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NEVADA TITY; CALIFORRIA. .
The Record-Union,in ‘commenttug on Congressman Page's intention
to ask the appointment by the House:
of-an engineering commission $0 investigate the debris quéation with a
view to suggesting sothe means of
‘yelief, says: “Such an inquiry
might be useful, but it js doubtful bce the-houses of ill fame pra
whether it malight wot pr
Sastion npon'the titter 09 Yong.” Is
assumes that ‘not only twhonthe. “but!
_yzars.might be consumed ‘before any . ladies: ‘in this city may find good hus‘bands during the present year. —-yomedy cou-d be , and rete in
eng vette rable
would be done edditions® ope
its of debris, It also suggests ‘that
Congress ive temporary relief by
‘appropriating a quarter of a million
of dollars with which to dredge the
Sacramento river, and urges that by
che time that sumand its good effects
are exhausted some plan acceptable .
to all will be devised and put into
operation, While giving the RecordUnion cfedit for a desire to suggest
what it considers the fairest course .
in this important matter, we fail to
detect how the danger can; be in‘.
creased or lessened within a year or
perhaps tore to come: The slickens!
resulting from a scoré of years’:min-.
ing is in the rivers and their tributa~
ries; Uzless.an unusually heavy
storm occurs thig winter, it will re*
main pretiy near its location, mot
enough being carried in suspension
to work special injury. Let a flood .
_ prevail, and no human power can prevent the damagé that will ensue to
the peiple i inthe valleys. The farm:
ets in the districts subject to thiw
necessary evil are creatures Of circumstaneea: for the present, Any . *?
" approptiation that Congress ihales
for dredging the rivet eould ‘tot. be . .
‘applied to advantage before the
_ storms of ‘this season are over. If
the right spirit i is “displayed ‘perhaps
a permavient and economical remedy
can be put into operation before an__other.wiater comes. It is for that
the people should strive. .
Filthy Condition of the Streets.
Nevada City “haa: antil irshently’
been fairly entitled to the reputation
it has abroad as wellas at home of
having the neatest and best. kept
streets of apy town’of its size on the
Coast, The principal business thoroughfares just at present, however,
present a sight greatly at variance.
with what.oue wou d expect in’ view,
“of the feregoing. The planks are
reeking in the filth that lies on then
ankle deep. Straw, hay, paper,, offal, sticke, stones, .ete.,. comming:
ling with the layer of mud, give the
impression that atreet cleanisg has,
been abandoned here for some. time.
There is no use in waiting for pleas-,
ant weather to tidy the streets-up a
little.
move the possibilities of malariel
teoubles from this cause, ‘
“Phe Text-Beek Question.
yaged yesterday considering the mat-,
ter of adopting text books for the
use of the public schools in the coun™ty, exclusive of those at Nevada
City wnd-Grass Valley, which are
governed inthis respect by local
Boards of Education. C.W. Cross
“gubmitted=s ie Le
proposition from
Bancroft & Go. wherein the latter pe
‘agree to furnish the Pacifle Coast:
Readers at less price-than is asked
" for the’McGuffey series Ata late
how? in the afternoon the Board were
discussing as to their power to.act-inthe and no definite decie‘jon had been reached, although ‘they .
evidently favor the adoption bali the.
7.
A test washing of fifteen car-leeds .
_ ef gravel fiom the Planet drift claim
at Lowell"Hill has just been made;
the resu't being a little ever ten dollara’ worth of very fine gold. No
quickailver was used, and conge‘quently more Gr less of the precious
metal wacaped, The Planet is an‘enterprine of recent. development, and:
~ ‘there is but little doubt as to. the
center of the channel soon being
vpened up. The gravel now coming
Sut improves with each day, and ‘the .
. mines would panout Well.
feounty would” be put im good condiis not well founded may be compelled
suing term by D.-D.-G.C.,.C_F. Mc.
. Geode Aveleguburger; Jr. Com., J. W,
Sluice them off now, and re-.
. diiys*trip “to the Pluntas Kurekis
The Board of Supervisors were en; fT
“lanes ented Mines, . Lgold, a
The » Dancy ‘TRawscRirt wishes—
That the payitg mines coe B
T hold their own.
That thd bubivode bt. prospecting
-'Thatthe—opium ‘debs in Nevada
City might be éloséd"for good. :
That the debris question might be
settled 80 “as not to stop hydraulic
Wining.
That everybody would take thir
paper, so all might keep posted on
the mews of the day.
confined by ordinauce to et
art of the city, me a
all’ the mafriayeable “young .
} temote
Phat +the—men.and. boys _ who .
they really’. a some bac ; bone after}
all.
That the Scare of the Moore's
Flat stage and murderers of Cummings would give the sethorities a
clue of their whereabouts.
‘That the persons, who are in’ the
habit of selling whisky, to Indians
might have. the foul crimes fastened
upon thear and be treated accordingly.
That the roade between this termianects Narrow Gauge and Sierr. f
tion-so the miners up country can act
perfectly independent of Marysville.
That'twelve or fifteen iéfe capi,
talists with plenty of money, nerve
oa business capacity would oome to
Nevada county at’ once and, satisfy
mselvés that this is the best field
on the coast for legitimate mining.
(That the (population of this city
would continue to increase for many’
géars in the game ratio that it has
récently, aia that the croakers who
tiave prophesied. that the ““boom”
to ‘‘live.in a shoe” because there will
be no Vacant: hidases. ae
o of Rm. ¢. anaiianel:
“Wine installation of officers cf ie
C., was held 01 Wednesday eventing,
Jauary 7th, and the following persons were duly installed. for the enNeill: P. C., BE. He Gaylord; Com.,
Robiuson; Rec. Sec., Miss Laure 2%
Gralam; Treas., Wm, Holmes; o.
‘of H., &. BE. Bush; 1. G., Mre. 8. F.
Robinson; O. G., 8, Clutter; C. of
R. C., E, ad Towle; M. of C., Mrs.
E. M. g; Chap., Josiah Sims;
Comp., SOFA “K. W. Towle; Lady,
Mrs. S. D. Chureh; Gent., Lous
Dulac, Jr.-A large. delegation . of
. Chauipions-from Live Oak Eocamp-.
ment at Grass Valley waa present in
apite of the inclemency of the weather. At the close of the ceremonies
at the hall, thé entire company adjourned to the oyster.saloon ‘of A.
{Tam, where a splendid collation
awaitéd tliem. ‘A pleasant time was
had by all present.”
ee .
An Aged Man's Death.
} Express Messenger Colburn return(6d day before yesterday from, a five
ine and vicinity where he gathered
in « big lot of bullion. He says that
‘as he passed through Mohawk Valy
ley en route home he saw a. procession comprising nearly all the Valley
folks following s coffin te the graveyard, On inquiry he learned that
“Old Mau Wash,” a well known and
. favorite character who is credited
ith having been over 104 years of
ae*; was being buried.
: Mew to @ Preve at.
The Alta saya: “Captain Godfrey,
according to the Nevada City Trax‘SCRIPT, iso “goldometor. “His meth. od of operation is to walk overthe
ground to be prospected in an ordin.
ary manner, Upon reaching. a, point
beneath which rests quarts.of ‘gravel
him. He 9 seized with dizziness
and ae siok-#t the. stomach. It
-you doubt that the gold: is there, you;
have onty to -dig-down throughs}
mile or two ca and sce for
yourself," .
"Wr Ghecin’s Salen '
For the first time since Mr. Méntgomery bedame incumbent of the office, there are no sheriff's sales on
the bulletin. “The cases of-fieo. E.
. furner_and the Sonth Yuba Canal.
Compyny against the Camden Min~~ e‘indications are that deposits contain:
Jing: coarse gold are close by. While
the ‘present ‘production daiiidt /ye
walled very rith, it) Wil)’ ma€® likely:
pay for : “let
tng Company’ to satisfy: indgmenta in
qabichanle wore. cct.for-the. Sth: sua}
{jostitythe assertion. that” ® more’
i Jeath-scene never was —witnessed.
swore off” New Year's would ‘show . A slave to liquor and m
Bishop, who ia teved and reverence!
religious life, . She was quite beauti-,
pure, exa'ted life.
wanita Encampinenty-No. 3; 6: of Bey
: ae
ee
"Te Republican . of Wednesday . !
saya; Teucke has received a sermon
whigh is moteimpressive than any
ver embodied in’. ge. On.
Monday afternoun the dead body of
litigy, cheerless, disreputable den on
Main street. She lay on the floor,
{4 upward, with her limbs rigid
and frozen, her features. distorted,
ner eyes glaring and fixed, het hair
flisheveled, and her entire appearance so terrible.and ghastly that. evory beholder shuddered and turned
away sick with horror. The inanner
of her death is somewhat shruuded
i mystery, but enowgh is known: to
. dreadful, loathsome, --horrifying} —
nor hie
was carried on Sunday eening, in a
stupefied conditiun;-te—the+-desolate,
place in which her lifeless body was
found. There was neithér fight nor}
. fire in the miserable placé,:andyet
the darkness and the icy night wiads
were _ nother:.only companions.
More had better not be told. A
drunken man was tobbed of a watch
in that house Sunday night,” and
this led ‘to evidence that is absoluteiy shocking. ‘The Coroner’s jury _ is
thoroaghly investigating the case, but
it is believed that no guilé can be
iastened upon any particular person.
That any woman should die under
such ciroumstandes would “‘eonstitute
a sufficiently impressive sermon, but
Jennie Staniey’s story is not all comprised itt this death scene. She was
the adopted daughter of an eminent
by everybody omthe Pacific Coast
As his daughter she was given a good
education and as sucl: led .a strictly
ful, was universally beloved, and her
girlhood was rich with promise of a
A Werd fer Boek Agents.
“Nevaba Cir, Jan. 7, 1889.
sue Le ~~ date you must have an.
thas being kickfed to death by Frank
Pixidy’s mule or being strack by
lightning are nothing to the torture of
as book agent. Don’t you know, Mr.
+ Kditor, that all the good things of
‘this life have to be brought to us,
‘whereas we run after all that is
bad as naturally as a duck takes te
water. Although seme book agents
may be annoying for want of tact in
all know they have donea good work
and.a.great--work in the Pacitie
States and Térritorbe. In the mountains,in the gulehes and dark ravines,
in the anow covered passes of the
Sierras. Idon’t know what thous‘their lonely ¢ in the leng wiuter
nights had the bddk agents not visited and sold them books. I rather
like to sell books,and in fact it ie the
only way I can visit-many of my eld
friends. Some of them are stowed
away iu gulches and favines aad will
never leave them until they are. cartied oul by kind rough hands: to
their last reating place. It in a ama'l
businoss for a-newspaper to. devote.
ite time and talent .againat bookagents when they might turn their
attention to matters ef more importance to thecommunity. The same
class-of papers gets off something
amart about “mother-in-law-iem”
and ends with Kearneyiam, by hang“ing all the lawyers and throwiag a1 . .
the taw books into the bay of San,
Francixco. Wwe, Dowrtr, 49en.~
-_.
Fire Caneer Morting.
Tha regular” monthly niéeting Be
Pennsylvania Engine Company was
held Wednesday evening, In addipions to the regular business. transacted, the office of Secénd Assistant
Foreman was dv declared vacant on account of the removal of Hiram.
Shearer from the city; and Jaa. B.
Gray was elected to serve for the Jui
‘Jennie Stauley wasdiscovered im a. . stock men are
~ -fand others are
. The responsibility of the nitaiy can:
not knowing how to sella book, we),
Ht ‘Congttes is oo + wekioket
Washington, after its holida / ‘recess,
The Ute Indians are. now en route
to ‘W.shington under military esDaniel Emmons, Town, Treasurer
of Everett, Mass., is missing, with
$10,0C0 of the public funds.
The de. th of Major W. L. Ustick
of the Third Infantry, Californi:
Volunteers, during the war, is an”
_nounced from Euseka, Nev. 5
‘The funeral of Bishop Haven took .
place in Boston on the 6th.: Nearly
every minister of the Methodist depomination in New Englatd
‘presenit. The services were Ver:
pressive,kites agént from Salt Lake i is
at the» ‘Mexican -capitat, “fegotiating
-for permission -to estab.ish-aMormon.
settleinent fii Mexico, under a guar-.
antee of religious liberty. He expects
to succeed.
a Jocometive-and-s train of freight,
cars “on the Long Branch Railroad
fell through the 50-foot uyaw at
Woodbridge, N. Y., Tuesday morn
ing. The wreck. ok fire ‘and six)
‘oars of the train were barbed. The
engineer was, slightly burt. ‘The
draw Of the — had been left
open.
The Brooklyn Board: of Aldermen
has appointed: Johnny Dwyer, the
prize-tighter, clerk of the Third District Court. Alderman Dimon declared the appointment an infamous
and disgraceful one, but Dwyer’s
fifteen friends secured «him the election. His brother is Chairman ofthe
Board. .
A terrible colision occurred at
Gale's Hollow, Ill., Tuesday night,
on the Burhigton Sranok of the Chi.
cago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad. One stock train ran into another going in the same direction,
and caused a general wreck, Two
own to be killed,
sibly_in_the ruins.
not tiow be located.
discovered ina house on Unioir street,
between Powell and Mason, San
Francisco. When the fire “deépartment arrived the house was a mass; .
of flames, and jt was burned almust
to the ground. From. the ruins were
taken thé bodies of Mrs. Haskings
and four of-her chi.dren, The house
had been occupied by Daniel Haskings, his wife and six children.
Only he and two children escaped,
and they were absent at the time,
Alli in the bouse perished. =
a oe eee ee ee ae
“eeping Tegether.
“More quarrels ocour between brothers, between sisters, between hired
girls, between clerks.in stores, between apprentices in mechanics’
husbands an . wives, owing to. elecands of miners would have dove in) trical changes through’ which their
nervous systems go by lodging tosame bed clothes, than by almostan
other disturbing pent . There de
nothing that will derange the ner-.
Yous system of a person who is ¢liminative in nervous force. The absorber will go to sleep and rest all
night, while the eliminator will be
nervous, and wake up in the morning, fretful and peevish, fault-tinding
and d No two _ persons,
no ; they are, should habitually sleep together. Qne will
thrive, the other will lose. This is
the law, and in married hile is defied
almost universally. e
———_
A Month With a Bulletin iis mroart.
New Ht Haren Courier.
In June, 1873,. Amos June, of.
‘Greetwich, was carelessly shot in the
“eft breast ‘by a colored named
Eli Carpenter.The bullet remained in the body, and on the last da
of August, 1878, June fell dead while
i in the field” pe yd
and a Miner a
Carpenter:
eRe found on rey eg
mortem examination, that the bullet
passed through the ruptared
the pericardium, “and into the heart.
The heart was subsequently taken to the of
On Wednesday, October 29th, ‘Carpenter was arrested while passing
. where, where they are exp3sed to~
_.On Tnesday morning a eh . Queen.
shops, between hired men, between .
gether night after night under the. yw
tumbling and tossing, restless and . .
. Society
‘New York; ‘und tee wale ane teat
For Rheumatism.
Samy pocncun slag the seacoast
in this country récommend and use
ed with chronie trheamatism, anchylosis, and ¢bronic synovitis of the
knee joint. The patients bury themselves in the sand or cause others to
cover them with it, so that only the
cap or straw hat, remains _ ‘free. It
is ludicrous to.see twenty or thitty such odd-looking/ heads sticking
out'of the @nd. In consequence of
‘the. weigh
the sand, the skin of the patients becomes so red-that when they enierge.
from their%sandy bed (which they’
Heceup,
like boiled obsters. ‘Wooden huts,
or tents improved ' with oleander and
: used as.
According to thie Jouraal of the
@and baths in July and “Atgust for,
the cure of rheamatism. In. Greece, }
near their sea coasts, it is one of the}
sure remedies used by, persons affect+ .
head, which is covered with a night .
yy as long as possible) they look .
plaintain. bath. (-——ring hotises, and: a pcre ‘of “bread,
some _grapes, and. a of wine, —_Ja8
eo ssonalitate=: the meal of . ==
Econ Tnivawatini Gas.
Shurtleff,
t and saline character of . places of bus ads
jiand “Graae Valley, pw es A and State ator, :
that the names of all the Partnets jp.
terested in said business are heretints 4;
nexed tp tls corciseate, and that this part }
until pre notice frows gee — =n
LIAM TAYLOR SHU
JOURN seep sivas
ae
ie ae, : :
wary 7, 1890, by Kev nara Crate Valles,
ds, of Grads Vaile bee”
NOTICE OF CoanTacnsme, .
reo ALL Whom Tr MAY
A_This is to certify that we, coier: ~~
» Of Grasp Valley, Ne
ty, State of California; and
Noten
G, Pe es
a
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ribed and Sworn to 1
« SEAL + me this 6th of joes day of January,
WM.K. SPENCER”
ule ead 3
— 4
THE NEW Drus. ‘STORE,
Franklin fostitete; H—has}
discovered anew industrial appiication of hydrogen. He p aces r-to ts
or tabes of metal or refracto y earthenware in the arch of furnaces or generators, in hot-air apparatas or elseréd heat, They are filled with char
‘coal, coke.or cinders, and a small jet.
ofvapor is introduced which» produces, decomposition and recomposition, hydrogen, carbonic’ oxides and
carbonic aed gas.” ‘Phe apparatus is
‘thus raised a red heat, and steam is
obtained’ without expetise. Each
tube, which contains 25 kilos, (55
pounds) of coke, yields in ten hours
100 c&bis metres (3,531,653 cubic
feet) of gas, which is passed’jm a purifier and thence to agasometer. Its
illuminating power-is increased . by
the vapor or gas of volatie or solid
dydrocarbous, so as‘ to. yield, at
about one-sixteenth of the cost, a
whiter and more brilliant flame than
that of coal gas:
Frascve.o, the toreto whom all
.Madrid escorted the other day to his
grave, is stated to have left a fortune of close. upon $40), 000,—exclucapital, several houses at Seville,and .
a quantity of diamonds. Of the latter. one set of buttons alone, with
which he was presentei by the exat the close of a funcion real, is worth $2,000, while
some of the dresses he wore on such
occasions, embroidered with silver . ,
and pearls, cost. bim. $2,000.
Emreron WILLIAM was petitioned
by a synod of Prussian ¢ ergymen
not to permit a military review on
Sunday. His reply was: ‘The
‘Sabbath has been created for man,
not man ae the Sabbath. The Puritanical. and Calvanistic conception
of the Sabbath as a day of mortification and penance is entirely fortaste of the German people.” ~~ Emror William is, ae printed, a relig. ani
ious man.
Yesterday s Tovtvals at .
THE UNION HOTEL
NEVADA CITY, CAL.
Jacob NaW@alger, Propricter.
FY Sent Mare Mi’ Morag March M
Driigoport Mt Damier res bea c Tan @
Long cit; J Fiene Bear 7
; porerat’
& Andrews Bluc Te John Gilbert Blue Tent
Rev WC Powell G V VA Polly Grane Valier aT.
. Yesterday's Atriyalg.al
THE NATIONAL HOTEL,
aEY ‘ARAGITY, cal.
Dougtas cit
Wise Skea city” ‘
W Peamer San Fra Yates Sweetiand
WK Rogers Socom =F Dewitt San Fraidiaco
C MecElvys city.
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. “ orlental Mine} of the Grand Jury. ant
Superintendent Bradbury of the} Taal
Oriental mine ‘writes the
cheerful intelligence ‘date. . sowspe
Jan. 6th; Work at the imine is _progressing rapidly. The contractors
are sinking the shaft atthe rate a
two feet daily, and are in fine '
“ander
see
ity of papers
Vice President. The
fee eee and.instants atively, have been.
ei eiemcsly wie aaa F
ing ore. Soe aga ego aa as et
ois oe d. tween Bodie aad Meminoth, _got
—stone caught out in the recent heavy —_
rian Se ASCE em te ee “ mnt ee night <3 fond his . owt. It
mind wile % ane i Seld ol
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the deatal question —
pics ee beninem en for . mm
sive of a fine mansion in the Spanish .
eign’ to the feeling ag we'!l as the =
ce ee al
corer
‘Boschc’s German Syrup, .
ad
Drags, Medicine & & Perfumen,
——
SPECIAL ATTENTION PAID 19
YSICIANS' PRESCRIPT
es qty KMCIPES. et
For Coughs and Colds I Have
K
Wister's Balsam of Cherry, i?
‘Hale's Honey of Horehound and oe
Ayev's Cherry Pectoral,
Hall's Balsam for the Lungs, — »
Hal.’s Pulmonary Balsam, and__._ Rudolph’s Extract of
HOREHOUND AND ANISE,
The greatest et for Cals and
ever compounded.
with hundreds. TRY IT.
household medicine_RUDOLPE,
Apothecary and Chemist, Broad &,
Nevada City, January_ 7th, 1880.
the
tofore
A. D, 1880,
AKE.NOTEI@E, That I have this day
sold and. trans erred to John T. Shurtleff and W, T,. Shurtleff, all of my-interest jn
grocery business, "stock: of groceries,
trade fixtures and store accounts. The°ssid
grocery business being-the business hereto
torecarried. os at the brick store on Main
— in Nevada City, ot pers Calithe stock of
ing the stock and nade fixtures now
= ‘said store, and said store accounts being
the accounts arising out of the business here-:
transacted at
Witness my hand this 5th day of January,
RTLFF.
and trade fix.
store,
8. M. SHU
order, -F
Valuable Property = For
py ang. FOOT OF BRO wa
rectly ite /
ham’s Stables, pane
sista of Two Houses, and Furni¢
The property a
il ma House” No. }-Furnished
for fot Halon and —-10°Rooms, ali hard
House in rear of No. .
Furnished for aovine and Lodging—Seven
Rooms, all hard finished. Property in good
urniture aod Carpets entirely new.
Gas and Water on the pre: doing a good business. For further particulars’:
inquire on the
snc. ewmhcandaee
mises, House
MRS. M, PINGREE.
He thoreug'
sane eughly te
=/CASH IS. KING
There is Nothing Else Like It.
MQNET SAV EP TO CPSTOMERS AND _
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dad the plan @ doing
purely .
what } salt.
now prepared to announce its aaae
gaceess, and will continue to sell for
. cash in-hand, and at
The Very Lowest Rates,
We H sMITH.
Commsercia! street, ea on
ae }
_ Hag fust been received by
Cor. Cummcsaiat and Main
Consisting of
3
Ladies’, mga cane r
. A large stock
Gaiters.
of Gents’ Fine Csi,
Miotad Nail Boots,
Gent's, Ladios, Misses and
Overs
. Ladies Gent's Slippers of
‘ When: Deterling 7
a
just ‘em? nd wat
each the leather.
' roads
are. y
“phey*
Th
joyin
Thor
men:
Ra
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of W
was E
after
wi
Tiage
struc