May 21, 1881 (4 pages)

ety Pe TE SSN nS PETIRIE oer Ghee. Dail re ransctipt,. NEVADA CiTY, CALIFORMIA. MR Baw: aay. uly ast 1881. fFeeighting from Wa avin one ‘The Appeal ef Tnursday says : “Tackett’stwo teams and Meredith's * team started ont yesterday morning for Sana Juan and French Corral, Joaded with merchandise and feed, from Killis’, S_ratton & Co’s and the Backeye Mills, about 17,099 pounds of freight.” Yet in the face of this Sie doing its lefel best to: ‘totally Pai having . altogether 5: the towns of French Corral and San Juan. Ifthe people oi the ridge desire to furnish Marysvilleans with ainmunition to tight -chem with, all —— -right bas doit teall oa -outsi: ders tor aid any mre; ye hy: lraulic miners, “God helps those. who help themselves,” "Beir that fact in mind, _— TF he Merriam: ne Clatan THEM —— Magnificent Mineral Meritage.” The attention mining districts, and especially A Kina Word for Taifings—‘*the . . . Most Promising Portion of @ar . (qb aré yoyig to-have a Picnic some . now ‘being. given . to the utilization of tailingsin various in this section where hydraulic mining . was fir ‘stinan gurated, isoneofthebest . i Free Lanee Items. . The ss Vailey Sportsmen’s ‘. day soog ; Wednesday “Dr. Ivancovich was wat, but not seriously, scratched . and bruised.! Whi ea vegetable _pedler’s: wagon . indications of a progressive age. The . was going down Main street hill at . . organi zation of the Garden Valley G-ass. V — Thursday the brake . Company to operate near Camptor 1. “‘bysted.” There was a scatterment . ville, . ny. with extensive claims ia this . . county and P.acer, with a dozen or) . more other sinaller ones who hive a’Ire ady commenced or are abou t ‘o be 4 gin work along the Bear, the Yubas, . the North Fork of the. American riv. ee, and various other streams. and . ean yc ons, are indications of the _ con) . ception of a _new—ant profitab! e ‘its , deductions in[dustry _Drawing . from experimerjtain this have already been made, the--Chica— [go Mining Review thus ex tends en . cour: agement: ; Bs ‘Companies have been formed to ‘of the Merrnnac > Gravel Mining Com. “pany, held in’ San Francisco W edz ti nesday, the folk owing gentlemen were 1 Ss chosen Directors for the-ensuing year: Win, C. Walker, President ; = Brown, Vice » President ; Schultz, eae eS 3 & \ Wallace Wing. \ ‘en Superintencent. . i Jesse George . Mills and . H. Mills was chosThis -elaim. is Need between the Adalante and = Ra ad Morntain, nearly. four: miles northef this city. It.is a very promising prospect, and some: work has” “been done dyon it. Unlerthe new 1 Capt. Mills as Susperintendent, work in this mine will ‘be apergssieaty pr Board, and wi gecuted, — Origin of the Word \esttekens.” bes = = George Fagg, who used t&five-on 5 the San Juan ridge, but is now traveling for the Siiéridan’ Mills, while intowna day or two ago sad the the Free Lance’s statement as to that ‘origin uf the word slickens was ‘wrong. According to his story, the ‘word -was first. used at Simpson’s Bridge, on the Yuba near Marysville, in 1862, and long before Jonathan Clark had commenced” going ‘down that way. As Shoemaker ‘started the controv ersy, we have concluded to leave its continuation to him, He can yet at the bottom of sof the business by interviewing Mr, Fagg. Resumed Operations. Ei. Brown_informs us that the Peabody Miniag Company -of Grass Valley-having inade an arrangement with the South Yuba’Canal Company for a regular supply of fifty inches of . ‘water per day with'’which to run. their machinery, resumed_ prospect. ing operations on the 18th just int. .The water is taken'down through the V Flume Company's flume and the Grass Valley ditch to the town weservoir, from which: it is ‘after___‘wards, drawn out by the Peabody’ ‘Company. Ss —_—— em Dany Excuance: “Carrying a dirk is prima facie evidence’ of tha ruffianly character of a man,” rednarked the editor of the Boulder News and Courier at the close. of a vivid description of a kniting scrape at Marshall. And then there was: a” heavy trend upon the stairs, and the eilitor calmly took his pistol from his hip pocket, and then aten-inch bowie from his boot, while his eyes were riveted on thedoor. Butit was only an hovest miner with a rich specimer, and not the gentleman. he had termeda ‘“‘slime-coated’ rattlesnake vf perdition” in a previous issue, Tue Commissioners of the Freedmen’s Bank have over $100,000 on hand. They expect to sell their building to the Government for 250,000. Then the depositors will . receive another divi.lend, making # “ all fifty-five per eent. on phaietosiina, . This willleavea balan’ of $1, 200,. 000 due them. An ehort will .be . made to get Congress io pay. this . sun out of the Treasury, ACCORDING td the Atalanta Constitution, Miss Bettie Green, of Porsyth county, Ga., lias two silk dresses which she made herself, having raised the wornis, spun the silk, colored and woven it. with her own -hands, : tie oo ee says an exchange, ib seid bg ing out an unusually large nuitber of ‘‘shepherds”’ this season, to gather in the lambs. ~The President should durry up his pro uised ms on poly s wbuhys > . aiiine lin gold. ‘de estate conti: med, old mills, but arrangements are being-_perfected to raise the sickens or-! from the stamp mills and allowed to -of California and other older mining — territories. It is'said-that the rivers of: these districts.are-rich with the deflunes-which have been, run into thesnany streams posits of years from the wasteful mills and crude methods in vogue in the earlier history of mining. It is said -that-one-test of eighty pounds of deposit from a creek gave over $4 It 18 also stated that. in some of-the streams these tailings are deposited tothe depth of + fourteen feet. S -“We look for beneficial’ results frony-thie movement in— tio direc= tious. “In the first place it is always an encouraging feature when the attention of capital is turned in the direciou of eeconomy—to the saving of But it is most le that the greatest benefit will result from a revelation of the gaste of precious mineral by the machiyery and appliances in ion of the ores from our mines. A positive proof, by actual demonstration, the immense loss that this industry has been subjected to for the last thirty years, ought to cause a revolution. stitute a new ovder of things id way of dealing with the products of our mining industry. The wasted wealth that has been poured into the streams of California, Utah and Nevada from tails of the thundering stamps, ought. to be a enormous use in-the redu continual protest in the name-of thepioneers who braved every hardship and, ina desert place aud wilderness, toiled like Trojans to set a. beacon light of civilization upon the golden shores of the Pacific. 5 Ss . am “We cannot refrain at ‘this point . from noticing two great advantages the mining industry possesses above allothers. There_is no industry known to man that cold suffer the loss to which mining has been’ sub-— jected inevery age and be able. to make such profitable returns: Although the p:oduct of mining has been wasted by crude and imperfect machinery,-it is mot destroyed, but awaits.the better-knowledge and ini proved app iances of another generation to reward its skil] and enter— prise. To-day, although the problem is far from the best solution, much has been overcome and the discarded mineral “of the ancient Mexican mines, worked ages ago, and the slickens of the great Pacitic slope, are“atfording a— new field of profitable enterprise, “We will make a prediction and risk our repatation as a prophet ‘upon its fulfillment, The waste dumps, tailings, aud bodies of low grade ore are the most important and profitaj ble mining tiells in this country, and the day wil come when acience, prove’ the real worth andl value of this neglected but most prouisin z portion of our wm aguitiona mineral heritage. EES Res Probate Matters. capital, and engrgy will —— ——. state Henry R.*Stephens, deceased, Adininistrator filed final report, and May 3lst fixed as day for hearing of the same, Wm. Hughes, aes E. M. Sunderland appointed administrator,— Frank Huss having resigned, The amount of the bond required is $2.U0. (has, Corbiu, deceased. Frank uss appointed aduinistrator, T. . Murphy, deceased, -agle cf & -the Bear River Tunnel Co npaline thi at . } ereasing the deception, . longer-time rule in other States, aid , hours of .aboe to ten,aie of Chinamen and other garden truck, jand for awhile appearandes indicated that the wagon . would ‘push the horses clear through Main street, but . a friendly bowlder, standing sentinet for the parpose at the corner at runaway . arrangement and held it, _ Damage trifiing, ‘but the Chinaman was_mad. . School street, caught the . There isa new kind of cater pillar ishowing himself this year, and he is very numerous. This worm delights jin the le saves of the maple, and will haveno other food. Several fine trees of the kin, vid Watt, Boston Ravine and at Mrs, at the residence of Da= Te meeting ot “the ‘stockholders } wok not only the tailings fromthe yim. Watt's are being injured, ea . Vention of California adopted unapi= may be destroyed by this new worm. Fhe maple catterpitar may spin good i silk when he gets toward the end of his worm life'and shuts himselt up in a web preparatory to becoming a butterfly. Prof. Muller of Nevada ‘City. could ‘tell what the intentions of that wormare, by looking at the reptile. There are< 8c veral native silk worms arotindGrass Valley that make. strong and coarse wats ad, ; — ae Bd Beats Nature. Dr. Harris, whose reputation as a first-class dentist’ extends all over } the Coast, is now turuins out a class of wors that, if such a thing be possible, excela-all his former: Successful “ellorts, « Fort instance; the reporter yesterday saw at his par orsin Morgan & Roberts’ Block a fullset of upper teeth manufactured for one of the leading society ladies in Nevada county, that even Dame . Nature might be proud to claim the making of. The plate was of celluloid, and although thin as a wafer did uot even crack when the’ reporter jumped upontit. with his number tea brogans, The gams had just the tint that real flesh ones do when healthy, and preseated all the indentations that made them true to life, Twoof the teeth were filled with gold, still further in-Among-oth= er sets of equally fine qorkmanship was one for a,well-known unmarried belle of this city whose name cannot . be made public, but who will hereaft.r have no more trouble in masticatwinning compliments Sex for her matchless Doctor is doing ‘a E. W, Johnson vs. New York a Boston Gold Mining Company. Order of publication of summons made, gas Thornton vs. Thomas Patter. Ordered that plaintiff have ten ais ays+to file brief on motion to vacate order appointiny receiver. In the matter of the estate of T. P. Murphy, deceased, .the administrator was orde-ed to satisfy the mortgage against the estate after deducting expenses of the sale, Go to the Great Variety Store For French prunes, Boston smoked herring, Dutch herring, all kinds— of imported cheese, Teas, Coffee, Sugar and — spices, at-the~ Great Variety Store. ma20-36, Tae British Navy has, in the aggregate, 317,00 tons of armored ships which cost the nation £18,00),000. England possesses 55 ironclads, built and building, exclusive of 10 vessels condemned, France has 53 vessels including those nor being built; Turkey, 24; Italy,18 including the two most powertui tigncng ships afloat; Germany, 12; Holland, 17; Austria, 14; Spain, 7; Denm ark, 6; Swedea and Norway, 8; Greece, 3; Portugal, 1. 4 = Tae Massachusetts Bureau of Labor Statistics, e result of.an inquiry into the hours of labor in the . textile factories of New England and ‘. years for perjury, District Attorney with notice of -ap=—‘prospects. . pectus of the Here and There.Miss Mackay is en; wage . , itissaid, man of Marshal McMahon. jer, died Wednesday. was rearrested, . fractious I . dence, near Napa, fs received serious injuries. A New York hoodlum got years imprisonment for breaking ‘instealing $50, and maltreating a Chinaman. : Counsel for John H, Clemetshaw, w ho was sent to State. Prison for i4 has served the peal to the Supreme Court. The joint. worm is doing damage to the crops in Colusa coun ty. mers ar . anxious for information as to the best method of destroying the insect great Farmers are much alarmed, and 1B good “Fire tate Episcopal Dioeesan—C On= mously the following reso ution: ReThat this convention records all solved, the unqualified condemnation of schemes for raising money. forchurch or religious purposes which savors directly orindirectly of gambling, the lottery, raffling ahd other games of €iance, or of the public-ball, Thursday thé regu ar trains of the Southern Pacific connected San Frautime El Paso has been made by a It is understood that the company is pushing this. road regular train, . with great activity, and expects to reach a port on the Gulf of Mexico during the presént-year. Five huu. dred miles of a road on the Gulthave already been procured by lease or by purchase, and all that the company hag now to do is to close the gap between it and El Paso, oe The Keeley Motor. The Fort Wayne (Ind.) Gazette says : ‘‘A number of New York capita ists and scientists have just ex— amined the perfected Keeley Motor by its inventér. After years of-ex— perimenting and the expenditure: of hundreds of thousands of dollars, the Motor is now working as it wus orig+ inally intended to work, and those holding capital stock refuse to dispose of asingle share at any price. . Are the days of steam really numbered, is now the ‘question of* the hour.” And yet the Scientific American reiterates, what it long since declared, after careful investigation, to bea fact, that the whole thingtis-a stupendoushumbug. .Catholic Mission Services. Union : Rev. Father Buchard, the distinguished Jesuit missionary from. San Francisco, will open a mission in St. Patrick’s church, Grass Valley on next Sunday at 10:304. m:, which will continue until the following oday. During the week masses @atGa.M.and8a.m, anda will be preached after last morning. The evening exercises wiNcommence at 7:15. p, M. with rosary fgllowed by benediction with Blessed\Sacrament. All are cordially invited te attend, Amone the miningadve ires-now upon the English market, is Ose for the operation of the silver lead mies of Lidjessy, about fifty miles south ON Port Kerasun on the B ack sea, in the Province of Sivas, of Turkey in Asia, Some 3,000 tons of ore was raised, it is said,in the course of the last eighteen months that the mines were worked; of this, 750 tons roaghly hand dressed, were shipped to Bog-. land and there sold, Yielding on an average forty-five ounces of silver to the ton, with sixty-thrée per cent. of lead—ér about $82.50 to the ton —the last consignment, sixty tons, . having realized in October, 30, about $98 per ton. Tet company furmed to work thesemines start with a capital of $600,000, in 120,000-shares. The i claimed to havea nine a ee The N. ¥. Mining Record has a suspicion that it will tuin out that the grade of these Ores, in both silver and lead, has not been underrated the least, in the prospromoters of ~~ English company. New York, reports that theten-hour: a-day system which prevails in Massichusetts works as well as the advocates a uniform reduction of the ‘tie police Sinicrer surveillance of strangers is now the rule in Vienna, as a means. of keeping refugees under the eye of American visitors’ wil], be very restive under the elose coru— * 'té marry Count D’Harcourt, a kinsJ. G, Murdock, who was shot at $irown from his buggy and was someis San Jose Inst November by hisbrothHis be coal 91 . 25 . toa Chinese laundry ins that city, . cisco with El Paso-in Texas, the first . the blackamith shop. and pronounee it all that isclaimed . . a Clenn-ups from Various Slufces. TheS of God,’ it is time to throw . bombs into the composing Yoom.’ Senator Mahone's tavorite position in the Senate, when ‘he is in his seat, M. M. Estee was ee from a li is to place both feet on the top of the jorse at his country resig . Se natorial desk, and watch everyon Sunday, : and . thing that goes on. . did that they couldn’t see anything. Frank Walworth, who’ murde ted i his fathe sr, Chance sllor Walkworth, at . . the Stuctor ant "House, New York city, yea charged from prison on the plea of ill health and threatened—idtocy, admitted to the Bar of the Supreme: Court at Ithaca the other day. So} it seems the idiocy plea was not a delusion, after all,: The man who systematically kicks the ladder away -as-he elimbs,-has a long way to drop when he falls at i . lastsand for-twentyyears Conkling . ira been kic king away one friend afsome s ago, and was. dis— ch. They are after him now in full ery. Hehas bet nd hint the organized. appetite of the mac shine, and . can. Wehinetin a Geri newspaper: . “Garfield setzt sich auf Conkling— . F. Post fises to remark tha at . “when the types aremade tosay that; an honest man. is the nobbiest work . WET ADA. orry, gia If some Sen . Waa) ter another by whose help he has ris— . nothing else. —Spirdngtettt ‘Reptibli= -PINE STREET, HOW aes AND RETAIL DEALER HARDWARE Of Every description. Ra STEEL, STOVES, TINWA RE, (GAS PIPES AND FITTINGs, _ POWDER, FUsz, _ ROPE, BLOCKS SHOVELS, PICKs, */XES, SLEDGES, . 2 i . Ete., Etc., Ete. 'PAINTS, OILS; WINDOW GLASS, __ PUTTY, ETC, . —_———. Und beschneidet ihm-den Kamn— Ein. Grand Bounce fur Conkling’s Freunde.” That isto say, “Garfield seats himself upon Conkling—And cuts from him the“Comb—A, Grand 1 Bounce for’ Conkling’s Friends.” Who says the Germans are not work: ing their way into the American language? Wiad no Faa in Him. One of the members of the Mothio. -dist—Conference recently held here ‘was out for’a walk at an early ‘hour one morning, and while on Howard »Street he encountered a strapping big fellow, who was drawing a wagon to “Catch hold here and help me down to the shop with this wagon and I'll buy the whisky!” called the . big fellow. : “T never driik,’ the good man, “Well, you can take a cigar?” “Tnever smoke.” The man dropped the wagon tongue looked hard ut the member, and asked: ‘Don’t you chew?” “No sir,” was the decided reply. ‘You must get mighty lo.esome, mused the teamster. -“*L guess I'm all right—I feel first rate.’ ‘Vl bet you even that I can lay youon your back,” remarked the teamster:: : **] never bet.” Well, let’s take each other down for fun, then. ‘Il never have fun, swered the member. “Well, 'm_ going to tackle you any way. Here we go.” The teamster slid up and endeavored to get a neck hold, but he had! only just commenced to foul about when he was jilted clear off the grass ? ‘solemnly replied : ” solemnly anyandslammed against a tree box with} such force that he gasped half a dozen times before he could get his breath. ~**Now, you keep away from me!” L exclaimed the minister, picking up his cane. “Bust me if I don’t!” replied the teamster, as he edyed off. ‘\What’s the use in lying ‘and saying that you didn’t have any fun in you when you are chuck full of it! Biameit! You wanted to break my back, didn’t -you?”—Detroit Free Press, EL TEE IS ETE DIED, Near Half Mile House, in this eity, May 20th, I881, Daisy Gertrude, Youngest daughter. of George W. and Catherine Stith, azed 2 years and 2 days. The funeral will take place from the residence: on -Sunday afternoon at.2 o’clack. Friends and acquain. tauces are epactintly. invited toat— tend, J. SCHNEIDER, — ie Prepared todo all kinds of oe . House Painting, Paper Hanging, Graining and Kalsomining at reasonable prices, All work-warranted. mig Apply at STUMPF’S HOTEL. — “CABINET SHOP. 8. SO. EXitchcocix HAS FITTED UP A CABIwz SHOP in € Keith's Building, _ Sacramento Street, near the views, . And is repair all Kinds) of Font ary arenyrg a Weod Turning of every Description, * Seroll Sawing, ete. 427 All work reasonable rats. ¥ pertormed promptly and at tiny to which they will be subjected, oe iin Give me a trial. Crockery AND Glassware. MMILA MING ISUPPLIES. Agent for the justly celebrated Rad eer , , . The best mining powder inuse. ~ Large and full Weck of GRANITE IRON WARE, MECHANICS’ TOOLS of all kinds, GALVANIZED IRON PIPE OFALL “SIZES made to order at short aotice. #7 Purchasers will find it to their ‘advantage to visit my establishment before buying elsewheré, GEO. E. TURNER. Mechanics. Store, NEW GOODS! NEW GooDs! NEW PRICES, We are neseivilte ™ ew Goods DAILY. __THEY ALL GO TO THE MECHANICS STORE Because they deal with honest men, THE MINER GOES, Because he saves money. THE MECHANIC GOES, Because he buys his goods cheap they last him a lifeti ay the best Business Suits in the city. CHILDREN Go, Because they can buy at the same pr-ce as grown people can aud not be cheated, LADIES GO, Because they can buy the best Calicoes, Muslins, Sheeting, Lawns, Peracles, Dress Goods, Hosiery and Fancy Goods At the most reduced prices. THE YOUNG LADIES GO, Because with the sweetness of theit language they soften our hearts and theréby they can buy goods cheaper than if they went to __& stong-hearted dealer. Don’t forget. the place. __ MECHANICS STORE, Tranéeript Block, Commercial 8. C, HITCHCOCK. Street, Nevada City. “GEORGE E. TURNER . Vulcan ‘Blasting Powder, -. Se —_—— THE DA! NEV-ALA B School Ce: ‘has entered J. M. Wa : walk laid in Messrs. ! with their w evening frou Miss Anni __with bleedin covery is de: new residen¢ Robinson's g Geo. 8. Hi hindsome 1 sou‘h side o! ins Schmidt’ * Mrs. Fran H. McAllist Jack Campb eye — They . The annu’ v doe tu th “t pana * Some_oil p Fraik Snell Japan by ar bition at Fr: are very fine Says the ¢ crushing of . nial ore is n Orieans mill rock is favo Peter Hi Pine street wHl soon p pearance, 1] —sandwill be: is doing theThe City ’ ~ meeting Ft Powell bein; Mr. Kent house by hui Mr. Gillet, f _ ing elected, " jug presents: Lic: From May 1881, Mars licences as fi Liquor. . Beer. 2, billiards. Vegetables . Laundry. ‘Store Licens Theatre. . Circus N. Y. Store Total. Got a _. When the ~pistal puller, Robinson ye ed through ~~ Cross, for a. it, The he: City Hall in jury, Justic The jury aft utes returne: ty as charge tois morning Per Jas. Whar ’ Originator of Company, at st-from Sai guest of J. I the future of unabated.,. «. the value an industries, hearty as wh here; ~ PARASOL? 4) cents to CRawrorp’s Witsox’s and Magnif Price $1. Hay ar ~ 19-tf ‘GRAND anc Dress Goods, F arnishing ¢ May 20th, ai Important 3 2t Dave. —_— y ‘The Neva Prepared to, “hess houses { quality of m left at the Ix attended to. “m3 tf ,

ety Pe TE SSN nS PETIRIE oer Ghee. Dail re ransctipt,. NEVADA CiTY, CALIFORMIA. MR Baw: aay. uly ast 1881. fFeeighting from Wa avin one ‘The Appeal ef Tnursday says : “Tackett’stwo teams and Meredith's * team started ont yesterday morning for Sana Juan and French Corral, Joaded with merchandise and feed, from Killis’, S_ratton & Co’s and the Backeye Mills, about 17,099 pounds of freight.” Yet in the face of this Sie doing its lefel best to: ‘totally Pai having . altogether 5: the towns of French Corral and San Juan. Ifthe people oi the ridge desire to furnish Marysvilleans with ainmunition to tight -chem with, all —— -right bas doit teall oa -outsi: ders tor aid any mre; ye hy: lraulic miners, “God helps those. who help themselves,” "Beir that fact in mind, _— TF he Merriam: ne Clatan THEM —— Magnificent Mineral Meritage.” The attention mining districts, and especially A Kina Word for Taifings—‘*the . . . Most Promising Portion of @ar . (qb aré yoyig to-have a Picnic some . now ‘being. given . to the utilization of tailingsin various in this section where hydraulic mining . was fir ‘stinan gurated, isoneofthebest . i Free Lanee Items. . The ss Vailey Sportsmen’s ‘. day soog ; Wednesday “Dr. Ivancovich was wat, but not seriously, scratched . and bruised.! Whi ea vegetable _pedler’s: wagon . indications of a progressive age. The . was going down Main street hill at . . organi zation of the Garden Valley G-ass. V — Thursday the brake . Company to operate near Camptor 1. “‘bysted.” There was a scatterment . ville, . ny. with extensive claims ia this . . county and P.acer, with a dozen or) . more other sinaller ones who hive a’Ire ady commenced or are abou t ‘o be 4 gin work along the Bear, the Yubas, . the North Fork of the. American riv. ee, and various other streams. and . ean yc ons, are indications of the _ con) . ception of a _new—ant profitab! e ‘its , deductions in[dustry _Drawing . from experimerjtain this have already been made, the--Chica— [go Mining Review thus ex tends en . cour: agement: ; Bs ‘Companies have been formed to ‘of the Merrnnac > Gravel Mining Com. “pany, held in’ San Francisco W edz ti nesday, the folk owing gentlemen were 1 Ss chosen Directors for the-ensuing year: Win, C. Walker, President ; = Brown, Vice » President ; Schultz, eae eS 3 & \ Wallace Wing. \ ‘en Superintencent. . i Jesse George . Mills and . H. Mills was chosThis -elaim. is Need between the Adalante and = Ra ad Morntain, nearly. four: miles northef this city. It.is a very promising prospect, and some: work has” “been done dyon it. Unlerthe new 1 Capt. Mills as Susperintendent, work in this mine will ‘be apergssieaty pr Board, and wi gecuted, — Origin of the Word \esttekens.” bes = = George Fagg, who used t&five-on 5 the San Juan ridge, but is now traveling for the Siiéridan’ Mills, while intowna day or two ago sad the the Free Lance’s statement as to that ‘origin uf the word slickens was ‘wrong. According to his story, the ‘word -was first. used at Simpson’s Bridge, on the Yuba near Marysville, in 1862, and long before Jonathan Clark had commenced” going ‘down that way. As Shoemaker ‘started the controv ersy, we have concluded to leave its continuation to him, He can yet at the bottom of sof the business by interviewing Mr, Fagg. Resumed Operations. Ei. Brown_informs us that the Peabody Miniag Company -of Grass Valley-having inade an arrangement with the South Yuba’Canal Company for a regular supply of fifty inches of . ‘water per day with'’which to run. their machinery, resumed_ prospect. ing operations on the 18th just int. .The water is taken'down through the V Flume Company's flume and the Grass Valley ditch to the town weservoir, from which: it is ‘after___‘wards, drawn out by the Peabody’ ‘Company. Ss —_—— em Dany Excuance: “Carrying a dirk is prima facie evidence’ of tha ruffianly character of a man,” rednarked the editor of the Boulder News and Courier at the close. of a vivid description of a kniting scrape at Marshall.. And then there was: a” heavy trend upon the stairs, and the eilitor calmly took his pistol from his hip pocket, and then aten-inch bowie from his boot, while his eyes were riveted on thedoor. Butit was only an hovest miner with a rich specimer, and not the gentleman. he had termeda ‘“‘slime-coated’ rattlesnake vf perdition” in a previous issue, Tue Commissioners of the Freedmen’s Bank have over $100,000 on hand. They expect to sell their building to the Government for 250,000. Then the depositors will . receive another divi.lend, making # “ all fifty-five per eent. on phaietosiina, . This willleavea balan’ of $1, 200,. 000 due them. An ehort will .be . made to get Congress io pay. this . sun out of the Treasury, ACCORDING td the Atalanta Constitution, Miss Bettie Green, of Porsyth county, Ga., lias two silk dresses which she made herself, having raised the wornis, spun the silk, colored and woven it. with her own -hands, : tie oo ee says an exchange, ib seid bg ing out an unusually large nuitber of ‘‘shepherds”’ this season, to gather in the lambs. ~The President should durry up his pro uised ms on poly s wbuhys > . aiiine lin gold. ‘de estate conti: med, old mills, but arrangements are being-_perfected to raise the sickens or-! from the stamp mills and allowed to -of California and other older mining — territories. It is'said-that the rivers of: these districts.are-rich with the deflunes-which have been, run into thesnany streams posits of years from the wasteful mills and crude methods in vogue in the earlier history of mining. It is said -that-one-test of eighty pounds of deposit from a creek gave over $4 It 18 also stated that. in some of-the streams these tailings are deposited tothe depth of + fourteen feet. S -“We look for beneficial’ results frony-thie movement in— tio direc= tious. “In the first place it is always an encouraging feature when the attention of capital is turned in the direciou of eeconomy—to the saving of But it is most le that the greatest benefit will result from a revelation of the gaste of precious mineral by the machiyery and appliances in ion of the ores from our mines. A positive proof, by actual demonstration, the immense loss that this industry has been subjected to for the last thirty years, ought to cause a revolution. stitute a new ovder of things id way of dealing with the products of our mining industry. The wasted wealth that has been poured into the streams of California, Utah and Nevada from tails of the thundering stamps, ought. to be a enormous use in-the redu continual protest in the name-of thepioneers who braved every hardship and, ina desert place aud wilderness, toiled like Trojans to set a. beacon light of civilization upon the golden shores of the Pacific. 5 Ss . am “We cannot refrain at ‘this point . from noticing two great advantages the mining industry possesses above allothers. There_is no industry known to man that cold suffer the loss to which mining has been’ sub-— jected inevery age and be able. to make such profitable returns: Although the p:oduct of mining has been wasted by crude and imperfect machinery,-it is mot destroyed, but awaits.the better-knowledge and ini proved app iances of another generation to reward its skil] and enter— prise. To-day, although the problem is far from the best solution, much has been overcome and the discarded mineral “of the ancient Mexican mines, worked ages ago, and the slickens of the great Pacitic slope, are“atfording a— new field of profitable enterprise, “We will make a prediction and risk our repatation as a prophet ‘upon its fulfillment, The waste dumps, tailings, aud bodies of low grade ore are the most important and profitaj ble mining tiells in this country, and the day wil come when acience, prove’ the real worth andl value of this neglected but most prouisin z portion of our wm aguitiona mineral heritage. EES Res Probate Matters. capital, and engrgy will —— ——. state Henry R.*Stephens, deceased, Adininistrator filed final report, and May 3lst fixed as day for hearing of the same, Wm. Hughes, aes E. M. Sunderland appointed administrator,— Frank Huss having resigned, The amount of the bond required is $2.U0. (has, Corbiu, deceased. Frank uss appointed aduinistrator, T. . Murphy, deceased, -agle cf & -the Bear River Tunnel Co npaline thi at . } ereasing the deception, . longer-time rule in other States, aid , hours of .aboe to ten,aie of Chinamen and other garden truck, jand for awhile appearandes indicated that the wagon . would ‘push the horses clear through Main street, but . a friendly bowlder, standing sentinet for the parpose at the corner at runaway . arrangement and held it, _ Damage trifiing, ‘but the Chinaman was_mad. . School street, caught the . There isa new kind of cater pillar ishowing himself this year, and he is very numerous. This worm delights jin the le saves of the maple, and will haveno other food. Several fine trees of the kin, vid Watt, Boston Ravine and at Mrs, at the residence of Da= Te meeting ot “the ‘stockholders } wok not only the tailings fromthe yim. Watt's are being injured, ea . Vention of California adopted unapi= may be destroyed by this new worm. Fhe maple catterpitar may spin good i silk when he gets toward the end of his worm life'and shuts himselt up in a web preparatory to becoming a butterfly. Prof. Muller of Nevada ‘City. could ‘tell what the intentions of that wormare, by looking at the reptile. There are< 8c veral native silk worms arotindGrass Valley that make. strong and coarse wats ad, ; — ae Bd Beats Nature. Dr. Harris, whose reputation as a first-class dentist’ extends all over } the Coast, is now turuins out a class of wors that, if such a thing be possible, excela-all his former: Successful “ellorts, « Fort instance; the reporter yesterday saw at his par orsin Morgan & Roberts’ Block a fullset of upper teeth manufactured for one of the leading society ladies in Nevada county, that even Dame . Nature might be proud to claim the making of. The plate was of celluloid, and although thin as a wafer did uot even crack when the’ reporter jumped upontit. with his number tea brogans, The gams had just the tint that real flesh ones do when healthy, and preseated all the indentations that made them true to life, Twoof the teeth were filled with gold, still further in-Among-oth= er sets of equally fine qorkmanship was one for a,well-known unmarried belle of this city whose name cannot . be made public, but who will hereaft.r have no more trouble in masticatwinning compliments Sex for her matchless Doctor is doing ‘a E. W, Johnson vs. New York a Boston Gold Mining Company. Order of publication of summons made, gas Thornton vs. Thomas Patter. Ordered that plaintiff have ten ais ays+to file brief on motion to vacate order appointiny receiver. In the matter of the estate of T. P. Murphy, deceased, .the administrator was orde-ed to satisfy the mortgage against the estate after deducting expenses of the sale, Go to the Great Variety Store For French prunes, Boston smoked herring, Dutch herring, all kinds— of imported cheese, Teas, Coffee, Sugar and — spices, at-the~ Great Variety Store. ma20-36, Tae British Navy has, in the aggregate, 317,00 tons of armored ships which cost the nation £18,00),000. England possesses 55 ironclads, built and building, exclusive of 10 vessels condemned, France has 53 vessels including those nor being built; Turkey, 24; Italy,18 including the two most powertui tigncng ships afloat; Germany, 12; Holland, 17; Austria, 14; Spain, 7; Denm ark, 6; Swedea and Norway, 8; Greece, 3; Portugal, 1. 4 = Tae Massachusetts Bureau of Labor Statistics, e result of.an inquiry into the hours of labor in the . textile factories of New England and ‘. years for perjury, District Attorney with notice of -ap=—‘prospects. . pectus of the Here and There.Miss Mackay is en; wage . , itissaid, man of Marshal McMahon. jer, died Wednesday. was rearrested, . fractious I . dence, near Napa, fs received serious injuries. A New York hoodlum got years imprisonment for breaking ‘instealing $50, and maltreating a Chinaman. : Counsel for John H, Clemetshaw, w ho was sent to State. Prison for i4 has served the peal to the Supreme Court. The joint. worm is doing damage to the crops in Colusa coun ty. mers ar . anxious for information as to the best method of destroying the insect great Farmers are much alarmed, and 1B good “Fire tate Episcopal Dioeesan—C On= mously the following reso ution: ReThat this convention records all solved, the unqualified condemnation of schemes for raising money. forchurch or religious purposes which savors directly orindirectly of gambling, the lottery, raffling ahd other games of €iance, or of the public-ball, Thursday thé regu ar trains of the Southern Pacific connected San Frautime El Paso has been made by a It is understood that the company is pushing this. road regular train, . with great activity, and expects to reach a port on the Gulf of Mexico during the presént-year. Five huu. dred miles of a road on the Gulthave already been procured by lease or by purchase, and all that the company hag now to do is to close the gap between it and El Paso, oe The Keeley Motor. The Fort Wayne (Ind.) Gazette says : ‘‘A number of New York capita ists and scientists have just ex— amined the perfected Keeley Motor by its inventér. After years of-ex— perimenting and the expenditure: of hundreds of thousands of dollars, the Motor is now working as it wus orig+

inally intended to work, and those holding capital stock refuse to dispose of asingle share at any price. . Are the days of steam really numbered, is now the ‘question of* the hour.” And yet the Scientific American reiterates, what it long since declared, after careful investigation, to bea fact, that the whole thingtis-a stupendoushumbug. .Catholic Mission Services. Union : Rev. Father Buchard, the distinguished Jesuit missionary from. San Francisco, will open a mission in St. Patrick’s church, Grass Valley on next Sunday at 10:304. m:, which will continue until the following oday. During the week masses @atGa.M.and8a.m, anda will be preached after last morning. The evening exercises wiNcommence at 7:15. p, M. with rosary fgllowed by benediction with Blessed\Sacrament. All are cordially invited te attend, Amone the miningadve ires-now upon the English market, is Ose for the operation of the silver lead mies of Lidjessy, about fifty miles south ON Port Kerasun on the B ack sea, in the Province of Sivas, of Turkey in Asia, Some 3,000 tons of ore was raised, it is said,in the course of the last eighteen months that the mines were worked; of this, 750 tons roaghly hand dressed, were shipped to Bog-. land and there sold, Yielding on an average forty-five ounces of silver to the ton, with sixty-thrée per cent. of lead—ér about $82.50 to the ton —the last consignment, sixty tons, . having realized in October, 30, about $98 per ton. Tet company furmed to work thesemines start with a capital of $600,000, in 120,000-shares. The i claimed to havea nine a ee The N. ¥. Mining Record has a suspicion that it will tuin out that the grade of these Ores, in both silver and lead, has not been underrated the least, in the prospromoters of ~~ English company. New York, reports that theten-hour: a-day system which prevails in Massichusetts works as well as the advocates a uniform reduction of the ‘tie police Sinicrer surveillance of strangers is now the rule in Vienna, as a means. of keeping refugees under the eye of American visitors’ wil], be very restive under the elose coru— * 'té marry Count D’Harcourt, a kinsJ. G, Murdock, who was shot at $irown from his buggy and was someis San Jose Inst November by hisbrothHis be coal 91 . 25 . toa Chinese laundry ins that city, . cisco with El Paso-in Texas, the first . the blackamith shop. and pronounee it all that isclaimed . . a Clenn-ups from Various Slufces. TheS of God,’ it is time to throw . bombs into the composing Yoom.’ Senator Mahone's tavorite position in the Senate, when ‘he is in his seat, M. M. Estee was ee from a li is to place both feet on the top of the jorse at his country resig . Se natorial desk, and watch everyon Sunday, : and . thing that goes on. . did that they couldn’t see anything. Frank Walworth, who’ murde ted i his fathe sr, Chance sllor Walkworth, at . . the Stuctor ant "House, New York city, yea charged from prison on the plea of ill health and threatened—idtocy, admitted to the Bar of the Supreme: Court at Ithaca the other day. So} it seems the idiocy plea was not a delusion, after all,: The man who systematically kicks the ladder away -as-he elimbs,-has a long way to drop when he falls at i . lastsand for-twentyyears Conkling . ira been kic king away one friend afsome s ago, and was. dis— ch. They are after him now in full ery. Hehas bet nd hint the organized. appetite of the mac shine, and . can. Wehinetin a Geri newspaper: . “Garfield setzt sich auf Conkling— . F. Post fises to remark tha at . “when the types aremade tosay that; an honest man. is the nobbiest work . WET ADA. orry, gia If some Sen . Waa) ter another by whose help he has ris— . nothing else. —Spirdngtettt ‘Reptibli= -PINE STREET, HOW aes AND RETAIL DEALER HARDWARE Of Every description. Ra STEEL, STOVES, TINWA RE, (GAS PIPES AND FITTINGs, _ POWDER, FUsz, _ ROPE, BLOCKS SHOVELS, PICKs, */XES, SLEDGES, . 2 i . Ete., Etc., Ete. 'PAINTS, OILS; WINDOW GLASS, __ PUTTY, ETC, . —_———. Und beschneidet ihm-den Kamn— Ein. Grand Bounce fur Conkling’s Freunde.” That isto say, “Garfield seats himself upon Conkling—And cuts from him the“Comb—A, Grand 1 Bounce for’ Conkling’s Friends.” Who says the Germans are not work: ing their way into the American language? Wiad no Faa in Him. One of the members of the Mothio. -dist—Conference recently held here ‘was out for’a walk at an early ‘hour one morning, and while on Howard »Street he encountered a strapping big fellow, who was drawing a wagon to “Catch hold here and help me down to the shop with this wagon and I'll buy the whisky!” called the . big fellow. : “T never driik,’ the good man, “Well, you can take a cigar?” “Tnever smoke.” The man dropped the wagon tongue looked hard ut the member, and asked: ‘Don’t you chew?” “No sir,” was the decided reply. ‘You must get mighty lo.esome, mused the teamster. -“*L guess I'm all right—I feel first rate.’ ‘Vl bet you even that I can lay youon your back,” remarked the teamster:: : **] never bet.” Well, let’s take each other down for fun, then. ‘Il never have fun, swered the member. “Well, 'm_ going to tackle you any way. Here we go.” The teamster slid up and endeavored to get a neck hold, but he had! only just commenced to foul about when he was jilted clear off the grass ? ‘solemnly replied : ” solemnly anyandslammed against a tree box with} such force that he gasped half a dozen times before he could get his breath. ~**Now, you keep away from me!” L exclaimed the minister, picking up his cane. “Bust me if I don’t!” replied the teamster, as he edyed off. ‘\What’s the use in lying ‘and saying that you didn’t have any fun in you when you are chuck full of it! Biameit! You wanted to break my back, didn’t -you?”—Detroit Free Press, EL TEE IS ETE DIED, Near Half Mile House, in this eity, May 20th, I881, Daisy Gertrude, Youngest daughter. of George W. and Catherine Stith, azed 2 years and 2 days. The funeral will take place from the residence: on -Sunday afternoon at.2 o’clack. Friends and acquain. tauces are epactintly. invited toat— tend, J. SCHNEIDER, — ie Prepared todo all kinds of oe . House Painting, Paper Hanging, Graining and Kalsomining at reasonable prices, All work-warranted. mig Apply at STUMPF’S HOTEL. — “CABINET SHOP. 8. SO. EXitchcocix HAS FITTED UP A CABIwz SHOP in € Keith's Building, _ Sacramento Street, near the views, . And is repair all Kinds) of Font ary arenyrg a Weod Turning of every Description, * Seroll Sawing, ete. 427 All work reasonable rats. ¥ pertormed promptly and at tiny to which they will be subjected, oe iin Give me a trial. Crockery AND Glassware. MMILA MING ISUPPLIES. Agent for the justly celebrated Rad eer , , . The best mining powder inuse. ~ Large and full Weck of GRANITE IRON WARE, MECHANICS’ TOOLS of all kinds, GALVANIZED IRON PIPE OFALL “SIZES made to order at short aotice. #7 Purchasers will find it to their ‘advantage to visit my establishment before buying elsewheré, GEO. E. TURNER. Mechanics. Store, NEW GOODS! NEW GooDs! NEW PRICES, We are neseivilte ™ ew Goods DAILY. __THEY ALL GO TO THE MECHANICS STORE Because they deal with honest men, THE MINER GOES, Because he saves money. THE MECHANIC GOES, Because he buys his goods cheap they last him a lifeti ay the best Business Suits in the city. CHILDREN Go, Because they can buy at the same pr-ce as grown people can aud not be cheated, LADIES GO, Because they can buy the best Calicoes, Muslins, Sheeting, Lawns, Peracles, Dress Goods, Hosiery and Fancy Goods At the most reduced prices. THE YOUNG LADIES GO, Because with the sweetness of theit language they soften our hearts and theréby they can buy goods cheaper than if they went to __& stong-hearted dealer. Don’t forget. the place. __ MECHANICS STORE, Tranéeript Block, Commercial 8. C, HITCHCOCK. Street, Nevada City. “GEORGE E. TURNER . Vulcan ‘Blasting Powder, -. Se —_—— THE DA! NEV-ALA B School Ce: ‘has entered J. M. Wa : walk laid in Messrs. ! with their w evening frou Miss Anni __with bleedin covery is de: new residen¢ Robinson's g Geo. 8. Hi hindsome 1 sou‘h side o! ins Schmidt’ * Mrs. Fran H. McAllist Jack Campb eye — They . The annu’ v doe tu th “t pana * Some_oil p Fraik Snell Japan by ar bition at Fr: are very fine Says the ¢ crushing of . nial ore is n Orieans mill rock is favo Peter Hi Pine street wHl soon p pearance, 1] —sandwill be: is doing theThe City ’ ~ meeting Ft Powell bein; Mr. Kent house by hui Mr. Gillet, f _ ing elected, " jug presents: Lic: From May 1881, Mars licences as fi Liquor.. . Beer.. 2, billiards.. Vegetables . Laundry.. ‘Store Licens Theatre.. . Circus N. Y. Store Total.. Got a _. When the ~pistal puller, Robinson ye ed through ~~ Cross, for a. it, The he: City Hall in jury, Justic The jury aft utes returne: ty as charge tois morning Per Jas. Whar ’ Originator of Company, at st-from Sai guest of J. I the future of unabated.,. «. the value an industries, hearty as wh here; ~ PARASOL? 4) cents to CRawrorp’s Witsox’s and Magnif Price $1. Hay ar ~ 19-tf ‘GRAND anc Dress Goods, F arnishing ¢ May 20th, ai Important 3 2t Dave. —_— y ‘The Neva Prepared to, “hess houses { quality of m left at the Ix attended to. “m3 tf ,