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January 9, 1880 (4 pages)

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none yet: paper . erie ~ Daneroft books. ~ Che Drily Beanserip . , 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 — 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. " } i 3 ! A i # f i & wk ! 2 a i peptone ". iroogh Minne, and committe! to é a ‘. Bridgeport Jail to await the action . “ 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 ie ¥ 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 _ — 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 ing w of W was E after wi Tiage struc