July 16, 1876 (4 pages)

See “dianapolis Convention, (-ndependent or Greenback party) was held in tion tendered him for tho. second ‘Chinese wash-house . formed the Health anthorities, who . operation, no matter whether they . years and. Virginia City. would. soon ~~ brother, while searching for their __panther was a huge animal, aud had The Daily Granseript NEVADA CITY. CAL. Sunday. July 16, 1876. 3 Booth Declines, § A meeting of the Nutional Executive Committee appointed by’ the Inthis city yesterday with Hon. Moses W. Field of Detroit, in the .chair, -and/Tion. Thomas J. Darant, of [~~~ Washington, a3 Secretary. The National Executive Council reported to the pommittee the acceptance by Peter Cooper, of New. York, of the nomination for the Presidency, and the declination of Hon. Newton} Booth, of California, of the nominaplace.on the ticket. The Executive Committee are consulting with prominent greenback men of. both politi~ gal partios trom alt parjs of the Un-}-—~ ion, aud will defer naming their candidate for Vice-President for a few day:— Philadelphia Pregs, July 5. oo flow the Contagion is Spread. The San Francisco evening Post . . of Friday says: Officer Bethel this moruing, while going thrcugh a} on -Miss.on atreet, near Fifth, on some police business, discovered a Chinaman down with the smal!pox, perched in an out-of-the-way tiook of the room. The Chinaman’s face was covered with pustules, and as soon as the officer recovered from his astonishinent he beat a hasty retreat and inhad the diseased Celestial “removed. The wash house wasin fall blast,and .an immense amount of washing was in the different-siazesof cleansing. ‘Two more cases of smallpox were reported to-day; one at 772', Harrison} street, the seventh in that neig_ borhood in two days, and the other on Misaion street,$ near Fifth. Both _easea were removed to the Pesthouse. Silver Mining. — The whole Pacific coast has helped to keep the Comstock mines in paid or not, Tons of bullion have been extracted, -butit is prububle that every dollar tuken out there has cost five for. extraction. Senator Jones bays there are not over ten silver mines in thé United States paying dividends, and he said. it when silver was much higher than now. Let those ~silver mines ‘be worked on their merits for a.few have plenty of. vacant houses. ' > _>°s A Georeran’s Vicissirupzs.—A correspondent furnishes us with the annexed account uf the perilous adventures of Jake Rump: Thirty-five years ago, or thereabouts, there lived in Southwest Georgian.a.wiry-haired earroty-headed, freckle-faced’ bavkwoodsman by the name. ofJuck Bump, who passed through tho following perils before he arrived atthe ‘age of 25 years: He was first stricken by lightning; then, on two separate pocasions, he was bitten by rattlesanakes; then he was bitten by a eottonmouth moccasin; afterward he was thrown from a wild horse, aod had one arm and one leg broken. Bat a short time after recovering from his fractures, he and a young oows late one afternoov, were attacked by a large panther, which caught Juko, dragged hitn at least the fourth of a mile to a dense hummock, where it deposited its prey ~ead-povered -bim with leaves aud brash, The panther then retired a short distance, when Jake crawled forth and made his escape. The erushed Jake's shoulder terribly, yet he'@oon recovered. ‘Soou after nis shoulder bealed up he made an attempt to run off with a neighbor's wife, was pursued, overtaken, shot, badly wounded, and was afterward atricken several tomes with a knife and left in the roud as dead, In time he recovered, und st.le from a weighbor’a pig, fur which he was sent to the Penitentiary for a term of years, where I lost sight of bim.— @avannah Ga, News. Now is the time for lovers to get epoony over ice cream, she taking a few dabs at his vanilla, and. he borrowing a taste of her chocolate. This process inspires contidence in the duy when they will be throwiug pos a ga and cabbage across the Tas following, from a Chicago sourov, may be received with some, reserve: ‘Lust -Tuesday, while a ‘Bt. Louis young woman was putting ona pair of bali-slippers, she founa a@ missing sealskin jucket in the toe ofeneofthem.” — . s Ie is rumored in San Francisco . that Flood & O'Brien have sold the tailings of the Consolidated Virginia Apr. 3. Balance in Fund, The following is the Quarterly Re_'. port of-J, N. Payne, County. . Treag ‘arer, for the quarter ending Jaly 6tb, 1876: . 4 Apr. 3. To bal in treasury, $46,252 98 May 1, From Co, officers, 5,042 09, June5. #4 6,503 7. SalyB. [e) P. * 8 76a 66,567 99 v ey! \ War’ts pd General Fund, 6,334 90 ns een 1,812 67 “ Boe = *. . ieee Ve ‘© . ** §$chool #8 16,067 20 «. * Redemp’n:** 26 67 * \46 State Treasurer, 3,665. 67 gees es 7+ 99,905. 19 36,662 80 Balance in Treasury, State Fund. _ Apr3,.Balance in Fand 3,685 67 Gash rec’d to date--1, 701-59 Cash pd State Treasurer 3,665 67 1,7QL,,59 General’ Fand. Apr. 3, Balance in Fund .94,066 63 Cash rec’d to date, 43,30 3) ~ 7:366 93 War’ts and interest pd; 6, 334-90 Road Fund. Apr. 3. Balance in Fund, 741 38 . Cash rec’d to date, 3,883 81 ears 4.645 11 War'ts pd to date 1,812 67 ~ 2,832. 44 Special Fund. Apr.-3--Palancein Fund, 5,875 73 Cash rec’d to date, . 3,175 38 9,051 11 Waris pd to date, 1,998 03 7,053 03 School Fand. 31,570 48 Cash rec’d to date, 7,479 81 39,050.29 War'ts pd to date, 16,067 20 29,983 09 Sick Fund. Balance in Fand, 304 38 Cash rec'd to date, 7 24 311 62 Redemption Fund. Apr.-3. Balance in Fund, — 8 79 Cash Received,. = 26 67 35 46 Cash pd E. Burroughs, 26 67 ; 8 79 Miscellaneous. Fund. June 5. Cash rec'd, Estray, 7 50 “sé ** per. prop tax, 732 71 740 21 (36,662 80 COUNTY INDERTEDNESS. General Fund. War'ts outstanding, 18,040 52 Tutorest, 318 OL 18,359 43 Less Balance in Fund, 1,032.03 17,327 40 Road Fund: . War’ts outstanding, 6,185. 68 ‘Interest, 115 11 6,300 79 Less Balance in Fund, 2,832 44 3,468 35 Hospital Fund, ‘War’ ts outstanding, 7,638. 12 Tnterest, 329-27 7,967 39 Less Balance in Fund, 311 62 7,655 77 Total Indebtodness,. 28,451 52 J. N. Payne, County Treasurer, A P ——— Z Tne Ontoue,—Speaking of the oriole, its habits. songs, and tractableneas, the Ogdensbarg Journal. says: “An old bird which should bappen to ba trapped would probably quit singing en being deprived of its Jiberty, but one caught young and fed fromthe human hand will make a most "delightful and tractable pet, dnd bappiest when closely surrounded by people, will sing marvelous; ly sweet notes and trills, We know one of this sort, that when liberated from its cage will go to the hand of its owner, assist in threading a_needle or ripping a seam, vnestie on her shoulder, stand; on her band, and bathe in a bow! of water, and ‘when it has had its liberty of the premises © its heart's content, it will go back into its cage and sing its merry tune. Ic will out fruit, cake, bread and milk, potatoes und sugar, lean meat, nuts and eggs, and is especially fond of house flies and smal! angle worms and insects, and’ will catuh anything tossed to it just as a swmart dog will a cracker. ‘Talk about-that bird being mournful!"’ = oe in Aboka, (Minn.)recently a sixyear old girl was beard telfing ber play-mate that she had attended a church sociable the evening before, and that a litile boy kissed , He while they were engaged in a play, butshe {said, ‘*That’s no harm, cause it was our preacher's boy, you know.” >? e9} Saw. Tilden, which we trust will Tux ladien Chiefs, Urazy Horse and Black Moon, are said to have beew killed in the baitle with Custer. Tilden Before Nomination. : g Democratic paper, had the folwing before the St.Louis Convention met. We presume it sings.a different tane now. oe “There are a few facts concerning ‘ i> sink info the minds of Southern and Western Democracts. 1. He cannot carry his own State in November. 2. He cannot carry State.” 3. He is a bypocrite, a political swiudler, bas long been a publi¢ plunderer, and is really the only disreputable candidate prominently nawed,on the Democratic side, 4. He did what he could to defeat . the Dembcratic partyjef Ohio in 1375, expeudinz Lis money und subsidizing the -Eastern press to that end,--knowing that. Obio’s victory was bis defeat, and loving Tilden wore than the Democranc party be bas earned the enmity of the West and South. 5. He suugut this -high office by methous 50 unprecedentedly shameless and-disrepuiable that it would be ul everlasting stigma pon a “Penrocratié Convention to nominate* iin, apd a reproach upon the ~Amrerican—pedpletoeleet him if Sominsieg. _6. Upon the foremost question of the Lour be isa most pitiiess foe of tie interests of the West and Sqeuth. He is the vascrapulous oppressor of the great struygiing -industries of the vust producing sections of the country. No Republican Administration could be mure hostile to them than would be his. s ee 7. Suvuid ‘“God’s Providence, seeming estranged,’’ permit his nomination by the servile conscienceless tools‘that mobey can purchase; by the most corrupt ipfluehce tbat ever entered intu a Presidential nominat.on; by tue system on wich wl] qovack medicines ure sold—adverlisiny—and even respectable medical associations read outof the profession the ‘‘doctors’’ tuat will advertise. It woull seem that the Democratic party should have as bizh-a-respectforthe good name ot the party and the Government as the venders Of pills have for their craft. It could not but be that u man edacated in cunuing, in hypocrisy, in iniquity, nomimated in cor uption abd suameless effrontery, evén thoagh his millions could electbim would give us the most’ corrupt Administration the country hus ever known, ‘Ne ther imperial digniues nor the gloum of’ sulitude,” sard ‘Yucitus, ‘could save “Lrvertus froary himself,’"’ And.‘tiden could not rise above bimself, or above the suurces of his poWer.”?any Northern Amona THE Saarks.—A large lifeboat, crossing the, bar ef the Sun Juua river, upset, precipitating the view creW, cousisting Of two or three (white) amd tem colored men into the water, the boat being turned upside duwn, “I felt,’ suy8 the nar rator, ‘‘that my life was not worth hulf‘an hour’s purchase. The coxswain tothe boat, a weakly black mun,r@se alongsiue of'me after the piubge. He was in great terror, and 1 felt that 1f the sharks did not barm him he could searcely reach the shofe without help; so I encouraged lim by telling him 1-wealdswim by him, and give him a hand if he feit tired. ‘No tired, massa; niber live to be tired; look et them round us.’ I felt that he was as close to the truth as possible, for we were iterally in tbe center of a shoal of sharks whose black triangular fins we could see on all sides sailing around as. As the beach wes quite close we first endeavored to make that, but soon sisvovered that the current-was~so dtrong that-we made no headway and we were foiced to turn toward the boat, which was 150-yards away, drifting out to sea, turned upside down with the rest of the crew astride on her. keel. ‘There was nothing, however, for it but to swim. to her, “and aided by the strong current we soon shortened the distance. All this time the sharks were around us, making, I faucied, smaller circles, and ounce or twice [ thought I felt as these horrid brutes do before they bite. If it was ‘my iniwgination it Was not a great stretch, Lowever, fur we had hot got twenty yards ahead of the spet—when my triend shrieked, threw ap his arms and dis appeared beneath the waves. A rush of black flus and their sudden disappeurance under the water was the last thing I remembered until I found myself ulongside our ship in stern sheets of the cuiter which bud been sent to the rescue,”’ Tae Bridgeport Standard thinks he Norwich nial who vuurted his. wife fifty yeurs before he married her was a prudent fellow. Fifty years tukes the strength oubef mosi* rany arm, and makes 1t isconvénient lor & Woman to get down on Ber Kuves iv urge the Lead of the house to come out from uuder the bed and taik the matter over. ; . . : Tuere was a sligut shock of earthquake at Suata Sivnica en Wednes‘day night. ee a ' A suicut shock, of earthquake was felt at San Boesia Ventura on Lbursday at 8:45 P. Mm. Tae paid admissions to the Phil. dolpbia Exhibition yesterday nawbered 18,363, @ Govs. ‘Tuupen und Hendricks met something touch my feet with a rush . and then goes there actually FE RREE brothers, Germans, named Fiekern, were stoned_to.death.at Newark. N. Js. yesterday. .They had killed or -wounded. five men afew hours before, ean achieve four such trips in a year he can make a good living out of gixteen. women. cassians are settled in Turkey, and sale, having 20 more shame about it than a fashionable Euglish mother may feel about bringing out, her girls for the matrimonial market, ———— Tux sdle of circassian girls.te ; The Cincintiati Enquirer, a lead-. Turks continues, A correspondnt of the Tondon Times says that a Moslem dealer makes choice of four young, unsophiscated girle, imports them to Constavtinopie, sells them, back fot more, If he Many of the Cirbreed children for > PRESIDENT -GRANT has written a letter to ex-Secretary Bristow, requesting him to testify beforé the Congressional Committee. engaged in investigating the whisky frauds. THERE.were prostration in Philadelphia Thursday, nearly all due to the effects of heat.” Several imprisonment Reeser Oe : Garxs, the murderer of De Crevecour at San Benardino some time since, was sentenced Wednesday to forty eight cases of of them proved fatal. for life at San Quentin. safety of Gen. No. fears are entertained for the Tue total fax on town property inj. San Rafael is $5,659 69. of all propesty, $1,131,966. The value ne er nis men, Crook, 840 Ophir 4 60 Savage 3357 Imperia 315 Beleher 304 Overma 500 Justice 75 Chollar 306 Hale & 50 Ballion $50 Lady-B 30 Seg 60 Eureka C Simon, San A Walrath, E Northup, T Tripim, C Alexander, .§ A Nickerson _¥ Battis, __. T Dooly, Wm Carter, C J C Eastman, [By Telegraph,] Mining Stocks. Yesterday’ 1600 Mexican 28%, 400-Best & Belcher 4014, 830 Gould & Curry 13%. 2990 California 594, 2960 Con Virginia 48. 830 Crown Point 9%. 510 Yellow Jacket 2437, 1645 Julia 67 485 Union Con il. . . 660 Sierra Nevada 13%,. 240 Utah 16%. 755 Exchequer 14%, 170 Alpha 352%. 5 Kentuck 10%. 710 Caledonia 84. Belcher 65. 10 Raymond & Ely &. 50 Confidence 17. ee 6 Ge Hap ean HOTEL ARRIVALS, National Exchange Hotel. 8. A. EDDY, Proprietor. Frrpay, July 15th, 1876, G Jobnston, Grass Valley dno ‘Thom son, Oakland L Britt, Meadow Lake J Sweetland, Sweetland J Cobbold, San Juan Wm Sc mitt, Mooney Flat M B Smiih, San Francisco N Hamilly , Moore's _™ G Graves, Bridgeport Wm_T Mary, San Francisco “Wm Talbot, Town Talk Hill T R Pockman, J Strang, Sierra Valley §& Mickey, Mooney’s Flat E Dowes, Independence Lake io C Fulweiler, Willow Valley Morning’s Sales. Qs 4/9: 17%. 14%, rt n 66%. a. if 8° Norcross 9, 40. ryan 750, Con 12, Francisco . . do do do , Sacramento City do a ity Moore’s Fist MD Howell, W B Woods, A A shields, Lane, Lake .H Smith, Union Hotel. Faiax, July 14th, 1876. C M Grocker, Grass Valley E J Visen, Washington J H Graham City : H Stuart, Agent Alabama Minstrels Dire P Johnston, Grass Valley J M Scott & boy, 8 Gibson , Central House W Brown, City WC Bradley, Willow Valley Miss A Cornell, City H J Kennedy, _ MreT O Dunu & 800, Cit a Wheatland do do do Quaker Hill City : do Plenty of good €. at Suratoga Saturday. A GOOD FARM FOTSALE. THE WOMACK RANCH, taming over four hundred acres of land. There are two large to purchnse call at water. One hundred It is firat . General Agent for Nevada County, es under fence. of natural hay raisea évery year. The locality is perfectly healthy. c . DEETEKINV ROASTING FURNACE, © The Roasting capacity of the Furmace, per 24 hours, is from _ 6 to 50 Tons, eae. CCORDING to per centage and nature of the sulphuretted ore. with an expenditure of 134 to 2 cords of wood, and 2 to 3 shifts of unskilled labor, according to amount of oré handled.: The Furnace is adapted to Chloredizing, as well as Oxidizing, Roasting. and. for the manufacture of Su phuric Acid. in. point of cheapness‘ of construction and efficiency in working, the -Fu.nace, is far the best in use. j Millmen in need of a cheap and efficient Roasting Appdretus will epply to 3 G. F. DEEI KEN, : Consulting M-tallurgist, ‘nore FPSB ELEY, Furnace can be seen on application for permit, at Grays Vullcy. jy 14 NOTICE. ‘electiirs of Movre’s Flat School Distriet, County of Nevada, State of California, thatun election will be held on the 29th day of July, 1876, at wich will be sutmitted the question of yoting a tax of $2,500, tu build a school House. ‘the poils will be opened from 4o0’clock, P.M. to8 o'clock, P, Me" +OHN.RICH, Pat : JOHN B. ERB, WM. F. CUMMINGS, District School Trustees. = AES we, pore fe ee hed Ne “E is hereby given to the qualified THE OLD ACCOMMODATION. Nevada and Grass Valley Stage Line. Time Table. Leave Grass Valley at 8 o’clock A. mm; returning leave Nevuda City at 9 A. M. Leave Grass Valley at 4 o’clock P, M. Ladies and gentlemen. called for at any part of the city. without extra charge. rackages carried‘at low rates. Orders left at the National cr Union Hos tels. in Nevuda City, or at the Exchange or Wisconsip Hotels, Grass. Valley; will be promptly attended to. : je4-tf W.8. TALBOT & CO. sti tales anni mnneteneienneneeninensneiier ert ennai DR, C, D. BOBO,’ PHYSICIAN AND SURG ON, ESIDENCE, BROAD STREET oppo W& site the THEATRE. Office at Bell & Belden’s Drug Store, Dronsy_a Specialty. : ~ HOUSE FOR SALE. n& THE HOUSE and LOT on Bou ve} der-street, lately occupied by Jest 11) 8. Thompson, is offered for sale a Great Bargain. The House col tains six rooms, and is in good repair, F< furtber particulars enquire of N. P, BROWN, . , At Transcript Office. Nevada City May 30th, 1876. LITTON SPRINGS SELTZER WATER. FROM SONOMA COUNTY, CALIFORNIA, Nature’s Specific for the cure of Indigestion, Costiveness, Piles, Irregularities of the action of the Kidneys and Liver, Inflammation of the Eyes, Gout, Rheumatism, Etc. . fig" without any question, is the best mineral water on the Pacific Coast, and its beneficial effects are certified to by all who have an opportunity of using it. Families and the trade supplied on application to WM, E,. DEAMER, Proprietor of the Grass Valley Soda Works. Who is the je24-1m :Drugs, Medicines, &c P. H. BELDEN, Euccessor to Bell & Belde Masonic Building, Cor. Pine & Commercial Sts Nevada City. Wholesale & Retail dealer i Drugs, Medicines, Chemicals, Patent Medicines, &c. A full line of Choice Perfumery, Toilet Soaps, Toilet Powder, Cologne Sets, Combs Brushes, &c, Also, Paints, Oils, Varnishes, Window Glass, Paint Brushes, &c. Alsoa full line of s TATIONERY, such at lank Books, Letter: Note and Legal Pa. er, Gold Pens, &¢ Bian Books mae to order at the lowest an Frauciseo prices, : My Stock is most complete in all its de partment} and my prices arelow. I solici a share of public patronage. P. H. BELDEN. Nevada, March 31, 1876. CHOICE FRUIT, FROM THE CELEBRATED CHAPMAN ORCHARD. L. NICHOLSON, Lessee of the @ above Orchard, has appointed SUTTON & JUDGE, Agents for the sale of all kinds of FRUITS in their sesson J Families will be supplied in quantitics to suit, at the. lowest market rates. upper part of the connty solicited and “Direct all orders to SUTTON & JUDGE, MRS. M. L. DAVIS. Ya For Gold, Silver and Copper Ores, . MINERAL CITATION : ‘Usrren States Laxp Orric . Sacramento, Cal. July sth, 1876, Bs WOE. H. Goodmer, E. W. Cross. Weeks, O, B. Green, Lester Tialy . Barnes, R. B. Gentry, Alba Brown and 4, all whom it may concern. Whercvas toi eral athdayit Nos 6land 179 were filed in the U.S. Land Office, alleging the N 1-2 1% N £ quarter of See. 18, in Township 1¢ x Range 9 East, to be more valuable for mj ing than for agricultural purposes by fen. missioner’s letter dated December 20. ie the same land is to be treated us mine o in character, until the contrary is peonee, after due hoiice. And where as, Willis " Walsh, (Post Office address Nevada City, Nevada county, Cal.) did, on the loth pid of March, 1875, file in the Register's ome of this District his pre-emption Declare. tion Ne 4989, claiming the above Gescribed ; land, and has applied to enter the Same a agricultural land, alleging it to be these: valuablfor agricultural than for mining purposes., Therefore you wi!l take notion that under and by virtue of instructions from the Commissioner of the Gener . leven sien ge Gute bef're theRagistet and Receiver,'for the hearing of proofs to determine the ¢haracter lands. —— In Witness Whereof, we have_heren set our Lands the day-and year filst abeyg written, ‘T.\B. McFARLAND, Register, HART FLLLUWS, Receiver, J.1. Caldwell, Atty. , = jz NOTICE TOTICE is hereby*given that there wys this day délivered ipto-my bends by Daniel Collins, County Assessor, the assessment books of the County of Nevada containing a statement.of all property Ps sessed by him for the year 1476, in said county of Nevada, and the amounts for which such property was assessed. The Board of Equalization will meet op this, the 10th day of July, 1876, and con. tinue in session until ull business ig dis. ‘ posed of, not extending beyond the Fourth Monday ot July, to equalize asgess ments. All perso.s interested are notified to. appear before the board within the time prescribed, and show cause, it any they have, why. th ir asstssments should not stand, as listed by the-Assessor. JAMES D. WHITE, County Clerk, And ex-officio Clerk o* the Board of Equalization, Nevada County. jytl {Election for Chief Enginees, w HE ANNUAL ELECTION FOR CHIEF ENGINEER of the Nevacts City Fire Department, will take place at the Ma» she)’s Ofhce, on _ MONDAY, JULY 31, 1876. Jadges—Joseph Olive and Frank: Eikn man. : Clerks—JFJF, Ott and Ed. Goldsmith. Polls will be open from 5 to 8 o'clock, P.M. Ly order of the Board of Fire Delegates. . W. R. COE, President. Jas. Monro, Secretary. je25 — A. NIVENS, JR., GENERAL INSURANCE AGENT, STOCKS BOUGHT AND SOLD ON COMMISSION. — 5 acon and Retail Dealer ta CIGARS AND TOBACCO, * oe MASONIC BLOCK, Pine Street, Nevada City. jy? ICE ' COLD SODA WATER, AND FRESH BETHESDA WATER, ON DRAUGHT aT PRESTON’S. New York Enamel Paint HE best and most durable Paint fr outeide and inside work. A full line of pure Drugs and Medicines, Mining Chemicals, Crucibles, ete. E, M. PRESTON, N. W, corner Broad and Pine street AND UPHOLSTE ZING, JAMES KINKEAD, Commercial Street, near Coe’sSit Store, Nevada City, . IS PREPARED TO DO ALb kinds of UPHOLSTERING@ and FURNITURE REPAY ing, in the very best nian ™ and at low rates. jyt-la COUNTY: WARBANTS. LL warrants on General Fund, rei tered to Jan. 6th, 1876. aii Warrants on Road Fund, Nos. 3% $46, and 357, registered January 6th, 18%. Also all warrants on Koad Fund, prior to April Sth, 1876, will be paié on presentatiun. Interest ceases from da Nevada, July 10th, 1576. DISSOLUTION. HE Co ip heretofore exteti raced eer Se dissolved by mutual . tiring a the firm. All debts must » paid to'J. H. Helwig, who will be resyoe sible for all liabilities. J. H. BELWM{ Land Office, dated May 6th is7l ww. a + fixed the 2ist day of August -4eTeaT eb” -2’elock, A. M., at this: office, anette ficin name of Stone & Helwig, is thie > consent—J. Bw “ert of oe ae ao . oe } =a = St A Se — 7

See “dianapolis Convention, (-ndependent or Greenback party) was held in tion tendered him for tho. second ‘Chinese wash-house . formed the Health anthorities, who . operation, no matter whether they .. years and. Virginia City. would. soon ~~ brother, while searching for their __panther was a huge animal, aud had The Daily Granseript NEVADA CITY. CAL. Sunday. July 16, 1876. 3 Booth Declines, § A meeting of the Nutional Executive Committee appointed by’ the Inthis city yesterday with Hon. Moses W. Field of Detroit, in the .chair, -and/Tion. Thomas J. Darant, of [~~~ Washington, a3 Secretary. The National Executive Council reported to the pommittee the acceptance by Peter Cooper, of New. York, of the nomination for the Presidency, and the declination of Hon. Newton} Booth, of California, of the nominaplace.on the ticket. The Executive Committee are consulting with prominent greenback men of. both politi~ gal partios trom alt parjs of the Un-}-—~ ion, aud will defer naming their candidate for Vice-President for a few day:— Philadelphia Pregs, July 5. oo flow the Contagion is Spread. The San Francisco evening Post . . of Friday says: Officer Bethel this moruing, while going thrcugh a} on -Miss.on atreet, near Fifth, on some police business, discovered a Chinaman down with the smal!pox, perched in an out-of-the-way tiook of the room. The Chinaman’s face was covered with pustules, and as soon as the officer recovered from his astonishinent he beat a hasty retreat and inhad the diseased Celestial “removed. The wash house wasin fall blast,and .an immense amount of washing was in the different-siazesof cleansing. ‘Two more cases of smallpox were reported to-day; one at 772', Harrison} street, the seventh in that neig_ borhood in two days, and the other on Misaion street,$ near Fifth. Both _easea were removed to the Pesthouse. Silver Mining. — The whole Pacific coast has helped to keep the Comstock mines in paid or not, Tons of bullion have been extracted, -butit is prububle that every dollar tuken out there has cost five for. extraction. Senator Jones bays there are not over ten silver mines in thé United States paying dividends, and he said. it when silver was much higher than now. Let those ~silver mines ‘be worked on their merits for a.few have plenty of. vacant houses. ' > _>°s A Georeran’s Vicissirupzs.—A correspondent furnishes us with the annexed account uf the perilous adventures of Jake Rump: Thirty-five years ago, or thereabouts, there lived in Southwest Georgian.a.wiry-haired earroty-headed, freckle-faced’ bavkwoodsman by the name. ofJuck Bump, who passed through tho following perils before he arrived atthe ‘age of 25 years: He was first stricken by lightning; then, on two separate pocasions, he was bitten by rattlesanakes; then he was bitten by a eottonmouth moccasin; afterward he was thrown from a wild horse, aod had one arm and one leg broken. Bat a short time after recovering from his fractures, he and a young oows late one afternoov, were attacked by a large panther, which caught Juko, dragged hitn at least the fourth of a mile to a dense hummock, where it deposited its prey ~ead-povered -bim with leaves aud brash, The panther then retired a short distance, when Jake crawled forth and made his escape. The erushed Jake's shoulder terribly, yet he'@oon recovered. ‘Soou after nis shoulder bealed up he made an attempt to run off with a neighbor's wife, was pursued, overtaken, shot, badly wounded, and was afterward atricken several tomes with a knife and left in the roud as dead, In time he recovered, und st.le from a weighbor’a pig, fur which he was sent to the Penitentiary for a term of years, where I lost sight of bim.— @avannah Ga, News. Now is the time for lovers to get epoony over ice cream, she taking a few dabs at his vanilla, and. he borrowing a taste of her chocolate. This process inspires contidence in the duy when they will be throwiug pos a ga and cabbage across the Tas following, from a Chicago sourov, may be received with some, reserve: ‘Lust -Tuesday, while a ‘Bt. Louis young woman was putting ona pair of bali-slippers, she founa a@ missing sealskin jucket in the toe ofeneofthem.” — . s Ie is rumored in San Francisco . that Flood & O'Brien have sold the tailings of the Consolidated Virginia Apr. 3. Balance in Fund, The following is the Quarterly Re_'. port of-J, N. Payne, County. . Treag ‘arer, for the quarter ending Jaly 6tb, 1876: . 4 Apr. 3. To bal in treasury, $46,252 98 May 1, From Co, officers, 5,042 09, June5. #4 6,503 7. SalyB. [e) P. * 8 76a 66,567 99 v ey! \ War’ts pd General Fund, 6,334 90 ns een 1,812 67 “ Boe = *. . ieee Ve ‘© . ** §$chool #8 16,067 20 «. * Redemp’n:** 26 67 * \46 State Treasurer, 3,665. 67 gees es 7+ 99,905. 19 36,662 80 Balance in Treasury, State Fund. _ Apr3,.Balance in Fand 3,685 67 Gash rec’d to date--1, 701-59 Cash pd State Treasurer 3,665 67 1,7QL,,59 General’ Fand. Apr. 3, Balance in Fund .94,066 63 Cash rec’d to date, 43,30 3) ~ 7:366 93 War’ts and interest pd; 6, 334-90 Road Fund. Apr. 3. Balance in Fund, 741 38 . Cash rec’d to date, 3,883 81 ears 4.645 11 War'ts pd to date 1,812 67 ~ 2,832. 44 Special Fund. Apr.-3--Palancein Fund, 5,875 73 Cash rec’d to date, . 3,175 38 9,051 11 Waris pd to date, 1,998 03 7,053 03 School Fand. 31,570 48 Cash rec’d to date, 7,479 81 39,050.29 War'ts pd to date, 16,067 20 29,983 09 Sick Fund. Balance in Fand, 304 38 Cash rec'd to date, 7 24 311 62 Redemption Fund. Apr.-3. Balance in Fund, — 8 79 Cash Received,. = 26 67 35 46 Cash pd E. Burroughs, 26 67 ; 8 79 Miscellaneous. Fund. June 5. Cash rec'd, Estray, 7 50 “sé ** per. prop tax, 732 71 740 21 (36,662 80 COUNTY INDERTEDNESS. General Fund. War'ts outstanding, 18,040 52 Tutorest, 318 OL 18,359 43 Less Balance in Fund, 1,032.03 17,327 40 Road Fund: . War’ts outstanding, 6,185. 68 ‘Interest, 115 11 6,300 79 Less Balance in Fund, 2,832 44 3,468 35 Hospital Fund, ‘War’ ts outstanding, 7,638. 12 Tnterest, 329-27 7,967 39 Less Balance in Fund, 311 62 7,655 77 Total Indebtodness,. 28,451 52 J. N. Payne, County Treasurer, A P ——— Z Tne Ontoue,—Speaking of the oriole, its habits. songs, and tractableneas, the Ogdensbarg Journal. says: “An old bird which should bappen to ba trapped would probably quit singing en being deprived of its Jiberty, but one caught young and fed fromthe human hand will make a most "delightful and tractable pet, dnd bappiest when closely surrounded by people, will sing marvelous; ly sweet notes and trills, We know one of this sort, that when liberated from its cage will go to the hand of its owner, assist in threading a_needle or ripping a seam, vnestie on her shoulder, stand; on her band, and bathe in a bow! of water, and ‘when it has had its liberty of the premises © its heart's content, it will go back into its cage and sing its merry tune. Ic will out fruit, cake, bread and milk, potatoes und sugar, lean meat, nuts and eggs, and is especially fond of house flies and smal! angle worms and insects, and’ will catuh anything tossed to it just as a swmart dog will a cracker. ‘Talk about-that bird being mournful!"’ = oe in Aboka, (Minn.)recently a sixyear old girl was beard telfing ber play-mate that she had attended a church sociable the evening before, and that a litile boy kissed , He while they were engaged in a play, butshe {said, ‘*That’s no harm, cause it was our preacher's boy, you know.” >? e9} Saw. Tilden, which we trust will Tux ladien Chiefs, Urazy Horse and Black Moon, are said to have beew killed in the baitle with Custer. Tilden Before Nomination. : g Democratic paper, had the folwing before the St.Louis Convention met. We presume it sings.a different tane now. oe “There are a few facts concerning ‘ i> sink info the minds of Southern and Western Democracts. 1. He cannot carry his own State in November. 2. He cannot carry State.” 3. He is a bypocrite, a political swiudler, bas long been a publi¢ plunderer, and is really the only disreputable candidate prominently nawed,on the Democratic side, 4. He did what he could to defeat . the Dembcratic partyjef Ohio in 1375, expeudinz Lis money und subsidizing the -Eastern press to that end,--knowing that. Obio’s victory was bis defeat, and loving Tilden wore than the Democranc party be bas earned the enmity of the West and South. 5. He suugut this -high office by methous 50 unprecedentedly shameless and-disrepuiable that it would be ul everlasting stigma pon a “Penrocratié Convention to nominate* iin, apd a reproach upon the ~Amrerican—pedpletoeleet him if Sominsieg. _6. Upon the foremost question of the Lour be isa most pitiiess foe of tie interests of the West and Sqeuth. He is the vascrapulous oppressor of the great struygiing -industries of the vust producing sections of the country. No Republican Administration could be mure hostile to them than would be his. s ee 7. Suvuid ‘“God’s Providence, seeming estranged,’’ permit his nomination by the servile conscienceless tools‘that mobey can purchase; by the most corrupt ipfluehce tbat ever entered intu a Presidential nominat.on; by tue system on wich wl] qovack medicines ure sold—adverlisiny—and even respectable medical associations read outof the profession the ‘‘doctors’’ tuat will advertise. It woull seem that the Democratic party should have as bizh-a-respectforthe good name ot the party and the Government as the venders Of pills have for their craft. It could not but be that u man edacated in cunuing, in hypocrisy, in iniquity, nomimated in cor uption abd suameless effrontery, evén thoagh his millions could electbim would give us the most’ corrupt Administration the country hus ever known, ‘Ne ther imperial digniues nor the gloum of’ sulitude,” sard ‘Yucitus, ‘could save “Lrvertus froary himself,’"’ And.‘tiden could not rise above bimself, or above the suurces of his poWer.”?any Northern Amona THE Saarks.—A large lifeboat, crossing the, bar ef the Sun Juua river, upset, precipitating the view creW, cousisting Of two or three (white) amd tem colored men into the water, the boat being turned upside duwn, “I felt,’ suy8 the nar rator, ‘‘that my life was not worth hulf‘an hour’s purchase. The coxswain tothe boat, a weakly black mun,r@se alongsiue of'me after the piubge. He was in great terror, and 1 felt that 1f the sharks did not barm him he could searcely reach the shofe without help; so I encouraged lim by telling him 1-wealdswim by him, and give him a hand if he feit tired. ‘No tired, massa; niber live to be tired; look et them round us.’ I felt that he was as close to the truth as possible, for we were iterally in tbe center of a shoal of sharks whose black triangular fins we could see on all sides sailing around as. As the beach wes quite close we first endeavored to make that, but soon sisvovered that the current-was~so dtrong that-we made no headway and we were foiced to turn toward the boat, which was 150-yards away, drifting out to sea, turned upside down with the rest of the crew astride on her. keel. ‘There was nothing, however, for it but to swim. to her, “and aided by the strong current we soon shortened the distance. All this time the sharks were around us, making, I faucied, smaller circles, and ounce or twice [ thought I felt as these horrid brutes do before they bite. If it was ‘my iniwgination it Was not a great stretch, Lowever, fur we had hot got twenty yards ahead of the spet—when my triend shrieked, threw ap his arms and dis appeared beneath the waves. A rush of black flus and their sudden disappeurance under the water was the last thing I remembered until I found myself ulongside our ship in stern sheets of the cuiter which bud been sent to the rescue,”’ Tae Bridgeport Standard thinks he Norwich nial who vuurted his. wife fifty yeurs before he married her was a prudent fellow. Fifty years tukes the strength oubef mosi* rany arm, and makes 1t isconvénient lor & Woman to get down on Ber Kuves iv urge the Lead of the house to come out from uuder the bed and taik the matter over. ; . .. : Tuere was a sligut shock of earthquake at Suata Sivnica en Wednes‘day night. ee a ' A suicut shock, of earthquake was felt at San Boesia Ventura on Lbursday at 8:45 P. Mm. Tae paid admissions to the Phil. dolpbia Exhibition yesterday nawbered 18,363, @ Govs. ‘Tuupen und Hendricks met something touch my feet with a rush . and then goes there actually FE RREE brothers, Germans, named Fiekern, were stoned_to.death.at Newark. N. Js. yesterday. .They had killed or -wounded. five men afew hours before, ean achieve four such trips in a year he can make a good living out of gixteen. women. cassians are settled in Turkey, and sale, having 20 more shame about it than a fashionable Euglish mother may feel about bringing out, her girls for the matrimonial market, ———— Tux sdle of circassian girls.te ; The Cincintiati Enquirer, a lead-. Turks continues, A correspondnt of the Tondon Times says that a Moslem dealer makes choice of four young, unsophiscated girle, imports them to Constavtinopie, sells them, back fot more, If he Many of the Cirbreed children for > PRESIDENT -GRANT has written a letter to ex-Secretary Bristow, requesting him to testify beforé the Congressional Committee. engaged in investigating the whisky frauds. THERE.were prostration in Philadelphia Thursday, nearly all due to the effects of heat.” Several imprisonment Reeser Oe : Garxs, the murderer of De Crevecour at San Benardino some time since, was sentenced Wednesday to forty eight cases of of them proved fatal. for life at San Quentin. safety of Gen. No. fears are entertained for the Tue total fax on town property inj.

San Rafael is $5,659 69. of all propesty, $1,131,966. The value ne er nis men, Crook, 840 Ophir 4 60 Savage 3357 Imperia 315 Beleher 304 Overma 500 Justice 75 Chollar 306 Hale & 50 Ballion $50 Lady-B 30 Seg 60 Eureka C Simon, San A Walrath, E Northup, T Tripim, C Alexander, .§ A Nickerson _¥ Battis, __.. T Dooly, Wm Carter, C J C Eastman, [By Telegraph,] Mining Stocks. Yesterday’ 1600 Mexican 28%, 400-Best & Belcher 4014, 830 Gould & Curry 13%. 2990 California 594, 2960 Con Virginia 48. 830 Crown Point 9%. 510 Yellow Jacket 2437, 1645 Julia 67 485 Union Con il.. . . 660 Sierra Nevada 13%,. 240 Utah 16%. 755 Exchequer 14%, 170 Alpha 352%. 5 Kentuck 10%. 710 Caledonia 84. Belcher 65. 10 Raymond & Ely &. 50 Confidence 17. ee 6 Ge Hap ean HOTEL ARRIVALS, National Exchange Hotel. 8. A. EDDY, Proprietor. Frrpay, July 15th, 1876, G Jobnston, Grass Valley dno ‘Thom son, Oakland L Britt, Meadow Lake J Sweetland, Sweetland J Cobbold, San Juan Wm Sc mitt, Mooney Flat M B Smiih, San Francisco N Hamilly , Moore's _™ G Graves, Bridgeport Wm_T Mary, San Francisco “Wm Talbot, Town Talk Hill T R Pockman, J Strang, Sierra Valley §& Mickey, Mooney’s Flat E Dowes, Independence Lake io C Fulweiler, Willow Valley Morning’s Sales. Qs 4/9: 17%. 14%, rt n 66%. a.. if 8° Norcross 9, 40. ryan 750, Con 12, Francisco . . do do do , Sacramento City do a ity Moore’s Fist MD Howell, W B Woods, A A shields, Lane, Lake .H Smith, Union Hotel. Faiax, July 14th, 1876. C M Grocker, Grass Valley E J Visen, Washington J H Graham City : H Stuart, Agent Alabama Minstrels Dire P Johnston, Grass Valley J M Scott & boy, 8 Gibson , Central House W Brown, City WC Bradley, Willow Valley Miss A Cornell, City H J Kennedy, _ MreT O Dunu & 800, Cit a Wheatland do do do Quaker Hill City : do Plenty of good €. at Suratoga Saturday. A GOOD FARM FOTSALE. THE WOMACK RANCH, taming over four hundred acres of land. There are two large to purchnse call at water. One hundred It is firat . General Agent for Nevada County, es under fence. of natural hay raisea évery year. The locality is perfectly healthy. c . DEETEKINV ROASTING FURNACE, © The Roasting capacity of the Furmace, per 24 hours, is from _ 6 to 50 Tons, eae. CCORDING to per centage and nature of the sulphuretted ore. with an expenditure of 134 to 2 cords of wood, and 2 to 3 shifts of unskilled labor, according to amount of oré handled.: The Furnace is adapted to Chloredizing, as well as Oxidizing, Roasting. and. for the manufacture of Su phuric Acid. in. point of cheapness‘ of construction and efficiency in working, the -Fu.nace, is far the best in use. j Millmen in need of a cheap and efficient Roasting Appdretus will epply to 3 G. F. DEEI KEN, : Consulting M-tallurgist, ‘nore FPSB ELEY, Furnace can be seen on application for permit, at Grays Vullcy. jy 14 NOTICE. ‘electiirs of Movre’s Flat School Distriet, County of Nevada, State of California, thatun election will be held on the 29th day of July, 1876, at wich will be sutmitted the question of yoting a tax of $2,500, tu build a school House. ‘the poils will be opened from 4o0’clock, P.M. to8 o'clock, P, Me" +OHN.RICH, Pat : JOHN B. ERB, WM. F. CUMMINGS, District School Trustees. = AES we, pore fe ee hed Ne “E is hereby given to the qualified THE OLD ACCOMMODATION. Nevada and Grass Valley Stage Line. Time Table.. Leave Grass Valley at 8 o’clock A. mm; returning leave Nevuda City at 9 A. M. Leave Grass Valley at 4 o’clock P, M. Ladies and gentlemen. called for at any part of the city. without extra charge. rackages carried‘at low rates. Orders left at the National cr Union Hos tels. in Nevuda City, or at the Exchange or Wisconsip Hotels, Grass. Valley; will be promptly attended to. : je4-tf W.8. TALBOT & CO. sti tales anni mnneteneienneneeninensneiier ert ennai DR, C, D. BOBO,’ PHYSICIAN AND SURG ON, ESIDENCE, BROAD STREET oppo W& site the THEATRE. Office at Bell & Belden’s Drug Store, Dronsy_a Specialty. : ~ HOUSE FOR SALE. n& THE HOUSE and LOT on Bou ve} der-street, lately occupied by Jest 11) 8. Thompson, is offered for sale a Great Bargain. The House col tains six rooms, and is in good repair, F< furtber particulars enquire of N. P, BROWN, . , At Transcript Office. Nevada City May 30th, 1876. LITTON SPRINGS SELTZER WATER. FROM SONOMA COUNTY, CALIFORNIA, Nature’s Specific for the cure of Indigestion, Costiveness, Piles, Irregularities of the action of the Kidneys and Liver, Inflammation of the Eyes, Gout, Rheumatism, Etc. . fig" without any question, is the best mineral water on the Pacific Coast, and its beneficial effects are certified to by all who have an opportunity of using it. Families and the trade supplied on application to WM, E,. DEAMER, Proprietor of the Grass Valley Soda Works. Who is the je24-1m :Drugs, Medicines, &c P. H. BELDEN, Euccessor to Bell & Belde Masonic Building, Cor. Pine & Commercial Sts Nevada City. Wholesale & Retail dealer i Drugs, Medicines, Chemicals, Patent Medicines, &c. A full line of Choice Perfumery, Toilet Soaps, Toilet Powder, Cologne Sets, Combs Brushes, &c, Also, Paints, Oils, Varnishes, Window Glass, Paint Brushes, &c. Alsoa full line of s TATIONERY, such at lank Books, Letter: Note and Legal Pa. er, Gold Pens, &¢ Bian Books mae to order at the lowest an Frauciseo prices, : My Stock is most complete in all its de partment} and my prices arelow. I solici a share of public patronage. P. H. BELDEN. Nevada, March 31, 1876. CHOICE FRUIT, FROM THE CELEBRATED CHAPMAN ORCHARD. L. NICHOLSON, Lessee of the @ above Orchard, has appointed SUTTON & JUDGE, Agents for the sale of all kinds of FRUITS in their sesson J Families will be supplied in quantitics to suit, at the. lowest market rates. upper part of the connty solicited and “Direct all orders to SUTTON & JUDGE, MRS. M. L. DAVIS. Ya For Gold, Silver and Copper Ores, . MINERAL CITATION : ‘Usrren States Laxp Orric . Sacramento, Cal. July sth, 1876, Bs WOE. H. Goodmer, E. W. Cross. Weeks, O, B. Green, Lester Tialy . Barnes, R. B. Gentry, Alba Brown and 4, all whom it may concern. Whercvas toi eral athdayit Nos 6land 179 were filed in the U.S. Land Office, alleging the N 1-2 1% N £ quarter of See. 18, in Township 1¢ x Range 9 East, to be more valuable for mj ing than for agricultural purposes by fen. missioner’s letter dated December 20. ie the same land is to be treated us mine o in character, until the contrary is peonee, after due hoiice. And where as, Willis " Walsh, (Post Office address Nevada City, Nevada county, Cal.) did, on the loth pid of March, 1875, file in the Register's ome of this District his pre-emption Declare. tion Ne 4989, claiming the above Gescribed ; land, and has applied to enter the Same a agricultural land, alleging it to be these: valuablfor agricultural than for mining purposes., Therefore you wi!l take notion that under and by virtue of instructions from the Commissioner of the Gener . leven sien ge Gute bef're theRagistet and Receiver,'for the hearing of proofs to determine the ¢haracter lands. —— In Witness Whereof, we have_heren set our Lands the day-and year filst abeyg written, ‘T.\B. McFARLAND, Register, HART FLLLUWS, Receiver, J.1. Caldwell, Atty. , = jz NOTICE TOTICE is hereby*given that there wys this day délivered ipto-my bends by Daniel Collins, County Assessor, the assessment books of the County of Nevada containing a statement.of all property Ps sessed by him for the year 1476, in said county of Nevada, and the amounts for which such property was assessed. The Board of Equalization will meet op this, the 10th day of July, 1876, and con. tinue in session until ull business ig dis. ‘ posed of, not extending beyond the Fourth Monday ot July, to equalize asgess ments. All perso.s interested are notified to. appear before the board within the time prescribed, and show cause, it any they have, why. th ir asstssments should not stand, as listed by the-Assessor. JAMES D. WHITE, County Clerk, And ex-officio Clerk o* the Board of Equalization, Nevada County. jytl {Election for Chief Enginees, w HE ANNUAL ELECTION FOR CHIEF ENGINEER of the Nevacts City Fire Department, will take place at the Ma» she)’s Ofhce, on _ MONDAY, JULY 31, 1876. Jadges—Joseph Olive and Frank: Eikn man. : Clerks—JFJF, Ott and Ed. Goldsmith. Polls will be open from 5 to 8 o'clock, P.M. Ly order of the Board of Fire Delegates. . W. R. COE, President. Jas. Monro, Secretary. je25 — A. NIVENS, JR., GENERAL INSURANCE AGENT, STOCKS BOUGHT AND SOLD ON COMMISSION. — 5 acon and Retail Dealer ta CIGARS AND TOBACCO, * oe MASONIC BLOCK, Pine Street, Nevada City. jy? ICE ' COLD SODA WATER, AND FRESH BETHESDA WATER, ON DRAUGHT aT PRESTON’S. New York Enamel Paint HE best and most durable Paint fr outeide and inside work. A full line of pure Drugs and Medicines, Mining Chemicals, Crucibles, ete. E, M. PRESTON, N. W, corner Broad and Pine street AND UPHOLSTE ZING, JAMES KINKEAD, Commercial Street, near Coe’sSit Store, Nevada City, . IS PREPARED TO DO ALb kinds of UPHOLSTERING@ and FURNITURE REPAY ing, in the very best nian ™ and at low rates. jyt-la COUNTY: WARBANTS. LL warrants on General Fund, rei tered to Jan. 6th, 1876. aii Warrants on Road Fund, Nos. 3% $46, and 357, registered January 6th, 18%. Also all warrants on Koad Fund, prior to April Sth, 1876, will be paié on presentatiun. Interest ceases from da Nevada, July 10th, 1576. DISSOLUTION. HE Co ip heretofore exteti raced eer Se dissolved by mutual . tiring a the firm. All debts must » paid to'J. H. Helwig, who will be resyoe sible for all liabilities. J. H. BELWM{ Land Office, dated May 6th is7l ww. a + fixed the 2ist day of August -4eTeaT eb” -2’elock, A. M., at this: office, anette ficin name of Stone & Helwig, is thie > consent—J. Bw “ert of oe ae ao . oe } =a = St A Se — 7