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Collection: Newspapers > Nevada Daily Transcript (1863-1868)

May 22, 1869 (4 pages)

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f ii : SETS: i. F ganized an independent rept rith . Cespedas as President and Quesada as uz Spaniards lost 1,200 men and the 1,000 in the late battle at Tx ary The Cubans have « slic, wi . Commander-in-Chief. They both prom, “ ehinery-to aid in their business. The . eradle, the flail-and the fan have been superseded by the reaping machine and the thresher, and all three have even . Road been combined in one which reaps, threshes, el and sacks the grain in a single operation. Th planting, culti. vating and every department of farm labor, the whole system of working has been revolutionized by thé invention and application of new machinery.— But here the progress ends. On the Best'soils the staple crops have. fallen 6ff in yield. In New York the product of wheat has fallen*in the average yield fromtwenty bushels to the acre ~ downto. eight, and California, which once boasted of an average larger than any other State, the returns showing an average of 40 bushels to the acre, now yields only 20 bushels per acre.— This: decrease has taken place in a few years, and the fact is sufficient to show that there is a great need of progress in the intelligent cultivation of the soil and management of crops. The falling off in California is tosome extent-check~ ed by the new and unexhausted lands brought under’ cultivation. This decrease in the lands which have been under cultivation for ‘fifteen or sixteen years is undoubtedly larger than these figures show. It would seem that the whole energy of farmers and others have run to the production of fine stock fd improved machinery, while year ‘and the yield diminished. Agricultural societies have voffered large premiums for fast. stock and good machinery, and this is all right,’ but’ would’ it not be well for these associations to give some inducément to secure the best system of cultivating a farm without exhausting the soil. For years the average yield of grain per acre has been kept up by the Pennsylvania farmers, and any one who will visit the small but thoroughly cultivated farms and notice the system of alternating crops, will easily understand the secret. The thorough cultivation, and the farmer is enabled to clear out the noxious plants which have had opportunity to grow in the wheat, and the soil has those qualities to nourish wheat reatered. The fertility of the soil is thus, restored, and the yield in two years is, aslarge as it would have been with successive crops. California farmers “plant wheat onthe same ground year after year, until fields become overruo with weeds and mustard,and the ground is" utterly exhausted. On some of the . best lands of the San Jose valley, it is difficult in the Spring to tell whether the crop is intended for wheat or mustard. The State Agricultural Society. ould take some steps to enlfghten the’ farmers on this subject, and to ike-them_understand that their land is being impoverished and they are ‘losing money by the manner in which they are cultivating their farms. Jupes.8;B; McKee'of the Third Judicial District, will be acandidate before the Democratic State Convéntion for the nomination of the Democratic party for Judge of the Supreme Court. “¢ Eo Ir is C. H. Easton or Eastman, of San Francisco, who is to be Assistant SubTreasurer, according to the’ latest reports ; and not the Eastwan of Folsom. Tue New York Times in reviewing the case of Impeachment Ashley, comes ty the conclusion that at Washington official dishonesty is no bar to promotion in office. Tue English language has 60,000 words—in ‘ the dictionaries, Good talk‘ersand writers uso but 5,000 in all, and foreigners can travel on 500. ~ HORACE Greeley is writing a’book on political economy ; and it was on account of his engagemefits in this au_ thorship that he détlined the: appoihtment of Pacific Railroad Comtnissioner. urer’s commissionand $18 44 overpaid last * 0206 . it ont Of this line or perish in the at. Total receipts.. . ee on 71 = : iis oe Overpaid.. aeitei ‘an toll 30 35 . “empt. = : mee ere Peto shemale Proresson Goldwin Smith delivered Pend.. cceescicsece se: 14188 Tranefe'd from Fire Fund. — 7% 42 Refunded from loan..... 354 63 Fines from’M:8. Deal, J.P, 300 , Property tax, 1868..... 5,783 10 Refunded street planking.. 2340 Selling property tax 1866-7.. 65 98 Licenses. .sccc..cees..-1,526 Poll taxes.. : Liscsecseceen107% $8,071 71 The amount of scrip outstanding on the General Fundis $4,220;89. ; Expenses for city title, Special Fund; $1,251 50. All scrip now outstanding is dated since July 17th, 1868. Principal and interest of debt, May 14th, 1868, $7,138 00. Thedelinquent tax for 1868 is $18, all collectable. Interest paid for the year, $580 63. The report shows that the city finances have been well managed, and there is no reason why, with economy and the same rate of taxation as lagt year .the city should not bé relieved of debt in another term. ; There were last year some extracrdinary expenses. which will not be required again, as for’ instancé the: outstanding indebtedness . of the’Road Fund when the new law went into effect. The new law cut off receipts from city road tax, and left $492 69 of outstanding scrip, and only $141 88 in the fund to meet it. This’ had to be paid out of General Fund.— The $1,250 50 required to obtain the city title, can hardly be considered a debt, as in doing this busifiess the city has only acted as agent of the property holders, and the amount will be pain back when government deeds are given. The interest will be decreased more ‘than one half, for the reason that scrip has been paid to alate date, and besides, the legal interest is now only 7) per cent., while last year it was 10 percent. until Jane. The Trustees in appointing’a street committee to look after expenditures, has cut off an extensive opening for injudicious expennk. rotation grasses; snd 22,164,000 to per~ to $141,515, making @ total of $2,502,‘claim the purpose of the Cabahs to fight a speech at Ithica(N. Y.) on the night of the 19th inst.,im reply to Sumner’s speech on the Alabama question, in Which he claims that England is not to blame:to the extent that Sumner charges her. and that the, tendency of Sumner’s policy is to weaken the real friends of Am#@ica in England and strengthen the Tories. ' GARIBALDI is so ill that his physician despairs of his life. : Ir has been decided in Cabinet meeting that the President shall order the heads of departments to cause laborers in the service of the Government to be paid the wages of ten hours for the work of eight, this being the manifest intention of the late Act of Congress. News. From. Boston.—The Journal says: “Miss Dorothy L. Dix, who bas interested herself formany years in the treatment of the insane, is about visit— ing California, to labor for their better care in that State, where a large class of these unfortunates are very poorly provided for,” de am LasT year there were in the United Kingdom of Great Britain, 43,652,000 acres under cultivation, of which 11,659,000 were devoted to cereals; 4,865,000 to vegetables; 5,690,000 to clover and manent pasturage. England alone pose. sessed 3,179,000 cattle and 21,980,000. sheep. In every 100 acres in England: 42 are pasture; in Wales, 56; in Scotland, 23; and in Ireland, 64. Peseta THE collection of customs in gold coin during the past week, says the San Fran. cisco Chronielé, 18th instant, amounted 016 since January 1st. A NEW brick building, 40 feet front on J and 80 feet on Fifth, three stories high, is being erected at Sacramento, for the use of the Savings Bank. tse RMN A gene Homewarp Bounn.—E. F. Spence, of this city, will leave shortly for a visit to the East, and beford returning will go to his old home in Ireland. By reference to a notiee-in to-day’s paper those indebted to him will find something of interest to them. i RETURNED.—The family of Charles Marsh, who have been visiting their friends-in-the East for some months, returned to this city on Thursday, have ing come by railroad. Ranou Sotp.—Mnrs. Whitcomb, widow of the late Silas Whitcomb, has sold her ranch consisting of 4,300 acres, between the lower Stockton road and the Sacramento river, and lying near. Georgetown,to sme San Francisco people, for the sum of $64,000—or about $15 per acre. THE President, it is said,-has made a
rule to receive no calls on the Sabbath. and has forbidden his—Seeretaries—tobring him any levters or telegrams, except they are on important pablic business. ne AN exchange says: “The largest rose~ bush in France is at Toulon. It covers @ wall seventy-five feet long by eighteen in height, and near the root measures two feet eight inches round. In the months of Apritand May it pro\ duces fifty thousand roses.” < A New York paper says: “Solomon _. W. Jewett, thewell known Vermont shegp breeder has been kept some six months in Ludlow street jail, in this city on a petty suit for debt. Such proceedings are a diagrace to civilization.” A ComMPANyY has been orgahized,with the capital subserjbed, to construct a Texas, to the Pacific coast. Some of the parties were -recently'in New York to perfect the arrangements. = THe hurry and bustle being over on the Central Railroad, a largé number of engines have returned to Sacramento and are laid up for repairs at the round house and machine shops. A LETTER has been received in San Francisco from New Zealand from one of five California miaers, who took up a gold claim. and in six months time had taken out. 70,000 ounces of gold. THERE are in Europe -700,000-coat miners, of whom 300,000 are in Great Britain. It is estimated that the cotton crop of Missouri, this year, will be worth $40,000,000. __SHarp Ruse —A genius of a saloon keeper of Schenectady, who has of late been greatly annoyed by persons who sit about in chairs to sleep off the effects of bad whisky, has caught and tamed rats to run across the floor. A sitter wakes up and sees the rats running, and calls attention to the fact, when he is told there-areneratsthere. This scares the man, who thinks he has got the tremens, and he quickly digappears trom the scene. , “In Chicago, husbands are said to be so fearful of divorce that they add to their announcements of future move-_ ments the letters “W.P.” which mean “wife permitting.” A Goon story is told ofa German shoe. maker in Utica, who having made a ir of boots for a gentleman of whose nancial integrity he had considerable doubt, made the ‘ollowing reply to him when he called for the articles: “Der poots ish not quite done, but der deel ish made out.” . Sarp Jenny June in a recent 8 h: “There is no use in women hanging back. God intends to use them to accomplish his purposes, and he is fitting them for, ‘ eng have me the sole control ef, affairs long enough, and a: they have made of it. ia ie { ernst ' Eve@enta is going to visit Carlota, at Lacken, this4month. dislike her intensely, Carlota is said to will be kept on hand, Ra A Wak REMINISCENCE. 4 Da 3B Fredrick, Maryland, writing to the} © a ame Che Washington St ee pera dele _:. & NI the Fritehie family all bis ane DEALERS IN. i) ae that Whittier’s poe trne, He iG -— “Barbara Fritebie” was a reality at the _ ‘time referred t,_ When Jackson was) HHA VY AND SHELF Biai d : h Fredrick, of necessity passing through Fredrick, * ; : he had to pass the house in which elie _ Trustee od, on West Patrick street, south side, -—-—FARD WARE. "full Bo: her house,she appeat so : eae window of her one-storied — Fund : and waved the stars and stripes before . TRON J. Blas ‘their veritable faces. One of his men Gas Co raised his gun toward ber, and she eried, ae A cor “Shoot! shoot!” still waving the flag. = si Jackson himself knocked his gub aside, iy Lay , and conrmanded him not to attempt any STEEL 500 feet such thing, at the same time raising . — , seams 2a mittee his hat in honor of os flag. A rae athe Ag’ Torok. then went upffom his own men, an 5 Ty: , they passed on, This is the gist-of the . Y OW DER). The . story which:I have often heard in Fredthe rep erick, and have never heard it contra— FUSE, : , ported dicted by any one oe pee eer rege “on accepter Barbara is too m of a héroine va the disloyal of Frederick, so the terrible QUICKSILVER, The ; flood of last Summer bg “— i ge rs — fo text by the municipal authorities of} ~ poll ta: Frederick, for widening Carrol creek.on . CANVAS HOSE, Trust whose bank her house stood. In this ates way her house is destroyed, anditssite; = *° pointed becomes the landing place of a bridge and work i . across the creek. wi directio Wuat'’s tHe Use.—What’s the use TRON PIPE D.W of minding what Bead “yr rT bie: peg the use lying awake ’o nights with the Pe: the ens unkind remark of some falge friend runMade to order ee Ridley ‘ning through Bee brain like forked : RE lightning ? hat’s the use of getting into a worry and fret oyer gossip that _ journed has been set affoat to as : ae by some méddlesome busy—body, who 5 has more. time el character. Shee AGENTS F om undérta things can’t possibly injure you, unless, . es : he te indeed, yon tthe notion ct hem~sed 2! azeeepegpe < isabel combatting them, give them character De basa and standing. If pagar said a — Ce es ge strike ii is true set yourself at once; if fa : WE. meet, c let it go for what it will fetch, until it PATENT GO OSE NECK * ing fart dies of inherent weakness. Oak: Thured CIANT POWDER be able . Fruit and Vegetable Store. ges . wae -y, BR. RUMERY, en ABBE. — Commercial Street..Nevada City, ae Berge K BPS constantly on hand a good supply FURTH’S CAST STEEL. prs VEGETABLES, RANCH AND FIRKIN BYT. ~ é : beco “TER, CHEESE,-CANNED FRUITS, NO. 48 PINE STREET, SUGARS, TEAS, COFFEES, — repone Lhave made arfan; ts to recel ve o all the different kinds of E-NEW VEGE™ANEVADA crx. Cu EBl ~ markets saw Sey — ee —— rob the Vv eacall. " mo . A NEW INVOICE OF . Trucker _ PRIVATE. pRucs, . ph AY accounts due E. F, Spence will be reMERDICINES, . pas fe “ceived and rece Tor Dyn 0, = v ~ ny , 7 The ae of outlawed accounts, (there CHEMICALS,. A conti J are many,) ar a t [receipts.” RF, SPaNCE. . AINTS, OILS AND VARNISH. , _on the REGS CSE REEO E “Toilet Articles “teslal = FLAVORING EXTRACTS, for tlie never. ARDEN SEEDS, Sc. jgat,zeceived by an SPENCE & CO. a oilien mission : : } Assesso J yy fiat withdrawn from ' 3 : NOVITSKY & SON. ART NOTICE ! prs The business will be continued by — ; Richmo ‘ oT be ford, tex Chas. Nathan & Samuel Novitsky . Everybody from Nevada County was nol Under the firm name of ‘arrival . ’ t= PICTURES! .2 ‘ _ NATHAN & NOVITSKY. LATE Nevada, May 18th, 1869, — yesterds : PICTURE FRAMES! —— ANNUAL te lant ma TARGET EXCURSION!. CURRIER & WINTER, , ani . oth, & aera 211 Kearney Street, May 22 Revels test's nex SAN FRANCISCO, the late evada Light Guard -Attention. on Cray Because they have the best select-_ leis ; : y YOU are hereb onteres to appear at ed of Pictures and La i your Armory, IN FUL ag, test styles of Frames malty SATURDAY, MAY 29th, 1800, 3 sere At 1 o'clock, P. M., for the purpose of at2 oe. —_e me ~' Annual Target Excursion of the . San Franciseo, Apri? 16th. wanderi Every member is expected to be on hand . ys ae bors at . promptly atthe hour named. By order howevei 4 J. 4. LANCASTER, . pi Coma anding. J.F. , 0. 8. % M ee mas JACOB NAFFZICER’S = fF iavetc. ELECTION OF OFFICERS, s8e ? the Se Wisell Gear serie Rigade, California Nahe . Granite or E. F. b o epee A ig « intend and condngt an election NEW MEAT T, " utena ‘ Light Guard, unattached, 4th Brigade, NG.c. ON COMMERCIAL STREET Bom te fill pol vacencise that will occur by the ? has sol Major Bean will of present cnn re . Opposite Bliven & Potter's. street tc asia clection according to law and report pro ck teenies ee tinue tl these he rs, OPENED ON ?, a roy. ai . a ON THURSDAY, MAY 13th, stock of W. 'W. Anderson. Asst. Adj Gen., att Brig. beet thane hang Ton ie es coeat i aeacat His } 3 _ . Spare no expense to suit his. He ae acco ruance with the above order an Elec-} invites his oe . cnunolpaes aaa 00 many new name of y the Armory, on : ones as will give him a call and guarantees to his min‘ Saturday, May 29th, 1869. give enthemaliinn te ait lake at half past 1 o'clock » . _ 2 ae wo cuotce of All kinds of Meat and Anusese Sy ia Michael