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Collection: Newspapers > Nevada Daily Transcript (1863-1868)

January 14, 1869 (4 pages)

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Eg ase a ot White Pine for the __S0vered. The-large yields reported ‘) ondlevel,” Some large and magnificent SEE REaRy TE leerrseeEsca a cinhilek teak & ten would . ” prospecting Pine is no place for ‘taten to seek fortuhesat this time. To the san who has. money and goes only to look at the countey, there is: some inducement to . °°? go early, but to the laborer, none whatever. Are the isdaceménta sufficient to influence men té go.to the new dis-j trict in the spring? ‘That rich ore has been discivered Go'brie Will doubt, bit its extent and value have not yet been demonstrated. _N6 claim ‘pas been . opened to any considerable depth, and no well defined ledge has yet been dis— Bod come trom OU OF two mines, and* oprang ‘ap. te _must be remembered! that to all new districts 9 certain tlags of men go whe lave no desire to’ go for the sole purposd of gambling in stocks. These areall interested in feeding the excitement becanse they know that the chances of. selliiy high in‘creaged asthe excitement increases.— Nearly every man who ha feet in White Pine is pecu iniari r interested in keepiagap pa the district, -and it ig‘not therefore surprising that we have announcements of “richer disso the Ebenhart, only a few away,’ etc. The.new district has not yet half the celebrity of Reese River, and the people flocked to that dis trigt, by, thousands, taking with them large sums of money. The Eastern capitalists contributed tuillions to open these mines, and yet ab is time there that district ie-ofiedeiie, while Nevada — — twoillé: ‘Had the wi ‘ie ania of paying claims would . havebbeen doubled. » What. inducements have working men to go to White Pine? They row get about $5 00 per day in the new district and it is probable that wages will be lower‘in the spriig. Of this amount St cogtat $8.00 to live. ‘In this couaty the wages for miners are from $8 te $8 90 and they can board at $6 per week, of cat live in cabins for about $4 50 por week, The difference in living in “the” two places is very great. A working man can live in Nevada much more coiafortably. To men who have famipa dpss weniages in the new disgreater. The cost of getting there WALT segalia the saving of a whole year, and however rich the mines may. be the rush will be sure to overcrowd the the. district. and bring. the . wages down. ~ Men could do better at $2.50.a.day. in this ‘State than at $5 in White Pine,and they should consider . well before leaving their~comfortable homes for the new district. THE Grass Valley National says that Frank Morse has strack splendid tock at the bottom of the shaft he is now sinking on the Higgens ledge. The ledge has widened out to three feet,and it is estimated that the rock now being taken out will-pay $75 -per ton. The -mill will commence work in a short time. The Howard Hill Company are taking out excellent rock at their seo. specimens were Latency te nahin on ~Monday last. : Senator SHERMAN has introduced a bill by which Judges of the Supreme ourtover 70 4 goin But we have come to use ee text books as the superstitious use their prin forms.’ What the text books: . is truth; everything that rises : eously in-the mind or that is containéd in other books is to be ignored. A case it justat hand. It is that of a young lady who was undergo. ing examination . for graduation from a normal scheol. The question was put, What is law?” and she dared ‘not inert in her answer—a-reference to the . two elements oflaw, direction and con— trol, for fear the answer would be marked as incorrect, since in the text book sents itself. . A senior student ina certain college, young mani of superior attainments in rhetoric, when under: before his Pro-} fessor, replied ‘toa question out of the realizations/of ‘hie own’ mind, quoting, at the same time, language of a number of text hooks, and this too, in obedience to the rhetorical law of completeness.— The-Professor, who. had . the text, book of the college before him, interrupted the stadent. “It isn’t here,” said he, pointing to the page before him, and grimly smiling. And the remark-and grimness indicated:.the low grade at which the stadeat was to find uneet marked on graduation,This text book despotism represses the student's originality and mechan‘izes him. It is clear that it retards ed. ucation. One of ‘the evils which it conditions, is the opportunities which it opens up for incompetent persons to get behind the teacher's desk. An ignoramus “may heara recitation,” and ‘this despotism tends to render the work. of bineingerieer prveett of “hearing aan The iext book denpetiann excludes the magnetic contact, by means of the living Voice—the minds that know . with the mind that learns ; which, after [ all, is the mode of northal teaching. Ininte existence an efiormous quantity of . charlatan text books, all of which, in and a place, and work their pernicious work. : Great Britain raised 120,000,000 ba. of wheat this year, being 48,000,900 more than last yeur. Tax lows Agricultural ° College. Pes . . ceives pupils without distinction of sex: While the young men learn farming, the young . women learn to cook and ‘keep house.Over 400 new "pains have this year been érected in Ouowa, Canada’s capital. A REMEDY for fevers and lamaatis afflictions has been found in thé planting of sun flowers around dwellings, for they absorb tlie germs of disease. Durning the past year twenty two pM, Storey county, Nevada. J.D. Stage, of Santa Cruz, has in~ vented a shingle machine that will save the work of three men.« Gro. W. Curtis receives $7,000 a year for sitting in the “Easy Chair” of Harper's and writing oqeasional editerials for the Weekly. ~ TERE wa’ on hand ‘in the State ‘Treasury of California, January Ist, “ean frome @-iife-penaion eque + 8 is the En to their salary. Thi wart and At ie is este in sound policy. Rev. Dr. Breckenridge was iid tied on the night of his marriage ‘by “1860; $1 917,740 18: legal tender n $122,593 50. “Total, $1,140,338 68. more grass land undeveloped than have Kentucky rebel roughs, two such States as Kentucky. spite of the critic’s warnings, find a sale . suits for divorce were instituted in} two elements. Another instance pre-. °°°these latter days, it is serving: to bring . *8 L egal tender notes . . BEEF cattle are broughfIntoMaine . ~—-~-from Kentucky, and yet Maine has’ the corner of the alley on 2, » between -. From and . Second, down J to. . ner, and far aro around upon Front to in. . K, and thinks the whole block will be} 3 portateatent of ain ahead Ama-. ty—has invented a new globe . in use of schools, which is said to, to the one now in use, frotn ‘that it can be changed from its form and used-as-a-wall map, a up and put into an ie atlas. The invention is highly recom‘mended by the Massachusetts -Teacher. Beat. THIS. Wuo Caxy,—The, Coos thas been keeping ‘a record
of big beets, but announces at last “that the beet that beat. the beet that’ beat the other beet, is now beaten by a beet “the beets; whether—the . that beats alt original beet, the’ beet ‘that beat the beet,.or the beet that best the beet tha beat the beet.” b= me In this diy, on the 34 — to the wife mee Fred. Miller—a daughter NOTICE TO ROAD Tt Eureka, 8 to the County line, near Jackson’s. _ ‘eaidvont: Th TORS AND TAX PAYERS NSrith the hereby given that in accordance provish ons of an Act of the Legislature, ame ied “‘An Act to previde fer the ‘ocation and construction and maintenance of Public k vec Aes Se Nevada,”’ I will time. and Place hereinafter designated, com ‘ a 2 following deceribed roads of ata County re 2a Day of September, 1869, ‘ Bloomfield Township, At the Paine’s Hotel, Lake City, on MONaA ae Jan 1989, between the hours . M : "anorae NO. 1. at om og —— Hil. Lake iu Nort thence byway tnd Relief Hill to kuseka ‘owns hip line, nine ou & grade where there isa ; F ‘above, é same b above sizes to in theciear Beg fourteen feet Span. Thea tine to mot hie sock her ve hewed arises not to be a than 12, twelve feet ‘ppruce ; : ends of the tobe Ree fillup and-covered with good neh spruce plank. sixteen féet Jong, well opted — Also, above Lake City, a bridge, across acut hew anda turn . wants to be made w Also, one bent of the long . wante to be rajeed little , for new cover’ id . spiked wae pig an need some other litt re Creek to needs ‘on sit the eee eppet needs eff 80 . will forma mo nad . oh and the dirt thrown in the ruts iow places. Also : where there is. a iite in plas they need . of the put in good repair, by cutting . Sat sot: SRO Meee or Sree them SECTION NO. 8, _commantng at North Bloomfield, where et road turns oedy ety: thence to ne ake SToensh —_ moreorless, Alse, miles, Mr. Walton's, up the Canon to the h al acsting-«_gnel “structure on Front bhi -. street, between J and K._ Heowns from . . This line of road requires . three . the Gallon, Quart.or Glass. Walk in _Geatle pid tal SHE . meanness :. On or before Monday, Jan; 18, '69. : At P. M. for Children, and a+ 8 P. M., for Gen “ni ssa avin themselves of rR ct lhal that in accordance rovisions _s an Act of the LegNit is hereby: with the essere fas rt) Public Roads in the County of Nevada,” I ein sell at public sale, to the lowest hme gh the times and places . Completely Prajed out ea Pat cy wEW YEAR. We have sulilipeiiadk: penaen net only in New York bat algo’ in the European Markets; te take advantage of the fiuctuation in prices. Wessistaiees Goods at, Lawer . Rates than any “NEW Coops © ee New York. sp le ppg Sones of sai county until . 2nd due on Sopeesiaber, 1869, Meadow Lake Township. At Robb's Hotel Rarcka; Wades Towndilp on WEDNESDAY, Jan 2th, 1369, tween the hours of land 3 P, M. SECTION NO. 1, ng at the flume on the Henness on is line of road requires kwatersand turn out places made to turn the water off the road to kee waehing, and in ble traveling order Pooh dete Iso, some time in the BROAD STREET.....-.NEVADA CITY. c. T. To ae Buovessor to G. v. Sida Wines, Liquors and Cigars, Lager Beer, by jis TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONnee Ee BOOK ACCOUNTS due me ~ Previous to Jan: Ist, 1969, MUST. BE SETTLED . TINUED . !.23 __ JAMES MONRO. Nevada, Jan 19th." DANCING SCHOOL k —at— + fe div MILLINGTON, F SAN Eg. papas ons re: Oni reception milones te wove SATURDAY, JAN. 19th, “ha SS MLINGTOR hae ta POSITIVELY BE’ DISCON-. ch Temperance Hatt. R. M. HUNT, M. D., ATTENDING PHYSICIAN, werent NEVADA CITY. JOHN CALDWELL, Attorney and Counselor at Law One-Horse Importer & Wholesaler in this city or county ! Sales commence at 6 A, My andcontinue until 10 P, Mm. HAVING ESTABLISHED THE FACT ~ ®hat they can and will OUTSELL & UNDERSELL _ ae a One-Horse Importer 97 In this County or any other, 48 OUR SPLENDID ASSORTMENT FASHIONABLE CLOTHING, BOOTS, —skD— FURNISHING Goons, WeCAN and WILL:SELL hg cent less than former Rates! _AND SUPERIOR TO ANY , MITHERTO IMPORTED: We will sell ce Suits, As asian Low etn HATS t 1 Hans! HATS of all Styles and Colore.—or— Minion. and. Pioneor Blankets —aND—andl FURNISHING Goons: . __ Did you hear about those NEW RUBBER COoDs ! Something you have met scen since 1856, im the line of HIAAS & CO., are the Only Sole Agente for Nevada County. On hand an unlimited supply WHITE SHIRTS! — OD atime aimee 3.B. JOHNSON “WILLEAMS 4 JOHNSON, ]pamppsna a Fo ! 8, HAAS & CO's, . Founded July 20th, 1856. “Boye? CLOTHING, Pas Cor, Pine & Comme cial Sts. Z ae SPER TSB SRE ER SERED Curbeerseee gees