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te Mat dang tage to decide as to}
the plan of making nominations, ¢alled
tre Pierien miners to supply
\_ [the places of those who refuse to work
iv! ve_opportunity for ar
‘wisetings tMiroughout the county, ony
should be held in every precinct where
practicable and the tote should be tak—
: on by ot. ‘het returns should be
made up by the Sectetary, signed by
.the President and forwarded to the
etary of the Union County Central
mr “by the 3d day of Jane, in
nt ‘may be canvassed by
onthe. 5th of June.—
wil h the Poe Cteity Law,
opportdnities of packing, com=
mon to Conventions will be done away
with, and that itis extending the right
of avery citizen to a voico'in the selec”
tion of officers. to the nomination of
party candidates. These are a few of
the reasons urged by the friends of the
plan. ‘The advocates of the old Vonvention system urge that the Crawford
County plan will give too much power.
to the larger precints, but a glance will
enter sasiert that this power is great“. i Conventions than under the new
candidates are contending for the same
om 4, and that 500. votes are
ed iu Grass Valley and 500 in. Nee
a. If A should carry the two towns,
ting 800 in each, his aggregate
ald” 0, leaving 400 votes in the
ation cade the Convention sys
= A few outside precincts would
“A the nomination. Under the
or County plan, A would re0 votes and B 400 for the nomimn, a1 ad the outside precinets would
bo repredénted.in the same way. If
the two larger town! had candidates
for the samo office, the outside precincts
would decide, The difference: is easily.
seen. In the Convention system a candidate. may have a large vote in evecipct and his friends have no
tation in Convention, while in
_ the other plan every vote he gets counts
80 many in favor of the nomination. —
The chances of combinations are not
half so great as under the Convention
‘We hope that tho matter will be
thoroughly discussed by members of
the’ party all over the county, and that
the members of the Central Committee
in the several townships. will see to it
that the meetings recommended by the
Central Committee are held, and we
would also urge a full attendance of the
Committee at the mevting called for
the Lecoa of June.
A GtawePeuth Goshen, the Arabian giant, has settled down at Algonquin, Il]. He is seven and a half feet
high, weighs 614 pounds, and is, with
one exception, the largest may in the
world. He isa aative of Jerusalem,
and is said to converse in twenty languages. §
AN omnibus company haa been organized at mento, and five omnibases will be put of the streets.
} the mines. They all inform us that if
work.could be guaraziteed them hundreds would come to the country. The
superiors in the world. The Rammedls. berg mines have been worked since
968 and those of the Upper Hartz were
opened in the 16th and 17th céntaries,
and in the district 60,000 men are employed. The ores are not rich, and the
mines aré only made to pay by the
great skill with whieh they are workedIn his speech in this city, Mr. Raymond
the Commissioner of Mining stated that
in some of these districts the mines
were nearly exhausted. These miners
have been educated in the business,and
the mines are so well worked that no
man who has studied scientific and
. practical mining in any other country
feels that his education is complete until he has visited the mines and attended the mining schoolsof Germany. We
” are informed by Germans that these
miners are expert in the use of a single
hand drill, and that the only thing required to induce them to come to California is the assurance of employment,
Our informant says that these miners
have gone to Mexico and other places,
and that they have been unable to get
work, and they would therefore want
sonie assuranée before leaving. The
_. Germans of this locality talk of holding
& meeeting and organizing an jmmigration aid society, for the purpose of
induting miners to come from: the old
‘. country to California. The Germans
always make good citizens of the Unithemselves homes and improve them.
ec ". 1t is soldom that-you will find the
Thome of a German, even in the mines,
that is not surrounded by trees and
flowers, and has not a little garden
spot. attached, Such a. population is
needed in the mining counties. ne if
mine owners will guarantee t
ployment any number of them can “2
obtained, in a very short time. The
Germans already here, well knowing
that the condition of their countrymen
can be greatly improved, will gladly
lead in the movement to induce them
tocome. This will bring about a speedy
solution of the difficulty about working
pon the sdbject of the ine
miners of the Hartz mountains have net
Arrams AT Teac. CK —The be Trak
fof Saturday says: “
sinee ou¥ last issue hive not. pte in . teles
main of a very pleasing nature. We]
were in hopes that we would be. able to
pass an issue without chronicling aby
‘more robberies, but ‘alas! our good
wishes are “not to be verfied, on the
o eae a 3
iit : ae
Tees ofpromise at Lebanon, .
sy. Pa which it <soe alleg oy ‘the detend.
anted tu jarry his deceased wife's sister
Fant wanted to ‘istry hig ies comnaes aid
he cold-Laked potatoes 0! neral .
na for the mar: oe feast." * Ahem!
increase. P eliarthie seven robberies
have occurred_since Wednesday evening, the date of our last issue. In the
line of improvements, however, some
little progress has been made; a few
buildings completed, and one or two
more projected. The woney market is
hardly as flush as formerly, but after
pay day things are expected toimprove.
Many of the mills are running very
light, waiting the reduction of freights
so that they may successfully compete
for the Nevada lumber trade. Legal
business appears brisk and the lawyers
‘are harvesting.
veyors of Nevada and Yuba counties
agreed upon the boundasy line. We
are informed-by Surveyor Bradley that
‘they ran the line about two miles from
Union Ranch to the mouth of the river,
This is the only point about which there
was any question, and as the initial
part of the survey had been buriéd in
the tailings, and nearly all the land
marks destroyed, it was necessary to
make a new survey. : .
x
A Five PRESENT.— We are indebted
to Jacob Naffziger, of tle new meat
market, fora splendid ham of his own
curing. It is a superior article, and
every ham eater would testify that Jake
knows how to “sdve his bacon” and
smoke it too.
TaxeGet Excursion AND ELECTION.
By notice in to-day’s paper it will be
geen that the target excursion of the
Nevada Light Guard will take place
on the 29th inst, The Company is ordered to meet at 1 o’clock, and an election of officers will be held at half past
1 o’cleck dt the Armory. The Com. pany will then imarch ‘to Mulloy’s and
contend for the Company’s gold: medal.
We understand that a number of other
prizes will be contended for.
ENTERPRISE Minine Co.—This com‘pany has located 2,200 feet in Grass
Vailey township for quartz mining pur
the mines.
On Saturday, says ‘ae Stockton Jndependent, of the 10th, we received a ca))
from General G. H. La Grange, Judge
Hatilton,Sheriff Morse and Mr. Smith,
all of Alameda county, and.on their
way to inspect the lands of the Up pper
San Joaquin, with the design ef pouncing upon a lot of it if it suits them, to
keep it out of the hands of greedy land.
grabbers and demonstrate their disapprobation of land grabbing.
—,
Accorpine to the latest Brazilian:
accounts from Paraguay, the intended
advance of the allies into the interior in
search of Lopes, had not yet begun, but
General Paranhos was on the point of
marching, at the head of 3,000 men,
against Villa Rica, which is still held
by the Paraguayans. An active guerrilla warfare against the allies is admitted to go op in two districts. Para
guayan accounts, on the other hand,
claim for President Lopez an army of
10,000, at the head of whom he is soon
expectad to take the offensive.
‘Tue H street Methodist Charch, at
Sacramento, was set on fire last Wedtiesday evening, and property of the
value of about-$500 destroyed before it
could be extinguished.
Ra. etd
The Yreka Journal says Mr. Myers,
that place, has started East with 250
fine horses of the Coburg and Sligart
stock. He goes to Kansas and Missouri_
where he expects to find a good market
for his stock.
IT is oxpected that the gold us of
North Carolina will yield one Tnillion
minerals.
A wire owl was, killed recently in
Shasta county, The bitd is ‘to be stuffed
because of its rarity.of Ashland, Oregon, an old settler at}.
dollars this year, beside $ther valuable: :
Gold is found in twenty-five
. counties of that State. ;
poses. —
—
Co. have just received a large additional
. stock of groceries and shelf goods.
Among the latter they have a number
of new and nice things, such as fig
paste, figs, prunelles, tapiogs farina,
stuffed peppers, salmon in cans, clams,
oysters, etc.
THE San Francisco Herald says the
sun shone so hot in that city last Monday, that the asphaltum sidewalks became very soft, and at the corner of
Kearny and Pacific streets, pedestrians
sank into the dark cement almost ancle
deep.
PuxE rumored alliance between England, France and Spain is discredited,
and hag had no effect on the New York
markets.
THE San Jose Putriot says that wool
is being sent to San Francisco by wagons, In some quantity, as the owners
cannot stand the freight demanded for
transportation.
Tae home of the late Mrs. Sigourney,
the poetess, at Hartford, has been sold
for a railway station.
a cee
Ex~Goy. Low and BrotLers, and exController Oulton are about to-erect. a
mill on their Po-go-nip mine.
Ne Trust.—A Napa firm closes its
PP Sine i with the following appeal cothe public :
“If you buy in time, and pay in eter—
nity, don’t come to see us,
LAND slides in the ahs Mountains
are becoming unaccountably frequent.
CHARLES WHEATLEIGAR has returned
in good health and spirits, from Oregon.
AN exchange thinks that men, like
yeast, to succeed, must work well.
Ir is said that more
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THE ‘Bounpary Line.—The Sur-. .
SomeTurne Nice.—A. W. Lester &
— wil of the ate Colosel 7, “Bigelow .
Lawrence giveto the Boston_Athenaeum his
valuable colicetion. of ar.or, wok gath.
ered at a great expense while abroad, and
collection of the kind iu this couitry
A FE fortbiex are finding their way from
White Pine tosan francisco. The. possessor
of one, wishing to know_how much of the city
it was adviralije to parchase, hired a hack to
ride on a tonr of eheervation, which occupied
two daysand nihie, and brought him a bill
of $150 for carriage iffre.
_ ANNUAL
TARGET EXCURSION!
Nevada Light Guard ~Attention. .
your Armory, IN FULL UNIFORM,
on
YOU are mart x ordered to 2 Tr at 4
SATURDAY, MAY 29th, 1869,
At halfet 1 o'clock, for the purpose of attending Hiv Annual Target Excurion of the
m
peers medhbey is expected to be on hand
promptly at the ne ay By oréer
A. LANCASTER,
Capt. Como anding.
J. F. Carr, O, 8:
ELECTION OF OFFICERS.
Sacramento, April 2nd, nee
No,
ce oaprintend an avon
reer Eeatan oN we.
to fill the Suanaekes tha oy wir vecur by the
— on of the terms of present incumbents.
jor Bean’ will conduct and superintend
said election according to law and report proceedings to these a
By command o
Brig. Gen’ , eee Hows.
ee W, Anderson. Asst. Ad). Gen., 4th Brig.
accordance with the « ‘the above order-an Elecaie will be held at the Armory, on
Saturday, May — 1869.
at half past 1 o'clock P. x., fot the choice of
—— Officers of fihe Company.
terprise Gold Stlver MinEsares Com os Fiction oF pe
aby ives counecm Annual Sire Mane the Beats ers of the
above named Company, will be be held on
WEDNESDAY, JUNE SECOND, 1869.
At 18 o'¢lock, noon of paid day, at the office
of the Secretary, Kéom N 0,8, Government
Homes. north-west corner Washington and
Sansome Streets, ban Fran
; i B: May, Sec'y.
May 18th, 1869.
_
. JACOB NAFFZICER’S. —
NEW MEAT MARKET,
ON COMMERCIAL STREET,
Opposite Bliven & Potter's.
ILL BE OPENED ON
ON THURSDAY, MAY 13th.
He will kill his own Meat which will be th
best that can be found in the country and will
spare ho expense to suit his customers. He
invites pad ee: ag oy a a8 many new
ones as ve & cal pe oe. sores i and guarantees to
All kinds of Meat a
will be kept on mend." —
THE BEST FURNITURE
TO BE FOUND
This side of San Francisco
the Store of:
J. KE. JOHNSTON,
Broad street, ———— eal Hotei Buildal
ept at
gree
Tables,
\ orutaactenee oe d REPAIRING
Done at the shortest notice,
i Call and examine the Stock a .
Nevada, May 2th, \
Nevada, Moore’s Flat & Eureka
STAGE LEAVES NEVADA
greny day on the arriva} of the
— = ha connecting with é
NO TH bLoourl LD. riARE
W Eade cae LE NS FLAPS and
fli vered, Collections
made and all Express
tended to. ai
ee Exp:
the above Damed po eee ered every day for
EN GLISA® WELLS, Proprietors,
WILLIAM HOLMEs,
ANUFACTURER AND
Ge DEALER IN
HARNESS, SADDL &c.
BROAD STREET, BS, ten, ae.
A large stock of =.”
vAPANIBE AND AMERICAN
=
sABobis.
in New York for sebnece than a fr bre Ma sey
which is nu debt the-most-periect. soemee] mae aS
Headquarters Fourth California Na. cas ee Brigade, CO)
ven that .
. Attorney and
STEEL,
POWDER, .
FUSE,
QUICKSILVER,
OANV AS HOSE,
IRON PIPE
AGENTS FOR
FURTH’ $. CAST STEEL.
NO. 48 PINE STREET,
KIDD’s. -BLOOK,.
NEVADA CITY,
. ANEWINVOICEOF = ~~
DRUGS, = ae oS
. MEDICINES, ”
PAINTS, OILS AND VaRN
FLAVORING EXTRACTS,
ARDEN SEEDS, ‘&c. just received by
SPENCE & CO,
United States Internal Revenue.
Collector's Office, 4th District, Cal.
Nevapa Crrr, May let, 1869.
OTICE is hereby that the Special
N° ‘Taxes, _ Licen oe prevent fecal
year are now due and'pavable aes feed na ottice.
All professional erchants, Mantfactnrers, Trade ra Pedr, Saloon Keepers
rand others ade lablggnder the xcng Le of the Uni tes, to su Taxes,,are required to pay the ‘Se dass immediately
or they wul becume lL abie to a penalty of $500
for carrying on business withont first having
taken out proper license therefor.
ALFRED BRIGGS, 3
By 8. B. DAVENPORT, ote Coliector.
ART NOTICE !
Everybody from ‘Nevada County
____should buy their
wa PICTURES ! ’
PICTURE FRAMES!
—rnom—
CURRIER & WINTER,
~ 211 Kearney Street, Se
SAN FRANCISCO,
Because they have the best select:
ed stock of Pictures and La:
test “styles of Frames
in use.
San Francisco, April 16th.
+ A. ©. NELES,
Attorney and Counselor at Law,
—orrnyCorner of Broad & Pises
—
Nevads
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