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January 8, 1884 (4 pages)

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Were upwards of $4,600. _now, & sweet ‘singer. See fhe Washington (D. ©.) Republi__can has the following to say of a -lagists that the heroine of the tale is Vice President; Carl Maller, Secreyor ramen sagen: NEVADA ailtY TRANSCRIPT,. RR POSTOFFICE DIR DIRECTORY. Arrival and departire of of the mails from = Nevada City Postoffice until further noa3 ew . ary 22d. _ # {> Whe anoual meeti He = and” Downie pio Gaya ining Os md boil diy, (ee Bae anh yf omtnmelab Goa EOL Blas ‘fen, N. pene. ‘. John Meiu has been appointed ne eee chief deputy under Postmaster Wil{punter ex; liams, George Nihell being sworn in Nera bests 6:90 2:80.P. ia Bago pt prose to-help da'the work. “lps one of a os wh Opt es weet oa fash * ea cya? mec lene tat: ealS me Ae ee 6:30 A. u. 11:00. u.] The officers of the Rebecca Degree You eter Lodge (L 0, 0, F.) at: Rough and = Ready are to be installed to-morrow da aud Fridays.. 6:30 11:30 a * sg ci At " THOS. itr: P. M. Su, evening. After the installation there Personal and foctal Items Gleaned ‘ -Mereand There. — Thomas-Legg has been-on the.sick list ‘for a few days. Bert. Lancaster is dangerously ill at his home in Vallejo. Mrs. John Spalding has returned from a visit to San Francisco. F. D. Seward fad Do town ‘yesterdigje hits yay, fr ru wig ille to. pik John Caldwell is ao from Santa Cruz where she has been spending several months for the benefit of her health, The gold medal recently offered at St. Matthew’s Hall, Sana Mateo, for the pupil who excelled in declamation, was won by Wilson Sigourney of this city. _ Rey. Geo. Bomus, the ‘‘New Zealand Evangelist,” is expected in this city to-day, and _will-assist Kev. W. B. Priddy, pastor of the Methodist Church in holding a two-weeks protracted meeting. The young lady with the Raymond Holmes company whose name appears on the billsas ‘‘Rita Stanford,” is none other than Kittie Unger, who spent. her _childlood iv Grass Valley. She ‘was “then, as dy born in Nevada City = The wife’ of Representative Glascock . besides being s young and pretty woman i, gifted with more than the. ordinary number of talents, paintings and sketches, mainly of scenes along the glorious bay of Moiaterey, adorn her parlors here, and she has dong somes even more creditable work. which remains at her home, In the literary way she is.a.graceful writer, and a year or_so since published a novel entitled “Dare,” which showed some’ sides’ of California society in humorous and satirical lights. Inthe face of her denials, San Francisco society inMiss Jennie Sweetapple, who was for a long time a reigning belle in that city, and was the acknowledged beauty of Saratoga for 1 season. Her career in San Franvisco terminated at the time her engagement was broken with Sir George Bridges, who proved to be a bogus baronet of the regulation type. A Grass Valley Invention. Henry Tyack, a resident of Grass Valley has been granted a patent for a wine and cider press invented by him. The improvements covered by this patent consist of various matters of construction, including principally the construction of the body or frame, and m-ans for operating it. The following operating: The trays for catching the juice, the doors for discharging the cheese or waste, the tneans for opening the feed door, anda device for previously preparing or pulverizing the material, Each of the improvements has in view the general result of providing a more effective press. A Great Success. The fair recently given at Grass VaHey for the benefit of the Orphan Asylum there .was a great suceess financially as well as otherwise, reflecting the highest degree of credit ‘onthe lady managers. The profits Fire at the. Nivens Mine. The blacksmith shop at Nivens & Co. ’s mine on Selby Flot was burned Saturday evéning, together witha quantity of,tools\and clothing that it.contained. Tae loss is between $150 aud $200. The tire started acagg fh Bel eed a “x WM 8, . Election.» “On Satorday evening last the fol~ lowing’ were elected ‘officers of the, Young Men’s Social Clab : ; President; J. B. Gray, tary; W. D. Vinton, Treasurer.. : EEE For a cough or cold there. is no remedy eqoal to Ammen’s Cough . Syrup. ° Megeman’s Gastricine. A sPEciric or Dysprrsia. Sold bed ‘25, nbd 50 centeiper box, Sentby mail; J: N. HeczMAN & Co., Proprietors; New York. Redington & (Co., Agents, “San Francisco, Gol. 228-3m S59 Beehive Gro‘sell the very best groceries and provisions at the vey lowest prices. 080-3 ASELAND, Or., April . pees ‘27, 19837 . aad mrt Couch Syrup sells well . . handsome new delivery ‘yu. . give a ball on the evening of Febru— “. stand: beneath a floral wishboul. Afi} “A. few “of her} V. fed to 1.98 inches, making ‘a. total of __4 fro theftidications yesterday the . York-street can be recovered by the “BRIEF MENTION. —ss Jottings and Transcriptions of Leca} Tuterest. —Jerry N: Payne has sala hie} Foal Saloon” at Sacramentp. Cc. E. Mulloy, the grocer, The Firemen of Grass Valley wh will bea suppergand dancein Schroeder’s Hotel. Last Friday a fine ledge was struck in the 13-hundred foot level of the New York Hill mine, ledge pitches downward towatd the foot-wall. The ledge has heretofore been very flat in thislevel, but has now takena sudden turn and goes downward. » The ‘‘wishbotie” wedding has ‘be‘Cothe the correct thing? The* vouple ter the ceremony the bride and groom are given the wishbone to pull. Thetug results in a break somewhere, and whoever gets the long piece is absolved ‘from’ getting up to build fires in the morning. In the Superior Court of Yuba county Saturday the Golden Gate Hydraulic Mining Company was fined $500 by Judge Keyser for a} violation on December 3d last of an . injunction issued in the debris suit rbrought by Yuba county. This is the third time the owner has been fined for an alleged violation of the game injunction. é The Central Pacific have put im knee chairs on all the curves and braced all the bridges to stiffen the track up for the big engines. They ‘aow talk of putting in ties8 by 10 and a foot longer than-these now in use, “The ones now used are 6 by Ss inches and 8 feet long. If the change Hs made between -Reeklin and Truekée, nearly 20,000,000 feet of lumbe? will be-used, , Witness 5 eepent. crn Colling . yr waabrought into court last time.to have the date fixed on which he should hang-for the . murder of banket Cuthinings he had ‘much to say about John Specht, one of the most important witnesses for the prosecution 'in the trial). The prisoner denied that. Specht stood well in the community where he resided;or that he.was proprietor of « nigh-toned saloon there called the Turf Exchange and famous as the resort of the best-classes of . sporting men, as had been claimed. As a matter of curiousity, Dexter Ridley of this city wrote to a nephew of bis ia the East respecting Specht and his reputation. " The nephew claims to have carefully investigated the subject of inquiry, and his answer to Mr. Ridley is anything but complimentary to Specht. He says that individnal doesnot keep the Turf Exchange, but 1s proprietor of one of the lowest dives in Louisville, and that his standing is not stich ‘as the testimony on the trial showed it to be. : Struck a Rich Lead. Says the Oakland Tribune of Saturday: The Express Mining Compaay, of this city, received a sack of rich ore from their mine, near Downieville, yesterday. The Superintendent writes that in drifting from the bottom of the shaft into the hill he developed a four-foot vein of this rich decomposed quartz, and’ at the time of writiug had taken cut ten or fifteen tons of the ore,which will average two bundred dollars per ton. os — ‘Miner Hart. Saturday afternoon.a miner named Hooper employed at the Providence was severely jammed between the car and incline timbers.’ His back and breast are’ much bruised, bat it ceived any serious internal injuries, Capt. Cox Set Free. The preliminary hearing of Jerome .B. Cox for the killing of Charles McLaughlin, the capita sul his dismissal Saturday afternoon by Police Judge Lawler of Jan Francis: co, on the grounds of self defense. . 9 The Rainfall. ~ “The rainfall for Saturday amount: 11.02 for the season, Water qui falling Saturday night, but. judging stori ig by no means over. King Found. A heavy bangle ting found on loser calling at the. TranscrieT office and paying . for _ this advertisement, = s ja6-2c. = information Wanted. < Cecelia Grogan wants “informaticu of her brother, Mich.el Grogan, from, whom she has not ‘heard since 1857. ‘He then lived at Nevada City, an‘ spent much of histime in company with aman named’ Darby O’Brien. Ab¥rperson knowing -of his where. abouts will confer a great favor. by writing to Patrick J. O’Maley, Contractor, _ Fairmount, — Cincinnati, is not yet’ known whether he re-. rhe 2 apnags, Jan, 7, 1884, ‘Board: met pursuant to law on.the above date. Present K. Oa:per, Jos, Perrin, F.-M, Pridgeou, 'R. “President Hucltins and UW. L. Day. ° H.L. Day, presiding. ~The ininutés of the previous meeting were read and approved: . On motion H, L. Day, was selected President to serve for the seeaing yee Th following demands dgainet the county were found due and ordered. paid on the ‘ ' “GENERAL FORD, ~ Citizens Bank, juror’s ‘cer tificates, $1, 160,75. ' Geo. C. Gaylord, cates, $14: A. Blamenthal, juror’s certificates; $57.50. Chas. Kent, © juror’s certifijuror’s certificates, E. J. Rector, juror’s certificate, This $6. Hugh Barber, juror's certificate, $67. i: aren Mills, ~janer'e certificate, _ $28.50, John Richords, juror’s pertificate, $3. N. Bailey, juror’s certifieate, 24.3 W. H. Smith, jurors. certificate, . $6. Mrs. E, Nicholle, Jodging impecunious witness in criminal case, $3.25. House, $72.90. Nevada City Gas Co., Court House, $86.30. M. By <Lagos, nursing indigent gas for ‘sick, $7.50.) Nevads City Water Works, water for Court House and Treasurer’s of. fice, '$55.25. i Hagh McClafferty, trimming trees at Court House, $6. Isaac & Rowe, painting and vacnishing in Court House and jail. $27. M.L.& D. Marsh, lumber for Hospital, $2.46. John. Adams, fer Janitor’s ‘services at Treasurer’s office, $15. K. Casper, for labor at County Hospita), (assigned bill), $10 92. South Yuba W. & Mining Co.; for Water at Hospital, $23. W-D;-Vinton,sick at Hospital, $2,617.50.Attest:” F: GQ: Brarry, Glerk,* By W. D. Harris, Depaty. — The Derbec Dividend. Io this-morning’s Tagg ecrirr the official announcement is made that the first dividend of the De: bec Mining Company will be paid at their office im San Francisco on Monday next, It was contemplated to place the mivé ona dividend paying ‘basis last Nevember;b batowing to improvenients being “made to enhince the value of the. property, and the laying in of the : wloiek supplies, the commencement of dividends ~ was necessafily postponed until now. The new tunnel being completed and all connéctions made, the expenses
will be materially reduced.. The niine is looking very fine, -and the gravel that is being washed jis of a most excellent quality, The stockholders have new a good prospect of getting theirsmoney back, besides havitig a substantial value to their ‘stock in the future. The company have an immense body of ground that has never been worked, and there is no good reason why the Der bee should not be a regular dividend payer. Practical Training. Mrs, 'L. * Manson:Buck master, Principal of Laurel Hall, San Mateo, at [which ‘iostitutton . of learning been educated, is ever progressive and practical in her management. a well equipped printing office, and the ‘‘art preservative of all a:ts’’ is nqw,tau.ht to those of the pupils who desire to acquireit. From this office will issue monthly a ‘magazine entitled---‘An~ Outlook,”’the —first numberof which is at hand. It contains much reading that is interest$ ing, flects. the greatest credit on fair hands that made it, and typographically. it rethe Road te San Juan. The Tidings of Saturday says: “For some time a few leading citi zens have been quietly working up an interest among business men with the view-of building a wagon road from Grass Valley to North San Juan, and now arvangements are. about completed to that end. A preliminary meeting has been held and this evening there will be a meeting for the purpose of effecting a permanent organization. The affair is in the hands of leading. citizens and will be pushed throwgh ‘as fast as possible. Our people can be assured that-a good road will be built from this place to San Juan,and that, toe, at an early-day.” ~ AL. of Ml. Instaltation. : Valley Council, No, 254, American Legion of Honor, at Grass Valley, _. indulged in # public installation and banquet Friday evening. Following _ . are the officers who were qualified for the ensuing term : O. H. Reynolds, Commander Mrs, .W. J. Michell, Vice Commander ; Mrs, LE. ‘Loyd, . Recording’ Secretary; R. Phillips, Collector ; Mrs. Snyder, Treasurer; Mrs. Bree, Orator; Wm. Bree, Onteide Sentinel; J, Fitagerald, Inside Sentinel ; Mrs. vey, Warden; Mrs. Stephens, Chaplain; B. Fogarty, Sittieg Fast Commas Br & Wore Baan Ohio, isons ldee, » ee hee for trial Feb. 27,5 Nevada Ice Co., ice. for Court for care todigent ; many Nevada county ladies have . She has added tothe establishment’ = . at Camp 20, on the C. > AGAINET-TME. MINERS.. States Circuit Court Sentechapioen; dered hie decision jn the case of Woodraff vs. the ‘North “Bloomfield Hydraulic Mining Co. et als. . Ac cording to the reports: received here means auother round of litigation, as the miners know they have right on their side and will not quit fighting till the highest court in the land. hag had ite giress. Superior Court. The following business was trans*. acted in the Superior Court yes terday, Judge John Caldwell presiding: The Nevada G. and S. M. Co. vs. Original Empire M.and M.-Co.: Motion to enter judgment and strike jout cross-complaint denied.’ Coubsel for defendant excepts. t Gowell vs. Ashburn, Court. _ Set Reed vs. Nicl.olls. Court. Set for Feb. 23. Stoddard vs. Callaghan. Set for Feb. 25. — Byrne vs, Osborn. Court, Feb. 26. Two cases for same date. Smiles vs. Kuhlman. ith. Lewison.& Co. va, Leakey & Smith. Court. Feb. 28th. Rose vs. Nevada and Grane .Valley_W,-&—L,-Co;—et als. Motion granted to strike out that part of ~ Cau Cont, Feb. e@mplaint claiming damages and ac” dion dismissed as ‘to defendants C. W. Cross aud Jas. D. White. Rose vs, Nevada & Grass Valley W. and L. Go. et als. Motion grant_{ed to file copy ef complaint as origiWm. Brcckington, insolvent debtor. Order made for sile of property. 2 Confidence ‘Operators Held. The Examiner says: Frank Morrow and Henry J. Mitchell have been held to answer before the Superior Court of San Francisco in $2,000 each, by Judge Webb, for graud larceny, ‘he-prisoners are the confidence men who took charge of Albert Lichban, in December last, and promised him a job in the State of Nevada asa watchman. He had $180-with him; which they advised hin to leave with them, giving Lichban a check on a man in Nevada for the money. Afterthey had obtained the coin one of the ascused was suddenly seized with a cramp and went out of the room, leaving his hat. ion; the verdant Lichban remaining to guard a valise, which was found afterward to contin alot of rubbish. Morrow and Mitchell are the ‘same parties who hired a countryman to watch a lumber pile on Market street and sold him $3 worth of armament for $18 to guard it with, Mineral Land Decision. TheUnion says: The Commissioner of the General Land Office at Washington has just rendered 4 decision in a land caBe at Grass Valley, which involved: the question as to whether it was agricultural.or mineral. §. R. Michaels appliedfor an agricultural patent.to—certain lands lying between the bridge of Little Wolf Creek, on the Colfax road, and Larrimer’s mill. Wm. Larkin, a mineral claimnant, entered a protest and full testimony in the case was taken before the Register and Receiver of the Sacramento Land Oftice, whiclwas sent up to the Land Department at-Washington. After a full investigation of_the testimony the Comm ssioner decides that fifty acres of the land in dispute\is mineralin character and not subject to pre-emption. There are several mining claims on this land, and the contest has excited considerable loeal interest. a te Another Gol: Find. The Republican says that James Cook, au old '49-er and-a miner of experience, who has. been employed PR. R.; while strolling about that place recently discovered gravel which he thought would pay, and at once located a mining claim. Prospecting proved that there was a good bed of gravel, which has since’ been assayed, and the, results are more than satisfactory. A number of locations have already been made on the lead, and considerable excitement exists On the river. As atrue and efficient tonic, and one that excels allother iron medicines, take Brown’s fron Bitters. POWDER . —Phis powder nveet varies, A mar-. vel of purity, strength and -whole.osomenes More economical than the irdinary kinds, and cannot be sold it competition with the multitude of low test, short weight, alum or phoshate powders. SoLD ONTY IN CANS. \Wallsi, N.Y.” u3-ly! TNR cen ynen in teeaenpeoei ne: (att transacting he eijoins the miners perpetnally . and nnconditionally. All this only . , The other soon followed his compan, ee iets pot ae WDon'r forget that J J. Jackson keeps on hand all kinds of. canned goods, sugar-ctired hams, wines and liquors for medicinal purposes, ‘and everything found in a first-class grocery store. jy19-tf THE BEST TOILET Soap. © N THE MOST ECONOMIORL. a GOOD FOR THE-SKIN. ‘Knneat at Meeting. “The Anaual Meeting of the. Nevada. County Mining aud Prospect: ing Company will be held at the office of W. F, Englebright, on Broad street, Morgan & Robert's Block, Nevada City, Cal. .on Saturday, January 12, 1884, for the purpose bef such. business as may come before the meeting. By order J. D. Fremine, President. W. F. Exaiepetant, Secretary. Nevada City, Dec, 29, 1883. PR HE ; Read What an Editor Says. oi dob Aer Oracips daee roan vy CURES SKIN DISEASES. I Bonouti. It isa great favorite with ladies who have tried it, be ause it gives a natur~ al appearance to the skin which no perce g — — It does ‘nut ve that glossy, shining appearance on the face which is conaklored so Oobjeetiouable. Only 10 cents a cake. For sale by CARR BROS. Mr. Robt. S.-Ammen—Enclosedyou will find your proposal for advertising accepted. I have all the advertisements the Bulletin can well carry, but recently we had an epidemic of chest and throat diseases, and your medicine (Ammen’s Cough Syrup) was used i in my family with good results, though my faith in all: sorts of so-called patent medicines is little indeed. That it did good in this case, however, I believe, and for. ‘that reason wi!l advertise it. If you}. will take the trouble to glance over the columns of the Bulletin you will discover they are very elean from nostrume and quack remedies, tho’ applications reach me every week for space. Yours respectfully, , C, MULHOLLAND, Editor BuiletinGreenville, Cal, CHILDREN s pictures taken instan taneously by Swarts, Nevada City. av Tracy's s Auction House. TRANSCRIPT: BLOCK, Osiishetousd Street. % 1884. 1884. THIS YEAR {We Propose to Sell-all Kinds of Goods Cheaper than kver belore, -——=0 DURING THE PAST YEAR’ Our Trade has,! een Mealy Cioving Which Happy Condition of Affairs is due to the fact that the Women and Men are Rapidly Finding Out we Mean vast what we Sey: 3 When we Tell. Them That in by and Faney Goods, Milinery Ete, Our Stock is the LARGEST, Our Styles the LATEST, : Our Prices the LOWEST. {RCA} I : MAGNIFICENT ASSORTMENT. Before making your purchases. Bie Lester -& Crawin (NEAR THE UNION HOTEL). -. Harmonicas, ee And Y so doing can quote LOWER. PRICES iessienen err! t + n CL AT THE NT Mm store gi And see the immense stock of Eancy Baskets, Fancy Paper Boxes, — Handkerchiefs} Bracelets (Celluloid and Gold, from infant s_sizesgup,) Climbing Monkeys, : Picture Frames, Fancy Soaps, _ §ouvenirs,. Perfumeries ete. —— o——_ —IMMENSE STOCK OF DOLLS, Irom Five Cents: to Five Dollars, Dressed and Undressed, China ani. War. And for the next 20 days we will give to every child purchasing a Doll anelegant Doll’s Hat. special Inducements in Millinery As _we intend to close out our stock in that Department by the first of the New Year. TERMS STRICTLY CASH. Call early and secure immense bargains. SEAL LEN BERGER, AMERICAN 9 CENT STORE.....-.-BROAD STREET sa7GO TO Ga The Palace Drugstore IF YOU ARE IN NEED OF DRUGS, MEDICINES, Toilet Articles 3, STATIONERY, BLANK BOOKS, PAINTS, OILS, ETC. GARR BROTHERS, . Corner Pine and Commercial sts., Nevada City. . GASH GROGERY STORE. HUSSEY & SON, ELaveOpened a First-Class Grocery & Provision Store — Junction of Main and Commercial io a ee (Building forrierly occupied by W. R. Coe,) where, shey. will keep constantly_on band “A FULL ASSORTMENT “OR Family Groceries, Provisions. Wines, . LIQUORS, GRAIN, FEED FLOUR, a & WE ‘PROPuSE TO a a For Cash Only, A for the best qualities of Goods. than “ny ather bate in Nevada Cit ~ HUSSEY gt $