January 18, 1881 (4 pages)

=. The Daily Transcript. <— NEVADA CITY, CALIFORMA: . 2 “Tuesday; Janvaty— 18, 1881, cere rection, EES . ‘The Water Tax. <cclaillnains ‘The Sacramento correspondent of ~ the San Fraacisco Bulletia makes the following statement in Saturday's issue of that’pavers——————— None of the--reports of messages nted to the Legislature give information as to the amount ~ OF . » maoney received from the hydraulic miners from the taxon. water used. Spencevillt Mining Items. ——— _ ‘Wim. Gay and others, known as Phe Silver Reef Mining Company, l-have recently locofted a novel ore bedy on Deer creek, four miles horth of Spenceville and about 20 miles from this city. The ledge, which first showed at the edge of the creek, is about four feet thics, and is being fol owed into the mountain by a tunnel which is-expected to give 150° feet. Some of the ore—said to be of ‘average quality—has been assayed ‘by'O. Maltmaw of this city. Ityielded to the ton, $102 in silver, $2 in “Briefly “stated, the law provides _ a. gold, and one and a half per cent. of eneral-tax-—of--tive—cents-on—the100, also a district tax of that amount, and a.tax on the hydraulic ines: 3 i bi ia Late 0M sh sp ece-beted 20-4 * eet they have struck a good thing in the “ers -inches-of water-used daily. was estiniated and asserted on the floor-of the-Senate;-at-the last-ses— sion, that the miners would. pay’ $75,000 annually. I do not know low much they have paid,,.butymembers who advocate the repeal of the law, say that only. $6,000 has, been “@otlected on the water tax this year, The publication —of such. matter asthe above is calculated to work great injustic2 to the cause of the ’ Gsate’s mining-population. We do not believe that the Balletia would wi fally seek to prejudice the Leg~islature against the hydraulic miners’ interests, and hope that it will, after we have acquainted it with: the facts bearing 0a the water tax ques— tion, proceel with its customary fairness:to correct the erroneaus idea it has given expression to.—The amount of walter tax collected this year in Nevala county alone —is §22;577.14, an-it-was all paid —with . }——-“a willingness that 1s highly cred-. Less than $5001. yet remains due in the county from:ig, itable to our people. thasamesource, and that will be psidoup to within a few dollars, if not fully, before it is tims for the . delinquent sales to take place. ‘ > +e For Miners Only. e Assemblyman Wasson, who hails from the cliffs of Mono cowaty, has introduced a bill in the legislature to provide an asylum for Teception and care of aged and disabled miners, He would-call it -‘*The . California State. Miners Hospital,” and have it supported by individual. eontributions,. If.it-takes .as. long to pass thaé bill as it has takea to put through most of the other bills that have been sugcessful,-all the aged and disabled miters will have become tired of waiting and‘gone on a prospecting tour to the celestial _ gold, fizids before the Hospital is finisheds. . And if the Stats is going to repeal the debris law and declare hydraulic mining a misdemeanor— ~ neither of which things do we think it will be unreasonable enough to do—the legislature had better provide for building a Miners Poor House of immense dimensions, —_. . > + oe —’ g “Sassy” Send-off. When a poor devil gets starved out of the tortuous path of journalism, and throws up the. sponge, he has _to-take it right and left from his more. persistent brethren. Here. ‘is the way the Santa Cruz Sentinel marches into the last backslider ; “Rev. Mr.-Hubbell, who recently experienced religion and entered the pulpit, and who was married to an lodiaa woman and lived on tish while publishing the Monterey Gagette, and who at the time was rep~ resented as havidg teft-his wife and chidren to pick for themselves (we hope this is false, ) has; Vacated the Guadalape Telegraph tripod oa account of the wickedness of journalism. After starving to death in pub>< lishing a newspaper in the one-horse and dying burg of Guadalupe, a less ‘pure man than the Rev Mr. Hubbell, who-browsed for cold victuals and wrote love poetry in Santa Cruz fiiteen yea s ago, would use most any excuse to get to yellow-legved ’ chickens, =e —>° eo — ~~ Why it Stopped. In the sancti of the Appeal ds a clock which -had been. silent for yeais.” It commenced tynuiny again the otherday and we waat to kuow whether the late earthyuake shook the machinery ‘Up and sst it ip motion of whether its time had come’ —Marysville Appeal. ‘A matter of time, Isn't it going on tick? of. course Tue followiiy obs -rvation}by the Stockton Commercial Record is sound: “There is not an instauce in the history of the civilized world of a town ever attaining a full measure of lasting prosperity without it being the result of active co-eperation of its leading business, thinking men.” Leopper. The owners are now —tak out a crushing, and will have it m ed. They are rather confident that way of a silver mine, -If this proves to be the case, it will be a new feat= ure in Nevada county mining, as no such a mine has ever, been opened here before. s The American Copper Mining Company-are extending their tunnel into the same hil, ‘ander Captain Bitner’s superintendence. They estimate that there is already 2,000 tons. of paying copper ore insight. The Company werk their own ore, and being limited for means do; mot possess first*class facilities. _ Two or three. other parties, atnong them being Mr, Jackson, are doing considerable in the way of deve!oping copper-bearing ledges in the same vicinity. Parties who are acqnaint— with the district predict ous future for it. After Many Dayss — When Odd-Felows Hall—in city was completed Seven years ago, dedicatory ball) was given undery the management of a committee. The Lodge would ‘net take any chances on the party proving'a sucwas taken possession of by a Fiuancial Committee, consisting of Jonathan Clarke, A. W. Lester and Pisil Seldner. This committee have ever since held the funds in trust, investing them so as to secure a monthly interest of one per cent., but refusing first, last and all the time to pay the money into the treasury of the organization. Now, however, comes Mr, Clarke, and with the understanding that $150 of the money shall be expended’ in purchasing new books forthe library: pays to the Lodgethe principal and interest. Messrs, Clarke, C. KE. Mulloy and S: A. Bulfinch have been appointed a committee to pu rchase books tothe amount stated. They solicit suggestions from the reading public as to what new works are most desirable for the library, lt Grass Valley ‘‘Union” Notes. Justice Paynter denied the new trial to Dan Williams, convicted of battery, and‘ fined him $50. The Sisters inchargeof theOrphan Asylum publish a card, returning ‘thanks to the ladies who 80 generously sacrificed time and comfort, endured fatigue and hardship in laboring to make the late Fair a —sticcess,. which certainly it has proved to be . beyond expectation,” The Sisters conolude thus: ‘In requital, the Sistérs can only offer their prayers, and beg the blessings of Pravidenge on all. who assisted the charitable . project. Owing to the fact that all the returns from parties holding—tickets have not been received, the Sisters with-— hold the publication of winning numbers. _ Parties holding unsold tickets are respectfully requested to return them. Publication ef preceeds will be made as soon ‘As possible.” ———erS Will Sink a New Incline. During the past two yotrs tho owners of the Tine Blue claim at TMt Oro, Little York township, have run 2,000 feet of tunnels and inelines.in prospecting for the gold beating channel which they suppose extends through that section, the result being,as stated inthe Transcript of last week, fo find strong ind cations,of thé main channel's presence at a depth of about one hun-tre:l feet below the level of the b:dof Deercreek. While prospecting, their water-power hoisting works have been located in the tinnel, but. they wil now remove the machinery to the ridge that ' Another County Heard From. af z . weighing 73 pounds, A short time Previous_one of these animals carried this } A dozen tramps in the county jai! ‘are beingfed at our. expense, and better fed and cared for than the children of some. of our respectable laboring men. Were thése-bum mers: worked in 1 chain. ang or tied to a ' post and-lashed we woud pot be . taxed to feed them. Owing to the ' mildness of ‘the c imate of the eoast’ half of Californiais the paradise of . worthless, begging, ditty, spiritless men, .So long as there is no penalty for self-imposed hunger we will be feet of backs at. x digtance in of sitty hardened with a plague -worse~ than; the locusts. of Egypt. It is no punishment to take a tramp in out of the cold and confine him in-a_cell, ' where he is furnished food and a . bed, . ty-nine onteof every hundred people in itscounty, the. exceptions Leing.the vagrants themselves. The Sentinel-shou d endeavor to impress up-on its county Supervisors the neces— ‘sity for doing as the Supervisors of Nevada-county have done—that is, to provide regularly for compelling the prisoners te edra their beds and bread by the sweat of their brow. As long as there is no chain-gang, so tong will there be an army of jail ‘birds for the tax-payers to support. When, there is one, said army wiil be put to rout, San Juan “Times” Items. Ira Buck, while ou hunting one day last wee, shot and killed a large coyote on the South Yuba, back of . & prosper—. jontker—ftitk—it—was-a—monuster, . world over, as the following incident A Bereaved Famtly. ~ About one Week ‘agd Mr. ‘Curtis df and wifeatll'five cHi'dtén, on ‘their way from, Minnesota to Washington ferritory, were compelled to «stop off of the cars at Oolfax, on account of the serious illness of several of the they had contracted on the emigrant care after leaving Omaha. -As_ Mrs, Curtis was a niece of Mr. J. B, Matdetéfmined that fhe family should shonld recover suffiziently to enable the joarney to be restmed; ~~ Singe arriving at Mr. Mattison’s aff of __ In these words the Sentinel of San[tie children have become sick, and ta Cruz gives expression to its féél-; 7 Ace Ve . ings, and in doing-so-we—venture.to tay it moutits the sentiments of ‘trine' we yece three years, have died of measles, the: bon Friday, and were buried Satur” “day. The otherichildren, a ~girt _of . eleven years, a boy of eight, and an . infant of eighteen months, ~ are ali dangerously sick, and but little hope is entertained of their recovery. The parents themselves are ‘completely prostrated with labor “and: ‘care ‘of nursing their «sick chi dren. — The family.is sadtybereaved, and. the fond hopes so recently entertained of making a-happy home on the shores of the Facifie have keen ‘shattered and-rnined by the térrible and un+ timely affliction that has come ‘upon t hem.—Union, Insurance Against Neighbors. ~ Humar nature is the same~the children, with measles, whith disease’ tison, of Grass Valley township, it was two boyss-one obstive and other. éf . ellest on Wednentay, the: ~youngest-+}» Probate 1 Netice. st ry the Superior Court, ip “and tor ‘the County of Nevada, State of Calffornia.— in the master of the Estate of John Lawrence, deceased. Pursuant to an order of said Superior Court, made oh the 15th day of Jannary, 1881, notice is ‘hereby given, that Saturday the 23thalay Of Janaary,18S1, at 10.0’clock, A. Mz of said day, at the Court ‘Room of said Court, at the ffourt House in the City and County of vada, has been appointed a8 the time and place for proving theWill-of said John Lawrence, deceased, and for hearing-the application ef Ida H. Lawrence for, thé issuance to her of Letters Testamentary, when and where ahy person interested may appear and contest the same, Dated Jantary 15th 1ST : stop and visit -bim wntil the children} Arpad Haraszthy & Co's CHAMPAGNES. aS ie pcb tr weeotainecentiig” “YY our Puro and really superior Cham-= pagnes tothe public generally. They are proctr-ed exactly asare all the high grade, the bottle, but, differently from their foréign competitors, areneither strengthened with . spirits, hor flavored up im any manner, but i eoaearas? . Price i chin hs Sor rig e BEEHIVE” GROCERY . STORE, TRANSCRIPT BLOCK Commercial: Street, = ‘Needs City a £ “a sgpariccmersite Te DVL ~~ XBVADA 3 Brie ‘Pi R. Girard ‘ness matt for Sl jn town Vester _The Mandan company are W ‘day and night. edge of the-cit: To-night Me. at Adventists F ing, “Objection ‘of the seventh « idee ik head of guod bu ranches snd hy Wheat, z are” absolutely pure, and therefore, tvén when indiscreetly used, will néver produce a headache. é Pas hag Eclipse Extra Dry is a dry, delicate flavored,-vivacious Wine, eminently suited for Parties, Dinners, and Clubs, : The Sparkling Muakcatel is a luscious, rich, high flavored Wine, of the Moselle order, o@ly much richér, and a great favorite with the ladies. The Grind Prise, oftert called the Private Cuvee, is a meditun dry, full flavored tind bodied Wine, and highly _prized by all for these eleztint qualities. No true cennoisseur can try these superi> or Chanipagnos withomt admiring them. Richard Reberis, City, yi Sole Agent for Nevada January 13th—1m HALF -MILE HOUSE. (MRS. M.A, MANNIX, off a young goat from the neighborhood. i et PSR a} On Wednesday, the Ist day of December, 1857, a petition was put in circulation for the purpose of rais=} ingsufficient funds te plank or otherwise improve the streets of this cess, bat it netted $300, which _sum. , 44 «-few-h : Ong t3501was subscribed. . Our sidewalks, in some tocalities, weed repairing now. Wonder how much cou’d be raised by a subscription for that purpose at the present time? Recently a slide occured at the Blue Point hydrau'ic mine, Smartsville: Everything -had_been put in readiness for ‘a clean up—the cuts washed out and sluice put in erder— when the slide occurred, covering everything up. Fortunately no one was hurt, The slide was quite an’ extensive One, covering a piece of ground about -40@ feet long by. about 30 feet wide. It is said this will save thé. company: about $10,000, saving as it does a vast amiountof labor and money, in running drifts, ete, Bear River Dam Net Gone. The Marysville Appeal ot “Sunday says that Resident -Kngineer Rhodes went to the Bear river dam Saturday the dam had washed away, He returned that night and emphatically declares that, practically, the report was false, He found that there was one or more-sinks in the crest_of the dam that will be—raised—when— the water is low, The brush and logs that compose the visible part of the dam are still thete, and no break has occurred. However, part of the unstream from the dam to prevent a return wash, hag been torn up and washed away, but not the side of it upon which rest the pile of logs and brash, This brush floated gown stream and was the cause of the report, it being supposed that there was a break where a portion. of the dam was under water. The earthwork-about the dam is in good condition, and the levees are holding well, The crest of the dam: is, on fan average, about three feet above the water in the reservoir. Considerable deposits, he states, have already been made above the dam. The. damage done by the sinking is estimated at $2,000, Delinqueat Taxes, The Deputies engaged at that work in the County Treasurer’s office, yesterday completed w ising out the list of property on which taxes are delinquent, and turred thewsame’ over to the County Auditor, Thetaxes with costsadded may be paid from the 21st to the 31st infor the purpose of ascertaining the . . {truth of the report that 150 feet of dexground mattress, extending down . Willhelp to show, A Danbury incustomers,.whose premises adjoin, for a renewal of their policies, ~The first-oneé isa grocer. to him:~‘L suppose, Mr.——, that you will renew_.your policy, which expires text week.? I have called to see you about it:? ~~ “Well I stppose T'H—have-—to,” said the grocer. ‘‘As far as I’m concerned, there is no need of what-_. ever that I should insure. I’m here all, day to look after things, and there ain't a bit of danger of fire from my place. But' there’s no telling what that fellow next door will do, and as long as he’s there I’ve got to keep insured.” ae _ The agent cal'ed on*the customet next door, who is a baker, He could not help reasoning that if the reat there was a possibility of having the amount of his policy doubled ‘at least. boa He told the Baker why he ealled, end hinted that there might be a probability of a desire toincrease the policy. : = No,” -said_the baker, scratching head thoughtfully, ‘‘E don’t believe Til add any to it. f wouldn't insure at allif I wasn’t where I am, You see {’m up all night baking, and can watch things, so there's no danger hére, but there’s no telling What that chap next door will be up to. If it wasn't for him T-wotld not incp Me cent. But as it is I’ve got to 0 it.” e French Modesty. A discussion has arisen iff France as to the costume worn by Charlotte Corday when she stabbed Marat,and some modern ladies have pronounced her conduct shocking—not in committing a murder, but in killing a mani his bath, Modern modesty need not-be‘shocked,—In the latter days of the old French monarchy ladies frequently received visitors while enjoying a bath. But there was no impropriety. They wore bathing gowns of the finest lawns, trimmed with Valeneinnes, and the Water in the bath was made ‘Opaque by the addition oi a bottle of es— sence or ® jug of milk. Bat for the name of the thing, they were more decently clad in the bath than in the ball-room.—London World. al THERE is a romantic story in all the papers about a tramp printer who came toa certain office and was takewin out of the wet. After awhile theeditor got drunk, ran away, and while the tramp braced up, edited the paper, aud eventually married the. gtass-widow, We understand that since the appearance of this great moral romance, all the upcountry married editors have stopped drinking.the head of ‘A Startling Report” takes the Methodists of California to task for allowing the churchjmembership to decrease 469 during the last_year. Advertised Letters. = / The following is alist of letters remaining in the Post Office, at Nevada City, for the —= =o January 17th, 1881. Personsng for any of these letters will Asfoine Als J. 8. Honsroox overlies the gravel deposit, and sink jstants, inclusive, and the list will Conley Jas straight to bed-rock. It will. be {0 to the printer on the first MonGureqehonet Sil Heme some time yet Bolore the trae value [7 Februny. feeding, ‘Fan “lineo of the-property can be d-termined, . Accoaprne tothe Alta, the de oan ste F poonig Re but the outlook 1s exceedingly en. repeal bill will pro! aly joss the Ag . Wier W _ Ries oF a a ena pedis bo alin the Senate,” . anes Ry Ena a The agent ssid} ~ at danger in that establishment Was so . ’ bis wife sued for a. divorce. Mean. . Tar Christian Advocate, ander . PROPRIETRESS. Hotel, and thoroughly overhauled and renovatedit, put-— a ting in New Furniture, I am bts 4 Ae now gieckie to aeccommo-_ date the public with\ Good Board and Lodging THE ROOMS are large and airy, and are lies. Persons in want of a good boarding houke_ with all the comforts of a home can find it at the \ HALF-MILE HOUSE, j18-1m “MRS, M. A. MANNIX. —_— PAT. €LANCY. __ PAN--MORGAN: 2 OON. SEAMAN. P, CLANCY & CO., NEVADA OITY, ~ New Firth at the Old Stand. THE new Srm_ of P. CLANCY & CO, having 4} :be first day of January, 1881, are now prepared to doall kinds of Wagon Work iu the most skilful manner. Also all kinds of Machine and fron Work donc by an expeented workman. Sou Aee “Persons having Pitk¥and Driss ta re will do well to give us a cat; as the Picks of the town are made ‘at this shop. EXLorece-sS nocings. : Pe having Horse Shoeing to. be dome will dowell te give usa call AY) had, h sad @ first-class work man. articulaz attention paid to overreaching and interiering a THE BAZAR. — Broad St. Nevada City, Mrs, M. AGray’s old stand. __._WE have. just received a Large Stock PAGO : Vases, Toilet — = Seaps, Perfume~ ry, Cutlery.__ Fancy Goods, Picture Frames, ' MILLINERY, CANDIES, ._Aed many ether articles which will be ldat SAN FRANOISCO PRICES. CARPET WEAVING done to order at FORTY CENTS per yard. Mr. & Mrs. A. J. Pinkstone. Nevada City, Dec. 19th. —_—— The Palace Barber 5 Shop. —— o-— LOUIS DUNCAN, HIE Physiognomical Hair Cutter, formerly of the Arcade Barber Shop, }.acramento, aad ; A. BROCK, The Favorite Hair Dresse of the West, are now prepared te pee all work pertainoe profession with artistic ner ane Children are! carefully waited £7 All Gentlemen having work done will have their 47 Roots Riacked Free of Pine Street, in the rear of & — HAVEING teaseit the-above+ AT REASONABLE RATES, . SVashing Tow Ground Barley, per 100 tbs., 16% Whole Barley, per 160 188, ) 54 E. B.'Tea, per-lb.,. 7 Japan Tea, per Jb., Beehive Tea, per ib, ‘Crushed Sugar, Brown Segar,Pearl Barley, Split Peas, 13 Ibs., 1 08 ) Ditiner Can full of Coitee,5 ibs., 1 00 Ground Coffee, per package, 29 cts, Corn Starch, 2 packazves, D5 cts, Starch, 2 packages, —_, 25 ota Prize Medal Kerosene Oil, pet gal 50¢ do do dé 6 val can, 2% Best Cal. Candles, 39 for . 100 Frye’s Kinglish* Cocoa; packet ae Mistatd, per bottle, 106; Pepper,pet bot tle, Wash Boards, 80 cts; Watcr Buckets, 374 cta, Clothes Baskets, £0 cts, Rolling Pins. 15 ots, Potato Mashers, 15 cts, All goods subject to correction. ea tvervthing Fresh and warrant ed to be the Best. = ~ Richard Roberts Notice to Tax Payers ! No Taxes WwW BE cae ig at the Couey f~ or Previous to January ‘21st, 1881. G. vox SCHMITTBURG, Co. Collector: REMOVED. ° © LE€OOQ hastemored his a CHOP HOUSE ‘To Broad Street, Below the National, NEVADA CITY. MEALS GOPTEN UP ON SHORT NOTICE AND IN ANY STYE DESIBED, FROM 25 Cents Up OPEN AT NIGHT. amy tf you want a Good Meal, goto. ni8 ~ LECOCQ’S. . Nevada Restaurant. eled the building on _ COMMERCIAL STREET, Oppesite Mungor -& Naffziger’s Meat Market, and two doors below the TranscriptBlock, H. BECKMAN, Flour, per 100 Ihw., § ‘. Assorted Crackers _ = Soda-Crackers 96 Smal Corn; per 100tbs., Ta7y st -per,100 Ibs. ey ae Best Island Rice, ~ 10 1bs:, 100 . Harkness Wax. Candles, box, 404° — Oysters, 12 cans 1 00 Tomatoes, f dana 100 Corn, 5 cans 104 Jelly, 3cans, ~.90 Syrup, per gallon, 87} Sardines, small-cans, 6 cans 106 Sardines, large ca: Sins 100 Genion Peel angMitron, 34bs. 100 Tohaceo, _.gF__per lh, 7%. Oil Can tull f Coffee, 3 lbs., 66 Milk Can fullof Coffee, 3 lhs., 6 zm eae [Wash Tubs, froin 580 centsto 200 __of opening a ‘yesterday. 0 8 of CoantY Asst “in thet tity: to the State Bear: 1.8. Van VW the Merrifield who died in Sa ishighly eulog 4 -business tan A private t ‘one of Nule § ott, Arizews, ‘sthbed wi $3, eveniem te ‘to white sacl ing. ___ The wife ‘of “erly of this ci: “ia San-Franci title 1 to a leg: the death of h Scott, who lef: $21,000. The County sued a marr Rogers, aged ~Contere, aged ~_but_enterprisi Grass Valley, attempts to re The twenty was in circulat was brought travels by beit fet, -has-—be Sab-Treasury, Postinaster Hx to be as gdod ; , ig happy. Sup ’ The followin acted in the § day, Jndge Jo His Creditor Sheriff was ¢ file schedules. _ Mra. Ellen 1 ed, was appoin the estate of ' Wee W.Cri the estate of T coased, vs. Kur Canal Co. et al to file suppler to withdraw ; Upon motior the case of the vs, the Provid. ‘dismissed wit! new action at dissmissal grey L$. Van Win tiff derived tit . San Francisco, = tu get toy y the defici death. At Tea the statements though ramor s else back of it. Recess bill Vi ——\-The experienced caterer, has opened « first class Restaurant and Chop House, And is prepared to receive public patron Eee —_— Read Seme of His Prices : Cake-or Pie, with Tea or Coffee, 10 cents. Regular Meals, from 2 cents upwafis. And everything else at equally low prices. ” Neat, Prompt, Polite. * H. BECKMAN. Nevada City, Jan. 9th. Notice. . T-Q,OUND adoat four miles from the town of Eureka South, Four Horses, in # starving condition, ‘as follows > One Red Roag Colt, three years old, with — white feet, and white’ stripe in the ace, : 2 pee One ee ila Maré, suippeséd to be about oid. : eo « ite Mare, age not known. «_.Ome Roan Colt, about four years old, one rhite spot in forehead. 8 not digcernable. ’ 5 The ewners can have the horses. by pro™ing property and paying —— 8. P. P. KIPPERT. ~ Bureka South, January 3d, 1881. ne “The Me The case of t Bridget MoClo Paynter of Gre to appear and; of mandamus s Pelling him to ‘ame up before Chambers yest of counsel for d . Moved that thi be dismissed rey days’ notice ha that the Super: was argued Raq., for the } fimonds for ¢) itted and ——_——. Hay at mar’ Bin

=. The Daily Transcript. <— NEVADA CITY, CALIFORMA: . 2 “Tuesday; Janvaty— 18, 1881, cere rection, EES . ‘The Water Tax. <cclaillnains ‘The Sacramento correspondent of ~ the San Fraacisco Bulletia makes the following statement in Saturday's issue of that’pavers——————— None of the--reports of messages nted to the Legislature give information as to the amount ~ OF . » maoney received from the hydraulic miners from the taxon. water used. Spencevillt Mining Items. ——— _ ‘Wim. Gay and others, known as Phe Silver Reef Mining Company, l-have recently locofted a novel ore bedy on Deer creek, four miles horth of Spenceville and about 20 miles from this city. The ledge, which first showed at the edge of the creek, is about four feet thics, and is being fol owed into the mountain by a tunnel which is-expected to give 150° feet. Some of the ore—said to be of ‘average quality—has been assayed ‘by'O. Maltmaw of this city. Ityielded to the ton, $102 in silver, $2 in “Briefly “stated, the law provides _ a. gold, and one and a half per cent. of eneral-tax-—of--tive—cents-on—the100, also a district tax of that amount, and a.tax on the hydraulic ines: 3 i bi ia Late 0M sh sp ece-beted 20-4 * eet they have struck a good thing in the “ers -inches-of water-used daily. was estiniated and asserted on the floor-of the-Senate;-at-the last-ses— sion, that the miners would. pay’ $75,000 annually. I do not know low much they have paid,,.butymembers who advocate the repeal of the law, say that only. $6,000 has, been “@otlected on the water tax this year, The publication —of such. matter asthe above is calculated to work great injustic2 to the cause of the ’ Gsate’s mining-population. We do not believe that the Balletia would wi fally seek to prejudice the Leg~islature against the hydraulic miners’ interests, and hope that it will, after we have acquainted it with: the facts bearing 0a the water tax ques— tion, proceel with its customary fairness:to correct the erroneaus idea it has given expression to.—The amount of walter tax collected this year in Nevala county alone —is §22;577.14, an-it-was all paid —with . }——-“a willingness that 1s highly cred-. Less than $5001. yet remains due in the county from:ig, itable to our people. thasamesource, and that will be psidoup to within a few dollars, if not fully, before it is tims for the . delinquent sales to take place. ‘ > +e For Miners Only. e Assemblyman Wasson, who hails from the cliffs of Mono cowaty, has introduced a bill in the legislature to provide an asylum for Teception and care of aged and disabled miners, He would-call it -‘*The . California State. Miners Hospital,” and have it supported by individual. eontributions,. If.it-takes .as. long to pass thaé bill as it has takea to put through most of the other bills that have been sugcessful,-all the aged and disabled miters will have become tired of waiting and‘gone on a prospecting tour to the celestial _ gold, fizids before the Hospital is finisheds. . And if the Stats is going to repeal the debris law and declare hydraulic mining a misdemeanor— ~ neither of which things do we think it will be unreasonable enough to do—the legislature had better provide for building a Miners Poor House of immense dimensions, —_. . > + oe —’ g “Sassy” Send-off. When a poor devil gets starved out of the tortuous path of journalism, and throws up the. sponge, he has _to-take it right and left from his more. persistent brethren. Here. ‘is the way the Santa Cruz Sentinel marches into the last backslider ; “Rev. Mr.-Hubbell, who recently experienced religion and entered the pulpit, and who was married to an lodiaa woman and lived on tish while publishing the Monterey Gagette, and who at the time was rep~ resented as havidg teft-his wife and chidren to pick for themselves (we hope this is false, ) has; Vacated the Guadalape Telegraph tripod oa account of the wickedness of journalism. After starving to death in pub>< lishing a newspaper in the one-horse and dying burg of Guadalupe, a less ‘pure man than the Rev Mr. Hubbell, who-browsed for cold victuals and wrote love poetry in Santa Cruz fiiteen yea s ago, would use most any excuse to get to yellow-legved ’ chickens, =e —>° eo — ~~ Why it Stopped. In the sancti of the Appeal ds a clock which -had been. silent for yeais.” It commenced tynuiny again the otherday and we waat to kuow whether the late earthyuake shook the machinery ‘Up and sst it ip motion of whether its time had come’ —Marysville Appeal. ‘A matter of time, Isn't it going on tick? of. course Tue followiiy obs -rvation}by the Stockton Commercial Record is sound: “There is not an instauce in the history of the civilized world of a town ever attaining a full measure of lasting prosperity without it being the result of active co-eperation of its leading business, thinking men.” Leopper. The owners are now —tak out a crushing, and will have it m ed. They are rather confident that way of a silver mine, -If this proves to be the case, it will be a new feat= ure in Nevada county mining, as no such a mine has ever, been opened here before. s The American Copper Mining Company-are extending their tunnel into the same hil, ‘ander Captain Bitner’s superintendence. They estimate that there is already 2,000 tons. of paying copper ore insight. The Company werk their own ore, and being limited for means do; mot possess first*class facilities. _ Two or three. other parties, atnong them being Mr, Jackson, are doing considerable in the way of deve!oping copper-bearing ledges in the same vicinity. Parties who are acqnaint— with the district predict ous future for it. After Many Dayss — When Odd-Felows Hall—in city was completed Seven years ago, dedicatory ball) was given undery the management of a committee. The Lodge would ‘net take any chances on the party proving'a sucwas taken possession of by a Fiuancial Committee, consisting of Jonathan Clarke, A. W. Lester and Pisil Seldner. This committee have ever since held the funds in trust, investing them so as to secure a monthly interest of one per cent., but refusing first, last and all the time to pay the money into the treasury of the organization. Now, however, comes Mr, Clarke, and with the understanding that $150 of the money shall be expended’ in purchasing new books forthe library: pays to the Lodgethe principal and interest. Messrs, Clarke, C. KE. Mulloy and S: A. Bulfinch have been appointed a committee to pu rchase books tothe amount stated. They solicit suggestions from the reading public as to what new works are most desirable for the library, lt Grass Valley ‘‘Union” Notes. Justice Paynter denied the new trial to Dan Williams, convicted of battery, and‘ fined him $50. The Sisters inchargeof theOrphan Asylum publish a card, returning ‘thanks to the ladies who 80 generously sacrificed time and comfort, endured fatigue and hardship in laboring to make the late Fair a —sticcess,. which certainly it has proved to be . beyond expectation,” The Sisters conolude thus: ‘In requital, the Sistérs can only offer their prayers, and beg the blessings of Pravidenge on all. who assisted the charitable . project. Owing to the fact that all the returns from parties holding—tickets have not been received, the Sisters with-— hold the publication of winning numbers. _ Parties holding unsold tickets are respectfully requested to return them. Publication ef preceeds will be made as soon ‘As possible.” ———erS Will Sink a New Incline. During the past two yotrs tho owners of the Tine Blue claim at TMt Oro, Little York township, have run 2,000 feet of tunnels and inelines.in prospecting for the gold beating channel which they suppose extends through that section, the result being,as stated inthe Transcript of last week, fo find strong ind cations,of thé main channel's presence at a depth of about one hun-tre:l feet below the level of the b:dof Deercreek. While prospecting, their water-power hoisting works have been located in the tinnel, but. they wil now remove the machinery to the ridge that ' Another County Heard From. af z . weighing 73 pounds, A short time Previous_one of these animals carried this } A dozen tramps in the county jai! ‘are beingfed at our. expense, and better fed and cared for than the children of some. of our respectable laboring men. Were thése-bum mers: worked in 1 chain. ang or tied to a ' post and-lashed we woud pot be . taxed to feed them. Owing to the ' mildness of ‘the c imate of the eoast’ half of Californiais the paradise of . worthless, begging, ditty, spiritless men, .So long as there is no penalty for self-imposed hunger we will be feet of backs at. x digtance in of sitty hardened with a plague -worse~ than; the locusts. of Egypt. It is no punishment to take a tramp in out of the cold and confine him in-a_cell, ' where he is furnished food and a . bed, . ty-nine onteof every hundred people in itscounty, the. exceptions Leing.the vagrants themselves. The Sentinel-shou d endeavor to impress up-on its county Supervisors the neces— ‘sity for doing as the Supervisors of Nevada-county have done—that is, to provide regularly for compelling the prisoners te edra their beds and bread by the sweat of their brow. As long as there is no chain-gang, so tong will there be an army of jail ‘birds for the tax-payers to support. When, there is one, said army wiil be put to rout, San Juan “Times” Items. Ira Buck, while ou hunting one day last wee, shot and killed a large coyote on the South Yuba, back of . & prosper—. jontker—ftitk—it—was-a—monuster, . world over, as the following incident A Bereaved Famtly. ~ About one Week ‘agd Mr. ‘Curtis df and wifeatll'five cHi'dtén, on ‘their way from, Minnesota to Washington ferritory, were compelled to «stop off of the cars at Oolfax, on account of the serious illness of several of the they had contracted on the emigrant care after leaving Omaha. -As_ Mrs, Curtis was a niece of Mr. J. B, Matdetéfmined that fhe family should shonld recover suffiziently to enable the joarney to be restmed; ~~ Singe arriving at Mr. Mattison’s aff of __ In these words the Sentinel of San[tie children have become sick, and ta Cruz gives expression to its féél-; 7 Ace Ve . ings, and in doing-so-we—venture.to tay it moutits the sentiments of ‘trine' we yece three years, have died of measles, the: bon Friday, and were buried Satur” “day. The otherichildren, a ~girt _of . eleven years, a boy of eight, and an . infant of eighteen months, ~ are ali dangerously sick, and but little hope is entertained of their recovery. The parents themselves are ‘completely prostrated with labor “and: ‘care ‘of nursing their «sick chi dren. — The family.is sadtybereaved, and. the fond hopes so recently entertained of making a-happy home on the shores of the Facifie have keen ‘shattered and-rnined by the térrible and un+ timely affliction that has come ‘upon t hem.—Union, Insurance Against Neighbors. ~ Humar nature is the same~the children, with measles, whith disease’ tison, of Grass Valley township, it was two boyss-one obstive and other. éf . ellest on Wednentay, the: ~youngest-+}» Probate 1 Netice. st ry the Superior Court, ip “and tor ‘the County of Nevada, State of Calffornia.— in the master of the Estate of John Lawrence, deceased. Pursuant to an order of said Superior Court, made oh the 15th day of Jannary, 1881, notice is ‘hereby given, that Saturday the 23thalay Of Janaary,18S1, at 10.0’clock, A. Mz of said day, at the Court ‘Room of said Court, at the ffourt House in the City and County of vada, has been appointed a8 the time and place for proving theWill-of said John Lawrence, deceased, and for hearing-the application ef Ida H. Lawrence for, thé issuance to her of Letters Testamentary, when and where ahy person interested may appear and contest the same, Dated Jantary 15th 1ST : stop and visit -bim wntil the children} Arpad Haraszthy & Co's CHAMPAGNES. aS ie pcb tr weeotainecentiig” “YY our Puro and really superior Cham-= pagnes tothe public generally. They are proctr-ed exactly asare all the high grade, the bottle, but, differently from their foréign competitors, areneither strengthened with . spirits, hor flavored up im any manner, but i eoaearas? . Price i chin hs Sor rig e BEEHIVE” GROCERY . STORE, TRANSCRIPT BLOCK Commercial: Street, = ‘Needs City a £ “a sgpariccmersite Te DVL ~~ XBVADA 3 Brie ‘Pi R. Girard ‘ness matt for Sl jn town Vester _The Mandan company are W ‘day and night. edge of the-cit: To-night Me. at Adventists F ing, “Objection ‘of the seventh « idee ik head of guod bu ranches snd hy Wheat, z are” absolutely pure, and therefore, tvén when indiscreetly used, will néver produce a headache. é Pas hag Eclipse Extra Dry is a dry, delicate flavored,-vivacious Wine, eminently suited for Parties, Dinners, and Clubs, : The Sparkling Muakcatel is a luscious, rich, high flavored Wine, of the Moselle order, o@ly much richér, and a great favorite with the ladies. The Grind Prise, oftert called the Private Cuvee, is a meditun dry, full flavored tind bodied Wine, and highly _prized by all for these eleztint qualities. No true cennoisseur can try these superi> or Chanipagnos withomt admiring them. Richard Reberis, City, yi Sole Agent for Nevada January 13th—1m HALF -MILE HOUSE. (MRS. M.A, MANNIX, off a young goat from the neighborhood. i et PSR a} On Wednesday, the Ist day of December, 1857, a petition was put in circulation for the purpose of rais=} ingsufficient funds te plank or otherwise improve the streets of this cess, bat it netted $300, which _sum. , 44 «-few-h : Ong t3501was subscribed. . Our sidewalks, in some tocalities, weed repairing now. Wonder how much cou’d be raised by a subscription for that purpose at the present time? Recently a slide occured at the Blue Point hydrau'ic mine, Smartsville: Everything -had_been put in readiness for ‘a clean up—the cuts

washed out and sluice put in erder— when the slide occurred, covering everything up. Fortunately no one was hurt, The slide was quite an’ extensive One, covering a piece of ground about -40@ feet long by. about 30 feet wide. It is said this will save thé. company: about $10,000, saving as it does a vast amiountof labor and money, in running drifts, ete, Bear River Dam Net Gone. The Marysville Appeal ot “Sunday says that Resident -Kngineer Rhodes went to the Bear river dam Saturday the dam had washed away, He returned that night and emphatically declares that, practically, the report was false, He found that there was one or more-sinks in the crest_of the dam that will be—raised—when— the water is low, The brush and logs that compose the visible part of the dam are still thete, and no break has occurred.. However, part of the unstream from the dam to prevent a return wash, hag been torn up and washed away, but not the side of it upon which rest the pile of logs and brash, This brush floated gown stream and was the cause of the report, it being supposed that there was a break where a portion. of the dam was under water. The earthwork-about the dam is in good condition, and the levees are holding well, The crest of the dam: is, on fan average, about three feet above the water in the reservoir. Considerable deposits, he states, have already been made above the dam. The. damage done by the sinking is estimated at $2,000, Delinqueat Taxes, The Deputies engaged at that work in the County Treasurer’s office, yesterday completed w ising out the list of property on which taxes are delinquent, and turred thewsame’ over to the County Auditor, Thetaxes with costsadded may be paid from the 21st to the 31st infor the purpose of ascertaining the . . {truth of the report that 150 feet of dexground mattress, extending down . Willhelp to show, A Danbury incustomers,.whose premises adjoin, for a renewal of their policies, ~The first-oneé isa grocer. to him:~‘L suppose, Mr.——, that you will renew_.your policy, which expires text week.? I have called to see you about it:? ~~ “Well I stppose T'H—have-—to,” said the grocer. ‘‘As far as I’m concerned, there is no need of what-_. ever that I should insure. I’m here all, day to look after things, and there ain't a bit of danger of fire from my place. But' there’s no telling what that fellow next door will do, and as long as he’s there I’ve got to keep insured.” ae _ The agent cal'ed on*the customet next door, who is a baker, He could not help reasoning that if the reat there was a possibility of having the amount of his policy doubled ‘at least. boa He told the Baker why he ealled, end hinted that there might be a probability of a desire toincrease the policy. : = No,” -said_the baker, scratching head thoughtfully, ‘‘E don’t believe Til add any to it. f wouldn't insure at allif I wasn’t where I am, You see {’m up all night baking, and can watch things, so there's no danger hére, but there’s no telling What that chap next door will be up to. If it wasn't for him T-wotld not incp Me cent. But as it is I’ve got to 0 it.” e French Modesty. A discussion has arisen iff France as to the costume worn by Charlotte Corday when she stabbed Marat,and some modern ladies have pronounced her conduct shocking—not in committing a murder, but in killing a mani his bath, Modern modesty need not-be‘shocked,—In the latter days of the old French monarchy ladies frequently received visitors while enjoying a bath. But there was no impropriety. They wore bathing gowns of the finest lawns, trimmed with Valeneinnes, and the Water in the bath was made ‘Opaque by the addition oi a bottle of es— sence or ® jug of milk. Bat for the name of the thing, they were more decently clad in the bath than in the ball-room.—London World. al THERE is a romantic story in all the papers about a tramp printer who came toa certain office and was takewin out of the wet. After awhile theeditor got drunk, ran away, and while the tramp braced up, edited the paper, aud eventually married the. gtass-widow, We understand that since the appearance of this great moral romance, all the upcountry married editors have stopped drinking.the head of ‘A Startling Report” takes the Methodists of California to task for allowing the churchjmembership to decrease 469 during the last_year. Advertised Letters. = / The following is alist of letters remaining in the Post Office, at Nevada City, for the —= =o January 17th, 1881. Personsng for any of these letters will Asfoine Als J. 8. Honsroox overlies the gravel deposit, and sink jstants, inclusive, and the list will Conley Jas straight to bed-rock. It will. be {0 to the printer on the first MonGureqehonet Sil Heme some time yet Bolore the trae value [7 Februny. feeding, ‘Fan “lineo of the-property can be d-termined, . Accoaprne tothe Alta, the de oan ste F poonig Re but the outlook 1s exceedingly en. repeal bill will pro! aly joss the Ag . Wier W _ Ries oF a a ena pedis bo alin the Senate,” . anes Ry Ena a The agent ssid} ~ at danger in that establishment Was so . ’ bis wife sued for a. divorce. Mean. . Tar Christian Advocate, ander . PROPRIETRESS. Hotel, and thoroughly overhauled and renovatedit, put-— a ting in New Furniture, I am bts 4 Ae now gieckie to aeccommo-_ date the public with\ Good Board and Lodging THE ROOMS are large and airy, and are lies. Persons in want of a good boarding houke_ with all the comforts of a home can find it at the \ HALF-MILE HOUSE, j18-1m “MRS, M. A. MANNIX. —_— PAT. €LANCY. __ PAN--MORGAN: 2 OON. SEAMAN. P, CLANCY & CO., NEVADA OITY, ~ New Firth at the Old Stand. THE new Srm_ of P. CLANCY & CO, having 4} :be first day of January, 1881, are now prepared to doall kinds of Wagon Work iu the most skilful manner. Also all kinds of Machine and fron Work donc by an expeented workman. Sou Aee “Persons having Pitk¥and Driss ta re will do well to give us a cat; as the Picks of the town are made ‘at this shop. EXLorece-sS nocings. : Pe having Horse Shoeing to. be dome will dowell te give usa call AY) had, h sad @ first-class work man. articulaz attention paid to overreaching and interiering a THE BAZAR. — Broad St. Nevada City, Mrs, M. AGray’s old stand. __._WE have. just received a Large Stock PAGO : Vases, Toilet — = Seaps, Perfume~ ry, Cutlery.__ Fancy Goods, Picture Frames, ' MILLINERY, CANDIES, ._Aed many ether articles which will be ldat SAN FRANOISCO PRICES. CARPET WEAVING done to order at FORTY CENTS per yard. Mr. & Mrs. A. J. Pinkstone. Nevada City, Dec. 19th. —_—— The Palace Barber 5 Shop. —— o-— LOUIS DUNCAN, HIE Physiognomical Hair Cutter, formerly of the Arcade Barber Shop, }.acramento, aad ; A. BROCK, The Favorite Hair Dresse of the West, are now prepared te pee all work pertainoe profession with artistic ner ane Children are! carefully waited £7 All Gentlemen having work done will have their 47 Roots Riacked Free of Pine Street, in the rear of & — HAVEING teaseit the-above+ AT REASONABLE RATES, . SVashing Tow Ground Barley, per 100 tbs., 16% Whole Barley, per 160 188, ) 54 E. B.'Tea, per-lb.,. 7 Japan Tea, per Jb., Beehive Tea, per ib, ‘Crushed Sugar, Brown Segar,Pearl Barley, Split Peas, 13 Ibs., 1 08 ) Ditiner Can full of Coitee,5 ibs., 1 00 Ground Coffee, per package, 29 cts, Corn Starch, 2 packazves, D5 cts, Starch, 2 packages, —_, 25 ota Prize Medal Kerosene Oil, pet gal 50¢ do do dé 6 val can, 2% Best Cal. Candles, 39 for . 100 Frye’s Kinglish* Cocoa; packet ae Mistatd, per bottle, 106; Pepper,pet bot tle, Wash Boards, 80 cts; Watcr Buckets, 374 cta, Clothes Baskets, £0 cts, Rolling Pins. 15 ots, Potato Mashers, 15 cts, All goods subject to correction. ea tvervthing Fresh and warrant ed to be the Best. = ~ Richard Roberts Notice to Tax Payers ! No Taxes WwW BE cae ig at the Couey f~ or Previous to January ‘21st, 1881. G. vox SCHMITTBURG, Co. Collector: REMOVED.. ° © LE€OOQ hastemored his a CHOP HOUSE ‘To Broad Street, Below the National, NEVADA CITY. MEALS GOPTEN UP ON SHORT NOTICE AND IN ANY STYE DESIBED, FROM 25 Cents Up OPEN AT NIGHT. amy tf you want a Good Meal, goto. ni8 ~ LECOCQ’S. . Nevada Restaurant. eled the building on _ COMMERCIAL STREET, Oppesite Mungor -& Naffziger’s Meat Market, and two doors below the TranscriptBlock, H. BECKMAN, Flour, per 100 Ihw., § ‘. Assorted Crackers _ = Soda-Crackers 96 Smal Corn; per 100tbs., Ta7y st -per,100 Ibs.. ey ae Best Island Rice, ~ 10 1bs:, 100 . Harkness Wax. Candles, box, 404° — Oysters, 12 cans 1 00 Tomatoes, f dana 100 Corn, 5 cans 104 Jelly, 3cans, ~.90 Syrup, per gallon, 87} Sardines, small-cans, 6 cans 106 Sardines, large ca: Sins 100 Genion Peel angMitron, 34bs. 100 Tohaceo, _.gF__per lh, 7%. Oil Can tull f Coffee, 3 lbs., 66 Milk Can fullof Coffee, 3 lhs., 6 zm eae [Wash Tubs, froin 580 centsto 200 __of opening a ‘yesterday. 0 8 of CoantY Asst “in thet tity: to the State Bear: 1.8. Van VW the Merrifield who died in Sa ishighly eulog 4 -business tan A private t ‘one of Nule § ott, Arizews, ‘sthbed wi $3, eveniem te ‘to white sacl ing. ___ The wife ‘of “erly of this ci: “ia San-Franci title 1 to a leg: the death of h Scott, who lef: $21,000. The County sued a marr Rogers, aged ~Contere, aged ~_but_enterprisi Grass Valley, attempts to re The twenty was in circulat was brought travels by beit fet, -has-—be Sab-Treasury, Postinaster Hx to be as gdod ; , ig happy. Sup ’ The followin acted in the § day, Jndge Jo His Creditor Sheriff was ¢ file schedules. _ Mra. Ellen 1 ed, was appoin the estate of ' Wee W.Cri the estate of T coased, vs. Kur Canal Co. et al to file suppler to withdraw ; Upon motior the case of the vs, the Provid. ‘dismissed wit! new action at dissmissal grey L$. Van Win tiff derived tit . San Francisco, = tu get toy y the defici death. At Tea the statements though ramor s else back of it. Recess bill Vi ——\-The experienced caterer, has opened « first class Restaurant and Chop House, And is prepared to receive public patron Eee —_— Read Seme of His Prices : Cake-or Pie, with Tea or Coffee, 10 cents. Regular Meals, from 2 cents upwafis. And everything else at equally low prices. ” Neat, Prompt, Polite. * H. BECKMAN. Nevada City, Jan. 9th. Notice. . T-Q,OUND adoat four miles from the town of Eureka South, Four Horses, in # starving condition, ‘as follows > One Red Roag Colt, three years old, with — white feet, and white’ stripe in the ace, : 2 pee One ee ila Maré, suippeséd to be about oid. : eo « ite Mare, age not known. «_.Ome Roan Colt, about four years old, one rhite spot in forehead. 8 not digcernable. ’ 5 The ewners can have the horses. by pro™ing property and paying —— 8. P. P. KIPPERT. ~ Bureka South, January 3d, 1881. ne “The Me The case of t Bridget MoClo Paynter of Gre to appear and; of mandamus s Pelling him to ‘ame up before Chambers yest of counsel for d . Moved that thi be dismissed rey days’ notice ha that the Super: was argued Raq., for the } fimonds for ¢) itted and ——_——. Hay at mar’ Bin