March 15, 1888 (4 pages)

ES nds CARR VERY PER’ Gity. nt Drug a City NES, KINDS. A COManies, rietor. yrocery — will be, —— a . *. . much all the urockery in the house . convetiient dim pile just in time. THAT PRIZE FIGHT. HAVERLY S GREATEST, “BEAN-BAG.” vieLE TOMS CABIN. Che he Daily Transcript Ter rible Calamity / was smashed. Thos. Hooper, carpenter, dodged be: : oe ees sis 1 DESOLATION. * . hind a heavy.box at the crack of the ee : “THURSDAY, MAROH 1 15, "1888. For botidreds of ¥aids arouhd ace explosion and was covered with debris. . A Corre spondent Gives a Few Hits Below. This Enterprising Manager Comes to the. A Nice Parlor Game That is now Raging} What the Albany Argus Says About the 2 —_— soattersd plects: of blest iron, former: ‘ Jeff. Provines, of the crew attending the Belt. Front Again. Mere: Creal Shiu, HERE AND THERE. A Brief Record of Various Matters of Local Interest. — There are about a dozen commercial men in town. Candidates for county offices are being freely talked of. Some fine looking gravel is being washed at the Manzanita mine. The City Trustees will hold their regular monthly meeting this evening. The San Francisco mail and express failed to reach this city yesterday morning. The assessment roll in Grass Valley thus far shows a pretty good increase over last year’s valuation. The Nevada County Land Associa: tion offer for sale ten thousand shares of their stock at fifty cents per share. Several parties from below have arrived here within the past few days in search ol fruit lands, The land boom will surely be here within a -few months, Preston_and Gaylord have—changed the name of the ranch recently _purchased of Mrs. Sutton, and it will hereafter be known as ‘‘Glenbrook Villa.” Yum, yum, The Assessor and his deputies expect. to complete their work in the town of Grass Valley-in about ten days, and then they will infest Nevada City. Look out for ’em. The roads are drying up very rapidly, and people residing ata distance ‘have commenced coming to town to do their trading, and business in this city is improving. The Spring crop of tramps have commenced putting in an: appearance. The advance guard arrived yesterday. The officers should keep their weather eye on them, The explosion at Grass Valley yesterday was distinctly felt at this city, and many people thought at the time that it was an earthquake, such as they have down at Los Angeles. A few days ayo inquiry was made through the columne of the Transcript as to the whereabouts of John Quinn, Hehas been heardfrom, He is ranching near Santa Rosa. One of the engines on the east bound train ran off the track Tuesday night, which delayed the train about 12 hours, That wag the reason why -no San Francisco-mail or express arrived here yesterday morning. The jury in the case of Thomas Hicks, charged with stealing Eugene Gaylord’s watch, failed to agree and . . __were_di acquittal and two for conviction. The case will be tried again on the 23d of this month, ‘Where can I buy a Louisiana lottery ticket?’’ is a question asked almost every day, Verily, many of the people are going crazy on the lottery business. All that buy tickets expect to draw the capital prize when they only buy a ten-cent coupon. The Appeal says: ‘J. R. Hodson of Sacramento has, it is _ Understood, leased Glenbrook ‘Park, in Nevada county, and will fix itup. At the Fair here last Summer Mr: Hodson said that the Marysville and Glenbrook track, if kept up were the beat in the State.’”’ The Appeal is mistaken.’ The Glenbrook has not been leased to Mr. Hedson, or any one else. PERSONAL MENTION. Socialand Other Notes About Poople Old and Young, L. D. Rathbun, of: Cherokee, is in town, Mr. and Mrs. R. Nihnis leave today for New York City. C. E. Cleveland, agent for Haverly’s minstrels, is in town, N. ©. Miller and wife, of French Corral, are atthe National Exchange. Chas.,D, Miller, of French Corral, _came over to the county seat. yesterJohn Grossman, of San Francisco, who eame here to visit his brother, returned to the: Bay yesterday. Mrs. B. F. Stewart, and her threé children, leave today for Barnesville, Ohio, on.a visit to friends and relatives. A. J, Ross and D, R, McKillican, of North Bloomfield, arrived here Tuesday evening and returned home yesterday,. “ —D. N. Mitchell and Wm. Davey of Sierra City, arrived here on Tuesday afternoon and went to the Bay yesterday morning. John Skinker, one of the owners of the New Eureka mine, and who has been here fora week or two, returned to his San Francisco home yesterday, ©. W. Cross Esq, ayrived here from Colfax by private conveyance at 2:30 o’clock yesterday afternoon. We are indebted to him for a copy of Tuesday Evening’s Post. Ed, Booth, Geo, 8. Jonson, J. F. Cline, Wm. McLean, Chas. McLean, Geo. Coppers, F. E. Dugan, T. Waller, F, Sachs, B. Manix, W. Shand, M. Nealon, E. Poage, J. A. Holdsworth, Jay Ostrom, H, A. Robins, W. H. . Morse, J. W. Robb and J, Seibert, of Eureka, arrived here yesterday. Most of them are witnesses in the murder case now on trial in the Superior Court. ee . Netice wore Creditors. All persons indebted to me for supplies purchased at the Plaza Foed _ Btore are requested to call at the Post_ office and settle their accounts before collector a nally and will no doubt die. F ull Particulars of the Fire and hi Loss of Life at the Empire Mine, at Grass Valley, . Wednesday Morning. “The Empire mine is afire! The Empire mine is afire!’’ were the words upon thousands of lips a few minutes after 8o0’clock Wednesday morning when the familiar whistle was heard in short blasts, the very sound of rapid, which conveyed alarm to every breast. Hardly had the echo of the laat blast died away when a sharp explosion that rattled every building in Grass Valley changed alarm into direct fear and dread. { _ Those who had loved ones at the mine were as paralyzed and vaiuly endevored to supplicate the Al!-Seeing in behalf of their dead ones.’ Involuntary prayers were in every heart, even the most callous being overpowered with a sensation betokening the prexence of tha Invisible. ‘Women and children wept, screamed and swooned, moaning even in unconsciousness. The force of the shock left no hopes that Death had not attended. With the sounding of the whistle all eyes turned in the direction of the mine, The whistle stopped. A volume of smoke was seen. [Instantly followed the explogion, a sheet of flame leaping upward fully a ‘hundred feet, fragmentary materials surrounding them all, Hundreds started for the stene, on horéeback, buggy, wagon and on foot, DEAD, DYING AND INJURED. Samuel Charles Trebilcox, a lad of eighteen years, was killed outright, a flying timber crushing his skull as though the bone and flesh were ro much paper. He was otherwise bruised and cut. William Shields will die. His head is frightfully gashed,at least three ribs broken, and numerous minor hnrts, including a deep cut over the left eye. Struck by debris. Joha Paul is seriously iujured inter. Mercifully these three comprise th list-of dead and dying. though many. others were cut and bruised by. flying missiles and numerous narrow escapes are noted and marveled at. Among the injured (slightly), sustaining cuts and_bruises,—are: James Colton,aged about 55 years. L. Bearden, a lad of twenty. Nicholas Hall, elderly, Gordon Morgan, aged about 21 years. L. Duval, a young nian, CAUSE OF THE EXPLOSION. Wednesday was ‘blasting’ day in the mine and some 200 pounds of Vigroit powder and a box of cartridges were early this morning taken from the storehouse to the ‘‘dry’’ where the raen change their clothing. Here it was deposited in a corner, many feet distant from the nearest of the four stoves which warm the 140x56 building, £0 that it could be sent underground expeditiously. The regular miners and the tributes, numbering one hundred and fifty, were safely in the depths at seven o’clock, and the twenty top men were scattered through the works and busy at their respective duties. A few minutes “after eight o’clock a blaze was noticed in the dry and one of the engineers gave the whistle alarm. The top hands responded with admirable celerity and order, attaching a two-inch hose to a water pipe and— ‘THERE'S POWDER IN THERE”? Yelled Watchman James Colton, at this junction, The warning was not twenty seconds too soon, and as the men were scurrying for places of safety the explosion came and the large ‘‘dry’’ building rose into the air ‘and then collapsed. The unhurt speedily sought out their dead and injured comrades and removedthem. Word was sent into the mine and the delvers were brought to surface, the machinery not haviny been displaced though its huilding wag. badly dismantled. The ruins of the dry, being afire, demanded prompt attention, which was given and the blaze extinguished in short order. The building was a new structure and cost $3,500. A carriage house immediately north of the dry was but slightly injured, Seventy-five yards north. of where the disaster originated is the. amalgamatting department, alsenew. This was shattered almost out of semblance, and heavy crucibles, retorts, and like appurtenances scattered widely by the concussion. A stove in this building was broken into a dozen pieces by the concussion and only prompt attention prevented a conflagration here. A new blacksmith shop south of the dry house was razed to the earth and an adjoining carpenter shop wrecked. The hoisting works building looks as though a battery of heavy cannon had used it as a target. Roof caved in at many points, here and there holes made by projectiles and the force of the concussion, heavy beam» ‘snapped asunder, iron reds twisted— in short a wreck of the worst character, THE MILL Is not damaged beyond what may be repaired by a glazier. None of ‘the machinery was displaced in the least. Superintendent Starr’s residence, two or three hundred yards west of the mine . petal also in urgent need of pees seroen, ly roofing, twiste1 and torn out of all semblance to original shape. Broken “timbers, clothing, shoes, boots, cans, scraps of cast iron, stones and rocks are thickly strewn to every point of thecompass. . There are but few sound window panes in the neighborhood, comparatively speaking. PATHETIC SCENES, Before 9 o’clock—less than an hour after the disaster—from six to eight hundred persons of both sexes’ were on the ground, and~hundreds en route. Women silently wept, were hysterical or murmured prayers to God in thanksgiving because of the safety of their kin andfor the repose of the soul of the poor boy so suddenly snatched from life, the outlines of whose form could plainly be distinguished, though covered. The body lay on a dismantled door under the shade of a group of pines, and oft and again, rough, grimy miners, would tenderly raise the enveloping folds and look for a moment at the livid face, marked in places with blood which but an hour before had coursed thro’ the veins ofa living, joyous youth. A hole in his head, large enough to con‘tain all the fingers of a hand and from which brain matter slowly oozed, gave evidence of instantaneous death, Just outside cf the fence enclosing the mine property, in a dingy, cheerless cabin was John Paul, for he was a bachelor, GROANING IN AGONY From injuries affecting the. bladder, he was a painful sight. Neighbors and strangers, male_and female, vied with each other in rendering kindly services. Ilis chances for “recovery are slight. “He will be dead by nightfall” announced Drs. Jones and Jamieson as they: were met at the door of Shie!d’s residence. , The words were spoken in a whisper, that the wailing wife and children could not hear. Two priests connected with St. Patricks Church took the place by the bedside vacated by the physicians. In his family are six children, two of them juveniles. Here too were friends and strangers gathered to do aught that laid in their power, One of the dying man’s daughters paced up and down the garden in her wild grief and was with difficulty controlled. _ At Pike Flat is another-family--in terrible anguish—Samuel_C. Trebil_cock’s kindred, Only this morning he went to work, thinking no doubt, “T have a steady job at last,” and building -air-casties on the prospects ofthe money he would earn. ‘His dream is o’er; and he sleeps well!” WAS IT CRIMINAL CARLESSNESS ? Not a few of the miners conversant with the facts in the case were strong and wrathy in their denunciation of the mine management, declaring that the placing of powder in the dry house and its subsequent explosion was due to criminal carelessness. *Vigorit has been used here only two months,’’ said one of the denunciators, And then just think of leaving a quantity of powder around where fire could possibly touch it! THE CORONER Must earnestly investigate this matter; if he does kis duty without fear or favor, manslaughter will be laid at the door of some one. ‘‘These ultra sentiments were freely expressed. SUPERINTENDENT STARR Was intensely excited. He stated that it had been customary to deposit powder in the dry house, that time might be saved when the explosive was wanted and other conveniences follow stich action. ‘In half an hour the stuff would havs been underground” said he. “The fire caught from one of the stoves and communicated to the men’s clething, spreading toward the powder. But still I cannot think but that a spark did the mischief before the blaze got that far, Thisis terrible, terrible !"” 3 Being questioned as to how the fire had made such progress before being discovered, Mr, Starr replied ; ‘Colton, Jim Colton, the watchman, had attended to his morning duties in the mine and, as was his practice,had gone to his home near by for breakfast. The miners went down at seven, and consequently no one was in the dry room at the time.” THE EMPIRE MINE Ig the oldest worked quartz property on the Coast and has yielded millions. Many years ago a fire destroyed its buildings, but this is the first accident of this nature occurring there cr in the distiict, Accidents costing many more lives have often happened; but none have excited the attention that today calamity occasions. . __Eight years-ago operations at the Empire were suspended,and the mine allowed to fill with water. Later, W. ‘B. Bourn of San Francisco obtained a controlling interest and reopened the the mine, since which time it has paid largely. Work has been duinid ad will not be resumed until after the funeral of Trebilcox, and perhaps until a later date if the men so grievously injured succumb. All who have visited the scene and learned the relative positions of the inen at the time of the accident, marvel much that the death roll was not greater. Trebilcox was stricken almost at the side of Supt. Starr, while M. Provines suffered a stroke from a piece of the debris that passed by Starr. The latter was sheltered by a wood-pile, else he, Proyines and others, would have been blown into atoms, Protty. . to the hoisting brakes, nobly stuck to his post through it all, announced the danger to the underground men and hoisted them to surface. An expenditure of $7,500 will be necessary to replace the wrecked buildings. ’ It is saidthat the Empire Company is liable for heavy damages, caused by the deaths and injuries. Neither the shock nor sound were feltnor heard in the depths, Telegrams from Colfax, Smartsville, Nevada City, North San Juan and other points from five to twenty-five miles distant were received, asking what had occurred and stating that a shock had been experienced. Panes of glass in the Methodist Church, a mile distant from the scene of the explosion, were shattered, as at many dwellings in town. Bricks were detached from chimneys. At Mrs. Leach’s residence, Auburn street, a tumbling brick narrowly-missed the head of the lady named and gave her a severe: fright. Had she been hit, the blow would no doubt have been fatal. Many ef our town people saw the debris flying into the air before the.explosion was heard, or so state, at least. This'is probably true, for Mill street is fully 3,000 feet away from the mine, on an air line, and as sound travels but 1090 feet a second, the flying material could have -been plainly seen before the ear was’ apprised of the nature of the distnrbed element. Clergymen and physicians were quickly on the scene. ANOTHER DEATH, Shields died at 5 o’clock. {We are indebted tothe Grass V alley Tidings for the above.] heme nemnerereeer TN LAND ASSOCIA: TION. Some of the Doings at their Last Regular Meeting. The Nevada County Land and Improvement Association held _ its monthly meeting on Tuesday evening last. The report of the Swcretary showed that the business was assuming immense pyoportions, and the demand for lands here was increasing rapidly. The Association have several very large sales on hand, embracing abeut 7,000 acres of land, which will probably be transferred to new owners within the next thirty days. A committee of the Directors, E. M. Preston and Geo. ©. Gaylord, were authorized to select ten acres of the Sutton ranch and_plant—an—orchard of the best qualities of fruit trees. Yesterday the committee employed men to build a wire fence Epiror Transcript—I confess that I have been nota little amused at the pious exclamations that I have heard on the streets, and the terrible denunciations contained in your issue of Tuesday, and also that of the Herald with respect to the muscular milling between Sullivan and Mitchell. Prior to the great slogging match the papers of the continent were filled with éxpletives and aggravating taunts for the presumptuous little Mitchel! whom Sullivan was to knock out in three rounds, and had he succeeded in bronze=-statuary, his gigantic form would have occupied within the next decade a prominent square in. Boston and perhaps of other cities of the Re. publte But John’s supposed -invulnerable frame could not withstand the rapid and ingenious pelting of the little Englishman, The mighty Babylon is fallen and with him the proud boasting of a thousand sports. The Herald is. willing to wager that John L. Sullivan can still whip Mitchell, and that no man can stand up to him for half an hour. All tbis in the face of facts that Mitchell resisted his terrible onslaughts for a period of three hours and through thirty-nine rounds, But Mitchell is only an artful dodger and not a slogger, says the Herald. We understand a slogger to mean a boxer and the pugilist who can dodge a blow is more scientific than the bruiser-who cannot. Mitchell is -evidently John’s superior as a fighter. With our moralists, however, I am of the opinion that such brutal exhibitions are degrading in their influence, particularly upon the young mind, but cannot-accede to your statement that they are as cruel in their nature as the gladitatorial combats of Rome. We would rather see man fight with man than man with lion. We would rather see man hit with firmly clinched fist than with drawn sword or dagger. And much as we despise pugilistic displays we still have more respect for the co.,batants than for that class of individuals who on the slightest provocation will flash their fire arms in your face or to settle a dispute, or gain a little honor will resort to deadly weapons,, In this age of reason of refined civilization when honors can be found on moral basis, and ‘when all disputes can or ought to be adjusted by intelligent arbitration the man who results to muscular force is a brute, and the man who diawe his shooting irons is either a cowaad oraknave. But how amusing it is to notice the tone of our newspapers echoing from the spirit of disappointment occasioned by the downfall of the great J. L.8 Amuskp ONk. +2eee— Probably the greatest event in the amusement line, that has occurred in this city for months will be the occasion of the appearance of Haverly’s New American-European Minstrels at the Theatre on Thursday evening, March 22d. Mr. Haverly has been at the head of the finest minstrel organizations for years but his, latest and greatest effort in miristrelsy is his crowning triumph. His company this season is universally recognized to be the greatest, mo-t original and refined show of its class now in existencé. Mr. Haverly has secured for his manager Mr. W. S. Cleveland, who, next to the genial Haverly is the most suc cessful manager this country has yet produced. Thé talent with the Haverly show this year is really startling. The aggregation is headed by George H. Edwards, .a “somewhat different’’ comedian as the bills inform us, who is said to be without exception the most original and clever black-face comedian now before the public. His quaint originality and brilliant sayings has won for him the first place in the ranks of American comedians, Mr. Lew Spencer is also in the party. Everybody knows or has heard of Lew Spencer, and he is said to be more of an artist now than ever, which is saying considerable as Lew always wae a pretty clever comedian. Mr, Haverly made a great strike when he secured the four musical kings, Messrs, Edwards, Beasley, Sheppard and Fred OC. Bryant. The latter is considered Levy’s only rival, as a cornet soloist. Hilton, the only acrobatic contortionist in the world,. who has won fame throughout thé entire European eontinent,.-ia one-of Mr. Haverly’s: lateat novelties, and is creating a great stir throughout the couutry, and and his only appearances while in America will be wit the Haverly Minstrels. Howe and Doyle, the justly styled king of _ dancers, the world’s trio, Queen, Stowe and Randall, in their latest successful minstrel novelty, Eddie Manning, the clever end man, singer and dancer, and the singing of Howard, Master Percy and others, certainly comprises a wonderfully strong performance, io fact the strongest Mr. Haverly has ever given us. Prof. Rheinhardt’s operajic orchestra and military band will provide the Jatest and moat popular music. It is needless to say that ‘with the above array of talent, Haverly’s minstrel’s will receive an ovation in this city, —j 0 0 ARKIVALS ATTHE NATIONAL HOTEL. KLOTOR BROS. beccead Proprietors, around the.land selected for tie new orchard, The ranch contains about two hundred acres and the property is being put in first-class condition. Messrs. Preston and Gaylord were also authorized to make such improvements on the Morgan and Pat Hall ranches as they thought best. These three ranches, recently purchased by the Association, are among the very best in this part of the county. The three embrace about six hundred acres. Wm. Edwards was elected a Director of the Association, and N. P. Brown Assistant Secretary. The new . Board of Directors consist of the following named gentlemen: E. M, Preston, President; Geo. E. Turner, Vice President; John T. Morgan, Treasurer; Geo. E. Brand, Land Agent and Secretary; N. P. Brown, Geo. C. Gaylord and E. J. Rector, Finance Committee; Wm. Edwards; : A Surprise Party. Mrs. O, E. Mattison was pleasantly surprised on Tuesday evening by a party of friends who had assembled at her residence to enjoy a game of drive whist. She was absent from home taking tea with a friend when her guests arrived and on her return found some twenty persons seated around tables ready for the game to commence. She tcok.in the situation at a glance, however, and gave. her guests a welcome that at once placed them at their ease and the signal was given for the game to commence, As usual on such occasions there was some wild playing, but tis only added to the zest of the sport and made the losers all the more eager to avoid the booby prize. The rules of the game were varied a little to the extent of allowing those who were partners for the first round to remain partners for the evening. Good players who were well matched were well satisfied with the arrangement, while pa the other hand those who were less fortunate in the allotment of partners think they might have made a better score if they had been allowed to change partners at the beginning ofeach newdeal. The first lady’s prize was won by Mrs. V.8. Bradley, First gentleman’s prize by B. J, Watson. The booby prizes were won by Mrs, Annie Parsons and J, T. Morgan, At the conclusion of the game a fine lunch was served. This was followed by several pieces of music; both vocal and instrumental, by Mra Parsons, Miss Mattison and others. The guests dispers¢d at midnight, highly delighted wit!: the evening’s entertainment . pt A Sermou im One Sentence. Booth and Barrett are coining money at San Francisco by the production of the legitimate drama in good shape, is increasing his trade right afons V7 selling the best goods at prices. a, ml10-2 Exrra clean, bine. — mixed lawn “4 danger. while Gaylord the Nevada City grocer} Advertising Makes a Town Grow, ag, Business men may not think it, and the majority of the merchants evidently do think so, but it is a fact that regular advertising helps the growth of a town. People at a distance judge a place largely by the advertisements in its regular papers. They koow nothing about the posters, dodgers, handbills and fence board advertising, for these they never see. The papers are, however, scanned closely, and if its columns are well filled with local advertisements, they judge the business men to be wideawake and enterprising. They a.e ready to come to such a town and invest their money in it. They have faith in the future growth and ‘prosperity of a town where all of its bnsiness men place their names before the public because they know that this has been the practice in all go-a-head and progressive towns, while a dull town is kept dull by the shortsightedness of its residents in not realizing that itis largely their advertising that makes the town grow. SRE ES Pas Superior Court. The following business was transacted in the Superior Court yesterday, Judge J. M. Walling presiding: The People vs. Thos. Hicks. made setting trial for March 23. The people vs. H. W. Colby. The following jury was obtained; Edward Alpers, C. R, Hill, P. R. Pingree, 8. M. Crall, Webster Emery, E. P. Hager, Patrick Hennessey, l'homas H. Moore, Thomas N, Paine, J. C. Noel, Charles Muttoa, J. J. Orr. District Attorney Long and OC, A, Tuttle, of Auburn, are the attorneys for the prosecution, and Cross & Simonds for the defense. Order spring of the year, to purifiy the blood, invigorate the system, excite the Jiver to action restore healthy tone and vigor to the whole physical mechanism. Remember that quality,not quantity,constitutes the value of medicine, Don’t Expertment. “You cannot afford to waste time in experimen *-ng when you lungs are in Consumption always seems at first, only a cold, any dealer to impose upon you with some cheap imitation of Dr, King’s New Discovery. for Consumption, Colds and Coughs, but be sure you get the genuine, Because he can make more profit he may tell you he: has something just as good, or just t.e same. Don’t be deceived, but insist upon getting Dr. King’s New Wisco,ery, which is guaranteed to give relief in all Throat, Lung and Chest affections. Trial bottles free at Carr Bros,’ DrugCioyer, alfafa, timothy, italian rye, blue grass, mixed lawn and orchard grasa seeds at Carr Bros. = mm 13-tf Croup, whooping cough and bronchitis immediately relieved by Shiloh’s Cure. At Oarr Bros. Take Ayer’s Sarsaparilla, in the Do not permit _— 18, 1888, H, E. Tuck, Seattle, W. Miss Jeasle'Tuc Beatie, wW.T. J. J, Scharlach, San deca H. Kretlow, Geo. L, Colburn, do Lewis Schoen, J.D. Hamilton C.K. Cleveland, A t itavorly Minstrels, * M. Werrum, ‘Oakland A. R. Tebbets, Chicago Park, A, Borroughs, Grass VaHey, OF. Taylor, do F. C. Luetje, Ranch, ze D. Rathbun, (¥) herokee, H. Meyers, do Ww. Bray, F G@. Gomes, _. W. W. Tomplin, R. fl Blisa? a D, KE, Mitchell, Slerra Oty, Wm. Davey N. 8 Mille '& waits Preach Corral, ee 6, Eureka, J. Bonawarn, Eureka, iW Colby, do Jay Ostrum, do H. A, Robins, do W. H. Morse, do J.¥. Cline, do Ed. Booth, do Geo, Johnson, do Wim. McLean, do Ohas McLean, do Geo, Coppers, do F. FE. Dugan, do T. Waller, do F. Sacks, do B, Mannix do og Shand, do . Nealson do : 4. Ross, North Bloomfield, D. McKillican, do pM R. Woolsey, Filmore Hill, Eugene Clark, Railroad, Jno. Black, Viscialla, H. BR. Calyin, Sacramento, G. 8. Sullivan, do Leaps tenniciineesticneate ARKIVALS AT THE UNION HOTEL. Mrs. J. Naffziger.Proprictress ~March 18, 1886. RM Wilkins, eity, . N T Paine, do JC Dean, do wp Harris, Grass Valley, JIM Thomas, do George Lord, do Polka e ity, Se J.J do LuVia ri Ott, do Emil J. Ott, do W. J. Ivey, do Chas, Pecor, do Frank Frary, do J.M. Smith, Lime Kilm, Thomas N, Paine, Grass Valley, T. 3: ecore, do ii er, Blue Tent, “b, it er, French Corral, ¥ . Robb, Graniteville, J. Seibert oores Flat, Wm. L, Wiillamaon Washington, Thomas Okey, N Bloomfiel Deputy She ff Carter and 12 Jurymen. Es Settic and Save Costs. purchased at the San Francisco Opposition Store in North Bloomfield are requested to call immediately-and L. Hyman, closed April ist. (2t) Tue People’s Atlas is spoken of as a most useful book in school libraries. The new edition of 1888 is now ready, giving a map ofevery country in the world, with a vast amount of valuable information. Can. be had only from The J. Dewing Company, Bush street, Way will you cough when 8hiloh’s Cure will give immediate relief. Price 10 cts., 50 -cts., and $1; Ask Carr Bros. for it. Tun freshest field, garden and fowgrase seeds at Carr Bros. m13-tf . es All persons indebted to me for goods save-costs. The store there will be! @f “Bean-bag”’ being such a popular game at present, we give a description of the game for the benefit of those who have not been initiated: At one end of the parlor or hall is-placed an inclined board with a square hole in it. Standing at the other end—and the further away from the toard: the more fun there is in the game—the players pitch ten bean bags towards the hole. A regular score is kept; and if the ten bags fall in the hole it counts 100, or ten for each bag. Another bag, doublethe usual size, is also Povied, and if this is also thrown into the square opening it adds twenty, making 120-the highest possible score. Should any of the bags remain on the board, they count-five points apiece, but for every bag that is thrown upon or falls to the floor, five . points are subtracted. The big bag or Jumbo, counts double, or temin each case. Many young society ladies have become quite experts at pitching the bags, and show excellent judgment and skill in accurately guaging the distance and the strength necessary to be exerted. In most cases the bags are made of gayly-colored >ticking. Jumbo being individualized by material of a different pattern, but a few handsomely-embroidered receptacles for the beans, The board is generally of plain weod, polished; about two feet wide and three feet long and nine or ten feet high at its greatest distance from the ground. The hole is about five inches square and the smaller bags a little larger. ‘Jumbo’ contuins a pint of beans and the. other bags half the quantity. In many4 houses where. thegame —is--played handsome prizes are awarded to those making the highest scores. The sport is full of interest, and bean -bag boards are now found in every household which expects to be considered up to the times. ie “Amused One," We publish in today’s TPranscripr a correspondence from one who signé himself ‘‘Amused One.’? He profezses to enjoy the tone of disappointment awakened by the downfall of John L. Sullivan, We confess to being astonished rather than amused at the position taken by one who evidently has regard for the morals of the rising generation and ought to have alittle better opinion of the motives of the American press, The press although acknowledging Sullivan’s physical prowess, has never adfession, and John’s reputation and character will compare favorably with the moral status of sloggers generally. our young men may bea general and deplorable evil, but the flashing of them in the faces of individuals on slight provocation, is we-imagine unsubstantiated. But the reeking corruption of sloggers is a living fact and a menacing curse in the nineteenth century. Whatever may be the nauseating outflow from the sporting papers of the country the outspoken sentiments of the TRANscerpr and other local papers here,have ever been pure and elevating and ever in the interest of unadulterated morals, a ce ee! -Tus extraordinary ares ee Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral is the natural result of its use by all classes of people for over forty years, It has proven itself the very best specific for colds coughs, and pulmonary complaints, asics ne Dee Migs SieceLuss nights, made miserable by that terrible cough, Shiloh’s Cure is the rerhedy for you. For sale by Carr Bros. ied ueailaih detected A NawAu injector free witheach bottle of Shiloh’s Catarrh Remedy. Price 60 cents. For sale at Carr bros, ecdbeisieics Siu10Hn’s cure will immediately reWhooping Cough and For bale by Carr Bros. lieve Croup, Bronchitis. NEVADA THEATER. One Pertuamnoe Only. THURSDAY, MARCH 22d. The Monarchs of the World ! HAVERLY’S NEW AMERICAN-KUROPEAN THE ORIGINAL MASTODON MINSTRELS Under the Sole Management of fPAHISENTIRELY NEW AND RECENTLY Re-organized Company includes all you have ever seen and what you have The Greatest Living Acrobats, especially ~ engaged at the enormous salary of $1,000 per week, Together with all the Gieat Minatre] Stars, young ladies have taken pains to have . mired_his_morals-or-the pugilistic_pro~ The carrying of concealed weapons by j Nearly Half « Hundred People in All. . ® The Abbey’s Dramatic Troupe opened at the Leland Opera House last evening to w large and appreciative audience. The company is a double one—the only double company in the world: Two Topsys, two Lawyers, and the most wonderful Eva ever teen years old. She is-very pretty, very talented and a delightful little vocalist, man. The leading characters in the com. pany are rendered with great spirit; the famous Hyer Sisters making two wery remarkablo Topsys. Their splendid voices, made a most pronounced impression, while their piquant actions was extremely captivating. This . profile fun kept thé large audiance in laughing good humor during every act. The two Lawyers, Messrs Smith and Man, ‘‘fill the bill” admirably. They are excellent comedians, Wm. Lannigan gave us an excellent St, Clair; while Irene Lannigan made a. hit as “‘Aunt Ophelia’. The piece is nicely mounted. The plantation songs are rendered admirably by full-voiced colored men, The dogs perform theirpart with entire success. Her name is Genie Fare eee Am Extraordinary Offer te AM Wanting Mumployment, We want live, “energetic, agents in every county in the United States << Canada to sell a patent article of merit, a its a. Flag article ing a large sale paying over 100 cent. feed Hy pod 4 com: pe and on which the agent is protected in the exclusive sale by a deed given for each and every county he may secure from us. With all these advantages to our agents, and the fact that itis an article that can be sold to every houseowner, it might not be necessary to make ‘“‘an extraordinary offer’ te secure good agents at once, but we have concluded to make it to shew, not only our confidence in the merits of our invention, but in its salabili by any eo that will handle it wi onary. Our agents now at work are making from $150 to $300 a month clear, and this fact makes it safe jor ua to make our offer to all who are out of employment. Any agent that will — give our business a thirty day’s ~~ and failto clear at least $100 in this time, above all expenses, can return all age unsold to us and we will refund the money paid for them. No such employer of agents ever dared te make such offers, nor would weif we did not know that we have agents now making more than double this amount, Our large descriptive circulars explain our offer fully, and these we wish to send to everyone. out of employment who will send us three one cent stamps for postage. Sond at once and secure the agency in time for the boom; andyo to work on the terms named in our extraordinary offer, ;atonce, N oe, 614 ‘Smithfield St., a, A Solf-Evident Proposition. The new municipal bill has its opponents and so has the charter thecity ig now governed under; i, but there ia one t ing on whic people agree, and itis that Geo. O. Gaylord’s is the best place to buy groceries. m10-2t When baby was sick, we gave her Castoria, When she was a child, she cried for Castoria, When she became Migs,she olung to Caatoria When she had children, she gave them {Castoria Absolutely Pure, HIS POWDER NEVER VARIES ~—A Marvel of purity, stre: and wholesomeness. More economic ordinary kinds, and cannot be sold in com petition with the multitude of low Aa shor bahay alum or Pr ppocenene ate 1 POW Gate old Oni yin ROYAL AKING E POWDER co. , 106 Wall street, New Yor wm. 7. COLEMAN & ©CO., Agents, fan Francisce. FOR SALE. CANAD: HILL QUARTZ. MILL COMPRISING Buildings, Rock-Breakers, Concentrators, Water Wheels, Retorting Furnace, Gold Scales, Safe, ALSO THE perer: seen equaled, including the Comeen PR vgn er Boilers, PETE MAOK, LEW SPENOER, ’ Mitinitd Wheels, HARRY ARMSTRONG, ETC., ETC, And GEO. H. EDW. ARDS, For full particulars apply to nome Toa Bali os Comedians E, 0, OHARONNAT, — THE HUMAN ENIGMA NEVADA CITY, EILTrON. —— Notice, seen on any stage. She is only four . ‘Noverry— Fitaanan {24 3m Hoisting Machinery, . : 54 . oan aVARS SOF aes ANY San Francisco. ‘ chy of ll er Queen, Stowe and -Randall,. * nu SUES acs Graceful aye ee} ine tavite, * ; the Original World’s Trio, See eid on the a rs h that a: ty Ge arch, COE ER a we un a) unhe asath anclouay and ganda THE HERBERT-MORELLO TROUPE, ,, CURE SEATS, SECURE SEATS “ ". r de nb swt Gr .

ES nds CARR VERY PER’ Gity. nt Drug a City NES, KINDS. A COManies, rietor. yrocery — will be, —— a . *. . much all the urockery in the house . convetiient dim pile just in time. THAT PRIZE FIGHT. HAVERLY S GREATEST, “BEAN-BAG.” vieLE TOMS CABIN. Che he Daily Transcript Ter rible Calamity / was smashed. Thos. Hooper, carpenter, dodged be: : oe ees sis 1 DESOLATION. * . hind a heavy.box at the crack of the ee : “THURSDAY, MAROH 1 15, "1888. For botidreds of ¥aids arouhd ace explosion and was covered with debris. . A Corre spondent Gives a Few Hits Below. This Enterprising Manager Comes to the. A Nice Parlor Game That is now Raging} What the Albany Argus Says About the 2 —_— soattersd plects: of blest iron, former: ‘ Jeff. Provines, of the crew attending the Belt. Front Again. Mere: Creal Shiu, HERE AND THERE. A Brief Record of Various Matters of Local Interest. — There are about a dozen commercial men in town. Candidates for county offices are being freely talked of. Some fine looking gravel is being washed at the Manzanita mine. The City Trustees will hold their regular monthly meeting this evening. The San Francisco mail and express failed to reach this city yesterday morning. The assessment roll in Grass Valley thus far shows a pretty good increase over last year’s valuation. The Nevada County Land Associa: tion offer for sale ten thousand shares of their stock at fifty cents per share. Several parties from below have arrived here within the past few days in search ol fruit lands, The land boom will surely be here within a -few months, Preston_and Gaylord have—changed the name of the ranch recently _purchased of Mrs. Sutton, and it will hereafter be known as ‘‘Glenbrook Villa.” Yum, yum, The Assessor and his deputies expect. to complete their work in the town of Grass Valley-in about ten days, and then they will infest Nevada City. Look out for ’em. The roads are drying up very rapidly, and people residing ata distance ‘have commenced coming to town to do their trading, and business in this city is improving. The Spring crop of tramps have commenced putting in an: appearance. The advance guard arrived yesterday. The officers should keep their weather eye on them, The explosion at Grass Valley yesterday was distinctly felt at this city, and many people thought at the time that it was an earthquake, such as they have down at Los Angeles. A few days ayo inquiry was made through the columne of the Transcript as to the whereabouts of John Quinn, Hehas been heardfrom, He is ranching near Santa Rosa. One of the engines on the east bound train ran off the track Tuesday night, which delayed the train about 12 hours, That wag the reason why -no San Francisco-mail or express arrived here yesterday morning. The jury in the case of Thomas Hicks, charged with stealing Eugene Gaylord’s watch, failed to agree and . . __were_di acquittal and two for conviction. The case will be tried again on the 23d of this month, ‘Where can I buy a Louisiana lottery ticket?’’ is a question asked almost every day, Verily, many of the people are going crazy on the lottery business. All that buy tickets expect to draw the capital prize when they only buy a ten-cent coupon. The Appeal says: ‘J. R. Hodson of Sacramento has, it is _ Understood, leased Glenbrook ‘Park, in Nevada county, and will fix itup. At the Fair here last Summer Mr: Hodson said that the Marysville and Glenbrook track, if kept up were the beat in the State.’”’ The Appeal is mistaken.’ The Glenbrook has not been leased to Mr. Hedson, or any one else. PERSONAL MENTION. Socialand Other Notes About Poople Old and Young, L. D. Rathbun, of: Cherokee, is in town, Mr. and Mrs. R. Nihnis leave today for New York City. C. E. Cleveland, agent for Haverly’s minstrels, is in town, N. ©. Miller and wife, of French Corral, are atthe National Exchange. Chas.,D, Miller, of French Corral, _came over to the county seat. yesterJohn Grossman, of San Francisco, who eame here to visit his brother, returned to the: Bay yesterday. Mrs. B. F. Stewart, and her threé children, leave today for Barnesville, Ohio, on.a visit to friends and relatives. A. J, Ross and D, R, McKillican, of North Bloomfield, arrived here Tuesday evening and returned home yesterday,. “ —D. N. Mitchell and Wm. Davey of Sierra City, arrived here on Tuesday afternoon and went to the Bay yesterday morning. John Skinker, one of the owners of the New Eureka mine, and who has been here fora week or two, returned to his San Francisco home yesterday, ©. W. Cross Esq, ayrived here from Colfax by private conveyance at 2:30 o’clock yesterday afternoon. We are indebted to him for a copy of Tuesday Evening’s Post. Ed, Booth, Geo, 8. Jonson, J. F. Cline, Wm. McLean, Chas. McLean, Geo. Coppers, F. E. Dugan, T. Waller, F, Sachs, B. Manix, W. Shand, M. Nealon, E. Poage, J. A. Holdsworth, Jay Ostrom, H, A. Robins, W. H. . Morse, J. W. Robb and J, Seibert, of Eureka, arrived here yesterday. Most of them are witnesses in the murder case now on trial in the Superior Court. ee . Netice wore Creditors. All persons indebted to me for supplies purchased at the Plaza Foed _ Btore are requested to call at the Post_ office and settle their accounts before collector a nally and will no doubt die. F ull Particulars of the Fire and hi Loss of Life at the Empire Mine, at Grass Valley, . Wednesday Morning. “The Empire mine is afire! The Empire mine is afire!’’ were the words upon thousands of lips a few minutes after 8o0’clock Wednesday morning when the familiar whistle was heard in short blasts, the very sound of rapid, which conveyed alarm to every breast. Hardly had the echo of the laat blast died away when a sharp explosion that rattled every building in Grass Valley changed alarm into direct fear and dread. { _ Those who had loved ones at the mine were as paralyzed and vaiuly endevored to supplicate the Al!-Seeing in behalf of their dead ones.’ Involuntary prayers were in every heart, even the most callous being overpowered with a sensation betokening the prexence of tha Invisible. ‘Women and children wept, screamed and swooned, moaning even in unconsciousness. The force of the shock left no hopes that Death had not attended. With the sounding of the whistle all eyes turned in the direction of the mine, The whistle stopped. A volume of smoke was seen. [Instantly followed the explogion, a sheet of flame leaping upward fully a ‘hundred feet, fragmentary materials surrounding them all, Hundreds started for the stene, on horéeback, buggy, wagon and on foot, DEAD, DYING AND INJURED. Samuel Charles Trebilcox, a lad of eighteen years, was killed outright, a flying timber crushing his skull as though the bone and flesh were ro much paper. He was otherwise bruised and cut. William Shields will die. His head is frightfully gashed,at least three ribs broken, and numerous minor hnrts, including a deep cut over the left eye. Struck by debris. Joha Paul is seriously iujured inter. Mercifully these three comprise th list-of dead and dying. though many. others were cut and bruised by. flying missiles and numerous narrow escapes are noted and marveled at. Among the injured (slightly), sustaining cuts and_bruises,—are: James Colton,aged about 55 years. L. Bearden, a lad of twenty. Nicholas Hall, elderly, Gordon Morgan, aged about 21 years. L. Duval, a young nian, CAUSE OF THE EXPLOSION. Wednesday was ‘blasting’ day in the mine and some 200 pounds of Vigroit powder and a box of cartridges were early this morning taken from the storehouse to the ‘‘dry’’ where the raen change their clothing. Here it was deposited in a corner, many feet distant from the nearest of the four stoves which warm the 140x56 building, £0 that it could be sent underground expeditiously. The regular miners and the tributes, numbering one hundred and fifty, were safely in the depths at seven o’clock, and the twenty top men were scattered through the works and busy at their respective duties. A few minutes “after eight o’clock a blaze was noticed in the dry and one of the engineers gave the whistle alarm. The top hands responded with admirable celerity and order, attaching a two-inch hose to a water pipe and— ‘THERE'S POWDER IN THERE”? Yelled Watchman James Colton, at this junction, The warning was not twenty seconds too soon, and as the men were scurrying for places of safety the explosion came and the large ‘‘dry’’ building rose into the air ‘and then collapsed. The unhurt speedily sought out their dead and injured comrades and removedthem. Word was sent into the mine and the delvers were brought to surface, the machinery not haviny been displaced though its huilding wag. badly dismantled. The ruins of the dry, being afire, demanded prompt attention, which was given and the blaze extinguished in short order. The building was a new structure and cost $3,500. A carriage house immediately north of the dry was but slightly injured, Seventy-five yards north. of where the disaster originated is the. amalgamatting department, alsenew. This was shattered almost out of semblance, and heavy crucibles, retorts, and like appurtenances scattered widely by the concussion. A stove in this building was broken into a dozen pieces by the concussion and only prompt attention prevented a conflagration here. A new blacksmith shop south of the dry house was razed to the earth and an adjoining carpenter shop wrecked. The hoisting works building looks as though a battery of heavy cannon had used it as a target. Roof caved in at many points, here and there holes made by projectiles and the force of the concussion, heavy beam» ‘snapped asunder, iron reds twisted— in short a wreck of the worst character, THE MILL Is not damaged beyond what may be repaired by a glazier. None of ‘the machinery was displaced in the least. Superintendent Starr’s residence, two or three hundred yards west of the mine . petal also in urgent need of pees seroen, ly roofing, twiste1 and torn out of all semblance to original shape. Broken “timbers, clothing, shoes, boots, cans, scraps of cast iron, stones and rocks are thickly strewn to every point of thecompass. . There are but few sound window panes in the neighborhood, comparatively speaking. PATHETIC SCENES, Before 9 o’clock—less than an hour after the disaster—from six to eight hundred persons of both sexes’ were on the ground, and~hundreds en route. Women silently wept, were hysterical or murmured prayers to God in thanksgiving because of the safety of their kin andfor the repose of the soul of the poor boy so suddenly snatched from life, the outlines of whose form could plainly be distinguished, though covered. The body lay on a dismantled door under the shade of a group of pines, and oft and again, rough, grimy miners, would tenderly raise the enveloping folds and look for a moment at the livid face, marked in places with blood which but an hour before had coursed thro’ the veins ofa living, joyous youth. A hole in his head, large enough to con‘tain all the fingers of a hand and from which brain matter slowly oozed, gave evidence of instantaneous death, Just outside cf the fence enclosing the mine property, in a dingy, cheerless cabin was John Paul, for he was a bachelor, GROANING IN AGONY From injuries affecting the. bladder, he was a painful sight. Neighbors and strangers, male_and female, vied with each other in rendering kindly services. Ilis chances for “recovery are slight. “He will be dead by nightfall” announced Drs. Jones and Jamieson as they: were met at the door of Shie!d’s residence. , The words were spoken in a whisper, that the wailing wife and children could not hear. Two priests connected with St. Patricks Church took the place by the bedside vacated by the physicians. In his family are six children, two of them juveniles. Here too were friends and strangers gathered to do aught that laid in their power, One of the dying man’s daughters paced up and down the garden in her wild grief and was with difficulty controlled. _ At Pike Flat is another-family--in terrible anguish—Samuel_C. Trebil_cock’s kindred, Only this morning he went to work, thinking no doubt, “T have a steady job at last,” and building -air-casties on the prospects ofthe money he would earn. ‘His dream is o’er; and he sleeps well!” WAS IT CRIMINAL CARLESSNESS ? Not a few of the miners conversant with the facts in the case were strong and wrathy in their denunciation of the mine management, declaring that the placing of powder in the dry house and its subsequent explosion was due to criminal carelessness. *Vigorit has been used here only two months,’’ said one of the denunciators, And then just think of leaving a quantity of powder around where fire could possibly touch it! THE CORONER Must earnestly investigate this matter; if he does kis duty without fear or favor, manslaughter will be laid at the door of some one. ‘‘These ultra sentiments were freely expressed. SUPERINTENDENT STARR Was intensely excited. He stated that it had been customary to deposit powder in the dry house, that time might be saved when the explosive was wanted and other conveniences follow stich action. ‘In half an hour the stuff would havs been underground” said he. “The fire caught from one of the stoves and communicated to the men’s clething, spreading toward the powder. But still I cannot think but that a spark did the mischief before the blaze got that far, Thisis terrible, terrible !"” 3 Being questioned as to how the fire had made such progress before being discovered, Mr, Starr replied ; ‘Colton, Jim Colton, the watchman, had attended to his morning duties in the mine and, as was his practice,had gone to his home near by for breakfast. The miners went down at seven, and consequently no one was in the dry room at the time.” THE EMPIRE MINE Ig the oldest worked quartz property on the Coast and has yielded millions. Many years ago a fire destroyed its buildings, but this is the first accident of this nature occurring there cr in the distiict, Accidents costing many more lives have often happened; but none have excited the attention that today calamity occasions. . __Eight years-ago operations at the Empire were suspended,and the mine allowed to fill with water. Later, W. ‘B. Bourn of San Francisco obtained a controlling interest and reopened the the mine, since which time it has paid largely. Work has been duinid ad will not be resumed until after the funeral of Trebilcox, and perhaps until a later date if the men so grievously injured succumb. All who have visited the scene and learned the relative positions of the inen at the time of the accident, marvel much that the death roll was not greater. Trebilcox was stricken almost at the side of Supt. Starr, while M. Provines suffered a stroke from a piece of the debris that passed by Starr. The latter was sheltered by a wood-pile, else he, Proyines and others, would have been blown into atoms, Protty. . to the hoisting brakes, nobly stuck to his post through it all, announced the danger to the underground men and hoisted them to surface. An expenditure of $7,500 will be necessary to replace the wrecked buildings. ’ It is saidthat the Empire Company is liable for heavy damages, caused by the deaths and injuries. Neither the shock nor sound were feltnor heard in the depths, Telegrams from Colfax, Smartsville, Nevada City, North San Juan and other points from five to twenty-five miles distant were received, asking what had occurred and stating that a shock had been experienced. Panes of glass in the Methodist Church, a mile distant from the scene of the explosion, were shattered, as at many dwellings in town. Bricks were detached from chimneys. At Mrs. Leach’s residence, Auburn street, a tumbling brick narrowly-missed the head of the lady named and gave her a severe: fright. Had she been hit, the blow would no doubt have been fatal. Many ef our town people saw the debris flying into the air before the.explosion was heard, or so state, at least. This'is probably true, for Mill street is fully 3,000 feet away from the mine, on an air line, and as sound travels but 1090 feet a second, the flying material could have -been plainly seen before the ear was’ apprised of the nature of the distnrbed element. Clergymen and physicians were quickly on the scene. ANOTHER DEATH, Shields died at 5 o’clock. {We are indebted tothe Grass V alley Tidings for the above.] heme nemnerereeer TN LAND ASSOCIA: TION. Some of the Doings at their Last Regular Meeting. The Nevada County Land and Improvement Association held _ its monthly meeting on Tuesday evening last. The report of the Swcretary showed that the business was assuming immense pyoportions, and the demand for lands here was increasing rapidly. The Association have several very large sales on hand, embracing abeut 7,000 acres of land, which will probably be transferred to new owners within the next thirty days. A committee of the Directors, E. M. Preston and Geo. ©. Gaylord, were authorized to select ten acres of the Sutton ranch and_plant—an—orchard of the best qualities of fruit trees. Yesterday the committee employed men to build a wire fence Epiror Transcript—I confess that I have been nota little amused at the pious exclamations that I have heard on the streets, and the terrible denunciations contained in your issue of Tuesday, and also that of the Herald with respect to the muscular milling between Sullivan and Mitchell. Prior to the great slogging match the papers of the continent were filled with éxpletives and aggravating taunts for the presumptuous little Mitchel! whom Sullivan was to knock out in three rounds, and had he succeeded in bronze=-statuary, his gigantic form would have occupied within the next decade a prominent square in. Boston and perhaps of other cities of the Re. publte But John’s supposed -invulnerable frame could not withstand the rapid and ingenious pelting of the little Englishman, The mighty Babylon is fallen and with him the proud boasting of a thousand sports. The Herald is. willing to wager that John L. Sullivan can still whip Mitchell, and that no man can stand up to him for half an hour. All tbis in the face of facts that Mitchell resisted his terrible onslaughts for a period of three hours and through thirty-nine rounds, But Mitchell is only an artful dodger and not a slogger, says the Herald. We understand a slogger to mean a boxer and the pugilist who can dodge a blow is more scientific than the bruiser-who cannot. Mitchell is -evidently John’s superior as a fighter. With our moralists, however, I am of the opinion that such brutal exhibitions are degrading in their influence, particularly upon the young mind, but cannot-accede to your statement that they are as cruel in their nature as the gladitatorial combats of Rome. We would rather see man fight with man than man with lion. We would rather see man hit with firmly clinched fist than with drawn sword or dagger. And much as we despise pugilistic displays we still have more respect for the co.,batants than for that class of individuals who on the slightest provocation will flash their fire arms in your face or to settle a dispute, or gain a little honor will resort to deadly weapons,, In this age of reason of refined civilization when honors can be found on moral basis, and ‘when all disputes can or ought to be adjusted by intelligent arbitration the man who results to muscular force is a brute, and the man who diawe his shooting irons is either a cowaad oraknave. But how amusing it is to notice the tone of our newspapers echoing from the spirit of disappointment occasioned by the downfall of the great J. L.8 Amuskp ONk. +2eee— Probably the greatest event in the

amusement line, that has occurred in this city for months will be the occasion of the appearance of Haverly’s New American-European Minstrels at the Theatre on Thursday evening, March 22d. Mr. Haverly has been at the head of the finest minstrel organizations for years but his, latest and greatest effort in miristrelsy is his crowning triumph. His company this season is universally recognized to be the greatest, mo-t original and refined show of its class now in existencé. Mr. Haverly has secured for his manager Mr. W. S. Cleveland, who, next to the genial Haverly is the most suc cessful manager this country has yet produced. Thé talent with the Haverly show this year is really startling. The aggregation is headed by George H. Edwards, .a “somewhat different’’ comedian as the bills inform us, who is said to be without exception the most original and clever black-face comedian now before the public. His quaint originality and brilliant sayings has won for him the first place in the ranks of American comedians, Mr. Lew Spencer is also in the party. Everybody knows or has heard of Lew Spencer, and he is said to be more of an artist now than ever, which is saying considerable as Lew always wae a pretty clever comedian. Mr, Haverly made a great strike when he secured the four musical kings, Messrs, Edwards, Beasley, Sheppard and Fred OC. Bryant. The latter is considered Levy’s only rival, as a cornet soloist. Hilton, the only acrobatic contortionist in the world,. who has won fame throughout thé entire European eontinent,.-ia one-of Mr. Haverly’s: lateat novelties, and is creating a great stir throughout the couutry, and and his only appearances while in America will be wit the Haverly Minstrels. Howe and Doyle, the justly styled king of _ dancers, the world’s trio, Queen, Stowe and Randall, in their latest successful minstrel novelty, Eddie Manning, the clever end man, singer and dancer, and the singing of Howard, Master Percy and others, certainly comprises a wonderfully strong performance, io fact the strongest Mr. Haverly has ever given us. Prof. Rheinhardt’s operajic orchestra and military band will provide the Jatest and moat popular music. It is needless to say that ‘with the above array of talent, Haverly’s minstrel’s will receive an ovation in this city, —j 0 0 ARKIVALS ATTHE NATIONAL HOTEL. KLOTOR BROS.. beccead Proprietors, around the.land selected for tie new orchard, The ranch contains about two hundred acres and the property is being put in first-class condition. Messrs. Preston and Gaylord were also authorized to make such improvements on the Morgan and Pat Hall ranches as they thought best. These three ranches, recently purchased by the Association, are among the very best in this part of the county. The three embrace about six hundred acres. Wm. Edwards was elected a Director of the Association, and N. P. Brown Assistant Secretary. The new . Board of Directors consist of the following named gentlemen: E. M, Preston, President; Geo. E. Turner, Vice President; John T. Morgan, Treasurer; Geo. E. Brand, Land Agent and Secretary; N. P. Brown, Geo. C. Gaylord and E. J. Rector, Finance Committee; Wm. Edwards; : A Surprise Party. Mrs. O, E. Mattison was pleasantly surprised on Tuesday evening by a party of friends who had assembled at her residence to enjoy a game of drive whist. She was absent from home taking tea with a friend when her guests arrived and on her return found some twenty persons seated around tables ready for the game to commence. She tcok.in the situation at a glance, however, and gave. her guests a welcome that at once placed them at their ease and the signal was given for the game to commence, As usual on such occasions there was some wild playing, but tis only added to the zest of the sport and made the losers all the more eager to avoid the booby prize. The rules of the game were varied a little to the extent of allowing those who were partners for the first round to remain partners for the evening. Good players who were well matched were well satisfied with the arrangement, while pa the other hand those who were less fortunate in the allotment of partners think they might have made a better score if they had been allowed to change partners at the beginning ofeach newdeal. The first lady’s prize was won by Mrs. V.8. Bradley, First gentleman’s prize by B. J, Watson. The booby prizes were won by Mrs, Annie Parsons and J, T. Morgan, At the conclusion of the game a fine lunch was served. This was followed by several pieces of music; both vocal and instrumental, by Mra Parsons, Miss Mattison and others. The guests dispers¢d at midnight, highly delighted wit!: the evening’s entertainment . pt A Sermou im One Sentence. Booth and Barrett are coining money at San Francisco by the production of the legitimate drama in good shape, is increasing his trade right afons V7 selling the best goods at prices. a, ml10-2 Exrra clean, bine. — mixed lawn “4 danger. while Gaylord the Nevada City grocer} Advertising Makes a Town Grow, ag, Business men may not think it, and the majority of the merchants evidently do think so, but it is a fact that regular advertising helps the growth of a town. People at a distance judge a place largely by the advertisements in its regular papers. They koow nothing about the posters, dodgers, handbills and fence board advertising, for these they never see. The papers are, however, scanned closely, and if its columns are well filled with local advertisements, they judge the business men to be wideawake and enterprising. They a.e ready to come to such a town and invest their money in it. They have faith in the future growth and ‘prosperity of a town where all of its bnsiness men place their names before the public because they know that this has been the practice in all go-a-head and progressive towns, while a dull town is kept dull by the shortsightedness of its residents in not realizing that itis largely their advertising that makes the town grow. SRE ES Pas Superior Court. The following business was transacted in the Superior Court yesterday, Judge J. M. Walling presiding: The People vs. Thos. Hicks. made setting trial for March 23. The people vs. H. W. Colby. The following jury was obtained; Edward Alpers, C. R, Hill, P. R. Pingree, 8. M. Crall, Webster Emery, E. P. Hager, Patrick Hennessey, l'homas H. Moore, Thomas N, Paine, J. C. Noel, Charles Muttoa, J. J. Orr. District Attorney Long and OC, A, Tuttle, of Auburn, are the attorneys for the prosecution, and Cross & Simonds for the defense. Order spring of the year, to purifiy the blood, invigorate the system, excite the Jiver to action restore healthy tone and vigor to the whole physical mechanism. Remember that quality,not quantity,constitutes the value of medicine, Don’t Expertment. “You cannot afford to waste time in experimen *-ng when you lungs are in Consumption always seems at first, only a cold, any dealer to impose upon you with some cheap imitation of Dr, King’s New Discovery. for Consumption, Colds and Coughs, but be sure you get the genuine, Because he can make more profit he may tell you he: has something just as good, or just t.e same. Don’t be deceived, but insist upon getting Dr. King’s New Wisco,ery, which is guaranteed to give relief in all Throat, Lung and Chest affections. Trial bottles free at Carr Bros,’ DrugCioyer, alfafa, timothy, italian rye, blue grass, mixed lawn and orchard grasa seeds at Carr Bros. = mm 13-tf Croup, whooping cough and bronchitis immediately relieved by Shiloh’s Cure. At Oarr Bros. Take Ayer’s Sarsaparilla, in the Do not permit _— 18, 1888, H, E. Tuck, Seattle, W. Miss Jeasle'Tuc Beatie, wW.T. J. J, Scharlach, San deca H. Kretlow, Geo. L, Colburn, do Lewis Schoen, J.D. Hamilton C.K. Cleveland, A t itavorly Minstrels, * M. Werrum, ‘Oakland A. R. Tebbets, Chicago Park, A, Borroughs, Grass VaHey, OF. Taylor, do F. C. Luetje, Ranch, ze D. Rathbun, (¥) herokee, H. Meyers, do Ww. Bray, F G@. Gomes, _. W. W. Tomplin, R. fl Blisa? a D, KE, Mitchell, Slerra Oty, Wm. Davey N. 8 Mille '& waits Preach Corral, ee 6, Eureka, J. Bonawarn, Eureka, iW Colby, do Jay Ostrum, do H. A, Robins, do W. H. Morse, do J.¥. Cline, do Ed. Booth, do Geo, Johnson, do Wim. McLean, do Ohas McLean, do Geo, Coppers, do F. FE. Dugan, do T. Waller, do F. Sacks, do B, Mannix do og Shand, do . Nealson do : 4. Ross, North Bloomfield, D. McKillican, do pM R. Woolsey, Filmore Hill, Eugene Clark, Railroad, Jno. Black, Viscialla, H. BR. Calyin, Sacramento, G. 8. Sullivan, do Leaps tenniciineesticneate ARKIVALS AT THE UNION HOTEL. Mrs. J. Naffziger..Proprictress ~March 18, 1886. RM Wilkins, eity, . N T Paine, do JC Dean, do wp Harris, Grass Valley, JIM Thomas, do George Lord, do Polka e ity, Se J.J do LuVia ri Ott, do Emil J. Ott, do W. J. Ivey, do Chas, Pecor, do Frank Frary, do J.M. Smith, Lime Kilm, Thomas N, Paine, Grass Valley, T. 3: ecore, do ii er, Blue Tent, “b, it er, French Corral, ¥ . Robb, Graniteville, J. Seibert oores Flat, Wm. L, Wiillamaon Washington, Thomas Okey, N Bloomfiel Deputy She ff Carter and 12 Jurymen. Es Settic and Save Costs. purchased at the San Francisco Opposition Store in North Bloomfield are requested to call immediately-and L. Hyman, closed April ist. (2t) Tue People’s Atlas is spoken of as a most useful book in school libraries. The new edition of 1888 is now ready, giving a map ofevery country in the world, with a vast amount of valuable information. Can. be had only from The J. Dewing Company, Bush street, Way will you cough when 8hiloh’s Cure will give immediate relief. Price 10 cts., 50 -cts., and $1; Ask Carr Bros. for it. Tun freshest field, garden and fowgrase seeds at Carr Bros. m13-tf . es All persons indebted to me for goods save-costs. The store there will be! @f “Bean-bag”’ being such a popular game at present, we give a description of the game for the benefit of those who have not been initiated: At one end of the parlor or hall is-placed an inclined board with a square hole in it. Standing at the other end—and the further away from the toard: the more fun there is in the game—the players pitch ten bean bags towards the hole. A regular score is kept; and if the ten bags fall in the hole it counts 100, or ten for each bag. Another bag, doublethe usual size, is also Povied, and if this is also thrown into the square opening it adds twenty, making 120-the highest possible score. Should any of the bags remain on the board, they count-five points apiece, but for every bag that is thrown upon or falls to the floor, five . points are subtracted. The big bag or Jumbo, counts double, or temin each case. Many young society ladies have become quite experts at pitching the bags, and show excellent judgment and skill in accurately guaging the distance and the strength necessary to be exerted. In most cases the bags are made of gayly-colored >ticking. Jumbo being individualized by material of a different pattern, but a few handsomely-embroidered receptacles for the beans, The board is generally of plain weod, polished; about two feet wide and three feet long and nine or ten feet high at its greatest distance from the ground. The hole is about five inches square and the smaller bags a little larger. ‘Jumbo’ contuins a pint of beans and the. other bags half the quantity. In many4 houses where. thegame —is--played handsome prizes are awarded to those making the highest scores. The sport is full of interest, and bean -bag boards are now found in every household which expects to be considered up to the times. ie “Amused One," We publish in today’s TPranscripr a correspondence from one who signé himself ‘‘Amused One.’? He profezses to enjoy the tone of disappointment awakened by the downfall of John L. Sullivan, We confess to being astonished rather than amused at the position taken by one who evidently has regard for the morals of the rising generation and ought to have alittle better opinion of the motives of the American press, The press although acknowledging Sullivan’s physical prowess, has never adfession, and John’s reputation and character will compare favorably with the moral status of sloggers generally. our young men may bea general and deplorable evil, but the flashing of them in the faces of individuals on slight provocation, is we-imagine unsubstantiated. But the reeking corruption of sloggers is a living fact and a menacing curse in the nineteenth century. Whatever may be the nauseating outflow from the sporting papers of the country the outspoken sentiments of the TRANscerpr and other local papers here,have ever been pure and elevating and ever in the interest of unadulterated morals, a ce ee! -Tus extraordinary ares ee Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral is the natural result of its use by all classes of people for over forty years, It has proven itself the very best specific for colds coughs, and pulmonary complaints, asics ne Dee Migs SieceLuss nights, made miserable by that terrible cough, Shiloh’s Cure is the rerhedy for you. For sale by Carr Bros. ied ueailaih detected A NawAu injector free witheach bottle of Shiloh’s Catarrh Remedy. Price 60 cents. For sale at Carr bros, ecdbeisieics Siu10Hn’s cure will immediately reWhooping Cough and For bale by Carr Bros. lieve Croup, Bronchitis. NEVADA THEATER. One Pertuamnoe Only. THURSDAY, MARCH 22d. The Monarchs of the World ! HAVERLY’S NEW AMERICAN-KUROPEAN THE ORIGINAL MASTODON MINSTRELS Under the Sole Management of fPAHISENTIRELY NEW AND RECENTLY Re-organized Company includes all you have ever seen and what you have The Greatest Living Acrobats, especially ~ engaged at the enormous salary of $1,000 per week, Together with all the Gieat Minatre] Stars, young ladies have taken pains to have . mired_his_morals-or-the pugilistic_pro~ The carrying of concealed weapons by j Nearly Half « Hundred People in All. . ® The Abbey’s Dramatic Troupe opened at the Leland Opera House last evening to w large and appreciative audience. The company is a double one—the only double company in the world: Two Topsys, two Lawyers, and the most wonderful Eva ever teen years old. She is-very pretty, very talented and a delightful little vocalist, man. The leading characters in the com. pany are rendered with great spirit; the famous Hyer Sisters making two wery remarkablo Topsys. Their splendid voices, made a most pronounced impression, while their piquant actions was extremely captivating. This . profile fun kept thé large audiance in laughing good humor during every act. The two Lawyers, Messrs Smith and Man, ‘‘fill the bill” admirably. They are excellent comedians, Wm. Lannigan gave us an excellent St, Clair; while Irene Lannigan made a. hit as “‘Aunt Ophelia’. The piece is nicely mounted. The plantation songs are rendered admirably by full-voiced colored men, The dogs perform theirpart with entire success. Her name is Genie Fare eee Am Extraordinary Offer te AM Wanting Mumployment, We want live, “energetic, agents in every county in the United States << Canada to sell a patent article of merit, a its a. Flag article ing a large sale paying over 100 cent. feed Hy pod 4 com: pe and on which the agent is protected in the exclusive sale by a deed given for each and every county he may secure from us. With all these advantages to our agents, and the fact that itis an article that can be sold to every houseowner, it might not be necessary to make ‘“‘an extraordinary offer’ te secure good agents at once, but we have concluded to make it to shew, not only our confidence in the merits of our invention, but in its salabili by any eo that will handle it wi onary. Our agents now at work are making from $150 to $300 a month clear, and this fact makes it safe jor ua to make our offer to all who are out of employment. Any agent that will — give our business a thirty day’s ~~ and failto clear at least $100 in this time, above all expenses, can return all age unsold to us and we will refund the money paid for them. No such employer of agents ever dared te make such offers, nor would weif we did not know that we have agents now making more than double this amount, Our large descriptive circulars explain our offer fully, and these we wish to send to everyone. out of employment who will send us three one cent stamps for postage. Sond at once and secure the agency in time for the boom; andyo to work on the terms named in our extraordinary offer, ;atonce, N oe, 614 ‘Smithfield St., a, A Solf-Evident Proposition. The new municipal bill has its opponents and so has the charter thecity ig now governed under; i, but there ia one t ing on whic people agree, and itis that Geo. O. Gaylord’s is the best place to buy groceries. m10-2t When baby was sick, we gave her Castoria, When she was a child, she cried for Castoria, When she became Migs,she olung to Caatoria When she had children, she gave them {Castoria Absolutely Pure, HIS POWDER NEVER VARIES ~—A Marvel of purity, stre: and wholesomeness. 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