas ‘to be opened. To the horror. of all }may place under ei: mos : A SOR SACK “tl the corpse was found lying on its pe ta] renee Bee 5, 1878, _ Dex. Rid side, one sidé of the face being badly’ S enmeiiaaammsemmmmemniaes so —— : bruised andthe top of the casket ite : : 4 é Phe: broken, showing unmistakble that = GROCERY, ERUVIT Any Dower the man had made strenuous efforts. in ee oe February 24th, 1°78, TR inast yes to escape death of ‘Suffocation. oe 2 ne ah a0d Fite daughter. VEGETABLE STORE, -meniory A City Fali of Beggars. aes SA: MARRIED. noe : JOHN SENNER, er, at Gt The city of Washington is fall of ae mY sesniens =e ‘ __verv lars s A urches eA. a ‘= _ driveinto. crime, andthe courts.are. Annie Hutobineon:-= “ani ee eee ne the The mi crowded with criminal business; the ee with-a choice Hag pee mele — Depart women . are “driven. to begging, or. DIED. Grocenrs, ‘the Hail what is worse, so that the city this a — pany No i i ] N ade Ci ¥eb 24th, 1878, in. ANNED GOODs, n= winter isa vast colony of indigent a a. 7 = roar Miunie ‘tie, « ay. people, and in s population of 100,-} aged 6 months. — “as _£BEGETABLES, ~~ Aecore 000, nearly 10 per cent, are without Tek Gu: i Sache at ; “e668, POULTRY} receipts employment and without means. _ the bene 10 $192. Lee S: “en from “County of six mi Ther plentiful vada foi for othe local nin Track the roofs — citizens . — tF-vf squ palm-Tes Geo, § has been ‘field, Sa preme-£ The Tr ing thet Grass \ Quentin, Sheriff C at thatr The hi in the re a fleuris! regular . papplied ket. He day. Loring dangero: is slowly » 10 leave terday, 2 pear on many da A Gra the raint , son ag be in realit: this inst: __ lustrates statemecr Patent € Frede! Nevada at tempted Drucker before t for trial ‘sioners ¢ aminatk bricks 7 home on tions we: ashe str his, eqnil “on wouk tion. G The S: Placed it ‘promisin intereste ad : causing eat ‘question cerned,

$s-our only authoreeive Advertisements -and Subscriptions ‘for tho — and receipt for.us in “our name, ‘. Bliéaaf, of of the oldest residonth! e tie eg hg ‘Me, Bt asaut,. Tro . . was born at +-the = oii ized Mpont in Sacramento, He will re-71”: er Blasauf, We have the unpleasant daty to . este the death.of Mr. Jobp of Nevada City, which occurred on’ + Basel, Switzerland, in , He —emigrated-to4 the Inited Stutes, settling in Philadelphia, and trom there came to California in 1851, arriving in this city GIV THE WYDRAULIC MINERS In the face of scientific and practical testimony to the contrary, the press. of that section of the State “whieh has, during the great storing of the past several winters, been devast ited by the waters of t over-flowing rivers, stil) persist in giving vent: to sophistical reasonings to . the effect that the gre-t hydranlio min-. ing interest is solely responsible gor the calamities which have been “entailed upon the: lower lands. The . authority of: skilled engineeis ix j ing. wu b-ewer by teade, he commenced the manufacture uf luger beer, which evocation be followed to the present time. By diligence and frugality he aequired quite’ a competency, and at the time of his death was in good 480 small—there being bat a corpor" Cheap(?) Advertising. The sale of property for Aelinquent frase and COMDLY ‘from day to day; untit: ty is disposed of. Ther Hremarkable features mio ee! the sale this year, which are eclie the people of Nevada county : Never @ house and carefully Watch: d. of being called to the attention of {Phe funeral finally took place, the remains were buried at Malden. /at any preceding time has the attendance on the part, ot bidders been al’s guard on hand ; the biddtte en" sequently had enmexilint igir. own way, and tefused to bid on small portions, but. took ail_or none, thas -circumetimces: At times d during the past three years, be has been severely afflicted with rheumatism, and. about a year ago, while going to. Wheatland for barley, he was thrown vere bruise-onu the leg, which’ was never cured, but cansed him consid. erable annoyauce by its continual . suppnration, Thatterly the wound treated With: the utmost contempt, the experience of observation is ' altogether ignored, and long winded imprecations are hurled against thé 4 ‘vory industry that alopeof.all other agenciés was the means -of placing California where it now stands — with . the very first of the great States of the Union. It was the miner who “first sought Out the land which is today the center of the universe so fur as civilized bumanity is concerned; it was the miner who sttived against all natural powers,persevering in his ~~ eforts watil t86 earth yielded up it treasures, which in torn attracted” __ the — in” “this direction of a) was allowed to heal over, and this is. believed to have been the cause of tbe paralytic stroke. He was stricken down on Saturday morning at 7 o'clock, and died at.about 6 o'clock on Sunday evening. He leaves u wife and five children, besides a large circle of friends to mourn. his loss. Mr. Blasauf was an affble, oud cour. and correct in all his business’ relatious, and was well and favorably, known throughout the county. He will be buried from Odd Fellows” Hull ts-day, at 2 o'slock, by Owstomah Lodge, of which he was & met‘ber: . peopled ars ‘Wastes of the Pacifio Coast with re-inforcements which represent the sinew and misthe -gold -hanters built cities-and towns, churches and school houses, . wad fostered them until to-day we the Republic in point of edneation and learning. From the ground was taken the wealth which cansed the metropolis at the Golden Gate ty rise from a village to a_city; that A Horrible Dream. A Nevada City lady had an awful dream. The door bell rang, but be‘feous gentleman, kind t> his family,. —y . selves off on the spectators-as the :nflicting aa unreasonable penalty on . the unfortunate victims ; the limited which the list was published 1 has re_. salted. in patting the property of a} large number of persons ia limbo an” beknown tp the owners, who would ‘have readily taken precautions against such an event, The only . Leireulation of the obscure sheet-in. caesed and her daughter, who reside in different houses, on a certain wight bad dreanis to'the effect that the.deceased was trying to release i [iiieasert from the grave. The mother Lone another, and the mother was so . mach affected that she visited ‘After the fuveral the‘ wid-wof de] and daughter told their dreams t»-} . clergyman and told. him. -her_siory. Wi He tried to dissuade her from be-. . : Advertised 5. oe at Newada reoige Ne p week endi Call pp, Annie Miss Cheney, Frank -Dupee, Elmer 2 Davilla, Manuel eiveria.” JOHN ‘JACK Has just received an. immense siicincen The'ch -on Sunde There Valley Ta Graham, dobn—— Hile, Miss Susie Hitebcock, Mrs. MattiePraguer, Monsieur ‘canes Le “Mats ball, Heeter 6°” rtbur John ur? B. will ‘ak. eee Heat ada ee . He has all the opuiar brands, CIGARS AND TOBACCo, HE vue AND ‘Tir’ Sp ae a “ry ed ana than an estabiishment in the city.. Beever 5 His ‘stock of Tobacco cimnét be Leas. “Bape, Blanche Taylor; Miss Annie Care of H. ae i. Jor i % STc bacco aor. $1, ace ns Bee ar tial Cal SS tegen cma price Fiom 5 to Plugs of Cable Coil Four » wear.the One of state, . The G this even benefit which we -can—percelve—has resulted from the penny-wise-andpound-foolish policy which gave the county advertising to a Chicago (II1.) pablishing concern, has resulted in favor of a few buyers who have strack a big bonanza at the” expense of br tax~payers. me A Few Corrections, We: are pleased to make the following corrections concerning some . of the characters assumed at the Allemannia bal masque on last Friday evening: Miss Lillie McBrown as. Red Riding Hood, made a most favorable impression ; four six-footérs in One.cannot walk three blooks there al. pink dominoes tried _topalm. themFour Graces, but. their boots gave the boys away; and owing to the) fact that no one had ever heard. of . * night without meting at least one, aud often several ra patabieook: ing white people, who ask for a penBy, as wey say, . fore opening the door, she peeked. through the side-lights, and lo! there stood her mother-in-law, with a plethoric traveling bag in her hand and & large bundle under her arm. pand an orphan taken in, was consid but three Graces, the assertion that thé number bad been “raised one,” ered “2 thin”; Miss Kate Madigan Most ladies would have fainted under . the circumstances; but this one thought better of it, and fled to a neightoring house, where she gath-. ered up such articles of wearing apassumed the character « of f Winter ih & becoming mariner. A Baxesable Repert, Assemblymen Dr. Murphy, of San Francisco, and Dr. Wilson, of Placer _ Capital buildings, reared: tne noble. structures inch by ineh, uncomplainingly bearing the Lardea of the mighty expense that monuments might be built to the glory of hon-. est toil, of which no nation need be ashamed, It is these same causes. that the present prosperity and advancement. of California may be asctibed. Let them be smothered out in the interest of agridaltare, and retrogression would ba the ogder of the times “Movufactuting ‘and commercial enterprises would ‘pine away by degrees, und financial rain would result on every hand. The foundation of our present success _ would be sapped, and a deplorable résult would be ivevitabdle, But we do not consider there is yet, or ever will be reason for anticipating such an event, if the degislators at the Capital retain their present ideas of justice and equity: “The question has been thoroughly and squarely dealt with by the ‘legisla tive committee, which was appoiuted to seek forthe true cause of the ‘trouble which. has hitherto been stmining district. They ‘have heard the convincing evidence ofthe friends of mining, and the protesta of the agricultural advocates which were & series of impuissant assertions, unsustained by argument or practical illustration, ‘There is no upriglit and. unprejudiced construction to place upon the array of testimony which was adduced, by which a decision adverse to the mining interésts can -be arrived at. Tne buttle was fought fairly and squarely between the miners and the farmers, aud it was couclasively demonstrated that the latter were at fault in every issue which they sought to raise iu opposition ‘to tne further operation of _hydraulie mines) Now thé farm. ers have been argued out of. taeir case, let them manfally avcept the} situation, and not insist ix inflicting fuctionjut the odds which huve been . arrayed aguinst them.) es A young lady ia Wisconsin ‘re-, fused.an offer of marriage on the ground that her father was not ab le th support’ a See pay 6 luid the foundation for the Stite -parel as she could find lying aroand ‘into the dark depths, when she tributed to thé “slickens” from the!. upoR a neutral public their dissutis. ; . Py coupl@ (the bride was a widow) . lange, and-then-started-for Grase-Vale. ley. Why Grass Valley should have saggested itself in the dream; she cannot imagine. The journey. seemed long and tiresome,—bat she arrived at last, and was about to congratulate herself, when, “horror— . there stood her mother-in-law, bundie, satchel and all, waiting to receive her at the depot. This was too wach. She spoke not a word, but rushed by the old lady, and after Tunning a long ways came to a precipice over one thousand miles high, (probably Cape Horn, on the C. P. : railroad.) over which she leaped}: headlong, She*counted the mileposts in making the descent, and finally plunged inte a cold and dis. mal river. She was still going down awoke and found her husband dashing water into her face, and endeav« oring to bring her out of what ap= peared tobe a terrible fit. The ladyis undoubtedly fond of her husband’ 8 mamma. A Cheeky ‘Tramp. ‘The impudence ef some ‘tramps is sublime._For instance the one whe waltzed up to the front door of a Broad street residence the other ‘ev. ening, and said to the lady of the house when she answered his ring: “I want to sleep here to-night!” “Every room in the house “is occapied, and besides, we do not take iodgers,” the lady replied, scared half to death at the ugly appearance of the beggar. “But;” said he brant dishing a big club which he held in his hund, and scowling . fiercely, “you havd gotto either give me a bed, or the money to hire one with!” Just then her husband appeared upon the scent, and the tramp, cons cluding that discretion was the better part of valor, did not stop to ens . force bis demands. Hapet Anrava!—As, at siwedattag! in Hoyne avenue the other evening, they. were gathered-around the hap_ congratulating them, an oversensi: tive friend burst into tears and eob-. bed: “How glad I am'th it poor dead’ Arthar is not alive tu see this day! ‘Tt would have broken his heart to, mee Si: wife married to some one Da. te Diteet or 4 Pe ‘the . cise. Unived op t, eae sai om the * ‘Then she went into bysteries tavain Conti, who assumed the name rr was removed, having cast al; } county, Committee-on Hospitals and Asylums, whose duty it is to inquire into the condition and management of the charitable institutions receivaffairs of the Nevada ‘City Benevélent Society during their visit here last week, and expressed themselves as much pleased with the manner in which this noble charity for the poor and friendless is conducted, and we have no doubt they will report in favor of the continuance of appropriations by the Legislature. a ae Rich Rock, _ The north drift of the bottom or 300+ foot level of the Alaska mine, located near Grass Valley, is producing some of the richest rock ever taken out in Nevada county, according to the opinion of the Union’s mining sharp. The vein runs from eight to twenty inches in size, If it holds its quality, of which there'is every indication, it will catry intothe Bullion ground adjoining, and the stockholdeis in that mine have every reason to jook forward hopefully for’a good strike . in their ground, Habsius a nie pS haters, ‘Why Popes Change Their Names. . It is a fact Generally known that monks and nuss on assuming their vows, and Popes on ascen ling the pontifical. threne, usually change . change in the case of the Popes is & superstitious belief that uniese'

this ie done the Pontiff will not live long. The custom has prevailed ; since it was inaugurated 956 by Ocand title of John XII. Julius Moe. dici would have madea breach had he been permitted, bat his friends. prevailed upon him to take the. ‘pame ef Clement, be being tre seventa Pope to bear that name. Thirty-two years later, in 1755, Marcellus ervies Was eleeted, and insisted upen retaining his owa name. As Marfellas II, therefore, he ascended the throne on the 9th of Apiil.” . days after his elevation. Since that . ' time no Pope has ventured to offend against the tradition. . It is. ® tittle} singdlar thi while ‘the name of ply Se Jobn has been a ‘ing aid-from the State, oxamined tle . ‘He was @young man and ia robust healt ¢ Sokger ‘belived: but t je] Ton't you bay mes new monkey to th when _ go. back town?” and good-looking, the have been driven to this pitiable condition by loss of employment. see @ white person onthe street begging in the day time; bet-colored bepgars are numerous, and Washbington is fast approaching Rome in the numbers of its lazzaroni, The . beggars that go fromm kouse to house are even more numercus than the Gir dh — = atey : You seldom . ‘The faneral will take place from at 2 g'elock, p. M._ Friends and ac. quaintances are invited. to attend. 1 Odd. Fellows’ Hall, to-day, Tuesday, . . te BY CLOSE ATTENTION TO BUSINESS, Low Prices and. honorable . treat. Mining . Claim. Uniren States Laxp OFFtcE, ? mento, Cal., Feb. 27, 1878. § OTICEishereby given, 3 Moore’ 8 Flat Blue Gravel Mining Compaay, a corporation, whose Post Office is San Francisco, California, has made applic#tion for Patent for the Moore’s Fiat pies mine,bearing gold, situate in Moore’s Frist fa tehege . District, Neyada county, Caldesctibed in the piat . field cae on file in this office as follows, vig: _Barvey of Exterior hey gee age Beginning at a pest and rock street beggars and ace a belier cluse ‘of people. _A petition is’ being cireajated through Los Angeles county asking . Congress to so attend the postal laws as to allow the transmission of live bees through the mails, when properly encased in very minute boxes covered with wire cloth. A recent Act of Congress prevent2d the transmission life of animals,jand insects, The bee-keepers hold that the business is constintiy increasimg and that such prohibition is a detriment to necessary traffic, a A wise mandown in New Jersey has devised a way to prevent conflict over his will, He has apportioned his property us he wishes, and then perfected the title to the several taining the papers in his own possession tobe deliveyed at his death. In this way he leaves no wil), and makes clear his design relative to each ef his heirs. “ARE you really wowlan't you lixe to be a bachelor again?” asked a Newark bachelor the other day of a friend who espoused a beautiful girl onlya year ago. “ Happy!” echoed the bene. their names. The reason of this . diet; “happy, why of course I'm happy, and I woulda’t change back. forthe world. But I say, Fred, Jet’ me give you another word of advice: Don’t bea blasted fool and get martied. You heer m me.’*. “1b now, Mire. ‘Sullivan, ¥ errs the counsel, ‘will you bekind enough to tell the Jury whether your. busband was in the habit of ‘striking . ™ you with impunity ?”’ “Wid what?” now and thin; but he sthrack me ofthener ae ats be sande tol a Snir etna to Heb his wite « ot 9 new bat, amd soon after ‘her ‘ttle fade came in and ‘said: “Mamma, parts for the respective heirs, e. “With impunity.” “He waz; Can ar > 10Fr NE corner of Shanghai . os erg standing in Bath House ravine on south side of road trom Moore’s Orleans’ Flat, from. which an alder tree 6 4uches in diameter bears » 56> E 22 links dist, and running thence along eastern east, south 121.20 chains, set port for sw coruer marked s No 3, from which.a cedaf tree 12 inches in diameter. bears 8 62°. 5-22 links dist; thence east 7.57 chains, post in Tuck mound for sm corner marked’ M F No 4; thence north 121.20 chains, post in rock mound marked M F No 8 for ne corner; thence west 7,57 chains to pluce of beginning, and containing 91.74 acres, and desighated as lot No. 58 in sections 15; 22 and 29, Township 18 north, Kange 16 east, Mt; Diahio base and meridian. Said location Was made Angust 9, 1875, by F. P. Morrew et aljand is recorded in the mining records of Nevada county at Nevada City. <The eet clainis by purchase, Adjoining claimants are the Shanghai Co, claims on the west, east by the American Coksolida‘ted Mining Co’s claims. .AlL persons holding any adverse cleime thereto are hereby required to present the same before this fice within riety days from the = of publishing hereof. £26 cFARLAND, Register. No. 936, : Application for Paten‘ to a Mining Cla Chait. esas erie Lanp Orricx, Sacramente,.Cal., Feb. 21, 1875, Ns is hereby given that George 8. 8. Getehell, whosepost office address is Nevada City, ‘Calitornia, has this day filed his application for a patent for ten i acres of er mining groued, situated in Nev bass & California, wr dhcery Peed of the. — oo! of th pina e northwest section . 18, Township 16 “north, Range 9 cast, Mt. Diablo base and meridian, knowa as the Goodman, Head & Co. claims, the same being bounded , an the north by the south boundary liné of Nevada City, on the east by land claimed by Wifliam Clemo, on the south by claim of Thomas Brock, and on the west by tands for which John Cashin has lied fora patent, said claims & little west of the old powder house residence of Wiitiam Clemo. This mine is of reeord in book 7 of m locations, . peas 1 eae ee, and in bork 40 of. 7 of deeds, . ear pd and 150° of the Gflicial re evada claiming ad verseby Any and 4 persons ay portion of bad placer mine ate requis . ed %e file adverse clhims with the po Monee bred United States Lend Office, inthe State of Celi‘ornia, deg "126 ~ ASSESSMENT ‘NOTICE.happlieation for a ac oe al That the }Flat to. line of Shanghai claim; thence var 18° . — Mining District, Nevada . sessment thereon pos . described ag fol. : é * liberal patronage. _Beveda City, Sept. 16, 1877, -NOTICETo -GREDITORS,STATE of N. W. Knowlton, deceased, Notice is hereby given by ‘the undersigned, admizistratrix of the estate of_N. Ww. Knowlton, deveased , to the creditors of_ and all persons: having claime against decedent, to exhibit them with the neces“+t gary vouchers, within four months after the first publication of this notice, to tho gate achatuistretrnd xf-the law office of 7. M. Walling, Pine areas Wevada City, in the county of Nevada 4 7 LOUISA W: KNOWLTON, Admizistratrix of N. W. Knowltcn, Dec. Heveds Uity, Feb. li, 1878. DELIN QUENT NOTICE. EVADA GRAVEL L MINING COMPAXY, Location of principal place of ‘business, San Francisco, Catifornia. Location of works, Nevada Co., Cal. Notice: Phere is delinquent upon the following described Stock, on account of Assestment No. 1, levied ‘on the 17th Gay of Jan., 1878, the several amounts set op) * the names of the respective Shareholders, as follows: No. No. i) Names Certificate Sharer Amt, Barrett, F C, notissued 3000 $150 00 Bobo C D, no¢issued 260 10 00 Hanson AH, notissued 3500 17500 Hanern, F, not isstiéd 3200 ~ 160 00 Laird b T motissued 5000 25000 Laird A T notissued 4000 20000 Messenger H W wot issued 9875 49375 McClelland HH not issued_1500 7590 ‘+ Phillips Geo K, ~not issacd 450 22:50 Shorkey James, not issued 4750 7 30 Smith WA, rotissned 1300 6506 Twist Ira T, not issued 3126 156 %5 Varmey L H, _ notissued 6000 25000 Wood H H notissued 5000 2500 And in accordonce with law, and an or: “der of the Board of Directors, ma¢e.on the 17th day of Jan, 1478, s0 many shares of each parcel. of such Stock as may be necessary, will be sold at public Auctien, at the Office of the Compaty, Room. No. 12, 51 Cal.fornia St., San Francisce>, on FRIDAY, THE EIGHTH DAY OF MARCH, A. D: 1878, at the hour. ofone o'clock, P > M., of seid day, to pay said Delinquent As. tegether with costs Of ges oO. vue Sale, ‘EEOST, sear ve Office, Room Koi 12, 612 Californi:, San Franisco, Cal. £2 ‘' “LOT FOR SALE. TQNeE lot formerly occupied by a planing mill, s?tuated in the rear of the Court ouse, Nevada City, is offered for sale on feet equare,and ete Oe on Pine, Washington end Winter streets. particniars-cal au Nevada City, Feb. 20 gro a Why do se Many Tobacco » Corsumers Trade with — ECAGSE since the First Day = gg ; ed into business in Nevad» City he. the Pelee of Tobacco, as follows :, . . Cable Coil from to ANZANIT ane COMIN Loman ira . Seu re $1. per, pound , oh ke fram. . Fine Unt. Boker Tobacco from coy . $1 25. to $i eee . paxcmeta sees ren + 12-inch and +. from 60 cts. ‘reasonable terms. The. lot is abont 10° _ es “wien, be hopes to Yeceive said Durham Smoking ‘Febaeco to 80 cents per pound. ay fone pret oe 1 eee ent oS a3 Feb, 9ths prone ‘ == at Grass _ Test lieving that her husband was buri-} 4 weap fplbperly ‘eonstituted can . He bas slsoon hand ane stock o¢ . = ia hel ed alive, but she would not listen to accommodate itself to whatever ‘CANDIES, ‘NUTS, FRUIT, , COTLERT, et ete, mn s sr. him, and be. finally enused ‘the Grave . pillows the vicissitudes of aes “New is ye ur chance, eae ip sodas ‘to be opened. To the horror. of all }may place under ei: mos : A SOR SACK “tl the corpse was found lying on its pe ta] renee Bee 5, 1878, _ Dex. Rid side, one sidé of the face being badly’ S enmeiiaaammsemmmmemniaes so —— : bruised andthe top of the casket ite : : 4 é Phe: broken, showing unmistakble that = GROCERY, ERUVIT Any Dower the man had made strenuous efforts. in ee oe February 24th, 1°78, TR inast yes to escape death of ‘Suffocation. oe 2 ne ah a0d Fite daughter. VEGETABLE STORE, -meniory A City Fali of Beggars. aes SA: MARRIED. noe : JOHN SENNER, er, at Gt The city of Washington is fall of ae mY sesniens =e ‘ __verv lars s A urches eA. a ‘= _ driveinto. crime, andthe courts.are. Annie Hutobineon:-= “ani ee eee ne the The mi crowded with criminal business; the ee with-a choice Hag pee mele — Depart women . are “driven. to begging, or. DIED. Grocenrs, ‘the Hail what is worse, so that the city this a — pany No i i ] N ade Ci ¥eb 24th, 1878, in. ANNED GOODs, n= winter isa vast colony of indigent a a. 7 = roar Miunie ‘tie, « ay. people, and in s population of 100,-} aged 6 months. — “as _£BEGETABLES, ~~ Aecore 000, nearly 10 per cent, are without Tek Gu: i Sache at ; “e668, POULTRY} receipts employment and without means. _ the bene 10 $192. Lee S: “en from “County of six mi Ther plentiful vada foi for othe local nin Track the roofs — citizens . — tF-vf squ palm-Tes Geo, § has been ‘field, Sa preme-£ The Tr ing thet Grass \ Quentin, Sheriff C at thatr The hi in the re a fleuris! regular . papplied ket. He day. Loring dangero: is slowly » 10 leave terday, 2 pear on many da A Gra the raint , son ag be in realit: this inst: __ lustrates statemecr Patent € Frede! Nevada at tempted Drucker before t for trial ‘sioners ¢ aminatk bricks 7 home on tions we: ashe str his, eqnil “on wouk tion. G The S: Placed it ‘promisin intereste ad : causing eat ‘question cerned,