January 23, 1874 (4 pages)

oe ee eas oatiintiacaynamsnatantinageetameten tna # * the meeting. Every man in thts . only half way, if you please, proper: . + pleted, its present value will be aa will be-vastly beneitted, for the-fea—} “son that the property assessment in this city, Grass Vulley, and all along : “ENEVADA cITy, ‘CAL. oe Sg City, Connty and U. 's. Oficial a wi < paca a ome Friday, Jan. 234, 1874. seanieo Meseing: We desire our citizens, and ~ everybody else interested in the con-. struction of thérailrond from this city to Colfax, te bear in mind that o méeting will be’ held at the Court House on to-morrow, Saturday evening, at 7 o'clock, to take measures towards the organization ef a com_ pany or. corporationfor such @ purpose, © Of course it is expected that _ every_min who .owns property in. _ Nevada, or.that is doing business ih “Nevada will tike an interest in the meeting and in the -constrineti n ot} the road, and of course all-sueh-persous aré expected to be present at city, whether he be a property owner.or not, is interested in the construction ef a railroad of some kind from this eity to Colfax, for every man, whether he owns property in this city or not, will be benefitted materially by the construction of such @ road, The property holder will be*bénefitted by the enhance-' ment of the vale of his property. Let a railroad—only a horse railroad at that—be completed to. Colfax, or ty inthis city will doable itself in value, and when such roail is com: _trebled. Then property, that cannot now hardly be sold for a sou, will be . sought after, for there will be a aswurance that property thereafter will have a permanent value, Whensuch & road is completed, every man in this gity and_county that-pay ‘taxes: he Daily 1 Transcript! “. diem foreach prisoner. State Prison Statistics. ~ Lieutenant Governor. Pacheco, resident director of the State Prison tat San Quentin, recently made & report to the Legislatare, showingthat cember Just 931 convicts ‘confined therein, engaged in working for contractors at the rpte of forty cents per ~The resident director also gives. the fellowof the prisoners and the cost of maintaining them, : The average number of prisuners in confinement during the last two years is nine hundred and Ufteen and one-half. The cost for maintaining the prison for the two years is $298, 35076. ings and: property $67, 333. 8555 Earnings and sales$143,173.86, __ Excess of rr $212, 61025. The average cost per month, hot indluding buildings and improvements, hag been $12,431 58, And the average earn: $5,46905, Hence, an average excess of cost per month of $6,662 22, ~~. The total expenses . incurred during . and this* expense being incident to keeping in confinement 915 prisoners, . the expense for each for ‘that eae of time is $388 63, Per month per prisoner. $16 19. Per day per prisoner $00 53 1-6,“The total earning, $131,257 44, apportioned to number of prisoners, would be, each $143 37. Per month, each $5 97, Per day, each $00 19 2-5, Excess of —enn per prisoner, about $00 3314 The Bauamiaiy commenting on the above showing & says: Fe ~—According-tothetepork made ~bythe line of thé road will be doubled in valve, the total on the assessment Foll increased-and the-rate of taxes, reduced, It requires now, at the present assedsed value of all property in this county, one dollar and ninety eents on each $100 to pay State and county tax. Now, if we double the value of the property, real, estate we mean, in this city, Graea * Valley,and all along the line of road, and _add the road itself,we theréby i increase the grand total ou the assess~—ment-rol-several-bundred thousmirdsy of dollars, whieh of course “will de-dred and thirty thousand. dollars, the Joiut Committee of the Senate and Assembly, during the last ses-. sion, 1871-72, ‘it uppears that the most servicablo building on the Prison groulds, Was the workshop principally used by. the furniture und shoe wanufacturing contractors. This building cost the State one hun(130,000). It is fitted up with contly Ahachinery and steam power, ‘Here is a small memoranauit of the . ‘constant charge to the State thereby incurred: Interest on coat of building, conHthere were in the beginning of .Deing statisties showing the earnings. nses for improvements. baild-. . . Mntire expenditures $355, 784 yt the pom: two years, being $355,784 11, ~. pattially paralyzed last Fall, The Bell Expulsion Case. In the Senate, on thé 20th inst., Mr. O'Connor, front. the Bpecial Committee appointed to examine into the Bell charges* against Finney, reported against the resolution pending for hisexpulsion. Finney opposed ‘mittee should have power to examHine into the eharge against him and to-sénd for persons and papers: O'Connor called the whole affair *‘a farce,”’ and said there, was a question of veracity existing between Fiuney . and. Bell. told him the charge that he, Finney, had been bribed, was a direct one and thatthe Post was responsible. Bell denies Making any such statement, The matter is still unsettled Itis said Edgerton is preparing another: speech to deliver when. the subject. comes. properlybefore the papers of the State which ha¥e-been -} putting—him through ‘a course “of sprouts within the” past few days, That's right, Henry. Pitch in and Remember, however, that the newsculatioti—the Chronicle -and Alta _j alone, if their statements are to be believed;—of 60,000 and upwards, Wade in Henrys put in your nee liek. ~ ae The Siamese Twins aro. . Dead. So says the telegraph. Chang died first, and in two hours afterward Eng gave up the’ ghost,The following, which we clip from the Union’s dispatches, télls the story; A special from Richmend—makes the announcement of the sudden death of the Siamese Twins on Saturday morning, the 17th, at the residence at Mount Airey, Surrey county, North Ourolina, Chang ¥ wae . which time tie has been “fr very much debilitated, and strongly addieted to drinking strong liquors aaa means of alleviating his sufferings. He had been quite feeble for sévéral days, $0 mich so as to con. fine the brothers .to.bed. On Friday night Chang became worse, and expired-suddenly, About o'clock on Saturday morning Eng became so terribly shocked that he raved wildly for a while. This attack was folly stupor, and-in-two-hours fronrthe death of Chang, Eng breathed—his last. The wives and families of th» striction and machinery, eect say $2,000,: : twins are inthe deepest’ ‘grief. children, many of whom ake deaf no real estute, ‘The construction of . now paying from $20. ~ mertehants to sell goods cheaper than = and this is car drawa by four hofses, and before Again. It will to men’ doing b of great benefit ness here that own such @ road will give employment to every idle man in this county and bring other laborers hete, It will induce an expenditure of a largé amount of capital that is now. lying dormant and put the sume in general circulation, It will enable our mer-. _ chants to obtain their goods, wares and merchandize from Colfax for $2 or $260 per thn, when they are to $25. ‘This redaction in freight will enable our _ they now do, and-this also will benefit the poor man as well as the rich, A rai to Colfax from this place will benefit. of this city in another roapect. “Tt will enable our _ People to procure fire Wood ut a‘much cheaper rate than they are Bow } paydesiteratuin, . In short, ‘the construction’ of sucha road will benefit everybody. ‘The traveler will be vastly bevetitted, Instead of traveling several hours over . the very worst road in this county, a distance of ‘1B iniles to renek Colfax, . he will take his seat in a taagnificent «Re knowy what is. wp: he will fina himself at the end of his Journey, lt will benefit our merchants, ; as . . we have stated. It will benefit our lawyers, who are compelled to visit Sacramento two or three times a year to-attend to their clients’ business before the -Pank-and gross~injusties~ Of wae . any sys mW toe te ont ev dy which _ crease the rate of taxation. This. ' Insurance $500, mutes, will be of great nenene. to the people . " Wear and tear and depreciation of of the whole county. / v machinery, and repairs, and pay of engineers, fireman, ete, $1,500. Extra guards required $250. Total $4,250 Net monthly earnings of 250 men employed in this building $2,000. Net loss to the State on this account alone $2,250, This is exclusive of the ordinary expense of guards, clothing, food, ete, The average cost to each -maw employed, of the steam power anid machinery, is 56 cents per diem, Now, thelaber of a free man , is rated, at a low average, as worth three dollars and twenty cents per room at 56 cents} making in all an average of $3.76 in the business of cabinet or furniture making; while the contractor for the convict's-work obtain labor, shop-reom, and everything else, for forty cents per diem, Does it need argumént to enforce — competition? Is it not wentialie obvious that thére are three parties literally y outraged. by this absurd .arrangement—the State, the prisoner, and the free. honest artisan? ‘Theré Gai be ho doubt thateonvict laber is iujurious to honesttradesman, especially to shoe ma kers, harness Makers, wagon. makers, coopers and cabinet.makers, for these are the trades most seriously effected by the coutract system, but whatis tobe done. As things are now, the eidga of the State are taxed in a sum. of $212,600 to pay for the keeping of these cenvicts and that too over and above their earnings. “Do svar With the con. tract apntent Lm. what then? In-. , 3! pias port ro hs Mute g ae veal ba eee ety Fy, fo, the. 11 for < ar the ee two” is an easy ‘itis not so diem, in his trade, and his shop-/ }. Railroad property most pitiful manner, A Gas explosion took place in the knitting mill of E. Bradford, at Bennington, Vermont, on the 20th inst., killing nine women and injuriag many others, Loss of property abot $100,000, An unknown 1 ‘in supposed to be insane, jumped from a train of cars on the 20th inst., near Omaha and was. instantly hilled. A DARGE ‘number of men were discharged fromthe Navy Yard at Hew York, on the 20th. —<. JaMes Sullivan ealavendent Democrat, was’ elected State Senator in New York City, in place of Henry Genet, who ran away. Tur Supreme Court of Mivsissippi has declared the late-election in that State constitutioral. + —h-Mannamed‘Henry “Cy White, . was shot-and killed at Ashland, Oiegon, on the 20th inst. THE crevasse at Park's levee, near Célasa,was, on the 20th, 200 ‘yards wide. Another. lower down is Teported. “Tostan Quincy has been elected Presiden tef the cheap transportation Convention, now sitting in Washing. ton, and R. H. Ferguson has been chosen Secretary. The nest ‘session will meet at Richmond, Virginia, at are . the call of the. Breoutive. Committee. Tar Mexican War Veterons paid Génetal rant a visit on Saturday. em Spain authorities have aapamet ee more newspapers in. has secured the Vermont and Canada for $3,000,000, “ea, cosy * C4 the\veport and desired that the Com Tinney alleges that Bell. Senate, and that be intends to hurl, . his anathemas-against those newsgive us all_‘‘phitz’’; wedeserve it.papers of this coast have a wide cirtowed by what seenied té-be-adead= . “The express their. sofrow_in-s}to« Tae . Central Jtminen Railroad eer naa Hot pens of bond coupons of the . : A L Pubberrsn: ook. was a teacher pte twentyag0, Says a Writer in the New York Herald, and near mo was a district sghool—the Principal a gentleman. He had. large : ‘boys, seventeen and rattan andy used “it freely; he also kept a Bible, and this, if he saw any boy across the schoolroom looking a little suspicious, he would’ sling at euluting the. Scriptures’ and “the Bible going 6n @ mission.’’ Hearing the reports from this school, I made the remark that I believed I could put a young lady in that school, a pupil of mine, who could govern it with-one—finger.--Oneof the Trustees, hearing I had niade thé. remark; came-to—see—me--“He said. thé boys had taken the teachor . =p. bodily the-day before, carried ito the street and. down there, andthat—he had Re I would ‘like to try it. The young Jady that I had in my mind belonged to-one-of the first families of the State, and was at home. She was than any other [ could recommend. I wrote her all the particulars. She hesitated'at first, but her father, who was ‘‘one of nature's noblemen,’’ . urged her to come. ‘She did, and those boys. She kept no rattan, or any other whip. The school filled up,-and was one of the best disci. plined schools in the city. The reason was, she could control -herself; and had government in her eye. When she spoke she was obeyed. There is no government in the whip; not govern a school without a whip . had better be rarned i into the: street Mr. Lrxcoun’s Retratovs Virws, The Hon. William H, Herndon, the hisveracity indulged in by Dr. land, Mr Reed, and others; who have insisted that Mr. Lincoln became a Christian in the later years of his life, and has delivered a lecture in Springfield to establish the truth of his statement that the President died as he lived, outside“of the Christian faith. He engages in the ergy characteristic of him, and certainly goes far to invalidate much of the testimony relied upon by the Mr. Lincoln was dne of the most retieent men who ever lived in regard years. eighteen years of age. He kept at! his head, This the boys called ‘‘cir-. bin doubt that it was the worst school in . the city. I said, nevertheless, that further advanced in mathematics. +never—had-thelensttrouble with it is mere power the stronger holds over thé weak. The man that can: law partner’of President Lincoln, j has grown weary of the attacks upon. fcl. disenssion with” the-bohiness* and 6n7 champions of Mr. Lincoln's orthore doxry. “The truth probably is that oe Bie fa.tifall at Marysyill for the . inst., was 16.90.inehes. We. can beat that morethan2tel. Onaxon CuLvEr end wife celebramas, having been married 50 years, Quite a number of presents were made to the old couple. > roe" ~ A Lazy editor in Ohio reads all his exchanges. in bed. He finds.it the easiest way to fill up his sheet. = 7 s > Ax old clergyman onee took for his text that passage of the Psalms, {said in my liaste all men are liars:**-~-Looking up, apparently as if he saw the: Psalmist before him he said. ‘You said-it in your haste, David if you had been bere, you. —— have said it after mature de-. —ce: SAN engraver in Springfield, Mass., piece of eopper less than oné-fourth the sizeof a silver three-cent piece, and there is roontin— the -eircle~ for fifteei or twenty words mord, oCnanosne, Twill sell you. coffins cheaper than any other’ man in this city!” is what a Council Blatfé man advertises. _“Frxiiow travelers,’’ said_a colored prencher, ‘ef I had been eatin’ “dried apples fora week; anh* den took . ” to drinkin’ for a monf, I couldn’t feel more’ swelled up dan I am dis minnit-wid-pride an’ vanity at seein’ such full ‘tendance har dis ebenin’,"’ Exam, Illinois, offers the boys two cents apiece for all the rats they can kill, and the schoolsare on the point of suspending. _Mrs._Anprews, of Vermont, said she didn’t care a darn whether diuner suited her husband or not, and a justice fined her seven dollars. “Tux editor of the-Kokewo—Indi= na, ‘Tribane, who was—robbed—-of . ~ $400 in an Indianapolis hotel not ‘ong since, attributes the affair to ‘au overruling Providenée, and his ‘when he bolted the door.” GALV ANOPLASTIE. ce JAS. J. OTT, Assayer, Main Street, Nevada City, Cal,, . Ww_prepared.to.galyanise—a out gold or silver plated ware, suchas Speona, Porka, Chains, Pitchers, as, Door Plates, Services, “Rings, Watch Cases, . Waiters, season, up to the evenjnig ‘of the 20th. _ iheidetiod at Permits, on Chri? an fave cost. Lhas-tat—the— “Lord’s—Prayer-into-2}— orgetting to wear ‘his nose glasses SSL ISL SEE 4 aT A Be Siw One vig . EXCELSIOR STRING Banal RE now prepared to furnish = ma ~ gic for Balls, Parties, Sociables, ae: On short notice. Al) orders left at EYFSTLE & JEWELL’S will be promptly attended to. Mevada, dan. 4th, 1874. Special Notice. . N ircen is hereby givon to all ‘pertons indebted to the late firm of LANCAS& ROBINSON that their accounts have been placed in the hands-of J. B. GHAY for collection and that prompt peyAaa SEMEE BO “made PY. those who wuuht A. i ‘ROBINSON,Surviving partner of Lancaster & Sobi:wa. “Nevada City, Jan. Ist, 1574. — A; Eo McGREGOR, * “pate Chief Deputy “Sutveyor, City& aa B. MERRY, SE es oFrancisceo. Sierny & McGREGOR, Cis SURVEYONS & DRAUGH'TS— NEVADA CITY. (fice at the COURT HOUSE-oRteEr lft atthe Daily Union Office, Grass “ae rot will Theet with prompt attention, ase. National Exchange Bath Rooms — a & AND BARBER SHOP. BROAD STREET.,.. NEVADA CITY, KLINGENSPOR & WALTERS, Oo respectfully inform the peopleof this city and county that they have become proprietors of the abéye wellknoe wu and popular place, snd having refitted it up in a style second to no shup in the State, are now prepared to give the very best. satisfaction to all whe may please to fuyor.thein with their patronage.HOT AND COLD BATHS at all honre. HAIR-CUTTING done in the latest style. Latast Fa good, clean Shave call at the 3 Excbarigi: Barber Shoji DR:JENNINGS* REPROBUCTOR always ~ TER Fi on hand and for sale, pees Ladies Entrance. for Baths throngh the Hotel. “-““SREINGENSPOR & WALTERS. Nevadu, Jan. 14th, 1874, . GARDEN SEED, GRASS SEED, FLOWER SEED, went, ah ORR for EZ. XK. PRESTON, DRUGGIST. 7 SW anes a hans ; And fue in ACIDS, CRUCIBLES, MIN> _ING ‘CHEMICALS. “exercises, He hada deep tespect for religion and for its outward symbols. and forms. He had also a profoundly religious sense, sometimes Seprosehing mysticism. But it will be as impessible to prove that he was a Christian as that he was not, and historiuns and biographers will divide upon this question, as they are divided now, liefs or disbelief. —New York Tribune. Tar Canadian elections now being [held possess additional interest from the fact that on the result will depend the continuation of the McDonald party in office. o Tux Associate Justices of the Su. preme.Court have written to President Grant, stating that no jealousy } would be felt at the promotion of one ship. . WHosr Book is ‘‘Tuar?—Reader, is property of a friend who kindly loaned it to you? If'so, return it to-day, as your friend has forgotten . ; who borrowed it, and his library is quite depleted. Borrowers of books, like borrowers.of cash, must return premptly or lose their credit. so says the Appeal, Tur Raymond & Ely stock is down to $33.: Oh what a fall was there my countrymen! Diet ere Lavirr is the soul of wit. TT 4 ~ ferent jewelry atill continues fashionable. . To remove stains from hima Get rich. MEGITRS ae according to their, own _personal:-bew. of their number te the Chief * ustice-+ that book you read a month ago. the! And Jewelry in general. He will silver or gild these in the best style, and guarantees they will last as.long as in use before. ~ Old Gold or tilver bought or-changed, JAS, J. OTT. Nevada, Jan, 23a, 1874. NEVADA THEATRE, © ————, FOR THIS NIGHT ONLY! Positively the Last and Best SENSATION PERFORMANCE —BY— FAY TEMPLETON, oO" Daly's Grand—Opera—-Honse; New f York, 8 yeers: old, acknowledged’ in New York and San Francisco the greatest little Actress and Songstress in the world, ALICE VANE, “Star of the South,” the beautiful and : ac. complished Actress. JOHN TEMPLETON,” — . The unrivelled Eccentric Comedian, also . ISABEL VANR, Comedienne, aad Com: é pany from fee Everywhere su: cessful in their new sensations. Four weexs in San Francisco, one week in Sacramento, three weeks = Vir. ginia City, two weeks in es Friday Evening, Jan 934. By the Greatest uest, the U really skit Fovede Fina mi RIP VAN \N WINKLE. To Conclude with . the Beantifu) CUPID Original —_ PAY TEMPLETON, Popu lar Prices. Dress rhiny $1.00. Par. quette 50 cents, under 12, half price. Seats ver th these great, fash. can ionable and superior performances now be en without — Bookat _ at gaged Geo. W. Weilch’s me 4.8. HOLBROOK, “FLORA B. HOLBROOK. J. 8. HOLBROOK & co. — . ie guests. MUFFLES, PAIN'Ts OMLS'AND VAKN. ISHES, ~ All at the Lowest Market Rates.: ptions OS” Preacri compounded at all hours, day or night, WESTERN HOUSE, Corner of D and Second Streets, We “MARYSVILLE. GEORGE WAPPEL, Proprietor. THIS House is more convent at ly jsituated for hotel e Table E= Setup i a"a wi deli and luz cg toe season, and 4 beds are ofthe very best quality. Mera aap By th the House is i Rébtin. pyle pins ey aaa an ‘attention re =) Charges reasonable. + a COUNTY WARRANTS. , 1d, Memente on, deneral. Fund i te “ered prior # ali warrants on Indigent sick tered prior to May 6th, 18 roe all veel: Warrants on will be paid oe In be, x A. GOLDSM MITH, Co. Treasuzer. A. H. Pancer, De jan. Sth, 1874. sind 23 MARYSVILLE MARBLE WORKS. D Street, between lat and 2d Streets. THOMAS SEA WARD. +++ eteis oe» PrOpinetoe Tata SaaS = Dealers in MARBLE TOMBSTONES, PLAIN a G™ poename, = AND MONUMEKTs, — And hing to be found in a FiRsT aoe — : —— § TABLE TOPS made to order. “Rep MEN TARE hettca aie Te ae —a County of ban. IViL AND MINING ENGINEFRA, ~~ NEVADA LOCAL Gold and : By advertisem it will be* seen ‘this city, is—pr either in gold, worn out plated forks, beils, d services, breas cases, ete., ang up to a horse 31 He is also prep: per-plates for.q -guarantees all long as-when~t == plated, tid his For ‘in: Spoons; Silver ,, each, and other Our-eitizens—c _, Worn out plated —o for a trifle wi —_as new. i tncnapanetemecppneb SFE wot T . To Geo.W,” _. ful supply of among them 1 * Weekly, Frank ‘Budget of Fun, trated magazin We areunder Welch for his 1 Letter f We are in } from a corres which we will ; morrow. _It _hour yesterday “Phe writer will by keeping us ' anything that 1 furnishing 1s Mieg D. P. Fauld importer of i West Main si ‘sent us an ele; éntitled, ‘Ah, F. J. Goddard: Wilsey, The: beautiful, and sic is equally _want of music by ordering it’ No __ The Appeal “water in the ri as-high on the __as it ever has . done to brid; property. We ° Tom Canfiel Saloon, has o john sent to What it cozitai find out by cal Co., San Fran A. Gaines & It is labeled, family ‘use. Great F; Qa the mor ‘ @ great fire in Union Centre large quantit therein, and s standing on tl pot. The loss to four hund on the same d building, on’) was extinguis! were destroye estimated at § Taz Appeal Butte Creek, covered the . abouts with the break is ov in -its-constr says:-‘The at unknown, but ble to. all own All will regre time, as the g prise was abo land prove of a Sutter county _ Go to Hy A Socuzrr. i withthe cabs C. A, left $5 ‘ont and ‘wear = needy on Nov The dying 1 cently bung i gar, & ministe New-York pa; =

oe ee eas oatiintiacaynamsnatantinageetameten tna # * the meeting. Every man in thts . only half way, if you please, proper: . + pleted, its present value will be aa will be-vastly beneitted, for the-fea—} “son that the property assessment in this city, Grass Vulley, and all along : “ENEVADA cITy, ‘CAL. oe Sg City, Connty and U. 's. Oficial a wi < paca a ome Friday, Jan. 234, 1874. seanieo Meseing: We desire our citizens, and ~ everybody else interested in the con-. struction of thérailrond from this city to Colfax, te bear in mind that o méeting will be’ held at the Court House on to-morrow, Saturday evening, at 7 o'clock, to take measures towards the organization ef a com_ pany or. corporationfor such @ purpose, © Of course it is expected that _ every_min who .owns property in. _ Nevada, or.that is doing business ih “Nevada will tike an interest in the meeting and in the -constrineti n ot} the road, and of course all-sueh-persous aré expected to be present at city, whether he be a property owner.or not, is interested in the construction ef a railroad of some kind from this eity to Colfax, for every man, whether he owns property in this city or not, will be benefitted materially by the construction of such @ road, The property holder will be*bénefitted by the enhance-' ment of the vale of his property. Let a railroad—only a horse railroad at that—be completed to. Colfax, or ty inthis city will doable itself in value, and when such roail is com: _trebled. Then property, that cannot now hardly be sold for a sou, will be . sought after, for there will be a aswurance that property thereafter will have a permanent value, Whensuch & road is completed, every man in this gity and_county that-pay ‘taxes: he Daily 1 Transcript! “. diem foreach prisoner. State Prison Statistics. ~ Lieutenant Governor. Pacheco, resident director of the State Prison tat San Quentin, recently made & report to the Legislatare, showingthat cember Just 931 convicts ‘confined therein, engaged in working for contractors at the rpte of forty cents per ~The resident director also gives. the fellowof the prisoners and the cost of maintaining them, : The average number of prisuners in confinement during the last two years is nine hundred and Ufteen and one-half. The cost for maintaining the prison for the two years is $298, 35076. ings and: property $67, 333. 8555 Earnings and sales$143,173.86, __ Excess of rr $212, 61025. The average cost per month, hot indluding buildings and improvements, hag been $12,431 58, And the average earn: $5,46905, Hence, an average excess of cost per month of $6,662 22, ~~. The total expenses . incurred during . and this* expense being incident to keeping in confinement 915 prisoners, . the expense for each for ‘that eae of time is $388 63, Per month per prisoner. $16 19. Per day per prisoner $00 53 1-6,“The total earning, $131,257 44, apportioned to number of prisoners, would be, each $143 37. Per month, each $5 97, Per day, each $00 19 2-5, Excess of —enn per prisoner, about $00 3314 The Bauamiaiy commenting on the above showing & says: Fe ~—According-tothetepork made ~bythe line of thé road will be doubled in valve, the total on the assessment Foll increased-and the-rate of taxes, reduced, It requires now, at the present assedsed value of all property in this county, one dollar and ninety eents on each $100 to pay State and county tax. Now, if we double the value of the property, real, estate we mean, in this city, Graea * Valley,and all along the line of road, and _add the road itself,we theréby i increase the grand total ou the assess~—ment-rol-several-bundred thousmirdsy of dollars, whieh of course “will de-dred and thirty thousand. dollars, the Joiut Committee of the Senate and Assembly, during the last ses-. sion, 1871-72, ‘it uppears that the most servicablo building on the Prison groulds, Was the workshop principally used by. the furniture und shoe wanufacturing contractors. This building cost the State one hun(130,000). It is fitted up with contly Ahachinery and steam power, ‘Here is a small memoranauit of the . ‘constant charge to the State thereby incurred: Interest on coat of building, conHthere were in the beginning of .Deing statisties showing the earnings. nses for improvements. baild-. . .. Mntire expenditures $355, 784 yt the pom: two years, being $355,784 11, ~. pattially paralyzed last Fall, The Bell Expulsion Case. In the Senate, on thé 20th inst., Mr. O'Connor, front. the Bpecial Committee appointed to examine into the Bell charges* against Finney, reported against the resolution pending for hisexpulsion. Finney opposed ‘mittee should have power to examHine into the eharge against him and to-sénd for persons and papers: O'Connor called the whole affair *‘a farce,”’ and said there, was a question of veracity existing between Fiuney . and. Bell. told him the charge that he, Finney, had been bribed, was a direct one and thatthe Post was responsible. Bell denies Making any such statement, The matter is still unsettled Itis said Edgerton is preparing another: speech to deliver when. the subject. comes.. properlybefore the papers of the State which ha¥e-been -} putting—him through ‘a course “of sprouts within the” past few days, That's right, Henry. Pitch in and Remember, however, that the newsculatioti—the Chronicle -and Alta _j alone, if their statements are to be believed;—of 60,000 and upwards, Wade in Henrys put in your nee liek. ~ ae The Siamese Twins aro. . Dead. So says the telegraph. Chang died first, and in two hours afterward Eng gave up the’ ghost,The following, which we clip from the Union’s dispatches, télls the story; A special from Richmend—makes the announcement of the sudden death of the Siamese Twins on Saturday morning, the 17th, at the residence at Mount Airey, Surrey county, North Ourolina, Chang ¥ wae . which time tie has been “fr very much debilitated, and strongly addieted to drinking strong liquors aaa means of alleviating his sufferings. He had been quite feeble for sévéral days, $0 mich so as to con. fine the brothers .to.bed. On Friday night Chang became worse, and expired-suddenly, About o'clock on Saturday morning Eng became so terribly shocked that he raved wildly for a while. This attack was folly stupor, and-in-two-hours fronrthe death of Chang, Eng breathed—his last. The wives and families of th» striction and machinery, eect say $2,000,: : twins are inthe deepest’ ‘grief. children, many of whom ake deaf no real estute, ‘The construction of . now paying from $20. ~ mertehants to sell goods cheaper than = and this is car drawa by four hofses, and before Again. It will to men’ doing b of great benefit ness here that own such @ road will give employment to every idle man in this county and bring other laborers hete, It will induce an expenditure of a largé amount of capital that is now. lying dormant and put the sume in general circulation, It will enable our mer-. _ chants to obtain their goods, wares and merchandize from Colfax for $2 or $260 per thn, when they are to $25. ‘This redaction in freight will enable our _ they now do, and-this also will benefit the poor man as well as the rich, A rai to Colfax from this place will benefit. of this city in another roapect. “Tt will enable our _ People to procure fire Wood ut a‘much cheaper rate than they are Bow } paydesiteratuin, . In short, ‘the construction’ of sucha road will benefit everybody. ‘The traveler will be vastly bevetitted, Instead of traveling several hours over . the very worst road in this county, a distance of ‘1B iniles to renek Colfax, . he will take his seat in a taagnificent «Re knowy what is. wp: he will fina himself at the end of his Journey, lt will benefit our merchants, ; as . . we have stated. It will benefit our lawyers, who are compelled to visit Sacramento two or three times a year to-attend to their clients’ business before the -Pank-and gross~injusties~ Of wae . any sys mW toe te ont ev dy which _ crease the rate of taxation. This. ' Insurance $500, mutes, will be of great nenene. to the people . " Wear and tear and depreciation of of the whole county. / v machinery, and repairs, and pay of engineers, fireman, ete, $1,500. Extra guards required $250. Total $4,250 Net monthly earnings of 250 men employed in this building $2,000. Net loss to the State on this account alone $2,250, This is exclusive of the ordinary expense of guards, clothing, food, ete, The average cost to each -maw employed, of the steam power anid machinery, is 56 cents per diem, Now, thelaber of a free man , is rated, at a low average, as worth three dollars and twenty cents per room at 56 cents} making in all an average of $3.76 in the business of cabinet or furniture making; while the contractor for the convict's-work obtain labor, shop-reom, and everything else, for forty cents per diem, Does it need argumént to enforce — competition? Is it not wentialie obvious that thére are three parties literally y outraged. by this absurd .arrangement—the State, the prisoner, and the free. honest artisan? ‘Theré Gai be ho doubt thateonvict laber is iujurious to honesttradesman, especially to shoe ma kers, harness Makers, wagon. makers, coopers and cabinet.makers, for these are the trades most seriously effected by the coutract system, but whatis tobe done. As things are now, the eidga of the State are taxed in a sum. of $212,600 to pay for the keeping of these cenvicts and that too over and above their earnings. “Do svar With the con. tract apntent Lm. what then? In-. , 3! pias port ro hs Mute g ae veal ba eee ety Fy, fo, the. 11 for < ar the ee two” is an easy ‘itis not so diem, in his trade, and his shop-/ }. Railroad property most pitiful manner, A Gas explosion took place in the knitting mill of E. Bradford, at Bennington, Vermont, on the 20th inst., killing nine women and injuriag many others, Loss of property abot $100,000, An unknown 1 ‘in supposed to be insane, jumped from a train of cars on the 20th inst., near Omaha and was. instantly hilled. A DARGE ‘number of men were discharged fromthe Navy Yard at Hew York, on the 20th. —<. JaMes Sullivan ealavendent Democrat, was’ elected State Senator in New York City, in place of Henry Genet, who ran away. Tur Supreme Court of Mivsissippi has declared the late-election in that State constitutioral. + —h-Mannamed‘Henry “Cy White, . was shot-and killed at Ashland, Oiegon, on the 20th inst. THE crevasse at Park's levee, near Célasa,was, on the 20th, 200 ‘yards wide. Another. lower down is Teported. “Tostan Quincy has been elected Presiden tef the cheap transportation Convention, now sitting in Washing. ton, and R. H. Ferguson has been chosen Secretary. The nest ‘session will meet at Richmond, Virginia, at are . the call of the. Breoutive. Committee. Tar Mexican War Veterons paid Génetal rant a visit on Saturday. em Spain authorities have aapamet ee more newspapers in. has secured the Vermont and Canada for $3,000,000, “ea, cosy * C4 the\veport and desired that the Com Tinney alleges that Bell. Senate, and that be intends to hurl, . his anathemas-against those newsgive us all_‘‘phitz’’; wedeserve it.papers of this coast have a wide cirtowed by what seenied té-be-adead= . “The express their. sofrow_in-s}to« Tae . Central Jtminen Railroad eer naa Hot pens of bond coupons of the . : A L Pubberrsn: ook. was a teacher pte twentyag0, Says a Writer in the New York Herald, and near mo was a district sghool—the Principal a gentleman. He had. large : ‘boys, seventeen and rattan andy used “it freely; he also kept a Bible, and this, if he saw any boy across the schoolroom looking a little suspicious, he would’ sling at euluting the. Scriptures’ and “the Bible going 6n @ mission.’’ Hearing the reports from this school, I made the remark that I believed I could put a young lady in that school, a pupil of mine, who could govern it with-one—finger.--Oneof the Trustees, hearing I had niade thé. remark; came-to—see—me--“He said. thé boys had taken the teachor . =p. bodily the-day before, carried ito the street and. down there, andthat—he had Re I would ‘like to try it. The young Jady that I had in my mind belonged to-one-of the first families of the State, and was at home. She was than any other [ could recommend. I wrote her all the particulars. She hesitated'at first, but her father, who was ‘‘one of nature's noblemen,’’ . urged her to come. ‘She did, and those boys. She kept no rattan, or any other whip. The school filled up,-and was one of the best disci. plined schools in the city. The reason was, she could control -herself; and had government in her eye. When she spoke she was obeyed. There is no government in the whip; not govern a school without a whip . had better be rarned i into the: street Mr. Lrxcoun’s Retratovs Virws, The Hon. William H, Herndon, the hisveracity indulged in by Dr. land, Mr Reed, and others; who have insisted that Mr. Lincoln became a Christian in the later years of his life, and has delivered a lecture in Springfield to establish the truth of his statement that the President died as he lived, outside“of the Christian faith. He engages in the ergy characteristic of him, and certainly goes far to invalidate much of the testimony relied upon by the Mr. Lincoln was dne of the most retieent men who ever lived in regard years. eighteen years of age. He kept at! his head, This the boys called ‘‘cir-. bin doubt that it was the worst school in . the city. I said, nevertheless, that further advanced in mathematics. +never—had-thelensttrouble with it is mere power the stronger holds over thé weak. The man that can: law partner’of President Lincoln, j has grown weary of the attacks upon. fcl. disenssion with” the-bohiness* and 6n7 champions of Mr. Lincoln's orthore

doxry. “The truth probably is that oe Bie fa.tifall at Marysyill for the . inst., was 16.90.inehes. We. can beat that morethan2tel. Onaxon CuLvEr end wife celebramas, having been married 50 years, Quite a number of presents were made to the old couple. > roe" ~ A Lazy editor in Ohio reads all his exchanges. in bed. He finds.it the easiest way to fill up his sheet. = 7 s > Ax old clergyman onee took for his text that passage of the Psalms, {said in my liaste all men are liars:**-~-Looking up, apparently as if he saw the: Psalmist before him he said. ‘You said-it in your haste, David if you had been bere, you. —— have said it after mature de-. —ce: SAN engraver in Springfield, Mass., piece of eopper less than oné-fourth the sizeof a silver three-cent piece, and there is roontin— the -eircle~ for fifteei or twenty words mord, oCnanosne, Twill sell you. coffins cheaper than any other’ man in this city!” is what a Council Blatfé man advertises. _“Frxiiow travelers,’’ said_a colored prencher, ‘ef I had been eatin’ “dried apples fora week; anh* den took . ” to drinkin’ for a monf, I couldn’t feel more’ swelled up dan I am dis minnit-wid-pride an’ vanity at seein’ such full ‘tendance har dis ebenin’,"’ Exam, Illinois, offers the boys two cents apiece for all the rats they can kill, and the schoolsare on the point of suspending. _Mrs._Anprews, of Vermont, said she didn’t care a darn whether diuner suited her husband or not, and a justice fined her seven dollars. “Tux editor of the-Kokewo—Indi= na, ‘Tribane, who was—robbed—-of . ~ $400 in an Indianapolis hotel not ‘ong since, attributes the affair to ‘au overruling Providenée, and his ‘when he bolted the door.” GALV ANOPLASTIE. ce JAS. J. OTT, Assayer, Main Street, Nevada City, Cal,, . Ww_prepared.to.galyanise—a out gold or silver plated ware, suchas Speona, Porka, Chains, Pitchers, as, Door Plates, Services, “Rings, Watch Cases, . Waiters, season, up to the evenjnig ‘of the 20th. _ iheidetiod at Permits, on Chri? an fave cost. Lhas-tat—the— “Lord’s—Prayer-into-2}— orgetting to wear ‘his nose glasses SSL ISL SEE 4 aT A Be Siw One vig . EXCELSIOR STRING Banal RE now prepared to furnish = ma ~ gic for Balls, Parties, Sociables, ae: On short notice. Al) orders left at EYFSTLE & JEWELL’S will be promptly attended to. Mevada, dan. 4th, 1874. Special Notice. . N ircen is hereby givon to all ‘pertons indebted to the late firm of LANCAS& ROBINSON that their accounts have been placed in the hands-of J. B. GHAY for collection and that prompt peyAaa SEMEE BO “made PY. those who wuuht A. i ‘ROBINSON,Surviving partner of Lancaster & Sobi:wa. “Nevada City, Jan. Ist, 1574. — A; Eo McGREGOR, * “pate Chief Deputy “Sutveyor, City& aa B. MERRY, SE es oFrancisceo. Sierny & McGREGOR, Cis SURVEYONS & DRAUGH'TS— NEVADA CITY. (fice at the COURT HOUSE-oRteEr lft atthe Daily Union Office, Grass “ae rot will Theet with prompt attention, ase.. National Exchange Bath Rooms — a & AND BARBER SHOP. BROAD STREET.,.... NEVADA CITY, KLINGENSPOR & WALTERS, Oo respectfully inform the peopleof this city and county that they have become proprietors of the abéye wellknoe wu and popular place, snd having refitted it up in a style second to no shup in the State, are now prepared to give the very best. satisfaction to all whe may please to fuyor.thein with their patronage.HOT AND COLD BATHS at all honre. HAIR-CUTTING done in the latest style. Latast Fa good, clean Shave call at the 3 Excbarigi: Barber Shoji DR:JENNINGS* REPROBUCTOR always ~ TER Fi on hand and for sale, pees Ladies Entrance. for Baths throngh the Hotel. “-““SREINGENSPOR & WALTERS. Nevadu, Jan. 14th, 1874, . GARDEN SEED, GRASS SEED, FLOWER SEED, went, ah ORR for EZ. XK. PRESTON, DRUGGIST.. 7 SW anes a hans ; And fue in ACIDS, CRUCIBLES, MIN> _ING ‘CHEMICALS. “exercises, He hada deep tespect for religion and for its outward symbols. and forms. He had also a profoundly religious sense, sometimes Seprosehing mysticism. But it will be as impessible to prove that he was a Christian as that he was not, and historiuns and biographers will divide upon this question, as they are divided now, liefs or disbelief. —New York Tribune. Tar Canadian elections now being [held possess additional interest from the fact that on the result will depend the continuation of the McDonald party in office. o Tux Associate Justices of the Su. preme.Court have written to President Grant, stating that no jealousy } would be felt at the promotion of one ship. . WHosr Book is ‘‘Tuar?—Reader, is property of a friend who kindly loaned it to you? If'so, return it to-day, as your friend has forgotten . ; who borrowed it, and his library is quite depleted. Borrowers of books, like borrowers.of cash, must return premptly or lose their credit. so says the Appeal, Tur Raymond & Ely stock is down to $33.: Oh what a fall was there my countrymen! Diet ere Lavirr is the soul of wit. TT 4 ~ ferent jewelry atill continues fashionable. . To remove stains from hima Get rich. MEGITRS ae according to their, own _personal:-bew. of their number te the Chief * ustice-+ that book you read a month ago. the! And Jewelry in general. He will silver or gild these in the best style, and guarantees they will last as.long as in use before. ~ Old Gold or tilver bought or-changed, JAS, J. OTT. Nevada, Jan, 23a, 1874. NEVADA THEATRE, © ————, FOR THIS NIGHT ONLY! Positively the Last and Best SENSATION PERFORMANCE —BY— FAY TEMPLETON, oO" Daly's Grand—Opera—-Honse; New f York, 8 yeers: old, acknowledged’ in New York and San Francisco the greatest little Actress and Songstress in the world, ALICE VANE, “Star of the South,” the beautiful and : ac. complished Actress. JOHN TEMPLETON,” — . The unrivelled Eccentric Comedian, also . ISABEL VANR, Comedienne, aad Com: é pany from fee Everywhere su: cessful in their new sensations. Four weexs in San Francisco, one week in Sacramento, three weeks = Vir. ginia City, two weeks in es Friday Evening, Jan 934. By the Greatest uest, the U really skit Fovede Fina mi RIP VAN \N WINKLE. To Conclude with . the Beantifu) CUPID Original —_ PAY TEMPLETON, Popu lar Prices. Dress rhiny $1.00. Par. quette 50 cents, under 12, half price. Seats ver th these great, fash. can ionable and superior performances now be en without — Bookat _ at gaged Geo. W. Weilch’s me 4.8. HOLBROOK, “FLORA B. HOLBROOK. J. 8. HOLBROOK & co. — . ie guests. MUFFLES, PAIN'Ts OMLS'AND VAKN. ISHES, ~ All at the Lowest Market Rates.: ptions OS” Preacri compounded at all hours, day or night, WESTERN HOUSE, Corner of D and Second Streets, We “MARYSVILLE. GEORGE WAPPEL, Proprietor. THIS House is more convent at ly jsituated for hotel e Table E= Setup i a"a wi deli and luz cg toe season, and 4 beds are ofthe very best quality. Mera aap By th the House is i Rébtin. pyle pins ey aaa an ‘attention re =) Charges reasonable. + a COUNTY WARRANTS. , 1d, Memente on, deneral. Fund i te “ered prior # ali warrants on Indigent sick tered prior to May 6th, 18 roe all veel: Warrants on will be paid oe In be, x A. GOLDSM MITH, Co. Treasuzer. A. H. Pancer, De jan. Sth, 1874. sind 23 MARYSVILLE MARBLE WORKS. D Street, between lat and 2d Streets. THOMAS SEA WARD.. +++ eteis oe» PrOpinetoe Tata SaaS = Dealers in MARBLE TOMBSTONES, PLAIN a G™ poename, = AND MONUMEKTs, — And hing to be found in a FiRsT aoe — : —— § TABLE TOPS made to order. “Rep MEN TARE hettca aie Te ae —a County of ban. IViL AND MINING ENGINEFRA, ~~ NEVADA LOCAL Gold and : By advertisem it will be* seen ‘this city, is—pr either in gold, worn out plated forks, beils, d services, breas cases, ete., ang up to a horse 31 He is also prep: per-plates for.q -guarantees all long as-when~t == plated, tid his For ‘in: Spoons; Silver ,, each, and other Our-eitizens—c _, Worn out plated —o for a trifle wi —_as new. i tncnapanetemecppneb SFE wot T . To Geo.W,” _. ful supply of among them 1 * Weekly, Frank ‘Budget of Fun, trated magazin We areunder Welch for his 1 Letter f We are in } from a corres which we will ; morrow. _It _hour yesterday “Phe writer will by keeping us ' anything that 1 furnishing 1s Mieg D. P. Fauld importer of i West Main si ‘sent us an ele; éntitled, ‘Ah, F. J. Goddard: Wilsey, The: beautiful, and sic is equally _want of music by ordering it’ No __ The Appeal “water in the ri as-high on the __as it ever has . done to brid; property. We ° Tom Canfiel Saloon, has o john sent to What it cozitai find out by cal Co., San Fran A. Gaines & It is labeled, family ‘use. Great F; Qa the mor ‘ @ great fire in Union Centre large quantit therein, and s standing on tl pot. The loss to four hund on the same d building, on’) was extinguis! were destroye estimated at § Taz Appeal Butte Creek, covered the . abouts with the break is ov in -its-constr says:-‘The at unknown, but ble to. all own All will regre time, as the g prise was abo land prove of a Sutter county _ Go to Hy A Socuzrr. i withthe cabs C. A, left $5 ‘ont and ‘wear = needy on Nov The dying 1 cently bung i gar, & ministe New-York pa; =