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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superseded by the reaping machine and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