March 26, 1881 (4 pages)

fe S The Daily Teanseript, o —VIV07TErer ’ couched as to a NEVADA GITY, CALIFORNIA. . “Saterday, March 26, 1881. cae a «amma Whitek iy Right? . a4 * The Union, Free Lance, Herald ‘and Transcripr each contained an account of the shooting of a Chinaman-by Fax Collector Wheeler, and. the four stories differ almost enough . to Warvdut “the inference that they. refer to. as. many diflerent fracases. Now the. TRaANscRIPT’s ‘was derived straight from the authorities. The Free Lance, says -its was from Mr. Wheeler. The two other papers give no authority; but doubtless got, their information from what. they, : : reliable sources, — supposed ‘to be" reliable Worse than all, a wandering account of it was telegraphed tothe San Francisco_ papers, and “it was 80 lead the Daily Report "to comment in the followfhg strain: ‘That is rather gauzy story from Grass Valley about how a poll tax collector went into aChinese Gabin and while conversing with the inmates “‘took.out his pistol and laid it On his’ assessor’s book” and was ‘immediately attacked by the Chinese and roughly handled; The Chinese will, of course, gét the worst of the subsequent legal proceedings; . : but we have-seen ‘the brutality and injustice’ with which Chinese are treated by: petty officials and we think it -probable the GrassValley Collector with the pistol got-no more than he deserved, , If the Stock Report man knew Mr. ‘Wheeler ‘as -well as his neighbors . do, it would not thihk of making such an acctisation against him. He -is nota big. double-fisted and badeyed mountaineer’ who. had rather cut and shoot than to eat, as the Bee-once—intifnated—that-the-aver= age mining county man was, but as mild-mannered and ‘gentlemanly an individual as ever graced a metropolitan drawing room. Perhaps Not. Of the fearful beating that James ‘White gave old man Hamilton, the Free Lance says: ‘The case: can not amount to muchsinee Judge Robinson required . only $500 bail fot White to appear and answer to the charges.” According to the dis— patches sent to the Chronicle and _ to the Associated Press papers, it did amount toa great deal; but, judging from the fact that the charge has been reduced from assault with a deadly weapon to one of bat_ ‘tery, the Courtdoes not see it inthat —. light. White should “interview” the Nevada City correspondents of —the Associated Press and the Chronicle. We believe he has had some experience at inquiring ‘‘who wrote . that article,” and that he did not Succeed very well in accomplishMining Around Dutch Flat. The mining prospects in those portions of Nevada.and Placer county . lying-adjacent‘to Dutch Flat are excellent, as we learn from the following fecord of operations published in the Times: : . The Little York, You Bet, Lowell Hill, Dutch Fiat and Gold Run ‘hydraulic niines are nearly all manned and work is being. pushed with the prospect of a good, long season's git Se 4 At Dutch Flat the Polar Star hydraulic mine works a crew of 65 men, and, we understand, the same company contemplate soon to commencé work in their otiter hydraulic claim—the Southern Cross—with a good force of men. The Baker is being worked by a full setof hands, and -also night shift. = 2 ings in the Dutch Flat “canyon, work, J. H. Laleamp has a lot of men at locality. Cedar Creek Company. der’s and others, are all being work-. . ed_te-advantage; — gate his flomes, expects to realize handsomely’ dur. i pass the one undercurrent belonging to the company, All the drift mines at Lowell. Hill, Steep Hollow and Remington Hill are being worked with better and more promising results than ever before, taking the whole lot on an average, : A. Larson has commenced. work extending the tunnel in the Shady Glen mine, at-Alta. He proposes cutting the tunnel much deeper this season, and will drift some also, The quartz section of the Euchre 5 “ing what he set out to.* Next ‘time oo —he may have better luck though, and . a telegraphi¢ correspondent is a good subject to practice on, ee ee ei & Good Opening. —— ee That Broad street three year-old who decorated the exterior of his father’s house by applying mud with a broom, as related in the TranSCRIPT, is being immortalized by the press of the Coast. The latest is . from the San Francisco Daily Ex. change: . Ai Nevada City boasts of an ‘embryo artist. Send him down here and we will cast him into the vortex of ar: -tistic society;’home decorators, grainers, and house and fence painters. ~Then we'll send him on to Europe and pay a correspondent _ to write puffs of his progress, When he returns to this city, after’ studying with the best artists, he can starve with the rest of the boys, Meavy Stamps. . Thos. I, Sargent, writing to the London Mining Journal, expresses the opinion that in most instances ‘the stamps used on. auriferous quartz ‘are altogether too heavy; so heavy ‘that much of the gold is beaten out diuto lamina so thin that they are ‘oated away by the water, which . he thinks is also used to excess, Thus Mp, Sargent kindly furnishes “another excuse for the non: profitableaess of barren ledges, Tus editor of the Shasta county ‘Demovrat received a poetical cgntribution lately which he praised very highly. It tarus out that the letters of the first lines read: “The editor ofthe Democrat-is « jackass,” And thas is the innocent and confiding editor betrayed to hisuudoing. Gay. Gnawr gives his opinions very freely upon all the leading /thoroughly prospected this Spring. are still in the town jail, awaiting an Barand Hambug canyonis being very . A large number of claims have been located on the ledge, and more are Staked off by new parties who have been attracted that way by .the favorable-showing and--reports already obtained, A large amount of : work will be done and considerable money expended in that section this season, in the way of developing the many claims that have been and are being’ taken, In fact, past developments go to: prove that this will be one of the most important quartz mining sections in Placer county in a very short time. : af Weare informed that the Poole Company propose making an addition to their quartz: mill of five stamps, making the mill, after the addition, a ten-stamp instead of a five-stamp as at present. “The pres— ent mill was put up to experiment with, but now no more doubts are ent:rtained as to the paying quality of the ore, : Take it all ia ‘all the, mining outlook ‘for this section Was bever more promising than at the present time: The Belligerent Chinaman, The Union says: The four Chinamen who were arrested for assaulting Deputy Assessor Fred, Wheeler, with a deadly weapon, down on Bear. River the other day, because of his demand upen them for poll taxes, eXamination of the charge against them, which will take place before’ Davis Saturday. The defendants have retained O. Taylor in ‘their -behalf, and A, Burrows will act as deputy District Attorney to prosecute on Boards—of officers, “Courts-marSeveral men are at work for the. tial and Courts of inquiry, —-they same company washing gut the taik-. shall only-be entitled to the’ rank q A. which belongs »to the office the night shift is also employed in this . duties of which they are detailed’ to ‘ perform. ~ When the duty ends, -or the detail is canceled, the officer work in his claim, but-it is not so] shall again return to the retired list, extensive as any. of theothers in that . with his former retired rank.” . Regimental adjutant is .raised from The undercurrents in Beal's. can-. the rank‘of First Lieutenant té. that yon, owned by. Mr, Beal, of ‘ San-. .of Captain; the regimental —-eclor Jose, -are doing good service in catchguard is to be appointed by the Coling and retaining the fine gold being'. onel, and will be as one of his staf. washed through the canyon by the . Target practice is changed from May to‘September 9th (Admission, Day). The Gotd Run and.Miner’s Ditch . Heretofore, a mem ber of the NationCompany’s Claims, at Gold Run, is . al Guard absenting himself from being worked by several men, as .is, . three consecutive assemblages withalso, the New Gold Run claim, at . Out reasonable excuse, was liable -to the same place. There are other im. . be dishonorably discharged, but un-' portant claims in.the ‘same vicinity . der the new law, if he absents himof which Col. Moody’s, W. H. Kin—. self fromthree—consecutive assem~pandined, —Fherank of the Assistant C, H. Carr, who has a lot of flumes . Adjutant General is raised from that and undercurrents in Squire’s can . Of Major to Colonel on the staff of yon, has several men at. work over . the Governor and Commander-inhauling and re-washing the ‘large Chief. Et also allows the Adjutant deposit of tailings along the line of . General-to have prepared and printed for the use of the Nation‘al Guard VY. Curran has two well arranged . Of the State, the military laws of the sets of undercurrents at the dump State—not'to exceed three thousand end of the Polar Star tunnel which . copies in any one year; he may. sell he is kept busy in attending to. He . the same to any person desiring copiug the season’s run of Polar Star, . him is to gointo the General Fund by catching the fine gold that will. ¢f the State Treasury, A Hard Customer on the Rampage. dark a big Spaniard who until a few days ago worked at the Charonnat mine, since which time he has been hanging around the city.and acting as though half-crazed, created quite an. excitement, ening to kill the daughter of Mrs. Maloney, propriettess of the restaurant on Commercial street where he boarded, and in pursuance of the threat drew-a razor-andgave chase (to her. He fired off a pistol in Silver’s saloon on Broad street, the bul_let passing through a wooden partition, The weapon was taken away from him. ed to the restaurant on Commercial street, where Constable Rogers arrested him. The prisoner fought desperately after he got on the street and it ‘required half a dozen other men, includixg three or four officers, to get him to Jail. in a cell and chained to the bed. He raved for quite a while, but yesterday was as quiet asa lamb. His ri. otous actions are by many attributed to insanity, buf the possibilities are that bad whisky and an-ugly disposition arein a great measure responsible for the scrape he has gotten into. In either event, he is a dangerous character to be at large, the dead body of Robert Sharper, a well known old celored man, was found in his cabin, on Kentucky Flat, Rough and Ready township. and brought the body to Grass Valley, where an inquest and post mortem examination willbe held. It is supposed that Sharper died of lung disease. Deceased was a native of South Carolina and aged about 63 years. He was a faithful servant in his young days, and respected and trusted by all who knew him, Sharper was the last one left of the colored Jpeople brought hete from South Carolina by Col, Fits Patrick, for the State, 009,000, United States 50,000,000, <oe ——{Germany 45,000,000, France 87,000,. BARREN mountaing are not worth }000, and Great Britain (exclusive of Fhe New Military Law. i sail * ot Following are the changes made in the old law by Senator .Dickinson’s military bill (Senate™ bilt--No. 219), which has been approved by the. Governor: The Commander-inChief has power to ‘prescribe rules and regulations not inconsistent with the provisions of the Codes, The number of duty Sergeants ina Cavalry comparty is increased from four to six; the number of duty Sergeants in an infantry or’ artillery company is increased from three to. five; a Gatling jattery of four guns attached to a company of-infantry will entitle that company to a Junior ‘ first Lieutenant, Junior Second -Lieuten— ant, four Sergeants and four Corporals, It also provides that when “officers on thé retired ‘list’ “are .detailed-for-active duty other than-up— The ~~ _ Mere and There. as Grant’ssuecessor on the World’s Fair Commission, eee The Readjusters’ State Committee of Virginia have ‘indorsed General Mahone’s course in the-Senate, _, The first through train from San; Francisco, over the southern route, arrivéd-at-Kansas City on the 23d being on time atevery station along the 2,300 miles of the route.: ° Considerable feeling has been excited among the non-stalwart Republicans of New York by the President’s recent. appointments, With the exception of Rpbertson, they say it looks like a surrender.to Conkling. : Fhe Demoeratic Senators in caucus have decided to resist, by all parliamentary means in_their power,-the by which the Republicans seek to obtain immediate control of the Stat’ Beecher has:sold his house on Columbia Heights, Brooklyn, where he has lived many years. The’ house was mortgaged some. years ago for $10,000, and subsequently for $5,030, the last named sum being raised for the benefit of Theodore Tilton. olages he is to be court-martialed es, and the money so ‘received by > ——Thursday evening shortly before He began by threat After all this he return ‘number of horses near Clinton, IIL, has been sentenced to the Joliet PenThe notorious female. horse-thief, Lizzie Barton, who has stolen a large itentiary for a year ow’a charge of arson. She was too young to go to State Prison for horse-stealing. A London dispatch says that on the 23d a parcel was received from Manchester, addressed to Sir William Harcourt, who requested the police to open it. The box was found to contain a loaded pistol. This attempt upon the life of Hareourt has} caused a profound’ sensation. a . English, Opera, As soon as the box-sheet was opened yesterday morning, the demand for reserved seats at the Theatre during the Melville engagement began, and before night a remarkably .largenumber had been sold. Many season tickets. were disposed of,and itis safe to say that after to-morrow seats of most any_kind will be at a premium, The opera to be produced Monday evening is the Chimes of Normandy, and one more likely to give general satisfaction to the average lover of music could not have been selected. None of the operas to be rendered during the engagement have ever been put upon the boards here before—in fact they are all comparatively new, _ : rlliaestli . Corrections. The committee requests us to say that the name of Baltz & Guenther who subséribed $10 to the “Military Eucampment Fund wasinadvertently-omitted in the publication of the list on yesterday. The $2.50 placed to the credit of Dreyfuss Brewery was subscribed by Louis Dreyfuss, He was placed -Found Dead. The Free Lance says: Wednesday Coroner Huss was notified 'Ressta has a population of 90,ascent, [her solonial county, to examine the fish-ways on while Mr, Gehrig, the new proprietor of that Brewery, gives $20. To Protect the Fish. . The Secretary of the California Fish Commission has appointed Joseph B. Brogan of Prosser Creek, this the Truckee river and its tributaries to see whether they are. maintained Mn accordance—-with law, and if not to compel @ ‘compliance therewith, A Juror Faints. Shortly before court opened yesterday morning, Wi. Hartley from Beg Flat; a jurorinthe case of the People vs, Nelson Stevens, fainted while standing in front of the Court House. He was soon restored sufficiently to take his place in the box, Dr. Cornetivs Hertz, formerly of San Francisco and a member of the Board of Health: of that city but now of Paris, has attained an important step in telephony, by which the principle of maguetism-has been entirely discarded and the magnetic receiver abolished. A long series of experiments have been successfully conducted under the patronage of graphic lines of the State. Iw the suit against the Controller and Treasurer to test. the constitu—' tionality of the Act to Promote represented by the Attorney Gener-. “Hagh J. Jewett has been chosen adoption-of° the pending resolution . -woyld have-been-a-good witness for the prosecution. the French Government on the tele-. . Drainage, the State officers will be . . acted in the _ Katy Ann tiff! The People ry at a late h The People Lewey Rose. . leged mis-con f of whom are said to have. conversed on the streets about-the case it was op trial. One of the jurors is” charged with regarding the and Frank Ch Childs fellin, deavoring tos to the current. wife and four a stranger. Superior Court. The following business was_transSuperior . As A Repustican Senate cations, at Washington, on Tuesday evening nominated the following Officers, Seeretimy--of the Senate, George ¢. Decree of divoreé granted to plain“Yabs ‘Funnel @; M. Co:ve. J. 8. McBride et al. h resi cigs .O. Smith, Smith vs:gin Hearing of motion Gorham, of California ; Sergeant—at_ Arms, Henry Riddelbarger, of Vir. ia: Principal Executive Clerk, . “James R. Young. of Pennsylvania, ‘Chief Legislate Clerk, Charles ww. for new trial continued till the furtherorder of the Court. Nelson Stevens. Burglary. « This case-went to the juvs. Johnson, of Minnesota; . Chaplain, Rev. Dr. Byron Sunderland, of Wash. ger is a warn personal friend of Sen. ator Mahone.» He was a Colonel in ington. A telegram says: Riddelbar.moved for a new trial, one of the grounds for the motion being the alAdditional Partierlars. . , Aspecial dispatch to the Bee gives ‘the foltowing Wednesday last of R. P, Ferguson’ , which is very swift. “Ferguson has tived-in—thisvicinity for several years and was highly” es-. teemed. He wasamember of the Masonic order and a'so of Knights of Pythias, engaged in mantifacturing shingles and square timber, The bodies have not one hundred men have been search— ing for them ever since the accident, our in the afternoon. vs. Indian Frank and Defendants’ counsel the duct of the jury some having stated that-he. into oa whe editor and proprietor of the stock Readjuster. . T cently developed a new ‘freak, He keeps his palace closed all day, sgt_to' sunrise, thus turning breakfast. ” Confederate army, and jg now Wood. ne —_——~—__» HE eccentric King of Bavaria re. Lome . and, it‘opened every night from sun. night day. The King and hig Court, after the night’s jollification, g0. to rsleep when-the—suncomes up, and: n the stars peep out they. go to additional particulars drowning at Camp 16 "BORN, At Mare the He has been He leaves a children, Childs . was CHA 4. ty. Grass Valley. in Bloomfield A Wild Guess. The San Francisco Bulletin, usu— ally correct in such matters, has evidently lost its map of Nevada coun— It locates.the Derbec. mine at miles.from Grass Valley in an air line, and nearly twelve miles as the crow flies from Nevada City. GRA The Derbec is fifteen It. is township. county. oe _+Wm. Hughes, keeper of the toll house on the-Crusen grade between Columbia Hill and Nutth Bloomfield, died Thursday. He was a native of New York, aged about 68 years, and an old and respected resident of the Death of Wm. Hughes. = ° f : An efficient Orchestra, under the diree-tidn, C a came to New his fortune, his fortune. Tux Philadelphia Press says: Mr, Jay Gould’s sole fortune when he mousetrap, an invention which was to revolutionize the worldand make that particular mousetrap, but most people will believe that he invented a still more perfect one; that he has kept it ever since, and that it has: revolutionized the world and made York, he says, Was a ~ He afterwards lost Rese LILLIE POST KITTIE AYERS Emelie Mellville..,. as Costumes, detail. : General Admission Back: Seats,. . 7 Season Tickets, evening performances, not transferable ; Chureh’s Ranch, ‘near Nevada City, h 23d, 1881,to J. A. Church and Wile, a ilds: They were work. daughter, ing together repairing a dam, when ere SESROSEEo and Fergtson, ih en-. [ 5 3 ae ave him, was drawn in-. N EVA DA TH EATR E. OPERA SEASON COMMENCING ._—-_. WONDAY EVEN'G, MARCH 28, 1881, EMELIE MELVILLE And her entire ENGLISH OPER ompany, Ss, E. LOC cs Proprietor 40 ARTISTS! ‘ 40 ARTISTS ! AO Headed by the universal favorite, EMELIE MELVILLE, Supported by i ; CE PLASTED GRETCHEN HIRSCH MATILDA VALERG4 LOTIE STOCKMYER ERANK MARIAN LIZZIE SMITH LILLIE HALL MAY LA FONTAINE —AND— MAX FREEMAN R VALERGA A HATCH ‘ STOCKMYER TOM CASSELBI SILLANCEM FORSTER “ VALEGA A HENDERSON. WEEKS EN KNIGHT SHERWOOD F LA FONTAINE A Large and Perfect Chorus, MAX FREEMAN, Stage Director, of PROF. DORMAN, embracing picked instrumentalists from the Bush Street Theater, San Francisco, Orchestra, Monday Evening, March 28, HIMES OF ‘ NORMANDY. Tuesday Evening, March 29, PIRATES OF PENZANCE. Wednesday Evening, March 30, (Farewell Performance) ROYAL MIDDY. Fanchett. Afterwards a Royal M iddy. 4 The above produced. with New Scenery, ; Properties and-great attention to” : rved Seat for single evenfng.. $1 25 admitting to the three 3 00 CITAS SCHUTZ, Business Manager. ot by esteemed ciple of the bern.” The Tae French word “nee,” so com‘. monly used Simply ‘born, is therefore to be preferred in English composition tothe French word “nee,” the meaning being the same. George Eliot, in ‘Middlemarch, ” in “society personals” cohtemporaries, means being the past partiverb ‘‘naitre,” “to be English word ‘‘born” . 4 qiurements, death. Ir 1s difficult to be a doctor in Maine and honestly fill all the reissuance of a medical diploma tomy one whe has not dissected a body; attaches a penalty for surrendering — to nredical schdols a bod y that has not been hanged for a crime, and forbids he courts to sentence any person to _. Speaks of “Casubon, born Brooks,” Ex State law forbids the apd ‘and towns of THE outstanding debts of all cities populations of 7,500 and so far as returns have through the census collectors,amount the United States with, upwards, been made . ana bagatelle in war. United States. war Mexico has had her comparison with the . debt, and yet share. of civil al, Judge I. S. Belcher and ‘ether Possesions) 84,000, 009, prominent counsel, at Ture boy who expec:s to be a prise. fighter lets his mother carry the and as safe to handle an glycerine Powder on the is no headache or nausea name is Unauthorized, an name are liable for d in cartridges of we! size to suit customers as any otner high expl hundreds of the received ; to any Powder in use on the Comstock. EXCELSIOR POWDER CO. San Francisco, — EXCELSIOR BLASTING. POWDER, Manufactured by the celsior Powder. Comp’y. ee fy IS NO SO-CALLED “SAFETY? POWDER, but a powerful explosive use as any nftrocontinent. There in the use of this Powder, as the noxious fumes are entirely done away with. . No Picricacid or chlorate yotaa used in the manufacture of this PowC) All other Powder ing under this parties using this . It is put up is exploded with ca; and fuse, the same ve. ; following testimonial isa sample ot ne same tenor being constantly Gow Hii, August 17th, 1880. Acent Exceision Powper Co.—Dear Sir : have used pate Powder in test cement hard b! rior iS Fock, ‘and find it. su to $64,000,000. This amount added . the perso nereeual ‘a severe headache, to the two thousand million Federal pend yp iter ccs oe ory — debt piles it up high, ; gest, give ita fair trial and am confident #6 ae ae will speak foritself, W your Comper Ta World figures up the debt of [27 8S rerpeetfully y : ‘Mexico at $142,182,000. ‘This is a wet hee ne SEARE ‘ ce ———— : oa LRN RENE NIRA UIE ETS THE Di NEV AJ The Plac “‘mancindt The snov ~ wery solid ; Zekind & ‘some new c Chris, N; market.at ¢ ritory. Senator J His term a Francisco v proxime, Last wee Hiil hydra ing’a large: the derrick >" Tn speaki for an extra ture, the ecompositer “Vevy of F a Superinte guard of ar) Jot of bulli North Bloo was shippec M. Roser --who'have b ing a la¥ge s mier goods f returned nig We -are-t ‘& Bassett of store for sor icals. Thes stantly en h Prof. Wa the district examining ‘y __ties, left fox morning’s tt turn. here n< Mad) When the ‘deadly wea one of batte: of James: V ~beat the old fendant info would not a was sent‘ for Marshal Bal ranch after hj last evening poses to mak something w through on against him. St. ‘In behalf « church we dk ‘for the donat rendered the the ‘supper ir evening of __ suceess. Th evening amou Mrs Mrs Mis: _ Appe County Tre appoiuted H, ~ County Collec Sanford. .Mr bond in the s following sure P. Brown, C. J. Rolfe; M. Thos. Legg an Did it Saturday e powder blast y Star mine, Dn consisted of 15 der, equal to 3 der, or near 3 says the bankthe. whole bi when the powc Mrs, Alcott’ received from ' lt Pe Onaccount o Hunt & Dickin postponed to ‘f of March, Pick ks in s by the dozen o large. ‘More Pis Frank Guik consignment ¢ Shrubbery, etc. 29th, which wil sale during the . i

fe S The Daily Teanseript, o —VIV07TErer ’ couched as to a NEVADA GITY, CALIFORNIA. . “Saterday, March 26, 1881. cae a «amma Whitek iy Right? . a4 * The Union, Free Lance, Herald ‘and Transcripr each contained an account of the shooting of a Chinaman-by Fax Collector Wheeler, and. the four stories differ almost enough . to Warvdut “the inference that they. refer to. as. many diflerent fracases. Now the. TRaANscRIPT’s ‘was derived straight from the authorities. The Free Lance, says -its was from Mr. Wheeler. The two other papers give no authority; but doubtless got, their information from what. they, : : reliable sources, — supposed ‘to be" reliable Worse than all, a wandering account of it was telegraphed tothe San Francisco_ papers, and “it was 80 lead the Daily Report "to comment in the followfhg strain: ‘That is rather gauzy story from Grass Valley about how a poll tax collector went into aChinese Gabin and while conversing with the inmates “‘took.out his pistol and laid it On his’ assessor’s book” and was ‘immediately attacked by the Chinese and roughly handled; The Chinese will, of course, gét the worst of the subsequent legal proceedings; . : but we have-seen ‘the brutality and injustice’ with which Chinese are treated by: petty officials and we think it -probable the GrassValley Collector with the pistol got-no more than he deserved, , If the Stock Report man knew Mr. ‘Wheeler ‘as -well as his neighbors . do, it would not thihk of making such an acctisation against him. He -is nota big. double-fisted and badeyed mountaineer’ who. had rather cut and shoot than to eat, as the Bee-once—intifnated—that-the-aver= age mining county man was, but as mild-mannered and ‘gentlemanly an individual as ever graced a metropolitan drawing room. Perhaps Not. Of the fearful beating that James ‘White gave old man Hamilton, the Free Lance says: ‘The case: can not amount to muchsinee Judge Robinson required . only $500 bail fot White to appear and answer to the charges.” According to the dis— patches sent to the Chronicle and _ to the Associated Press papers, it did amount toa great deal; but, judging from the fact that the charge has been reduced from assault with a deadly weapon to one of bat_ ‘tery, the Courtdoes not see it inthat —. light. White should “interview” the Nevada City correspondents of —the Associated Press and the Chronicle. We believe he has had some experience at inquiring ‘‘who wrote . that article,” and that he did not Succeed very well in accomplishMining Around Dutch Flat. The mining prospects in those portions of Nevada.and Placer county . lying-adjacent‘to Dutch Flat are excellent, as we learn from the following fecord of operations published in the Times: : . The Little York, You Bet, Lowell Hill, Dutch Fiat and Gold Run ‘hydraulic niines are nearly all manned and work is being. pushed with the prospect of a good, long season's git Se 4 At Dutch Flat the Polar Star hydraulic mine works a crew of 65 men, and, we understand, the same company contemplate soon to commencé work in their otiter hydraulic claim—the Southern Cross—with a good force of men. The Baker is being worked by a full setof hands, and -also night shift. = 2 ings in the Dutch Flat “canyon, work, J. H. Laleamp has a lot of men at locality. Cedar Creek Company. der’s and others, are all being work-. . ed_te-advantage; — gate his flomes, expects to realize handsomely’ dur. i pass the one undercurrent belonging to the company, All the drift mines at Lowell. Hill, Steep Hollow and Remington Hill are being worked with better and more promising results than ever before, taking the whole lot on an average, : A. Larson has commenced. work extending the tunnel in the Shady Glen mine, at-Alta. He proposes cutting the tunnel much deeper this season, and will drift some also, The quartz section of the Euchre 5 “ing what he set out to.* Next ‘time oo —he may have better luck though, and . a telegraphi¢ correspondent is a good subject to practice on, ee ee ei & Good Opening. —— ee That Broad street three year-old who decorated the exterior of his father’s house by applying mud with a broom, as related in the TranSCRIPT, is being immortalized by the press of the Coast. The latest is . from the San Francisco Daily Ex. change: . Ai Nevada City boasts of an ‘embryo artist. Send him down here and we will cast him into the vortex of ar: -tistic society;’home decorators, grainers, and house and fence painters. ~Then we'll send him on to Europe and pay a correspondent _ to write puffs of his progress, When he returns to this city, after’ studying with the best artists, he can starve with the rest of the boys, Meavy Stamps. . Thos. I, Sargent, writing to the London Mining Journal, expresses the opinion that in most instances ‘the stamps used on. auriferous quartz ‘are altogether too heavy; so heavy ‘that much of the gold is beaten out diuto lamina so thin that they are ‘oated away by the water, which . he thinks is also used to excess, Thus Mp, Sargent kindly furnishes “another excuse for the non: profitableaess of barren ledges, Tus editor of the Shasta county ‘Demovrat received a poetical cgntribution lately which he praised very highly. It tarus out that the letters of the first lines read: “The editor ofthe Democrat-is « jackass,” And thas is the innocent and confiding editor betrayed to hisuudoing. Gay. Gnawr gives his opinions very freely upon all the leading /thoroughly prospected this Spring. are still in the town jail, awaiting an Barand Hambug canyonis being very . A large number of claims have been located on the ledge, and more are Staked off by new parties who have been attracted that way by .the favorable-showing and--reports already obtained, A large amount of : work will be done and considerable money expended in that section this season, in the way of developing the many claims that have been and are being’ taken, In fact, past developments go to: prove that this will be one of the most important quartz mining sections in Placer county in a very short time. : af Weare informed that the Poole Company propose making an addition to their quartz: mill of five stamps, making the mill, after the addition, a ten-stamp instead of a five-stamp as at present. “The pres— ent mill was put up to experiment with, but now no more doubts are ent:rtained as to the paying quality of the ore, : Take it all ia ‘all the, mining outlook ‘for this section Was bever more promising than at the present time: The Belligerent Chinaman, The Union says: The four Chinamen who were arrested for assaulting Deputy Assessor Fred, Wheeler, with a deadly weapon, down on Bear. River the other day, because of his demand upen them for poll taxes, eXamination of the charge against them, which will take place before’ Davis Saturday. The defendants have retained O. Taylor in ‘their -behalf, and A, Burrows will act as deputy District Attorney to prosecute on Boards—of officers, “Courts-marSeveral men are at work for the. tial and Courts of inquiry, —-they same company washing gut the taik-. shall only-be entitled to the’ rank q A. which belongs »to the office the night shift is also employed in this . duties of which they are detailed’ to ‘ perform. ~ When the duty ends, -or the detail is canceled, the officer work in his claim, but-it is not so] shall again return to the retired list, extensive as any. of theothers in that . with his former retired rank.” . Regimental adjutant is .raised from The undercurrents in Beal's. can-. the rank‘of First Lieutenant té. that yon, owned by. Mr, Beal, of ‘ San-. .of Captain; the regimental —-eclor Jose, -are doing good service in catchguard is to be appointed by the Coling and retaining the fine gold being'. onel, and will be as one of his staf. washed through the canyon by the . Target practice is changed from May to‘September 9th (Admission, Day). The Gotd Run and.Miner’s Ditch . Heretofore, a mem ber of the NationCompany’s Claims, at Gold Run, is . al Guard absenting himself from being worked by several men, as .is, . three consecutive assemblages withalso, the New Gold Run claim, at . Out reasonable excuse, was liable -to the same place. There are other im. . be dishonorably discharged, but un-' portant claims in.the ‘same vicinity . der the new law, if he absents himof which Col. Moody’s, W. H. Kin—. self fromthree—consecutive assem~pandined, —Fherank of the Assistant C, H. Carr, who has a lot of flumes . Adjutant General is raised from that and undercurrents in Squire’s can . Of Major to Colonel on the staff of yon, has several men at. work over . the Governor and Commander-inhauling and re-washing the ‘large Chief. Et also allows the Adjutant deposit of tailings along the line of . General-to have prepared and printed for the use of the Nation‘al Guard VY. Curran has two well arranged . Of the State, the military laws of the sets of undercurrents at the dump State—not'to exceed three thousand end of the Polar Star tunnel which . copies in any one year; he may. sell he is kept busy in attending to. He . the same to any person desiring copiug the season’s run of Polar Star, . him is to gointo the General Fund by catching the fine gold that will. ¢f the State Treasury, A Hard Customer on the Rampage. dark a big Spaniard who until a few days ago worked at the Charonnat mine, since which time he has been hanging around the city.and acting as though half-crazed, created quite an. excitement, ening to kill the daughter of Mrs. Maloney, propriettess of the restaurant on Commercial street where he boarded, and in pursuance of the threat drew-a razor-andgave chase (to her. He fired off a pistol in Silver’s saloon on Broad street, the bul_let passing through a wooden partition, The weapon was taken away from him. ed to the restaurant on Commercial street, where Constable Rogers arrested him. The prisoner fought desperately after he got on the street and it ‘required half a dozen other men, includixg three or four officers, to get him to Jail. in a cell and chained to the bed. He raved for quite a while, but yesterday was as quiet asa lamb. His ri. otous actions are by many attributed to insanity, buf the possibilities are that bad whisky and an-ugly disposition arein a great measure responsible for the scrape he has gotten into. In either event, he is a dangerous character to be at large, the dead body of Robert Sharper, a well known old celored man, was found in his cabin, on Kentucky Flat, Rough and Ready township. and brought the body to Grass Valley, where an inquest and post mortem examination willbe held. It is supposed that Sharper died of lung disease. Deceased was a native of South Carolina and aged about 63 years. He was a faithful servant in his young days, and respected and trusted by all who knew him, Sharper was the last one left of the colored Jpeople brought hete from South Carolina by Col, Fits Patrick, for the State, 009,000, United States 50,000,000, <oe ——{Germany 45,000,000, France 87,000,. BARREN mountaing are not worth }000, and Great Britain (exclusive of Fhe New Military Law. i sail * ot Following are the changes made in the old law by Senator .Dickinson’s military bill (Senate™ bilt--No. 219), which has been approved by the. Governor: The Commander-inChief has power to ‘prescribe rules and regulations not inconsistent with the provisions of the Codes, The number of duty Sergeants ina Cavalry comparty is increased from four to six; the number of duty Sergeants in an infantry or’ artillery company is increased from three to. five; a Gatling jattery of four guns attached to a company of-infantry will entitle that company to a Junior ‘ first Lieutenant, Junior Second -Lieuten— ant, four Sergeants and four Corporals, It also provides that when “officers on thé retired ‘list’ “are .detailed-for-active duty other than-up— The ~~ _ Mere and There. as Grant’ssuecessor on the World’s Fair Commission, eee The Readjusters’ State Committee of Virginia have ‘indorsed General Mahone’s course in the-Senate, _, The first through train from San; Francisco, over the southern route, arrivéd-at-Kansas City on the 23d being on time atevery station along the 2,300 miles of the route.: ° Considerable feeling has been excited among the non-stalwart Republicans of New York by the President’s recent. appointments, With the exception of Rpbertson, they say it looks like a surrender.to Conkling. : Fhe Demoeratic Senators in caucus have decided to resist, by all parliamentary means in_their power,-the by which the Republicans seek to obtain immediate control of the Stat’ Beecher has:sold his house on Columbia Heights, Brooklyn, where he has lived many years. The’ house was mortgaged some. years ago for $10,000, and subsequently for $5,030, the last named sum being raised for the benefit of Theodore Tilton. olages he is to be court-martialed es, and the money so ‘received by > ——Thursday evening shortly before He began by threat After all this he return ‘number of horses near Clinton, IIL, has been sentenced to the Joliet PenThe notorious female. horse-thief, Lizzie Barton, who has stolen a large itentiary for a year ow’a charge of arson. She was too young to go to State Prison for horse-stealing. A London dispatch says that on the 23d a parcel was received from Manchester, addressed to Sir William Harcourt, who requested the police to open it. The box was found to contain a loaded pistol. This attempt upon the life of Hareourt has} caused a profound’ sensation. a . English, Opera, As soon as the box-sheet was opened yesterday morning, the demand for reserved seats at the Theatre during the Melville engagement began, and before night a remarkably .largenumber had been sold. Many season tickets. were disposed of,and itis safe to say that after to-morrow seats of most any_kind will be at a premium, The opera to be produced Monday evening is the Chimes of Normandy, and one more likely to give general satisfaction to the average lover of music could not have been selected. None of the operas to be rendered during the engagement have ever been put upon the boards here before—in fact they are all comparatively new, _ : rlliaestli . Corrections. The committee requests us to say that the name of Baltz & Guenther who subséribed $10 to the “Military Eucampment Fund wasinadvertently-omitted in the publication of the list on yesterday. The $2.50 placed to the credit of Dreyfuss Brewery was subscribed by Louis Dreyfuss, He was placed -Found Dead. The Free Lance says: Wednesday Coroner Huss was notified 'Ressta has a population of 90,ascent, [her solonial county, to examine the fish-ways on while Mr, Gehrig, the new proprietor of that Brewery, gives $20. To Protect the Fish. . The Secretary of the California Fish Commission has appointed Joseph B. Brogan of Prosser Creek, this the Truckee river and its tributaries to see whether they are. maintained Mn accordance—-with law, and if not to compel @ ‘compliance therewith, A Juror Faints. Shortly before court opened yesterday morning, Wi. Hartley from Beg Flat; a jurorinthe case of the People vs, Nelson Stevens, fainted while standing in front of the Court House. He was soon restored sufficiently to take his place in the box, Dr. Cornetivs Hertz, formerly of San Francisco and a member of the Board of Health: of that city but now of Paris, has attained an important step in telephony, by which the principle of maguetism-has been entirely discarded and the magnetic receiver abolished. A long series of experiments have been successfully conducted under the patronage of graphic lines of the State. Iw the suit against the Controller and Treasurer to test. the constitu—' tionality of the Act to Promote represented by the Attorney Gener-. “Hagh J. Jewett has been chosen adoption-of° the pending resolution . -woyld have-been-a-good witness for the prosecution.. the French Government on the tele-. . Drainage, the State officers will be . . acted in the _ Katy Ann tiff! The People ry at a late h The People Lewey Rose. . leged mis-con f of whom are said to have. conversed on the streets about-the case it was op trial. One of the jurors is” charged with regarding the

and Frank Ch Childs fellin, deavoring tos to the current. wife and four a stranger. Superior Court. The following business was_transSuperior . As A Repustican Senate cations, at Washington, on Tuesday evening nominated the following Officers, Seeretimy--of the Senate, George ¢. Decree of divoreé granted to plain“Yabs ‘Funnel @; M. Co:ve. J. 8. McBride et al. h resi cigs .O. Smith, Smith vs:gin Hearing of motion Gorham, of California ; Sergeant—at_ Arms, Henry Riddelbarger, of Vir. ia: Principal Executive Clerk, . “James R. Young. of Pennsylvania, ‘Chief Legislate Clerk, Charles ww. for new trial continued till the furtherorder of the Court. Nelson Stevens. Burglary. « This case-went to the juvs. Johnson, of Minnesota; . Chaplain, Rev. Dr. Byron Sunderland, of Wash. ger is a warn personal friend of Sen. ator Mahone.» He was a Colonel in ington. A telegram says: Riddelbar.moved for a new trial, one of the grounds for the motion being the alAdditional Partierlars. . , Aspecial dispatch to the Bee gives ‘the foltowing Wednesday last of R. P, Ferguson’ , which is very swift. “Ferguson has tived-in—thisvicinity for several years and was highly” es-. teemed. He wasamember of the Masonic order and a'so of Knights of Pythias, engaged in mantifacturing shingles and square timber, The bodies have not one hundred men have been search— ing for them ever since the accident, our in the afternoon. vs. Indian Frank and Defendants’ counsel the duct of the jury some having stated that-he. into oa whe editor and proprietor of the stock Readjuster. . T cently developed a new ‘freak, He keeps his palace closed all day, sgt_to' sunrise, thus turning breakfast. ” Confederate army, and jg now Wood. ne —_——~—__» HE eccentric King of Bavaria re. Lome . and, it‘opened every night from sun. night day. The King and hig Court, after the night’s jollification, g0. to rsleep when-the—suncomes up, and: n the stars peep out they. go to additional particulars drowning at Camp 16 "BORN, At Mare the He has been He leaves a children, Childs . was CHA 4. ty. Grass Valley. in Bloomfield A Wild Guess. The San Francisco Bulletin, usu— ally correct in such matters, has evidently lost its map of Nevada coun— It locates.the Derbec. mine at miles.from Grass Valley in an air line, and nearly twelve miles as the crow flies from Nevada City. GRA The Derbec is fifteen It. is township. county. oe _+Wm. Hughes, keeper of the toll house on the-Crusen grade between Columbia Hill and Nutth Bloomfield, died Thursday. He was a native of New York, aged about 68 years, and an old and respected resident of the Death of Wm. Hughes. = ° f : An efficient Orchestra, under the diree-tidn, C a came to New his fortune, his fortune. Tux Philadelphia Press says: Mr, Jay Gould’s sole fortune when he mousetrap, an invention which was to revolutionize the worldand make that particular mousetrap, but most people will believe that he invented a still more perfect one; that he has kept it ever since, and that it has: revolutionized the world and made York, he says, Was a ~ He afterwards lost Rese LILLIE POST KITTIE AYERS Emelie Mellville...,. as Costumes, detail. : General Admission Back: Seats,.. . 7 Season Tickets, evening performances, not transferable ; Chureh’s Ranch, ‘near Nevada City, h 23d, 1881,to J. A. Church and Wile, a ilds: They were work. daughter, ing together repairing a dam, when ere SESROSEEo and Fergtson, ih en-. [ 5 3 ae ave him, was drawn in-. N EVA DA TH EATR E. OPERA SEASON COMMENCING ._—-_. WONDAY EVEN'G, MARCH 28, 1881, EMELIE MELVILLE And her entire ENGLISH OPER ompany, Ss, E. LOC cs Proprietor 40 ARTISTS! ‘ 40 ARTISTS ! AO Headed by the universal favorite, EMELIE MELVILLE, Supported by i ; CE PLASTED GRETCHEN HIRSCH MATILDA VALERG4 LOTIE STOCKMYER ERANK MARIAN LIZZIE SMITH LILLIE HALL MAY LA FONTAINE —AND— MAX FREEMAN R VALERGA A HATCH ‘ STOCKMYER TOM CASSELBI SILLANCEM FORSTER “ VALEGA A HENDERSON. WEEKS EN KNIGHT SHERWOOD F LA FONTAINE A Large and Perfect Chorus, MAX FREEMAN, Stage Director, of PROF. DORMAN, embracing picked instrumentalists from the Bush Street Theater, San Francisco, Orchestra, Monday Evening, March 28, HIMES OF ‘ NORMANDY. Tuesday Evening, March 29, PIRATES OF PENZANCE. Wednesday Evening, March 30, (Farewell Performance) ROYAL MIDDY. Fanchett. Afterwards a Royal M iddy. 4 The above produced. with New Scenery, ; Properties and-great attention to” : rved Seat for single evenfng... $1 25 admitting to the three 3 00 CITAS SCHUTZ, Business Manager. ot by esteemed ciple of the bern.” The Tae French word “nee,” so com‘. monly used Simply ‘born, is therefore to be preferred in English composition tothe French word “nee,” the meaning being the same. George Eliot, in ‘Middlemarch, ” in “society personals” cohtemporaries, means being the past partiverb ‘‘naitre,” “to be English word ‘‘born” . 4 qiurements, death. Ir 1s difficult to be a doctor in Maine and honestly fill all the reissuance of a medical diploma tomy one whe has not dissected a body; attaches a penalty for surrendering — to nredical schdols a bod y that has not been hanged for a crime, and forbids he courts to sentence any person to _. Speaks of “Casubon, born Brooks,” Ex State law forbids the apd ‘and towns of THE outstanding debts of all cities populations of 7,500 and so far as returns have through the census collectors,amount the United States with, upwards, been made . ana bagatelle in war. United States. war Mexico has had her comparison with the . debt, and yet share. of civil al, Judge I. S. Belcher and ‘ether Possesions) 84,000, 009, prominent counsel, at Ture boy who expec:s to be a prise. fighter lets his mother carry the and as safe to handle an glycerine Powder on the is no headache or nausea name is Unauthorized, an name are liable for d in cartridges of we! size to suit customers as any otner high expl hundreds of the received ; to any Powder in use on the Comstock. EXCELSIOR POWDER CO. San Francisco, — EXCELSIOR BLASTING. POWDER, Manufactured by the celsior Powder. Comp’y. ee fy IS NO SO-CALLED “SAFETY? POWDER, but a powerful explosive use as any nftrocontinent. There in the use of this Powder, as the noxious fumes are entirely done away with. . No Picricacid or chlorate yotaa used in the manufacture of this PowC) All other Powder ing under this parties using this . It is put up is exploded with ca; and fuse, the same ve. ; following testimonial isa sample ot ne same tenor being constantly Gow Hii, August 17th, 1880. Acent Exceision Powper Co.—Dear Sir : have used pate Powder in test cement hard b! rior iS Fock, ‘and find it. su to $64,000,000. This amount added . the perso nereeual ‘a severe headache, to the two thousand million Federal pend yp iter ccs oe ory — debt piles it up high, ; gest, give ita fair trial and am confident #6 ae ae will speak foritself, W your Comper Ta World figures up the debt of [27 8S rerpeetfully y : ‘Mexico at $142,182,000. ‘This is a wet hee ne SEARE ‘ ce ———— : oa LRN RENE NIRA UIE ETS THE Di NEV AJ The Plac “‘mancindt The snov ~ wery solid ; Zekind & ‘some new c Chris, N; market.at ¢ ritory. Senator J His term a Francisco v proxime, Last wee Hiil hydra ing’a large: the derrick >" Tn speaki for an extra ture, the ecompositer “Vevy of F a Superinte guard of ar) Jot of bulli North Bloo was shippec M. Roser --who'have b ing a la¥ge s mier goods f returned nig We -are-t ‘& Bassett of store for sor icals. Thes stantly en h Prof. Wa the district examining ‘y __ties, left fox morning’s tt turn. here n< Mad) When the ‘deadly wea one of batte: of James: V ~beat the old fendant info would not a was sent‘ for Marshal Bal ranch after hj last evening poses to mak something w through on against him. St. ‘In behalf « church we dk ‘for the donat rendered the the ‘supper ir evening of __ suceess. Th evening amou Mrs Mrs Mis: _ Appe County Tre appoiuted H, ~ County Collec Sanford. .Mr bond in the s following sure P. Brown, C. J. Rolfe; M. Thos. Legg an Did it Saturday e powder blast y Star mine, Dn consisted of 15 der, equal to 3 der, or near 3 says the bankthe. whole bi when the powc Mrs, Alcott’ received from ' lt Pe Onaccount o Hunt & Dickin postponed to ‘f of March, Pick ks in s by the dozen o large. ‘More Pis Frank Guik consignment ¢ Shrubbery, etc. 29th, which wil sale during the . i