March 18, 1871 (4 pages)

_.--. -than.on_wide tracks; the ability to _~ Washington City, yesterday-morning, The Daily Granseript, SATURDAY, MARCH 18, 1871. ——— —_——_— —4 Raliroads and Gauges. _Pie-sexeral widths of xoads.in thie country, says the Missouri Democrat, may be stated at four feet eight inches, five feet six inches, and six feet. The first mentioned may be considered the standard gauge; and any measure bex low four feet may be regarded as “nar row.” The Belgian narrow gauge is three feet six inches; the Norwegian, Swedish and Austrian, two feet six inches, two feet, and nineteen inches respectively. In Sweden, Norway and Queensland, in Australia, the three feet anda half gauge has been found highly satisfactory. i The advocates.of the three widths of roads—or what may be more definitely styled the broad, narrow and medium _ gauges—have their favorite theories, in support of which many plausible argauments are put forth, but they do not touch the superior merit of the narrow gauge for short lines or a mounteinous or newly settled country. This gauge ‘s of special promise for tapping distant places and populating the country. Its advantages are apparently self-recommendatory, and may be thus stated: the reduced cost of construction; the ability te turn shorter curves. utilize it where, in an engineering point of view, a broad gauge would be impracticable ; and also where neither the resources of a region nor its popu~ lation would justify the construction . ot a broad track ; for short roads whiclr could never become trunk lines; and the less quantity of land that would be required than for a broad gauge. The three and a half feet width has recently been adopted on the Toronto, Grey and Bruce roads, Canada. From a repert of the operations of une of th se Jines we extract the following : “The maximum grade is 106 feet,and the sharpest curve 480 feet radius un u 105 grade. The cost of grading was comparatively small, which was obtained by making the ‘road follow its natural contour of the surtace. The engines used on the road weigh frem ten to twenty tons, and will draw a load of a hundred tons besides the cars. The passenger cars are thirty feet long und will seat fitty-seven passengers— the seats being double, as on standard roads, and having a twenty-four inch lorm cars are thirty feet long, weigh 10,500 pounds, with a capacity of ten tons, The box cars are twenty-five feet long and weigh three und onefourth tons. Stock carscarry ten head, ‘The engines cost $8,000 each ; passenser cars $1,600 cach; plattorm 500; box $400. ‘I'he road bed cost less thun $5,000 per mile, The anuual of ‘the road are between filty and sixty per cent, of the receipts.” This exhibits trae economy in railroad construction, and is less than a twentyefifth of the expense of making the English line mentioned, THe RarLRoaD.—The following letter from Engineer Harris, now making the survey of the proposed “Marysville and Nevada railroad appeared in the Morysville Appeal : Camp, Per Hit, Houss, March 14. Mr. A, J. BINNEY—Dear Sir: As you would probably like to know how we are getting on I would say; we shall have our lines as far as this point by night. The route followed has been by Deadman’s Flat, 730 Mill, Clear Creek, striking down through Penn Valley trom the intersection ot the Marysville and the Sacramento ruads, Squirrel Creek, then around the hills to this point. Have succeeded better than anticipated with gra varying to 116 feet to the mile (max. imum). It is a very ecegeligtins thick brush nearly all vie way thus far, and promising 50 for a.week to come. Shall move camp to the vicins . ity of Em Ranch, Thursday, it it does not Tain before, R. L. Harris. a Con, ABE CURRY returned from says the Carson State Register of March 14th, having succeeded in getting an appropriation for paying off the outrerthae Inanmtadoee incurred for mabhi ‘and constractinn of the United Siatds Brkinoh ‘Mint in that city. Sap AFFAIR.—On Monday last, at an early Lour of the morning, Moses Remington, wel] ‘known in Grass Val ley, and formerly engineer in chief at the Allison Ranch mine, skot his wife, at Virginia City, in a fit of jealousy, Hinflicting. a terrible wound, and not succeeding in causing her death, attempted to complete the work, by smothering her with a pillow. “The unfortunate woman lay in a critical condition, says the Grass Valley Union, bat a telegraph dispatch of Wednes~ day says there wasa slight hope entertained at that time of her recovery. DISAPPOINTED AGAIN.— We invested largely in the Mercantile Library Jottery in San Francisco, says the Virginia City Enterprise, being fully con~ vinced at the time that we should draw the coveted prize of $100,000. But we were disappointed. Next came the Nevada lottery, in which we had more tickets than we would like to acknowledge, for fear that some one would call us a “sport,” and only drew a pair of lady’s—pants.After that came the Grass: Valley lottery, and we went for that $20,000 prize “right thar and thes.” But we haven't got it, and are again disappointed. We never bought a ticket yet, Resolved to draw the highest prize, Bat what some other sinner pot Ahead of us—confound his eyes, Busted now are all onr hopes, Just like broken pottery, Or like glass strings, or cobweb ropes, By this tast mean tottery, case THe New HamMpsuireE ELECTION — The Republican ticket has been defeated in New Hatnpshire by a majoris ty of 560 or 600. Last year the Republican majority was about 1,300, and this year there were foar tickets in the field, the other two being the Temperance ticket and the Labor Reform pars ty. This tact, together with the fact that little interest. was taken in the contest, is sufficient to account fer the Republican deteat, without concluding that New Hampshire is a Democratic State. ONE of the oldest and most respected citizens of the Pajaro Valley, Joseph Butterfield, died on Friday last of pneu. monia, aged 76 years. He was a native of Vermont, but since 1852 had resided in that section. New Jensgky.— The claim by the Democrats that New Hampshire has been redeemed to them, is offset. by the regeneration of New Jersey. The town elections in that State-show large Republican gains. THE certificate of iucurporation of the San Lorenzo Valley Railroad Company has been filed at Santa Cruz.— Capital stock $200,000. It is the intention of the ompany to set 100 men to work on the road at once. FaTHER FOLEY was some time ago selected as the San Francisco orator for St. Patrick’s day. An attempt was made in the Committee on Monday night to remove him on account of the difficulty with Bishop Alemany, Lut it was promptly rejected. THE San Francisco Health Office is costing $60,000 per annum The Health Officer gets $200 per month; his Clerk draws $175; Deputy Clerk, $150 ; Messenger, $75 ; Inspectors, $100 per month each. ee CoLoNEL Von Schmidt offers to supply Sau Francisco with 20,000,000 gallons of Lake Tahoe water, per day, cent, interest. A CHINAMAN named Chee Yum, is cn trialin San Francisco for the murder of one ef his countrymen by stabbing, oa the 25th of January. committed suicide by hanging, near Watsonville last week. He leaves a wife and seven children, den. are reported in Arizona, ‘. chief ingredients being dried peas, bas qcal. . wheat in theashes. each ; and four boatmen are paid $75 A COLORED man named John Derrick . JaMEs LAIDLEY, of San Francisco, has been nominated by the President as Assessor of Internal Revenue of the San Francisco District, vice J. H. TilNEW discoveries of rich qaarts mines Ose of the most important inven~ ‘tions brought into use by the Prussian war is the ErbsVv urst, or pea-Sausage, whiel@has ‘more than realized the ex-~ pectations formed in regard to it, and stituting-the Ge 7 It contains a great aimoant—et pewrishment in a very. gmall yolume, and is ca-_ moving the skin and boiling it; or it may be eaten raw, as many Germans prefer to eat all their sausages. It is said to be made from thirteen different kinds of meats and vegetables, the con and tallow, and after being kept for six or seven years it will be found as good as wlien first made. The Erbs Wurst factory on the vutskirts of Berlin employsover 2,000 hands, the whole managed by the Goverpment, no prix vate parties being allowed to engage in the manufacture. The inventor of this condensed food has realized a large fortane, Tlie Sao Joaquin Republican says the manner in which they prepare the ground for seeding and the method ‘adopted for harvesting tn the grain—on the tule lands down on the San Joas quin river, is both novel and economiThe farmer plows the ground with fire. He sets the tall tules on fire and after they have burned down to the surface of the soil he sows his Next comes the Tarrowing in of the seed?” This ts doné in two ways: Oue method is to herd a flock of sheep over the ground seeded until the ashes.are trampled down solid ; the other plan is to fasten a kind of broad shoe, something like snow shoes, tothe feet of a band of horses and drive them about until the ashes are sufficiently firm, then the grain is sowed and the farmer awaits the hars vest. . Two hundrél and thirty-two officers and 25,490 men among the French prisoners of war-now held in Germany were born in Alsace and speak the German language. The population of Als sace and Lerraine,numbering 1,300,000,7 constitutes but the thirtieth part of the total of France, and yet the Frénch military prisoners of that origin consti~ tute a fourteenth of the whole count. In Jackson county, West Virginia, there is a spring strongly impregnated with arsenic. For some years past its owner has been compelled to keep a fence around it to prevent his cattle from drinking the water and thereby poison‘ng themselves. Notwithstanding the efiorts made by the Italian Government to abate brigandage in the neighborhood of Naples, that nuisance still maintains some show of existence. An engagement occurred a few days since between a company of which the chief of the brigands wounded, one of the gang killed, and two unfortunate captives weré rescued A kind-hearted ussian Landwehr ‘immense Christmas tree for the poor children of the neighborhood in which fie was quartered. He tells, in a letter toa friend, how delighted the young ones were, ond asks, is this what Gambetta calls the deathsrattle of the provs inces under the paws of the Prussians? THE PILLINER SKATE —Pilliner, a photographist in Grass Valley, has ob. tained a caveat for his newly invented skate, which secures his right for one year previous to the issuing of a patent. The Union says he will have the article manufactured for’ use ina short time. Kate FIgxp has been gettin self into. trouble in Chicos: ier livered her lecture on Charles Dickens there the other night, and just after reading Dickens’ description of a desolate place as “a place without children and dogs,” a child cried in the audience and Kate, ina decidedly baritone voice desired to have “that person removed.” For this, and other reasons, the Chicas xoans think that Catharine had bettes leave Dicketis alone, stick to the Adiroudacks, and not overdress herself as much as she does, Ro ee ae Satoae Hust be added is the best liked of all the artides ton=T m-Sist oo. 2o these must “e Opes valved atepyerly £15,000. A). ‘pable of being increased in bulk by re={ “Alsace and Lorfaine, whieh Will Give it Busts of Barope, except Russia. ‘sorrow upon the scene ot perhaps ths troops on the monntains of Platania, in. . THE diamond shipments from South Africa during the last two years have been as follows: Shipped during 1869, 141 diamonds, valued at £7405 ; during 1830, 5,601 *dianteids, . valued. SFSear of South Africa,” and some ES te others sent by privatemeans to Eu large number ef the-Cape diamonds now in Londen are of an interior description ; and none of them are equal to the old Galconda genis. oe “ Myss MIDDLEBook, a young Mary land girl, raised last year over 5,600 cabbages, and, us the papers of that State mention with pride, she weighs only 123 pounds. Christas Eve she sold in Baltimore over 508 pounds of turkey, of her own raising, at twenty cents per pound, and since the 15th day of October last has knitted over three dozen pairs of socks. THE AGE oF THE Big TREES.—Professor Agassiz made a speech dt an ag~ ricultural meeting in Boston a few weeks since, on the great trees of Celis fornia, in which. he stated that from [ ‘An exaurination of the -seetion of thetree then on exhibition in Boston, he was salisfied that it was1,810 years old, as ® was clear that a distinct layer grew each year. : i THE new German Empire is to have a population of 38509-6683, exclusive of 1,638,546 more, or a total of 40,148,209. . This is the largest population of any Garibaldi has made application for between eighty and ninety crosses of the Legion of Honor, wherewith to reward the exploits of his followers. The number is thought to be large in proportion to the services rendered. ® Ir is said that the family of the late President Sparks, at Cambridge, are prepared to receive offers for his fine library. The manuscripts, of which several are exceedingly valuable, may be included at the publisher's option. One volume is expressly reserved. It contains twenty-six autographs of Washington, Franklin, Lafayette and others, which have an intrinsic interest apart from the celebrity of the writers. ALL signs of wreck and ruin at New Hamburg have disappeared, and only new work is noticeable there. The cars pass over the bridge at very slew speed, und passengers gaze with wonder and most terrible railroad disaster ever occurred. It is not often that fire and water, cold and ice, combine to inflict 4 much injury. a THEY certainly adopt origigal and efficacious means tor bese as houses of ill-repute in Iowa,~Lately, two or three females were arrested tor keeping such establishuients in Warsaw, and were aequitted. . The owner of the property that they occupied was then arrested atid fined $20 tor keeping a house fillefame. Were the same plan adopted here, it might be found to work well. ee THERE were eight deaths in Sacra~ mento last week. = ne cataiiiemmenindicieentarteee cont rae BORN. In this city, March 17th wife of Tas Mout: a oe At Grass Valley, March 15 the wife of John é. Saeuas ca aac’ ae In East Bear River To ip, Marc 1871, to the wife of Charles Ts a me a NEW ART GALLERY. {4 VERYBODY IS INVITED T the New and Spacious Gallery of =_— BEARDEN & JOHNSON. On Broad Street, opp. Stumpf’s Hetel, And see their specimens of A surpassed by any on the ue” mae ee rt ta" Persons wishing Pictures style, made in any State, to one thea pas satisfaction guaranteed to all. OLD PICTURES copied and ! colered in Oil; "OLGFS ce indie ow the best Artist the State affords. wine of every description made at short Rooms open from 8 A. M.,to5 P.M BEARDEN & JOHN Nevada, Dee. 26th. nw Notice to Scrip Holders, LL WARRANTS draw A Fund of Seman yt om the General Bite da interest om same = and registered prior to March the 1st, 4 with be tation, And ng Ton JULIUS GREENWALD. ‘Treasurer. Woveds, March ori ae 7. Teun, Depoay, AUCTION SALE ! kr LADIES ATTENTION! _g3 ——— Great Sale of Millinery Goods, — ' Hats. Bonnets, Trimmings, etc, : , at Publie Auction, at the ] store on COMMERCIAL STREET, junction of Main, ou Saturday Afternooa, at 2 o’clock, A Large and elegant Stock of LADIES’ HATS, BONNETS, CHILDRENS’ HATS, FRAMES. A magnificent stock of MILLINERY GOODS, of late importien* together with ALL THE FIXTURES connected with the Store. Ladies are particularly invited to attend thie Grand Sale as the Goods are the finest lot ever brought to this city. The Goods will be delivered immediately afterthe sale, Terms Cash. Don’t fail to attend this Sale, W, H. DAVIDSON, Auctioneer. Nevada, March 16th. r WILL SEL Fresh Bread, Hot Every Morning At 6 o’eloek. At the LAFAYETTE BAKERY, BROAD STREET, * Opposite Sinmmpfs Hotet. Gets icidh USTOMERS will be supplied Every MornCc ing in any part of the er ‘All kinds O1 tue finest CARBS, such a Lady Fingers, Maccaronies, Cream Cakes, Honey Cakes. Coffee and ‘lea Cakes, delly Rolis, cou— stantly ou band. All ti.ese Cakes are made in the best style, highly flavored and not excelled by any establishment in the State. Also on hand, a large assortmeut of CANors Everything soid at the lowest prices, Give me acal. WW. KOHLER. Nevada, March 15th. ST. PATRICK’S FESIIVAL! GRAND FESTIVAL will be given in N&VADA CIry, AT TEMPERANCE HALL On Monday Evening, April 10th. For the purpose of Raising Funds to pay off the Debt on the Church Building. Tickets Three Dollars, Nevada, March 7th. be THE CREAT SALE! Immense Reduction in Prices! cee DON’T HESITATE For Now is the accepted time! COLDSMITH, The Chief in the Dry Goods Line! What do you think ? A GOLDSMITH 1S NOW OFFER» ING HIS LARGE STOCK OF GOUDS at UNCOMMUN LOW RATES, for the purcep of reducing his stoek, beiore moving to 8 new Store, in Kidd’s Building, next dooz oa. Clothing Store. offers for Merrimac and Sprague’s best Calicos, the New Spring Style. 10 yards for $1. Best Brown and Bleaehed Miustin ONE BIT A YARD. Sheetings sold at very Low Rates Everything in the Store will be . sold Lower than ever before. A. GULDSMITH, m6 Corner Broad & Pine Streets. ‘Builders Attention. N'TRACT TO LET TO B A HALL, CvFen THE MASONS AND ORD FEL. . Sealed Preporais will be received to MARCH THE th. ivi. to bard a Hall, at MOORE'S FLA’, for the above Orders : e Drug Store of P & PALRCHILD baie sity, also at WILLIAM. Db. Wa ERS BERG'S, Moore’e Fit” _ : be addressed to Chas. AlProposals to lenberg and W. D, » Moore's t'lat, Nevada county. ‘I'he proposals will be opened on the 25th of March. The Committees reserve Whe right to reject anv and ; CHAS. ALL ENBERG, 4 W.D. LONG, ° the Committees. P For DIES, or My Gwn manutacture,and—guaran-— -teed-to-contain no poisonous. eX Lracts-or eul—-. specifications can nee at any Gime, at . ‘The Bail a NEV LOCA -gchool Electi: ' The Trastees District have c: place to. be held ext, to decide that pl ce will sum of $1.000 . te school tor t during the n polls will be 0] and closed at schools at Tru the county. \ last Summer, & es were well ad efficient. The a lively intere schools, and wi vor of the ta them. Discharged. The case of brought before writ of habeas that that the-G sider his case, that no good « County Court cischarged. J M.S. Deal app and J. 1. Cald opposed his~d tue evidence Reardan wad the prisoner fr Plane Manu Wn. Camp! -B-vad-street,the manufactu plane of the v: penters. The 1s of smoothly the upper par any, making tool. Mr. Cat the manufactt Valley Sewin Matinee. This aftern for ladies,’ chi The rink is : Nevada, and . caught the sk children sho this afternoon Auction thi ~W.H. Das a fine lot of x nets, trimmi: store fixtures the junction . streets this Ladies are ps tend the sale .-G@odey’s, Spencer & Godey’s Lad taining a lar reading mat and descripti Spencer and er late perio A New Gu: Z. P. Davi ished a nea’ loading shot ferce and pr It is just th an excarsio Mining L T. Dugan feet on the . the west sic east of the ley Turnpi township. ASSAULT man name before Justi Valley Uni with a dea of Joe~Dod ' Tuesday ni the old At alleged, fir loaded wit] Te Aps tions of A friendly, a1 from Indiga

_.--. -than.on_wide tracks; the ability to _~ Washington City, yesterday-morning, The Daily Granseript, SATURDAY, MARCH 18, 1871. ——— —_——_— —4 Raliroads and Gauges. _Pie-sexeral widths of xoads.in thie country, says the Missouri Democrat, may be stated at four feet eight inches, five feet six inches, and six feet. The first mentioned may be considered the standard gauge; and any measure bex low four feet may be regarded as “nar row.” The Belgian narrow gauge is three feet six inches; the Norwegian, Swedish and Austrian, two feet six inches, two feet, and nineteen inches respectively. In Sweden, Norway and Queensland, in Australia, the three feet anda half gauge has been found highly satisfactory. i The advocates.of the three widths of roads—or what may be more definitely styled the broad, narrow and medium _ gauges—have their favorite theories, in support of which many plausible argauments are put forth, but they do not touch the superior merit of the narrow gauge for short lines or a mounteinous or newly settled country. This gauge ‘s of special promise for tapping distant places and populating the country. Its advantages are apparently self-recommendatory, and may be thus stated: the reduced cost of construction; the ability te turn shorter curves. utilize it where, in an engineering point of view, a broad gauge would be impracticable ; and also where neither the resources of a region nor its popu~ lation would justify the construction . ot a broad track ; for short roads whiclr could never become trunk lines; and the less quantity of land that would be required than for a broad gauge. The three and a half feet width has recently been adopted on the Toronto, Grey and Bruce roads, Canada. From a repert of the operations of une of th se Jines we extract the following : “The maximum grade is 106 feet,and the sharpest curve 480 feet radius un u 105 grade. The cost of grading was comparatively small, which was obtained by making the ‘road follow its natural contour of the surtace. The engines used on the road weigh frem ten to twenty tons, and will draw a load of a hundred tons besides the cars. The passenger cars are thirty feet long und will seat fitty-seven passengers— the seats being double, as on standard roads, and having a twenty-four inch lorm cars are thirty feet long, weigh 10,500 pounds, with a capacity of ten tons, The box cars are twenty-five feet long and weigh three und onefourth tons. Stock carscarry ten head, ‘The engines cost $8,000 each ; passenser cars $1,600 cach; plattorm 500; box $400. ‘I'he road bed cost less thun $5,000 per mile, The anuual of ‘the road are between filty and sixty per cent, of the receipts.” This exhibits trae economy in railroad construction, and is less than a twentyefifth of the expense of making the English line mentioned, THe RarLRoaD.—The following letter from Engineer Harris, now making the survey of the proposed “Marysville and Nevada railroad appeared in the Morysville Appeal : Camp, Per Hit, Houss, March 14. Mr. A, J. BINNEY—Dear Sir: As you would probably like to know how we are getting on I would say; we shall have our lines as far as this point by night. The route followed has been by Deadman’s Flat, 730 Mill, Clear Creek, striking down through Penn Valley trom the intersection ot the Marysville and the Sacramento ruads, Squirrel Creek, then around the hills to this point. Have succeeded better than anticipated with gra varying to 116 feet to the mile (max. imum). It is a very ecegeligtins thick brush nearly all vie way thus far, and promising 50 for a.week to come. Shall move camp to the vicins . ity of Em Ranch, Thursday, it it does not Tain before, R. L. Harris. a Con, ABE CURRY returned from says the Carson State Register of March 14th, having succeeded in getting an appropriation for paying off the outrerthae Inanmtadoee incurred for mabhi ‘and constractinn of the United Siatds Brkinoh ‘Mint in that city. Sap AFFAIR.—On Monday last, at an early Lour of the morning, Moses Remington, wel] ‘known in Grass Val ley, and formerly engineer in chief at the Allison Ranch mine, skot his wife, at Virginia City, in a fit of jealousy, Hinflicting. a terrible wound, and not succeeding in causing her death, attempted to complete the work, by smothering her with a pillow. “The unfortunate woman lay in a critical condition, says the Grass Valley Union, bat a telegraph dispatch of Wednes~ day says there wasa slight hope entertained at that time of her recovery. DISAPPOINTED AGAIN.— We invested largely in the Mercantile Library Jottery in San Francisco, says the Virginia City Enterprise, being fully con~ vinced at the time that we should draw the coveted prize of $100,000. But we were disappointed. Next came the Nevada lottery, in which we had more tickets than we would like to acknowledge, for fear that some one would call us a “sport,” and only drew a pair of lady’s—pants.After that came the Grass: Valley lottery, and we went for that $20,000 prize “right thar and thes.” But we haven't got it, and are again disappointed. We never bought a ticket yet, Resolved to draw the highest prize, Bat what some other sinner pot Ahead of us—confound his eyes, Busted now are all onr hopes, Just like broken pottery, Or like glass strings, or cobweb ropes, By this tast mean tottery, case THe New HamMpsuireE ELECTION — The Republican ticket has been defeated in New Hatnpshire by a majoris ty of 560 or 600. Last year the Republican majority was about 1,300, and this year there were foar tickets in the field, the other two being the Temperance ticket and the Labor Reform pars ty. This tact, together with the fact that little interest. was taken in the contest, is sufficient to account fer the Republican deteat, without concluding that New Hampshire is a Democratic State. ONE of the oldest and most respected citizens of the Pajaro Valley, Joseph Butterfield, died on Friday last of pneu. monia, aged 76 years. He was a native of Vermont, but since 1852 had resided in that section. New Jensgky.— The claim by the Democrats that New Hampshire has been redeemed to them, is offset. by the regeneration of New Jersey. The town elections in that State-show large Republican gains. THE certificate of iucurporation of the San Lorenzo Valley Railroad Company has been filed at Santa Cruz.— Capital stock $200,000. It is the intention of the ompany to set 100 men to work on the road at once. FaTHER FOLEY was some time ago selected as the San Francisco orator for St. Patrick’s day. An attempt was made in the Committee on Monday night to remove him on account of the difficulty with Bishop Alemany, Lut it was promptly rejected. THE San Francisco Health Office is costing $60,000 per annum The Health Officer gets $200 per month; his Clerk draws $175; Deputy Clerk, $150 ; Messenger, $75 ; Inspectors, $100 per month each. ee CoLoNEL Von Schmidt offers to supply Sau Francisco with 20,000,000 gallons of Lake Tahoe water, per day, cent, interest. A CHINAMAN named Chee Yum, is cn trialin San Francisco for the murder of one ef his countrymen by stabbing, oa the 25th of January. committed suicide by hanging, near Watsonville last week. He leaves a wife and seven children, den. are reported in Arizona, ‘. chief ingredients being dried peas, bas qcal. . wheat in theashes. each ; and four boatmen are paid $75 A COLORED man named John Derrick . JaMEs LAIDLEY, of San Francisco, has been nominated by the President as Assessor of Internal Revenue of the San Francisco District, vice J. H. TilNEW discoveries of rich qaarts mines Ose of the most important inven~ ‘tions brought into use by the Prussian war is the ErbsVv urst, or pea-Sausage, whiel@has ‘more than realized the ex-~ pectations formed in regard to it, and stituting-the Ge 7 It contains a great aimoant—et pewrishment in a very. gmall yolume, and is ca-_ moving the skin and boiling it; or it may be eaten raw, as many Germans prefer to eat all their sausages. It is said to be made from thirteen different kinds of meats and vegetables, the con and tallow, and after being kept for six or seven years it will be found as good as wlien first made. The Erbs Wurst factory on the vutskirts of Berlin employsover 2,000 hands, the whole managed by the Goverpment, no prix vate parties being allowed to engage in the manufacture. The inventor of this condensed food has realized a large fortane, Tlie Sao Joaquin Republican says the manner in which they prepare the ground for seeding and the method ‘adopted for harvesting tn the grain—on the tule lands down on the San Joas quin river, is both novel and economiThe farmer plows the ground with fire. He sets the tall tules on fire and after they have burned down to the surface of the soil he sows his Next comes the Tarrowing in of the seed?” This ts doné in two ways: Oue method is to herd a flock of sheep over the ground seeded until the ashes.are trampled down solid ; the other plan is to fasten a kind of broad shoe, something like snow shoes, tothe feet of a band of horses and drive them about until the ashes are sufficiently firm, then the grain is sowed and the farmer awaits the hars vest. . Two hundrél and thirty-two officers and 25,490 men among the French prisoners of war-now held in Germany were born in Alsace and speak the German language. The population of Als sace and Lerraine,numbering 1,300,000,7 constitutes but the thirtieth part of the total of France, and yet the Frénch military prisoners of that origin consti~ tute a fourteenth of the whole count. In Jackson county, West Virginia, there is a spring strongly impregnated with arsenic. For some years past its owner has been compelled to keep a fence around it to prevent his cattle from drinking the water and thereby poison‘ng themselves. Notwithstanding the efiorts made by the Italian Government to abate brigandage in the neighborhood of Naples, that nuisance still maintains some show of existence. An engagement occurred a few days since between a company of which the chief of the brigands wounded, one of the gang killed, and two unfortunate captives weré rescued A kind-hearted ussian Landwehr ‘immense Christmas tree for the poor children of the neighborhood in which fie was quartered. He tells, in a letter toa friend, how delighted the young ones were, ond asks, is this what Gambetta calls the deathsrattle of the provs inces under the paws of the Prussians? THE PILLINER SKATE —Pilliner, a photographist in Grass Valley, has ob. tained a caveat for his newly invented skate, which secures his right for one year previous to the issuing of a patent. The Union says he will have the article manufactured for’ use ina short time. Kate FIgxp has been gettin self into. trouble in Chicos: ier livered her lecture on Charles Dickens there the other night, and just after reading Dickens’ description of a desolate place as “a place without children and dogs,” a child cried in the audience and Kate, ina decidedly baritone voice desired to have “that person removed.” For this, and other reasons, the Chicas xoans think that Catharine had bettes leave Dicketis alone, stick to the Adiroudacks, and not overdress herself as much as she does, Ro ee ae Satoae Hust be added is the best liked of all the artides ton=T m-Sist oo. 2o these must “e Opes valved atepyerly £15,000. A). ‘pable of being increased in bulk by re={ “Alsace and Lorfaine, whieh Will Give it Busts of Barope, except Russia. ‘sorrow upon the scene ot perhaps ths troops on the monntains of Platania, in. . THE diamond shipments from South Africa during the last two years have been as follows: Shipped during 1869, 141 diamonds, valued at £7405 ;

during 1830, 5,601 *dianteids, . valued. SFSear of South Africa,” and some ES te others sent by privatemeans to Eu large number ef the-Cape diamonds now in Londen are of an interior description ; and none of them are equal to the old Galconda genis. oe “ Myss MIDDLEBook, a young Mary land girl, raised last year over 5,600 cabbages, and, us the papers of that State mention with pride, she weighs only 123 pounds. Christas Eve she sold in Baltimore over 508 pounds of turkey, of her own raising, at twenty cents per pound, and since the 15th day of October last has knitted over three dozen pairs of socks. THE AGE oF THE Big TREES.—Professor Agassiz made a speech dt an ag~ ricultural meeting in Boston a few weeks since, on the great trees of Celis fornia, in which. he stated that from [ ‘An exaurination of the -seetion of thetree then on exhibition in Boston, he was salisfied that it was1,810 years old, as ® was clear that a distinct layer grew each year. : i THE new German Empire is to have a population of 38509-6683, exclusive of 1,638,546 more, or a total of 40,148,209. . This is the largest population of any Garibaldi has made application for between eighty and ninety crosses of the Legion of Honor, wherewith to reward the exploits of his followers. The number is thought to be large in proportion to the services rendered. ® Ir is said that the family of the late President Sparks, at Cambridge, are prepared to receive offers for his fine library. The manuscripts, of which several are exceedingly valuable, may be included at the publisher's option. One volume is expressly reserved. It contains twenty-six autographs of Washington, Franklin, Lafayette and others, which have an intrinsic interest apart from the celebrity of the writers. ALL signs of wreck and ruin at New Hamburg have disappeared, and only new work is noticeable there. The cars pass over the bridge at very slew speed, und passengers gaze with wonder and most terrible railroad disaster ever occurred. It is not often that fire and water, cold and ice, combine to inflict 4 much injury. a THEY certainly adopt origigal and efficacious means tor bese as houses of ill-repute in Iowa,~Lately, two or three females were arrested tor keeping such establishuients in Warsaw, and were aequitted. . The owner of the property that they occupied was then arrested atid fined $20 tor keeping a house fillefame. Were the same plan adopted here, it might be found to work well. ee THERE were eight deaths in Sacra~ mento last week. = ne cataiiiemmenindicieentarteee cont rae BORN. In this city, March 17th wife of Tas Mout: a oe At Grass Valley, March 15 the wife of John é. Saeuas ca aac’ ae In East Bear River To ip, Marc 1871, to the wife of Charles Ts a me a NEW ART GALLERY. {4 VERYBODY IS INVITED T the New and Spacious Gallery of =_— BEARDEN & JOHNSON. On Broad Street, opp. Stumpf’s Hetel, And see their specimens of A surpassed by any on the ue” mae ee rt ta" Persons wishing Pictures style, made in any State, to one thea pas satisfaction guaranteed to all. OLD PICTURES copied and ! colered in Oil; "OLGFS ce indie ow the best Artist the State affords. wine of every description made at short Rooms open from 8 A. M.,to5 P.M BEARDEN & JOHN Nevada, Dee. 26th. nw Notice to Scrip Holders, LL WARRANTS draw A Fund of Seman yt om the General Bite da interest om same = and registered prior to March the 1st, 4 with be tation, And ng Ton JULIUS GREENWALD. ‘Treasurer. Woveds, March ori ae 7. Teun, Depoay, AUCTION SALE ! kr LADIES ATTENTION! _g3 ——— Great Sale of Millinery Goods, — ' Hats. Bonnets, Trimmings, etc, : , at Publie Auction, at the ] store on COMMERCIAL STREET, junction of Main, ou Saturday Afternooa, at 2 o’clock, A Large and elegant Stock of LADIES’ HATS, BONNETS, CHILDRENS’ HATS, FRAMES. A magnificent stock of MILLINERY GOODS, of late importien* together with ALL THE FIXTURES connected with the Store. Ladies are particularly invited to attend thie Grand Sale as the Goods are the finest lot ever brought to this city. The Goods will be delivered immediately afterthe sale, Terms Cash. Don’t fail to attend this Sale, W, H. DAVIDSON, Auctioneer. Nevada, March 16th. r WILL SEL Fresh Bread, Hot Every Morning At 6 o’eloek. At the LAFAYETTE BAKERY, BROAD STREET, * Opposite Sinmmpfs Hotet. Gets icidh USTOMERS will be supplied Every MornCc ing in any part of the er ‘All kinds O1 tue finest CARBS, such a Lady Fingers, Maccaronies, Cream Cakes, Honey Cakes. Coffee and ‘lea Cakes, delly Rolis, cou— stantly ou band. All ti.ese Cakes are made in the best style, highly flavored and not excelled by any establishment in the State. Also on hand, a large assortmeut of CANors Everything soid at the lowest prices, Give me acal. WW. KOHLER. Nevada, March 15th. ST. PATRICK’S FESIIVAL! GRAND FESTIVAL will be given in N&VADA CIry, AT TEMPERANCE HALL On Monday Evening, April 10th. For the purpose of Raising Funds to pay off the Debt on the Church Building. Tickets Three Dollars, Nevada, March 7th. be THE CREAT SALE! Immense Reduction in Prices! cee DON’T HESITATE For Now is the accepted time! COLDSMITH, The Chief in the Dry Goods Line! What do you think ? A GOLDSMITH 1S NOW OFFER» ING HIS LARGE STOCK OF GOUDS at UNCOMMUN LOW RATES, for the purcep of reducing his stoek, beiore moving to 8 new Store, in Kidd’s Building, next dooz oa. Clothing Store. offers for Merrimac and Sprague’s best Calicos, the New Spring Style. 10 yards for $1. Best Brown and Bleaehed Miustin ONE BIT A YARD. Sheetings sold at very Low Rates Everything in the Store will be . sold Lower than ever before. A. GULDSMITH, m6 Corner Broad & Pine Streets. ‘Builders Attention.. N'TRACT TO LET TO B A HALL, CvFen THE MASONS AND ORD FEL. . Sealed Preporais will be received to MARCH THE th. ivi. to bard a Hall, at MOORE'S FLA’, for the above Orders : e Drug Store of P & PALRCHILD baie sity, also at WILLIAM. Db. Wa ERS BERG'S, Moore’e Fit” _ : be addressed to Chas. AlProposals to lenberg and W. D, » Moore's t'lat, Nevada county. ‘I'he proposals will be opened on the 25th of March. The Committees reserve Whe right to reject anv and ; CHAS. ALL ENBERG, 4 W.D. LONG, ° the Committees. P For DIES, or My Gwn manutacture,and—guaran-— -teed-to-contain no poisonous. eX Lracts-or eul—-. specifications can nee at any Gime, at . ‘The Bail a NEV LOCA -gchool Electi: ' The Trastees District have c: place to. be held ext, to decide that pl ce will sum of $1.000 . te school tor t during the n polls will be 0] and closed at schools at Tru the county. \ last Summer, & es were well ad efficient. The a lively intere schools, and wi vor of the ta them. Discharged. The case of brought before writ of habeas that that the-G sider his case, that no good « County Court cischarged. J M.S. Deal app and J. 1. Cald opposed his~d tue evidence Reardan wad the prisoner fr Plane Manu Wn. Camp! -B-vad-street,the manufactu plane of the v: penters. The 1s of smoothly the upper par any, making tool. Mr. Cat the manufactt Valley Sewin Matinee. This aftern for ladies,’ chi The rink is : Nevada, and . caught the sk children sho this afternoon Auction thi ~W.H. Das a fine lot of x nets, trimmi: store fixtures the junction . streets this Ladies are ps tend the sale .-G@odey’s, Spencer & Godey’s Lad taining a lar reading mat and descripti Spencer and er late perio A New Gu: Z. P. Davi ished a nea’ loading shot ferce and pr It is just th an excarsio Mining L T. Dugan feet on the . the west sic east of the ley Turnpi township. ASSAULT man name before Justi Valley Uni with a dea of Joe~Dod ' Tuesday ni the old At alleged, fir loaded wit] Te Aps tions of A friendly, a1 from Indiga